About the day » Thursday August 24, 1911Calender converter

• Adrianus Willem Sliedrecht, Rotterdam († 1911)
• antonia leonarda slaats, blerick (boekend)
• Arend Van Der Weide, Hoogeveen
• Antoinetta Mechelina Anna Maria Mertens, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2003)
• Andries Delmeer, Leiden
• Anthonetta Adriana Johanna Wakkee, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Folkers, Groningen († 1989)
• Adriaan Christiaan Westenborg, Amsterdam († 1951)
• Anthonette Adriana Johanna Wakkee, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Gritter, Norg, Drenthe, Nederland († 1911)

• Antonia van der Putten (0), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana de Man (0), Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Helena - Helena Meijering (67), Altharen, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Augustinus Johannes Haine (14), Maastricht
• Augustinus Gummarus Adriaenssens (27)
• Adriana Christina Maria Clement (0), Gemert
• Antje Niesing (0), Muiden, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Arie Bikker (55), Hoogblokland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Jane Charlotte Lockwood (87)
• Adriana Jacoba deLange (58)

• 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)
• 1911 » Durward Kirby, American television host and announcer († 2000)
• 1913 » Charles Snead Houston, American physician and mountaineer († 2009)
• 1915 » James Tiptree, Jr., American psychologist and author († 1987)
• 1915 » Wynonie Harris, American singer and guitarist († 1969)
• 1917 » Dennis James, American game show host († 1997)

• 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)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacob
11. Jacobus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Gerardus
14. Arie
15. Dirk
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Grietje
14. Aaltje
15. Helena
16. Neeltje

• 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
• January 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
• January 21 » The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
• October 9 » An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese monarchy.
• October 24 » Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
• November 17 » Omega Psi Phi fraternity was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.
• December 27 » "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.

The temperature on August 24, 1911 was between 9.1 °C and 24.7 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.