1924

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

## 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.

### 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, 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

- 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

- 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, thirty-ninth President of the United States (d. 2024)
- 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)
    - 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