Famous people died on August 24

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Arun Jaitley 7

Indian Politician

Aaron Russo 1

Businessman

Charlie Watts 26

British Musician

Sergei Dovlatov 1

Soviet Journalist

Robin Leach 10

English Writer

Gail Sheehy 19

American Writer

Len Dawson 5

American Athlete

James Tenney 2

American Composer

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross 31

American Psychiatrist

Maurice Cowling 18

Julie Harris 22

American Actress

Wakako Yamauchi 1

Richard Attenborough 26

English Actor

Sergei Akhromeyev 5

Soviet Marshal

Hank Sauer 5

American Athlete

Abdul Rahman Arif 2

E. G. Marshall 3

American Actor

Hanna Reitsch 1

German Aviator

Bayard Rustin 31

American Leader

Louis Prima 3

American Entertainer

Wilfred Thesiger 54

Writer

Simone Weil 303

French Philosopher

Nikolay Guryanov 1

Russian Priest

Kathleen Kenyon 2

English Scientist

Charles Revson 4

Canadian Businessman

Morrie Ryskind 2

American Dramatist

Ronald Knox 14

English Priest

Helen and Scott Nearing 5

American Activist

Henry J. Kaiser 7

American Businessman

John William Dunne 3

Margaret Barber 4

English Writer

Edward McKendree Bounds 26

American Author

Thomas Chatterton 14

English Poet

Tikhon of Zadonsk 8

Russian Saint

Kosmas the Aetolian 1

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton 8

British Politician

John Owen 14

English Theologian

Su Shi 4

Poet

See also: Famous people born on August 24