1924 in the United States

::*vacant* (November 9–28) ::Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) (starting November 28) - Congress: [68th](68th-united-states-congress) #### State governments ::data[format=table] | Governors and lieutenant governors | |---| | | :: ## Events ### January–March - January 10 – American media company Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation (founded 1918) officially reorganizes as Columbia Pictures Corporation. - February 8 – Capital punishment: Gee Jon suffers the first state execution using a gas chamber in the United States, at Nevada State Prison. - February 9 – Canada's National Hockey League expands to the United States for the first time with the inclusion of the Boston Bruins. - February 12 – *Rhapsody in Blue*, by George Gershwin, is first performed in New York City, at Aeolian Hall. - February 14 – International Business Machines (IBM) is founded in New York State. - February 16–26 – Dock strikes break out in various U.S. harbors. - February 22 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first president of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House. - March 8 – The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners in Utah. ### April–June - April 16 – American media company *Metro Goldwyn Mayer* (*MGM*) is founded in Los Angeles, California, through the merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Pictures. - May 3 – The Aleph Zadik Aleph, the oldest Jewish youth fraternity, is founded in Omaha, Nebraska. - May 10 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. - May 21 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks, in a thrill killing. The event will inspire the 1929 play *Rope*. - May 26 – The Asian Exclusion Act is enacted, banning all Asian immigration to the United States. It was a slap in the face to Japan after their participation as a principal ally in WWI, and is seen as the spark that spurred Japan's alliance with Germany and down the path to World War II. - June 2 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States. - June 12 – Rondout Heist: Six men of the Egan's Rats gang rob a mail train in Rondout, Illinois; the robbery is later found to have been an inside job. - June 23 – American airman Russell L. Maughan flies from New York to San Francisco in 21 hours and 48 minutes on a dawn-to-dusk flight in a Curtiss pursuit. - June 24–July 9 – The [1924 Democratic National Convention](1924-democratic-national-convention) takes a record 103 ballots to nominate John W. Davis of West Virginia as Democratic Party candidate to oppose Calvin Coolidge in the presidential election. ### July–September - September 9 – The Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii. ### October–December - October 9 – Soldier Field, the home of the Chicago Bears opens. - October 10 - The Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity is founded at the Lake Shore Campus of Loyola University, Chicago. - The Washington Senators defeat the New York Giants (baseball), 4 games to 3. - November – The last known sighting of a California grizzly bear is recorded, by Colonel John R. White at Sequoia National Park. - November 4 - U.S. presidential election, 1924: Republican Calvin Coolidge defeats Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette - Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman governor in the United States. - November 15 – In Los Angeles, silent film director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") meets publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst to work out a deal. When Ince dies a few days later, reportedly of a heart attack, rumors soon surface that he was murdered by Hearst. - November 27 – In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (formerly known as the Macy's Christmas Parade) is held. - December 1 – George Gershwin's *Lady Be, Good*, including the song "Fascinating Rhythm", (book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, lyrics by Ira Gershwin) premieres in New York City. ### Undated - Alice Vanderbilt Morris, a wealthy heiress, founds the International Auxiliary Language Association in New York City. - U.S. bootleggers begin to use Thompson submachine guns. - The earth inductor compass is developed by Morris Titterington at the Pioneer Instrument Company in Brooklyn, New York. ### Ongoing - Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937) - U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934) - Prohibition (1920–1933) - Roaring Twenties (1920–1929) ## Births ### January ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Earl_Scruggs_2005.JPG" caption="[[Earl Scruggs"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Max_Roach.jpg" caption="[[Max Roach"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Dorothy_Malone_Peyton_Place_1965.JPG" caption="[[Dorothy Malone"] :: - January 1 – Charlie Munger, businessman and philanthropist (d. [2023](2023-in-the-united-states)) - January 4 - Walter Ris, freestyle swimmer (d. [1989](1989)) - Charles Thone, politician (d. [2018](2018)) - January 5 – Glenn Boyer, historian and author (d. [2013](2013-in-the-united-states)) - January 6 – Earl Scruggs, musician (d. [2012](2012-in-the-united-states)) - January 7 – Gene L. Coon, screenwriter and producer (d. [1973](1973-in-the-united-states)) - January 8 – James Clinkscales Hill, jurist (d. [2017](2017-in-the-united-states)) - January 9 – Mary Kaye, guitarist and singer (d. [2007](2007-in-the-united-states)) - January 10 - Earl Bakken, engineer and businessman, inventor of the modern Artificial pacemaker (d. [2018](2018)) - Max Roach, African-American percussionist, drummer and composer (d. [2007](2007)) - January 11 - Don Cherry, pop singer (d. [2018](2018-in-the-united-states)) - Sam B. Hall Jr., politician (d. [1994](1994-in-the-united-states)) - Slim Harpo, musician (d. [1970](1970-in-the-united-states)) - January 12 – Chris Chase (also known as Irene Kane), model, film actress, writer and journalist (d. [2013](2013-in-the-united-states)) - January 13 – Lillian B. Rubin, writer, professor, psychotherapist and sociologist (d. [2014](2014-in-the-united-states)) - January 14 - Carole Cook, actress and singer (d. [2023](2023-in-the-united-states)) - Guy Williams, actor (d. [1989](1989-in-the-united-states)) - January 19 – Nicholas Colasanto, actor and television director (d. [1985](1985-in-the-united-states)) - January 23 – Frank Lautenberg, politician (d. [2013](2013)) - January 25 - Lou Groza, American football player and coach (d. [2000](2000-in-the-united-states)) - Rollie Seltz, basketball player (d. [2022](2022-in-the-united-states)) - Speedy West, musician (d. [2003](2003-in-the-united-states)) - January 26 – Annette Strauss, philanthropist and politician (d. [1998](1998)) - January 28 – Betty Tucker, baseball player (d. [2012](2012)) - January 30 - Lloyd Alexander, writer (d. [2007](2007)) - Dorothy Malone, actress (d. [2018](2018)) ### February ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Lee_marvin_1971.JPG" caption="[[Lee Marvin"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Gloria_Vanderbilt_1959.JPG" caption="[[Gloria Vanderbilt"] :: - February 1 – Richard Hooker, writer and surgeon (d. [1997](1997-in-the-united-states)) - February 4 – Dorothy Harrell, professional baseball player (d. [2011](2011-in-the-united-states)) - February 7 – Catherine Small Long, politician (d. [2019](2019-in-the-united-states)) - February 8 – Joe Black, African-American baseball player (d. [2002](2002-in-the-united-states)) - February 10 – Randy Van Horne, singer and musician (d. [2007](2007-in-the-united-states)) - February 11 – Budge Patty, tennis player (d. [2021](2021-in-the-united-states)) - February 14 – Gabe Pressman, journalist (d. [2017](2017-in-the-united-states)) - February 15 – Toni Arden, singer (d. [2012](2012-in-the-united-states)) - February 16 – Frank Saul, basketball player (d. [2019](2019-in-the-united-states)) - February 17 – Margaret Truman, novelist and only child of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman (d. [2008](2008-in-the-united-states)) - February 19 – Lee Marvin, actor (d. [1987](1987)) - February 20 - Donald M. Fraser, politician (d. [2019](2019)) - Gerson Goldhaber, German-American physicist and astrophysicist (d. [2010](2010-in-the-united-states)) - Gloria Vanderbilt, socialite, artist and fashion designer (d. [2019](2019-in-the-united-states)) - February 21 – William Hathaway, politician and lawyer (d. [2013](2013-in-the-united-states)) - February 28 - Bettye Ackerman, actress (d. [2006](2006-in-the-united-states)) - Christopher C. Kraft Jr., aerospace engineer (d. [2019](2019)) - February 29 – Al Rosen, baseball player (d. [2015](2015-in-the-united-states)) ### March ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Slayton.jpg" caption="[[Deke Slayton"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Philip_Abbott_1958.jpg" caption="[[Philip Abbott"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Norman_Fell_1970.jpg" caption="[[Norman Fell"] :: - March 1 – Deke Slayton, American astronaut (d. [1993](1993)) - March 3 – Isadore Singer, American mathematician (d. [2021](2021)) - March 4 – Kenneth O'Donnell, American political consultant, aide to U.S. President John F. Kennedy (d. [1977](1977)) - March 6 - Ed Mierkowicz, American baseball player (d. [2017](2017-in-the-united-states)) - William H. Webster, American lawyer and jurist (d. [2025](2025-in-the-united-states)) - March 9 - Herbert Gold, American novelist (d. [2023](2023-in-the-united-states)) - George Haines, American swimmer and coach (d. [2006](2006-in-the-united-states)) - William Hamilton, American theologian (d. 2012) - Ben Schadler, American basketball player (d. 2015) - March 17 – Edith Savage-Jennings, African-American civil rights leader (d. [2017](2017-in-the-united-states)) - March 20 – Philip Abbott, American actor (d. [1998](1998)) - March 22 - Al Neuharth, American businessman and journalist (d. [2013](2013-in-the-united-states)) - Bill Wendell, American TV announcer (d. [1999](1999-in-the-united-states)) - Lionel Wilson, American voice actor (d. [2003](2003-in-the-united-states)) - March 23 – Bette Nesmith Graham, American typist, commercial artist, and inventor (d. [1980](1980-in-the-united-states)) - March 24 - Lois Andrews, American actress (d. [1968](1968-in-the-united-states)) - Norman Fell, American actor (d. [1998](1998)) - March 25 - Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (d. [2011](2011)) - Julia Perry, African-American composer (d. [1979](1979-in-the-united-states)) - March 27 – Sarah Vaughan, African-American jazz singer (d. [1990](1990-in-the-united-states)) - March 28 – Byrd Baylor, American novelist, essayist and author (d. [2021](2021-in-the-united-states)) - March 29 – Jimmy Work, American singer-songwriter (d. [2018](2018-in-the-united-states)) - March 31 – Kathleen O'Malley, American actress (d. [2019](2019-in-the-united-states)) ### April ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Stanley_Donen_(cropped).JPG" caption="[[Stanley Donen"] :: - April 1 – Brendan Byrne, American politician, statesman, and prosecutor (d. [2018](2018-in-the-united-states)) - April 2 – Delwin Jones, American politician (d. [2018](2018-in-the-united-states)) - April 3 – Marlon Brando, American actor (d. [2004](2004-in-the-united-states)) - April 4 - Gil Hodges, American baseball player (d. [1972](1972-in-the-united-states)) - Joye Hummel, American comic book author (d. [2021](2021-in-the-united-states)) - Noreen Nash, American actress (d. [2023](2023-in-the-united-states)) - April 5 – John Fraser Hart, American geographer (d. [2024](2024-in-the-united-states)) - April 6 – Jimmy Roberts, American singer (d. [1999](1999-in-the-united-states)) - April 8 – Bob Mann, American football player (d. [2006](2006-in-the-united-states)) - April 9 – Milburn G. Apt, American test pilot (d. [1956](1956-in-the-united-states)) - April 13 - Jack Chick, American fundamentalist Christian illustrator and publisher (d. [2016](2016-in-the-united-states)) - Stanley Donen, American film director and choreographer (d. [2019](2019-in-the-united-states)) - April 14 – Shorty Rogers, American jazz trumpeter (d. [1994](1994-in-the-united-states)) - April 16 - Henry Mancini, American composer and arranger (d. [1994](1994-in-the-united-states)) - Rudy Pompilli, American musician (d. [1976](1976-in-the-united-states)) - April 18 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American blues musician (d. [2005](2005-in-the-united-states)) - Henry Hyde, American politician (d. [2007](2007-in-the-united-states)) - Jim Zapp, American baseball player (d. [2016](2016-in-the-united-states)) - April 23 - Chuck Harmon, American baseball player and scout (d. [2019](2019-in-the-united-states)) - Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (d. [2007](2007-in-the-united-states)) - April 25 – Art Schallock, American baseball player (d. [2025](2025-in-the-united-states)) - April 28 - Blossom Dearie, American jazz singer and pianist. (d. [2009](2009-in-the-united-states)) - Emily W. Sunstein, American campaigner, political activist and biographer (d. [2007](2007-in-the-united-states)) - April 30 – Sheldon Harnick, American lyricist (d. [2023](2023-in-the-united-states)) ### May ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Patricia_Kennedy_Lawford_-_circa_1948.jpg" caption="[[Patricia Kennedy Lawford"] :: - May 1 - Art Fleming, American actor and game show host (d. [1995](1995-in-the-united-states)) - Evelyn Boyd Granville, American mathematician, computer scientist and academic (d. [2023](2023-in-the-united-states)) - Big Maybelle, American R&B singer (d. [1972](1972-in-the-united-states)) - May 2 – Ladislava Bakanic, American gymnast (d. [2021](2021-in-the-united-states)) - May 3 – Isadore Singer, American mathematician (d. [2021](2021-in-the-united-states)) - May 6 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (d. [2006](2006)) - May 11 – Ninfa Laurenzo, American businessman, founder of Ninfa's (d. [2001](2001-in-the-united-states)) - May 16 – Frank Mankiewicz, American journalist, presidential campaign press secretary (d. [2014](2014)) - May 18 - Jack Barlow, American country music singer (d. [2011](2011)) - Priscilla Pointer, American actress - Jack Whitaker, American sportscaster (d. [2019](2019-in-the-united-states)) - May 21 – Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (d. [1999](1999-in-the-united-states)) - May 24 – Philip Pearlstein, American soldier, painter (d. [2022](2022)) - May 29 – Pepper Paire, American female baseball player (d. [2013](2013)) - May 31 – Patricia Roberts Harris, American administrator (d. [1985](1985)) ### June ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Dennis_Weaver_1960.JPG" caption="[[Dennis Weaver"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/George_H._W._Bush_presidential_portrait_(cropped).jpg" caption="[[George H. W. Bush"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Chet_Atkins.jpg" caption="[[Chet Atkins"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/SidneyLumet07TIFF.jpg" caption="[[Sidney Lumet"] :: - June 1 – William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (d. [2006](2006)) - June 3 - Bernard Glasser, American film producer, director (d. [2014](2014)) - Herk Harvey, American film director (d. [1996](1996)) - Jimmy Rogers, American musician (d. [1997](1997)) - June 4 – Dennis Weaver, American actor (d. [2006](2006-in-the-united-states)) - June 5 - Lou Brissie, baseball player and scout (d. [2013](2013-in-the-united-states)) - Art Donovan, American football player and radio host (d. [2013](2013-in-the-united-states)) - June 6 - Robert Abernathy, American science fiction author (d. [1990](1990)) - W. Marvin Watson, American presidential advisor, Postmaster General (d. [2017](2017)) - June 7 – Edward Field, poet and author - June 8 - Sheldon Allman, American-Canadian actor and singer-songwriter (d. [2002](2002)) - Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and author (d. [2006](2006-in-the-united-states)) - David Pines, American physicist (d. [2018](2018)) - June 12 – George H. W. Bush, American politician, 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993 & 43rd vice president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 (d. [2018](2018-in-the-united-states)) - June 20 – Chet Atkins, American guitarist, record producer (d. [2001](2001)) - June 22 – John C. Whitcomb, American theologian (d. [2020](2020)) - June 23 - Frank Bolle, American comic strip artist, comic book artist and illustrator (d. [2020](2020)) - June Brooks, American businesswoman (d. [2010](2010)) - June 24 - Leonard Everett Fisher, American artist known best for children's books (d. [2024](2024)) - Yoshito Takamine, American politician (d. [2015](2015)) - June 25 - Martin J. Klein, American historian and physicist (d. [2009](2009-in-the-united-states)) - Sidney Lumet, American film director (d. [2011](2011-in-the-united-states)) - June 27 - Charles Norman Shay, American Penobscot tribal elder, writer and decorated veteran of both World War II and the Korean War (d. [2025](2025)) - Paul Conrad, American cartoonist (d. [2010](2010)) - June 26 - Richard Bull, American actor (d. [2014](2014)) - James W. McCord Jr., American CIA officer (d. [2017](2017)) - June 29 - Philip H. Hoff, American politician (d. [2018](2018)) - Ezra Laderman, American composer (d. [2015](2015)) ### July ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Studio_publicity_Eva_Marie_Saint.jpg" caption="[[Eva Marie Saint"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Pat_Hingle_(4443330082_724d5a94a0_z).jpg" caption="[[Pat Hingle"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Lola_Albright_1962.JPG" caption="[[Lola Albright"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Don_Knotts_Barney_Fife_1966.JPG" caption="[[Don Knotts"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Photo_by_Ken_Shipp-DOE_Photo_(6853349205)_(cropped).jpg" caption="[[C. T. Vivian"] :: - July 1 - Ralph Parr, American double-flying ace (d. [2012](2012)) - Curtis W. Harris, American minister, civil rights activist and Virginia politician (d. [2017](2017)) - Richard Longaker, American political scientist (d. [2018](2018)) - July 2 – Charley Winner, American football player (d. [2023](2023)) - July 4 - Eva Marie Saint, American actress - Harry Stewart Jr., American fighter pilot (d. [2025](2025)) - July 6 - Ernest Graves Jr., United States Army officer (d. [2019](2019)) - Robert Michael White, American military aircraft test pilot, fighter pilot, electrical engineer and major general (d. [2010](2010)) - July 7 – Sam Cathcart, American football halfback, defensive back (d. [2015](2015)) - July 8 – Charles C. Droz, American politician (d. [2025](2025)) - July 10 – Gloria Stroock, American actress (d. [2024](2024)) - July 11 - F. James Rutherford, American science professor (d. [2021](2021)) - Oscar Wyatt, American businessman, self-made millionaire (d. [2025](2025)) - Al Federoff, American professional baseball infielder, manager (d. [2011](2011)) - July 12 – Shirley Neil Pettis, American politician (d. [2016](2016)) - July 14 - Val Avery, American character actor (d. [2009](2009)) - Warren Giese, American football player, coach and politician (d. [2013](2013)) - July 15 – Jeremiah Denton, American politician (d. [2014](2014-in-the-united-states)) - July 16 - James L. Greenfield, American administrator (d. [2024](2024-in-the-united-states)) - Bess Myerson, American politician, model and television actress (d. [2014](2014)) - July 18 – Will D. Campbell, American minister, author and activist (d. 2013) - July 19 - Pat Hingle, American actor (d. [2009](2009)) - Frank Ivancie, American businessman and politician (d. [2019](2019)) - Arthur Rankin Jr., American film director, producer and co-founder of Rankin/Bass Productions (d. [2014](2014)) - July 20 – Lola Albright, American singer, actress (d. [2017](2017)) - July 21 – Don Knotts, American comedic actor (d. [2006](2006)) - July 22 – Margaret Whiting, American singer (d. [2011](2011)) - July 23 – Avern Cohn, American judge (d. [2022](2022)) - July 24 – Paul Meier, American statistician (d. [2011](2011)) - July 25 – Frank Church, American politician (d. [1984](1984-in-the-united-states)) - July 28 - Anne Braden, American civil rights activist (d. [2006](2006)) - C. T. Vivian, American civil rights activist, minister and author (d. [2020](2020-in-the-united-states)) - July 29 - Lillian Faralla, American female professional baseball player (d. [2019](2019-in-the-united-states)) - Robert Horton, American actor, singer (d. [2016](2016)) - July 30 – William H. Gass, American novelist (d. [2017](2017)) ### August ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/James_Baldwin_37_Allan_Warren.jpg" caption="[[James Baldwin"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Carrol_O'Connor_as_Archie_Bunker.JPG" caption="[[Carroll O'Connor"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Dinah_Washington_1962.jpg" caption="[[Dinah Washington"] :: - August 1 - Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (d. [2007](2007-in-the-united-states)) - Frank Havens, American canoeist (d. [2018](2018)) - Michael Stewart, American playwright, stage librettist (d. [1987](1987)) - August 2 - James Baldwin, African-American author and civil rights activist (d. [1987](1987-in-the-united-states)) - Joe Harnell, American pianist and composer (d. [2005](2005-in-the-united-states)) - Carroll O'Connor, American actor, producer and director (d. [2001](2001-in-the-united-states)) - August 3 – Leon Uris, American writer (d. [2003](2003-in-the-united-states)) - August 6 – Ella Jenkins, American folk singer of children's music (d. [2024](2024-in-the-united-states)) - August 8 – Gene Deitch, American illustrator, animator and film director (d. [2020](2020-in-the-united-states)) - August 9 – Marta Becket, American dancer (d. [2017](2017-in-the-united-states)) - August 10 – Martha Hyer, American actress (d. 2014) - August 15 – Phyllis Schlafly, American activist (d. [2016](2016-in-the-united-states)) - August 16 - Fess Parker, American actor and businessman (d. [2010](2010)) - Inez Voyce, American female baseball player (d. [2022](2022)) - Benny Bartlett, American child actor and musician (d. [1999](1999)) - August 17 - Evan S. Connell, Jr., American fiction writer and poet (d. [2013](2013-in-the-united-states)) - Charles Simmons, American author (d. [2017](2017-in-the-united-states)) - August 18 – Frank Logue, 25th mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (d. [2010](2010-in-the-united-states)) - August 20 – Frank Joseph Guarini, American politician - August 23 - Elaine Sturtevant, American artist (d. [2014](2014)) - Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [2023](2023)) - August 24 – Louis Teicher, American pianist (Ferrante & Teicher) (d. [2008](2008-in-the-united-states)) - August 26 – Barbara Staff, American political activist (d. [2019](2019-in-the-united-states)) - August 28 – Peggy Ryan, American dancer (d. [2004](2004-in-the-united-states)) - August 29 - Clyde Scott, American athlete (d. [2018](2018)) - Dinah Washington, African-American singer, pianist (d. [1963](1963)) - August 31 - Buddy Hackett, American actor, comedian (d. [2003](2003)) - Thomas J. Hudner Jr., American naval aviator (d. [2017](2017)) ### September ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Daniel_Inouye_Official_Photo_2009.jpg" caption="[[Daniel Inouye"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Jane_Greer_-_1947.jpg" caption="[[Jane Greer"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Jerry_Coleman_of_San_Diego_Padres.jpg" caption="[[Jerry Coleman"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Lauren_Bacall_1945_press_photo.jpg" caption="[[Lauren Bacall"] :: - September 2 – Sidney Phillips, American physician, WW2 Marine documentary consultant (d. [2015](2015-in-the-united-states)) - September 3 – Mary Grace Canfield, American actress (d. [2014](2014-in-the-united-states)) - September 5 - Paul Dietzel, American college football coach (d. [2013](2013-in-the-united-states)) - Roy Andrew Miller, American linguist (d. [2014](2014-in-the-united-states)) - September 6 - John Melcher, American politician (d. [2018](2018-in-the-united-states)) - Dale E. Wolf, American businessman and politician (d. [2021](2021-in-the-united-states)) - September 7 – Daniel Inouye, American politician (d. [2012](2012-in-the-united-states)) - September 8 – Wendell H. Ford, American politician (d. [2015](2015-in-the-united-states)) - September 9 - Jane Greer, actress (d. [2001](2001)) - Sylvia Miles, actress (d. [2019](2019)) - Russell M. Nelson, heart surgeon and religious leader (d. [2025](2025-in-the-united-states)) - September 11 - Daniel Akaka, soldier, engineer and politician (d. 2018) - Tom Landry, football player and coach (d. [2000](2000)) - September 12 – Howard C. Nielson, politician (d. [2021](2021-in-the-united-states)) - September 13 – Scott Brady, actor (d. [1985](1985)) - September 14 – Jerry Coleman, baseball player, manager, broadcaster, and Marine aviator (d. [2014](2014)) - September 15 – Bobby Short, entertainer (d. [2005](2005-in-the-united-states)) - September 16 – Lauren Bacall, actress (d. [2014](2014-in-the-united-states)) - September 20 - Gogi Grant, singer (d. [2016](2016-in-the-united-states)) - Helen Grayco, singer, actress (d. [2022](2022-in-the-united-states)) - September 22 - J. William Middendorf, soldier and politician (d. 2025) - Gerald Schoenfeld, chairman (d. [2008](2008-in-the-united-states)) - September 27 - Wendell Bell, futurist (d. [2019](2019-in-the-united-states)) - Fred Singer, Austrian-American physicist and academic (d. [2020](2020-in-the-united-states)) - September 28 – Merwin Coad, politician (d. [2025](2025-in-the-united-states)) - September 30 - Truman Capote, author (d. [1984](1984-in-the-united-states)) - Georgiana Young, actress (d. [2007](2007-in-the-united-states)) ### October ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/JimmyCarterPortrait2.jpg" caption="[[Jimmy Carter"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/William_Rehnquist.jpg" caption="[[William Rehnquist"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Lee_Iacocca_at_the_White_House_in_1993.jpg" caption="[[Lee Iacocca"] :: - October 1 - Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (d. [2024](2024-in-the-united-states)) - William Rehnquist, 16th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (d. [2005](2005-in-the-united-states)) - Roger Williams, American pianist (d. [2011](2011)) - October 2 – Ruby Stephens, American female baseball player (d. [1996](1996)) - October 3 – Harvey Kurtzman, American editor, cartoonist and creator of *Mad* (d. [1993](1993)) - October 5 – Bill Dana, American comedian, actor, screenwriter (d. [2017](2017)) - October 7 – Joyce Reynolds, American actress (d. [2019](2019)) - October 9 – Arnie Risen, American basketball player (d. [2012](2012)) - October 10 - David Shepherd, American producer, director and actor (d. [2018](2018)) - Ed Wood, American filmmaker, actor, writer, producer and director (d. [1978](1978-in-the-united-states)) - October 11 – Mal Whitfield, American Olympic athlete (d. [2015](2015)) - October 13 – Terry Gibbs, American vibraphone player and bandleader - October 14 – Robert Webber, American actor (d. [1989](1989)) - October 15 - Warren Miller, American ski and snowboarding filmmaker (d. [2018](2018)) - Lee Iacocca, American automobile executive (d. [2019](2019-in-the-united-states)) - Mark Lenard, American actor (d. [1996](1996)) - October 17 – Fredd Wayne, American actor (d. [2018](2018)) - October 18 - Arthur J. Jackson, American military officer (d. [2017](2017)) - Buddy MacMaster, American artist (d. [2014](2014)) - October 21 – Joyce Randolph, American actress (d. [2024](2024)) - October 25 - Billy Barty, American actor (d. [2000](2000)) - Bobby Brown, baseball player (b. [2021](2021)) - Earl Palmer, American R&B drummer (d. [2008](2008)) - Weston E. Vivian, American politician (d. [2020](2020-in-the-united-states)) - October 27 – Bonnie Lou, American singer (d. [2015](2015)) ### November ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Geraldine_Page_1956_press_photo.jpg" caption="[[Geraldine Page"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Shirley_Chisholm.jpg" caption="[[Shirley Chisholm"] :: - November 6 - Harlon Block, U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima (d. [1945](1945)) - November 10 – Russell Johnson, American actor (d. [2014](2014-in-the-united-states)) - November 11 – Leonard D. Wexler, American judge (d. [2018](2018-in-the-united-states)) - November 13 – Edward F. Welch, Jr., American admiral (d. [2008](2008-in-the-united-states)) - November 16 – Sam Farber, American businessman, co-founder of OXO (d. 2013) - November 19 – J. D. Sumner, American gospel singer (d. [1998](1998)) - November 20 – Mark Miller, American actor (d. [2022](2022-in-the-united-states)) - November 21 – Joseph Campanella, American actor (d. [2018](2018)) - November 22 - Geraldine Page, American actress (d. [1987](1987)) - Robert M. Young, American film director and producer (d. [2024](2024-in-the-united-states)) - November 24 - James M. Burns, American attorney and judge (d. [2001](2001-in-the-united-states)) - Joanne Winter, American female professional baseball pitcher, LPGA player (d. [1996](1996-in-the-united-states)) - November 25 – Paul Desmond, American jazz alto saxophonist and composer (d. [1977](1977)) - November 26 – Ruth Bradley Holmes, linguist (d. [2021](2021-in-the-united-states)) - November 28 – Calvin J. Spann, African-American Tuskegee Airman, fighter pilot (d. [2015](2015-in-the-united-states)) - November 29 – Irv Noren, American baseball and basketball player (d. [2019](2019-in-the-united-states)) - November 30 - Shirley Chisholm, American politician (d. [2005](2005)) - Allan Sherman, American comedy writer, television producer and song parodist (d. [1973](1973-in-the-united-states)) ### December ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Secretary_of_State_Alexander_Haig.jpg" caption="[[Alexander Haig"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Cicely_Tyson.jpg" caption="[[Cicely Tyson"] :: - December 2 – Alexander Haig, American politician, U.S. Secretary of State (d. [2010](2010)) - December 4 – John C. Portman Jr., American architect (d. [2017](2017-in-the-united-states)) - December 6 – Wally Cox, American actor (d. [1973](1973)) - December 9 – Frank Sturgis, one of the five Watergate burglars whose capture led to the end of the American Presidency of Richard Nixon (d. [1993](1993)) - December 12 – Ed Koch, American politician (d. [2013](2013)) - December 13 - Robert Coogan, American actor (d. [1978](1978)) - Maria Riva, American actress (d. [2025](2025)) - December 17 – Margaret Wigiser, American female professional baseball player (d. [2019](2019-in-the-united-states)) - December 19 – Cicely Tyson, American actress (d. [2021](2021-in-the-united-states)) - December 23 – Bob Kurland, American basketball player (d. [2013](2013-in-the-united-states)) - December 25 – Rod Serling, American television screenwriter (*The Twilight Zone*) (d. [1975](1975)) - December 26 – Frank Broyles, American college football coach, athletic director (d. [2017](2017-in-the-united-states)) - December 27 - James A. McClure, American politician (d. [2011](2011-in-the-united-states)) - Frank North, American football coach (d. [2017](2017-in-the-united-states)) - December 29 – Dub Jones, American football player (d. [2024](2024-in-the-united-states)) - December 31 - Frank J. Kelley, 50th Michigan Attorney General (d. [2021](2021-in-the-united-states)) - Taylor Mead, American actor (d. [2013](2013-in-the-united-states)) - J. Donald Monan, American academic administrator (d. [2017](2017-in-the-united-states)) - Lawrence W. Pierce, American judge (d. [2020](2020-in-the-united-states)) - Robert Ravenstahl, American politician (d. [2015](2015-in-the-united-states)) ## Deaths - January 4 – John Peters, baseball shortstop (born [1850](1850-in-the-united-states)) - January 12 – William V. Allen, U.S. Senator from Nebraska from 1893 to 1899. (born [1847](1847-in-the-united-states)) - January 13 – Albert Abrams, quack doctor (born [1863](1863-in-the-united-states)) - January 14 – Luther Emmett Holt, pediatrician (born [1855](1855-in-the-united-states)) - February 1 – Maurice Prendergast, painter (born [1858](1858-in-the-united-states)) - February 3 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 and historian (born [1856](1856-in-the-united-states)) - February 8 – Henry B. Quinby, governor of New Hampshire (born [1846](1846-in-the-united-states)) - February 16 - Henry Bacon, Beaux-Arts architect of the Lincoln Memorial (born [1866](1866-in-the-united-states)) - John William Kendrick, railroad executive (born [1853](1853-in-the-united-states)) - March 9 – Daniel Ridgway Knight, painter (born [1839](1839-in-the-united-states)) - March 13 – Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, African American civil rights campaigner and publisher (born [1842](1842-in-the-united-states)) - April 1 – Frank Capone, gangster, shot by police (born [1895](1895-in-the-united-states)) - April 7 – Marcus A. Smith, U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1912 to 1921 (born [1851](1851-in-the-united-states)) - April 17 – Jane Kelley Adams, educator (born [1852](1852-in-the-united-states)) - April 19 – Paul Boyton, extreme water sports pioneer (born [1848 in Ireland](1848-in-ireland)) - April 14 – Louis Sullivan, architect, "father of skyscrapers" (born 1856) - April 18 – Frank Xavier Leyendecker, illustrator (born [1877](1877-in-the-united-states)) - April 20 – Caroline Ingalls (b. Caroline Lake Quiner), pioneer, mother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (born [1839](1839-in-the-united-states)) - April 21 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (born 1858 in Italy) - April 23 – Bertram Goodhue, neo-gothic architect (born [1869](1869-in-the-united-states)) - April 24 – G. Stanley Hall, psychologist (born [1844](1844-in-the-united-states)) - April 27 – Maecenas Eason Benton, U.S. Representative from Missouri (born [1848](1848-in-the-united-states)) - May 5 – Kate Claxton, stage actress (born [1848](1848-in-the-united-states)) - May 10 – George Kennan, explorer (born [1845](1845-in-the-united-states)) - May 11 – Moses Fleetwood Walker, baseball pitcher and Black nationalist (born 1856) - May 13 – Alva Smith, Nebraska politician (born 1850) - May 31 – Charles Stockton, admiral (born 1845) - July 6 – Black Benny (Williams), bass drummer (born. c.1890) - July 14 – Isabella Stewart Gardner, art collector and philanthropist (born [1840](1840-in-the-united-states)) - July 23 – Frank Frost Abbott, classical scholar (born [1860](1860-in-the-united-states)) - August 7 – John Edward Bruce ("Bruce Grit"), African American slave and historian (born 1856) - August 25 – Velma Caldwell Melville, editor and writer (born [1858](1858-in-the-united-states)) - September 1 – Samuel Baldwin Marks Young, general, first Chief of Staff of the United States Army (born 1840) - September 15 – Frank Chance, baseball player (born 1877) - September 17 – John Martin Schaeberle, German-born astronomer (born [1853 in Germany](1853-in-germany)) - September 25 – Lotta Crabtree, stage actress (born [1847](1847-in-the-united-states)) - October 25 – Laura Jean Libbey, novelist (born [1862](1862-in-the-united-states)) - October 27 – Percy Haughton, baseball player and coach (born [1876](1876-in-the-united-states)) - October 29 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, children's novelist (born [1849 in the United Kingdom](1849-in-the-united-kingdom)) - November 3 – Cornelius Cole, U.S. Senator from California from 1867 to 1873 (born [1822](1822-in-the-united-states)) - November 9 – Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1893 to 1924 (born 1850) - November 10 – Dean O'Banion, gangster, killed (born [1892](1892-in-the-united-states)) - November 19 – Thomas H. Ince, silent film producer, "father of the Western" (born [1882](1882-in-the-united-states)) - November 21 – Florence Harding, née Kling, First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923 as wife of Warren G. Harding, 29th president (born 1860) - December 6 – Gene Stratton-Porter, novelist and naturalist (born 1863) - December 13 – Samuel Gompers, labor leader (born 1850) - December 15 - T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey from 1921 to 1923. (born [1864](1864-in-the-united-states)) - William Herbert Carruth, linguist and poet (born [1859](1859-in-the-united-states)) - December 19 – Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (born [1873](1873-in-the-united-states)) ## References ## References 1. Stan Fischler. (June 2001). ["Boston Bruins: Greatest Moments and Players"](https://books.google.com/books?id=Zx-9_K3AXPQC&pg=PA240). *Sports Publishing LLC*. 2. Corey Field. (1997). 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