1924
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 Denktas, 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 - Lubomir Strougal, Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
November
November 1 - Suleyman 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 - Mario 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, 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. Noel 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. Noel 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