Year 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. [edit] Events of 1924 [edit] January [edit] February beca is ruler
[edit] August [edit] September [edit] October [edit] November [edit] December [edit] Undated [edit] Births [edit] January–February - January 1 – Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet
- January 3 – Hank Stram, American football coach and broadcaster (d. 2005)
- January 4 – Walter Ris, American freestyle swimmer
- January 6 – Earl Scruggs, American musician (The Beverly Hillbillies)
- January 7 – Geoffrey Bayldon, British actor
- January 8 – Ron Moody, British actor
- January 10 – Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (d. 2007)
- January 11
- January 12 – Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (d. 1998)
- January 13 – Roland Petit, French choreographer/dancer
- 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 (d. 2007)
- February 2 – Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-born producer and musician (d. 2007)
- February 7 – Hattie Jacques, English star of the Carry On films (d. 1980)
- February 9 – George Guest, Welsh choral conductor (d. 2002)
- February 17 – Margaret Truman, American novelist and only child of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman (d. 2008)
- February 19 – Lee Marvin, American actor (The Dirty Dozen) (d. 1987)
- February 20
- 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, American baseball player
[edit] March–April - March 1 – Deke Slayton, American astronaut (d. 1993)
- March 2 – Wendell Wise Mayes, Jr., first recipient of the first Wendell Mayes, Jr. Medal in 1986 (named by The Diabetes Association in his honor, the highest award given to non-medical professional volunteers)
- March 3 – John Woodnutt, British actor (d. 2006)
- March 3 – Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (d. 1948)
- March 4 – Kenneth O'Donnell, aide to U.S. President John F. Kennedy (d. 1977)
- March 7 – Kōbō 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
- April 4 – Gil Hodges, American baseball player (d. 1972)
- April 6 – Jimmy Roberts, American singer (The Lawrence Welk Show) (d. 1999)
- April 7 – Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer (d. 2009)
- April 12 – Raymond Barre, French politician and Prime Minister (d. 2007)
- April 14 – Philip Stone, English actor (d. 2003)
- April 15 – Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor and violinist
- April 16 – Henry Mancini, American composer and arranger (d. 1994)
- April 18
- April 19 – Al Balding, Canadian golfer (d. 2006)
- April 20 – Leslie Phillips, English actor
- April 23 – Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (d. 2007)
- April 24 – Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician (d. 2009)
[edit] May–June - May 1 – Art Fleming, American actor, game show host (Jeopardy!) (d. 1995)
- May 2 – Jamal Abro, Sindhi writer (d. 2004)
- 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
- May 29 – Lars Bo, Danish artist and writer (d. 1999)
- June 1 – Dr. William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (d. 2006)
- June 2 – June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author & social activist (d. 2007)
- June 3
- June 4 – Dennis Weaver, American actor (McCloud) (d. 2006)
- June 12 – George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President of the United States
- June 15 – Ezer Weizman, 7th President of Israel (d. 2005)
- June 18 – George Mikan, American basketball player (d. 2005)
- June 20
- June 24
- June 27 – Bob Appleyard, English cricketer
- June 29
[edit] July–August - July 3 – S. R. Nathan, 6th president of Singapore
- July 4 – Eva Marie Saint, American actress
- July 5
- July 11
- July 13
- July 14 – James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- July 15 – Makhmud Esambayev, Chechen dancer (d. 2000)
- July 19 – Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (d. 2005)
- July 20 – Lola Albright, American actress (Peter Gunn)
- July 21 – Don Knotts, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show) 2006)
- July 28 – Anne Braden, American civil rights activist (d. 2006)
- July 29 – Elizabeth Short, American actress (The Black Dahlia) (d. 1947)
- August 1
- August 2 – Carroll O'Connor, American actor (All In The Family) (d. 2001)
- August 2 – James Baldwin, American author (d. 1987.
- August 3 – Leon Uris, American writer (Exodus) (d. 2003)
- August 7 – Kenneth Kendall, British newsreader and presenter
- August 12
- August 14 – Holger Juul Hansen, Danish actor
- August 15 – Robert Bolt, English writer (d. 1995)
- August 17 – Evan S. Connell, Jr., American novelist, poet, and short story-writer
- 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 30 – Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (d. 2004)
- August 31 – Buddy Hackett, American comedian and actor (The Love Bug) (d. 2003)
[edit] September–October - September 2 – Daniel arap Moi, President of Kenya
- September 4
- 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
- September 13 – Maurice Jarre, French composer (d. 2009)
- September 14 – Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and author (d. 1994)
- September 15 – Bobby Short, American entertainer (d. 2005)
- September 16 – Lauren Bacall, American actress
- September 19 – Don Harron, Canadian entertainer
- September 20 – Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1957)
- September 22
- September 23 – Heinrich Schultz, Estonian cultural functionary
- September 26 – Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
- September 27 – Bernard Waber, American children's author
- September 30 – Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)
- October 1
- October 8 – Alphons Egli, member of the Swiss Federal Council
- October 10
- October 11 – Mal Whitfield, American athlete
- October 13 – Moturu Udayam, Indian women's activist (d. 2002)
- October 14 – Robert Webber, American actor (d. 1989)
- October 15 – Mark Lenard, American actor (d. 1996)
- October 21 – Celia Cruz, Cuban singer (d. 2003)
- October 24 – Christine Glanville, English puppeteer (d. 1999)
[edit] November–December - November 6 – Jeanette Schmid, famous German whistler (d. 2005)
- November 9 – Robert Frank, Swiss Photographer
- November 10 – Russell Johnson, American actor (Gilligan's Island)
- November 13 – Motoo Kimura, Japanese population geneticist (d. 1994)
- November 19 – William Russell, British actor
- November 20 – Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-born mathematician
- November 23 – Anita Linda, Filipino actress
- 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 and former U.S. Secretary of State
- December 3 – Francisco Sionil José, Filipino novelist, Philippine National Artist for Literature
- December 6 – Wally Cox, television and motion picture actor (Mr. Peepers)(d. 1973)
- December 7 – Bent Fabric, Danish pianist and composer.
- December 12 – Ed Koch, Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989
- December 24 – Mohammed Rafi, Indian playback singer (d. 1980)
- December 25
- December 28 – Milton Obote, President of Uganda (d. 2005)
- December 31
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - January 2 – Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (b. 1834)
- January 4 – John Peters, American 19th century baseball player (b. 1850)
- January 13 – Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (b. 1834)
- January 14 – Luther Emmett Holt, American pediatrician (b. 1855)
- January 16 – Licerio Gerónimo, Filipino military leader (b. 1855)
- January 21 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and first Premier of the Soviet Union (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)
- February 17 – Henry Bacon, American architect (b. 1866)
- March 9
- March 22 – Louis Delluc, French film director (b. 1890)
- March 24 – Prince Kwacho Hirotada of Japan (b. 1902)
- March 29 – Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, resident in England (b. 1852)
- April 14 – Louis Sullivan, American architect (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 26 – Victor Herbert, Irish dramatist (b. 1859)
- June 3 – Franz Kafka, Austrian author (The Trial) (b. 1883)
- June 9 – George Mallory, English mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (b. 1886)
- June 9 – Andrew Irvine, English mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (b. 1902)
- June 11 – Théodore Dubois, French composer and teacher (b. 1837)
[edit] July–December - July 7 – Calvin Coolidge, Jr., Son of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge (b. 1908)
- July 14 – Isabella Stewart Gardner, American art collector and philanthropist (b. 1840)
- 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 7 – Bruce Grit, ex-slave and African-American historian
- August 15 – Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys, British Private Secretary to King Edward VII. (b. 1837)
- August 17 – Pavel Urysohn, Russian mathematician (b. 1898)
- August 25 – Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (b. 1818)
- August 31 – Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1881)
- September 6 – Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (b. 1868)
- September 15 – Frank Chance, baseball player and manager (b. 1877)
- October 12 – Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
- October 29
- November 4 – Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845)
- November 9 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1850)
- November 10 – Sir Archibald Geikie, Scottish geologist (b. 1835)
- November 19 – Thomas Ince, American film producer (b. 1882)
- November 21 – Florence Kling Harding, First Lady of the U.S. (b. 1860)
- November 29 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (b. 1858)
- December 2 – Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian linguist (b. 1879)
- December 6 – Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863)
- December 13 – Samuel Gompers, American labor leader (b. 1850)
- December 29 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
- December 31 – Sir Samuel William Knaggs, British civil servant (b. 1856)
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