List of Famous people who died in 1924

Wollert Konow was Prime Minister of Norway from 1910 to 1912. He was the leader of a coalition cabinet. Konow's time as Prime Minister saw the extension of accident insurance to seamen in 1911.

Albert DeSilver was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Amleto Novelli was an Italian film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 110 films between 1909 and 1924.

Arthur Wellington Alexander Nelson Hood, 2nd Viscount Bridport CB of Guernsey, Channel Islands, was a British Army officer.

Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee CSI, FRSE, FRAS, FPSL, MRIA was a prolific Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician. He was the first student to be awarded a dual degree from Calcutta University. Perhaps the most emphatic figure of Indian education, he was a man of great personality, high self-respect, courage and towering administrative ability. The second Indian Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta for four consecutive two-year terms (1906–1914) and a fifth two-year term (1921–23), Mukherjee was responsible for the foundation of the Bengal Technical Institute in 1906, which later known as Jadavpur University and the University College of Science of the Calcutta University in 1914.

Charles Oberthür was a French entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera. He was the son of François-Charles Oberthür.

Jean-Jacques de Morgan was a French mining engineer, geologist, and archaeologist. He was the director of antiquities in Egypt during the 19th century, and excavated in Memphis and Dashur, providing many drawings of many Egyptian pyramids. He also worked at Stonehenge, and Persepolis, and many other sites.

Berkeley Basil Moreton, 4th Earl of Ducie, was a British peer and a politician and pastoralist in Australia. He was a Member of both the Queensland Legislative Assembly and the Queensland Legislative Council.

Robert Georges Nivelle was a French artillery general officer who served in the Boxer Rebellion, and the First World War. Nivelle was a very capable commander and organizer of field artillery at the regimental and divisional levels. In May 1916, he succeeded Philippe Pétain as commander of the French Second Army in the Battle of Verdun, leading counter-offensives that rolled back the German forces in late 1916. During these actions he and General Charles Mangin were already accused of wasting French lives. He gives his name to the Nivelle Offensive.

Colonel Cecil Alfred Grenfell, was a British soldier and Liberal Party politician who was MP for Bodmin between the two general elections of 1910.