ON THIS DAY
Born in 1924
1353 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- George H. W. Bush
baseball player, naval officer
- Jimmy Carter
farmer, engineer
- Marlon Brando
activist, stage actor
- Lauren Bacall
actor, television actor
- Truman Capote
autobiographer, screenwriter
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
journalist, writer
- Black Dahlia
waiter, domestic worker
- James Baldwin
civil rights advocate, poet
- Robert Mugabe
politician
- Raj Kapoor
film producer, film actor
- Lee Marvin
television actor, film actor
- Don Knotts
voice actor, comedian
- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
politician
- Sidney Lumet
film producer, theatre director
- Eva Marie Saint
stage actor, actor
- Carroll O'Connor
film actor, actor
- Muthuvel Karunanidhi
journalist, writer
- Gloria Vanderbilt
socialite, diarist
- Charlie Munger
investor, lawyer
- Rod Serling
writer, film producer
- Benny Hill
comedian, screenwriter
- Cicely Tyson
television actor, model
- Eli Cohen
spy, military personnel
- Shirley Chisholm
educator, educational consultant
- Charles Aznavour
composer, screenwriter
- Marcello Mastroianni
actor, film actor
- Lee Iacocca
writer, business executive
- John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer
equerry, aristocrat
- Ed Koch
film critic, judge
- Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
politician, military officer
- Mohammed Rafi
composer, film actor
- Roberts Blossom
stage actor, television actor
- Geraldine Page
stage actor, actor
- Dennis Weaver
politician, film actor
- Christopher Tolkien
writer, novelist
- Buddy Hackett
film actor, television actor
- Ed Wood
stage actor, screenwriter
- Henry Mancini
pianist, composer
- Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko
politician
- Shaitan Singh
military personnel
- Juan Ponce Enrile
lawyer, jurist
- Phyllis Schlafly
jurist, radio personality
- Daniel Inouye
lawyer, captain
- William Rehnquist
judge, lawyer
- Kim Dae-jung
politician, journalist
- Pat Hingle
film actor, television actor
- Dorothy Malone
television actor, actor
- Patricia Kennedy Lawford
film producer, actor
- Colleen Dewhurst
stage actor, film actor
- J. D. Tippit
police officer
- Deke Slayton
astronaut, test pilot
- Katy Jurado
television actor, film actor
- Chet Atkins
guitarist, bandleader
- Wally Cox
writer, voice actor
- Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma
politician, aristocrat
- Alexander Haig
politician, businessperson
- Russell M. Nelson
cardiac surgeon, cardiologist
- Maria Riva
actor, biographer
- George Mikan
sports executive, lawyer
- Sarah Vaughan
singer, jazz musician
- Guy Williams
film actor, model
- Russell David Johnson
actor, television actor
- Tom Landry
American football player, aircraft pilot
- Norman Fell
film actor, actor
- Dinah Washington
singer, jazz musician
- Leslie Phillips
film producer, film actor
- Stanley Donen
director, choreographer
- Billy Barty
film actor, television actor
- Fess Parker
singer, television actor
- Nicholas Colasanto
television actor, film director
- Benoit Mandelbrot
university teacher, scientist
- Süleyman Demirel
politician, university teacher
- Gail Russell
actor, television actor
- Nina Foch
film actor, film director
- Ron Moody
stage actor, television actor
- Tomiichi Murayama
politician, head of government
- Maurice Jarre
bandleader, conductor
- Martha Hyer
film actor, actor
- Gary Morton
television producer, actor
- William Russell
film actor, stage actor
- Amílcar Cabral
agronomist, politician
- Jane Greer
television actor, film actor
- Kenneth Kaunda
teacher, freedom fighter
- Max Roach
composer, recording artist
- Timothy Evans
truck driver
- Richard Bull
television actor, actor
- Lefter Küçükandonyadis
association football coach, association football player
- Lola Albright
model, film actor
- Theodore Bikel
singer, actor
- Daniel arap Moi
politician, minister
- Sergei Parajanov
filmmaker, film screenwriter
- Clement Freud
writer, restaurateur
- Jack Weston
film actor, television actor
- Jeremiah Denton
politician, military officer
- Sylvia Miles
actor, film actor
- Margaret Truman
biographer, writer
- Paulo Muwanga
politician, head of government
- Ralph Miliband
political scientist, university teacher
- Jin Yong
film director, writer
- Brett Somers
actor, singer
- Earl Scruggs
composer, songwriter
- Paul Desmond
recording artist, saxophonist
- Bette Nesmith Graham
secretary, typist
- Elder Paisios of Mount Athos
ascetic, monk
- Ezer Weizman
businessperson, air force officer
- Ahmadou Ahidjo
politician
- Connie Converse
composer, musician
- Priscilla Pointer
stage actor, actor
- Leon Uris
short story writer, novelist
- Kōbō Abe
photographer, novelist
- Faith Domergue
actor, television actor
- Robert Horton
musician, actor
- Michael Manley
politician
- Billy Wright
association football coach, association football player
- Robert Webber
film actor, actor
- Carol Grace
novelist, writer
- Sabu Dastagir
film actor, actor
- S. N. Goenka
teacher, businessperson
- John Grigg, 2nd Baron Altrincham
journalist, politician
- Rudolf Vrba
writer, pharmacologist
- Jean-François Lyotard
university teacher, literary theorist
- Rikidōzan
amateur wrestler, rikishi
- Dmitry Yazov
soldier, military personnel
- Leo Sharp
drug trafficker, horticulturist
- Ed Farhat
professional wrestler
- Karpoori Thakur
politician
- Nigel Green
film actor, stage actor
- Jonathan Frid
television actor, film actor
- Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi
military personnel, politician
- Kim Song-ae
politician
- Mark Lenard
film actor, television actor
- Lloyd Bochner
film actor, television actor
- Walter Gotell
actor, film actor
- Robert Solow
economist, professor
- Bud Powell
recording artist, musician
- Ramón Castro Ruz
farmer, politician
- Joseph Campanella
film actor, stage actor
- Frank Church
politician
- Paul Feyerabend
philosopher, university teacher
- Girija Prasad Koirala
politician
- S. R. Nathan
civil servant, diplomat
- Madame Nhu
politician
- Madan Mohan
music director, composer
- Tony Hancock
comedian, film actor
- Freddie Bartholomew
film actor, television producer
- Scott Brady
film actor, television actor
- Harry Harrison
writer, comics artist
- Ip Chun
martial artist
- Mário Soares
politician, writer
- Philip Stone
actor, television actor