1894 in the United States

Events from the year 1894 in the United States.

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Incumbents

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Events

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Ongoing

Births
  • January 2 – Robert Nathan, poet and novelist (died 1985)
  • January 11 – Alexander Hall, film director, film editor and theater actor (died 1968)
  • January 20 – Walter Piston, composer (died 1976)
  • January 31
  • February 1
  • February 3 – Norman Rockwell, painter and illustrator (died 1978)
  • February 14 – Jack Benny, actor and comedian (died 1974)
  • February 18 – Paul Williams, architect (died 1980)
  • February 22 – Enid Markey, actress (died 1981)
  • February 25 – Frank P. Briggs, U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1945 to 1947 (died 1992)
  • February 28 – Ben Hecht, playwright and film writer (died 1964)
  • March 14 – Osa Johnson (née Leighty), adventurer and filmmaker, wife of Martin Johnson (died 1953)
  • March 17 – Paul Green, playwright (died 1981)
  • March 19 – Moms Mabley, African American comedian (died 1975)
  • March 31 – Francis T. Maloney, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1935 to 1945 (died 1945)
  • April 3 – Dooley Wilson, African American pianist and singer (died 1953)
  • April 15 – Bessie Smith, African American blues singer (died 1937)
  • April 19 – Elizabeth Dilling, right-wing political activist (died 1966)
  • May 2 – Norma Talmadge, silent film actress (died 1957)
  • May 5 – August Dvorak, educational psychologist (died 1975)
  • May 11 – Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer (died 1991)
  • May 15 – Eddie Stumpf, baseball player (died 1978)
  • May 16 – Walter Yust, encyclopædia editor (died 1960)
  • May 27 – Dashiell Hammett, detective fiction writer (died 1961)
  • May 31 – Fred Allen, comedian (died 1956)
  • June 5 – James Glenn Beall, U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1953 to 1965 (died 1971)
  • June 23 – Alfred Kinsey, biologist, professor of entomology and zoology and sexologist, founder of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University (Bloomington) in 1947 (died 1956)
  • June 28 – Arthur Dewey Struble, admiral (died 1983)
  • July 9 – Phelps Putnam, poet (died 1948)
  • July 20 – Wiley Rutledge, jurist (died 1949)
  • July 26 – Aldous Huxley, philosopher and author of Brave New World (died 1963)
  • August 3 – Harry Heilmann, baseball player (died 1951)
  • August 12 – Dick Calkins, comic book writer (Buck Rogers) (died 1962)
  • August 16 – George Meany, labor leader (died 1980)
  • August 29 – Henry Dworshak, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1946 to 1949 and from 1949 to 1962 (died 1962)
  • September 6 – Howard Pease, adventure novelist (died 1974)
  • September 7 – George Waggner, film director, producer and actor (died 1984)
  • September 12 – Billy Gilbert, comedian and actor (died 1971)
  • September 19 – Rachel Field, author and poet (died 1942)[2]
  • September 24 – Harry B. Liversedge, general (died 1951)
  • September 25 – J. Mayo Williams, African American blues music producer (died 1980])
  • September 26 – Vaughn De Leath, crooner, "The Original Radio Girl" (died 1943)
  • October 2 – Thomas L. Sprague, admiral (died 1972)
  • October 4 – Patrick V. McNamara, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1955 to 1966 (died 1966)
  • October 7 – Del Lord, film director (died 1970)
  • October 9 – Ernest McFarland, U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1941 to 1953 (died 1984)
  • October 14 – E. E. Cummings, poet and painter (died 1962)
  • October 18 – H. L. Davis, fiction writer (died 1960)
  • November 5
  • November 8 – Claude Beck, cardiac surgeon (died 1971)
  • November 23 – Andrew Frank Schoeppel, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1949 to 1962 (died 1962)
  • November 26 – Norbert Wiener, mathematician (died 1964)
  • November 28 – Henry Hazlitt, journalist and economist (died 1993)
  • December 5 – Philip K. Wrigley, business and sports executive (died 1977)
  • December 8
  • December 15 – Felix Stump, admiral (died 1972)
  • December 17 – Arthur Fiedler, orchestral conductor (died 1979)
  • December 26 – Jean Toomer (Nathan Eugene Pinchback Toomer), African American poet and novelist (died 1967)
  • December 29 – J. Lister Hill, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1938 to 1969 (died 1984)

Deaths
  • January 15 – Henry Mower Rice, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1858 to 1863 (born 1816)
  • February 4 – Morton S. Wilkinson, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1859 to 1865 (born 1819)
  • February 28 – James W. McDill, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1881 to 1883 (born 1834)
  • March 2
  • March 3 – Ned Williamson, baseball player (born 1857)
  • March 26 – Alfred H. Colquitt, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1883 to 1894 (born 1824)
  • March 28 – George Ticknor Curtis, author, lawyer and historian (born 1812)
  • April 7 – Benjamin Franklin King Jr., poet and humorist (born 1857)
  • April 14 – Zebulon Baird Vance, Confederate military officer in the American Civil War, the 37th and 43rd Governor of North Carolina, U.S. Senator (born 1830)
  • April 15 – James Harvey, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1874 to 1877 (born 1833)
  • April 30 – Francis B. Stockbridge, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1887 to 1894 (born 1826)
  • June 17 – William Hart, landscape painter (born 1823 in Scotland)
  • June 20 – Bishop W. Perkins, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1892 to 1893 (born 1841)
  • June 24 – George Peter Alexander Healy, American portrait painter (born 1813)
  • July 19 – William B. Avery, Union Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (born 1840)
  • August 15 – Arthur Rotch, architect (born 1850)
  • October 7 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., physician and writer (born 1809)
  • October 15 – Macon Bolling Allen, first African American to become a lawyer, argue before a jury, and hold a judicial position in the United States (born 1816).
  • October 18 – William F. Raynolds, military engineer (born 1820)
  • September 1
  • November 30 – Joseph E. Brown, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1880 to 1891 (born 1821)
  • December 19 – James L. Alcorn, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1871 to 1877 (born 1816)

See also

References
  1. Cocks, Catherine; et al. (2009). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6293-7.
  2. Fordyce, Rachel (1978). "Field, Rachel (Lyman)". In Kirkpatrick, D.L. (ed.). Twentieth-century Children's Writers. London: Macmillan. p. 445. ISBN 978-0-33323-414-3.
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