← 1942 1941 1940 1943 in the United States → 1944 1945 1946
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	History of the United States (1918–1945) Timeline of the history of the United States (1930-1950) List of years in the United States

Events from the year1943 in the United States.

• President:Franklin D. Roosevelt (D-New York)
• Vice President:Henry A. Wallace (D-Iowa)
• Chief Justice:Harlan F. Stone (New York)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:Sam Rayburn (D-Texas)
• Senate Majority Leader:Alben W. Barkley (D-Kentucky)
• Congress:77th (until January 3),78th (starting January 3)

• January 1 –Project Y, theManhattan Project's secret laboratory atLos Alamos, New Mexico, for development and production of thefirst atomic bombs under the direction ofJ. Robert Oppenheimer, begins operations.
• January 4 –Culbert Olson, 29thGovernor of California, is succeeded byEarl Warren.
• January 11 – The United States andUnited Kingdom give up territorial rights inChina.
• January 14
  • TheCasablanca Conference, whereFranklin D. Roosevelt becomes the firstpresident of the United States to travel byairplane while in office (Miami, Florida toMorocco to meet withWinston Churchill to discussWorld War II).
  • Aircraft carrierUSSIndependence is commissioned.
• January 15 – The world's largest office building,The Pentagon, headquarters of theDepartment of War, is dedicated inArlington, Virginia.
• January 23
  • Duke Ellington plays atNew York City'sCarnegie Hall for the first time.
  • Critic and commentatorAlexander Woollcott suffers an eventually fatal heart attack during a regular broadcast of theCBS Radioroundtable program "People's Platform".

• February 3 – The legendaryFour Chaplains of the U.S. Army are drowned when their ship (Dorchester) is struck by a German torpedo.
• February 5 –Howard Hughes'sWesternThe Outlaw, starringJane Russell, is released for a week prior toMotion Picture Production Code censors requiring its withdrawal from distribution.
• February 6 –Walt Disney Productions' sixth feature film,Saludos Amigos, is released. It is the first of sixpackage films they would release throughout the remainder of the 1940s.
• February 7 –WWII: It is announced that shoe rationing will go into effect in the US in two days.
• February 8 –WWII:Battle of Guadalcanal – United States forces defeat Japanese troops.
• February 11 – GeneralDwight D. Eisenhower is selected to command the Allied armies inEurope.
• February 14 –WWII:Battle of the Kasserine Pass –German GeneralErwin Rommel and hisAfrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses inTunisia; it is theUnited States' first major battle defeat of the war.
• February 17 – Aircraft carrierUSSLexington is commissioned.
• February 20 – Americanmovie studio executives agree to allow theOffice of War Information tocensor movies.
• February 25 – Aircraft carrierUSSPrinceton is commissioned.
• February 27 –Smith Mine disaster: Smith Mine No. 3, a coal mine inBearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.

• March 2 –WWII:Battle of the Bismarck Sea – United States andAustralian forces sinkJapanese convoy ships.
• March 4 – The15th Academy Awards, hosted byBob Hope, are presented at theAmbassador Hotel inLos Angeles, withWilliam Wyler'sMrs. Miniver winningOutstanding Motion Picture. The film also receives 12 and 6 respective nominations and awards, with Wyler also winningBest Director.
• March 8 –WWII: American forces are attacked byJapanese troops on Hill 700 inBougainville, in a battle that lasts five days.
• March 12 –Aaron Copland'sFanfare for the Common Man is premiered by theCincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
• March 13 –WWII: OnBougainville,Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
• March 26 –WWII: Battle of the Komandorski Islands – In theAleutian Islands, the battle begins whenUnited States Navy forces interceptJapanese troops attempting to reinforce a garrison atKiska.
• March 31 –Rodgers and Hammerstein'sOklahoma! opens onBroadway, heralds a new era in "integrated" stage musicals, becomes an instantaneous stage classic, and goes on to be Broadway's longest-running musical up to that time (1948).

• April 13 – TheJefferson Memorial is dedicated on the 200th anniversary ofThomas Jefferson's birthday. The bronze statue is added in 1947.
• April 24 – Ammunition shipSS El Estero catches fire inNew York Harbor threatening the explosion of 5,000 tons of ammunition but is towed clear and sunk.^[1]
• April 27 – The U.S.Federal Writers' Project is shuttered.

• May 11 –WWII: American troops invadeAttu in theAleutian Islands, in an attempt to expel occupyingJapanese forces.
• May 12 – TheTrident Conference begins inWashington, D.C., withFranklin D. Roosevelt andWinston Churchill taking part.
• May 17
  • TheUnited States Army contracts with theUniversity of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the computerENIAC.
  • TheMemphis Belle becomes the first airplane in the8th Air Force to complete a 25-mission tour of duty.
• May 19 –Winston Churchill addresses a joint session of theU.S. Congress.
• May 23 – Aircraft carrierUSSBunker Hill is commissioned.
• May 30 –Prelude to the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles.

• June 3–8 –Zoot Suit Riots: U.S. servicemen inLos Angeles attack youngMexican Americans on the ostensible grounds that the latter's generously-cutzoot suits are offensive at a time of austerity.^[2]
• June 6 – The first game of theAll-American Girls Professional Baseball League is played, a precursor of professionalwomen's sports in the U.S.
• June 15–17 –Beaumont race riot of 1943 in Texas.
• June 20–22 –1943 Detroit race riot.
• June 22 – TheU.S. Army 45th Infantry Division lands in North Africa, prior to training atArzew, French Algeria.

• July 6 –WWII: Americans andJapanese fight theBattle of Kula Gulf offKolombangara.
• July 10 –WWII:Allied invasion of Sicily – TheAllied invasion ofAxis-controlledEurope begins with landings on the island ofSicily off mainlandItaly, by theU.S. Army 45th Infantry Division and a number of Allied paratroopers.
• July 11 –United States Army forces assault the village of Piano Lupo, just outside Gela, Sicily.
• July 21 – Release of themusical filmStormy Weather starringLena Horne, "Bojangles"Bill Robinson,Cab Calloway, theNicholas Brothers and otherAfrican American performers.
• July 24
  • WWII:Operation Gomorrah begins:British andCanadian airplanes bombHamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
  • Aircraft carrierUSSCabot is commissioned.

• August 1 –WWII:Operation Tidal Wave – 177B-24 Liberator bombers from theU.S. Army Air Force bomb oil refineries atPloieşti,Romania.
• August 1–2 –Harlem riot of 1943, a race riot.
• August 3 –WWII:John F. Kennedy'spatrol torpedo boatPT-109 is rammed by a destroyer.
• August 5 –WWII: John F. Kennedy and crew are found bySolomon IslanderscoastwatchersBiuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana with theirdugout canoe.
• August 6 –WWII:Battle of Vella Gulf – Americans defeat aJapanese convoy offKolombangara, as theU.S. Army drives the Japanese out of Munda airfield on New Georgia.
• August 14 –WWII: TheQuadrant Conference begins inQuebec City; CanadianPrime MinisterMacKenzie King meets withWinston Churchill andFranklin D. Roosevelt.
• August 16 –WWII: Aircraft carrierUSSIntrepid is commissioned.
• August 17 –WWII: TheUS 7th Army under GeneralGeorge S. Patton arrives inMessina, Sicily, followed several hours later by theBritish 8th Army under Field MarshalBernard L. Montgomery, thus completing theAllied conquest ofSicily.
• August 30 – TheLackawanna Limited train wreck atWayland in upstateNew York causes 29 deaths and injures 114 others.

• September 5 –WWII: The 503rd Parachute Regiment under American GeneralDouglas MacArthur lands and occupies Nadzab, just east of the port city ofLae in northeasternPapua New Guinea.
• September 7 – TheGulf Hotel fire inHouston, Texas, kills 55 people.
• September 8 – United States GeneralDwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender ofItaly to theAllies.

• October 1 –WWII: American forces enter liberatedNaples.
• October 6 –WWII: Americans andJapanese fight thenaval Battle of Vella Lavella.
• October 11 – TheNew York Yankees defeat theSt. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 1, to win their 10th World Series Title in baseball.
• October 12 –The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) begins radio broadcasting.
• October 28 – The alleged date of thePhiladelphia Experiment, in which the U.S.destroyer escortUSS Eldridge was to be rendered invisible to human observers for a brief period.
• October 30 – TheMerrie Melodies animated shortFalling Hare, one of the few shorts with Bugs getting out-smarted, is released in the United States.

• November 1 –WWII –Operation Goodtime:United States Marines land onBougainville in theSolomon Islands.
• November 2 –WWII: In the early morning hours, American andJapanese ships fight the inconclusiveBattle of Empress Augusta Bay offBougainville.
• November 14 –Leonard Bernstein, substituting at the last minute for ailing principal conductorBruno Walter, directs theNew York Philharmonic in its regular Sunday afternoon broadcast concert overCBS Radio. The event receives front-page coverage inThe New York Times the following day.
• November 16
  • WWII: After flying fromBritain, 160 American bombers strike ahydro-electric power facility andheavy water factory inGerman-controlledVemork,Norway.
  • WWII: A Japanesesubmarine sinks the surfaced U.S. submarineUSSCorvina nearTruk.
• November 17 – Aircraft carrierUSSBataan is commissioned
• November 20 –WWII:Battle of Tarawa –United States Marines land onTawara andMakin atolls in theGilbert Islands and take heavy fire fromJapanese shore guns.
• November 22 –WWII:War in the Pacific – U.S. PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime MinisterWinston Churchill, and ROC leaderChiang Kai-shek meet inCairo,Egypt, to discuss ways to defeatJapan.
• November 25 –WWII: Americans andJapanese fight the navalBattle of Cape St. George betweenBuka andNew Ireland.
• November 28 –WWII –Tehran Conference: U.S. PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime MinisterWinston Churchill and Soviet leaderJoseph Stalin meet inTehran to discuss war strategy (on November 30 they establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion ofEurope codenamedOperation Overlord).
• November 29 – WWII: Aircraft carrierUSSHornet is commissioned.

• December 2 – Fifteen atomic scientists, including Soviet spyKlaus Fuchs, arrive fromBritain to join the US atomic research project.
• December 3 –Edward R. Murrow delivers his classic "Orchestrated Hell" broadcast overCBS Radio, describing aRoyal Air Force nighttime bombing raid onBerlin.
• December 4 – TheGreat Depression officially ends in the United States: With unemployment figures falling fast due toWorld War II-related employment, U.S. PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt closes theWorks Progress Administration.
• December 15 – Aircraft carrierUSSSan Jacinto is commissioned.
• December 24 –WWII: U.S. GeneralDwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

• World War II, U.S. involvement (1941–1945)

• January 1
  • Jerilyn Britz, American golfer
  • Stanley Kamel, American actor (died2008)
  • Don Novello, American comedian, screenwriter and producer
  • Ronald Perelman, American businessman and philanthropist, founder ofMacAndrews & Forbes^[3]
• January 3 –Adrian Garrett, American baseball player (died2021)
• January 4 –Doris Kearns Goodwin, American writer^[4]
• January 8
  • Jimmy Elledge, American country musician (d.2012)
  • Charles Murray, American political scientist and author
• January 9 –Scott Walker, singer and composer (d. 2019 in the United Kingdom)^[5]
• January 10
  • Jim Croce, American surburbia musician (d.1973)^[6]
  • Richard S. Hamilton, American mathematician (d.2024)^[7]
• January 11 –Jim Hightower, American radio host, author
• January 13 –Richard Moll, American actor (d.2023)^[8]
• January 14
  • Charles W. Daniels, judge (d.2019)^[9]
  • Holland Taylor, actress
• January 16 –Peter T. Snowe, American politician, businessman (d.1973)
• January 18 –Kay Granger, American politician
• January 19 –Janis Joplin, American rock singer (d.1970)
• January 23
  • Gary Burton, American vibraphone player and composer
  • Gil Gerard, American actor and producer
• January 24
  • Janice Raymond, American second-wave feminist activist
  • Sharon Tate, American actress and model (d.1969)
• January 25 –Tobe Hooper, American film director (d. 2017)
• January 28 –John Beck, American actor

• February 3
  • Blythe Danner, American actress
  • Dennis Edwards, American soul, R&B singer (d.2018)
• February 5
  • Nolan Bushnell, American video game pioneer
  • Michael Mann, American film director, writer, and producer
  • Craig Morton, American football player
• February 6 –C. Boyden Gray, American lawyer and diplomat (d.2023)
• February 8 –Creed Bratton, American actor
• February 9
  • Joe Pesci, actor
  • Joseph Stiglitz, economist,Nobel Prize laureate
• February 10
  • Walter B. Jones Jr., American politician (d.2019)
  • Bill Laskey, American football player (died2022)^[10]
• February 14
  • Eric Andersen, singer-songwriter
  • Maceo Parker, musician (James Brown,P-Funk)^[11]
• February 19 –Homer Hickam, American author, retiredNASA engineer
• February 20 –Moshe Cotel, American composer, pianist (d.2008)
• February 21 –David Geffen, American record executive, film producer
• February 22 –Dick Van Arsdale, American basketball player (died2024)
• February 23 –Fred Biletnikoff, American football player, coach
• February 24
  • Kent Haruf, novelist (d. 2014)^[12]
  • Terry Semel, businessman
• February 26
  • Bill Duke, American actor, director
  • Bob Hite – American singer, musician (Canned Heat) (d.1981)
• February 27 –Morten Lauridsen, American composer
• February 28 –Donnie Iris, American rock singer, guitarist (The Jaggerz,Wild Cherry,Donnie Iris and the Cruisers)

• March 1
  • Gil Amelio, American entrepreneur
  • Richard H. Price, American physicist
• March 2 –Peter Straub, American author (d.2022)
• March 7 –Rick Redman, American football player (d.2022)
• March 9
  • Bobby Fischer, American chess player (d.2008 in Iceland)
  • Charles Gibson, American television journalist
• March 12 –Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Mir),Chicago-born Israeli rabbi (d.2011 in Israel)
• March 14
  • Anita Morris, American actress, singer and dancer (d.1994)
  • Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner, American guitarist (Ohio Players) (d.2013)
• March 15 –Sly Stone, African-American singer (Sly and the Family Stone) (d.2025)
• March 16 –Helen Armstrong, American violinist (d.2006)
• March 18
  • Kevin Dobson, American actor (d.2020)
  • Lowrell Simon, American singer (d.2018)
• March 20
  • Gerard Malanga, American poet, photographer
  • Douglas Tompkins, American conservationist, businessman (d.2015)
• March 22 –George Benson, African-American guitarist, singer and songwriter
• March 23
  • Lee May, American baseball player (d.2017)
  • Sharon Presley, American author and academic (d.2022)
• March 25 –Paul Michael Glaser, American actor
• March 26 –Bob Woodward, American journalist
• March 27 –Bob Carr, American politician and lawyer (d.2024)
• March 28 –Conchata Ferrell, American actress (d.2020)
• March 30
  • Jay Traynor, American singer (Jay and the Americans) (d.2014)
  • Dennis Etchison, American author and editor (d.2019)
• March 31 –Christopher Walken, American actor

• April 4 –Judy Buenoano, American serial killer (d. 1998)
• April 5 –Max Gail, American actor (Barney Miller)
• April 6 −Susan Tolsky, American actress and voice actress (d. 2022)
• April 8
  • Miller Farr, American football player (d.2023)
  • Jack O'Halloran, American boxer and actor
• April 11 –Harley Race, American professional wrestler, promoter and trainer (d.2019)
• April 12 –Robert Durst, real estate heir and convicted murderer (d.2022)
• April 15 –Mighty Sam McClain, singer, songwriter (d.2015)
• April 20 –Edie Sedgwick, model and actress (died1971)
• April 21 –Jim Jamieson, golfer (d.2018)
• April 22 –Louise Glück, poet, 12thUS Poet Laureate and 2020Nobel Prize laureate (d.2023)
• April 24 –Richard Sterban, singer (The Oak Ridge Boys)
• April 25
  • Alan Feduccia, paleornithologist
  • Lew Krausse Jr., baseball player (d. 2021)
• April 26 –Gary Wright, singer, songwriter, musician and composer (d. 2023)
• April 28 –John Oliver Creighton, astronaut
• April 30 –Bobby Vee, pop singer (d. 2016)

• May 3 –Jim Risch, American politician
• May 5
  • Raymond A. Jordan, American politician (d.2022)^[13]
  • Billie Moore, American basketball coach (d.2022)^[14]
• May 6 –James Kallstrom, American FBI officer (d.2021)^[15]
• May 7 –Thelma Houston, African-American disco singer
• May 8 –Danny Whitten, American musician (d.1972)
• May 10
  • Richard Darman, American federal government official, businessman (d.2008)
  • Judith Jamison, African-American dancer and choreographer (d.2024)
• May 11
  • Clarence Ellis, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2014)
  • Matthew Lesko, American author
• May 12 –Linda Dano, American actress and author
• May 13 –Frederic Parke, American computer graphics researcher and academic
• May 16
  • Hank Adams, American native rights activist (d.2020)
  • Dan Coats, American politician
• May 17 –Mark W. Olson, American economist, politician (d.2018)
• May 23 –Jim Mueller, American sportscaster (d. 2022)^[16]
• May 24 –Gary Burghoff, American actor (M*A*S*H)
• May 25 –Jessi Colter, American singer, composer
• May 27 –Bruce Weitz, American actor
• May 30 –James Chaney, African-American civil rights worker (d.1964)
• May 31
  • Sharon Gless, American actress
  • Joe Namath, American football player

• June 1 –Richard Goode, American pianist
• June 6
  • Ken Hatfield, American football player and coach
  • Richard Smalley, American chemist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.2005)
• June 7
  • Nikki Giovanni, African-American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator (d.2024)
  • Mel Levine, American lawyer and politician
  • "Superstar" Billy Graham, pro wrestler (d.2023)
• June 8 –William Calley, American army officer and war criminal (d.2024)^[17]
• June 11 –Henry Hill, American gangster (d.2012)
• June 14 –Jim Sensenbrenner, American politician
• June 16 –Joan Van Ark, American actress
• June 17
  • Newt Gingrich, American politician, author and historian
  • Barry Manilow, American pop musician
• June 18 –Peter Courtney, American politician (d.2024)
• June 23
  • Vint Cerf, American Internet pioneer
  • James Levine, American conductor (d.2021)
• June 25 –Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter
• June 26
  • John Beasley, American actor (d.2023)
  • Warren Farrell, American educator, activist and author on gender issues
• June 27 –Rico Petrocelli, American baseball player
• June 29 –Gene Littles, American basketball player and coach (d.2021)^[18]
• June 30 –Florence Ballard, African-American singer, founder ofThe Supremes (d.1976)

• July 1
  • Freddie Lewis, American basketball player
  • Jeff Wayne, American musician
• July 2 –Lauri Peters, American actress and dancer
• July 3
  • Kurtwood Smith, American actor (That '70s Show)
  • Lally Weymouth, American journalist (d.2025)
• July 4
  • Geraldo Rivera, American reporter, talk show host
  • Bob Odell, former member of theNew Hampshire Senate
• July 5 –Curt Blefary, American baseball player (d.2001)
• July 7 –Joel Siegel, American film critic (d.2007)
• July 9 –Suzanne Rogers, American actress
• July 10
  • Arthur Ashe, African-American tennis player (d.1993)
  • Lynne Ober, former member of theNew Hampshire House of Representatives
• July 11 –Tom Holland, American screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker
• July 12
  • Walter Murch, American film editor, sound designer
  • Paul Silas, African-American basketball player and coach (d.2022)
• July 14
  • George Thomas Coker, United States Navy commander
  • Harold Wheeler, American orchestrator, composer, conductor, arranger, record producer, and music director
• July 16 –Jimmy Johnson, American football coach, television analyst
• July 18 –Jerry Chambers, American basketball player
• July 20 –Christopher Murney, American actor, vocal artist
• July 21
  • Edward Herrmann, American actor (d.2014)
  • Bob Shrum, American political consultant
• July 22 –Kay Bailey Hutchison, American politician
• July 23
  • Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (d.2007)
  • Bob Hilton, American game show announcer, host
  • Larry Manetti, American actor
  • Clela Rorex, American county clerk, issued first same-sex marriage license (d.2022)
  • Tony Joe White, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (d.2018)
• July 27 –Mary Love, African-American soul, gospel singer (d.2013)
• July 28
  • Mike Bloomfield, American guitarist and composer (d.1981)
  • Bill Bradley, American politician

• August 2 –Max Wright, American actor (d.2019)
• August 5 –Nelson Briles, American baseball player (d.2005)
• August 6 –Jim Hardin, American baseball pitcher (Baltimore Orioles,New York Yankees,Atlanta Braves) (d.1991)
• August 9 –Ken Norton, African-American boxer, actor (d.2013)
• August 10
  • Louis E. Brus, American chemist,Nobel Prize laureate
  • Ronnie Spector, born Veronica Bennett, American pop singer (The Ronettes) (d.2022)
• August 11 –Abigail Folger, American heiress, murder victim (d.1969)
• August 14 –Jon McBride, American astronaut (d.2024)
• August 17 –Robert De Niro, American actor
• August 18 –Martin Mull, American actor and comedian (d.2024)
• August 19 –Edwin Hawkins, American urban contemporary gospel musician (d.2018)
• August 21 –Clydie King, American musician (d.2019)
• August 23 –Bobby Diamond, American actor (d.2019)
• August 27
  • Bob Kerrey, American politician
  • Tuesday Weld, American actress
• August 28
  • Lou Piniella, American baseball player, manager
  • David Soul, American-born actor and singer (d.2024)
• August 30
  • Tal Brody, American-born Israeli basketball player
  • Robert Crumb, American artist, illustrator
  • Altovise Davis, American entertainer (d.2009)

• September 6 –Harris Hines, American judge (d.2018)
• September 7
  • Gloria Gaynor, American singer
  • Tommy Matchick, American baseball player (d.2022)
• September 8 −Alvy Ray Smith, American computer scientist, co-foundedPixar
• September 9 –Art LaFleur, American actor (d.2021)
• September 10
  • Daniel Truhitte, American actor
  • Neale Donald Walsch, American author (Conversations with God)
• September 11
  • Jack Ely, singer and guitarist (d.2015)
  • Mickey Hart, drummer, percussionist, and musicologist
• September 13 –Mildred D. Taylor, American writer
• September 18 –Nina Wayne, American actress
• September 19 –Joe Morgan, American Hall of Fame baseball player (d.2020)
• September 21 –Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer
• September 22 –Toni Basil, American musician, video artist ("Mickey")
• September 24 –Linda Deutsch, American journalist (d.2024)
• September 25 –Robert Gates, 22ndUnited States Secretary of Defense
• September 28 –J. T. Walsh, American actor (d.1998)

• October 2 –Franklin Rosemont, American poet (d.2009)
• October 3 –Jeff Bingaman, American politician
• October 4
  • Buddy Roemer, American politician, investor and banker (d.2021)
  • Jimy Williams, American baseball player and coach (d.2024)^[19]
• October 5
  • Bonnie Bryant, American golfer
  • Ben Cardin, American politician
• October 7 –Oliver North, American military officer, military historian, political commentator, author and television host
• October 8
  • Chevy Chase, American comedian, actor (Saturday Night Live)
  • R. L. Stine, American novelist (Goosebumps)
• October 11 –Gene Watson, American country singer
• October 12 –Jeffrey R. MacDonald, American physician and United States Army Officer
• October 14
  • Lois Hamilton, American model, actress and artist (d.1999)
  • Lance Rentzel, American football player
• October 15 –Penny Marshall, American actress, director and producer (d.2018)
• October 19
  • John L. Carroll, judge and academic administrator (d.2023)^[20]
  • Rodger Parsons, American voice actor
• October 24
  • José E. Serrano, American politician
  • Susan Shaw, American conservationist (d.2022)^[21]
• October 27
  • Carmen Argenziano, American actor (d.2019)
  • Bev Scalze, American politician (d.2021)^[22]
• October 29
  • John McCoy, American politician (d.2023)^[23]
  • Don Simpson, American film producer, screenwriter, and actor (d.1996)

• November 4 –Chuck Scarborough, American news anchor
• November 5 –Sam Shepard, American playwright, actor (d.2017)
• November 7
  • Stephen Greenblatt, American literary critic
  • Michael Spence, American economist,Nobel Prize laureate
• November 10 –Saxby Chambliss, American politician
• November 11 –Dave Cockrum, Americancomic bookartist (d.2006)
• November 12 –Wallace Shawn, American actor
• November 13 –Jay Sigel, American golfer
• November 14 –Peter Norton, American software engineer, businessman
• November 17
  • Lauren Hutton, American actress, model
  • Michael Parks, American reporter (d.2022)
• November 21 –Larry Mahan, American rodeo cowboy (d.2023)
• November 22
  • Gary M. Heidnik, American killer, kidnapper, and rapist (d.1999)
  • Billie Jean King, American tennis player
  • William Kotzwinkle, American novelist, screenwriter
• November 23 –Jeff Jordan, American football player (d.2022)
• November 24 –Dave Bing, American mayor, longtimeNBA player
• November 25 –Peter Adair, American filmmaker (d.1996)
• November 26 –Marilynne Robinson, American writer
• November 28 –Randy Newman, American musician
• November 30 –Terrence Malick, American film director

• December 1 –Kenny Moore, American athlete and journalist (d.2022)
• December 2
  • Wayne Allard, American politician
  • William Wegman, American photographer
• December 8
  • Larry Martin, American paleontologist (d.2013)
  • Jim Morrison, American singer, songwriter and poet (d.1971 in France)
• December 11 –John Kerry, American politician, 68thU.S. Secretary of State
• December 12
  • Dickey Betts, American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and composer (The Allman Brothers Band) (d.2024)
  • E. Jean Carroll, American journalist and advice columnist
  • Buster Jones, American actor and television host (d.2014)
  • Gianni Russo, American actor
  • Phyllis Somerville, American actress (d.2020)
  • Grover Washington Jr., African-American saxophonist (d.1999)
• December 13 –Larry R. Hicks, American jurist (d.2024)
• December 16 –Steven Bochco, American television producer (d.2018)
• December 17 –Rick Nolan, American politician (d.2024)
• December 18 –John Thrasher, American politician (d.2025)
• December 19 –Ross M. Lence, American political scientist (d.2006)
• December 21 –Jack Nance, American actor (d.1996)
• December 22 –Paul Wolfowitz, American political scientist
• December 23
  • Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (d.1987)
  • Harry Shearer, American actor, comedian and screenwriter
• December 24
  • James A. Johnson, American business leader, philanthropist (d.2020)
  • Thomas G. Plaskett, American business executive (d.2021)
• December 27
  • Cokie Roberts, American broadcast political journalist (d.2019)
  • Diana Wall, American environmental scientist (d.2024)
• December 28
  • Billy Chapin, American child actor (d.2016)
  • Craig MacIntosh, American illustrator
• December 31 –John Denver, American musician (d.1997)

• January 5 –George Washington Carver, African American botanist (b. c.1864)
• January 6 –Alice May Douglas, author (b.1865)^[24]
• January 7 –Nikola Tesla, electrical engineer (b.1856 in Serbia)
• January 21 –Robert Henry English, admiral (b.1888)
• January 23 –Alexander Woollcott, critic (b.1887)
• January 25 –Mayme Schweble, gold miner and politician (born1874)
• February 1 –Foy Draper, Olympic track athlete, killed on active service (b.1911)
• February 3 –Verina Morton Jones, African American physician, suffragist and clubwoman (b.1865)
• February 11 –Bess Houdini, stage assistant and wife ofHarry Houdini (b.1876)
• February 17 –Armand J. Piron, jazz musician (b.1888)
• February 22 –Ben Robertson, novelist, journalist, and war correspondent (b.1903)
• April 3 –Conrad Veidt, actor (b.1893 in Germany)
• April 4 –David Roitman, cantor (b.1884 in Russia)
• May 16 –William Andrew Johnson, formerly enslaved by an American president (b. 1858)^[25]
• May 20 –Joe Trees, college footballer and oil executive (b.1870)
• May 22 –Helen Herron Taft,First Lady of the United States (b.1861)
• May 26 –Edsel Ford, President of theFord Motor Company (b.1893)
• June 4 –Kermit Roosevelt, businessman, soldier and explorer, suicide (b.1889)
• July 16 –Saul Raphael Landau, Polish Jewish lawyer, journalist, publicist and Zionist activist (b.1870 inKraków)
• September 12 –David Bacon, actor (b.1914)
• September 15 –John Flammang Schrank, attempted assassin ofTheodore Roosevelt (b.1876)
• November 22 –Lorenz Hart, lyricist (b.1895)
• November 24 –Henry M. Mullinnix, admiral (killed in action) (b.1892)
• December 14
  • John W. Brady, Texas judge and murderer (b.1869)
  • John Harvey Kellogg, doctor (b.1852)
• December 15 –Fats Waller, African American jazz pianist (b.1904)

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