* 1903 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer ( d. 1995 )

* October 4 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer engineer ( d. 1995 )

Prof. John Vincent Atanasoff (; October 4, 1903 – June 15, 1995 ) was an American physicist and inventor.

Atanasoff first met Mauchly at the December 1940 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Philadelphia, where Mauchly was demonstrating his " harmonic analyzer ", an analog calculator for analysis of weather data.

Atanasoff ’ s Computer ,” Scientific American, August 1988 ( Archived 2009-10-31 )

American scientists and inventors of Bulgarian descent include John Atanasoff, Peter Petroff, and Assen Jordanoff.

Lincoln successfully led his country through its greatest constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization.

On foreign and military policy, Lincoln spoke out against the Mexican – American War, which he attributed to President Polk's desire for " military glory — that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood ".

The 1858 senate campaign featured the seven Lincoln – Douglas debates of 1858, the most famous political debates in American history.

Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

* Albert Austin ( 1881 – 1953 ), British / American actor

* Gene Austin ( 1900 – 1972 ), American singer

* Henry Austin ( architect ) ( 1804 – 1891 ), American architect

* Henry Austin ( baseball ) ( 1844 – 1904 ), American baseball player

* John Arnold Austin ( 1905 – 1941 ), American sailor

* Kate Austin ( 1864 – 1902 ), American writer, feminist and anarchist

* Mary Hunter Austin ( 1868 – 1934 ), American writer

* Ned Austin ( 1925 – 2007 ), American actor

* Stephen F. Austin ( 1793 – 1836 ), American politician, founder of Texas

* Tex Austin ( 1886 – 1938 ), American rodeo promoter

* Mwakikagile, Godfrey Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era, Third Edition, Pretoria, South Africa, 2006, on Angola in Chapter 11, " American Involvement in Angola and Southern Africa: Nyerere's Response ", pp. 324 – 346, ISBN 978-0-9802534-1-2.

The American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), in the United States often referred to as simply the Civil War and sometimes called the " War Between the States ", was a civil war fought over the secession of the Confederate States.

Causes include controversy over admitting Missouri as a slave state in 1820, the acquisition of Texas as a slave state in 1845 and the status of slavery in western territories won as a result of the Mexican – American War and the resulting Compromise of 1850.

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.

* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins – in Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.

* 1966 – Halle Berry, American model and actress

* 1975 – Bertrand Berry, American football player

* 1948 – Berry Berenson, American photographer, actress, and model ( d. 2001 )

Berinthia " Berry " Berenson Perkins ( April 14, 1948 – September 11, 2001 ) was an American photographer, actress, and model.

* 1949 – Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer ( d. 1998 )

* 1933 – Raymond Berry, American football player

* 1998 – Danielle Bunten Berry, American game designer and programmer ( b. 1949 )

* 2009 – Thomas Berry, American theologian ( b. 1914 )

* 1914 – Thomas Berry, American theologian and deep ecologist ( d. 2009 )

* 1929 – Berry Gordy Jr., American record company owner

* 1933 – Ken Berry, American actor

* 21-Fred Berry, 52, American actor, " Rerun " on the show What's Happening!

* 1959 – John Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

** Berry Berenson, American photographer ( b. 1948 )

** T. Berry Brazelton, American pediatrician

** Fred Berry, American actor ( d. 2003 )

** Chuck Berry, American musician ( Johnny B. Goode )

* July 3 – Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer ( b. 1949 )

** Halle Berry, American actress

* December 11 – Walter Knott, American farmer and creator of Knott's Berry Farm ( d. 1981 )

* February 27 – Raymond Berry, American football player

** Ken Berry, American actor

** Wendell Berry, American novelist, essayist, poet

In November 2010, Potter County commissioners awarded the bid for the 2011 use of the stadium to Scott Berry, owner of Southern Independent Baseball and franchisee with the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball.