Birthdays In History 1924

1924 Francisco Macías Nguema Equatorial Guinean politician 1st President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (d. 1979)

1924 Otto Beisheim German businessman and philanthropist founded Metro AG (d. 2013)

1924 André Franquin Belgian author and illustrator (d. 1997)

1924 Nell Rankin American soprano and educator (d. 2005)

1924 Enzo Cozzolini Italian football player (d. 1962)

1924 Marianne Werner German shot putter

1924 Kim Dae-jung South Korean soldier and politician 8th President of South Korea Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)

1924 Earl Scruggs American banjo player (d. 2012)

1924 Benjamin Lees Chinese-American soldier and composer (d. 2010)

1924 Ron Moody English actor and singer (d. 2015)

1924 Sergei Parajanov Georgian-Armenian director and screenwriter (d. 1990)

1924 Earl Bakken American inventor (d. 2018)

1924 Ludmilla Chiriaeff Canadian ballerina choreographer and director (d. 1996)

1924 Roger Guillemin French-American physician and endocrinologist Nobel Prize laureate

1924 Sam B. Hall Jr. American lawyer judge and politician (d. 1994)

1924 Slim Harpo American blues singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1970)

1924 Olivier Gendebien Belgian racing driver and businessman (d. 1998)

1924 Paul Feyerabend Austrian-Swiss philosopher and academic (d. 1994)

1924 Roland Petit French dancer and choreographer (d. 2011)

1924 Carole Cook American actress and singer (d. 2023)

1924 Guy Williams American actor (d. 1989)

1924 George Lowe New Zealand-English mountaineer and explorer (d. 2013)

1924 Katy Jurado Mexican actress (d. 2002)

1924 Rik De Saedeleer Belgian footballer and journalist (d. 2013)

1924 Jewel Plummer Cobb American biologist cancer researcher and academic (d. 2017)

1924 Nicholas Colasanto American actor and director (d. 1985)

1924 Jean-François Revel French philosopher (d. 2006)

1924 Yvonne Loriod French pianist and composer (d. 2010)

1924 Shafiga Akhundova Azerbaijani Composer first professional female author of an opera in the East (d. 2013)

1924 Benny Hill English actor singer and screenwriter (d. 1992)

1924 J. J. Johnson American trombonist and composer (d. 2001)

1924 Ján Chryzostom Korec Slovak cardinal (d. 2015)

1924 Charles Lisanby American production designer and art director (d. 2013)

1924 Frank Lautenberg American soldier businessman and politician (d. 2013)

1924 Brian Bevan Australian rugby league player (d. 1991)

1924 Lou Groza American football player and coach (d. 2000)

1924 Husein Mehmedov Bulgarian-Turkish wrestler and coach (d. 2014)

1924 Speedy West American guitarist and producer (d. 2003)

1924 Alice Babs Swedish singer and actress (d. 2014)

1924 Annette Strauss American philanthropist and politician Mayor of Dallas (d. 1998)

1924 S. N. Goenka Burmese-Indian author and educator (d. 2013)

1924 Lloyd Alexander American soldier and author (d. 2007)

1924 Elfi von Dassanowsky Austrian-American singer pianist producer (d. 2007)

1924 Sonny Stitt American saxophonist and composer (d. 1982)

1924 E. P. Thompson English historian and author (d. 1993)

1924 Martial Asselin Canadian lawyer and politician 25th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 2013)

1924 Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy Indian cardinal (d. 2014)

1924 Max Ferguson Canadian radio host and actor (d. 2013)

1924 Bud Poile Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2005)

1924 Budge Patty American tennis player (d. 2021)

1924 Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber French journalist and politician (d. 2006)

1924 Patricia Knatchbull 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (d. 2017)

1924 Juan Ponce Enrile Filipino politician

1924 Robert Drew American director and producer (d. 2014)

1924 Margaret Truman American singer and author (d. 2008)

1924 David Bronstein Ukrainian chess player and theoretician (d. 2006)

1924 Gloria Vanderbilt American actress fashion designer and socialite (d. 2019)

1924 Thelma Estrin American computer scientist and engineer (d. 2014)

1924 Dorothy Blum American computer scientist and cryptanalyst (d. 1980)

1924 Allan McLeod Cormack South-African-American physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)

1924 Hal Herring American football player and coach (d. 2014)

1924 Erik Nielsen Canadian lawyer and politician 3rd Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2008)

1924 Hugh Huxley English-American biologist and academic (d. 2013)

1924 Robert A. Roe American soldier and politician (d. 2014)

1924 David Beattie New Zealand judge and politician 14th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 2001)

1924 Carlos Humberto Romero Salvadoran politician President of El Salvador (d. 2017)

1924 Al Rosen American baseball player and manager (d. 2015)

1924 Arnold Drake American author and screenwriter (d. 2007)

1924 Deke Slayton American soldier pilot and astronaut (d. 1993)

1924 Cal Abrams American baseball player (d. 1997)

1924 Renos Apostolidis Greek philologist author and critic (d. 2004)

1924 Tomiichi Murayama Japanese soldier and politician 52nd Prime Minister of Japan

1924 Kenneth O'Donnell American soldier and politician (d. 1977)

1924 Roger Marche French footballer (d. 1997)

1924 Morton Bard American psychologist (d. 1997)

1924 Bill Boedeker American football player (d. 2014)

1924 Anthony Caro English sculptor and illustrator (d. 2013)

1924 Sean McClory Irish-American actor and director (d. 2003)

1924 Addie L. Wyatt American civil rights activist and labor leader (d. 2012)

1924 Judith Jones American literary and cookbook editor (d. 2017)

1924 Stephen Dodgson English composer and educator (d. 2013)

1924 Joe Gaetjens Haitian footballer (d. 1964)

1924 Philip Abbott American actor (d. 1998)

1924 Dov Shilansky Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and politician (d. 2010)

1924 Al Neuharth American journalist and author founded USA Today (d. 2013)

1924 Yevgeny Ostashev Russian test pilot participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite (d. 1960)

1924 Osman F. Seden Turkish director producer and screenwriter (d. 1998)

1924 Bill Wendell American television announcer (d. 1999)

1924 Rodney Mims Cook Sr. American lieutenant and politician (d. 2013)

1924 Bette Nesmith Graham American inventor invented Liquid Paper (d. 1980)

1924 Olga Kennard English crystallographer and academic (d. 2023)

1924 John Madin English architect (d. 2012)

1924 Roberts Blossom American actor (d. 2011)

1924 Machiko Kyō Japanese actress (d. 2019)

1924 Sarah Vaughan American singer (d. 1990)

1924 Ian Black Scottish international footballer and lawn bowls player (d. 2012)

1924 Margaret K. Butler American mathematician and computer programmer (d. 2013)

1924 Freddie Bartholomew American actor (d. 1992)

1924 Leo Buscaglia American author and academic (d. 1998)

1924 Charles Guggenheim American director and producer (d. 2002)

1924 Brendan Byrne American lieutenant judge and politician 47th Governor of New Jersey (d. 2018)

1924 Bobby Ávila Mexican baseball player (d. 2004)

1924 Roza Shanina Russian sergeant and sniper (d. 1945)

1924 Bob Christie American race car driver (d. 2009)

1924 Igor Borisov Soviet rower (d. before 2005)

1924 Johannes Mario Simmel Austrian-English author and screenwriter (d. 2009)

1924 Frédéric Back German-Canadian animator director and screenwriter (d. 2013)

1924 Anthony Farrar-Hockley English general and historian (d. 2006)

1924 Kumar Gandharva Hindustani classical singer (d. 1992)

1924 Sara Northrup Hollister American occultist (d. 1997)

1924 Arthur Shaw English professional footballer (d. 2015)

1924 Mohammad Naseem Pakistani-English activist and politician (d. 2014)

1924 Raymond Barre French economist and politician Prime Minister of France (d. 2007)

1924 Peter Safar Austrian physician and academic (d. 2003)

1924 Curtis Turner American race car driver (d. 1970)

1924 John T. Biggers American painter (d. 2001)

1924 Jack T. Chick American author illustrator and publisher (d. 2016)

1924 Stanley Donen American film director and choreographer (d. 2019)

1924 John Harvey-Jones English academic and businessman (d. 2008)

1924 Rudy Pompilli American saxophonist (d. 1976)

1924 Madanjeet Singh Indian diplomat author and philanthropist (d. 2013)

1924 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)

1924 Ira Louvin American singer-songwriter and mandolin player (d. 1965)

1924 Nam Duck-woo South Korean politician 12th Prime Minister of South Korea (d. 2013)

1924 Chuck Harmon American baseball player and scout (d. 2019)

1924 Bobby Rosengarden American drummer and bandleader (d. 2007)

1924 Clement Freud German-English radio host academic and politician (d. 2009)

1924 Ruth Kobart American actress and singer (d. 2002)

1924 Ingemar Johansson Swedish race walker (d. 2009)

1924 Franco Mannino Italian pianist composer director and playwright (d. 2005)

1924 Paulo Vanzolini Brazilian singer-songwriter and zoologist (d. 2013)

1924 Browning Ross American runner and soldier (d. 1998)

1924 Vernon B. Romney American lawyer and politician 14th Attorney General of Utah (d. 2013)

1924 Dick Ayers American author and illustrator (d. 2014)

1924 Blossom Dearie American singer and pianist (d. 2009)

1924 Kenneth Kaunda Zambian educator and politician first president of Zambia (d. 2021)

1924 Al Balding Canadian golfer (d. 2006)

1924 Zizi Jeanmaire French ballerina and actress (d. 2020)

1924 Uno Laht Estonian KGB officer and author (d. 2008)

1924 Evelyn Boyd Granville American mathematician computer scientist and academic

1924 Karel Kachyňa Czech director and screenwriter (d. 2004)

1924 Terry Southern American novelist essayist and screenwriter (d. 1995)

1924 Jamal Abro Pakistani lawyer and author (d. 2004)

1924 Theodore Bikel Austrian-American singer-songwriter guitarist and actor (d. 2015)

1924 Arthur Clues Australian rugby league player (d. 1998)

1924 Hugh Cortazzi English soldier historian and diplomat British Ambassador to Japan (d. 2018)

1924 Yehuda Amichai German-Israeli author and poet (d. 2000)

1924 Ken Tyrrell English race car driver founded Tyrrell Racing (d. 2001)

1924 Nestor Basterretxea Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 2014)

1924 Patricia Helen Kennedy American socialite activist and author (d. 2006)

1924 Denny Wright English guitarist composer and producer (d. 1992)

1924 Albert Band French-American director and producer (d. 2002)

1924 S. Vithiananthan Sri Lankan author and academic (d. 1989)

1924 Antony Hewish English astronomer and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)

1924 Maxine Cooper American actress and photographer (d. 2009)

1924 Alexander Esenin-Volpin Russian-American mathematician and poet (d. 2016)

1924 Theodore Mann American director and producer (d. 2012)

1924 Harry Schwarz South African anti-apartheid leader lawyer and Ambassador (d. 2010)

1924 Maria Koepcke German-Peruvian ornithologist and zoologist (d. 1971)

1924 Barbara Bachmann American microbiologist (d. 1999)

1924 Dawda Jawara 1st President of the Gambia (d. 2019)

1924 Roy Bentley English footballer (d. 2018)

1924 Francis Tombs Baron Tombs English engineer and politician (d. 2020)

1924 Sandy Wilson English composer and songwriter (d. 2014)

1924 David Chavchavadze English-American CIA officer and author (d. 2014)

1924 Zelmar Michelini Uruguayan journalist and politician (d. 1976)

1924 Peggy Cass American actress comedian and game show panelist (d. 1999)

1924 Charles Aznavour French-Armenian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2018)

1924 Karlheinz Deschner German author and activist (d. 2014)

1924 Philip Pearlstein American soldier and painter (d. 2022)

1924 István Nyers French-Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)

1924 Jaime Lusinchi Venezuelan physician and politician President of Venezuela (d. 2014)

1924 John Sumner English-Australian director founded the Melbourne Theatre Company (d. 2013)

1924 Edward du Cann English naval officer and politician (d. 2017)

1924 Paul Hébert Canadian actor (d. 2017)

1924 Lars Bo Danish author and illustrator (d. 1999)

1924 Miloslav Kříž Czech basketball player and coach (d. 2013)

1924 Pepper Paire American baseball player (d. 2013)

1924 Anthony Dryden Marshall American CIA officer and diplomat (d. 2014)

1924 June Callwood Canadian journalist author and activist (d. 2007)

1924 Karunanidhi Indian screenwriter and politician 3rd Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 2018)

1924 Colleen Dewhurst Canadian-American actress (d. 1991)

1924 Jimmy Rogers American singer and guitarist (d. 1997)

1924 Torsten Wiesel Swedish neurophysiologist and academic Nobel Prize laureate

1924 Tofilau Eti Alesana Samoan politician 5th Prime Minister of Samoa (d. 1999)

1924 Dennis Weaver American actor and director (d. 2006)

1924 Art Donovan American football player and radio host (d. 2013)

1924 Billie Dawe Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 2013)

1924 Kenneth Waltz American political scientist and academic (d. 2013)

1924 Ed Farhat American wrestler and manager (d. 2003)

1924 Friedrich L. Bauer German mathematician computer scientist and academic (d. 2015)

1924 Grete Dollitz German-American guitarist and radio host (d. 2013)

1924 James Black Scottish pharmacologist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)

1924 Hédi Fried Swedish author and psychologist (d. 2022)

1924 Ezer Weizman Israeli general and politician 7th President of Israel (d. 2005)

1924 Faith Domergue American actress (d. 1999)

1924 Chet Atkins American singer-songwriter guitarist and producer (d. 2001)

1924 Fritz Koenig German sculptor and academic designed The Sphere (d. 2017)

1924 Pontus Hultén Swedish art collector and historian (d. 2006)

1924 Ezzatolah Entezami Iranian actor (d. 2018)

1924 Wally Fawkes British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and satirical cartoonist (d. 2023)

1924 Jean Laplanche French psychoanalyst and academic (d. 2012)

1924 Christopher Booth English clinician and historian (d. 2012)

1924 Larkin Kerwin Canadian physicist and academic (d. 2004)

1924 Frank Bolle American comic-strip artist comic-book artist and illustrator (d. 2020)

1924 Kurt Furgler Swiss politician 70th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2008)

1924 Archie Roy Scottish astronomer and academic (d. 2012)

1924 Yoshito Takamine American politician (d. 2015)

1924 Sidney Lumet American director producer and screenwriter (d. 2011)

1924 Dimitar Isakov Bulgarian football player

1924 Madan Mohan Iraqi-Indian composer and director (d. 1975)

1924 William J. Castagna American lawyer and judge (d. 2020)

1924 Kostas Axelos Greek-French philosopher and author (d. 2010)

1924 James W. McCord Jr. CIA officer (d. 2017)

1924 Bob Appleyard English cricketer and businessman (d. 2015)

1924 Kalevi Keihänen Finnish entrepreneur (d. 1995)

1924 Ezra Laderman American composer and educator (d. 2015)

1924 Roy Walford American pathologist and gerontologist (d. 2004)

1924 Philip H. Hoff American politician (d. 2018)

1924 Max Trepp Swiss sprinter (d. 1990)

1924 Antoni Ramallets Spanish footballer and manager (d. 2013)

1924 Florence Stanley American actress (d. 2003)

1924 Georges Rivière French actor

1924 Amalia Aguilar Cuban-Mexican film actress and dancer (d. 2021)

1924 S. R. Nathan 6th President of Singapore (d. 2016)

1924 Eva Marie Saint American actress

1924 Delia Fiallo Cuban author and screenwriter (d. 2021)

1924 János Starker Hungarian-American cellist and educator (d. 2013)

1924 Edward Cassidy Australian Roman Catholic cardinal priest (d. 2021)

1924 Mahim Bora Indian writer and educationist recipients of the Padma Shri India's fourth highest civilian honour (d. 2016)

1924 Louie Bellson American drummer composer and bandleader (d. 2009)

1924 Natalia Bekhtereva Russian neuroscientist and psychologist (d. 2008)

1924 Karim Olowu Nigerian sprinter and long jumper (d. 2019)

1924 Mary Ford American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)

1924 Eddie Romero Filipino director producer and screenwriter (d. 2013)

1924 Johnnie Johnson American pianist and songwriter (d. 2005)

1924 Charles C. Droz American politician

1924 Pierre Cochereau French organist and composer (d. 1984)

1924 Johnny Bach American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)

1924 Bobo Brazil American wrestler (d. 1998)

1924 César Lattes Brazilian physicist and academic (d. 2005)

1924 Brett Somers Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2007)

1924 Charlie Tully Northern Irish footballer and manager (d. 1971)

1924 Oscar Wyatt American businessman

1924 Johnny Gilbert American game show host and announcer

1924 Warren Giese American football player coach and politician (d. 2013)

1924 Jeremiah Denton American admiral and politician (d. 2014)

1924 Marianne Bernadotte Swedish actress and philanthropist

1924 Garde Gardom Canadian lawyer and politician 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (d. 2013)

1924 Inge Sørensen Danish swimmer (d. 2011)

1924 Tullio Altamura Italian actor

1924 Stanley K. Hathaway American soldier lawyer and politician 40th United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 2005)

1924 Pat Hingle American actor and producer (d. 2009)

1924 Arthur Rankin Jr. American director producer and screenwriter (d. 2014)

1924 Lola Albright American actress and singer (d. 2017)

1924 Thomas Berger American author and playwright (d. 2014)

1924 Mort Garson Canadian-American songwriter and composer (d. 2008)

1924 Don Knotts American actor and screenwriter (d. 2006)

1924 Margaret Whiting American singer (d. 2011)

1924 Gavin Lambert English-American screenwriter and author (d. 2005)

1924 Gazanfer Bilge Turkish wrestler (d. 2008)

1924 Wilfred Josephs English composer (d. 1997)

1924 Aris Poulianos Greek anthropologist and archaeologist

1924 Frank Church American lawyer and politician (d. 1984)

1924 Scotch Taylor South African cricketer and hockey player (d. 2004)

1924 Vincent Canby American historian and critic (d. 2000)

1924 Otar Taktakishvili Georgian composer and conductor (d. 1989)

1924 Luigi Musso Italian racing driver (d. 1958)

1924 C. T. Vivian American minister author and activist (d. 2020)

1924 Lloyd Bochner Canadian-American actor (d. 2005)

1924 Robert Horton American actor (d. 2016)

1924 Jimmy Evert American tennis player and coach (d. 2015)

1924 Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (d. 2015)

1924 Frank Havens American canoeist (d. 2018)

1924 Marcia Mae Jones American actress and singer (d. 2007)

1924 Frank Worrell Barbadian cricketer (d. 1967)

1924 Joe Harnell American pianist and composer (d. 2005)

1924 Carroll O'Connor American actor director producer and screenwriter (d. 2001)

1924 Connie Converse American musician and singer-songwriter

1924 Leon Uris American soldier and author (d. 2003)

1924 Samuel Bowers American activist co-founded the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 2006)

1924 Kenneth Kendall Indian-English journalist and actor (d. 2012)

1924 Mathews Mar Barnabas Indian metropolitan (d. 2012)

1924 Frank Martínez American soldier and painter (d. 2013)

1924 Nancy Buckingham English author

1924 Martha Hyer American actress (d. 2014)

1924 Jean-François Lyotard French philosopher sociologist and literary theorist (d. 1998)

1924 Derek Shackleton English cricketer coach and umpire (d. 2007)

1924 Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq Pakistani general and politician 6th President of Pakistan (d. 1988)

1924 Sverre Fehn Norwegian architect designed the Hedmark Museum (d. 2009)

1924 Georges Prêtre French conductor (d. 2017)

1924 Robert Bolt English playwright and screenwriter (d. 1995)

1924 Hedy Epstein German-American Holocaust survivor and activist (d. 2016)

1924 Yoshirō Muraki Japanese production designer art director and fashion designer (d. 2009)

1924 Fess Parker American actor (d. 2010)

1924 Inez Voyce American baseball player (d. 2022)

1924 Evan S. Connell American novelist poet and short story writer (d. 2013)

1924 Willard Boyle Canadian physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)

1924 William Marshall American actor director and opera singer (d. 2003)

1924 George Zuverink American baseball player (d. 2014)

1924 Jack Weston American actor (d. 1996)

1924 James Kirkwood Jr. American playwright and author (d. 1989)

1924 Harishankar Parsai Indian writer satirist and humorist (d. 1995)

1924 Ephraim Kishon Israeli author screenwriter and director (d. 2005)

1924 Alyn Ainsworth English singer and conductor (d. 1990)

1924 Louis Teicher American pianist (d. 2008)

1924 Zsuzsa Körmöczy Hungarian tennis player and coach (d. 2006)

1924 Alex Kellner American baseball player (d. 1996)

1924 David Rowbotham Australian journalist and poet (d. 2010)

1924 Rosalie E. Wahl American lawyer and jurist (d. 2013)

1924 Janet Frame New Zealand author and poet (d. 2004)

1924 Tony MacGibbon New Zealand cricketer and engineer (d. 2010)

1924 Peggy Ryan American actress and dancer (d. 2004)

1924 Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Ukrainian-American rabbi and author (d. 2014)

1924 Dinah Washington American singer and pianist (d. 1963)

1924 Kenny Dorham American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (d. 1972)

1924 Lajos Kisfaludy Hungarian chemist and engineer (d. 1988)

1924 John Davidson American physician and politician (d. 2012)

1924 Buddy Hackett American actor and singer (d. 2003)

1924 Herbert Wise Austrian-English director and producer (d. 2015)

1924 Hal Douglas American voice actor (d. 2014)

1924 Daniel arap Moi Kenyan educator and politician 2nd President of Kenya (d. 2020)

1924 Mary Grace Canfield American actress (d. 2014)

1924 Joan Aiken English author (d. 2004)

1924 Justinas Lagunavičius Lithuanian basketball player (d. 1997)

1924 Paul Dietzel American football player and coach (d. 2013)

1924 Frank Armitage Australian-American artist (d. 2016)

1924 John Melcher American veterinarian and politician (d. 2018)

1924 Daniel Inouye American captain and politician Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2012)

1924 Leonard Rosenman American composer and conductor (d. 2008)

1924 Wendell H. Ford American politician 53rd Governor of Kentucky (d. 2015)

1924 Marie-Claire Kirkland American-Canadian lawyer judge and politician (d. 2016)

1924 Grace Metalious American author (d. 1964)

1924 Mimi Parent Canadian-Swiss painter (d. 2005)

1924 Jane Greer American actress (d. 2001)

1924 Sylvia Miles American actress (d. 2019)

1924 Russell M. Nelson American captain surgeon and religious leader

1924 Rik Van Steenbergen Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)

1924 Ted Kluszewski American baseball player and coach (d. 1988)

1924 Boyd K. Packer American educator and religious leader 26th President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (d. 2015)

1924 Daniel Akaka American soldier engineer and politician (d. 2018)

1924 Rudolf Vrba Czech-Canadian pharmacologist and educator (d. 2006)

1924 Amílcar Cabral Guinea-Bissauan political leader (d. 1973)

1924 Harold Blair Australian tenor and educator (d. 1976)

1924 Scott Brady American actor (d. 1985)

1924 Maurice Jarre French composer and conductor (d. 2009)

1924 Patricia Barringer American baseball player and accountant (d. 2007)

1924 Jerry Coleman American baseball player and manager (d. 2014)

1924 Abioseh Nicol Sierra Leonean-English physician academic and diplomat (d. 1994)

1924 Wim Polak Dutch journalist and politician Mayor of Amsterdam (d. 1999)

1924 Lucebert Dutch poet and painter (d. 1994)

1924 György Lázár Hungarian politician 50th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2014)

1924 Bobby Short American singer and pianist (d. 2005)

1924 Mordechai Tzipori Israeli politician and soldier (d. 2017)

1924 J. D. Tippit American police officer (d. 1963)

1924 Eloísa Mafalda Brazilian actress (d. 2018)

1924 Vern Benson American baseball player coach and manager (d. 2014)

1924 Don Harron Canadian actor and screenwriter (d. 2015)

1924 Gogi Grant American singer (d. 2016)

1924 Albert Marre American director and producer (d. 2012)

1924 Jackie Paris American singer and guitarist (d. 2004)

1924 Hermann Buhl Austrian mountaineer (d. 1957)

1924 Bernard Gauthier French cyclist (d. 2018)

1924 Charles Keeping English author and illustrator (d. 1988)

1924 Rosamunde Pilcher English author (d. 2019)

1924 Charles Waterhouse American painter sculptor and illustrator (d. 2013)

1924 J. William Middendorf American soldier and politician 14th United States Secretary of the Navy

1924 Ray Wetzel American trumpet player and composer (d. 1951)

1924 Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal Nicaraguan journalist and publisher (d. 1978)

1924 Nina Bocharova Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2020)

1924 Voula Zouboulaki Egyptian-Greek actress (d. 2015)

1924 Norman Ayrton English actor and director (d. 2017)

1924 Red Webb American baseball player (d. 1996)

1924 Jean Hoerni Swiss physicist inventor and businessman (d. 1997)

1924 Ernest Becker American-Canadian anthropologist author and academic (d. 1974)

1924 Bud Powell American pianist and composer (d. 1966)

1924 Fred Singer Austrian-American physicist and academic (d. 2020)

1924 Josef Škvorecký Czech-Canadian author and publisher (d. 2012)

1924 Rudolf Barshai Russian-Swiss viola player and conductor (d. 2010)

1924 Marcello Mastroianni Italian-French actor and singer (d. 1996)

1924 Bob Geigel American wrestler and promoter (d. 2014)

1924 Leonie Kramer Australian academic (d. 2016)

1924 William Rehnquist American lawyer and jurist 16th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 2005)

1924 Roger Williams American pianist (d. 2011)

1924 Harvey Kurtzman American cartoonist (d. 1993)

1924 Arkady Vorobyov Russian weightlifter and coach (d. 2012)

1924 Donald J. Sobol American soldier and author (d. 2012)

1924 Bill Dana American actor producer and screenwriter (d. 2017)

1924 José Donoso Chilean author (d. 1996)

1924 Barbara Kelly Canadian actress and screenwriter (d. 2007)

1924 Frederic Morton Austrian-American banker journalist and author (d. 2015)

1924 Bob Thaves American cartoonist (d. 2006)

1924 Alphons Egli Swiss lawyer and politician 77th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2016)

1924 Aloísio Lorscheider Brazilian cardinal (d. 2007)

1924 Thirunalloor Karunakaran Indian poet and scholar (d. 2006)

1924 John Nelder English mathematician and statistician (d. 2010)

1924 Immanuvel Devendrar Indian soldier (d. 1957)

1924 Arnie Risen American basketball player (d. 2012)

1924 James Clavell Australian-American director producer screenwriter and author (d. 1994)

1924 Ludmilla Tchérina French actress ballerina and choreographer (d. 2004)

1924 Ed Wood American actor director producer screenwriter (d. 1978)

1924 André Emmerich German-American art dealer (d. 2007)

1924 Sammy McCrory Northern Irish footballer (d. 2011)

1924 Mal Whitfield American athlete (d. 2015)

1924 Leonidas Kyrkos Greek politician (d. 2011)

1924 Terry Gibbs American vibraphone player and bandleader

1924 Moturu Udayam Indian activist and politician (d. 2002)

1924 Roberto Eduardo Viola Argentinian general and politician 44th President of Argentina (d. 1994)

1924 Marguerite Andersen German-Canadian author and educator (d. 2022)

1924 Lee Iacocca American businessman and author (d. 2019)

1924 Warren Miller American director and screenwriter (d. 2018)

1924 Gerard Parkes Irish-Canadian actor (d. 2014)

1924 Don Coryell American football player and coach (d. 2010)

1924 Anton Geiser Croatian SS officer (d. 2012)

1924 Giacomo Mari Italian footballer (d. 1991)

1924 Rolando Panerai Italian baritone (d. 2019)

1924 Buddy MacMaster Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2014)

1924 Robert Peters American poet playwright and critic (d. 2014)

1924 Joyce Randolph American actress

1924 Julie Wilson American actress and singer (d. 2015)

1924 Arthur Brittenden English journalist (d. 2015)

1924 John Brereton Barlow South African cardiologist and physician (d. 2008)

1924 Mary Lee American actress and singer (d. 1996)

1924 Fuat Sezgin Turkish historian and academic (d. 2018)

1924 Shaw Taylor English actor and television host (d. 2015)

1924 Bonnie Lou American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)

1924 Antonio Creus Spanish race car driver and motorcycle racer (d. 1996)

1924 Peddibhotla Suryakantam Telugu actress (d. 1994)

1924 Bernard Middleton British restoration bookbinder (d. 2019)

1924 John P. Craven American soldier and engineer (d. 2015)

1924 Süleyman Demirel Turkish engineer and politician 9th President of Turkey (d. 2015)

1924 Jean-Luc Pépin Canadian academic and politician 19th Canadian Minister of Labour (d. 1995)

1924 David Bauer Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1988)

1924 Rudy Van Gelder American record producer and engineer (d. 2016)

1924 Marc Breaux American actor director and choreographer (d. 2013)

1924 Samuel Ruiz Mexican bishop (d. 2011)

1924 Harry Threadgold English footballer (d. 1996)

1924 Johnny Bower Canadian ice hockey player and soldier (d. 2017)

1924 Joe Flynn American actor (d. 1974)

1924 Robert V. Hogg American statistician and academic (d. 2014)

1924 Victorinus Youn Kong-hi South Korean archbishop

1924 Dmitry Yazov Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 2020)

1924 Robert Frank Swiss-American photographer and director (d. 2019)

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