December 15 Bernice Falk Haydu, aviatrix (died 2021) Eddie Robinson, baseball player (died 2021) December 19 Little Jimmy Dickens, country music singer-songwriter (died 2015) David Susskind, producer and talk show host (died 1987) December 21 Iris Cummings, Olympic swimmer and aviatrix Adele Goldstine, mathematician (died 1964) Harold Lang, dancer and actor (died 1985) J. Roderick MacArthur, businessman and philanthropist (died 1984) December 30 – Jack Lord, actor (died 1998) December 31 – Rex Allen, screen actor, singer and songwriter, "the Arizona Cowboy" (d. 1999) Deaths January 8 – Maud Powell, violinist (born 1867) January 14 – John Francis Dodge, automobile manufacturer (born 1864) January 16 – Reginald De Koven, composer, conductor and critic (born 1859) February 2 – Field Eugene Kindley, World War I aviator (born 1896) February 3 – Frank Brown, 42nd Governor of Maryland from 1892 to 1896 (born 1846) February 15 – Joseph Burton Sumner, founder of Sumner, Mississippi (born 1837) February 20 Joseph J. Fern, Mayor of Honolulu from 1909 to 1915 and from 1917 to 1920 (born 1872) Robert Peary, Arctic explorer (born 1856) February 27 – William Sherman Jennings, 18th Governor of Florida from 1901 to 1905 (born 1863) March 1 John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1907 to 1920 (born 1842) William A. Stone, 22nd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1899 to 1903 (born 1846) March 4 – Roswell P. Bishop, U.S. Representative from Michigan from 1895 to 1907 (born 1843) March 13 – Mary Devens, photographer (born 1857) March 14 – Henry W. Blair, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1879 to 1891 (born 1834) March 26 Samuel Colman, painter and designer (born 1832) William Chester Minor, surgeon (born 1834) March 31 – Edwin Warfield, 45th Governor of Maryland from 1904 to 1908 (born 1848) April 3 – Mary Katharine Brandegee, botanist (born 1844) April 6 – Mary Evelyn Hitchcock, author and explorer (born 1849) April 8 John Brashear, American astronomer (born 1840) Charles Griffes, American composer (born 1884) April 12 – Walter Edwards, film director (born 1870) April 21 – Maria L. Sanford, educator (born 1836) May 11 – William Dean Howells, novelist (born 1837) May 10 – John Wesley Hyatt, inventor (born 1837) May 16 – Levi P. Morton, 22nd Vice President of the United States from 1889 to 1893 (born 1824) May 21 – Eleanor H. Porter, novelist (born 1868) June 5 – Julia A. Moore, poet (born