ON THIS DAY
Born in 1924
1353 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Allan Sherman
singer, screenwriter
- Roza Shanina
military personnel, sniper
- Ramón Valdés
film actor, singer-songwriter
- Peggy Cass
stage actor, film actor
- E. P. Thompson
writer, peace activist
- Gil Hodges
baseball player
- Lloyd Alexander
novelist, writer
- Florence Stanley
stage actor, film actor
- George Savalas
actor, film actor
- Muteesa II of Buganda
writer, politician
- Janet Frame
short story writer, novelist
- William H. Webster
lawyer, jurist
- Tony Britton
television actor, stage actor
- Ranasinghe Premadasa
politician
- Gerda Weissmann Klein
actor, writer
- Thomas J. Hudner
aircraft pilot
- Robert Bolt
writer, film director
- Henry Sy
banker, businessperson
- Mary Ford
guitarist, musician
- Geoffrey Bayldon
film actor, actor
- Louis Zorich
musician, film actor
- Roberto Eduardo Viola
politician, military officer
- Rosamunde Pilcher
housewife, novelist
- Louie Bellson
composer, drummer
- Vladimir Pikalov
inventor
- Gerald David Lascelles
aristocrat, art collector
- Norman Alden
television actor, voice actor
- Bess Myerson
politician, beauty pageant contestant
- Bobo Brazil
professional wrestler, actor
- R. K. Laxman
illustrator, artist
- Blossom Dearie
pianist, jazz musician
- Joe Flynn
television actor, voice actor
- Ursula Thiess
stage actor, voice actor
- Vladimir Kryuchkov
spy, writer
- Kenneth O'Donnell
political adviser, adviser
- Terry Southern
journalist, manufacturer
- William H. Gass
prose writer, university teacher
- Frank Lautenberg
art collector, lawyer
- John Backus
mathematician, computer scientist
- Robert Frank
artist, collagist
- Joyce Randolph
actor, television actor
- Mary Grace Canfield
film actor, television actor
- Noboru Takeshita
head of government, politician
- Peter Safar
anesthesiologist, physician
- Carole Cook
film actor, actor
- Val Avery
actor, television actor
- Arthur Rankin Jr.
film director, graphic designer
- Jackie Milburn
association football coach, association football player
- Daniel Akaka
politician, head teacher
- Matthäus Hetzenauer
sniper, soldier
- Hermann Buhl
mountaineer, forwarding merchant
- Harry Schwarz
lawyer, human rights defender
- Idries Shah
teacher, collector of fairy tales
- Dawda Kairaba Jawara
head of government, politician
- Nora Eddington
film actor
- William Marshall
opera singer, stage actor
- Gene Deitch
actor, illustrator
- Harvey Kurtzman
comics editor, comics writer
- Joy Page
television actor, film actor
- Clara Ward
gospel singer, songwriter
- Ted Hartley
television actor, actor
- Kenneth Waltz
philosopher, politician
- Grégoire Kayibanda
politician
- Franco Cristaldi
producer, film producer
- Joe Gaetjens
association football player
- Jovanka Broz
partisan, military personnel
- Rudy Van Gelder
audio engineer, composer
- Leo Buscaglia
university teacher, motivational speaker
- Karl Gotch
professional wrestler, catch trainer
- Bill Dana
screenwriter, military officer
- Robert Sobukwe
activist, educator
- Antony Hewish
astrophysicist, Nobel Prize winner
- Shintarō Abe
journalist, political scientist
- Wendell Ford
politician
- Kenny Dorham
composer, singer
- Sonny Stitt
saxophonist, recording artist
- Ernest Becker
writer, existential therapist
- Eduardo Paolozzi
collagist, sculptor
- Kenneth Grant
parapsychologist, occultist
- Ante Marković
politician, electrical engineer
- Frank Sturgis
criminal, spy
- Mark Miller
screenwriter, actor
- Jack T. Chick
comics artist, publisher
- Jeff Richards
actor, baseball player
- Yehuda Amichai
translator, writer
- Danielle Mitterrand
writer, politician
- Machiko Kyō
actor, stage actor
- Maria Koepcke
ornithologist, botanist
- Prince Alexander of Serbia
soldier
- David Bronstein
non-fiction writer, chess player
- J. J. Johnson
composer, jazz musician
- Bayezid Osman Osmanoğlu
pretender
- Kieron Moore
actor, film actor
- Ted Arison
banker, businessperson
- John C. Portman Jr.
architect, real estate developer
- Talat Mahmood
singer, actor
- Vincent Canby
journalist, film critic
- Marshall Allen
saxophonist, jazz musician
- Christopher C. Kraft
writer, inventor
- Marcella Hazan
writer, cookbook writer
- Joseph Ruskin
film actor, actor
- Israel Tal
military personnel, military officer
- J. D. Sumner
songwriter, musician
- Keith Larsen
screenwriter, film producer
- Bobby Short
television actor, jazz musician
- Jimmy Rogers
composer, blues musician
- Bruce King
governor, politician
- Angelines Fernández
film actor, comedian
- Slim Harpo
singer-songwriter, guitarist
- Aman Andom
politician, minister
- Paula Raymond
television actor, singer
- Jaime Lusinchi
politician, physician
- Masha Bruskina
resistance fighter, partisan
- Noreen Nash
film actor, actor
- André Franquin
artist, penciller
- Harry Meyen
voice actor, theatre designer
- Charles Guggenheim
director, television producer
- Neville Marriner
violinist, conductor
- Dolores Gray
television actor, singer
- Angela Morley
saxophonist, film score composer
- Julie Wilson
television actor, singer
- Alessandro Ruspoli, 9th Prince of Cerveteri
film director, socialite
- Margaret Whiting
singer, musician
- Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati
cleric, guru
- Bulat Okudzhava
philologist, screenwriter
- Torsten Nils Wiesel
lecturer, academic
- Paul Fussell
scholar of English, literary historian
- Bettye Ackerman
film actor, actor
- Allan McLeod Cormack
biophysicist, researcher
- Jacques Le Goff
historian, French resistance fighter
- Evan Mecham
governor, businessperson
- Akhtar Abdur Rahman
financier, statesperson
- Patricia Harris
human rights defender, diplomat
- Jane Morgan
actor, celebrity
- Hannes Messemer
television actor, film actor
- Johnnie Johnson
pianist, singer
