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List of events
Events from the year 1933 in the United States .
Incumbents
Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt at FDR's Inauguration, March 4, 1933
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Benjamin M. Miller (
Democratic )
Governor of Arizona :
George W. P. Hunt (
Democratic ) (until January 2),
Benjamin Baker Moeur (
Democratic ) (starting January 2)
Governor of Arkansas :
Harvey Parnell (
Democratic ) (until January 10),
Junius Marion Futrell (
Democratic ) (starting January 10)
Governor of California :
James Rolph Jr. (
Republican )
Governor of Colorado :
Billy Adams (
Democratic ) (until January 10),
Edwin C. Johnson (
Democratic ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Connecticut :
Wilbur Lucius Cross (
Democratic )
Governor of Delaware :
C. Douglass Buck (
Republican )
Governor of Florida :
Doyle E. Carlton (
Democratic ) (until January 3),
David Sholtz (
Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Georgia :
Richard Russell, Jr. (
Democratic ) (until January 10),
Eugene Talmadge (
Democratic ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Idaho :
C. Ben Ross (
Democratic )
Governor of Illinois :
Louis L. Emmerson (
Republican ) (until January 9),
Henry Horner (
Democratic ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Indiana :
Harry G. Leslie (
Republican ) (until January 9),
Paul V. McNutt (
Democratic ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Iowa :
Daniel Webster Turner (
Republican ) (until January 12),
Clyde L. Herring (
Democratic ) (starting January 12)
Governor of Kansas :
Harry H. Woodring (
Democratic ) (until January 9),
Alfred M. Landon (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Kentucky :
Ruby Laffoon (
Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana :
Oscar K. Allen (
Democratic )
Governor of Maine :
William Tudor Gardiner (
Republican ) (until January 4),
Louis J. Brann (
Democratic ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Maryland :
Albert C. Ritchie (
Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts :
Joseph B. Ely (
Democratic )
Governor of Michigan :
Wilber Marion Brucker (
Republican ) (until January 1),
William Comstock (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of Minnesota :
Floyd B. Olson (
Farmer-Labor )
Governor of Mississippi :
Martin Sennett Conner (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
Henry S. Caulfield (
Republican ) (until January 9),
Guy Brasfield Park (
Democratic ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Montana :
John E. Erickson (
Democratic ) (until March 13),
Frank Henry Cooney (
Democratic ) (starting March 13)
Governor of Nebraska :
Charles W. Bryan (
Democratic )
Governor of Nevada :
Fred B. Balzar (
Republican )
Governor of New Hampshire :
John Gilbert Winant (
Republican )
Governor of New Jersey :
A. Harry Moore (
Democratic )
Governor of New Mexico :
Arthur Seligman (
Democratic ) (until September 25),
Andrew W. Hockenhull (
Democratic ) (starting September 25)
Governor of New York :
Herbert H. Lehman (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of North Carolina :
Oliver Max Gardner (
Democratic ) (until January 5),
John C. B. Ehringhaus (
Democratic ) (starting January 5)
Governor of North Dakota :
William Langer (
Republican )
Governor of Ohio :
George White (
Democratic )
Governor of Oklahoma :
William H. Murray (
Democratic )
Governor of Oregon :
Julius L. Meier (
Independent )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
Gifford Pinchot (
Republican )
Governor of Rhode Island :
Norman S. Case (
Republican ) (until January 3),
Theodore Francis Green (
Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Governor of South Carolina :
Ibra Charles Blackwood (
Democratic )
Governor of South Dakota :
Warren Green (
Republican ) (until January 3),
Tom Berry (
Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Tennessee :
Henry Hollis Horton (
Democratic ) (until January 17),
Harry Hill McAlister (
Democratic ) (starting January 17)
Governor of Texas :
Ross S. Sterling (
Democratic ) (until January 17),
Miriam A. Ferguson (
Democratic ) (starting January 17)
Governor of Utah :
George Dern (
Democratic ) (until January 2),
Henry H. Blood (
Democratic ) (starting January 2)
Governor of Vermont :
Stanley C. Wilson (
Republican )
Governor of Virginia :
John Garland Pollard (
Democratic )
Governor of Washington :
Roland H. Hartley (
Republican ) (until January 9),
Clarence D. Martin (
Democratic ) (starting January 9)
Governor of West Virginia :
William G. Conley (
Republican ) (until March 4),
Herman G. Kump (
Democratic ) (starting March 4)
Governor of Wisconsin :
Philip La Follette (
Republican ) (until January 2),
Albert G. Schmedeman (
Democratic ) (starting January 2)
Governor of Wyoming :
Alonzo M. Clark (
Republican ) (until January 2),
Leslie A. Miller (
Democratic ) (starting January 2)
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama :
Hugh D. Merrill (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas :
Lawrence Elery Wilson (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown),
William Lee Cazort (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of California :
Frank Merriam (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : vacant (until January 10),
Raymond Herbert Talbot (
Democratic ) (starting January 10)
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
Samuel R. Spencer (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Roy C. Wilcox (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware :
James H. Hazel (
Republican ) (until January 17),
Roy F. Corley (
Republican ) (starting January 17)
Lieutenant Governor of Idaho :
G. P. Mix (
Democratic ) (until January 2),
George E. Hill (
Democratic ) (starting January 2)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois :
Fred E. Sterling (
Republican ) (until January 9),
Thomas Donovan (
Democratic ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana :
Edgar D. Bush (
Republican ) (until January 9),
M. Clifford Townsend (
Democratic ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa :
Arch W. McFarlane (
Republican ) (until January 12),
Nelson G. Kraschel (
Democratic ) (starting January 12)
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas :
Jacob W. Graybill (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Charles W. Thompson (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky :
Happy Chandler (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana :
John B. Fournet (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts :
William S. Youngman (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Gaspar G. Bacon (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
Luren D. Dickinson (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Allen E. Stebbins (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota :
Henry M. Arens (
Farmer Labor ) (until January 3),
Konrad K. Solberg (
Farmer Labor ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi :
Dennis Murphree (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri :
Edward Henry Winter (
Republican ) (until January 9),
Frank Gaines Harris (
Democratic ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Montana :
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska :
Theodore Metcalfe (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Walter H. Jurgensen (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada :
Morley Griswold (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico :
Andrew W. Hockenhull (
Democratic ) (until September 25), vacant (starting September 25)
Lieutenant Governor of New York :
M. William Bray (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina :
Richard T. Fountain (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota :
John W. Carr (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Ole H. Olson (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio :
William G. Pickrel (
Democratic ) (until January 9),
Charles W. Sawyer (
Democratic ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma :
Robert Burns (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania :
Edward C. Shannon (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island :
James G. Connelly (
Republican ) (until January 3),
Robert E. Quinn (
Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina :
Joseph Emile Harley (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota :
Odell K. Whitney (
Republican ) (until January 3),
Hans Ustrud (
Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee :
Ambrose B. Broadbent (
Democratic ) (until January 17), Albert F. Officer (
Democratic ) (starting January 17)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas :
Edgar E. Witt (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
Benjamin Williams (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Charles M. Smith (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia :
James H. Price (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Washington :
John Arthur Gellatly (
Republican ) (until January 9),
Victor A. Meyers (
Democratic ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin :
Henry A. Huber (
Republican ) (until January 2),
Thomas J. O'Malley (
Democratic ) (starting January 2)
Events
January–March
March 4:
Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the 32nd U.S. president
John Nance Garner becomes the 32nd U.S. vice president
January 5
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.
January 30 –
The Lone Ranger debuts on American radio.
February 6 – The
Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.
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 .
February 17
February 25 –
USS Ranger (CV-4) , 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 , 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
March 5 –
Great Depression : President
Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions (the 'holiday' ends on March 13).
March 6 – Mayor
Anton Cermak of Chicago dies of the wound he received on February 15.
March 9 – Great Depression: The
U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting
New Deal legislation.
March 10 – The 6.4 Mw
Long Beach earthquake affects the
Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe ), 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 ".
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.
April–June
May 27:
Century of Progress
World's Fair opens
July–September
October–December
December 5, 1933:
Sloppy Joe's Bar opens in
Key West, Florida (1986 photo)
October 7 – The
New York Giants (baseball) defeat the
Washington Senators , 4 games to 1, to win their 4th World Series title.
October 10 – A
United Airlines
Boeing 247
is destroyed near
Chesterton, Indiana , by a bomb. This is the first proven case of air sabotage in commercial airline history.
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 17 –
Albert Einstein arrives in the United States as a refugee from
Nazi Germany .
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 (one of a series of disastrous dust storms this year).
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 .
November 17 – The
Marx Brothers '
anarchic comedy film
Duck Soup is released in the U.S.
December 5 – The
21st Amendment to the United States Constitution , repealing
Prohibition , goes into effect.
December 6 – U.S. federal judge
John M. Woolsey rules that
James Joyce 's novel
Ulysses is not obscene.
Undated
1933: 12 new Chevrolet pickup trucks for the
Civilian Conservation Corps ,
Yellowstone National Park .
Ongoing
Births
January
Shari Lewis
Chita Rivera
January 1 –
Ford Konno , American swimmer
January 2
January 5 –
Leonard Marsh , American businessman, co-founder of
Snapple (d.
2013 )
January 6 –
Lenny Green , American baseball player (d.
2019 )
January 7
January 8
January 9 –
Robert García , American politician (d.
2017 )
January 13 –
Tom Gola , American basketball player (d.
2014 )
January 14 –
Stan Brakhage , American filmmaker (d.
2003 )
January 15 –
Ernest J. Gaines , American author (d.
2019 )
January 16 –
Susan Sontag , American author (d.
2004 )
January 17 –
Shari Lewis , American ventriloquist (d.
1998 )
January 20 –
Ronald Townson , American singer (d.
2001 )
January 22 –
Lennie Rosenbluth , American basketball player (d.
2022 )
January 23 –
Chita Rivera , American actress and dancer (d.
2024 )
January 24 –
Bob Beattie , American skiing coach (d.
2018 )
January 27 –
Tony Windis , American basketball player
January 29 –
Paul Sally , American mathematician and academic (d.
2013 )
January 30 –
Swede Halbrook , American basketball player (d.
1988 )
February
kim Novak
Nina Simone
February 1 –
Wendell R. Anderson , American politician (d.
2016 )
February 2 –
M'el Dowd , American actress and singer (d.
2012 )
February 3 –
Paul Sarbanes , American politician (d.
2020 )
February 4 –
Shirley Burkovich , American baseball player (d.
2022 )
February 6 –
Walter E. Fauntroy , African-American civil rights activist
February 10 –
Billy O'Dell , American baseball player (d.
2018 )
February 13
February 16 –
Ron Faber , American actor (d.
2023 )
February 17
February 21
February 23 –
Donna J. Stone , poet and philanthropist (d.
1994 )
February 26 –
Godfrey Cambridge , actor and comedian (d.
1976 )
February 27 –
Raymond Berry , American football player
February 28 –
Charles Vinci , weightlifter (d.
2018 )
March
Quincy Jones
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
March 3 –
Lee Radziwill , American socialite (d.
2019 )
March 5 –
Marlene Riding In Mameah , American silversmith (d.
2018 )
March 6 –
Ted Abernathy , American baseball player (d.
2004 )
March 9 –
Lloyd Price , African-American R&B singer (d.
2021 )
[7]
March 12
March 13
March 14
March 15 –
Ruth Bader Ginsburg , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 (d.
2020 )
[8]
March 16 –
Sanford I. Weill , American financier and philanthropist
March 18
March 19 –
Philip Roth , American novelist (d.
2018 )
March 23
March 24 –
William Smith , actor (d.
2021 )
March 25
March 28 –
Frank Murkowski , politician
March 29 –
Bob Schafer , basketball player (d.
2005 )
March 30 –
Joe Ruby , animator (d.
2020 )
[10]
March 31 –
Anita Carter , singer (d.
1999 )
April
Frank Gorshin
Elizabeth Montgomery
Jayne Mansfield
Willie Nelson
April 1
April 3
April 5
April 7 –
Wayne Rogers , American actor (
M*A*S*H ) (d.
2015 )
April 11 –
Med Park , American basketball player (d.
1998 )
April 12 –
Ben Nighthorse Campbell , American politician
April 14 –
Morton Subotnick , American electronic composer
April 15
April 17 –
Ron W. Miller , American president and CEO (
The Walt Disney Company ) (d.
2019 )
April 19 –
Jayne Mansfield , American actress (d.
1967 )
April 21 –
Chuck Mencel , American basketball player
April 24
April 25
April 26 –
Carol Burnett , American actress, singer and comedian
April 27 –
Calvin Newborn , American jazz guitarist (d.
2018 )
April 30
Ed Charles , American basketball player (d.
2018 )
Rod McKuen , American singer, songwriter and poet (d.
2015 )
Willie Nelson , American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, producer, author, poet and activist
May
James Brown
June
Charlie Wilson
Joan Rivers
Gene Wilder
James Meredith
June 1
June 2 –
Jerry Lumpe , American baseball player and coach (d.
2014 )
June 6 –
Eli Broad , American entrepreneur and philanthropist (d.
2021 )
June 7
June 8
June 9 –
Don Young , American politician (d.
2022 )
June 10 –
F. Lee Bailey , American criminal defense attorney (d.
2021 )
June 11 –
Gene Wilder , American actor (d.
2016 )
June 12 –
Eddie Adams , American photographer and photojournalist (d.
2004 )
June 17
June 20
June 21 –
Bernie Kopell , American actor, comedian
June 22 –
Dianne Feinstein , American politician (d.
2023 )
June 23 –
Dave Bristol , American baseball manager
June 24 –
Sam Jones , American basketball player (d.
2021 )
June 25 –
James Meredith , African-American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran
June 26
June 27
June 28 –
Morris Hirsch , mathematician
June 29
July
David McCullough
Bertice Reading
Robert Fuller
July 1 –
Frank Baumann , American Major League Baseball pitcher (d.
2020 )
July 4 –
Miriam Stevenson , American television host, actress, previously model and beauty pageant winner
July 5
July 6
July 7
July 8
July 9 –
Ray Rippelmeyer , American baseball player and coach (d.
2022 )
[11]
July 10 –
Richard G. Hatcher , first African-American politician (d.
2019 )
July 11 –
Bob McGrath , American actor (
Sesame Street )
July 14 –
Michael Cardenas , American businessman
July 16 –
Julian A. Brodsky , American businessman
July 18 –
Syd Mead , American industrial, conceptual designer (d.
2019 )
July 20
July 21 –
John Gardner , American novelist (d.
1982 )
July 22 –
Bertice Reading , African-American actress, singer (d.
1991 )
July 23 –
Bert Convy , American game show host, actor and singer (d.
1991 )
July 24
July 25
July 26 –
Kathryn Hays , American television, soap opera actress
[12] ***
July 27 –
Nick Reynolds , American folk singer (d.
2008 )
July 29
July 30 –
Edd Byrnes , American actor, singer (
77 Sunset Strip ) (d.
2020 )
August
Dom DeLuise
Julie Newmar
Stuart Roosa
August 1
August 3 –
Vera Katz , American politician (d.
2017 )
August 7
August 8 –
Carmine Persico , American mobster and convicted racketeer (d.
2019 )
August 10
August 11 –
Jerry Falwell Sr. , American pastor, televangelist and activist (
Moral Majority ) (d.
2007 )
August 16
August 17 –
Gene Kranz , American
NASA
Flight Director
August 18 –
Frank Salemme , American gangster and hitman (d.
2022 )
[14]
August 19 –
August 20
August 21 –
Jules Wright , American businessman and politician from
Alaska (d.
2022 )
[16]
August 22 –
Robert Hale , American opera singer (d.
2023 )
[17]
August 23
August 24 –
Ham Richardson , tennis player (d.
2006 )
August 25
August 26 –
Robert Chartoff , film producer (d.
2015 )
August 28 –
Jean Weaver , baseball player (d.
2008 )
August 29 –
Dickie Hemric , basketball player (d.
2017 )
August 30 –
Walter LaFeber , historian (d.
2021 )
September
Conway Twitty
Robert Blake
September 1
September 2 –
Ed Conlin , basketball player (d.
2012 )
September 3 –
Tompall Glaser , singer (d.
2013 )
September 9
September 11 –
William Luther Pierce , author, activist (d.
2002 )
September 12
September 13 –
Eileen Fulton , stage, soap opera actress
September 15 –
Henry Darrow , Puerto-Rican American actor (d.
2021 )
September 17
September 18
September 21 –
Dick Simon , racing driver
September 24 –
Mel Taylor , drummer (
The Ventures ) (d.
1996 )
September 25 –
Hubie Brown , basketball coach and broadcaster
September 26 –
Charlotte Mailliard Shultz , philanthropist and socialite(d.
2021 )
[21]
September 27
September 30 –
Cissy Houston , African-American singer
October
William Anders
October 5 –
Billy Lee Riley , American
rockabilly musician (d.
2009 )
October 9
October 10
October 11 –
Thomas Atcitty , American politician (d.
2020 )
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 (d.
2020 )
October 30 –
Warith Deen Mohammed , American Muslim leader, theologian, philosopher and revivalist (d.
2008 )
November
Ken Berry
Larry King
Jean Shepard
November 3
November 7 –
Jackie Joseph , American actress
November 9
November 10
November 11 –
Kay Arthur , American Bible teacher, speaker and author
November 14 –
Fred Haise , American astronaut
November 15 –
Jack Burns , American comic performer (d.
2020 )
November 19 –
Larry King , American television and radio host (d.
2021 )
November 21 –
Jean Shepard , American country singer, songwriter (d.
2016 )
November 24 –
Marie Wilcox , native America, last speaker of
Wukchumni (d.
2021 )
[22]
November 25 –
Kathryn Crosby , American actress
November 26
November 28
November 29 –
James Rosenquist , American painter (d.
2017 )
November 30 –
Sam Gilliam , American artist (d.
2022 ).
[23]
December
Tim Conway
Caroll Spinney
December 1 –
Lou Rawls , African-American singer (d.
2006 )
December 2
December 4
December 6 –
Boris Nachamkin , American basketball player (d.
2018 )
December 8 –
Johnny Green , American basketball player (d.
2023 )
December 9 –
Orville Moody , American golfer (d.
2008 )
December 11 –
Charlie Bryan , American labor leader (d.
2013 )
December 13 –
Lou Adler , American film and record producer
December 15 –
Tim Conway , American actor and comedian (d.
2019 )
December 16 –
Billy Kinard , American football player and coach (d.
2018 )
December 17
December 18 –
Lonnie Brooks , American blues singer and guitarist (d.
2017 )
December 20
December 26 –
Caroll Spinney , American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (d.
2019 )
December 28 –
John Y. Brown Jr. , American politician and businessman (d.
2022 )
Deaths
Calvin Coolidge
January 3 –
Jack Pickford , film actor (
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come ), dies in France (born
1896 in Canada )
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 (born
1872 )
January 9 –
Kate Gleason , engineer (born
1865 )
January 17 –
Louis Comfort Tiffany , stained glass artist, jewelry designer, son of Charles Lewis Tiffany (born
1848 )
January 23 –
Fred. L. Bonfoey , architect (born
1870 )
January 25 –
Lewis J. Selznick , film producer (born
1870 )
January 29 –
Sara Teasdale , lyrical poet, suicide (born
1884 )
February 5 –
James Banning , aviation pioneer (born
1900 )
February 18 –
James J. Corbett , heavyweight boxer (born
1866 )
[24]
February 26 –
Spottiswoode Aitken , silent film actor and Hollywood property developer (born
1868 in Scotland )
February 27 –
Walter Hiers , silent actor (born
1893 )
February 28 –
Lilla Cabot Perry , Impressionist painter (born
1848 )
March 6 –
Anton Cermak ,
Mayor of Chicago , fatally wounded in assassination attempt (born
1873 )
March 14 –
Balto , sled dog (born
1919 )
March 30 –
Giuseppe Zangara , attempted assassin of president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, killer of Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago, executed (born
1900 )
April 4 –
William A. Moffett , admiral, in crash of airship
USS Akron (ZRS-4) ) (born
1869 )
April 5 –
Earl Derr Biggers , detective novelist and playwright, heart attack (born
1884 )
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 (born
1835 )
April 16 –
Henry van Dyke Jr. , poet, author, educator and clergyman (born
1852 )
April 20 –
William Henry Holmes , anthropologist, archaeologist, geologist and museum director (born
1846 )
April 23 –
Tim Keefe , baseball player (born
1857 )
May 19 –
Thomas J. O'Brien , Michigan politician, diplomat (born
1842 )
May 25 –
James E. Kelly , sculptor and illustrator (born
1855 )
May 26 –
Jimmie Rodgers , country singer (born
1897 )
June 2 –
Frank Jarvis , Olympic sprinter (born
1878 )
June 21 -
Halbert Benton Cole , Georgetown University Law School Alumni, American Attorney in Black River Falls, Wi and Hamilton, Montana (b.
1879 )
[1]
June 29 –
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle , film actor, comedian, director and screenwriter (born
1887 )
July 2 –
Caroline Yale , educator (born
1848 )
July 11 –
Edward Dillon , silent film actor and director (born
1879 )
July 15
August 5 –
Charles Harold Davis , landscape painter (born
1856 )
August 23 –
Marie Cahill , singer and actress (born
1870 )
September 25 –
Ring Lardner , satirical fiction and sports writer (born
1885 )
September 27 –
Zaida Ben-Yusuf , portrait photographer (born
1869 )
October –
Joan Winters , Broadway dancer, murdered in Jerusalem (born
1909 )
October 23 –
Orville Harrold , operatic tenor (born
1878 )
October 29 –
George Luks , realist painter (born
1867 )
November 4 –
John Jay Chapman , essayist, poet, author and lawyer (born
1862 )
November 5 –
Texas Guinan , actress, producer and entrepreneur (born
1884 )
November 12 –
F. Holland Day , photographer and publisher (born
1864 )
November 21 –
Inez Clough , African American singer, dancer and actress (born
1873 )
November 28 –
Minnie Earl Sears , librarian (born
1873 )
December 2 –
Clarence Burton , silent film actor (born
1882 )
December 16
December 17 –
Charles Spiro , inventor and an attorney (born
1850 )
[25]
December 21 –
Tod Sloan , jockey (born
1874 )
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"Frank Salemme, Onetime Head of the New England Mafia, Dies at 89" . The New York Times . Retrieved December 22, 2022 .
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"Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress - Retro Member details" .
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Jules Wright, a 20th-century indigenous leader, has died. alaska news
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"Wayne Shorter, Innovator During an Era of Change in Jazz, Dies at 89" . The New York Times . Retrieved March 2, 2023 .
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Former Michigan State football coach Denny Stolz dies at 89
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Charlotte Shultz, who received a queen, a pope and countless world leaders to S.F. as its ‘chief of protocol,’ dies at 88
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Marie Wilcox, who saved her native language from extinction, dies at 87
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Sam Gilliam, Groundbreaking Artist Who Brought Abstraction Into the Third Dimension, Dies at 88
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"James J. Corbett | American boxer" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 8 August 2021 .
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New York Times:CHARLES SP1RO, 83, AN INVENTOR, DIES; Holder of 200 Patents Credited With Perfection of 'Original Visible Writing Machine.December 18, 1933
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