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Events from the year 1924 in the United States.

Incumbents[]

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 (starting November 9)
  • Congress: 68th

Events[]

January–March[]

  • February 7 – Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.
  • February 12 – Rhapsody in Blue, by George Gershwin, is first performed in New York City at Aeolian Hall.
  • February 14 – IBM is founded in New York State.
  • February 16–February 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, United States.

April–June[]

  • April 16 – American media company Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) is founded in Los Angeles, California.
  • 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.
  • May 26 – The Asian Exclusion Act is enacted, banning all Asian immigration to the United States. It was 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 Davis for President.

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 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.[1]
  • 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 (1919–1933)
  • Roaring Twenties (1920–1929)

Births[]

January[]

Earl Scruggs
Max Roach
Dorothy Malone
  • January 1 – Charlie Munger, American businessman and philanthropist
  • January 4
    • Walter Ris, American freestyle swimmer (d. 1989)
    • Charles Thone, American politician (d. 2018)
  • January 5 – Glenn Boyer, American historian and author (d. 2013)
  • January 6 – Earl Scruggs, American musician (d. 2012)
  • January 7 – Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1973)
  • January 8 – James Clinkscales Hill, American jurist (d. 2017)
  • January 9 – Mary Kaye, American guitarist and singer (d. 2007)
  • January 10
    • Earl Bakken, American 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, American pop singer (d. 2018)[2]
    • Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994)
    • Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970)
  • January 12 – Chris Chase (also known as Irene Kane), American model, film actress, writer and journalist (d. 2013)
  • January 14
    • Carole Cook, American actress and singer
    • Guy Williams, American actor (d. 1989)
  • January 19 – Nicholas Colasanto, American actor and television director (d. 1985)
  • January 23 – Frank Lautenberg, American politician (d. 2013)
  • January 25
    • Lou Groza, American football player and coach (d. 2000)
    • Speedy West, American musician (d. 2003)
  • January 26 – Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician (d. 1998)
  • January 28 – Betty Tucker, American female baseball player (d. 2012)
  • January 30
    • Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
    • Dorothy Malone, American actress (d. 2018)

February[]

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

March[]

Deke Slayton
Philip Abbott
Norman Fell
  • 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
    • 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
  • March 29 – Jimmy Work, American singer-songwriter (d. 2018)
  • March 31 – Kathleen O'Malley, American actress (d. 2019)

April[]

Stanley Donen
  • 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
  • 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 16
    • Henry Mancini, American composer and arranger (d. 1994)
    • Rudy Pompilli, American musician (d. 1976)
  • April 18
  • 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)

May[]

Patricia Kennedy Lawford
  • May 1
    • Art Fleming, American actor and game show host (d. 1995)
    • Evelyn Boyd Granville, American mathematician, computer scientist and academic
    • 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)[3]
  • May 24 – Philip Pearlstein, American soldier, painter
  • May 29 – Lavonne "Pepper" Paire Davis, American female baseball player (d. 2013)
  • May 31 – Patricia Roberts Harris, American administrator (d. 1985)

June[]

Dennis Weaver
George H. W. Bush
Chet Atkins
Sidney Lumet
  • 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 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 (d. 2018)[4]
  • June 20 – Chet Atkins, American guitarist, record producer (d. 2001)
  • June 22 – John C. Whitcomb, American theologian
  • June 23
    • Frank Bolle, American comic strip artist, comic book artist and illustrator
    • June Brooks, American businesswoman (d. 2010)
  • June 24
    • Leonard Everett Fisher, American artist known best for children's books
    • 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[]

Eva Marie Saint
Pat Hingle
Lola Albright
Don Knotts
C. T. Vivian
  • 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
  • July 11
    • F. James Rutherford, American science professor
    • 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
    • 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
  • 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[]

James Baldwin
Carroll O'Connor
Dinah Washington
  • 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)[5]
    • Inez Voyce, American female baseball player
    • 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
  • August 24 – Louis Teicher, American pianist (Ferrante & Teicher) (d. 2008)
  • August 26 – Barbara Staff, American political activist (d. 2019)
  • 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[]

Daniel Inouye
Jane Greer
Jerry Coleman
Lauren Bacall
  • 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, politician
  • September 7 – Daniel Inouye, American politician (d. 2012)
  • September 8 – Wendell H. Ford, American politician (d. 2015)
  • September 9
    • Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)
    • Sylvia Miles, American actress (d. 2019)
    • Russell M. Nelson, American heart surgeon and religious leader
  • September 11
    • Daniel Akaka, American soldier, engineer and politician (d. 2018)
    • Tom Landry, American football player, coach (d. 2000)
  • September 12 – Howard C. Nielson, American politician (d. 2021)
  • September 13 – Scott Brady, American actor (d. 1985)
  • September 14 – Jerry Coleman, American baseball player, manager, broadcaster, and Marine aviator (d. 2014)
  • September 15 – Bobby Short, American entertainer (d. 2005)
  • September 16 – Lauren Bacall, American actress (d. 2014)
  • September 20
    • Gogi Grant, American singer (d. 2016)
    • Helen Grayco, American singer, actress
  • September 22
    • J. William Middendorf, American soldier and politician
    • Gerald Schoenfeld, American chairman (d. 2008)
  • September 27 – Wendell Bell, American futurist (d. 2019)
  • September 28 – Merwin Coad, American politician
  • September 30
    • Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)
    • Georgiana Young, American actress (d. 2007)

October[]

Jimmy Carter
William Rehnquist
Lee Iacocca
  • 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
  • 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
  • October 24 – Earl Palmer, American R&B Drummer (d. 2008)
  • October 25
    • Billy Barty, American actor (d. 2000)
    • Bobby Brown, baseball player (b. 2021)
    • Weston E. Vivian, American politician (d. 2020)
  • October 27 – Bonnie Lou, American singer (d. 2015)

November[]

Geraldine Page
Shirley Chisholm
  • 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
  • November 21 – Joseph Campanella, American actor (d. 2018)
  • November 22
    • Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)
    • Robert M. Young, American film director and producer
  • 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)[6]
  • 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[]

Alexander Haig
Cicely Tyson
  • 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 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 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)[7]
  • 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 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)

See also[]

References[]

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