Vladimir Lenin, leader of both the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic | RSFSR and the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1924, was one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century.

Alfred Marshall ( 26 July 1842 – 13 July 1924 ) was one of the most influential economists of his time.

Louis Henry Sullivan ( September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924 ) was an American architect, and has been called the " father of skyscrapers " and " father of modernism " He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School.

Numerous efforts to form coordinating bodies failed, and the most influential treatise came much later, in Systematic Theology ( 1947 ) by Lewis S. Chafer, who founded the Dallas Theological Seminary in 1924.

André Franquin ( 3 January 1924 – 5 January 1997 ) was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best known comic strip creations are Gaston and Marsupilami, created while he worked on the Spirou et Fantasio comic strip from 1947 to 1969, during a period seen by many as the series ' golden age.

The German Social Democrats held office for much of the 1920s, the British Labour Party formed its first government in 1924, and the French Socialists were also influential.

Francis James Child's ( 1825 – 96 ) eight volume collection The English and Scottish Popular Ballads ( 1882 – 92 ) became the most influential in defining the repertoire of subsequent performers and Cecil Sharp ( 1859 – 1924 ), founder of the English Folk Dance Society, was probably the most important figure in understanding of the nature of folk song.

His book L ' analysis situs et la géométrie algébrique from 1924, though opaque foundationally given the current technical state of homology theory, was in the long term very influential ( one could say that it was one of the sources for the eventual proof of the Weil conjectures, through SGA7 ).

In 1924, Obregón's hand-picked successor, Plutarco Elías Calles, was elected as president, and although Obregón ostensibly retired to Sonora, he remained influential under Calles.

" In mid-1924 Murry orchestrated the reception of Billy Budd, Foretopman first in London, in the influential Times Literary Supplement, in an essay called " Herman Melville's Silence " ( July 10, 1924 ), then in a reprinting of the essay, slightly expanded, in the New York Times Book Review ( August 10, 1924 ).

Gershwin would later receive formal training and lessons from influential figures like Henry Cowell, Wallingford Riegger and Arnold Schoenberg in advanced composition, harmony and orchestration ; however, in 1924 he had had no such training.

In February 1924, Castiglioni partnered with Fritz Mannheimer, and later other influential bankers to speculate on the devaluation of the French franc.

Charles Kirk Clarke ( 1857 – 20 January 1924 ) was a psychiatrist who was influential in Canadian politics.

John Christian Lodge ( August 12, 1862 – February 6, 1950 ) was an influential politician from Detroit, Michigan, serving as mayor from 1922 to 1923, in 1924, and from 1927 to 1929, and spending over 30 years on the Detroit City Council.

In 1924, he took a job with the U. S. Postal Service ; and in 1926, he joined the sports staff at the St. Louis Times newspaper, where he covered the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team while developing many influential acquaintances ( including Babe Ruth, Al Capone, and others ).

Warren Harding ( June 18, 1924 – February 27, 2002 ) was one of the most accomplished and influential American rock climbers of the 1950s to 1970s.

In the year 1924 and 1927, with the help of some influential men, the Spaniards were able to get the signatures of the land owners of San Rafael and San Ildefonso to an agreement purporting to show their willingness to donate their lands to the Hospital of San Juan de Dios.

Richard Henry Pratt ( 1840 in Rushford, New York – April 23, 1924 in San Francisco, California ) is best known as the founder and longtime superintendent of the influential Carlisle Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

General Akhtar Abdur Rahman Khan ( Urdu: اختر عبد الرحمن ; b. 11 June 1924 – 17 August 1988 ), was an influential statesman and a four-star rank general officer who tenured as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from 1987 – 1988 and as Director-General Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) from 1979-1987.

Michael or Michel Riffaterre ( 20 November 1924, Bourganeuf, Creuse – 27 May 2006, New York ) was an influential French literary critic and theorist.

* 1924: The League of Nations recommends that member states implement Esperanto as an auxiliary language.

Radbruch was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ), and held a seat in the Reichstag from 1920 to 1924.

Goebbels came into contact with the National Socialist German Worker's Party ( NSDAP ) or Nazi Party in 1923 during the French occupation of the Ruhr and became a member in 1924.

His enthusiastic support for the nationalist party earned him the suspicion of some of the communists ; he was even elected an alternate member of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, and in February 1924 put forward four resolutions that argued that power in the party was too centralized among a few cadres in Canton, and that power should instead he decentralized to urban and rural bureaus.

Isaac Foot was an active member of the Liberal Party and was Liberal Member of Parliament for Bodmin in Cornwall 1922 – 1924 and 1929 – 1935 and a Lord Mayor of Plymouth.

He was a member of the Politburo ( 1924 – 1929 ) and Central Committee ( 1917 – 1937 ), chairman of the Communist International ( Comintern, 1926 – 1929 ), and the editor in chief of Pravda ( 1918 – 1929 ), the journal Bolshevik ( 1924 – 1929 ), Izvestia ( 1934 – 1936 ), and the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.

After Lenin's death in 1924, Bukharin became a full member of the Politburo.

* 1924 – Alphons Egli, member of the Swiss Federal Council

In 1924 he was also accepted as a member of the Polish Academy of Learning.

** Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan politician, member of the Christian-Democrat party ( disappeared ) ( b. 1924 )

He was elected the fifteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie Française in 1924.

In 1924 was appointed as the member of the Military Court Collegiate of the Moscow Military District.

* Florence R. Sabin was the first lifetime woman member to be elected ( 1924 ).

In 1924, he was appointed a member of the newly created Royal Fine Art Commission, a position he held until his death.

* William Robert Smith ( 1863 – 1924 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Texas ( 1903 – 1916 )

He was a member of the Solvay Congress of 1922, 1924, 1927, 1930 and 1933.

Bryan A. Poston ( 1924 – 2009 ), a Hornbeck businessman, was a member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1964-1992.

* Robert A. Roe ( born 1924 ), former member of the United States House of Representatives who served as mayor of Wayne from 1956 to 1961.

Taylor himself was recruited into the Communist Party of Great Britain by a friend of the family, military historian Tom Wintringham, while at Oriel ; a member from 1924 to 1926, he broke with the Party over what he considered to be its ineffective stand during the 1926 General Strike.

* William Williams ( Tasmanian politician ) ( 1851 – 1924 ), member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council

* John Barry ( equestrian ) ( 1880 – 1937 ), member of the U. S. equestrian team at the 1924 Summer Olympics

In 1924, he graduated cum laude from Harvard University, where he was a member of Hasty Pudding and Fox.

In 1924, he was elected as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity, by the Fraternity's Alpha Chapter at the New England Conservatory in Boston.

Alphons Egli ( born 8 October 1924 ) is a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council ( 1983-1986 ).