* 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 )

* 2005 – Erik Balling, Danish TV and film director ( b. 1924 )

Nielsen had two brothers ; his older brother, Erik Nielsen ( 1924 – 2008 ), was Deputy Prime Minister of Canada from 1984 to 1986.

Erik Balling ( 29 November 1924 – 19 November 2005 ) was a Danish TV and film director.

Karl Erik wanted his son, Victor Hasselblad, to have a wide understanding of the camera business, and sent him to Dresden, Germany, then the world center of the optics industry, at age 18 ( circa 1924 ).

He was conductor of the Ballets suédois's premiere of Relâche ( 1924 ), a film and music presentation by Francis Picabia and Erik Satie, with the film segment, Entr ' acte, directed by René Clair.

In 1924, a 5-year-old girl who lived on the Åland Islands was brought to Deaconess Hospital in Helsinki, Finland, where she was seen by Dr. Erik von Willebrand.

Erik Hersholt Nielsen PC DFC QC ( February 24, 1924 – September 4, 2008 ) was a Canadian politician, and longtime Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Yukon.

* Erik Nielsen ( 1924 – 2008 ), former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, brother of Leslie

vWF is named after Dr. Erik von Willebrand ( 1870 – 1949 ), a Finnish doctor who in 1924 first described a hereditary bleeding disorder in families from the Åland islands, who had a tendency for cutaneous and mucosal bleeding, including menorrhagia.

Before it had been shown however, Clair was asked by Francis Picabia and Erik Satie to make a short film to be shown as part of their Dadaist ballet Relâche ; he made Entr ' acte ( 1924 ), and it established Clair as a leading member of the Parisian avant-garde.

His son John Frederick Booth, who lived in Canada, married ... and had a daughter Lois Frances Booth ( born Ottawa, Ontario, 2 August 1897 ; died Copenhagen, 26 February 1941 ), who was married in Ottawa, Ontario, on 11 February 1924 to Count Erik of Rosenborg, whom she divorced in 1937 ; they had two children.

At the time of the marriage in 1924 of his granddaughter Lois Frances Booth to Prince Erik Christian Frederik Alexander of Denmark, it was rumoured that Booth contributed half of her $ 4-million dowry.

René Clair's Entr ' acte ( 1924 ) featuring Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, and with music by Erik Satie, took madcap comedy into nonsequitur.

Further trips included Erik Norin's visit to the Himalayas ( 1924 – 1925 ), Erik Nilsson's visit to East Africa ( 1927 – 28 ), and Carl Caldenius ' visit to South America ( 1925 – 1929 ), and later New Zealand ( 1932 – 34 ).

Knock, and in late 1924 the theatre also premiered the Ballets suédois production of Francis Picabia's " instantaneist " ballet Relâche, with music by Erik Satie.

* Erik Wilén or Erik Vilén, silver-medalist at the 1924 Summer Olympics

In 1924, Erik Satie introduced Sauguet to Serge Diaghilev, the flamboyant impresario of the Ballets Russes, and he wrote his first ballet, Les Roses ( Roses ) that year.

* Erik Borge ( 1924 – 2008 ), Norwegian film director and screenwriter

The algebraic study of free groups was initiated by Jakob Nielsen in 1924, who gave them their name and established many of their basic properties .< ref >

* Kai Nielsen ( 1882 – 1924 ), Danish sculptor

In August 1924 Danish composer Carl Nielsen began working on a Sixth Symphony, which turned out to be his last.

Following his theatrical work in Copenhagen, Nielsen returned to contributing to illustrated books with the publication of Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen in 1924.

Related work was done by Emil Artin in 1924 ( for the system now called Artin billiard ), P. J. Myrberg, Paul Koebe, Jakob Nielsen, G. A. Hedlund.