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1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. (see link for calendar)
Events
- February 13 - Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
Unknown Dates
Ongoing events
Births
- January 1 - Noor Inayat Khan, WW II heroine, executed by the Nazis (d. 1944)
- January 4 - Jane Wyman, actress
- January 5 - George Reeves, actor (d. 1959)
- January 6 - Danny Thomas, singer, actor, comedian (d. 1991)
- January 14 - Harold Russell, actor (d. 2002)
- January 17 - William Stafford, poet and pacifist (d. 1993)
- January 18 - Arno Schmidt, author (d. 1979)
- January 30 - John Ireland, actor (d. 1992)
- January 30 - David Wayne, actor (d. 1995)
- January 31 - Jersey Joe Walcott, boxer (d. 1994)
- February 4 - Alfred Andersch, narrator and author of radio drama (d. 1980)
- February 4 - Ida Lupino, actress, director, writer (d. 1995)
- February 5 - William S. Burroughs, US author (d. 1997)
- February 6 - Thurl Ravenscroft, voice-over actor ("Tony the Tiger")
- February 9 - Ernest Tubb, country music singer (d. 1984)
- February 11 - Matt Dennis, singer
- February 11 - French Duynstee, Dutch constitutional lawyer
- February 11 - Winand Borgerhoff Mulder court judge of Amsterdam
- February 11 - Menelaos Pallantios, composer
- February 12 - Tex Beneke, musician, band leader (d. 2000)
- February 24 - Zachary Scott, actor
- March 1 - Ralph Ellison, writer (d. 1994)
- March 2 - Martin Ritt, director (d. 1990)
- March 6 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981)
- March 13 - Edward O'Hare, US pilot (d. 1943)
- March 17 - Sammy Baugh, American football star
- March 19 - Jay Berwanger, football star, 1st Heisman Trophy winner (d. 2002)
- March 26 - William Westmoreland, United States commander in Vietnam War
- March 28 - Edmund Muskie, United States politician (d. 1996)
- March 30 - Sonny Boy Williamson, musician
- March 31 - Octavio Paz, author, Nobel Prize for Literature (d. 1998)
- Arnold Gerschwiler, figure skating trainer (d. 2003)
- May 8 - Romain Gary, writer and diplomat (d. 1980)
- May 9 - Hank Snow, country musician (d. 1999)
- May 12 - Howard K. Smith, journalist (d. 2002)
- May 13 - Joe Louis, boxer (d. 1981)
- May 18 - Boris Christoff, Bulgarian opera singer (d. 1993)
- May 19 - Go Seigen, Go player
- May 19 - Max Perutz, molecular biologist (d. 2002)
- May 22 - Vance Packard, author (d. 1996)
- May 22 - Sun Ra, jazz musician (d. 1993)
- May 28 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith, World War II pilot (d. 1996)
- May 29 - Tenzing Norgay, Sherpa (d. 1986)
- May 29 - Eduard Pestel, scientist and engineer (d. 1988)
Deaths
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