About the day » Friday July 4, 1924Calender converter

• Derk Jan Timmerman († 2011)
• Alan McIlwraith Clark, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia († 2009)
• Christiaan van der Velde, Vriezenveen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1926)
• Allegonda Petronella Ardina van der Zanden († 2001)
• Doris Ilene SCHILAWSKE, Michigan († 1989)
• Leijtens, Best (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 1924)
• Edward Elroy McKenna , Jr, Leominster, MA († 1994)
• Adrianus Matheus van de Luitgaarden, Roosendaal en Nispen († 1976)
• Dirk Okkesz Hoekstra, Rijnsburg († 2005)
• Arne Kolbjorn Hamborg († 1990)

• André - Edmond De Wispelaere (11), Zomergem
• Adriana van Enetten (88), Tilburg
• Anna Josepha Handels (84), Kerkrade (L
• Berendje VAN VOORST (18), Apeldoorn
• Leijtens (0), Best (Noord-Brabant, NLD)
• Antonius (Anton) Engelen (62), Weurt
• Dina van den Heuvel (61), Utrecht
• Cornelis Sterrenberg (58), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aafke Ates Veenstra (91), Hardegarijp
• Aaltje Giezes Giezen (46), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1921 » Gérard Debreu, French economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 2004)
• 1921 » Nasser Sharifi, Iranian sports shooter
• 1922 » R. James Harvey, American politician († 2019)
• 1923 » Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss lawyer and politician († 2013)
• 1924 » Delia Fiallo, Cuban author and screenwriter
• 1924 » Eva Marie Saint, American actress
• 1925 » Ciril Zlobec, Slovene poet, writer, translator, journalist and politician († 2018)
• 1925 » Dorothy Head Knode, American tennis player († 2015)
• 1926 » Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentinian-Spanish footballer and coach († 2014)
• 1926 » Lake Underwood, American race car driver and businessman († 2008)

• 1905 » Élisée Reclus, French geographer and author (b. 1830)
• 1910 » Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (b. 1835)
• 1910 » Melville Fuller, American lawyer and jurist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1833)
• 1916 » Alan Seeger, American soldier and poet (b. 1888)
• 1922 » Lothar von Richthofen, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1894)
• 1926 » Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian activist and saint (b. 1901)
• 1934 » Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1938 » Otto Bauer, Austrian philosopher and politician, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1881)
• 1938 » Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (b. 1899)
• 1941 » Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1881)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Gerardus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Hendrikus
15. Antonius
16. Arie

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Geertruida
14. Grietje
15. Helena
16. Alida

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
• January 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
• May 10 » J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
• June 10 » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
• December 1 » The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, played their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.
• December 20 » Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.

The temperature on July 4, 1924 was between 12.0 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.