Famous Deaths for Year 1924

Months in Year 1924: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 105 of 105

Jan 2nd - Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (b. 1834)
Jan 4th - Alfred Grünfeld, Austrian pianist, composer (b. 1852)
Jan 13th - Georg H Quincke, German physicist (Test of Quincke), dies at 89
Jan 14th - Arne Garborg, Norwegian playwright (Mannfolk), dies at 72
Jan 15th - Geza Zichy, composer, dies at 74
Jan 16th - Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, philanthropist (b. 1859)
Jan 21st - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, Russian leader, dies of a stroke at 53
Jan 24th - Thephilo Braga, Portuguese poet/politician, dies at 80
Jan 24th - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894)
Jan 28th - Simon Abramsz, Dutch writer (Artist book), dies at 56
Jan 29th - Joseph Ludwig, composer, dies at 79
Feb 3rd - Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president (1913-21), dies at his home in Washington at 67
Feb 5th - Alexis Hollander, composer, dies at 83
Feb 8th - Gee John, US mobster (1st executed in gas chamber-Nevada), dies
Feb 9th - Nils Kj'r, Norwegian playwright (Det Lykkelige Valg), dies at 53
Feb 15th - Lionel Monckton, English composer (Country Girl), dies at 62
Feb 17th - Oskar Merikanto, composer, dies at 55
Feb 21st - Salvatore Auteri Manzocchi, composer, dies at 78
Feb 24th - Edmond Picard, Fren/Belgium writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87
US President Woodrow Wilson (Feb 3rd) Mar 1st - Louise MA, princess of Belgium, dies at 66
Mar 6th - Meyer E van Beem, actor (Moittige Janus), dies at 85
Mar 7th - Pat Moran, manager (Cin Reds), dies of Bright's Disease
Mar 12th - Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon), dies
Mar 18th - John Frederick Bridge, composer, dies at 79
Mar 19th - Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/author, dies at 71
Mar 22nd - R G Nivelle, French general (Verdun), dies at 67
Mar 25th - John Reedman, cricketer (Test for Aust 1894, 17 & 4, 1 for 24), dies
Mar 26th - Augusto de Oliviera Machado, composer, dies at 78
Mar 27th - Walter Parratt, composer, dies at 83
Mar 29th - Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/writer, dies at 71
Apr 14th - Louis H Sullivan, architect (Wainwright building St Louis), dies at 67
Apr 14th - Roland Napoleon Bonaparte, Fr officer/explorer (Surinam), dies at 65
Apr 15th - Eduardo Caudella, composer, dies at 82
Apr 16th - Jack Board, cricket wicket-keeper (Eng in 6 Tests 1898-1906), dies
Apr 21st - Eleanora Duse, Ital actress (La Gioconda, La Locandiera), dies at 64
Apr 24th - George Street, English cricket wicket keeper (1 Test 1923), dies
Apr 24th - G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (b. 1844)
Apr 26th - Josef Labor, composer, dies at 82
May 1st - August Cuppens, Flemish author (Limburgs Driemanschap), dies at 62
May 6th - Carel S Adama van Scheltema, poet/writer (socialism), dies at 47
May 8th - Lev N Lunts, Russian writer (Outside the Law), dies at 23
May 10th - Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (L'ave), dies at 58
May 12th - Charles Henri Marechal, composer, dies at 82
May 15th - Paul d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist, dies at 71
May 19th - Billy Zulch, cricketer (S Afr batsman scored 2 Test centuries), dies
May 21st - Bobby Franks, killed by Leopold & Loeb, at 14
May 25th - Theodore Morse, composer, dies at 51
May 25th - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (b. 1889)
May 26th - Johann Heinrich Beck, composer, dies at 67
May 26th - Victor Herbert, Irish/US cellist/composer/conductor, dies at 65
May 29th - Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid/London), dies
Jun 3rd - Franz Kafka, Czech writer (Trial, Amerika, Metamorphosis), dies at 40
Jun 8th - Andrew Irvine, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1902)
Mountain Climber George Mallory (Jun 8th) Jun 8th - George Leigh Mallory, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1886)
Jun 10th - Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists
Jun 11th - Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann Jr, Dutch minister (CHU), dies at 87
Jun 11th - Theodore Dubois, composer, dies at 86
Jun 23rd - Cecil [James] Sharp, English folk musician, dies at 64
Jun 30th - Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet/writer (Pypelyntjes), dies at 42
Jul 10th - Johannes B van Heutsz, gov-gen of Dutch Indies (1904-09), dies at 73
Jul 23rd - Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (b. 1850)
Jul 27th - Ferruccio Benvenuto busoni, pianist/composer, dies
Jul 27th - Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni, composer, dies at 58
Aug 3rd - Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), dies at 66
Aug 6th - John Henry Roberts, composer, dies at 76
Aug 7th - Camille Zeckwer, composer, dies at 49
Aug 9th - Jacob P Vis, Dutch founder (NV Royal Salt Industries), dies at 66
Aug 13th - Julian Aguirre, composer, dies at 56
Novelist Joseph Conrad (Aug 3rd) Aug 17th - Pavel S "Paul" Urysohn, Russian mathematician, drowns at 26
Aug 17th - Tom Kendall, cricketer (14 wickets in Australia's 1st two Tests), dies
Aug 25th - Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (b. 1818)
Sep 10th - Walter Lees, cricketer (26 wkts on 5 Tests Eng v SA 1905-06), dies
Sep 11th - Mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer, dies at 57
Sep 13th - Pekka Hannikainen, composer, dies at 69
Sep 15th - Anthony Johnson Showalter, composer, dies at 66
Sep 18th - Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism), dies
Sep 19th - Alick Bannerman, cricketer (28 Tests for Australia, 1108 runs), dies
Oct 5th - Joseph Vezina, composer, dies at 75
Oct 5th - Tom Campbell, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa, ct 7 stp 1), dies
Oct 6th - Jacques Oppenheim, lawyer, dies at 75
Oct 7th - Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Christian Philosophy), dies at 71
Oct 9th - Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
Oct 12th - Anatole France, writer, dies at 80
Oct 12th - Monroe A Althouse, composer, dies at 71
Oct 13th - Anatole France, [Jacques Thibault], writer (Ecrivain Francais), dies
Oct 21st - Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 76
Nov 4th - Gabriel Urbain Faure, French composer (Requiem), dies at 79
Nov 4th - Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1843)
Nov 8th - Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer, dies at 64
Nov 9th - Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
Nov 16th - Alexander Andreyevich Archangel'sky, composer, dies at 78
Nov 16th - Edward Everett Rice, composer, dies at 75
Nov 19th - Lee Stack, British sirdar in Egypt/gov-gen of Sudan, murdered
Nov 19th - Thomas Ince, American film director (b. 1882)
Nov 21st - Florence Harding, American First Lady (b. 1860)
Nov 22nd - Herman Heijermans Jr, author (On Hope, Heap of Blessing), dies
Composer Giacomo Puccini (Nov 29th) Nov 29th - Giacomo Puccini, Ital composer (Mme Butterfly), dies in Brussels at 65
Dec 2nd - Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian philologist (b. 1879)
Dec 6th - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863)
Dec 8th - Franz X Scharwenka, German pianist/composer (Mataswintha), dies at 74
Dec 9th - Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (Gisbertus of Aemstel), dies at 70
Dec 13th - Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74
Dec 27th - William Archer, Scottish critic/playwright (Green Goddess), dies at 68
Dec 28th - Léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866)
Dec 29th - Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)