Famous people born in 1924

Gloria Vanderbilt is an American author, actor, socialite, artist, heiress, and fashion designer

Benny Hill was an English comedian and actor.Read this biography to learn more about his childhood, profile, life and timeline.

Sidney Lumet was an American actor, director and film maker

Georges Charpak was a Polish-born French physicist who received the Nobel Prize for inventing the multi-wire proportional chamber

Antony Hewish is a British radio astronomer, best known for his discovery of the first pulsar

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Torsten Wiesel is a Nobel Prize winning Swedish neurophysiologist who was one of the co-recipients of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Roger Charles Louis Guillemin is a French-born American physiologist, who was awarded the ‘Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology’ in 1977

Lee Marvin was American Film and Television star

Allan McLeod Cormack was a South African-American physicist, who received the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine