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- Alfred Henry Lewis, noted journalist and author, was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1855, the son of Isaac Lewis, a carpenter. When Lewis was quite young his family moved to Painesville, Ohio. Alfred H. Lewis married in Richfield, Ohio in 1879 to Miss Alice Ewing, the daughter of Dr. A. E. Ewing.
Lewis was educated as a lawyer and began to practice in Cleveland. From 1879 to 1881 he was a police prosecutor in that city. While still a lawyer, Lewis began to dabble in newspaper work as a Cleveland police reporter. About 1882, he moved west to Kansas City, and from there traveled in the southwest collecting frontier lore from the colorful characters of Kansas, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. The cowboys and miners Lewis met in his western travels became the dominant figures in his books. His first western sketches were printed in Kansas City newspapers. They were stories of the "Old Cattleman," signed "Dan Quin," his pseudonym.
Lewis was a prodigious worker. In 15 years he produced 18 works, many of which were widely popular. He specialized in western stories and tales of the New York underworld. Among his most popular books were the "Wolfville" series, "The Sunset Trail", Episodes of Cowboy Life", "Peggy O'Neil", and "The Boss".
By 1890, Lewis was an established journalist, a writer of political articles, by which he established a reputation as one of the foremost political writers of the country.
In the newspaper field Lewis was best known as Washington correspondent of the Chicago Times and New York Journal. He was a regular contributor to Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan and other magazines. In 1896 Lewis became the Washington correspondent for the Hearst newspapers and held that position for two years. He then became editor of "The Verdict," a humorous weekly, but soon turned his attention again to fiction and political writing for the Hearst newspapers.
In his later years, he was described as a short, squatty man with a square chin. He was noted for the prodigious amounts of coffee he drank each day.
Two of his brothers, Irving and William, controlled the publication of the New York Morning Telegraph, a theatrical daily newspaper.
He died at the age of 59 from an intestinal disorder on December 23, 1914 in Manhattan, New York. He was survived by his wife, Alice and his two brothers.
Like Bret Harte and Mark Twain, he first came into prominence through his stories of the west. It is probable he caught the spirit and vernacular of the latter-day West more accurately than any writer of his era. He had a host of imitators, but it was he that set the pace in rich humor and measured pathos and simple human nature. - Born on December 18, 1863, the eldest son of Archduke Karl-Ludwig von Habsburg and his wife, Princess Annunziata di Borbone, Franz Ferdinand was third in line to the thrown of the Austro-Hungarian Empire upon his birth. After his cousin Crown Prince Rudolf committed suicide in 1889 and his father died in 1896, Franz Ferdinand became the heir of his aging uncle Emperor Franz Josef. He eloped with Countess Sophie Chotek in 1900, but this marriage was considered unequal and they were forced to renounce rights of rank and succession for their three children. A radical reformist, Franz Ferdinand had a number of new ideas he planned to implement when he became Emperor, one of them giving Slavs an equal voice in the empire. After the annexation of Bosnia by Austria, he decided to go on a tour of his new province in 1914 in hopes of fostering good will with his new subjects. A Serbian terrorist group called The Black Hand sent three of its members to murder Franz Ferdinand and his wife as they visited Sarajevo. Their first assassination attempt, throwing a bomb at the Archduke's car, failed, though a number of bystanders were wounded. The assassins almost gave up their plans, and one of them, Gavrilo Princip, wandered off down the street. Meanwhile, the Archduke and Archduchess decided to visit the wounded in the hospital, but their driver took a wrong turn and they ended up on the same street as Princip. Seizing his chance, Princip stepped forward and fired several times into the car, fatally wounding both Franz Ferdinand and Sophie. They were raced to the governor's mansion where they were pronounced dead. Not only did this act of violence orphan their three young children, it also set off a series of events that led directly to World War I.
- Pierre Souvestre was born on 1 June 1874 in Plomelin, Finistère, France. He was a writer, known for Fantomas, Fantomas (1964) and Untitled Fantomas/Wassim Beji/SND Series. He died on 26 February 1914 in Paris, France.
- Grace McHugh was born in 1898 in Golden, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for Across the Border (1914). She died on 1 July 1914 in near Canon City, Colorado, USA.
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Johann Schwarzer was born on 30 August 1880 in Javornik, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. Johann was a director and cinematographer, known for Zimmer zu Vermieten (1908), Sklavenmarkt (1907) and Weibliche Ringkämpfer. Johann died on 8 October 1914 in Wierzbolów, Poland, Russian Empire [now Virbalis, Lithuania].- Victor Arnold was a Vienna born comic actor of the German stage during the second decade of the 2oth century, who mentored the future film director Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin and encouraged him to go for comedy roles rather than heavy drama.Arnold was short and stocky and not especially good looking and used these characteristics to good effect. He worked with pioneering director Max Reinhardt and with Felix Hollaender. Arnold and Lubitsch played together in the films The Perfect Thirty Six and The Pride of the Firm.Arnold also was in an early version of the Sumurun story which Lubitsch would later film. In the lead up to WWII, Arnold's mental health deteriorated and he was put in a sanatorium after which he cut his throat in October of 1914.
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Stellan Rye was born on 4 July 1880 in Randers, Denmark. He was a director and writer, known for Der Flug in die Sonne (1914), Ein Sommernachtstraum in unserer Zeit (1914) and The Student of Prague (1913). He died on 14 November 1914 in France.- Director
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Wordsworth Donisthorpe was an English barrister, individualist anarchist and inventor, pioneer of cinematography and chess enthusiast. He studied at Leeds Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1876 he filed a patent for a film camera which he named a "kinesigraph." In 1885, he was the co-founder of the British Chess Association and the British Chess Club. He was associated with the Liberty and Property Defence League until his split from the League in 1888. In 1890, together with his cousin William Carr Crofts, he produced a moving picture of London's Trafalgar Square (1890). The camera that produced this moving picture was patented in 1889 along with the projector necessary to show the motion frames. In 1893, he was one of the founding members and President of the children's rights and free love advocacy organisation the Legitimation League; he left the organization in 1897.- Rube Waddell was born on 13 October 1876 in Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Madge Maguire, May Wynne Skinner and Florence Dunning. He died on 1 April 1914 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
- Brandon Thomas was born on 24 December 1848 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Charley's Aunt (1930), Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940) and Charley's Aunt (1941). He was married to Marguerite Blanche Leverson. He died on 19 June 1914 in Bloomsbury, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England, UK.
- Alain-Fournier was born on 3 October 1886 in La Chapelle-d'Angillon, Cher, France. He was a writer, known for The Wanderer (1967), Kouzelné dobrodruzství (1983) and Le grand Meaulnes (2006). He died on 22 September 1914 in Les Éparges, Meuse, France.
- Duchess Sophie von Hohenberg was born on 1 March 1868 in Stuttgart, Germany. She was married to Archduke Franz Ferdinand. She died on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Frédéric Mistral was born on 8 September 1830 in Maillane, Provence, France. He was a writer and actor, known for Mireille (1934), Mireille's Sincere Love (1909) and Mireille (1922). He was married to Marie Louise Aimée Rivière. He died on 25 March 1914 in Maillane, Provence, France.- Georg Trakl was born on 3 February 1887 in Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a writer, known for Een Donkere Reis (2019), Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me (2003) and An diesen Abenden - Spiel von Sensemann und Magd (1952). He died on 3 November 1914 in Krakau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland].
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Gladys Rankin was born on October 8, 1870 in New York City. Her father was actor Arthur McKee Rankin and her mother was actress Kitty Blanchard. She began acting on the stage when she was a child. One of her first starring roles was in The Runaway Wife. At the age of eighteen she married actor Sidney Drew. The couple costarred in the plays The Burglar and That Girl From Mexico. Their son, S. Rankin Drew, was born in 1891. Gladys and Sidney became a popular duo and they were first actors to perform drama in vaudeville. They also appeared together in the 1901 Broadway show Sweet And Twenty. She was usually billed as "Mrs. Sidney Drew". Her sister Doris Rankin married actor John Barrymore in 1904. Gladys was a talented author who wrote scripts using the pen name "George Cameron".
In 1908 her dramatic play Agnes was produced on Broadway. She made her film debut in the 1911 comedy The Red Devils. It was directed by Sidney and was based on one of their vaudeville sketches. Gladys wrote numerous short films including The Still Voice, A Sweet Deception, and The Line-Up. Sidney starred in all the films she wrote. Sadly in 1913 she was diagnosed with cancer. On January 9, 1914 she died from the disease at the age of forty-three. She was buried at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York, Just six months after her death Sidney married actress Lucille McVey who would also billed as "Mrs. Sidney Drew". Gladys's son, S. Rankin Drew, became an actor but tragically he was killed during World War 1. She is the great-grand aunt of actress Drew Barrymore.- Flora Foster was born on 4 March 1898 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for David Copperfield (1911), The District Attorney's Conscience (1912) and The Wedding Gown (1913). She died on 21 September 1914 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Cecil Raleigh (born Cecil Rowlands in England on January 27, 1856) was an English dramatist and actor whose plays, primarily melodramas, were quite popular at both ends of the turn of the last century. The son of a physician, he took up acting with the stage name of Raleigh and specialized in musical comedy. He quit acting to write plays, both alone and in collaboration with other well-known dramatists, including Henry Hamilton, Augustus Harris and Seymour Hicks.
Raleigh was married to and divorced Effie Adelaide Rowlands, a novelist, and then married actress Saba Raleigh. He died on November 10, 1914 in London. Many of his plays, such as his famous 1909 melodrama The Whip (1928) (co-written with Hamilton) were made into movies during the silent era. - Director
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Herkomer was a painter who founded an art school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, in the 1880s. His film company produced only a handful of films, of which not a single can appears to have survived. He was widely credited with pushing cinema to new artistic heights, with bringing down the pace of the action to a more realistic speed and with taking more care than most with his period costumes and settings. He commissioned scripts from literary sources, notably the novels of Marie Corelli and Thomas Hardy, but none of these seem to have made it on to the screen.- Frank Dudley was born on 2 April 1874 in Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for The Nightingale (1914). He was married to Cora Belle Boney (actress). He died on 6 January 1914 in Hammond, Indiana, USA.
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Stevan Stojanovic Mokranjac was born on 9 January 1856 in Negotin, Serbia. Stevan Stojanovic is known for Cabaret Balkan (1998), Kad svane dan (2012) and Manor House (2020). Stevan Stojanovic died on 29 September 1914 in Skopje, Macedonia.- McKee Rankin was born on 6 February 1844 in Sandwich, Ontario, Canada. McKee was a writer, known for The Runaway Wife (1915) and The Danites (1912). McKee was married to Kitty Blanchard (actress). McKee died on 17 March 1914 in San Francisco, California, USA.
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Owen Carter was born in 1889. He was a cinematographer, known for The Range War (1914), The Ace of Diamonds (1914) and Bringing in the Law (1914). He died on 1 July 1914 in near Canon City, Colorado, USA.- William A. Russell was born in 1878 in Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Electric Insoles (1910), Method in His Madness (1910) and Tag Day (1909). He died on 11 January 1914 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Camillo Boito was born on 30 October 1836 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Times Gone By (1952), Black Angel (2002) and Senso (1954). He died on 28 June 1914 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
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John Tenniel was born on 28 February 1820 in London, England, UK. He is known for Jackanory (1965). He died on 25 February 1914 in England, UK.- Edmund Payne was born in 1864 in Hackney, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Hunger Strike (1916), A Gaiety Duet (1909) and The Two Obadiahs (1911). He died on 1 July 1914 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.
- Frederick Sleigh Roberts was born on 30 September 1832 in Cawnpore, British India. He was married to Nora Henrietta Bews. He died on 14 November 1914 in Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France.
- Jakub Arbes was born on 12 June 1840 in Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire. He was a writer, known for Sivooký démon (1919), Ukrizovaná (1921) and Stedrý den bratrí Mánesu (1981). He died on 8 April 1914 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary.
- Ross Shore was born in 1877 in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK. Ross was an actor, known for Henry VIII (1911). Ross was married to Mary Webb. Ross died on 24 March 1914 in Claybury, Redbridge, Essex, England, UK.
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Leo Tscherning was born on 30 January 1880. He was a director and actor, known for Manegens stjerne (1912), Kommandørens døtre (1912) and Hustruens Ret (1913). He died on 24 June 1914 in Ebeltoft, Denmark.- Bertie Pitcairn was born in May 1885 in Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Tommy's Tramp (1914), The Horse Thief (1914) and The Love of Tokiwa (1914). She died on 30 November 1914 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- George Paxton was born in 1862 in England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Wooing of Alice (1912), Dublin Dan (1912) and The Fight for Millions (1913). He was married to Harriet Eleanor Martell. He died on 19 February 1914 in Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA.
- Antonio Grisanti was born on 26 October 1859 in Cunico, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Last Days of Pompeii (1913), The Betrothed (1913) and The Maniac (1912). He died on 17 May 1914 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
- Pol Plancon was born on 12 June 1854 in Fumay, Ardennes, France. He was an actor, known for Lucia di Lammermoor (1911). He died on 12 August 1914 in Paris, France.
- Ellen Axson Wilson was born on 15 May 1860 in Savannah, Georgia, USA. She was married to Woodrow Wilson. She died on 6 August 1914 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Earl Talbot was born in 1891. He was an actor, known for The Three Musketeers (1914) and The Higher Justice (1913). He died on 13 February 1914 in New York City, New York, USA.
- John McVeigh was born in 1875. He was an actor, known for The Line-Up at Police Headquarters (1914). He died on 2 July 1914.
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Ivan Zajc was born on 3 August 1832 in Fiume, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire. Ivan was a writer and composer, known for Amelia (1999), Nikola Subic Zrinjski (2019) and Nikola Subic Zrinjski (1997). Ivan was married to Natalija Jesenko . Ivan died on 16 December 1914 in Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, Austro-Hungarian Empire.- Alice Charbonnet Kellerman was born on 12 October 1858 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Alice Charbonnet was a writer, known for Venus of the South Seas (1924). Alice Charbonnet died on 14 July 1914 in Paris, France.
- Väinö Kataja was born on 28 September 1867 in Hailuoto, Finland. He was a writer, known for Koskenlaskijan morsian (1937), Curses of the Witch (1927) and Koskenlaskijan morsian (1923). He died on 2 December 1914.
- Gustav Wied was born on 6 March 1858 in Nakskov, Denmark. He was a writer, known for Das Feuer (1914), Thummelumsen (1941) and Slægten (1978). He was married to Alice Tutein. He died on 24 October 1914 in Roskilde, Denmark.
- Randolph McCoy was born on 30 October 1825. He was married to Sarah McCoy. He died on 28 March 1914 in Pike County, Kentucky, USA.
- Luke J. Loring was born in 1852 in the USA. He was an actor, known for Forgiven; or, the Jack of Diamonds (1914). He died on 4 May 1914 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Bertha von Suttner was born on 9 June 1843 in Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now Czech Republic]. She was a writer, known for Die Waffen nieder! (2014) and Down with Weapons (1914). She was married to Arthur Gundaccar von Suttner. She died on 21 June 1914 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria].
- Caesar was born in 1898 in Caesar of Notts. He died on 18 April 1914.
- Peyo Yavorov was born on 1 January 1878 in Chirpan, Kingdom of Bulgaria. He was a writer, known for Dve hubavi ochi (2001). He was married to Lora Karavelova. He died on 29 October 1914 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Charles Fisher was a cinematographer, known for The Tangle (1914). He died on 11 August 1914 in Yonkers, New York, USA.- Composer
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Richard Heuberger was born on 18 June 1850 in Graz, Austria. He was a composer, known for The Emperor Waltz (1948), Opernball (1939) and Opera Ball (1931). He was married to Louise Herr, Johanna Herr and Auguste Auge. He died on 28 October 1914 in Vienna, Austria.- Signe Wilhelmi was born on 3 April 1842 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Himlens Straf (1910). She died on 28 April 1914.
- Rev. John M. Snyder was a Unitarian minister, author and playwright. After graduating with honors from the Meadville Theological School in Meadville, Pennsylvania, Rev. Snyder was ordained a pastor in 1870 at the Hingham Unitarian Church in Hingham, Massachusetts. Three years later he became pastor at the Messiah Church in St. Louis, Missouri, a post he would hold for the next 26 years. In 1899 he returned to Massachusetts to become pastor at the Wellesley Hills Unitarian Church. It was at this posting that in 1904 he wrote the play "As Ye Sow", in an attempt to reach a larger audience than he could preaching from his pulpit. The following year "As Ye Sow" was produced on stage at Boston and in 1914 released as a motion picture. Rev. John M. Snyder died on 12 August, 1914, at Nantucket, Massachusetts, after a year long battle with throat cancer. At the time of his death Rev. Snyder had been pastor of the Nantucket Unitarian Church for five years