* 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 )

Bloch's Les Rois Thaumaturges ( 1924 ) looked at the long-standing folk belief that the king could cure scrofula by touch.

Les Rois Thaumaturges ( 1924 ), translated as The Royal Touch: Monarchy and Miracles in France and England ( 1990 )

In 1924 he published one of his most famous works Les rois thaumaturges: étude sur le caractère surnaturel attribué à la puissance royale particulièrement en France et en Angleterre ( translated in English as The magic-working kings or The royal touch: sacred monarchy and scrofula in England and France ) in which he collected, described and studied the documents pertaining to the ancient tradition that the kings of the Middle Ages were able to cure the disease of scrofula simply by touching people suffering from it.

In Les Rois Thaumaturges ( 1924 ) Bloch looked at the long-standing folk belief that the king could cure scrofula by touch.

Les Rois Thaumaturges ( 1924 ), translated as The Royal Touch: Monarchy and Miracles in France and England ( 1990 ), his doctoral dissertation

In the realm of classical music, semi-spoken music was popular stylized by composer Arnold Schoenberg as Sprechstimme, and famously used in Ernst Toch's 1924 Geographical Fugue for spoken chorus and the final scene in Darius Milhaud's 1915 ballet Les Choéphores.

Jean Przyluski introduced the term sino-tibétain ( Sino-Tibetan ) as the title of his chapter on the group in Meillet and Cohen's Les Langues du Monde in 1924.

Gun No. 2347 had been originally purchased on November 12, 1924 by Les Farmer, a deputy sheriff in Marion, Illinois, which happened to be the seat of Williamson County.

* Les Pas perdus ( Breton ), 1924 – The Lost Steps

French author of dozens of flagellation novels including: Nouveax Contes de Fouet ( 1907 ), The Conjugal Whip ( Le fouet conjugal ) ( 1908 ), Le Fouet dominateur ou L ' École des vierges, Les Mystéres du Fouet ( both 1909 ), The Humiliations of Miss Madge ( 1912 ), Les Malheurs de Colette ( 1914 ), Visites fantastiques au pays du fouet ( 1922 ), Le Precepteur ( 1923 ), Memories d ' une Fouettee ( 1924 ), et al.

A theme explored in several of his books ; in Les Esclaves-montures ( Slave Mountings ) ( 1920 ) and Le Club des Monteurs Humaines ( 1924 ), men are turned into obedient cart ponies.

His massive and reputation-making thesis, Les paysans du Nord ( 1924 ), was an account of the Revolution among provincial peasants.

Mary Ford ( July 7, 1924 – September 30, 1977 ), born Iris Colleen Summers, was an American vocalist and guitarist, comprising half of the husband-and-wife musical team Les Paul and Mary Ford.

* André de Lorde, nicknamed the " Prince of Terror ", a prolific playwright who wrote over one hundred and fifty plays for the Grand Guignol theater, collected in various volumes, including Théâtre d ' Épouvante Of Horror ( 1909 ), Théâtre Rouge Theater ( 1922 ), Les Drames Célèbres du Grand-Guignol Tragedies Of The Grand-Guignol ( 1924 ) and Théâtre de la Peur Of Fear ( 1924 ).

Nijinska was a member of the Imperial Ballet and then the Ballets Russes, for whom she choreographed her best known works, Les Noces ( 1923 ), The Blue Train ( 1924 ) and Les Biches ( 1924 ).

* 1924: Les langues du monde ( co-editor with Marcel Cohen ).

Among his most significant works was the 1924 book Les Paysans du Nord pendant la Révolution française (" The Peasants of the North During the French Revolution "), which was the result of 20 years of research into the role of the peasantry during the revolutionary period.

Lefebvre began writing in 1904, but it was not until 1924, at the age of fifty, that he was finally at the point in his career-no longer preoccupied with supporting his family-that he was able to finish his doctoral thesis: Les Paysans du Nord pendant la Révolution française.

The main residence is the Villa des Cèdres, which has been owned by Marnier-Lapostolle ( the makers of Grand Marnier ) since 1924 and is now in part a botanical garden called the Jardin botanique " Les Cèdres ".

* 1924 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )

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

* 2011 – Jean Gratton, Canadian bishop ( b. 1924 )

* 2012 – Jonathan Frid, Canadian actor ( b. 1924 )

* 1924 – Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician and broadcaster ( d. 1980 )

* 1924 – Erik Nielsen, Canadian politician ( d. 2008 )

* 1924 – Louis Laberge, Canadian labour union leader ( d. 2002 )

* 1924 – Nicolo Rizzuto, Sicilian-born Canadian organized crime figure ( d. 2010 )

* 1924 – Percy Rodriguez, Canadian actor ( d. 2007 )

* 1924 – Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress ( d. 1991 )

* 1924 – Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator ( d. 2001 )

* 1924 – Brett Somers, Canadian actress ( d. 2007 )

* 1924 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer and director ( d. 1996 )

* 2011 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist ( b. 1924 )

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

* 1924 – ( Father ) David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest ( d. 1988 )

* 1924 – Johnny Bower, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1924 – Jean-Paul Cloutier, Canadian politician ( d. 2010 )

* 1924 – Marie-Claire Kirkland, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician

* 1924 – Mimi Parent, Canadian painter ( d. 2005 )

Between 1924 and 1967, 23 chapters of Phrateres were installed in universities across North America, including three other chapters in Canadian universities.

** Pierre-Calixte Neault, Canadian politician ( d. 1924 )

** Edmund Peck, Canadian missionary ( d. 1924 )