August 24

August 24 in recent years

2024 (Saturday)

2023 (Thursday)

2022 (Wednesday)

2021 (Tuesday)

2020 (Monday)

2019 (Saturday)

2018 (Friday)

2017 (Thursday)

2016 (Wednesday)

2015 (Monday)

August 24 is the 236th day of the year (237th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 129 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 49 BC – Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio commits suicide to avoid capture.
• 79 – Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash (note: this traditional date has been challenged, and many scholars believe that the event occurred on October 24).
• 410 – The Visigoths under king Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.
• 455 – The Vandals, led by king Genseric, begin to plunder Rome. Pope Leo I requests Genseric not destroy the ancient city or murder its citizens. He agrees and the gates of Rome are opened. However, the Vandals loot a great amount of treasure.
• 1185 – Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans.
• 1200 – King John of England, signer of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angoulême in Bordeaux Cathedral.
• 1215 – Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid.
• 1349 – Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
• 1391 – Jews are massacred in Palma de Mallorca.
• 1456 – The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
• 1482 – The town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army
• 1516 – The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Marj Dabiq.
• 1561 – Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.
• 1608 – The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
• 1662 – The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
• 1682 – William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
• 1690 – Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city has no birthday).
• 1812 – Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.
• 1814 – British troops invade Washington, D.C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House is set ablaze, though not burned to the ground; as well as several other buildings.
• 1815 – The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
• 1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
• 1820 – Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
• 1821 – The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
• 1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.
• 1870 – The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
• 1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim the English Channel
• 1891 – Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
• 1898 – Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
• 1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
• 1912 – Alaska becomes a United States territory.
• 1914 – World War I: German troops capture Namur.
• 1929 – Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
• 1931 – France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty.
• 1931 – Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
• 1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
• 1933 – The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane.
• 1936 – The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
• 1937 – In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
• 1941 – Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
• 1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk and US carrier USS Enterprise heavily damaged.
• 1944 – World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
• 1949 – The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.
• 1950 – Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
• 1954 – The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed.
• 1954 – Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide] and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
• 1963 – Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids, the US State Department cables the US Embassy in Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to launch a coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem if he did not remove his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu.
• 1967 – Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.
• 1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
• 1989 – Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government.
• 1989 – Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
• 1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1991 – Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
• 1992 – Hurricane Andrew makes landfall just south of Miami as a Category 5 hurricane.
• 1994 – Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.
• 1998 – First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
• 2001 – Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.
• 2004 – Eighty-nine passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
• 2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet.
• 2010 – In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 72 illegal immigrants are killed by Los Zetas and eventually found dead by Mexican authorities.

Births

• 1113 – Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)
• 1198 – Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
• 1358 – John I of Castile (d. 1390)
• 1393 – Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458)
• 1552 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614)
• 1578 – John Taylor, English poet (d. 1653)
• 1591 – Robert Herrick, English poet (d. 1674)
• 1635 – Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (d. 1699)
• 1669 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (d. 1747)
• 1707 – Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English religious leader (d. 1791)
• 1750 – Letizia Ramolino, French mother of Napoleon (d. 1836)
• 1758 – Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1794)
• 1759 – William Wilberforce, English politician and philanthropist (d. 1833)
• 1772 – William I of the Netherlands (d. 1840)
• 1787 – James Weddell, British sailor and explorer (d. 1834)
• 1824 – Antonio Stoppani, Italian geologist and scholar (d. 1891)
• 1837 – Théodore Dubois, French composer and teacher (d. 1924)
• 1845 – James Calhoun, American soldier (d. 1876)
• 1851 – Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer (d. 1924)
• 1860 – David Bowman, Australian politician (d. 1916)
• 1863 – Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (d. 1918)
• 1865 – Ferdinand of Romania (d. 1927)
• 1872 – Max Beerbohm, English writer and painter (d. 1956)
• 1880 – Joshua Lionel Cowen, American businessman, co-founded the Lionel Corporation (d. 1965)
• 1884 – Earl Derr Biggers, American author (d. 1933)
• 1887 – Harry Hooper, American baseball player (d. 1974)
• 1890 – Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaiian swimmer and surfer (d. 1968)
• 1890 – Jean Rhys, Dominican author (d. 1979)
• 1893 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist, recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1978)
• 1895 – Richard Cushing, American archbishop (d. 1970)
• 1897 – Fred Rose, American pianist, songwriter, and publisher (d. 1954)
• 1898 – Malcolm Cowley, American critic (d. 1989)
• 1899 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986)
• 1899 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)
• 1899 – Gaylord DuBois, American author (d. 1993)
• 1901 – Preston Foster, American actor (d. 1970)
• 1902 – Fernand Braudel, French historian (d. 1985)
• 1902 – Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mobster (d. 1976)
• 1903 – Karl Hanke, German nazi official (d. 1945)
• 1904 – Mary Burchell, British activist and author (d. 1986)
• 1904 – Alice White, American actress (d. 1983)
• 1905 – Arthur Crudup, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976)
• 1905 – Siaka Stevens, Sierra Leonean politician, 1st President of Sierra Leone (d. 1988)
• 1907 – Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect, designed the Hallenstadion (d. 2012)
• 1908 – Shivaram Rajguru, Indian revolutionary (d. 1931)
• 1909 – Ronald Grieveson, South African cricketer (d. 1998)
• 1911 – Viktor Barna, Hungarian table tennis player (d. 1972)
• 1911 – Lofty England, English engineer and race team manager (d. 1995)
• 1911 – Durward Kirby, American television host and announcer (d. 2000)
• 1911 – Michel Pablo, Greek Trotskyist leader (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Charles Snead Houston, American mountaineer (d. 2009)
• 1914 – Ivar Iversen, Norwegian canoe racer (d. 2012)
• 1915 – James Tiptree, Jr., American writer (d. 1987)
• 1916 – Ruy de Freitas, Brazilian basketball player (d. 2012)
• 1916 – Léo Ferré, French singer, composer, and poet (d. 1993)
• 1916 – Hal Smith, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1917 – Dennis James, American game show host (d. 1997)
• 1918 – Sikander Bakht, Indian politician (d. 2004)
• 1919 – Enrique Llanes, Mexican wrestler (d. 2004)
• 1920 – Alex Colville, Canadian painter (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Sam Tingle, Zimbabwean race car driver (d. 2008)
• 1922 – René Lévesque, Canadian politician, 23rd Premier of Quebec (d. 1987)
• 1922 – Howard Zinn, American historian and activist (d. 2010)
• 1923 – Arthur Jensen, American psychologist
• 1924 – Alyn Ainsworth, English singer and conductor (d. 1990)
• 1924 – Jimmy Gardner, English actor (d. 2010)
• 1927 – David Ireland, Australian author
• 1927 – Harry Markowitz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1929 – Yasser Arafat, Palestinian engineer and politician (d. 2004)
• 1929 – Betty Dodson, American sex educator and author
• 1930 – Roger McCluskey, American race car driver (d. 1993)
• 1932 – Robert D. Hales, American religious leader
• 1932 – W. Morgan Sheppard, British actor
• 1934 – Kenny Baker, English actor
• 1936 – A. S. Byatt, English novelist
• 1936 – Kenny Guinn, American politician, 27th Governor of Nevada (d. 2010)
• 1936 – Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr., American physicist (d. 2001)
• 1937 – Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, Nigerian politician (d. 1998)
• 1937 – Susan Sheehan, American writer
• 1938 – Halldór Blöndal, Icelandic politician
• 1938 – David Freiberg, American singer and bass player (Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane, and Jefferson Starship)
• 1938 – Mason Williams, American guitarist and composer
• 1940 – Francine Lalonde, Canadian politician
• 1942 – Max Cleland, American politician
• 1943 – John Cipollina, American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Dinosaurs, and Man) (d. 1989)
• 1943 – Pini Zahavi, Israeli football agent
• 1944 – Henry Braden, American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
• 1944 – Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1996)
• 1944 – Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (d. 1986)
• 1944 – Rocky Johnson, Canadian wrestler
• 1945 – Ronee Blakley, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1945 – Malcolm Duncan, Scottish saxophonist (Average White Band)
• 1945 – Ken Hensley, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Uriah Heep, The Gods, and Toe Fat)
• 1945 – Vince McMahon, American wrestler, promoter, producer, and actor
• 1947 – Anne Archer, American actress
• 1947 – Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author
• 1947 – Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist
• 1947 – Joe Manchin, American politician, 34th Governor of West Virginia
• 1947 – Vladimir Masorin, Russian admiral
• 1948 – Jean Michel Jarre, French pianist, composer, and producer
• 1948 – Kim Sung-il, Korean pilot
• 1948 – Alexander McCall Smith, Scottish author
• 1948 – Sauli Niinistö, Finnish politician, 12th President of Finland
• 1949 – Pia Degermark, Swedish actress
• 1949 – Joe Regalbuto, American actor
• 1949 – Charles Rocket, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1950 – John Banaszak, American football player and coach
• 1950 – Tim D. White, American paleoanthropologist
• 1951 – Orson Scott Card, American author and critic
• 1951 – Oscar Hijuelos, American author
• 1952 – Marion Bloem, Dutch author, director, and painter
• 1952 – Bob Corker, American politician
• 1952 – John Cowan, American singer and bass player (New Grass Revival, The Sky Kings, and The Doobie Brothers)
• 1952 – Carlo Curley, American organist (d. 2012)
• 1952 – Holly Hallstrom American model
• 1952 – Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jamaican poet
• 1952 – Mike Shanahan, American football coach
• 1952 – Peter Vogel, German footballer
• 1953 – Ron Holloway, American saxophonist
• 1954 – Philippe Cataldo, French singer and composer
• 1954 – Alain Daigle, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1954 – Heini Otto, Dutch footballer
• 1955 – Mike Huckabee, American politician, 44th Governor of Arkansas
• 1956 – John Culberson, American lawyer and politician
• 1956 – Dick Lee, Singaporean singer-songwriter, composer, and playwright
• 1957 – Jeffrey Daniel, American singer-songwriter and dancer (Shalamar)
• 1957 – Stephen Fry, British comedian, actor, journalist, and author
• 1958 – Steve Guttenberg, American actor
• 1958 – Tracy Harris, American artist
• 1958 – Chris Offutt, American author
• 1959 – Adrian Kuiper, South African cricketer
• 1960 – Kim Christofte, Danish footballer
• 1960 – Takashi Miike, Japanese director, producer, writer, and actor
• 1960 – Cal Ripken, Jr., American baseball player
• 1961 – Ingrid Berghmans, Belgian judoka
• 1961 – Jared Harris, English actor
• 1962 – Major Garrett, American journalist
• 1962 – Craig Kilborn, American actor and talk show host
• 1962 – David Koechner, American actor
• 1962 – Emile Roemer, Dutch politician
• 1963 – John Bush, American singer-songwriter (Anthrax and Armored Saint)
• 1963 – Hideo Kojima, Japanese video game director and producer
• 1964 – Éric Bernard, French race car driver
• 1964 – Dana Gould, American comedian, actor, and writer
• 1964 – Salizhan Sharipov, Russian astronaut
• 1964 – Oteil Burbridge, American Grammy Award-winning multi-instrumentalist, specializing on the bass guitar The Allman Brothers Band
• 1965 – Marlee Matlin, American actress
• 1965 – Reggie Miller, American basketball player
• 1965 – Brian Rajadurai, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1967 – Michael Thomas, English footballer
• 1968 – Benoît Brunet, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 – Shoichi Funaki, Japanese-American wrestler
• 1968 – Andreas Kisser, Brazilian guitarist (Sepultura)
• 1968 – Tim Salmon, American baseball player
• 1968 – James Toney, American boxer
• 1969 – Jans Koerts, Dutch cyclist
• 1970 – David Gregory, American journalist
• 1970 – Dan Henderson, American mixed martial artist
• 1970 – Tugay Kerimoğlu, Turkish footballer
• 1971 – Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor
• 1972 – Jean-Luc Brassard, Canadian skier
• 1973 – Andrew Brunette, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1973 – Dave Chappelle, American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and producer
• 1973 – Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer
• 1973 – Grey DeLisle, American voice actress and singer
• 1973 – Carmine Giovinazzo, American actor and singer
• 1974 – Órla Fallon, Irish singer-songwriter (Celtic Woman)
• 1974 – Jennifer Lien, American actress
• 1975 – Roberto Colombo, Italian footballer
• 1975 – Mark de Vries, Surinamese-Dutch footballer
• 1976 – Alex O'Loughlin, Australian actor
• 1976 – Nordin Wooter, Dutch footballer
• 1977 – Denílson de Oliveira Araújo, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 – Robert Enke, German footballer (d. 2009)
• 1977 – Per Gade, Danish footballer
• 1977 – John Green, American author
• 1977 – Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer
• 1977 – Rafael Furcal, Dominican baseball player
• 1978 – Derek Morris, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Beth Riesgraf, American actress
• 1978 – Darren Robinson, American singer and guitarist (Phantom Planet)
• 1978 – Beth Riesgraf, American actress
• 1979 – Vahur Afanasjev, Estonian writer
• 1979 – Orlando Engelaar, Dutch footballer
• 1979 – Elva Hsiao, Taiwanese singer
• 1979 – Kaki King, American guitarist and composer
• 1979 – Michael Redd, American basketball player
• 1979 – Markus Walger, German rugby player
• 1980 – Sonja Bennett, Canadian actress
• 1981 – Chad Michael Murray, American actor
• 1981 – Jiro Wang, Taiwanese singer and actor (Fahrenheit and Dong Cheng Wei)
• 1982 – José Bosingwa, Portuguese footballer
• 1982 – Kim Källström, Swedish footballer
• 1983 – Brett Gardner, American baseball player
• 1983 – Marcel Goc, German ice hockey player
• 1983 – Christopher Parker, English actor
• 1983 – Maher Abu Remeleh, Palestinian judoka
• 1984 – Yesung, South Korean singer and actor (Super Junior)
• 1984 – Charlie Villanueva, American basketball player
• 1986 – Nick Adenhart, American baseball player (d. 2009)
• 1986 – Joseph Akpala, Nigerian footballer
• 1986 – Shanthanu Bhagyaraj, Indian actor
• 1986 – Arian Foster, American football player
• 1986 – Fabiano Santacroce, Italian footballer
• 1987 – Anže Kopitar, Slovenian ice hockey player
• 1987 – Jon Scheyer, American basketball player
• 1988 – Rupert Grint, English actor
• 1988 – Helga Krapf, Filipino actress
• 1988 – Maya Yoshida, Japanese footballer
• 1989 – Rocío Igarzábal, Argentine actress and singer (Teen Angels)
• 1990 – Sarah Heinke, American voice actress
• 1990 – Juan Pedro Lanzani, Argentine actor and singer (Teen Angels)
• 1990 – Jeffrey Vinokur, American dancer
• 1991 – Anett Schutting, Estonian tennis player
• 1994 – Aqib Khan, English actor
• 1994 – Rafid Topan Sucipto, Indonesian motorcycle racer
• 1995 – Wenwen Han, Chinese actress and dancer
• 1996 – Camila Giangreco Campiz, Paraguayan tennis player
• 2003 – Alexandre Coste, French son of Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Deaths

• 79 – Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and philosopher (b. 23)
• 1042 – Michael V Kalaphates, Byzantine emperor (b. 1015)
• 1103 – Magnus III of Norway (b. 1073)
• 1217 – Eustace the Monk, French mercenary and pirate (b. 1170)
• 1540 – Parmigianino, Italian painter (b. 1503)
• 1542 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)
• 1572 – Victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre:

• Gaspard II de Coligny, French admiral and Huguenot leader (b. 1519)
• Petrus Ramus, French academic and writer (b. 1515)
• Charles de Téligny, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1535)

• 1595 – Thomas Digges, English astronomer (b. 1546)
• 1647 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (b. 1586)
• 1664 – Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (b. 1610)
• 1679 – Jean François Paul de Gondi, French cardinal and writer (b. 1614)
• 1680 – Thomas Blood, Irish criminal (b. 1618)
• 1680 – Ferdinand Bol, Dutch painter (b. 1616)
• 1683 – John Owen, English theologian (b. 1616)
• 1759 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (b. 1715)
• 1779 – Cosmas of Aetolia, Greek monk (b. 1714)
• 1798 – Thomas Alcock, English clergyman and author (b. 1709)
• 1818 – James Carr, American politician (b. 1777)
• 1831 – August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
• 1832 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796)
• 1841 – Theodore Edward Hook, English author (b. 1788)
• 1841 – John Ordronaux, French-American privateer (b. 1778)
• 1888 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (b. 1822)
• 1895 – Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (b. 1855)
• 1921 – Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (b. 1886)
• 1923 – Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author (b. 1856)
• 1930 – Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1940 – Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 – Antonio Alice, Argentine painter (b. 1886)
• 1943 – Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
• 1945 – Midori Naka, Japanese actress (b. 1909)
• 1946 – James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge (b. 1862)
• 1954 – Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian politician, 17th President of Brazil (b. 1882)
• 1956 – Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director (b. 1898)
• 1958 – Paul Henry, Irish painter (b. 1876)
• 1961 – Günter Litfin, German victim, first person to be shot at the Berlin Wall (b. 1937)
• 1967 – Lam Bun, Hong Kong radio commentator (b. 1930)
• 1967 – Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist, founded Kaiser Shipyards and Kaiser Aluminum (b. 1882)
• 1974 – Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American aviator, author, and inventor, co-founded Republic Aviation (b. 1894)
• 1977 – Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
• 1978 – Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, actor, and bandleader (b. 1910)
• 1979 – Hanna Reitsch, German pilot (b. 1912)
• 1979 – Sampson Sievers, Russian monk and mystic (b. 1898)
• 1980 – Yootha Joyce, English actress (b. 1927)
• 1982 – Félix-Antoine Savard, Canadian priest and author (b. 1896)
• 1983 – Scott Nearing, American writer, educator, and activist (b. 1883)
• 1985 – Paul Creston, American composer (b. 1906)
• 1987 – Malcolm Kirk, English wrestler (b. 1936)
• 1990 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (b. 1941)
• 1990 – Gailli AbedElrhman, Sudanese writer (b. 1931)
• 1991 – Bernard Castro, Italian-American inventor (b. 1904)
• 1992 – André Donner, Dutch judge (b. 1918)
• 1995 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer journalist (b. 1898)
• 1997 – Werner Abrolat, German actor (b. 1924)
• 1998 – E.G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1999 – Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian guitarist (b. 1929)
• 2000 – Andy Hug, Swiss martial artist and kickboxer (b. 1964)
• 2001 – Jane Greer, American actress (b. 1924)
• 2002 – Nikolay Guryanov Russian mystic and priest (b. 1909)
• 2003 – Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer and writer (b. 1910)
• 2004 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Kaleth Morales, Colombian singer-songwriter (b. 1984)
• 2005 – Hal Kalin, American singer (Kalin Twins) (b. 1934)
• 2006 – Leonard Levy, American author (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Cristian Nemescu, Romanian director (b. 1979)
• 2006 – Rocco Petrone, American engineer (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Léopold Simoneau, Canadian tenor (b. 1916)
• 2007 – Andrée Boucher, Canadian politician, 39th Mayor of Quebec City (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Aaron Russo, American director and producer (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Satoshi Kon, Japanese director (b. 1963)
• 2011 – Mike Flanagan, American baseball player (b. 1951)
• 2012 – Dadullah, Pakistani Taliban leader (b. 1965)
• 2012 – Lijon Eknilang, Marshallese activist (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Pauli Ellefsen, Faroese politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Steve Franken, American actor (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Zygmunt Kiszkurno, Polish target shooter (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Claire Malis, American actress (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Dale Sommers, American radio host (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Maureen Toal, Irish actress (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Félix Miélli Venerando, Brazilian footballer (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Krum Yanev, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Julie Harris, American actress (b. 1925)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Abban of Ireland
  • Aurea of Ostia
  • Bartholomew (Roman Catholic, Anglican)
  • Ouen
  • August 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Earliest date on which Notting Hill Carnival can fall, while August 31 is the latest; celebrated on the last Monday in August and the day before. (Notting Hill)

• Independence Day of Ukraine or Den' Nezalezhnosti, celebrates the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union in 1991.
• One of the three Mundus patet, a harvest feast involving the dead. (Roman Empire)
• Nostalgia Night in Uruguay.

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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