About the day » Thursday August 24, 1905Calender converter

• Aartje Karssen, Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1985)
• Aagje Alles van der Velde, Surhuizum, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Agnes Maria Rijkelijkhuizen, Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1995)
• Adriana Karreman, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Anna Jacoba Cornelia Geboers, Tilburg
• Albert Hoffman, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1906)
• Aartje Karssen, Harderwijk († 1985)
• Adrian BERGERS, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan († 1976)
• Aagje van der Velde, Surhuizum, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Netherlands gem. Achtkarspelen
• Aagje van der Velde, Surhuizum, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland

• * Johanna van Dal (71), Drunen
• * Maria Hendrika Otten (0), Arnhem, Gelderland, NL
• Anna Dorothea Formesijn (78), Nordstrand, Schleswig-Holstein, Deutschland
• Adrianus Vink (83), Leerdam
• Arie Durieux (28), Katwijk
• Adriaan Mulders (75), Princenhage, Gemeente Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andre Joseph De Doelder (2), Oostkamp, West Flanders, Belgium
• Alice Caroline Teedon CHAPMAN (32), Hawkhead Asylum, Paisley, Scotland
• Ambrosius Denduyver (58)
• Catharina Röben (49), Uithuizen, Nederland

• 1901 » Preston Foster, American actor († 1970)
• 1902 » Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss († 1976)
• 1902 » Fernand Braudel, French historian and academic († 1985)
• 1903 » Karl Hanke, German businessman and politician († 1945)
• 1904 » Ida Cook, English campaigner for Jewish refugees, and romantic novelist as Mary Burchell († 1986)
• 1905 » Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1974)
• 1905 » Siaka Stevens, Sierra Leonean police officer and politician, 1st President of Sierra Leone († 1988)
• 1907 » Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect, designed the Hallenstadion († 2012)
• 1908 » Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist († 1931)
• 1909 » Ronnie Grieveson, South African cricketer and soldier († 1998)

• 1888 » Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822)
• 1895 » Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (b. 1855)
• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1943 » Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
• February 23 » Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
• May 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
• June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
• September 1 » Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
• October 26 » King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.
• November 18 » Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.

The temperature on August 24, 1905 was between 7.4 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.