October 4 - Barney Oldfield, American race car driver and automobile pioneer (b. 1878)

Siegfried Marcus, automobile pioneer, inventor of the first gasoline powered automobile (vehicles of 1870 and 1889)

Parallel to this, the Austrian automobile pioneer Siegfried Marcus invented the rotating brush carburetor.

Josephine Clay Ford, who died last year, was the granddaughter of Henry Ford, the automobile pioneer.

John Williams Stoddard (1 October 1837 - 18 September 1917) was a manufacturer of agricultural implements and automobile pioneer.

He studied engineering at a trade school in the city of Angers, the same school later attended by Louis Delâge, another automobile pioneer.

Detroit's bicycle shop owners, manufacturers, racers, and enthusiasts became the city's automobile pioneers.

September 18 - Siegfried Marcus, German-born automobile pioneer (d. 1898)

March 6 - David Dunbar Buick (born 1854), Scottish American automobile pioneer.

July 1 - Siegfried Marcus, Austrian automobile pioneer (b. 1831)