1924 in the United States

Events from the year 1924 in the United States.

Federal government

 * President: Calvin Coolidge (R-Massachusetts)
 * Vice President: vacant
 * Chief Justice: William Howard Taft (Ohio)
 * Speaker of the House of Representatives: Frederick H. Gillett (R-Massachusetts)
 * Senate Majority Leader:
 * Henry Cabot Lodge (R-Massachusetts) (until November 9)
 * vacant (November 9–28)
 * Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) (starting November 28)


 * Congress: 68th

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" ! Governors and lieutenant governors

Governors
• Governor of Alabama: William W. Brandon (Democratic)

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

• Governor of Arkansas: Thomas Chipman McRae (Democratic)

• Governor of California: Friend Richardson (Republican)

• Governor of Colorado: William Ellery Sweet (Democratic)

• Governor of Connecticut: Charles A. Templeton (Republican)

• Governor of Delaware: William D. Denney (Republican)

• Governor of Florida: Cary A. Hardee (Democratic)

• Governor of Georgia: Clifford Walker (Democratic)

• Governor of Idaho: Charles C. Moore (Republican)

• Governor of Illinois: Len Small (Republican)

• Governor of Indiana: Warren T. McCray (Republican) (until April 30), Emmett Forrest Branch (Republican) (starting April 30)

• Governor of Iowa: Nathan E. Kendall (Republican)

• Governor of Kansas: Jonathan M. Davis (Democratic)

• Governor of Kentucky: William J. Fields (Democratic)

• Governor of Louisiana: John M. Parker (Democratic) (until May 13), Henry L. Fuqua (Democratic) (starting May 13)

• Governor of Maine: Percival Proctor Baxter (Republican)

• Governor of Maryland: Albert C. Ritchie (Democratic)

• Governor of Massachusetts: Channing H. Cox (Republican)

• Governor of Michigan: Alex Groesbeck (Republican)

• Governor of Minnesota: J. A. O. Preus (Republican)

• Governor of Mississippi:

• * until January 18: Lee M. Russell (Democratic)

• * January 18-January 22: vacant

• * starting January 22: Henry L. Whitfield (Democratic)

• Governor of Missouri: Arthur M. Hyde (Republican)

• Governor of Montana: Joseph M. Dixon (Republican)

• Governor of Nebraska: Charles W. Bryan (Democratic)

• Governor of Nevada: James G. Scrugham (Democratic)

• Governor of New Hampshire: Fred H. Brown (Democratic)

• Governor of New Jersey: George Sebastian Silzer (Democratic)

• Governor of New Mexico: James F. Hinkle (Democratic)

• Governor of New York: Al Smith (Democratic)

• Governor of North Carolina: Cameron Morrison (Democratic)

• Governor of North Dakota: Ragnvald A. Nestos (Republican)

• Governor of Ohio: A. Victor Donahey (Democratic)

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

• Governor of Oregon: Walter M. Pierce (Democratic)

• Governor of Pennsylvania: Gifford Pinchot (Republican)

• Governor of Rhode Island: William S. Flynn (Democratic)

• Governor of South Carolina: Thomas Gordon McLeod (Democratic)

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

• Governor of Tennessee: Austin Peay (Democratic)

• Governor of Texas: Pat Morris Neff (Democratic)

• Governor of Utah: Charles R. Mabey (Republican)

• Governor of Vermont: Redfield Proctor, Jr. (Republican)

• Governor of Virginia: Elbert Lee Trinkle (Democratic)

• Governor of Washington: Louis Folwell Hart (Republican)

• Governor of West Virginia: Ephraim F. Morgan (Republican)

• Governor of Wisconsin: John J. Blaine (Republican)

• Governor of Wyoming: William B. Ross (Democratic) (until October 2), Frank E. Lucas (Republican) (starting October 2)

Lieutenant governors
• Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: Charles S. McDowell (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of California: Clement Calhoun Young (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Robert F. Rockwell (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Hiram Bingham (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: J. Danforth Bush (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: H. C. Baldridge (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Fred E. Sterling (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Emmett Forrest Branch (Republican) (until April 30), James J. Nejdl (Republican) (starting April 30)

• Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: John Hammill (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Ben Sanford Paulen (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Henry Denhardt (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana:

• * until month and day unknown: Hewitt Bouanchaud (Democratic)

• * month and day unknown: Delos R. Johnson (Democratic)

• * starting month and day unknown: Oramel H. Simpson (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Alvan T. Fuller (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Thomas Read (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Louis L. Collins (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Homer H. Casteel (Democratic) (until January 22), Dennis Murphree (Democratic) (starting January 22)

• Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Hiram Lloyd (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Montana: Nelson Story Jr. (political party unknown)

• Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Fred G. Johnson (Republican)

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

• Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico: Jose A. Baca (Democratic) (until May), vacant (starting May)

• Lieutenant Governor of New York: George R. Lunn (Democratic) (until end of December 31)

• Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: William B. Cooper (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: Frank H. Hyland (Republican)

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

• Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: vacant

• Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: David J. Davis (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Felix A. Toupin (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: E. B. Jackson (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: Carl Gunderson (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Eugene J. Bryan (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Thomas Whitfield Davidson (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Franklin S. Billings (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Junius Edgar West (Democratic)

• Lieutenant Governor of Washington: William J. Coyle (Republican)

• Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: George F. Comings (Republican)
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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 is 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 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 U. S. 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 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)

January



 * January 1 – Charlie Munger, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2023)
 * January 4
 * Walter Ris, freestyle swimmer (d. 1989)
 * Charles Thone, politician (d. 2018)
 * January 5 – Glenn Boyer, historian and author (d. 2013)
 * January 6 – Earl Scruggs, musician (d. 2012)
 * January 7 – Gene L. Coon, screenwriter and producer (d. 1973)
 * January 8 – James Clinkscales Hill, jurist (d. 2017)
 * January 9 – Mary Kaye, guitarist and singer (d. 2007)
 * January 10
 * Earl Bakken, engineer and businessman, inventor of the modern Artificial pacemaker (d. 2018)
 * Max Roach, African-American percussionist, drummer and composer (d. 2007)
 * January 11
 * Don Cherry, pop singer (d. 2018)
 * Sam B. Hall Jr., politician (d. 1994)
 * Slim Harpo, musician (d. 1970)
 * January 12 – Chris Chase (also known as Irene Kane), model, film actress, writer and journalist (d. 2013)
 * January 13 – Lillian B. Rubin, writer, professor, psychotherapist and sociologist (d. 2014)
 * January 14
 * Carole Cook, actress and singer (d. 2023)
 * Guy Williams, actor (d. 1989)
 * January 19 – Nicholas Colasanto, actor and television director (d. 1985)
 * January 23 – Frank Lautenberg, politician (d. 2013)
 * January 25
 * Lou Groza, American football player and coach (d. 2000)
 * Rollie Seltz, basketball player (d. 2022)
 * Speedy West, musician (d. 2003)
 * January 26 – Annette Strauss, philanthropist and politician (d. 1998)
 * January 28 – Betty Tucker, baseball player (d. 2012)
 * January 30
 * Lloyd Alexander, writer (d. 2007)
 * Dorothy Malone, actress (d. 2018)

February



 * February 1 – Richard Hooker, writer and surgeon (d. 1997)
 * February 4 – Dorothy Harrell, professional baseball player (d. 2011)
 * February 7 – Catherine Small Long, politician (d. 2019)
 * February 8 – Joe Black, African-American baseball player (d. 2002)
 * February 10 – Randy Van Horne, singer and musician (d. 2007)
 * February 11 – Budge Patty, tennis player (d. 2021)
 * February 14 – Gabe Pressman, journalist (d. 2017)
 * February 15 – Toni Arden, singer (d. 2012)
 * February 16 – Frank Saul, basketball player (d. 2019)
 * February 17 – Margaret Truman, novelist and only child of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman (d. 2008)
 * February 19 – Lee Marvin, actor (d. 1987)
 * February 20
 * Donald M. Fraser, politician (d. 2019)
 * Gerson Goldhaber, German-American physicist and astrophysicist (d. 2010)
 * Gloria Vanderbilt, socialite, artist and fashion designer (d. 2019)
 * February 21 – William Hathaway, politician and lawyer (d. 2013)
 * February 28
 * Bettye Ackerman, actress (d. 2006)
 * Christopher C. Kraft Jr., aerospace engineer (d. 2019)
 * February 29 – Al Rosen, baseball player (d. 2015)

March



 * March 1 – Deke Slayton, American astronaut (d. 1993)
 * March 3 – Isadore Singer, American mathematician (d. 2021)
 * March 4 – Kenneth O'Donnell, American political consultant, aide to U.S. President John F. Kennedy (d. 1977)
 * March 6
 * Ed Mierkowicz, American baseball player (d. 2017)
 * William H. Webster, American lawyer and jurist
 * March 9
 * Herbert Gold, American novelist (d. 2023)
 * George Haines, American swimmer and coach (d. 2006)
 * William Hamilton, American theologian (d. 2012)
 * Ben Schadler, American basketball player (d. 2015)
 * March 12 – Helen Parrish, American actress (d. 1959)
 * March 17 – Edith Savage-Jennings, African-American civil rights leader (d. 2017)
 * March 20 – Philip Abbott, American actor (d. 1998)
 * March 22
 * Al Neuharth, American businessman and journalist (d. 2013)
 * Bill Wendell, American TV announcer (d. 1999)
 * Lionel Wilson, American voice actor (d. 2003)
 * March 23 – Bette Nesmith Graham, American typist, commercial artist, and inventor (d. 1980)
 * March 24
 * Lois Andrews, American actress (d. 1968)
 * Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998)
 * March 25
 * Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (d. 2011)
 * Julia Perry, African-American composer (d. 1979)
 * March 27 – Sarah Vaughan, African-American jazz singer (d. 1990)
 * March 28 – Byrd Baylor, American novelist, essayist and author (d. 2021)
 * March 29 – Jimmy Work, American singer-songwriter (d. 2018)
 * March 31 – Kathleen O'Malley, American actress (d. 2019)

April

 * April 1 – Brendan Byrne, American politician, statesman, and prosecutor (d. 2018)
 * April 2 – Delwin Jones, American politician (d. 2018)
 * April 3 – Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
 * April 4
 * Gil Hodges, American baseball player (d. 1972)
 * Joye Hummel, American comic book author (d. 2021)
 * Noreen Nash, American actress (d. 2023)
 * April 6 – Jimmy Roberts, American singer (d. 1999)
 * April 8 – Bob Mann, American football player (d. 2006)
 * April 9 – Milburn G. Apt, American test pilot (d. 1956)
 * April 13
 * Jack Chick, American fundamentalist Christian illustrator and publisher (d. 2016)
 * Stanley Donen, American film director and choreographer (d. 2019)
 * April 14 – Shorty Rogers, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1994)
 * April 16
 * Henry Mancini, American composer and arranger (d. 1994)
 * Rudy Pompilli, American musician (d. 1976)
 * April 18
 * Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American blues musician (d. 2005)
 * Henry Hyde, American politician (d. 2007)
 * April 23
 * Chuck Harmon, American baseball player and scout (d. 2019)
 * Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (d. 2007)
 * April 28 – Emily W. Sunstein, American campaigner, political activist and biographer (d. 2007)
 * April 30 – Sheldon Harnick, American lyricist (d. 2023)

May

 * May 1
 * Art Fleming, American actor and game show host (d. 1995)
 * Evelyn Boyd Granville, American mathematician, computer scientist and academic (d. 2023)
 * Big Maybelle, American R&B singer (d. 1972)
 * May 2 – Ladislava Bakanic, American gymnast (d. 2021)
 * May 3 – Isadore Singer, American mathematician (d. 2021)
 * May 6 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (d. 2006)
 * May 11 – Ninfa Laurenzo, American businessman, founder of Ninfa's (d. 2001)
 * May 16 – Frank Mankiewicz, American journalist, presidential campaign press secretary (d. 2014)
 * May 18
 * Jack Barlow, American country music singer (d. 2011)
 * Priscilla Pointer, American actress
 * Jack Whitaker, American sportscaster (d. 2019)
 * May 21 – Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (d. 1999)
 * May 24 – Philip Pearlstein, American soldier, painter (d. 2022)
 * May 29 – Pepper Paire, American female baseball player (d. 2013)
 * May 31 – Patricia Roberts Harris, American administrator (d. 1985)

June

 * June 1 – William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (d. 2006)
 * June 3
 * Bernard Glasser, American film producer, director (d. 2014)
 * Herk Harvey, American film director (d. 1996)
 * Jimmy Rogers, American musician (d. 1997)
 * June 4 – Dennis Weaver, American actor (d. 2006)
 * June 5
 * Lou Brissie, baseball player and scout (d. 2013)
 * Art Donovan, American football player and radio host (d. 2013)
 * June 6
 * Robert Abernathy, American science fiction author (d. 1990)
 * W. Marvin Watson, American presidential advisor, Postmaster General (d. 2017)
 * June 7 – Edward Field, poet and author
 * June 8
 * Sheldon Allman, American-Canadian actor and singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
 * Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and author (d. 2006)
 * David Pines, American physicist (d. 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)
 * June 20 – Chet Atkins, American guitarist, record producer (d. 2001)
 * June 22 – John C. Whitcomb, American theologian (d. 2020)
 * June 23
 * Frank Bolle, American comic strip artist, comic book artist and illustrator (d. 2020)
 * June Brooks, American businesswoman (d. 2010)
 * June 24
 * Leonard Everett Fisher, American artist known best for children's books (d. 2024)
 * Yoshito Takamine, American politician (d. 2015)
 * June 25
 * Martin J. Klein, American historian and physicist (d. 2009)
 * Sidney Lumet, American film director (d. 2011)
 * June 27
 * Charles Norman Shay, American Penobscot tribal elder, writer and decorated veteran of both World War II and the Korean War
 * Paul Conrad, American cartoonist (d. 2010)
 * June 26
 * Richard Bull, American actor (d. 2014)
 * James W. McCord Jr., American CIA officer (d. 2017)
 * June 29
 * Philip H. Hoff, American politician (d. 2018)
 * Ezra Laderman, American composer (d. 2015)

July

 * July 1
 * Ralph Parr, American double-flying ace (d. 2012)
 * Curtis W. Harris, American minister, civil rights activist and Virginia politician (d. 2017)
 * Richard Longaker, American political scientist (d. 2018)
 * July 2 – Charley Winner, American football player
 * July 4 – Eva Marie Saint, American actress
 * July 6
 * Ernest Graves Jr., United States Army officer (d. 2019)
 * Robert Michael White, American military aircraft test pilot, fighter pilot, electrical engineer and major general (d. 2010)
 * July 7 – Sam Cathcart, American football halfback, defensive back (d. 2015)
 * July 8 – Charles C. Droz, American politician
 * July 10 – Gloria Stroock, American actress (d. 2024)
 * July 11
 * F. James Rutherford, American science professor (d. 2021)
 * Oscar Wyatt, American businessman, self-made millionaire
 * Al Federoff, American professional baseball infielder, manager (d. 2011)
 * July 12 – Shirley Neil Pettis, American politician (d. 2016)
 * July 14
 * Val Avery, American character actor (d. 2010)
 * Warren Giese, American football player, coach and politician (d. 2013)
 * July 15 – Jeremiah Denton, American politician (d. 2014)
 * July 16
 * James L. Greenfield, American administrator (d. 2024)
 * Bess Myerson, American politician, model and television actress (d. 2014)
 * July 18 – Will D. Campbell, American minister, author and activist (d. 2013)
 * July 19
 * Pat Hingle, American actor (d. 2009)
 * Frank Ivancie, American businessman and politician (d. 2019)
 * Arthur Rankin Jr., American film director, producer and co-founder of Rankin/Bass Productions (d. 2014)
 * July 20 – Lola Albright, American singer, actress (d. 2017)
 * July 21 – Don Knotts, American comedic actor (d. 2006)
 * July 22 – Margaret Whiting, American singer (d. 2011)
 * July 23 – Avern Cohn, American judge (d. 2022)
 * July 24 – Paul Meier, American statistician (d. 2011)
 * July 25 – Frank Church, American politician (d. 1984)
 * July 28
 * Anne Braden, American civil rights activist (d. 2006)
 * C. T. Vivian, American civil rights activist, minister and author (d. 2020)
 * July 29
 * Lillian Faralla, American female professional baseball player (d. 2019)
 * Robert Horton, American actor, singer (d. 2016)
 * July 30 – William H. Gass, American novelist (d. 2017)

August

 * August 1
 * Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (d. 2007)
 * Frank Havens, American canoeist (d. 2018)
 * Michael Stewart, American playwright, stage librettist (d. 1987)
 * August 2
 * James Baldwin, African-American author and civil rights activist (d. 1987)
 * Joe Harnell, American pianist and composer (d. 2005)
 * Carroll O'Connor, American actor, producer and director (d. 2001)
 * August 3 – Leon Uris, American writer (d. 2003)
 * August 6 – Ella Jenkins, American folk singer of children's music
 * August 8 – Gene Deitch, American illustrator, animator and film director (d. 2020)
 * August 9 – Marta Becket, American dancer (d. 2017)
 * August 10 – Martha Hyer, American actress (d. 2014)
 * August 15 – Phyllis Schlafly, American activist (d. 2016)
 * August 16
 * Fess Parker, American actor and businessman (d. 2010)
 * Inez Voyce, American female baseball player (d. 2022)
 * Benny Bartlett, American child actor and musician (d. 1999)
 * August 17
 * Evan S. Connell, Jr., American fiction writer and poet (d. 2013)
 * Charles Simmons, American author (d. 2017)
 * August 18 – Frank Logue, 25th mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (d. 2010)
 * August 20 – Frank Joseph Guarini, American politician
 * August 23
 * Elaine Sturtevant, American artist (d. 2014)
 * Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2023)
 * August 24 – Louis Teicher, American pianist (Ferrante & Teicher) (d. 2008)
 * August 26 – Barbara Staff, American political activist (d. 2019)
 * August 28 – Peggy Ryan, American dancer (d. 2004)
 * August 29
 * Clyde Scott, American athlete (d. 2018)
 * Dinah Washington, African-American singer, pianist (d. 1963)
 * August 31
 * Buddy Hackett, American actor, comedian (d. 2003)
 * Thomas J. Hudner Jr., American naval aviator (d. 2017)

September

 * September 1 – Diana Decker, American-English actress and singer (d. 2019)
 * September 2 – Sidney Phillips, American physician, WW2 Marine documentary consultant (d. 2015)
 * September 3 – Mary Grace Canfield, American actress (d. 2014)
 * September 5
 * Paul Dietzel, American college football coach (d. 2013)
 * Roy Andrew Miller, American linguist (d. 2014)
 * September 6
 * John Melcher, American politician (d. 2018)
 * Dale E. Wolf, American businessman and politician (d. 2021)
 * September 7 – Daniel Inouye, American politician (d. 2012)
 * September 8 – Wendell H. Ford, American politician (d. 2015)
 * September 9
 * Jane Greer, actress (d. 2001)
 * Sylvia Miles, actress (d. 2019)
 * Russell M. Nelson, heart surgeon and religious leader
 * September 11
 * Daniel Akaka, soldier, engineer and politician (d. 2018)
 * Tom Landry, football player and coach (d. 2000)
 * September 12 – Howard C. Nielson, politician (d. 2021)
 * September 13 – Scott Brady, actor (d. 1985)
 * September 14 – Jerry Coleman, baseball player, manager, broadcaster, and Marine aviator (d. 2014)
 * September 15 – Bobby Short, entertainer (d. 2005)
 * September 16 – Lauren Bacall, actress (d. 2014)
 * September 20
 * Gogi Grant, singer (d. 2016)
 * Helen Grayco, singer, actress (d. 2022)
 * September 22
 * J. William Middendorf, soldier and politician
 * Gerald Schoenfeld, chairman (d. 2008)
 * September 27
 * Wendell Bell, futurist (d. 2019)
 * Fred Singer, Austrian-American physicist and academic (d. 2020)
 * September 28 – Merwin Coad, politician
 * September 30
 * Truman Capote, author (d. 1984)
 * Georgiana Young, actress (d. 2007)

October

 * October 1
 * Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981
 * William Rehnquist, 16th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (d. 2005)
 * Roger Williams, American pianist (d. 2011)
 * October 2 – Ruby Stephens, American female baseball player (d. 1996)
 * October 3 – Harvey Kurtzman, American editor, cartoonist and creator of Mad (d. 1993)
 * October 5 – Bill Dana, American comedian, actor, screenwriter (d. 2017)
 * October 7 – Joyce Reynolds, American actress (d. 2019)
 * October 9 – Arnie Risen, American basketball player (d. 2012)
 * October 10
 * David Shepherd, American producer, director and actor (d. 2018)
 * Ed Wood, American filmmaker, actor, writer, producer and director (d. 1978)
 * October 11 – Mal Whitfield, American Olympic athlete (d. 2015)
 * October 13 – Terry Gibbs, American vibraphone player and bandleader
 * October 14 – Robert Webber, American actor (d. 1989)
 * October 15
 * Warren Miller, American ski and snowboarding filmmaker (d. 2018)
 * Lee Iacocca, American automobile executive (d. 2019)
 * Mark Lenard, American actor (d. 1996)
 * October 17 – Fredd Wayne, American actor (d. 2018)
 * October 18
 * Arthur J. Jackson, American military officer (d. 2017)
 * Buddy MacMaster, American artist (d. 2014)
 * October 21 – Joyce Randolph, American actress (d. 2024)
 * October 25
 * Billy Barty, American actor (d. 2000)
 * Bobby Brown, baseball player (b. 2021)
 * Earl Palmer, American R&B drummer (d. 2008)
 * Weston E. Vivian, American politician (d. 2020)
 * October 27 – Bonnie Lou, American singer (d. 2015)

November

 * November 6
 * Harlon Block, U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima (d. 1945)
 * November 10 – Russell Johnson, American actor (d. 2014)
 * November 11 – Leonard D. Wexler, American judge (d. 2018)
 * November 13 – Edward F. Welch, Jr., American admiral (d. 2008)
 * November 16 – Sam Farber, American businessman, co-founder of OXO (d. 2013)
 * November 19 – J. D. Sumner, American gospel singer (d. 1998)
 * November 20 – Mark Miller, American actor (d. 2022)
 * November 21 – Joseph Campanella, American actor (d. 2018)
 * November 22
 * Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)
 * Robert M. Young, American film director and producer (d. 2024)
 * November 24
 * James M. Burns, American attorney and judge (d. 2001)
 * Joanne Winter, American female professional baseball pitcher, LPGA player (d. 1996)
 * November 25 – Paul Desmond, American jazz alto saxophonist and composer (d. 1977)
 * November 26 – Ruth Bradley Holmes, linguist (d. 2021)
 * November 28 – Calvin J. Spann, African-American Tuskegee Airman, fighter pilot (d. 2015)
 * November 29 – Irv Noren, American baseball and basketball player (d. 2019)
 * November 30
 * Shirley Chisholm, American politician (d. 2005)
 * Allan Sherman, American comedy writer, television producer and song parodist (d. 1973)

December



 * December 2 – Alexander Haig, American politician, U.S. Secretary of State (d. 2010)
 * December 4 – John C. Portman Jr., American architect (d. 2017)
 * December 6 – Wally Cox, American television, motion picture actor (d. 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)
 * December 12 – Ed Koch, American politician (d. 2013)
 * December 13
 * Robert Coogan, American actor (d. 1978)
 * Maria Riva, American actress
 * December 17 – Margaret Wigiser, American female professional baseball player (d. 2019)
 * December 19 – Cicely Tyson, American actress (d. 2021)
 * December 23 – Bob Kurland, American basketball player (d. 2013)
 * December 25 – Rod Serling, American television screenwriter (The Twilight Zone) (d. 1975)
 * December 26 – Frank Broyles, American college football coach, athletic director (d. 2017)
 * December 27
 * James A. McClure, American politician (d. 2011)
 * Frank North, American football coach (d. 2017)
 * December 31
 * Frank J. Kelley, 50th Michigan Attorney General (d. 2021)
 * Taylor Mead, American actor (d. 2013)
 * J. Donald Monan, American academic administrator (d. 2017)
 * Lawrence W. Pierce, American judge (d. 2020)
 * Robert Ravenstahl, American politician (d. 2015)

Deaths

 * January 4 – John Peters, baseball shortstop (born 1850)
 * January 12 – William V. Allen, U.S. Senator from Nebraska from 1893 to 1899. (born 1847)
 * January 13 – Albert Abrams, quack doctor (born 1863)
 * January 14 – Luther Emmett Holt, pediatrician (born 1855)
 * February 1 – Maurice Prendergast, painter (born 1858)
 * February 3 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 and historian (born 1856)
 * February 8 – Henry B. Quinby, governor of New Hampshire (born 1846)
 * February 16
 * Henry Bacon, Beaux-Arts architect of the Lincoln Memorial (born 1866)
 * John William Kendrick, railroad executive (born 1853)
 * March 9 – Daniel Ridgway Knight, painter (born 1839)
 * March 13 – Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, African American civil rights campaigner and publisher (born 1842)
 * April 1 – Frank Capone, gangster, shot by police (born 1895)
 * April 7 – Marcus A. Smith, U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1912 to 1921 (born 1851)
 * April 17 – Jane Kelley Adams, educator (born 1852)
 * April 19 – Paul Boyton, extreme water sports pioneer (born 1848 in Ireland)
 * April 14 – Louis Sullivan, architect, "father of skyscrapers" (born 1856)
 * April 18 – Frank Xavier Leyendecker, illustrator (born 1877)
 * April 20 – Caroline Ingalls (b. Caroline Lake Quiner), pioneer, mother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (born 1839)
 * April 21 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (born 1858 in Italy)
 * April 23 – Bertram Goodhue, neo-gothic architect (born 1869)
 * April 24 – G. Stanley Hall, psychologist (born 1844)
 * April 27 – Maecenas Eason Benton, U.S. Representative from Missouri (born 1848)
 * May 5 – Kate Claxton, stage actress (born 1848)
 * May 10 – George Kennan, explorer (born 1845)
 * 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)
 * July 23 – Frank Frost Abbott, classical scholar (born 1860)
 * August 7 – John Edward Bruce ("Bruce Grit"), African American slave and historian (born 1856)
 * August 25 – Velma Caldwell Melville, editor and writer (born 1858)
 * 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)
 * September 25 – Lotta Crabtree, stage actress (born 1847)
 * October 25 – Laura Jean Libbey, novelist (born 1862)
 * October 27 – Percy Haughton, baseball player and coach (born 1876)
 * October 29 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, children's novelist (born 1849 in the United Kingdom)
 * November 3 – Cornelius Cole, U.S. Senator from California from 1867 to 1873 (born 1822)
 * 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)
 * November 19 – Thomas H. Ince, silent film producer, "father of the Western" (born 1882)
 * 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)
 * William Herbert Carruth, linguist and poet (born 1859)
 * December 19 – Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (born 1873)