List of Famous people who died in 1914

Theodore Nicholas Gill was an American ichthyologist, mammalogist, malacologist and librarian.

John Henry Poynting FRS was an English physicist. He was the first professor of physics at Mason Science College from 1880 to 1900, and then the successor institution, the University of Birmingham until his death.

Alexander Douglas Douglas was a naval officer, an inspector in the Native Police and a chief inspector of police in Queensland.

The Honourable Arthur Edward Bruce O'Neill, was an Irish Ulster Unionist Party politician who was the first Member of Parliament to be killed in World War I.

Sophus Mads Jørgensen was a Danish chemist. He is considered one of the founders of coordination chemistry, and is known for the debates which he had with Alfred Werner during 1893-1899. While Jørgensen's theories on coordination chemistry were ultimately proven to be incorrect, his experimental work provided much of the basis for Werner's theories. Jørgensen also made major contributions to the chemistry of platinum and rhodium compounds.

George William Hill was an American astronomer and mathematician. Working independently and largely in isolation from the wider scientific community, he made major contributions to celestial mechanics and to the theory of ordinary differential equations. The importance of his work was explicitly acknowledged by Henri Poincaré in 1905. In 1909 Hill was awarded the Royal Society's Copley Medal, "on the ground of his researches in mathematical astronomy". Today, he is chiefly remembered for the Hill differential equation.

Charles Pierre Péguy was a noted French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism, but by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a believing but non-practicing Roman Catholic. From that time, Catholicism strongly influenced his works.

Pompiliu Eliade was a Romanian literary critic and historian.