1924: The Year in People

The Greatest Generation · Year of the Rat 🐀 · Born in 1924 turn 102 in 2026

The year in numbers

US population

1.96B

US president

Calvin Coolidge

Top song

"It Had to Be You" — Isham Jones

Top film

The Sea Hawk

In the news: First Winter Olympics held in Chamonix, France

What happened in 1924

1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1924th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 924th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1920s decade.

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Born in 1924

128 people in our data · most viewed first

George H. W. Bush

1924–2018 · June 12

President of the United States from 1989 to 1993

Marlon Brando

1924–2004 · April 3

American actor

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

1924–2018 · December 25

Prime Minister of India (1996; 1998–99, 1999–2004)

M. Karunanidhi

1924–2018 · June 3

Indian writer and politician

Carroll O'Connor

1924–2001 · August 2

American actor

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

1924–2015 · August 1

King of Saudi Arabia from 2005 to 2015

Benny Hill

1924–1992 · January 21

English comedy actor

Eva Marie Saint

b. 1924 · July 4

American actress

Deke Slayton

1924–1993 · March 1

American astronaut

Dennis Weaver

1924–2006 · June 4

American actor

Buddy Hackett

1924–2003 · August 31

American actor

Charles Aznavour

1924–2018 · May 22

French singer and songwriter

Christopher Tolkien

1924–2020 · November 21

British book editor

Alexander Haig

1924–2010 · December 2

American politician

Colleen Dewhurst

1924–1991 · June 3

Canadian-American actress

Clement Freud

1924–2009 · April 24

English broadcaster, writer, politician, chef and alleged sex offender

Francisco Macías Nguema

1924–1979 · January 1

President of Equatorial Guinea from 1968 to 1979

Brett Somers

1924–2007 · July 11

Canadian-American actress and game-show personality

Connie Converse

b. 1924 · August 3

American musician

Dinah Washington

1924–1963 · August 29

American singer, songwriter, pianist

Gil Hodges

1924–1972 · April 4

American baseball player and manager

Earl Scruggs

1924–2012 · January 6

American musician

Theodore Bikel

1924–2015 · May 2

Austrian-American actor and folk musician

Bette Nesmith Graham

1924–1980 · March 23

American typist and inventor of Liquid Paper

Died in 1924

Franz Kafka1883–1924 · Austrian and Czech writer
Andrew Irvine (mountaineer)1902–1924 · British mountaineer
Alluri Sitarama Raju1897–1924 · Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary
Anatole France1844–1924 · French author and journalist
Ferruccio Busoni1866–1924 · Italian composer, pianist, and conductor
Alfred Marshall1842–1924 · British economist
Damdin Sükhbaatar1893–1924 · Mongolian revolutionary
Alexander Parvus1867–1924 · Russian-German Marxist theorist and revolutionary
Charles Villiers Stanford1852–1924 · Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor
Gene Stratton-Porter1863–1924 · American writer and naturalist
Cecil Sharp1859–1924 · English folklorist and song collector
George Shiras Jr.1832–1924 · US Supreme Court justice from 1892 to 1903