Birthdays
- Actress Tallulah Bankhead, January 31
- Jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke, March 10
- Newspaper publisher Dorothy Schiff, March 11
- Pianist Rudolf Serkin, March 28
- Playwright and diplomat Clare Boothe Luce, April 10
- Pediatrician and author Dr. Benjamin Spock, May 2
- Chef and cookbook writer James Beard, May 5
- Comedian and actor Bob Hope, May 29
- Baseball player Lou Gehrig, June 19
- Writer George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), June 25
- Actress Claudette Colbert, September 13
- Painter Mark Rothko (Rothkowitz), September 25
- Writer Evelyn Waugh, October 28
- Jazz musician Earl “Fatha” Hines, December 28
- Mathematician John von Neumann, December 28