Incumbents

• President
  President of the United States
  The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
  
  : William Howard Taft
  William Howard Taft
  William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...
  
   (Republican
  Republican Party (United States)
  The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
  
  )
• Vice President
  Vice President of the United States
  The Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office created by the United States Constitution. The Vice President, together with the President of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people, through the Electoral College, to a four-year term...
  
  : James S. Sherman
  James S. Sherman
  James Schoolcraft Sherman was a United States Representative from New York and the 27th Vice President of the United States . He was a member of the Baldwin, Hoar, and Sherman families.-Early life:...
  
   (Republican
  Republican Party (United States)
  The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
  
  )
• Chief Justice
  Chief Justice of the United States
  The Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the United States federal court system and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Chief Justice is one of nine Supreme Court justices; the other eight are the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States...
  
  : Melville Fuller
  Melville Fuller
  Melville Weston Fuller was the eighth Chief Justice of the United States between 1888 and 1910.-Early life and education:...
  
   (to July 4), Edward Douglass White
  Edward Douglass White
  Edward Douglass White, Jr. , American politician and jurist, was a United States senator, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and the ninth Chief Justice of the United States. He was best known for formulating the Rule of Reason standard of antitrust law. He also sided with the...
  
   (from December 19)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives
  Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
  The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, or Speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives...
  
  : Joseph Gurney Cannon
  Joseph Gurney Cannon
  Joseph Gurney Cannon was a United States politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party. Cannon served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911, and historians generally consider him to be the most dominant Speaker in United States history, with such...
  
   (R
  Republican Party (United States)
  The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
  
  -Illinois)
• Congress
  United States Congress
  The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....
  
  : 61st
  61st United States Congress
  The Sixty-first United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1909 to March 4, 1911, during the first two years of...
  
  

January–March

• January 10 – January 20 – In the United States, the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field
  1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field
  The Los Angeles International Air Meet was among the earliest airshows in the world and the first major airshow in the United States. It was held in Los Angeles County, California at Dominguez Field in present day Carson, California. Spectator turnout numbered approximately 254,000 over 11 days...
  
   is held near Los Angeles, California (the first aviation
  Aviation
  Aviation is the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft, especially heavier-than-air aircraft. Aviation is derived from avis, the Latin word for bird.-History:...
  
   meet to be held in the USA).
• February 8 – The Boy Scouts of America
  Boy Scouts of America
  The Boy Scouts of America is one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with over 4.5 million youth members in its age-related divisions...
  
   youth organization is incorporated by William D. Boyce
  William D. Boyce
  William Dickson "W. D." Boyce was an American newspaper man, entrepreneur, magazine publisher, and explorer. He was the founder of the Boy Scouts of America and the short-lived Lone Scouts of America . Born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, he acquired a love for the outdoors early in his life...
  
  .
• February 16–18 – The state of Ohio
  Ohio
  Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
  
   is crippled by a snowstorm.
• March 14 – The Lakeview Gusher
  Lakeview Gusher
  Lakeview Gusher Number One was an immense out-of-control pressurized oil well in the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in Kern County, California, resulting in what is the largest single oil spill in history, lasting 18 months and releasing of crude oil. In what was one of the largest oil reserves in...
  
   is vented into the atmosphere.
• March 19 – In the United States, Republican
  Republican Party (United States)
  The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
  
  s reduce the powers of the Speaker of the House of Representatives
  Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
  The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, or Speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives...
  
   to influence committee membership.
• March 30 – The Mississippi Legislature
  Mississippi Legislature
  The Mississippi Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Mississippi. The bicameral Legislature is composed of the lower Mississippi House of Representatives, with 122 members, and the upper Mississippi Senate, with 52 members. Both Representatives and Senators serve four-year...
  
   founds The University of Southern Mississippi
  The University of Southern Mississippi
  The University of Southern Mississippi, informally known as Southern Miss, is a large public research university located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States. It is situated north of Gulfport, Mississippi and northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana...
  
  .

April–June

• April 6 – Wildwood Crest, New Jersey is incorporated as a borough of Cape May County, New Jersey
  Cape May County, New Jersey
  -Climate:Being the southernmost point in New Jersey, Cape May has fairly mild wintertime temperatures. Contrary to that, the summertime has lower temperatures than most places in the state, making the county a popular place to escape the heat. It is in zone 7a/7b, which is the same as parts of...
  
  .
• May 11 – The U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana
  Montana
  Montana is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the state's name,...
  
  .
• May 16 – The U.S. Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines
  United States Bureau of Mines
  For most of the 20th century, the U.S. Bureau of Mines was the primary United States Government agency conducting scientific research and disseminating information on the extraction, processing, use, and conservation of mineral resources.- Summary :...
  
  .

July–September

• July 4 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson
  Jack Johnson (boxer)
  John Arthur Johnson , nicknamed the “Galveston Giant,” was an American boxer. At the height of the Jim Crow era, Johnson became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion...
  
   defeats American boxer James J. Jeffries
  James J. Jeffries
  James Jackson Jeffries was a world heavyweight boxing champion.His greatest assets were his enormous strength and stamina. Using a technique taught to him by his trainer, former welterweight and middleweight champion Tommy Ryan, Jeffries fought out of a crouch with his left arm extended forward...
  
   in a heavyweight boxing
  Boxing
  Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
  
   match, sparking race riot
  Race riot
  A race riot or racial riot is an outbreak of violent civil disorder in which race is a key factor. A phenomenon frequently confused with the concept of 'race riot' is sectarian violence, which involves public mass violence or conflict over non-racial factors.-United States:The term had entered the...
  
  s across the United States.
• June 19 – The first unofficial Father's Day
  Father's Day
  Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. Many countries celebrate it on the third Sunday of June but it is also celebrated widely on other days...
  
   is observed.
• July 22 – A wireless
  Wireless
  Wireless telecommunications is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not physically connected. Distances can be short, such as a few meters for television remote control, or as far as thousands or even millions of kilometers for deep-space radio communications...
  
   telegraph sent from the S.S. Montrose results in the identification and later arrest and execution of murderer Dr. Hawley Crippen.
• July 24 – James MacGillivray publishes the first account of Paul Bunyan in the Detroit News.
• August 20 and August 21 – The Great Fire of 1910
  Great Fire of 1910
  The Great Fire of 1910 was a wildfire which burned about three million acres in northeast Washington, northern Idaho , and western Montana...
  
   wildfire burns about 3 million acres (12,140.6 km²) in northeast Washington, northern Idaho
  Idaho
  Idaho is a state in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans". Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state....
  
  , and western Montana
  Montana
  Montana is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the state's name,...
  
   over 2 days and kills 86 people (believed to be the largest fire in recorded United States history).

October–December

• October 1 – A bomb explodes at the Los Angeles Times building
  Los Angeles Times bombing
  The Los Angeles Times bombing was the purposeful dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building in Los Angeles, California, on October 1, 1910 by a union member belonging to the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. The explosion started a fire which killed 21 newspaper...
  
  , leaving 21 dead and several injured. James B. McNamara and John Joseph McNamara are later arrested and sentenced.
• October 11 – Theodore Roosevelt
  Theodore Roosevelt
  Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...
  
   becomes the first former president to ride in an airplane
  Fixed-wing aircraft
  A fixed-wing aircraft is an aircraft capable of flight using wings that generate lift due to the vehicle's forward airspeed. Fixed-wing aircraft are distinct from rotary-wing aircraft in which wings rotate about a fixed mast and ornithopters in which lift is generated by flapping wings.A powered...
  
  .
• November 7 – The first air flight for the purpose of delivering commercial
  Commerce
  While business refers to the value-creating activities of an organization for profit, commerce means the whole system of an economy that constitutes an environment for business. The system includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural, and technological systems that are in operation in any...
  
    freight occurs between Dayton, Ohio
  Dayton, Ohio
  Dayton is the 6th largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, the fifth most populous county in the state. The population was 141,527 at the 2010 census. The Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 841,502 in the 2010 census...
  
   and Columbus, Ohio
  Columbus, Ohio
  Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...
  
   by the Wright Brothers
  Wright brothers
  The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur , were two Americans credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903...
  
   and department store
  Department store
  A department store is a retail establishment which satisfies a wide range of the consumer's personal and residential durable goods product needs; and at the same time offering the consumer a choice of multiple merchandise lines, at variable price points, in all product categories...
  
   owner Max Moorehouse. The trip was made by Wright pilot Philip Parmalee.
• November 17 – Ralph Johnstone
  Ralph Johnstone
  Ralph Johnstone was a pioneering early aviator who died in a crash.-Biography:He was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1886. He started as a vaudeville trick bicycle rider. With a signature finale of performing a mid-air forward somersault. He became a Wright exhibition team pilot...
  
  , a pilot for the Wright Exhibition Team
  Wright Exhibition Team
  The Wright Exhibition Team was a group of early aviators trained by the Wright brothers at Wright Flying School in Montgomery, Alabama in March 1910.-History:The group was formed in 1910 at the suggestion of Augustus Roy Knabenshue....
  
  , dies at Denver, Colorado after his machine breaks apart in mid air in full view of about 5,000 spectators. Johnstone becomes the first American pilot to die in the crash of an airplane in the United States.
• November 22 – U.S. Senator Aldrich and A.P. Andrews (Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Department), along with many of the country's leading financiers, who together represent about 1/6 of the world's wealth, are witnessed leaving Hoboken, New Jersey on a train together. They later arrive at the Jekyll Island Club
  Jekyll Island Club
  The Jekyll Island Club was a private club located on Jekyll Island, on the Georgia coastline. It was founded in 1886 when members of an incorporated hunting and recreational club purchased the island for $125,000 from John Eugune du Bignon. The original design of the Jekyll Island Clubhouse, with...
  
   to discuss monetary policy and the banking system, an event which some say is the impetus for the creation of the Federal Reserve.
• December 12 – New York
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
   socialite
  Socialite
  A socialite is a person who participates in social activities and spends a significant amount of time entertaining and being entertained at fashionable upper-class events....
  
   Dorothy Arnold
  Dorothy Arnold
  Dorothy Harriet Camille Arnold was an American socialite who disappeared while walking in New York City in 1910.-Early life:...
  
   disappears. Her family does not notify the police
  Police
  The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...
  
   until 6 weeks later, after their own investigations fail to produce any results.
• December 19 – Edward Douglass White
  Edward Douglass White
  Edward Douglass White, Jr. , American politician and jurist, was a United States senator, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and the ninth Chief Justice of the United States. He was best known for formulating the Rule of Reason standard of antitrust law. He also sided with the...
  
   is sworn in as the 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
• December 31 – Two of America's premier pioneer aviators are killed on this day: John Moisant in New Orleans, and Wright pilot Arch Hoxsey in Los Angeles.

Undated

• US census shows that 20.9% of the population classed as "Negro" are of mixed race.
• Henry Ford
  Henry Ford
  Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry...
  
   sells 10,000 cars.

January–February

• January 6 – Wright Morris
  Wright Morris
  Wright Marion Morris was an American novelist, photographer, and essayist. He is known for his portrayals of the people and artifacts of the Great Plains in words and pictures, as well as for experimenting with narrative forms. Wright Morris died April 25, 1998 at the age of 88 years. He is...
  
  , photographer and writer (d. 1998)
• January 7 – Orval Faubus
  Orval Faubus
  Orval Eugene Faubus was the 36th Governor of Arkansas, serving from 1955 to 1967. He is best known for his 1957 stand against the desegregation of Little Rock public schools during the Little Rock Crisis, in which he defied a unanimous decision of the United States Supreme Court by ordering the...
  
  , governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
• January 16 – Dizzy Dean
  Dizzy Dean
  Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He was the last National League pitcher to win 30 games in one season. Dean was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953....
  
  , baseball player (d. 1974)
• January 21 – Albert Rosellini
  Albert Rosellini
  Albert Dean Rosellini was the 15th Governor of the state of Washington for two terms, from 1957 to 1965, and was the first Italian American, Roman Catholic governor elected west of the Mississippi River...
  
  , politician (d. 2011)
• February 3 – Robert Earl Jones
  Robert Earl Jones
  Robert Earl Jones was an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the films The Cotton Club and The Sting and as the father of actor James Earl Jones.-Early life:...
  
  , actor (d. 2006)
• February 19 – Dorothy Janis
  Dorothy Janis
  Dorothy Janis was an American silent film actress.-Early life:Born as Dorothy Penelope Jones in Dallas, Texas, her short film career began when she was visiting a cousin, who was working on a film for Fox Film Corporation in 1927. Her beauty was noticed at once and she was asked to make a screen...
  
  , actress
• February 27 – Joan Bennett
  Joan Bennett
  Joan Geraldine Bennett was an American stage, film and television actress. Besides acting on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 motion pictures from the era of silent movies well into the sound era...
  
  , actress (d. 1990)

March–April

• March 3 – Kittens Reichert
  Kittens Reichert
  Kittens Reichert was an American child actress in silent films. She was born Catherine Alma Reichert in Yonkers, New York, but was nicknamed "Kittens", which she adopted as her stage name...
  
  , silent movies child actor (d. 1990)
• March 9 – Samuel Barber
  Samuel Barber
  Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music...
  
  , composer (d. 1981)
• March 10 – Albert Facchiano
  Albert Facchiano
  Albert Joseph Facchiano , also known as "Chinkie" and "the Old Man", was a Miami mobster with the New York Genovese crime family who was involved in loansharking and extortion in South Florida...
  
  , Italian-American criminal
• March 24 – Clyde Barrow, outlaw (d. 1934)
• March 28 – Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr.
  Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr.
  Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr. was an American bibliophile and the director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City from 1938–1969....
  
  , librarian (d. 2001)
• April 10
  • Abraham Alexander Ribicoff, politician (d. 1998)
  • Paul Sweezy
    Paul Sweezy
    Paul Marlor Sweezy was a Marxist economist, political activist, publisher, and founding editor of the long-running magazine Monthly Review...
    
    , economist and editor (d. 2004)
• April 16
  • Eddie Mayo
    Eddie Mayo
    Edward Joseph Mayo , nicknamed "Hotshot" and "Steady Eddie," was a professional baseball infielder...
    
    , baseball player (d. 2006)
  • Berton Roueché
    Berton Roueché
    Berton Roueché was a medical writer who wrote for The New Yorker magazine for almost fifty years. He also wrote twenty books including Eleven Blue Men , The Incurable Wound , Feral , and The Medical Detectives...
    
    , medical writer (d. 1994)

May–June

• May 3 – Norman Corwin
  Norman Corwin
  Norman Lewis Corwin was an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing...
  
  , screenwriter
• May 12 – Charles B. Fulton
  Charles B. Fulton
  Charles Britton Fulton was a lawyer and United States federal judge.Born in Fallon, Nevada, he worked his way through college at the University of Florida and completed his law degree there in 1935. He immediately set up his private law practice in West Palm Beach, Florida, and was named Florida's...
  
  , jurist (d. 1996)
• May 22 – Johnny Olson
  Johnny Olson
  John Leonard "Johnny" Olson was an American radio personality and television announcer. His work spanned 32 game shows produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman from the late 1950s through the mid 1980s...
  
  , game show announcer (d. 1985)
• May 23
  • Scatman Crothers
    Scatman Crothers
    Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers was an American actor, singer, dancer and musician known for his work as Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show Chico and the Man, and as Dick Hallorann in The Shining in 1980...
    
    , actor and musician (d. 1986)
  • Artie Shaw
    Artie Shaw
    Arthur Jacob Arshawsky , better known as Artie Shaw, was an American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. He was also the author of both fiction and non-fiction writings....
    
    , clarinetist and bandleader (d. 2004)
• May 28 – T-Bone Walker
  T-Bone Walker
  Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker was a critically acclaimed American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was one of the most influential pioneers and innovators of the jump blues and electric blues sound. He is the first musician recorded playing blues with the...
  
  , singer (d. 1976)
• May 30 – Ralph Metcalfe
  Ralph Metcalfe
  Ralph Harold Metcalfe was an African-American athlete and politician who came second to Jesse Owens in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Metcalfe jointly held the world record for the 100 meter sprint. Metcalfe was known as the world’s fastest human from 1932 through 1934...
  
  , athlete (d. 1978)
• June 3 – Paulette Goddard
  Paulette Goddard
  Paulette Goddard was an American film and theatre actress. A former child fashion model and in several Broadway productions as Ziegfeld Girl, she was a major star of the Paramount Studio in the 1940s. She was married to several notable men, including Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich...
  
  , actress (d. 1990
  1990 in the United States
  -Incumbents:* President: George H. W. Bush * Vice President: Dan Quayle * Chief Justice: William Rehnquist* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Tom Foley * Senate Majority Leader: George J. Mitchell...
  
  )
• June 17 – H. Owen Reed
  H. Owen Reed
  Herbert Owen Reed is an American composer, conductor, and author.-Education:Reed was raised in rural Odessa, Missouri, where his first exposure to music was his father's playing of the old-time fiddle...
  
  , composer
• June 18 – E.G. Marshall, actor (d. 1998)
• June 19 – Paul Flory
  Paul Flory
  Paul John Flory was an American chemist and Nobel laureate who was known for his prodigious volume of work in the field of polymers, or macromolecules...
  
  , chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
• June 23
  • Peaches Browning
    Peaches Browning
    Peaches Browning , born Frances Belle Heenan, was an American actress, most famous for her failed marriage to New York real estate mogul, Edward West "Daddy" Browning...
    
    , actress (d. 1956)
  • Gordon B. Hinckley
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    Gordon Bitner Hinckley was an American religious leader and author who served as the 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from March 12, 1995 until his death...
    
    , fifteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 2008)

July–August

• July 4 – Gloria Stuart
  Gloria Stuart
  Gloria Frances Stuart was an American actress, activist, painter, bonsai artist and fine printer. Over a Hollywood career which spanned, with a long break in the middle, from 1932 until 2004, she appeared on stage, television, and film, for which she was best-known...
  
  , actress (d. 2010)
• July 11 – Irene Hervey, actress (d. 1998)
• July 14 – William Hanna
  William Hanna
  William Denby Hanna was an American animator, director, producer, and cartoon artist, whose film and television cartoon characters entertained millions of people for much of the 20th century. When he was a young child, Hanna's family moved frequently, but they settled in Compton, California, by...
  
  , animator (d. 2001)
• July 30 – Edgar de Evia
  Edgar de Evia
  Edgar Domingo Evia y Joutard, known professionally as Edgar de Evia , was a Mexican-born American photographer....
  
  , photographer (d. 2003)
• August 4
  • Anita Page
    Anita Page
    Anita Evelyn Pomares , better known as Anita Page, was a Salvadoran-American film actress who reached stardom in the last years of the silent film era. She became a highly popular young star, reportedly at one point receiving the most fan mail of anyone on the MGM lot...
    
    , actress (d. 2008)
  • Hedda Sterne
    Hedda Sterne
    Hedda Sterne was an artist best remembered as the only woman in a group of Abstract Expressionists known as "The Irascibles" which consisted of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and others...
    
    , Romanian-born painter and printmaker
• August 10 – Ruby Keeler
  Ruby Keeler
  Ruby Keeler, born Ethel Hilda Keeler, was an actress, singer, and dancer most famous for her on-screen coupling with Dick Powell in a string of successful early musicals at Warner Brothers, particularly 42nd Street . From 1928 to 1940, she was married to singer Al Jolson...
  
  , actress and dancer (d. 1993)
• August 12 – Jane Wyatt
  Jane Wyatt
  Jane Waddington Wyatt was an American actress perhaps best known for her role as the housewife and mother on the television comedy Father Knows Best, and as Amanda Grayson, the human mother of Spock on the science fiction television series Star Trek...
  
  , actress (d. 2006)
• August 23 – Lonny Frey
  Lonny Frey
  Linus Reinhard Frey [Junior] was an infielder in Major League Baseball who played from through for the Brooklyn Dodgers , Chicago Cubs , Cincinnati Reds , New York Yankees and New York Giants...
  
  , baseball player (d. 2009)
• August 25 – Dorothea Tanning
  Dorothea Tanning
  Dorothea Tanning is an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer. She has also designed sets and costumes for ballet and theatre.-Biography:...
  
  , artist

September–October

• September 3 – Kitty Carlisle Hart
  Kitty Carlisle Hart
  Kitty Carlisle was an American singer, actress and spokeswoman for the arts. She is best remembered as a regular panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth. She served 20 years on the New York State Council on the Arts. In 1991, she received the National Medal of Arts from President...
  
  , singer and actress (d. 2007)
• September 6 – Walter Giesler
  Walter Giesler
  Walter John Giesler was an American soccer player, referee, and businessman.-Early life and career:Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Giesler would become a towering figure on the Midwestern sports landscape. After playing at McBride High School, he would compete in several amateur and professional...
  
  , soccer coach (d. 1976)
• September 23 – Elliott Roosevelt
  Elliott Roosevelt
  Elliott Roosevelt was a United States Army Air Forces officer and an author. Roosevelt was a son of U.S. President Franklin D...
  
  , author and World War II hero (d. 1990)
• September 29 – Virginia Bruce
  Virginia Bruce
  Virginia Bruce was an American actress and singer.-Career:Born Helen Virginia Briggs in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she went with her family to Los Angeles intending to enroll in the University of California when a friendly wager sent her seeking film work. She got it as an extra in Why Bring That...
  
  , actress and singer (d. 1982)
• October 1 – Bonnie Parker, outlaw (d. 1934)
• October 7 – Henry P. McIlhenny
  Henry P. McIlhenny
  Henry Plumer McIlhenny was an American connoisseur of art and antiques, world traveler, socialite, philanthropist and the chairman of the Philadelphia Art Museum....
  
  , art collector, socialite and philanthropist (d. 1986)
• October 8 – Gus Hall
  Gus Hall
  Gus Hall, born Arvo Kustaa Hallberg , was a leader and Chairman of the Communist Party USA and its four-time U.S. presidential candidate. As a labor leader, Hall was closely associated with the so-called "Little Steel" Strike of 1937, an effort to unionize the nation's smaller, regional steel...
  
  , communist leader (d. 2000)
• October 10 – Julius Shulman
  Julius Shulman
  Julius Shulman was an American architectural photographer best known for his photograph "Case Study House #22, Los Angeles, 1960. Pierre Koenig, Architect." The house is also known as The Stahl House. Shulman's photography spread California Mid-century modern around the world...
  
  , architectural photographer (d. 2009)
• October 12
  • Bob Sheppard
    Bob Sheppard
    Robert Leo "Bob" Sheppard was the long-time public address announcer for numerous New York area college and professional sports teams, in particular the MLB New York Yankees , and the NFL New York Giants .Sheppard announced more than 4,500 Yankees baseball games over a period of 56 years,...
    
    , baseball announcer
  • Robert Fitzgerald
    Robert Fitzgerald
    Robert Stuart Fitzgerald was a poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students." He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin...
    
    , poet and translator (d. 1985)
• October 14 – John Wooden
  John Wooden
  John Robert Wooden was an American basketball player and coach. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood", he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period — seven in a row — as head coach at UCLA, an unprecedented feat. Within this period, his teams won a record 88 consecutive games...
  
  , basketball coach

November–December

• November 9 – Carroll Quigley
  Carroll Quigley
  Carroll Quigley was an American historian and theorist of the evolution of civilizations. He is noted for his teaching work as a professor at Georgetown University, for his academic publications, and for his research on secret societies.- Biography :Quigley was born in Boston, and attended...
  
  , historian, polymath, and theorist of the evolution of civilizations (d.1977)
• November 13 – William Bradford Huie
  William Bradford Huie
  William Bradford "Bill" Huie was an American journalist, editor, publisher, television interviewer, screenwriter, lecturer, and novelist.-Biography:...
  
  , journalist, editor, publisher and author (d. 1986)
• December 11 – Mildred Cleghorn
  Mildred Cleghorn
  Mildred Cleghorn was first chairperson of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe.Mildred Imoch Cleghorn, whose Apache names were Eh-Ohn and Lay-a-Bet, was one of the last Chiricahua Apaches born under a "prisoner of war" status. She was an educator and traditional doll maker, and was regarded as a cultural...
  
  , chairwoman of the Fort Sill Apache tribe (d. 1997)
• December 15 – John Hammond
  John H. Hammond
  John Henry Hammond II was an American record producer, musician and music critic from the 1930s to the early 1980s...
  
  , record producer (d. 1987)
• December 18 – Abe Burrows
  Abe Burrows
  Abe Burrows was a Tony and Pulitzer-winning American humorist, author, and director for radio and the stage.-Early years:...
  
  , playwright (d. 1985)
• December 29 – Frank Abbandando
  Frank Abbandando
  Frank Abbandando , nicknamed "The Dasher", was a New York contract killer who committed many murders as part of the infamous Murder, Inc. gang.-Early years:...
  
  , gangster (d. 1942)
• December 30 – Paul Bowles
  Paul Bowles
  Paul Frederic Bowles was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator.Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the University of Virginia before making various trips to Paris...
  
  , author (d. 1999)
• date unknown – Hilda Conkling
  Hilda Conkling
  Hilda Conkling was an American poet. She was the daughter of Grace Hazard Conkling, a poet in her own right and Assistant Professor of English at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Hilda was born in New York state...
  
  , child poet (d. 1986)

January–June

• January 25 – Lotta Faust
  Lotta Faust
  Lotta Faust was an actress, dancer, and singer from Brooklyn, New York. She performed an interpretation of the Salome dance based on the Salome by Oscar Wilde.Faust attended public schools in Brooklyn...
  
  , Broadway actress (b. 1880)
• March 27 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz
  Alexander Emanuel Agassiz
  Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz , son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer.-Biography:...
  
  , scientist (b. 1835)
• April 21 – Mark Twain
  Mark Twain
  Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
  
  , writer (b. 1835)
• May 31 – Elizabeth Blackwell, physician (b. 1821)
• June 5 – O. Henry
  O. Henry
  O. Henry was the pen name of the American writer William Sydney Porter . O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings.-Early life:...
  
  , novelist (b. 1862)

July–December

• July 5 – Melville Fuller
  Melville Fuller
  Melville Weston Fuller was the eighth Chief Justice of the United States between 1888 and 1910.-Early life and education:...
  
  , Chief Justice (b. 1833)
• August 26 – William James
  William James
  William James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a physician. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism...
  
  , psychologist and philosopher (b. 1842)
• September 29 – Winslow Homer
  Winslow Homer
  Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th century America and a preeminent figure in American art....
  
  , painter (b. 1836)
• October 15 – Stanley Ketchel
  Stanley Ketchel
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  , boxer (b. 1886)
• October 17 – Julia Ward Howe
  Julia Ward Howe
  Julia Ward Howe was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet, most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".-Biography:...
  
  , abolitionist and poet (b. 1819)
• November 17 – Ralph Johnstone
  Ralph Johnstone
  Ralph Johnstone was a pioneering early aviator who died in a crash.-Biography:He was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1886. He started as a vaudeville trick bicycle rider. With a signature finale of performing a mid-air forward somersault. He became a Wright exhibition team pilot...
  
  , aviator (b. 1886)
• November 23 – Hawley Harvey Crippen
  Hawley Harvey Crippen
  Hawley Harvey Crippen , usually known as Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopathic physician hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, on November 23, 1910, for the murder of his wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen...
  
  , murderer (b. 1862)
• December 3 – Mary Baker Eddy
  Mary Baker Eddy
  Mary Baker Eddy was the founder of Christian Science , a Protestant American system of religious thought and practice religion adopted by the Church of Christ, Scientist, and others...
  
  , Christian science founder (b. 1821)
• December 31 – John Moisant, aviator (b. 1868)
• December 31 – Arch Hoxsey, aviator (b. 1884)