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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 24th of August 0079 | EVENT | 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). |
| 24th of August 0410 | EVENT | The Visigoths under Alaric begin to pillage Rome. |
| 24th of August 1200 | EVENT | King John of England, signee of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angouleme in Bordeaux Cathedral. |
| 24th of August 1215 | EVENT | Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid. |
| 24th of August 1349 | EVENT | Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague. |
| 24th of August 1391 | EVENT | Jews are massacred in Palma de Mallorca. |
| 24th of August 1456 | EVENT | The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed. |
| 24th of August 1511 | EVENT | Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca. |
| 24th of August 1561 | EVENT | Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony. |
| 24th of August 1572 | EVENT | St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: On the orders of king Charles IX of France, a massacre of Huguenots (French Protestants) begins. |
| 24th of August 1608 | EVENT | The first official English representative to India lands in Surat. |
| 24th of August 1662 | EVENT | The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer. |
| 24th of August 1682 | EVENT | William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania. |
| 24th of August 1690 | EVENT | Calcutta, India is founded. |
| 24th of August 1812 | EVENT | Peninsula War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cadiz. |
| 24th of August 1814 | EVENT | British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings. |
| 24th of August 1815 | EVENT | The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed. |
| 24th of August 1816 | EVENT | The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri. |
| 24th of August 1820 | EVENT | Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal. |
| 24th of August 1821 | EVENT | The Treaty of Cordoba is signed in Cordoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain. |
| 24th of August 1831 | EVENT | Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle. |
| 24th of August 1857 | EVENT | The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history. |
| 24th of August 1870 | EVENT | The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion. |
| 24th of August 1875 | EVENT | Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim the English Channel |
| 24th of August 1891 | EVENT | Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera. |
| 24th of August 1898 | EVENT | Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference. |
| 24th of August 1902 | EVENT | A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moutier. |
| 24th of August 1909 | EVENT | Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal. |
| 24th of August 1912 | EVENT | Alaska becomes a United States territory. |
| 24th of August 1914 | EVENT | World War I: German troops capture Namur. |
| 24th of August 1929 | EVENT | 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. |
| 24th of August 1931 | EVENT | Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government. |
| 24th of August 1931 | EVENT | France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty. |
| 24th of August 1932 | EVENT | Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey). |
| 24th of August 1933 | EVENT | The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake : Potomac hurricane. |
| 24th of August 1936 | EVENT | The Australian Antarctic Territory is created. |
| 24th of August 1937 | EVENT | In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santona Agreement. |
| 24th of August 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryujo is sunk and US carrier USS Enterprise heavily damaged. |
| 24th of August 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris. |
| 24th of August 1949 | EVENT | The treaty creating NATO goes into effect. |
| 24th of August 1950 | EVENT | Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations. |
| 24th of August 1954 | EVENT | The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed. |
| 24th of August 1954 | EVENT | Getulio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by Joao Cafe Filho. |
| 24th of August 1963 | EVENT | Don Schollander swims the 200-metre freestyle in less than 2 minutes for the first time, in a world record time of 1:58. |
| 24th of August 1963 | EVENT | Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xa Loi 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. |
| 24th of August 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 trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them. |
| 24th of August 1968 | EVENT | France explodes its first hydrogen bomb, thus becoming the world's fifth nuclear power. |
| 24th of August 1981 | EVENT | Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon. |
| 24th of August 1989 | EVENT | Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government. |
| 24th of August 1989 | EVENT | Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti. |
| 24th of August 1991 | EVENT | Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union. |
| 24th of August 1991 | EVENT | Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
| 24th of August 1992 | EVENT | Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida as a Category 5 Hurricane. |
| 24th of August 1994 | EVENT | Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank. |
| 24th of August 1995 | EVENT | Computer software developer Microsoft releases its Windows 95 operating system. |
| 24th of August 1998 | EVENT | First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom. |
| 24th of August 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. |
| 24th of August 2004 | EVENT | 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. |
| 24th of August 2006 | EVENT | The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a Dwarf Planet. |
| 24th of August 1113 | BIRTHDAY | Geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou (d. 1151) |
| 24th of August 1198 | BIRTHDAY | King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249) |
| 24th of August 1358 | BIRTHDAY | King John I of Castile (d. 1390) |
| 24th of August 1393 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458) |
| 24th of August 1552 | BIRTHDAY | Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614) |
| 24th of August 1580 | BIRTHDAY | John Taylor, English poet (d. 1654) |
| 24th of August 1591 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Herrick, English poet (d. 1674) |
| 24th of August 1635 | BIRTHDAY | Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (d. 1699) |
| 24th of August 1669 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (d. 1747) |
| 24th of August 1707 | BIRTHDAY | Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English Evangelical Revivalist (d. 1791) |
| 24th of August 1750 | BIRTHDAY | Letizia Ramolino, mother of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1836) |
| 24th of August 1758 | BIRTHDAY | Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1794) |
| 24th of August 1759 | BIRTHDAY | William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (d. 1833) |
| 24th of August 1772 | BIRTHDAY | King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1840) |
| 24th of August 1787 | BIRTHDAY | James Weddell, English explorer of Antarctica (d. 1834) |
| 24th of August 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875) |
| 24th of August 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Stoppani, Italian geologist and scholar (d. 1891) |
| 24th of August 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore Dubois, French composer and teacher (d. 1924) |
| 24th of August 1845 | BIRTHDAY | James C. Calhoun, American soldier, brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1876) |
| 24th of August 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer (d. 1924) |
| 24th of August 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Deacon White, American baseball player (d. 1919) |
| 24th of August 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (d. 1918) |
| 24th of August 1865 | BIRTHDAY | King Ferdinand I of Romania (d. 1927) |
| 24th of August 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Max Beerbohm, British caricaturist (d. 1956) |
| 24th of August 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Joshua Lionel Cowen, American entrepreneur, creator of Lionel Trains (d. 1965) |
| 24th of August 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Earl Derr Biggers, American author (d. 1933) |
| 24th of August 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Hooper, American baseball player (d. 1974) |
| 24th of August 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Rhys, British writer (d. 1979) |
| 24th of August 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaiian swimmer and surfer (d. 1968) |
| 24th of August 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-born Israeli biochemist, recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1978) |
| 24th of August 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Cushing, archbishop of Boston (d. 1970) |
| 24th of August 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Rose, American songwriter and publishing executive (d. 1954) |
| 24th of August 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Cowley, American literary critic (d. 1989) |
| 24th of August 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1983) |
| 24th of August 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986) |
| 24th of August 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Gaylord DuBois, American comic book writer (d. 1993) |
| 24th of August 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Preston Foster, American actor (d. 1970) |
| 24th of August 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Gambino, Sicilian-born American mafioso (d. 1976) |
| 24th of August 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Fernand Braudel, French historian (d. 1985) |
| 24th of August 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Hanke, Nazi official (d. 1945) |
| 24th of August 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Alice White, American actress (d. 1983) |
| 24th of August 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Crudup, American singer and guitarist (d. 1976) |
| 24th of August 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone (d. 1988) |
| 24th of August 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect |
| 24th of August 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Grieveson, South African cricketer (d. 1998) |
| 24th of August 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Pablo, Greek Trotskyist leader (d. 1996) |
| 24th of August 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Lofty England, English automotive engineer and race team manager (d. 1995) |
| 24th of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Durward Kirby, American television personality (d. 2000) |
| 24th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Houston, American mountaineer (d. 2009) |
| 24th of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | James Tiptree, Jr., American writer (d. 1987) |
| 24th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Ferre, French composer and singer (d. 1993) |
| 24th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Hal Smith, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 24th of August 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis James, American game show host (d. 1997) |
| 24th of August 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (d. 2004) |
| 24th of August 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Enrique Llanes, Mexican professional wrestler (d. 2004) |
| 24th of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Colville, Canadian painter |
| 24th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Tingle, Zimbabwean racing driver (d. 2008) |
| 24th of August 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Levesque, Premier of Quebec (d. 1987) |
| 24th of August 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Zinn, American historian and activist (d. 2010) |
| 24th of August 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Jensen, American psychologist |
| 24th of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Gardner, British actor (d. 2010) |
| 24th of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Alyn Ainsworth, British bandleader (d. 1990) |
| 24th of August 1927 | BIRTHDAY | David Ireland, Australian author |
| 24th of August 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Markowitz, American economist, Nobel laureate |
| 24th of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Dodson, American feminist and sex educator |
| 24th of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2004) |
| 24th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Roger McCluskey, American racing driver (d. 1993) |
| 24th of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Robert D. Hales, LDS apostle |
| 24th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Baker, English actor |
| 24th of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | A. S. Byatt, English novelist |
| 24th of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Guinn, American Governor, Nevada |
| 24th of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, Nigerian politician (d. 1998) |
| 24th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Halldor Blondal, Icelandic politician |
| 24th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | David Freiberg, American bassist (Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Starship) |
| 24th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Mason Williams, American guitarist and composer |
| 24th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Francine Lalonde, Quebec politician |
| 24th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Jacobson, British novelist and newspaper columnist |
| 24th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Max Cleland, American politician |
| 24th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | John Cipollina, American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (d. 1989) |
| 24th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Pini Zahavi, Israeli football agent |
| 24th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (d. 1986) |
| 24th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Rocky Johnson, Canadian professional wrestler |
| 24th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1996) |
| 24th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Vince McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter |
| 24th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Hensley, English musician (Uriah Heep) |
| 24th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author |
| 24th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Archer, American actress |
| 24th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Manchin, American politician, governor and junior senator of West Virginia |
| 24th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist |
| 24th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Masorin, Russian admiral |
| 24th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Michel Jarre, French musician |
| 24th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Sung-Il, Chief of Staff of Republic of Korea Air Force |
| 24th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Regalbuto, American actor |
| 24th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Rocket, American actor (d. 2005) |
| 24th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Pia Degermark, Swedish actress |
| 24th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | John Banaszak, Pittsburgh Steelers three-time Super Bowl champion |
| 24th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Tim White, American anthropologist |
| 24th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Hijuelos, American author |
| 24th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Orson Scott Card, American writer |
| 24th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Corker, American politician, junior senator of Tennessee |
| 24th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jamaican dub poet |
| 24th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Holly Hallstrom American model for The Price is Right |
| 24th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Vogel, German footballer |
| 24th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Shanahan, American football coach |
| 24th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Holloway, American tenor saxophonist |
| 24th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Daigle, French Canadian ice hockey player |
| 24th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Cataldo, French singer |
| 24th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Huckabee, American politician, Governor/Presidential candidate |
| 24th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | John Culberson, American politician |
| 24th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Lee, Singaporean singer-songwriter |
| 24th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Daniel, American dancer and singer (Shalamar) |
| 24th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Fry, English comedian and actor |
| 24th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Guttenberg, American actor |
| 24th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Tracy Harris, American artist |
| 24th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Offutt, American author |
| 24th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Kuiper, former South African cricketer |
| 24th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Christofte, Danish footballer |
| 24th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Cal Ripken, Jr., American baseball player |
| 24th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Takashi Miike, Japanese filmmaker |
| 24th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Ingrid Berghmans, Belgian judoka |
| 24th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jared Harris, English actor |
| 24th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Kilborn, American talk show host |
| 24th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | David Koechner, American actor |
| 24th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Major Garrett, American journalist |
| 24th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | John Bush, American singer (Anthrax) |
| 24th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Hideo Kojima, Japanese video game director |
| 24th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Bernard, French racing driver |
| 24th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Dana Gould, American comedian and writer |
| 24th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Salizhan Sharipov, Russian cosmonaut |
| 24th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Reggie Miller, American basketball player |
| 24th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Marlee Matlin, American actress |
| 24th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Rajadurai, Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 24th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Thomas, English footballer |
| 24th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Benoit Brunet, French Canadian ice hockey player |
| 24th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Kisser, Brazilian guitarist (Sepultura) |
| 24th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Salmon, American baseball player |
| 24th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 24th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | James Toney, Professional boxer |
| 24th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | David Gregory, American television journalist |
| 24th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Henderson, American mixed martial artist |
| 24th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tugay Kerimoglu, Turkish footballer |
| 24th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor |
| 24th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Luc Brassard, Canadian freestyle skier |
| 24th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Chappelle, American actor and Comedian |
| 24th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Brunette, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 24th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Grey DeLisle, voice actress |
| 24th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Carmine Giovinazzo, American actor |
| 24th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer |
| 24th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Orla Fallon, Irish Vocalist for Celtic Woman |
| 24th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Lien, American actress |
| 24th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Mark de Vries, Surinamese-Dutch footballer |
| 24th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Alex O'Loughlin, Australian actor |
| 24th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Nordin Wooter, Dutch footballer |
| 24th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Denilson, Brazilian footballer |
| 24th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Enke, German footballer (d. 2009) |
| 24th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Per Gade, Danish footballer |
| 24th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | John Green, American author |
| 24th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jurgen Macho, Austrian footballer |
| 24th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Rafael Furcal, Dominican baseball player |
| 24th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Morris, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 24th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Beth Riesgraf, American actress |
| 24th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Elva Hsiao, Taiwanese singer |
| 24th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Orlando Engelaar, Dutch footballer |
| 24th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Redd, American basketball player |
| 24th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Markus Walger, German rugby player |
| 24th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sonja Bennett, Canadian actress |
| 24th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Chad Michael Murray, American actor |
| 24th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jiro Wang, Taiwanese singer, actor, model |
| 24th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Kallstrom, Swedish footballer |
| 24th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Goc, German ice hockey player |
| 24th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Parker, British actor |
| 24th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Gardner, American baseball player |
| 24th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Yesung, Korean singer (Super Junior) |
| 24th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Schmid, Canadian actor |
| 24th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Villanueva, American basketball player |
| 24th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Fabiano Santacroce, Italian footballer |
| 24th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Adenhart, American baseball player (d. 2009) |
| 24th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Anze Kopitar, Slovenian ice hockey player |
| 24th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Scheyer, American basketball player |
| 24th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Rupert Grint, English actor |
| 24th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Helga Krapf, Filipina actress |
| 24th of August 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Pedro Lanzani, Argentine actor and singer |
| 24th of August 2003 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandre Coste, son of Albert II, Prince of Monaco |
| 24th of August 0079 | DEATH | Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (Born 23) |
| 24th of August 1042 | DEATH | Michael V, Byzantine Emperor (Born 1015) |
| 24th of August 1103 | DEATH | King Magnus III of Norway (Born 1073) |
| 24th of August 1217 | DEATH | Eustace the Monk, French mercenary and pirate (Born c.1170) |
| 24th of August 1540 | DEATH | Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (Born 1503) |
| 24th of August 1542 | DEATH | Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (Born 1483) |
| 24th of August 1572 | DEATH | Victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: |