* 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 – 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 )

* 1989 – James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright, author, and actor ( b. 1924 )

* 1987 – James Baldwin, American writer ( b. 1924 )

* 1924 – James A. McClure, American politician ( d. 2011 )

Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm ( 1902 – 1924 ), James Louis Garvin ( 1926 – 1932 ), Franklin Henry Hooper ( 1932 – 1938 ), Walter Yust ( 1938 – 1960 ), Harry Ashmore ( 1960 – 1963 ), Warren E. Preece ( 1964 – 1968, 1969 – 1975 ), Sir William Haley ( 1968 – 1969 ), Philip W. Goetz ( 1979 – 1991 ), and Robert McHenry ( 1992 – 1997 ).

* 2010 – James W. Black, Scottish Nobel Prize-winning doctor and medical research scientist ( b. 1924 )

* 1924 – James Clavell, Australian author ( d. 1994 )

The comprehensive rules promulgated in 1924 by the International Lawn Tennis Federation, now known as the International Tennis Federation ( ITF ), have remained largely stable in the ensuing eighty years, the one major change being the addition of the tie-break system designed by James Van Alen.

* October 11 – James Acton, English cricketer ( d. 1924 )

* November 30 – James Baldwin, American writer ( b. 1924 )

** James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright ( b. 1924 )

The couple had two sons, James ( 1922 – 2007 ) and Robert ( 1924 – 2009 ), but after the birth of Robert, the relationship began to suffer.

Sharon Tate was born in Dallas, Texas, the eldest of three daughters, to Colonel Paul James Tate ( 1922 – 2005 ), a United States Army officer, and his wife, Doris Gwendolyn ( née Willett ; January 16, 1924 – July 10, 1992 ).

After returning to London from India, he completed his last novel, A Passage to India ( 1924 ), for which he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

As Photoplay editor James Quirk put it in March 1924, " Talking pictures are perfected, says Dr. Lee De Forest.

Portrait of Asquith by Sir James Guthrie ( artist ) | James Guthrie, circa 1924 – 1928

J. J. Johnson ( born James Louis Johnson ; January 22, 1924, Indianapolis, Indiana – February 4, 2001 ) was a United States jazz trombonist, composer and arranger.

* Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1924.

Just three years after the fire, in 1892, James J. Hill's Great Northern Railway had arrived in the newly created township of Hillyard ( annexed by Spokane in 1924 )— the chosen site for Hill's rail yards.

The strip took its name from the 1885 poem " Little Orphant Annie " by James Whitcomb Riley, and made its debut on August 5, 1924 in the New York Daily News.

From 1924 to 1930 she was married to film director James Cruze.

Smith lost his bid for reelection in 1920, but was again elected governor in 1922, 1924 and 1926 with James A. Farley managing his campaign.

** Isabella Graham Cockburn ( c. 1848-Kensington, London, 5 January 1926 ), married on 31 January 1894 as his third wife to Sir James Shaw Hay ( 25 October 1839-20 June 1924 ), without issue

James Arthur Baldwin ( August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987 ) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.