* 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 )

* 1998 – Jean-François Lyotard, French philosopher and sociologist ( b. 1924 )

; Jean-François Lyotard ( 1924 – 1998 )

* Jean-François Lyotard ( 1924 – 1998 ) was a French philosopher and literary theorist well known for his embracing of postmodernism after the late 1970s.

Jean-François Lyotard (; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998 ) was a French philosopher and literary theorist.

* Jean-François Lyotard ( 1924 – 1998 ).

* Jean-François Revel ( 1924 – 2006 ), French intellectual known for his 2002 book, Anti-Americanism

Jean-François Revel ( 19 January 1924, Marseille – 30 April 2006, Kremlin-Bicêtre ) was a French journalist, author, prolific philosopher and member of the Académie française from June 1998.

Revel was a presidium member of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis from 1924, later being appointed its honorary president, and authored many articles on Jewish subjects in various Hebrew periodicals such as the Jewish Quarterly Review, Yagdil Torah, Ha-Pardes, and various Yeshiva student publications.

* 1924 – Georges Prêtre, French conductor

* 1924 – Claude Sautet, French film director ( d. 2000 )

* 1924 – Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist ( d. 2006 )

Goebbels came into contact with the National Socialist German Worker's Party ( NSDAP ) or Nazi Party in 1923 during the French occupation of the Ruhr and became a member in 1924.

* 1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, France ( in the French Alps ), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.

* 1924 – Roger Guillemin, French neuroendocrinologist, Nobel laureate

* 1924 – Roland Petit, French choreographer ( d. 2011 )

The Kerguelen Islands, along with the islands of Amsterdam and St. Paul, and the Crozet archipelago were officially annexed by France in 1893, and were included as possessions in the French constitution in 1924 ( in addition to that portion of Antarctica claimed by France and known as Adélie Land ; as with all Antarctic territorial claims, France's possession on the continent is held in abeyance until a new international treaty is ratified that defines each claimant's rights and obligations ).

* 1845 – Gabriel Fauré, French composer ( d. 1924 )

* 1871 – Louis Perrée, French fencer ( d. 1924 )

* 1995 – René Allio, French director ( b. 1924 )

* 2009 – Maurice Jarre, French composer ( b. 1924 )

* 1924 – Jean-Luc Pépin, French Canadian politician ( d. 1995 )

* 1924 – Colette Renard, French actress and singer ( d. 2010 )

* 1852 – Paul-Henri-Benjamin d ' Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, Nobel laureate ( d. 1924 )

* 1924 – Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-born French mathematician ( d. 2010 )

* 1924 – Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballet dancer and actress ( d. 2004 )

The World Organisation for Animal Health is the intergovernmental organisation responsible for improving animal health worldwide and was created by an international agreement as the International Office of Epizootics ( still known by its French acronym Office International des Epizooties-OIE ) on 25 January 1924.

" French journalist Gabriel Hanot questioned Nurmi's intensive approach to sports and wrote in 1924 that Nurmi " is ever more serious, reserved, concentrated, pessimistic, fanatic.