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

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1890s  1900s  1910s  – 1920s –  1930s  1940s  1950s
Years: 1921 1922 192319241925 1926 1927
1924 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1924
MCMXXIV
Ab urbe condita2677
Armenian calendar1373
ԹՎ ՌՅՀԳ
Assyrian calendar6674
Bahá'í calendar80–81
Balinese saka calendar1845–1846
Bengali calendar1331
Berber calendar2874
British Regnal year14 Geo. 5 – 15 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar2468
Burmese calendar1286
Byzantine calendar7432–7433
Chinese calendar癸亥(Water Pig)
4620 or 4560
    — to —
甲子年 (Wood Rat)
4621 or 4561
Coptic calendar1640–1641
Discordian calendar3090
Ethiopian calendar1916–1917
Hebrew calendar5684–5685
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1980–1981
 - Shaka Samvat1845–1846
 - Kali Yuga5024–5025
Holocene calendar11924
Igbo calendar924–925
Iranian calendar1302–1303
Islamic calendar1342–1343
Japanese calendarTaishō 13
(大正13年)
Javanese calendar1854–1855
Juche calendar13
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4257
Minguo calendarROC 13
民國13年
Nanakshahi calendar456
Thai solar calendar2466–2467
Tibetan calendar阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
2050 or 1669 or 897
    — to —
阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
2051 or 1670 or 898

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January

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Kim Dae-jung
 
Ron Moody
 
Max Roach
 
Eduardo Chillida
 
Katy Jurado
 
Rauf Denktaş
 
Dorothy Malone
 
Luigi Nono

February

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Billy Wright
 
Lee Marvin
 
Gloria Vanderbilt
 
Robert Mugabe
 
Noboru Takeshita
 
Lys Assia
 
Tomiichi Murayama
 
Marlon Brando
 
Raymond Barre
 
Stanley Donen
 
Kenneth Kaunda
 
Dawda Jawara
 
Charles Aznavour
 
Torsten Wiesel
 
George H. W. Bush
 
Ezer Weizman
 
Chet Atkins
 
Sidney Lumet
 
S. R. Nathan
 
Eva Marie Saint
 
Lola Albright

August

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Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
 
Georges Charpak
 
James Baldwin
 
Ahmadou Ahidjo

September

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Daniel arap Moi
 
Lauren Bacall
 
Marcello Mastroianni
 
Truman Capote

October

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Jimmy Carter

November

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Süleyman Demirel
 
Benoît Mandelbrot
 
Shirley Chisholm

December

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Alexander Haig
 
Mário Soares
 
Cicely Tyson
 
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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