1928 in the United States

Events from the year 1928 in the United States

Incumbents

Government

* President: Calvin Coolidge ( R-Massachusetts)
* Vice President: Charles G. Dawes ( R-Illinois)
* Chief Justice: William Howard Taft (Ohio)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Nicholas Longworth ( R-Ohio)
* Senate Majority Leader: Charles Curtis ( R-Kansas)
* Congress: 70th

Events

January

* January 16
** U.S. murderer Ruth Snyder is executed at Ossining.
** 6th Pan-American Conference opens in Havana. Calvin Coolidge becomes the last sitting U.S. President until 2016 to visit Cuba.

February

* February 8 – British inventor John Logie Baird broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to Hartsdale, New York.
* February 25 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.

March

* March 12 – In California, the St. Francis Dam north of Los Angeles fails, killing 400.
* March 21 – Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.

April

* April 10 – "Pineapple Primary": The Republican Party primary elections in Chicago are preceded by assassinations and bombings.
* April 28 – Tamiami Trail linking Tampa and Miami officially opens to traffic.

May

* May 10 – The first regular schedule of television programming begins in Schenectady, New York by the General Electric's television station W2XB (the station is popularly known as WGY Television, after its sister radio station WGY).
* May 15 – The animated short ''Plane Crazy'' is released by Disney Studios in Los Angeles, featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
* May 19 – Mather Mine disaster
* May 26 – Airplane Coaster roller coaster opens at Playland, Rye, New York.
* May 29 – '' Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.'', a leading case in United States tort law on the question of liability to an unforeseeable plaintiff, is decided in the New York Court of Appeals.

June

* June 4 – '' Olmstead v. United States'' decided in the Supreme Court: wiretapped private telephone conversations, obtained by federal agents without judicial approval and subsequently used as evidence, do not violate the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution.
* June 3 – Serial killer Albert Fish kidnaps and kills 10-year-old Grace Budd in New York.
* June 17 – Aviator Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean. Wilmer Stultz is the pilot.
* June 29 – List of Governors of New York, New York Governor Al Smith, Alfred E. Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for President of the United States, U.S. President, at the 1928 Democratic National Convention, Democratic National Convention in Houston, Texas.
* June 29 – Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York is opened

July

* July 4 – Jean Lussier goes over Niagara Falls in a rubber ball.
* July 6 – The world's largest hailstone falls in Potter, Nebraska.
* July 7 – The first sliced bread, machine-sliced, machine-wrapped loaf of bread is sold in Chillicothe, Missouri, using Otto Frederick Rohwedder's technology.
* July 12 – Mexico, Mexican aviator Emilio Carranza dies in a solo plane crash in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, while returning from a goodwill flight to New York City.
* July 25 – The United States recalls its troops from China.

August

* August 16 – Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, D.C. after killing about 20 people.
* August 22 – Al Smith, Alfred E. Smith accepts the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic presidential nomination, with ''WGY/W2XB'' simulcasting the event on radio and television.

September

* September 1 – Richard E. Byrd, Richard Byrd leaves New York for the Arctic.
* September 11 – Kenmore, New York, Kenmore's WMAK station starts broadcasting in Buffalo, New York.
* September 16 – The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane kills at least 2,500 people in Florida.

October

* October 9 – The New York Yankees defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 0, to win their 3rd World Series Title.
* October 12 – An Negative pressure ventilator, iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, Boston.
* October 19 – William Edward Hickman is executed at San Quentin State Prison, for the 1927 murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker.
* October 28 – Glenn Miller and Helen Burger marry in New York City.

November

* November 4 – At Park Central Hotel in Manhattan, Arnold Rothstein, New York City's most notorious gambler, is shot to death over a poker game.
* November 6 – U.S. presidential election, 1928: United States Republican Party, Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over United States Democratic Party, Democratic Governor of New York Alfred E. Smith.
* November 17 – The Boston Garden opens in Boston.
* November 18 – Mickey Mouse appears in ''Steamboat Willie'', the third Mickey Mouse cartoon released, but the first sound film.

December

* December 5 – Police disperse a Sicilian gangs' meeting in Cleveland.
* December 21 – The U.S. Congress approves the construction of Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam.

Undated

* The Ford River Rouge Complex at Dearborn, Michigan, an automobile plant begun in 1917, is completed as the largest integrated factory in the world.
* W2XBS, RCA's first television station, is established in New York City.
* Eliot Ness begins to lead the prohibition unit in Chicago.
* The Episcopal Church (United States), Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America ratifies a new revision of the Book of Common Prayer.

Ongoing

* Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
* On the roof gang, group of cryptologists and radiomen during World War II (1928–1941)
* United States occupation of Haiti, U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
* Prohibition in the United States, Prohibition (1920–1933)
* Roaring Twenties (1920–1929)

Sport

*April 14 - New York Rangers win their First Stanley Cup by defeating the Montreal Maroons 3 games to 2. All games were played at the Montreal Forum. The Rangers become the Second American team to win the Stanley Cup and the first since the Seattle Metropolitans in 1918

Births

January

* January 1 – William Henry Draper III, American venture capitalist
* January 2
** Robert Goralski, American journalist (d. 1988 in the United States, 1988)
** Dan Rostenkowski, American politician (d. 2010 in the United States, 2010)
* January 5 – Walter Mondale, American politician, 42nd Vice President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (d. 2021)
* January 6 – George H. Ross, American businessman
* January 7 – William Peter Blatty, American novelist and screenwriter (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* January 8 – Slade Gorton, American politician
* January 9 – Judith Krantz, American novelist (d. 2019)
* January 10 – Philip Levine (poet), Philip Levine, American poet (d. 2015)
* January 11
** Mitchell Ryan, American actor
** David L. Wolper, American television producer (d. 2010)
* January 12 – Lloyd Ruby, American race car driver (d. 2009 in the United States, 2009)
* January 14 – Lauch Faircloth, American politician
* January 15
** James G. March, American sociologist (d. 2018)
** Joanne Linville, American actress
* January 16
** William Kennedy (author), William Kennedy, American author
** Sidney Kimmel, American businessman, philanthropist and film producer
* January 20 – Rudy Boesch, American soldier
* January 21 – Gene Sharp, American political theorist of nonviolent action (d. 2018)
* January 22 – Birch Bayh, American politician (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* January 30 – Harold Prince, American stage producer, director (d. 2019)

February

* February 1 – Tom Lantos, American politician (d. 2008 in the United States, 2008)
* February 5
** Andrew Greeley, American Catholic priest, fiction novelist (d. 2013 in the United States, 2013)
** William J. Larkin Jr., American politician (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* February 8 – Jack Larson, American actor, producer and playwright (d. 2015 in the United States, 2015)
* February 9
** Frank Frazetta, American illustrator (d. 2010 in the United States, 2010)
** Roger Mudd, American journalist (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* February 14 – Norman Bridwell, American cartoonist (d. 2014 in the United States, 2014)
* February 17 – Tom Jones (writer), Tom Jones, American lyricist
* February 18 – John Ostrom, American paleontologist (d. 2005 in the United States, 2005)
* February 20
** Roy Face, American baseball player
** Jean Kennedy Smith, American diplomat (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
* February 22
** Paul Dooley, American actor
** Clarence 13X, American religious leader, founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths (d. 1969)
* February 23 – Ralph Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 1973)
* February 26 – Fats Domino, African-American pianist and singer-songwriter (d. 2017)

March

* March 3 – Bernice Sandler, American women's rights activist (d. 2019)
* March 5 – J. Hillis Miller, American literary critic (d. 2021)
* March 6
** Delbert Daisey, American waterfowl wood carver, decoy maker (d. 2017)
** Dan Towler, American football player (d. 2001)
* March 7 – William Blankenship, American operatic tenor (d. 2017)
* March 7 – Martin Davis (mathematician), Martin Davis, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2023)
* March 9 – Keely Smith, American singer (d. 2017)
* March 10 – James Earl Ray, American assassin (d. 1998)
* March 12
** Edward Albee, American playwright (d. 2016)
** Ellen Raskin, American author and illustrator (d. 1984)
* March 14
** Frank Borman, American astronaut
** Earl Smith (1950s outfielder), Earl Smith, American baseball center fielder (d. 2014)
* March 15 – Bob Wilber, American clarinetist and saxophonist
* March 17 – Barbara Kloka Hackett, American judge (d. 2018)
* March 18 – Julia Mullock, American-Korean royal (d. 2017)
* March 19
** John Hall Buchanan Jr., American politician (d. 2018)
** Arthur Cook (sport shooter), Arthur Cook, American sport shooter
** Patrick McGoohan, American-born British-based actor of Irish descent (d. 2009)
* March 20
** E. D. Hirsch, American author, critic and academic
** Ed Macauley, American basketball player (d. 2011)
* March 23 – Mark Rydell, American actor, director and producer
* March 24
** Byron Janis, American pianist
** Mel Rosen, American track and field coach (d. 2018)
** Lloyd W. Bailey, faithless elector from North Carolina (died Deaths in August 2020, 2020)
* March 25
** Aubrey Dunn Sr., American politician (d. 2012)
** Jim Lovell, American astronaut
* March 27 – Douglas Applegate, politician (d. 2021)
* March 29 – Vincent Gigante, American Mafia gangster (d. 2005)
* March 31 – Lefty Frizzell, American country music performer (d. 1975)

April

* April 1 – George Grizzard, American actor (d. 2007)
* April 2 – Joseph Bernardin, American cardinal (d. 1996 in the United States, 1996)
* April 3
** Don Gibson, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
** Kevin Hagen, American actor (d. 2005)
** Earl Lloyd, African-American basketball player (d. 2015 in the United States, 2015)
* April 4
** Maya Angelou, African American poet and novelist (d. 2014)
** Estelle Harris, American actress
** Bill Ryan (journalist), Bill Ryan, American journalist (d. 1997 in the United States, 1997)
* April 5 – Tony Williams (singer), Tony Williams, American singer (d. 1992 in the United States, 1992)
* April 6
** Joi Lansing, American actress (d. 1972 in the United States, 1972)
** James D. Watson, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* April 7
** James Garner, American actor, producer (d. 2014)
** Alan J. Pakula, American producer, director (d. 1998 in the United States, 1998)
* April 8 – Fred Ebb, American composer (d. 2004 in the United States, 2004)
* April 9
** Floyd Spence, American politician (d. 2001 in the United States, 2001)
** Tom Lehrer, American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist and mathematician
* April 11 – Ethel Kennedy, American human-rights campaigner, wife of Robert F. Kennedy
* April 16 – Night Train Lane, American football player (d. 2002 in the United States, 2002)
* April 17
** Cynthia Ozick, American writer
** Victor Lownes, American businessman (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* April 18 – Arnold Oss, American ice hockey player
* April 19 – Richard Garwin, American physicist
* April 20 – Robert Byrne (chess player), Robert Byrne, American chess player (d. 2013)
* April 23 – Shirley Temple, American actress, singer, dancer, businesswoman, and diplomat (d. 2014)
* April 24 – Johnny Griffin, African-American jazz saxophonist (d. 2008)
* April 25 – Cy Twombly, American artist (d. 2011)
* April 27 – Fred Weintraub, American film, television producer (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* April 28 – Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American geologist (d. 1997)

May

* May 1 – Sonny James, American country singer (d. 2016)
* May 3
** Jeanne Bal, American actress and model (d. 1996 in the United States, 1996)
** Dave Dudley, American country singer (d. 2003)
* May 4
** Betsy Rawls, American professional golfer
** Joseph Tydings, American politician
* May 5 – Marshall Grant, American musician (d. 2011 in the United States, 2011)
* May 7 – John Ingle, American actor (d. 2012 in the United States, 2012)
* May 8
** Robert Conley (reporter), Robert Conley, American journalist (d. 2013 in the United States, 2013)
** Ted Sorensen, American lawyer, writer, and presidential adviser (d. 2010 in the United States, 2010)
* May 9
** Ralph Goings, American painter (d. 2016)
** Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (d. 1995)
* May 11 – Vern Rapp, American baseball player, coach and manager (d. 2015 in the United States, 2015)
* May 12
** Burt Bacharach, American composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist, and singer (d. 2023 in the United States, 2023)
** Manuel Lujan Jr., American politician (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* May 14 – Dub Jones (singer), Dub Jones, American R&B singer (d. 2011 in the United States, 2011)
* May 16 – Billy Martin, American baseball player, manager (d. 1989)
* May 18
** Pernell Roberts, American actor (d. 2010)
** Sara Shane, American actress
* May 19 – Dolph Schayes, American basketball player (d. 2015 in the United States, 2015)
* May 21 – Alice Drummond, American actress (d. 2016)
* May 22 – T. Boone Pickens, American businessman (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* May 23 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
* May 24 – Leonard B. Sand, American judge (d. 2016)
* May 25 – Mary Wells Lawrence, American advertising executive
* May 26 – Jack Kevorkian, American right-to-die advocate (d. 2011 in the United States, 2011)
* May 29 – George A. Sinner, American politician (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* May 31
** Consuelo Crespi, American fashion icon (d. 2010 in the United States, 2010)
** Gloria Schiff, American fashion icon (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)

June

* June 3 – Louise Daniel Hutchinson, American historian and academic (d. 2014 in the United States, 2014)
* June 6
** George Deukmejian, American politician (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
** Ed Fury, American actor, bodybuilder and model
* June 9 – Jackie Mason, American comedian (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* June 12
** Vic Damone, American singer (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
** Richard M. Sherman, American songwriter
* June 13 – John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (d. 2015 in the United States, 2015)
* June 19
** Elizabeth Connelly, American politician (d. 2006 in the United States, 2006)
** Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000 in the United States, 2000)
* June 20
** Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (d. 1964 in the United States, 1964)
** Martin Landau, American actor (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* June 21
** Charles D. Baker (businessman), Charles D. Baker, American businessman, former U.S. government official
* June 22
** Alfred M. Gray, Jr., general
** Ralph Waite, actor, political activist (''The Waltons'') (d. 2014)
* June 23
** Leon Fleischer, concert pianist
** Ray Hyman, Professor Emeritus of Psychology
** Pete Ladygo, American football player (d. 2014 in the United States, 2014)
* June 24
** Lester Grinspoon, Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
** Lawrence A. Skantze, United States Air Force general (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* June 25
** William Russo (musician), Bill Russo, pianist and composer (d. 2003 in the United States, 2003)
** Alex Toth, animator and screenwriter (d. 20106 in the United States, 2006)
** Robert Dean Hunter, politician
** Edwin Mills (economist), Edwin Mills, economist
** John A. Wickham Jr., United States Army military officer
* June 26
** Danford B. Greene, actor (d. 2015 in the United States, 2015)
** Bill Sheffield, politician
* June 27 – Edward B. Cottingham, politician
* June 28 – Patrick Hemingway, second son of author Ernest Hemingway
* June 29
** Bill Bagley, politician
** James Lincoln Collier, journalist, musician and author
** Nick Testa, professional baseball catcher, coach (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* June 30 – Nathaniel Tarn, poet, essayist, anthropologist and translator

July

* July 4 – Chuck Tanner, American baseball player and manager (d. 2011 in the United States, 2011)
* July 5
** Lorraine Fisher, American professional baseball player (d. 2007 in the United States, 2007)
** Ernie Kell, American politician (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
** Bruce Nickells, American harness racing driver, trainer
* July 6
** Richard R. Larson (Wyoming politician), Richard R. Larson, American politician (d. 2016)
** Wally Osterkorn, American basketball player (d. 2012 in the United States, 2012)
** Eugene Ostroff, historian and museum curator (d. 1999 in the United States, 1999)
* July 8 – Pat Adams, painter, printmaker
* July 9 – Vince Edwards, actor (''Ben Casey'') (d. 1996 in the United States, 1996)
* July 10
** John Glenn (1960s outfielder), John Glenn, Major League Baseball outfielder
** Herb Johnson (American football), Herb Johnson, American football player
* July 11 – Conrad Janis, American jazz trombonist and actor
* July 12
** Elias James Corey, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate
** Hayden White, historian (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* July 13
** Bob Crane, American actor (''Hogan's Heroes'') (d. 1978)
** Daryl Spencer, American professional baseball player (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
** Leroy Vinnegar, American musician (d. 1999 in the United States, 1999)
* July 14 – Nancy Olson, American actress
* July 15 – Tom Troupe, American actor, writer
* July 16 – Jim Rathmann, American race car driver (d. 2011 in the United States, 2011)
* July 17 – Joe Morello, American jazz drummer (d. 2011 in the United States, 2011)
* July 18
** Baddiewinkle, (b. Helen Ruth Elam Van Winkle), American internet personality
** Billy Harrell, American baseball player and scout (d. 2014 in the United States, 2014)
* July 19 – Priscilla Johnson McMillan, journalist and historian (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* July 20 – Cecilia Suyat Marshall, American civil rights activist and historian (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
* July 22
** Orson Bean, American film, television and stage actor (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
** Robert Bergland, American politician (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
** Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005 in the United States, 2005)
** Nick Galifianakis (politician), Nick Galifianakis, American politician
** Stu Locklin, American Major League Baseball outfielder (d. 2016)
* July 23 – Leon Fleisher, American classical pianist (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
* July 26
** Joe Jackson (manager), Joe Jackson, African-American talent manager (d. 2018
** Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999)

August

* August 1
** James R. Dixon, American professor (d. 2015 in the United States, 2015)
** Jack Shea (director), Jack Shea, American film, television director (d. 2013 in the United States, 2013)
* August 3 – Janet Abu-Lughod, American sociologist (d. 2013 in the United States, 2013)
* August 4 – Gerard Damiano, American adult film director (d. 2008 in the United States, 2008)
* August 5 – Bogdan Maglich, American physicist (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* August 6 – Andy Warhol, American figure in the visual art movement pop art (d. 1987)
* August 7 – Herbert H. Bateman, American politician (d. 2000 in the United States, 2000)
* August 8 – Jane Stoll, American professional baseball player (d. 2000 in the United States, 2000)
* August 9
** Dolores Wilson, American coloratura soprano (d. 2010 in the United States, 2010)
** Bob Cousy, American basketball player
** Martin Greenfield, American tailor and Holocaust survivor
** Camilla Wicks, American violinist (d. 2020 in the United States, 2020)
** Zeb Alley, American lawyer, lobbyist, and politician (d. 2013 in the United States, 2013)
* August 10
** Don Bustany, American radio, television broadcaster (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
** Jimmy Dean, American country musician, entrepreneur (d. 2010)
** Eddie Fisher (singer), Eddie Fisher, American singer and actor (d. 2010)
* August 12
** Bob Buhl, American baseball player (d. 2001 in the United States, 2001)
** Micki Marlo, American model and singer (d. 2016)
* August 16
** George Ahlgren, American rower who competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics (d. 1951 in the United States, 1951)
** Eydie Gormé, American singer (d. 2013 in the United States, 2013)
** Ann Blyth, American actress, singer
** Wyatt Tee Walker, American pastor, civil rights leader, theologian, and historian (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* August 18 – Marge Schott, American baseball team owner (d. 2004 in the United States, 2004)
* August 19 – Laurette Luez, American actress (d. 1999 in the United States, 1999)
* August 20 – Frank Rosolino, American jazz trombonist (d. 1978 in the United States, 1978)
* August 21 – Art Farmer, American jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player (d. 1999)
* August 22 – Ray Marshall, American politician
* August 23 – Marian Seldes, American actress (d. 2014)
* August 25
** Kayo Dottley, American football player (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
** Jason Epstein, American editor and publisher (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
** Karl Korte, American composer
* August 28 – Ed Salem, American football quarterback, defensive back (d. 2001 in the United States, 2001)
* August 30
** Shirley Huffman, American politician (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
** Johnny Mann, American composer, arranger, and singer (d. 2014 in the United States, 2014)
* August 31 – James Coburn, American actor (d. 2002)

September

* September 1 – George Maharis, American actor
* September 2 – Horace Silver, American jazz pianist, composer and arranger (d. 2014)
* September 3 – James Churgin, geologist and oceanographer
* September 4 – Dick York, American actor (d. 1992)
* September 6 – Robert M. Pirsig, American philosopher (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* September 7
** Donald Henderson, American epidemiologist, leader of global smallpox eradication program (d. 2016)
** Al McGuire, basketball player, coach, and commentator (d. 2001 in the United States, 2001)
* September 9 – Sol LeWitt, American artist (d. 2007 in the United States, 2007)
* September 10 – Walter Ralston Martin, American Baptist Christian minister and author (d. 1989)
* September 11
** Earl Holliman, American actor
** William X. Kienzle, American author (d. 2001 in the United States, 2001)
* September 12
** Robert Irwin (artist), Robert Irwin, American painter
** Muriel Siebert, American stockbroker (d. 2013 in the United States, 2013)
* September 13 – Robert Indiana, American contemporary artist (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* September 14
** Dick Clark (senator), Dick Clark, American politician
** Park Honan, American academic, author (d. 2014 in the United States, 2014)
* September 15
** Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist (d. 1975)
** Henry Silva, American actor
* September 16 – Patricia Wald, American judge (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* September 19 – Adam West, American actor (d. 2017)
* September 20
** Jack Edwards (American politician), Jack Edwards, American politician
** Donald Hall, American poet, United States Poet Laureate (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
** Ruth Richard, American female professional baseball player (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
** Martin Tolchin, American journalist and author (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
* September 22
** James Lawson (American activist), James Lawson, African-American civil rights activist, minister and professor
** Eugene Roche, American actor (d. 2004 in the United States, 2004)
** Richard Stone (politician), Richard Stone, American politician
* September 23
** Bernie Custis, American and Canadian football player (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
** Hollie Pihl, American judge (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* September 25 – Victor Gold (journalist), Victor Gold, American journalist, press secretary (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* September 26 – Robert D. Ray, American lawyer, politician (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* September 27 – Watson family, Garry Watson, American child actor
* September 28 – Koko Taylor, African-American singer (d. 2009)

October

* October 1
** George Peppard, American film, television actor (d. 1994 in the United States, 1994)
** Erica Yohn, American actress (d. 2019 in the United States, 2019)
* October 2 – George "Spanky" McFarland, American child actor (d. 1993)
* October 3
** Edward L. Moyers, American railroad executive (d. 2006 in the United States, 2006)
** Richard Stolley, American journalist and magazine editor (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
* October 4 – Alvin Toffler, American futurologist (d. 2016)
* October 7
** Muriel Bevis, baseball player (d. 2002 in the United States, 2002)
** Herb Rich, American football player (d. 2008 in the United States, 2008)
** Abraham Woods, civil rights leader (d. 2008 in the United States, 2008)
* October 8 – M. Russell Ballard, American businessman and religious leader
* October 14 – Gary Graffman, American concert pianist
* October 16 – Eileen Ryan, American actress
* October 17
** Lerone Bennett Jr., African-American scholar, author (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
** Jimmy Breslin, American journalist (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* October 18 – Keith Jackson, American sports commentator, journalist, author, and radio personality (d. 2018)
* October 21
** Vern Mikkelsen, American professional basketball player (d. 2013 in the United States, 2013)
** Whitey Ford, American baseball player
* October 25
** Jeanne Cooper, American actress (d. 2013)
** Anthony Franciosa, American actor (d. 2006)
** Marion Ross, American actress
* October 27 – Waldo Holmes, American musician and songwriter
* October 30
** Ann Russell Miller, socialite and nun (d. 2021 in the United States, 2021)
** Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1999 in the United States, 1999)
* October 31 – Roy Romer, American politician

November

* November 3
**George Yardley, basketball player (d. 2004 in the United States, 2004)
** Nick Holonyak, electrical engineer and inventor (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
* November 4 – George Stanich, high jumper
* November 6
** Norman Carlberg, sculptor and printmaker (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
** Zara Steiner, American-English historian and academic (d. 2020 in the United Kingdom, 2020)
* November 7 – Herbert Flam, tennis player (d. 1980 in the United States, 1980)
* November 9
** Anne Sexton, poet (d. 1974 in the United States, 1974)
* November 11 – Ernestine Anderson, jazz and blues singer (d. 2016)
* November 12 – Bobby Baker, political adviser to Lyndon B. Johnson (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* November 13 – Steve Bilko, baseball player (d. 1978 in the United States, 1978)
* November 14 – Kathleen Hughes, actress
* November 15
** C. W. McCall, country singer and politician
** Seldon Powell, jazz and soul woodwind player (d. 1997 in the United States, 1997)
* November 16 – Clu Gulager, actor and director
* November 17
** Rance Howard, actor (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
** Anna Meyer, female professional baseball player
* November 18
** Norman Baker (explorer), Norman Baker, explorer (d. 2017)
** Sheila Jordan, singer and pianist
** Lloyd R. Leavitt Jr., air force lieutenant general (d. 2016)
* November 20 – Pete Rademacher, American boxer
* November 23 – Elmarie Wendel, American actress and singer (d. 2018 in the United States, 2018)
* November 25 – Jimmy Johnson (blues guitarist), Jimmy Johnson, blues guitarist (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
* November 29 – Paul Simon (politician), Paul Simon, American politician (d. 2003 in the United States, 2003)
* November 30 – Joe B. Hall, American basketball coach

December

* December 1 – Sarge Ferris, American professional poker player (d. 1989 in the United States, 1989)
* December 2 – Edwin Kessler, American atmospheric scientist (d. 2017 in the United States, 2017)
* December 7 – Noam Chomsky, American linguist
* December 9 – Dick Van Patten, American actor (d. 2015 in the United States, 2015)
* December 10
** Dan Blocker, American actor (''Bonanza'') (d. 1972 in the United States, 1972)
** Barbara Nichols, American actress (d. 1976)
* December 12
** Helen Frankenthaler, American painter (d. 2011)
** Lonesome Sundown, American blues musician (d. 1995 in the United States, 1995
* December 15
** Ernest Ashworth, American country music singer (d. 2009 in the United States, 2009)
** Jimmy Nelson (ventriloquist), Jimmy Nelson, American ventriloquist
** Jerry Wallace, American singer (d. 2008 in the United States, 2008)
* December 16
** Terry Carter, American actor and filmmaker
** Philip K. Dick, American science fiction author (d. 1982)
** Bruce Ames, American biochemist
* December 17 – George Lindsey, American actor (d. 2012)
* December 19 – Nathan Oliveira, American painter, printmaker, and sculptor (d. 2010 in the United States, 2010)
* December 20 – Jack Christiansen, American football player and coach (d. 1986 in the United States, 1986)
* December 21
** Ed Nelson, American actor (d. 2014)
** Colleen Townsend, American actress and author
* December 23
** Billy Cook (criminal), Billy Cook, American spree killer (d. 1952)
** Buddy Harman, American drummer and session musician (d. 2008 in the United States, 2008)
** Roger Jepsen, American politician
* December 24 – Nancy Tuckerman, American secretary (d. 2018)
* December 25
** Irish McCalla, American actress, model (d. 2002 in the United States, 2002)
** Dick Miller, American actor (d. 2019)
* December 26 – Martin Cooper (inventor), Martin Cooper, American inventor, "father of the mobile phone"
* December 27 – Richard Freed, American music critic (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
* December 28 – Bill Gradison, American politician
* December 29 – June Preston, American child actress (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)
* December 30 – Bo Diddley, African-American musician (d. 2008)
* December 31 – Hugh McElhenny, American football player (d. 2022 in the United States, 2022)

Deaths

* January 1 – Loie Fuller, dancer (born 1862 in the United States, 1862)
* January 3
** Dorothy Donnelly, actress and songwriter (born 1880 in the United States, 1880)
** Emily Stevens (actress), Emily Stevens, actress (born 1882 in the United States, 1882)
* January 6 – Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (born 1876 in the United States, 1876)
* January 12 – Ruth Snyder, murderer (born 1895 in the United States, 1895)
* January 13 – Frederick Arthur Bridgman, artist (born 1847 in the United States, 1847)
* January 21 – John A. Kimberly, entrepreneur, co-founder of Kimberly-Clark (born 1838 in the United States, 1838)
* January 22 – Victor Blue, American admiral (born 1865 in the United States, 1865)
* January 25 – Charles Gorman (actor), Charles Gorman, American actor (born 1865 in the United States, 1865)
* March 7 – Robert Abbe, surgeon (born 1851 in the United States, 1851)
* March 19 – Nora Bayes, singer and actress (born 1880 in the United States, 1880)
* April 2 – Theodore William Richards, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (born 1868 in the United States, 1868)
* April 8 – Wendell P. Bowman, army major general (born 1847 in the United States, 1847)
* April 22
** Warner B. Bayley, admiral (born 1845 in the United States, 1845)
** Frank Currier, actor (born 1857 in the United States, 1857)
* April 25 – Floyd Bennett, aviator (born 1890 in the United States, 1890)
* May 8 – Clara Williams, actress (born 1888 in the United States, 1888)
* May 18 – Bill Haywood, labor leader (born 1869 in the United States, 1869)
* May 19 – Bessie Van Vorst, campaigning journalist (died 1873 in the United States, 1873)
* June 6 – John D. Works, U.S. Senator from California from 1911 to 1917 (born 1847 in the United States, 1847)
* June 16 – Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools (born 1867 in the United States, 1867)
* June 22
** A. B. Frost, illustrator (born 1851 in the United States, 1851)
** George Siegmann, actor (born 1882 in the United States, 1882)
* June 24 – Holbrook Blinn, actor (born 1872 in the United States, 1872)
* July 1
** Avery Hopwood, playwright (born 1882 in the United States, 1882)
** Frankie Yale, gangster (born 1893 in the United States, 1893)
* August 29 – George N. Bliss, soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1837 in the United States, 1837)
* October 8 – Larry Semon, actor (born 1889 in the United States, 1889)
* October 20 – Mary Ingalls, blind older sister of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (born 1865 in the United States, 1865)
* October 24 – Arthur Bowen Davies, artist (born 1863 in the United States, 1863)
* October 30 – Robert Lansing, Secretary of State (born 1864 in the United States, 1864)
* December 11 – Lewis Howard Latimer, inventor (born 1848 in the United States, 1848)
* December 14 – Theodore Roberts, actor (born 1861 in the United States, 1861)
* December 16 – Elinor Wylie, poet and novelist (born 1885 in the United States, 1885)
* December 25 – Fred Thomson, silent film actor (born 1890 in the United States, 1890)

See also

* 1928 in American television
* List of American films of 1928
* Timeline of United States history (1900–1929)

References

External links

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{{Year in North America, 1928

1928 in the United States,
1920s in the United States
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