Henry Starr was born on 2 December 1873 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA. He was married to Martha "Hulda" Llewellyn and Olive F. Griffin. He died on 22 February 1921 in Harrison, Arkansas, USA.
The leader of a notorious gang of bank robbers, he was shot and captured during a bank robbery in Oklahoma in 1915. Sent to prison, he was released in 1919. Two years later he was shot to death while robbing a bank in Arkansas.