Title: 1924 Content: 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday. == 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 === * 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 === * 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 === * March 3 – Lys Assia, Swiss singer (d. 2018) * March 3 – Tomiichi Murayama, 81st Prime Minister of Japan === April === * 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 === * 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 === * June 3 – Torsten Wiesel, Swedish neuroscientist * June 12 – George H. W. Bush, American politician, 41st 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 25 – Sidney Lumet, American director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2011) === July === * 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) === August === * 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 === * 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 === * October 1 – Jimmy Carter, American politician, 39th President of the United States * October 19 – Lubomír Štrougal, Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia === November === * 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 === * 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) == Deaths == * January 21 – Vladimir Lenin, first communist leader of the USSR * February 3 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States (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