page_title: 1924
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 1924 / Births / December
caption_attribution_description: Mário Soares
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: December 1 – Masao Horiba, Japanese businessman (d. 2015)
  December 2 – Alexander Haig, American politician, U.S. Secretary of State (d. 2010)
  December 3 – Francisco Sionil José, Filipino novelist, Philippine National Artist for Literature
  December 4 – John C. Portman Jr., American architect (d. 2017)
  December 5
  Vladimir Dolgikh, Russian politician
  John Keston, English actor, singer and masters athlete
  December 6 – Wally Cox, American television, motion picture actor (d. 1973)
  December 7
  John Love, Zimbabwean racing driver (d. 2005)
  Bent Fabric, Danish pianist, composer (d. 2020)
  Mário Soares, 105th Prime Minister of Portugal, 17th President of Portugal (d. 2017)
  December 9 – Frank Sturgis, one of the five Watergate burglars whose capture led to the end of the Presidency of Richard Nixon (d. 1993)
  December 10 – Michael Manley, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997)
  December 11 – Heinz Schenk, German television moderator, actor (d. 2014)
  December 12
  Ed Koch, Mayor of New York City (1978-1989) (d. 2013)
  Harley D. Nygren, American rear admiral, director of the NOAA Corps (d. 2019)
  December 13
  Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 29th Prime Minister of Nepal (d. 2011)
  Robert Coogan, American actor (d. 1978)
  Maria Riva, American actress
  December 14
  Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, producer and director (d. 1988)
  Siiri Rantanen, Finnish cross-country skier
  December 15 – Esther Béjarano, German member of Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz
  December 16 – Nissim Ezekiel, Indian Jewish poet, actor, playwright, editor and art critic (d. 2004)
  December 17
  Béla Zsitnik, Hungarian Olympic rower (d. 2019)
  Margaret Wigiser, American female professional baseball player (d. 2019)
  December 18 – Alberto Ablondi, Italian bishop (d. 2010)
  December 19
  Michel Tournier, French writer (d. 2016)
  Cicely Tyson, American actress
  December 23 – Bob Kurland, American basketball player (d. 2013)
  December 24
  Abdirizak Haji Hussein, Somali diplomat, politician and 4th Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 2014)
  Roy Miller, West Indian cricketer (d. 2014)
  Mohammed Rafi, Indian playback singer (d. 1980)
  December 25
  Moktar Ould Daddah, 1st President of Mauritania (d. 2003)
  Rod Serling, American television screenwriter (The Twilight Zone) (d. 1975)
  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 10th Prime Minister of India (d. 2018)
  Abba Siddick, Chadian politician (d. 2017)
  Fatimah Hashim, Malaysian politician (d. 2010)
  December 26 – Frank Broyles, American college football coach, athletic director (d. 2017)
  December 27 – Frank North, American football coach (d. 2017)
  December 28 – Girma Wolde-Giorgis, 2nd President of Ethiopia (d. 2018)
  December 29 – Kim Song-ae, Korean politician (d. 2014)
  December 30 – Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American engineer (d. 2013)
  December 31
  Frank J. Kelley, 50th Michigan Attorney General
  Taylor Mead, American actor (d. 2013)
  J. Donald Monan, American academic administrator (d. 2017)
  Lawrence W. Pierce, American judge (d. 2020)
  Robert Ravenstahl, American politician (d. 2015)
caption: Mário Soares
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