Editing 1924 (section)

=== August ===
[[File:King Abdullah bin Abdul al-Saud January 2007.jpg|100px|thumb|King [[Abdullah of Saudi Arabia]]]]
[[File:James Baldwin 37 Allan Warren.jpg|thumb|100px|[[James Baldwin]]]]
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* [[August 1]]
** King [[Abdullah of Saudi Arabia]] (official birth date) (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Spencer C. Tucker |author2=Priscilla Roberts |title=The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History [4 volumes]: A Political, Social, and Military History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YAd8efHdVzIC&pg=PA23 |date=12 May 2008 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-85109-842-2 |pages=23 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182139/https://books.google.com/books?id=YAd8efHdVzIC&pg=PA23 |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Georges Charpak]], Ukrainian-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{cite book |author=John Gribbin |title=Q is for Quantum: An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zBsDkgI1uQsC&pg=PA77 |date=22 February 2000 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-684-86315-3 |pages=77 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182122/https://books.google.com/books?id=zBsDkgI1uQsC&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Frank Worrell]], West Indies cricketer (d. [[1967]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Gordon Ross |title=A History of West Indies Cricket |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DHkNAAAAYAAJ |year=1976 |publisher=A. Barker |page=142 |isbn=9780213165857 |access-date=December 8, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182129/https://books.google.com/books?id=DHkNAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 2]]
** [[James Baldwin]], African-American author, novelist, playwright and activist (d. [[1987]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Emmanuel Sampath Nelson |title=Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rprS-mm9uywC&pg=PA12 |year=1999 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-30501-6 |pages=12 |access-date=December 8, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182132/https://books.google.com/books?id=rprS-mm9uywC&pg=PA12 |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Carroll O'Connor]], American actor (d. [[2001]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Paul T. Hellmann |title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA778 |date=14 February 2006 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=1-135-94859-3 |pages=778 |access-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182133/https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA778#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[Leon Uris]], American writer (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Frank Northen Magill |title=Cyclopedia of World Authors II |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V2wYAAAAIAAJ |year=1989 |publisher=Salem Press |isbn=978-0-89356-516-9 |page=1503 |access-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182137/https://books.google.com/books?id=V2wYAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 5]] – [[Ben Jones (Grenadian politician)|Ben Jones]], 7th Prime Minister of Grenada (d. [[2005]])<ref name="Scoon2003">{{cite book |author=Sir Paul Scoon |title=Survival for Service: My Experiences as Governor General of Grenada |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dgp7AAAAMAAJ |year=2003 |publisher=Macmillan Caribbean |isbn=978-0-333-97064-5 |page=277 |access-date=December 8, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182817/https://books.google.com/books?id=Dgp7AAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 6]] 
** [[Sophie Freud]], Austrian-born American psychologist (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/04/metro/sophie-freud-simmons-professor-who-called-psychoanalysis-narcissistic-indulgence-dies-97/|title=Sophie Freud, Simmons professor who called psychoanalysis 'a narcissistic indulgence,' dies at 97 - The Boston Globe|website=BostonGlobe.com|access-date=June 6, 2022|archive-date=June 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220608013527/https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/04/metro/sophie-freud-simmons-professor-who-called-psychoanalysis-narcissistic-indulgence-dies-97/|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Erich Schriever]], Swiss Olympic rower (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/erich-schriever |title=Erich Schriever |website=Olympic.org |publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]] |access-date=9 December 2020 |archive-date=October 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002180026/https://www.olympic.org/erich-schriever |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Cecil Abbott]], Commissioner of the New South Wales Police in Australia (d. [[2014]])
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[Gene Deitch]], American illustrator, animator and film director (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Lenburg |first=Jeff |title=Who's Who in Animated Cartoons |publisher=[[Applause Theatre and Cinema Books]] |location=New York City |year=2006 |edition=Illustrated |pages=[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinanimate0000lenb/page/62 62–64] |isbn=978-1-55783-671-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinanimate0000lenb/page/62}}</ref>
* [[August 10]] &ndash; [[Martha Hyer]], American actress (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Bergan |first=Ronald |author1-link=Ronald Bergan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jun/11/martha-hyer |title=Martha Hyer obituary |work=The Guardian |date=June 11, 2014 |access-date=March 18, 2015}}</ref>
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]], leader of Pakistan (d. [[1988]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Levinson |first1=David |last2=Christensen |first2=Karen |title=Encyclopedia of Modern Asia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6lIYAAAAIAAJ |year=2002 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |isbn=978-0-684-31247-7 |page=218 |access-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182812/https://books.google.com/books?id=6lIYAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (born 1924)|Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia]] (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/07/18/prince-alexander-of-yugoslavia--obituary/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/07/18/prince-alexander-of-yugoslavia--obituary/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, globe-trotting playboy prince – obituary |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=July 18, 2016 |publisher=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=13 March 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Georges Prêtre]], French orchestral, opera conductor (d. [[2017]])
* [[August 15]]
** [[Robert Bolt]], English writer (d. [[1995]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-robert-bolt-1574410.html |title=Obituary: Robert Bolt |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |last=Calder |first=John |date=23 February 1995 |access-date=21 July 2016 |archive-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117203540/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-robert-bolt-1574410.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
** [[Phyllis Schlafly]], American activist (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite book |author=[[Glenna Matthews]] |title=American Women's History: A Student Companion |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVbnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA274 |year=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-511317-4 |pages=274 |access-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182812/https://books.google.com/books?id=aVbnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA274#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 16]]
** [[Ralf Bendix]], German Schlager singer, music producer, composer and songwriter (d. [[2014]])
** [[Fess Parker]], American actor and businessman (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harrigan |first=Stephen |date=1986-11-01 |title=The Ballad of Fess Parker |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/the-ballad-of-fess-parker/ |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=Texas Monthly |language=en |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511144515/https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/the-ballad-of-fess-parker/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 17]] – [[Idris Iskandar al-Mutawakkil Alallahi Shah of Perak]], 33rd [[Sultan of Perak]] (d. [[1984]])
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Willard Boyle]], Canadian physicist (d. [[2011]])<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=George |title=Willard Boyle (1924–2011) Physicist who helped invent the 'eye of the digital camera'. |doi=10.1038/474037a |journal=Nature |volume=474 |issue=7349 |pages=37 |year=2011 |pmid=21637246 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Dalia Wood]], Canadian politician (d. [[2013]])
* [[August 22]] &ndash; [[Orlando Ramón Agosti]], Argentine general (d. [[1997]])
* [[August 23]]
** [[Robert Solow]], American economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{cite book |author=United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations |title=General Government Matters: Department of Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1962: Hearings Before a Subcommittee ... Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RQ0tAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA691 |year=1961 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=691 |access-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182816/https://books.google.com/books?id=RQ0tAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA691#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Wang Danfeng]], Chinese actress (d. [[2018]])
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Ahmadou Ahidjo]], [[President of Cameroon]] (d. [[1989]])
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[Zsuzsa Körmöczy]], Hungarian tennis player and coach (d. [[2006]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://archivum.mtva.hu/photobank/item/MTI-FOTO-UGZ1QjZWeXlpSmxnM0JEaDBoMHFhZz09 |title=Sport - Tenisz - Körmöczy Zsuzsa |website=MTVA Archívum}}</ref>
* [[August 29]] 
** [[María Dolores Pradera]], Spanish singer, actress (d. [[2018]])
** [[Dinah Washington]], African-American singer, pianist (d. [[1963]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Norm N. Nite |author2=Wolfman Jack |title=Rock on: The solid gold years |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4404AQAAIAAJ |year=1982 |publisher=Harper & Row |isbn=978-0-06-181642-0 |page=645 |access-date=December 6, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182821/https://books.google.com/books?id=4404AQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[Buddy Hackett]], American actor and comedian (d. [[2003]])