Famous people born in the year 1924

Gino Joseph Merli was an American soldier, and recipient of the Medal of Honor during World War II.....
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Giovanni Battista Rizza is an Italian mathematician, working in the fields of complex analysis of several variables and in differential geometry he is known for his contribution to hypercomplex analysis, notably for extending Cauchys integral theorem and Cauchys integral formula to complex functions of a hypercomplex variable, the theory of pluriharmonic functions and for the introduction of the now called Rizza manifolds.....
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Richard Bache Dick Ayers was an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of Jack Kirbys inkers during the late1950s and 1960s period known as the Silver Age of Comics, including on some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics The Fantastic Four. He is the signature penciler of Marvels World War II comic Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, drawing it for a 10year run, and he cocreated Magazine Enterprises 1950s Westernhorror character the Ghost Rider, a version o....
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Oscar Ewing Price, known as O. E. Price , was a state district and appeals court judge from Bossier City, Louisiana.....
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Mrio Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, GColTE, GCC, GColL, KE is a Portuguese politician who served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the 17th President of Portugal from 1986 to 1996.....
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Dieter Damerius was a Leutnant of the Reserves in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Damerius was captured by British forces at the end of the war and was released in February 1946.....
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Ernest Ivy Boots Thomas, Jr. was a United States Marine Corps platoon sergeant who was killed in action on March 3, 1945 during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.....
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Jack Williams was a United States Navy hospital corpsman who was killed in action while attached to a Marine Corps infantry unit in World War II. He was awarded the United States militarys highest decorationthe Medal of Honorposthumously, for heroism above and beyond the call of duty during the Battle of Iwo Jima.....
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Jack Royce Woolf was an American academic who arrived at Arlington State College in 1957 as dean of the College. After one year as dean, the Texas AampM Board appointed him acting president in 1958 and president in 1959. In 1967, upon the university leaving the Texas AampM System for the University of Texas System and with the accompanying name change, Woolf became president of The University of Texas at Arlington. Woolf resigned the presidency in 1968, but continued service to the university u....
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Idries Shah , also known as Idris Shah, n Sayed Idries elHashimi and by the pen name Arkon Daraul, was an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote over three dozen books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies.....
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Trn L Xun , popularly known as Madame Nhu, was the de facto First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963. She was the wife of Ng nh Nhu who was the brother and chief adviser to President Ng nh Dim. As Dim was a lifelong bachelor, and because she and her family lived in Independence Palace, she was considered to be the first lady.....
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Kalipatnam Ramarao known as Kara Mastar, is an Indian poet and writer known for his Telugu short stories.....
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Kamal Huseynagha oglu Mammadbeyov was an architect, researcher, Azerbaijani and Soviet scientist, academician of the International Academy of Architecture of the Eastern Countries, honored architect of Azerbaijan SSR. He has a PhD in theory and history of architecture and restoration of architectural monuments.....
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Kanaklata Barua also called Birbala and Shaheed Kanaklata Barua was an Indian freedom fighter from Assam who was shot dead while leading a procession bearing the National Flag during the Quit India Movement of 1942.....
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Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov was the last Marshal of the Soviet Union to be appointed before the collapse of the Soviet Union . He was the only Marshal of the Soviet Union to be born in Siberia. A veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Yazov is the last surviving Marshal and the only one not to have been awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.....
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Jaime Ramn Lusinchi was a Venezuelan politician who was the President of Venezuela from 1984 to 1989. His term was characterized by an economic crisis, growth of the external debt, populist policies, currency depreciation, inflation and corruption that exacerbated the crisis of the political system established in 1958.....
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Alfred Hawthorne Hill , known by his stage name Benny Hill, was an English comedian and actor, best remembered for his longrunning internationally popular television programme The Benny Hill Show, an amalgam of slapstick, burlesque and double entendres in a format that included live comedy and filmed segments, with him at the focus of almost every segment.....
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Benoit B. Mandelbrot was a Polishborn, French and American mathematician with broad interests in practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as the art of roughness of physical phenomena and the uncontrolled element in life. He referred to himself as a fractalist. He is recognized for his contribution to the field of fractal geometry, which included coining the word fractal, as well as developing a theory of roughness and selfsimilarity in nature.....
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Gotthold Gloger was a German writer and painter.....
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Kenneth Noland was an American abstract painter. He was one of the bestknown American Color Field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was thought of as a minimalist painter. Noland helped establish the Washington Color School movement. In 1977, he was honored by a major retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York that then traveled to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. and Ohios Tol....
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