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.

The Finnish inventor Eric Tigerstedt significantly improved on the original triode design in 1914, while working on his sound-on-film process in Berlin, Germany.

1911 ; film of play, directed by Maurice Tourneur, released in 1918 ); Lyall, Eric: Two Pierrot Plays ( 1918 ); Rodker, John: " Fear " ( 1914 ), " Twilight I " ( 1915 ), " Twilight II " ( 1915 ); Sargent, Herbert C .: Pierrot Playlets: Cackle for Concert Parties ( 1920 ).

In 1914, Finnish inventor Eric Tigerstedt was granted German patent 309, 536 for his sound-on-film work ; that same year, he apparently demonstrated a film made with the process to an audience of scientists in Berlin.

* Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914 – 1991. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994.

The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914 – 1991 is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, published in 1994.

Eric William Kierans, ( February 2, 1914 – May 9, 2004 ) was a Canadian economist and politician.

He became also a convinced distributist and follower of Vincent McNabb, to whom he and Eric Gill were introduced in 1914 by influential friends Marc-Andre Raffalovich and John Gray.

In August 1914, Lieutenant Williams took part in Australia's inaugural military flying course at Central Flying School, run by Lieutenants Henry Petre and Eric Harrison.

The long nineteenth century, defined by Eric Hobsbawm ( after Fernand Braudel's " long 16th century " idea ), a British Marxist historian and author, refers to the period between the years 1789 and 1914.

* Eric Knowles, QPM: Born 23 August 1914.

The short twentieth century, defined by Eric Hobsbawm, a British Marxist historian and author, refers to the period between the years 1914 and 1991.

Although it was also the place of death for former Major League Baseball pitcher Eric Show, it was best known between 1908 and 1914 as the home of a delicacy known as " Clark's Pickelized Figs ," a candied fruit that was sold from small firkins at grocery stores across the United States.

Born in Montreal on Feb. 2, 1914, Kierans grew up in the working-class Saint-Henri neighbourhood ; his father worked at Canadian Car and Foundry and his mother came to Canada as a domestic.

* 1914 – Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and songwriter ( d. 1981 )

* 1914 – Claire Martin, Canadian novelist

* 1914 – Phil Watson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach ( d. 1991 )

* 1914 – John Ireland, Canadian actor ( d. 1992 )

* 1914 – Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman, founded Honest Ed's ( d. 2007 )

* Frederick Debartzch Monk ( 1856 – 1914 ), Canadian lawyer and politician

* 1988 – Maurice Blackburn, Canadian composer, conductor and sound editor ( b. 1914 )

* 1914 – World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.

The Canadian engineer Reginald Fessenden, while working for the Submarine Signal Company in Boston, built an experimental system beginning in 1912, a system later tested in Boston Harbor, and finally in 1914 from the U. S. Revenue ( now Coast Guard ) Cutter Miami on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland Canada.

** Hank Snow, Canadian musician ( b. 1914 )

** Hugo Butler, Canadian screenwriter ( b. 1914 )

** Norman McLaren, Canadian animator and director ( b. 1914 )

After his death in 1914, the Canadian government continued experiments in crossbreeding up to 1964, with little success.

* Canadian — Carman, Bliss, and Mary Perry King Kennerly: Pas de trois ( 1914 ); Green, Harry A .: The Death of Pierrot: A Trivial Tragedy ( 1923 ); Lockhart, Gene: The Pierrot Players ( 1918 ; music by Ernest Seitz ).

Mitchell ( March 13, 1914 – February 25, 1998 ) was a Canadian writer.

Tyrola, about a mile north of Byng was almost wiped out by a flooding of the South Canadian River in 1914.

The first division sized formation raised by the Canadian military was the First Contingent of the Canadian Expeditionary Force ; raised in 1914, it was renamed the Canadian Division in early 1915 when it took to the field, and became the 1st Canadian Division when a 2nd Canadian Division took to the field later that year.

He migrated to Canada in 1914, where he claimed to have learned to pilot an aeroplane and served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Air Force.

The cableway of 580 meters in length is an aerial cable car that spans the whirlpool in the Niagara Gorge on the Canadian side, constructed between 1914 and 1916, a Spanish project from beginning to end: devised by a Spaniard, constructed by a Spanish company with Spanish capital ( The Niagara Spanish Aerocar Co. Limited ); a bronze plaque, located on a monolith at the entrance of the access station recalls this fact: Spanish aerial ferry of the Niagara.