Curated category
1924 births
- George H. W. BushGeorge Herbert Walker Bush carried a question with him for most of his adult life. Shot down over the Pacific in 1944, watching both crewmates die while he…
- Marlon BrandoMarlon Brando Jr. was born on the 3rd of April 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska, and by the time he died on the 1st of July 2004, he had remade what it means to act…
- Jimmy CarterJimmy Carter was born on the 1st of October 1924, in the Wise Sanitarium in Plains, Georgia, where his mother worked as a registered nurse.
- 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 VajpayeeAtal Bihari Vajpayee joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1939, at the age of 12, as a volunteer in Gwalior. Decades later, that same boy would be sworn…
- Bulat OkudzhavaBulat Okudzhava was born in Moscow on the 9th of May 1924, into a family that had traveled from Tbilisi to serve the Communist Party.
- David LandesDavid Saul Landes spent decades at Harvard asking a question that made many scholars uncomfortable: why did some nations grow rich while others stayed poor?
- Deke SlaytonDeke Slayton was born on the 1st of March 1924, on a farm near Leon, Wisconsin, and by 1959 he was one of the seven most famous test pilots in America.
- A. K. WarderA. K. Warder spent nearly six decades building one of the most ambitious literary surveys ever attempted in the field of Indian studies.
- 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…
- Ernest BeckerErnest Becker died on the 6th of March 1974, at age 49, in Burnaby, British Columbia. Two months later, the Pulitzer Prize committee awarded him their…
- George MikanGeorge Mikan stood six feet ten inches tall, weighed 245 pounds, and wore thick round spectacles , and he single-handedly forced professional basketball to…
- Vincent CroninVincent Archibald Patrick Cronin entered the world on the 24th of May 1924 in Tredegar, Monmouthshire. His father was A.J.