August 2
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August 2 is the 214th day of the year (215th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 151 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1455 – John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1499)
- 1533 – Theodor Zwinger, medical scholar (d. 1588)
- 1612 – Saskia van Uylenburgh, wife of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn (d. 1642)
- 1627 – Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter and writer (d. 1678)
- 1672 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)
- 1674 – Philip II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (d. 1723)
- 1696 – Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
- 1754 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect, city planner (d. 1825)
- 1780 – Marie-Anne Gaboury, French-Canadian settler in Manitoba (d. 1875)
- 1788 – Leopold Gmelin, chemist (d. 1853)
- 1808 – Augustus French, 9th Governor of Illinois (d. 1864)
- 1815 – Adolf Friedrich von Schack, writer (d. 1894)
- 1820 – John Tyndall, British physicist (d. 1893)
- 1834 – Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor (d. 1904)
- 1835 – Elisha Gray, American inventor and founder of Western Electric (d. 1901)
- 1854 – Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
- 1858 – Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1934)
- 1865 – Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933)
- 1865 – John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (d. 1955)
- 1867 – Ernest Dowson, English poet (d. 1900)
- 1868 – King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
- 1871 – John French Sloan, artist (d. 1951)
- 1875 – Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian general (d. 1957)
- 1876 – Pingali Venkayya, designer of the Flag of India (d. 1963)
- 1878 – Aino Kallas, Finnish-Estonian writer (d. 1956)
- 1883 – Jonathan Wainwright, American general (d. 1953)
- 1884 – Romulo Gallegos, 46th President of Venezuela (d. 1969)
- 1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Canadian aviator (d. 1961)
- 1891 – Viktor Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian and linguist (d. 1971)
- 1892 – Jack Warner, Canadian film producer (d. 1978)
- 1897 – Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1974)
- 1897 – Karl Otto Koch, German SS officer (d. 1945)
- 1900 – Helen Morgan, actress (d. 1941)
- 1902 – Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Egyptian Coptic Church Patriarch (d. 1971)
- 1905 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer (d. 1963)
- 1905 – Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993)
- 1905 – Rudolf Prack, actor (d. 1981)
- 1912 – Vladimir Zerjavic, Croatian statistician (d. 2001)
- 1914 – Beatrice Straight, actress (d. 2001)
- 1915 – Gary Merrill, actor (d. 1990)
- 1921 – Ruth Barcan Marcus, American philosopher and logician (d. 2012)
- 1923 – Shimon Peres, President of Israel
- 1924 – James Baldwin, American author (d. 1987)
- 1924 – Carroll O'Connor, actor (d. 2001)
- 1925 – John McCormack, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1925 – Alan Whicker, British journalist and broadcaster
- 1925 – Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian dictator
- 1929 – K.M. Peyton, English writer
- 1932 – Peter O'Toole, Irish actor
- 1933 – Lorenzo Milam, author and broadcaster
- 1934 – Valery Bykovsky, Soviet cosmonaut
- 1937 – Garth Hudson, Canadian musician, organist/keyboardist with The Band
- 1939 – Wes Craven, film director
- 1939 – John W. Snow, American politician
- 1941 – Jules Hoffmann, Luxembourg-French biologist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1941 – Francois Weyergans, Belgian writer and director
- 1941 – Doris Coley, singer (Shirelles) (d. 2000)
- 1942 – Isabel Allende, Chilean-American author
- 1942 – Leo Beenhakker, Dutch football coach
- 1944 – Jim Capaldi, British drummer, singer, and songwriter (Traffic) (d. 2005)
- 1948 – Dennis Prager, radio talk show host and author
- 1949 – Mario Illien, Swiss engineer
- 1950 – Jussi Adler-Olsen, Danish author
- 1950 – Lance Ito, American judge
- 1951 – Per Westerberg, Swedish politician
- 1953 – Donnie Munro, Scottish musician and singer, formerly of the band Runrig
- 1953 – Butch Patrick, American actor
- 1954 – Ken MacLeod, Scottish writer
- 1956 – Fulvio Melia, Italian-American physicist, astrophysicist and author
- 1957 – Mojo Nixon, musician and actor
- 1961 – Linda Fratianne, figure skater
- 1961 – Mike Ross, American politician
- 1964 – Mary-Louise Parker, American actress
- 1965 – Hisanobu Watanabe, Japanese baseball player and coach
- 1968 – Stefan Effenberg, German footballer
- 1968 – Russell Latapy, Trinidadian footballer
- 1969 – Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
- 1970 – Tony Amonte, hockey player
- 1972 – Justyna Steczkowska, Polish singer
- 1972 – Mohamed Al-Deayea, Saudi Arabian footballer
- 1972 – Kevin Smith, actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1974 – Jeremy Castle, singer and songwriter
- 1975 – Xu Huaiwen, Chinese-born German badminton player
- 1975 – Mineiro, Brazilian footballer
- 1976 – Sam Worthington, Australian actor
- 1976 – Kati Wilhelm, German biathlete
- 1977 – Edward Furlong, American actor
- 1978 – Deividas Semberas, Lithuanian footballer
- 1982 – Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer
- 1983 – Michel Bastos, Brazilian footballer
- 1984 – Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer
- 1986 – Alisha Annas, musician
- 1986 – Mathieu Razanakolona, Malagasy skier
- 1992 – Hallie Kate Eisenberg, actress
Deaths [change]
- 640 – Pope Severus
- 686 – Pope John V
- 924 – King Ælfweard of Wessex (b. 904)
- 1100 – King William II of England (b. 1056)
- 1222 – Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (b. 1156)
- 1316 – Louis of Burgundy (b. 1297)
- 1332 – King Christopher II of Denmark (b. 1276)
- 1589 – King Henry III of France (b. 1551)
- 1611 – Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
- 1644 – Bernardo Strozzi, Italian Barocque painter (b. 1581)
- 1788 – Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (b. 1727)
- 1799 – Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
- 1849 – Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Egyptian military officer and statesman (b. 1769)
- 1859 – Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)
- 1876 – Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837)
- 1921 – Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
- 1922 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-American inventor (b. 1847)
- 1923 – Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
- 1929 – Mae Costello, American actress (b. 1882)
- 1934 – Paul von Hindenburg, German military figure and President (b. 1847)
- 1936 – Louis Bleriot, French aviator (b. 1872)
- 1945 – Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (b. 1863)
- 1973 – Jean-Pierre Melville, French film director (b. 1917)
- 1976 – Fritz Lang, Austrian film director (b. 1890)
- 1988 – Raymond Carver, American writer (b. 1938)
- 1996 – Mohamed Farah Aidid, Somali warlord (b. 1934)
- 1997 – Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician (b. 1938)
- 1997 – William S. Burroughs, American writer (b. 1914)
- 2004 – Francois Craenhals, Belgian comics artist (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Jay Hammond, former Governor of Alaska (b. 1922)
- 2007 – Holden Roberto, Angolan rebel and activist (b. 1923)
- 2007 – Kay Dotrice, British actress (b. 1929)
- 2011 – Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1920)
Events [change]
- 338 BC – Rise of Macedon: Philip II of Macedon crushes Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea.
- 216 BC – Punic Wars: In the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal destroys the Roman army of Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro in what is considered one of the great masterpieces of the tactical art.
- AD 461 – Majorian resigns as Western Roman Emperor; shortly afterwards Libius Severus is declared western Roman emperor by Ricimer.
- 1610 – Henry Hudson sails into what is now Hudson Bay, thinking he had reached the Pacific Ocean through the Northwest Passage.
- 1776 – Delegates to the Continental Congress begin to sign the Declaration_of_Independence.
- 1790 – First US Census; records are missing for five states: Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey and Virginia. Destroyed somewhere between that date and 1830.
- 1798 – Second Coalition: End of the Battle of the Nile between French and British navies; France defeated.
- 1832 – Battle at Bad Axe River: US troops defeat Native American Chief Black Hawk.
- 1858 – British Columbia becomes a British colony.
- 1869 – Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
- 1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
- 1873 – The Clay Street Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
- 1876 – In Deadwood, South Dakota, Jack McCall shoots and kills American Western figure Wild Bill Hickok, who was playing a game of cards at the time. The combination of cards he held at the time is now referred to as Dead Man's Hand.
- 1897 – Anglo-Afghan War:The Siege of Malakand ends.
- 1903 – Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Bulgarians against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden uprising.
- 1909 – The 'Tragic Week' uprising in Barcelona against Spain's colonial politics in Morocco is violently crushed by police. Over 100 people are killed.
- 1916 – World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
- 1918 – Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
- 1918 – The first General Strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
- 1922 – A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China, killing over 50,000 people.
- 1923 – After the death of Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge becomes President of the United States.
- 1934 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
- 1939 – Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein sign a letter to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning of the dangers posed by Nazi Germany and calling for the development of a nuclear weapon.
- 1943 – PT-109, with future president of the United States Lieutenant John F. Kennedy aboard, sinks. He manages to save most of the crew.
- 1944 – The Socialist Republic of Macedonia is created.
- 1944 – Beginning of the Treblinka uprising.
- 1945 – World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
- 1950 – The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was published on Yankee Stadium, New York.
- 1955 – Velcro is patented.
- 1964 – North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
- 1967 – The second Blackwall Tunnel opened in Greenwich, London.
- 1967 – Turkish sports club Trabzonspor is founded in Trabzon.
- 1970 – Powder Ridge Rock Festival
- 1973 – A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.
- 1975 – In New Orleans, Louisiana, the Superdome officially opens with an American football game between the New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers.
- 1976 – An intruder breaks into Priscilla Davis's Mockingbird Lane mansion in Fort Worth, Texas. Priscilla Davis and a friend are injured while Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr are killed. T. Cullen Davis is tried and found innocent of the crime.
- 1980 – A terrorist bombing at the railway station in Bologna, Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.
- 1980 – Hard rock band AC/DC release Back in Black, their first album with lead singer Brian Johnson and their best-selling
- 1985 – A Delta Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas, killing 137.
- 1989 – Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1990 – On the orders of Saddam Hussein, Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
- 1994 – Popular Japanese television and movie actor Beat Takeshi is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident.
- 1997 – Australian ski instructor Stuart Diver is rescued as the sole survivor from the Thredbo landslide in New South Wales, Australia, in which 18 lives were lost.
- 2003 – A 65th anniversary edition of The Beano is released.
- 2005 – Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames. All on board survive, with 12 injured.
Observances [change]
- Republic Day (Republic of Macedonia)
- Emancipation Day (Bahamas)
