Famous people born in the year 1924

Howard Thomas Odum was an American ecologist. He is known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology, and for his provocative proposals for additional laws of thermodynamics, informed by his work on general systems theory.....
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Eugene Peyton Deatrick, Jr. is a retired United States Air Force colonel, test pilot, and combat veteran. He is best recognized for his role in the rescue of United States Navy Lieutenant Dieter Dengler during the Vietnam War. The rescue was recounted in the Werner Herzog films Little Dieter Needs to Fly and Rescue Dawn and the national bestseller Hero Found The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War by author Bruce Henderson.....
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Makhmud Alisultanovich Esambayev was a Chechen actor and dancer. Makhmud was regarded as one of the most famous dancers of the Soviet Union.....
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Makhmud Bedalovich Umarov was a Kazakhstani sport shooter. He competed in the 50 m pistol event at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won a silver medal on both occasions.....
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Frank Forrester Church III was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Idaho from 1957 to 1981.....
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James Arthur Baldwin was an AfricanAmerican novelist, essayist, playwright, poet and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son , explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid20thcentury America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions. Some Baldwin essays are booklength, for instance The Fire Next Time , No Name in the Street , and The Devil Finds Work .....
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Donald MacKay Fraser is an American politician from Minneapolis, Minnesota.....
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Evan Mecham was the 17th Governor of Arizona. A decorated veteran of World War II, Mecham earned his living as an automotive dealership owner and occasional newspaper publisher. Periodic runs for political office earned him a reputation as a perennial candidate along with the nickname of The Harold Stassen of Arizona before he was elected governor, under the Republican banner. As governor, Mecham was plagued by controversy and became the first U.S. governor to simultaneously face removal from o....
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Lauren Bacall was an American actress known for her distinctive voice and sultry looks. She was named the 20th greatest female star of Classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute, and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009, in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures.....
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Ellen Buchanan Gardner Caverlee James C. Cres Gardner, II Stepdaughters Martha Elizabeth Hannigan Margaret Welsh Clausen....
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Eva Marie Saint i v m r i s e n t is an American actress and producer. She is known for starring in Elia Kazans On the Waterfront , for which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Alfred Hitchcocks North by Northwest . She received Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for A Hatful of Rain and won a Primetime Emmy Award for the television miniseries People Like Us .....
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Patricia Helen Pat Kennedy Lawford was an American socialite and the sixth of nine children of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. She was a sister of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Senator Ted Kennedy. Pat wanted to be a film producer, a profession not readily open to young women in her time. She married English actor Peter Lawford in 1954, but they experienced a serious cultureclash and divorced in 1966.....
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Patricia Roberts Harris served in the American administration of President Jimmy Carter as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare . She was the first African American woman to serve in the United States Cabinet, and the first to enter the line of succession to the Presidency. She previously served as United States Ambassador to Luxembourg under President Lyndon B. Johnson, and was the first AfricanAmerican woman to....
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Frank Raleigh Lautenberg was a United States Senator from New Jersey and a member of the Democratic Party. He was originally from Paterson, New Jersey.....
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Major General Hugh W. Hardy was a United States Marine Corps Reserves major general and a geoscientist. Hardy served with the Marine Corps Reserves for 40 years. In his civilian career as a geoscientist, he had a 34year career with Exxon which included pioneering research in welllogging and 3D seismic exploration.....
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Orna Porat was a Germanborn Israeli theater actress.....
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Frank John Partridge, VC was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry in the face of the enemy awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces. He was decorated for his actions on Bougainville in July 1945, when he attacked two Japanese bunkers despite severe wounds. Partridge was the last and, at 20 years of age, the youngest Australian awarded the Victoria Cross in World War160II. He later became a farmer and a television quiz champio....
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Jesse Donald Don Knotts was an American comedic actor best known as Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show, a 1960s sitcom for which he earned five Emmy awards. He also played Luther Heggs in the 1966 film The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, and The Incredible Mr. Limpet, in which he plays a talking fish for the majority of the film. He also played landlord Ralph Furley on the 1970s1980s television sitcom Threes Company.....
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Frank Anthony Sturgis , born Frank Angelo Fiorini, was one of the five Watergate burglars whose capture led to the end of the Presidency of Richard Nixon. He served in several branches of the United States military and in the Cuban Revolution of 1958, and worked as an undercover operative.....
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Coty American Fashion Critics award, 1954, 1956 Neiman Marcus award, Dallas, 1954 Filenes Young Talent Design award, Boston, 1958 Cotton Fashion award, 1958 Coty American Hall of Fame award, 1959 Crystal Ball Award from The Fashion Group of Philadelphia, 1963 Drexel Institute of Technology, 1965 Sunday Times International Award, London, 1968 Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Golden 44 Award, 1980 FiFi award for Parfums Galanos, New York, 1980 Universita delle Arte Terme Diploma di Merita, Italy, 1....
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