* 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 – 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 )

During the power struggles which followed Lenin's death in 1924, Molotov remained a loyal supporter of Stalin against his various rivals: first Leon Trotsky, later Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev and finally Nikolai Bukharin.

Leon Marcus Uris ( August 3, 1924 – June 21, 2003 ) was an American novelist, known for his historical fiction and the deep research that went into his novels.

One of the most sophisticated critiques of the Formalist project was Leon Trotsky's Literature and Revolution ( 1924 ).

* Animators: all of the directors, plus Raoul Barré ( 1915 ), Johnny B. Gruelle ( 1917 ), Jack King ( 1920 – 1921 ), Isadore Klein ( 1920 – 1921 ), Leon A. Searl ( 1920 – 1921 ), Bert Green ( 1920 – 1921 ), Edward Grinham ( 1920 – 1921 ), Ben Sharpsteen ( 1920 – 1921 ), Will Powers ( 1920 – 1921 ), Walter Lantz ( 1920 – 1921 ), David Hand ( 1925 – 1927 ), Ving Fuller ( 1925 – 26 ), Frank Paiker ( c. 1924 )

He stayed for a year and nine months, observing the power struggles between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin, and he attended the Party Congress of May 1924.

Rakovsky with Leon Trotsky circa 1924

Together, they were allied with Joseph Stalin's faction and helped him purge the Left Opposition-led by Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev, and Grigory Zinoviev-from the party during the struggle that followed Lenin's death in 1924.

* Barney Google and Spark Plug # 2 ( 1924 ) Cupples & Leon Co.

Among these events, ranging from a few positive to news headlines to crimes against humanity, were: the pogroms, the co-opted 1905 Russian Revolution, founding of the Folkspartei, the First World War, the February Revolution followed by the October Bolshevik, the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the Versailles Treaty, the Polish – Soviet War, the Weimar inflation, the U. S. A. Immigration Act of 1924, exile of Leon Trotsky by Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Gulag, the Great Depression, collectivization of the Ukraine, the Nazi regime, the Nuremberg racial laws, Stalin's Great Purge, Kristalnacht, the 1939 White Paper, the Nazi – Soviet Pact, the Second World War, the Soviet-Nazi War, and the Shoah.

He then toured with Violet Vanbrugh as Hugo in The Flame, and appeared at the London Playhouse in May 1924 as Langford in Leon Gordon's White Cargo, in which he played all through 1924-25.

Some of her works include The First Time in History ( preface by Leon Trotsky ) ( 1924 ), and Children of Revolution ( 1925 ).

One of the most sophisticated critiques of the Formalist project was Leon Trotsky's Literature and Revolution ( 1924 ).

Leon Trotsky, who popularized the term “ fellow traveller ” in 1924.

* 1924 – Henry Mancini, American composer ( d. 1994 )

* 1924 – Rudy Pompilli, American musician ( Bill Haley & His Comets ) ( d. 1976 )

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

* 1924 – Fess Parker, American actor ( d. 2010 )

* 1924 – Inez Voyce, American baseball player

* 1924 – Jack Buck, American sportscaster ( d. 2002 )

* 1924 – Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster ( d. 2005 )

* 1924 – Jack Weston, American actor ( d. 1996 )

* 1924 – Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1924 – Peggy Ryan, American actress ( d. 2004 )

* 1924 – Dinah Washington, American singer ( d. 1963 )

* 1924 – Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer ( d. 2004 )

* 1924 – Clarence " Gatemouth " Brown, American blues musician ( d. 2005 )

* 1924 – Henry Hyde, American politician ( d. 2007 )

* 1924 – Shorty Rogers, American jazz musician and arranger ( d. 1994 )

* 1924 – Martha Hyer, American actress

* 1998 – Browning Ross, American runner ( b. 1924 )

* 1924 – Ira Louvin, American singer-songwriter and musician ( The Louvin Brothers ) ( d. 1965 )