Home / Birthday profiles / James Montgomery Flagg
Portrait of James Montgomery Flagg

Birthday profile

James Montgomery Flagg

James Montgomery Flagg, American painter and illustrator (died 1960)

Find birthday twinsOpen interactive profile
Born
June 18, 1877
Died
May 25, 1960
Zodiac sign
Gemini
Birth year
1877

About James Montgomery Flagg

James Montgomery Flagg was an American artist, comics artist, and illustrator. He worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning, but is best remembered for his political posters, particularly his 1917 poster of Uncle Sam created for United States Army recruitment during World War I. He created his most famous work in 1917, a poster to encourage recruitment in the United States Army during World War I.

Biography source: Wikipedia. The profile adds birthday-specific historical context from the Celebs Birthday Today editorial database.

James Montgomery Flagg timeline

  1. He worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning, but is best remembered for his political posters, particularly his 1917 poster of Uncle Sam created for United States Army recruitment during World War I.
  2. He created his most famous work in 1917, a poster to encourage recruitment in the United States Army during World War I.

The world when James Montgomery Flagg was born

James Montgomery Flagg was born in 1877. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineReconstruction ends — federal troops leave the South
  • Technology milestoneThomas Edison invents the phonograph
  • Notable inventionPhonograph — talking machine
  • World population~1.57B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderRutherford B. Hayes
  • U.S. population44.2M

1877 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in James Montgomery Flagg's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18772026
Population44.2M341 million

Sources and editorial standards

This profile combines a biographical source with structured birthday and historical context. Sources recorded for this profile: Wikipedia, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Library of Congress, Wikidata. See our editorial policy for sourcing, corrections, and review standards.

Read the source biography on Wikipedia. Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.