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1924 (MCMXXIV leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar).
Contents
1 Events
1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December
2 Undated 3 Births
3.1 January-February 3.2 March-April 3.3 May-June 3.4 July-August 3.5 September-October 3.6 November-December
4 Deaths
4.1 January - March 4.2 April - June 4.3 July - September 4.4 October - December
5 Nobel prizes
Events January February March April May June July August September October November December Undated Births January-February January 3 - Hank Stram , American football coach and broadcaster (d. 2005 )
January 6 - Earl Scruggs , American musician
January 11 - Roger Guillemin , French neuroendocrinologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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 (d. 2006 )
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 7 - Hattie Jacques , star of the Carry On films (d. 1980 )
February 17 - Margaret Truman , American novelist and only child of Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman
February 19 - Lee Marvin , American actor (d. 1987 )
February 20 - Gerson Goldhaber , particle physicist and Astrophysicist
February 20 - Gloria Vanderbilt , American cosmetics entrepreneur
February 21 - Robert Mugabe , first Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
February 23 - Allan McLeod Cormack , South African physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1998 )
February 29 - Al Rosen , baseball player
March-April March 1 - Deke Slayton , astronaut (d. 1993 )
March 4 - Kenneth O'Donnell , aide to US President John F. Kennedy (d. 1977 )
March 7 - Kobo Abe , Japanese novelist (d. 1993 )
March 15 - Walter Gotell , German actor (d. 1997 )
March 27 - Sarah Vaughan , American jazz 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 - Errol Brathwaite , New Zealand author (d. 2005 )
April 3 - Doris Day , American actress
April 4 - Gil Hodges , American baseball player (d. 1972 )
April 6 - Jimmy Roberts , American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show 1999 )
April 7 - Johannes Mario Simmel , Austrian writer
April 15 - Sir Neville Marriner , English conductor and violinist
April 16 - Henry Mancini , American composer and arranger (d. 1994 )
April 18 - Clarence Gatemouth Brown , American blues musician (d. 2005 )
April 19 - Al Balding , Canadian golfer (d. 2006 )
April 23 - Bobby Rosengarden , American jazz drummer (d. 2007 )
April 24 - Clement Freud , British writer, radio personality, and politician
May-June May 11 - Antony Hewish , English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
May 12 - Tony Hancock , English comedian (d. 1968 )
May 18 - Priscilla Pointer , American actress
May 19 - Sandy Wilson , British composer
May 22 - Charles Aznavour , French singer, actor, and songwriter
May 24 - Vincent Cronin , British historical writer and biographer
May 24 - Maria Koepcke , ornithologist
June 1 - Dr. William Sloane Coffin , American clergyman (d. 2006 )
June 2 - June Callwood , Canadian journalist, author & social activist
June 3 - Torsten Wiesel , Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
June 4 - Dennis Weaver , American actor (d. 2006 )
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 24 - Kurt Furgler , member of the Swiss Federal Council
June 27 - Bob Appleyard , English cricketer
June 29 - Flo Sandon's , Italian singer
June 29 - Ezra Laderman , American composer
July-August July 3 - S. R. Nathan , 6th president of Singapore
July 4 - Eva Marie Saint , American actress
July 5 - János Starker , Hungarian cellist
July 11 - Charlie Tully , Northern Irish footballer (d. 1971 )
July 13 - Carlo Bergonzi , Italian tenor
July 13 - Johnny Gilbert , American game show announcer
July 14 - James W. Black , Scottish pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
July 19 - Stanley K. Hathaway , American politician
July 21 - Don Knotts , American actor (d. 2006 )
July 29 - Elizabeth Short , American actress, also known as 'The Black Dahlia'
August 1 - Georges Charpak , Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
August 2 - Carroll O'Connor , American actor (d. 2001 )
August 3 - Leon Uris , American writer (d. 2003 )
August 7 - Kenneth Kendall , British newsreader and presenter
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 5 - Paul Dietzel , College football coach
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 14 - Abioseh Nicol , Sierra Leonean diplomat and author (d. 1994 )
September 19 - Don Harron , Canadian entertainer
September 21 - Hermann Buhl , Austrian mountaineer (d. 1957 )
September 22 - Charles Keeping , English illustrator (d. 1988 )
September 22 - Rosamunde Pilcher , English novelist
September 24 - Nina Bocharova , Soviet gymnast
September 27 - Bernard Waber , American children's author
September 30 - Truman Capote , American author
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 8 - Alphons Egli , member of the Swiss Federal Council
October 10 - Ed Wood , American filmmaker (d. 1978 )
October 11 - Mal Whitfield , American athlete
October 15 - Mark Lenard , American actor (d. 1996 )
October 21 - Celia Cruz , Cuban singer (d. 2003 )
November-December November 6 - Jeanette Schmid , famous whistler (d. 2005 )
November 10 - Russell Johnson , American actor
November 13 - Motoo Kimura , Japanese population geneticist (d. 1994 )
November 19 - William Russell , British actor
November 20 - Benoît Mandelbrot , Polish-born mathematician
November 24 - Mel Patton , American athlete
November 25 - Takaaki Yoshimoto , Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher.
November 28 - Dennis Brutus , South African poet and anti-Apartheid activist
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 Presi
