1924

1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar.

1924 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1924 MCMXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2677
Armenian calendar	1373 ԹՎ ՌՅՀԳ
Assyrian calendar	6674
Bahá'í calendar	80–81
Balinese saka calendar	1845–1846
Bengali calendar	1331
Berber calendar	2874
British Regnal year	14 Geo. 5 – 15 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2468
Burmese calendar	1286
Byzantine calendar	7432–7433
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4620 or 4560     — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4621 or 4561
Coptic calendar	1640–1641
Discordian calendar	3090
Ethiopian calendar	1916–1917
Hebrew calendar	5684–5685
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1980–1981
- Shaka Samvat	1845–1846
- Kali Yuga	5024–5025
Holocene calendar	11924
Igbo calendar	924–925
Iranian calendar	1302–1303
Islamic calendar	1342–1343
Japanese calendar	Taishō 13 (大正１３年)
Javanese calendar	1854–1855
Juche calendar	13
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4257
Minguo calendar	ROC 13 民國13年
Nanakshahi calendar	456
Thai solar calendar	2466–2467
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Water-Boar) 2050 or 1669 or 897     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Rat) 2051 or 1670 or 898

Events

• January 22 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister.
• February 8 – The first execution with gas was in Carson City, Nevada.
• February 14 – IBM founded.
• March 25 – Greece proclaims it is a republic.
• May 4 – The 1924 Summer Olympics begins.
• May 10 – J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI
• December 24 – Albania becomes a republic.

Births

January

Kim Dae-jung

Ron Moody

Max Roach

Eduardo Chillida

Katy Jurado

Rauf Denktaş

Dorothy Malone

Luigi Nono

• January 6 – Kim Dae-jung, 8th President of South Korea (d. 2009)
• January 8 – Ron Moody, British actor (d. 2015)
• January 10 – Max Roach, American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer (d. 2007)
• January 10 – Eduardo Chillida, Spanish Basque sculptor (d. 2002)
• January 14 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
• January 27 – Rauf Denktaş, 1st President of Northern Cyprus (d. 2012)
• January 29 – Dorothy Malone, American actress (d. 2018)
• January 29 - Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
• January 30 – Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)

February

Billy Wright

Lee Marvin

Gloria Vanderbilt

Robert Mugabe

Noboru Takeshita

• February 6 – Billy Wright, English footballer (d. 1994)
• February 19 – Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)
• February 20 – Gloria Vanderbilt, American businesswoman, fashion designer, socialite and writer (d. 2019)
• February 21 – Robert Mugabe, 2nd President of Zimbabwe (d. 2019)
• February 26 – Noboru Takeshita, 74th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000)

March

Lys Assia

Tomiichi Murayama

• March 3 – Lys Assia, Swiss singer (d. 2018)
• March 3 – Tomiichi Murayama, 81st Prime Minister of Japan

April

Marlon Brando

Raymond Barre

Stanley Donen

Kenneth Kaunda

• April 3 – Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
• April 12 – Raymond Barre, former Prime Minister of France (d. 2007)
• April 13 – Stanley Donen, American film director and choreographer (d. 2019)
• April 23 – Rossana Rossanda, Italian journalist and politician (d. 2020)
• April 28 – Kenneth Kaunda, 1st President of Zambia (d. 2021)
• April 29 – Zizi Jeanmaire, French ballet dancer and singer (d. 2020)

May

Dawda Jawara

Charles Aznavour

• May 1 – Terry Southern, American writer (d. 1995)
• May 16 – Dawda Jawara, 1st President of the Gambia (d. 2019)
• May 22 – Charles Aznavour, French singer, actor and composer (d. 2018)

June

Torsten Wiesel

George H. W. Bush

Ezer Weizman

Chet Atkins

Sidney Lumet

• June 3 – Torsten Wiesel, Swedish neuroscientist
• June 12 – George H. W. Bush, American politician, forty-first President of the United States (d. 2018)
• June 15 – Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (d. 2005)
• June 20 – Audie Murphy, American soldier, actor, songwriter (d. 1971)
• June 20 – Chet Atkins, American guitarist and record producer (d. 2001)
• June 24 –Thelma Rogers, English actress (d. 2000)
• June 25 – Sidney Lumet, American director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2011)

July

S. R. Nathan

Eva Marie Saint

Lola Albright

• July 3 – S. R. Nathan, 6th President of Singapore (d. 2016)
• July 4 – Eva Marie Saint, American actress
• July 19 – Pat Hingle, American actor (d. 2009)
• July 20 – Lola Albright, American actress and singer (d. 2017)
• July 21 - Don Knotts, American actor and stand-up comedian (d. 2006)

August

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

Georges Charpak

James Baldwin

Ahmadou Ahidjo

• August 1 – Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, King of Saudi Arabia (d. 2015)
• August 1 – Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born French physicist (d. 2010)
• August 2 – James Baldwin, American writer (d. 1987)
• August 2 – Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)
• August 8 – Gene Deitch, American illustrator, animator and film director (d. 2020)
• August 13 – Yuri Orlov, Soviet physicist (d. 2020)
• August 24 – Ahmadou Ahidjo, 1st President of Cameroon (d. 1989)

September

Daniel arap Moi

Lauren Bacall

Marcello Mastroianni

Truman Capote

• September 2 – Daniel arap Moi, 2nd President of Kenya (d. 2020)
• September 9 – Jane Greer, American film and television actress (d. 2001)
• September 16 – Lauren Bacall, American actress (d. 2014)
• September 28 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
• September 30 – Truman Capote, American writer (d. 1984)

October

Jimmy Carter

• October 1 – Jimmy Carter, American politician, thirty-ninth President of the United States (d. 2024)
• October 19 – Lubomír Štrougal, Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia

November

Süleyman Demirel

Benoît Mandelbrot

Shirley Chisholm

• November 1 – Süleyman Demirel, 9th President of Turkey (d. 2015)
• November 20 – Benoit Mandelbrot, French-American mathematician (d. 2010)
• November 30 – Shirley Chisholm, American politician (d. 2005)

December

Alexander Haig

Mário Soares

Cicely Tyson

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

• December 2 – Alexander Haig, 59th United States Secretary of State (d. 2010)
• December 7 – Mário Soares, 17th President of Portugal (d. 2017)
• December 10 – Michael Manley, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997)
• December 13 – Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Prime Minister of Nepal (d. 2011)
• December 19 – Cicely Tyson, American actress (d. 2021)
• December 25
  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 10th Prime Minister of India (d. 2018)
  • Moktar Ould Daddah, 1st President of Mauritania (d. 2003)
  • Rod Serling, American television scriptwriter (d. 1975)

Deaths

• January 21 – Vladimir Lenin, first communist leader of the USSR
• February 3 – Woodrow Wilson, 67, twenty-eighth President of the United States, stroke (b. 1856)
• April 21 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress
• June 3 – Franz Kafka, writer
• June 10 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian politician
• 3 August – Joseph Conrad, novelist
• November 29 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian grand opera composer

Nobel Prize

• Physics – Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
• Medicine – Willem Einthoven, (Dutch) invented the ECK
• Literature – Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, polish writer

Hit songs

• "Alabamy Bound" w. B. G. De Sylva & Bud Green m. Ray Henderson
• "All Alone" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Amapola" w. Joseph M. Lacalle (Sp) Albert Gamse (Eng) m. Joseph M. Lacalle
• "At The End of The Road" w. Ballard MacDonald m. James F. Hanley
• "Bagdad" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
• "Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now" Ager, Yellen
• "Big Boy" m. Milton Ager
• "The Blues Have Got Me" Silver, Turk
• "California, Here I Come" w.m. Al Jolson, Buddy de Sylva and Joseph Meyer
• "Call Of The South" Berlin
• "Charley, My Boy" w.m. Gus Kahn & Ted Fio Rito
• "Copenhagen" w. Walter Melrose m. Charlie Davis
• "Cover Me Up With The Sunshine Of Virginia" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. George W. Meyer
• "Deep In My Heart, Dear" w. Dorothy Donnelly m. Sigmund Romberg
• "Does The Spearmint Lose Its Flavour On The Bedpost Over Night" w. Billy Rose & Marty Bloom m. Ernest Breuer
• "Doo Wacka Doo" w. Clarence Gaskill & Will Donaldson m. George Horther
• "Doodle Doo Doo" w.m. Art Kassel & Mel Stitzel
• "Drinking Song (Drink! Drink! Drink!)" w. Dorothy Donnelly m. Sigmund Romberg
• "The End Of The Road" w.m. Harry Lauder & William Dillon
• "Everybody Loves My Baby" w.m. Jack Palmer & Spencer Williams
• "Fascinating Rhythm" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
• "Follow The Swallow" w. Billy Rose & Mort Dixon m. Ray Henderson
• "Golden Days" w. Dorothy Donnelly m. Sigmund Romberg
• "The Half Of It Dearie Blues" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
• "Hard Hearted Hannah (The Vamp Of Savannah)" w.m. Milton Ager, Charles Bates, Bob Bigelow & Jack Yellen
• "He's The Hottest Man In Town" Owen Murphy, Jay Gorney
• "Honest And Truly" w. Leo Wood m. Fred Rose
• "How Come You Do Me Like You Do?" w.m. Gene Austin & Roy Bergere
• "I Want To Be Happy" w. Irving Caesar m. Vincent Youmans
• "I Wonder What's Become Of Sally" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
• "I'll See You In My Dreams" w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones
• "I'm A Little Blackbird Looking For A Bluebird" w. Grant Clarke & Roy Turk m. George W. Meyers & Arthur Johnson
• "I'm Coming At Your Call" w. Dorothy Donnelly m. Sigmund Romberg
• "In Shadowland" w. Sam W. Lewis & Joe Young m. Ruth Brooks & Fred E. Ahlert
• "Indian Love Call" (first published as "The Call") w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Rudolf Friml
• "It Had To Be You" w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones
• "Jealous" w. Tommy Malie & Dick Finch m. Jack Little
• "Jimtown Blues" w.m. Fred Rose
• "June Brought The Roses" w. Ralph Stanley m. John Openshaw
• "June Night" w. Cliff Friend m. Abel Baer
• "Just We Two" w. Dorothy Donnelly m. Sigmund Romberg
• "Keep Smiling At Trouble" w. Al Jolson & B. G. De Sylva m. Lewis E. Gensler
• "Lazy" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Let Me Linger Longer In Your Arms" w. Cliff Friend m. Abel Baer
• "Little Jazz Bird" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
• "Mama's Gone, Goodbye" w.m. A. J. Piron & Peter Bocage
• "The Man I Love" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
• "Mandalay" w.m. Earl Burtnett, Abe Lyman & Gus Arnheim
• "Mandy Make Up Your Mind" w. Grant Clarke & Roy Turk m. George W. Meyer
• "Memory Lane" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Larry Spier & Con Conrad
• "The Mounties" w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Rudolf Friml
• "My Best Girl" w.m. Walter Donaldson
• "My Dream Girl, I Loved You Long Ago" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Victor Herbert
• "My Time Is Your Time" w. Eric Little m. Leo Dance
• "A New Kind Of Man With A New Kind Of Love For Me" w.m. Sidney Clare & Flatow
• "Nobody's Sweetheart Now" w.m. Elmer Schoebel, Ernie Erdman, Gus Kahn & Billy Meyers
• "O, Katharina" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Richard Fall
• "Oh Lady Be Good" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
• "Oh! Mabel" Gus Kahn, Ted Fio Rito
• "Oh! Miss Hannah" w. Thekla Hollingsworth m. Jessie L. Deppen
• "The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else" w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones
• "Parisian Pierrot" w.m. Noël Coward
• "Prince Of Wails" m. Elmer Schoebel
• "The Prisoner's Song" w.m. Guy Massey
• "Red Hot Mama" w.m. Gilbert Wells, Bud Cooper & Fred Rose
• "Rhapsody In Blue" m. George Gershwin
• "Riverboat Shuffle" m. Hoagy Carmichael & Irving Mills
• "Rose Marie" w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Rudolf Friml
• "See See Rider" w.m. Ma Rainey
• "Serenade from The Student Prince In Heidelberg" w. Dorothy Donnelly m. Sigmund Romberg
• "Shanghai Shuffle" w.m. Larry Conley & Gene Rodemich
• "Shine" w. Cecil Mack & Lew Brown m. Ford T. Dabney
• "So Am I" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
• "Somebody Loves Me" w. Ballard MacDonald & B. G. De Sylva m. George Gershwin
• "South" m. Bennie Moten & Thamon Hayes
• "Spain" w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones
• "Stack O'Lee Blues" w.m. by Ray Lopez & Lew Colwell
• "Sweet Little You" w.m. Irving Bibo
• "Tea For Two" w. Irving Caesar m. Vincent Youmans
• "Tell Her In The Springtime" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "There's Life In The Old Girl Yet" w.m. Noël Coward
• "Totem Tom-Tom" w. Oscar Hammerstein II & Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
• "Two Little Babes In The Wood" w.m. Cole Porter
• "Wait'll You See My Gal" Sullivan, Wilber
• "What'll I Do?" w.m. Irving Berlin