August 24
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Art and culture
- 79 - Mount Vesuvius erupts, erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash.
- 1456 - The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
- 1572 - Start of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
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Births
- 1552 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614)
- 1872 - Max Beerbohm, British caricaturist (d. 1956)
- 1890 - Jean Rhys, British writer (d. 1979)
- 1899 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986)
- 1929 - Betty Dodson, American sex educator (d. 2020)
- 1936 - A. S. Byatt, English novelist
- 1947 - Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author
- 1948 - Jean-Michel Jarre, French musician
- 1960 - Takashi Miike, Japanese filmmaker
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Deaths
- 1978 - Louis Prima, American band leader (b. 1910)
- 1986 - César Graña, Peruvian sociologist (sociology of art) (b. 1919)
- 1995 - Zbyněk Brynych, Czech filmmaker (b. 1927)
- 2006 - James Tenney, United States composer (b. 1934)
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