August 24 Deaths |
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| 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) | 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) | Death | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (born in 1926) | |
| 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) | Death | Jane Greer, American actress (born in 1924) | |
| August 24th, 1999 (August 24 1999) | Death | Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (born in 1929) | |
| August 24th, 1998 (August 24 1998) | Death | E.G. Marshall, American actor (born in 1910) | |
| August 24th, 1995 (August 24 1995) | Death | Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-born photographer (born in 1898) | |
| August 24th, 1991 (August 24 1991) | Death | Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (born in 1904) | |
| 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, 1987 (August 24 1987) | Death | Malcolm Kirk, wrestler (born in 1936) | |
| August 24th, 1985 (August 24 1985) | Death | Paul Creston, American composer (born in 1906) | |
| August 24th, 1982 (August 24 1982) | Death | Felix-Antoine Savard, French Canadian catholic priest and novelist (born in 1896) | |
| August 24th, 1980 (August 24 1980) | Death | Yootha Joyce, British actress (born in 1927) | |
| 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) | Death | Louis Prima, American band leader (born in 1910) | |
| August 24th, 1977 (August 24 1977) | Death | Buddy O Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (born in 1916) | |
| August 24th, 1974 (August 24 1974) | Death | Alexander de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer (born in 1894) | |
| 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, 1958 (August 24 1958) | Death | Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (born in 1876) | |
| August 24th, 1956 (August 24 1956) | Death | Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (born in 1898) | |
| August 24th, 1954 (August 24 1954) | Death | Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil (born in 1882) | |
| August 24th, 1946 (August 24 1946) | Death | James Clark McReynolds, U.S. Supreme Court justice (born in 1862) | |
| August 24th, 1943 (August 24 1943) | Death | Simone Weil, French philosopher and social activist (born in 1909) | Simone Weil Quotes |
| August 24th, 1940 (August 24 1940) | Death | Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German television pioneer (born in 1860) | |
| August 24th, 1921 (August 24 1921) | Death | Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (born in 1886) | |
| August 24th, 1888 (August 24 1888) | Death | Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (born in 1822) | |
| August 24th, 1841 (August 24 1841) | Death | Theodore Edward Hook, English author (born in 1788) | |
| August 24th, 1832 (August 24 1832) | Death | Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (born in 1796) | |
| August 24th, 1831 (August 24 1831) | Death | August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (born in 1760) | |
| August 24th, 1798 (August 24 1798) | Death | Thomas Alcock, English clergyman (born in 1709) | |
| August 24th, 1779 (August 24 1779) | Death | Saint Cosmas of Aetolia, Greek Orthodox martyr (born in 1714) | |
| August 24th, 1759 (August 24 1759) | Death | Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (born in 1715) | |
| August 24th, 1683 (August 24 1683) | Death | John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (born in 1616) | |
| 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, 1664 (August 24 1664) | Death | Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (bc. 1610) | |
| August 24th, 1647 (August 24 1647) | Death | Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (born in 1586) | |
| August 24th, 1595 (August 24 1595) | Death | Thomas Digges, English astronomer (born in 1546) | |
| 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, 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, 1217 (August 24 1217) | Death | Eustace the Monk, French mercenary and pirate (bc. 1170) | |
| 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) | |
