* 2006 – Scobie Breasley, Australian jockey ( b. 1914 )

Also, while in New Guinea, he visited the Lutheran missionaries Otto Thiele and Christian Keyser, in the Finschhafen district ; there, while in conversation with his hosts, he uncovered the discrepancies in Hermann Detzner's popular book, Four Years among the Cannibals in German Guinea from 1914 to the Truce, in which Detzner claimed to have seen the interior, discovered several species of flora and fauna, while remaining only steps ahead of the Australian patrols sent to capture him.

* 1914 – Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer ( d. 2007 )

* 1991 – John Kerr, Australian governor-general ( b. 1914 )

In 1914, following the outbreak of World War I, Nauru was captured by Australian troops, after which Britain held control until 1920.

* 1914 – Jim Cairns, Australian politician ( d. 2003 )

* 1914 – Graeme Bell, Australian pianist and composer ( d. 2012 )

* 1914 – John Kerr, Australian politician, 18th Governor-General of Australia ( d. 1991 )

The only success which eluded the club was the Championship of Australia ; Carlton contested the championship three times ( 1907, 1908 and 1914 ), with its South Australian opponents victorious on all three occasions.

* Alexander Douglas Douglas ( 1843 – 1914 ), Australian inspector of police and explorer

* Sir John Holland ( engineer ) ( 1914 – 2009 ), Australian engineer and construction magnate

Drygalski Island was first viewed from the continental antarctic coast in November 1912 by members of the Western Base Party of the Australian Antarctic Expedition ( 1911-1914 ), and observed more closely from Sir Douglas Mawson's ship Aurora on the homeward journey in January 1914.

On 11 September 1914, New Britain became the site of one of the earliest battles of World War I when the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force landed on the island.

* Australian War Memorial, Operations against German Pacific territories, 6 August 1914 – 6 November 1914.

In November 1914, the islands were occupied by troops of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force landed from the SS Siar.

The Australian Magpie's affinities with butcherbirds and currawongs were recognised early on and the three genera were placed in the family Cracticidae in 1914 by John Albert Leach after he had studied their musculature.

* William Bridges ( general ) ( 1861 – 1915 ), commander of the Australian Army's First Australian Imperial Force in 1914 – 1915

Losing out to the more experienced Charles Bean for the position of official Australian correspondent covering the 1914 war, in 1915 he was appointed managing editor of the London cable service run by the Sun and the Melbourne Herald.

Following the outbreak of World War I, the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force seized the islands in 1914 and Australia later received a League of Nations mandate for the islands.

* Jack French ( John Alexander French, 1914 – 1942 ), Australian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient

Allen & Unwin is an independent Australian publishing company, first established in Australia in 1976 as a subsidiary of the British firm George Allen & Unwin Ltd, which was founded by Sir Stanley Unwin in August 1914 and went on to become one of the leading publishers of the twentieth century.

* 1914 – World War I: German troops conquer Namur.

* 1918 – SS Tuscania ( 1914 ) is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland ; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.

It was occupied by Japanese troops in September, 1914, and passed to the Japanese Empire under the Versailles Treaty in 1919 as a mandated territory under League of Nations supervision.

During the period of the semi-autonomous province ( Mutasarrifia ) period of Mount Lebanon between 1861 and 1914, no Turkish troops were allowed to station within its boundary.

On September 29, 1914, Japanese troops occupied the atoll of Enewetak, and on September 30, 1914 the atoll of Jaluit the administrative center of the Marshall Islands.

* 1914 – World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.

New Zealand troops landed on ' Upolu unopposed on 29 August 1914 and seized control from the German authorities, following a request by Britain for New Zealand to perform their " great and urgent imperial service.

* 1914 – World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa ( Namibia ) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.

* 1914 – World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa.

Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, troops of the Russian Empire captured Allenstein in 1914, but it was recovered by the Imperial German Army in the Battle of Tannenberg.

Between 4 – 13 October 1914, the troops in Lille were able to trick the enemy by convincing them that Lille possessed more artillery than was the case ; in reality, the city had only a single cannon.

In the late summer of 1914, Russian troops moved towards Rzeszów, and on September 21, they captured it.

The city was first attacked on October 16, 1914 and defended by Belgian and French troops, which marked the beginning of the Battle of the Yser.

During World War I German troops entered the town on October 5, 1914.

During World War I in 1914 and 1915 an unofficial Christmas truce took place, particularly that between British and German troops.

The truce began on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1914, when German troops began decorating the area around their trenches in the region of Ypres, Belgium, for Christmas.

On August 27, 1914, German troops put a local brewery, some residences and a little castle on fire while invading Kortenberg.

At the start of 1914 the British Army had a reported strength of 710, 000 men including reserves, of which around 80, 000 were regular troops ready for war.

The song was sung simultaneously in French, English and German by troops during the Christmas truce of 1914, as it was one carol that soldiers on both sides of the front line knew.

In 1914, during World War I, Leuven was looted by German troops.

In October 1914, German troops fired fragmentation shells filled with a chemical irritant against British positions at Neuve Chapelle, though the concentration achieved was so small that it was barely noticed until they could not defend themselves.

On 23 August, 674 inhabitants were summarily executed by Saxon troops of the German Army — the biggest massacre committed by the Germans in 1914.