August 24

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Holidays & Observances Independence Day of Ukraine, Nostalgia Night, Flag Day (Liberia), Willka Raymi Events 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, 1962 Asian Games Famous birthdays Dave Chappelle, Rupert Grint, Paulo Coelho, Chad Michael Murray, Vince McMahon

August 24 is the 236th day of the year (237th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 129 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).

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Events

49 BC – Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Battle of the Bagradas (49 BC) by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio commits suicide to avoid capture.

AD 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).

394 – The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, was written.

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.

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).

1781 – American Revolutionary War: A small force of Pennsylvania militia is ambushed and overwhelmed by an American Indian group, which forces George Rogers Clark to abandon his attempt to attack Detroit.

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, the Capitol and many other buildings are set ablaze.

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 the 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.

1914 – World War I: German troops capture Namur.

1914 – World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.

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; the remaining Jews are forced to flee the city.

1931 – France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality pact.

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 – Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.

1937 – Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.

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, with the loss of 7 officers and 113 crewmen. The US carrier USS Enterprise is heavily damaged.

1944 – World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.

1949 – The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization 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, outlawing the American Communist Party.

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 United States Embassy, Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to launch a coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm if he did not remove his brother Ngô Đình Nhu.

1967 – Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.

1970 – Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.

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.

1989 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.

1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1991 – Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.

1994 – Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.

1995 – Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America.

1998 – First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.

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 from 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.

2016 – An earthquake strikes Central Italy with a magnitude of 6.2, with aftershocks felt as far as Rome and Florence.

Births

1016 – Fujiwara no Genshi, Japanese empress consort (d. 1039)

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)

1423 – Thomas Rotherham, English cleric (d. 1500)

1498 – John, Hereditary Prince of Saxony (d. 1537)

1552 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter and educator (d. 1614)

1556 – Sophia Brahe, Danish horticulturalist and astronomer (d. 1643)

1561 – Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk (d. 1626)

1578 – John Taylor, English poet and author (d. 1653)

1591 – Robert Herrick, English poet and cleric (d. 1674)

1635 – Peder Griffenfeld, Danish lawyer and politician (d. 1699)

1714 – Alaungpaya, Burmese king (d. 1760)

1732 – Peter Ernst Wilde, German physician and journalist (d. 1785)

1758 – Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1794)

1759 – William Wilberforce, English philanthropist and politician (d. 1833)

1772 – William I of the Netherlands (d. 1840)

1787 – James Weddell, Belgian-English sailor, hunter, and explorer (d. 1834)

1824 – Antonio Stoppani, Italian geologist and scholar (d. 1891)

1837 – Théodore Dubois, French organist, composer, and educator (d. 1924)

1845 – James Calhoun, American lieutenant (d. 1876)

1851 – Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer and journalist (d. 1924)

1860 – David Bowman, Australian lawyer and politician (d. 1916)

1863 – Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (d. 1918)

1865 – Ferdinand I of Romania (d. 1927)

1872 – Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist (d. 1956)

1884 – Earl Derr Biggers, American author and playwright (d. 1933)

1887 – Harry Hooper, American baseball player and Baseball Hall of Fame inductee (d. 1974)

1888 – Valentine Baker, Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company (d. 1942)

1890 – Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer, actor, and surfer (d. 1968)

1890 – Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist (d. 1979)

1893 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist and academic (d. 1978)

1895 – Richard Cushing, American cardinal (d. 1970)

1897 – Fred Rose, American pianist, songwriter, and publisher (d. 1954)

1898 – Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, literary critic (d. 1989)

1899 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator (d. 1986)

1899 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)

1899 – Gaylord DuBois, American author and poet (d. 1993)

1901 – Preston Foster, American actor (d. 1970)

1902 – Fernand Braudel, French historian and academic (d. 1985)

1902 – Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1976)

1903 – Karl Hanke, German businessman and politician (d. 1945)

1905 – Siaka Stevens, Sierra Leonean police officer and politician, 1st President of Sierra Leone (d. 1988)

1907 – Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect, designed the Hallenstadion (d. 2012)

1908 – Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist (d. 1931)

1909 – Ronnie Grieveson, South African cricketer and soldier (d. 1998)

1911 – Durward Kirby, American television host and announcer (d. 2000)

1913 – Charles Snead Houston, American physician and mountaineer (d. 2009)

1915 – James Tiptree, Jr., American psychologist and author (d. 1987)

1917 – Dennis James, American game show host (d. 1997)

1918 – Sikander Bakht, Indian field hockey player and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (d. 2004)

1919 – Enrique Llanes, Mexican wrestler (d. 2004)

1920 – Alex Colville, Canadian painter and academic (d. 2013)

1921 – Sam Tingle, English-Zimbabwean race car driver (d. 2008)

1921 – Eric Simms, English ornithologist and conservationist (d. 2009)

1922 – René Lévesque, Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Premier of Quebec (d. 1987)

1922 – Howard Zinn, American historian, author, and activist (d. 2010)

1923 – Arthur Jensen, American psychologist and academic (d. 2012)

1924 – Alyn Ainsworth, English singer and conductor (d. 1990)

1926 – Nancy Spero, American painter and academic (d. 2009)

1927 – Anjali Devi, Indian actress and producer (d. 2014)

1927 – David Ireland, Australian author and playwright

1927 – Harry Markowitz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

1929 – Yasser Arafat, Egyptian-Palestinian engineer and politician, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority (d. 2004)

1929 – Betty Dodson, American author and educator

1930 – Jackie Brenston, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (d. 1979)

1930 – Roger McCluskey, American race car driver (d. 1993)

1932 – Robert D. Hales, American captain and religious leader

1932 – Richard Meale, Australian pianist and composer (d. 2009)

1932 – Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, English cardinal

1933 – Prince Rupert Loewenstein, Spanish-English banker and manager (d. 2014)

1934 – Kenny Baker, English actor (d. 2016)

1936 – A. S. Byatt, English novelist and poet

1936 – Kenny Guinn, American banker and politician, 27th Governor of Nevada (d. 2010)

1936 – Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr., American physicist and academic (d. 2001)

1937 – Moshood Abiola, Nigerian businessman and politician (d. 1998)

1937 – Susan Sheehan, Austrian-American journalist and author

1938 – David Freiberg, American singer and bass player

1938 – Mason Williams, American guitarist and composer

1940 – Francine Lalonde, Canadian educator and politician (d. 2014)

1940 – Keith Savage, English rugby player

1941 – Alan M. Roberts, Professor of Zoology at the University of Bristol

1942 – Max Cleland, American captain and politician

1942 – Peter Gummer, Baron Chadlington, English businessman

1944 – Henry Braden, American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)

1944 – Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 1996)

1944 – Gregory Jarvis, American captain, engineer, and astronaut (d. 1986)

1944 – Rocky Johnson, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer

1945 – Ronee Blakley, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

1945 – Vince McMahon, American wrestler, promoter, and entrepreneur; co-founded WWE

1947 – Anne Archer, American actress and producer

1947 – Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author and songwriter

1947 – Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist and coach

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 – Alexander McCall Smith, Rhodesian-Scottish author and educator

1948 – Sauli Niinistö, Finnish captain and politician, 12th President of Finland

1948 – Kim Sung-il, South Korean commander and pilot

1949 – Stephen Paulus, American composer and educator (d. 2014)

1950 – John Banaszak, American football player and coach

1950 – Tim D. White, American paleoanthropologist and academic

1951 – Oscar Hijuelos, American author and academic (d. 2013)

1952 – Marion Bloem, Dutch author, director, and painter

1952 – Bob Corker, American businessman and politician

1952 – Carlo Curley, American organist and educator (d. 2012)

1952 – Ian Grob, English race car driver

1952 – Mike Shanahan, American football player and coach

1953 – Ron Holloway, American saxophonist

1953 – Sam Torrance, Scottish golfer and sportscaster

1954 – Alain Daigle, Canadian ice hockey player

1954 – Heini Otto, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager

1955 – Mike Huckabee, American minister and politician, 44th Governor of Arkansas

1956 – Gerry Cooney, American boxer

1956 – John Culberson, American lawyer and politician

1956 – Dick Lee, Singaporean singer-songwriter and playwright

1957 – Jeffrey Daniel, American singer-songwriter and dancer

1957 – Stephen Fry, English actor, journalist, producer, and screenwriter

1958 – Steve Guttenberg, American actor and producer

1958 – Chris Offutt, American author and academic

1959 – Meg Munn, English social worker and politician

1960 – Cal Ripken, Jr., American baseball player and coach

1961 – Jared Harris, English actor

1962 – Major Garrett, American journalist and author

1962 – Emile Roemer, Dutch educator and politician

1963 – Francis Pangilinan, Filipino lawyer and politician

1964 – Éric Bernard, French race car driver

1964 – Salizhan Sharipov, Kyrgyzstani-Russian lieutenant, pilot, and astronaut

1965 – Marlee Matlin, American actress and producer

1965 – Reggie Miller, American basketball player and sportscaster

1965 – Brian Rajadurai, Sri Lankan-Canadian cricketer

1966 – Nick Denton, English journalist and businessman, founded Gawker Media

1967 – Michael Thomas, English footballer

1968 – Benoît Brunet, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

1968 – Shoichi Funaki, Japanese-American wrestler and sportscaster

1968 – Andreas Kisser, Brazilian guitarist, songwriter, and producer

1968 – Tim Salmon, American baseball player and sportscaster

1969 – Jans Koerts, Dutch cyclist

1970 – Rich Beem, American golfer

1970 – Tugay Kerimoğlu, Turkish footballer and manager

1972 – Jean-Luc Brassard, Canadian skier and radio host

1972 – Ava DuVernay, American director and screenwriter

1973 – Andrew Brunette, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1973 – Dave Chappelle, American comedian, actor, producer and screenwriter

1975 – Roberto Colombo, Italian footballer

1975 – Mark de Vries, Surinamese-Dutch footballer

1976 – Simon Dennis, English rower and academic

1976 – Nordin Wooter, Surinamese-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 and vlogger

1977 – Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer

1978 – Derek Morris, Canadian ice hockey player

1979 – Vahur Afanasjev, Estonian author and poet

1979 – Orlando Engelaar, Dutch footballer

1979 – Kaki King, American guitarist and composer

1979 – Michael Redd, American basketball player

1981 – Chad Michael Murray, American model and actor

1982 – José Bosingwa, Portuguese footballer

1982 – Kim Källström, Swedish footballer

1982 – Glen Atle Larsen, Norwegian footballer

1983 – Brett Gardner, American baseball player

1983 – Marcel Goc, German ice hockey player

1983 – George Perris, Greek-French singer-songwriter and pianist

1984 – Erin Molan, Australian journalist and sportscaster

1984 – Charlie Villanueva, American basketball player

1986 – Nick Adenhart, American baseball player (d. 2009)

1986 – Joseph Akpala, Nigerian footballer

1986 – Arian Foster, American football player

1986 – Fabiano Santacroce, Italian footballer

1987 – Anže Kopitar, Slovenian ice hockey player

1987 – Daichi Miura, Japanese singer-songwriter, dancer, and choreographer

1988 – Rupert Grint, English actor

1988 – Manu Ma'u, New Zealand rugby league player

1988 – Maya Yoshida, Japanese footballer

1989 – Reynaldo, Brazilian footballer

1989 – Rocío Igarzábal, Argentinian actress and singer

1990 – Juan Pedro Lanzani, Argentinian actor and singer

1991 – Wang Zhen, Chinese race walker

1992 – Jemerson, Brazilian footballer

1996 – Camila Giangreco Campiz, Paraguayan tennis player

Deaths

691 – Fu Youyi, official of the Tang Dynasty

842 – Saga, Japanese emperor (b. 786)

895 – Guthred, king of Northumbria

1042 – Michael V Kalaphates, Byzantine emperor (b. 1015)

1103 – Magnus Barefoot, Norwegian king (b. 1073)

1217 – Eustace the Monk, French pirate (b. 1170)

1313 – Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1275)

1540 – Parmigianino, Italian painter and etcher (b. 1503)

1542 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian cardinal (b. 1483)

1572 – Gaspard II de Coligny, French admiral (b. 1519)

1572 – Charles de Téligny, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1535)

1595 – Thomas Digges, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1546)

1647 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (b. 1586)

1679 – Jean François Paul de Gondi, French cardinal and author (b. 1614)

1680 – Thomas Blood, Irish colonel (b. 1618)

1680 – Ferdinand Bol, Dutch painter and etcher (b. 1616)

1683 – John Owen, English theologian and academic (b. 1616)

1759 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet and soldier (b. 1715)

1773 – George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1709)

1779 – Cosmas of Aetolia, Greek monk and saint (b. 1714)

1798 – Thomas Alcock, English priest and author (b. 1709)

1818 – James Carr, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)

1832 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (b. 1796)

1838 – Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet, critic, and politician (b. 1790)

1841 – Theodore Hook, English civil servant and composer (b. 1788)

1841 – John Ordronaux, French-American soldier (b. 1778)

1888 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822)

1895 – Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (b. 1855)

1923 – Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)

1930 – Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)

1932 – Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)

1939 – Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)

1940 – Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)

1943 – Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)

1943 – Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)

1946 – James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862)

1954 – Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (b. 1882)

1956 – Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1898)

1958 – Paul Henry, Irish painter and educator (b. 1876)

1967 – Henry J. Kaiser, American businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards and Kaiser Aluminum (b. 1882)

1974 – Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American pilot and businessman, co-founded Republic Aviation (b. 1894)

1977 – Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)

1978 – Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and actor (b. 1910)

1979 – Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (b. 1912)

1980 – Yootha Joyce, English actress (b. 1927)

1982 – Félix-Antoine Savard, Canadian priest and author (b. 1896)

1983 – Kalevi Kotkas, Estonian-Finnish high jumper and discus thrower (b. 1913)

1983 – Scott Nearing, American economist, educator, and activist (b. 1883)

1985 – Paul Creston, American composer and educator (b. 1906)

1987 – Malcolm Kirk, English rugby player and wrestler (b. 1936)

1990 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian-American journalist and author (b. 1941)

1990 – Gely Abdel Rahman, Sudanese-Egyptian poet and academic (b. 1931)

1991 – Bernard Castro, Italian-American inventor (b. 1904)

1992 – André Donner, Dutch academic and judge (b. 1918)

1997 – Luigi Villoresi, Italian race car driver (b. 1907)

1998 – E. G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1910)

1999 – Mary Jane Croft, American actress (b. 1916)

1999 – Alexandre Lagoya, Egyptian guitarist and composer (b. 1929)

2000 – Andy Hug, Swiss martial artist and kick-boxer (b. 1964)

2001 – Jane Greer, American actress (b. 1924)

2001 – Roman Matsov, Estonian violinist, pianist, and conductor (b. 1917)

2002 – Nikolay Guryanov Russian priest and mystic (b. 1909)

2003 – Wilfred Thesiger, Ethiopian-English explorer and author (b. 1910)

2004 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1926)

2006 – Rocco Petrone, American soldier and engineer (b. 1926)

2006 – Léopold Simoneau, Canadian tenor and educator (b. 1916)

2007 – Andrée Boucher, Canadian educator and politician, 39th Mayor of Quebec City (b. 1937)

2007 – Aaron Russo, American director and producer (b. 1943)

2010 – Satoshi Kon, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1963)

2011 – Seyhan Erözçelik, Turkish poet and author (b. 1962)

2011 – Mike Flanagan, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1951)

2012 – Dadullah, Pakistani Taliban leader (b. 1965)

2012 – Pauli Ellefsen, Faroese surveyor and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1936)

2012 – Steve Franken, American actor (b. 1932)

2012 – Félix Miélli Venerando, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1937)

2013 – Gerry Baker, American soccer player and manager (b. 1938)

2013 – Nílton de Sordi, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1931)

2013 – Julie Harris, American actress (b. 1925)

2013 – Muriel Siebert, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1928)

2014 – Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, producer, and politician (b. 1923)

2014 – Antônio Ermírio de Moraes, Brazilian businessman (b. 1928)

2015 – Charlie Coffey, American football player and coach (b. 1934)

2015 – Joseph F. Traub, German-American computer scientist and academic (b. 1932)

2015 – Justin Wilson, English race car driver (b. 1978)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Abbán of Ireland

Aurea of Ostia

Bartholomew the Apostle (Roman Catholic, Anglican)

Audoin

August 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Flag Day (Liberia)

Independence Day or Den' Nezalezhnosti, celebrates the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union in 1991.

International Strange Music Day

National Waffle Day (United States)

Nostalgia Night (Uruguay)

Willka Raymi (Cusco, Peru)

References

August 24 Wikipedia

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