* 1924 – Raymond Barre, French politician, Prime Minister of France ( d. 2007 )

* 1924 – Peter Safar, Austrian physician ( d. 2003 )

* 1924 – David Rowbotham, Australian poet ( d. 2010 )

* 1924 – Samuel Bowers, American murder, co-founded White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan ( d. 2006 )

* 1924 – James Baldwin, American writer ( d. 1987 )

* 1924 – Joe Harnell, American pianist, composer, and arranger ( d. 2005 )

* 1924 – Carroll O ' Connor, American actor ( d. 2001 )

* 1924 – Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the " Beer Hall Putsch ".

* 1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

* 1924 – Lloyd Hildebrand, French racing cyclist ( b. 1870 )

* 1924 – Stan Rowley, Australian sprinter ( b. 1876 )

* 2000 – Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Scottish jurist ( b. 1924 )

* 1924 – Marcia Mae Jones, American actress ( d. 2007 )

* 1924 – Frank Worrell, Indian cricketer ( d. 1967 )

* 1924 – Leon Uris, American novelist ( d. 2003 )

* 1924 – Joseph Conrad, Polish-English writer ( b. 1857 )

* 2004 – Bob Murphy, American sportscaster ( b. 1924 )

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

* 1844 – Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1924 )

* Frank Gallagher won caps for England while at Batley 1923 Other Nations, 1924 Other Nations, 1925 Wales ( 2 matches ), 1926 Wales, Other Nations, 1927 Wales, while at Leeds 1928 Wales, and won caps for Great Britain while at Dewsbury 1920 Australia ( 3 matches ), 1921 – 22 Australia, while at Batley 1924 Australia ( 3 matches ), New Zealand ( 3 matches ), 1926-27 New Zealand ( 2 matches )

* 1924 – Charlie Tully, Irish footballer ( d. 1971 )

* 1924 – Victor Herbert, Irish composer, cellist, and conductor, founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( b. 1859 )

* 1924 – Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer ( b. 1852 )

* 1852 – Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer ( d. 1924 )

* Charles Villiers Stanford ( 1852 – 1924 ), Irish composer

* July 27 – Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer ( b. 1924 )

* September 30 – Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, resident in England ( d. 1924 )

According to one report, in 1924, shortly after the Irish Free State's establishment, the new dominion had the " lowest birth-rate in the world ".

* Ralph Lazo, born in 1924 in Los Angeles, was of Mexican American and Irish American descent, but when at age 16 he learned that his Japanese American friends and neighbors were being forcibly removed and incarcerated at Manzanar, he was outraged.

In 1924 the British and Irish governments agreed to attend the " Boundary Commission " to redraw the border which partitioned Ireland between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.

The British claimed it was an internal affair while the Irish saw it as an international agreement between two independent states, a point which was accepted by the League of Nations, when that body registered the Treaty in 1924.

The Courts of Justice Act 1924 abolished the County Court in the Irish Free State and transferred its jurisdiction ( together with that of Quarter Sessions ) to the Circuit Court.

The Harp of Life ( 1924 ), Cowell said, " is another in the suite based on the early Irish mythological opera ," as, he explained, were The Voice of Lir ( 1920 ) and The Trumpet of Angus Og ( 1918 – 24 ).

Two of his most sought-after titles include promotional booklets for Jameson Irish Whiskey: A History of a Great House ( 1924, and subsequent reprints ) and Elixir of Life ( 1925 ), which was written by Geofrey Warren.

By 1924, Costello had become a close associate of Hell's Kitchen's Irish crime bosses Dwyer and Madden.

The Freeman's Journal ceased publication in 1924, when it was merged with the Irish Independent.

In 1924, the traditional nationalist newspaper, the Freeman's Journal, merged with the Irish Independent.

* Birthplace of John Broderick ( writer ) ( 1924 – 1989 ) Irish novelist.

This courts system remained until 1924, when the new Irish Free State introduced a new courts structure, replacing the old High Court of Ireland, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland and the Lord Chancellor of Ireland with a new Supreme Court of Justice presided over by the Chief Justice and a High Court of Justice, presided over by the President of the High Court.

Kilmainham Gaol was decommissioned as a prison by the Irish Free State government in 1924.

In the period of time extending from its opening in 1796 until its decommissioning in 1924 it has been, barring the notable exceptions of Daniel O ' Connell and Michael Collins, a site of incarceration of every significant Irish nationalist leader of both the constitutional and physical force traditions.

Mulcahy served as Defence Minister in the new Free State government from January 1924 until March 1924, but resigned in protest because of the sacking of the Army Council after criticism by the Executive Council over the handling of the so-called Army Mutiny — when some Irish Army War of Independence officers almost revolted after Mulcahy demobilised many of them at the end of the Civil War.