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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1924 to Wales and its people.
Arts and literature
August - Artist and designer Eric Gill moves with some of his artistic community from Ditchling in England to the disused Llanthony Abbey at Capel-y-ffin.
4 September - Goscombe John's Carmarthen County War Memorial is unveiled in Carmarthen.
Cinematographer Claude Friese-Greene visits Cardiff, Chepstow and Raglan in the course of his drive from John O'Groats to Land's End.
A rare handled beaker is found during archaeological excavations at a Bronze Age burial cairn in the Black Mountains.
National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Pontypool)
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Albert Evans Jones
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Edward Prosser Rhys
Edward Morgan Humphreys - Yr Etifedd Coll
Saunders Lewis - A School of Welsh Augustans
Arthur Machen - The London Adventure
R. Williams Parry - Yr Haf a cherddi eraill
Silyn Roberts - Gwyntoedd Croesion
15 January - The world's first radio play, Danger by Richard Hughes (set in a collapsed Welsh coal mine), is broadcast by the British Broadcasting Company from its studios in London, incidentally including the first broadcast words of Welsh when "Ar Hyd y Nos" is sung.
May - The BBC broadcasts the first in a series of 18 Welsh-language lessons.
31 July - Broadcast of extracts from Y Pwyllgor, a play by D. T. Davies.
12 December - The first transmission is made from the 5SX radio relay station in Swansea. The studio is opened by the Mayor of Swansea.
Boxing - Johnny Jones wins the Welsh flyweight boxing championship by beating Gus Legge in Treorchy.
Football - 49-year-old Billy Meredith becomes the oldest man ever to play in an FA Cup semi-final.
11 January - Jack Parry, footballer (d. 2010)
5 February - Leo Callaghan, soccer referee (d. 1987)
9 February – George Guest, organist and choirmaster of St John's College, Cambridge (d. 2002)
29 February – Frank Vining, potter (d. 1989)
4 March - David Oswald Thomas, philosopher (d. 2005)
15 March – Tom Ellis, politician (d. 2010)
4 April – Emrys Evans, banker (d. 2004)
26 May - John Stone, actor (d. 2007)
2 June – Peter Halliday, actor (d. 2012)
7 June – Donald Watts Davies, computer scientist (d. 2000)
7 July – Albert Stitfall, footballer (d. 1998)
17 September – Islwyn Ffowc Elis, author (d. 2004)
25 October – Rex Willis, Wales rugby union international and British Lion (d. 2000)
22 November - Donald Gullick, rugby player (d. 2000)
24 November - Derek Williams, rugby player
4 December - Shirley Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey, writer
12 December - Dennis Powell, boxer (d. 1993)
14 December – Margaret John, actress (d. 2011)
6 January - Henry Hill, cricketer, 78
19 January - Edwin Cross, footballer, 75
20 January (in Hindhead) – Aneurin Williams, politician, 64
19 March – John Richard Williams (J. R. Tryfanwy), poet, 56
2 June – (in Philadelphia) William Henry Griffith Thomas, influential clergyman, 63
14 June – George Frederick Harris, portrait and landscape painter, 67
19 July – Jack Evans, Wales national rugby player, 53
6 August – John Roberts (Pencerdd Gwynedd), organist and composer
20 September – Caradoc Rees, politician, ?66
12 December – Charlie Arthur, Wales international rugby player
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