Deaths in History in 1924

Jan 21 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, Russian Revolutionary leader and Premier, dies of a stroke at 53

Feb 3 Woodrow Wilson, 28th US President (1913-21), dies at his home in Washington at 67

Feb 17 Henry Bacon, American architect (Lincoln Memorial), dies at 57

Feb 24 Edmond Picard, French-Belgian lawyer and writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87
Mar 1 Princess Louise of Belgium, eldest daughter of Leopold II, dies at 66
Mar 12 Hilaire de Chardonnet, French industrialist and inventor (rayon), dies at 84
Mar 22 Robert Nivelle, French military officer, dies at 67

Apr 2 Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming, Danish botanist (plant ecology, environment-organism interactions), dies at 82

Apr 14 Louis Sullivan, American architect (father of skyscrapers), dies at 67

Apr 14 Roland Napoléon Bonaparte, French prince and president of the Société de Géographie, dies at 65
Apr 24 G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (b. 1844)
May 1 August Cuppens, Flemish author (Limburgs Driemanschap), dies at 62
May 4 Edith Nesbit, British children books author (The Story of the Treasure Seekers, Five Children and It), dies at 65
May 6 Carel S Adama van Scheltema, poet/writer (socialism), dies at 47
May 8 Lev Lunts, Russian writer (Outside the Law, City of Truth), dies at 23
May 10 Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (Amore & Amore, Top), dies at 58
May 15 Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and pacifist (Nobel 1909), dies at 71
May 21 Bobby Franks, American school boy killed by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, at 14
May 25 Lyubov Popova, Russian avant-garde artist and painter, dies at 35
May 25 Ashutosh Mukherjee, Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician described as the "Banglar Bagh" (Tiger of Bengal), dies abruptly at 59
May 29 Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid/London), dies

Jun 3 Franz Kafka, Czech writer (Trial, Amerika, Metamorphosis), dies at 40

Jun 8 George Mallory, English mountain climber ("because it is there"), dies in a climbing accident at 37

Jun 10 Giacomo Matteotti, Italian Socialist Party leader, assassinated by fascists at 39
Jun 11 Alexander de Savornin Lohman, Dutch minister and party leader (CHU), dies at 87
Jun 30 Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet/writer (Pypelyntjes), dies at 42

Jul 10 Johannes B van Heutsz, gov-gen of Dutch Indies (1904-09), dies at 73
Jul 13 Alfred Marshall, English economist (Principles of Economics), dies at 81
Jul 21 Dudley Allen Sargent, American physician and educator (Harvard U gymnasium), dies at 74
Jul 23 Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar, dies at 64

Aug 3 Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), dies at 66

Aug 9 Jacob P Vis, Dutch founder (NV Royal Salt Industries), dies at 66
Aug 17 Pavel S "Paul" Urysohn, Russian mathematician, drowns at 26
Aug 25 Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (b. 1818)
Aug 27 William Maddock Bayliss, British physiologist, co-discoverer of hormones, dies at 64
Sep 6 Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, 4th and last child of Franz Joseph I of Austria and Elisabeth of Bavaria, dies at 56
Sep 18 Francis H. Bradley, British idealist philosopher (Appearance and Reality), dies at 78
Sep 24 Manuel Estrada Cabrera, 13th President of Guatemala (1898-1920), dies in prison at 66
Oct 6 Jacques Oppenheim, lawyer, dies at 75
Oct 7 Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Patristischen Philosophie), dies at 71
Oct 9 Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
Oct 12 Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault], French writer (Thaïs, Wickerwork Woman, Nobel 1921), dies at 80
Oct 29 Frances Hodgson Burnett, British born American playwright and children's author ("Little Lord Fauntleroy"), dies at 74
Nov 4 Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1843)
Nov 7 Hans Thoma, German painter, dies at 75
Nov 9 Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
Nov 19 Lee Stack, British sirdar in Egypt/gov-gen of Sudan, murdered
Nov 21 Florence Harding, American First Lady (b. 1860)
Nov 22 Herman Heijermans, Dutch writer (On Hope, Heap of Blessing), dies at 59
Dec 2 Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian philologist (b. 1879)

Dec 13 Samuel Gompers, American labor union leader (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74

Dec 15 T. Frank Appleby, American Republican Party politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey), dies at 60
Dec 27 William Archer, Scottish critic/playwright (Green Goddess), dies at 68
Dec 28 Léon Bakst, Russian painter and scene and costume designer, dis at 58
Dec 29 Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)