| 121471 | October 24 | Birth | 1804 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic (d. 1891) |
| 121472 | October 24 | Birth | 1811 – Ferdinand Hiller, German composer and conductor (d. 1885) |
| 121473 | October 24 | Birth | 1830 – Marianne North, English biologist and painter (d. 1890) |
| 121474 | October 24 | Birth | 1838 – Annie Edson Taylor, American stuntwoman and educator (d. 1921) |
| 121475 | October 24 | Birth | 1840 – Eliza Pollock, American archer (d. 1919) |
| 121476 | October 24 | Birth | 1854 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist and academic (d. 1907) |
| 121477 | October 24 | Birth | 1855 – James S. Sherman, American lawyer and politician, 27th Vice President of the United States (d. 1912) |
| 121478 | October 24 | Birth | 1857 – Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894) |
| 121479 | October 24 | Birth | 1868 – Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and author (d. 1969) |
| 121480 | October 24 | Birth | 1872 – Peter O'Connor, Irish long jumper (d. 1957) |
| 121481 | October 24 | Birth | 1875 – Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter and set designer (d. 1958) |
| 121482 | October 24 | Birth | 1876 – Saya San, Burmese monk and activist (d. 1931) |
| 121483 | October 24 | Birth | 1879 – B. A. Rolfe, American bandleader and producer (d. 1956) |
| 121484 | October 24 | Birth | 1882 – Sybil Thorndike, English actress and singer (d. 1976) |
| 121485 | October 24 | Birth | 1884 – Emil Fjellström, Swedish actor (d. 1944) |
| 121486 | October 24 | Birth | 1885 – Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Belarusian-Israeli wife of Zalman Shazar (d. 1975) |
| 121487 | October 24 | Birth | 1887 – Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (d. 1969) |
| 121488 | October 24 | Birth | 1887 – Octave Lapize, French cyclist and pilot (d. 1917) |
| 121489 | October 24 | Birth | 1891 – Rafael Trujillo, Dominican soldier and politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic (d. 1961) |
| 121490 | October 24 | Birth | 1891 – Brenda Ueland, American journalist, author, and educator (d. 1985) |
| 121491 | October 24 | Birth | 1894 – Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1987) |
| 121492 | October 24 | Birth | 1895 – Jack Warner, English actor and singer (d. 1981) |
| 121493 | October 24 | Birth | 1896 – Marjorie Joyner, American make-up artist and businesswoman (d. 1994) |
| 121494 | October 24 | Birth | 1901 – Gilda Gray, Polish-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1959) |
| 121495 | October 24 | Birth | 1903 – Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960) |
| 121496 | October 24 | Birth | 1904 – Moss Hart, American director and playwright (d. 1961) |
| 121497 | October 24 | Birth | 1904 – A.K. Golam Jilani, Bangladeshi activist (d. 1932) |
| 121498 | October 24 | Birth | 1905 – Fran Zwitter, Slovenian historian and academic (d. 1988) |
| 121499 | October 24 | Birth | 1906 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician and cryptographer (d. 1968) |
| 121500 | October 24 | Birth | 1908 – John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist and geophysicist (d. 1993) |