page_title: 1924
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1924 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: 2005 picture of USA banjo player Earl Scruggs
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: January 1
  Francisco Macías Nguema, 1st President of Equatorial Guinea (d. 1979)
  Charlie Munger, American businessman and philanthropist
  Pino Rucher, Italian guitarist (d. 1996)
  Lennart Magnusson, Swedish fencer (d. 2011)
  January 4
  Walter Ris, American freestyle swimmer (d. 1989)
  Charles Thone, American politician (d. 2018)
  Marianne Werner, German shot putter
  January 5
  Gerry Plamondon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2019)
  Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi royal, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Crown Prince (d. 2011)
  Hamzah Abu Samah, Malaysian politician and athlete (d. 2012)
  January 6
  Ali Shariatmadari, Iranian academic and educationist (d. 2017)
  Kim Dae-jung, 15th President of South Korea, recipient of Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2009)
  Earl Scruggs, American musician (d. 2012)
  January 7
  Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor (d. 2017)
  Anne Vernon, French actress
  January 8 – Ron Moody, English actor (d. 2015)
  January 9 – Sergei Parajanov, Georgian-Armenian film director (d. 1990)
  January 10
  Pierre Plateau, French Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
  Earl Bakken, American engineer and businessman, inventor of the modern Artificial pacemaker (d. 2018)
  Eduard Admetlla i Lázaro, Spanish scuba diver (d. 2019)
  Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer and composer (d. 2007)
  January 11
  Don Cherry, American pop singer (d. 2018)
  Roger Guillemin, French neuroendocrinologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994)
  Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970)
  January 12
  Chris Chase (also known as Irene Kane), American model, film actress, writer and journalist (d. 2013)
  Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (d. 1998)
  January 13
  Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)
  Roland Petit, French choreographer/dancer (d. 2011)
  January 14
  Carole Cook, American actress and singer
  Guy Williams, American actor (d. 1989)
  January 15 – Georg Ratzinger, German Roman Catholic priest (d. 2020)
  January 16 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
  January 19
  Jean-François Revel, French author (d. 2006)
  Nicholas Colasanto, American actor and television director (d. 1985)
  January 21 – Benny Hill, English comedian and singer (d. 1992)
  January 22 – J. J. Johnson, African-American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger (d. 2001)
  January 23 – Frank Lautenberg, American businessman and politician (d. 2013)
  January 24 – John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, British peer and nobleman (d. 1992)
  January 25
  Husein Mehmedov, Bulgarian-Turkish Olympic wrestler (d. 2014)
  Speedy West, American musician (d. 2003)
  January 26
  Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician (d. 1998)
  Armand Gatti, French playwright, poet, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker and World War II resistance fighter (d. 2017)
  Alice Babs, Swedish singer and actress (d. 2014)
  January 27 – Sabu Dastagir, Indian actor (d. 1963)
  January 29 – Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
  January 30
  Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
  Dorothy Malone, American actress (d. 2018)
  January 31 – John Lukacs, Hungarian-American historian (d. 2019)
caption: Earl Scruggs
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