January
Jan 4
1877
Marsden Hartley is born Edmund Hartley in Lewiston, Maine
Jan 4
1883
Max Eastman is born in Canandaigua, New York.
Jan 8
1872
Charles Hawthorne is born in Lodi, Illinois.
Jan 14
1896
John Dos Passos is born in Chicago, Illinois.
Jan 21
1868
Max Bohm is born in Cleveland, Ohio.
Jan 22
1954
Marcia Mello is born Marcia Kostick in Hyannis, Massachusetts
Jan 23
1881
Oliver Chaffee is born in Detroit, Michigan.
Jan 24
1915
Robert Motherwell is born in Aberdeen, Washington.
Jan 27
1919
Lester Johnson is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Jan 30
1873
Maud Squire is born in Cincinatti, Ohio.
Jan 31
1923
Norman Mailer is born in Long Branch, New Jersey.
February
Feb 2
1974
Osgood Perkins is born in New York City, New York.
Feb 3
1934
Selina Trieff is born in Brooklyn, New York.
Feb 4
1869
Big Bill Haywood is born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Feb 7
1885
Sinclair Lewis is born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota.
Feb 10
1962
Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opens featuring Look Mickey.
Feb 20
1967
Lili Taylor is born in Glencoe, Illinois.
Feb 22
1892
Edna St. Vincent Millay is born in Rockland, Maine.
Feb 25
1879
Mabel Dodge is born in Buffalo, New York.
Feb 25
1899
Henry Hensche is born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
Feb 28
1887
Williams Zorach is born Zorach Gorfinkel in Jurbarkas, Lithuania.
March
Mar 2
1942
Lou Reed is born in Brooklyn, New York.
Mar 2
1949
Cookie Mueller is born Dorothy Karen Mueller in Baltimore, Maryland.
Mar 7
1877
Ida Rauh is born in New York City, New York.
Mar 9
1942
John Cale is born in Garnant, Carmarthenshire, Wales.
Mar 12
1922
Jack Kerouac is born Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Mar 17
1886
Wilbur Daniel Steele is born in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Mar 18
1883
Josephine Hopper is born in New York City, New York.
Mar 21
1872
Neith Boyce is born in Franklin, Indiana.
Mar 21
1880
Hans Hofmann is born in Bayern, Germany.
Mar 22
1621
The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts sign a peace treaty with Wampanoag Massasoit.
Mar 26
1911
Tennessee Williams is born in Columbus, Mississippi.
Mar 30
1937
Warren Beatty is born in Richmond, Virginia.
April
Apr 4
1932
Anthony Perkins is born in New York City, New York.
Apr 5
1922
The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
Apr 6
1857
Arthur Wesley Dow is born in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
Apr 6
1866
Lincoln Steffens is born in San Francisco, California.
Apr 7
1915
Billie Holiday is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Apr 13
1878
B.J.O. Nordfeldt is born in Tulstorg, Scania, Sweden.
Apr 14
1948
Berry Berenson is born in New York City, New York.
Apr 22
1884
William L'Engle is born in Jacksonville, Florida.
Apr 22
1946
John Waters is born in Baltimore, Maryland.
Apr 29
1917
Maya Deren is born Eleanora Derenkowskaia in Kiev, Ukraine.
May
May 2
1955
Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
May 8
1895
Edmund Wilson is born in Red Bank, New Jersey.
May 21
1869
Hutchins Hapgood is born in Chicago, Illinois.
May 21
1951
The Ninth Street Show opens featuring Robert Motherwell and Jackson Pollock.
May 23
1958
Lea DeLaria is born in Belleville, llinois.
June
Jun 3
1968
Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, inspires the film I Shot Andy Warhol at The Factory.
Jun 12
1892
Djuna Barnes is born in Storm King Mountain, New York.
Jun 16
1981
Adam O'Day is born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Jun 17
1880
Carl Van Vechten is born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Jun 18
1924
Brooks Whelan, Sr. is born in Orange, New Jersey.
Jun 25
1956
Anthony Bourdain is born in New York City, New York.
Jun 27
1869
Emma Goldman is born in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Jun 28
1887
Floyd Dell is born in Barry, Illinois.
Jul 1
1876
Susan Glaspell is born in Davenport, Iowa.
Jul 13
1907
Kenneth Stubbs is born in Ochlocknee, Georgia.
Jul 15
1915
Neith Boyce's Constancy debuts.
Jul 16
1873
Agnes Weinrich is born in Des Moines County, Iowa.
Jul 21
1899
Hart Crane is born in Garrettsville, Ohio.
Jul 22
1882
Edward Hopper is born in Upper Nyack, New York.
Jul 24
1900
Zelda Fitzgerald is born Zelda Sayre in Montgomery, Alabama.
Jul 29
1914
The Cape Cod Canal opens.
August
Aug 6
1928
Andy Warhol is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Aug 9
1961
Karen Cappotto is born in Syracuse, New York
Aug 13
1871
Hippolyte Havel is born in Tábor, Czech Republic.
Aug 13
1963
Joey Mars is born in Worcester, Massachusetts
Aug 18
1878
Maurice Sterne is born in Latvia.
Aug 23
1868
Edith Lake Wilkinson is born in Wheeling, West Virginia.
Aug 25
1947
Mink Stole is born Nancy Paine Stoll in Baltimore, Maryland
Aug 31
1966
The Velvet Underground begins their three-day run at the Chrysler Art Museum in Provincetown, Massachusetts
September
Sep 5
1959
Freddy K is born Frederick Kussman in Boston, Massachusetts.
Sep 7
1932
Yvonne Anderson is born in Long Beach, California.
Sep 11
1885
DH Lawrence is born David Herbert Richards Lawrence in Nottinghamshire, England.
Sep 12
1953
Nan Goldin is born in Washington D.C.
Sep 13
1876
Sherwood Anderson is born in Camden, Ohio.
Sep 14
1879
Margaret Sanger is born Margaret Louise Higgins in Corning, New York.
Sep 20
1878
Upton Sinclair is born in Baltimore, Maryland.
Sep 24
1896
F. Scott Fitzgerald is born Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Sep 25
1887
Marguerite Zorach is born in Santa Rosa, California.
Sep 26
1889
Lucy L'Engle is born Lucy Brown in New York City, New York.
Sep 30
1924
Truman Capote is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
October
Oct 10
1878
Blanche Lazzell is born Nettie Blanche Lazzell in Monongalia County, West Virginia.
Oct 11
1874
Mary Heaton Vorse O'Brien is born in New York City, New York.
Oct 11
1891
George C. Ault is born in Cleveland, Ohio
Oct 11
1891
Edwin Dickinson is born in Seneca Falls, New York.
Oct 16
1888
Eugene O'Neill is born in New York City, New York
Oct 16
1938
Nico is born Christa Päffgen in Cologne, Germany.
Oct 16
1916
In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
Oct 17
1859
Frederick Childe Hassam is born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Oct 19
1945
Divine is born Harris Glenn Milstead in Baltimore, Maryland.
Oct 21
1891
Karl Knaths is born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Oct 22
1887
John Reed is born in Portland, Oregon
Oct 27
1923
Roy Lichtenstein is born in New York City, New York.
Oct 29
1964
The T.A.M.I. SHOW is filmed at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
November
Nov 6
1952
Michael Cunningham is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Nov 9
1883
Charles Demuth is born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Nov 9
1620
Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts
December
Dec 5
1886
Louise Bryant is born in San Francisco, California.
Dec 12
1887
Bobby Jones is born in Milton, New Hamphire.
Dec 15
1883
Harry Kemp is born in Youngstown, Ohio.