| 96091 | August 24 | Event | 1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
| 96092 | August 24 | Event | 1991 – Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union. |
| 96093 | August 24 | Event | 1992 – Hurricane Andrew makes landfall just south of Miami as a Category 5 hurricane. |
| 96094 | August 24 | Event | 1994 – Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank. |
| 96095 | August 24 | Event | 1995 – Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America. |
| 96096 | August 24 | Event | 1998 – First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom. |
| 96097 | August 24 | Event | 2001 – 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. |
| 96098 | August 24 | Event | 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 (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya. |
| 96099 | August 24 | Event | 2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet. |
| 96100 | August 24 | Event | 2010 – In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 72 illegal immigrants are killed by Los Zetas and eventually found dead by Mexican authorities. |
| 96101 | August 24 | Event | 2014 – A 6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Napa, California, in the northern San Francisco Bay area, injuring over 200 people. It was the largest earthquake to strike northern California since 1989. |
| 96102 | August 24 | Birth | 1113 – Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (d. 1151) |
| 96103 | August 24 | Birth | 1198 – Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249) |
| 96104 | August 24 | Birth | 1358 – John I of Castile (d. 1390) |
| 96105 | August 24 | Birth | 1393 – Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458) |
| 96106 | August 24 | Birth | 1498 – John, Hereditary Prince of Saxony (d. 1537) |
| 96107 | August 24 | Birth | 1552 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter and educator (d. 1614) |
| 96108 | August 24 | Birth | 1556 – Sophia Brahe, Danish horticulturalist and astronomer (d. 1643) |
| 96109 | August 24 | Birth | 1578 – John Taylor, English poet and author (d. 1653) |
| 96110 | August 24 | Birth | 1591 – Robert Herrick, English poet and cleric (d. 1674) |
| 96111 | August 24 | Birth | 1635 – Peder Griffenfeld, Danish lawyer and politician (d. 1699) |
| 96112 | August 24 | Birth | 1707 – Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (d. 1791) |
| 96113 | August 24 | Birth | 1714 – Alaungpaya, Burmese king (d. 1760) |
| 96114 | August 24 | Birth | 1732 – Peter Ernst Wilde, German physician and journalist (d. 1785) |
| 96115 | August 24 | Birth | 1750 – Letizia Ramolino, French wife of Carlo Buonaparte (d. 1836) |
| 96116 | August 24 | Birth | 1758 – Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1794) |
| 96117 | August 24 | Birth | 1759 – William Wilberforce, English philanthropist and politician (d. 1833) |
| 96118 | August 24 | Birth | 1772 – William I of the Netherlands (d. 1840) |
| 96119 | August 24 | Birth | 1787 – James Weddell, Belgian-English sailor, hunter, and explorer (d. 1834) |
| 96120 | August 24 | Birth | 1824 – Antonio Stoppani, Italian geologist and scholar (d. 1891) |