* 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 )

* Josef Königsberg ( born 1924 ), Katowice, Silesia, Polish and German journalist

The leader of the separatists was Franz Josef Heinz ( 1884 – 1924 ) from Orbis near Kirchheimbolanden, member of the district council for the Deutsche Volkspartei ( DVP ).

Josef Labor ( 29 June 1842 – 26 April 1924 ) was a Czech pianist, organist, and composer of late Romantic music.

* Josef Reichl ( 1860 – 1924 )

He was supported by Josef Suk and with his help was able to found a microtonal department of teaching and research at the Prague Conservatory in 1924.

Josef Škvorecký, CM (; September 27, 1924 – January 3, 2012 ) was a Czech writer and publisher who spent much of his life in Canada.

The company was founded Josef und Franz Werndl and Company in 1864 as a rifle manufacturer, but became known as Steyr-Werke AG in 1924.

Jo Benkow ( born Josef Elias Benkowitz, 15 August 1924 ) is a Norwegian politician and writer, notable for being an important person in the Conservative Party of Norway, and the President of the Parliament 1985-1993.

A second type of curler was invented later, allegedly in 1924 by a Czech hairdresser called Josef Mayer.

Joseph Green ( April 23, 1900 – June 20, 1996 ), born Yoysef Grinberg, a. k. a. Josef Grünberg, Joseph Greenberg and Joseph Greene, a Polish-born Jew who emigrated to the United States in 1924, was an actor in Yiddish theater and one of the few directors of Yiddish language films ; he made four films including A brivele der mamen (" A Letter to Mother ") and Yidl Mitn Fidl (" Yiddle and his Fiddle ") both of which he also wrote.

* Josef Labor ( 1842 – 1924 ), musician

In 1924 he, Josef Sudek and Adolf Schneeberger founded the Czech Photographic Society.

The road bridge is some 500 metres in length and is named after Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, ( 1868 – 1924 ), the fourth child of Emperor Franz Josef, and Elisabeth.

It is named after Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, ( 1868 – 1924 ), the fourth child of Emperor Franz Josef, and Elisabeth.

* 1924 – Rudolf Vrba, Czech-Canadian Holocaust survivor and educator ( d. 2006 )

* 1858 – E. Nesbit, English author ( d. 1924 )

* 1924 – Janet Frame, New Zealand author ( d. 2004 )

* 2007 – June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author, and activist ( b. 1924 )

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

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

* 2003 – Alan Davidson, British author ( b. 1924 )

Norman Maclean, a former professor at the University of Chicago and author of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, graduated from Dartmouth in 1924.

* 1997 – Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer-songwriter, musician, and author ( b. 1924 )

* 1924 – Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and author, ( d. 2006 )

* 1924 – Jean-François Revel, French author ( d. 2006 )

* 1924 – C. T. Vivian, American minister, author, and activist

* 1924 – Gavin Lambert, English-American screenwriter and author ( d. 2005 )

* 2012 – Neil McKenty, English-Canadian broadcaster and author ( b. 1924 )

* 1924 – Al Neuharth, American businessman, author, and columnist, founder of USA Today

* 1924 – Leo Buscaglia, American author ( d. 1998 )

* 1849 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, British-born author ( d. 1924 )

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

* 1924 – Donald Sobol, American children's author ( d. 2012 )

* 1924 – Truman Capote, American author ( d. 1984 )

* 1924 – Bernard Waber, American author

* 1924 – Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and author ( d. 1994 )

* 1924 – Sheila MacRae, English actress, singer, and author

* January 22 – Kōbō Abe, Japanese author ( b. 1924 )

* August 17 – Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist ( d. 1924 )