1918 in the United States
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Events from the year 1918 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Woodrow Wilson (D-New Jersey)
- Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall (D-Indiana)
- Chief Justice: Edward Douglass White (Louisiana)
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Champ Clark (D-Missouri)
- Congress: 65th
State governments
Events
JanuaryâMarch
- January â The World Tomorrow pacifist magazine begins publication.
- January 8 â President Woodrow Wilson delivers his Fourteen Points speech.
- February 21 â The last Carolina parakeet (the last breed of parrot native to the eastern U.S.), a male named "Incas", dies at the Cincinnati Zoo.
- March â The Liberator socialist magazine begins publication.
- March 4 â A soldier at Camp Funston, Kansas falls sick with the first confirmed case of the Spanish flu.
- March 19 â The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time (DST goes into effect on March 31).
AprilâJune
- April 21 â The 6.7 Mw⯠San Jacinto earthquake shakes southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Severe), causing $200,000 in damage, one death, and several injuries.
- May 2 â General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
- May 15 â The United States Post Office Department (later renamed the United States Postal Service) begins the first regular airmail service in the world (between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC).
- May 16 â The Sedition Act of 1918 is approved by the U.S. Congress.
- May 22 â The small town of Codell, Kansas is hit for the fifth year in a row by a tornado. Coincidentally, all three tornadoes hit on the same date.
- May 23 â First victims of the "axeman of New Orleans" in a 17-month series of brutal murders mainly directed at Italian American shopkeepers and their families; the serial killer is never identified.
- June 8 â The total solar eclipse of June 8, 1918 crosses the United States from Washington State to Florida.
- June 22
- Suspects in the Chicago Restaurant Poisonings are arrested, and more than 100 waiters are taken into custody, for poisoning restaurant customers with a lethal powder called Mickey Finn.
- Hammond Circus Train Wreck: A locomotive engineer fell asleep and ran his troop train into the rear of a circus train near Hammond, Indiana. The circus train held 400 performers and roustabouts of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus.
JulyâSeptember
- July 9 â Great Train Wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101 and injuring 171. It is considered the worst rail accident in U.S. history.
- August â A deadly second wave of the Spanish flu starts in France, Sierra Leone and the United States.[1]
- August 13 â Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.
- August 27 â Border War; Battle of Ambos Nogales â U.S. Army forces skirmish with Mexican Carrancistas at Nogales, Arizona, in the only battle of World War I fought on U.S. soil.
- September 11 â The Boston Red Sox defeat the Chicago Cubs for the 1918 World Series championship, their last World Series win until 2004.
- September 12â15 â World War I: Battle of Saint-Mihiel fought in France: The first and only offensive launched solely by the American Expeditionary Forces under John J. Pershing overcomes German forces in the Saint-Mihiel salient.
OctoberâDecember
- October 4 â The T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion in New Jersey kills 100+, and destroys enough ammunition to supply the Western Front for 6 months.
- October 8 â World War I: In the Forest of Argonne in France, U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
- October 11 â The 7.1 Mw⯠San FermÃn earthquake shakes Puerto Rico with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 76â116 people. A destructive tsunami contributed to the damage and loss of life.
- October 12 â 1918 Cloquet Fire: The city of Cloquet, Minnesota and nearby areas are destroyed in a fire, killing 453.
- October 25 â The SS Princess Sophia sinks on Vanderbilt Reef near Juneau, Alaska; 353 people die in the greatest maritime disaster in the Pacific Northwest.
- November 1 â Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 dead.
- November 2 â Thomas Kilby is elected the 36th governor of Alabama defeating Dallas B. Smith.
- November 11 â World War I ends.
- December 4 â President of the U.S. Woodrow Wilson sails for the Paris Peace Conference, becoming the first U.S. president to travel to Europe while in office.
- December 19 â Ripley's Believe It or Not! first appears as a cartoon under the title Champs and Chumps in The New York Globe.
Undated
- The Native American Church is formally founded.
- The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment is founded to oppose Prohibition in the U.S.
- George Drumm's concert march "Hail, America" is first performed in New York City.
Ongoing
- Progressive Era (1890sâ1920s)
- Lochner era (c. 1897âc. 1937)
- U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915â1934)[2]
- World War I, U.S. involvement (1917â1918)
- First Red Scare (1917â1920)
Births
January
- January 1 â Ed Price, American soldier, pilot, and politician (d. 2012)
- January 9 â Alma Ziegler, professional baseball player (d. 2005)
- January 15 â Ira B. Harkey Jr., newspaper editor (d. 2006)
- January 16 â Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter and producer (d. 1996)[3]
- January 17 â George M. Leader, politician (d. 2013)
- January 19
- Peter Hobbs, actor (d. 2011)
- John H. Johnson, African-American publisher, founder of Ebony (d. 2005)
- January 20 â Nevin S. Scrimshaw, food scientist (d. 2013)
- January 21 â Richard Winters, World War II soldier (d. 2011)[4]
- January 23 â Gertrude B. Elion, pharmacologist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988 (d. 1999)[5]
- January 24 â Oral Roberts, neo-Pentecostal televangelist (d. 2009)
- January 25 â Ernie Harwell, baseball sportscaster (d. 2010)
- January 26
- Philip José Farmer, writer (d. 2009)
- Vito Scotti, actor (d. 1996)
- January 27 â Elmore James, musician (d. 1963)
- January 29 â John Forsythe, actor (Dynasty) (d. 2010)
- January 31 â Millie Dunn Veasey, African-American civil rights activist and World War II soldier (d. 2018)
February
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- February 3
- Millie Bailey, World War II veteran and civil servant (d. 2022)
- Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the "Rat Pack" (d. 2007)
- Martin Greenberg, American poet and translator (d. 2021)
- Helen Stephens, American athlete (d. 1994)
- February 8
- Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler, novelty singer (Pencil Neck Geek) (d. 2003)
- Walter Newton Read, American lawyer and second chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (d. 2001)
- February 12 â Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
- February 15
- Allan Arbus, American actor (M*A*S*H) (d. 2013)
- William T. Young, American businessman (d. 2004)
- February 16 â Patty Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (d. 2013)
- February 17 â William Bronk, American poet (d. 1999)
- February 19 â Fay McKenzie, American silent film actress (d. 2019)
- February 21 â Robert E. Thacker, American aviator and test pilot (d. 2020)
- February 22
- Charlie Finley, American businessman (d. 1996)
- Don Pardo, American television announcer (Saturday Night Live) (d. 2014)
- Robert Pershing Wadlow, American tallest man record-holder (d. 1940)
- February 25
- Barney Ewell, athlete (d. 1996)
- Bobby Riggs, tennis player (d. 1995)
- February 26
- Otis R. Bowen, politician (d. 2013)
- Theodore Sturgeon, writer (d. 1985)
March
- March 1 â James N. Morgan, economist (d. 2018)
- March 3 â Arthur Kornberg, biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2007)
- March 4 â Margaret Osborne duPont, American female tennis player (d. 2012)
- March 5 â James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
- March 8 â Mendel L. Peterson, American underwater archaeologist (d. 2003)
- March 9
- Marguerite Chapman, American actress (d. 1999)
- George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi leader (d. 1967)
- Mickey Spillane, American writer (d. 2006)
- March 11 â Jack Coe, American evangelist (d. 1956)
- March 12 â Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989)
- March 13 â Eddie Pellagrini, American baseball player, coach (d. 2006)
- March 15 â Richard Ellmann, American literary biographer (d. 1987)
- March 16 â Frederick Reines, American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 (d. 1998)[6]
- March 17 â Ross Bass, American politician (d. 1993)
- March 18 â Bob Broeg, American sports writer (d. 2005)
- March 20 â Jack Barry, American television game show host, producer (d. 1984)
- March 23
- Helene Hale, American politician (d. 2013)[7]
- Stick McGhee, American jump blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter (d. 1961)
- March 25 â Howard Cosell, American attorney, lecturer, and sports journalist (d. 1995)
- March 26 â Lloyd McCuiston, American politician
- March 28 â Alberto Valdés, American artist (d. 1998)
- March 29
- Pearl Bailey, African-American singer, actress (d. 1990)[8]
- Shirley Jameson, American female baseball player (d. 1993)
- Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart (d. 1992)
April
- April 1 â Milt Earnhart, American politician (d. 2020)
- April 4 â Joseph Ashbrook, American astronomer (d. 1980)
- April 7 â Bobby Doerr, American baseball player (d. 2017)
- April 8
- Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States, Second Lady of the United States (d. 2011)
- Charles P. Roland, American historian (d. 2022)
- April 14 â Mary Healy, American actress, variety entertainer and singer (d. 2015)[9]
- April 15
- Louis O. Coxe, writer (d. 1993)
- Edmund Jones, politician (d. 2019)
- April 17
- William Holden, actor (d. 1981)
- Anne Shirley, actress (d. 1993)
- April 18 â Clifton Hillegass, author, founder of CliffsNotes (d. 2001)
- April 20 â Edward L. Beach Jr., naval captain and author (d. 2002)
- April 22
- Mickey Vernon, baseball player (d. 2008)
- William Jay Smith, American poet (d. 2015)
- April 24 â Lou Dorfsman, graphic designer (d. 2008)
- April 27 â John Rice, baseball umpire (d. 2011)
- April 28
- Mildred Persinger, feminist (d. 2018)
- Rodger Young, United States Army soldier, remembered in the song "The Ballad of Rodger Young" (d. 1943)
- April 29 â George Allen, American football coach (d. 1990)
May
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- May 1 â Jack Paar, American television show host (The Tonight Show) (d. 2004)[10]
- May 3 â Richard Dudman, American reporter, editorial writer (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) (d. 2017)
- May 9
- Russell M. Carneal, American politician, judge (d. 1998)
- Orville Freeman, American politician (d. 2003)
- Mike Wallace, American journalist (d. 2012)
- May 10
- T. Berry Brazelton, American pediatrician (d. 2018)
- Jane Mayhall, American poet and novelist (d. 2009)
- George Welch, U.S. soldier and pilot (d. 1954)
- May 11
- Richard Feynman, American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 (d. 1988)[11]
- Phil Rasmussen, pilot (d. 2005)
- May 12 â Julius Rosenberg, American-born Soviet spy (d. 1953)
- May 15 â Eddy Arnold, country singer (d. 2008)
- May 17 â A. C. Lyles, film producer (d. 2013)
- May 18
- Claudia Bryar, actress (d. 2011)
- Joe Krush, illustrator (d. 2022)
- May 20 â Edward B. Lewis, geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
- May 21 â Lloyd Hartman Elliott, educator, president of George Washington University (d. 2013)
- May 23
- Frank Mancuso, major league baseball player, politician (d. 2007)
- Naomi Replansky, poet (d. 2023)[12]
June
- June 2 â Kathryn Tucker Windham, writer, storyteller (d. 2011)
- June 4 â Johnny Klein, drummer (d. 1997)
- June 6 â Edwin G. Krebs, biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 (d. 2009)
- June 8
- Robert Preston, actor and singer (d. 1987)
- John D. Roberts, chemist and academic (d. 2016)
- John H. Ross, pilot (d. 2013)
- June 9 â John Hospers, philosopher (d. 2011)
- June 10 â Wood Moy, actor (d. 2017)
- June 12
- Samuel Z. Arkoff, film producer (d. 2001)
- Georgia Louise Harris Brown, architect (d. 1999)[13]
- Jerry A. Moore Jr., politician (d. 2017)
- June 13 â Wendell "Bud" Hurlbut, Theme park creator and entrepreneur (d. 2011)
- June 18
- Jerome Karle, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
- Lillian Ross, journalist on The New Yorker (d. 2017)
- Elisabeth Waldo, violinist and composer (d. 2026)
- June 21
- Dee Molenaar, mountaineer, author and artist (d. 2020)[14]
- Robert V. Roosa, American economist and banker (d. 1993)[15]
- Josephine Webb, engineer (d. 2017)
- June 25 â Sid Tepper, songwriter (d. 2015)
- June 26 â Raleigh Rhodes, combat fighter pilot (d. 2007)
- June 27 â Adolph Kiefer, Olympic champion swimmer (d. 2017)[16]
- June 28 â Marshall Brown, professional basketball player (d. 2008)
- June 29
- Gene La Rocque, U.S. admiral (d. 2016)
- Francis W. Nye, United States Air Force major general (d. 2019)
July
- July 1 â Ralph Young, American singer, actor (d. 2008)
- July 3
- Johnny Palmer, American golfer (d. 2006)
- Shirley Adelson Siegel, American activist and lawyer (d. 2020)
- Ben Thompson, American architect and designer (d. 2002)
- July 4
- Joe Fortunato, American football, basketball, and baseball coach (d. 2004)
- Eppie Lederer, American journalist and radio host (d. 2002)
- Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (d. 1984)
- Pauline Phillips, American journalist and radio host, creator of Dear Abby (d. 2013)
- July 5 â George Rochberg, American composer (d. 2005)
- July 6
- J. Dewey Daane, American economist (d. 2017)
- Herm Fuetsch, American professional basketball player (d. 2010)
- July 7 â Bob Vanatta, American head basketball coach (d. 2016)
- July 8
- Edward B. Giller, U.S. major general (d. 2017)
- Bela E. Kennedy, American politician (d. 2008)
- Craig Stevens, American actor (d. 2000)
- Paul B. Fay, American businessman, soldier, and diplomat, 12th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2009)
- July 10
- Chuck Stevens, American major baseball (d. 2018)
- Frank L. Lambert, American professor emeritus of chemistry at Occidental College (d. 2018)
- July 12
- Doris Grumbach, American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist (d. 2022)
- Alice Van-Springsteen, American stuntwoman, jockey (d. 2008)
- Vivian Mason, actress (d. 2009)
- Paul Stenn, American football offensive tackle (d. 2003)
- July 14
- Jay Wright Forrester, computer engineer, systems scientist (d. 2016)
- Arthur Laurents, novelist and screenwriter (d. 2011)
- July 16 â Leonard T. Schroeder, colonel (d. 2009)
- July 17 â Chandler Robbins, ornithologist (d. 2017)
- July 18
- James Duesenberry, economist (d. 2009)
- Warren Hair, professional basketball player (d. 2006)
- July 20
- Edward S. Little, diplomat (d. 2004)
- Cindy Walker, songwriter, country singer (d. 2006)
- July 22 â Stanley Lebergott, government economist (d. 2009)
- July 23
- Carl T. Langford, politician (d. 2011)
- Pee Wee Reese, baseball player (d. 1999)
- July 24
- Irving London, hematologist and geneticist (d. 2018)
- Ruggiero Ricci, violinist (d. 2012)
- July 25 â Jane Frank, artist (d. 1986)
- July 26 â Marjorie Lord, actress (d. 2015)
- July 27 â Leonard Rose, cellist (d. 1984)
- July 29 â Edwin O'Connor, novelist, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (d. 1968)
- July 30
- John L. Cason, actor (d. 1961)
- Jimmy Robinson, actor (d. 1967)
- July 31
- Paul D. Boyer, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
- Hank Jones, pianist (d. 2010)[17]
August
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- August 3 â Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (d. 1999)
- August 6 â Charles Coulston Gillispie, American historian (d. 2015)
- August 9 â Robert Aldrich, American writer and filmmaker (d. 1983)
- August 12 â Roy C. Bennett, American songwriter (d. 2015)
- August 13 â Tao Porchon-Lynch, American yoga master and author (d. 2020)
- August 19 â Oliver Brown, African-American plaintiff (d. 1961)
- August 20 â Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (d. 1974)
- August 21 â Bruria Kaufman, American-born Israeli physicist (d. 2010 in Israel)
- August 22 â Martin Pope, American physical chemist (d. 2022)
- August 23 â Bernard Fisher, American surgeon (d. 2019)
- August 25 â Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (d. 1990)
- August 26
- Hutton Gibson, American religion writer, father of actor Mel Gibson (d. 2020)
- Katherine Johnson, African-American physicist and mathematician (d. 2020)
- August 27 â Simeon Booker, American journalist (d. 2017)
- August 30 â Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)
- August 31
- Griffin Bell, American politician (d. 2009)
- Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist (d. 1986)
- Kenny Washington, African-American football player (d. 1971)
September
- September 1 â James D. Martin, American politician (d. 2017)
- September 3 â Helen Wagner, American soap opera actress (d. 2010)
- September 4
- Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (d. 2009)
- Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter (d. 2014)
- September 5 - Fred McCarthy, cartoonist (d. 2009)
- September 6 â Hugh Gillis, American politician (d. 2013)
- September 13
- Ray Charles, American musician, singer and songwriter (d. 2015)
- Rosemary Kennedy, sister of John F. Kennedy (d. 2005)
- September 15 â Nipsey Russell, African-American comedian (d. 2005)
- September 19 â Joseph Zeller, American politician (d. 2018)
- September 21 â John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist, advocate (d. 2007)
- September 26
- Harry Yee, bartender (d. 2022)
- John Zacherle, television and radio host, singer, and voice actor (d. 2016)
- September 28 â Arnold Stang, comic actor (d. 2009)
October
- October 4 â Adrian Kantrowitz, American cardiac surgeon (d. 2008)
- October 9 â E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate break-in coordinator (d. 2007)
- October 13 â Robert Walker, American actor (d. 1951)
- October 17 â Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987)
- October 18 â Bobby Troup, American singer-songwriter and actor, known for his role in Emergency! (d. 1999)
- October 19 â Robert S. Strauss, American politician, Democratic National Committee Chairman (d. 2014)
- October 22 â Fred Caligiuri, American baseball player (d. 2018)
- October 23
- Augusta Dabney, American actress (d. 2008)
- Paul Rudolph, American architect (d. 1997)
- October 25 â Milton Selzer, American actor (d. 2006)
- October 27 â Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
- October 29 â Diana Serra Cary, born Peggy-Jean Montgomery ("Baby Peggy"), American silent film child actress (d. 2020)
- October 31 â Ian Stevenson, American parapsychologist (d. 2007)
November
- November 3
- Bob Feller, American baseball player (d. 2010)
- Ann Hutchinson Guest, American movement, dance researcher (d. 2022)
- Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (d. 2007)
- Russell B. Long, United States Senator from Louisiana (d. 2003)
- Dean Riesner, American film, television screenwriter (d. 2002)
- November 4
- Art Carney, American actor, best known for his role in The Honeymooners (d. 2003)
- Cameron Mitchell, American actor, best known for his role in The High Chaparral (d. 1994)
- November 7
- Fred Cusick, American ice hockey broadcaster (d. 2009)
- Billy Graham, evangelist (d. 2018)
- November 8 â Bob Schiller, American screenwriter (d. 2017)
- November 9
- Spiro Agnew, 39th vice president of the United States from 1969 to 1973 (d. 1996)
- Thomas Ferebee, United States Air Force colonel (d. 2000)
- November 10 â John Henry Moss, American baseball executive, politician (d. 2009)
- November 11
- Stubby Kaye, American actor and comedian (d. 1997)
- Louise Tobin, American singer (d. 2022)
- November 21 â Dorothy Maguire, American professional baseball player (d. 1981)
- November 28 â Jack H. Harris, American film producer, distributor and actor (d. 2017)
- November 29 â Madeleine L'Engle, children's fiction writer (d. 2007)
- November 30 â Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (d. 2014)
December
- December 6 â Nick Drahos, American football player (d. 2018)
- December 10 â Anne Gwynne, American actress (d. 2003)
- December 11 â John W. Reed, American legal scholar (d. 2018)
- December 12 â Joe Williams, American jazz singer (d. 1999)
- December 14 â Jack Cole, American cartoonist (d. 1958)
- December 15 â Jeff Chandler, American actor (d. 1961)
- December 17 â Dusty Anderson, American actress and model (d. 2007)
- December 18 â Hal Kanter, American comedy writer, producer and director (d. 2011)
- December 20 â Joseph Payne Brennan, poet and author (d. 1990 in the United States1990)
- December 21
- Fred Gloden, American football player (d. 2019)
- Donald Regan, American Treasury Secretary, White House Chief of Staff (d. 2003)
- December 24 â Dave Bartholomew, American musician, bandleader, composer and arranger (d. 2019)
- December 25
- Henry Hillman, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2017)
- George S. Vest, American diplomat (d. 2021)
- December 26 â Butch Ballard, American jazz drummer (d. 2011)
- December 29 â Leo J. Dulacki, American general (d. 2019)
- December 31
- Al Lakeman, Major League Baseball catcher (d. 1976)
- Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne, Russian-American author (d. 2018)
Undated
Deaths
- January 8 â Ellis H. Roberts, politician (born 1827)
- February 2 â John L. Sullivan, boxer, World Heavyweight Champion (born 1858)
- February 4 â Jeannette Walworth, American journalist and novelist (born 1835)[20]
- February 7 â Effie Hoffman Rogers, educator, editor and journalist (born 1835/37)
- February 9 â E. J. Richmond, litterateur and author (born 1825)[21]
- February 15 â Vernon Castle, ballroom dancer (born 1887)
- March 10 â Jim McCormick, baseball pitcher (born 1856 in Scotland)
- March 14 â Lucretia Garfield, First Lady of the United States (born 1832)
- March 16 â Prosper P. Parker, civil engineer, Union Army officer and politician (born 1835 in Canada)
- March 27 â Henry Adams, historian (born 1838)
- April 14 â James E. Ware, architect who devised the "dumbbell plan" for New York City tenements (born 1846)
- May 1 â Grove Karl Gilbert, geologist (born 1843)
- May 5 â Bertha Palmer, businesswoman, socialite and philanthropist (born 1849)
- May 14 â James Gordon Bennett, Jr., newspaper publisher (born 1841)
- May 17 â William Drew Robeson, African American Presbyterian minister, escaped slave and father of Paul Robeson (born 1844)
- May 19 â Raoul Lufbery, fighter pilot (killed in action; born 1885 in France)
- May 27 â Frederick Trump, German American businessman, paternal grandfather of Donald Trump (born 1869)
- June 4 â Charles W. Fairbanks, 26th vice president of the United States from 1905 to 1909 and U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905 (born 1852)
- June 18 â Lizzie Halliday, serial killer (born c.1859)
- June 25 â Jake Beckley, baseball player (born 1867)
- June 27 â George Mary Searle, astronomer (born 1839)
- June 28 â Albert Henry Munsell, inventor of the Munsell color system (born 1858)
- July 20 â Francis Lupo, U.S. Army soldier (killed in action; born 1895)
- July 22 â Roy Earl Parrish, American politician (killed in action; born 1888)
- July 27 â Gustav Kobbé, music critic and author (sailing accident; born 1857)
- July 30 â Joyce Kilmer, poet (killed in action; born 1886)
- August 1 â John Riley Banister, policeman and cowboy (born 1854)
- August 10 â William Pitt Kellogg, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1868 to 1872 and from 1877 to 1883 (born 1830)
- August 12 â Anna Held, singer (born 1872 in Poland)
- August 14 â Anna Morton, Second Lady of the United States (born 1846)
- August 24 â Louis Bennett Jr., World War I flying ace (killed in action) (b. 1894)
- September 12 â Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1885 to 1897 and from 1901 to 1907 (born 1838)
- September 28
- True Boardman, silent film actor (born 1882)
- Freddie Stowers, African American corporal (killed in action; born 1896)
- September 29 â Frank Luke, fighter pilot (killed in action; born 1897)
- October 8 â James B. McCreary, 27th and 37th Governor of Kentucky from 1875 to 1879 and from 1911 to 1915, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1903 to 1909 (born 1838)
- October 16 â Felix Arndt, pianist and composer (born 1889)
- October 19 â Harold Lockwood, silent film actor (born 1887)
- October 21
- Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, professor of jurisprudence (born 1879)
- Jennie O. Starkey, journalist (born ca. 1856)
- October 22 â Myrtle Gonzalez, silent film actress (born 1891)
- October 28 â Edward Bouchet, physicist (born 1852)
- November 4 â Andrew Dickson White, diplomat, academic and author (born 1832)
- November 19 â Joseph F. Smith, Mormon leader (born 1838)
- December â Sarah Jim Mayo, Washoe basket weaver (born 1858)
- December 17 â John Green Brady, 5th Governor of the District of Alaska from 1897 to 1906 (born 1847)
- December 26 â William Hampton Patton, entomologist (born 1853)
