About the day » Tuesday December 30, 1924Calender converter

• Anna Leonora Toepoel, Amsterdam († 1998)
• Antonetta Petronella Veraart († 2007)
• Agnes Hillegonda MINNEBOO, Den Helder († 2013)
• Andrina Jansje de Graaf, St. Maartensdijk († 2015)
• Aaltje Kort, Avereest († 1995)
• Derkje Wolff, Wezep (Oldebroek) († 1925)
• Aurel Graaf Dessewffy van Csernek-Tarkeö, Boedapest († 2003)
• Ardis Vivian Peterson, Truman, Martin, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 2002)
• Charles Edwin Van Winkle ****, Butler, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1979)
• Betty Phyllis Crow Rord [K], Pilot Grove, Hancock County, Illinois († 1974)

• Bernardus ter Horst (75), Woolde (Hengelo)
• Antonia van den Bosch, Brunssum
• Adriaan Janssen, Princenhage
• Anna Maria Paulina Kleinman (25), Hilversum
• Aart van Affaire (61), Ridderkerk
• Antonia Gijsbertina Overeem (23), Ermelo
• Abraham Ten Wolthuis (76), Rijssen
• Agatha Johanna Rutgers (80), Groningen
• Ann Elizabeth Kipling (83), Morcombe, Lancashire, England
• Amelia Raes (62), Brampton, Delta, Michigan, Verenigde Staten

• 1919 » David Willcocks, English organist, composer, and conductor († 2015)
• 1919 » Dick Spooner, English cricketer († 1997)
• 1921 » Rashid Karami, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Lebanon († 1987)
• 1922 » Jane Langton, American author and illustrator († 2018)
• 1923 » Prakash Vir Shastri, Indian academic and politician († 1977)
• 1924 » Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American propulsion engineer († 2013)
• 1925 » Ian MacNaughton, Scottish actor, producer, and director († 2002)
• 1926 » Stan Tracey, English pianist and composer († 2013)
• 1927 » Jan Kubíček, Czech painter and sculptor († 2013)
• 1928 » Bo Diddley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2008)

• 1906 » Josephine Butler, English feminist and social reformer (b. 1828)
• 1908 » Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1844)
• 1916 » Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic (b. 1869)
• 1928 » Jean Collas, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1874)
• 1937 » Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (b. 1852)
• 1940 » Childe Wills, American engineer (b. 1878)
• 1941 » El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (b. 1890)
• 1944 » Romain Rolland, French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1945 » Song Jin-woo, South Korean journalist and politician (b. 1889)
• 1947 » Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter (b. 1889)

• 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 25 » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
• April 15 » Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
• June 2 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
• October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
• 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 19 » The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.

The temperature on December 30, 1924 was between 2.1 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 6.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.