* 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 )

* 2004 – Janet Frame, New Zealand writer ( b. 1924 )

Janet Paterson Frame, ONZ, CBE ( 28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004 ) was a New Zealand author.

" Dr. Clutha ’ s Book of the World: Janet Paterson Frame, 1924 – 2004.

* Patrick Evans ' essay " Dr. Clutha ’ s Book of the World: Janet Paterson Frame, 1924 – 2004 ," published in the Journal of New Zealand Literature, 2004

* Janet Frame ( 1924 – 2004 )

** Janet Frame, New Zealand novelist, poet and short story writer ( born 1924 )

* Janet Waldo ( born 1924 ), American actress and voice artist

New Zealand's first female medical graduate, Dr Emily Hancock Siedeberg, delivered Frame at St. Helen's Hospital in 1924.

* 1924 – Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricketer ( d. 2010 )

On their 1950 tour of New Zealand and Australia they also adopted the nickname British Lions, first used by British and South African journalists on the 1924 South African tour, after the lion emblem on their ties, the emblem on their jerseys having been dropped in favour of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions.

* Charles Proteus Steinmetz: A Biography, John Winthrop Hammond, New York Century Co., 1924.

For seven years he also published the Dada periodical 391 in Barcelona, New York City, Zurich, and Paris from 1917 through 1924.

* 2005 – Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author ( b. 1924 )

With Lenin's admission of limited private enterprise through his New Economic Policy ( NEP ) of 1921, Russia began receiving fiction films from afar, an occurrence that Vertov regarded with undeniable suspicion, calling drama a " corrupting influence " on the proletarian sensibility (" On ' Kinopravda ,'" 1924 ).

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.

Despite the opposition, Hubble, then a thirty-five-year-old scientist, had his findings first published in The New York Times on, 1924, and then more formally presented in the form of a paper at the January 1, 1925 meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

A photograph of President Calvin Coolidge sent from New York to London on November 29, 1924 became the first photo picture reproduced by transoceanic radio facsimile.

* 1924 – David Beattie, New Zealand Governor-General ( d. 2001 )

Between 1923 and 1924 Hayek worked as a research assistant to Prof. Jeremiah Jenks of New York University, compiling macroeconomic data on the American economy and the operations of the U. S. Federal Reserve.

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

He visited the United States in 1924, and gave a series of illustrated lectures in New York City and other cities in the United States that were attended by very large and enthusiastic audiences, sparking Egyptomania in America.

New designs were still developed in the 20th century, including the chromatic harmonica, first made by Hohner in 1924, the bass harmonica, and the chord harmonica.

The American heiress Alice Vanderbilt Morris ( 1874 – 1950 ) became interested in linguistics and the international auxiliary language movement in the early 1920s, and in 1924, Morris and her husband, Dave Hennen Morris, established the non-profit International Auxiliary Language Association ( IALA ) in New York City.

Admiral of the Fleet the Viscount Jellicoe served as Governor-General of New Zealand from September 1920 to November 1924.

Spacey was born in South Orange, New Jersey, the son of Kathleen Ann ( née Knutson ; December 5, 1931 – March 19, 2003 ), a secretary, and Thomas Geoffrey Fowler ( June 4, 1924 – December 24, 1992 ), a technical writer and data consultant.

Almost all kiwifruit in commerce belong to a few cultivars of Actinidia deliciosa or Fuzzy Kiwi: ' Hayward ', ' Blake ', and ' Saanichton 12 '. The familiar cultivar ' Hayward ' was developed by Hayward Wright in Avondale, New Zealand around 1924.

Li authored a series of articles in New Youth on the subject of the October Revolution which had just occurred in Russia, during which the communist Bolshevik Party under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin ( 1870 – 1924 ) had seized power.

The Senators faced John McGraw's heavily-favored New York Giants in the 1924 World Series.

The New Economic Policy was tumultuous ; economic recovery took place but alongside famine ( 1921 – 1922 ) and a financial crisis ( 1924 ).

* 1924 – In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

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