* 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 )

Examples include Little Orphan Annie ( drawn and plotted by Harold Gray from 1924 to 1944 and thereafter by a succession of artists including Leonard Starr and Andrew Pepoy ), and Terry and The Pirates, started by Milton Caniff in 1934 and picked up by George Wunder.

On 28 August 1924 Blyton married Major Hugh Alexander Pollock, DSO ( 1888 – 1971 ), editor of the book department in the publishing firm of George Newnes, which published two of her books that year.

* 1845 – George Kennan, American explorer ( d. 1924 )

George Herbert Walker Bush ( born June 12, 1924 ) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States ( 1989 – 93 ).

George Herbert Walker Bush was born at 173 Adams Street in Milton, Massachusetts on June 12, 1924 to Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush.

* George Clinton ( rugby league ) ( born 1924 ), rugby league footballer of the 1940s and ' 50s, and coach of the 1950s and ' 60s

King George II was asked to leave the country, and on 25 March 1924, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaimed the Second Hellenic Republic, ratified by plebiscite a month later.

It was not until 1924 that Ira and George Gershwin teamed up to write the music for their first Broadway hit Lady, Be Good !.

* 1832 – George Shiras Jr., U. S. Supreme Court justice ( d. 1924 )

* 1924 – George H. W. Bush, American politician, 41st President of the United States

* 1886 – George Mallory, English mountaineer ( d. 1924 )

* 1924 – George Mikan, American basketball player ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – George Mikan, American basketball player ( b. 1924 )

* 1855 – George Charles Haité, English designer, painter, and illustrator ( d. 1924 )

* 1924 – George Leigh Mallory, English mountaineer ( b. 1886 )

* 1924 – In the second attempt to climb Mount Everest, George Mallory and Andrew " Sandy " Irvine disappear, possibly having first made it to the top.

In 1924, along with George M. Bolling ( Ohio State University ) and Edgar Sturtevant ( Yale University ) he formed a committee to organize the creation of the Society, and drafted the call for the Society's foundation.

George White's Scandals ( 1922 ), Lady, Be Good ( 1924 ), and Rosalie ( 1928 ).

* 2004 – George Pake, American physicist ( b. 1924 )

( Note: Dixon rewrote The Traitor as The Black Hood ( 1924 ) and Steve Hoyle was renamed George Wilkes.

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* June 18 – George Mallory, English climber ( d. 1924 )

Whiteman was perhaps best known for having premiered George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in New York in 1924, and the orchestrator of that piece, Ferde Grofé, continued to be an important part of the band in 1928.