Editing 1924 (section)

=== December ===
[[File:Cipriano Castro 1908.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Cipriano Castro]]]]
* [[December 2]]
** [[Kazimieras Būga]], Lithuanian linguist (b. [[1879]])
** [[Hugo von Seeliger]], German astronomer (b. [[1849]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Jagdish Mehra |author-link1=Jagdish Mehra |author2=Helmut Rechenberg |author-link2=Helmut Rechenberg |title=The Discovery of Quantum Mechanics, 1925 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Eg3jPXgkR1cC&pg=PA25 |date=28 December 2000 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-0-387-95176-8 |pages=25 |access-date=September 22, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511191812/https://books.google.com/books?id=Eg3jPXgkR1cC&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 4]] &ndash; [[Cipriano Castro]], Venezuelan military officer, politician and 38th [[President of Venezuela]] (b. [[1858]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[S. Subramania Iyer]], Indian lawyer and freedom fighter (b. [[1842]])
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Gene Stratton-Porter]], American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. [[1863]])<ref>{{cite book | author=Barbara Olenyik Morrow | title =Nature's Storyteller: The Life of Gene Stratton-Porter | publisher =Indiana Historical Society | year =2010 | location =Indianapolis| isbn =978-0-87195-284-4|pages=28, 137–9}}</ref>
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Xaver Scharwenka]], Polish-German composer (b. [[1850]])
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[Samuel Gompers]], American labor leader (b. [[1850]])
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[Prince Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]] (b. [[1853]])
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Luis Emilio Recabarren]], Chilean politician, founder of the [[Communist Party of Chile]]. (b. [[1876]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Translations on Latin America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IMFnAAAAMAAJ |year=1969 |publisher=Joint Publications Research Service |page=39 |access-date=December 9, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511191741/https://books.google.com/books?id=IMFnAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[Ricardo Bellver]], Spanish sculptor (b. [[1845]])
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Anna Hierta-Retzius]], Swedish women's rights activist (b. [[1841]])
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[Agda Meyerson]], Swedish nurse, healthcare profession activist (b. [[1866]])
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Carl Spitteler]], Swiss writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1845]])
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Samuel William Knaggs|Sir Samuel Knaggs]], British civil servant (b. [[1856]])