January 7, 1824 James Morrison Hawes, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
January 8, 1824 Per August Olander, composer
January 8, 1824 William Wilkie Collins, English novelist (Woman in White)
January 13, 1824 Ignacy Marceli Komorowski, composer
January 22, 1824 Josef Leopold Zvonar, composer
January 27, 1824 Jozef Isra‰ls, Dutch painter
January 29, 1824 Karl von Perfall, composer
February 7, 1824 William Higgins, discoverer (nature of spiral nebulae)
February 8, 1824 Barnard Elliot Bee, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1861
February 10, 1824 Samuel Plimsoll, Bristol England, inventor (Plimsoll line for ships)
February 12, 1824 Arya Samaj Maha Rishi Dayanand Sarsvati, Indian hindu leader
February 14, 1824 Winfield Scott Hancock, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
February 19, 1824 Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator
February 23, 1824 Herman N van der Tuuk, Dutch philologist (Tobasch' Grammar)
February 23, 1824 Lewis Cass Hunt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
February 24, 1824 John Crawford Vaughn, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
February 26, 1824 Carlos Calvo, Arg diplomat/people rights scholar (Calvo Clause)
February 28, 1824 Charles Blondin, France, acrobat/aerialist
February 28, 1824 John Creed Moore, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
March 2, 1824 Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Bohemian composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau)
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