* 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 )

In 1924 Edwin Hubble's measurement of the great distance to the nearest spiral nebulae showed that these systems were indeed other galaxies.

* 1879 – Edwin Samuel Montagu, British statesman ( d. 1924 )

( At that time, nebula was the generic term for any visually extended or diffuse astronomical object, including galaxies beyond the Milky Way, until galaxies were confirmed as extragalactic systems by Edwin Hubble in 1924.

In 1924, the famous architect Sir Edwin Lutyens created Queen Mary's Dolls ' House for her collection of miniature pieces.

* 1924 — Edwin Hubble discovers that the universe is composed of thousands of galaxies.

Rivalry between academic opinion at LSE and Cambridge goes back to the School's roots when LSE's Edwin Cannan ( 1861 – 1935 ), Professor of Economics, and Cambridge's Professor of Political Economy, Alfred Marshall ( 1842 – 1924 ), the leading economist of the day, argued about the bedrock matter of economics and whether the subject should be considered as an organic whole.

In 1924, Edwin Hubble established the distance to Classical Cepheid variables in the Andromeda Galaxy, and showed that the variables were not members of the Milky Way.

Edwin Atkins Grozier ( September 12, 1859 – 1924 ) was a progressive journalist who owned the Boston Post from 1891 until his death.

She became acting mayor in 1924 when Mayor Edwin J.

# The Firebrand by Edwin Justus Mayer ; music by Bennett and Maurice Nitke ( 1924 )

* 1924 – Edwin Hubble: the discovery that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies

* Queen Mary's Dolls ' House was designed for Queen Mary in 1924 by Sir Edwin Lutyens, a leading architect of the time, and is on display at Windsor Castle.

Edwin Denby ( February 18, 1870 – February 8, 1929 ) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of the Navy in the administrations of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge from 1921 to 1924.

James Edwin Campbell ( July 7, 1843 – December 18, 1924 ) was a Democratic politician from Ohio.

Edwin Ernest Salpeter ForMemRS ( 3 December 1924, Vienna – 26 November 2008, Ithaca, New York ) was an Austrian-Australian-American astrophysicist.

Edwin Samuel Montagu PC ( 6 February 1879 – 15 November 1924 ) was a British Liberal politician.

* James Edwin Creighton ( 1861 – 1924 ), American philosopher

* Edwin C. Smith ( 1852 – 1924 ), miner, rancher and political figure in British Columbia

76 ( January – June 1924 ) Marc Chagall, Padraic Colum, e. e. cummings, Jacob Epstein, Elie Faure, E. M. Forster, Maxim Gorky, Gaston Lachaise, Marie Laurencin, Aristide Maillol, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, John Marin, H. L. Mencken, Edvard Munch, J. Middleton Murry, Pablo Picasso, Raffaello Piccolli, Herbert Read, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Herbert J. Seligmann, Miguel de Unamuno, Maurice de Vlaminck, Stefan Zweig

77 ( July – December 1924 ) Ernst Barlach, Clive Bell, Marc Chagall, Thomas Craven, Adolphe Dehn, André Derain, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Maxim Gorky, Duncan Grant, Marianne Moore, Edwin Muir, Jules Romains, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sandburg, Herbert J. Seligmann, Georges Seurat, Logan Pearsall Smith, Oswald Spengler, Leo Stein, Wallace Stevens, Scofield Thayer, Edmund Wilson, Virginia Woolf

Later additions by Edwin Lutyens in 1924 include the magnificent Bathing Pavilion, Temple of Music, Rose Garden and, purportedly, the largest pool in Western Europe ( 72m ).

* Sutherland, Edwin H. ( 1924 ) Principles of Criminology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

( Edwin ) Roland Dobbs ( born 2 December 1924 ) is a British physicist, best known for his work in physical acoustics.

In 1924, fellow novelist Edwin Pugh recalled his early memories of Pett Ridge in the 1890's: