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| August 24th, 2049 (August 24 2049) | Event | 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. | Julius Caesar Quotes |
| August 24th, 2007 (August 24 2007) | Death | Andree P. Boucher, Mayor of Quebec City (born in 1937) | |
| August 24th, 2007 (August 24 2007) | Death | Aaron Russo, American film producer and director (b.1943) | |
| August 24th, 2006 (August 24 2006) | Event | The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is considered a Dwarf Planet. | |
| August 24th, 2006 (August 24 2006) | Death | Leopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor (born in 1916) | |
| August 24th, 2006 (August 24 2006) | Death | Cristian Nemescu, Romanian film director (b.1979) | |
| August 24th, 2005 (August 24 2005) | Death | Kaleth Morales, Colombian Vallenato singer (born in 1984) | |
| August 24th, 2004 (August 24 2004) | Event | 89 passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions were caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya. | |
| August 24th, 2004 (August 24 2004) | Death | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (born in 1926) | |
| August 24th, 2003 (August 24 2003) | Birth | Alexandre Coste, son of Albert II, Prince of Monaco | |
| August 24th, 2003 (August 24 2003) | Death | Sir Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer (born in 1910) | |
| August 24th, 2002 (August 24 2002) | Death | Nikolay Guryanov Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (born in 1909) | |
| August 24th, 2001 (August 24 2001) | Event | 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. | |
| August 24th, 2001 (August 24 2001) | Death | Jane Greer, American actress (born in 1924) | |
| August 24th, 2000 (August 24 2000) | Event | Argon fluorohydride, the first Argon compound ever known, is discovered at the University of Helsinki by Finnish scientists. | |
| August 24th, 1999 (August 24 1999) | Death | Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (born in 1929) | |
| August 24th, 1998 (August 24 1998) | Event | The Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the 1988 Pan Am bombing. | |
| August 24th, 1998 (August 24 1998) | Event | First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom. | |
| August 24th, 1998 (August 24 1998) | Death | E.G. Marshall, American actor (born in 1910) | |
| August 24th, 1995 (August 24 1995) | Birth | Runa Tsukishima, Japanese child model | |
| August 24th, 1995 (August 24 1995) | Death | Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-born photographer (born in 1898) | |
| August 24th, 1994 (August 24 1994) | Event | Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank. | |
| August 24th, 1992 (August 24 1992) | Event | Diplomatic relations are established between the People s Republic of China and South Korea. | |
| August 24th, 1992 (August 24 1992) | Event | Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida as a Category 5 Hurricane. | |
| August 24th, 1991 (August 24 1991) | Event | Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. | |
| August 24th, 1991 (August 24 1991) | Event | Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union. | |
| August 24th, 1991 (August 24 1991) | Death | Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (born in 1904) | |
| August 24th, 1990 (August 24 1990) | Event | A judge rules that Judas Priest are not responsible for the deaths of two youths who committed suicide after listening to the band s music. | |
| August 24th, 1990 (August 24 1990) | Death | Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (born in 1941) | |
| August 24th, 1990 (August 24 1990) | Death | Gailli AbedElrhman, Sudanese writer (born in 1931) | Bede Quotes |
| August 24th, 1989 (August 24 1989) | Event | Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government. | |
| August 24th, 1989 (August 24 1989) | Event | Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti. | |
| August 24th, 1989 (August 24 1989) | Event | Voyager 2 passes Neptune. | |
| August 24th, 1988 (August 24 1988) | Birth | Rupert Grint, English actor | |
| August 24th, 1987 (August 24 1987) | Birth | Jon Scheyer, American basketball player | |
| August 24th, 1987 (August 24 1987) | Birth | Anze Kopitar, Slovenian ice hockey player | |
| August 24th, 1987 (August 24 1987) | Death | Malcolm Kirk, wrestler (born in 1936) | |
| August 24th, 1985 (August 24 1985) | Birth | Destiny Davis, Playboy Playmate | |
| August 24th, 1985 (August 24 1985) | Death | Paul Creston, American composer (born in 1906) | |
| August 24th, 1983 (August 24 1983) | Birth | Marcel Goc, German ice hockey player | |
| August 24th, 1983 (August 24 1983) | Birth | Christopher Parker, British actor | |
| August 24th, 1982 (August 24 1982) | Birth | Kim Kallstrom, Swedish footballer | |
| August 24th, 1982 (August 24 1982) | Death | Felix-Antoine Savard, French Canadian catholic priest and novelist (born in 1896) | |
| August 24th, 1981 (August 24 1981) | Event | Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon. | John Lennon Quotes |
| August 24th, 1981 (August 24 1981) | Birth | Chad Michael Murray, American actor | |
| August 24th, 1981 (August 24 1981) | Birth | Jiro Wang Dong Cheng, Taiwanese singer, actor | An Wang Quotes |
| August 24th, 1981 (August 24 1981) | Birth | Mercedes ScelbaShorte, American model | |
| August 24th, 1980 (August 24 1980) | Birth | Sonja Bennett, Canadian actress | |
| August 24th, 1980 (August 24 1980) | Death | Yootha Joyce, British actress (born in 1927) | |
| August 24th, 1979 (August 24 1979) | Event | Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash. | |
| August 24th, 1979 (August 24 1979) | Birth | Michael Redd, American basketball player | |
| August 24th, 1979 (August 24 1979) | Birth | Elva Hsiao, Taiwanese singer | |
| August 24th, 1979 (August 24 1979) | Death | Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (born in 23) | Pliny the Elder Quotes |
| August 24th, 1979 (August 24 1979) | Death | Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (born in 1912) | |
| August 24th, 1979 (August 24 1979) | Death | Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk and wonder-worker (born in 1898) | |
| August 24th, 1978 (August 24 1978) | Birth | Rafael Furcal, Dominican baseball player | |
| August 24th, 1978 (August 24 1978) | Birth | Derek Morris, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| August 24th, 1978 (August 24 1978) | Death | Louis Prima, American band leader (born in 1910) | |
| August 24th, 1977 (August 24 1977) | Birth | Denilson, Brazilian footballer | |
| August 24th, 1977 (August 24 1977) | Birth | Robert Enke, German footballer | |
| August 24th, 1977 (August 24 1977) | Birth | Per Gade, Danish footballer | |
| August 24th, 1977 (August 24 1977) | Birth | John Green, American author/Nerdfighter | |
| August 24th, 1977 (August 24 1977) | Birth | Jurgen Macho, Austrian footballer | |
| August 24th, 1977 (August 24 1977) | Death | Buddy O Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (born in 1916) | |
| August 24th, 1976 (August 24 1976) | Birth | Nordin Wooter, Dutch footballer | |
| August 24th, 1975 (August 24 1975) | Birth | Mark de Vries, Surinamese-Dutch footballer | |
| August 24th, 1974 (August 24 1974) | Birth | Jennifer Lien, American actress | |
| August 24th, 1974 (August 24 1974) | Birth | Orla Fallon, Irish Vocalist for Celtic Woman | |
| August 24th, 1974 (August 24 1974) | Death | Alexander de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer (born in 1894) | |
| August 24th, 1973 (August 24 1973) | Birth | Dave Chappelle, American actor and Comedian | Dave Chappelle Quotes |
| August 24th, 1973 (August 24 1973) | Birth | Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer | |
| August 24th, 1973 (August 24 1973) | Birth | Carmine Giovinazzo, American actor | |
| August 24th, 1973 (August 24 1973) | Birth | Andrew Brunette, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| August 24th, 1972 (August 24 1972) | Birth | Jean-Luc Brassard, Canadian freestyle skier | |
| August 24th, 1971 (August 24 1971) | Birth | Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor | |
| August 24th, 1970 (August 24 1970) | Birth | Tugay Kerimoglu, Turkish footballer | |
| August 24th, 1970 (August 24 1970) | Birth | Dan Henderson, American Mixed Martial Artist | Martial Quotes |
| August 24th, 1968 (August 24 1968) | Event | France explodes its first hydrogen bomb, thus becoming the world s fifth nuclear power. | |
| August 24th, 1968 (August 24 1968) | Birth | Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler | |
| August 24th, 1968 (August 24 1968) | Birth | Andreas Kisser, Brazilian guitarist (Sepultura) | |
| August 24th, 1968 (August 24 1968) | Birth | Benoit Brunet, French Canadian ice hockey player | |
| August 24th, 1968 (August 24 1968) | Birth | Tim Salmon, American baseball player | |
| August 24th, 1967 (August 24 1967) | Event | Led by Abbie Hoffman, a group of hippies temporarily disrupt trading at the NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing a cease in trading as the brokers scramble to grab them up. | Abbie Hoffman Quotes |
| August 24th, 1967 (August 24 1967) | Death | Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (born in 1882) | |
| August 24th, 1967 (August 24 1967) | Death | Lam Bun, Hong Kong radio commentator (murdered) (born in 1930) | |
| August 24th, 1965 (August 24 1965) | Birth | Marlee Matlin, American actress | |
| August 24th, 1965 (August 24 1965) | Birth | Brian Rajadurai, Sri Lankan cricketer | |
| August 24th, 1965 (August 24 1965) | Birth | Reggie Miller, American basketball player | |
| August 24th, 1964 (August 24 1964) | Birth | Salizhan Sharipov, Russian cosmonaut | |
| August 24th, 1963 (August 24 1963) | Event | The 200-metre freestyle is swum in less than 2 minutes for the first time by Don Schollander (1:58). | |
| August 24th, 1963 (August 24 1963) | Birth | John Bush, American singer (Anthrax) | |
| August 24th, 1963 (August 24 1963) | Birth | Hideo Kojima, Japanese video game director | |
| August 24th, 1962 (August 24 1962) | Birth | Craig Kilborn, American talk show host | |
| August 24th, 1962 (August 24 1962) | Birth | David Koechner, American actor | |
| August 24th, 1961 (August 24 1961) | Birth | Ingrid Berghmans, Belgian judoka | |
| August 24th, 1960 (August 24 1960) | Event | A temperature of ?88øC (?127øF) is measured in Vostok, Antarctica - a world-record low. | |
| August 24th, 1960 (August 24 1960) | Birth | Cal Ripken, Jr., American baseball player | |
| August 24th, 1960 (August 24 1960) | Birth | Kim Christofte, Danish footballer | |
| August 24th, 1960 (August 24 1960) | Birth | Takashi Miike, Japanese filmmaker | |
| August 24th, 1959 (August 24 1959) | Birth | Linda Bollea, Wife of Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan | |
| August 24th, 1958 (August 24 1958) | Birth | Steve Guttenberg, American actor | |
| August 24th, 1958 (August 24 1958) | Birth | Tracy Harris, American artist | |
| August 24th, 1958 (August 24 1958) | Birth | Chris Offutt, American author | |
| August 24th, 1958 (August 24 1958) | Death | Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (born in 1876) | |
| August 24th, 1957 (August 24 1957) | Birth | Jeffrey Daniel, American dancer and singer (Shalamar) | |
| August 24th, 1957 (August 24 1957) | Birth | Stephen Fry, English comedian and actor | |
| August 24th, 1956 (August 24 1956) | Birth | John Culberson, American politician | |
| August 24th, 1956 (August 24 1956) | Birth | Dick Lee, Singaporean singer-songwriter | |
| August 24th, 1956 (August 24 1956) | Death | Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (born in 1898) | |
| August 24th, 1955 (August 24 1955) | Birth | Mike Huckabee, American politician, Governor/Presidential candidate | |
| August 24th, 1954 (August 24 1954) | Event | The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed. | |
| August 24th, 1954 (August 24 1954) | Event | Getulio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by Joao Cafe Filho. | |
| August 24th, 1954 (August 24 1954) | Birth | Alain Daigle, French Canadian ice hockey player | |
| August 24th, 1954 (August 24 1954) | Death | Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil (born in 1882) | |
| August 24th, 1953 (August 24 1953) | Birth | Ron Holloway, American tenor saxophonist | |
| August 24th, 1952 (August 24 1952) | Birth | Mike Shanahan, American football coach | |
| August 24th, 1952 (August 24 1952) | Birth | Bob Corker, American politician | |
| August 24th, 1951 (August 24 1951) | Birth | Orson Scott Card, American writer | Orson Scott Card Quotes |
| August 24th, 1951 (August 24 1951) | Birth | Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prize winning author | |
| August 24th, 1950 (August 24 1950) | Event | Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the UN. | |
| August 24th, 1950 (August 24 1950) | Birth | Tim White, American anthropologist | |
| August 24th, 1949 (August 24 1949) | Event | The treaty creating NATO goes into effect. | |
| August 24th, 1949 (August 24 1949) | Birth | Joe Regalbuto, American actor | |
| August 24th, 1949 (August 24 1949) | Birth | Charles Rocket, American actor (died in 2005) | |
| August 24th, 1948 (August 24 1948) | Birth | Jean-Michel Jarre, French musician | |
| August 24th, 1948 (August 24 1948) | Birth | Kim Sung-Il, Chief of Staff of Republic of Korea Air Force | |
| August 24th, 1947 (August 24 1947) | Birth | Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author | |
| August 24th, 1947 (August 24 1947) | Birth | Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist | |
| August 24th, 1947 (August 24 1947) | Birth | Vladimir Masorin, Russian admiral | |
| August 24th, 1947 (August 24 1947) | Birth | Anne Archer, American Actress | |
| August 24th, 1946 (August 24 1946) | Death | James Clark McReynolds, U.S. Supreme Court justice (born in 1862) | |
| August 24th, 1945 (August 24 1945) | Birth | Ken Hensley, English musician (Uriah Heep) | |
| August 24th, 1945 (August 24 1945) | Birth | Vince McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter | Vince McMahon Quotes |
| August 24th, 1944 (August 24 1944) | Event | World War II: Allied troops start the attack on Paris. | |
| August 24th, 1944 (August 24 1944) | Birth | Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (died in 1996) | |
| August 24th, 1944 (August 24 1944) | Birth | Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (died in 1986) | |
| August 24th, 1943 (August 24 1943) | Birth | John Cipollina, American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (died in 1989) | |
| August 24th, 1943 (August 24 1943) | Birth | Pini Zahavi, Israeli football agent | |
| August 24th, 1943 (August 24 1943) | Death | Simone Weil, French philosopher and social activist (born in 1909) | Simone Weil Quotes |
| August 24th, 1942 (August 24 1942) | Event | World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryujo is sunk and US carrier Enterprise heavily damaged. | Solomon Quotes |
| August 24th, 1942 (August 24 1942) | Birth | Max Cleland, American politician | |
| August 24th, 1942 (August 24 1942) | Birth | Howard Jacobson, British novelist and newspaper columnist | |
| August 24th, 1940 (August 24 1940) | Birth | Francine Lalonde, Quebec politician | |
| August 24th, 1940 (August 24 1940) | Death | Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German television pioneer (born in 1860) | |
| August 24th, 1939 (August 24 1939) | Event | The Nazi-Soviet Pact is signed between Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. | Joseph Stalin Quotes |
| August 24th, 1938 (August 24 1938) | Birth | Halldor Blondal, Icelandic politician | |
| August 24th, 1938 (August 24 1938) | Birth | David Freiberg, American bassist (Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Starship) | |
| August 24th, 1938 (August 24 1938) | Birth | Mason Williams, American guitarist and composer | |
| August 24th, 1937 (August 24 1937) | Event | In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santona Agreement. | |
| August 24th, 1937 (August 24 1937) | Birth | Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, Nigerian politician (died in 1998) | Osho Quotes |
| August 24th, 1936 (August 24 1936) | Event | The Australian Antarctic Territory is created. | |
| August 24th, 1936 (August 24 1936) | Birth | A. S. Byatt, English novelist | A. S. Byatt Quotes |
| August 24th, 1936 (August 24 1936) | Birth | Kenny Guinn, American Governor, Nevada | |
| August 24th, 1934 (August 24 1934) | Birth | Kenny Baker, English actor | |
| August 24th, 1932 (August 24 1932) | Event | Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey). | |
| August 24th, 1931 (August 24 1931) | Event | France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty. | |
| August 24th, 1931 (August 24 1931) | Event | Resignation of the United Kingdom s Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government. | |
| August 24th, 1929 (August 24 1929) | Event | Turkey and Persia sign a friendship treaty. | |
| August 24th, 1929 (August 24 1929) | Event | Riots in Palestine of 1929: 18 Jews in Safed, 67 in Hebron, and 22 in Jerusalem killed by Arab Palestinians. | |
| August 24th, 1929 (August 24 1929) | Birth | Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader (died in 2004) | Yasser Arafat Quotes |
| August 24th, 1927 (August 24 1927) | Birth | Harry Markowitz, American economist, Nobel laureate | |
| August 24th, 1927 (August 24 1927) | Birth | David Ireland, Australian author | |
| August 24th, 1923 (August 24 1923) | Birth | Arthur Jensen, American psychologist | |
| August 24th, 1922 (August 24 1922) | Birth | Rene Levesque, Premier of Quebec (died in 1987) | |
| August 24th, 1922 (August 24 1922) | Birth | Howard Zinn, American historian and activist | Howard Zinn Quotes |
| August 24th, 1921 (August 24 1921) | Birth | Sam Tingle, Zimbabwean racing driver | |
| August 24th, 1921 (August 24 1921) | Death | Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (born in 1886) | |
| August 24th, 1918 (August 24 1918) | Birth | Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (died in 2004) | |
| August 24th, 1917 (August 24 1917) | Birth | Dennis James, American game show host (died in 1997) | |
| August 24th, 1916 (August 24 1916) | Birth | Hal Smith, American actor (died in 1994) | |
| August 24th, 1916 (August 24 1916) | Birth | Leo Ferre, French composer and singer (died in 1993) | |
| August 24th, 1915 (August 24 1915) | Birth | James Tiptree, Jr., American writer (died in 1987) | |
| August 24th, 1914 (August 24 1914) | Event | World War I: German troops capture Namur. | |
| August 24th, 1912 (August 24 1912) | Event | Alaska becomes a United States territory. | |
| August 24th, 1912 (August 24 1912) | Birth | Durward Kirby, American television personality (died in 2000) | |
| August 24th, 1911 (August 24 1911) | Birth | Lofty England, English automotive engineer and race team manager (d.1995) | |
| August 24th, 1909 (August 24 1909) | Event | Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal. | |
| August 24th, 1905 (August 24 1905) | Birth | Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone (died in 1988) | |
| August 24th, 1905 (August 24 1905) | Birth | Arthur Crudup, American singer and guitarist (died in 1976) | |
| August 24th, 1904 (August 24 1904) | Birth | Alice White, American actress (died in 1983) | |
| August 24th, 1903 (August 24 1903) | Birth | Karl Hanke, Nazi official (died in 1945) | |
| August 24th, 1902 (August 24 1902) | Birth | Carlo Gambino, Sicilian-born American mafioso (died in 1976) | |
| August 24th, 1902 (August 24 1902) | Birth | Fernand Braudel, French historian (died in 1985) | |
| August 24th, 1901 (August 24 1901) | Birth | Preston Foster, American actor (died in 1970) | |
| August 24th, 1899 (August 24 1899) | Birth | Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (died in 1986) | Jorge Luis Borges Quotes |
| August 24th, 1899 (August 24 1899) | Birth | Gaylord DuBois, American comic book writer (died in 1993) | |
| August 24th, 1899 (August 24 1899) | Birth | Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, Nobel laureate (died in 1983) | |
| August 24th, 1898 (August 24 1898) | Birth | Malcolm Cowley, American literary critic (died in 1989) | |
| August 24th, 1897 (August 24 1897) | Birth | Fred Rose, American songwriter and publishing executive (died in 1954) | |
| August 24th, 1895 (August 24 1895) | Birth | Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston (died in 1970) | |
| August 24th, 1891 (August 24 1891) | Event | Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera. | |
| August 24th, 1890 (August 24 1890) | Birth | Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer and surfer (died in 1968) | |
| August 24th, 1890 (August 24 1890) | Birth | Jean Rhys, British writer (died in 1979) | |
| August 24th, 1888 (August 24 1888) | Death | Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (born in 1822) | |
| August 24th, 1887 (August 24 1887) | Birth | Harry Hooper, American baseball player (died in 1974) | |
| August 24th, 1884 (August 24 1884) | Birth | Earl Derr Biggers, American author (died in 1933) | |
| August 24th, 1880 (August 24 1880) | Birth | Joshua Lionel Cowen, American entrepreneur (died in 1965) | |
| August 24th, 1875 (August 24 1875) | Event | Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim English Channel | |
| August 24th, 1872 (August 24 1872) | Birth | Max Beerbohm, British caricaturist (died in 1956) | Max Beerbohm Quotes |
| August 24th, 1870 (August 24 1870) | Event | The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion. | |
| August 24th, 1865 (August 24 1865) | Birth | King Ferdinand I of Romania (died in 1927) | |
| August 24th, 1863 (August 24 1863) | Birth | Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (died in 1918) | |
| August 24th, 1858 (August 24 1858) | Event | In Richmond, Virginia, 90 blacks are arrested for learning. | |
| August 24th, 1857 (August 24 1857) | Event | The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history. | |
| August 24th, 1852 (August 24 1852) | Birth | Deacon White, American baseball player (died in 1919) | |
| August 24th, 1845 (August 24 1845) | Birth | James C. Calhoun, American soldier, brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer (died in 1876) | |
| August 24th, 1841 (August 24 1841) | Death | Theodore Edward Hook, English author (born in 1788) | |
| August 24th, 1837 (August 24 1837) | Birth | Theodore Dubois, French composer and teacher (died in 1924) | |
| August 24th, 1832 (August 24 1832) | Death | Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (born in 1796) | |
| August 24th, 1831 (August 24 1831) | Event | Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle. | Charles Darwin Quotes |
| August 24th, 1831 (August 24 1831) | Death | August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (born in 1760) | |
| August 24th, 1821 (August 24 1821) | Event | The Treaty of Cordoba is signed in Cordoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain. | |
| August 24th, 1820 (August 24 1820) | Event | Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal s crises of the Nineteenth Century. | |
| August 24th, 1817 (August 24 1817) | Birth | Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (died in 1875) | |
| August 24th, 1816 (August 24 1816) | Event | The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri. | |
| August 24th, 1814 (August 24 1814) | Event | British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings. | |
| August 24th, 1798 (August 24 1798) | Death | Thomas Alcock, English clergyman (born in 1709) | |
| August 24th, 1787 (August 24 1787) | Birth | James Weddell, English explorer of Antarctica (died in 1834) | |
| August 24th, 1779 (August 24 1779) | Death | Saint Cosmas of Aetolia, Greek Orthodox martyr (born in 1714) | |
| August 24th, 1772 (August 24 1772) | Birth | King William I of the Netherlands (died in 1840) | William King Quotes |
| August 24th, 1759 (August 24 1759) | Birth | William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (died in 1833) | |
| August 24th, 1759 (August 24 1759) | Death | Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (born in 1715) | |
| August 24th, 1758 (August 24 1758) | Birth | Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, queen of Denmark and Norway (died in 1794) | |
| August 24th, 1750 (August 24 1750) | Birth | Letizia Ramolino, mother of Napoleon Bonaparte (died in 1836) | Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| August 24th, 1707 (August 24 1707) | Birth | Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English Evangelical Revivalist (died in 1791) | |
| August 24th, 1690 (August 24 1690) | Event | Calcutta, India is founded. | |
| August 24th, 1683 (August 24 1683) | Death | John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (born in 1616) | |
| August 24th, 1682 (August 24 1682) | Event | William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania. | William Penn Quotes |
| August 24th, 1680 (August 24 1680) | Death | Thomas Blood, Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels (born in 1618) | |
| August 24th, 1679 (August 24 1679) | Death | Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz, French churchman and agitator (born in 1614) | |
| August 24th, 1669 (August 24 1669) | Birth | Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (died in 1747) | |
| August 24th, 1664 (August 24 1664) | Death | Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (bc. 1610) | |
| August 24th, 1662 (August 24 1662) | Event | Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer. | |
| August 24th, 1647 (August 24 1647) | Death | Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (born in 1586) | |
| August 24th, 1635 (August 24 1635) | Birth | Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (died in 1699) | |
| August 24th, 1608 (August 24 1608) | Event | The first official English representative to India lands in Surat. | |
| August 24th, 1595 (August 24 1595) | Death | Thomas Digges, English astronomer (born in 1546) | |
| August 24th, 1591 (August 24 1591) | Birth | Robert Herrick, English poet (died in 1674) | Robert Herrick Quotes |
| August 24th, 1580 (August 24 1580) | Birth | John Taylor, English poet (died in 1654) | |
| August 24th, 1572 (August 24 1572) | Event | Saint Bartholomew s Day Massacre: On the orders of king Charles IX of France, a massacre of Huguenots (French Protestants) begins. | |
| August 24th, 1572 (August 24 1572) | Death | Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (born in 1519) | |
| August 24th, 1572 (August 24 1572) | Death | Pierre de la Ramee, French humanist (born in 1515) | |
| August 24th, 1572 (August 24 1572) | Death | Charles de Teligny, French Huguenot soldier (bc. 1535) | |
| August 24th, 1561 (August 24 1561) | Event | Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony. | |
| August 24th, 1552 (August 24 1552) | Birth | Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (died in 1614) | |
| August 24th, 1542 (August 24 1542) | Death | Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (born in 1483) | |
| August 24th, 1540 (August 24 1540) | Death | Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (born in 1503) | |
| August 24th, 1511 (August 24 1511) | Event | Alfonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca. | |
| August 24th, 1456 (August 24 1456) | Event | The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed. | |
| August 24th, 1393 (August 24 1393) | Birth | Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (died in 1458) | |
| August 24th, 1391 (August 24 1391) | Event | Jews massacred in Palma de Mallorca. | |
| August 24th, 1358 (August 24 1358) | Birth | King John I of Castile (died in 1390) | |
| August 24th, 1349 (August 24 1349) | Event | Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague. | |
| August 24th, 1217 (August 24 1217) | Death | Eustace the Monk, French mercenary and pirate (bc. 1170) | |
| August 24th, 1215 (August 24 1215) | Event | Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid. | |
| August 24th, 1198 (August 24 1198) | Birth | King Alexander II of Scotland (died in 1249) | |
| August 24th, 1113 (August 24 1113) | Birth | Geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou (died in 1151) | |
| August 24th, 1103 (August 24 1103) | Death | King Magnus III of Norway (born in 1073) | |
| August 24th, 1042 (August 24 1042) | Death | Michael V, Byzantine Emperor) (born in 1015) | |
| August 24th, 0410 (August 24 0410) | Event | The Visigoths under Alaric begin to pillage Rome for three days. | |
