Born in 1924

What things cost in 1924

1924 figures are annual averages of the published monthly (or quarterly) values. “Today’s dollars” uses the Consumer Price Index for September 2026; “latest” is the most recent published price. Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, via FRED. Average retail prices are only published from 1976 on; 1924 has the CPI alone.

Who was in charge in 1924

United States

Calvin Coolidge (President)

United Kingdom

George V (King); Stanley Baldwin, then Ramsay MacDonald (Prime minister)

Soviet Union

Joseph Stalin (General Secretary); Mikhail Kalinin (Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets); Vladimir Lenin, then Alexei Rykov (Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars)

Republic of China (1916–1949)

Cao Kun (President)

French Third Republic

Alexandre Millerand, then Gaston Doumergue (President); Frédéric François-Marsal (Acting President); Raymond Poincaré, then Frédéric François-Marsal, then Édouard Herriot (President of the Council of ministers)

Weimar Republic of Germany

Friedrich Ebert (President); Wilhelm Marx (Chancellor)

Empire of Japan

Taishō (Emperor); Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, then Kiyoura Keigo, then Katō Takaaki (Prime minister)

From Wikipedia’s List of state leaders in the 20th century (1901–1950) (revision 1377869146), each name checked against Wikidata. Every country in 1924 →

Famous people born in 1924

• October 1 – Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 2024) source
• January 1 – Charlie Munger, businessman and philanthropist (died 2023) source
• February 8 – Joe Black, African-American baseball player (died 2002) source
• February 21 – Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (died 2019) source
• August 2 – James Baldwin, African-American author, novelist, playwright and activist (died 1987) source
• December 25 – Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 10th Prime Minister of India (died 2018) source
• January 3 – André Franquin, Belgian comics artist (died 1997) source
• December 29 – Dub Jones, American football player (died 2024) source
• January 6 – Earl Scruggs, American musician (died 2012) source
• March 9 – Hanna Mina, Syrian writer (died 2018) source
• November 22 – Geraldine Page, American actress (died 1987) source
• 22 November – Donald Gullick, rugby player (died 2000) source
• June 3 – Karunanidhi, Indian politician, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, referred to as Kalaignar (died 2018) source
• 3 June - M. Karunanidhi, former chief minister of Tamil Nadu, poet, orator (died 7 August 2018 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India). source
• November 29 – Irv Noren, American baseball and basketball player (died 2019) source

What happened in 1924

• January 20–30 – Kuomintang in China holds its first National Congress, initiating a policy of alliance with the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party. source
• February 7 – Former president and rebel leader Adolfo de la Huerta escapes by boat to Mérida, Yucatán, after federal troops recapture Veracruz. source
• 14 January – Arne Garborg, writer (born 1851) source
• February 5 – GMT: A radio time signal is broadcast for the first time, from the Royal Greenwich Observatory. source
• 30 March - Commencement of Vaikom Satyagraha (the first ever struggle against apartheid in the World) designed by T K Madhavan and Sree Narayana Guru in Kerala, South India. source
• January - Bombay textile mill strike by communists began. source
• January 25 – The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics, open in Chamonix, in the French Alps. source
• February 14 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), based in the U.S. state of New York, is renamed International Business Machines (IBM). source