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1924 (''' MCMXXIV ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
August-October
November
December
Unknown date
Births
January
- January 3 - Hank Stram , American football coach and broadcaster
- January 6 - Earl Scruggs , American musician
- January 11 - Roger Guillemin , French neuroendocrinologist, recpient 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
- 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
March
April
- 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 6 - Jimmy Roberts , American singer, '' The Lawrence Welk Show '' (d. 1999 )
- April 7 - Johannes Mario Simmel , Austrian writer
- April 15 - Sir Neville Marriner , English conductor and violinist
- April 18 - Clarence Gatemouth Brown , American blues musician (d. 2005 )
- April 24 - Clement Freud , British writer, radio personality, and politician
- April 25 - Albert King , American musician (d. 1992 )
May
June
- June 1 - Dr. William Sloane Coffin , American clergyman
- 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 27 - Bob Appleyard , English cricketer
- June 29 - Flo Sandon's , Italian singer
- June 29 - Ezra Laderman , American composer
July
August
- 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
November
December
Deaths
- January 2 - Sabine Baring-Gould , English composer and novelist (b. 1834 )
- 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 - Pavel 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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