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Books on the history of the United States: A History of Money and Banking in the United States; A Monetary History of the United States; A Patriot's History of the United States; A People's History of the United States; Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States; Land of Promise: An ...
August 3 – Thomas Francis Meagher, Civil War general (died 1867) August 4 – Oliver P. Morton, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1867 to 1877 (died 1877) August 5 – Eliza Tibbets, mother of the California orange industry (died 1898) August 15 – Orris S. Ferry, Civil War general and U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1867 to 1875 (died 1875)
February 23 – Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity". March 2 – In New York City, the Martha Washington Hotel, the first hotel exclusively for women, opens. March 14 – The Hay–Herrán Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian ...
August 4 – Ernest Lundeen, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1937 to 1940 (died 1940) August 13 – Harold Clarke Goddard, Shakespearean scholar (died 1950) August 28 – George Whipple, pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 (died 1976) August 31 – Frank Jarvis, track athlete (died 1933) September 14
August 2 – Warren G. Harding, 29th president of the United States from 1921 to 1923 (born 1865) August 10 – Laura Redden Searing, deaf poet and journalist (born 1839) October 19 – Eleanor Norcross, painter (born 1854) October 23 – Hannah Johnston Bailey, temperance advocate and suffragist (born 1839)
August 8 – Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, professor of jurisprudence (died 1918) August 15 – Ethel Barrymore, actress (died 1959) August 20 – Ralph Budd, railroad president (died 1962) August 27 – Otis F. Glenn, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1928 to 1933 (died 1959) August 28 – Sydney Ayres, silent film actor (died 1916)
Madison: The Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review. March 1 – Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state, retroactive from August 7, 1953 (see History of Ohio). April 30 – Louisiana Purchase is made by the United States from France. July 4 – The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
August 27 – Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969, 37th vice president of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (died 1973) August 28 – Roger Tory Peterson, naturalist, artist and educator (died 1996) August 30 – Fred MacMurray, actor (died 1991) August 31 – William Saroyan, fiction writer (died 1981)