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- 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
- 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.