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1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
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August-October
November
December
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Births
January-February
January 2 - Sabine Baring-Gould , English composer and novelist (b. 1834 )
January 3 - Hank Stram , American football coach and broadcaster
January 6 - Earl Scruggs , American musician
January 11 - Sam B. Hall , American politician (d. 1994 )
January 11 - Slim Harpo , American musician (d. 1970 )
January 12 - Olivier Gendebien , Belgian race car driver (d. 1998 )
January 16 - Katy Jurado , Mexican actress (d. 2002 )
January 19 - Jean-Francois Revel , French author
January 21 - Telly Savalas , American actor (d. 1994 )
January 26 - Annette Strauss , American philanthropist and mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1998 )
January 27 - Sabu , Indian actor (d. 1963 )
January 29 - Luigi Nono , Italian composer (d. 1990 )
January 30 - Lloyd Alexander , American writer
February 2 - Elfi von Dassanowsky , Austrian-born producer and musician
February 17 - Margaret Truman , American novelist
February 19 - Lee Marvin , American actor (d. 1987 )
February 20 - Gloria Vanderbilt , American cosmetics entrepreneur
February 21 - Robert Mugabe , first Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
February 29 - Al Rosen , baseball player
March-May
March 1 - Deke Slayton , astronaut (d. 1993 )
March 7 - Kobo Abe , Japanese novelist (d. 1993 )
March 15 - Walter Gotell , German actor (d. 1997 )
March 27 - Sarah Vaughan , American jaz singer (d. 1990 )
March 28 - Freddie Bartholomew , British actor (d. 1992 )
March 30 - Alan Davidson , British author (d. 2003 )
April 1 - Brendan Byrne , Governor of New Jersey
April 3 - Marlon Brando , American actor (d. 2004 )
April 3 - Doris Day , American actress
April 4 - Gil Hodges , American baseball player (d. 1972 )
April 7 - Johannes Mario Simmel , Austrian writer
April 15 - Sir Neville Marriner , English conductor and violinist
April 24 - Clement Freud , British writer, radio personality, and politician
April 25 - Albert King , American musician (d. 1992 )
May 11 - Antony Hewish , English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
May 12 - Tony Hancock , English comedian (d. 1968 )
May 19 - Sandy Wilson , British composer
May 22 - Charles Aznavour , French singer, actor, and songwriter
June-August
June 1 - Dr. William Sloane Coffin , American clergyman
June 3 - Torsten Wiesel , Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
June 12 - George Herbert Walker Bush , 41st United States President
June 18 - George Mikan , basketball player (d. 2005 )
June 20 - Chet Atkins , American country guitar player (d. 2001 )
June 20 - Audie Murphy , American World War II hero and actor (d. 1971 )
June 27 - Bob Appleyard , English cricketer
June 29 - Flo Sandon's , Italian singer
June 29 - Ezra Laderman , American composer
July 4 - Eva Marie Saint , American actress
July 5 - Janos Starker , Hungarian cellist
July 13 - Carlo Bergonzi , Italian tenor
July 19 - Stanley K. Hathaway , American politician
August 1 - Georges Charpak , Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
August 2 - John Carroll O'Connor , American actor (d. 2001 )
August 3 - Leon Uris , American writer (d. 2003 )
August 12 - Derek Shackleton , English cricketer
August 12 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq , leader of Pakistan (d. 1988 )
August 15 - Robert Bolt , English writer (d. 1995 )
August 23 - Robert Solow , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
August 28 - Peggy Ryan , American actress (d. 2004 )
August 29 - Consuelo Velázquez , Mexican songwriter (d. 2005 )
August 31 - Buddy Hackett , American comedian and actor (d. 2003 )
September-October
September 2 - Daniel arap Moi , President of Kenya
September 4 - Joan Aiken , English writer (d. 2004 )
September 8 - Mimi Parent , Canadian painter (d. 2005 )
September 9 - Rik Van Steenbergen , Belgian cyclist (d. 2003 )
September 11 - Tom Landry , American football player and coach (d. 2000 )
September 19 - Don Harron , Canadian entertainer
September 22 - Charles Keeping , English illustrator (d. 1988 )
September 22 - Rosamunde Pilcher , English novelist
October 1 - Jimmy Carter , President of the United States , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
October 1 - William Rehnquist , Chief Justice of the United States (d. 2005 )
October 10 - Ed Wood , American filmmaker (d. 1978 )
October 11 - Mal Whitfield , American athlete
October 12 - Doris Grau , American actress (d. 1995 )
October 15 - Mark Lenard , American actor (d. 1996 )
October 21 - Celia Cruz , Cuban singer (d. 2003 )
November-December
November 13 - Motoo Kimura , Japanese population geneticist (d. 1994 )
November 19 - William Russell , British actor
November 20 - Benoit Mandelbrot , Polish-born mathematician
November 24 - Mel Patton , American athlete
November 25 - Takaaki Yoshimoto , Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher.
December 2 - Alexander M. Haig, Jr. , American politician
December 25 - Rod Serling , American television screenwriter (d. 1975 )
December 25 - Atal Behari Vajpayee , tenth Prime Minister of India
December 25 - Moktar Ould Daddah , first President of Mauritania (d. 2003 )
December 28 - Milton Obote , President of Uganda (d. 2005 )
Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah , King of Malaysia
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
Deaths
January 21 - Vladimir Lenin , first leader of the USSR (b. 1870 )
January 24 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894 )
February 3 - Woodrow Wilson , 28th President of the United States , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1856 )
April 21 - Eleonora Duse , Italian actress (b. 1858 )
May 4 - E. Nesbit , English author (b. 1858 )
May 15 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant , French diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1852 )
May 24 - Victor Herbert , Irish dramatist (b. 1859 )
June 3 - Franz Kafka , Austrian author (b. 1883 )
June 10 - George Mallory , English mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (b. 1886 )
June 11 - Théodore Dubois , French composer and teacher (b. 1837 )
July 23 - Frank Frost Abbott , American classical scholar (b. 1860 )
July 27 - Ferruccio Busoni , Italian pianist and composer (b. 1866 )
August 3 - Joseph Conrad , Polish-born author (b. 1857 )
August 17 - Paul Urysohn , Russian mathematician (b. 1898 )
September 15 - Frank Chance , baseball player and manager (b. 1877 )
October 12 - Anatole France , French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844 )
November 4 - Gabriel Fauré , French composer (b. 1845 )
November 29 - Giacomo Puccini , Italian composer (b. 1858 )
December 7 - Gene Stratton Porter , American author (b. 1863 )
December 29 - Carl Spitteler , Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845 )
December 31 - Sir Samuel William Knaggs , British civil servant (b. 1856 )
Nobel Prizes
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