1933 in the United States

Events from the year 1933 in the United States.

Incumbents

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President:
[Vice President of the United States|President of the United States|Vice President]:
Chief Justice: Charles Evans Hughes
Speaker of the House of Representatives:
Senate Majority Leader:
Congress: 72nd, 73rd

Events

January–March

January 5
*Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
*Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the U.S. dies of coronary thrombosis in Northampton, Massachusetts.
January 17 – The U.S. Congress votes favorably for Philippines independence, against the view of President Herbert Hoover.
January 23 – The Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, changing Inauguration Day from March 4 to January 20, coming into effect on February 6.
January 30 – The Lone Ranger debuts on American radio.
February 6–7 – Officers on the USS Ramapo record a 34-meter high sea-wave in the Pacific Ocean.
February 10 – The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
February 15 – In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead fatally wounds Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wound on March 6. Zangara is executed on March 20 by the electric chair.
February 17
* Repeal of Prohibition in the United States: The Blaine Act passes the Senate, submitting the proposed Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification to end prohibition in the United States.
* News-Week magazine is published for the first time, in New York City.
February 25 –, the first ship of the United States Navy designed as an aircraft carrier, is launched at Newport News, Virginia.
March 2 – The original film version of King Kong, starring Fay Wray and directed by Merian C. Cooper, premieres at Radio City Music Hall and the RKO Roxy Theatre in New York City.
March 3 – Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated.
March 4
*Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in as the 32nd president of the United States, who in reference to the Great Depression, proclaims "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself" in his inauguration speech. He is sworn in by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, beginning the first 100 days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency. Roosevelt's paralytic illness is never publicly acknowledged during what will be the four terms of his Presidency, during which he rejects socialism and government ownership of industry. This is the last time Inauguration Day in the U.S. occurs on this date. John Nance Garner is sworn in as the 32nd vice president.
*Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, and the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
March 5 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions.
March 7 – The real-estate trading board game Monopoly is developed.
March 9 – Great Depression: The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation.
March 10 – The 6.4 Long Beach earthquake affects the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII, leaving 115–120 people dead, and causing an estimated $40 million in damage.
March 12 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States, in the first of his "Fireside Chats" by radio.
March 15 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises from 53.84 to 62.10. The day's gain of 15.34%, achieved during the depths of the Great Depression, remains to date as the largest 1-day percentage gain for the index.
March 22 – President Roosevelt signs the Cullen–Harrison Act, an amendment to the Volstead Act, allowing the manufacture and sale from April 7 of "3.2 beer" and light wines, 8 months before the full repeal of Prohibition in December.
March 31 – Civilian Conservation Corps established as an unemployment relief program by voice vote in Congress, followed on April 5 by Executive Order 6101.
March – John Andrew Rice and other staff are dismissed from Rollins College in a dispute over academic tenure, going on to found Black Mountain College.

April–June

April 4 – The U.S. airship Akron crashes off the coast of New Jersey, leaving 73 dead.
April 5 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a national emergency and issues Executive Order 6102, making it illegal for U.S. citizens to own gold.
April 15 – The Indiana State Police begins operations.
April 19 – The United States officially goes off the gold standard.
April 26 – Editors of the Harvard Lampoon steal the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts from the State House.
May 3 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to be named director of the United States Mint.
May 5 – The detection by Karl Jansky of radio waves from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy is reported in The New York Times. The discovery leads to the birth of radio astronomy.
May 12 – Agricultural Adjustment Act is enacted in the U.S.
May 18 – New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
May 27
*New Deal: The Federal Securities Act is signed into law, requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
*The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago.
*Walt Disney's classic Silly Symphony cartoon The Three Little Pigs is first released.
June 5 – The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
June 6 – The first drive-in movie theater is opened in Pennsauken Township, near Camden, New Jersey, by chemical company executive Richard Hollingshead, according to his patent granted May 16.
June 15 – National Guard Bureau founded.
June 17 – Kansas City massacre: At the Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, gangsters kill four law enforcement officers and detained fugitive bank robber Frank Nash.
June 26
* The American Totalisator Company unveils its first electronic pari-mutuel betting machine at the Arlington Park Racetrack near Chicago.
* Founding of Twentieth Century Pictures as a motion picture production company by Joseph Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck in Hollywood.

July–September

July 1 – Business Plot: Smedley Butler becomes involved in a secret coup attempt led by Gerald MacGuire against President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt which fails.
July 6 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played at Comiskey Park in Chicago.
July 22
* "Machine-Gun" Kelly and Albert Bates kidnap Charles Urschel, an Oklahoma oilman, and demand $200,000 ransom.
* Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world, landing at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, after traveling eastbound in 7 days 18 hours 45 minutes.
July 24
* Several members of the Barrow Gang are injured or captured during a running battle with local police near Dexter, Iowa.
* In one of his radio Fireside chats, "On the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program", President Roosevelt introduces the term "first 100 days".
August 1 – The Blue Eagle emblem of the National Recovery Administration is displayed publicly for the first time.
August 10
*Division of Investigation founded.
*Shipping Board Bureau and Emergency Fleet Corporation founded.
August 14 – Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres.
September 18 – Tennessee Valley Authority is established.

October–December

October 7 – The New York Giants (baseball) defeat the Washington Senators, 4 games to 1, to win their 4th World Series title.
October 10 – United Air Lines Flight 23: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by the mid-air explosion of a bomb on a transcontinental flight near Chesterton, Indiana, killing all 7 on board, in the first proven case of sabotage in civil aviation, although no suspect is ever identified.
October 12 – The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz is acquired by the United States Department of Justice, which plans to incorporate the island into its Federal Bureau of Prisons as a federal penitentiary.
October 16 – Parricides committed by Victor Licata lead to calls for the legal prohibition of cannabis.
October 17 – Albert Einstein arrives in the United States, where he settles permanently as a refugee from Nazi Germany and takes up a position at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.
November 8 – New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.
November 11 – Dust Bowl: In South Dakota, a very strong dust storm strips topsoil from desiccated farmlands.
November 13 – Jasper McLevy becomes mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, the first Socialist mayor in New England; he serves until 1957.
November 16
* The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.
* American aviator Jimmie Angel becomes the first foreigner to see the Angel Falls in Venezuela.
November 17 – The Marx Brothers' anarchic comedy film Duck Soup is released in the U.S.
December 5 – Repeal of Prohibition in the United States: The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, repealing Prohibition, is fully ratified and comes into effect.
December 6 – U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
December 17 – The first NFL Championship Game in American football is played. The Chicago Bears defeat the New York Giants 23–21.

Undated

15 million unemployed in the U.S.
The first doughnut store under the Krispy Kreme name opens on Charlotte Pike in Nashville, Tennessee.

Ongoing

Births

January

January 1 – Ford Konno, American swimmer
January 2
* Dan Duncan, businessman, oil company executive and billionaire
* Richard Riley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 6th United States Secretary of Education
January 5 – Leonard Marsh, American businessman, co-founder of Snapple
January 6
* Lenny Green, American baseball player
* Fred L. Turner, American businessman and philanthropist
January 7 – Phil Mulkey, American decathlete and coach
January 8
* Charles Osgood, American journalist, commentator
* Nolan Miller, American fashion and jewelry designer
* Willie Tasby, American baseball player
January 9 – Robert García, American politician
January 13 – Tom Gola, American basketball player
January 14 – Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker
January 15 – Ernest J. Gaines, American author
January 16 – Susan Sontag, American author
January 17 – Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist
January 22 – Lennie Rosenbluth, American basketball player
January 23 – Chita Rivera, American actress and dancer
January 24 – Bob Beattie, American skiing coach
January 25 – Barbara Owen, American organist
January 27 – Tony Windis, American basketball player
January 29
* Paul Sally, American mathematician and academic
* Ronald Townson, American singer
January 30 – Swede Halbrook, American basketball player
January 31 – Barbara Jakobson, American art collector

February

February 1 – Wendell R. Anderson, American politician
February 2 – M'el Dowd, American actress and singer
February 3 – Paul Sarbanes, American politician
February 4 – Shirley Burkovich, American baseball player
February 6 – Walter E. Fauntroy, African-American civil rights activist
February 10 – Billy O'Dell, American baseball player
February 13
* John H. Beyer, American architect
* Kim Novak, American actress
* Peter L. Pond, American clergyman and philanthropist
February 16 – Ron Faber, American actor
February 17
* Larry Jennings, American magician and author
* Craig L. Thomas, American politician
February 20 – Frederick Crews, American literary critic
February 21
* Bob Rafelson, American film director, producer and screenwriter
* Nina Simone, African-American singer
February 23 – Donna J. Stone, poet and philanthropist
February 26 – Godfrey Cambridge, actor and comedian
February 27 – Raymond Berry, American football player
February 28 – Charles Vinci, weightlifter

March

March 3 – Lee Radziwill, American socialite
March 5 – Marlene Riding In Mameah, American silversmith
March 6 – Ted Abernathy, American baseball player
March 9 – Lloyd Price, African-American R&B singer
March 12
* Myrna Fahey, American actress
* Barbara Feldon, American actress, model
March 13
* Mike Stoller, American songwriter
* Gloria McMillan, American former actress, teacher
* Donald Henry Gaskins, American serial killer
March 14
* Jake Godbold, American politician
* Quincy Jones, African-American music producer and composer
March 15 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993
March 16 – Sanford I. Weill, American financier and philanthropist
March 17 – Jessie Dalman, American politician.
March 18
* Unita Blackwell, African-American civil rights activist
* Win Wilfong, American basketball player
March 19 – Philip Roth, American novelist
March 23
* Hayes Alan Jenkins, American figure skater
* Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist
March 24 – William Smith, actor
March 25
* Dick Duckett, basketball player
* William O'Neil, stockbroker and writer
March 28 – Frank Murkowski, politician
March 29 – Bob Schafer, basketball player
March 30 – Joe Ruby, animator
March 31 – Anita Carter, singer

April

April 1
* Stanley Weston, American inventor and licensing agent
* Dan Flavin, American artist
April 3
* Renae Youngberg, American professional baseball player
* Bob Dornan, American politician
April 5
* Larry Felser, American sports columnist
* Frank Gorshin, American actor
April 7 – Wayne Rogers, American actor
April 11 – Med Park, American basketball player
April 12 – Ben Nighthorse Campbell, American politician
April 14 – Morton Subotnick, American electronic composer
April 15
* Roy Clark, American country singer, musician, TV host
* Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress
April 17 – Ron W. Miller, American president and CEO
April 19 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress
April 21 – Chuck Mencel, American basketball player
April 24
* Patricia Bosworth, American actress, journalist and author
* Freddie Scott, American singer-songwriter
April 25
* Jerry Leiber, American popular music composer
* Joyce Ricketts, American baseball player
* Lawrence F. Scalise, American politician, attorney
April 26 – Carol Burnett, American actress, singer and comedian
April 27 – Calvin Newborn, American jazz guitarist
April 29 – Ed Charles, American basketball player
April 30
* Rod McKuen, American singer, songwriter and poet
* Willie Nelson, American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, producer, author, poet and activist
* Helen Vendler, American literary critic

May

May 3
* James Brown, African-American soul musician
* Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
May 5 – Joe McClain, American baseball player
May 7
* Roger Perry, American actor
* Johnny Unitas, American football player
May 11
* Louis Farrakhan, African-American Muslim leader
* Anna Marguerite McCann, first female American underwater archaeologist
May 15 – Carol Habben, American baseball player
May 16 – Terry O'Malley Seidler, American baseball team owner and executive
May 17 – Stefan Kanfer, American journalist, critic, editor and author
May 18 – Jack Stephens, American basketball player
May 20 – Dan Budnik, American photographer
May 26 – Edward Whittemore, American writer, CIA agent

June

June 1
* Antony Ponzini, American actor
* Charlie Wilson, American naval officer and politician
June 2 – Jerry Lumpe, American baseball player and coach
June 6 – Eli Broad, American entrepreneur and philanthropist
June 7
* Gary Kent, American actor, stuntman and film director
* Herb Score, American baseball player and sportscaster
* Beverly Wills, American actress
June 8
* Rommie Loudd, American football player and coach
* Jim Palmer, American basketball player
* Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress and television host
June 9 – Don Young, American politician
June 10 – F. Lee Bailey, American criminal defense attorney
June 11 – Gene Wilder, American actor
June 12 – Eddie Adams, American photographer and photojournalist
June 17
* Bob Armstrong, American basketball player
* Harry Browne, American writer, presidential candidate
* Rod Paige, American politician
* Maurice Stokes, American basketball player
June 20
* Danny Aiello, American actor
* Lazy Lester, American musician
June 21 – Bernie Kopell, American actor, comedian
June 22 – Dianne Feinstein, American politician
June 23 – Dave Bristol, American baseball manager
June 24 – Sam Jones, American basketball player
June 25 – James Meredith, African-American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran
June 26
* Ralph Guglielmi, American football quarterback
* McNeil Moore, American football player
* Alan Trask, American politician
June 27
* Louise Bishop, politician
* Gary Crosby, actor, singer
* L. James Sullivan, firearms inventor
June 28 – Morris Hirsch, mathematician
June 29
* John Bradshaw, theologian, educator
* Bob Fass, radio personality
* Roy Harris, heavyweight boxer
* John D. Hawke, Jr., politician
* David Nething, politician

July

July 1 – Frank Baumann, American Major League Baseball pitcher
July 4 – Miriam Stevenson, American television host, actress, previously model and beauty pageant winner
July 5
* Jonathan Baumbach, American author, academic and film critic
* Lisa Janti, American actress
July 6
* Al Ferrari, American basketball player
* June Kenney, American actress
July 7
* David McCullough, historian and author
* Richard Ravitch, politician and businessman
July 8
* Bucky Bockhorn, American basketball player
* Al Spangler, American baseball player
July 9 – Ray Rippelmeyer, American baseball player and coach
July 10 – Richard G. Hatcher, first African-American politician
July 11 – Bob McGrath, American actor
July 14 – Michael Cardenas, American businessman
July 16 – Julian A. Brodsky, American businessman
July 18 – Syd Mead, American industrial, conceptual designer
July 20
* Buddy Knox, American singer
* Cormac McCarthy, American novelist
July 21 – John Gardner, American novelist
July 22 – Bertice Reading, African-American actress, singer
July 23 – Bert Convy, American game show host, actor and singer
July 24
* John Aniston, American actor
* Doug Sanders, American golfer
July 25
* Ed Fleming, American basketball player
* Ken Swofford, American actor
July 27 – Nick Reynolds, American folk singer
July 29
* Lou Albano, American professional wrestler, actor
* Robert Fuller, American actor and rancher
July 30 – Edd Byrnes, American actor, singer

August

August 1
* Dom DeLuise, American actor, comedian
* Jack Patera, American football player, coach
August 3 – Vera Katz, American politician
August 7
* Elinor Ostrom, American economist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate
* Jerry Pournelle, American science fiction writer
August 8 – Carmine Persico, American mobster and convicted racketeer
August 10
* Doyle Brunson, American poker player
* Rocky Colavito, American baseball player
August 11 – Jerry Falwell Sr., American pastor, televangelist and activist
August 16
* Julie Newmar, American actress, dancer and singer
* Stuart Roosa, American astronaut
* Bill Shipp, American journalist
August 17 – Gene Kranz, American NASA Flight Director
August 18 – Frank Salemme, American gangster and hitman
August 19 –
* Bettina Cirone, American photographer, model
* Debra Paget, actress and entertainer
August 20
* Sihugo Green, American basketball player
* George J. Mitchell, American politician
August 21 – Jules Wright, American businessman and politician from Alaska
August 22 – Robert Hale, American opera singer
August 23
* Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Pete Wilson, American politician
August 24 – Ham Richardson, tennis player
August 25
* Wayne Shorter, jazz saxophonist
* Tom Skerritt, actor
August 26 – Robert Chartoff, film producer
August 28 – Jean Weaver, baseball player
August 29 – Dickie Hemric, basketball player
August 30 – Walter LaFeber, historian

September

September 1
* Leonard A. Cole, political scientist
* Conway Twitty, country music artist
September 2
* Ed Conlin, basketball player
* Hootie Ingram, American football coach
September 3 – Tompall Glaser, singer
September 5 – Robert Mnuchin, investment banker and art dealer
September 9
* Ed Dwight, sculptor, author and astronaut
* Michael Novak, philosopher, author
September 11 – William Luther Pierce, author, activist
September 12
* Phil Jordon, basketball player
* Denny Stolz, American football coach
September 13 – Eileen Fulton, actress
September 15 – Henry Darrow, Puerto-Rican American actor
September 17
* Chuck Grassley, politician
* Evelyn Kawamoto, competition swimmer
September 18
* Bob Bennett, politician
* Robert Blake, actor
September 21 – Dick Simon, racing driver
September 24 – Mel Taylor, drummer
September 25 – Hubie Brown, basketball coach and broadcaster
September 26 – Charlotte Mailliard Shultz, philanthropist and socialite
September 27
* Greg Morris, African-American actor
* Kathleen Nolan, American actress, first female president of the Screen Actors Guild
* Will Sampson, American actor
September 30 – Cissy Houston, African-American singer

October

October 4 – John Noble Wilford, American author and journalist
October 5 – Billy Lee Riley, American rockabilly musician
October 9
* Joan Berger, American female professional baseball player
* Melvin Sokolsky, American fashion photographer
October 10
* Carl Kabat, American Catholic priest and anti-nuclear activist
* Jay Sebring, American hair stylist
October 12 – Clayton Jacobson II, American inventor of the Jet Ski
October 17 – William Anders, American astronaut
October 21 – Rich Eichhorst, American basketball player
October 23 – Lois Youngen, American professional baseball player
October 24 – Norman Rush, American writer
October 27 – Theodosius (Lazor), primate (bishop) of the Orthodox Church in America
October 30 – Warith Deen Mohammed, American Muslim leader, theologian, philosopher and revivalist

November

November 1 – Thomas Atcitty, American politician
November 3
* Ken Berry, American actor, dancer and singer
* Aneta Corsaut, American actress
* Michael Dukakis, American politician
November 7 – Jackie Joseph, American actress
November 9
* Jim Perry, American game show host
* Ed Corney, American bodybuilder
November 10
* Ronald Evans, American astronaut
* Mack Rice, American singer and songwriter
November 11 – Kay Arthur, American Bible teacher, speaker and author
November 14 – Fred Haise, American astronaut
November 15 – Jack Burns, American comic performer
November 19 – Larry King, American television and radio host
November 21 – Jean Shepard, American country singer, songwriter
November 24 – Marie Wilcox, native America, last speaker of Wukchumni
November 25 – Kathryn Crosby, American actress
November 26
* Jay Barbree, American space travel journalist
* Robert Goulet, American entertainer
* Tony Verna, American inventor of instant replay
November 28
* Hope Lange, American actress
* Joe Knollenberg, American politician
November 29 – James Rosenquist, American painter
November 30 – Sam Gilliam, American artist.

December

December 1 – Lou Rawls, African-American singer
December 2
* P. J. Cowan, American author
* Mike Larrabee, American athlete
December 4
* Wink Martindale, American game show host, disc jockey.
* Dick Ricketts, American basketball player
* Ronnie Shavlik, American basketball player
December 6 – Boris Nachamkin, American basketball player
December 8 – Johnny Green, American basketball player
December 9 – Orville Moody, American golfer
December 11 – Charlie Bryan, American labor leader
December 13 – Lou Adler, American film and record producer
December 15 – Tim Conway, American actor and comedian
December 16 – Billy Kinard, American football player and coach
December 17
* Shirley Abrahamson, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Walter Booker, American jazz bassist
December 18 – Lonnie Brooks, American blues singer and guitarist
December 20
* Brad Dye, American politician
* Jean Carnahan, American politician
December 21 – Robert Worcester, pollster
December 26 – Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker
December 28 – John Y. Brown Jr., American politician and businessman

Deaths

January 3 – Jack Pickford, film actor, dies in France
January 5 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929, 29th vice president of the United States from 1921 to 1923
January 9 – Kate Gleason, engineer
January 17 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, stained glass artist, jewelry designer, son of Charles Lewis Tiffany
January 23 – Fred. L. Bonfoey, architect
January 25 – Lewis J. Selznick, film producer
January 29 – Sara Teasdale, lyrical poet, suicide
February 5 – James Banning, aviation pioneer
February 18 – James J. Corbett, heavyweight boxer
February 26 – Spottiswoode Aitken, silent film actor and Hollywood property developer
February 27 – Walter Hiers, silent actor
February 28 – Lilla Cabot Perry, Impressionist painter
March 6 – Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago, fatally wounded in assassination attempt
March 14 – Balto, sled dog
March 30 – Giuseppe Zangara, attempted assassin of president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, killer of Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago, executed
April 4 – William A. Moffett, admiral, in crash of airship )
April 5 – Earl Derr Biggers, detective novelist and playwright, heart attack
April 13 – Adelbert Ames, Governor of Mississippi from 1868 to 1870 and from 1874 to 1876 and U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1870 to 1874
April 16 – Henry van Dyke Jr., poet, author, educator and clergyman
April 20 – William Henry Holmes, anthropologist, archaeologist, geologist and museum director
April 23 – Tim Keefe, baseball player
May 19 – Thomas J. O'Brien, Michigan politician, diplomat
May 25 – James E. Kelly, sculptor and illustrator
May 26 – Jimmie Rodgers, country singer
June 2 – Frank Jarvis, Olympic sprinter
June 21 -, Georgetown University Law School Alumni, American Attorney in Black River Falls, Wi and Hamilton, Montana
June 29 – Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, film actor, comedian, director and screenwriter
July 2 – Caroline Yale, educator
July 11 – Edward Dillon, silent film actor and director
July 15
* Irving Babbitt, literary critic
* Freddie Keppard, jazz cornetist
August 5 – Charles Harold Davis, landscape painter
August 23 – Marie Cahill, singer and actress
September 25 – Ring Lardner, satirical fiction and sports writer
September 27 – Zaida Ben-Yusuf, portrait photographer
October – Joan Winters, Broadway dancer, murdered in Jerusalem
October 23 – Orville Harrold, operatic tenor
October 29 – George Luks, realist painter
November 4 – John Jay Chapman, essayist, poet, author and lawyer
November 5 – Texas Guinan, actress, producer and entrepreneur
November 12 – F. Holland Day, photographer and publisher
November 21 – Inez Clough, African American singer, dancer and actress
November 28 – Minnie Earl Sears, librarian
December 2 – Clarence Burton, silent film actor
December 16
* Idah McGlone Gibson, journalist
* Robert W. Chambers, fiction writer
December 17 – Charles Spiro, inventor and an attorney
December 21 – Tod Sloan, jockey