List of Famous people who died in 1924
August Föppl
August Otto Föppl was a professor of Technical Mechanics and Graphical Statics at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He is credited with introducing the Föppl–Klammer theory and the Föppl–von Kármán equations.
Paul Natorp
Paul Gerhard Natorp was a German philosopher and educationalist, considered one of the co-founders of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. He was known as an authority on Plato.
William Mackworth Young
Sir William Mackworth Young was a member of the Indian Civil Service, who became Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab 1897–1902.
Eleanor Jourdain
Eleanor Frances Jourdain was an English academic and author, and Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford, 1915 to 1924. In 1886, she became the first woman to sit at Oxford for a viva voce examination in modern history.
Tankerville Chamberlayne
Tankerville Chamberlayne was a landowner in Hampshire and a member of parliament, serving the Southampton constituency three times, as an Independent and Conservative. He was deprived of his seat after the 1895 general election because of the indiscretion of one of his campaign workers and his having headed a procession which raised suspicion of having supplied beer to supporters. He subsequently raised the question of false electioneering statements in Parliament.
Louise Rayner
Louise Ingram Rayner was a British watercolour artist.
Frank Chance
Frank Leroy Chance was an American professional baseball player. A first baseman, Chance played in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs and New York Yankees from 1898 through 1914. He also served as manager of the Cubs, Yankees, and Boston Red Sox.
Fatma Pesend Hanım
Fatma Pesend Hanım was the twelfth wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.
Josef Labor
Josef Labor was an Austrian pianist, organist, and composer of the late Romantic era. Labor was an influential music teacher. As a friend of some key figures in Vienna, his importance was enhanced.
William Hare, 3rd Earl of Listowel
William Hare, 3rd Earl of Listowel KP JP, styled Viscount Ennismore from 1837 to 1856, was an Anglo-Irish peer and Liberal politician.