* 1914 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian ( b. 1840 )

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

* 1840 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian ( d. 1914 )

Newfoundland marine insurance agent and historian William A. Munn ( 1864 – 1939 ), after studying literary sources in Europe, suggested in his 1914 book " Wineland Voyages: Location of Helluland, Markland & Vinland " that the Vinland explorers " went ashore at Lancey Meadows, as it is called today ".

* January 13 – Henri Langlois, French film historian ( b. 1914 )

* March 7 – Bernarr Rainbow, historian of music education, organist, and choir master, ( b. 1914 )

* February 28 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and Librarian of Congress ( b. 1914 )

In his seminal book Peasants into Frenchmen: the Modernization of Rural France, 1880 – 1914 ( 1976 ), historian Eugen Weber traced the modernization of French villages and argued that rural France went from backward and isolated to modern and possessing a sense of French nationhood during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

As the American historian Gerhard Weinberg noted, German demands for territorial revision went beyond merely regaining land lost under the Treaty of Versailles, and instead embraced calls for the German conquest and colonization of all Eastern Europe, regardless of whether the land in question had belonged to Germany before 1918 or not Likewise, the British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper argued that the goal of overthrowing Versailles was only a prelude to seizing Lebensraum in Eastern Europe for Germany with no regard as to where Germany's 1914 frontiers had been.

In 1965, the historian A. J. P. Taylor wrote in his Preface to English History 1914 – 1945: " Some inhabitants of Scotland now call themselves Scots and their affairs Scottish.

This was a time in France when, following the Moroccan crisis of 1911, nationalism reached " fever pitch " – a period one historian described as " The Hegemony of Patriotism " ( 1911 – 1914 ), particularly affecting opinion in the lycées and grandes écoles of Paris.

* Philippe Ariès ( 1914 – 1984 ), medievalist and historian

* Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre ( 1914 – 2003 ), historian

In 1914 Thomas W. Bicknell, a wealthy eastern author, historian, and Education Commissioner for Rhode Island, offered a thousand-volume library to any Utah town that would rename itself after him.

Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper ( 15 January 1914 – 27 January 2003 ) was an English historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford.

* Armin Pavić ( 1844 – 1914 ), literary historian

But although the survival and financial success of his artists was important, it was as an art historian and as an eyewitness to Cubism ( 1907 – 1914 ) and to art history to which he made his major contribution.

* Patrick Weston Joyce ( 1827 – November 1914 ) historian, writer and music collector

Alfred Thayer Mahan ( September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914 ) was a United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called " the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century.

At the outbreak of World War One in early August 1914, hundreds of thousands of Berliners cheered the military parade, which took place here At the outbreak of World War Two, no such scenes were seen, according to the American journalist and historian William L. Shirer, but after Adolf Hitler returned from his inspection of Paris in 1940, a huge victory parade was held.

Alan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullock ( 13 December 1914 – 2 February 2004 ), was a British historian, who wrote an influential biography of Adolf Hitler and many other works.

For decades chess writers have reported that Tsar Nicholas II of Russia conferred the title of " Grandmaster of Chess " upon each of the five finalists at St Petersburg 1914 ( Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Tarrasch and Marshall ), but chess historian Edward Winter has questioned this, stating that the earliest known sources supporting this story were published in 1940 and 1942.

It was traditionally claimed by some western scholars such as the Universalist historian George T. Knight ( 1911 ) and Pierre Batiffol ( English translation 1914 ) that a form of universal salvation could be found among some theologians in early Christianity.

According to Hosea Ballou, then Pierre Batiffol ( 1911 ) and George T. Knight ( 1914 ) Amalric was a believer that all people would eventually be saved and this was one of the counts upon which he was declared a heretic by Pope Innocent III.

* 1914 – George W. Davis, American art director ( d. 1984 )

George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).

Of this grand plan only the Edward VII galleries in the centre of the North Front were ever constructed, these were built 1906-14 to the design by J. J. Burnet, and opened by King George V and Queen Mary in 1914.

In 1914, due to the growing anti-German sentiments that swept across Europe during the first few months of World War I, Prince Louis of Battenberg was removed from his position as First Sea Lord in the Admiralty and publicly humiliated by King George V and Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill.

Early tributes as to what Tenniel in his role as a national observer meant to the British nation around the time of his death came in as high praise ; in 1914 New York Tribune journalist George W. Smalley referred to John Tenniel as “ one of the greatest intellectual forces of his time, ( who ) understood social laws and political energies .”

At the start of World War I, 4 August 1914, Admiral George Callaghan, Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet, was removed by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill.

* 1846 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor ( d. 1914 )

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* June 24 – George Washington Vanderbilt III, American philanthropist ( b. 1914 )

* June 16 – George Reeves, American TV actor ( b. 1914 )

* November 14 – George Washington Vanderbilt II, American businessman ( d. 1914 )

* March 3 – George William Hill, American astronomer ( d. 1914 )

For example, the characters in Lerner and Loewe's musical My Fair Lady, which is based on George Bernard Shaw's 1914 play Pygmalion, are essentially unchanged from those in Shaw's stage work, because the musical version is quite faithful to the original ( except for the changed ending, which is pessimistic in the play ), even to the point of retaining most of Shaw's dialogue.

Famous illustrators for British editions include: Arthur Boyd Houghton, John Tenniel, John Everett Millais and George John Pinwell for Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights Entertainments, published in 1865 ; Walter Crane for Aladdin's Picture Book ( 1876 ); Albert Letchford for the 1897 edition of Burton ’ s translation ; Edmund Dulac for Stories from the Arabian Nights ( 1907 ), Princess Badoura ( 1913 ) and Sindbad the Sailor & Other Tales from the Arabian Nights ( 1914 ).

George V ( George Frederick Ernest Albert ; 3 June 186520 January 1936 ) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War ( 1914 – 1918 ) until his death in 1936.

George Westinghouse, Jr ( October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914 ) was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry.

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 ).

* George Westinghouse, 1846 – 1914, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur

Tree also programmed popular melodramas, farces, romantic comedies and premieres, such as George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, in 1914, in which Tree played Henry Higgins opposite the Eliza of Mrs Patrick Campbell.

* George Albertus Cox ( 1840 – 1914 ), businessman, Senator

* George William Ross ( 1841 – 1914 )

Hopewell, part of the Eppes ' plantation, was developed by DuPont Company in 1914 as Hopewell Farm, an incorporated area in Prince George County.