Events from the year 1914 in the United States .
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Wrigley Field in 2009. April 23: Weeghman Park, later known as Wrigley Field, opens
April 6 – The American Radio Relay League is founded.
April 9 – Tampico Affair , involving U.S. Navy sailors in Mexico .
April 11 – Alpha Rho Chi , a professional architecture fraternity , is founded in the Hotel Sherman in Chicago .
April 14 – The city of Irving, Texas , is incorporated.
April 18 – Eccles mine disaster
April 20
April 21 – United States occupation of Veracruz : 2,300 U.S. Navy sailors and Marines from the South Atlantic fleet land in the port city of Veracruz , Mexico , which they will occupy for over 6 months. The Ypiranga incident occurs when they attempt to enforce an arms embargo against Mexico by preventing the German cargo steamer SS Ypiranga from unloading arms for the Mexican government in the port. On April 22 Mexico for the time being ends diplomatic relations with the U.S.
April 23 – The baseball stadium Weeghman Park, later known as Wrigley Field , opens in Chicago .
May 14 – Woodrow Wilson signs a Mother's Day proclamation.
June 1 – Woodrow Wilson 's envoy Edward Mandell House meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany .
Joe DiMaggio
January 1 – Anita Mackey american social worker and supercentenarian (died 2024 )
January 4 – Herman Franks , baseball player, coach and manager (died 2009 )[2]
January 7 – Bobby McDermott , basketball player (died 1963 )
January 11 – Morrie Markoff , American blogger and supercentenarian (died 2024 )
January 12 – Edward Gurney , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1969 to 1974 (died 1996 )
January 27 – Smokey Hogg , Texas blues and country blues musician (died 1960 )
January 30 – David Wayne , actor (died 1995 )
January 31
February 5 – William S. Burroughs , writer and artist (died 1997 )
February 6 – Thurl Ravenscroft , American actor, voice actor and bass singer (died 2005 )
February 9
February 11 – Matt Dennis , singer and songwriter (died 2002 )
February 16 – Jimmy Wakely , country-western singer, actor (died 1982 )[3]
February 17 – Wayne Morris , American actor and producer (died 1959 )
February 18 – Marion Miley , golfer (died 1941 )
February 21 – Zachary Scott , actor (died 1965 )
March 1
March 2
March 4 – Robert R. Wilson , physicist, sculptor and architect (died 2000 )
March 10 – Leland McPhie , centenarian track and field athlete (died 2015 )
March 13 – Edward "Butch" O'Hare , American pilot (died 1943 )
March 14 – Hubert Zemke , fighter ace (died 1994 )
March 17 – Sammy Baugh , American football player (died 2008
March 19 – Jay Berwanger , American football player (died 2002 )
March 20 – Richard Carlyle , American actor (died 2009 )
March 25 – Norman Borlaug , agronomist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (died 2009 )
March 27
April 3 – Harry E. Goldsworthy , American Air Force lieutenant general
April 4 – Richard Coogan , actor (died 2014 )[4]
April 17 – Dovey Johnson Roundtree , civil rights activist, ordained minister and attorney (died 2018 )
April 20 – Betty Lou Gerson , actress (died 1999 )
April 21 – James Henry Quello , Federal Communications Commissioner (died 2010 )
April 24 – William Castle , film director, producer and screenwriter (died 1977 )
April 25 – Jerry Gaetz , politician (died 1964 )
May 9 – Denham Fouts , prostitute (died 1948 )
May 12 – Howard K. Smith , journalist (died 2002 )
May 18 – Maxine Grimm , religious figure (died 2017 )
May 22
May 24 – Arthur A. Link , politician (died 2010 )
May 26 – Frankie Manning , choreographer, dancer (died 2009 )
June 2 – Johnny Bulla , golfer (died 2003 )
June 6 – H. Adams Carter , mountaineer, journalist and educator (died 1995 )
June 7 – Ralph M. Holman , attorney and judge (died 2013 )
June 10
June 12 – Bill Kenny , African American tenor vocalist (died 1978 )
June 19 – Alan Cranston , U.S. Senator from California from 1969 to 1993 (died 2000 )
June 21 – Rex Applegate , military officer (died 1998 )
June 26
June 27 – Rose Cabat , studio ceramicist (died 2015 )
June 28 – Ian MacDonald , actor (died 1978 )
July 1 – Bernard B. Wolfe , politician (died 2016 )
July 2
July 5 – John Thomas Dunlop , administrator and labor scholar (died 2003 )
July 6 – Ernest Kirkendall , chemist and metallurgist (died 2005 )
July 7
July 14
July 18 – Mack Robinson , athlete (died 2000 )
July 19 – Marius Russo , baseball player (died 2005 )
July 22 – Richard Lankford , politician (died 2003 )
July 25 – Lionel Van Deerlin , politician (died 2008 )[7]
July 29 – Irwin Corey , actor and comedian (died 2017 )[8]
August 2 – Beatrice Straight , actress (died 2001 )[9]
August 5
August 10 – Jeff Corey , actor and drama teacher (died 2002 )
August 16
August 17
August 31 – Joan Barclay , actress (died 2002 )
September 2 – Tom Glazer , folk singer and songwriter (died 2003 )
September 9 – Marjorie Lee Brown , mathematician (died 1979 )
September 15 – Robert McCloskey , children's author/illustrator (died 2003 )
September 16 – Allen Funt , television show host (Candid Camera ) (died 1999 )
September 20
September 18 – Harry Townes , actor (died 2001 )
September 21 – Bob Lido , singer and musician (died 2000 )
September 26 – Francois Henri "Jack" LaLanne , fitness and dietary health trainer (died 2011 )
October 1 – Marvin Gay Sr. , minister (died 1998 )
October 2
October 3 – Ellsworth Wareham , cardiothoracic surgeon (died 2018 )
October 7 – Alfred Drake , actor and singer (died 1992 )
October 9 – Edward Andrews , stage, film and television actor (died 1985 )
October 10 – Tommy Fine , baseball player (died 2005 )
October 13 – Eleanor Perry , screenwriter and author (died 1981 )
October 14 – Raymond Davis Jr. , physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2006 )[10]
October 16 – Leonard Litwin , real estate developer (died 2017 )[11]
October 21 – Martin Gardner , writer (died 2010 )[12]
October 23 – Dick Durrance , skier (died 2004 )
October 25
October 28
October 29 – Ben Gage , actor, singer, and radio announcer (died 1978 )
October 30 – Jane Randolph , actress (died 2009 )
November 2
November 3 – William A. Wilson , diplomat and businessman (died 2009 )
November 6 – Jonathan Harris , actor (Lost in Space ) (died 2002 )
November 8 – Norman Lloyd , actor, producer and director (died 2021 )
November 10 – Tod Andrews , actor (died 1972 )
November 11
November 22 – Alex Pitko , baseball player (died 2011 )
November 23 – George Dunn , actor (died 1982 )
November 25 – Joe DiMaggio , Major League Baseball center fielder (died 1999 )[16]
November 26 – S. Prestley Blake , businessman (died 2021 )
November 28 – Gertrude Jeannette , actress (died 2018 )
December 2 – Bill Erwin , American actor (died 2010 )
December 6 – Ruchoma Shain , American teacher and author (died 2013 )
December 8
December 9 – Frances Reid , American actress (died 2010 )
December 18 – Chuck Apolskis , American footballer (died 1967 )
December 20 – Harry F. Byrd Jr. , U.S. senator from Virginia from 1965 to 1983 (died 2012 )
December 29 – Billy Tipton , jazz musician (died 1989 )
date unknown – Clint C. Wilson Sr. , African American editorial cartoonist (died 2005 )
Adlai Stevenson I
Ellen Axson Wilson
January 8 – Simon Bolivar Buckner , soldier and politician, 30th governor of Kentucky (born 1823 )[17]
January 28 – Shelby Moore Cullom , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1883 to 1913 (born 1829 )
February 14 – Augustus Octavius Bacon , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1895 to 1914 (born 1839 )
February 23 – Henry M. Teller , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1876 to 1882 and from 1885 to 1909 (born 1830 )
March 6 – George Washington Vanderbilt II , businessman (born 1862 )[18]
March 26 – Benjamin Franklin Keith , vaudeville theatre owner (born 1846 )
March 28 – Randolph McCoy patriarch of the McCoy clan during the Hatfield-McCoy feud (born 1825 )
May 9 – C. W. Post , businessman, founder of Post Foods (born 1854 )
May 23 – William O'Connell Bradley , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1895 to 1899 (born 1847 )
June 14 – Adlai E. Stevenson , 23rd vice president of the United States from 1893 to 1897 (born 1835 )
August 6 – Ellen Axson Wilson , wife of Woodrow Wilson , First Lady of the United States (born 1860 )
August 25 – Powell Clayton , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1868 to 1871 (born 1833 )
September 13 – Charles N. Felton , U.S. Senator from California from 1891 to 1893 (born 1832 )
September 28 – Christian Fleetwood , U.S. Sergeant Major in the 4th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment during the Civil War (born 1840 )
November 1 – Adna Chaffee , Lieutenant General (born 1842 )[19]
November 15 – Harry Turner , American football player (born 1887 )[20]
November 20 or 21 – Thaddeus C. Pound , businessman and politician (born 1832 )
December 22 – William Stanley West , U.S. Senator from Georgia in 1914 (born 1849 )
Sons of the American Revolution (1914). National Year Book . Sons of the American Revolution. p. 98.