About the day » Monday August 4, 1924Calender converter

• Arie Cornelis van der Loo, Kethel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1981)
• Anna Louise Woods († 1976)
• Antonia Maria Opdenacker, Boorsem (Maasmechelen), Limburg (B) († 1926)
• Barbera Lena de Man († 2000)
• Feikje de Vries, Weerselo, Overijssel, Nederland († 2017)
• Ecorlina Johanna Lieuwma, Zandvoort, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1925)
• Arie Meijdam, Asperen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1981)
• Velker, Elst († 1924)
• Enny Anneveldt, Nijmegen († 1998)
• Alma Irene Lovins, Wheeling, Ohio County, Virginia († 1985)

• Aaltje Buddingh (53), Gemeente Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje Cornelis de Jong (62), Balk, Gaasterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Berendina Johanna BIERMAN (50), Varsseveld, Gelderland, NEDERLAND
• Catherine Parthenia Lake (91), Fulton County, Pennsylvania
• Cornelis de Neef (81), Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Ripmeester (85), Kattendijke
• Arent Overbosch (60), Den Haag
• Ann Eliza Daily (70), Washington, Indiana, United States
• Alfons Danner (0), Ennetach, Mengen, Sigmaringen, Baden-Württemberg, Duitsland
• Christina Johanna Koek (52), Amsterdam

• 1920 » Helen Thomas, American journalist and author († 2013)
• 1921 » Herb Ellis, American guitarist († 2010)
• 1921 » Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 2000)
• 1922 » Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican cardinal († 2012)
• 1922 » Mayme Agnew Clayton, American librarian (d.2006)
• 1926 » George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer († 2000)
• 1926 » Perry Moss, American football player and coach († 2014)
• 1928 » Christian Goethals, Belgian race car driver († 2003)
• 1928 » Gerard Damiano, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2008)
• 1928 » Nadežka Mosusova, Serbian composer

• 1900 » Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and educator (b. 1860)
• 1914 » Jules Lemaître, French playwright and critic (b. 1853)
• 1919 » Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1845)
• 1922 » Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (b. 1881)
• 1932 » Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter (b. 1868)
• 1938 » Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889)
• 1940 » Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian-American general, journalist, and activist (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Mihály Babits, Hungarian poet and author (b. 1883)
• 1942 » Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer and educator (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Polish soldier and poet (b. 1921)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
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.
• April 1 » The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
• 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.
• May 21 » University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
• July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
• November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
• December 20 » Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.

The temperature on August 4, 1924 was between 11.0 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.