On this day: 24 August
Events, births and deaths on 24 August. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Walter Scheel
- Deaths · Roger Y. Tsien
- Events · August 2016 Central Italy earthquake
100 years ago1926
- Births · Nancy Spero
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1101 · Deaths · Su Shi
- 1113 · Births · Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou
- 1042 · Deaths · Michael V Kalaphates
Events · 32
- 49 BCE(Julian date)Battle of the Bagradas River — between Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio and the Pompeian Republicans under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba I of Numidia
- 410(Julian date)410 sack of Rome — 410 Visigoth siege and looting of Rome
- 1217Battle of Sandwich (1217) — battle in 1217
- 1516Battle of Marj Dabiq — 1516 battle
- 1572(Julian date)St. Bartholomew's Day massacre — massacre of the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) by the French government, 1572
- 1675Battle of Lwów — battle of the Polish-Ottoman War in 1675
- 1704Battle of Málaga — 1704 naval battle
- 1781Lochry's Defeat — 1781 battle in Indiana, USA
- 1789First Battle of Svensksund — 1789 naval battle between the Swedish Navy and the Imperial Russian Navy
- 1814Burning of Washington — British naval attack on the United States during the War of 1812
- 1821Treaty of Córdoba — treaty that established Mexican independence from Spain
- 1911President of Portugal — position
- 19291929 Hebron massacre — Massacre of Jewish residents of Hebron by Arabs residents in 1929 Arab riots in Mandatory Palestine
- 1937Sovereign Council of Asturias and León — unrecognized state in northern Spain during the Spanish Civil War
- 1937Santoña Agreement — Spanish Civil War episode
- 1938Kweilin Incident — civilian airliner destroyed by Japanese aircraft in China in 1938
- 1942Battle of the Eastern Solomons — 1942 WWII carrier battle
- 1951United Airlines Flight 615 — Transcontinental flight that crashed in 1951
- 1970Sterling Hall bombing — US domestic terror attack
- 197310th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party — 1973 Chinese Communist Party conference
- 1991Ukraine — country in Eastern Europe
- 1992
- 1995Windows 95 — personal computer operating system by Microsoft
- 2001Air Transat Flight 236 — 2001 aviation incident involving an Air Transat Airbus A330 over the North Atlantic Ocean
- 20042004 Russian aircraft bombings — two aircraft bombings on the same day in 2004 on Russian airliners
- 2008Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 6895 — charter flight operated on behalf of Iran Aseman Airlines
- 2010Henan Airlines Flight 8387 — 2010 aircraft crash
- 2010Agni Air Flight 101 — crash in 2010 after take-off from Kathmandu
- 20102010 San Fernando massacre — 2010 mass murder of 72 guest workers in San Fernando
- 20142014 South Napa earthquake — earthquake in California in 2014
- 2016August 2016 Central Italy earthquake — 6.1 or 6.2 magnitude earthquake on 24 August 2016 in the central parts of Italy
- 2023discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant — 2023 event in Japan
Births · 60
- 1113(Julian date)Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou — Duke of Normandy
- 1198Alexander — King of Alba from 1214 to 1249
- 1358(Julian date)John I of Castile and Leon — King of Castille and Leon (1358-1390)
- 1552(Julian date)Lavinia Fontana — Italian painter (1552–1614)
- 1591Robert Herrick — English poet and cleric (1591–1674)
- 1603Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur — Khan of Khiva from 1643 to 1663
- 1759William Wilberforce — English politician and abolitionist (1759–1833)
- 1772William I of the Netherlands — King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg 1815-1840 (1772-1843)
- 1787James Weddell — British Antarctic explorer
- 1865Ferdinand I of Romania — king of Romania (1865–1927; ruled 1914–1927)
- 1872Max Beerbohm — English writer (1872-1956)
- 1890Jean Rhys — British novelist (1890–1979)
- 1890Duke Kahanamoku — American swimmer, surfer and actor (1890-1968)
- 1898Albert Claude — Belgian-American cell biologist (1899–1983)
- 1899Jorge Luis Borges — Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986)
- 1902Fernand Braudel — French historian and leader of the Annales School
- 1905Siaka Stevens — Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (1905-1988)
- 1922Howard Zinn — American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker (1922–2010)
- 1927Harry Markowitz — American economist (1927–2023)
- 1929Yasser Arafat — Palestinian political leader (1929-2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004)
- 1934Kenny Baker — British actor and musician (1934–2016)
- 1936A. S. Byatt — British writer (1936–2023)
- 1942Karen Uhlenbeck — American mathematician (born 1942)
- 1944Gregory Jarvis — American astronaut (1944-1986)
- 1945Vince McMahon — American professional wrestling promoter (born 1945)
Deaths · 60
- 661(Julian date)Kōgyoku — Empress of Japan
- 842(Julian date)Emperor Saga — Emperor of Japan
- 1042(Julian date)Michael V Kalaphates — Byzantine emperor
- 1101(Julian date)Su Shi — Chinese writer and politician (1037–1101)
- 1103Magnus Barefoot — King of Norway
- 1313(Julian date)Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor — King of the Romans from 1308 to 1313 (1275–1313)
- 1507(Julian date)Cecily of York — English princess
- 1540(Julian date)Parmigianino — Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker (1503–1540)
- 1542(Julian date)Gasparo Contarini — Catholic cardinal and Bishop of Belluno
- 1572(Julian date)Gaspard II de Coligny — French nobleman and admiral and Huguenot leader (1519–1572)
- 1595Thomas Digges — English mathematician and astronomer (c.1546–1595)
- 1617Rose of Lima — Dominican saint from Peru
- 1679Jean François Paul de Gondi — French Catholic cardinal (1613–1679)
- 1683John Owen — theologian, politician, religious figure (1616-1683)
- 1759Ewald Christian von Kleist — German poet and noble (1715-1759)
- 1770Thomas Chatterton — English poet and forger (1752-1770)
- 1779(Julian date)Cosmas of Aetolia — saint in the Greek Orthodox Church
- 1821John William Polidori — English writer and physician (1795–1821)
- 1830Louis Pierre Vieillot — French ornithologist
- 1832Nicolas Carnot — French physicist (1796–1832)
- 1838Ferenc Kölcsey — Hungarian politician and writer (1790-1838)
- 1841Theodore Hook — British writer (1788-1841)
- 1888Rudolf Clausius — German mathematical physicist and professor (1822–1888)
- 1895Albert Frederick Mummery — English mountaineer and author (1855–1895)
- 1897Mutsu Munemitsu — Japanese diplomat (1844-1897)
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