* 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 )

* October 3 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress ( d. 1924 )

* Eleonora Duse ( 1858 – 1924 ), Italian actress, often known simply as Duse, was born in Vigevano.

Eleonora Duse (; 1858 – 1924 )

* 1924 – Franco Mannino, Italian composer, playwright, and novelist ( d. 2005 )

* 1858 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer ( d. 1924 )

Giacomo Puccini ( full name: Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini ) (; Lucca 22 December 1858Brussels 29 November 1924 ) was an Italian composer whose operas are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire.

* 1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.

* 1994 – Carlo Chiti, Italian engineer ( b. 1924 )

In 1921 he abandoned the Italian Socialist Party ( PSI ) and adhered to the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ), with which he was elected in the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1924.

* 2006 – Flo Sandon's, Italian singer ( b. 1924 )

In 1924, after the Rome correspondent of a British paper described the traditional Italian hand-game of morra, which has some similarities to rock-paper-scissors, a brief correspondence began on the subject.

Other estimates of Italian casualties were: by UK War Office in 1922, Dead 460, 000 and by the US War Dept in 1924 650, 000 killed and died Civilian deaths exceeded the prewar level by 1, 021, 000.

* December 19 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor ( b. 1924 )

* April 1 – Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist and composer ( d. 1924 )

* December 22 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer ( d. 1924 )

Between 1924 and 1945, Benito Mussolini's Fascist government forced minorities living in Italy to assume the Italian language and culture, and worked to erase any traces of the existence of other nations on the territory of Italy.

* Austrian — Noetzel, Hermann: Pierrot's Summer Night ( 1924 ); Schnitzler, Arthur: The Transformations of Pierrot ( 1908 ), The Veil of Pierrette ( 1910 ; with music by Ernö Dohnányi ; see also " Stuppner " among the Italian composers under Western classical music ( instrumental ) below ); Schreker, Franz: The Blue Flower, or The Heart of Pierrot: A Tragic Pantomime ( 1909 ), The Bird, or Pierrot's Mania: A Pantomimic Comedy ( 1909 ).

* Italian — Adami, Giuseppe: Pierrot in Love ( 1924 ); Cavacchioli, Enrico: Pierrot, Employee of the Lottery: Grotesque Fantasy ... ( 1920 ); Zangarini, Carlo: The Divine Pierrot: Modern Tragicomedy ... ( 1931 ).

* Italian — Alberini, Filoteo: Pierrot in Love ( 1906 ); Bacchini, Romolo: Pierrot's Heart ( 1909 ); Camagni, Bianca Virginia: Fantasy ( 1921 ); Caserini, Mario: A Pierrot's Romance ( 1906 ); Falena, Ugo: The Disillusionment of Pierrot ( 1915 ); Negroni, Baldassarre: Story of a Pierrot ( 1913 ); Notari, Eduardo: So Cries Pierrot ( 1924 ).

* Italian — Modigliani, Amedeo ( worked mainly in France ): Pierrot ( 1915 ); Severini, Gino: Many works, including The Two Pierrots ( 1922 ), Pierrot ( 1923 ), Pierrot the Musician ( 1924 ), The Music Lesson ( 1928 – 1929 ), The Carnival ( 1955 ).

Lussu was elected to the Italian parliament in 1921 and, in 1924 was among the Aventine secessionists who withdrew from the Italian Parliament after the murder of Giacomo Matteotti.

Their abundant inter-war Italian counterparts included, among others, Carlo Galeffi, Giuseppe Danise, Enrico Molinari, Umberto Urbano, Cesare Formichi, Luigi Montesanto, Apollo Granforte, Benvenuto Franci, Renato Zanelli ( who switched to tenor roles in 1924 ), Mario Basiola, Giovanni Inghilleri, Carlo Morelli ( the Chilean-born younger brother of Renato Zanelli ) and Carlo Tagliabue.

* Loris Fortuna ( 1924 — 1985 ), Italian left-wing politician