About the day » Thursday October 2, 1924Calender converter

• Aaltje van der Sar, 's-Gravenzande, Nederland († 2005)
• Annie Nijhuis, Den Haag († 2019)
• Bernard Hendrik Poker, Zwartemeer, DRE, Nederland († 2004)
• Berta Gleizer, Balti, Bælti, Moldova († 1997)
• Adriana Johanna van Broekhoven, Oisterwijk († 2009)
• Adrie Fedy (tante Fedy) Siebrecht, Garoet († 2013)
• Alfred Houston Edwards, Oro Grande, San Bernardino County, California († 1976)
• Andries Gerardus Velthuizen, Amsterdam († 1992)
• Bastiaan Daniel van der Waal, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2020)
• Armindo Kamphorst, Lajeado Brasil († 2006)

• Albertus Slomp (0), Westerbork,Drenthe,Niederlande
• Elisabeth Brons (75), Huissen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Hilligje Bos (24), Zuidwolde
• Antje Meintes Sixma (73)
• Clara Jane MOULES (63), North Middlesex Hospital, Silver Street, Edmonton, Middlesex
• Elizabeth Thomas de Vries (82), Oudega, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• David Marshall Snider (66)
• Anna Helena Wübker (17), Duitsland
• Arnoldus van den Borne (65), Reusel
• Aagje Hoogendoorn (62), Veldhuizen

• 1919 » Jan Flinterman, Dutch race car driver and pilot († 1992)
• 1919 » John W. Duarte, English guitarist and composer († 2004)
• 1921 » Albert Scott Crossfield, American pilot and engineer († 2006)
• 1921 » Edmund Crispin, English writer and composer († 1978)
• 1921 » Robert Runcie, English archbishop († 2000)
• 1925 » Wren Blair, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager († 2013)
• 1926 » Jan Morris, English-Welsh historian and author
• 1928 » George McFarland, American actor († 1993)
• 1928 » Wolfhart Pannenberg, Polish-German theologian and academic († 2014)
• 1929 » Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman († 1996)

• 1920 » Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1927 » Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1938 » Alexandru Averescu, Romanian field marshal and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1859)
• 1938 » André Lagache, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1885)
• 1943 » John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1855)
• 1947 » P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1953 » John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Humphrey Barclay, English priest (b. 1882)
• 1955 » William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1881)
• 1962 » Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev, Russian mathematician and author (b. 1859)

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.
• February 14 » The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
• 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.
• October 7 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
• 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.
• November 27 » In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

The temperature on October 2, 1924 was between 7.4 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.