page_title: 1914
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1914 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Mother Françoise de Sales Aviat
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 3 – Nadezhda Rykalova, Russian actress (b. 1824)
  January 8 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, American soldier and politician and Confederate soldier (b. 1823)
  January 10 – Leonie Aviat, French Roman Catholic religious sister and saint (b. 1844)
  January 11 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts (b. 1842)
  January 13 – Valentin Zubiaurre, Spanish composer and professor of the Madrid Royal Conservatory (b. 1837)
  January 15
  Peter Adolf Persson, Swedish painter (b. 1862)
  Camilo Garcia de Polavieja, Spanish general (b. 1838)
  January 16 – Itō Sukeyuki, Japanese admiral (b. 1843)
  January 17 – Fernand Foureau, French explorer (b. 1850)
  January 18 – Georges Picquart, French general and politician (b. 1854)
  January 19
  Candelaria Figueredo, Cuban patriot (b. 1852)
  William Turner, British Roman Catholic clergyman (b. 1844)
  January 21
  Salvador Martínez Cubells, Spanish painter (b. 1845)
  Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, Scottish-born Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1820)
  January 26 – Jose Gabriel del Rosario Brochero, Argentine Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1840)
caption: Leonie Aviat
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