The Birthday Gazette

Born on August 24

August 24 birthdays & history

If you were born on August 24, you share a birthday with Jorge Luis Borges, Paulo Coelho and Sauli Niinistö. August 24 babies are Virgo, with peridot as their birthstone and the gladiolus as their birth flower. August 24 is the 237th day of the year in leap years (236th in other years).

Famous people born on August 24

  • 1899Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator
  • 1947Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author and songwriter
  • 1948Sauli Niinistö, Finnish captain and politician, 12th President of Finland
  • 1988Rupert Grint, English actor
  • 1902Fernand Braudel, French historian and academic
  • 1948Jean Michel Jarre, French pianist, composer, and producer
  • 1965Marlee Matlin, American actress and producer
  • 1997Alan Walker, British-Norwegian DJ and record producer
  • 1957Stephen Fry, English actor, journalist, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1977John Green, American author and vlogger

What happened on August 24

  • 1643A Dutch expedition (depicted) arrived at the mouth of the Valdivia River, in present-day Chile, to establish a new colony in the ruins of the abandoned Spanish settlement of Valdivia.
  • 1815The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
  • 1816The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • 188889 New Zealand Native football team
  • 1889The New Zealand Native football team, predominantly comprising Māori players, concluded their 107-game tour, the longest in rugby union history.
  • 1909Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
  • 1911Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn in as the first President of Portugal.
  • 1932Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
  • 1936The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
  • 1950Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
  • 1966Cultural Revolution: Red Guards vandalised the Jokhang (depicted), the holiest Buddhist temple in Tibet.
  • 2006The International Astronomical Union passed a resolution redefining the term planet and classifying Pluto as a dwarf planet.

Also observed on August 24

  • 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)

Questions, answered

What star sign is August 24?

People born on August 24 are Virgo. Their birthstone is peridot and their birth flower is the gladiolus.

Which famous people were born on August 24?

Jorge Luis Borges (1899), Paulo Coelho (1947), Sauli Niinistö (1948), Rupert Grint (1988), Fernand Braudel (1902), Jean Michel Jarre (1948) were all born on August 24.

What happened on August 24 in history?

Among other things: in 1950, Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations; in 1966, Cultural Revolution: Red Guards vandalised the Jokhang (depicted), the holiest Buddhist temple in Tibet; in 2006, The International Astronomical Union passed a resolution redefining the term planet and classifying Pluto as a dwarf planet.

Can I get a newspaper front page from August 24?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any August 24 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.

Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “August 24”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.