* 1892 – Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aviation industrialist ( d. 1981 )

Andrew Carnegie (, but commonly or ; November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919 ) was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.

* 1860 – Will Keith Kellogg, American industrialist and food manufacturer, founder of the Kellogg's Company ( d. 1951 )

* 1947 – Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist, founder of the Ford Motor Company ( b. 1863 )

* 1990 – Armand Hammer, American industrialist and art collector ( b. 1898 )

* 1866 – Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist ( d. 1930 )

Henry Ford ( July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947 ) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.

* 1867 – Stephen Mather, American entrepreneur and industrialist ( d. 1930 )

* 1970 – Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American industrialist ( b. 1884 )

* 1839 – John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company ( d. 1937 )

* 1814 – Samuel Colt, American inventor and industrialist, founded the Colt's Manufacturing Company ( d. 1862 )

In 1845, industrialist Peter Cooper ( who built the first American steam-powered locomotive, the Tom Thumb ), obtained a patent ( US Patent 4084 ) for powdered gelatin.

* 1882 – Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist and shipbuilder ( d. 1967 )

* 1814 – Jacob Bunn, American industrialist and financier ( d. 1897 )

* 1835 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist ( d. 1919 )

* 1843 – Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist ; father of T. S. Eliot ( d. 1919 )

* 1812 – Richard March Hoe, American inventor and industrialist, invented the Rotary printing press ( d. 1886 )

In New York City, Japanese industrialist Raizo Yamata purchases a controlling interest in an American hedge fund.

* February 12 – Peter Cooper, American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist ( d. 1883 )

* July 30 – Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist ( d. 1947 )

** J. Paul Getty, American industrialist, founder of Getty Oil ( b. 1892 )

* January 7 – Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist and philanthropist ( b. 1843 )

** Henry C. Frick, American industrialist ( b. 1849 )

* January 4 – Leroy Grumman, American aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and industrialist.

* March 11 – Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist, founder of Texaco ( b. 1860 )

`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.

That John Locke's philosophy of the social contract fathered the American Revolution with its Declaration of Independence, I believe, we generally accept.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.

In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.

This is the tale of one John Enright, an American who has accidentally killed a man in the prize ring and is now trying to forget about it in a quiet place where he may become a quiet man.

The field was pioneered by staff of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology, men such as John Wesley Powell and Frank Hamilton Cushing.

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

As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin ; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work ; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.

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

* 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor

* 1960 – John Pizzarelli, American jazz guitarist, songwriter, singer and bandleader

* 1940 – John Hagee, American pastor and televangelist

* 1904 – John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J. H.

* 1948 – John Mehler, American drummer ( Love Song )

* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain – At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.

* 1955 – John E. Sweeney, American politician

* 1962 – John " Hot Rod " Williams, American basketball player

* 1962 – John Slattery, American actor

* 1871 – John French Sloan, American artist ( d. 1951 )

* 1939 – John W. Snow, American politician, 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury

* 1968 – John Stanier, American drummer ( Helmet, Tomahawk, The Mark of Cain, and Battles )

* 1996 – John McSherry, American baseball umpire ( b. 1944 )

* 2010 – John Forsythe, American actor ( b. 1918 )