About the day » Thursday August 7, 1924Calender converter

• Burggraaf, Bergambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1924)
• Anna Bomomol, Polone, Oekraine († 2005)
• Arie Teunis de Wit, Giessendam († 2020)
• Adrianus Robbemond, Dordrecht († 1980)
• Berendina Bron, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland († 2004)
• Claire GOBLET, Dinant, 5500, Namur, Belgique († 2019)
• Arend (Arie) Ploeger († 1986)
• Bastiaan Marinus Traas, Rotterdam (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1965)
• Aren Hameete, Dirksland († 1999)
• Adrianus (Robbie) ROBBEMOND, Dordrecht (NL) († 1980)

• Burggraaf (0), Bergambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernard H DANKBAR (53)
• Catharina Marina Cornelia Mulder (0), Utrecht
• Christina Maria Thijssen (63), Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Abigail Baker (89), Hanson, South Dakota, United States
• "Hendricus Franciscus" de Salis van Uden, Rosmalen
• Anne François Landry (67), Seattle, King Co. (WA, USA)
• Aaltje Werkman (73), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Annette Josephine Kerstel (64), Maastricht
• Adrianus de Ridder (78), Vlaardinger-Ambacht

• 1921 » Karel Husa, Czech-American composer and conductor († 2016)
• 1921 » Manitas de Plata, French guitarist († 2014)
• 1924 » Kenneth Kendall, Indian-English journalist and actor († 2012)
• 1925 » Felice Bryant, American songwriter († 2003)
• 1926 » Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer († 2015)
• 1927 » Art Houtteman, American baseball player and journalist († 2003)
• 1927 » Carl Switzer, American child actor and hunting guide († 1959)
• 1927 » Edwin Edwards, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 50th Governor of Louisiana
• 1927 » Rocky Bridges, American baseball player and coach († 2015)
• 1928 » Betsy Byars, American author and academic († 2020)

• 1893 » Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (b. 1854)
• 1899 » Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
• 1912 » François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1948 » Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (b. 1879)
• 1953 » Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1957 » Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1892)

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

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

• 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
• March 8 » A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
• May 21 » University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
• October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
• October 27 » The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
• November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
• December 24 » Albania becomes a republic.

The temperature on August 7, 1924 was between 11.6 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 7.3 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.