| 96121 | August 24 | Birth | 1837 – Théodore Dubois, French organist, composer, and educator (d. 1924) |
| 96122 | August 24 | Birth | 1845 – James Calhoun, American lieutenant (d. 1876) |
| 96123 | August 24 | Birth | 1851 – Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer and journalist (d. 1924) |
| 96124 | August 24 | Birth | 1860 – David Bowman, Australian lawyer and politician (d. 1916) |
| 96125 | August 24 | Birth | 1863 – Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (d. 1918) |
| 96126 | August 24 | Birth | 1865 – Ferdinand I of Romania (d. 1927) |
| 96127 | August 24 | Birth | 1872 – Max Beerbohm, English-Italian author and illustrator (d. 1956) |
| 96128 | August 24 | Birth | 1880 – Joshua Lionel Cowen, American businessman, co-founded the Lionel Corporation (d. 1965) |
| 96129 | August 24 | Birth | 1884 – Earl Derr Biggers, American author and playwright (d. 1933) |
| 96130 | August 24 | Birth | 1887 – Harry Hooper, American baseball player and Baseball Hall of Fame inductee (d. 1974) |
| 96131 | August 24 | Birth | 1888 – Valentine Baker, Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company (d. 1942) |
| 96132 | August 24 | Birth | 1890 – Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer, actor, and surfer (d. 1968) |
| 96133 | August 24 | Birth | 1890 – Jean Rhys, Dominican-English author (d. 1979) |
| 96134 | August 24 | Birth | 1893 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist and academic (d. 1978) |
| 96135 | August 24 | Birth | 1895 – Richard Cushing, American cardinal (d. 1970) |
| 96136 | August 24 | Birth | 1897 – Fred Rose, American pianist, songwriter, and publisher (d. 1954) |
| 96137 | August 24 | Birth | 1898 – Malcolm Cowley, American author, poet, and critic (d. 1989) |
| 96138 | August 24 | Birth | 1899 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian-Swiss author, poet, and critic (d. 1986) |
| 96139 | August 24 | Birth | 1899 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983) |
| 96140 | August 24 | Birth | 1899 – Gaylord DuBois, American author and poet (d. 1993) |
| 96141 | August 24 | Birth | 1901 – Preston Foster, American actor and singer (d. 1970) |
| 96142 | August 24 | Birth | 1902 – Fernand Braudel, French historian and academic (d. 1985) |
| 96143 | August 24 | Birth | 1902 – Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1976) |
| 96144 | August 24 | Birth | 1903 – Karl Hanke, Polish-German businessman and politician (d. 1945) |
| 96145 | August 24 | Birth | 1904 – Mary Burchell, English activist and author (d. 1986) |
| 96146 | August 24 | Birth | 1904 – Alice White, American actress and singer (d. 1983) |
| 96147 | August 24 | Birth | 1905 – Arthur Crudup, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976) |
| 96148 | August 24 | Birth | 1905 – Siaka Stevens, Sierra Leonean police officer and politician, 1st President of Sierra Leone (d. 1988) |
| 96149 | August 24 | Birth | 1907 – Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect, designed the Hallenstadion (d. 2012) |
| 96150 | August 24 | Birth | 1908 – Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist (d. 1931) |