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California History Timeline (Part 2)

California: Anaheim - Bakersfield - Berkeley, CA - Fresno - Glendale - Hanford - Inglewood - Long Beach - Los Angeles - Modesto - Oakland - Palo Alto - Pasadena, CA - Riverside - Sacramento - San Bernardino - San Diego - San Francisco - San Jose - Santa Ana - Santa Barbara - Santa Monica - Stockton - Torrance - Whittier

Today in American History

Events in California History

Events 101 - 200 of 438

  • 1909-12-21 1st junior high school established (Berkeley California)
  • 1910-01-02 1st junior high schools in US opens (Berkeley California)
  • 1910-03-14 Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere
  • 1911-03-07 Willis Farnsworth of Petaluma, California, patents coin-operated locker
  • 1911-08-29 Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
  • 1912-12-28 1st municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California as SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St (MUNI)
  • 1913-07-10 World's official highest recorded temperature at Greenland Ranch (now known as Furnace Creek Ranch), Death Valley, California at 134 °F (56.7 °C)
  • 1913-08-03 Wheatland Hop Riot on a California farm, 4 die in one of the first farm labour disputes
  • 1914-01-28 Beverly Hills, California, is incorporated
  • 1915-11-29 Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island, California
  • 1917-01-28 Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco, California
  • 1918-07-25 Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, California
  • 1920-02-22 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville, California)
  • 1923-02-22 1st successful chinchilla farm in US (Los Angeles California)
  • 1923-09-08 Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost.
  • 1924-11-04 California legalizes professional boxing (illegal since 1914)
  • 1926-04-07 Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo California)
  • 1926-05-18 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanishes in Venice, California She shows up a month later saying she's been kidnapped
  • 1927-05-18 Grauman's Chinese Theater opens in Hollywood, California
  • 1928-03-12 In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing over 600 people
  • 1928-05-19 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, California)
  • 1928-06-09 Charles Kingsford-Smith & Charles Ulm are 1st to fly across the Pacific when they end their flight from California to Brisbane
  • 1929-01-13 Humanist Society established in Hollywood, California
  • 1929-07-15 1st airport hotel opens at Oakland, California
  • 1930-05-20 University of California dedicates $1,500 to research on prevention and cure of athlete's foot
  • 1930-11-24 Ruth Nichols sets women's transcontinental air flight record (Mineola, NY to California), in a Lockheed-Vega
  • 1931-02-20 Congress allows California to build Oakland-Bay Bridge
  • 1933-03-10 Major earthquake (6.4 magnitude) in Long Beach, California kills 120, and destroys 70 school buildings
  • 1935-05-06 KTM-AM in Los Angeles California changes call letters to KEHE (now KABC)
  • 1935-11-22 Flying boat "China Clipper" takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight
  • 1935-12-05 First commercial hydroponics operation established (Montebello, California)
  • 1936-03-01 A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen's Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union.
  • 1936-03-25 200-inch mirror blank to build the Hale telescope leaves Corning New York for California (then largest telescopic mirror ever made)
  • 1936-12-24 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered in Berkeley, California
  • 1937-01-20 -45°F (-43°C), Boca, California (state record)
  • 1937-02-21 Walter Waterman's Arrowbile, the 1st working automobile-airplane combination, tested at Santa Monica, California
  • 1937-07-12 -13) Tupolev ANT-25 non-stop flight Moscow to San Jacinto, California
  • 1938-03-02 Landslides & floods cause over 200 deaths (Los Angeles California)

Oops, Wrong Way!

1938-07-18 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland after a 28 hours flight, supposedly left NY flying for California

Hewlett-Packard Founded

1939-01-01 Hewlett-Packard is founded by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in a garage in Palo Alto, California "the birthplace of Silicon Valley"

  • 1940-02-27 Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14 (radiocarbon dating) at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California
  • 1940-05-15 Richard and Maurice McDonald open the 1st McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino, California
  • 1940-12-30 California's 1st freeway, (Arroyo Seco Parkway), opens
  • 1941-02-26 Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (California)

Bob Hope's 1st USO Show

1941-05-06 At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show

  • 1942-02-23 Japanese submarine fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California
  • 1942-10-23 All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is composer Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory")
  • 1943-01-22 66.34 cm (26.12") precipitation over 24 hour period in Hoegees Camp, California (state record)
  • 1944-07-17 WWII: Port Chicago Disaster - explosion during munition loading kills 322 and, injures nearly 400, destroys three ships and a pier at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California; conditions inspire the Port Chicago Mutiny later that summer [1]
  • 1946-06-13 1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland

Hogan Makes it a Triple

1946-09-02 American golfer Ben Hogan wins the Golden State Open at California CC in Los Angeles; his 3rd consecutive PGA event and 11th title of the season; 2nd time that year he wins 3 straight tournaments

"Black Dahlia" Found Dead

1947-01-15 The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California

  • 1947-01-22 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi, KTLA (channel 5) in Los Angeles, California begins broadcasting
  • 1947-06-19 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc, California

Call it Stormy Monday..

1947-09-13 T-Bone Walker records his biggest hit "Call it Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" in Hollywood, California

  • 1948-01-01 1st color newsreel filmed (Pasadena, California)
  • 1948-07-03 Kidnapper Caryl Chessman sentenced to death, California; execution doesn't happen until 1960
  • 1948-10-01 California Supreme Court voids state statute banning interracial marriages, in Perez v. Sharp case
  • 1948-12-22 KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco, California (CBS) begins broadcasting
  • 1949-01-07 1st photo of genes taken at University of Southern California by Pease & Baker

Shoemaker's First Win

1949-04-20 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 1st race, in Albany, California

  • 1949-05-05 KGO TV channel 7 in San Francisco, California (ABC) begins broadcasting

"The African Queen"

1951-12-26 "The African Queen", directed by John Huston and based on the 1935 novel of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, is released in LA, California (Academy Awards Best Actor 1952)

  • 1952-07-21 7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed
  • 1953-08-01 California introduces sales tax (for education)
  • 1953-08-17 Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California
  • 1954-02-15 1st Bevatron particle accelerator in operation at Berkeley, California
  • 1954-02-18 The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California
  • 1954-06-10 KQED TV channel 9 in San Francisco, California (PBS) begins broadcasting
  • 1955-07-17 Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.

Event of Interest

1955-10-18 The antiproton (antiparticle of the proton) is discovered at University of California by physicists Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain - wins 1959 Nobel Prize for Physics

  • 1956-06-29 American Charles Dumas records first high jump over 7' (2.13m) during US Olympic Trials at Los Angeles, California
  • 1956-08-01 KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, California (ABC) begins broadcasting
  • 1957-01-16 3 US B-52 bombers leave California for 1st non-stop around the world flights
  • 1957-01-31 Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
  • 1957-02-22 Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958
  • 1957-06-01 Don Bowden becomes first American to run a sub-4 minute mile (3:58.7) at the Pacific Association AAU Meet in Stockton, California
  • 1957-10-12 First commercial flight between California & Antarctica
  • 1957-11-11 Demolition begins on cable car barn at California & Hyde, San Francisco
  • 1958-03-03 KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast
  • 1958-04-15 1st baseball game in California, SF Giants beat LA Dodgers, 8-0

Music History

1958-06-13 Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, California

  • 1958-09-18 The Fresno Drop: Bank of America mails out 60,000 BankAmericards in Fresco, California, the first credit card (later renamed VISA)
  • 1959-06-07 KLX-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KEWB (now KNEW)
  • 1960-02-18 VIII Winter Olympic Games open in Squaw Valley, California
  • 1960-02-28 VIII Winter Olympic Games close in Squaw Valley, California
  • 1960-05-16 Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California
  • 1960-05-17 1st atomic reactor system patented by J W Flora of Canoga Park, California
  • 1960-08-15 UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen
  • 1960-10-10 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo
  • 1961-06-25 Baltimore and California use a record 16 pitchers in a game (8 each) in 14 inns
  • 1962-04-24 Massachusetts Institute of Technology sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: California to Massachusetts

Nixon Loses

1962-11-07 Richard Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more after losing election for Governor of California

  • 1963-09-07 American Bandstand moves to California, & airs once a week on Saturday

Event of Interest

1964-06-19 Luther Burbank Home and Gardens, home of the famous horticulturist, is designated a National Historical Landmark in Santa Rosa, California

  • 1964-08-30 Electric designer Norman Manley records back-to-back holes-in-one on the 7th & 8th holes at Del Valle in Saugus, California; Guinness BWR' best
  • 1964-09-21 The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California
  • 1964-10-01 Free Speech Movement launched at University of California, Berkley
  • 1964-12-03 Police arrests 800 sit-in students at University of California at Berkeley

Murphy Joins US Senate

1965-01-01 American actor George Murphy begins his term as US Senator from California


Famous People from California

Birthdays 101 - 200 of 2,935

  • 1894-11-02 Bill Johnston, American tennis player (US Open 1915, 19; Wimbledon 1923), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1946)
  • 1894-12-17 David Butler, American director (April in Paris, Calamity Jane), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1979)
  • 1895-02-04 Nigel Bruce, British actor (Rebecca, Suspicion, Sherlock Holmes), born in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico (d. 1953)
  • 1895-05-15 Charles Lamont, American actor and director (Abbott & Costello films), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1993)
  • 1895-07-23 Aileen Pringle, American actress (Murder at Midnight), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1989)
  • 1895-07-26 Gracie Allen, American comedian and actress (Burns & Allen), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1964)
  • 1895-08-03 Marguerite Nichols, American actress (An Old Man's Folly), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1941)
  • 1895-10-20 Rex Ingram, American actor (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tarzan of the Apes, The Ten Commandments), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1969)
  • 1895-11-19 Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American fashion photographer, born in San Francisco, California (d. 1989)
  • 1895-11-29 Busby Berkeley [Enos], American film choreographer (42nd Street) and director (Strike Up The Band: They Made Me A Criminal), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1976)
  • 1896-02-08 Orville Caldwell, American actor (Patsy, French Doll, Last Warning), born in Oakland, California (d. 1967)
  • 1896-06-07 Douglas Campbell, American aviator and World War I flying ace, born in San Francisco, California (d. 1990)
  • 1896-11-16 Lawrence Tibbett, American baritone (Metropolitan 1923-50), born in Bakersfield, California (d. 1960)

Jimmy Doolittle (1896-1993)

1896-12-14 American air force general who conducted the raid on Tokyo in 1942, born in Alameda, California

  • 1897-02-19 Alma Rubens, American actress (Humoresque), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1931)
  • 1897-03-11 Henry Cowell, American pianist, composer (The Tides of Manaunaun; Aeolian Harp), and modern music promoter (New Musical Resources), born in Menlo Park, California (d. 1965)
  • 1897-10-28 Edith Head, Hollywood costume designer (8 Oscars), born in San Bernardino, California (d. 1981)
  • 1897-11-17 Frank Fay, American vaudeville comedian and actor (God's Gift to Women, Love Nest), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1961)
  • 1897-11-30 Quinto Maganini, American composer (The Argonauts), born in Fairfield, California (d. 1974)
  • 1898-06-19 James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate, born in San Francisco, California (d. 1968)
  • 1898-07-04 Johnny Lee, American actor (Song of the South, The Amos 'n' Andy Show), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1965)
  • 1898-07-28 Lawrence Gray, American actor, born in San Francisco, California (d. 1970)
  • 1898-10-03 Leo McCarey, American film director (The Awful Truth), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1969)
  • 1899-04-04 Carmel Myers, American stage and silent and sound screen actress (Ben-Hur; Svengali), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1980)
  • 1899-04-19 George O'Brien, American actor (Sunrise: A Song of Two Human), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1985)
  • 1899-07-25 Arthur Lubin, American film director and producer (Francis The Talking Mule, Mr Ed), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1995)
  • 1899-08-08 Victor Young, American violinist, arranger, orchestra leader, and composer ("Street of Dreams"; "Love Letters"; "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You"), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1956)

Adlai Stevenson II (1900-1965)

1900-02-05 American politician (US Ambassador to UN, 1961-65; Governor of Illinois, 1949-53; Democratic presidential candidate, 1952 & 1956), born in Los Angeles, California

  • 1900-02-23 Elinor Remick Warren, American composer, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1991)
  • 1900-08-23 Malvina Reynolds, American folk singer and songwriter (Morningtown Ride), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1978)
  • 1900-09-07 Emerson Treacy, American actor (California Straight Ahead, Prowler), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1967)
  • 1900-10-15 Mervyn LeRoy, American movie producer (Devil at 4 O'Clock), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1987)
  • 1900-10-16 Lloyd Corrigan, American actor (Papa Dodger, The Manchurian Candidate), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1969)
  • 1901-01-17 Olin Dutra, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1932, US Open 1934), born in Monterey, California (d. 1983)
  • 1901-05-21 Horace Heidt, American orchestra leader (Swift Show Wagon), born in Alameda, California (d. 1986)
  • 1901-06-24 Harry Partch, American composer (Revelations in the Courthouse Park; Delusion Of The Fury), and instrument inventor, born in Oakland, California (d. 1974) [1]
  • 1901-10-18 Barbara Brown, American actress, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1975)
  • 1902-02-14 Fred Scott, American actor and singing cowboy, known as "The Silvery-Voiced Buckaroo" (Melody of the Plains), born in Fresno, California (d. 1991)

Ansel Adams (1902-1984)

1902-02-20 American landscape photographer and environmentalist (Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980), born in San Francisco, California

John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

1902-02-27 American author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel Prize 1940, 1962), born in Salinas, California

  • 1902-03-29 Onslow Stevens, American actor (This is the Life), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1977)
  • 1902-05-02 Erin O'Brien-Moore, American actress (Peyton Place, Our Little Girl), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1979)
  • 1902-05-03 Hugo Friedhofer, American composer, born in San Francisco, California (d. 1981)

George Murphy (1902-1992)

1902-07-04 American politician (US Senator from California, 1965-71), actor and dancer (MGM Parade), born in New Haven, Connecticut

  • 1902-08-11 Lloyd Nolan, American actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1985)
  • 1902-10-03 Pappy Waldorf, American College Football Hall of Fame tackle and coach (Northwestern, California), born in Clifton Springs, New York (d. 1981)
  • 1903-02-12 Chick Hafey, American Baseball HOF outfielder (World Series 1926, 31 St. Louis Cardinals; NL batting champion 1931; MLB All Star 1933), born in Berkeley, California (d. 1973)
  • 1903-02-14 Stuart "Stu" Erwin, American actor (The Stu Erwin Show), born in Squaw Valley, California (d. 1967)

Tony Lazzeri (1903-1946)

1903-12-06 American Baseball HOF second baseman (World Series x 5; only player to complete natural cycle with grand slam; NY Yankees), born in San Francisco, California

  • 1903-12-26 Elisha Cook Jr, American actor (Maltese Falcon, Shane, Magnum PI), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1995)
  • 1904-03-01 Paul Hartman, American actor (Petticoat Junction, Inherit the Wind), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1973)
  • 1904-05-03 John Breeden, American actor (Salute, Madame Racketeer, Joy Street), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1977)
  • 1904-05-06 Raymond Bailey, American actor (Vertigo, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Incredible Shrinking Man), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1980)
  • 1904-11-17 Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American sculptor (1963 Fine Arts Medal, Noguchi table), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1988)
  • 1905-01-03 Anna May Wong [Wong Liu-tsong], Chinese-American actress, 1st Asian-American movie star (Shanghai Express; Gallery of Mme Lui-Tsang), and 1st Asian-American on US currency (American Women series quarter, 2022), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1961)
  • 1905-01-26 Charles Lane, American actor (Homer-Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2007)
  • 1905-01-27 Howard McNear, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Anatomy of a Murder, Irma La Douce), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1969)
  • 1905-03-29 (Pil Lip) Philip Ahn, American actor (Kung Fu - as "Master Kan"; Thoroughly Modern Millie), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1978)
  • 1905-04-21 Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown, American politician and Governor of California (D: 1959-67), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1996)
  • 1905-06-30 Nestor Paiva, American-Portuguese actor (Zorro, The Creature from the Black Lagoon), born in Fresno, California (d. 1966)
  • 1905-09-18 Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, American comedian and actor (The Jack Benny Program), born in Oakland, California (d. 1977)

Helen Wills Moody (1905-1998)

1905-10-06 American tennis player (19 Grand Slam titles), born in Centerville California

  • 1905-11-05 Joel McCrea, American actor (Foreign Correspondent, Sullivan's Travels), born in South Pasadena, California (d. 1990)
  • 1905-12-08 Charles Cushing, American composer, born in Oakland, California (d. 1982)
  • 1906-01-03 Gus Suhr, American baseball first baseman (1435 MLB games Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies; only player to be sued by a fan injured after struck by a foul ball), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2004)
  • 1906-02-20 Gale Gordon [Charles Thomas Aldrich, Jr], American actor and comedian (Our Miss Brooks; Dennis The Menace; The Lucy Show; Here's Lucy), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1995)
  • 1906-04-05 Lord Buckley, American comedian, born in Tuolumne, California (d. 1960)
  • 1906-06-30 Anthony Mann, American film actor and director (El Cid, Winchester '73, The Glenn Miller Story), born in San Diego, California (d. 1967)
  • 1906-07-18 S. I. Hayakawa, U.S. senator from California (1977–83) and educator (Language in Action), born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 1992)
  • 1906-09-24 Victor Wong, American actor (Mission to Moscow, War Correspondent, King Kong), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1972)

Joe Cronin (1906-1984)

1906-10-12 American Baseball HOF shortstop (7 x MLB All Star), manger (Boston RS, Washington Senators) and executive (AL President 1959-73), born in San Francisco, California

  • 1906-11-19 Henri Temianka, Scottish-born Polish composer (California Chamber Symphony), born in Greenock, Scotland (d. 1992)
  • 1906-12-20 Irving Krick, American meteorologist and inventor, born in San Francisco, California (d. 1996)
  • 1906-12-25 Frank Ferguson, American character actor (My Friend Flicka - "Gus"; Peyton Place - "Eli Carson"), born in Ferndale, California (d. 1978) [note some sources give year as 1899]
  • 1907-02-20 Nadine Conner [Henderson], American operatic soprano (Carmen; The Magic Flute - "Pamina"), born in Compton, California (d. 2003)
  • 1907-04-19 Lina Basquette, American actress (Paradise Park, Pleasure, Goldie), born in San Mateo, California (d. 1994)
  • 1907-07-29 Melvin Belli, American lawyer known as "The King of Torts" and "Melvin Bellicose", born in Sonora, California (d. 1996)
  • 1907-09-18 Edwin M. McMillan, American physicist and discoverer of plutonium (Nobel 1951), born in Redondo Beach, California (d. 1991)
  • 1907-11-01 Larry French, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1940; Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs; Brooklyn Dodgers), born in Visalia, California (d. 1987)
  • 1908-02-07 Clarence "Buster" Crabbe, American swimmer (Olympic gold 1932) and actor (Tarzan the Fearless, Flash Gordon), born in Oakland, California (d. 1983)
  • 1908-04-12 Virginia Cherrill, American actress (City Lights; Lake Extra; Brat), born in Santa Barbara, California (d. 1996)

Lita Grey (1908-1995)

1908-04-15 American actress and second wife of Charlie Chaplin, born in Hollywood, California

  • 1908-05-02 William Bakewell, American actor (All Quiet on the Western Front; Gone With The Wind), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1993)
  • 1908-05-30 Mel Blanc, American radio comedian and voice actor, best known for his Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1989)

Helen Jacobs (1908-1997)

1908-08-06 American tennis player (7 Grand Slam singles titles, US Open 1932-35), born in Globe, Arizona

  • 1908-08-31 William Saroyan, American novelist and playwright (Time of Your Life), born in Fresno, California (d. 1981)
  • 1908-11-26 Lefty Gomez, American Baseball HOF pitcher (7 × MLB All-Star; 5 × World Series; Triple Crown 1934, 37; NY Yankees), born in Rodeo, California (d. 1989)
  • 1908-12-14 (Moritz) "Morey" Amsterdam, American comedian, cellist, and actor (The Dick Van Dyke Show - "Buddy"), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1996)
  • 1908-12-21 Pat Weaver, American radio advertising executive (started Today show), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2002)
  • 1909-08-10 Leo Fender, American inventor, and electric guitar designer (Telecaster; Stratocaster; Precision Bass), born in Anaheim California (d. 1991)
  • 1909-08-13 Wilhelmina Von Bremen, American 4X100 relay sprinter (Olympic gold 1932), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1976)

Mel Hein (1909-1992)

1909-08-22 American NFL center (NY Giants), born in Redding, California

  • 1909-10-10 Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2010)
  • 1909-10-29 Douglass Montgomery, American actor (Forbidden, Harmony Lane), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1966)
  • 1909-11-26 Frances Dee, American actress (Of Human Bondage), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2004)
  • 1910-01-03 Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball utility (World Series 1941; Brooklyn Dodgers), born in Coalinga, California (d. 2000)
  • 1910-01-08 Richard Cromwell [LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh], American actor (Jezebel, Riot Squad), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1960)
  • 1910-01-09 Dick Henry Jurgen, American swing music bandleader, born in Sacramento, California (d. 1995)
  • 1910-02-03 Nelson Case, American TV host (Trash or Treasure), born in Long Beach, California (d. 1976)
  • 1910-06-10 Frank Demaree, American baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 1936, 37; Chicago Cubs, NY Giants), born in Winters, California (d. 1958)