Aldous had another brother, Noel Trevelyan Huxley ( 1891 – 1914 ), who committed suicide after a period of clinical depression.

* 1914 – 1918, the First Battle of the Atlantic took place.

* 1914 – Armen Alchian, American economist

* 1914 – Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter, actor, and painter ( d. 2008 )

* 1845 – Ödön Lechner, Hungarian architect, designed the Museum of Applied Arts and the Church of St. Elisabeth ( d. 1914 )

* 1914 – Heidi Kabel, German actress ( d. 2010 )

* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

* 1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany ; Austria declares war on Russia.

* 1914 – Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian-Austrian conductor ( d. 1963 )

* 1914 – Tove Jansson, Finnish author ( d. 2001 )

* 1914 – Joe Mercer, English footballer ( d. 1990 )

* 1914 – Luis Mariano, Spanish tenor ( d. 1970 )

* 1914 – Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet ( d. 1988 )

* 1914 – Big Walter Price, American singer-songwriter and pianist ( d. 2012 )

* 1914 – Beatrice Straight, American actress ( d. 2001 )

* 1914 – Rube Waddell, American baseball player ( b. 1876 )

* 1995 – H. Adams Carter, American Alpine Club President, 10th Mountain Division trainer ( b. 1914 )

* 1914 – Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I.

* 1914 – J. Lee Thompson, English director ( d. 2002 )

* 1914 – World War I: Germany declares war against France.

* 1832 – Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer ( d. 1914 )

* 1995 – Ida Lupino, English actress and director ( b. 1914 )

A third generation was led by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ( 1929 – ) and includes Jacques Revel, and Philippe Ariès ( 1914 – 1984 ), who joined the group in 1978.

Troughton was born on 25 March 1920 in Mill Hill, Middlesex, England to Alec George Troughton, a solicitor, and Dorothy Evelyn Offord, who married in 1914 in Edmonton, and had an elder brother, Alec Robert ( 1915 – 1994 ), and a younger sister, Mary Edith ( 1923 – 2005 ).

* August 9 – Sir Alec Skempton ( b. 1914 ), English pioneer of soil science and engineering historian.

Alec Hurley died two months later, and Marie and Dillon were married at the British Consulate in Portland, Oregon, on 21 February 1914.

* Alec George Horwood ( 1914 – 1944 ), British soldier

* Alec Guinness ( 1914 – 2000 ), English actor

* Alec Skempton ( 1914 – 2001 ), British civil engineer

* Alec Taylor, Jr. – Love Wisely ( 1896 ), Bayardo ( 1910 ), Aleppo ( 1914 ), Gay Crusader ( 1917 ), Gainsborough ( 1918 )

* Alec Taylor, Jr. – First Spear ( 1914 ), Tomatina ( 1919 ), Lady Ava ( 1920 ), Blue Lady ( 1921 ), Leighon Tor ( 1922 ), Maid of Bath ( 1924 )

* Alec Taylor, Jr. – Love Wisely ( 1897 ), Sceptre ( 1903 ), Sancy ( 1907 ), Lemberg ( 1910 ), Trois Temps ( 1914 ), Prince Chimay ( 1918 ), Lady Juror ( 1922 ), Inkerman ( 1923 ), Book Law ( 1927 )

An unusual result of this is that according to Guinness World Records the record for the oldest message in a bottle was broken in August 2012 when a drift bottle released in June 1914 was found by Andrew Leaper, skipper of the Copious, coincidentally the same fishing vessel involved in the previous record recovery in 2006.

The oldest message in a bottle was verified on 30 August 2012, by Guinness World Records, when a drift bottle released in June 1914 was found by Andrew Leaper, skipper of the Shetland-based Copious, ironically the same fishing vessel involved in the previous record recovery.

* 1878 – Tip Foster, English cricketer ( d. 1914 )

* 1914 – Hubert Bland, English socialist, co-founder of the Fabian Society ( b. 1855 )

Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

* 1914 – World War I: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.

* 1914 – Henry Reed, English poet ( d. 1986 )

* 1820 – John Tenniel, English illustrator ( d. 1914 )

* 1914 – Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian ( d. 2003 )

* 1914 – Laurie Lee, English writer ( d. 1997 )

* 1836 – Joseph Chamberlain, English politician ( d. 1914 )

* 1914 – Hammond Innes, English writer ( d. 1998 )

* James Mayo, pen name of Stephen Coulter, ( born 1914 ), English author and journalist

* 1914 – Arthur Snelling, English civil servant and diplomat ( d. 1996 )

* 1914 – W. G. G. Duncan Smith, English pilot ( d. 1996 )

* 1914 – Roger Avon, English actor ( d. 1998 )

* 1914 – Anna Wing, English actress

* Hesiod ; Works and Days, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press ; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914.

Eduard Spranger's personality-model, consisting of six ( or, by some revisions, 6 + 1 ) basic types of value attitudes, described in his book Types of Men ( Lebensformen ; Halle ( Saale ): Niemeyer, 1914 ; English translation by P. J. W. Pigors-New York: G. E. Stechert Company, 1928 ).

* 1914 – Leonard Feather, English pianist, composer, producer, and journalist ( d. 1994 )

* 1914 – Jack Cardiff, English director, cinematographer, and photographer ( d. 2009 )

* 1914 – Denys Lasdun, English architect, designed the Royal National Theatre ( d. 2001 )

In English it is generally called an Assegai. A shami Arab warrior ( ca. 1914 ) carrying a long hunting Assegai | az-zaġāyah It is a pole weapon used for throwing or hurling, usually a light spear or javelin made of hard wood and pointed with a forged iron tip. The az-zaġāyah played an important role during the Islamic conquest as well as during later periods, well into the 20th century.