1847) June 11 – Esther G. Frame, Quaker minister and evangelist (born 1840) June 18 – Jewett W. Adams, 4th Governor of Nevada from 1883 to 1887 (born 1835) July 2 – William Louis Marshall, general and engineer (born 1846) July 6 – Andrew Traynor, soldier (born 1843) July 17 – Charles E. Courtney, rower and coach (born 1849) July 22 – William Kissam Vanderbilt, heir (born 1849) August 1 – Frank Hanly, 26th Governor of Indiana from 1905 to 1909 (born 1863) August 2 – Ormer Locklear, pilot (born 1891) August 6 – Edward Francis Searles, interior designer (born 1841) August 9 – Melvin O. Adams, attorney and railroad executive (born 1847) August 10 – James O'Neill, actor (born 1847 in Ireland) August 12 – Walter W. Winans, sculptor, painter, marksman and horse-breeder (born 1852) August 17 – Ray Chapman, baseball player (born 1891) August 26 – James Wilson, politician (born 1835 in Scotland) September 5 – Robert Harron, actor (born 1893) September 10 – Olive Thomas, silent film actress (born 1894) October 2 – Winthrop M. Crane, 40th Governor of Massachusetts from 1900 to 1903 and U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1904 to 1913 (born 1853) October 17 – John Reed, journalist, in Moscow (born 1887) November 2 – Louise Imogen Guiney, poet and essayist (born 1861) November 3 – Warren Terhune, United States Navy Commander and 13th Governor of American Samoa (born 1869) November 7 – Amelie Veiller Van Norman, educator and civic reformer (born 1844 in France) November 25 – Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, women's suffrage campaigner (born 1872) November 30 – Eugene W. Chafin, politician (born 1852) December 9 – Mollie McConnell, actress (born 1865) December 14 – George Gipp, American football player (born 1895) December 18 – Casimiro Barela, politician, member of the Colorado Senate (born 1847) December 24 – Stephen Mosher Wood, politician (born 1832) See also List of American films of 1920 Timeline of United States history (1900–1929) References Further reading Burns, Eric. (2015). 1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar. New York: Pegasus Books. IMDB 978-1-605-98772-9. External links 1920s in the United States United States United States Years of the 20th century in the United States