* 1947 – Wayne Northrop, American actor

In that same year, the American Forestry Association made Northrop the Chairman of the committee to campaign for Arbor Day nationwide.

* 1891 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1987 )

* 1987 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel laureate ( b. 1891 )

* November 10 – John Knudsen Northrop, American airplane manufacturer ( d. 1981 )

* May 27 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1891 )

* February 18 – John Knudsen Northrop, American airplane manufacturer ( b. 1895 )

* July 5 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1987 )

Many companies complied, including Northrop Grumman, 3M, American Airlines and Braniff International Airways.

* The American Northrop N-1M of 1940.

* The American Northrop N-9M of 1942.

* The American Northrop YB-35 of 1946.

* The American Northrop YB-49 of 1947.

Northrop Grumman Corporation () is an American global aerospace and defense technology company formed by the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop.

" of British aviation, comparable to the cancellation and destruction of the American Northrop Flying Wing bombers, and Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow interceptor that was scrapped in Canada in 1959.

* February 18 – American aircraft designer and industrialist Jack Northrop, founder of the Northrop Corporation, dies at the age of 85.

* Northrop YB-35 and Convair B-36 — American long-range World War II-era-conceived heavy bomber designs meant to reach Germany directly from North America.

John Howard Northrop ( July 5, 1891 – May 27, 1987 ) was an American biochemist who won, with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley, the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

* June 11 – Northrop YF-17A 72-01569 becomes the first American fighter to break the sound barrier in level flight when not in afterburner.

John Knudsen " Jack " Northrop ( November 10, 1895 – February 18, 1981 ) was an American aircraft industrialist and designer, who founded the Northrop Corporation in 1939.

The Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet, a welded magnesium fighter was one of his most innovative of his World War II designs, along with the Northrop P-61 Black Widow, the first American night interceptor, of which more than 700 were constructed, and which performed effectively in every theater of the war.

A P-61 Black Widow, similar to the one that distracted Japanese guards as American forces crawled towards the camp

P-61 Black Widows again helped the group by patrolling the path they took on its way back to American lines.

* 1965 – Frank Black, American singer-songwriter ( Pixies, Frank Black and the Catholics, and Grand Duchy )

* 1970 – Roy Mayorga, American drummer ( Stone Sour, Soulfly, Amebix, Black President, and Nausea )

Black sign language is influenced by African American English ( AAE ).

* 1950 – Tommy Aldridge, American drummer ( Black Oak Arkansas and Thin Lizzy )

* 1970 – Killah Priest, American rapper, producer, and actor ( The HRSMN, Sunz of Man, and Black Market Militia )

* 1971 – Michael Ian Black, American comedian, actor, writer, and director

* 1966 – Derek Sherinian, American keyboard player, composer, and producer ( Planet X, Dream Theater, and Black Country Communion )

Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.

* 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.

* 1969 – Jack Black, American actor, singer, and guitarist ( Tenacious D )

* 1948 – Lewis Black, American comedian, author, and actor

* 1948 – Fred Hampton, American Black Panther Party leader ( d. 1969 )

African Americans ( also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes ) are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or significant partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.

* American Black Upper Class

* Black or African American ?, Frank Newport.

* 1943 – Jimmy Griffin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Bread, Black Tie, and The Remingtons ) ( d. 2005 )

The racial makeup of the city was 98. 10 % White, 0. 46 % Black or African American, 0. 08 % Native American, 0. 11 % Asian, 0. 02 % Pacific Islander, 0. 43 % from other races, and 0. 80 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the town was 93. 98 % White, 3. 42 % Black or African American, 0. 30 % Native American, 1. 19 % Asian, 0. 05 % Pacific Islander, 0. 46 % from other races, and 0. 60 % from two or more races.

Surveys show that the majority of black Americans have no preference for " African American " or " Black ," although they have a slight preference for " black " in personal settings and " African-American " in more formal settings.

The racial makeup of Berkeley was 66, 996 ( 59. 5 %) White, 11, 241 ( 10. 0 %) Black or African American, 479 ( 0. 4 %) Native American, 21, 690 ( 19. 3 %) Asian ( 8. 4 % Chinese, 2. 4 % Indian, 2. 1 % Korean, 1. 6 % Japanese, 1. 5 % Filipino, 1. 0 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Pakistani, 0. 3 % Thai, 0. 2 % Nepalese ), 186 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 4, 994 ( 4. 4 %) from other races, and 6, 994 ( 6. 2 %) from two or more races.

Codebooks and codebook publishers proliferated, including one run as a front for the American Black Chamber run by Herbert Yardley between the First and Second World Wars.