* 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 Trevelyan traveled to the United States, where he delivered the Lowell lectures at Harvard University.

* 1860 – Florence Harding, American publisher, 31st First Lady of the United States ( d. 1924 )

1924 — The All Blacks Invincibles stop in Rarotonga on their way to the United Kingdom and play a friendly match against a scratch Rarotongan team.

* 1924 – Alexander Haig, American Soldier & Civil servant, 7th Supreme Allied Commander Europe, 5th White House Chief of Staff and 59th United States Secretary of State ( d. 2010 )

* 1924 – Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.

George Herbert Walker Bush ( born June 12, 1924 ) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States ( 1989 – 93 ).

He visited the United States in 1924, and gave a series of illustrated lectures in New York City and other cities in the United States that were attended by very large and enthusiastic audiences, sparking Egyptomania in America.

Between 1924 and 1929, 82, 000 more Jews arrived ( 4th Aliyah ), fleeing antisemitism in Poland and Hungary and because the United States Immigration Act of 1924 now kept Jews out.

After re-organizing as the National Hockey League ( NHL ) in 1917, the league expanded into the United States in 1924.

* 1924 – George H. W. Bush, American politician, 41st President of the United States

* 1924 – U. S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.

* 1924 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

* 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the United States ' Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972.

* 1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States.

* 1864 – T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey ( d. 1924 )

To raise additional funds, Amundsen travelled around the United States in 1924 on a lecture tour.

The United Kingdom and Belgium signed an agreement regarding the border between Tanganyika and Ruanda-Urundi in 1924.

Senator Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin created the National Progressive Republican League ( precursor to the Progressive Party ( United States, 1924 )) to defeat the power of political bossism at the state level and to replace Taft at the national level.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson ( December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924 ) was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921.

Kandinsky was one of Die Blaue Vier ( Blue Four ), formed in 1923 with Klee, Feininger and von Jawlensky, which lectured and exhibited in the United States in 1924.

* October 2 – President of the United States Woodrow Wilson suffers a serious stroke, rendering him an invalid through the end of his life ( to 1924 ).

* May 24 – The Immigration Act of 1924 was signed into law in the United States, including the Asian Exclusion Act.