List of Famous people who born in 1924

Patrick Minor Martin was a U.S. Representative from California.

Ruth Esther Hadassah Schonthal was a pianist and composer.

Arda Mandikian was a Greek-Armenian soprano opera singer. Mandikian launched her career in England. She took on leading roles in London and Edinburgh. In the 1980s she became the assistant director of the Greek National Opera.

Jozef Tomko is a Slovak Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples from 1985 to 2001 and was made a cardinal in 1985.

Thomas Wayne Merriman was an American music composer based in Dallas, Texas, who in 1955 created the first production company specializing in radio station advertising campaigns and jingles. Merriman led the Liberty Network Band, and arranged and/or produced music for Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway.

Remi De Roo is a Canadian retired Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained a priest on June 8, 1950, and consecrated a bishop on December 14, 1962, he was the Bishop of Victoria until he retired on March 18, 1999. He was born in Swan Lake. This makes him Canada’s longest-serving Catholic bishop. As bishop he was notable for his advocacy of social justice, and the mismanagement of diocesan finances.

Colin Stanley Gum was an Australian astronomer who catalogued emission nebulae in the southern sky at the Mount Stromlo Observatory using wide field photography. Gum published his findings in 1955 in a study entitled A study of diffuse southern H-alpha nebulae which presented a catalog, now known as the Gum catalog, of 85 nebulae or nebular complexes. Gum 12, a large area of nebulosity in the direction of the constellations Puppis and Vela, was later named the Gum Nebula in his honour. Gum was part of the team, whose number included Frank John Kerr and Gart Westerhout, that determined the precise position of the neutral hydrogen plane in space.