On This Day — August 24
4062 noted people were born and 1839 died on August 24 in our archive, including Albert Claude, Karen Uhlenbeck and Viktor Glushkov.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on August 24
Albert Claude
1898 – 1983
Karen Uhlenbeck
b. 1942
Viktor Glushkov
1923 – 1982
Vladimir Kotelnikov
1908 – 2005
A. S. Byatt
1936 – 2023
Alex Colville
1920 – 2013
Aneesur Rahman
1927 – 1987
Arthur R. Jensen
1923 – 2012
Bertrand Moingeon
1964 – 2020
Carl Wilhelm Wirtz
1876 – 1939
Dyce Davidson
1835 – 1886
Elizabeth Lee Hazen
1885 – 1975
Ernest Amédée Barthélemy Mouchez
1821 – 1892
Eugen Mihăescu
b. 1937
Ferdinand Hueppe
1852 – 1938
Fernand Braudel
1902 – 1985
Gheorghe Chițu
1828 – 1897
John A. Rogers
b. 1967
Joshua Sobol
b. 1939
Keith Brodie
1939 – 2016
Lawrence Bacow
b. 1951
Leopold Horner
1911 – 2005
Ludwig Adamovich
1932 – 2024
Max Cleland
1942 – 2021
Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn
1880 – 1964
Mykolas Biržiška
1882 – 1962
Philip Coppens
1930 – 2017
Poppy Gustafsson
b. 1982
Pramod Khargonekar
b. 1956
Regina Ip
b. 1950
René Lévesque
1922 – 1987
Ryōko Akamatsu
1929 – 2024
Shirley M. Hufstedler
1925 – 2016
Stephen Fry
b. 1957
Stephen Kuffler
1913 – 1980
Steven Lindsey
b. 1960
Stéphane Richard
b. 1961
Susan L. Williams
1954 – 2018
Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk
1561 – 1626
Tsutomu Hata
1935 – 2017
Vince McMahon
b. 1945
Zhang Xin
b. 1965
A. Sivasailam
1934 – 2011
Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan
1895 – 1960
Adam Gopnik
b. 1956
Adel Mahmoud
1941 – 2018
Adinath Lahiri
1916 – 1975
Alan M. Roberts
b. 1941
Aleksander Skotnicki
b. 1948
Alexander James Kent
b. 1977
Alexander McCall Smith
b. 1948
Ali Smith
b. 1962
Amelia Windsor
b. 1995
Anatoly Zayats
b. 1963
Andrei Kostrichkin
1901 – 1973
Andrew Fraknoi
b. 1948
Angie Brooks
1928 – 2007
Anna Kurska
1929 – 2016
Antoine Taudou
1846 – 1925
Antoni Pacyfik Dydycz
1938 – 2025
Aparicio Méndez
1904 – 1988
Arnold Ross
1906 – 2002
Asbjørn Bryhn
1906 – 1990
B. G. Kher
1888 – 1957
Bantz J. Craddock
b. 1949
Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos
1931 – 2008
Bruce Campbell Hopper
1892 – 1973
Bruno Salmiala
1890 – 1981
Camille Krantz
1848 – 1924
Carlos Casares
1941 – 2002
Caroline Randall Williams
b. 1987
Charles Follen McKim
1847 – 1909
Cheng Fangwu
1897 – 1984
Chou Yang-shan
b. 1957
Dietrich Georg von Kieser
1779 – 1862
Dmitry Kardovsky
1866 – 1943
Douglass Cater
1923 – 1995
Ede Zathureczky
1903 – 1959
Edward Henry Sieveking
1816 – 1904
Edward Tuck
1842 – 1938
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett
1849 – 1902
Elmar Altvater
1938 – 2018
Emil Wichmann
1856 – 1938
Emmanuel-Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne, Cardinal de Bouillon
1643 – 1715
Ernst von Born
1885 – 1956
Ferdinand I of Romania
1865 – 1927
Florence Hedges
1878 – 1956
Francis Bland
1882 – 1967
Franz Philipp
1890 – 1972
François Delmas
1913 – 2002
Funke Akindele-Bello
b. 1977
Georg Nagel
b. 1953
Georgy Fotev
b. 1941
Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi
b. 1960
Giacomo Morandi
b. 1965
Gleb Nikitin
b. 1977
Gregory Jarvis
1944 – 1986
Haim Ernst Wertheimer
1893 – 1978
Harvinder Singh Phoolka
b. 1955
Helene Reynard
1875 – 1947
Howard Zinn
1922 – 2010
Hubertus von Pilgrim
1931 – 2026
Izabela Filipiak
b. 1961
Jack Scott
b. 1933
James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn
1838 – 1913
James R. Carrigan
1929 – 2014
Jason Crain
b. 1966
Jean-Michel Jarre
b. 1948
Jerzy Holzer
1930 – 2015
Jerzy Polaczek
b. 1961
Jitong Li
1897 – 1961
Joaquim António de Aguiar
1792 – 1884
Joe Manchin
b. 1947
Johan Van Overtveldt
b. 1955
John Butler, 2nd Marquess of Ormonde
1808 – 1854
John Forrest
b. 1949
John Green
b. 1977
John Newton
1823 – 1895
John P. Mackintosh
1929 – 1978
John Victor Murra
1916 – 2006
Jorge Luis Borges
1899 – 1986
Józef Michał Chomiński
1906 – 1994
K. Kelappan
1889 – 1971
Karoline Leavitt
b. 1997
Kenny Guinn
1936 – 2010
L. A. Puntila
1907 – 1988
Ladislav Smoček
b. 1932
Lan Jen Chu
1913 – 1973
Leon Wasilewski
1870 – 1936
Levko Lukianenko
1928 – 2018
Llewellyn Thompson
1904 – 1972
Luis María Serra
1941 – 2024
Lyon Gardiner Tyler
1853 – 1935
Léon Fredericq
1851 – 1935
Lígia Fonseca
b. 1963
M. S. Krishnan
1898 – 1970
Malcolm Knowles
1913 – 1997
Manfred Pinkal
b. 1949
Mark Cerny
b. 1964
Marsha P. Johnson
1945 – 1992
Marshall E. Cusic Jr.
b. 1943
Mehmet Aga-Oglu
1896 – 1949
Michael Roth
b. 1970
Michel Crépu
b. 1954
Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite
1927 – 2020
Muhammad Rizieq Shihab
b. 1965
Muhammad Yamin
1903 – 1962
Mykola Kucher
b. 1959
Māui Pōmare
1875 – 1930
Naji Sabri
b. 1951
Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar
1872 – 1947
Nathan Wolfe
b. 1970
Nils-Andreas Stensønes
b. 1964
Nina Ruge
b. 1956
Oleg Safonov
b. 1960
Oscar Hijuelos
1951 – 2013
Park Bum-shin
b. 1946
Paul Lendvai
b. 1929
Paul Rougnon
1846 – 1934
Paulo Coelho
b. 1947
Paulo Roberto Nunes Guedes
b. 1949
Pearl Kendrick
1890 – 1980
Pierre Mazeaud
b. 1929
Ramón Castroviejo
1904 – 1987
Rebekha Sharkie
b. 1972
Richard Cushing
1895 – 1970
Richard N. Richards
b. 1946
Robert Bickersteth
1816 – 1884
Rémi Féraud
b. 1971
Sankichi Takahashi
1882 – 1966
Sauli Niinistö
b. 1948
Seymour Fogel
1911 – 1984
Sir Thomas Picton
1758 – 1815
Sirje Olesk
b. 1954
Stanislav Shatalin
1934 – 1997
Stephen Lichtenbaum
b. 1939
Steve Pearce
b. 1947
Stewart McDonald
b. 1986
Takeshi Iwaya
b. 1957
Terje Tvedt
b. 1951
Theo Geisel
b. 1948
Théodore Dubois
1837 – 1924
Tim D. White
b. 1950
Timothy Ferris
b. 1944
Todd Young
b. 1972
Tokugawa Iesato
1863 – 1940
Vasyl Shchurat
1871 – 1948
Viacheslav Chaus
b. 1977
Vladimir Leposavić
b. 1984
William Francis Gibbs
1886 – 1967
William K. Suter
b. 1937
Xabier Arzalluz
1932 – 2019
Yan Lianke
b. 1958
Yaron London
b. 1940
Abdallah Ibrahim
1918 – 2005
Abigile Sperber
b. 1973
Abraham Scultetus
1566 – 1625
Achmad Zaky
b. 1986
Adolf Wilbrandt
1837 – 1911
Agostino Lo Piano Pomar
1871 – 1927
… and 3,862 more
Died on August 24
André Parrot
1901 – 1980
Rudolf Clausius
1822 – 1888
Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie Velpeau
1795 – 1867
Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven
1865 – 1951
Boris Levin
1906 – 1993
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
1926 – 2004
Harold Masursky
1922 – 1990
Hideki Shirakawa
1936 – 2026
Kathleen Kenyon
1906 – 1978
Katō Tomosaburō
1861 – 1923
Mykolas Biržiška
1882 – 1962
Pascal Lissouba
1931 – 2020
Philippe Bouvard
1929 – 2026
Richard Attenborough
1923 – 2014
Roger Y. Tsien
1952 – 2016
William Howard Brett
1846 – 1918
Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
1921 – 2016
Andrei Lupan
1912 – 1992
André Donner
1918 – 1992
Arturo Alessandri
1868 – 1950
Arun Jaitley
1952 – 2019
Attilio Palatini
1889 – 1949
Baruch Kurzweil
1907 – 1972
Bob Price
1927 – 2004
Casimir Gzowski
1813 – 1898
Cecil D. Andrus
1931 – 2017
Charles George Herbermann
1840 – 1916
Christos Yannaras
1935 – 2024
Count Christoffer Parsberg
1632 – 1671
Diego de Saavedra Fajardo
1584 – 1648
Edmund Brocklebank
1882 – 1949
Emidio Taliani
1838 – 1907
Getúlio Vargas
1882 – 1954
Gilles-Gaston Granger
1920 – 2016
Giorgi Chitaia
1890 – 1986
Giorgio Abetti
1882 – 1982
Gregorio Fontana
1735 – 1803
Grigory Kulik
1890 – 1950
Gunnar Wennerberg
1817 – 1901
Harold Bowden
1880 – 1960
Hayward Alker
1937 – 2007
Heikki Paasonen
1865 – 1919
Herbert Hupka
1915 – 2006
Hermann Grapow
1885 – 1967
Hissène Habré
1942 – 2021
Ignacio Solares
1945 – 2023
Jacob Kraus
1861 – 1951
James Clark McReynolds
1862 – 1946
Jinichi Kusaka
1888 – 1972
John Antony Cramer
1793 – 1848
John Duncan
1839 – 1899
John Owen
1616 – 1683
John Stuart Yeates
1900 – 1986
John Weinzweig
1913 – 2006
Joseph Tolchanov
1891 – 1981
Juan Bautista Egusquiza
1845 – 1902
Jules Adeline
1845 – 1909
Juste Lisch
1828 – 1910
Kai Linnilä
1942 – 2017
Kallistos (Ware)
1934 – 2022
Kazuo Inamori
1932 – 2022
Károly Kós
1883 – 1977
Lao She
1899 – 1966
Laurent-Olivier David
1840 – 1926
Lawrence Tyson
1861 – 1929
Li Da
1890 – 1966
Mahbub Talukder
1942 – 2022
Maria Petrovna Lilina
1866 – 1943
Michel Butor
1926 – 2016
Mikhail Kamensky
1738 – 1809
Muriel Siebert
1932 – 2013
Mutsu Munemitsu
1844 – 1897
Nicola Materazzi
1939 – 2022
Nicolas Carnot
1796 – 1832
Normand MacLaurin
1835 – 1914
Pierre Berthier
1782 – 1861
Prince Lucien Campbell
1861 – 1925
Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar
1837 – 1925
Raoul Le Mouton de Boisdeffre
1839 – 1919
Said Soekanto Tjokrodiatmodjo
1908 – 1993
Sergey Akhromeyev
1923 – 1991
Shigeharu Nakano
1902 – 1979
Shizuichi Tanaka
1887 – 1945
Sir John Rose, 1st Baronet
1820 – 1888
Sir Robert Cotton, 5th Baronet
1739 – 1809
Sébastien Lespès
1828 – 1897
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski
1895 – 1966
Theodore Hook
1788 – 1841
Vasily Gordov
1896 – 1950
Walter Scheel
1919 – 2016
Wei Wei
1920 – 2008
Émile Roblot
1886 – 1963
Aaron Russo
1943 – 2007
Adam Watson
1914 – 2007
Adam von Waldstein
1569 – 1638
Adrian Hardy Haworth
1767 – 1833
Adrian Swire
1932 – 2018
Aegidius Gelenius
1595 – 1656
Aharon Ben-Shemesh
1899 – 1985
Alexander P. de Seversky
1894 – 1974
Alexandre Lagoya
1929 – 1999
Alfred Salter
1873 – 1945
Alfred Stevens
1823 – 1906
Ambrogio Fogar
1941 – 2005
Andrew Lacey
1887 – 1946
Andrée Boucher
1937 – 2007
Anna Botsford Comstock
1854 – 1930
Antonmaria Sauli
1541 – 1623
Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria
1870 – 1902
Arkady Filippenko
1912 – 1983
Arnaud d'Aux
1260 – 1320
Arrigo Levi
1926 – 2020
Arthur T. Mason
1902 – 1980
Attilio Colacevich
1906 – 1953
Augustus E. Willson
1846 – 1931
Augustus Lord Soule
1827 – 1887
Barnaba Tortolini
1808 – 1874
Bayard Rustin
1912 – 1987
Belisario Velasco
1936 – 2023
Bevo Nordmann
1939 – 2015
Bjarni Thorarensen
1786 – 1841
Calogero Lo Giudice
1938 – 2021
Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl
1823 – 1914
Carl Christian Vilhelm Liebe
1820 – 1900
Carl Heyer
1797 – 1856
Carol Davila
1828 – 1884
Catherine Millot
1944 – 2026
Cesare Magarotto
1917 – 2006
Charles Diggs
1922 – 1998
Charles Loraine Smith
1751 – 1835
Charles Morehead
1807 – 1882
Charles Suydam Cutting
1889 – 1972
Charlotte Ainslie
1863 – 1960
Chen Wu
1954 – 2026
Chester B. Jordan
1839 – 1914
Christopher Cole
1770 – 1836
Ciril Zlobec
1925 – 2018
Cornelis Johannes van Houten
1920 – 2002
Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone
1890 – 1954
Daniel Cohalan
1858 – 1952
David Michie
1928 – 2015
Edmundo Chirinos
1935 – 2013
Egbert Benson
1746 – 1833
Elwood Romney
1911 – 1970
Enoch Heinrich Kisch
1841 – 1918
Ettore Muti
1902 – 1943
Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon
1901 – 1990
Franz Theodor Doflein
1873 – 1923
Frederick Carl Frieseke
1874 – 1939
Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey
1888 – 1980
Félix-Antoine Savard
1896 – 1982
Gail Sheehy
1936 – 2020
Gaspard II de Coligny
1519 – 1572
Gasparo Contarini
1483 – 1542
George Furner Langley
1891 – 1971
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
1709 – 1773
Giorgio Gusmini
1855 – 1921
Graham Liggins
1926 – 2010
Grigore Alexandru Ghica
1804 – 1857
Hanna Reitsch
1912 – 1979
Hans Helwig
1881 – 1952
Henry Cecil Raikes
1838 – 1891
Henry Galbraith Ward
1851 – 1933
Hermann Röchling
1872 – 1955
Hermannus Reydon
1896 – 1943
Horacio Liendo
1924 – 2007
Ivan Tarkhanov
1846 – 1908
Jack Richard Williams
1909 – 1998
Jacques Godechot
1907 – 1989
James Balfour
1830 – 1913
James Kealoha
1908 – 1983
James McDowell
1795 – 1851
James Tenney
1934 – 2006
Jay Thomas
1948 – 2017
Jean François Paul de Gondi
1613 – 1679
Jerry Clower
1926 – 1998
Jerry Harkness
1940 – 2021
Jerzy Plebański
1928 – 2005
Jo Gullett
1914 – 1999
Johan Adler Salvius
1590 – 1652
Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom
1893 – 1958
Johannes Weiss
1863 – 1914
John Davoren
1915 – 1997
John Jacob Rhodes
1916 – 2003
John Keane, 1st Baron Keane
1781 – 1844
John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale
1616 – 1682
Joseph I. Castro
1966 – 2025
Joseph K. Dixon
1856 – 1926
Joseph Marcelin Rulhières
1787 – 1863
Joseph Morrin
1794 – 1861
João Zeferino da Costa
1840 – 1915
Julie Harris
1925 – 2013
Jānis Fabriciuss
1877 – 1929
Karel Pravoslav Sádlo
1898 – 1971
Karel Slavíček
1678 – 1735
Karel van de Woestijne
1878 – 1929
Karl Ernst Theodor Schweigger
1830 – 1905
Katherine Tristram
1858 – 1948
Kenneth Leighton
1929 – 1988
Khwaja Abdul Ghani
1813 – 1896
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