List of Famous people who born in 1924

Gerson Goldhaber was a German-born American particle physicist and astrophysicist. He was one of the discoverers of the J/ψ meson which confirmed the existence of the charm quark. He worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with the Supernova Cosmology Project, and was a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley as well as a professor at Berkeley's graduate school in astrophysics.

Aleksei Ivanovich Adzhubei was a Soviet journalist who once worked for Komsomolskaya Pravda and Izvestia. He was a member of Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His wife was Rada Khrushchev, the daughter of Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of Soviet Union. In November 25, 1961, he interviewed John F. Kennedy at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

William Sloane Coffin Jr. was an American Christian clergyman and long-time peace activist. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church, and later received ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ. In his younger days he was an athlete, a talented pianist, a CIA officer, and later chaplain of Yale University, where the influence of H. Richard Niebuhr's social philosophy led him to become a leader in the Civil Rights Movement and peace movements of the 1960s and 1970s. He also was a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. He went on to serve as Senior Minister at the Riverside Church in New York City and President of SANE/Freeze, the nation's largest peace and social justice group, and prominently opposed United States military interventions in conflicts, from the Vietnam War to the Iraq War. He was also an ardent supporter of gay rights.