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 – 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.

** Tove Jansson, Finnish author ( b. 1914 )

Tove Marika Jansson () ( 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001 ) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author.

* 27 June – Tove Jansson, Swedish-Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author ( b. 1914 )

* 1914 – Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish fighter pilot ( d. 1999 )

The Finnish Civil War (; ) was a part of the national, political and social turmoil caused by World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ) in Europe.

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.

* May 3 – Masa Niemi, Finnish actor ( b. 1914 )

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.

Johannes Virolainen () ( 31 January 1914 – 11 December 2000 ) was a Finnish politician.

* Building a 1 / 8 scale Live Steam 0-6-0 locomotive This site includes a full 1914 factory drawing of a Finnish 0-6-0 switcher.

A few years later the Domestic Opera was renamed the Finnish Opera in 1914.

Many measures were again suspended in 1914 – 17 during the First World War, but secret government documents published in the Finnish press in November 1914 suggested that the imperial government still harbored plans for the complete Russification of Finland.

In 1911, Ackté, Oskar Merikanto, and Edvard Fazer founded the Kotimainen Ooppera ( renamed in 1914 Finnish Opera, and then in 1956 the Finnish National Opera ).

* Aarne Lakomaa ( 1914 – 2001 ), Finnish aircraft designer

* 1914 – Hans Hellmut Kirst, German author ( d. 1989 )

* 1914 – Alan Bullock, British author of the first biography of Hitler written in any language.

* 1914 – William S. Burroughs, American author ( d. 1997 )

* 1842 – Ambrose Bierce, American author ( d. 1914 )

* 1914 – Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish journalist and author, 6th President of the International Olympic Committee ( d. 1999 )

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

* 1914 – James Bacon, American author, columnist, and reporter ( d. 2010 )

* 1871 – Christian Morgenstern, German author ( d. 1914 )

* 1914 – Celestine Sibley, American author, journalist, and columnist ( d. 1999 )

* 1993 – John Hersey, American author ( b. 1914 )

A much more comprehensive list of inhabitants between 1815-1821 is provided by Chaplin, Arnold, A St Helena's Who's Who or a Directory of the Island During the Captivity of Napoleon, published by the author in 1914.

* 1914 – Robert McCloskey, American author ( d. 2003 )

* 1914 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine journalist and author ( d. 1999 )

* 1914 – Orhan Kemal, Turkish author ( d. 1970 )

* Claus Schedl ( born 1914 ), Catholic author ( de )

* Miles J. Stanford ( 1914 – 1999 ), American Christian author

* September 7 – Gavin Maxwell, Scottish naturalist and author ( b. 1914 )

* March 3 – Marguerite Duras, French author and director ( b. 1914 )

* June 10 – Hammond Innes, English author ( b. 1914 )

** Ted Willis, British television dramatist and author ( b. 1914 )

** Christian Morgenstern, German author ( d. 1914 )

* October 3 – Henri Alban-Fournier, French author of Le Grand Meaulnes ( d. 1914 )

Another example is that his textbook, as late as the 1927 version, unambiguously states the existence of the ether, and mentions Einstein's theory of relativity only in a noncommittal note at the end of the caption under Einstein's portrait, stating as the last in a list of accomplishments that he was " author of the special theory of relativity in 1905 and of the general theory of relativity in 1914, both of which have had great success in explaining otherwise unexplained phenomena and in predicting new ones.