American Federalist politician, diplomat, and Constitutional delegate Rufus King was born on March 24, 1755.
American economist Robert Heilbroner was born on this date in 1919. Heilbroner was a career-long socialist who, after the fall of the Soviet Union, admitted that “Mises was right” about the unworkability of socialism.
Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti was also born on the same day as Heilbroner.