1918 in the United States

Events from the year 1918 in the United States.

Federal government

 * President: Woodrow Wilson (D-New Jersey)
 * Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall (D-Indiana)
 * Chief Justice: Edward Douglass White (Louisiana)
 * Speaker of the House of Representatives: Champ Clark (D-Missouri)
 * Congress: 65th

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Governors
• Governor of Alabama: Charles Henderson (Democratic)

• Governor of Arizona: George W. P. Hunt (Democratic)

• Governor of Arkansas: Charles Hillman Brough (Democratic)

• Governor of California: William Stephens (Republican)

• Governor of Colorado: Julius Caldeen Gunter (Democratic)

• Governor of Connecticut: Marcus H. Holcomb (Republican)

• Governor of Delaware: John G. Townsend, Jr. (Republican)

• Governor of Florida: Sidney Johnston Catts (Prohibition)

• Governor of Georgia: Hugh M. Dorsey (Democratic)

• Governor of Idaho: Moses Alexander (Democratic)

• Governor of Illinois: Frank O. Lowden (Republican)

• Governor of Indiana: James P. Goodrich (Republican)

• Governor of Iowa: William L. Harding (Republican)

• Governor of Kansas: Arthur Capper (Republican)

• Governor of Kentucky: Augustus O. Stanley (Democratic)

• Governor of Louisiana: Ruffin G. Pleasant (Democratic)

• Governor of Maine: Carl E. Milliken (Republican)

• Governor of Maryland: Emerson C. Harrington (Democratic)

• Governor of Massachusetts: Samuel W. McCall (Republican)

• Governor of Michigan: Albert Sleeper (Republican)

• Governor of Minnesota: J. A. A. Burnquist (Republican)

• Governor of Mississippi: Theodore G. Bilbo (Democratic)

• Governor of Missouri: Frederick D. Gardner (Democratic)

• Governor of Montana: Sam V. Stewart (Democratic)

• Governor of Nebraska: Keith Neville (Democratic)

• Governor of Nevada: Emmet D. Boyle (Democratic)

• Governor of New Hampshire: Henry W. Keyes (Republican)

• Governor of New Jersey: Walter Evans Edge (Republican)

• Governor of New Mexico: Washington E. Lindsey (Republican)

• Governor of New York: Charles S. Whitman (Republican) (until end of December 31)

• Governor of North Carolina: Thomas Walter Bickett (Democratic)

• Governor of North Dakota: Lynn Frazier (Republican)

• Governor of Ohio: James M. Cox (Democratic)

• Governor of Oklahoma: Robert L. Williams (Democratic)

• Governor of Oregon: James Withycombe (Republican)

• Governor of Pennsylvania: Martin Grove Brumbaugh (Republican)

• Governor of Rhode Island: R. Livingston Beeckman (Republican)

• Governor of South Carolina: Richard Irvine Manning III (Democratic)

• Governor of South Dakota: Peter Norbeck (Republican)

• Governor of Tennessee: Tom C. Rye (Democratic)

• Governor of Texas: William P. Hobby (Democratic)

• Governor of Utah: Simon Bamberger (Democratic)

• Governor of Vermont: Horace F. Graham (Republican)

• Governor of Virginia: Henry Carter Stuart (Democratic) (until February 1), Westmoreland Davis (Democratic) (starting February 1)

• Governor of Washington: Ernest Lister (Democratic)

• Governor of West Virginia: John J. Cornwell (Democratic)

• Governor of Wisconsin: Emanuel L. Philipp (Republican)

• Governor of Wyoming: Frank L. Houx (Democratic)

Lieutenant governors
• Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: Thomas E. Kilby (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of California: vacant

• Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: James A. Pulliam (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Clifford B. Wilson (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: Lewis E. Eliason (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: Ernest L. Parker (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: John G. Oglesby (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Edgar D. Bush (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: Ernest Robert Moore (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: William Yoast Morgan (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: James D. Black (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Fernand Mouton (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Calvin Coolidge (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Luren D. Dickinson (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Thomas Frankson (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Lee Maurice Russell (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Wallace Crossley (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of Montana: W. W. McDowell (political party unknown)

• Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Edgar Howard (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Maurice J. Sullivan (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico: vacant

• Lieutenant Governor of New York: Edward Schoeneck (Republican) (until end of December 31)

• Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Oliver Max Gardner (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: Anton T. Kraabel (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: Earl D. Bloom (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: Martin E. Trapp (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Frank B. McClain (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Emery J. San Souci (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Andrew Bethea (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: William H. McMaster (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: W. R. Crabtree (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of Texas: vacant

• Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Roger W. Hulburd (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: James Taylor Ellyson (Democratic) (until February 1), Benjamin Franklin Buchanan (Democratic) (starting February 1)

• Lieutenant Governor of Washington: Louis Folwell Hart (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Edward F. Dithmar (Republican)
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January–March

 * January – The World Tomorrow pacifist magazine begins publication.
 * January 8 – President Woodrow Wilson delivers his Fourteen Points speech.
 * February 21 – The last Carolina parakeet (the last breed of parrot native to the eastern U.S.), a male named "Incas", dies at Cincinnati Zoo.
 * March – The Liberator socialist magazine begins publication.
 * March 4 – A soldier at Camp Funston, Kansas falls sick with the first confirmed case of the Spanish flu.
 * March 19 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time (DST goes into effect on March 31).

April–June

 * April 21 – The 6.7 San Jacinto earthquake shakes southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Severe), causing $200,000 in damage, one death, and several injuries.
 * May 2 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
 * May 15 – The United States Post Office Department (later renamed the United States Postal Service) begins the first regular airmail service in the world (between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC).
 * May 16 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is approved by the U.S. Congress.
 * May 22 – The small town of Codell, Kansas is hit for the fifth year in a row by a tornado. Coincidentally, all three tornadoes hit on the same date.
 * May 23 – First victims of the "axeman of New Orleans" in a 17-month series of brutal murders mainly directed at Italian American shopkeepers and their families; the serial killer is never identified.
 * June 8 – The total solar eclipse of June 8, 1918 crosses the United States from Washington State to Florida.
 * June 22
 * Suspects in the Chicago Restaurant Poisonings are arrested, and more than 100 waiters are taken into custody, for poisoning restaurant customers with a lethal powder called Mickey Finn.
 * Hammond Circus Train Wreck: A locomotive engineer fell asleep and ran his troop train into the rear of a circus train near Hammond, Indiana. The circus train held 400 performers and roustabouts of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus.

July–September

 * July 9 – Great Train Wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101 and injuring 171. It is considered the worst rail accident in U.S. history.
 * August – A deadly second wave of the Spanish flu starts in France, Sierra Leone and the United States.
 * August 13 – Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.
 * August 27 – Border War; Battle of Ambos Nogales – U.S. Army forces skirmish with Mexican Carrancistas at Nogales, Arizona, in the only battle of World War I fought on U.S. soil.
 * September 11 – The Boston Red Sox defeat the Chicago Cubs for the 1918 World Series championship, their last World Series win until 2004.
 * September 12–15 – World War I: Battle of Saint-Mihiel fought in France: The first and only offensive launched solely by the American Expeditionary Forces under John J. Pershing overcomes German forces in the Saint-Mihiel salient.

October–December

 * October 4 – The T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion in New Jersey kills 100+, and destroys enough ammunition to supply the Western Front for 6 months.
 * October 8 – World War I: In the Forest of Argonne in France, U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
 * October 11 – The 7.1 San Fermín earthquake shakes Puerto Rico with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 76–116 people. A destructive tsunami contributed to the damage and loss of life.
 * October 12 – 1918 Cloquet Fire: The city of Cloquet, Minnesota and nearby areas are destroyed in a fire, killing 453.
 * October 25 – The SS Princess Sophia sinks on Vanderbilt Reef near Juneau, Alaska; 353 people die in the greatest maritime disaster in the Pacific Northwest.
 * November 1 – Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 dead.
 * November 11 – World War I ends.
 * December 4 – President of the U.S. Woodrow Wilson sails for the Paris Peace Conference, becoming the first U.S. president to travel to Europe while in office.
 * December 19 – Ripley's Believe It or Not! first appears as a cartoon under the title Champs and Chumps in The New York Globe.

Undated

 * The Native American Church is formally founded.
 * The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment is founded to oppose Prohibition in the U.S.
 * George Drumm's concert march "Hail, America" is first performed in New York City.

Ongoing

 * Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
 * Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
 * U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
 * World War I, U.S. involvement (1917–1918)
 * First Red Scare (1917–1920)

January

 * January 1 – Ed Price, American soldier, pilot, and politician (d. 2012)
 * January 9 – Alma Ziegler, professional baseball player (d. 2005)
 * January 15 – Ira B. Harkey Jr., newspaper editor (d. 2006)
 * January 16 – Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter and producer (d. 1996)
 * January 17 – George M. Leader, politician (d. 2013)
 * January 19
 * Peter Hobbs, actor (d. 2011)
 * John H. Johnson, African-American publisher, founder of Ebony (d. 2005)
 * January 20 – Nevin S. Scrimshaw, food scientist (d. 2013)
 * January 21 – Richard Winters, World War II soldier (d. 2011)
 * January 23 – Gertrude B. Elion, pharmacologist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988 (d. 1999)
 * January 24 – Oral Roberts, neo-Pentecostal televangelist (d. 2009)
 * January 25 – Ernie Harwell, baseball sportscaster (d. 2010)
 * January 26
 * Philip José Farmer, writer (d. 2009)
 * Vito Scotti, actor (d. 1996)
 * January 27 – Elmore James, musician (d. 1963)
 * January 29 – John Forsythe, actor (Dynasty) (d. 2010)
 * January 31 – Millie Dunn Veasey, African-American civil rights activist and World War II soldier (d. 2018)

February



 * February 3
 * Millie Bailey, World War II veteran and civil servant (d. 2022)
 * Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the "Rat Pack" (d. 2007)
 * Martin Greenberg, American poet and translator (d. 2021)
 * Helen Stephens, American athlete (d. 1994)
 * February 8
 * Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler, novelty singer (Pencil Neck Geek) (d. 2003)
 * Walter Newton Read, American lawyer and second chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (d. 2001)
 * February 12 – Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
 * February 15
 * Allan Arbus, American actor (M*A*S*H) (d. 2013)
 * William T. Young, American businessman (d. 2004)
 * February 16 – Patty Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (d. 2013)
 * February 17 – William Bronk, American poet (d. 1999)
 * February 19 – Fay McKenzie, American silent film actress (d. 2019)
 * February 21 – Robert E. Thacker, American aviator and test pilot (d. 2020)
 * February 22
 * Charlie Finley, American businessman (d. 1996)
 * Don Pardo, American television announcer (Saturday Night Live) (d. 2014)
 * Robert Pershing Wadlow, American tallest man record-holder (d. 1940)
 * February 25
 * Barney Ewell, athlete (d. 1996)
 * Bobby Riggs, tennis player (d. 1995)
 * February 26
 * Otis R. Bowen, politician (d. 2013)
 * Theodore Sturgeon, writer (d. 1985)

March

 * March 1 – James N. Morgan, economist (d. 2018)
 * March 3 – Arthur Kornberg, biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2007)
 * March 4 – Margaret Osborne duPont, American female tennis player (d. 2012)
 * March 5 – James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
 * March 8 – Mendel L. Peterson, American underwater archaeologist (d. 2003)
 * March 9
 * George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi leader (d. 1967)
 * Mickey Spillane, American writer (d. 2006)
 * March 11 – Jack Coe, American evangelist (d. 1956)
 * March 12 – Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989)
 * March 13 – Eddie Pellagrini, American baseball player, coach (d. 2006)
 * March 15 – Richard Ellmann, American literary biographer (d. 1987)
 * March 16 – Frederick Reines, American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 (d. 1998)
 * March 17 – Ross Bass, American politician (d. 1993)
 * March 18 – Bob Broeg, American sports writer (d. 2005)
 * March 20 – Jack Barry, American television game show host, producer (d. 1984)
 * March 23
 * Helene Hale, American politician (d. 2013)
 * Stick McGhee, American jump blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter (d. 1961)
 * March 25 – Howard Cosell, American attorney, lecturer, and sports journalist (d. 1995)
 * March 26 – Lloyd McCuiston, American politician
 * March 28 – Alberto Valdés, American artist (d. 1998)
 * March 29
 * Pearl Bailey, African-American singer, actress (d. 1990)
 * Shirley Jameson, American female baseball player (d. 1993)
 * Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart (d. 1992)

April

 * April 1 – Milt Earnhart, American politician (d. 2020)
 * April 4 – Joseph Ashbrook, American astronomer (d. 1980)
 * April 7 – Bobby Doerr, American baseball player (d. 2017)
 * April 8
 * Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States, Second Lady of the United States (d. 2011)
 * Charles P. Roland, American historian
 * April 14 – Mary Healy, American actress, variety entertainer and singer (d. 2015)
 * April 15
 * Louis O. Coxe, writer (d. 1993)
 * Edmund Jones, politician (d. 2019)
 * April 17
 * William Holden, actor (d. 1981)
 * Anne Shirley, actress (d. 1993)
 * April 18 – Clifton Hillegass, author, founder of CliffsNotes (d. 2001)
 * April 20 – Edward L. Beach Jr., naval captain and author (d. 2002)
 * April 22
 * Mickey Vernon, baseball player (d. 2008)
 * William Jay Smith, American poet (d. 2015)
 * April 24 – Lou Dorfsman, graphic designer (d. 2008)
 * April 27 – John Rice, baseball umpire (d. 2011)
 * April 28
 * Mildred Persinger, feminist (d. 2018)
 * Rodger Young, United States Army soldier, remembered in the song "The Ballad of Rodger Young" (d. 1943)
 * April 29 – George Allen, American football coach (d. 1990)

May

 * May 1 – Jack Paar, American television show host (The Tonight Show) (d. 2004)
 * May 3 – Richard Dudman, American reporter, editorial writer (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) (d. 2017)
 * May 9
 * Russell M. Carneal, American politician, judge (d. 1998)
 * Orville Freeman, American politician (d. 2003)
 * Mike Wallace, American journalist (d. 2012)
 * May 10
 * T. Berry Brazelton, American pediatrician (d. 2018)
 * Jane Mayhall, American poet and novelist (d. 2009)
 * George Welch, U.S. soldier and pilot (d. 1954)
 * May 11
 * Richard Feynman, American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 (d. 1988)
 * Phil Rasmussen, pilot (d. 2005)
 * May 12 – Julius Rosenberg, American-born Soviet spy (d. 1953)
 * May 15 – Eddy Arnold, country singer (d. 2008)
 * May 17 – A. C. Lyles, film producer (d. 2013)
 * May 18
 * Claudia Bryar, actress (d. 2011)
 * Joe Krush, illustrator (d. 2022)
 * May 20 – Edward B. Lewis, geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
 * May 21 – Lloyd Hartman Elliott, educator, president of George Washington University (d. 2013)
 * May 23
 * Frank Mancuso, major league baseball player, politician (d. 2007)
 * Naomi Replansky, poet (d. 2023)

June

 * June 2 – Kathryn Tucker Windham, writer, storyteller (d. 2011)
 * June 4 – Johnny Klein, drummer (d. 1997)
 * June 6 – Edwin G. Krebs, biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 (d. 2009)
 * June 8
 * Robert Preston, actor and singer (d. 1987)
 * 1918  – John D. Roberts, chemist and academic (d. 2016)
 * 1918  – John H. Ross, pilot (d. 2013)
 * June 9 – John Hospers, philosopher (d. 2011)
 * June 10 – Wood Moy, actor (d. 2017)
 * June 12
 * Samuel Z. Arkoff, film producer (d. 2001)
 * Georgia Louise Harris Brown, architect (d. 1999)
 * Jerry A. Moore Jr., politician (d. 2017)
 * June 18
 * Jerome Karle, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
 * Lillian Ross, journalist on The New Yorker (d. 2017)
 * Elisabeth Waldo, violinist, composer
 * June 21
 * Dee Molenaar, mountaineer, author and artist (d. 2020)
 * Robert V. Roosa, American economist and banker (d. 1993)
 * Josephine Webb, engineer (d. 2017)
 * June 25 – Sid Tepper, songwriter (d. 2015)
 * June 26 – Raleigh Rhodes, combat fighter pilot (d. 2007)
 * June 27 – Adolph Kiefer, Olympic champion swimmer (d. 2017)
 * June 28 – Marshall Brown, professional basketball player (d. 2008)
 * June 29
 * Gene La Rocque, U.S. admiral (d. 2016)
 * Francis W. Nye, United States Air Force major general (d. 2019)

July

 * July 1 – Ralph Young, American singer, actor (d. 2008)
 * July 3
 * Johnny Palmer, American golfer (d. 2006)
 * Shirley Adelson Siegel, American activist and lawyer (d. 2020)
 * Ben Thompson, American architect and designer (d. 2002)
 * July 4
 * Joe Fortunato, American football, basketball, and baseball coach (d. 2004)
 * Eppie Lederer, American journalist and radio host (d. 2002)
 * Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (d. 1984)
 * Pauline Phillips, American journalist and radio host, creator of Dear Abby (d. 2013)
 * July 5 – George Rochberg, American composer (d. 2005)
 * July 6
 * J. Dewey Daane, American economist (d. 2017)
 * Herm Fuetsch, American professional basketball player (d. 2010)
 * July 7 – Bob Vanatta, American head basketball coach (d. 2016)
 * July 8
 * Edward B. Giller, U.S. major general (d. 2017)
 * Bela E. Kennedy, American politician (d. 2008)
 * Craig Stevens, American actor (d. 2000)
 * Paul B. Fay, American businessman, soldier, and diplomat, 12th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2009)
 * July 10
 * Chuck Stevens, American major baseball (d. 2018)
 * Frank L. Lambert, American professor emeritus of chemistry at Occidental College (d. 2018)
 * July 12
 * Doris Grumbach, American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist (d. 2022)
 * Alice Van-Springsteen, American stuntwoman, jockey (d. 2008)
 * Vivian Mason, actress (d. 2009)
 * Paul Stenn, American football offensive tackle (d. 2003)
 * July 14
 * Jay Wright Forrester, computer engineer, systems scientist (d. 2016)
 * Arthur Laurents, novelist and screenwriter (d. 2011)
 * July 16 – Leonard T. Schroeder, colonel (d. 2009)
 * July 17 – Chandler Robbins, ornithologist (d. 2017)
 * July 18
 * James Duesenberry, economist (d. 2009)
 * Warren Hair, professional basketball player (d. 2006)
 * July 20
 * Edward S. Little, diplomat (d. 2004)
 * Cindy Walker, songwriter, country singer (d. 2006)
 * July 22 – Stanley Lebergott, government economist (d. 2009)
 * July 23
 * Carl T. Langford, politician (d. 2011)
 * Pee Wee Reese, baseball player (d. 1999)
 * July 24 – Irving London, hematologist and geneticist (d. 2018)
 * July 25 – Jane Frank, artist (d. 1986)
 * July 26 – Marjorie Lord, actress (d. 2015)
 * July 27 – Leonard Rose, cellist (d. 1984)
 * July 29 – Edwin O'Connor, novelist, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (d. 1968)
 * July 30
 * John L. Cason, actor (d. 1961)
 * Jimmy Robinson, actor (d. 1967)
 * July 31
 * Paul D. Boyer, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
 * Hank Jones, pianist (d. 2010)

August

 * August 3 – Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (d. 1999)
 * August 6 – Charles Coulston Gillispie, American historian (d. 2015)
 * August 9 – Robert Aldrich, American writer and filmmaker (d. 1983)
 * August 12 – Roy C. Bennett, American songwriter (d. 2015)
 * August 13 – Tao Porchon-Lynch, American yoga master and author (d. 2020)
 * August 19 – Oliver Brown, African-American plaintiff (d. 1961)
 * August 20 – Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (d. 1974)
 * August 21 – Bruria Kaufman, American-born Israeli physicist (d. 2010 in Israel)
 * August 22 – Martin Pope, American physical chemist
 * August 23 – Bernard Fisher, American surgeon (d. 2019)
 * August 25 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (d. 1990)
 * August 26
 * Hutton Gibson, American religion writer, father of actor Mel Gibson (d. 2020)
 * Katherine Johnson, African-American physicist and mathematician (d. 2020)
 * August 27 – Simeon Booker, American journalist (d. 2017)
 * August 30 – Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)
 * August 31
 * Griffin Bell, American politician (d. 2009)
 * Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist (d. 1986)
 * Kenny Washington, African-American football player (d. 1971)

September



 * September 1 – James D. Martin, American politician (d. 2017)
 * September 3 – Helen Wagner, American soap opera actress (d. 2010)
 * September 4
 * Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (d. 2009)
 * Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter (d. 2014)
 * September 5 - Fred McCarthy, cartoonist (d. 2009)
 * September 6 – Hugh Gillis, American politician (d. 2013)
 * September 13
 * Ray Charles, American musician, singer and songwriter (d. 2015)
 * Rosemary Kennedy, sister of John F. Kennedy (d. 2005)
 * September 15 – Nipsey Russell, African-American comedian (d. 2005)
 * September 19 – Joseph Zeller, American politician (d. 2018)
 * September 21 – John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist, advocate (d. 2007)
 * September 26
 * Harry Yee, bartender (d. 2022)
 * John Zacherle, television and radio host, singer, and voice actor (d. 2016)
 * September 28 – Arnold Stang, comic actor (d. 2009)

October

 * October 4 – Adrian Kantrowitz, American cardiac surgeon (d. 2008)
 * October 9 – E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate break-in coordinator (d. 2007)
 * October 13 – Robert Walker, American actor (d. 1951)
 * October 17 – Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987)
 * October 18 – Bobby Troup, American singer-songwriter and actor, known for his role in Emergency! (d. 1999)
 * October 19 – Robert S. Strauss, American politician, Democratic National Committee Chairman (d. 2014)
 * October 22 – Fred Caligiuri, American baseball player (d. 2018)
 * October 23
 * Augusta Dabney, American actress (d. 2008)
 * Paul Rudolph, American architect (d. 1997)
 * October 25 – Milton Selzer, American actor (d. 2006)
 * October 27 – Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
 * October 29 – Diana Serra Cary, born Peggy-Jean Montgomery ("Baby Peggy"), American silent film child actress (d. 2020)
 * October 31 – Ian Stevenson, American parapsychologist (d. 2007)

November

 * November 3
 * Bob Feller, American baseball player (d. 2010)
 * Ann Hutchinson Guest, American movement, dance researcher (d. 2022)
 * Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (d. 2007)
 * Russell B. Long, United States Senator from Louisiana (d. 2003)
 * Dean Riesner, American film, television screenwriter (d. 2002)
 * November 4
 * Art Carney, American actor, best known for his role in The Honeymooners (d. 2003)
 * Cameron Mitchell, American actor, best known for his role in The High Chaparral (d. 1994)
 * November 7
 * Fred Cusick, American ice hockey broadcaster (d. 2009)
 * Billy Graham, evangelist (d. 2018)
 * November 8 – Bob Schiller, American screenwriter (d. 2017)
 * November 9
 * Spiro Agnew, 39th vice president of the United States from 1969 to 1973 (d. 1996)
 * Thomas Ferebee, United States Air Force colonel (d. 2000)
 * November 10 – John Henry Moss, American baseball executive, politician (d. 2009)
 * November 11 – Louise Tobin, American singer (d. 2022)
 * November 21 – Dorothy Maguire, American professional baseball player (d. 1981)
 * November 28 – Jack H. Harris, American film producer, distributor and actor (d. 2017)
 * November 29 – Madeleine L'Engle, children's fiction writer (d. 2007)
 * November 30 – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (d. 2014)

December



 * December 6 – Nick Drahos, American football player (d. 2018)
 * December 10 – Anne Gwynne, American actress (d. 2003)
 * December 11 – John W. Reed, American legal scholar (d. 2018)
 * December 12 – Joe Williams, American jazz singer (d. 1999)
 * December 14 – Jack Cole, American cartoonist (d. 1958)
 * December 15 – Jeff Chandler, American actor (d. 1961)
 * December 17 – Dusty Anderson, American actress and model (d. 2007)
 * December 18 – Hal Kanter, American comedy writer, producer and director (d. 2011)
 * December 20 – Joseph Payne Brennan, poet and author (d. 1990 in the United States1990)
 * December 21
 * Fred Gloden, American football player (d. 2019)
 * Donald Regan, American Treasury Secretary, White House Chief of Staff (d. 2003)
 * December 24 – Dave Bartholomew, American musician, bandleader, composer and arranger (d. 2019)
 * December 25
 * Henry Hillman, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2017)
 * George S. Vest, American diplomat (d. 2021)
 * December 26 – Butch Ballard, American jazz drummer (d. 2011)
 * December 29 – Leo J. Dulacki, American general (d. 2019)
 * December 31
 * Al Lakeman, Major League Baseball catcher (d. 1976)
 * Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne, Russian-American author (d. 2018)

Undated

 * Nat Jaffe, swing jazz pianist (d. 1945)
 * Sol Malkoff, calligrapher and designer (d. 2001)

Deaths

 * January 8 – Ellis H. Roberts, politician (born 1827)
 * February 2 – John L. Sullivan, boxer, World Heavyweight Champion (born 1858)
 * February 4 – Jeannette Walworth, American journalist and novelist (born 1835)
 * February 7 – Effie Hoffman Rogers, educator, editor and journalist (born 1835/37)
 * February 9 – E. J. Richmond, litterateur and author (born 1825)
 * February 15 – Vernon Castle, ballroom dancer (born 1887)
 * March 10 – Jim McCormick, baseball pitcher (born 1856 in Scotland)
 * March 14 – Lucretia Garfield, First Lady of the United States (born 1832)
 * March 16 – Prosper P. Parker, civil engineer, Union Army officer and politician (born 1835 in Canada)
 * March 27 – Henry Adams, historian (born 1838)
 * April 14 – James E. Ware, architect who devised the "dumbbell plan" for New York City tenements (born 1846)
 * May 1 – Grove Karl Gilbert, geologist (born 1843)
 * May 5 – Bertha Palmer, businesswoman, socialite and philanthropist (born 1849)
 * May 14 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., newspaper publisher (born 1841)
 * May 17 – William Drew Robeson, African American Presbyterian minister, escaped slave and father of Paul Robeson (born 1844)
 * May 19 – Raoul Lufbery, fighter pilot (killed in action; born 1885 in France)
 * May 27 – Frederick Trump, German American businessman, paternal grandfather of Donald Trump (born 1869)
 * June 4 – Charles W. Fairbanks, 26th vice president of the United States from 1905 to 1909 and U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905 (born 1852)
 * June 18 – Lizzie Halliday, serial killer (born c.1859)
 * June 25 – Jake Beckley, baseball player (born 1867)
 * June 27 – George Mary Searle, astronomer (born 1839)
 * June 28 – Albert Henry Munsell, inventor of the Munsell color system (born 1858)
 * July 20 – Francis Lupo, U.S. Army soldier (killed in action; born 1895)
 * July 22 – Roy Earl Parrish, American politician (killed in action; born 1888)
 * July 27 – Gustav Kobbé, music critic and author (sailing accident; born 1857)
 * July 30 – Joyce Kilmer, poet (killed in action; born 1886)
 * August 1 – John Riley Banister, policeman and cowboy (born 1854)
 * August 10 – William Pitt Kellogg, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1868 to 1872 and from 1877 to 1883 (born 1830)
 * August 12 – Anna Held, singer (born 1872 in Poland)
 * August 14 – Anna Morton, Second Lady of the United States (born 1846)
 * August 24 – Louis Bennett Jr., World War I flying ace (killed in action) (b. 1894)
 * September 12 – Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1885 to 1897 and from 1901 to 1907 (born 1838)
 * September 28
 * True Boardman, silent film actor (born 1882)
 * Freddie Stowers, African American corporal (killed in action; born 1896)
 * September 29 – Frank Luke, fighter pilot (killed in action; born 1897)
 * October 8 – James B. McCreary, 27th and 37th Governor of Kentucky from 1875 to 1879 and from 1911 to 1915, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1903 to 1909 (born 1838)
 * October 16 – Felix Arndt, pianist and composer (born 1889)
 * October 19 – Harold Lockwood, silent film actor (born 1887)
 * October 21
 * Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, professor of jurisprudence (born 1879)
 * Jennie O. Starkey, journalist (born ca. 1856)
 * October 22 – Myrtle Gonzalez, silent film actress (born 1891)
 * October 28 – Edward Bouchet, physicist (born 1852)
 * November 4 – Andrew Dickson White, diplomat, academic and author (born 1832)
 * November 19 – Joseph F. Smith, Mormon leader (born 1838)
 * December – Sarah Jim Mayo, Washoe basket weaver (born 1858)
 * December 17 – John Green Brady, 5th Governor of the District of Alaska from 1897 to 1906 (born 1847)
 * December 26 – William Hampton Patton, entomologist (born 1853)