List of Famous people who born in 1924

Shafiga Akhundova was a prominent Azerbaijani composer, the first professional female author of an opera in the East and People’s Artist of Azerbaijan. Akhundova was born into a family of an eminent cultural figure Gulam Akhundov.

Frank Sondles Pattee was an American football halfback. He was born in Smith Center, Kansas, the son of Addie and John Walter Pattee. He was a star football player at Smith Center High School, and played college football at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.

Charles Marie Jean Joseph Elvire Ghislain baron Poswick was a Belgian politician for the PLP. Poswick was doctor in Law and licentiate in commercial and financial sciences.

János Dezső Aczél, also known as John Aczel, was a Hungarian-Canadian mathematician, who specialized in functional equations and information theory.

Beatrice Winde was an American actress.

Donald MacKay Fraser was an American politician from Minnesota who served as U.S. Representative from Minnesota's 5th congressional district from 1963 to 1979 and as mayor of Minneapolis from 1980 to 1994.

Thomas Howard Stix was an American physicist. Stix performed seminal work in plasma physics and wrote the first mathematical treatment of the field in 1962's The Theory of Plasma Waves.