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August 2 is the 214th day of the year (215th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . 151 days remain until the end of the year.
Events 338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea , securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean .216 BC – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae .461 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona (northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor .1274 – Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King seventeen days later.1343 – After the execution of her husband, Jeanne de Clisson sells her estates and raises a force of men with which to attack French shipping and ports.1377 – Russian troops are defeated by forces of the Blue Horde Khan Arapsha in the Battle on Pyana River .1415 – Thomas Grey is executed for participating in the Southampton Plot .1610 – During Henry Hudson 's search for the Northwest Passage , he sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay .1776 – The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.1790 – The first United States Census is conducted.1798 – French Revolutionary Wars : The Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.1830 – Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri .1858 – The Government of India Act 1858 replaces Company rule in India with that of the British Raj.1869 – Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.1870 – Tower Subway , the world's first underground tube railway , opens in London, England, United Kingdom.1873 – The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system .1897 – Anglo-Afghan War : The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states .1903 – The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.1914 – The German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I begins.1916 – World War I : Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci Taranto .1918 – The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.1922 – A typhoon hits Shantou , Republic of China killing more than 50,000 people.1923 – Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding .1932 – The positron (antiparticle of the electron ) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson .1934 – Gleichschaltung : Adolf Hitler becomes Führer Paul von Hindenburg .1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.1939 – Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt , urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.1943 – Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka , one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.1943 – World War II : The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri John F. Kennedy , future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew. 1944 – ASNOM : Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia , celebrated as Day of the Republic in North Macedonia .1944 – World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches . 1945 – World War II: End of the Potsdam Conference .1947 – A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile . The wreckage would not be found until 1998.1968 – An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora , Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.1973 – A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man .1980 – A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy , killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.1985 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191 , a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar , crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.1989 – Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.1989 – A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians. 1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait , eventually leading to the Gulf War .1999 – The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam , India.2005 – Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.2014 – At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China .Births 1260 – Kyawswa of Pagan , last ruler of the Pagan Kingdom (d. 1299)1455 – John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1499)1533 – Theodor Zwinger , Swiss physician and scholar (d. 1588)1549 – Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł , Polish nobleman (d. 1616)1612 – Saskia van Uylenburgh , Dutch model and wife of Rembrandt van Rijn (d. 1642)1627 – Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten , Dutch painter (d. 1678)1630 – Estephan El Douaihy , Maronite patriarch (d. 1704)1646 – Jean-Baptiste du Casse , French admiral and buccaneer (d. 1715)1672 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer , Swiss paleontologist and scholar (d. 1733)1674 – Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1723)1696 – Mahmud I , Ottoman sultan (d. 1754)1702 – Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1769)1703 – Lorenzo Ricci , Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1775)1740 – Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux , French general (d. 1817)1754 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant , French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. (d. 1825)1788 – Leopold Gmelin , German chemist and academic (d. 1853)1815 – Adolf Friedrich von Schack , German poet and historian (d. 1894)1820 – John Tyndall , Irish-English physicist and mountaineer (d. 1893)1828 – Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque , Spanish general (d. 1895)1834 – Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi , French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (d. 1904)1835 – Elisha Gray , American businessman, co-founded Western Electric (d. 1901)1861 – Prafulla Chandra Ray , Indian chemist and academic (d. 1944)1865 – Irving Babbitt , American academic and critic (d. 1933)1865 – John Radecki , Australian stained glass artist (d. 1955) 1867 – Ernest Dowson , English poet, novelist, and short story writer (d. 1900)1868 – Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)1870 – Marianne Weber , German sociologist and suffragist (d. 1954)1871 – John French Sloan , American painter and illustrator (d. 1951)1872 – George E. Stewart , Australian-American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1946)1876 – Pingali Venkayya , Indian geologist, designed the Flag of India (d. 1963)1877 – Ravishankar Shukla , Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh (d. 1956)1878 – Aino Kallas , Finnish-Estonian author (d. 1956)1880 – Arthur Dove , American painter and educator (d. 1946)1882 – Red Ames , American baseball player and manager (d. 1936)1882 – Albert Bloch , American painter and academic (d. 1961) 1884 – Rómulo Gallegos , Venezuelan author and politician, 46th President of Venezuela (d. 1969)1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy , Canadian pilot and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1961)1887 – Oskar Anderson , Bulgarian-German mathematician and statistician (d. 1960)1889 – Margaret Lawrence , American stage actress (d. 1929)1891 – Arthur Bliss , English composer and conductor (d. 1975)1891 – Viktor Zhirmunsky , Russian linguist and historian (d. 1971) 1892 – Jack L. Warner , Canadian-born American production manager and producer, co-founded Warner Bros. (d. 1978)1894 – Bertha Lutz , Brazilian feminist and scientist (d.1976)1895 – Matt Henderson , New Zealand cricketer (d. 1970)1897 – Karl-Otto Koch , German SS officer (d. 1945)1897 – Max Weber , Swiss lawyer and politician (d. 1974) 1898 – Ernő Nagy , Hungarian fencer (d. 1977)1899 – Charles Bennett , English director and screenwriter (d. 1995)1900 – Holling C. Holling , American author and illustrator (d. 1973)1900 – Helen Morgan , American actress and singer (d. 1941) 1902 – Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (d. 1971)1905 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann , German composer (d. 1963)1905 – Myrna Loy , American actress (d. 1993) 1907 – Mary Hamman , American journalist and author (d. 1984)1910 – Roger MacDougall , Scottish director, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1993)1911 – Ann Dvorak , American actress (d. 1979)1912 – Palle Huld , Danish actor (d. 2010)1912 – Håkon Stenstadvold , Norwegian painter, illustrator, and critic (d. 1977) 1912 – Vladimir Žerjavić , Croatian economist and author (d. 2001) 1913 – Xavier Thaninayagam , Sri Lankan scholar and academic (d. 1980)1914 – Félix Leclerc , Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (d. 1988)1914 – Big Walter Price , American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2012) 1914 – Beatrice Straight , American actress (d. 2001) 1915 – Gary Merrill , American actor (d. 1990)1916 – Alfonso A. Ossorio , Filipino-American painter and sculptor (d. 1990)1917 – Wah Chang , Chinese-American artist and designer, best known for his work on Star Trek: The Original Series [1] 1919 – Nehemiah Persoff , Israeli-American actor1920 – Louis Pauwels , French journalist and author (d. 1997)1920 – Augustus Rowe , Canadian physician and politician (d. 2013) 1921 – Alan Whicker , Egyptian-English journalist (d. 2013)1922 – Betsy Bloomingdale , American philanthropist and socialite (d. 2016)1922 – Geoffrey Dutton , Australian historian and author (d. 1998) 1923 – Shimon Peres , Polish-Israeli lawyer and politician, 9th President of Israel (d. 2016)1923 – Ike Williams , American boxer (d. 1994) 1924 – James Baldwin , American novelist, poet, and critic (d. 1987)1924 – Joe Harnell , American pianist and composer (d. 2005) 1924 – Carroll O'Connor , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001) 1925 – K. Arulanandan , Ceylon-American engineer and academic (d. 2004)1925 – John Dexter , English director and producer (d. 1990) 1925 – John McCormack , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017) 1925 – Jorge Rafael Videla , Argentinian general and politician, 43rd President of Argentina (d. 2013) 1927 – Peter Swinnerton-Dyer , English mathematician and academic (d. 2018)1928 – Malcolm Hilton , English cricketer (d. 1990)1929 – Roy Crimmins , English trombonist and composer (d. 2014)1929 – John Gale , English director and producer 1929 – Vidya Charan Shukla , Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (d. 2013) 1929 – David Waddington, Baron Waddington , English lawyer and politician, Governor of Bermuda (d. 2017) 1930 – Vali Myers , Australian painter and dancer (d. 2003)1931 – Pierre DuMaine , American bishop and academic1931 – Eddie Fuller , South African cricketer (d. 2008) 1931 – Karl Miller , English journalist and critic (d. 2014) 1931 – Viliam Schrojf , Czech footballer (d. 2007) 1932 – Lamar Hunt , American businessman, co-founded the American Football League and World Championship Tennis (d. 2006)1932 – Peter O'Toole , British-Irish actor and producer (d. 2013) 1933 – Ioannis Varvitsiotis , Greek politician, Greek Minister of Defence 1934 – Valery Bykovsky , Russian general and astronaut (d. 2019)1935 – Hank Cochran , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2010)1936 – Anthony Payne , English composer and author1937 – Ron Brierley , New Zealand businessman1937 – Billy Cannon , American football player and dentist (d. 2018) 1937 – Garth Hudson , Canadian keyboard player, songwriter, and producer 1938 – Dave Balon , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2007)1938 – Pierre de Bané , Israeli-Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2019)[2] 1938 – Terry Peck , Falkland Islander soldier (d. 2006) 1939 – Benjamin Barber , American theorist, author, and academic (d. 2017)1939 – Wes Craven , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015) 1939 – John W. Snow , American businessman and politician, 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury 1940 – Angel Lagdameo , Filipino archbishop1940 – Beko Ransome-Kuti , Nigerian physician and activist (d. 2006) 1940 – Will Tura , Belgian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1941 – Doris Coley , American singer (d. 2000)1941 – Jules A. Hoffmann , Luxembourgian-French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1941 – François Weyergans , Belgian director and screenwriter 1942 – Isabel Allende , Chilean-American novelist, essayist, essayist1942 – Leo Beenhakker , Dutch football manager 1942 – Juan Formell , Cuban singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2014) 1942 – Nell Irvin Painter , American author and historian 1943 – Herbert M. Allison , American lieutenant and businessman (d. 2013)1943 – Tom Burgmeier , American baseball player and coach 1943 – Jon R. Cavaiani , English-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2014) 1943 – Rose Tremain , English novelist and short story writer 1944 – Jim Capaldi , English drummer and singer-songwriter (d. 2005)1944 – Naná Vasconcelos , Brazilian singer and berimbau player (d. 2016) 1945 – Joanna Cassidy , American actress1945 – Alex Jesaulenko , Austrian-Australian footballer and coach 1945 – Bunker Roy , Indian educator and activist 1945 – Eric Simms , Australian rugby league player and coach 1946 – James Howe , American journalist and author1947 – Ruth Bakke , Norwegian organist and composer1947 – Lawrence Wright , American journalist, author, and screenwriter 1948 – Andy Fairweather Low , Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer1948 – Dennis Prager , American radio host and author 1948 – James Street , American football and baseball player (d. 2013) 1948 – Snoo Wilson , English playwright and screenwriter (d. 2013) 1949 – James Fallows , American journalist and author1949 – Bertalan Farkas , Hungarian general and astronaut 1950 – Jussi Adler-Olsen , Danish author and publisher1950 – Ted Turner , British guitarist 1951 – Andrew Gold , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2011)1951 – Steve Hillage , English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1951 – Joe Lynn Turner , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1951 – Per Westerberg , Swedish businessman and politician, Speaker of the Parliament of Sweden 1952 – Alain Giresse , French footballer and manager[3] 1953 – Donnie Munro , Scottish singer and guitarist1953 – Butch Patrick , American actor[4] 1953 – Anthony Seldon , English historian and author 1954 – Sammy McIlroy , Northern Irish footballer and manager1955 – Caleb Carr , American historian and author1955 – Tony Godden , English footballer and manager 1955 – Butch Vig , American drummer, songwriter, and record producer 1956 – Fulvio Melia , Italian-American physicist, astrophysicist, and author1959 – Victoria Jackson , American actress and singer1959 – Johnny Kemp , Bahamian singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2015) 1959 – Apollonia Kotero , American singer and actress 1960 – Linda Fratianne , American figure skater1960 – Neal Morse , American singer and keyboard player 1960 – David Yow , American singer-songwriter 1961 – Pete de Freitas , Trinidadian-British drummer and producer (d. 1989)1962 – Lee Mavers , English singer, songwriter and guitarist1963 – Laura Bennett , American architect and fashion designer1963 – Uğur Tütüneker , Turkish footballer and manager 1964 – Frank Biela , German race car driver1964 – Mary-Louise Parker , American actress 1965 – Joe Hockey , Australian lawyer and politician, 38th Treasurer of Australia 1965 – Hisanobu Watanabe , Japanese baseball player and coach 1966 – Takashi Iizuka , Japanese wrestler1966 – Grainne Leahy , Irish cricketer 1966 – Tim Wakefield , American baseball player and sportscaster 1967 – Aaron Krickstein , American tennis player1967 – Aline Brosh McKenna , American screenwriter and producer 1968 – Stefan Effenberg , German footballer and sportscaster1969 – Cedric Ceballos , American basketball player1969 – Fernando Couto , Portuguese footballer and manager 1970 – Tony Amonte , American ice hockey player and coach1970 – Kevin Smith , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter[5] 1970 – Philo Wallace , Barbadian cricketer 1971 – Jason Bell , Australian rugby league player1971 – Michael Hughes , Irish footballer and manager 1972 – Mohamed Al-Deayea , Saudi Arabian footballer1973 – Danie Keulder , Namibian cricketer1973 – Miguel Mendonca , Zimbabwean journalist and author 1973 – Susie O'Neill , Australian swimmer 1974 – Phil Williams , English journalist and radio host1975 – Mineiro , Brazilian footballer1975 – Xu Huaiwen , Chinese-German badminton player and coach 1975 – Tamás Molnár , Hungarian water polo player 1976 – Reyes Estévez , Spanish runner1976 – Jay Heaps , American soccer player and coach 1976 – Michael Weiss , American figure skater 1976 – Sam Worthington , English-Australian actor and producer[6] 1976 – Mohammad Zahid , Pakistani cricketer 1977 – Edward Furlong , American actor[6] 1978 – Goran Gavrančić , Serbian footballer1978 – Matt Guerrier , American baseball player 1978 – Deividas Šemberas , Lithuanian footballer 1978 – Dragan Vukmir , Serbian footballer 1979 – Marco Bonura , Italian footballer1979 – Reuben Kosgei , Kenyan runner 1980 – Ivica Banović , Croatian footballer1981 – Alexander Emelianenko , Russian mixed martial artist and boxer1981 – Tim Murtagh , Irish-English cricketer 1982 – Hélder Postiga , Portuguese footballer1982 – Kerry Rhodes , American football player 1982 – Grady Sizemore , American baseball player 1982 – Cynthia Stevenson , American actress[6] 1983 – Michel Bastos , Brazilian footballer1984 – Giampaolo Pazzini , Italian footballer1985 – Stephen Ferris , Irish rugby player1985 – David Hart Smith , Canadian wrestler 1985 – Britt Nicole , American Christian pop artist 1986 – Mathieu Razanakolona , Canadian skier1988 – Rob Kwiet , Canadian ice hockey player1989 – Nacer Chadli , Belgian footballer1990 – Ima Bohush , Belarusian tennis player1994 – Laura Pigossi , Brazilian tennis player1994 – Laremy Tunsil , American football player 1995 – Kristaps Porziņģis , Latvian basketball playerDeaths 216 BC – Gnaeus Servilius Geminus , Roman consul 216 BC – Lucius Aemilius Paullus , Roman consul and general 216 BC – Marcus Minucius Rufus , Roman consul 257 – Pope Stephen I 640 – Pope Severinus 686 – Pope John V (b. 635)855 – Ahmad ibn Hanbal , Arab theologian and jurist (b. 780)924 – Ælfweard of Wessex (b. 904)1075 – Patriarch John VIII of Constantinople 1100 – William II of England (b. 1056)1222 – Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (b. 1156)1277 – Mu'in al-Din Sulaiman Pervane , Chancellor and Regent of the Sultanate of Rum 1316 – Louis of Burgundy (b. 1297)1332 – King Christopher II of Denmark (b. 1276)1415 – Thomas Grey , English conspirator (b. 1384)1445 – Oswald von Wolkenstein , Austrian poet and composer (b. 1376)1451 – Elizabeth of Görlitz (b. 1390)1511 – Andrew Barton , Scottish admiral (b. 1466)1512 – Alessandro Achillini , Italian physician and philosopher (b. 1463)1589 – Henry III of France (b. 1551)1605 – Richard Leveson , English admiral (b. c. 1570)1611 – Katō Kiyomasa , Japanese daimyō (b. 1562)1667 – Francesco Borromini , Swiss architect, designed San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Agnese in Agone (b. 1599)1696 – Robert Campbell of Glenlyon (b. 1630)1769 – Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea , English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1689)1788 – Thomas Gainsborough , English painter (b. 1727)1799 – Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier , French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1745)1815 – Guillaume Brune , French general and politician (b. 1763)1823 – Lazare Carnot , French mathematician, general, and politician, President of the National Convention (b. 1753)1834 – Harriet Arbuthnot , English diarist (b. 1793)1849 – Muhammad Ali of Egypt , Ottoman Albanian commander (b. 1769)1854 – Heinrich Clauren , German author (b. 1771)1859 – Horace Mann , American educator and politician (b. 1796)1876 – "Wild Bill" Hickok , American sheriff (b. 1837)1889 – Eduardo Gutiérrez , Argentinian author (b. 1851)1890 – Louise-Victorine Ackermann , French poet and author (b. 1813)1903 – Eduard Magnus Jakobson , Estonian missionary and engraver (b. 1847)1903 – Edmond Nocard , French veterinarian and microbiologist (b. 1850) 1913 – Ferenc Pfaff , Hungarian architect and academic, designed Zagreb Central Station (b. 1851)1915 – John Downer , Australian politician, 16th Premier of South Australia (b. 1843)1917 – Jaan Mahlapuu , Estonian military pilot (b. 1894)1921 – Enrico Caruso , Italian tenor and actor (b. 1873)1922 – Alexander Graham Bell , Scottish-Canadian engineer, invented the telephone (b. 1847)1923 – Warren G. Harding , American journalist and politician, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)1934 – Paul von Hindenburg , German field marshal and politician, 2nd President of Germany (b. 1847)1937 – Artur Sirk , Estonian soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1900)1939 – Harvey Spencer Lewis , American mystic and author (b. 1883)1945 – Pietro Mascagni , Italian composer and educator (b. 1863)1955 – Alfred Lépine , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1901)1955 – Wallace Stevens , American poet and educator (b. 1879) 1963 – Oliver La Farge , American anthropologist and author (b. 1901)1967 – Walter Terence Stace , English-American epistemologist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1886)1970 – Angus MacFarlane-Grieve , English academic, mathematician, rower, and soldier (b. 1891)1972 – Brian Cole , American bass player (b. 1942)1972 – Paul Goodman , American psychotherapist and author (b. 1911) 1972 – Helen Hoyt , American poet and author (b. 1887) 1973 – Jean-Pierre Melville , French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)1974 – Douglas Hawkes , English race car driver and businessman (b. 1893)1976 – László Kalmár , Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1905)1976 – Fritz Lang , Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1890) 1978 – Carlos Chávez , Mexican composer and conductor (b. 1899)1978 – Antony Noghès , French businessman, founded the Monaco Grand Prix (b. 1890) 1979 – Thurman Munson , American baseball player (b. 1947)1981 – Stefanie Clausen , Danish diver (b. 1900)1983 – James Jamerson , American bass player[7] 1986 – Roy Cohn , American lawyer and politician (b. 1927)1988 – Joe Carcione , American activist and author (b. 1914)1988 – Raymond Carver , American short story writer and poet (b. 1938) 1990 – Norman Maclean , American short story writer and essayist (b. 1902)1990 – Edwin Richfield , English actor and screenwriter (b. 1921) 1992 – Michel Berger , French singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1947)1996 – Michel Debré , French lawyer and politician, 150th Prime Minister of France (b. 1912)1996 – Obdulio Varela , Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1917) 1996 – Mohamed Farrah Aidid , Somalian general and politician, 5th President of Somalia (b. 1934)[8] 1997 – William S. Burroughs , American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1914)1997 – Fela Kuti , Nigerian singer-songwriter and activist (b. 1938) 1998 – Shari Lewis , American television host and puppeteer (b. 1933)1999 – Willie Morris , American writer (b. 1934)2003 – Peter Safar , Austrian-American physician and academic (b. 1924)2004 – Ferenc Berényi , Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1929)2004 – François Craenhals , Belgian illustrator (b. 1926) 2004 – Heinrich Mark , Estonian lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (b. 1911) 2005 – Steven Vincent , American journalist and author (b. 1955)2007 – Chauncey Bailey , American journalist (b. 1950)2008 – Fujio Akatsuka , Japanese illustrator (b. 1935)2011 – José Sanchis Grau , Spanish author and illustrator (b. 1932)2012 – Gabriel Horn , English biologist and academic (b. 1927)2012 – Magnus Isacsson , Canadian director and producer (b. 1948) 2012 – Jimmy Jones , American singer-songwriter (b. 1930) 2012 – John Keegan , English historian and journalist (b. 1934) 2012 – Bernd Meier , German footballer (b. 1972) 2012 – Marguerite Piazza , American soprano (b. 1920) 2013 – Julius L. Chambers , American lawyer and activist (b. 1936)2013 – Richard E. Dauch , American businessman, co-founded American Axle (b. 1942) 2013 – Alla Kushnir , Russian–Israeli chess player (b. 1941) 2014 – Ed Joyce , American journalist (b. 1932)2014 – Billie Letts , American author and educator (b. 1938) 2014 – Barbara Prammer , Austrian social worker and politician (b. 1954) 2014 – James Thompson , American-Finnish author (b. 1964) 2015 – Forrest Bird , American pilot and engineer (b. 1921)2015 – Giovanni Conso , Italian jurist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (b. 1922) 2015 – Piet Fransen , Dutch footballer (b. 1936) 2015 – Jack Spring , American baseball player (b. 1933) 2016 – Terence Bayler , New Zealand actor (b. 1930)2016 – David Huddleston , American actor (b. 1930) 2016 – Franciszek Macharski , Polish cardinal (b. 1927) 2016 – Ahmed Zewail , Egyptian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1946) Holidays and observances References ^ Lentz, Harris M. (2004). Obituaries in the Performing Arts 2003: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture ISBN 9780786417568 ^ "Profile" . lop.parl.ca . Retrieved 8 March 2019 .^ "FIFA Player Statistics: Alain GIRESSE" . FIFA.com. Retrieved 2 January 2017 .^ "Today's birthdays" . Youngstown Vindicator . August 2, 2008.^ "Kevin Smith Biography (1970–)" . FilmReference.com. Retrieved March 30, 2015 .Highlands, New Jersey .^ a b c Rose, Mike (August 2, 2018). "Today's top celebrity birthdays list for August 2, 2018" . The Plain Dealer . Retrieved August 2, 2018 . ^ "James Jamerson Dies at 45; Bassist Backed Detroit Stars" . The New York Times ^ Serrill, Michael (12 August 1996), "Dead by the Sword" , Time Magazine , retrieved 2011-03-19 External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to August 2
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