1918 in the United States

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Events from the year 1918 in the United States.

Incumbents[]

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

Events[]

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 Mw  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 20 – The small town of Codell, Kansas is hit for the third 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[]

1918 flu pandemic
  • 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.[1]
  • 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 Mw  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)

Births[]

January[]

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

February[]

Joey Bishop
Julian Schwinger
Fay McKenzie
  • February 3
    • 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, American athlete (d. 1996)
    • Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (d. 1995)
  • February 26
    • Otis R. Bowen, American politician (d. 2013)
    • Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (d. 1985)

March[]

Howard Cosell
Pearl Bailey
  • March 1 – James N. Morgan, American economist (d. 2018)
  • March 3 – Arthur Kornberg, American 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)[2]
  • 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)[3]
    • 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 29
    • Pearl Bailey, African-American singer, actress (d. 1990)[4]
    • Shirley Jameson, American female baseball player (d. 1993)
    • Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart (d. 1992)

April[]

Betty Ford
William Holden
  • 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, American writer (d. 1993)
    • Edmund Jones, American politician (d. 2019)
  • April 17
    • William Holden, American actor (d. 1981)
    • Anne Shirley, American actress (d. 1993)
  • April 18 – Clifton Hillegass, American author, founder of CliffsNotes (d. 2001)
  • April 20 – Edward L. Beach Jr., American naval captain and author (d. 2002)
  • April 22
    • Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (d. 2008)
    • William Jay Smith, American poet (d. 2015)
  • April 24 – Lou Dorfsman, American graphic designer (d. 2008)
  • April 27 – John Rice, American baseball umpire (d. 2011)
  • April 28
    • Mildred Persinger, American feminist (d. 2018)
    • Rodger Wilton 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[]

Mike Wallace
Richard Feynman
Eddy Arnold
  • 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, American pilot (d. 2005)
  • May 12 – Julius Rosenberg, American-born Soviet spy (d. 1953)
  • May 15 – Eddy Arnold, American country music singer (d. 2008)
  • May 17 – A. C. Lyles, American film producer (d. 2013)
  • May 18
    • Claudia Bryar, American actress (d. 2011)
    • Joe Krush, American illustrator
  • May 20 – Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
  • May 21 – Lloyd Hartman Elliott, American educator, president of George Washington University (d. 2013)
  • May 23
    • Frank Mancuso, American major league baseball player, politician (d. 2007)
    • Naomi Replansky, American poet

June[]

Robert Preston
Jerome Karle
  • June 2 – Kathryn Tucker Windham, American writer, storyteller (d. 2011)
  • June 4 – Johnny Klein, American drummer (d. 1997)
  • June 6 – Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 (d. 2009)
  • June 8
    • Robert Preston, American actor (The Music Man) (d. 1987)
  • 1918 – John D. Roberts, American chemist and academic (d. 2016)
  • 1918 – John H. Ross, American captain and pilot (d. 2013)
  • June 9 – John Hospers, American philosopher (d. 2011)
  • June 10 – Wood Moy, American actor (d. 2017)
  • June 12 – Jerry A. Moore Jr., American politician (d. 2017)
  • June 18
    • Jerome Karle, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
    • Lillian Ross, American journalist on The New Yorker (d. 2017)
    • Elisabeth Waldo, American violinist, composer
  • June 21
    • Dee Molenaar, American mountaineer, author and artist (d. 2020)
    • Josephine Webb, American engineer
  • June 25 – Sid Tepper, American songwriter (d. 2015)
  • June 26 – Raleigh Rhodes, American combat fighter pilot (d. 2007)
  • June 27 – Adolph Kiefer, American former competition swimmer (d. 2017)
  • June 28 – Marshall Brown, American 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[]

Craig Stevens
Pee Wee Reese
Paul D. Boyer
Hank Jones
  • 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)
    • 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
    • Alice Van-Springsteen, American stuntwoman, jockey (d. 2008)
    • Vivian Mason, American actress (d. 2009)
    • Paul Stenn, American football offensive tackle (d. 2003)
  • July 14
    • Jay Wright Forrester, American computer engineer, systems scientist (d. 2016)
    • Arthur Laurents, American novelist and screenwriter (d. 2011)
  • July 16 – Leonard T. Schroeder, American colonel (d. 2009)
  • July 17 – Chandler Robbins, American ornithologist (d. 2017)
  • July 18
    • James Duesenberry, American economist (d. 2009)
    • Warren Hair, American professional basketball player (d. 2006)
  • July 20
    • Edward S. Little, American diplomat (d. 2004)
    • Cindy Walker, American songwriter, country singer (d. 2006)
  • July 22 – Stanley Lebergott, American government economist (d. 2009)
  • July 23
    • Carl T. Langford, American politician (d. 2011)
    • Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (d. 1999)
  • July 24 – Irving London, American hematologist and geneticist (d. 2018)
  • July 25 – Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986)
  • July 26 – Marjorie Lord, American actress (d. 2015)
  • July 27 – Leonard Rose, American cellist (d. 1984)
  • July 29 – Edwin O'Connor, American novelist, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (d. 1968)
  • July 30
    • John L. Cason, American actor (d. 1961)
    • Jimmy Robinson, American actor (d. 1967)
  • July 31
    • Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
    • Hank Jones, American pianist (d. 2010)

August[]

Leonard Bernstein
Katherine Johnson
  • 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[]

Paul Harvey
  • 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 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, American bartender
    • John Zacherle, American television and radio host, singer, and voice actor (d. 2016)

October[]

Rita Hayworth
  • 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[]

Art Carney
Billy Graham
  • November 3
    • Bob Feller, American baseball player (d. 2010)
    • Ann Hutchinson Guest, American movement, dance researcher
    • 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
  • 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[]

Jeff Chandler
  • 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, American poet, author (d. 1990)
  • 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, American Major League Baseball catcher (d. 1976)

Deaths[]

Further information: Category:Deaths from Spanish flu
  • January 8 – Ellis H. Roberts, politician (born 1827)
  • February 2 – John L. Sullivan, boxer, World Heavyweight Champion (born 1858)
  • 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 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)
  • 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 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 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)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ House of Lords (U.K.), Science and Technology Committee (2005-12-16), Pandemic Influenza (PDF), London: The Stationery Office, archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-05-08, retrieved 2009-05-06
  2. ^ Wilford, John Noble (28 August 1998). "Frederick Reines Dies at 80; Nobelist Discovered Neutrino". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  3. ^ Barbee-Wooten, Daphne (2 August 2013). "Helene H. Hale (1918-2013)". blackpast.org. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Pearl Bailey | American entertainer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 4 June 2020.

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