page_title: 1924
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 1924 / Births / May
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo
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: May 1
  Evelyn Boyd Granville, American mathematician, computer scientist and academic
  Gamal Abdel-Rahim, Egyptian composer (d. 1988)
  Grégoire Kayibanda, 2nd President of Rwanda (d. 1976)
  May 2
  Ladislava Bakanic, American Olympic gymnast
  Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American actor, folk singer and musician (d. 2015)
  May 3
  Isadore Singer, American mathematician
  Ken Tyrrell, British auto racing driver (d. 2001)
  May 6 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (d. 2006)
  May 10 – Zahrad, Western Armenian poet (d. 2007)
  May 11 – Antony Hewish, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
  May 12
  Tony Hancock, English comedian (d. 1968)
  Claribel Alegría, Nicaraguan poet (d. 2018)
  May 13 – Giovanni Sartori, Italian political scientist (d. 2017)
  May 16 – Dawda Jawara, 1st President of the Gambia (d. 2019)
  May 17
  Marie-Thérèse Cheroutre, French historian and professor of philosophy (d. 2020)
  Francis Tombs, Baron Tombs, English industrialist and politician (d. 2020)
  May 18 – Priscilla Pointer, American actress
  May 22 – Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer, songwriter and actor  (d. 2018)
  May 24 – Philip Pearlstein, American soldier and painter
  May 27
  Rashidi Kawawa, 1st Prime Minister of Tanzania (d. 2009)
  Jaime Lusinchi, Venezuelan politician, 42nd President of Venezuela (d. 2014)
  May 31 – Patricia Roberts Harris, American administrator (d. 1985)
caption: Gamal Abdel-Rahim
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