List of events
Events from the year 1924 in the United States .
Incumbents
Events
January–March
April–June
April 16 – American media company Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM ) is founded in Los Angeles, California .
May 3 – The Aleph Zadik Aleph , the oldest Jewish youth fraternity, is founded in Omaha, Nebraska .
May 10 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation .
May 21 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks , in a thrill killing . The event will inspire the 1929 play Rope .
May 26 – The Asian Exclusion Act is enacted, banning all Asian immigration to the United States. It was a slap in the face to Japan after their participation as a principal ally in WWI, and is seen as the spark that spurred Japan's alliance with Germany and down the path to World War II .
June 2 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
June 12 – Rondout Heist: Six men of the Egan's Rats gang rob a mail train in Rondout, Illinois ; the robbery is later found to have been an inside job .
June 23 – American airman Russell L. Maughan flies from New York to San Francisco in 21 hours and 48 minutes on a dawn-to-dusk flight in a Curtiss pursuit.
June 24-July 9 – The 1924 Democratic National Convention takes a record 103 ballots, to nominate John Davis for President.
July–September
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January
Earl Scruggs
Max Roach
Dorothy Malone
January 1 – Charlie Munger , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2023 )
January 4
January 5 – Glenn Boyer , American historian and author (d. 2013 )
January 6 – Earl Scruggs , American musician (d. 2012 )
January 7 – Gene L. Coon , American screenwriter and producer (d. 1973 )
January 8 – James Clinkscales Hill , American jurist (d. 2017 )
January 9 – Mary Kaye , American guitarist and singer (d. 2007 )
January 10
January 11
January 12 – Chris Chase (also known as Irene Kane ), American model, film actress, writer and journalist (d. 2013 )
January 14
January 19 – Nicholas Colasanto , American actor and television director (d. 1985 )
January 23 – Frank Lautenberg , American politician (d. 2013 )
January 25
January 26 – Annette Strauss , American philanthropist and politician (d. 1998 )
January 28 – Betty Tucker , American female baseball player (d. 2012 )
January 30
February
Lee Marvin
Gloria Vanderbilt
February 1 – Richard Hooker , American writer and surgeon (d. 1997 )
February 4 – Dorothy Harrell , American female professional baseball player (d. 2011 )
February 7 – Catherine Small Long , American politician (d. 2019 )
February 8 – Joe Black , African-American baseball player (d. 2002 )
February 10 – Randy Van Horne , American singer and musician (d. 2007 )
February 11 – Budge Patty , American tennis player (d. 2021 )
February 14 – Gabe Pressman , American journalist (d. 2017 )
February 15 – Toni Arden , American singer (d. 2012 )
February 16 – Frank Saul , American basketball player (d. 2019 )
February 17 – Margaret Truman , American novelist and only child of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman (d. 2008 )
February 19 – Lee Marvin , American actor (d. 1987 )
February 20
February 21 – William Hathaway , American politician and lawyer (d. 2013 )
February 28
February 29 – Al Rosen , American baseball player (d. 2015 )
March
Deke Slayton
Philip Abbott
Norman Fell
March 1 – Deke Slayton , American astronaut (d. 1993 )
March 3 – Isadore Singer , American mathematician (d. 2021 )
March 4 – Kenneth O'Donnell , American political consultant, aide to U.S. President John F. Kennedy (d. 1977 )
March 6
March 9
March 12 – Helen Parrish , American actress (d. 1959 )
March 17 – Edith Savage-Jennings , African-American civil rights leader (d. 2017 )
March 20 – Philip Abbott , American actor (d. 1998 )
March 22
March 23 – Bette Nesmith Graham , American typist, commercial artist, and inventor (d. 1980 )
March 24
March 25
March 27 – Sarah Vaughan , African-American jazz singer (d. 1990 )
March 28 – Byrd Baylor , American novelist, essayist and author (d. 2021 )
March 29 – Jimmy Work , American singer-songwriter (d. 2018 )
March 31 – Kathleen O'Malley , American actress (d. 2019 )
April
Stanley Donen
April 1 – Brendan Byrne , American politician, statesman, and prosecutor (d. 2018 )
April 2 – Delwin Jones , American politician (d. 2018 )
April 3 – Marlon Brando , American actor (d. 2004 )
April 4
April 6 – Jimmy Roberts , American singer (d. 1999 )
April 8 – Bob Mann , American football player (d. 2006 )
April 9 – Milburn G. Apt , American test pilot (d. 1956 )
April 13
April 14 – Shorty Rogers , American jazz trumpeter (d. 1994 )
April 16
April 18
April 23
April 28 – Emily W. Sunstein , American campaigner, political activist and biographer (d. 2007 )
April 30 – Sheldon Harnick , American lyricist (d. 2023 )
May
Patricia Kennedy Lawford
May 1
May 2 – Ladislava Bakanic , American gymnast (d. 2021 )
May 3 – Isadore Singer , American mathematician (d. 2021 )
May 6 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford , American socialite (d. 2006 )
May 11 – Ninfa Laurenzo , American businessman, founder of Ninfa's (d. 2001 )
May 16 – Frank Mankiewicz , American journalist, presidential campaign press secretary (d. 2014 )
May 18
May 21 – Peggy Cass , American actress and comedian (d. 1999 )
May 24 – Philip Pearlstein , American soldier, painter (d. 2022 )
May 29 – Pepper Paire , American female baseball player (d. 2013 )
May 31 – Patricia Roberts Harris , American administrator (d. 1985 )
June
Dennis Weaver
George H. W. Bush
Chet Atkins
Sidney Lumet
July
Eva Marie Saint
Pat Hingle
Lola Albright
Don Knotts
C. T. Vivian
July 1
July 2 – Charley Winner , American football player
July 4 – Eva Marie Saint , American actress
July 6
July 7 – Sam Cathcart , American football halfback, defensive back (d. 2015 )
July 8 – Charles C. Droz , American politician
July 10 – Gloria Stroock , American actress
July 11
July 12 – Shirley Neil Pettis , American politician (d. 2016 )
July 14
July 15 – Jeremiah Denton , American politician (d. 2014 )
July 16
July 18 – Will D. Campbell , American minister, author and activist (d. 2013)
July 19
July 20 – Lola Albright , American singer, actress (d. 2017 )
July 21 – Don Knotts , American comedic actor (d. 2006 )
July 22 – Margaret Whiting , American singer (d. 2011 )
July 23 – Avern Cohn , American judge (d. 2022 )
July 24 – Paul Meier , American statistician (d. 2011 )
July 25 – Frank Church , American politician (d. 1984 )
July 28
July 29
July 30 – William H. Gass , American novelist (d. 2017 )
August
James Baldwin
Carroll O'Connor
Dinah Washington
August 1
August 2
August 3 – Leon Uris , American writer (d. 2003 )
August 6 – Ella Jenkins , American folk singer of children's music
August 8 – Gene Deitch , American illustrator, animator and film director (d. 2020 )
August 9 – Marta Becket , American dancer (d. 2017 )
August 10 – Martha Hyer , American actress (d. 2014)
August 15 – Phyllis Schlafly , American activist (d. 2016 )
August 16
August 17
August 18 – Frank Logue , 25th mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (d. 2010 )
August 20 – Frank Joseph Guarini , American politician
August 23
August 24 – Louis Teicher , American pianist (Ferrante & Teicher ) (d. 2008 )
August 26 – Barbara Staff , American political activist (d. 2019 )
August 29
August 31
September
Daniel Inouye
Jane Greer
Jerry Coleman
Lauren Bacall
September 1 – Diana Decker , American-English actress and singer (d. 2019 )
September 2 – Sidney Phillips , American physician, WW2 Marine documentary consultant (d. 2015 )
September 3 – Mary Grace Canfield , American actress (d. 2014 )
September 5
September 6
September 7 – Daniel Inouye , American politician (d. 2012 )
September 8 – Wendell H. Ford , American politician (d. 2015 )
September 9
September 11
September 12 – Howard C. Nielson , politician (d. 2021 )
September 13 – Scott Brady , actor (d. 1985 )
September 14 – Jerry Coleman , baseball player, manager, broadcaster, and Marine aviator (d. 2014 )
September 15 – Bobby Short , entertainer (d. 2005 )
September 16 – Lauren Bacall , actress (d. 2014 )
September 20
September 22
September 27
September 28 – Merwin Coad , politician
September 30
October
Jimmy Carter
William Rehnquist
Lee Iacocca
October 1
October 2 – Ruby Stephens , American female baseball player (d. 1996 )
October 3 – Harvey Kurtzman , American editor, cartoonist and creator of Mad (d. 1993 )
October 5 – Bill Dana , American comedian, actor, screenwriter (d. 2017 )
October 7 – Joyce Reynolds , American actress (d. 2019 )
October 9 – Arnie Risen , American basketball player (d. 2012)
October 10
October 11 – Mal Whitfield , American Olympic athlete (d. 2015 )
October 13 – Terry Gibbs , American vibraphone player and bandleader
October 14 – Robert Webber , American actor (d. 1989 )
October 15
October 17 – Fredd Wayne , American actor (d. 2018 )
October 18
October 21 – Joyce Randolph , American actress
October 24 – Earl Palmer , American R&B Drummer (d. 2008 )
October 25
October 27 – Bonnie Lou , American singer (d. 2015 )
November
Geraldine Page
Shirley Chisholm
November 6
November 10 – Russell Johnson , American actor (d. 2014 )
November 11 – Leonard D. Wexler , American judge (d. 2018 )
November 13 – Edward F. Welch, Jr. , American admiral (d. 2008 )
November 16 – Sam Farber , American businessman, co-founder of OXO (d. 2013)
November 19 – J. D. Sumner , American gospel singer (d. 1998 )
November 20 – Mark Miller , American actor (d. 2022 )
November 21 – Joseph Campanella , American actor (d. 2018 )
November 22
November 24
November 25 – Paul Desmond , American jazz alto saxophonist and composer (d. 1977 )
November 26 – Ruth Bradley Holmes , linguist (d. 2021 )
November 28 – Calvin J. Spann , African-American Tuskegee Airman, fighter pilot (d. 2015 )
November 29 – Irv Noren , American baseball and basketball player (d. 2019 )
November 30
December
Alexander Haig
Cicely Tyson
December 2 – Alexander Haig , American politician, U.S. Secretary of State (d. 2010 )
December 4 – John C. Portman Jr. , American architect (d. 2017 )
December 6 – Wally Cox , American television , motion picture actor (d. 1973 )
December 9 – Frank Sturgis , one of the five Watergate burglars whose capture led to the end of the American Presidency of Richard Nixon (d. 1993 )
December 12 – Ed Koch , American politician (d. 2013 )
December 13
December 17 – Margaret Wigiser , American female professional baseball player (d. 2019 )
December 19 – Cicely Tyson , American actress (d. 2021 )
December 23 – Bob Kurland , American basketball player (d. 2013 )
December 25 – Rod Serling , American television screenwriter (The Twilight Zone ) (d. 1975 )
December 26 – Frank Broyles , American college football coach, athletic director (d. 2017 )
December 27
December 31
Deaths
January 4 – John Peters , baseball shortstop (born 1850 )
January 12 – William V. Allen , U.S. Senator from Nebraska from 1893 to 1899. (born 1847 )
January 13 – Albert Abrams , quack doctor (born 1863 )
January 14 – Luther Emmett Holt , pediatrician (born 1855 )
February 1 – Maurice Prendergast , painter (born 1858 )
February 3 – Woodrow Wilson , 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 and historian (born 1856 )
February 8 – Henry B. Quinby , governor of New Hampshire (born 1846 )
February 16
March 9 – Daniel Ridgway Knight , painter (born 1839 )
March 13 – Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin , African American civil rights campaigner and publisher (born 1842 )
April 1 – Frank Capone , gangster, shot by police (born 1895 )
April 7 – Marcus A. Smith , U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1912 to 1921 (born 1851 )
April 17 – Jane Kelley Adams , educator (born 1852 )
April 19 – Paul Boyton , extreme water sports pioneer (born 1848 in Ireland )
April 14 – Louis Sullivan , architect, "father of skyscrapers" (born 1856)
April 18 – Frank Xavier Leyendecker , illustrator (born 1877 )
April 20 – Caroline Ingalls (b. Caroline Lake Quiner), pioneer, mother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (born 1839 )
April 21 – Eleonora Duse , Italian actress (born 1858 in Italy)
April 23 – Bertram Goodhue , neo-gothic architect (born 1869 )
April 24 – G. Stanley Hall , psychologist (born 1844 )
April 27 – Maecenas Eason Benton , U.S. Representative from Missouri (born 1848 )
May 5 – Kate Claxton , stage actress (born 1848 )
May 10 – George Kennan , explorer (born 1845 )
May 11 – Moses Fleetwood Walker , baseball pitcher and Black nationalist (born 1856)
May 13 – Alva Smith , Nebraska politician (born 1850)
May 31 – Charles Stockton , admiral (born 1845)
July 6 – Black Benny (Williams), bass drummer (born. c.1890)
July 14 – Isabella Stewart Gardner , art collector and philanthropist (born 1840 )
July 23 – Frank Frost Abbott , classical scholar (born 1860 )
August 7 – John Edward Bruce ("Bruce Grit"), African American slave and historian (born 1856)
August 25 – Velma Caldwell Melville , editor and writer (born 1858 )
September 1 – Samuel Baldwin Marks Young , general, first Chief of Staff of the United States Army (born 1840)
September 15 – Frank Chance , baseball player (born 1877)
September 17 – John Martin Schaeberle , German-born astronomer (born 1853 in Germany )
September 25 – Lotta Crabtree , stage actress (born 1847 )
October 25 – Laura Jean Libbey , novelist (born 1862 )
October 27 – Percy Haughton , baseball player and coach (born 1876 )
October 29 – Frances Hodgson Burnett , children's novelist (born 1849 in the United Kingdom )
November 3 – Cornelius Cole , U.S. Senator from California from 1867 to 1873 (born 1822 )
November 9 – Henry Cabot Lodge , U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1893 to 1924 (born 1850)
November 10 – Dean O'Banion , gangster, killed (born 1892 )
November 19 – Thomas H. Ince , silent film producer, "father of the Western" (born 1882 )
November 21 – Florence Harding , née Kling, First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923 as wife of Warren G. Harding , 29th president (born 1860)
December 6 – Gene Stratton-Porter , novelist and naturalist (born 1863)
December 13 – Samuel Gompers , labor leader (born 1850)
December 15
December 19 – Stephen Warfield Gambrill , U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (born 1873 )
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