* 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 )

* 1924 – Jack Buck, American sportscaster ( d. 2002 )

* 1924 – Jack Clemmons, American law enforcement officer ( d. 1998 )

* Jack Ferguson ( 1924 – 2002 ): Former Deputy Premier of New South Wales.

Gertrude Stein with Ernest Hemingway's son, Jack Hemingway ( nicknamed Bumby ) in 1924.

* 1924 – Jack Whitaker, American sportscaster

* May 3 – Jack Weston, American actor ( b. 1924 )

* Bagdad ( song ), a 1924 song by Jack Yellen and Milton Ager

John Francis " Jack " Buck ( August 21, 1924 – June 18, 2002 ) was an American sportscaster, best known for his work announcing Major League Baseball games of the St. Louis Cardinals.

Gertrude Stein with Ernest Hemingway's son, Jack Hemingway in 1924.

Jack Thomas Chick ( born April 13, 1924 ) is an American publisher, writer, and comic book artist of fundamentalist Christian tracts and comic books.

In 1924, Brookside served as one of the settings for the Famous Players-Lasky's 1925 feature film Coming Through, which was based on Jack Bethea's novel Bed Rock.

In 1924, Jack O. Keene ( who later established Keeneland in Lexington, Kentucky ), created a horse racing track near the city.

* Jack Smith ( 1924 – 2001 ), NASCAR driver

Busy with films, tours and vaudeville, ( including an appearance at the London Pavilion in 1921 as Mr. St. Louis in Fun of the Fayre and the next year in Phi-Phi ), he did not return to Broadway until 1923, with the musical Jack and Jill ( Globe Theatre ) which had 92 performances between March 22, 1923, and June 9, 1923, and Lynn Starling's comic play Meet the Wife which opened on November 26, 1923, and ran into the summer of 1924, closing in August.

* Bankruptcy of Little Jack ( Bankructwo małego Dżeka, Warsaw 1924 )

He learnt to box from his father and his older brother Jack Heeney, who was the New Zealand amateur welterweight champion in 1914 and middleweight champion from 1919 to 1924.

Donald Lamont Jack ( 6 December 1924 – 2 June 2003 ) was a Canadian novelist and playwright.

* Jack Jones ( Australian rules footballer ) ( born 1924 ), Australian rules footballer for Essendon

* Jack Jones ( journalist ) ( 1924 – 2011 ), American journalist

Jack Hobbs ( left ) and Herbert Sutcliffe walking out to bat at Sydney Cricket Ground in 1924 – 25

Some of the titles included Firpo-Dempsey ( 1923 ) on the boxing match between American heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and Argentinian champion Luis Firpo, Uruguayos Forever ( 1924 ) on Uruguay's Olympic gold medal in soccer, and Humberto de garufa ( Little Umberto's Folic, 1924 ), on the visit of Italian Prince Umberto of Savoy to Buenos Aires.

* Donald Swanson ( 1848 – 1924 ) — senior police officer in the Metropolitan Police during the Jack the Ripper murders.

From 1924 to 1933, he made the following recordings with D ' Oyly Carte: 1924 Ruddigore ( Robin Oakapple ); 1927 Gondoliers ( Giuseppe ); 1926 Mikado ( Pish-Tush ); 1927 Trial ( Usher ); 1929 Pirates ( Major-General ) 1928 Yeomen ( Jack Point ); 1929 Iolanthe ( Lord Chancellor ); 1930 Patience ( Bunthorne ); 1930 H. M. S.