Stephen D. Miller showed that, assuming the generalized Riemann Hypothesis, every entire L-function of real archimedian type has a zero in the interval 1 2 + it with −t 0 < t < t 0 , where t 0 ≈ 14.13 corresponds to the first zero of the Riemann zeta function. We give a numerical example of a self-dual degree-4 L-function whose first positive imaginary zero is at t 1 ≈ 14.496. In particular, Miller's result does not hold for general L-functions. We show that all L-functions satisfying some additional (conjecturally true) conditions have a zero in the interval (−t 2 , t 2 ) with t 2 ≈ 22.661.