List of Famous people who died in 1924
Pekka Juhani Hannikainen
Pekka Juhani "P. J." Hannikainen was a Finnish composer and the head of the musical branch of the prominent Hannikainen family. His uncle was the writer and journalist Pietari Hannikainen.
Karla Grmek
Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys
Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys, was a British courtier. He served as Private Secretary to the Sovereign from 1901 to 1913.
Wilhelm von Becker
William Hemsley
William Botting Hemsley was an English botanist and 1909 Victoria Medal of Honour recipient.
Jethro Teall
Sir Jethro Justinian Harris Teall FRS HFRSE PGS was a British geologist and petrographist.
William Robert Ogilvie-Grant
William Robert Ogilvie-Grant was a Scottish ornithologist.
Alfred Marshall
Alfred Marshall was an English economist, who was one of the most influential economists of his time. His book, Principles of Economics (1890), was the dominant economic textbook in England for many years. It brings the ideas of supply and demand, marginal utility, and costs of production into a coherent whole. He is known as one of the founders of neoclassical economics.
Ferdinand von Schlör
Martin Pierre Marsick
Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, was a Belgian violin player, composer and teacher. His violin was made by Antonio Stradivari in 1705 and has since become known as the Ex Marsick Stradivarius. It was the instrument of David Oistrakh from 1966 to 1974. Marsick's nephew, Armand Marsick, the son of his brother Louis François, was a major violinist of the 20th century.