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Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter served from 1971 to 1975 as the 76th governor of Georgia and from 1963 to 1967 in the Georgia State Senate. He lived longer than any other president in US history, reaching age 100.
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush was the 41st president of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. Bush was Ronald Reagan's vice president from 1981 to 1989. He was the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States.
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando Jr. was an American actor. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential performers in the history of cinema, he received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three BAFTAs, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Brando is credited with being one of the first actors to bring the Stanislavski system of acting and method acting to mainstream audiences.
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
King of Saudi Arabia from 2005 to 2015
Truman Capote
American author (1924-1984)
Lauren Bacall
American actress (1924–2014)
Charles Aznavour
Armenian-French singer and diplomat (1924-2018)
Marcello Mastroianni
Italian actor (1924–1996)
Kim Dae-jung
8th President of the Republic of Korea (1924–2009)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Prime Minister of India (1996, 1988-2004)
Süleyman Demirel
9th President of the Republic of Turkey (1924-2015)
Benoit Mandelbrot
Polish-born, French and American mathematician (1924–2010)
Georges Charpak
French physicist (1924-2010)
James Baldwin
American writer (1924–1987)
Raj Kapoor
Indian film actor, producer and director
Kōbō Abe
Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor
Kenneth Kaunda
First president of Zambia (1924–2021)
Antony Hewish
English physicist and radio astronomer (1924–2021)
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (12 August 192417 August 1988) was a Pakistani military officer and politician who served as the sixth president of Pakistan from 1978 until his death in an airplane crash in 1988. He also served as the second chief of the army staff of the Pakistan Army from 1976 until his death. The country's longest-serving de facto head of state and chief of the army staff, Zia's political ideology is known as Ziaism.
Sidney Lumet
American director, producer and screenwriter (1924–2011)
Lee Marvin
American actor (1924–1987)
Jean-François Lyotard
French philosopher (1924–1998)
Robert Solow
American economist (1924–2023)
Daniel arap Moi
Kenyan President (2nd) (1924-2020)
Allan McLeod Cormack
American physicist (1924-1998)
Maurice Jarre
French composer and conductor (1924-2009)
James Black
Scottish doctor and pharmacologist (1924–2010)
Roger Guillemin
French-American neuroscientist (1924–2024)
Mário Soares
President of Portugal (1924–2017)
Shirley Chisholm
first black woman elected to the United States Congress (1924-2005)
Tomiichi Murayama
81st Prime Minister of Japan (1924–2025)
Lys Assia
Swiss singer (1924-2018)
Geraldine Page
American actress (1924-1987)
Henry Mancini
American film composer (1924–1994)
Rauf Denktaş
Leader of Turkish Cypriots and founding President of TRNC (1924-2012)
Benny Hill
British comedian and actor (1924–1992)
Sergei Parajanov
Soviet Armenian and Georgian film director (1924-1990)
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko
Equatoguinean politician, 1st and former President of Equatorial Guinea (1924-1979)
Cicely Tyson
American actress (1924–2021)
Ahmadou Ahidjo
President of Cameroon (1924-1989)
Ramiz Alia
former First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania, 1st President of the Republic of Albania (1925-2011)
Don Knotts
American actor and stand-up comedian (1924-2006)
John Backus
American computer scientist (1924–2007)
Eva Marie Saint
American actress (born 1924)
Bulat Okudzhava
Soviet and Russian writer and singer (1924-1997)
Dorothy Malone
American actress (1924-2018)
Paul Feyerabend
Austrian-born philosopher of science
Amílcar Cabral
Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean politician (1924-1973)
Mohammed Rafi
Indian playback singer (1924–1980)
Jacques Le Goff
French historian (1924-2014)
Girma Wolde-Giorgis
former Ethiopian President (1924-2018)
Girija Prasad Koirala
Nepalese politician (1924 - 2010)
Torsten Nils Wiesel
Swedish neuroscientist
Noboru Takeshita
74th Prime Minister of Japan (1924-2000)
David Bronstein
Soviet chess grandmaster
Sarah Vaughan
American jazz and classical singer (1924–1990)
Ezer Weizman
Israeli politiciann, 7th president of Israel (1993–2000)
Dmitry Yazov
Soviet minister of defence (1924-2020)
S. R. Nathan
6th President of Singapore (1924–2016)
Christopher Tolkien
literary scholar, writer, and editor (1924–2020)