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

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

* 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 )

His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

* 1924 – David Beattie, New Zealand Governor-General ( d. 2001 )

* 1924 – David Bronstein, Ukrainian chess player ( d. 2006 )

Kenneth David Kaunda ( born April 28, 1924 ), also known as KK, served as the first President of Zambia, from 1964 to 1991.

* 1924 – ( Father ) David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest ( d. 1988 )

* Irvine, David Edward Guthrie ( 1924 – 1995 )

* Robert David Mullins Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was born in Scofield on December 16, 1924.

Photograph of David Bomberg, taken in Jerusalem, 1924.

Alexandra David-Néel born Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David ( born in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne on 24 October 1868, and died in Digne-les-Bains, on 8 September 1969 ) was a Belgian-French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist, and writer, most known for her visit to Lhasa, Tibet, in 1924, when it was forbidden to foreigners.

Between 1753 and 1924, The Country Wife was considered too outrageous to be performed at all and was replaced on the stage by David Garrick's cleaned-up and bland version The Country Girl, now a forgotten curiosity.

David Ionovich Bronstein ( Дави ́ д Ио ́ нович Бронште ́ йн ; February 19, 1924 – December 5, 2006 ) was a Jewish Soviet chess grandmaster, who narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951.

* David Boyd ( artist ) ( 1924 – 2011 ), Australian artist

David Marston Clough ( December 27, 1846 – August 28, 1924 ) was an American politician.

* 19 June – David Sylvester, English art critic and curator ( b. 1924 )

The Aylesbury constituency of which Wendover forms a part has elected a Conservative MP ( currently David Lidington ) since 1924.

* David Oswald Thomas ( 1924 – 2005 ), Welsh philosopher

For a number of years, he had been an assistant to Richard Courant at Göttingen in the preparation of Courant and David Hilbert ’ s book Methoden der mathematischen Physik I, which was published in 1924.

* David Morris ( actor ) ( 1924 – 2007 ), English painter and actor

* David Phillips-biophysicist, born 1924.

On his return to the U. S. and between 1924 and 1928, he taught at The Johns Hopkins University as ' Associate in Chemistry ', and then at Columbia where he assembled a team of associates that included Rudolph Schoenheimer, David Rittenberg and T. I. Taylor.

* David Randolph Moray Stuart, 2nd Viscount Stuart of Findhorn ( 1924 – 1999 )

: 1924: David Grant

* David William Anthony Blyth Macpherson, 2nd Baron Strathcarron ( 1924 – 2006 )

* Animators: all of the directors, plus Raoul Barré ( 1915 ), Johnny B. Gruelle ( 1917 ), Jack King ( 1920 – 1921 ), Isadore Klein ( 1920 – 1921 ), Leon A. Searl ( 1920 – 1921 ), Bert Green ( 1920 – 1921 ), Edward Grinham ( 1920 – 1921 ), Ben Sharpsteen ( 1920 – 1921 ), Will Powers ( 1920 – 1921 ), Walter Lantz ( 1920 – 1921 ), David Hand ( 1925 – 1927 ), Ving Fuller ( 1925 – 26 ), Frank Paiker ( c. 1924 )