About the day » Thursday August 24, 1905Calender converter

• Agnes Johanna Vernooij, Werkhoven
• Adrian BERGERS, Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan († 1976)
• Albertus Jonker, Hollandscheveld, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1907)
• Adrianus Josephus BUIJNSTERS, Teteringen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1968)
• Adriaantje Lugthart, Dirksland Z.H († 1984)
• Andreas Leo Bintein, Westrozebeke
• Adrianus Josephus ( Janus ) Buijnsters ( Buynster ), Teteringen Breda Noord-Brabant Nederland († 1968)
• Heijnsdijk, Axel Nederland († 1905)
• Agnes Maria Rijkelijkhuizen, Alphen aan de Rijn, Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1995)
• Albert Stephens Watson, Jr., Clarendon, Jamaica

• Ambrosius Denduyver (58)
• Aaltje Klazes Kuiken (76), Finkum, Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabet(H) van Diemen (67), Ogden, Weber, UTAH, VS
• Anna Elizabeth van Diemen (67), Ogden, Weber, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Allegonda Beerens (80), Utrecht, Nederland
• Albert Cohn (78), Weissensee Cemetery, Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany
• Allegonda Beerens (80), Utrecht,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Akke Alberts Buursma (65), Utrecht, Nederland
• Adolphus Gerhardus Bernardus Gerritsen (1), Hengelo
• Agnes Maria Sperth (0), Vaals, 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.
• January 26 » The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats (0.621350kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
• February 5 » In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
• 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.
• August 20 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
• October 16 » The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
• 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.