page_title: 1914
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 1914 / Deaths / April
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: La teologa e beata Elena Guerra
context_page_description: 1914 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1914th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 914th year of the 2nd millennium, the 14th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1914, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
  This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrillo Princip. It also saw the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with the St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line.
context_section_description: April 1 – Rube Waddell, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1876)
  April 2 – Paul Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
  April 4 – Sir Henry Hallam Parr, British army officer (b. 1847)
  April 7 – Mohammad Ayyub Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (b. 1855)
  April 11 – Elena Guerra, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1835)
  April 14 – Antonio Frixione, Italian painter and printmaker (b. 1843)
  April 15 – Count Frederick of Hohenau (b. 1857)
  April 16
  George William Hill, American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1838)
  Jacinta Parejo, Venezuelan public figure, First Lady of Venezuela (b. 1845)
  April 19
  Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher (b. 1839)
  Empress Shōken, empress-consort of the Meiji Emperor (b. 1849)
  April 24 – Benedict Menni, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1841)
  April 25 – Géza Fejérváry, 16th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1833)
  April 26 – Eduard Suess, Austrian geologist (b. 1831)
  April 28 – Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, French botanist (b. 1839)
caption: Elena Guerra
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