| 96361 | August 24 | Death | 1798 – Thomas Alcock, English priest and author (b. 1709) |
| 96362 | August 24 | Death | 1818 – James Carr, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777) |
| 96363 | August 24 | Death | 1832 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (b. 1796) |
| 96364 | August 24 | Death | 1838 – Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet, critic, and politician (b. 1790) |
| 96365 | August 24 | Death | 1841 – Theodore Hook, English civil servant and composer (b. 1788) |
| 96366 | August 24 | Death | 1841 – John Ordronaux, French-American soldier (b. 1778) |
| 96367 | August 24 | Death | 1888 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822) |
| 96368 | August 24 | Death | 1895 – Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (b. 1855) |
| 96369 | August 24 | Death | 1923 – Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856) |
| 96370 | August 24 | Death | 1930 – Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860) |
| 96371 | August 24 | Death | 1932 – Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861) |
| 96372 | August 24 | Death | 1939 – Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874) |
| 96373 | August 24 | Death | 1940 – Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860) |
| 96374 | August 24 | Death | 1943 – Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886) |
| 96375 | August 24 | Death | 1943 – Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909) |
| 96376 | August 24 | Death | 1945 – Midori Naka, Japanese actress (b. 1909) |
| 96377 | August 24 | Death | 1946 – James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862) |
| 96378 | August 24 | Death | 1954 – Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (b. 1882) |
| 96379 | August 24 | Death | 1956 – Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1898) |
| 96380 | August 24 | Death | 1956 – Mitchell Lewis, American actor (b. 1880) |
| 96381 | August 24 | Death | 1958 – Paul Henry, Irish painter and educator (b. 1876) |
| 96382 | August 24 | Death | 1961 – Günter Litfin, German person that was shot at the Berlin Wall (b. 1937) |
| 96383 | August 24 | Death | 1967 – Lam Bun, Hong Kong journalist and radio host (b. 1930) |
| 96384 | August 24 | Death | 1967 – Henry J. Kaiser, American businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards and Kaiser Aluminum (b. 1882) |
| 96385 | August 24 | Death | 1974 – Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American pilot and businessman, co-founded Republic Aviation (b. 1894) |
| 96386 | August 24 | Death | 1977 – Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916) |
| 96387 | August 24 | Death | 1978 – Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and actor (b. 1910) |
| 96388 | August 24 | Death | 1979 – Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (b. 1912) |
| 96389 | August 24 | Death | 1979 – Sampson Sievers, Russian monk and mystic (b. 1898) |
| 96390 | August 24 | Death | 1980 – Yootha Joyce, English actress (b. 1927) |