Month August 1924 Calendar

About Month of August Calendar

• August is the eighth month of the year (between July and September) in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.
  
  August symbols: The birthstones of August are the peridot and sardonyx. Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy, meaning beauty, strength of character, love, marriage and family. The zodiac signs for the month of August are Leo (until August 22) and Virgo (from August 23 onwards).

Historical Events for August, 1924

• Day of Week 4th » Diplomacy Diplomatic relations called Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
• Day of Week 28th » The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic known as Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1924

• 1st » Marcia Mae Jones, American actress and singer (d. 2007)
• 1st » Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
• 1st » Frank Worrell, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1967)
• 2nd » James Baldwin, American author, poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1987)
• 2nd » Joe Harnell, American pianist and composer (d. 2005)
• 3rd » Leon Uris, American author (d. 2003)
• 6th » Samuel Bowers, American activist, co-founded White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 2006)
• 7th » Kenneth Kendall, Indian-English journalist (d. 2012)
• 9th » Mathews Mar Barnabas, Indian metropolitan (d. 2012)
• 9th » Frank Martínez (artist) called Frank Martínez, American painter (d. 2013)
• 10th » Nancy Buckingham, English author
• 10th » Martha Hyer, American actress (d. 2014)
• 12th » Derek Shackleton, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (d. 2007)
• 12th » Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani general and politician, 6th President of Pakistan (d. 1988)
• 14th » Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect, designed the Hedmark Museum (d. 2009)
• 14th » Holger Juul Hansen, Danish actor (d. 2013)
• 14th » Georges Prêtre, French conductor
• 14th » Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual leader (d. 1981)
• 15th » Werner Abrolat, Russian-German actor (d. 1997)
• 15th » Robert Bolt, English playwright and screenwriter (d. 1995)
• 15th » Phyllis Schlafly, American lawyer and activist
• 16th » Fess Parker, American actor and singer (d. 2010)
• 16th » Inez Voyce, American baseball player
• 19th » Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
• 20th » George Zuverink, American baseball player
• 21st » Jack Buck, American sportscaster (d. 2002)
• 21st » Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster (d. 2005)
• 21st » Jack Weston, American actor (d. 1996)
• 23rd » Ephraim Kishon, Israeli author, screenwriter, and director (d. 2005)
• 23rd » Robert Solow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize in Economics or Nobel Prize laureate
• 24th » Alyn Ainsworth, English singer and conductor (d. 1990)
• 24th » Jimmy Gardner (actor) e.g Jimmy Gardner, English actor (d. 2010)
• 25th » Zsuzsa Körmöczy, Hungarian tennis player (d. 2006)
• 26th » Alex Kellner, American baseball player (d. 1996)
• 27th » David Rowbotham, Australian journalist and poet (d. 2010)
• 27th » Rosalie E. Wahl, American lawyer and jurist (d. 2013)
• 28th » Janet Frame, New Zealand author and poet (d. 2004)
• 28th » Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricketer and engineer (d. 2010)
• 28th » Peggy Ryan, American actress and dancer (d. 2004)
• 28th » Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ukrainian-American rabbi and author (d. 2014)
• 29th » María Dolores Pradera, Spanish singer and actress
• 29th » Dinah Washington, American singer and pianist (d. 1963)
• 31st » John Davidson (politician) e.g John Davidson, American physician and politician (d. 2012)
• 31st » Buddy Hackett, American actor and singer (d. 2003)
• 31st » Herbert Wise, Austrian-English director and producer

Famous Deaths for August 1924

• 3rd » Joseph Conrad, Polish-English author (b. 1857)
• 12th » Sándor Bródy, Hungarian author and journalist (b. 1863)
• 17th » Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
• 23rd » Heinrich Berté, Austrian composer (b. 1856)
• 25th » Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general and politician (b. 1818)
• 31st » Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian soldier (b. 1881)

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