1924 in China
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Events in the year 1924 in China.
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Incumbents
- President â Cao Kun until October 30, Duan Qirui
- Premier â Gao Lingwei until January 12, Sun Baoqi until July 2, Yan Huiqing until October 31, Huang Fu
Events
- June 16 â Whampoa Military Academy is founded in China.
- September 15 â November 3 â Second ZhiliâFengtian War: conflict in the Republic of China's Warlord Era between the Zhili and Fengtian cliques for control of Beijing.[1]
- AugustâOctober â Canton Merchants' Corps Uprising
- October â Beijing Coup, coup d'état by Feng Yuxiang against Chinese President Cao Kun, leader of the Zhili clique. Feng called it the Capital Revolution (Chinese: é¦é½é©å½; pinyin: ShÇudÅ« Gémìng). The coup occurred at a crucial moment in the Second ZhiliâFengtian War and allowed the pro-Japanese Fengtian clique to defeat the previously dominant Zhili clique
Births
- January 31 â Irene Chou, Hong Kong artist (d. 2011)
- February 19 â Chi Pang-yuan, Taiwanese writer, academic and Chinese-English translator (d. 2024)
- March â Zhu Liang, politician (d. 2025)
- March 10 â Jin Yong, Hong Kong wuxia novelist (d. 2018)
- April 27 â Hu Yamei, physician and medical researcher (d. 2019)
- May 21 â Yan Jinxuan, composer (d. 2014)
- June 25 â Deng Jiaxian, theoretical physicist and nuclear physicist (d. 1986)
- July 1 â Wang Huo, novelist and screenwriter (d. 2025)
- July 2 â Chia-ying Yeh, Chinese Canadian sinologist (d. 2024)
- July 12 â Zhu Qihe, physical chemist (d. 2024)
- July 19 â Lin Ruo, 11th Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (d. 2012)
- August 5 â Huang Hongjia, scientist (d. 2021)
- August 9 â Huang Yongyu, painter and scholar of Tujia ethnicity (d. 2023)
- August 23 â Wang Danfeng, actress (d. 2018)
- September 1 â Yuan-Shih Chow, Chinese and American probabilist (d. 2022)
- September 24 â Shi Suxi, Chinese Buddhist priest (d. 2006)
- October 2 â Zheng Zhemin, explosives engineer (d. 2021)
- October 4 â Samuel Lamb, protestant pastor (d. 2013)
- November 6 â Chen Haozhu, cardiologist (d. 2020)
- November 10 â Tsai Wan-lin, Taiwanese businessman (d. 2004)
- November 13 â Dai Lixin, chemist (d. 2024)
- November 14 â Chen Man Hin, Malaysian Chinese politician and physician (d. 2022)
- November 30 â Wang Zhenyi, pathophysiologist and hematologist
- December 20 â Ye Xuanping, 12th Governor of Guangdong (d. 2019)
- December 24 â Qiao Shi, 6th Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (d. 2015)
- December 25 â Zhu Guangya, nuclear physicist (d. 2011)
Dates unknown
Deaths
- May 10 â Liang Dunyan, diplomat and politician (b. 1857)
- June 2 â Ma Fuxing, military commander (b. 1864)
- June 5 â Qian Nengxun, 9th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1869)
- July 12 â Ni Sichong, general (b. 1868)
- September 22 â Wong Nai Siong, revolutionary leader and educator (b. 1849)
- September 24 â Imperial Noble Consort Wenjing, consort of Emperor Guangxu (b. 1873)
- October 9 â Lin Shu, man of letters (b. 1852)
- November 12 â Tian Wenlie, politician (b. 1858)
- December 24 â Princess Rongshou, princess of the Qing dynasty (b. 1854)
