List of Famous people who born in 1924
François Perrot
François Perrot was a French film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1954.
Fouad el-Mohandes
Fouad Zaki Mohamed el-Mohandes Arabic: فؤاد زكي محمد المهندس; known as Fouad el-Mohandes was an Egyptian stage and screen actor, and star from the 1950s specializing mostly in comedy roles in dozens of theater, cinema, and TV hits spanning five decades.
Roberts Blossom
Roberts Scott Blossom was an American character actor, and poet of theatre, film, and television. He was best known for his roles as Old Man Marley in Home Alone (1990) and as Ezra Cobb in the horror film Deranged (1974). He is also remembered for his supporting roles in films such as The Great Gatsby (1974), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Escape from Alcatraz (1979), Christine (1983), and The Last Temptation of Christ (1988).
Georg Ratzinger
Georg Ratzinger PA was a German Catholic priest and musician, known for his work as the conductor of the Regensburger Domspatzen, the cathedral choir of Regensburg. He was the elder brother of Pope Benedict XVI. His great-uncle was the German politician Georg Ratzinger.
Roza Shanina
Roza Georgiyevna Shanina was a Soviet sniper during World War II who was credited with 59 confirmed kills, including twelve soldiers during the Battle of Vilnius. Shanina volunteered for the military after the death of her brother in 1941 and chose to be a sniper on the front line. Praised for her shooting accuracy, Shanina was capable of precisely hitting enemy personnel and making doublets.
Reuel Abraham
Reuel Abraham, born Karl Heinz Schneider, is a former Hitler Youth member and Luftwaffe pilot during World War II reported to be the first former Nazi to convert to Judaism.
Alexandre José Maria dos Santos
Alexandre José Maria dos Santos is a Roman Catholic Mozambican cardinal. He was the first native cardinal of Mozambique.
Vivean Gray
Jean Vivra Gray, known professionally as Vivean Gray, was an English-born Australian television and film actress. She appeared in the film Picnic at Hanging Rock, but her best-known roles were in TV soap operas, including: Ida Jessup in The Sullivans, Edna Pearson in Prisoner and Nell Mangel in Neighbours. She retired in 1988, moving back to her native England to Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, where she lived a quiet and private life.
Monte Kay
Monte Kay was an American musicians' agent and record producer.
Leslie Phillips
Leslie Samuel Phillips is an English actor known for his work in the Carry On, Doctor in the House and Harry Potter film series, as well as the long-running BBC radio comedy series The Navy Lark. With the death of Heather Chasen on 22 May 2020, Phillips is now the only surviving regular cast member from the latter series, and following the death of Barbara Windsor and Rosalind Knight in December 2020, Phillips, Jim Dale, Valerie Leon, Julian Holloway, Hugh Futcher, Anita Harris, Kenneth Cope, Amanda Barrie, Patricia Franklin and Bernard Cribbins are the last surviving recurring cast members of the Carry On series.