List of Famous people who died in 1924

Auda Abu-Tayeh was the leader (shaikh) of a section of the Howeitat or Huwaytat tribe of Bedouin Arabs at the time of the Great Arab Revolt during the First World War. The Howeitat lived in what is now Saudi Arabia/Jordan.

Sándor Bródy was a Hungarian author and journalist.

Eugène Louis Simon was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4,000 species.

Prince Matsukata Masayoshi was a Japanese politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1891 to 1892 and 1896 to 1898.

Palmer Cox was a Canadian illustrator and author, best known for The Brownies, his series of humorous verse books and comic strips about the mischievous but kindhearted fairy-like sprites. The cartoons were published in several books, such as The Brownies, Their Book (1887). Due to the popularity of Cox's Brownies, one of the first popular handheld cameras was named after them, the Eastman Kodak Brownie camera.""

Arabella Huntington (1850–1924) was a philanthropist, the second wife of American railway tycoon and industrialist Collis P. Huntington, and then the second wife of Henry E. Huntington. Huntington was once known as the richest woman in America, and as the force behind the art collection that is housed at the Huntington Library.

Prof Georg Hermann Quincke FRSFor HFRSE was a German physicist.

Brigadier-General John Sanctuary Nicholson, was a British soldier and politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1921 to 1924.