About the day » Tuesday August 19, 1924Calender converter

• Aldegonda Margaretha Ermen, Tilburg († 2000)
• Cornelis Jacobus Ligtenberg, Loon op Zand († 1925)
• Elizabeth Theresa {Gilinger} Yost ll, Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States of America († 2005)
• Elisabetha Weber, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1990)
• Benjamin Boers, 's-Gravenzande, Nederland († 1996)
• Arnold Storvoll, Storforshei, Rana, Nordland, Norge († 1984)
• Abdul Reza Pahlavi, Tehran († 2004)
• Adaline Visser, Ternate, Maluku, Indonesië († 2018)
• Anna Catharina Mulders, Herten († 1995)
• (1) Ghislaine Marie Godelieve Ameye, Harelbeke (W-VL) België († 1989)

• Eida Doornbosch (68), Lith, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Carolus Simons (83), Borgerhout
• Charles Edward Dudley Tibbits (90)
• Catharina Johanna Jebbink (70), Zutphen
• Catharina van Roon (Verroon) (66), Weesp
• Cornelis Miedema (30), st annaparochie
• Cornelis Ariesz Hoogland (59), Broek Op Langedijk, North Holland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Verbeek (4), Rotterdam
• Cornelis Hoogland (59), Broek op L'dijk
• (0), Driel, Nederland

• 1919 » Malcolm Forbes, American publisher and politician († 1990)
• 1921 » Gene Roddenberry, American screenwriter and producer († 1991)
• 1924 » Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2011)
• 1924 » William Marshall, American actor, director, and opera singer († 2003)
• 1925 » Claude Gauvreau, Canadian poet and playwright († 1971)
• 1926 » Angus Scrimm, American actor and author († 2016)
• 1927 » L. Q. Jones, American actor and director
• 1928 » Bernard Levin, English journalist, author, and broadcaster († 2004)
• 1928 » Shiv Prasaad Singh, Indian Hindi writer(d.1998)
• 1929 » Bill Foster, American basketball player and coach († 2016)

• 1900 » Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1833)
• 1914 » Franz Xavier Wernz, German religious leader, 25th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844)
• 1915 » Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet and educator (b. 1867)
• 1923 » Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
• 1928 » Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and diplomat, 97th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1838)
• 1929 » Sergei Diaghilev, Russian critic and producer, founded Ballets Russes (b. 1872)
• 1932 » Louis Anquetin, French painter (b. 1861)
• 1936 » Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
• 1942 » Harald Kaarmann, Estonian footballer (b. 1901)
• 1945 » Tomás Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b. 1875)

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.
• June 10 » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
• July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
• September 28 » The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
• October 7 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
• 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.
• December 1 » The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, played their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.

The temperature on August 19, 1924 was between 8.7 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 25.7 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.