About the day » Friday July 11, 1924Calender converter

• Bertha Geertruida Schook, Beverwijk († 2007)
• Adrianus Marius Wilhelmus Louwrier, Leiden
• Adrianus Bulters, Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude, Noord Holland, Nederland († 1990)
• Antonia Barendina de With, Meerkerk (Vijfheerenlanden), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Alida Lena Lelie, Amsterdam († 1943)
• Alida Krol († 1980)
• Alice Lavina Lance, Lake City, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 2020)
• Antonia Maria van Kaam, Beesd, Gelderland, Nederland († 2008)
• Arnoldus Smeets, Stein, Limburg, Nederland († 2007)
• Alexander Jacobus van Dijk, Worth Rheden († 2004)

• ADRIANA GOEDKNEGT (40), VLAARDINGEN
• Albertje Aeikens (88), Stadskanaal gem. Onstwedde
• Adriaan Kolen (83), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dingeman de Ronde (40), Bruinisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Dina Johanna Smith (67), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Anna Veringa (49), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Alfred Louis Evans (58), Matina, Limon, Costa Rica
• Arnold Johan Theodoor Vrijthoff (60), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• Clara Washburn (27), Willow, Woodbury, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Albertha Johanna Jans (0), Escharen, NBr., NL

• 1923 » Richard Pipes, Polish-American historian and academic († 2018)
• 1923 » Tun Tun, Indian actress and comedian († 2003)
• 1924 » Brett Somers, Canadian-American actress and singer († 2007)
• 1924 » César Lattes, Brazilian physicist and academic († 2005)
• 1924 » Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer and manager († 1971)
• 1924 » Oscar Wyatt, American businessman
• 1925 » Charles Chaynes, French composer († 2016)
• 1925 » Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor († 2017)
• 1925 » Peter Kyros, American lawyer and politician († 2012)
• 1925 » Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 2004)

• 1897 » Patrick Jennings, Irish-Australian politician, 11th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1831)
• 1905 » Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian jurist and scholar (b. 1849)
• 1908 » Friedrich Traun, German sprinter and tennis player (b. 1876)
• 1909 » Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
• 1929 » Billy Mosforth, English footballer and engraver (b. 1857)
• 1937 » George Gershwin, American pianist, songwriter, and composer (b. 1898)
• 1959 » Charlie Parker, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (b. 1882)
• 1966 » Delmore Schwartz, American poet and short story writer (b. 1913)
• 1967 » Guy Favreau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 28th Canadian Minister of Justice (b. 1917)
• 1971 » John W. Campbell, American journalist and author (b. 1910)

• 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 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
• March 3 » The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
• 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.
• 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 July 11, 1924 was between 11.9 °C and 24.9 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.