page_title: 1914
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1914 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: Cropped screenshot of David Wayne from the trailer for the film Adam's Rib.
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: January 1 – Noor Inayat Khan (aka Nora Baker), World War II heroine (executed 1944)
  January 2 – Vivian Stuart (aka Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, V. A. Stuart, William Stuart Long, Robyn Stuart), British writer (d. 1986)
  January 4
  Chen Tingru, Chinese World War II army officer (d. 2017)
  Herman Franks, American baseball player (d. 2009)
  Jean-Pierre Vernant, French historian, anthropologist (d. 2007)
  January 5 – George Reeves, American actor (Superman) (d. 1959)
  January 7 – Edwin La Dell, British artist (d. 1970)
  January 9 – Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer and bandleader (d. 1985)
  January 12 – Albrecht von Goertz, German car designer (d. 2006)
  January 13
  Osa Massen, Danish actress (d. 2006)
  Ted Willis, British television dramatist, author (d. 1992)
  January 14
  Magda Fedor, Hungarian sports shooter (d. 2017)
  Harold Russell, Canadian actor (d. 2002)
  January 15 – Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian (d. 2003)
  January 17
  Anacleto Angelini, Italian-born businessman (d. 2007)
  William Stafford, American poet, pacifist (d. 1993)
  January 18 – Arno Schmidt, German author (d. 1979)
  January 20 – Roy Plomley, English radio broadcaster, producer, playwright and novelist (d. 1985)
  January 22 – Syd Hartley, English professional association football player (d. 1987)
  January 26 – Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (d. 2006)
  January 27 – Smokey Hogg, American Texas blues and country blues musician (d. 1960)
  January 30
  John Ireland, Canadian-born actor (d. 1992)
  David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)
  January 31
  Carey Loftin, American actor, stuntman (d. 1997)
  Daya Mata (b. Alice Faye Wright), American president of Self-Realization Fellowship (d. 2010)
  Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (d. 1994)
caption: David Wayne
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