Events from the year 1945 in the United States . World War II ended during this year following the surrender of Germany in May and that of Japan in September.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D -New York ) (until April 12)Harry S. Truman (D -Missouri ) (starting April 12)Henry A. Wallace (D -Iowa ) (until January 20)Harry S. Truman (D -Missouri ) (January 20 – April 12)vacant (starting April 12)
Governors and lieutenant governors
Governor of Alabama : Chauncey Sparks (Democratic )Governor of Arizona : Sidney Preston Osborn (Democratic )Governor of Arkansas : Homer Martin Adkins (Democratic ) (until January 9), Benjamin Travis Laney (Democratic ) (starting January 9)Governor of California : Earl Warren (Republican )Governor of Colorado : John Charles Vivian (Republican )Governor of Connecticut : Raymond E. Baldwin (Republican )Governor of Delaware : Walter W. Bacon (Republican )Governor of Florida : Spessard Holland (Democratic ) (until January 2), Millard F. Caldwell (Democratic ) (starting January 2)Governor of Georgia : Ellis Arnall (Democratic )Governor of Idaho :
Governor of Illinois : Dwight H. Green (Republican )Governor of Indiana : Henry F. Schricker (Democratic ) (until January 8), Ralph F. Gates (Republican ) (starting January 8)Governor of Iowa : Bourke B. Hickenlooper (Republican ) (until January 11), Robert D. Blue (Republican ) (starting January 11)Governor of Kansas : Andrew F. Schoeppel (Republican )Governor of Kentucky : Simeon S. Willis (Republican )Governor of Louisiana : Jimmie H. Davis (Democratic )Governor of Maine : Sumner Sewall (Republican ) (until January 3), Horace A. Hildreth (Republican ) (starting January 3)Governor of Maryland : Herbert R. O'Conor (Democratic )Governor of Massachusetts : Leverett Saltonstall (Republican ) (until January 3), Maurice J. Tobin (Democratic ) (starting January 3)Governor of Michigan : Harry Kelly (Republican )Governor of Minnesota : Edward John Thye (Republican )Governor of Mississippi : Thomas L. Bailey (Democratic )Governor of Missouri : Forrest C. Donnell (Republican ) (until January 8), Phil M. Donnelly (Democratic ) (starting January 8)Governor of Montana : Sam C. Ford (Republican )Governor of Nebraska : Dwight Griswold (Republican )Governor of Nevada : Edward P. Carville (Democratic ) (until July 24), Vail M. Pittman (Democratic ) (starting July 24)Governor of New Hampshire : Robert O. Blood (Republican ) (until January 4), Charles M. Dale (Republican ) (starting January 4)Governor of New Jersey : Walter Evans Edge (Republican )Governor of New Mexico : John J. Dempsey (Democratic )Governor of New York : Thomas Dewey (Republican )Governor of North Carolina : J. Melville Broughton (Democratic ) (until January 4), R. Gregg Cherry (Democratic ) (until January 4)Governor of North Dakota : John Moses (Democratic ) (until January 4), Fred G. Aandahl (Republican ) (starting January 4)Governor of Ohio : John W. Bricker (Republican ) (until January 8), Frank J. Lausche (Democratic ) (starting January 8)Governor of Oklahoma : Robert S. Kerr (Democratic )Governor of Oregon : Earl Snell (Republican )Governor of Pennsylvania : Edward Martin (Republican )Governor of Rhode Island : J. Howard McGrath (Democratic ) (until October 6), John Orlando Pastore (Democratic ) (starting October 6)Governor of South Carolina : Olin D. Johnston (Democratic ) (until January 2), Ransome Judson Williams (Democratic ) (starting January 2)Governor of South Dakota : Merrill Q. Sharpe (Republican )Governor of Tennessee : Prentice Cooper (Democratic ) (until January 16), Jim Nance McCord (Democratic ) (starting January 16)Governor of Texas : Coke R. Stevenson (Democratic )Governor of Utah : Herbert B. Maw (Democratic )Governor of Vermont : William H. Wills (Republican ) (until January 4), Mortimer R. Proctor (Republican ) (starting January 4)Governor of Virginia : Colgate Darden (Democratic )Governor of Washington : Arthur B. Langlie (Republican ) (until January 8), Monrad C. Wallgren (Democratic ) (starting January 8)Governor of West Virginia : Matthew M. Neely (Democratic ) (until January 15), Clarence W. Meadows (Democratic ) (starting January 15)Governor of Wisconsin : Walter S. Goodland (Republican )Governor of Wyoming : Lester C. Hunt (Democratic )
Lieutenant governors
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Lieutenant Governor of Alabama : Leven H. Ellis (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas : James Lavesque Shaver (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of California : Frederick F. Houser (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : William Eugene Higby (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : William L. Hadden (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Charles Wilbert Snow (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Delaware : Isaac J. MacCollum (Democratic ) (until January 16), Elbert N. Carvel (Democratic ) (starting January 16)Lieutenant Governor of Idaho :
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : Hugh W. Cross (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : Charles M. Dawson (Democratic ) (until January 8), Richard T. James (Republican ) (starting January 8)Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : Robert D. Blue (Republican ) (until January 11), Kenneth A. Evans (Republican ) (starting January 11)Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : Jess C. Denious, Sr. (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : Kenneth H. Tuggle (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : J. Emile Verret (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Horace T. Cahill (Republican ) (until January 3), vacant (starting January 3)Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : Eugene C. Keyes (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Vernon J. Brown (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : Archie H. Miller (Republican ) (until January 2), C. Elmer Anderson (Republican ) (starting January 2)Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : Fielding L. Wright (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : vacant (until January 8), Walter Naylor Davis (Democratic ) (starting January 8)Lieutenant Governor of Montana : Ernest T. Eaton (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : Roy W. Johnson (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Vail M. Pittman (Democratic ) (until July 24), vacant (starting July 24)Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico : James B. Jones (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of New York : Joseph R. Hanley (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : Reginald L. Harris (Democratic ) (until January 4), Lynton Y. Ballentine (Democratic ) (starting January 4)Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : vacant (until January 4), Clarence P. Dahl (Republican ) (starting January 4)Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : Paul M. Herbert (Republican ) (until January 8), George D. Nye (Democratic ) (starting January 8)Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma : James E. Berry (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : John C. Bell, Jr. (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island :
until month and day unknown: vacant
month and day unknown: John O. Pastore (Democratic )
starting month and day unknown: vacant Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : Ransome Judson Williams (Democratic ) (until January 2), vacant (starting January 2)Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : A. C. Miller (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Sioux K. Grigsby (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : Joseph H. Ballew (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Larry Morgan (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Texas : John Lee Smith (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Mortimer R. Proctor (Republican ) (until January 4), Lee E. Emerson (Republican ) (starting January 4)Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : William M. Tuck (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Washington : Victor A. Meyers (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : Oscar Rennebohm (Republican )
January 20:Franklin D. Roosevelt , the 32nd president of the United States , begins his fourth term Harry S. Truman becomes the 34th U.S. vice president February 4–11: Yalta Conference March 1 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives what will be his last address to a joint session of Congress, reporting on the Yalta Conference .
March 2 – Former Vice President Henry Agard Wallace starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary of Commerce , serving under President Roosevelt.
March 3 – WW II : United States and Filipino troops take Manila , Philippines .
March 7 – WW II : American troops seize the bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen , Germany and begin to cross.
March 15 – The 17th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by John Cromwell and Bob Hope , is held at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood , Los Angeles , broadcast via radio for the first time. Leo McCarey 's Going My Way Outstanding Motion Picture . The film also wins the most awards overall with seven, including McCarey's second win for Best Director , and ties for the most nominations with Henry King 's Wilson
March 19 – WW II : Off the coast of Japan, bombers hit the aircraft carrier USS Franklin , killing about 800 of her crewmen and crippling the ship.
March 24 – The cartoon character Sylvester the cat debuts in Life with Feathers
March 29 – The "Clash of Titans" in basketball: George Mikan and Bob Kurland duel at Madison Square Garden as OSU defeats DePaul 52–44. April 12: Vice President Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd U.S. president upon the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt August 6: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima August 6 – WW II : Atomic bombing of Hiroshima – United States Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay uranium-235 atomic bomb , codenamed "Little Boy ", on the Japanese city of Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. local time, resulting in between 90,000 and 146,000 deaths.
August 7 – President Harry Truman announces the successful bombing of Hiroshima with the atomic bomb , while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Augusta in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
August 8 – The United Nations Charter is ratified by the United States Senate, and this nation becomes the third one to join the new international organization.
August 9 – Atomic bombing of Nagasaki : United States B-29 Bockscar plutonium-239 atomic bomb, codenamed "Fat Man ", on the Japanese city of Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. local time, resulting in between 39,000 and 80,000 deaths.
August 14 (August 15 in Japan) – Emperor Hirohito announces Japan's surrender on the radio. The United States calls this day V-J Day (Victory over Japan). This ends the period of Japanese expansionism and begins the period of Occupied Japan .
August 17 – The United States and the U.S.S.R. split up the Korean Peninsula making North Korea and South Korea
August 31 – A team at American Cyanamid 's Lederle Laboratories, Pearl River, New York , led by Yellapragada Subbarow , announces they have obtained folic acid in a pure crystalline form.[ 6] September 2
World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur , and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands , China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu , on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay (but in Japan August 14 is recognized as the day the Pacific War ended).General MacArthur is given the title of Supreme Commander Allied Powers and tasked with the occupation of Japan.[ 7]
Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita surrenders to Filipino and American forces at Kiangan, Ifugao .
September 5
The Russian code clerk Igor Gouzenko comes forward with numerous documents implicating the Soviet Union in numerous spy rings in North America: both in the United States and in Canada.
Iva Toguri D'Aquino , a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist "Tokyo Rose ", is arrested in Yokohama .
September 8 – American troops occupy southern Korea , while the Soviet Union occupies the north, with the dividing line being the 38th parallel of latitude. This arrangement proves to be the indirect beginning of a divided Korea .
September 9 – The first actual case of a (computer) bug being found, is a moth lodged in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at the Naval Weapons Center in Dahlgren, Virginia .
September 20 – The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) is disbanded and split up among several other agencies. November 15 – Harry S. Truman , Clement Attlee , and Mackenzie King call for a U.N. Atomic Energy Commission.[ 4]
November 16
November 29 – Assembly of the world's first general purpose electronic computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer (ENIAC ), is completed, covering 1,800 square feet (170 m2 ) of floor space, and the first set of calculations is run on it.
World War II , U.S. involvement (1941–1945; ends on September 2)
Stephen Stills Tom Selleck January 1 – Diahnne Abbott , American actress and singerJanuary 3 – Stephen Stills , American rock singer, songwriter (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young )January 4 – Richard R. Schrock , American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2005January 6
January 7
January 10 – Steven P. Perskie , American politician, judgeJanuary 12 – Steven Hoffenberg , American businessman and fraudster (d. 2022 )[ 10] January 15 – Vince Foster , American deputy White House counsel during the first term of President Bill Clinton (d. 1993 )January 20
January 22 – Jophery Brown , American baseball player, actor and stuntman (d. 2014 )January 25 – Leigh Taylor-Young , American actressJanuary 28
January 29 – Tom Selleck , American actor (Magnum, P.I. January 30 – Michael Dorris , American author (d. 1997 )[ 12] January 31 – Joseph Kosuth , American artist Mia Farrow February 3 – Bob Griese , American football playerFebruary 5 – Sarah Weddington , attorney and law professor (d. 2021 )February 9 – Mia Farrow , actressFebruary 12 – David D. Friedman , economistFebruary 15 – Douglas Hofstadter , cognitive scientistFebruary 16
February 17 – Zina Bethune , actress, dancer and choreographer (d. 2012 )February 19 – Michael Nader , actor (d. 2021 )February 20 – Henry Polic II , actor (d. 2013 )February 22 – Oliver , singer ("Good Morning Starshine ") (d. 2000 )February 24 – Barry Bostwick , actorFebruary 25 – Roy Saari , swimmer (d. 2008 )February 26 – Mitch Ryder , singer-songwriter and guitaristFebruary 27 – Carl Anderson , singer, actor (Jesus Christ Superstar 2004 )February 28 – Bubba Smith , American football player, actor (d. 2011 ) Micky Dolenz Charles Greene March 1 – Dirk Benedict , American actorMarch 2 – Joy Garrett , American actor and vocalist (d. 1993 )March 3 – Hattie Winston , American actressMarch 4 – Gary Williams , American basketball coachMarch 7 – Arthur Lee , American musician (d. 2006 )March 8
March 9 – Dennis Rader , American serial killerMarch 12 – Sammy Gravano , American mobsterMarch 14
March 16 – Douglas Ahlstedt , Americamn operatic tenor (d. 2023 )March 18 – Chuck E. Weiss , American songwriter and vocalist (d. 2021 )March 20 – Pat Riley , American basketball coachMarch 21 – Charles Greene , American Olympic athleteMarch 22 – Sheila Frahm , American politicianMarch 24 – Curtis Hanson , American film director, screenwriter (d. 2016 )March 29 – Walt Frazier , African-American basketball playerMarch 31
Linda Hunt Michael J. Smith Bob Seger John Fogerty May 1 – Rita Coolidge , American pop singerMay 2 – James Vaupel , American scientistMay 3 – Jeffrey C. Hall , American geneticist and chronobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2017May 5
May 6
May 8 – Keith Jarrett , American musicianMay 21 – Richard Hatch , American actor (Battlestar Galactica 2017 )May 22 – Victoria Wyndham , American actress (Another World May 23 – Lauren Chapin , American child actress, evangelistMay 24 – Priscilla Wagner , American actress, businesswoman and wife of singer Elvis Presley May 28
May 30
May 31 – Blackberri , American singer-songwriter and community activist (d. 2021 )[ 19] John Carlos George Pataki Carly Simon June 1
June 2 – Jon Peters , film producerJune 3 – Hale Irwin , professional golferJune 4 – Anthony Braxton , composer, musical instrumentalistJune 5
June 6 – David Dukes , actor (d. 2000 )June 7 – Billy Butler , singer, songwriter (d. 2015 )June 8 – Steven Fromholz , singer, songwriter (d. 2014 )June 11 – Adrienne Barbeau , actress, television personality and author (Maude June 13 – Rodney P. Rempt , admiralJune 16 – Chip Damiani , drummer (The Remains ) (d. 2014 )June 17
June 19 – Greil Marcus , music journalist, cultural criticJune 23 – Jim Fouratt , gay activist and entertainerJune 24 – George Pataki , Governor of New York June 25
June 26 – Dwight York , musician, fashion consultant, cult leader, and child molesterJune 27 – Norma Kamali , fashion designerJune 30
Debbie Harry Burt Ward Ron Glass July 1
July 2 – Linda Warren , American authorJuly 6 – Burt Ward , American actor and activist (Batman July 9 – Dean Koontz , American novelistJuly 10 – Ron Glass , African-American actor (Barney Miller 2016 )July 11 – Richard Wesley , American playwright, screenwriterJuly 12
July 13
July 14 – Jim Gordon , American rock drummer (Derek and the Dominos ) and convicted murderer (d. 2023 )July 15 – Jan-Michael Vincent , American actor (d. 2019 )July 18 – Boomer Castleman , American singer, songwriter (d. 2015 )[ 21] July 20
July 21 – Alton H. Maddox Jr. , African-American lawyer (d. 2023 )July 23 – Edie McClurg , comedian, screen and voice actressJuly 26 – Betty Davis , African-American funk and soul singerJuly 28 – Jim Davis , American cartoonist (Garfield July 30
July 31 – William Weld , American politician Steve Martin Vince McMahon Wyomia Tyus Bob Welch August 1 – Douglas Osheroff , American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996August 4 – Alan Mulally , American businessman, CEO of the Ford Motor Company August 5 – Loni Anderson , American actress (WKRP in Cincinnati August 7 – Alan Page , American football playerAugust 11 – Embeth Davidtz , American actressAugust 12 – J. D. McClatchy , American poet and literary critic (d. 2018 )August 14 – Steve Martin , American actor, comedianAugust 15
August 16 – Paul Morantz , American attorney and investigative journalist (d. 2022 )August 20 – Jonathan Goodson , American television game show producer, son of Mark Goodson August 22
August 23 – Patti McGee , American skateboarder (d. 2024 )August 24
Marsha P. Johnson , born Malcolm Michaels Jr., African-American gay liberation activist and drag queen (d. 1992 )Vince McMahon , American professional wrestling promoter, chairman and CEO of WWE August 26
August 29 – Wyomia Tyus , American Olympic athleteAugust 31 – Bob Welch , American musician (d. 2012 ) Richard Thaler Jessye Norman September 4 – Danny Gatton , American guitarist (d. 1994 )September 6 – Larry Lucchino , American lawyer and baseball executive (d. 2024 )[ 22] September 8 – Ron "Pigpen" McKernan , American musician (d. 1973 )September 9 – Doug Ingle , American singer, songwriter (d. 2024 )September 10 – Marlin Briscoe , American football player (d. 2022 )[ 23] September 12
September 14 – Benjamin Harjo Jr. , Native American artistSeptember 15 – Jessye Norman , African-American operatic soprano (d. 2019 )September 16 – Pat Stevens , voice actress (d. 2010 )September 17 – Phil Jackson , basketball coachSeptember 18 – P. F. Sloan , singer, songwriter (d. 2015 )September 19 – Randolph Mantooth , actor, motivational speaker (Emergency! September 20
September 21 – Kay Ryan , poetSeptember 23 – Paul Petersen , child actor, advocate for other child actors September 24 – Lou Dobbs , political commentator and television host (d. 2024 )[ 26] Don McLean John Lithgow Henry Winkler October 1 – Donny Hathaway , African-American soul singer, songwriter (d. 1979 )October 2 – Don McLean , American rock singer, songwriter ("American Pie ")October 3 – Kay Baxter , American bodybuilder (d. 1988 )October 4 – Clifton Davis , African-American actor, minister (Amen October 11 – Dusty Rhodes , wrestler (d. 2015 )October 13 – Susan Stafford , television presenterOctober 15 – Jim Palmer , baseball playerOctober 18 – Huell Howser , television personality, host of California's Gold 2013 )October 19 – John Lithgow , actor (Third Rock from the Sun October 20
October 22
October 24
October 25 – David Schramm , astrophysicist (d. 1997 )October 26
October 27 – Carrie Snodgress , actress (d. 2004 )October 29
October 30
October 31 – Brian Doyle-Murray , actor (Saturday Night Live Goldie Hawn James Avery November 3 – Ken Holtzman , American baseball player and coach (d. 2024 )November 7 – Bob Englehart , American editorial cartoonistNovember 8 – Joseph James DeAngelo , American serial killer and rapistNovember 9 – Charlie Robinson , American actor (Night Court )2021 )[ 27] November 12
November 21 – Goldie Hawn , American actress, producer and singer (Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In November 22 – Robert Ben Rhoades , American serial killer, rapist known as "The Truck Stop Killer"November 23 – Jerry Harris , American sculptorNovember 25
November 26 – Daniel Davis , American actorNovember 27
November 30
Bette Midler Ernie Hudson Diane Sawyer December 1 – Bette Midler , American actress and singer[ 28] December 2 – Charles "Tex" Watson , American prisoner, 'Manson Family' memberDecember 6
December 9 – Michael Nouri , American actorDecember 13
Herman Cain , African-American conservative politician, author, business executive, radio host, syndicated columnist, and Tea Party activist (d. 2020 )Kathy Garver , actress, author and online radio hostessHeather North , actress (d. 2017 )December 16 – Patti Deutsch , voice actress (d. 2017 )December 17
December 18 – Carolyn Wood , professional swimmerDecember 19 – Elaine Joyce , actress, game show panelistDecember 20
December 22
December 23 – Donald A. Ritchie , historianDecember 24 – Nicholas Meyer , screenwriter, producer, director and novelistDecember 25 – Gary Sandy , actorDecember 26 – John Walsh , media personality (America's Most Wanted
January 3 – Edgar Cayce , mysticist (born 1877 )
January 6 – William Noble , missionary (born 1866 )
January 7
January 13 – Margaret Deland , novelist (born 1857 )
January 23 – Newton E. Mason , U.S. Navy rear admiral (born 1850 )
January 25 – Volga Hayworth , showgirl (born 1897 )
January 30 – Herbert L. Clarke , cornet virtuoso (born 1867 )
January 31 – Eddie Slovik , soldier (born 1920 ; executed for desertion)
February 2
February 11 – Al Dubin , songwriter (born 1891 in Switzerland)
February 13 – John West Sinclair , silent film actor (born 1900 )
February 18 – Jimmy Butler , actor (killed in action) (born 1921 )
February 19 – John Basilone , Medal of Honour recipient (killed in action) (born 1916 )February 22 – Sara Josephine Baker , physician (born 1873 )February 23 – Reginald Barker , film director (born 1886 )
February 26
March 1 – U.S. Marine flag raisers on Iwo Jima (killed in action in Battle of Iwo Jima )
March 3 – Bessie Alexander Ficklen , doggerel poet and hand puppet specialist (born 1861 )
March 4
March 8 – Jack Lummus , athlete and Medal of Honor recipient (killed in action) (born 1915 )
March 21 – Franklin Sousley , U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima (killed in Battle of Iwo Jima ) (born 1925 )
March 22 – John Hessin Clarke , Supreme Court Justice (born 1857 )
March 30 – Maurice Rose , U.S. Army general (born 1899 ; killed in action)
March 31 – Harriet Boyd Hawes , archaeologist (born 1871 )
April 10 – Gloria Dickson , actress (born 1917 ; killed in domestic fire)
April 12 – Franklin D. Roosevelt , 32nd president of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (born 1882 )
April 17 – Ernie Pyle , journalist (born 1900 )
April 29 – Malcolm McGregor , silent film actor (born 1892 )
April 30 – William Orlando Darby , U.S. Army colonel, creator of the Rangers (born 1911 ; killed in action)
May 5 – George Cary , architect (born 1859 ).[ 29]
May 14 – Heber J. Grant , 7th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1856 )
May 17 – Bobby Hutchins , Our Gang 1925 ; killed in military aviation accident)
May 18 – William Joseph Simmons , founder of the second Ku Klux Klan (born 1880 )
May 21
June 16 – Henry Bellamann , author (born 1882 )
June 18 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. , U.S. Army general (born 1886 ; killed in action at Battle of Okinawa )
June 20 – Bruno Frank , German author, poet, dramatist and humanist (born 1887 )
July 13 – Alla Nazimova , scriptwriter and actress (born 1879 in Crimea)
July 16 – Addison Randall , Western film actor (born 1906 )
July 19 – George Barbier , actor (born 1864 )
July 25 – Charles Gilman Norris , novelist (born 1881 )
August 9 – Harry Hillman , track athlete (born 1881 )
August 10 – Robert H. Goddard , rocket scientist (born 1882 )
August 25 – Willis Augustus Lee , U.S. Navy admiral and Olympic shooter (born 1888 ; heart attack on active service)
September 1 – Frank Craven , actor (born 1881 )[ 30]
September 6 – John S. McCain Sr. , U.S. Navy admiral (born 1884 ; heart attack on active service)
September 15 – Harry Daghlian , physicist (born 1921 )
September 18 – Blind Willie Johnson , African American gospel singer and guitarist (born 1897 ; pneumonia)
September 20 – Jack Thayer , survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic (born 1894 )
September 26 – A. Peter Dewey , soldier, first American casualty in Vietnam (born 1916 )
October 1
October 13 – Milton S. Hershey , chocolate tycoon (born 1857 )
October 24 – Charles D. Barney , stockbroker (born 1844 )
October 28 – Gilbert Emery , film actor and author (born 1875 )
November 7 – Gus Edwards , songwriter (born 1878 in Germany )
November 11 – Jerome Kern , popular composer (born 1885 )[ 32]
November 21
November 23 – Charles Armijo Woodruff , U.S. Navy officer and 11th Governor of American Samoa from 1914 to 1915 (born 1884 ; suicide)
November 25 – Doris Keane , stage actress (born 1881 )
November 26 – John Jenkins , auto racer (born 1875 )
November 28 – Dwight F. Davis , tennis player (born 1879 )
December 4 – Thomas Hunt Morgan , biologist, geneticist and embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 (born 1866 )
December 21 – George S. Patton , U.S. Army general (born 1885 ; died as result of auto accident in Germany)
December 26 – Russell Gleason , actor (born 1907 )
December 28 – Theodore Dreiser , novelist (born 1871 )[ 33]
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