Born in 1924
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1924
Girls
- Mary
- Dorothy
- Helen
- Betty
- Margaret
- Ruth
- Virginia
- Mildred
- Doris
- Frances
- Elizabeth
- Evelyn
- Anna
- Marie
- Alice
- Jean
- Marjorie
- Irene
- Shirley
- Florence
- Martha
- Lois
- Lillian
- Louise
- Rose
Boys
- Robert
- John
- William
- James
- Charles
- George
- Joseph
- Richard
- Edward
- Donald
- Thomas
- Frank
- Harold
- Paul
- Raymond
- Walter
- Jack
- Henry
- Kenneth
- Arthur
- Albert
- Harry
- Ralph
- David
- Eugene
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Ruby
- Catherine
- Barbara
- Eleanor
- Gladys
- Edna
- Annie
- Thelma
- Josephine
- Patricia
- Edith
- Lucille
- Pauline
- Ethel
- Norma
- Gloria
- Hazel
- Grace
- Phyllis
- June
- Marion
- Bernice
- Juanita
- Rita
- Beatrice
- Esther
- Lorraine
- Jane
- Sarah
- Ann
- Clara
- Emma
- Geraldine
- Katherine
- Gertrude
- Elsie
- Julia
- Agnes
- Marian
- Bertha
- Eva
- Wilma
- Willie
- Nancy
- Ida
- Vivian
- Laura
- Elaine
- Wanda
- Dolores
- Kathleen
- Maxine
- Pearl
- Anne
- Charlotte
- Kathryn
- Viola
- Joyce
- Audrey
- Vera
- Bessie
- Alma
- Violet
- Myrtle
- Jeanne
- Jessie
- Nellie
- Eileen
- Ella
- Joan
- Theresa
- Lillie
- Lucy
- Ellen
- Minnie
Boys
- Howard
- Carl
- Louis
- Clarence
- Willie
- Roy
- Fred
- Earl
- Francis
- Joe
- Lawrence
- Ernest
- Leonard
- Anthony
- Stanley
- Herbert
- Norman
- Alfred
- Calvin
- Samuel
- Bernard
- Daniel
- Melvin
- Gerald
- Marvin
- Leo
- Russell
- Leroy
- Michael
- Edwin
- Andrew
- Elmer
- Warren
- Peter
- Ray
- Lloyd
- Frederick
- Billy
- Clifford
- Theodore
- Floyd
- Chester
- Vernon
- Clyde
- Herman
- Philip
- Lester
- Alvin
- Wayne
- Gordon
- Leon
- Lewis
- Vincent
- Glenn
- Charlie
- Milton
- Martin
- Lee
- Dale
- Cecil
- Jesse
- Wallace
- Harvey
- Benjamin
- Victor
- Sam
- Bill
- Roger
- Allen
- Arnold
- Edgar
- Willard
- Roland
- Oscar
- Gilbert
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1924.
Famous people born in 1924
Charlie Munger · American businessmanJanuary 1
Kim Dae-jung · 8th President of the Republic of KoreaJanuary 6
Roger Guillemin · French-American neuroscientistJanuary 11
Paul Feyerabend · Austrian-born philosopher of scienceJanuary 13
Benny Hill · British comedian and actorJanuary 21
Lee Marvin · American actorFebruary 19
Robert Mugabe · 2nd President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017February 21
Allan MacLeod Cormack · American physicistFebruary 23
Deke Slayton · American astronautMarch 1
Kōbō Abe · Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventorMarch 7
Sarah Vaughan · American jazz and classical singerMarch 27
Marlon Brando · American actorApril 3
Stanley Donen · American film director and choreographerApril 13
Henry Mancini · American film composerApril 16
Kenneth Kaunda · First president of ZambiaApril 28
Antony Hewish · English physicist and radio astronomerMay 11
George H. W. Bush · 41st President of the United StatesJune 12
James Black · Scottish doctor and pharmacologistJune 14
Chet Atkins · American guitaristJune 20
Sidney Lumet · American director, producer and screenwriterJune 25
S. R. Nathan · 6th President of SingaporeJuly 3
Eva Marie Saint · American actressJuly 4
Pat Hingle · American actorJuly 19
Don Knotts · American actor and stand-up comedianJuly 21
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia · King of Saudi Arabia from 2005 to 2015August 1
Georges Charpak · French physicistAugust 1
James Baldwin · American writerAugust 2
Zia-ul-Haq · President of Pakistan from 1978 to 1988, of Saudi originAugust 12
Phyllis Schlafly · American conservative activistAugust 15
Willard Boyle · Canadian physicist and inventorAugust 19
Robert Solow · American economistAugust 23
Dinah Washington · American singerAugust 29
Daniel arap Moi · Kenyan PresidentSeptember 2
Lauren Bacall · American actressSeptember 16
Marcello Mastroianni · Italian actorSeptember 28
Truman Capote · American writerSeptember 30
Jimmy Carter · President of the United States from 1977 to 1981October 1
Ed Wood · American screenwriterOctober 10
Lee Iacocca · American businessmanOctober 15
Süleyman Demirel · 9th President of the Republic of TurkeyNovember 1
Benoit Mandelbrot · Polish-born, French and American mathematicianNovember 20
Geraldine Page · American actressNovember 22
John Backus · American computer scientistDecember 3
Mário Soares · President of PortugalDecember 7
Raj Kapoor · Indian actor and filmmakerDecember 14