page_title: 1924
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 1924 / Births / February
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Gloria Vanderbilt from a 1959 acting role on The United States Steel Hour.
context_page_description: 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1924th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 924th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1920s decade.
context_section_description: February 2 – Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-born U.S. musician/producer (d. 2007)
  February 3 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, German Head of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (d. 2010)
  February 4 – Dorothy Harrell, American female professional baseball player (d. 2011)
  February 6 – Jin Yong, Chinese novelist and essayist (d. 2018)
  February 7 – Catherine Small Long, American politician (d. 2019)
  February 8
  Charles Coste, French Olympic cyclist
  Khamtai Siphandon, 4th President and 12th Prime Minister of Laos
  February 9 – George Guest, Welsh choral conductor (d. 2002)
  February 11 – Budge Patty, American tennis player
  February 14
  Juan Ponce Enrile, Filipino politician, President of the Senate of the Philippines from 2008 to 2013.
  Gabe Pressman, American journalist (d. 2017)
  February 15 – Toni Arden, American singer (d. 2012)
  February 16 – Frank Saul, American basketball player (d. 2019)
  February 17
  Raimon Carrasco, Spanish businessman and 34th President of FC Barcelona
  Margaret Truman, American novelist and only child of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman (d. 2008)
  Gevork Vartanian, Soviet intelligence officer (d. 2012)
  February 18 – Nicolo Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian mobster (d. 2010)
  February 19 – Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)
  February 20
  Donald M. Fraser, American politician (d. 2019)
  Gerson Goldhaber, American particle physicist and astrophysicist (d. 2010)
  Gloria Vanderbilt, American heiress and entrepreneur (d. 2019)
  Moshe Wertman, Israeli politician (d. 2011)
  February 21
  William Hathaway, American politician and lawyer (d. 2013)
  Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2019)
  Silvano Piovanelli, Italian prelate (d. 2016)
  February 23 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist and 1979 Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
  February 24 – Teresa Bracco, Italian Roman Catholic religious sister, martyr and blessed (d. 1944)
  February 26
  Freda Betti, French opera singer (d. 1979)
  Noboru Takeshita, Japanese politician, 46th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000)
  February 28
  Bettye Ackerman, American actress (d. 2006)
  Christopher C. Kraft Jr., American aerospace engineer (d. 2019)
  February 29
  Carlos Humberto Romero, Salvadorian politician, 37th President of El Salvador (d. 2017)
  Al Rosen, American baseball player (d. 2015)
caption: Gloria Vanderbilt
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