* 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 – 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 )

* 1984 – Frank Church, American Senator ( b. 1924 )

* 2011 – Francis " Frank " X. McDermott, American Republican Party politician ( b. 1924 )

* 1924 – Frank Broyles, American athlete, long time athletic director of the University of Arkansas

* 1924 – Frank Corsaro, American stage director

White then worked for two years with the Frank Seaman advertising agency as a production assistant and copywriter before returning to New York City in 1924.

* 1924 – Robert Frank, Swiss Photographer

* 2002 – Frank McCarthy, American artist and painter ( b. 1924 )

* 1864 – T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey ( d. 1924 )

* 1924 – Francis " Frank " X. McDermott, American Republican Party politician ( d. 2011 )

* March 27 – Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar ( d. 1924 )

* October 10 – T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey ( d. 1924 )

Louis Henry Sullivan ( September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924 ) was an American architect, and has been called the " father of skyscrapers " and " father of modernism " He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School.

Hopper's longtime dealer, Frank Rehn, who gave the artist his first solo show in 1924, sold Hotel Window ( 1995 ) to collector Olga Knoepke for $ 7, 000 ($ 50, 270 in 2006 currency ) in 1957.

* Frank Bradshaw, May 1923 – April 1924

His real break came in 1924 when he joined the company of Shakespearean actor Sir Frank Benson, where he stayed for four years.

In 1924, his Lincoln play was adapted for a two-reel short film made by Lee DeForest and J. Searle Dawley featuring Frank McGlynn Sr. as Lincoln, and made in DeForest's Phonofilm sound-on-film process.

In 1924 Šufflay became a member of the leadership of the Pure Party of Rights, a right-wing Croatian political party inspired by the work of Josip Frank, a fervent nationalist.

In 1924, owner Frank McNeil sold the team back to Hughitt and Warren D. Patterson, who immediately changed the team name to Bisons ( a stock name for Buffalo sports teams ) and signed several players ( Pete Calac, Benny Boynton and Jim Ailinger being among them ) to make another run at the title.

More accurate data about sleep is due to the invention of technologies such as the electroencephalogram ( EEG ) by Hans Berger in 1924 and BEAM by Frank Duffy in the early 1980s.

The idea of traffic equilibrium originated as early as 1924, with Frank Knight.

Frank Searle, managing director of Daimler Hire and its subsidiaries moved with his deputy Humphery Wood into the new national carrier Imperial Airways at its formation on 1 April 1924.

* Frank Partridge ( 1924 – 1964 ), recipient of the Victoria Cross

Frank Anthony Sturgis ( December 9, 1924 – December 4, 1993 ), born Frank Angelo Fiorini, was one of the Watergate burglars.