August 24
August 24 is the 236th day of the year (237th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 129 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 79 – Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)
- 1042 – Michael V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1015)
- 1103 – King Magnus III of Norway (b. 1073)
- 1217 – Eustace the Monk, French mercenary and pirate
- 1313 - Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1278)
- 1540 – Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503)
- 1542 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)
- 1572 – Victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre:
- Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (b. 1519)
- Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist (b. 1515)
- Charles de Téligny, French Huguenot soldier
- 1595 – Thomas Digges, English astronomer (b. 1546)
- 1617 - Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586)
- 1647 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (b. 1586)
- 1664 – Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer
- 1679 – Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz, French churchman and agitator (b. 1614)
- 1680 – Thomas Blood, Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels (b. 1618)
- 1683 – John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616)
- 1759 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (b. 1715)
- 1779 – Kosmas Aitolos, Greek Orthodox martyr (b. 1714)
- 1831 – August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
- 1832 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796)
- 1841 – Theodore Edward Hook, English writer (b. 1788)
- 1856 - William Buckland, English geologist (b. 1784)
- 1883 - Henri, Count of Chambord, claimant to the French throne (b. 1820)
- 1888 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (b. 1822)
- 1897 - Mutsu Munemitsu, Japanese politician (b. 1844)
1901 – 2000
- 1921 – Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (b. 1886)
- 1940 – Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German television pioneer (b. 1860)
- 1943 – Simone Weil, French philosopher and social activist (b. 1909)
- 1946 – James Clark McReynolds, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
- 1950 - Arturo Alessandri, President of Chile (b. 1868)
- 1954 – Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (b. 1882)
- 1956 – Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese movie director (b. 1898)
- 1957 - Ronald Knox, British theologian and crime fiction writer (b. 1888)
- 1961 – Günter Litfin, first shooting victim at the Berlin Wall (b. 1937)
- 1967 – Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (b. 1882)
- 1974 - Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American aviator, author and inventor (b. 1894)
- 1975 – Éamon de Valera, President of Ireland (b. 1882)
- 1978 – Louis Prima, American band leader (b. 1910)
- 1979 – Hanna Reitsch, German pilot (b. 1912)
- 1985 – Paul Creston, American composer (b. 1906)
- 1990 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (b. 1941)
- 1991 – Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (b. 1904)
- 1995 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-born photographer (b. 1898)
- 1998 – E.G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1910)
- 1999 - Mary Jane Croft, American actress (b. 1916)
- 2000 - Andy Hug, Swiss martial artist and kickboxer (b. 1964)
From 2001
- 2001 - Jane Greer, American actress (b. 1924)
- 2002 – Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (b. 1922)
- 2003 – Sir Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer (b. 1910)
- 2004 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Ambrogio Fogar, Italian sailor, writer, rally driver and all-round adventurer and television presenter (d. 1941)
- 2007 - Andrée Boucher, 39th Mayor of Quebec City (b. 1937)
- 2009 – Toni Sailer, Austrian skier (b. 1935)
- 2012 - Pauli Ellefsen, 6th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1936)
- 2012 - Steve Franken, American actor (b. 1923)
- 2012 - Félix Miéli Venerando, Brazilian footballer (b. 1937)
- 2013 - Julie Harris, American actress (b. 1925)
- 2013 - Newton de Sordi, Brazilian footballer (b. 1931)
- 2014 - Richard Attenborough, English actor and movie director (b. 1923)
- 2014 - Leonid Stadnyk, Ukrainian claimant to world's tallest man title (b. 1970)
- 2015 - Justin Wilson, English racing driver (b. 1978)
- 2015 - Cees van Kooten, Dutch footballer (b. 1948)
- 2015 - Chico Maki, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939)
- 2016 - Henning Voscherau, German politician (b. 1941)
- 2016 - Walter Scheel, German politician, President of the Federal Republic of Germany (b. 1919)
- 2016 - Roger Y. Tsien, Chinese-American biologist (b. 1952)
- 2017 - Cecil D. Andrus, American politician, Governor of Idaho (b. 1931)
- 2017 - Alan Boswell, English footballer (b. 1943)
- 2017 - Charlie Robertson, American politician (b. 1934)
- 2017 - Jay Thomas, American actor (b. 1948)
- 2017 - Amelyn Veloso, Filipino journalist and broadcaster (b. 1974)
- 2018 - Lawrence J. DeNardis, American politician (b. 1938)
- 2018 - Tom Frost, American rock climber (b. 1938)
- 2018 - Robin Leach, British writer and television host (b. 1941)
- 2018 - Princeton Lyman, American diplomat (b. 1935)
- 2018 - Javier Ochoa Palacios, Spanish cyclist (b. 1974)
- 2018 - Aleksei Paramonov, Soviet-Russian footballer (b. 1925)
- 2018 - Valentina Rastvorova, Soviet-Russian fencer (b. 1933)
- 2018 - Ciril Zlobec, Slovenian poet, writer and politician (b. 1925)
- 2019 - Arun Jaitley, Indian politician (b. 1952)
- 2019 - Sidney Rittenberg, American journalist and linguist (b. 1921)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1902 - Fernand Braudel, French historian (d. 1985)
- 1903 - Karl Hanke, German SS leader (d. 1945)
- 1904 - Alice White, American actress (d. 1983)
- 1905 – Arthur Crudup, American blues musician (d. 1976)
- 1905 – Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone (d. 1988)
- 1907 – Bruno Giacometti, Italian sculptor (d. 2012)
- 1908 - Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist (d. 1931)
- 1915 - James Tiptree, Jr., American writer and psychologist (d. 1987)
- 1916 - Léo Ferré, French singer, composer and poet (d. 1993)
- 1916 - Hal Smith, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1918 - Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (d. 2004)
- 1918 - Abdallah Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Morocco (d. 2005)
- 1918 - Avery Dulles, American cardinal (d. 2008)
- 1919 - Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, President of Ecuador (d. 2004)
- 1919 - Drs. P, Swiss-Dutch singer-songwriter, poet and writer (d. 2015)
- 1921 - Ercole Rabitti, Italian footballer (d. 2009)
- 1922 – René Lévesque, Canadian politician (d. 1987)
- 1922 – Howard Zinn, American historian (d. 2010)
- 1924 - Ahmadou Ahidjo, President of Cameroon (d. 1989)
- 1927 – Harry Markowitz, American economist
- 1927 - Anjali Devi, Indian actress and producer (d. 2014)
- 1927 - Guido Ceronetti, Italian journalist and poet (d. 2018)
- 1929 – Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority (d. 2004)
- 1932 – Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster and cardinal (d. 2017)
- 1934 - Kenny Baker, English actor (d. 2016)
- 1935 - Tsutomu Hata, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2017)
- 1936 - Kenny Guinn, 27th Governor of Nevada (d. 2010)
- 1936 - A. S. Byatt, English writer
- 1939 - Michael E. Phelps, American biophysicist
- 1940 - Francine Lalonde, Canadian politician (d. 2014)
- 1941 - Jürgen Eschert, German canoeist
- 1942 - Max Cleland, American politician (d. 2021)
- 1943 - John Cipollina, American guitarist (d. 1995)
- 1943 - Dafydd Iwan, Welsh singer and politician
- 1944 - Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1996)
- 1944 – Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (d. 1986)
- 1945 – Vince McMahon, American Professional Wrestling promoter
- 1945 - Ken Hensley, English musician (Uriah Heep)
- 1945 - Ronee Blakley, American singer-songwriter, producer and actress
- 1946 - Vic Akers, English football coach
- 1946 - Rick Loomis, American game designer (d. 2019)
- 1946 - Manfred Zapf, German footballer
- 1947 – Paulo Coelho, Brazilian writer
- 1947 – Joe Manchin, American politician, former Governor of West Virginia
- 1947 - Steve Pearce, American politician
- 1947 - Anne Archer, American actress
- 1947 – Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist
- 1948 – Jean-Michel Jarre, French musician
- 1948 – Alexander McCall Smith, Scottish writer and professor
- 1948 - Sauli Niinistö, 12th President of Finland
- 1949 - Stephen Paulus, American composer (d. 2014)
1951 – 1975
- 1951 - Oscar Hijuelos, American writer (d. 2013)
- 1951 - Orson Scott Card, American writer
- 1952 - Bob Corker, American politician, United States Senator for Tennessee
- 1952 - Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jamaican poet
- 1953 – Sam Torrance, Scottish golfer
- 1955 – Mike Huckabee, American politician, former Governor of Arkansas and Presidential candidate
- 1956 - John Culberson, American politician
- 1956 - Gerry Cooney, American boxer
- 1957 – Stephen Fry, English actor, comedian, presenter and writer
- 1957 - Marcel Vanthilt, Belgian singer and television host
- 1958 – Steve Guttenberg, American actor
- 1959 - Meg Munn, English politician
- 1960 - Takashi Miike, Japanese director, producer, writer and actor
- 1960 – Cal Ripken, Jr., American baseball player
- 1960 - Steven Lindsey, American astronaut
- 1961 – Jared Harris, English actor
- 1963 - Hideo Kojima, Japanese video game creator
- 1963 - Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Icelandic writer
- 1964 - Dana Gould, American comedian and writer
- 1964 - Salizhan Sharipov, Kyrgyz cosmonaut
- 1965 – Marlee Matlin, American actress
- 1965 - Reggie Miller, American basketball player
- 1968 - Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1968 - James Toney, American boxer
- 1969 - Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor
- 1972 - Jean-Luc Brassard, Canadian freestyle skier
- 1973 - Andrew Brunette, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973 – Dave Chappelle, American comedian and actor
- 1973 - Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer
- 1973 - Carmine Giovinazzo, American actor and musician
- 1974 - Takuya Yamada, Japanese footballer
- 1975 - Mark de Vries, Surinamese-Dutch footballer
From 1976
- 1976 - Yang Yang (A), Chinese short-track speed skater
- 1976 - Alex O'Loughlin, Australian actor
- 1977 – Robert Enke, German football goalkeeper (d. 2009)[1]
- 1977 – Jürgen Macho, Austrian football goalkeeper
- 1977 – Denilson, Brazilian footballer
- 1979 – Orlando Engelaar, Dutch footballer
- 1979 - Kaki King, American guitarist and composer
- 1979 - Yelena Chernykh, Russian theatre actress (d. 2011)
- 1981 - Jiro Wang, Taiwanese singer and actor
- 1981 - Chad Michael Murray, American actor
- 1982 - José Bosingwa, Portuguese footballer
- 1982 – Kim Kallstrom, Swedish footballer
- 1984 - Charlie Villanueva, Dominican-American basketball player
- 1986 - Fabiano Santacroce, Brazilian-Italian footballer
- 1986 - Joseph Akpala, Nigerian footballer
- 1986 - Stewart McDonald, Scottish politician
- 1987 - Daichi Miura, Japanese singer-songwriter, dancer and choreographer
- 1987 - Jon Scheyer, American basketball player
- 1988 – Rupert Grint, British actor
- 1988 - Maya Yoshida, Japanese footballer
- 1989 - Richie Gray, Scottish rugby union player
- 1997 - Alan Walker, English-Norwegian music producer
- 1998 - Robin, Finnish singer
- 2003 – Alexandre Coste, son of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Deaths
Observances
- National Day of Ukraine
- Christian Feast Day of Saint Bartholomew
- Night of Nostalgia, Eve of Independence Day (Uruguay)
References
- ↑ "Famous Birthdays on 24th August". History Orb. 2009-08-04.