Death year 1924 celebrities
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William George McCloskey (May 1854 – July 9, 1924) officially played one year of Major League Baseball in 1884 for the Wilmington Quicksteps of the Union Association. He played nine games in that season, splitting time between the outfield and catc
William J. Geiss (July 15, 1858 – September 18, 1924) was an American professional baseball player from 1882 to 1894. He played two seasons in Major League Baseball, as a pitcher for the 1882 Baltimore Orioles, and as a second baseman for the 1884
Cyrus Edward Swartwood (January 12, 1859 – May 15, 1924) was an American professional baseball player and umpire. He played all or part of nine seasons in Major League Baseball, primarily as a right fielder and first baseman. He played for the Buff
Charles N. “Pop” Snyder (October 6, 1854 – October 29, 1924) was an American catcher, manager, and umpire in Major League Baseball.
Jules Greenbaum (5 January 1867 – 1 November 1924) was a German pioneering film producer. He founded the production companies Deutsche Bioscope, Deutsche Vitascope and Greenbaum-Film and was a dominant figure in German cinema in the years before th
The Rt. Hon. Lowry Egerton Cole, 4th Earl of Enniskillen, KP (21 December 1845 – 28 April 1924), styled Viscount Cole from 1850 to 1886, was an Irish peer and Conservative Member of Parliament.
Mechanical Engineer, he is considered by many to be the Father of Management Engineering. He started his professional life as a bricklayer and went on to develop the concept of Time and Motion Study. In 1904, he married Lillian Evelyn Moller and fath
Charles Edward Sayle (6 December 1864 – 4 July 1924) was an English Uranian poet, literary scholar and librarian. He was born the son of Robert and Priscilla Caroline Sayle. He later served as an under-librarian at Cambridge University Library. His
Eli Bowen (October 14, 1844–May 4, 1924) was an American sideshow performer known as “The Legless Wonder”, or “The Legless Acrobat”. He was also billed as “The Handsomest Man in Showbiz” and the “Wonder of the Wide, Wide World”. His peak weight was
Every professional recording artist today owes their livelihood to some degree to Victor Herbert. Working closely with John Philip Sousa, Irving Berlin and others, he was the driving force in founding the American Society of Composers, Authors, and P
Anatole France (born François-Anatole Thibault, 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic an
Tomioka Tessai (富岡 鉄斎, 27 January 1837 – 31 December 1924) was the pseudonym for a painter and calligrapher in imperial Japan. He is regarded as the last major artist in the Bunjinga tradition and one of the first major artists of the Nihon