1936 in the United States

::William B. Bankhead (D-Alabama) (starting June 4) - Senate Majority Leader: Joseph Taylor Robinson (D-Arkansas) - Congress: [74th](74th-united-states-congress) #### State governments ::data[format=table] | Governors and lieutenant governors | |---| | | :: ## Events ### January–March ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Adams_Boulder_Dam_1942.jpg" caption="March 1: [[Hoover Dam]] completed."] :: - January 4 – *Billboard* magazine publishes its first music hit parade. - January 15 – The first American building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company. - February 17 – The first superhero to wear a skin-tight costume and mask, *The Phantom*, makes his appearance in U.S. newspapers. - March – German American Bund formed in Buffalo, New York, in support of Nazi Germany to succeed the Friends of New Germany, with German-born American citizen Fritz Julius Kuhn elected as its first leader. - March 1 – Construction of Hoover Dam is completed. - March 5 – The [8th Academy Awards](8th-academy-awards), hosted by Frank Capra, are presented at Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, with Frank Lloyd's *Mutiny on the Bounty* winning the Academy Award for Outstanding Production. The film receives the most nominations with eight, while John Ford's *The Informer* wins the most awards with four, including Best Director for Ford. - March 17–18 – Pittsburgh Flood of 1936 ("St. Patrick's Day Flood"): Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, suffers the worst flooding in its history. - March 26 – The longest game in the history of the National Hockey League is played. The Montreal Maroons and Detroit Red Wings are scoreless until 16½ minutes into the sixth overtime when Mud Bruneteau ends it at 2:25 am. ### April–June ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg" caption="March: "Migrant Mother", an iconic photo taken by [[Dorothea Lange"] :: - April 3 – Richard Hauptmann, convicted of the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder in 1932, is executed by electrocution in New Jersey State Prison. - April 5 – A tornado hits Tupelo, Mississippi, killing 216 and injuring over 700 (the 4th deadliest tornado in U.S. history). - May - Lawrence Warehouse Company, based in San Francisco, California has an initial public stock offering. - May 12 – The Santa Fe railroad inaugurates the all-Pullman *Super Chief* passenger train between Chicago and Los Angeles. - May 25 – Remington Rand strike of 1936–37 begins. - June - A [major heat wave](1936-north-american-heat-wave) strikes North America; high temperature records are set and thousands die. - The first production model PCC streetcar, built by St. Louis Car Company, is placed in service by Pittsburgh Railways. - June 7 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee is founded. - June 10 – Margaret Mitchell's epic historical romance *Gone with the Wind* is published. - June 19 – Max Schmeling knocks out Joe Louis in the 12th round of their heavyweight boxing match at Yankee Stadium in New York City. - June 29 – United States Maritime Commission is formed. ### July–September - July 11 – Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic. - July 13–14 – Peak of July 1936 heat wave: The U.S. states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana all set new state records for high temperature. At Mio in northern Michigan, it soars to 113 F. - August 3 – African-American athlete Jesse Owens wins the 100-meter dash at the Berlin Olympics. - August 14 - Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, in the last public execution in the United States - [1936 Summer Olympics](1936-summer-olympics): The United States men's national basketball team wins its first ever Olympic basketball tournament in the final game over Canada, 19–8. ### October–December - October 6 – The New York Yankees defeat the New York Giants (baseball), 4 games to 2, to win their 5th World Series Title. - October 11 – Earl Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and builds Mississippi's first permanent rodeo arena at Columbia, Mississippi. - October 19 – H.R. Ekins, reporter for the *New York World-Telegram*, wins a race to travel around the world on commercial airline flights, beating Dorothy Kilgallen of the *New York Journal* and Leo Kieran of *The New York Times*. The flight takes 18 ½ days. - October 29 – The historic Uptown Theater opens in Washington, D.C. - November 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1936: Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term in a landslide victory over Republican governor of Kansas Alf Landon. - November 12 – In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic. - November 23 – *Life* magazine begins publication as a weekly news magazine under the management of Henry Luce. - November 25 – The Abraham Lincoln Brigade sails from New York City on its way to the Spanish Civil War. - December 3 – Radio station WQXR is officially founded in New York City. - December 29 – The United Auto Workers begins the Flint Sit-Down Strike in Flint, Michigan. ### Undated - The YMCA Youth and Government program is founded in Albany, New York. - Society of American Archivists established. ### Ongoing - Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937) - Dust Bowl (1930–1936) - New Deal (1933–1939) ## Births ### January ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Roger_Miller_1975.jpg" caption="[[Roger Miller"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Alan_Alda_by_Bridget_Laudien_(cropped).jpg" caption="[[Alan Alda"] :: - January 1 - Don Nehlen, American football player and coach - James Sinegal, American billionaire, businessman and co-founder of Costco - Richard V. Allen, American public servant and national security advisor (d. [2024](2024-in-the-united-states)) - January 2 – Roger Miller, American singer, songwriter, musician and actor (d. [1992](1992-in-the-united-states)) - January 4 – Mike White, American football player and coach (d. [2025](2025-in-the-united-states)) - January 5 - Florence King, American novelist, essayist and columnist (d. [2013](2016-in-the-united-states)) - Daryl Robertson, American baseball player (d. [2018](2018)) - January 6 – Darlene Hard, American professional tennis player (d. [2021](2021-in-the-united-states)) - January 7 – G. Robert Blakey, American lawyer and academic - January 9 - Anne Rivers Siddons, American author (d. [2019](2019-in-the-united-states)) - Ralph Terry, American baseball player (d. [2022](2022-in-the-united-states)) - January 10 - Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian and biographer (d. [2002](2002)) - Al Goldstein, American publisher and pornographer (d. [2013](2013-in-the-united-states)) - Robert Wilson, American physicist and radioastronomer, recipient of 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics - January 14 – Clarence Carter, African-American soul musician - January 23 - Arlene Golonka, American actress (d. [2021](2021-in-the-united-states)) - Jerry Kramer, American football player - January 27 - Barry Barish, American gravitational physicist, recipient of 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics - Troy Donahue, American actor and singer (d. [2001](2001)) - Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist - January 28 – Alan Alda, American actor - January 29 – James Jamerson, American bass guitarist (d. [1983](1983)) ### February ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Burt_Reynolds_1991_portrait_crop.jpg" caption="[[Burt Reynolds"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Jim_Brown_at_LBJ_Foundation_2014_(cropped).jpg" caption="[[Jim Brown"] :: - February 1 – Azie Taylor Morton, 35th Treasurer of the United States (d. [2003](2003)) - February 3 - Jim Marshall, American photographer (d. [2010](2010)) - Elizabeth Peer, American journalist (d. [1984](1984)) - February 4 - David Brenner, American comedian (d. [2014](2014)) - Gary Conway, American actor - February 6 – J. Howard Marshall III, American businessman - February 8 – Larry Verne, American singer, songwriter (d. [2013](2013)) - February 11 - Russell Morash, American television producer and director (d. [2024](2024)) - Burt Reynolds, American actor, director and producer (d. [2018](2018)) - February 12 – Joe Don Baker, American actor (d. [2025](2025)) - February 14 – Andrew Prine, American actor (d. [2022](2022)) - February 16 – Carl Icahn, American businessman, investor and philanthropist - February 17 – Jim Brown, African American football player and actor (d. [2023](2023)) - February 19 – Sam Myers, American musician, songwriter (d. [2006](2006)) - February 20 - Larry Hovis, American actor (d. [2003](2003)) - Sharpe James, African-American politician, mayor of Newark (d. [2025](2025)) - February 21 – Barbara Jordan, African-American lawyer, politician and civil rights campaigner (d. [1996](1996)) - February 22 - J. Michael Bishop, American immunologist and microbiologist - Elizabeth MacRae, American actress (d. [2024](2024-in-the-united-states)) - February 24 – Carol D'Onofrio, American public health researcher (d. [2020](2020)) - February 27 – Roger Mahony, American cardinal - February 29 – Alex Rocco, American actor (d. [2015](2015)) ### March ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Marion_Barry,_1996_in_Washington,_D.C_(cropped).jpg" caption="[[Marion Barry"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Antonin_Scalia_Official_SCOTUS_Portrait.jpg" caption="[[Antonin Scalia"] :: - March 3 – Peter G. Davis, American opera and classical music critic (d. [2021](2021)) - March 5 – Dean Stockwell, American actor (d. [2021](2021)) - March 6 – Marion Barry, African-American politician and civil rights activist (d. [2014](2014)) - March 7 – Loren Acton, American astronaut - March 8 - Sue Ane Langdon, American actress - Earl J. Silbert, American attorney (d. [2022](2022)) - March 9 - Mickey Gilley, American country singer and musician (d. [2022](2022)) - Marty Ingels, American actor and theatrical agent (d. [2015](2015)) - Tom Sestak, American football player (d. [1987](1987)) - March 11 – Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. from 1986 to 2016 (d. [2016](2016)) - March 12 – William Foege, American physician, epidemiologist (d. [2026](2026)) - March 15 - Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (d. [1986](1986)) - Don Sundquist, American businessman and politician, Governor of Tennessee from 1995 to 2003 (d. [2023](2023)) - Jerry Walsh, American basketball coach (d. [2025](2025)) - March 16 – Raymond Damadian, Armenian-American MRI inventor (d, [2022](2022)) - March 17 - Patty Maloney, American actress (d. [2025](2025)) - Ken Mattingly, American astronaut (d. [2023](2023)) - March 22 – Edith Grossman, American translator (d. [2023](2023)) - March 24 – Don Covay, American singer, songwriter (d. [2015](2015)) - March 26 – Harry Kalas, American sportscaster (d. [2009](2009)) - March 28 – Bill Gaither, American singer and songwriter - March 31 - Marge Piercy, American poet, activist - Walter E. Williams, American economist (d. [2020](2020)) ### April ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/CharlesNapierApr08.jpg" caption="Charles Napier"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Glen_Campbell_1967.JPG" caption="[[Glen Campbell"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Roy_Orbison_(1965).jpg" caption="[[Roy Orbison"] :: - April 3 - Jerry Krause, American basketball coach (d. [2023](2023)) - Scott LaFaro, American jazz musician (d. [1961](1961)) - Jimmy McGriff, American jazz musician (d. [2008](2008)) - April 9 - Bob Albright, American politician (d. [2023](2023)) - Valerie Solanas, American radical feminist, attempted murderer of Andy Warhol (d. [1988](1988)) - April 10 - John Madden, American football player, coach, and sportscaster (d. [2021](2021)) - Bobby Smith, American singer, songwriter (d. [2013](2013)) - April 12 – Charles Napier, American actor (d. [2011](2011)) - April 14 - Bobby Nichols, American professional golfer - Frank Serpico, American police officer - April 18 - Roger Graef, American-born British theatre director and filmmaker (d. [2022](2022)) - Tommy Ivo, American actor, drag racer - Michael M. Thomas, American novelist and investment banker (d. [2021](2021)) - April 19 - Ruby Johnson, American singer (d. [1999](1999)) - Andy Romano, American actor (d. [2022](2022)) - April 20 – Pat Roberts, American politician - April 21 - Bob Cleary, American ice hockey player (d. [2015](2015)) - James Dobson, American child psychologist, conservative evangelical political activist (d. [2025](2025)) - April 22 – Glen Campbell, American musician and actor (d. [2017](2017)) - April 23 – Roy Orbison, American singer, songwriter (d. [1988](1988)) - April 24 - Glen Hobbie, American baseball player (d. [2013](2013)) - Jim Rountree, American CFL football player (d. [2013](2013)) - April 26 – Doug Sax, American mastering engineer (d. [2015](2015)) - April 28 – Charles Hill, American diplomat and academic (d. [2021](2021)) - April 29 – Lane Smith, American actor (d. [2005](2005)) - April 30 - Jerry Bellune, editor and publisher - Bobby Gregg, American musician (d. [2014](2014)) ### May ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Bobby_Darin_1959.JPG" caption="[[Bobby Darin"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Dennis_Hopper_Cannes_2008_(cropped).jpg" caption="[[Dennis Hopper"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Louis_Gossett_Jr_LF.JPG" caption="[[Louis Gossett Jr."] :: - May 1 – Jerry Mander, American author and activist (d. [2023](2023)) - May 2 - Sam DeLuca, American football offensive lineman, sports broadcaster (d. [2011](2011)) - Perdita Huston, American journalist (d. [2001](2001)) - May 4 – Eleanor Coppola, American documentary filmmaker, artist, and writer (d. [2024](2024)) - May 7 – Jimmy Ruffin, African-American singer (d. [2014](2014)) - May 8 – Clyde Bellecourt, Native American rights organiser (d. [2022](2022)) - May 9 - Terry Drinkwater, American television and radio journalist (d. [1989](1989)) - Floyd Robinson, African-American baseball player - May 11 – Carla Bley, American jazz musician (d. [2023](2023)) - May 12 - Tom Snyder, American talk show host (d. [2007](2007)) - Frank Stella, American minimalist painter (d. [2024](2024)) - May 14 - Bobby Darin, American singer and actor (d. [1973](1973)) - Dick Howser, American baseball shortstop, manager (d. [1987](1987)) - May 15 - Wavy Gravy, American anti-war activist - Paul Zindel, American writer (d. [2003](2003)) - May 16 – Philippe de Montebello, American museum director - May 17 – Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (d. [2010](2010)) - May 22 - George H. Heilmeier, American engineer (d. [2014](2014)) - M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist (d. [2005](2005)) - May 23 – Charles Kimbrough, American actor (d. [2023](2023)) - May 24 – Harold Budd, American avant-garde composer and poet (d. [2020](2020)) - May 25 – Tom T. Hall, American country singer-songwriter (d. [2021](2021)) - May 27 – Louis Gossett Jr., African-American actor (d. [2024](2024)) - May 29 – Arlene McQuade, American actress (d. [2014](2014)) ### June ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Bruce_Dern_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" caption="[[Bruce Dern"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Kris_Kristofferson_1999.jpg" caption="[[Kris Kristofferson"] :: - June 3 – Larry McMurtry, American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter (d. [2021](2021)) - June 4 – Bruce Dern, American screen actor - June 6 - Richard Green, American sexologist, psychiatrist, lawyer and author (d. [2019](2019)) - Levi Stubbs, American baritone singer (d. [2008](2008)) - June 8 - James Darren, American actor, singer (d. [2024](2024)) - Kenneth G. Wilson, American theoretical physicist (d. [2013](2013)) - June 11 – Jud Strunk, American singer and comedian (d. [1981](1981)) - June 12 – Marcus Belgrave, American jazz trumpeter (d. [2015](2015)) - June 14 – Renaldo Benson, American R&B singer-songwriter (d. [2005](2005)) - June 15 – William Levada, American cardinal (d. [2019](2019)) - June 19 – Shirley Goodman, American R&B singer (d. [2005](2005)) - June 20 – Billy Guy, American singer (d. [2002](2002)) - June 22 – Kris Kristofferson, American actor and country singer-songwriter (d. [2024](2024)) - June 24 – Robert Downey Sr., American film actor and director (d. [2021](2021)) - June 26 – Hal Greer, African-American professional basketball player (d. [2018](2018)) - June 27 – Lucille Clifton, American poet, writer and educator (d. [2010](2010)) - June 28 - Chuck Howley, American football player - Major Owens, African-American politician (d. [2013](2013)) - June 29 – Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (d. [2011](2011)) - June 30 – Nancy Dussault, American actress and singer ### July ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Shirley_Knight_1960s.JPG" caption="[[Shirley Knight"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Larry_Cohen_2010.jpg" caption="[[Larry Cohen"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Elizabeth_Dole_official_photo.jpg" caption="[[Elizabeth Dole"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Buddy_Guy_2008.jpg" caption="[[Buddy Guy"] :: - July 1 - Wally Amos, African-American businessman and television personality (d. [2024](2024)) - Ron Masak, American actor (d. [2022](2022)) - Syl Johnson, African-American blues musician (d. [2022](2022)) - July 4 – Dick Hyde, American trombonist (d. [2019](2019)) - July 5 – Shirley Knight, American actress (d. [2020](2020)) - July 7 – Joseph Renzulli, American educational psychologist - July 9 - James Hampton, American actor (d. [2021](2021)) - June Jordan, Jamaican American poet, essayist, teacher, and activist (d. [2002](2002)) - David Zinman, American conductor and violinist - July 10 - Herbert Boyer, American biotechnology entrepreneur - Barbara B. Kennelly, American politician - July 11 – Joe Bussard, American record collector (d. [2022](2022)) - July 12 – Frank Ryan, American football player and mathematician (d. [2024](2024)) - July 13 – Albert Ayler, African-American saxophonist, singer and composer (d. [1970](1970)) - July 14 - Pema Chödrön, American Tibetan Buddhist - Robert F. Overmyer, American astronaut (d. [1996](1996)) - July 15 - Larry Cohen, American film director, producer and screenwriter (d. [2019](2019)) - George Voinovich, American politician (d. [2016](2016)) - July 16 – Buddy Merrill, American musician (d. [2021](2021)) - July 18 – Jerry Richardson, American businessman and football club owner (d. [2023](2023)) - July 19 – Connie Kurtz, American LGBT rights activist (d. [2018](2018)) - July 20 - Butch Baird, American professional golfer - Barbara Mikulski, American politician - July 23 - Don Drysdale, American baseball player (d. [1993](1993)) - Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. from 1988 to 2018 - July 24 - Ruth Buzzi, American actress, comedian, and singer (d. [2025](2025)) - Mark Goddard, American actor (d. [2023](2023)) - July 27 – J. Robert Hooper, American politician (d. [2008](2008)) - July 29 – Elizabeth Dole, American politician - July 30 – Buddy Guy, African-American blues singer and guitarist ### August ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Robert_Redford_(cropped).jpg" caption="[[Robert Redford"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Wilt_Chamberlain3.jpg" caption="[[Wilt Chamberlain"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/John_McCain_official_portrait_2009.jpg" caption="[[John McCain"] :: - August 1 – Bradford Bishop, American fugitive - August 5 – John Saxon, American actor (d. [2020](2020)) - August 7 – Richard L. Tierney, American poet, novelist (d. [2022](2022)) - August 8 - Don Bowden, American middle-distance runner - Frank Howard, American baseball player (d. [2023](2023)) - August 11 – Bill Monbouquette, American baseball player (d. [2015](2015)) - August 12 – John Poindexter, American Naval officer, US Chief of Staff - August 16 - Anita Gillette, American actress - Bill Ratliff, American politician (d. [2025](2025)) - August 17 - Margaret Hamilton, American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner - Floyd Westerman, Native-American actor, artist, musician, and political activist (d. [2007](2007)) - August 18 – Robert Redford, American actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist (d. [2025](2025)) - August 20 – Sam Melville, American actor (d. [1989](1989)) - August 21 – Wilt Chamberlain, African-American basketball player (d. [1999](1999)) - August 22 - Dale Hawkins, American singer-songwriter (d. [2010](2010)) - Lex Humphries, American drummer (d. [1994](1994)) - August 23 - Rudy Lewis, American R&B singer (d. [1964](1964)) - Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (d. [2001](2001)) - August 24 - William J. Coyne, American politician (d. [2013](2013)) - Kenny Guinn, American politician (d. [2010](2010)) - August 26 – Benedict Anderson, American academic (d. [2015](2015)) - August 27 – Joel Kovel, American scholar and author (d. [2018](2018)) - August 28 – Don Denkinger, American professional baseball player (d. [2023](2023)) - August 29 – John McCain, American politician, U.S. senator (R-Az.) (d. [2018](2018)) - August 31 – Richard J. Ferris, American business executive (d. [2022](2022)) ### September ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Buddy_Holly_cropped.JPG" caption="[[Buddy Holly"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Jim_Henson_(1989)_headshot.jpg" caption="[[Jim Henson"] :: - September 2 – Joan Bennett Kennedy, American socialite (d. [2025](2025-in-the-united-states)) - September 3 – John Olver, American politician (d. [2023](2023-in-the-united-states)) - September 5 - John Danforth, American politician - Alcee Hastings, African-American politician (d. 2021) - Jonathan Kozol, American writer, educator, and activist - Bill Mazeroski, American professional baseball player - September 7 – Buddy Holly, American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll (d. [1959](1959)) - September 11 – Charles Dierkop, American actor (d. [2024](2024)) - September 14 - Walter Koenig, American actor - Ferid Murad, Albanian-American physician and pharmacologist (d. [2023](2023)) - Stan Williams, American professional baseball player (died [2021](2021-in-the-united-states)) - September 17 – Gerald Guralnik, American physicist (d. [2014](2014-in-the-united-states)) - September 19 – Al Oerter, American Olympic athlete (d. [2007](2007-in-the-united-states)) - September 21 – Dickey Lee, American singer and songwriter - September 22 – Art Metrano, American actor and comedian (d. [2021](2021-in-the-united-states)) - September 24 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, filmmaker, and television producer (*The Muppets*) (d. [1990](1990-in-the-united-states)) - September 25 – Ken Forsse, American inventor, producer and creator of Teddy Ruxpin (d. [2014](2014)) - September 27 – Don Cornelius, African-American television personality and host of *Soul Train* (d. [2012](2012-in-the-united-states)) - September 30 – Jim Sasser, American politician (d. [2024](2024)) ### October ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Charlie_Daniels_in_2017.jpg" caption="[[Charlie Daniels"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Michael_Landon_1990.jpg" caption="[[Michael Landon"] :: - October 1 – Edward Villella, American danseur and choreographer - October 3 – Steve Reich, American composer - October 7 – Frank Otto, American educator (d. [2017](2017)) - October 8 – Joe M. Haynes, American politician (d. [2018](2018-in-the-united-states)) - October 11 - C. Gordon Fullerton, American astronaut (d. [2013](2013-in-the-united-states)) - Larry Staverman, American professional basketball player, coach (d. [2007](2007)) - October 13 – Cliff Gorman, American actor (d. [2002](2002)) - October 14 – Carrie Nye, American actress (d. [2006](2006)) - October 17 – Dave Hobson, American politician (d. [2024](2024)) - October 19 - James Bevel, African-American civil rights activist (d. [2008](2008)) - Tony Lo Bianco, American actor (d. [2024](2024)) - James P. Liautaud, American industrialist, inventor and business theorist (d. [2015](2015-in-the-united-states)) - October 20 – Joanna Simon, American mezzo-soprano and journalist (d. [2022](2022-in-the-united-states)) - October 22 – Bobby Seale, African-American political activist - October 24 – David Nelson, American actor, director, and producer (d. [2011](2011)) - October 26 – Shelley Morrison, American actress (d. [2019](2019)) - October 28 – Charlie Daniels, American country musician and singer-songwriter (d. [2020](2020-in-the-united-states)) - October 30 – Merri Dee, American television journalist and philanthropist (d. [2022](2022-in-the-united-states)) - October 31 – Michael Landon, American actor, director, producer and writer (d. [1991](1991)) ### November ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/DickCavettApr10.jpg" caption="[[Dick Cavett"] :: - November 2 – Rose Bird, American judge (d. [1999](1999)) - November 3 – Clifford Curry, American singer (d. [2016](2016)) - November 4 – C. K. Williams, American poet (d. [2015](2015)) - November 5 – Billy Sherrill, American record producer, arranger and songwriter (d. [2015](2015)) - November 7 – Al Attles, African-American basketball player and coach (d. [2024](2024)) - November 9 - Bob Graham, American politician (d. [2024](2024)) - Teddy Infuhr, American child actor (d. [2007](2007)) - November 11 – Susan Kohner, American actress - November 14 - Cornell Gunter, American singer (The Coasters and The Flairs) (d. [1990](1990)) - Bob Walkup, American politician, Mayor of Tucson (d. [2021](2021)) - November 19 – Dick Cavett, American talk show host, television personality - November 20 – Don DeLillo, American author - November 23 – Steve Landesberg, American actor, director (d. [2010](2010)) - November 24 – Frank Caprio, American judge (d. [2025](2025)) - November 27 – Glynn Lunney, American aerospace engineer (d. [2021](2021)) - November 28 – Gary Hart, American politician, diplomat, and lawyer ### December ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/David_Carradine_Polanski_Unauthorized.jpg" caption="[[David Carradine"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Héctor_Elizondo_2012.jpg" caption="[[Héctor Elizondo"] :: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Mary_Tyler_Moore_rework.jpg" caption="[[Mary Tyler Moore"] :: - December 1 – Joel Breman, American epidemiologist (d. [2024](2024)) - December 2 – James C. Scott, political scientist and anthropologist (d. 2024) - December 3 - Mary Alice, American actress (d. [2022](2022)) - Clay Dalrymple, American baseball player - December 4 - Freddy Cannon, American singer - Larry Davis, African-American blues musician (d. [1994](1994)) - December 5 - James Lee Burke, American author - John Erwin, American actor (d. [2024](2024)) - December 6 - Kenneth Copeland, American televangelist - David Ossman, American writer and comedian - December 7 – Martha Layne Collins, American businesswoman and politician, governor of Kentucky (d. [2025](2025)) - December 8 – David Carradine, American actor, director and martial artist (d. [2009](2009)) - December 11 – Tom Fuccello, American actor (d. [1993](1993)) - December 12 - Wally Dallenbach Sr., American racing driver and official (d. [2024](2024)) - Reggie Young, American musician (d. [2019](2019)) - December 13 – J. C. Martin, American professional baseball player - December 14 - Robert A. Parker, American physicist and astronomer - Frank Williams, American architect (d. [2010](2010)) - December 15 – Donald Goines, American novelist (d. [1974](1974)) - December 17 – Rollie Sheldon, American professional baseball player - December 20 – Judy Henske, American singer-songwriter (d. [2022](2022)) - December 21 – Barbara Roberts, American politician - December 22 - Héctor Elizondo, American actor - Fred Malek, American business executive, political advisor and philanthropist (d. [2019](2019)) - December 23 - Frederic Forrest, American actor (d. [2023](2023)) - Bobby Ross, American football player and coach - James Stacy, American actor (d. [2016](2016)) - December 24 – Dirck Halstead, American photojournalist (d. [2022](2022)) - December 26 – Kitty Dukakis, American author and First Lady of Massachusetts (d. [2025](2025)) - December 28 – Lawrence Schiller, American journalist, film producer, director and screenwriter - December 29 - Mary Tyler Moore, American actress, producer and diabetes awareness activist (d. [2017](2017)) - Ray Nitschke, American professional football player (d. [1998](1998)) ## Deaths - January 1 – Harry B. Smith, songwriter, librettist and composer (born [1860](1860-in-the-united-states)) - January 6 – Louise Bryant, journalist (born [1885](1885-in-the-united-states)) - January 9 – John Gilbert, silent film actor (born [1897](1897-in-the-united-states)) - January 15 – George Landenberger, U.S. Navy captain and 23rd governor of American Samoa (born [1879](1879-in-the-united-states)) - January 16 – Albert Fish, serial killer (executed; born [1870](1870-in-the-united-states)) - February 3 – Elia Goode Byington, newspaper proprietor, editor, and manager (born [1858](1858-in-the-united-states)) - February 8 – Charles Curtis, 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (born 1860) - February 9 – John Cutting Berry, physician and missionary (born [1847](1847-in-the-united-states)) - February 19 – Billy Mitchell, U.S. general and military aviation pioneer (born 1879) - March 4 – Charles F. Watkins, physician (born [1872](1872-in-the-united-states)) - March 6 – Rubin Goldmark, pianist, composer and teacher (born [1872](1872-in-the-united-states)) - March 11 – Ferdinand Lee Barnett, African American journalist, lawyer and civil rights activist (born [1852](1852-in-the-united-states)) - March 18 – W. Herbert Dunton, Western painter (born [1878](1878-in-the-united-states)) - April 3 – Richard Hauptmann, carpenter convicted of murder (born [1899 in Germany](1899-in-germany); executed) - April 13 – Howard Thurston, stage magician (born [1869](1869-in-the-united-states)) - April 22 – Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel, pioneer dentist (born [1866](1866-in-the-united-states)) - May 20 – Elmer Fowler Stone, first United States Coast Guard aviator (born [1887](1887-in-the-united-states)) - May 29 – Norman Chaney, actor (born [1914](1914-in-the-united-states)) - June 11 – Robert E. Howard, pulp fiction and fantasy writer and poet (suicide; born [1906](1906-in-the-united-states)) - June 27 – Mike Bernard, ragtime musician (born [1881](1881-in-the-united-states)) - July 8 – Thomas Meighan, actor (b. [1879](1879-in-the-united-states)) - July 21 – Earle Ovington, aviator, flew first experimental airmail (born [1879](1879-in-the-united-states)) - August 8 – Mourning Dove, Native American writer (born [1884](1884-in-the-united-states)) - September 14 – Irving Thalberg, film producer, pneumonia, (born [1899](1899-in-the-united-states)) - September 26 – Harriet Monroe, literary editor, scholar and critic and patron of the arts (born 1860) - October 3 – John Heisman, American football coach (born 1869) - October 8 - Cheiro, astrologer (born [1866 in Ireland](1866-in-ireland)) - William Henry Stark, businessman (born [1851](1851-in-the-united-states)) - October 13 – John H. Hill, African American lawyer and educator (born 1852) - October 20 – Anne Sullivan, teacher of Helen Keller (born [1866](1866-in-the-united-states)) - November 2 – Nathaniel P. Conrey, politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California (born [1860](1860-in-the-united-states)) - November 6 – Henry Bourne Joy, business leader (born [1864](1864-in-the-united-states)) - November 22 – Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, financier (born 1879) - December 8 – Katherine Metzel Debs, wife of American Socialist Eugene V. Debs (born 1867) - December 11 – Myron Grimshaw, baseball player (born [1875](1875-in-the-united-states)) - December 24 – Irene Fenwick, stage and silent film actress (anorexia; born [1887](1887-in-the-united-states)) ## References ## References 1. (15 August 2016). ["Milestones of the U.S. Archival Profession and the National Archives, 1800-2011"](https://www.archives.gov/about/history/milestones.html). *U.S. National Archives and Records Administration*. 2. 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