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Events from the year 1928 in the United States
Incumbents [ ]
Government [ ]
President : Calvin Coolidge (R -Massachusetts )
Vice President : Charles G. Dawes (R -Illinois )
Chief Justice : William Howard Taft (Ohio )
Speaker of the House of Representatives : Nicholas Longworth (R -Ohio )
Senate Majority Leader : Charles Curtis (R -Kansas )
Congress : 70th
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors [ ]
Governor of Alabama : Bibb Graves (Democratic )
Governor of Arizona : George W. P. Hunt (Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas : John Ellis Martineau (Democratic ) (until March 4), Harvey Parnell (Democratic ) (starting March 4)
Governor of California : Clement C. Young (Republican )
Governor of Colorado : Billy Adams (Democratic )
Governor of Connecticut : John H. Trumbull (Republican )
Governor of Delaware : Robert P. Robinson (Republican )
Governor of Florida : John W. Martin (Democratic )
Governor of Georgia : Lamartine G. Hardman (Democratic )
Governor of Idaho : H. C. Baldridge (Republican )
Governor of Illinois : Len Small (Republican )
Governor of Indiana : Edward L. Jackson (Republican )
Governor of Iowa : John Hammill (Republican )
Governor of Kansas : Ben S. Paulen (Republican )
Governor of Kentucky : Flem D. Sampson (Republican )
Governor of Louisiana : Oramel H. Simpson (Democratic ) (until May 21), Huey P. Long (Democratic ) (starting May 21)
Governor of Maine : Owen Brewster (Republican )
Governor of Maryland : Albert C. Ritchie (Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts : Alvan T. Fuller (Republican )
Governor of Michigan : Fred W. Green (Republican )
Governor of Minnesota : Theodore Christianson (Republican )
Governor of Mississippi : Dennis Murphree (Democratic ) (until January 16), Theodore G. Bilbo (Democratic ) (starting January 16)
Governor of Missouri : Samuel Aaron Baker (Republican )
Governor of Montana : John E. Erickson (Democratic )
Governor of Nebraska : Adam McMullen (Republican )
Governor of Nevada : Fred B. Balzar (Republican )
Governor of New Hampshire : Huntley N. Spaulding (Republican )
Governor of New Jersey : A. Harry Moore (Democratic )
Governor of New Mexico : Richard C. Dillon (Republican )
Governor of New York : Al Smith (Democratic ) (until December 31)
Governor of North Carolina : Angus Wilton McLean (Democratic )
Governor of North Dakota : Arthur G. Sorlie (Republican ) (until August 28), Walter Maddock (Republican ) (starting August 28)
Governor of Ohio : A. Victor Donahey (Democratic )
Governor of Oklahoma : Henry S. Johnston (Democratic )
Governor of Oregon : I. L. Patterson (Republican )
Governor of Pennsylvania : John Stuchell Fisher (Republican )
Governor of Rhode Island : Aram J. Pothier (Republican ) (until February 4), Norman S. Case (Republican ) (starting February 4)
Governor of South Carolina : John Gardiner Richards, Jr. (Democratic )
Governor of South Dakota : William J. Bulow (Democratic )
Governor of Tennessee : Henry Hollis Horton (Democratic )
Governor of Texas : Dan Moody (Democratic )
Governor of Utah : George Dern (Democratic )
Governor of Vermont : John E. Weeks (Republican )
Governor of Virginia : Harry F. Byrd (Democratic )
Governor of Washington : Roland H. Hartley (Republican )
Governor of West Virginia : Howard M. Gore (Republican )
Governor of Wisconsin : Fred R. Zimmerman (Republican )
Governor of Wyoming : Frank C. Emerson (Republican )
Lieutenant Governors [ ]
Events [ ]
January [ ]
January 16
U.S. murderer Ruth Snyder is executed at Ossining .
6th Pan-American Conference opens in Havana . Calvin Coolidge becomes the last sitting U.S. President until 2016 to visit Cuba .
February [ ]
February 8 – British inventor John Logie Baird broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to Hartsdale, New York .[1]
February 25 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission .[2]
March [ ]
March 12 – In California , the St. Francis Dam north of Los Angeles fails, killing 400.
March 21 – Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
April [ ]
April 10 – "Pineapple Primary ": The Republican Party primary elections in Chicago are preceded by assassinations and bombings.
April 28 – Tamiami Trail linking Tampa and Miami officially opens to traffic.[3]
May [ ]
May 10 – The first regular schedule of television programming begins in Schenectady , New York by the General Electric 's television station W2XB (the station is popularly known as WGY Television, after its sister radio station WGY ).
May 15 – The animated short Plane Crazy is released by Disney Studios in Los Angeles , featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse .
May 19 – Mather Mine disaster
May 26 – Airplane Coaster roller coaster opens at Playland , Rye, New York .
May 29 – Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. , a leading case in United States tort law on the question of liability to an unforeseeable plaintiff, is decided in the New York Court of Appeals .
June [ ]
June 4 – Olmstead v. United States decided in the Supreme Court : wiretapped private telephone conversations, obtained by federal agents without judicial approval and subsequently used as evidence, do not violate the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution.
June 3 – Serial killer Albert Fish kidnaps and kills 10-year-old Grace Budd in New York.
June 17 – Aviator Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean . Wilmer Stultz is the pilot.
June 29 – New York Governor Alfred E. Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for U.S. President , at the Democratic National Convention in Houston, Texas .
June 29 – Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island , New York is opened
July [ ]
July 4 – Jean Lussier goes over Niagara Falls in a rubber ball.
July 6 – The world's largest hailstone falls in Potter, Nebraska .
July 7 – The first machine-sliced , machine-wrapped loaf of bread is sold in Chillicothe, Missouri , using Otto Frederick Rohwedder 's technology.
July 12 – Mexican aviator Emilio Carranza dies in a solo plane crash in the New Jersey Pine Barrens , while returning from a goodwill flight to New York City .
July 25 – The United States recalls its troops from China .
August [ ]
August 16 – Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, D.C. after killing about 20 people.
August 22 – Alfred E. Smith accepts the Democratic presidential nomination, with WGY/W2XB simulcasting the event on radio and television.
September [ ]
September 1 – Richard Byrd leaves New York for the Arctic.
September 11 – Kenmore 's WMAK station starts broadcasting in Buffalo, New York .
September 16 – The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane kills at least 2,500 people in Florida .
October [ ]
October 9 – The New York Yankees defeat the St. Louis Cardinals , 4 games to 0, to win their 3rd World Series Title.
October 12 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston .
October 19 – William Edward Hickman is executed at San Quentin State Prison , for the 1927 murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker .
October 28 – Glenn Miller and Helen Burger marry in New York City .[4]
November [ ]
November 4 – At Park Central Hotel in Manhattan , Arnold Rothstein , New York City 's most notorious gambler, is shot to death over a poker game.
November 6 – U.S. presidential election, 1928 : Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Democratic Governor of New York Alfred E. Smith .
November 17 – The Boston Garden opens in Boston .
November 18 – Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie , the third Mickey Mouse cartoon released, but the first sound film .
December [ ]
December 5 – Police disperse a Sicilian gangs' meeting in Cleveland .
December 21 – The U.S. Congress approves the construction of Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam .
Undated [ ]
The Ford River Rouge Complex at Dearborn, Michigan , an automobile plant begun in 1917, is completed as the largest integrated factory in the world.
W2XBS, RCA 's first television station, is established in New York City .
Eliot Ness begins to lead the prohibition unit in Chicago .
The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America ratifies a new revision of the Book of Common Prayer .
Ongoing [ ]
Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
Prohibition (1919–1933)
Roaring Twenties (1920–1929)
Sport [ ]
April 14 - New York Rangers win their First Stanley Cup by defeating the Montreal Maroons 3 games to 2. All games were played at the Montreal Forum . The Rangers become the Second American team to win the Stanley Cup and the first since the Seattle Metropolitans in 1918
Births [ ]
January [ ]
January 1 – William Henry Draper III , American venture capitalist
January 2
Robert Goralski , American journalist (d. 1988 )
Dan Rostenkowski , American politician (d. 2010 )
January 5 – Walter Mondale , American politician, 42nd Vice President of the United States (d. 2021 )
January 6 – George H. Ross , American businessman
January 7 – William Peter Blatty , American novelist and screenwriter (d. 2017 )
January 8 – Slade Gorton , American politician
January 9 – Judith Krantz , American novelist (d. 2019 )
January 10 – Philip Levine , American poet (d. 2015 )
January 11
Mitchell Ryan , American actor
David L. Wolper , American television producer (d. 2010 )
January 12 – Lloyd Ruby , American race car driver (d. 2009 )
January 14 – Lauch Faircloth , American politician
January 15
James G. March , American sociologist (d. 2018 )
Joanne Linville , American actress
January 16
William Kennedy , American author
Sidney Kimmel , American businessman, philanthropist and film producer
January 20 – Rudy Boesch , American soldier
January 21 – Gene Sharp , American political theorist of nonviolent action (d. 2018 )
January 22 – Birch Bayh , American politician (d. 2019 )
January 30 – Harold Prince , American stage producer, director (d. 2019 )
February [ ]
February 1 – Tom Lantos , American politician (d. 2008 )
February 5
Andrew Greeley , American Catholic priest, fiction novelist (d. 2013 )
William J. Larkin Jr. , American politician (d. 2019 )
February 8 – Jack Larson , American actor, producer and playwright (d. 2015 )
February 9
Frank Frazetta , American illustrator (d. 2010 )
Roger Mudd , American journalist (d. 2021 )
February 14 – Norman Bridwell , American cartoonist (d. 2014 )
February 17 – Tom Jones , American lyricist
February 18 – John Ostrom , American paleontologist (d. 2005 )
February 20
Roy Face , American baseball player
Jean Kennedy Smith , American diplomat (d. 2020 )
February 22
Paul Dooley , American actor
Clarence 13X , American religious leader, founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths (d. 1969)
February 23 – Ralph Earnhardt , American race car driver (d. 1973 )
February 26 – Fats Domino , African-American pianist and singer-songwriter (d. 2017 )
March [ ]
March 3 – Bernice Sandler , American women's rights activist (d. 2019 )
March 5 – J. Hillis Miller , American literary critic
March 6
Delbert Daisey , American waterfowl wood carver, decoy maker (d. 2017 )
Dan Towler , American football player (d. 2001 )
March 7 – William Blankenship , American operatic tenor (d. 2017 )
March 9 – Keely Smith , American singer (d. 2017 )
March 10 – James Earl Ray , American assassin (d. 1998 )
March 12
Edward Albee , American playwright (d. 2016 )
Ellen Raskin , American author and illustrator (d. 1984 )
March 14
Frank Borman , American astronaut
Earl Smith , American baseball center fielder (d. 2014 )
March 15 – Bob Wilber , American clarinetist and saxophonist
March 17 – Barbara Kloka Hackett , American judge (d. 2018 )
March 18 – Julia Mullock , American-Korean royal (d. 2017 )
March 19
John Hall Buchanan Jr. , American politician (d. 2018 )
Arthur Cook , American sport shooter
Patrick McGoohan , American-born British-based actor of Irish descent (d. 2009 )
March 20
E. D. Hirsch , American author, critic and academic
Ed Macauley , American basketball player (d. 2011 )
March 23 – Mark Rydell , American actor, director and producer
March 24
Byron Janis , American pianist
Mel Rosen , American track and field coach (d. 2018 )
March 25
Aubrey Dunn Sr. , American politician (d. 2012 )
Jim Lovell , American astronaut
March 27 – Douglas Applegate , politician (d. 2021 )
March 29 – Vincent Gigante , American Mafia gangster (d. 2005 )
March 31 – Lefty Frizzell , American country music performer (d. 1975 )
April [ ]
April 1 – George Grizzard , American actor (d. 2007 )
April 2 – Joseph Bernardin , American cardinal (d. 1996 )
April 3
Don Gibson , American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2003 )
Kevin Hagen , American actor (d. 2005 )
Earl Lloyd , African-American basketball player (d. 2015 )
April 4
Maya Angelou , African American poet and novelist (d. 2014 )
Estelle Harris , American actress
Bill Ryan , American journalist (d. 1997 )
April 5 – Tony Williams , American singer (d. 1992 )
April 6
Joi Lansing , American actress (d. 1972 )
James D. Watson , American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
April 7
James Garner , American actor, producer (d. 2014 )
Alan J. Pakula , American producer, director (d. 1998 )
April 8 – Fred Ebb , American composer (d. 2004 )
April 9
Floyd Spence , American politician (d. 2001 )
Tom Lehrer , American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist and mathematician
April 11 – Ethel Kennedy , American human-rights campaigner, wife of Robert F. Kennedy
April 16 – Night Train Lane , American football player (d. 2002 )
April 17
Cynthia Ozick , American writer
Victor Lownes , American businessman (d. 2017 )
April 18 – Arnold Oss , American ice hockey player
April 19 – Richard Garwin , American physicist
April 20 – Robert Byrne , American chess player (d. 2013 )
April 23 – Shirley Temple , American actress, singer, dancer, businesswoman, and diplomat (d. 2014 )
April 24 – Johnny Griffin , African-American jazz saxophonist (d. 2008 )
April 25 – Cy Twombly , American artist (d. 2011 )
April 27 – Fred Weintraub , American film, television producer (d. 2017 )
April 28 – Eugene Merle Shoemaker , American geologist (d. 1997 )
May [ ]
May 1 – Sonny James , American country singer (d. 2016 )
May 3
Jeanne Bal , American actress and model (d. 1996 )
Dave Dudley , American country singer (d. 2003 )
May 4
Betsy Rawls , American professional golfer
Joseph Tydings , American politician
May 5 – Marshall Grant , American musician (d. 2011 )
May 7 – John Ingle , American actor (d. 2012 )
May 8
Robert Conley , American journalist (d. 2013 )
Ted Sorensen , American lawyer, writer, and presidential adviser (d. 2010 )
May 9
Ralph Goings , American painter (d. 2016 )
Pancho Gonzales , American tennis player (d. 1995 )
May 11 – Vern Rapp , American baseball player, coach and manager (d. 2015 )
May 12
Burt Bacharach , American composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist, and singer
Manuel Lujan Jr. , American politician (d. 2019 )
May 14 – Dub Jones , American R&B singer (d. 2011 )
May 16 – Billy Martin , American baseball player, manager (d. 1989 )
May 18
Pernell Roberts , American actor (d. 2010 )
Sara Shane , American actress
May 19 – Dolph Schayes , American basketball player (d. 2015 )
May 21 – Alice Drummond , American actress (d. 2016 )
May 22 – T. Boone Pickens , American businessman (d. 2019 )
May 23 – Rosemary Clooney , American singer and actress (d. 2002 )
May 24 – Leonard B. Sand , American judge (d. 2016 )
May 25 – Mary Wells Lawrence , American advertising executive
May 26 – Jack Kevorkian , American right-to-die advocate (d. 2011 )
May 29 – George A. Sinner , American politician (d. 2018 )
May 31
Consuelo Crespi , American fashion icon (d. 2010 )
Gloria Schiff , American fashion icon (d. 2019 )
June [ ]
June 3 – Louise Daniel Hutchinson , American historian and academic (d. 2014 )
June 6
George Deukmejian , American politician (d. 2018 )
Ed Fury , American actor, bodybuilder and model
June 9 – Jackie Mason , American comedian (d. 2021 )
June 12
Vic Damone , American singer (d. 2018 )
Richard M. Sherman , American songwriter
June 13 – John Forbes Nash, Jr. , American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (d. 2015 )
June 19
Elizabeth Connelly , American politician (d. 2006 )
Nancy Marchand , American actress (d. 2000 )
June 20
Eric Dolphy , American jazz musician (d. 1964 )
Martin Landau , American actor (d. 2017 )
June 21
Charles D. Baker , American businessman, former U.S. government official
June 22
Alfred M. Gray, Jr. , American general
Ralph Waite , American actor, political activist (The Waltons ) (d. 2014 )
June 23
Leon Fleischer , American concert pianist
Ray Hyman , American Professor Emeritus of Psychology
Pete Ladygo , American football player (d. 2014 )
June 24
Lester Grinspoon , American Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
Lawrence A. Skantze , United States Air Force general (d. 2018 )
June 25
Robert Dean Hunter , American politician
Edwin Mills , American economist
John A. Wickham Jr. , United States Army military officer
June 26
Danford B. Greene , American actor (d. 2015 )
Bill Sheffield , American politician
June 27 – Edward B. Cottingham , American politician
June 28 – Patrick Hemingway , second son of American author Ernest Hemingway
June 29
Bill Bagley , American politician
James Lincoln Collier , American journalist, musician and author
Nick Testa , American professional baseball catcher, coach (d. 2018 )
June 30 – Nathaniel Tarn , American poet, essayist, anthropologist and translator
July [ ]
July 4 – Chuck Tanner , American baseball player and manager (d. 2011 )
July 5
Lorraine Fisher , American professional baseball player (d. 2007 )
Ernie Kell , American politician (d. 2017 )
Bruce Nickells , American harness racing driver, trainer
July 6
Richard R. Larson , American politician (d. 2016 )
Wally Osterkorn , American professional basketball player (d. 2012 )
July 8 – Pat Adams , American painter, printmaker
July 9 – Vince Edwards , American actor (Ben Casey ) (d. 1996 )
July 10
John Glenn , American Major League Baseball outfielder
Herb Johnson , American football player
July 12
Elias James Corey , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Hayden White , American historian (d. 2018 )
July 13
Bob Crane , American actor (Hogan's Heroes ) (d. 1978 )
Daryl Spencer , American professional baseball player (d. 2017 )
Leroy Vinnegar , American musician (d. 1999 )
July 14 – Nancy Olson , American actress
July 15 – Tom Troupe , American actor, writer
July 16 – Jim Rathmann , American race car driver (d. 2011 )
July 17 – Joe Morello , American jazz drummer (d. 2011 )
July 18
Baddiewinkle , (b. Helen Ruth Elam Van Winkle), American internet personality
Billy Harrell , American baseball player and scout (d. 2014 )
July 19 – Priscilla Johnson McMillan , journalist and historian (d. 2021 )[5]
July 22
Orson Bean , American film, television and stage actor (d. 2020 )
Robert Bergland , American politician (d. 2018 )
Keter Betts , American jazz bassist (d. 2005 )
Nick Galifianakis , American politician
Stu Locklin , American Major League Baseball outfielder (d. 2016 )
July 23 – Leon Fleisher , American classical pianist (d. 2020 )
July 26
Joe Jackson , African-American talent manager (d. 2018
Stanley Kubrick , American film director (d. 1999 )
August [ ]
August 1
James R. Dixon , American professor (d. 2015 )
Jack Shea , American film, television director (d. 2013 )
August 3 – Janet Abu-Lughod , American sociologist (d. 2013 )
August 4 – Gerard Damiano , American adult film director (d. 2008 )
August 5 – Bogdan Maglich , American physicist (d. 2017 )
August 6 – Andy Warhol , American figure in the visual art movement pop art (d. 1987 )
August 7 – Herbert H. Bateman , American politician (d. 2000 )
August 8 – Jane Stoll , American professional baseball player (d. 2000 )
August 9
Dolores Wilson , American coloratura soprano (d. 2010 )
Bob Cousy , American basketball player
Martin Greenfield , American tailor and Holocaust survivor
Camilla Wicks , American violinist (d. 2020 )
August 10
Don Bustany , American radio, television broadcaster (d. 2018 )
Jimmy Dean , American country musician, entrepreneur (d. 2010 )
Eddie Fisher , American singer and actor (d. 2010 )
August 12
Bob Buhl , American baseball player (d. 2001 )
Micki Marlo , American model and singer (d. 2016 )
August 16
George Ahlgren , American rower who competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics (d. 1951 )
Eydie Gormé , American singer (d. 2013 )
Ann Blyth , American actress, singer
Wyatt Tee Walker , American pastor, civil rights leader, theologian, and historian (d. 2018 )
August 18 – Marge Schott , American baseball team owner (d. 2004 )
August 19 – Laurette Luez , American actress (d. 1999 )
August 20 – Frank Rosolino , American jazz trombonist (d. 1978 )
August 21 – Art Farmer , American jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player (d. 1999 )
August 22 – Ray Marshall , American politician
August 23 – Marian Seldes , American actress (d. 2014 )
August 25
Kayo Dottley , American football player (d. 2018 )
Jason Epstein , American editor and publisher (d. 2022 )
Karl Korte , American composer
August 28 – Ed Salem , American football quarterback, defensive back (d. 2001 )
August 30
Shirley Huffman , American politician (d. 2018 )
Johnny Mann , American composer, arranger, and singer (d. 2014 )
August 31 – James Coburn , American actor (d. 2002 )
September [ ]
September 1 – George Maharis , American actor
September 2 – Horace Silver , American jazz pianist, composer and arranger (d. 2014 )
September 4 – Dick York , American actor (d. 1992 )
September 6 – Robert M. Pirsig , American philosopher (d. 2017 )
September 7
Donald Henderson , American epidemiologist , leader of global smallpox eradication program (d. 2016 )
Al McGuire , basketball player, coach, and commentator (d. 2001 )
September 9 – Sol LeWitt , American artist (d. 2007 )
September 10 – Walter Ralston Martin , American Baptist Christian minister and author (d. 1989 )
September 11
Earl Holliman , American actor
William X. Kienzle , American author (d. 2001 )
September 12
Robert Irwin , American painter
Muriel Siebert , American stockbroker (d. 2013 )
September 13 – Robert Indiana , American contemporary artist (d. 2018 )
September 14
Dick Clark , American politician
Park Honan , American academic, author (d. 2014 )
September 15
Cannonball Adderley , American saxophonist (d. 1975 )
Henry Silva , American actor
September 16 – Patricia Wald , American judge (d. 2019 )[6]
September 19 – Adam West , American actor (d. 2017 )
September 20
Jack Edwards , American politician
Donald Hall , American poet, United States Poet Laureate (d. 2018 )
Ruth Richard , American female professional baseball player (d. 2018 )
September 22
James Lawson , African-American civil rights activist, minister and professor
Eugene Roche , American actor (d. 2004 )
Richard Stone , American politician
September 23
Bernie Custis , American and Canadian football player (d. 2017 )
Hollie Pihl , American judge (d. 2018 )
September 25 – Victor Gold , American journalist, press secretary (d. 2017 )
September 26 – Robert D. Ray , American lawyer, politician (d. 2018 )
September 27 – Garry Watson , American child actor
September 28 – Koko Taylor , African-American singer (d. 2009 )
October [ ]
October 1
George Peppard , American film, television actor (d. 1994 )
Erica Yohn , American actress (d. 2019 )
October 2 – George "Spanky" McFarland , American child actor (d. 1993 )
October 3
Edward L. Moyers , American railroad executive (d. 2006 )
Richard Stolley , American journalist and magazine editor (d. 2021 )[7]
October 4 – Alvin Toffler , American futurologist (d. 2016 )
October 7
Muriel Bevis , baseball player (d. 2002 )
Herb Rich , American football player (d. 2008 )
Abraham Woods , civil rights leader (d. 2008 )[8]
October 8 – M. Russell Ballard , American businessman and religious leader
October 14 – Gary Graffman , American concert pianist
October 16 – Eileen Ryan , American actress
October 17
Lerone Bennett Jr. , African-American scholar, author (d. 2018 )
Jimmy Breslin , American journalist (d. 2017 )
October 18 – Keith Jackson , American sports commentator, journalist, author, and radio personality (d. 2018 )
October 21
Vern Mikkelsen , American professional basketball player (d. 2013 )
Whitey Ford , American baseball player
October 25
Jeanne Cooper , American actress (d. 2013 )
Anthony Franciosa , American actor (d. 2006 )[9]
Marion Ross , American actress
October 27 – Waldo Holmes , American musician and songwriter
October 30
Ann Russell Miller , socialite and nun (d. 2021 )[10]
Daniel Nathans , American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1999 )
October 31 – Roy Romer , American politician
November [ ]
November 3
George Yardley , basketball player (d. 2004 )
Nick Holonyak , electrical engineer and inventor
November 4 – George Stanich , high jumper
November 6
Norman Carlberg , sculptor and printmaker (d. 2018 )
Zara Steiner , American-English historian and academic (d. 2020 )
November 7 – Herbert Flam , tennis player (d. 1980 )
November 9
Anne Sexton , poet (d. 1974 )[11]
November 11 – Ernestine Anderson , jazz and blues singer (d. 2016 )
November 12 – Bobby Baker , political adviser to Lyndon B. Johnson (d. 2017 )
November 13 – Steve Bilko , baseball player (d. 1978 )
November 14 – Kathleen Hughes , actress
November 15
C. W. McCall , country singer and politician
Seldon Powell , jazz and soul woodwind player (d. 1997 )
November 16 – Clu Gulager , actor and director
November 17
Rance Howard , actor (d. 2017 )
Anna Meyer , female professional baseball player
November 18
Norman Baker , explorer (d. 2017 )
Sheila Jordan , singer and pianist
Lloyd R. Leavitt Jr. , air force lieutenant general (d. 2016 )
November 20 – Pete Rademacher , American boxer
November 23 – Elmarie Wendel , American actress and singer (d. 2018 )
November 25 – Jimmy Johnson , blues guitarist (d. 2022 )
November 29 – Paul Simon , American politician (d. 2003 )
November 30 – Joe B. Hall , American basketball coach
December [ ]
December 1 – Sarge Ferris , American professional poker player (d. 1989 )
December 2 – Edwin Kessler , American atmospheric scientist (d. 2017 )
December 7 – Noam Chomsky , American linguist
December 9 – Dick Van Patten , American actor (d. 2015 )
December 10
Dan Blocker , American actor (Bonanza ) (d. 1972 )
Barbara Nichols , American actress (d. 1976 )
December 12
Helen Frankenthaler , American painter (d. 2011 )
Lonesome Sundown , American blues musician (d. 1995
December 15
Ernest Ashworth , American country music singer (d. 2009 )
Jimmy Nelson , American ventriloquist
Jerry Wallace , American singer (d. 2008 )
December 16
Terry Carter , American actor and filmmaker
Philip K. Dick , American science fiction author (d. 1982 )
Bruce Ames , American biochemist
December 17 – George Lindsey , American actor (d. 2012 )
December 19 – Nathan Oliveira , American painter, printmaker, and sculptor (d. 2010 )
December 20 – Jack Christiansen , American football player and coach (d. 1986 )
December 21
Ed Nelson , American actor (d. 2014 )
Colleen Townsend , American actress and author
December 23
Billy Cook , American spree killer (d. 1952 )
Buddy Harman , American drummer and session musician (d. 2008 )
Roger Jepsen , American politician
December 24 – Nancy Tuckerman , American secretary (d. 2018 )
December 25
Irish McCalla , American actress, model (d. 2002 )
Dick Miller , American actor (d. 2019 )
December 26 – Martin Cooper , American inventor, "father of the mobile phone "
December 27 – Richard Freed , American music critic (d. 2022 )
December 28 – Bill Gradison , American politician
December 30 – Bo Diddley , African-American musician (d. 2008 )
December 31 – Hugh McElhenny , American football player
Deaths [ ]
January 1 – Loie Fuller , dancer (born 1862 )
January 3
Dorothy Donnelly , actress and songwriter (born 1880 )
Emily Stevens , actress (born 1882 )
January 6 – Alvin Kraenzlein , American athlete (born 1876 )
January 12 – Ruth Snyder , murderer (born 1895 )
January 13 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman , artist (born 1847 )
January 21 – John A. Kimberly , entrepreneur, co-founder of Kimberly-Clark (born 1838 )
January 22 – Victor Blue , American admiral (born 1865 )
January 25 – Charles Gorman , American actor (born 1865 )
March 7 – Robert Abbe , surgeon (born 1851 )
March 19 – Nora Bayes , singer and actress (born 1880 )
April 2 – Theodore William Richards , recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (born 1868 )
April 8 – Wendell P. Bowman , army major general (born 1847 )
April 22
Warner B. Bayley , admiral (born 1845 )
Frank Currier , actor (born 1857 )
April 25 – Floyd Bennett , aviator (born 1890 )
May 8 – Clara Williams , actress (born 1888 )
May 18 – Bill Haywood , labor leader (born 1869 )
May 19 – Bessie Van Vorst , campaigning journalist (died 1873 )
June 6 – John D. Works , U.S. Senator from California from 1911 to 1917 (born 1847 )
June 16 – Mark Keppel , Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools (born 1867 )
June 22
A. B. Frost , illustrator (born 1851 )
George Siegmann , actor (born 1882 )
June 24 – Holbrook Blinn , actor (born 1872 )
July 1
Avery Hopwood , playwright (born 1882 )[12]
Frankie Yale , gangster (born 1893 )
August 29 – George N. Bliss , soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1837 )
October 8 – Larry Semon , actor (born 1889 )
October 20 – Mary Ingalls , blind older sister of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (born 1865 )
October 24 – Arthur Bowen Davies , artist (born 1863 )
October 30 – Robert Lansing , Secretary of State (born 1864 )
December 11 – Lewis Howard Latimer , inventor (born 1848 )
December 14 – Theodore Roberts , actor (born 1861 )
December 16 – Elinor Wylie , poet and novelist (born 1885 )
December 25 – Fred Thomson , silent film actor (born 1890 )
See also [ ]
References [ ]
^ "Transatlantic Television in 1928" . Baird Television . Retrieved 2015-09-29 . Extract from The New York Times 1928-02-09.
^ Edgerton, Gary R. (30 January 2009). The Columbia History of American Television . p. 30. ISBN 9780231121651 .
^ "Tamiami Trail Officially Opened in 1928" . Retrieved 2020-06-29 .
^ Jan Onofrio (1 January 2000). Iowa Biographical Dictionary . Somerset Publishers, Inc. p. 538. ISBN 978-0-403-09304-5 .
^ In Memoriam: Priscilla Johnson McMillan, 1928–2021
^ "Robert L. Wald's Obituary in the Washington Post" . The Washington Post . Archived from the original on April 4, 2018. Retrieved April 4, 2018 .
^ Richard Stolley, the Man Who Launched PEOPLE Magazine, Dies at 92
^ Hevesi, Dennis. "Abraham Woods, Civil Rights Pioneer, Dies at 80" , The New York Times , November 12, 2008. Accessed November 12, 2008.
^ Vallance, Tom (January 23, 2006). "Anthony Franciosa; Temperamental leading man" . The Independent . Retrieved May 22, 2019 .
^ Sr. Mary Joseph of the Trinity, socialite who became 'kind of an unusual nun,' dead at 91
^ Elaine Showalter; Lea Baechler; A. Walton Litz (27 September 1993). Modern American Women Writers . Simon and Schuster. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-02-082025-3 .
^ Sharrar, Jack (1998). Avery Hopwood: his life and plays . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780472109630 .
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