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1934 in the United States

Events from the year 1934 in the United States.

Events
January • January 26 – The Apollo Theater opens in Harlem, New York City. • January 27 – Albert Einstein visits the White House. • January 30 – Gold Reserve Act: All gold held in the Federal Reserve to be surrendered to the Department of the Treasury; immediately following, President Roosevelt raises the statutory gold price from $20.67 per ounce to $35. February • February 22 – Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, is released. It becomes a smash hit and the first of Capra's great screen classics. It becomes the first film to win all 5 of the major Academy AwardsBest Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. Gable and Colbert receive their only Oscars for this film. March • March 3 – John Dillinger escapes from jail in Crown Point, Indiana, using a wooden pistol. • March 12 – The 6.5 Hansel Valley earthquake affects a sparsely populated area of northern Utah with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing light damage and two deaths. • March 13 – John Dillinger and his gang rob the First National Bank in Mason City, Iowa. • March 16 – The 6th Academy Awards, hosted by Will Rogers, are presented at Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, with Frank Lloyd's Cavalcade winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. It also receives the most awards with three, including Best Director for Lloyd, and is among three films (the others being Frank Borzage's A Farewell to Arms and Frank Capra's Lady for a Day) to each receive the most nominations with four. It is the final awards season until 2021 to accommodate two calendar years. • March 22 – The first Masters Tournament in golf opens at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia; Horton Smith will be the winner. • March 24 – The Tydings–McDuffie Act comes into effect, establishing the Philippine Commonwealth which allows greater self-government of the Philippines, and scheduling full independence from the U.S. for 1944. Sugar imports are reduced and immigration is limited to 50 Filipino people per year. April • April 1 – Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker kill 2 young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas. • April 12 • U.S. publication of the novel Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald • The world's highest ever recorded surface wind speed of was recorded on the summit of Mount Washington (New Hampshire). • April 22 – John Dillinger and two others shoot their way out of an FBI ambush in northern Wisconsin. May • May 5 – The first Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, is released. • May 9 – 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: A general strike is engaged in San Francisco. • May 11 – Dust Bowl: A strong 2-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl. • May 15 • The United States Department of Justice offers a $25,000 reward for John Dillinger. • Nantucket Lightship LV-117 sinks after colliding with RMS Olympic. • May 16 – Teamsters in Minneapolis begin a strike that lasts until a settlement proposal is accepted on August 21. • May 23 • A team of police officers, led by Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, ambush bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow near their hide-out in Black Lake, Louisiana, killing them both. • The "Battle of Toledo" begins during the Auto-Lite strike in Toledo, Ohio, continuing until May 27. • May 30 – Everglades National Park is established. June • June 4 – USS Ranger is commissioned. • June 6 – New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. • June 15 – Great Smoky Mountains National Park is established. • June 18 – expands the crime of making false statements to remove the requirement of an intent to defraud and expands the coverage to "any matter within the jurisdiction" of the federal government. July • July 1 • The world-famous Brookfield Zoo opens in Brookfield, Illinois. • The Hays Office censorship code for motion pictures goes into full effect. • July 5 – 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: Police in San Francisco open fire on a crowd of striking longshoremen, killing two. • July 15 – The American film industry begins to rigorously enforce the Motion Picture Production Code. • July 17 – The North Dakota Supreme Court declares Lieutenant Governor Ole H. Olson the legitimate governor and tells William Langer to resign. Langer proceeds to declare North Dakota independent. He revokes the declaration after the Supreme Court justices meet him. • July 22 – Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents. August • August 15 – The United States occupation of Haiti ends as the last Marines depart. • August 19 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio. • August 25 – Anti-union vigilantes seize the town of McGuffey, Ohio, during the Hardin County onion pickers strike. September • September 8 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner Morro Castle kills 134 people. • September 29–October – Folk song collector John Lomax makes the first recordings of "Rock Island Line" at prison farms in Arkansas. October • October 9 – The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3, to win their third World Series title. • October 17 – Harry Pierpont is executed in the electric chair in Columbus, Ohio, for killing Sheriff Jess Sarber while breaking John Dillinger out of jail in Lima, Ohio. • October 22 – "Pretty Boy" Floyd is shot and killed by FBI agents near East Liverpool, Ohio. November • November 2 – Bibb Graves is elected a second consecutive term as the 38th governor of Alabama defeating Edmund H. Dryer. • November 5 – Kelayres massacre: An election-eve rally by Democrats in the coal-mining village of Kelayres, Pennsylvania, is fired on as it passes the home of a leading local Republican family, resulting in 5 deaths. • November 20–21 – Business Plot: An alleged coup to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt is investigated by the McCormack–Dickstein Committee and is reported by the Philadelphia Record. • November 21 – Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes, starring Ethel Merman, premieres in New York City. • November 26 – Universal Pictures releases the first film version of Fannie Hurst's novel, Imitation of Life, starring Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers. It gives Beavers, usually featured in small roles as a maid, her best screen role, and features the largest supporting role played by a black person in a Hollywood film up until then. Its storyline is extremely daring for a 1934 film – part of it revolves around a young mulatto girl rejecting her mother and trying to "pass for white". It is the first Hollywood film to seriously deal with this subject. The 1936 film version of Show Boat, also from Universal, will deal with a similar storyline. • November 27 – A running gun battle between FBI agents and bank robber Baby Face Nelson results in the death of one FBI agent and the mortal wounding of special agent Samuel P. Cowley, who was still able to mortally wound Nelson. December • December 28 – An American Airlines aircraft crashes in the Adirondack Mountains. • December 29 – Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930. UndatedNational Archives established. • National Union for Social Justice (organization) founded. OngoingLochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937) • U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934) • Dust Bowl (1930–1936) • New Deal (1933–1939) == Sport ==
Sport
• April 10 - Chicago Black Hawks win their First Stanley Cup by defeating the Detroit Red Wings 3 games to 1. The deciding game was played at Chicago Stadium == Births ==
Births
JanuaryJanuary 1George D. Behrakis, Greek-American philanthropist • Alan Berg, American Jewish talk show host (d. 1984) • January 6William Browder, American mathematician (d. 2025) • January 7Jack D. Forbes, Native American writer, scholar, and political activist (d. 2011) • Charles Jenkins Sr., American sprinter • Joseph Naso, American serial killer • January 9Bart Starr, American football player and coach (d. 2019) • January 10Leonard Boswell, American politician (d. 2018) • January 16Marilyn Horne, American mezzo-soprano • January 17Cedar Walton, American jazz pianist (d. 2013) • January 19Phil Rollins, American basketball player (d. 2021) • January 20Dave Hull, American radio personality (d. 2020) • January 21Ann Wedgeworth, American actress (d. 2017) • January 22Bill Bixby, actor and television director (d. 1993) • January 23Lou Antonio, actor, director • Carmine Caridi, actor (d. 2019) • January 24Stanley Falkow, microbiologist (d. 2018) • Leonard Goldberg, film and television producer (d. 2019) • January 26Huey "Piano" Smith, American rhythm and blues pianist (d. 2023) • Bob Uecker, American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian and actor (d. 2025) • January 30Tammy Grimes, American actress (d. 2016) • January 31Stephen H. Sachs, American lawyer and politician (d. 2022) FebruaryFebruary 1Bob Shane, American folk singer and guitarist (The Kingston Trio) (d. 2020) • February 5Hank Aaron, African-American baseball player (d. 2021) • February 7Frank Clarke, American football player, sportscaster (d. 2018) • Earl King, American musician (d. 2003) • February 9Bill Fulcher, American football player and coach (d. 2022) • John Ziegler Jr., American lawyer, ice hockey executive (d. 2018) • February 11Tina Louise, American actress (''Gilligan's Island'') • Mel Carnahan, American politician (d. 2000) • February 12Anne Osborn Krueger, American economist • Bill Russell, African-American basketball player and coach (d. 2022) • February 13George Segal, American actor (d. 2021) • February 14Florence Henderson, American actress, singer and television personality (d. 2016) • February 15William Newsom, American judge (d. 2018) • February 16Harold "Hal" Kalin, American singer (The Kalin Twins) (d. 2005) • Herbert "Herbie" Kalin, American singer (The Kalin Twins) (d. 2006) • February 18Ronald F. Marryott, American admiral (d. 2005) • February 19Michael Tree, American violist (d. 2018) • February 20Bobby Unser, American race car driver (d. 2021) • February 21Rue McClanahan, American actress (d. 2010) • February 22Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager (d. 2010) • Van Williams, American actor (d. 2016) • February 24George Ryan, politician, Governor of Illinois (d. 2025) • February 26Joe Holup, American basketball player (d. 1998) • February 27N. Scott Momaday, American writer (d. 2024) • Ralph Nader, American consumer activist, presidential candidate • Van Williams, American actor (d. 2016) MarchMarch 1Joan Hackett, American actress (d. 1983) • March 4John Duffey, American bluegrass musician (d. 1996) • Anne Haney, American actress (d. 2001) • Barbara McNair, African-American singer, actress (d. 2007) • March 5Bob Skoronski, American football player (d. 2018) • March 6Milton Diamond, American sexologist and professor of anatomy and reproductive biology (d. 2024) • Red Simpson, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2016) • March 7Gray Morrow, American comic book artist, book illustrator (d. 2001) • Willard Scott, American television weather reporter (The Today Show) (d. 2021) • March 9Del Close, American actor, improviser, writer and teacher (d. 1999) • Joyce Van Patten, American actress • March 11Sam Donaldson, American reporter • March 13Barry Hughart, American author and screenwriter (d. 2019) • March 14Eugene Cernan, American astronaut (d. 2017) • Paul Rader, American General of The Salvation Army (d. 2025) • March 17Fred T. Mackenzie, American sedimentary, global biogeochemist (d. 2024) • March 18Charley Pride, African-American baseball player and country musician (d. 2020) • March 20Willie Brown, African-American Mayor of San Francisco • March 21Al Freeman Jr., African-American actor (d. 2012) • March 22Orrin Hatch, American politician (d. 2022) • March 25Johnny Burnette, American rockabilly singer, songwriter and musician (d. 1964) • Gloria Steinem, American feminist • March 26Alan Arkin, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2023) • Gino Cappelletti, American football player (d. 2022) • March 27Arthur Mitchell, African-American ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 2018) • March 28Lester R. Brown, American environmentalist • March 31Richard Chamberlain, American actor (d. 2025) • Shirley Jones, American singer, actress, and first wife of Jack CassidyJohn D. Loudermilk, American singer-songwriter (d. 2016) • Orion Samuelson, American television personality AprilApril 1James Edward Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015) • Don Hastings, American actor • Rod Kanehl, American baseball player and manager (d. 2004) • April 2Paul Avery, American journalist (d. 2000) • Paul Cohen, American mathematician (d. 2007) • Carl Kasell, American radio personality (d. 2018) • April 7David T. Kennedy, American attorney, politician (d. 2014) • Jerold Ottley, American music director and conductor (d. 2021) • April 13Nancy Kissinger, American philanthropist • April 14Fredric Jameson, American literary critic and political theorist (d. 2024) • April 15Con Pederson, American visual effects artist (d. 2026) • April 18James Drury, American actor (d. 2020) • Pedro Pangelinan Tenorio, Northern Mariana Islander politician (d. 2018) • April 20Robert G. Wilmers, American billionaire banker (d. 2017) • April 24Shirley MacLaine, American actress and activist • April 25Johnny McCarthy, American basketball player (d. 2020) • Denny Miller, American actor (Wagon Train) (d. 2014) • April 29Norman Edge, American jazz musician (d. 2018) • Otis Rush, African-American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter (d. 2018) MayMay 3Frankie Valli, American musician (The Four Seasons) • May 5Ace Cannon, American saxophonist (d. 2018) • Johnnie Taylor, American singer-songwriter (d. 2000) • May 6Richard Shelby, American politician • May 9Nathan Dean, American soldier and politician (d. 2013) • May 10Gary Owens, American disc jockey, voice actor and announcer (''Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In'') (d. 2015) • May 11Jim Jeffords, American politician (d. 2014) • May 12John Amirante, American singer (d. 2018) • May 13Leon Wagner, baseball player (d. 2004) • May 18Dwayne Hickman, actor (d. 2022) • May 19Jim Lehrer, television journalist (d. 2020) • May 21Jack Twyman, American basketball player (d. 2012) • May 22Peter Nero, pianist (d. 2023) • May 23Robert Moog, inventor of the synthesizer (d. 2005) • May 24Charlie Dick, record promoter (d. 2015) • William R. Ratchford, politician (d. 2011) • May 27Harlan Ellison, writer (d. 2018) • Bruce M. Selya, American judge (d. 2025) • Franklin A. Thomas, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2021) • May 28Chuck Missler, author (d. 2018) • Betty X, African-American educator, civil rights advocate (d. 1997) • May 29Grandma Lee, stand-up comedian (d. 2020) JuneJune 1Pat Boone, American actor and pop musician • Peter Masterson, American actor, director, producer and writer (d. 2018) • Ken McElroy, American criminal (d. 1981) • June 3Jim Gentile, American baseball player and manager • Rolland D. McCune, American minister and theologian (d. 2019) • June 5Bill Moyers, American journalist (d. 2025) • June 6Roy Innis, American activist and politician (d. 2017) • June 7Billy Al Bengston, American visual artist and sculptor (d. 2022) • Wynn Stewart, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1985) • June 9Jackie Wilson, African-American singer (d. 1984) • June 13Marianne Means, American political journalist (d. 2017) • June 16Bill Cobbs, African-American actor (d. 2024) • Mel Novak, American actor (d. 2025) • William F. Sharpe, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate • June 19Herbert Kleber, American psychiatrist (d. 2018) • June 22Ray Mantilla, American jazz percussionist (d. 2020) • Russ Snyder, American Major League Baseball player • Nancy R. Stocksdale, American politician • June 23Marino Casem, American football coach, athletic administrator (d. 2020) • Jesse White, athlete, educator and politician • June 25Jack Hayford, evangelist, author, and minister (d. 2023) • June 26Dave Grusin, American composer, arranger, producer, and pianist • Selwyn Raab, American journalist and writer (d. 2025) • John V. Tunney, American politician (d. 2018) • June 27Ed Hobaugh, baseball player • June 28Wally English, American football coach (d. 2024) • Carl Levin, politician (d. 2021) • Michael Artin, mathematician • Bette Greene, author (d. 2020) • June 29Bob Burrow, basketball player (d. 2019) • Susan George, American and French political, social scientist, activist and writer • Chuck Schaden, television presenter • Duane Wilson, baseball player (d. 2021) • June 30Harry Blackstone Jr., magician (d. 1997) • Aron Tager, actor, poet, artist and sculptor (d. 2019) JulyJuly 1Jamie Farr, American actor (M*A*S*H) • Sydney Pollack, American film director, and actor (d. 2008) • July 6LaFarr Stuart, American computer music pioneer, computer engineer • July 8Rodney Stark, American sociologist (d. 2022) • Edward D. DiPrete, American politician (d. 2025) • July 9Michael Graves, American architect (d. 2015) • July 10Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer with The Muppets (Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock) (d. 2012) • Barry Sussman, American editor and author (d. 2022) • July 11Jim Ridlon, American football safety • Woody Sauldsberry, American basketball player (d. 2007) • Dick Treleaven, American politician • July 12Van Cliburn, American pianist (d. 2013) • July 13Phillip Crosby, American actor, singer (d. 2004) • July 14Lee Elder, American professional golfer (d. 2021) • July 16Bill Gunter, American politician (d. 2024) • Katherine D. Ortega, 38th Treasurer of the United States • George Perles, American football player and coach (d. 2020) • July 18Joan Evans, actress (d. 2023) • July 19Bobby Bradford, jazz trumpeter, cornetist, bandleader, and composer • July 21Edolphus Towns, politician • July 22Louise Fletcher, actress (''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'') (d. 2022) • July 26Kathryn Hays, American actress (d. 2022) • July 27Ajahn Sumedho, Theravada Buddhist representative in the West • July 28Jacques d'Amboise, ballet dancer (d. 2021) • Bud Luckey, voice actor, Pixar animator (d. 2018) • July 30Bud Selig, Major League Baseball commissioner AugustAugust 2Carl Cain, Olympic basketball player (d. 2024) • August 3Haystacks Calhoun, professional wrestler (d. 1989) • Patrick Gorman, actor • August 4Dallas Green, baseball player, manager, executive (d. 2017) • August 5Wendell Berry, novelist, essayist, and poet • Vern Gosdin, country music singer (d. 2009) • Cammie King, child actor (d. 2010) • August 10James Tenney, experimental composer (d. 2006) • August 16Donnie Dunagan, child actor and U.S. Marine Corps major • Ketty Lester, singer and actress • August 18Vincent Bugliosi, prosecutor, author (d. 2015) • Rafer Johnson, decathlete and actor (d. 2020) • August 19David Durenberger, politician (d. 2023) • Renée Richards, transsexual physician, tennis player • August 22Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., U.S. Army general (d. 2012) • August 23Sonny Jurgensen, American football player (d. 2026) • August 26Tom Heinsohn, basketball player, coach, and broadcaster (d. 2020) • August 27Dave Piontek, basketball player (d. 2004) • August 29David Pryor, politician (d. 2024) • August 31Eusebius J. Beltran, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 2025) SeptemberSeptember 2Chuck McCann, American actor (d. 2018) • Grady Nutt, humorist (d. 1982) • September 4Ronald Ludington, figure skating coach and pair skater (d. 2020) • September 7Little Milton, American musician (d. 2005) • September 10Charles Kuralt, American journalist (CBS Sunday Morning) (d. 1997) • September 10Mr. Wrestling II, American professional wrestler (d. 2020) • September 12Albie Pearson, American baseball player d. 2023) • September 14Kate Millett, American sculptor and feminist activist (d. 2017) • September 15 - Tomie dePaola, children's author and illustrator (d. 2020) • September 16Elgin Baylor, American basketball player, executive (d. 2021) • September 17Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969) • September 19Lloyd Haynes, American actor and television writer (d. 1987) • September 20Tony Alamo, American religious cult leader, convicted criminal • Don Luce, American aid worker and anti-war activist (d. 2022) • Jeff Morris, American actor (d. 2004) • September 21Ron Sobieszczyk, American basketball player (d. 2009) • September 22Lute Olson, American basketball coach (d. 2020) • September 26Suzi Gablik, American artist and art critic (d. 2022) • September 27Beverly Armstrong, American female professional baseball player • Wilford Brimley, American actor and singer (d. 2020) OctoberOctober 1Chuck Hiller, American baseball player (d. 2004) • October 2Earl Wilson, African-American baseball player (d. 2005) • October 4Sam Huff, American football player (d. 2021) • Gwen Margolis, American politician (d. 2020) • October 6Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist, writer (d. 2015) • October 7Amiri Baraka, African-American poet, playwright and activist (d. 2014) • Willie Naulls, American basketball player (d. 2018) • October 8Billy Brewer, American football player, head coach (d. 2018) • October 15John Coleman, American meteorologist (d. 2018) • October 16Robert M. O'Neil, American educator (d. 2018) • October 18Chuck Swindoll, American evangelist • October 19Benita Valente, American soprano (d. 2025) • October 20Michael Dunn, a.k.a. Gary Neil Miller, dwarf American actor and singer (d. 1973) • Eddie Harris, African-American jazz musician (d. 1996) • Charles Liebman, American-born Israeli political scientist and author on Jewish life and Israel (d. 2003 in Israel) • October 26Hot Rod Hundley, American basketball player (d. 2015) NovemberNovember 1Howie Goss, American baseball player (d. 1996) • November 2Joseph E. Brennan, American politician, governor of Maine (d. 2024) • November 3Bob Hopkins, American basketball player (d. 2015) • November 4William Q. MacLean Jr., American politician (d. 2026) • November 5Victor Argo, American actor (d. 2004) • November 6Barton Myers, American architect • November 9Carl Sagan, American cosmologist (d. 1996) • November 10Joanna Moore, American actress (d. 1997) • November 12Charles Manson, American cult leader and criminal (d. 2017) • November 13Garry Marshall, American film producer, director and actor (d. 2016) • November 14Ralph J. Lamberti, American politician (d. 2025) • November 17Jim Inhofe, American politician (d. 2024) • November 18Paul Wiggin, American football player and coach (d. 2025) • November 21Laurence Luckinbill, American actor • November 23Robert Towne, American screenwriter and director (d. 2024) • Michael Wayne, American film producer and actor (d. 2003) • November 27Claude Jarman Jr., American actor (d. 2025) • Curtis S. Person Jr., American politician (d. 2020) • Gilbert Strang, American mathematician • November 28Margaret Farrow, American politician (d. 2022) • November 29Willie Morris, American writer (d. 1999) • November 30Steve Hamilton, American basketball and baseball player (d. 1997) DecemberDecember 1Billy Paul, African-American singer (d. 2016) • December 2Andre Rodgers, American baseball player (d. 2004) • December 3Eddie Bernice Johnson, African-American politician (d. 2023) • December 4Victor French, American actor, director (d. 1989) • December 5Joan Didion, American novelist (d. 2021) • December 6Nick Bockwinkel, American professional wrestler (d. 2015) • December 7Joey Powers, American singer-songwriter (d. 2017) • December 9Henry McNamara, politician (d. 2018) • Junior Wells, harmonica player (d. 1998) • December 10Howard Martin Temin, geneticist (d. 1994) • December 13Richard D. Zanuck, producer (d. 2012) • December 16Pete Schrum, American actor (d. 2003) • Pete Wade, American guitarist (d. 2024) • December 19Al Kaline, baseball player (d. 2020) • December 22David E. Harris, airline pilot (d. 2024) • David Pearson, American race car driver (d. 2018) • December 23Dan Swartz, basketball player (d. 1997) • December 25Bob Martinez, politician, 40th Governor of FloridaDecember 26Mari Hulman George, motorsport executive (d. 2018) • December 29Ed Flanders, actor (d. 1995) • December 30John Norris Bahcall, astrophysicist (d. 2005) • Joseph P. Hoar, U.S. Marine commander (d. 2022) • Willie Hobbs Moore, African-American engineer (d. 1994) • Del Shannon, American singer (d. 1990) • Russ Tamblyn, American dancer, singer and actor == Deaths ==
Deaths
February 25Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, botanist (born 1858) • John McGraw, baseball manager (born 1873) • March 21Lilyan Tashman, vaudeville, Broadway and film actress (born 1896) • April 27Joe Vila, sportswriter (born 1866) • May 17Cass Gilbert, architect (born 1859) • May 23Clyde Barrow, outlaw (shot) (born 1909) • Bonnie Parker, outlaw (shot) (born 1910) • May 24Brand Whitlock, journalist and politician (born 1869) • May 31Lew Cody, film actor (born 1884) • June 8Dorothy Dell, film actress (automobile accident) (born 1915) • June 15George W. Fuller, sanitation engineer (born 1868) • June 20Andrew Jackson Zilker, philanthropist (born 1858) • June 21Thorne Smith, humorist and fantasy author (heart attack) (born 1892) • June 24Charles S. Thomas, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1913 to 1921 (born 1849) • July 15Louis F. Gottschalk, composer (born 1869) • July 18Sy Sanborn, sportswriter (born 1866) • July 21Julian Hawthorne, journalist and novelist (born 1846) • July 22John Dillinger, criminal (shot) (born 1903) • July 26Winsor McCay, comic creator and animator (born 1871) • August 8Wilbert Robinson, baseball manager (born 1863) • August 10George W. Hill, film director (born 1895) • August 13Mary Hunter Austin, travel writer (born 1868) • August 14Raymond Hood, architect (born 1881) • August 30Rebecca Richardson Joslin, writer, lecturer, benefactor, clubwoman (born 1846) • September 2Russ Columbo, singer and actor (shot) (born 1908) • Alcide Nunez, jazz clarinetist (born 1884) • October 6James Taliaferro, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1899 to 1911 (born 1847) • October 20Josephine White Bates, Canadian-born American author (born 1862) • October 22Pretty Boy Floyd, bank robber (shot) (born 1904) • November 10Ion Farris, politician, Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives (born 1878) • November 22Harry Steppe, vaudeville performer (born 1888) • November 27Baby Face Nelson, gangster (shot) (born 1908) • December 10Theobald Smith, bacteriologist (born 1859) • December 26Wallace Thurman, African American novelist (TB) (born 1902) • December 28Lowell Sherman, film actor and director (born 1885) • December 29Elnora Monroe Babcock, suffragist (born 1852) • December 31Cornelia Clapp, marine biologist (born 1859) ==See also==
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