Famous people born in the year 1924

Harvey Joshua Levin was an American economist. He was university research professor in the Department of Economics at Hofstra University , Augustus B. Weller Professor of Economics at Hofstra , and founder and director of its Public Policy Workshop . He was also a senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research.....
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Harvey Kurtzman was an American cartoonist and editor of comic books and magazines. His large body of work includes writing and editing the parodic comic book Mad from 1952 until 1956, and the sexy and satirical Little Annie Fanny strips in Playboy from 1962 until 1988. His work is noted for its satire and parody of popular culture, social critique, and an obsessive attention to detail. His working method has been likened to that of an auteur, and those who illustrated his stories were expected....
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George E. Wahlen was a United States Army major who served with the United States Navy as a hospital corpsman attached to a Marine Corps rifle company in World War II and was awarded the U.S. militarys highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor, for heroism above and beyond the call of duty during the Battle of Iwo Jima. He was an Army officer in the Korea War and was wounded in the Vietnam War.....
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George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who was 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the U.S. Republican Party, he was previously a congressman, ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. He is the oldest living former President and Vice President. He is also the last living former President who is a veteran of World War II. Bush is often referred to as George H. W. Bush, Bush 41, Bu....
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David Resnick was a Brazilianborn Israeli architect and town planner whose awards include the Israel Prize in architecture and the Rechter Prize. Resnick,whose name is sometimes spelled in English as Reznik or Reznick, is a past director of the Israeli Architects Association, and is known as one of Israels most celebrated modern architects.....
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David Lincoln Rowland was an American industrial designer famous for his 404 chair, so named because it stacks 40 chairs in 4 feet high. The chair was the first compactly stackable chair invented, and is regarded as the gold standard of stackable chairs, not only for its stackability, but for its comfort, durability, timelessness, and grace. Referring to the 404, modern critics have noted that It is unsurpassed to this day in engineering sophistication and production. In continuous production ....
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Christopher Columbus Chris Kraft Jr. is a retired NASA engineer and manager who was instrumental in establishing the agencys Mission Control operation. Following his graduation from Virginia Tech in 1944, Kraft was hired by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics , the predecessor organization to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration . He worked for over a decade in aeronautical research before being asked in 1958 to join the Space Task Group, a small team entrusted with the....
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Eliyahu BenShaul Cohen , commonly known as Eli Cohen, was an Israeli spy. He is best known for his espionage work in 1961 1965 in Syria, where he developed close relationships with the political and military hierarchy there and became the Chief Adviser to the Minister of Defense. Syrian counterintelligence authorities eventually uncovered the spy conspiracy, captured and convicted Cohen under prewar martial law, sentencing him to death in 1965. The intelligence he gathered before his arrest is ....
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George Segal was an American painter and sculptor associated with the Pop Art movement. He was presented with the United States National Medal of Arts in 1999.....
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Donald Kent Slayton , , better known as Deke Slayton, was an American World War II pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot who was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and became NASAs first Chief of the Astronaut Office.....
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Delbert Daisey , known as Cigar Daisey, is an American waterfowl wood carver. He lives and works in Chincoteague, Virginia and is the resident carver at the Refuge Waterfowl Museum. His decoy carvings are recognized for both their artist value and functionality as working pieces for waterfowl hunting. His works include black ducks, mallards, redheads, ruddys and redbreasted mergansers and often crafted in drake and hen pairs. He has carved about 1900 ducks in total and he generally uses cork o....
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Georg Ratzinger PA is a German Catholic priest and musician, known for his work as the conductor of the Regensburger Domspatzen, the cathedral choir of Regensburg, Germany. He is the elder brother of Benedict XVI, Pope Emeritus. His greatuncle was German politician Georg Ratzinger.....
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Geraldine Hoff Doyle has been widely promoted in the media as the possible reallife model for the World War II era We Can Do It poster, later thought to be an embodiment of the iconic World War II character Rosie the Riveter. However, the 1942 news wire service photograph actually depicts another young war worker, Naomi Parker.....
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Fess Elisha Parker, Jr. was an American film and television actor best known for his portrayals of Davy Crockett in the Walt Disney 19551956 TV miniseries and as Daniel Boone in a television series from 1964 to 1970. He was also known as a winemaker and resort owneroperator.....
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Cicely L. Tyson is an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress for her performance as Rebecca Morgan in Sounder . For this role she also won the NSFC Best Actress and NBR Best Actress Awards. She starred in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman , for which she won two Emmy Awards and was nominated for a BAFTA Award.....
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Dennis Vincent Brutus was a South African activist, educator, journalist and poet best known for his campaign to have apartheid South Africa banned from the Olympic Games.....
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William Dennis Weaver was an American actor who was best known for his work in television. Weavers two most notable roles were as Marshal Matt Dillons trusty helper Chester Goode on the CBS western Gunsmoke and as Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud. He appeared in the 1971 television film Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg. He is also remembered for his role as the twitchy motel attendant in Orson Welless film Touch of Evil .....
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Adolph Alfred Taubman was an American real estate developer and philanthropist who became a billionaire by building shopping mall developer Taubman Centers into a retailing powerhouse.....
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Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was the King of Saudi Arabia and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques from 2005 to his death in 2015. He ascended to the throne on 1160August 2005 upon the death of his halfbrother, King Fahd.....
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