About the day » Thursday May 8, 1924Calender converter

• Donald Ray Axelson, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 2004)
• Cecília Gorges, Tijucas, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1978)
• Catharina Jinny maria Repkes (Tiny) jellema, Wormerveer († 1999)
• Anicet Guillaume Julien PENNARGUÉAR, Brest, 29019, Finistère, Bretagne, France († 1983)
• Dina Koolen († 1979)
• Bertha Amelia Verschueren, Itegem, België († 2019)
• Cornelis Antonie Hobo, Amsterdam († 1992)
• Nab, rotterdam († 2000)
• Dirk Muller, Zuurdijk, Leens, Groningen, Nederland († 1996)
• Antonio Damaso Bittencourt de Camargo, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil († 1982)

• Angeline "Angie" Smith (72)
• Alida Johanna Griffioen (18), Weesperkarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Akke van der Kamp (74), Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Akke van der Kamp (74), Bloemendaal
• Andries Kop Jansen (73), Renkum
• Albertien Braam (49), Emmen, Nederland
• Benjamin F Perdue (68)
• Alice Meyering (67), Fremont, Newaygo County, Michigan
• Antje Duinker (72), Amsterdam
• Arie van de Velde (61), Zaamslag (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland

• 1920 » Saul Bass, American graphic designer and director († 1996)
• 1920 » Tom of Finland, Finnish illustrator († 1991)
• 1922 » Mary Q. Steele, American naturalist and author († 1992)
• 1924 » S. Vithiananthan, Sri Lankan author and academic († 1989)
• 1925 » Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Tanzanian politician, 2nd President of Tanzania
• 1926 » David Attenborough, English environmentalist and television host
• 1926 » David Hurst, German actor († 2019)
• 1926 » Don Rickles, American comedian and actor († 2017)
• 1927 » Chumy Chúmez, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter († 2003)
• 1927 » László Paskai, Hungarian cardinal († 2015)

• 1903 » Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (b. 1848)
• 1907 » Edmund G. Ross, American soldier and politician, 13th Governor of New Mexico Territory (b. 1826)
• 1925 » John Beresford, Irish polo player (b. 1847)
• 1936 » Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Natalie, queen consort of Serbia (b. 1859)
• 1941 » Tore Svennberg, Swedish actor and director (b. 1858)
• 1942 » Nikolai Reek, Estonian general and politician, 11th Estonian Minister of War (b. 1890)
• 1943 » Mordechai Anielewicz, Polish commander (b. 1919)
• 1944 » Themistoklis Diakidis, Greek high jumper (b. 1882)
• 1945 » Frank Bourne, British soldier, last survivor of the Battle of Rorke's Drift (b. 1854)

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 12 » George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
• April 1 » Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.
• June 10 » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
• September 28 » The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
• November 4 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.
• 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.

The temperature on May 8, 1924 was between 4.0 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.