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Birthdays

January 1 - Noor Inayat Khan, Indian princess and SOE agent (d. 1944)
January 4 - Herman Franks, American baseball player
January 5 - Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (d. 1955)
January 5 - George Reeves, American actor (d. 1959)
January 9 - Gypsy Rose Lee (or 1911), American burlesque entertainer (d. 1970)
January 9 - Kenny (Klook) Clarke, American jazz drummer and composer (d. 1985)
January 10 - Yu Kuo-hwa, former Premier of Taiwan (d. 2000)
January 13 - Lord Ted Willis, British television dramatist (d. 1992)
January 14 - Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (d. 2002)
January 15 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian (d. 2003)
January 16 - Roger Wagner, American choral musician (d. 1992)
January 17 - William Stafford, American poet and essayist (d. 1993)
January 17 - Anacleto Angelini, Chilean businessman (d. 2007)
January 17 - Irving Brecher, American Screenwriter
January 18 - Arno Schmidt, German author (d. 1979)
January 19 - Bob Gerard, British racing driver (d. 1990)
January 22 - Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek composer (d. 2001)
January 26 - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar, (d. 2006)
January 30 - John Ireland, Canadian actor (d. 1992)
January 30 - David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)
January 31 - Carey Loftin, American actor and stuntman (d. 1997)
January 31 - Sri Daya Mata, Hindu religious figure
January 31 - Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (d. 1994)
February 2 - Eric Kierans, Canadian politician and economist (d. 2004)
February 4 - Alfred Andersch, German writer (d. 1980)
February 5 - William S. Burroughs, American author (d. 1997)
February 5 - Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1998)
February 6 - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (d. 2005)
February 7 - Ramón Mercader, Spanish assassin of Leon Trotsky (d. 1978)
February 9 - Gypsy Rose Lee, American dancer (d. 1970)
February 9 - Ernest Tubb, American singer (d. 1984)
February 9 - Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (d. 1986)
February 10 - Larry Adler, American musician (d. 2001)
February 11 - Matt Dennis, American singer (d. 2002)
February 12 - Tex Beneke, American musician and band leader (d. 2000)
February 12 - Arvid Pardo, Maltese diplomat
February 14 - Margarete Mewes, Nazi overseer at concentration camp
February 14 - Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (d. 2007)
February 15 - Hale Boggs, American politician (d. 1972)
February 15 - Kevin McCarthy, American actor
February 17 - Arthur Kennedy, American actor (d. 1990)
February 17 - Wayne Morris, American actor (d. 1959)
February 18 - Pee Wee King, American country musician and songwriter (d. 2000)
February 19 - Jacques Dufilho, French comedian (d. 2005)
February 20 - John Daly, South African-born broadcaster (d. 2001)
February 21 - Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish fighter pilot (d. 1999)
February 22 - Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
February 23 - Theofiel Middelkamp, Dutch cyclist (d. 2005)
February 24 - Zachary Scott, American actor (d. 1965)
February 24 - Ralph Erskine, British architect (Byker Wall) (d. 2005)
February 25 - John Arlott, English cricket journalist (d. 1991)
February 26 - Robert Alda, American actor (d. 1986)
March 1 - Harry Caray, American sportscaster (d. 1998)
March 2 - Martin Ritt, American director (d. 1990)
March 4 - Gino Colaussi (Luigi Colaussi), Italian footballer (d. 1991)
March 4 - Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
March 4 - Robert R. Wilson, American physicist
March 5 - Philip Farkas, American horn player and teacher (d. 1992)
March 6 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981)
March 8 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987)
March 13 - Edward O'Hare, American pilot (d. 1943)
March 13 - W.O. Mitchell, Canadian writer (d. 1998)
March 14 - Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (d. 1981)
March 14 - Bill Owen, British actor (d. 1999)
March 14 - Lee Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
March 15 - Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (d. 1985)
March 17 - Sammy Baugh, American football player
March 19 - Leonidas Alaoglu, Greek-Canadian mathematician (d. 1981)
March 19 - Jay Berwanger, American football player (d. 2002)
March 19 - Fred Clark, American film actor (d. 1968)
March 20 - Wendell Corey, American actor (d. 1968)
March 21 - Paul Tortelier, French cellist (d. 1990)
March 25 - Norman Borlaug, American agriculturalist
March 26 - Toru Kumon, Japanese educator (d. 1995)
March 26 - William Westmoreland, U.S. general (d. 2005)
March 27 - Richard Denning, American actor (d. 1998)
March 27 - Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter and novelist
March 28 - Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
March 28 - Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer (d. 1997)
March 28 - Edmund Muskie, American politician (d. 1996)
March 28 - Kenneth Richard Norris, Australian entomologist (d. 2003)
March 29 - Phil Foster, American actor (d. 1985)
March 30 - Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (d. 1948)
March 31 - Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer
April 1 - Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (d. 2002)
April 2 - Sir Alec Guinness, English actor (d. 2000)
April 4 - Marguerite Duras, French writer (d. 1996)
April 7 - Ralph Flanagan, American big band leader (d. 1995)
April 8 - María Félix, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
April 11 - Norman McLaren, Canadian film animator and director (d. 1987)
April 11 - Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
April 12 - Armen Alchian, American economist
April 17 - George W. Davis, American art director (d. 1984)
April 20 - Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (d. 1999)
April 21 - Norman Panama, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
April 22 - Jan de Hartog, Dutch writer (d. 2002)
April 22 - Michael Wittman, German soldier and tank ace (d. 1944)
April 24 - William Castle, American film director and producer (d. 1977)
April 24 - Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef and humorist (d. 2001)
April 25 - Ross Lockridge, Jr.
April 26 - Bernard Malamud, American author (d. 1986)
April 26 - James W. Rouse, American investor (d. 1996)
April 28 - Philip E. High, Science fiction author (d. 2006)
May 5 - Tyrone Power, American actor (d. 1958)
May 7 - Sir Arthur Snelling, British Ambassador (d. 1996)
May 8 - Romain Gary, Polish writer (d. 1980)
May 9 - Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian musician and conductor (d. 2005)
May 9 - Hank Snow, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1999)
May 11 - Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist (d. 1998)
May 12 - Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet (d. 1993)
May 12 - Howard K. Smith, American journalist (d. 2002)
May 13 - Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981)
May 15 - Turk Broda, ice hockey goaltender (d. 1972)
May 15 - Tenzing Norgay, (adopted birthdate) Nepalese Sherpa who accompanied Edmund Hillary to the top of Mount Everest (d. 1986)
May 16 - Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist and author
May 18 - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (d. 1982)
May 19 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist
May 19 - Go Seigen, Japanese Go player
May 19 - Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
May 20 - Corneliu Coposu, Romanian politician (d. 1995)
May 20 - Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (d. 1995)
May 22 - Vance Packard, American author (d. 1996)
May 22 - Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)
May 24 - Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (d. 1986)
May 24 - Giuseppe Valdengo, Italian baritone (d. 2007)
May 26 - Frankie Manning, American Lindy Hop dancer
May 28 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith, British World War II pilot (d. 1996)
May 29 - Stacy Keach, Sr.
May 31 - Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (d. 2006)
June 11 - Gerald Mohr, American actor (d. 1968)
June 14 - Pauline Moore, American actress (d. 2001)
June 15 - Yuri Andropov, Soviet politician (d. 1984)
June 15 - Saul Steinberg, Romanian/American cartoonist (d. 1999)
June 15 - Hilda Terry, American Cartoonist (d. 2006)
June 17 - John Hersey, American author (d. 1993)
June 19 - Anthony Bloom, Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 2003)
June 19 - Alan Cranston, American politician (d. 2000)
June 19 - Lester Flatt, American musician (d. 1979)
June 21 - William Vickrey, Canadian economist
June 24 - Pearl Witherington CBE, British WW II secret agent (d. 2008)
June 26 - Kathryn Johnston, US victim of police shooting (d. 2006)
June 26 - Laurie Lee, British writer (d. 1997)
June 27 - Robert Aickman, English author (d. 1981)
June 27 - Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (d. 1988)
June 28 - Aribert Heim, Austrian physician
June 29 - Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
June 29 - Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
June 30 - Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (d. 2001)
July 2 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (d. 2004)
July 2 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)
July 8 - Jyoti Basu, Indian politician
July 8 - Billy Eckstine, American jazz singer (d. 1993)
July 10 - Joe Shuster, Canadian-born cartoonist (d. 1992)
July 12 - Mohammad Moin, Iranian writer
July 15 - Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (d. 1999)
July 15 - Hammond Innes, English writer (d. 1998)
July 15 - Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d. 1996)
July 18 - Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (d. 2000)
July 19 - Marius Russo, baseball player (d. 2005)
July 23 - Virgil Finlay, American horror illustrator (d. 1971)
July 24 - Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman
July 25 - Woody Strode, American actor and decathlete (d. 1994)
July 26 - Erskine Hawkins, American musician and bandleader (d. 1993)
July 26 - Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (d. 1968)
July 28 - Carmen Dragon, American composer (d. 1984)
July 29 - Irwin Corey, American stand-up comedian
July 30 - Lord Killanin, Irish IOC president (d. 1999)
July 31 - Louis de Funès, French actor and comedian (d. 1983)
August 1 - J. Lee Thompson, British film director (d. 2002)
August 2 - Félix Leclerc, Quebec singer
August 2 - Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001)
August 5 - David Brian, American actor (d. 1993)
August 6 - Arthur Charles Dobson, British racing driver (d. 1980)
August 9 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author (Moomins) (d. 2001)
August 9 - Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (d. 1963)
August 9 - Joe Mercer, English footballer (d. 1990)
August 10 - Jeff Corey, American actor (d. 2002)
August 10 - Carlos Menditeguy, Argentine racing driver (d. 1973)
August 11 - José Silva, American parapsychologist (d. 1999)
August 12 - Gerd Buchdahl, German philosopher (d. 2001)
August 12 - Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and composer (I'll Never Smile Again) (d. 1981)
August 13 - Luis Mariano, Basque operetta singer (d. 1970)
August 15 - Paul Rand, American graphic designer (d. 1996)
August 17 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (d. 1988)
August 19 - Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
August 26 - Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (d. 1984)
August 31 - Richard Basehart, American actor (d. 1984)
September 2 - Tom Glazer, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
September 3 - Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (d. 1994)
September 4 - Rudolf Leiding, German auto executive
September 5 - Nicanor Parra, Chilian poet and mathematician
September 7 - Graeme Bell, Australian pianist and composer
September 7 - James Van Allen, American space scientist (d. 2006)
September 8 - Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (d. 2001)
September 10 - Robert Wise, American film director (d. 2005)
September 11 - Pavle, Patriarch of Serbia
September 12 - Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (d. 1988)
September 12 - Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999)
September 14 - Lída Baarová, Czech actress (d. 2000)
September 14 - Clayton Moore, American actor (d. 1999)
September 14 - Kay Medford, American actress (d. 1980)
September 14 - Robert McCloskey, American author (d. 2003)
September 15 - Creighton Abrams, American Army general (d. 1974)
September 15 - Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
September 16 - Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (d. 1999)
September 18 - Jack Cardiff, British film director
September 20 - Kenneth More, English actor (d. 1982)
September 23 - Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (d. 1986)
September 24 - Sir John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1991)
September 26 - Jack LaLanne, American fitness
September 26 - Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer
October 1 - Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian
October 2 - Jack Parsons, American rocket scientist
October 2 - Bernarr Rainbow, historian of music education
October 4 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician (d. 2003)
October 4 - Brendan Gill, American writer (d. 1997)
October 6 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (d. 2002)
October 7 - Alfred Drake, American actor (d. 1992)
October 7 - Sarah Churchill, British actress (d. 1982)
October 10 - Tommy Fine, American baseball player (d. 2005)
October 10 - Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer (d. 1974)
October 14 - Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist
October 14 - Dick Durrance, American skier (d. 2004)
October 14 - Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (d. 2004)
October 16 - Mohammed Zahir Shah, Shah of Afghanistan (d. 2007)
October 17 - Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (d. 1996)
October 18 - Raymond Lambert, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1997)
October 20 - Fayard Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2006)
October 21 - Martin Gardner, American mathematician and writer
October 25 - John Berryman, American poet (d. 1972)
October 26 - Jackie Coogan, American actor (d. 1984)
October 27 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
October 28 - Jonas Salk, American medical scientist (d. 1995)
October 28 - Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
October 28 - Glenn Robert Davis, U.S. Congressman (d. 1988)
October 30 - Richard E Holz, American composer (d. 1986)
October 30 - Anna Wing, English actress
October 31 - Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate (d. 1988)
October 31 - John Hugenholtz, Dutch race track designer (d. 1995)
November 1 - Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (d. 2006)
November 2 - Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player (d. 1997)
November 5 - Alton Tobey, American artist (d. 2005)
November 6 - Jonathan Harris, American actor (d. 2002)
November 7 - Archie Campbell, American comedian
November 11 - Howard Fast, American author (d. 2003)
November 11 - Henry Wade, American lawyer (d. 2001)
November 13 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (d. 2005)
November 20 - Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer (d. 1992)
November 22 - Peter Townsend, British Equerry and air pilot (d. 1995)
November 23 - Roger Avon, Durham actor (d. 1998)
November 23 - Michael Gough, English actor
November 25 - Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999)
November 25 - Léon Zitrone, Russian-born French journalist and television host (d. 1995)
December 2 - Adolph Green, American composer (d. 2002)
December 2 - Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)
December 4 - Rudolf Hausner, Austrian artist (d. 1995)
December 4 - Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (d. 1993)
December 5 - Hans Hellmut Kirst, German author (d. 1989)
December 9 - Frances Reid, American actress
December 10 - Dorothy Lamour, American actress (d. 1996)
December 12 - Patrick O'Brian, English author (d. 2000)
December 14 - Karl Carstens, President of Germany (d. 1992)
December 14 - Attila Petschauer, Hungarian fencer (d. 1943)
December 14 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (d. 2003)
December 21 - Ivan Generalić, Austro-Hungarian-born Croatian painter (d. 1992)
December 24 - Ralph Marterie, American trumpet player and big band leader (d. 1978)
December 24 - Herbert Reinecker, German writer
December 25 - James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (d. 2007)
December 26 - Annemarie Wendl, German actress (d. 2006)
December 26 - Richard Widmark, American actor (d. 2008)
December 28 - Bernard Youens, English actor (d. 1984)
December 29 - Billy Tipton, American musician (d. 1989)
December 29 - Albert Tucker, Australian artist (d. 1999)
December 30 - Bert Parks, American television host (d. 1992)
December 30 - Jo Van Fleet, American actress (d. 1996)

Deaths

January 11 - Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named (b. 1842)
January 21 - Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian artist (b. 1857)
February 24 - Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg
March 1 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (b. 1845)
March 12 - George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer (b. 1846)
March 16 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician
March 19 - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)
March 23 - Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès, (Saint Rebecca) Lebanese saint
March 25 - Frédéric Mistral, French poet
April 1 - Rube Waddell, American baseball player (b. 1876)
April 2 - Paul von Heyse, German writer
April 14 - Hubert Bland, English co-founder of the Fabian Society (b. 1855)
April 16 - George William Hill, American astronomer (b. 1838)
April 19 - Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1839)
May 9 - C.W. Post, American food manufacturer (b. 1854)
June 11 - Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1848)
June 21 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist
June 28 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1863)
June 28 - Countess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand
July 2 - Joseph Chamberlain, Mayor of Birmingham and Father of Neville (b. 1836)
July 3 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836)
July 31 - Jean Jaurès, French politician (d. 1859)
August 4 - Jules Lemaître, French critic and dramatist (b. 1853)
August 6 - Ellen Louise Wilson, first wife of President Woodrow Wilson (b. 1860)
August 12 - John Philip Holland, Irish submarine designer (b. 1840)
August 19 - Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844)
August 20 - Pope Pius X, (b. 1835)
August 22 - Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi Italian religious figure,
September 3 - Albéric Magnard, French composer (b. 1865)
September 5 - Charles Péguy, French poet
September 22 - Alain-Fournier, French writer (b. 1886)
September 28 - Richard Sears, businessman (Sears
October 10 - King Carol I of Romania, (b. 1839)
November 14 - Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar, Malayalin journalist (b. 1861)
December 8 - Maximilian von Spee, German naval officer (b. 1861)
December 16 - Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer (b. 1832)
December 24 - John Muir, British naturalist (b. 1838)
December 27 - Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and inventor (b. 1863)

Events

January 5 - The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
February 12 - In Washington, DC, the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
February 13 - Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
February 26 - HMHS Britannic, sister to the Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff, Belfast.
March 1 - The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
March 7 - Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
March 20 - In New Haven, Connecticut, the first international figure skating championship takes place.
April 20 - Forty-five men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner's strike.
April 27 - Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
May 8 - Paramount Pictures is formed.
May 9 - J.T. Hearne becomes the first bowler to take 3000 first-class wickets.
May 15 - Bolivia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
May 16 - The first ever Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup final is played. Brooklyn Field Club defeats Brooklyn Celtic 2-1.
May 25 - The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
May 29 - Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost.
May 30 - The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
June 19 - A radiotelegraphic link is established between Germany and the United States. German Emperor Wilhelm II and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson exchange telegrams to mark the event.
June 23 - Mexican Revolution: Francisco Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
June 28 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip , the casus belli of World War I.
June 29 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
July 11 - Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major league baseball.
July 18 - The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving definite status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
July 23 - Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia rejects those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
July 26 - Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.
July 27 - Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Filipino government.
July 28 - World War I: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
August 1 - Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilises because of World War I
August 3 - World War I: Germany declares war against France.
August 4 - World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.
August 5 - In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
August 6 - World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic
August 6 - World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
August 6 - Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I.
August 12 - World War I
August 15 - A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the architect's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground.
August 15 - The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship Ancon.
August 16 - World War I: Battle of Cer begins.
August 17 - World War I: Battle of Stalluponen
August 20 - World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.
August 22 - World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
August 23 - World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
August 23 - World War I: the Battle of Mons; the British Army begins withdrawal.
August 24 - World War I: German troops capture Namur.
August 26 - World War I: Germany defeats Russia in the Battle of Tannenberg, a decisive engagement which results in the almost complete destruction of the Russian 2nd Army.
August 26 - World War I: the British Expeditionary Force briefly checks the German advance at Le Cateau.
August 26 - World War I: the German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days.
August 28 - World War I: the Royal Navy beats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
August 28 - World War I: German troops conquer Namur.
August 30 - Battle of Tannenberg.
August 31 - Ecuador becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
September 1 - St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd.
September 1 - The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
September 3 - William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
September 5 - World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
September 8 - World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
September 9 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
September 11 - Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there.
September 13 - World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
September 13 - World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
September 17 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
September 18 - The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
September 18 - World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa.
September 26 - The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
October 5 - World War I first aerial combat resulting in a kill.
October 9 - World War I: Siege of Antwerp
October 18 - The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
October 19 - The First Battle of Ypres begins.
November 1 - World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific.
November 2 - Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
November 7 - The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
November 7 - The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
November 16 - The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
November 23 - The US Army retreats from Mexico.
November 28 - World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
December 5 - The Italian Parliament proclaims the neutrality of the country.
December 8 - World War I: Battle of the Falkland Islands
December 14 - Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressist Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires.
December 15 - World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army.
December 15 - Gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hojyo coal mine, Ky¨±sh¨±, Japan, 687 killed. This accident is the worst coal mine disaster in Japanese history.
December 16 - World War I: German battleships under Franz Von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.
December 23 - World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
December 24 - World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins.
December 25 - World War I: Known as the Christmas truce, German and British troops on the Western Front temporarily cease fire.

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