Curated category
1924 births
- George H. W. BushOn the 9th of June 1943, George Herbert Walker Bush became one of the youngest pilots ever commissioned in the United States Navy, a distinction that would…
- Marlon BrandoMarlon Brando Jr. entered the world on the 3rd of April 1924 in Omaha Nebraska as the only son of Marlon Brando Sr and Dorothy Pennebaker.
- Jimmy CarterJames Earl Carter Jr. was born on the 1st of October 1924, in the small town of Plains, Georgia. He entered the world at the Wise Sanitarium where his mother…
- William Mann (critic)William Somervell Mann entered the world on the 14th of February 1924 in Madras, India. His father Gerald and mother Joyce Mann raised him there before…
- Atal Bihari VajpayeeOn the 25th of December 1924, a boy named Atal Bihari Vajpayee was born into a Kanyakubja Brahmin family in the city of Gwalior.
- Bulat OkudzhavaBulat Okudzhava was born in Moscow on the 9th of May 1924. His parents were Georgian and Armenian communists who had moved to the capital from Tbilisi.
- David LandesDavid Saul Landes entered the world on the 29th of April 1924. He began his higher education journey at City College of New York in 1942.
- Deke SlaytonDonald Kent Slayton was born on the 1st of March 1924, on a farm near Leon, Wisconsin. His family home lacked electricity and indoor plumbing during his…
- A. K. WarderAnthony Kennedy Warder entered the world on the 8th of September 1924 in England. His early years set the stage for a life dedicated to ancient languages and…
- Christopher TolkienChristopher Tolkien was born on the 21st of November 1924 in Leeds, England. He entered Trinity College at Oxford University when he was only seventeen years…
- George H. W. BushOn the 12th of June 1943, a young man named George Herbert Walker Bush stood on the deck of the USS San Jacinto. He was only nineteen years old and had just…
- Ernest BeckerErnest Becker was born on the 27th of September 1924 in Springfield, Massachusetts. His parents were Jewish immigrants who raised him before he joined the…
- George MikanGeorge Mikan stood six feet four inches tall in 1942 when he walked onto the DePaul University campus. He weighed just over two hundred pounds and moved with…
- Vincent CroninVincent Archibald Patrick Cronin entered the world on the 24th of May 1924 in Tredegar, Monmouthshire. His father was A.J.