* 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 )

In 1924, Fermi spent a semester at the University of Göttingen with Max Born, and then stayed for a few months in Leiden with Paul Ehrenfest.

After Kafka's death in 1924 his friend and literary executor Max Brod edited the text for publication by Verlag Die Schmiede.

At the elections on 4 September 1924, Charles Andre Weiss was again elected Vice-President and Max Huber became the second President of the Court.

* Max Born ( 1924 ), Einstein's Theory of Relativity ( The 1962 Dover edition, page 348 lists a table documenting the observed and calculated values for the precession of the perihelion of Mercury, Venus, and Earth.

Under the influence of this doctrine, and of Phenomenology, the Hungarian-born German sociologist Karl Mannheim ( 1893 – 1947 ) gave impetus to the growth of the sociology of knowledge with his Ideologie und Utopie ( 1929, translated and extended in 1936 as Ideology and Utopia ), although the term had been introduced five years earlier by the co-founder of the movement, the German philosopher, phenomenologist and social theorist Max Scheler ( 1874 – 1928 ), in Versuche zu einer Soziologie des Wissens ( 1924, Attempts at a Sociology of Knowledge ).

* Harry Lehmann ( 1924 – 1998 ) Max Planck Medal award winning physicist

Maxwell Lemuel " Max " Roach ( January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007 ) was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.

In 1924, Gestalt psychologist, Max Wertheimer identified this fact, stating ‘ There are entities where the behavior of the whole cannot be derived from its individual elements nor from the way these elements fit together ; rather the opposite is true: the properties of any of the parts are determined by the intrinsic structural laws of the whole ’ ( Wertheimer 1924, p.

He noted that the airspeed over the wing was dominated by the normal component of the airflow, not the freestream velocity, so by setting the wing at an angle the forward velocity at which the shock waves would form would be higher ( the same had been noted by Max Munk in 1924, although not in the context of high-speed flight ).

* Max Hayward ( 1924 – 1975 ), British lecturer and Russian translator

From 1924 to 1929, Kempff took over the direction of the Stuttgart College of Music as a successor of Max Pauer.

Le Queux was interested in radio communication ; he was a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers and carried out some radio experiments in 1924 in Switzerland with Dr. Petit Pierre and Max Amstutz.

* The Specimen Case ( 1924 ), which includes both a Kai Lung story and Max Carrados story

* Directors: J. R. Bray, Earl Hurd ( 1915 – 1922 ), Max Fleischer ( 1916 – 1921 ), J. D. Leventhal ( 1916 – 1921 ), Vernon " George " Stallings ( 1919 – 1924 ), Jamison " Jam " Handy ( 1919 –), Carl Anderson ( 1914 – 1918 ), L. M.

( In 1924, The Liberator was merged with two other publications to create The Workers Monthly, and Max Eastman's association with the magazine ended.

On 10 April 1924, Balcon married Aileen Freda Leatherman ( 1904 – 1988 ), daughter of Max Jacobs and Beatrice Leatherman, born in Middlesex, but brought up in Johannesburg.

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln (" Max ") Schuster.

* Max Roach ( 1924 – 2007 ), drummer

In 1923, he married an eighteen-year-old Heléne " Jean " Peters, who came from a wealthy family and with whom he had a daughter named Maud Max Linder ( also known as Josette ), born on July 27, 1924.

* Max McNab ( born 1924 ), Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and NHL General Manager

In 1919, he attracted the attention of Max Reinhardt in Berlin who hired him as an actor for his productions until 1924.

* 1924 – 1932: Max Pauer ( 1866 – 1945 )

She was born on April 30, 1924 in New York City to Max Printz and Tillie Leiter.