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Clyde Barrow's exploits captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is occasionally referred to as the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934.
Famous Birthdays on March 24
1909 — Clyde Barrow
American criminal (died 1934)
March 24 has 246 recorded notable births across history, from 1103 to 2004. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on March 24
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- 1854 President José Gregorio Monagas abolishes slavery in Venezuela. Source
- 1982 Bangladeshi President Abdus Sattar is deposed in a bloodless coup led by Army Chief Lieutenant general Hussain Muhammad Ershad, who suspends the Constitution and imposes martial law. Source
- 2008 Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election. Source
- 1990 Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War ends with the last ship of Indian Peace Keeping Force leaving Sri Lanka. Source
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Annabella Gloria Philomena Sciorra is an American actress.
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Nena's re-recording of some of the band's old hit songs as a solo artist, produced by the co-composer of most of them, her former Nena band colleague and keyboard player Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, rekindled her solo career in 2002.
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Andrew W. Mellon served as United States Secretary of the Treasury from March 9, 1921, to February 12, 1932, presiding over the boom years of the 1920s and the Wall Street crash of 1929.
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Height is credited as the first leader in the civil rights movement to recognize inequality for women and Foundational Black Americans as problems that should be considered as a whole.
More major people born on March 24
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1960
Annabella Sciorra
American actress
Annabella Gloria Philomena Sciorra is an American actress. She came to prominence with her film debut in True Love (1989) and worked steadily throughout the 1990s in films such as Jungle Fever (1991), The Hard Way…
1960
Nena
German singer-songwriter and actress
Gabriele Susanne Kerner, better known by her stage name Nena, is a German singer who rose to international fame in 1983 as the lead vocalist of the band Nena with the Neue Deutsche Welle song "99 Luftballons".
1855
Andrew W. Mellon
American banker, financier, and diplomat, 49th United States Secretary of the Treasury (died 1937)
Andrew William Mellon, known also as A. W. Mellon, was an American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, and politician.
1912
Dorothy Height
American educator and activist (died 2010)
Dorothy Irene Height was an African-American civil rights and women's rights activist. She focused on the issues of Foundational Black American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness.
1987
Yuma Asami
Japanese actress and singer
Yuma Asami , is a Japanese actress, singer, and a former adult video (AV) actress and model.
1983
T. J. Ford
American basketball player
Terrance Jerod Ford Sr. is an American former professional basketball player.
1961
Dean Jones
Australian cricketer and coach (died 2020)
Dean Mervyn Jones was an Australian cricket player, coach and commentator who played Tests and One Day Internationals (ODIs) for Australia.
1886
Edward Weston
American photographer (died 1958)
Edward Henry Weston was an American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Over the course of his…
1948
Jerzy Kukuczka
Polish mountaineer (died 1989)
Józef Jerzy Kukuczka was a Polish mountaineer, regarded as one of the greatest high-altitude climbers in history.
1930
David Dacko
Central African politician, 1st president of the Central African Republic (died 2003)
David Dacko was a Central African politician who served as the first President of the Central African Republic from 14 August 1960 to 31 December 1965 and as the third President of the Central African Republic from 21…
1921
Franciszek Blachnicki
Polish priest (died 1987)
Franciszek Blachnicki was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Light-Life movement, also known as the Oasis Movement, and the Secular Institute of the Immaculate Mother of the Church.
1494
Georgius Agricola
German mineralogist and scholar (died 1555)
Georgius Agricola was a German Renaissance humanist scholar, mineralogist and metallurgist.
1725
Thomas Cushing
American lawyer and politician, 1st lieutenant governor of Massachusetts (died 1788)
Thomas Cushing III was an American lawyer, merchant, and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts.
1947
Dennis Erickson
American football player and coach
Dennis Brian Erickson is an American football coach who most recently served as the head coach for the Salt Lake Stallions of the Alliance of American Football (AAF) league.
1887
Roscoe Arbuckle
American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1933)
Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle was an American silent film actor, director, and screenwriter.
1945
Curtis Hanson
American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2016)
Curtis Lee Hanson was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Born in Reno, Nevada, Hanson grew up in Los Angeles.
1945
Patrick Malahide
English actor and screenwriter
Patrick Gerald Duggan, known professionally as Patrick Malahide, is a British actor of stage and screen.
1949
Ruud Krol
Dutch footballer and coach
Rudolf Jozef "Ruud" Krol is a Dutch former professional footballer who was capped 83 times for the Netherlands national team. Most of his career he played for his home town club, Ajax.
1949
Ali Akbar Salehi
Iranian academic and politician, 36th Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran
Ali Akbar Salehi is an Iraqi-born Iranian academic, diplomat and former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, who served in this position from 2009 to 2010 and also from 2013 to 2021.