Who was born on December 24th 1924?

Mohammad Rafi (December 24, 1924 – July 31, 1980 ), the Indian recording artist who is considered by many to be one of the greatest Indian playback singers of all time in Hindi Film Industry

Moktar Ould Daddah (مختار ولد داداه; December 25, 1924 - October 14, 2003), the President of Mauritania from 1960, when his country gained its independence from France, to 1978, when he, deposed in a military coup d'etat

Nissim Ezekiel (16 December 1924 – 9 January 2004), the Indian Jewish poet, playwright, editor and art-critic

Mohammed Arav Bessaoud (born December 24, 1924; died January 1, 2002), the Kabyle Algerian writer and activist

Roy C Miller (born December 24, 1924, Kingston, Jamaica), the West Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1953

Michael Goldberg (December 24, 1924 - December 31, 2007), the American abstract expressionist painter and teacher known for his gestural action paintings, abstractions and still-life paintings

Lee Dorsey (December 24, 1924 – December 2, 1986), the African American pop/R&B singer during the 1960s

Chico García (24 December 1924 - 17 August 2007), the second baseman and baseball player, someone who plays for Baltimore Orioles

Carol Haney (December 24, 1924 - May 10, 1964), born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and opened a dancing school when she, fifteen years old

Christine Norden (28 December 1924 - 21 September 1988), the British actress

Heinz Wozniakowski (born on 24 December 1924 in Breslau, Silesia; died 1963), the German football player

Josef 'Sepp' Allerberger, the Austrian sniper in the II Battalion of the 144th Gebirgsjäger Regiment of the 3rd Mountain Division on the Eastern Front, and credited with 257 kills

Alexander Gordon "Sandy" McKay, (December 24, 1924 - August 31, 2007), the Canadian academic who specialized in Vergilian studies