page_title: 1924
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1924 / Births / March
caption_attribution_description: Photo of actor Philip Abbott as Captain Peterson from the television program Steve Canyon.
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: March 1 – Deke Slayton, American astronaut (d. 1993)
  March 2
  William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon, English politician  (d. 2018)
  Michael Sela, Polish-born Israeli immunologist
  Co Westerik, Dutch visual artist (d. 2018)
  March 3
  Lys Assia, Swiss singer, first winner of Eurovision Song Contest (1956) (d. 2018)
  Tomiichi Murayama, Prime Minister of Japan
  Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigerian military officer (d. 1966)
  Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (d. 1948)
  John Woodnutt, British actor (d. 2006)
  March 4 – Kenneth O'Donnell, aide to U.S. President John F. Kennedy (d. 1977)
  March 6
  Ed Mierkowicz, American baseball player (d. 2017)
  William H. Webster, American lawyer and jurist
  Gert Boyle, German-born American businesswoman (d. 2019)
  March 7 – Kōbō Abe, Japanese novelist (d. 1993)
  March 8
  Georges Charpak, Polish-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
  Walter Chiari, Italian actor (d. 1991)
  Abderrahmane Youssoufi, 12th Prime Minister of Morocco (d. 2020)
  March 9
  Herbert Gold, American novelist
  Hanna Mina, Syrian writer (d. 2018)
  Peter Scholl-Latour, German professor, journalist and author (d. 2014)
  March 10
  Jin Yong, Hong Kong writer (d. 2018)
  Ludwig W. Adamec, Austrian historian (d. 2019)
  March 11 – Jozef Tomko, Slovakian cardinal
  March 13 – Pierre Arpaillange, French author, senior judge and Government Minister (d. 2017)
  March 15 – Walter Gotell, German actor (d. 1997)
  March 17 – Edith Savage-Jennings, American civil rights activist (d. 2017)
  March 18
  Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Mozambique cardinal
  Johnny Papalia, Canadian mobster (d. 1997)
  March 20 – Philip Abbott, American actor (d. 1998)
  March 22
  Al Neuharth, American businessman and journalist (d. 2013)
  Ivan Minatti, Slovenian poet, translator and editor (d. 2012)
  Yevgeny Ostashev, Russian test pilot (d. 1960)
  Lionel Wilson, American voice actor (d. 2003)
  March 23 – Olga Kennard, English crystallographer
  March 24 – Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998)
  March 25
  Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (d. 2011)
  Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress (d. 2019)
  József Zakariás, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 1971)
  March 26 – K. B. Asante, Ghanaian diplomat, writer and politician (d. 2018)
  March 27
  Sarah Vaughan, African-American jazz singer (d. 1990)
  Herbert Zangs, German artist (d. 2003)
  March 28
  Freddie Bartholomew, English-American actor (d. 1992)
  Byrd Baylor, American novelist, essayist and author
  Birte Christoffersen, Danish Olympic diver
  March 29 – Jimmy Work, American singer-songwriter (d. 2018)
  March 30 – Alan Davidson, British author (d. 2003)
  March 31 – Kathleen O'Malley, American actress (d. 2019)
caption: Philip Abbott
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