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 – 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.

* 1914 – World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.

For its inaugural international event, the CPU sponsored a conference to be held on August 1, 1914, on the shores of Lake Constance in southern Germany.

* 1914 – World War I: Germany invades Belgium.

In 1914, war broke out in Europe between Britain with allies and Germany, Austria-Hungary and later that year, the Ottoman Empire.

The UK was allied with France ( by the Entente Cordiale ) and Russia, and when the First World War broke out in 1914, the British Army sent the British Expeditionary Force to France and Belgium to prevent Germany from occupying these countries.

The Maritz Rebellion or the Boer Revolt or the Five Shilling Rebellion or the Third Boer War, occurred in South Africa in 1914 at the start of World War I, in which men who supported the re-creation of the old Boer republics rose up against the government of the Union of South Africa because they did not want to side with the British against Germany so soon after they had had a long bloody war with the British.

* 1914 – Karl Carstens, President of Germany ( d. 1992 )

On August 4, 1914, Germany invaded Belgium, leaving Moresnet at first " an oasis in a desert of destruction ".

The Supreme Council of the IRB met on 5 September 1914, a month after the British government had declared war on Germany.

German sociologist Johann Plenge spoke of the rise of a " National Socialism " in Germany within what he termed the " ideas of 1914 " that were a declaration of war against the " ideas of 1789 " ( the French Revolution ).

Although actual combat didn't spread to Finland until 1918, the war between Germany and Russia had a major impact on the Finns from its beginning in 1914.

The " short twentieth century ", from 1914 to 1991, sees the First World War, the Second World War and the Cold War, including the rise and fall of Nazi Germany and of the Soviet Union.

Germany led the Central Powers in the First World War ( 1914 – 1918 ) against France, Great Britain, Russia and ( by 1917 ) the United States.

In terms of the boundaries of 1914, Germany in 1700 had a population of 16 million, increasing slightly to 17 million by 1750, and growing more rapidly to 24 million by 1800.

The knowledge and tools gained from the intensive farming of sugar and other root crops made Germany the most efficient agricultural producer in Europe by 1914.

In 1914, Max von Laue of Germany won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals, which was a crucial step towards the invention of X-ray spectroscopy.

Luxembourg was occupied by Germany from 1914 until 1918 and again from 1940 until 1944.

In 1914 the Baltic Exhibition was held in Malmö which consisted of exhibitions about industry, art and crafts from Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Russia.

Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, life in Munich became very difficult, as the Allied blockade of Germany led to food and fuel shortages.

His father was interned as an enemy alien after the start of the war in 1914, and upon his release he returned to Germany.

During World War I, the Battle of Tannenberg and the First and Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes between Imperial Germany and the Russian Empire took place within the borders of Masuria in 1914.