Famous Deaths for Year 1914

Months in Year 1914: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 112 of 112

Jan 3rd - Stephane Raoul Pugno, composer, dies at 62
Jan 4th - Silas Weir Mitchell, US physician/author (Free Quaker), dies at 84
Jan 11th - Ambrose Bierce, American writer and satirist, dies at 71
Jan 11th - Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named (b. 1842)
Jan 13th - Bernardus H Heldt, Dutch MP, dies at 72
Jan 13th - Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, composer, dies 76
Jan 20th - Emil Liebling, composer, dies at 62
Jan 20th - Henry Southwick Perkins, composer, dies at 80
Jan 21st - Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian artist (b. 1857)
Jan 22nd - Frederik Rung, composer, dies at 60
Feb 6th - J Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter (Hague School), dies at 69
Feb 24th - Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg
Feb 25th - John Tenniel, British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93
Mar 1st - Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin, composer, dies at 47
Mar 1st - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (b. 1845)
Mar 12th - George Westinghouse, US engineer (Westinghouse Electric), dies at 67
Mar 16th - Gaston Calmette, editor (Le Figaro), killed by Mme Caillaux at 55
Mar 16th - John Murray, piloted HMS Challenger to Christmas Island, dies
Mar 16th - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
Entrepreneur and Engineer George Westinghouse (Mar 12th) Mar 19th - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)
Mar 23rd - Teunis Stoel, actor, dies at 62
Mar 23rd - Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès (Saint Rebecca) Lebanese saint (b. 1832)
Mar 25th - Frederic Mistral, French poet (Nobel-1904), dies at 83
Mar 28th - Hanus Trnecek, composer, dies at 55
Mar 31st - Ch Morgenstern, writer, dies at 42
Apr 1st - Rube Waddell, baseballer, dies at 37 of TB
Apr 2nd - Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1830)
Apr 12th - Josef Nesvera, composer, dies at 71
Apr 14th - Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist, dies at 58
Apr 14th - Hubert Bland, English co-founder of the Fabian Society (b. 1855)
Apr 16th - George W Hill, US astronomer (moon orbit), dies at 76
Apr 19th - Charles Pierce, philosopher/scientist, dies
May 7th - Edward Mollenhauer, composer, dies at 87
May 9th - C.W. Post, American food manufacturer (b. 1854)
Provencal Poet Frederic Mistral (Mar 25th) May 13th - R E Foster, only dual England captain at cricket & soccer, dies
May 17th - Peter Leyten, bishop of Breda (1885-1914), dies at 79
May 25th - Paolo Giorza, composer, dies at 81
May 27th - Joseph Wilson Swan, physicist/chemist, dies
May 28th - Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer, dies at 76
Jun 6th - Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin), dies
Jun 11th - Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1848)
Jun 15th - A G Steel, cricketer (13 Tests, 29 wkts, Eng capt 1886), dies
Jun 21st - Glauco Velasquez, composer, dies at 30
Jun 21st - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
Jun 28th - Franz Ferdinand, Austrian archduke (Sarajevo, Bosnia), assassinated
Jun 28th - Sophie, Princess of Austria, assassinated
Jun 30th - Bai Long, [White Wolf], Chinese Robin Hood/crowd leader, dies
Jul 2nd - Joseph Chamberlain, British minister to Germany, dies at 78
Jul 6th - Delmira Augustini, Uruguayan poet, murdered at 27
Jul 11th - Julius Rodenberg, [Levy], German writer (Die Deutsche Rundschau), dies
Jul 19th - Alexander Conze, German archaeologist, dies at 82
Jul 20th - Leo van Gheluwe, composer, dies at 76
Jul 30th - Albert Trott, cricketer (3 Tests for Aus, 2 for Eng), commits suicide
Jul 30th - Jean Jaurès, leading socialist, assassinated in Paris
Jul 31st - A J Jean Jaurès, French socialist (L'Humanité/Les Preuves), murdered=
Aug 2nd - Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont, composer, dies at 36
Aug 4th - Jules Lemaître, French critic and dramatist (b. 1853)
Aug 6th - Ellen Wilson, 1st lady (1913-14), dies at 54
Aug 7th - B B (Bransby) Cooper, cricketer (Test for Australia), dies
Aug 7th - Boleslaw Dembinski, composer, dies at 81
Father of the Modern Submarine John Philip Holland (Aug 12th) Aug 12th - John Philip Holland, submarine designer, dies at 74
Aug 15th - Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Baba yaga), dies at 59 [NS=Aug 28]
Aug 17th - James Grierson, British general
Aug 19th - Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844)
Aug 20th - Pius X, [Giuseppe M Sarto], Pope (1903-14), dies
Aug 22nd - Raffenel, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle
Aug 22nd - Rondoney, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle
Aug 22nd - Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi Italian religious figure
Aug 23rd - Felix Fivet, Belgian baby, executed by German troops at 3 weeks
Aug 23rd - George A Pogson, British consul in Puerto Rico, dies
Aug 27th - John Weiss, German new testament, dies
Aug 28th - Anatol Konstantinovich Lyadov, composer (Baba Yaga), dies at 59 [NS]
Aug 28th - Anatoli Liadov, composer, dies at 59
Aug 29th - ... Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle
Aug 30th - Adrian H Stewart, British lieutenant, dies in battle in Cameroon at 26
Aug 30th - Aleksandr Samsonov, Russian general, commits suicide
Sep 1st - Martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo
Sep 3rd - Ferdinand AR Cabrera, Spanish/German of emperor Wilhelm II, dies at 58
Sep 3rd - Lucien-Denis-Gabriel-Alberic Magnard, composer, dies at 49
Sep 5th - Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
Sep 7th - Lord O'Brien, British nobleman, dies at 73
Sep 8th - William E Darwin, British son of Charles Darwin, dies at 74
Sep 15th - Jacobus Herculas de la Rey, [Uncle Chose], Boer general, dies at 66
Sep 22nd - Alain-Fournier, French writer (Grand Meaulnes), dies in battle at 27
Sep 25th - A Lichtenstein, writer, dies at 25
Sep 25th - Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter, dies at 76
Sep 28th - Stevan Mokranjac, composer, dies at 58
Sep 28th - Richard Sears, businessman (Sears, Roebuck and Company) (b. 1863)
Sep 29th - Jean Bouin, French marathoner (Olympic-silver-1912), dies in battle
Oct 10th - Gijsbert van Tienhoven, mayor (Amsterdam)/foreign minister, dies at 73
Oct 10th - Karol I, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, King of Romania (1881-1914), dies
Oct 15th - Aleksander Rozycki, composer, dies at 69
Oct 28th - Richard Heuberger, composer, dies at 64
Oct 30th - Ernst Stadler, writer, dies at 31
Nov 1st - Christopher "Kit" Cradock, English admiral, dies in battle
Nov 3rd - Georg Trakl, Austria poet (Totentag, Cocaine Overdose), dies at 27
Nov 4th - Georg Trakl, writer, dies at 27
Nov 6th - Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist (Dante), dies at 79
Nov 14th - Frederick Sleigh "Bobs" Roberts, governor of Natal, dies at 82
Nov 14th - Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar, Malayalin journalist (b. 1861)
Nov 23rd - Elbrige Gerry, VP (of Gerrymander fame), dies at 70
Nov 24th - Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/Flemish People Party, dies
Nov 25th - Davorin Jenko, composer, dies at 79
Dec 6th - Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 47
Dec 8th - Maximilian von Spee, German naval officer (b. 1861)
Dec 12th - Watkins Lewis, black man, lynched in Shrevport La
Dec 14th - Giovanni Sgambati, composer, dies at 73
Dec 16th - Ivan Zajc, composer, dies at 82
Dec 19th - Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German catholic lawyer, dies at 87
Dec 21st - A O Jones, cricketer (12 Tests for England 1899-1909), dies
Dec 24th - John Muir, British naturalist (b. 1838)
Dec 27th - Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and inventor (b. 1863)