** Robert J. Behnen, American genealogist and a former member of the Missouri House of Representatives

* Joseph Lemuel Chester, American genealogist

* Abbott Lowell Cummings, American architectural historian and genealogist

* Delmar Rial Lowell, a former minister, Civil War veteran, American historian, and genealogist

Billionaire and owner of the Boston Bruins, Jeremy Jacobs, musician and civil rights activist Charles Mingus, civil engineer, genealogist and author Angelo F. Coniglio, and American actor, director, and producer Ron Silver.

* James Phinney Munroe, American author, professor and genealogist of the Clan Munro

Lothrop Withington ( January 31, 1856 – May 7, 1915 ) was a well-known American genealogist, historian, and book editor who was killed in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.

* Arthur Kurzweil ( born 1951 ), an American genealogist, scholar of Judaism and writer

Smith was an avid genealogist and family historian and was named National Vice President of the Sons of the American Revolution in 1922.

* Ronald W. Collins ( born 1949 ), American genealogist

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.

The American part of the evening consisted of Paul Creston's Dance Overture, William Schuman's `` Chester '' From `` New England Triptych '' and two works of Wallingford Riegger, Dance Rhythms, Op. 58, and a Romanza For Strings, Op. 56A.

* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann

* 1909 – William M. Branham, American evangelist ( d. 1965 )

* 1874 – William B. Bankhead, American politician ( d. 1940 )

* 1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American author

* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* 1911 – William Bernbach, American advertiser, co-founder of DDB Worldwide ( d. 1982 )

* 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician ( d. 1838 )

* 1809 – William B. Travis, American lawyer and soldier ( d. 1836 )

* 1934 – William Calhoun, American wrestler ( d. 1989 )

* 1877 – William B. Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago ( b. 1805 )

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.

* 1921 – William Asher, American director, screenwriter, and producer ( d. 2012 )

* 1981 – Ray William Johnson, American comedian

* 1812 – War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.

* 1908 – William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American novelist ( d. 2000 )

* 1931 – William Goldman, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

* 1919 – William P. Foster, American bandleader and educator ( d. 2010 )

* 1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.

* 1928 – F. William Free, American advertising executive ( d. 2003 )

* 1940 – William Cohen, American politician and author, 20th United States Secretary of Defense

* 1935 – William Friedkin, American director

* 1912 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist ( d. 1988 )

** Jane Addams became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

** Charles Addams, American cartoonist ( d. 1988 )

** Charles Addams, American cartoonist ( b. 1912 )

* September 6 – Jane Addams, American social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1935 )

* May 21 – Jane Addams, American social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1860 )

* Calpernia Addams, American transgender author and activist

The Addams Family is a group of fictional characters created by American cartoonist Charles Addams.

Charles Samuel " Chaz " Addams ( January 7, 1912 – September 29, 1988 ) was an American cartoonist known for his darkly humorous and macabre characters.

* Charles Addams, contemporary American cartoonist with a similarly macabre style

Charles Addams, American Cartoonist ( 1912-1988 )

Addams was a charter member of the American Sociological Society, founded in 1905.

As the first U. S. woman to win the prize, Addams was applauded for her " expression of an essentially American democracy.

A wall-mounted quote by Jane Addams in The American Adventure in the World Showcase pavilion of Walt Disney World's Epcot.

* Davis, Allen F. American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams ( 1973 ), 339pp, solid scholarship but tends toward debunking

Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy: A Life Basic Books: 2002 online edition, by a leading conservative scholar

" Addams, Day, and Dewey: The Emergence of Community Service in American Culture ".

* September 28 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist

Orion's interest in Filmways stemmed from the company's library of 500 films ( largely inherited from American International Pictures, which Filmways had bought a few years before ) as well as its distribution operation and its library of well-remembered TV shows from the late 1960s, such as Green Acres, Mister Ed and The Addams Family ( two other Filmways productions, The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction were owned by CBS ).

Lucy's focus shifted somewhat to class struggles around poverty and unemployment, and she organized the Chicago Hunger Demonstrations in January 1915, which pushed the American Federation of Labor, the Socialist Party, and Jane Addams ' Hull House to participate in a huge demonstration on February 12.

* Jane Addams ( 1860 – 1935 ), pioneer settlement worker, Christian pacifist, and the first American female Nobel peace laureate

James Addams Beaver ( October 21, 1837 – January 31, 1914 ) was an American politician who served as the 20th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1887 to 1891.

Since January 2007, the network has aired shows like ALF, Mork & Mindy, The Addams Family, The Munsters, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Growing Pains, The Facts of Life, Diff ' rent Strokes, Get Smart, Perfect Strangers, and more, which have been broadcast in Latin American local networks and other cable channels.