What day of the week was August 24, 1899?

The day of the week August 24th, 1899 fell on was a Thursday.

Jorge Luis Borges the Argentinian-Swiss author, poet, and critic (d. 1986) was born on 24 August in 1899. As was Albert Claude the Belgian biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983) , Gaylord DuBois the American author (d. 1993) .