In the year 1924, Lenin dies, and Stalin, at age 42, immediately begins to clear way for his leadership (Jan 21), the computing company CTR is renamed IBM (Feb 14), Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in jail, but serves only 8 months (Apr 1), Daimler’s and Benz’s companies merge into Mercedes-Benz (May 11), Indian Citizenship Act becomes a law in the U.S. (Jun 2), in New York City, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held (Nov 27), Edwin Hubble announces that Andromeda is not a nebula, but actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe (Dec 30), American Indian Wars come to an end after 302 years - and all these fine people were born:
1924-0101
1924-0106 Kettil Bruun* sociologist/expert on alcohol politics - Helsinki, Finland (1985/61)
1924-0106 Earl Scruggs* musician/banjo player - Cleveland County, NC USA (2012/88)
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1924-0110 Earl Bakken* inventor of pacemaker - Columbia Heights, MN USA (2018/94)
1924-0110 Aila Meriluoto* writer/ poet/translator - Pieksämäki, Finland (2019/95)
1924-0111 Roger Guillemin* neuroendocrinologist/N - Dijon, France (2024/100)
1924-0112 Matti Kassila* film director - Keuruu, Finland (2018/94)
1924-0114 Carole Cook* actress - Abilene, TX USA (2023/98)
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1924-0121 Benny Hill* comedian/ singer - Southampton, Hampshire, England (1992/68)
1924-0123 Martti Pokela* folk musician (kantele)/composer - Haapavesi, Finland (2007/83)
1924-0126 Alice Babs Sjöblom* singer - Kalmar, Sweden (2014/90)
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1924-0201
1924-0206 Sammy Nestico* (b Nistico) composer/arranger - Pittsburgh, PA USA (2021/96)
1924-0206 Kyllikki Virolainen* (b Salojärvi) journalist/politician/m to Johannes Virolainen - Asikkala, Finland (2009/85)
1924-0208 Khamtai Siphandone* Laotian politician - Champasak, Laos, French Indochina (2025/101)
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1924-0210 Stephen Citron* biographer/ critic - USA (2013/89)
1924-0210 Marjatta Kallio* actress/singer - Tampere, Finland (2003/79)
1924-0216 Marja Korhonen* actress - Helsinki, Finland (2014/90)
1924-0217 Margaret Truman* singer/author - Independence, MO USA (2008/83)
1924-0219 Lee Marvin* actor - New York, NY USA (1987/63)
1924-0219 Bruce Norris* sports businessman - Chicago, IL USA (1986/61)
1924-0220 Gloria Laura Vanderbilt* artist/heiress - Manhattan, NY USA (2019/95)
1924-0221 Robert Mugabe* Zimbabwean politician/P - Kutama, Southern Rhodesia (2019/95)
1924-0223 Grethe Bartram* informant during WW2 - Aarhus, Denmark (2017/92)
1924-0223 Allan MacLeod Cormack* South African American physicist/N - Johannesburg, South Africa (1998/74)
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1924-0227 Patria Merceces Mirabal Reyes* mother of three/ political activist – Salcedo, Dominican Republic (1960/36)
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1924-0301
1924-0306 Gert Boyle* (b Lamfrom) businesswoman/ philanthropist - Augsburg, Weimar Republic (2019/95)
1924-0308 Georges Charpak* physicist//N - Dabrowica, Poland (2010/86)
1924-0324 Veikko Tuomi* singer/songwriter - Kiukainen, Finland (1992/67)
1924-0325 Roberts Blossom* actor - New Haven, CT USA (2011/87)
1924-0327 Sarah Vaughan* jazz singer - Newark, NJ (1990/66)
1924-0403 Marlon Brando* actor - Omaha, NE USA (2004/80)
1924-0403 Roza Shanina* Ро́за Гео́ргиевна Ша́нина sniper - Yedma, Russia, Soviet Union (1945/20)
1924-0404 Joye Hummel* comic book author/ghost-writer of more than 70 Wonder Woman stories - Long Island, NY USA (2021/97)
1924-0405 John Fraser Hart* geographer/educator - Staunton, VA USA (2024/100)
1924-0413 Stanley Donen* film director/choreographer - Columbia, SC USA (2019/94)
1924-0424 Clement Freud* German-British chef/broadcaster/ doubtfully knight/grandson of Sigmund Freud - Berlin, Weimar Republic (2009/84)
1924-0424 Eric Pleskow* Austrian-American film producer/ executive - Vienna, Austria (2019/95)
1924-0428 Kenneth Kaunda* teacher/politician/1st president of Zambia - Chinsali, Northern Rhodesia (2021/97)
1924-0429 Zizi Jeanmaire* ballet dancer/actress/singer - Paris, France (2020/96)
1924-0502 Theodore Bikel* Austrian-American actor/folk singer/political activist - Vienna, Austria (2015/91)
1924-0508 Gerda Weissmann Klein* Polish-American writer/human rights activist/ to U.S. at age 22 - Bielsko, Poland (2022/97)
1924-0511 Antony Hewish* radio astronomer/N - Fowey, Cornwall, England (2021/97)
1924-0514 Coco Schumann* jazz musician/Holocaust survivor - Berlin, Weimar Republic (2018/93)
1924-0518 Priscilla Pointer* actress/mother of Amy Irving - New York City, NY USA *****
1924-0522 Charles Aznavour* singer/ activist/diplomat - Paris, France (2018/94)
1924-0529 Kirsti Ortola* actress/m to Tauno Palo/mother of Jukka-Pekka Palo - Pieksämäki, Finland (1993/69)
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1924-0604 Dennis Weaver* actor - Joplin, MO USA (2006/81)
1924-0607 Aarne Honkavaara* hockey player/coach - Tampere, Finland (2016/91)
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1924-0612 George H. W. Bush* politician/41usp - Milton, MA USA (2018/94)
1924-0614 James Black* physician/ pharmacologist - Uddingston, Lanarkshire, Scotland (2010/85)
1924-0614 Miriam Dell* schoolteacher/ botanist/women’s advocate - Hamilton, New Zealand (2022/97)
1924-0617 Liisa Tuomi* actress/ niece of Emmi Jurkka - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1989/64)
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1924-0621 Wally Fawkes* Canadian-British jazz musician/satirical cartoonist - Vancouver, BC Canada (2023/98)
1924-0625 Sidney Lumet* film director - Philadephia, PA USA (2011/86)
1924-0625 Eero Rislakki* industrial engineer/designer of the Jopo bicycle - Helsinki, Finland (2017/92)
1924-0626 Richard Bull* actor - Zion, IL USA (2014/89)
1924-0627 Rosalie Allen* country singer/television host/the Queen of Yodeling - Old Forge, PA USA (2003/79)
1924-0629 Roy Walford* physician/ advocate of calorie restriction for life extension and health improvement - San Diego, CA USA (2004/79)
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1924-0704 Eva-Marie Saint* actress - Newark, NJ USA *****
1924-0721 Don Knotts* actor - Morgantown, WV USA (2006/81)
1924-0729 Elisabeth Short* homicide victim “Black Dahlia” - Boston, MA USA (1947/22)
1924-0730 C. T. Vivian* minister/author/lieutenant of MLK Jr during the Civil Rights Movement - Boonville, MO USA (2020/95)
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1924-0802 Carroll O’Connor* actor - Manhattan, NY USA (2001/76)
1924-0803 Leon Uris* author of historical fiction - Baltimore, MD USA (2003/78)
1924-0806 Jaakko Pöyry* industrialist - Ilmajoki, Finland (2006/82)
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1924-0812 Lucy Salani* (b Luciano Salani) activist/considered the only Italian transgender person to have survived the Nazi concentration camps - Fossano, Kingdom of Italy (2023/98)
1924-0816 Tankmar Horn* economist/diplomat - Viipuri, Finland (2018/93)
1924-0816 Zeng Rongsheng* geophysicist/earthquake researcher - Fuqing, Fujian, China (2019/95)
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1924-0824 Ahmadou Ahidjo* politician/P - Cameroon (1989/65)
1924-0825 Allan Edwall* actor - Rödön, Sweden (1997/72)
1924-0828 Emerich Roth* Swedish-Czec holocaust survivor - Sevlus, Czechoslovakia (2022/97)
1924-0829 Dinah Washington* singer/pianist - Tuscaloosa, AL USA (1963/39)
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1924-0902 Daniel arap Moi* politician/P - Sacho, Baringo, Kenya Colony (2020/95)
1924-0904 Helmut Schlesinger* economist/President of the Bundesbank - Penzberg, Bavaria, Weimar Republic (2024/100)
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1924-0907 Daniel K. Inouye* 井上 建 politician - Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA (2012/88)
1924-0908 Mimi Parent* surrealist artist - Montreal, QC Canada (2005/80)
1924-0909 Sylvia Miles* (b Lee) actress - Greenwich Village, NY USA (2019/94)
1924-0909 Russell M. Nelson* surgeon/Mormon leader - Salt Lake City, UT USA *****
1924-0909 Henrik Tikkanen* writer - Helsinki, Finland (1984/59)
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1924-0912 Ella Mae Morse* singer /hired by Jimmy Dorsey at age 14 - Mansfield, TX USA (1999/75)
1924-0913 Maurice Jarre* composer - Lyon, France (2009(84)
1924-0916 Lauren Bacall* actress - New York, NY USA (2014/89)
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1924-0930 Truman Capote* (b Persons) novelist/ screenwriter/actor - New Orleans, LA USA (1984/59)
1924-1001 Jimmy Carter* politician/39usp/ humanitarian/N - Plains, GA USA (2024/100)
1924-1006 Margaret Fulton* Australian food writer/ journalist/ commentator - Nairn, Scotland (2019/94)
1924-1007 Johan Hultin* Swedish-American pathologist/to U.S. at age 24 - Stockholm, Sweden (2022/97)
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1924-1012 Erich Gruenberg* violinist/teacher - Vienna, First Austrian Republic (2020/95)
1924-1014 Robert Webber* actor - Santa Ana, CA USA (1989/64)
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1924-1021 Kauko Helovirta* (b Hellström) actor - Juupajoki, Finland (1997/72)
1924-1021 Joyce Randolph* (b Sirola) actress/of Finnish descent - Detroit, MI USA (2024/99)
1924-1025 Henry Sy Sr.* billionaire businessman - Fujian, Republic of China (2019/94)
1924-1026 Constantin Brodzki* Belgian architect - Rome, Kingdom of Italy (2021/96)
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1924-1108 Johnny Bower* (b Kiszkan) hockey goalie/NHL 100 – Prince Albert, SK Canada (2017/93)
1924-1110 Kai Lappalainen* actor - Oulu, Finland (1978/53)
1924-1113 Motoo Kimura* 木村 資生 biologist/ population geneticist - Okazaki, Japan (1994/70)
1924-1114 Rolf Schimpf* actor (The Old Fox) - Berlin, Weimar Republic (2025/100)
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1924-1119 William Russell Enoch* actor - Sunderland, County Durham, England (2024/99)
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1924-1121 Joseph Campanella* actor - Manhattan, NY USA (2018/93)
1924-1121 Christopher Tolkien* editor/ academic//son of J.R.R. Tolkien - Leeds, England (2020/95)
1924-1124 Mavis Hutchinson* race walker/marathon runner - South Africa (2022/97)
1924-1126 Ruth Bradley Holmes* American polyglot/teacher (Cherokee)/to U.S. at age 13 - Beijing, Republic of China (2021/96)
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1924-1202 Alexander Haig* politician - Philadelphia, PA USA (2010/85)
1924-1207 Mário Soares* politician/P - Lisbon, Portugal (2017/92)
1924-1209 Cicely Tyson* fashion model/actress - New York City, NY USA (2021/96)
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1924-1212 Ray Cordeiro* DJ/ broadcaster/actor - Wan Chai, Hong Kong (2023/98)
1924-1212 Ed Koch* mayor of New York City - New York City, NY USA (2013/88)
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1924-1214 Raj Kapoor* actor/ director/producer - Peshawar, British India (1988/63)
1924-1214 Kirsi Kunnas* poet/ children’s writer/ translator - Helsinki, Finland (2021/96)
1924-1214 Siiri “Äitee” Rantanen* (Lintunen) cross country skier/OGr - Tohmajärvi, FInland (2023/98)
1924-1219 Doug Harvey* hockey player (NHL 100)/coach/entrepreneur – Montreal, QC Canada (1989/65)
1924-1220 Friederike Mayröcker* poet/children’s writer - Vienna, Austria (2021/96)
1924-1225 Rod Serling* screenwriter/producer/ activist - Syracuse, NY USA (1975/50)
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