* 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 – 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 )

In 1924, he moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he became a full-fledged star with such high-profile films as His Hour directed by King Vidor and written by Elinor Glyn ; He Who Gets Slapped ( both 1924 ), co-starring Lon Chaney, Sr. and Norma Shearer, and directed by Victor Sjöström ; and The Merry Widow ( 1925 ) directed by Erich von Stroheim and co-starring Mae Murray.

Ella Mae Morse ( September 12, 1924 – October 16, 1999 ), was an American popular singer.

Will Rogers emceed the opening of the theater in 1924, which then ran plays starring luminaries such as Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, and Mae West until its closure in 1967.

* Ella Mae Morse ( 1924 – 1999 ), American popular singer from the 1940s

By 1924, Stan Laurel had forsaken the stage for full-time film work, and was still involved with actress Mae Dahlberg.

* 1924 – Sam Jones, American jazz bassist and cellist ( d. 1981 )

Jones soon obtained from Freud rights to the English translation of his work and in 1924 the first two volumes of Freud's Collected Papers appeared in translations edited by Jones and supervised by Joan Riviere his former analysand and, at one stage, ardent suitor.

For example, in December 1924, actor Paul Robeson, then appearing in a revival of Eugene O ' Neill's The Emperor Jones, performed a scene from the play over New York's WGBS to critical acclaim.

Jones spent much of the years 1924 to 1927 living with the Gills and assorted hangers-on in a rambling former monastery just outside Capel-y-ffin.

On September 1, 1875, Bonaparte married the former Ellen Channing Day ( 1852 – 1924 ), daughter of attorney Thomas Mills Day and Anna Jones Dunn.

In 1924 he moved to Capel-y-ffin in Wales, where he set up a new workshop, to be followed by Jones and other disciples.

* Dub Jones ( American football ) ( born 1924 ), American professional football player

Dinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones ( August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963 ), was an American Pianist, Blues, R & B, Gospel, Pop and Jazz singer.

H. L. Jones ( 1924 ), at LacusCurtius

By 1924, Jones was in court again, this time facing charges of libel, slander and sedition.

The Jane Gifford was gifted to the Waiuku Historical Society by Captain Bert Subritzky and his wife Moana in 1985, where it was re-masted and re-rigged to its original splendor, while the Owhiti, which had starred in the 1983 movie Savage Islands ( starring Tommy Lee Jones and amongst others Kiwi icon and singer Prince Tui Teka as King Ponapa ), was sold to Captain Dave Skyme in the late 1980s and fully restored to its 1924 sea worthiness.

In 2005, " California, Here I Come ", recorded by Al Jolson With The Isham Jones Orchestra on Brunswick in 1924, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

In 2007, " It Had To Be You ", recorded by Isham Jones and His Orchestra on Brunswick in 1924, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

* Jack Jones ( Australian rules footballer ) ( born 1924 ), Australian rules footballer for Essendon

* Jack Jones ( journalist ) ( 1924 – 2011 ), American journalist

In 1924, Jones was also elected special chancellor in the Pulaski County Chancery Court.

Gus Kahn's most famous songs include: " My Buddy " ( 1922 ) with music by Walter Donaldson, " It Had To Be You " ( 1924 ) with music by Isham Jones, " Side by Side " ( 1927 ) with music by Harry M. Woods, and " Makin ' Whoopee!

Jones had previously won three U. S. Opens ( 1923, 1926, 1929 ) and four U. S. Amateurs ( 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928 ).

* Arkansas Tom Jones — captured September 1, 1893, in Ingalls, Oklahoma Territory ; pardoned in 1910 ; killed August 16, 1924, in Joplin, Missouri, by Joplin police detectives.

Jones was married in 1924 to the former Mary Rice Malone, whom he met in 1919 while a freshman at Georgia Tech.

The phrase was coined by Oliver Gingold of Dow Jones sometime in 1923 or 1924.

* Cover Jones, M. ( 1924 ).

* Sam Jones ( musician ) ( 1924 – 1981 ), American bassist, cellist, and composer