page_title: 1924 in the United States
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 1924 in the United States / Births / August
caption_attribution_description: Photo of singer Dinah Washington.
context_page_description: Events from the year 1924 in the United States.
context_section_description: August 1 – Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (d. 2007)
  August 2
  James Baldwin, African-American author and civil rights activist (d. 1987)
  Joe Harnell, American pianist and composer (d. 2005)
  Carroll O'Connor, American actor, producer and director (d. 2001)
  August 3 – Leon Uris, American writer (d. 2003)
  August 6 – Ella Jenkins, American folk singer of children's music
  August 9 – Marta Becket, American dancer (d. 2017)
  August 10 – Martha Hyer, American actress (d. 2014)
  August 15 – Phyllis Schlafly, American activist (d. 2016)
  August 17
  Evan S. Connell, Jr., American fiction writer and poet (d. 2013)
  Charles Simmons, American author (d. 2017)
  August 18 – Frank Logue, 25th mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (d. 2010)
  August 20 – Frank Joseph Guarini, American politician
  August 23
  Elaine Sturtevant, American artist (d. 2014)
  Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
  August 24 – Louis Teicher, American pianist (Ferrante & Teicher) (d. 2008)
  August 26 – Barbara Staff, American political activist (d. 2019)
  August 29
  Clyde Scott, American athlete (d. 2018)
  Dinah Washington, African-American singer, pianist (d. 1963)
  August 31
  Buddy Hackett, American actor, comedian (d. 2003)
  Thomas J. Hudner Jr., American naval aviator (d. 2017)
caption: Dinah Washington
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