Events from the year 1969 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal Government
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
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Governors
- Governor of Alabama: Albert Brewer (Democratic)
- Governor of Alaska: Wally Hickel (Republican) (until January 29), Keith Harvey Miller (Republican) (starting January 29)
- Governor of Arizona: Jack Richard Williams (Republican)
- Governor of Arkansas: Winthrop Rockefeller (Republican)
- Governor of California: Ronald Reagan (Republican)
- Governor of Colorado: John Arthur Love (Republican)
- Governor of Connecticut: John N. Dempsey (Democratic)
- Governor of Delaware: Charles L. Terry Jr. (Democratic) (until January 21), Russell W. Peterson (Republican) (starting January 21)
- Governor of Florida: Claude R. Kirk Jr. (Republican)
- Governor of Georgia: Lester Maddox (Democratic)
- Governor of Hawaii: John A. Burns (Democratic)
- Governor of Idaho: Don Samuelson (Republican)
- Governor of Illinois: Samuel H. Shapiro (Democratic) (until January 13), Richard B. Ogilvie (Republican) (starting January 13)
- Governor of Indiana: Roger D. Branigin (Democratic) (until January 13), Edgar Whitcomb (Republican) (starting January 13)
- Governor of Iowa:
- Governor of Kansas: Robert Docking (Democratic)
- Governor of Kentucky: Louie B. Nunn (Republican)
- Governor of Louisiana: John J. McKeithen (Democratic)
- Governor of Maine: Kenneth M. Curtis (Democratic)
- Governor of Maryland: Spiro Agnew (Republican) (until January 7), Marvin Mandel (Democratic) (starting January 7)
- Governor of Massachusetts: John A. Volpe (Republican) (until January 22), Francis W. Sargent (Republican) (starting January 22)
- Governor of Michigan: George W. Romney (Republican) (until January 22), William Milliken (Republican) (starting January 22)
- Governor of Minnesota: Harold LeVander (Republican)
- Governor of Mississippi: John Bell Williams (Democratic)
- Governor of Missouri: Warren E. Hearnes (Democratic)
- Governor of Montana: Tim M. Babcock (Republican) (until January 6), Forrest H. Anderson (Democratic) (starting January 6)
- Governor of Nebraska: Norbert T. Tiemann (Republican)
- Governor of Nevada: Paul Laxalt (Republican)
- Governor of New Hampshire: John W. King (Democratic) (until January 2), Walter R. Peterson Jr. (Republican) (starting January 2)
- Governor of New Jersey: Richard J. Hughes (Democratic)
- Governor of New Mexico: David F. Cargo (Republican)
- Governor of New York: Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
- Governor of North Carolina: Dan K. Moore (Democratic) (until January 5), Robert W. Scott (Democratic) (starting January 5)
- Governor of North Dakota: William L. Guy (Democratic)
- Governor of Ohio: Jim Rhodes (Republican)
- Governor of Oklahoma: Dewey F. Bartlett (Republican)
- Governor of Oregon: Tom McCall (Republican)
- Governor of Pennsylvania: Raymond P. Shafer (Republican)
- Governor of Rhode Island: John Chafee (Republican) (until January 7), Frank Licht (Democratic) (starting January 7)
- Governor of South Carolina: Robert Evander McNair (Democratic)
- Governor of South Dakota: Nils Boe (Republican) (until January 7), Frank Farrar (Republican) (starting January 7)
- Governor of Tennessee: Buford Ellington (Democratic)
- Governor of Texas: John Connally (Democratic) (until January 21), Preston Smith (Democratic) (starting January 21)
- Governor of Utah: Cal Rampton (Democratic)
- Governor of Vermont: Philip H. Hoff (Democratic) (until January 9), Deane C. Davis (Republican) (starting January 9)
- Governor of Virginia: Mills E. Godwin Jr. (Democratic)
- Governor of Washington: Daniel J. Evans (Republican)
- Governor of West Virginia: Hulett C. Smith (Democratic) (until January 13), Arch A. Moore Jr. (Republican) (starting January 13)
- Governor of Wisconsin: Warren P. Knowles (Republican)
- Governor of Wyoming: Stanley K. Hathaway (Republican)
Lieutenant Governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: vacant
- Lieutenant Governor of Alaska: Keith Harvey Miller (Republican) (until January 29), Robert W. Ward (Republican) (starting January 29)
- Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas: Maurice Britt (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of California: Robert Hutchinson Finch (Republican) (until January 8), Edwin Reinecke (Republican) (starting January 8)
- Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Mark Anthony Hogan (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Attilio R. Frassinelli (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: Sherman W. Tribbitt (Democratic) (until January 21), Eugene Bookhammer (Republican) (starting January 21)
- Lieutenant Governor of Florida: vacant (until January 7), Ray C. Osborne (Republican) (starting January 7)
- Lieutenant Governor of Georgia: George T. Smith (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii: Thomas Gill (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: Jack M. Murphy (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: vacant (until January 13), Paul Simon (Democratic) (starting January 13)
- Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Robert L. Rock (Democratic) (until January 13), Richard E. Folz (Republican) (starting January 13)
- Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: Robert D. Fulton (Democratic) (until January 1), Roger Jepsen (Republican) (starting January 1)
- Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: John Crutcher (Republican) (until January 13), James H. DeCoursey Jr. (Democratic) (starting January 13)
- Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Wendell H. Ford (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: C. C. Aycock (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Francis W. Sargent (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: William G. Milliken (Republican) (until January 22), vacant (starting January 22)
- Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: James B. Goetz (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Charles L. Sullivan (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Thomas Eagleton (Democratic) (until January 13), William S. Morris (Democratic) (starting January 13)
- Lieutenant Governor of Montana: Ted James (Republican) (until January 6), Thomas Lee Judge (Democratic) (starting January 6)
- Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: John E. Everroad (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Edward Fike (political party unknown)
- Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico: Elias Lee Francis II (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of New York: Malcolm Wilson (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Robert W. Scott (Democratic) (until January 3), Hoyt Patrick Taylor Jr. (Democratic) (starting January 3)
- Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: Charles Tighe (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Richard F. Larsen (Republican) (starting month and day unknown)
- Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: John William Brown (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: George Nigh (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Raymond J. Broderick (Republican)
- Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Joseph O'Donnell Jr. (Republican) (until January 7), J. Joseph Garrahy (Democratic) (starting January 7)
- Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: John C. West (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: Lem Overpeck (Republican) (until January 7), James Abdnor (Republican) (starting January 7)
- Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Frank Gorrell (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Preston Smith (Democratic) (until January 21), Ben Barnes (Democratic) (starting January 21)
- Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: John J. Daley (Democratic) (until January 9), Thomas L. Hayes (Republican) (starting January 9)
- Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Fred G. Pollard (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Washington: John Cherberg (Democratic)
- Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Jack B. Olson (Republican)
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Events
January
- January 1 – In college football, Ohio State defeats USC in the Rose Bowl Game to win the national title for the 1968 season.
- January 9 – In Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Institution displays the art of Winslow Homer for 6 weeks.
- January 12 – Super Bowl III: The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the heavily favored Baltimore Colts of the National Football League 16–7.
- January 13 – Elvis Presley steps into American Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, recording "Long Black Limousine" thus beginning the recording of what becomes his landmark comeback sessions for the albums "From Elvis In Memphis" and "Back in Memphis." The sessions yield the popular and critically acclaimed singles "Suspicious Minds", "In the Ghetto" and "Kentucky Rain."
- January 14
- January 16 – Ten paintings are defaced in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- January 20 – Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States.
- January 27 – The modern-day powerhouse of the Hetch Hetchy Project at Moccasin, California, rated at 100,000 kVA, is completed and placed in operation. On February 7, the original is removed from service.
- January 28 – 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill: A blowout on Union Oil's Platform A in the Dos Cuadras Offshore Oil Field spills 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil into a channel and onto the beaches of Santa Barbara County in Southern California; on February 5 the oil spill closes Santa Barbara's harbor. The incident inspires Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson to organize the first Earth Day in 1970.
February
- February 8 – The last issue of The Saturday Evening Post in its original form hits magazine stands after 147 years.
- February 9 – The Boeing 747 makes its maiden flight, from Paine Field at Everett, Washington.
- February 5
- February 24
- February 26 – The baseball players' boycott of spring training is settled, largely on their terms.
March
April
- April – A grassroots movement of Berkeley community members seizes an empty lot owned by the University of California to begin the formation of "People's Park."
- April 9 – The Harvard University Administration Building is seized by close to 300 students, mostly members of the Students for a Democratic Society. Before the takeover ends, 45 are injured and 184 are arrested.[1]
May
- May 10 – Zip to Zap, a harbinger of the Woodstock Concert, ends with the dispersal and eviction of youth and young adults at Zap, North Dakota by the National Guard.
- May 15 – A teenager known as 'Robert R.' dies in St. Louis, Missouri, of a baffling medical condition. In 1984 it will be identified as the first confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America.
- May 18 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 (Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan, John Young) is launched, on the full dress-rehearsal for the Moon landing.
- May 20 – United States National Guard helicopters spray skin-stinging powder on protesters in Berkeley, California in the aftermath of the People's Park unrest.
- May 21 – Shirley Chisholm appears before Congress to speak about prejudices facing women in the workforce and the need for equal rights for women.[2]
- May 22 – Apollo program: Apollo 10's lunar module flies to within 15,400 m of the Moon's surface.
- May 26 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth, after a successful 8-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first manned Moon landing.
June
July
- July 8 – Vietnam War: The first U.S. troop withdrawals are made.
- July 14 – The $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 bills are officially removed from circulation.
- July 16 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins) lifts off from Cape Kennedy toward the first human landing on the Moon.
- July 17 – The New York Times publicly takes back the ridicule of the rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard published on 13 January 1920, that stated that spaceflight is impossible.[3]
- July 18 – Chappaquiddick incident – Edward M. Kennedy drives off a bridge after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. Mary Jo Kopechne, a former campaign aide to his brother, Robert, dies in the early morning hours of July 19 in the submerged car.
- July 20–21 – Apollo program Moon landing: The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle lands on the Moon's surface. Much of the world watches in awe as Neil Armstrong takes his historic first steps on the surface.
- July 24 – Apollo program: Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins return safely to Earth after the first landing on the Moon.
- July 25 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This starts the "Vietnamization" of the war.
- July 26 – The New York Chapter of the Young Lords is founded to fight for empowerment of Puerto Ricans.
- July 30 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam, meeting with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
August
- August 4 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, U.S. representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. They eventually fail since both sides cannot agree to any terms.
- August 5 – Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers).
- August 9 – Members of a cult led by Charles Manson murder Sharon Tate, (who was 8 months pregnant), and her friends: Folgers coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Hollywood hairstylist Jay Sebring at Roman Polanski's home in Los Angeles. Also killed was Steven Parent, leaving from a visit to the home's caretaker. More than 100 stab wounds are found on the victims, except for Parent, who had been shot almost as soon as the Manson Family entered the property.
- August 10 – The Manson Family kills Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, wealthy Los Angeles business people.
- August 15–18 – The Woodstock Festival is held in upstate New York, featuring some of the era's top rock musicians.
- August 17 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille, the most powerful tropical cyclonic system at landfall in history, hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 dollars).
- August 20 – Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is established in Florissant, Colorado.
September
October
November
December
- December 1 – Chicago: Blues musician Magic Sam dies at the age of 32 of a heart attack.
- December 1 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II (on January 4, 1970, The New York Times will run a long article, "Statisticians Charge Draft Lottery Was Not Random").
- December 2 – The Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes its debut. It carries 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, from Seattle to New York City.
- December 4 – Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot dead in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.
- December 6 – The Altamont Free Concert is held at the Altamont Speedway in northern California. Hosted by the Rolling Stones, it is an attempt at a "Woodstock West" and is best known for the uproar of violence that occurred. It is viewed by many as the "end of the sixties."
- December 12 – The Piazza Fontana bombing in Italy (Strage di Piazza Fontana) takes place. A U.S. Navy officer and C.I.A. agent, David Carrett, is later investigated for possible involvement.
Undated
- The first Gap store opens in San Francisco.
- Reported as being the year the first strain of the AIDS virus (HIV) migrated to the United States via Haiti.[4]
- The weather station of Mount Washington, New Hampshire records the heaviest calendar year precipitation in the US east of the Cascades with 130.14 inches (3,305.6 mm), beating the previous record of Rosman, North Carolina by 0.54 inches (13.7 mm).[5]
Ongoing
- January 1
- January 2
- January 4
- January 5 – Marilyn Manson, born Brian Warner, rock musician and painter
- January 6
- January 7 – Rex Lee, actor
- January 8 – J. Hunter Johnson, game designer, author, and translator
- January 14
- January 17 – Michael Moynihan, journalist and publisher
- January 18 – Dave Bautista, actor, martial artist and wrestler
- January 19
- January 27 – Patton Oswalt, stand-up comedian, writer, actor and voice artist
- January 21 – M. K. Hobson, speculative fiction author
- February 3 – Beau Biden, attorney and politician, son of Vice-president Joe Biden (d. 2015)[6]
- February 9
- February 11
- February 15 – Birdman, born Bryan Brooks, African American rapper, entertainer and record producer
- February 22
- March 1 – Litefoot, Native American actor
- March 4
- March 7 – Todd Williams, long-distance runner
- March 10 – Paget Brewster, screen actress and voice artist
- March 11 – Terrence Howard, actor and singer
- March 12 – Jake Tapper, journalist
- March 19 – Connor Trinneer, actor
- March 27
- March 28 – Rodney Atkins, country singer-songwriter
- March 29
- April 4 – Mo Cowan, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts in 2013
- April 6 – Paul Rudd, actor, comedian, writer and producer
- April 16 – Frank J. Mrvan, politician
- April 18 – C. Dale Young, poet
- May 12
- May 21 – George LeMieux, U.S. Senator from Florida from 2009 to 2011
- May 26 – Siri Lindley, triathlete
- June 2 – Kurt Abbott, baseball player
- June 11
- June 19
- June 27 – Heather Bresch, business executive, CEO of Mylan[7]
- June 28 – Garth Snow, ice hockey player and manager
- July 2
- July 3 – Shawnee Smith, screen actress and rock singer
- July 4
- July 5 – John LeClair, hockey player
- July 6
- July 7 – Keith Baker, game designer and fantasy novelist
- July 8 – George Fisher, vocalist (Cannibal Corpse)
- July 10 – Gale Harold, screen actor
- July 13 – Ken Jeong, actor, comedian and physician
- July 14 – Billy Herrington, gay pornographic actor (d. 2018)
- July 15 – Chris Wyse, bassist of Owl and The Cult
- July 18 – Elizabeth Gilbert, author
- July 19
- July 20 – Josh Holloway, screen actor and model
- July 21 – Godfrey, comedian and actor
- July 22
- July 23 – John Cariani, actor and playwright
- July 24 – Jennifer Lopez, actress and singer
- July 25 – Jason Harris Katz, voice artist and television host
- July 27 – Triple H (aka Paul Levesque), wrestler
- July 28
- July 29 – Timothy Omundson, screen actor
- August 1 – David Wain, comedian, writer, actor and director
- August 4 – Michael DeLuise, screen actor and director
- August 5 – Kenny Irwin Jr., NASCAR driver (d. 2000)
- August 6
- August 9 – Troy Percival, baseball player
- August 16 – Kate Higgins, voice artist
- August 17
- August 18
- August 19
- August 26 – Glenn Berger, scriptwriter
- August 28 – Jack Black, actor and musician
- August 30 – Kent Osborne, actor and producer
- August 31 – Andrew Cunanan, serial killer (suicide 1997)
- September 2
- September 4 – Kristen Wilson, screen actress
- September 5 – Dweezil Zappa, actor and musician
- September 6 – CeCe Peniston, singer
- September 7
- September 11 – Crystal Lewis, Christian musician
- September 13
- September 17 – Matthew Settle, screen actor
- September 19 – Michael Symon, chef and television personality
- September 24
- September 25
- September 29 – Erika Eleniak, model and actress
- September 30 – Chris Von Erich, professional wrestler (d. 1991)
- October 1 – Zach Galifianakis, actor and stand-up comedian
- October 2 – Mitch English, actor and television host
- October 3 – Gwen Stefani, singer, actress and television host
- October 7
- October 8 – Julia Ann, pornographic actress
- October 10
- October 13
- October 14 – David Strickland, screen actor (suicide 1999)
- October 15 – Kim Raver, screen actress
- October 16
- October 17
- October 19
- October 20 – Juan González, baseball player
- October 22 – Spike Jonze, film director
- October 25
- November 2 – Reginald Arvizu ('Fieldy Snuts'), nu metal bassist
- November 4
- November 7 – Michelle Clunie, screen actress
- November 8 – Jonathan Slavin, actor and activist
- November 9
- November 10 – Ellen Pompeo, screen actress
- November 12
- November 13
- November 18
- November 19 – Erika Alexander, African American actress
- November 20
- November 21 – Ken Griffey Jr., baseball player
- November 26 – Kara Walker, African American artist
- November 28
- November 29
- November 30 – David Auburn, dramatist
- December 1 – Richard Carrier, historian
- December 4 – Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter), African American rapper
- December 5 – Alex Kapp Horner, television actress
- December 7 – Patrice O'Neal, African American comedian and radio personality (d. 2011)
- December 8 – Kerry Earnhardt, race car driver
- December 9
- December 11 – Sean Grande, basketball announcer
- December 14 – Archie Kao, screen actor
- December 15 – Rick Law, illustrator and producer
- December 16 – Adam Riess, astrophysicist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011
- December 17
- December 18 – Joe Randa, baseball player and radio talk-show host
- December 19
- December 23
- December 24
- December 27
- Chyna, professional wrestler (d. 2016)
- Sarah Vowell, historian, author, journalist, essayist, social commentator and actress
- December 30 – Matt Goldman, record producer
Deaths
- January 1 – Barton MacLane, screen actor (b. 1902)
- January 2 – Gilbert Miller, theatrical producer (b. 1884)
- January 3
- January 17
- January 27 – Charles Winninger, actor (b. 1984)
- January 29 – Allen Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (b. 1893)
- February 3 – Al Taliaferro, Disney comics artist (b. 1905)
- February 5
- February 9 – Gabby Hayes, Western film actor (b. 1885)
- February 14 – Vito Genovese, mobster (b. 1897 in Italy)
- February 15 – Pee Wee Russell, jazz clarinetist (b. 1906)
- February 17 – Paul Barbarin, jazz drummer (b. 1899)
- February 27 – John Boles, film actor (b. 1895)
- March 3 – Fred Alexander, tennis player (b. 1880)
- March 4 – Nicholas Schenck, film impresario (b. 1881 in Russia)
- March 9
- March 11 – Daniel E. Barbey, admiral (b. 1889)
- March 18 – Barbara Bates, film actress, suicide (b. 1925)
- March 21 – Pinky Higgins, baseball player and manager (b. 1909)
- March 25 – Max Eastman, writer (b. 1883)
- March 26 – John Kennedy Toole, novelist, suicide (b. 1937)
- March 28 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 (b. 1890)
- April 4 – Félix Conde Falcón, army soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor (b. 1938)
- April 5 – Shelby Storck, television producer (b. 1917)
- April 10 – Harley Earl, automotive designer and business executive (b. 1893)
- April 20 – Benny Benjamin, urban and jazz drummer (b. 1925)
- May 1 – Ella Logan, actress and singer (b. 1910 in Scotland)
- May 14
- May 15
- May 18 – Walter Gropius, Modernist architect (b. 1883 in Germany)
- May 20
- May 21 – William Lincoln Bakewell, explorer (b. 1888)
- May 23 – Jimmy McHugh, song composer (b. 1894)
- May 24
- May 26 – Henry Rago, poet and editor (b. 1915)
- May 27 – Jeffrey Hunter, screen actor (b. 1926)
- June 8 – Robert Taylor, American actor (b. 1911)
- June 11 – John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960 (b. 1889)
- June 18 – Edgar Anderson, botanist (b. 1897)
- June 19 – Natalie Talmadge, silent film actress (b. 1896)
- June 22 – Judy Garland, film actress and singer (b. 1922)
- June 24 – Willy Ley, scientific popularizer (b. 1906 in Germany)
- June 28
- June 30
- July 2 – Michael DiBiase, wrestler (b 1923)
- July 5
- July 7
- July 17 – Harry Benham, silent film actor (b. 1884)
- July 18
- July 21 – A. D. King, African American civil rights activist and Baptist minister, accidental drowning (b. 1930)
- July 26 – Raymond Walburn, character actor (b. 1897)
- July 28 – Frank Loesser, songwriter (b. 1910)
- August 1 – Donald Keith, silent film actor (b. 1910)
- August 9 – Tate–LaBianca murders
- August 17
- August 18 – Mildred Davis, silent film actress (b. 1901)
- August 31 – Rocky Marciano, heavyweight boxer (b. 1923)
- September 3 – John Lester, cricketer (b. 1871 in the United Kingdom)
- September 8 – Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave oven (b. 1896)
- September 16 – Henry Fairfield Osborn Jr., conservationist (b. 1887)
- September 17 – Greye La Spina, dramatist and short story writer (b. 1880)
- September 22 – Rachel Davis Harris, African American librarian (b. 1869)
- September 24 – Warren Sturgis McCulloch, neurophysiologist and cybernetician (b. 1898)
- October 3 – Skip James, blues singer (b. 1902)
- October 6 – Walter Hagen, golfer (b. 1892)
- October 7 – Johnnie Morris, vaudeville and film actor and comedian (b. 1887)
- October 14 – Arnie Herber, American football player (Green Bay Packers) (b. 1910)
- October 15 – Rod La Rocque, film actor (b. 1898)
- October 21 – Jack Kerouac, novelist and poet (b. 1922)
- October 29 – Pops Foster, African American jazz string bass player (b. 1892)
- November 1 – Pauline Bush, silent film actress (b. 1886)
- November 5 – Lloyd Corrigan, screen actor and director (b. 1900)
- November 8
- November 11 – Frank Mills, politician in Ohio legislature (b. 1904)
- November 12 – William F. Friedman, cryptanalyst (b. 1891 in Russia)
- November 15 – Roy D'Arcy, silent and sound film actor (b. 1894)
- November 18 – Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., political patriarch and businessman (b. 1888)
- November 28 – Roy Barcroft, Western film actor (b. 1902)
- December 1 – Magic Sam, Chicago blues guitarist and songwriter (b. 1937)
- December 3 – Ruth White, actress (b. 1914)
- December 4 – Black Panther Party activists, killed in police raid
- December 7 – Lefty O'Doul, baseball player (b. 1897)
- December 13 – Spencer Williams, African American screen actor and filmmaker (b. 1893)
- December 23 – Donald Foster, television actor (b. 1889)
- December 24
- December 31 – Joseph Yablonski, labor leader, murdered (b. 1910)
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