List of Famous people who died in 1924
Mary Spring Rice
Mary Ellen Spring Rice was an Irish nationalist activist during the early 20th century.
Hermann von Grauert
Hermann Heinrich Grauert since 1914 Knight of Grauert, was a German historian. He was born in Pritzwalk and died in Munich.
Howard R. Hughes, Sr.
Howard Robard Hughes Sr. was an American businessman and inventor. He was the founder of Hughes Tool Company. He invented the "Sharp–Hughes" rotary tri-cone rock drill bit during the Texas Oil Boom. He is best known as the father and namesake of Howard Hughes, the famous American business tycoon.
Paul Milliet
Paul Milliet was a French playwright and librettist of the Parisian Belle Époque.
James Shaw Hay
Sir James Shaw Hay was a British colonial governor.
Jean Nicod
Jean George Pierre Nicod was a French philosopher and logician, best known for his work on propositional logic and induction.
Paul Cambon
Pierre Paul Cambon was a French diplomat and brother to Jules Cambon.
Jules Worms
Jules Worms was a French academic painter and illustrator. Born into a family of Parisian shopkeepers, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1849 at the age of seventeen, where he studied under Jean-Adolphe Lafosse (1810–79). He made his debut at the Paris Salon of 1859. Worms is best known for genre scenes depicting Spanish life, often comical and painted in a highly realistic manner with many details and bright colors.
Roman Klein
Roman Ivanovich Klein, born Robert Julius Klein, was a Russian architect and educator, best known for his Neoclassical Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Klein, an eclectic, was one of the most prolific architects of his period, second only to Fyodor Schechtel. In the 1880s-1890s, he practiced Russian Revival and Neo-Gothic exteriors; in the 1900s, his knowledge of Roman and Byzantine classical architecture allowed him to integrate into the Neoclassical revival trend of that period.