August 2

## Events 
### Up to 1940 
* 338 BC &ndash; Rise of Macedon: Philip II of Macedon crushes Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea.
* 216 BC &ndash; 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 &ndash; Majorian resigns as Western Roman Emperor; shortly afterwards Libius Severus is declared western Roman emperor by Ricimer.
* 1274 &ndash; Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King 17 days later.
* 1377 &ndash; Russian troops are defeated at the Battle of Pyana River because of drunkenness.
* 1610 &ndash; Henry Hudson sails into what is now Hudson Bay, thinking he had reached the Pacific Ocean through the Northwest Passage.
* 1776 &ndash; Delegates to the Continental Congress begin to sign the United States Declaration of Independence.
* 1790 &ndash; First US Census; records are missing for five states: Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey and Virginia. Destroyed somewhere between that date and 1830.
* 1798 &ndash; Second Coalition: End of the Battle of the Nile between French and British navies; France defeated.
* 1830 &ndash; Charles X of France leaves the throne to his grandson Henri, Count of Chambord, who is, disputedly, King of France until August 9.
* 1832 &ndash; Battle of Bad Axe: US troops defeat Native American Chief Black Hawk.
* 1858 &ndash; British Columbia becomes a British colony.
* 1869 &ndash; Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
* 1870 &ndash; Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
* 1873 &ndash; The Clay Street Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
* 1874 &ndash; Iceland celebrates 1,000 years of settlement.
* 1876 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends.
* 1903 &ndash; Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Macedonians and Aromanians against Ottoman, also known as the Ilinden uprising.
* 1909 &ndash; The 'Tragic Week' uprising in Barcelona against Spain's colonial politics in Morocco is violently crushed by police. Over 100 people are killed.
* 1916 &ndash; World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of Italian battleship *Leonardo da Vinci* in Taranto.
* 1918 &ndash; Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
* 1918 &ndash; The first General Strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
* 1922 &ndash; A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China, killing over 50,000 people.
* 1923 &ndash; After the death of Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge becomes President of the United States.
* 1934 &ndash; Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
* 1937 &ndash; Marijuana is made illegal in the United States.
* 1939 &ndash; Leó Szilárd 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.

### From 1941 
* 1943 &ndash; PT-109, with future president of the United States Lieutenant John F. Kennedy aboard, sinks. He manages to save most of the crew.
* 1944 &ndash; The Socialist Republic of Macedonia is created.
* 1944 &ndash; Beginning of the Treblinka uprising.
* 1945 &ndash; World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
* 1947 &ndash; A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain on a flight from Buenos Aires to Santiago de Chile. The wreckage disappears under a glacier and only reappears over 50 years later. The meaning of its last message, "STENDEC", remains a mystery.
* 1950 &ndash; The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was published on Yankee Stadium, New York.
* 1955 &ndash; Velcro is patented.
* 1964 &ndash; North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
* 1967 &ndash; The second Blackwall Tunnel opened in Greenwich, London.
* 1967 &ndash; Turkish sports club Trabzonspor is founded in Trabzon.
* 1968 &ndash; An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines, killing over 270 people.
* 1970 &ndash; Powder Ridge Rock Festival
* 1973 &ndash; A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.
* 1975 &ndash; In New Orleans, Louisiana, the Superdome officially opens with an American football game between the New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers.
* 1976 &ndash; 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 &ndash; A terrorist bombing at the railway station in Bologna, Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.
* 1980 &ndash; Hard rock band AC/DC release Back in Black, their first album with lead singer Brian Johnson and their best–selling
* 1985 &ndash; A Delta Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas, killing 137.
* 1989 &ndash; Pakistan is re–admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations.
* 1989 &ndash; A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peacekeeping Force in Sri Lanka, killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
* 1990 &ndash; On the orders of Saddam Hussein, Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
* 1994 &ndash; Popular Japanese television and movie actor Beat Takeshi is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident.
* 1997 &ndash; Australian ski instructor Stuart Diver is rescued as the sole survivor from the Thredbo landslide in New South Wales, Australia, in which 18 people died.
* 1998 &ndash; The Second Congo War begins.
* 2003 &ndash; A 65th anniversary edition of The Beano is released.
* 2005 &ndash; 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.
* 2007 &ndash; Crews from the Russian submarines Mir 1 and Mir 2 plant the Flag of Russia in the seabed beneath the North Pole.
* 2014 &ndash; A factory explosion near Shanghai kills 146 people.
* 2018 &ndash; Apple Inc. becomes the first company to reach a worth of a trillion United States dollars.
* 2018 &ndash; The first multi–sport European Championships, co–hosted by Glasgow (Scotland) and Berlin (Germany), begin.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
* 1455 &ndash; John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1499)
* 1533 &ndash; Theodor Zwinger, medical scholar (d. 1588)
* 1612 &ndash; Saskia van Uylenburgh, wife of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn (d. 1642)
* 1627 &ndash; Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter and writer (d. 1678)
* 1672 &ndash; Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)
* 1674 &ndash; Philip II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (d. 1723)
* 1696 &ndash; Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
* 1702 &ndash; Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1769)
* 1703 &ndash; Lorenzo Ricci, General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1775)
* 1754 &ndash; Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect, city planner (d. 1825)
* 1780 &ndash; Marie-Anne Gaboury, French–Canadian settler in Manitoba (d. 1875)
* 1788 &ndash; Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)
* 1802 &ndash; Nicholas Wiseman, English theologian, cardinal and archbishop (d. 1865)
* 1808 &ndash; Augustus French, 9th Governor of Illinois (d. 1864)
* 1815 &ndash; Adolf Friedrich von Schack, writer (d. 1894)
* 1820 &ndash; John Tyndall, British physicist (d. 1893)
* 1824 &ndash; Princess Francisca of Brazil (d. 1898)
* 1825 &ndash; J. Neely Johnson, 4th Governor of California (d. 1872)
* 1827 &ndash; Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Albuquerque, Spanish general (d. 1895)
* 1834 &ndash; Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)
* 1835 &ndash; Elisha Gray, American inventor and founder of Western Electric (d. 1901)
* 1849 &ndash; Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (d. 1882)
* 1854 &ndash; Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
* 1858 &ndash; Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1934)
* 1862 &ndash; Duncan Campbell Scott, Canadian writer (d. 1947)
* 1865 &ndash; Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933)
* 1865 &ndash; John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (d. 1955)
* 1866 &ndash; Adrien de Gerlache, Belgian explorer (d. 1934)
* 1866 &ndash; Charles Francis Adams III, American politician, United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1954)
* 1867 &ndash; Ernest Dowson, English poet (d. 1900)
* 1868 &ndash; King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
* 1870 &ndash; Marianne Weber, German sociologist (d. 1954)
* 1871 &ndash; John French Sloan, artist (d. 1951)
* 1875 &ndash; Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian general (d. 1957)
* 1876 &ndash; Pingali Venkayya, designer of the Flag of India (d. 1963)
* 1877 &ndash; Ravishankar Shukla, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh (d. 1956)
* 1878 &ndash; Aino Kallas, Finnish–Estonian writer (d. 1956)
* 1880 &ndash; Arthur Dove, American artist (d. 1946)
* 1882 &ndash; Albert Bloch, American painter, writer and translator (d. 1961)
* 1882 &ndash; Red Ames, American baseball player (d. 1936)
* 1883 &ndash; Jonathan Wainwright, American general (d. 1953)
* 1884 &ndash; Rómulo Gallegos, 46th President of Venezuela (d. 1969)
* 1886 &ndash; John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Canadian aviator (d. 1961)
* 1891 &ndash; Arthur Bliss, English composer and conductor (d. 1975)
* 1891 &ndash; Viktor Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian and linguist (d. 1971)
* 1892 &ndash; Jack Warner, Canadian movie producer (d. 1978)
* 1894 &ndash; Carlo Galimberti, Italian weightlifter (d. 1939)
* 1897 &ndash; Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1974)
* 1897 &ndash; Karl Otto Koch, German SS officer (d. 1945)
* 1899 &ndash; Charles Bennett, English director and screenwriter (d. 1995)
* 1900 &ndash; Helen Morgan, American actress (d. 1941)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1902 &ndash; Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Egyptian Coptic Church Patriarch (d. 1971)
* 1905 &ndash; Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer (d. 1963)
* 1905 &ndash; Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993)
* 1905 &ndash; Rudolf Prack, Austrian actor (d. 1981)
* 1912 &ndash; Vladimir Zerjavic, Croatian statistician (d. 2001)
* 1912 &ndash; Ann Dvorak, American actress (d. 1979)
* 1914 &ndash; Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001)
* 1915 &ndash; Gary Merrill, American actor (d. 1990)
* 1919 &ndash; Carlo Savina, Italian movie score composer (d. 2002)
* 1919 &ndash; Nehemiah Persoff, Israeli–American actor
* 1920 &ndash; François Flohic, French admiral (d. 2018)
* 1921 &ndash; Ruth Barcan Marcus, American philosopher and logician (d. 2012)
* 1921 &ndash; Alan Whicker, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 2013)
* 1922 &ndash; Paul Laxalt, American politician, 22nd Governor of Nevada (d. 2018)
* 1923 &ndash; Shimon Peres, 9th President of Israel (d. 2016)
* 1924 &ndash; James Baldwin, American writer (d. 1987)
* 1924 &ndash; Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)
* 1925 &ndash; John McCormack, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
* 1925 &ndash; Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian dictator (d. 2013)
* 1928 &ndash; Luigi Colani, German industrial designer (d. 2019)
* 1929 &ndash; Irwin Fridovich, American biochemist (d. 2019)
* 1929 &ndash; Ursula Karusseit, German actress (d. 2019)
* 1929 &ndash; K.M. Peyton, English writer
* 1929 &ndash; David Waddington, Baron Waddington, British Governor of Bermuda (d. 2017)
* 1929 &ndash; Vidya Charan Shukla, Indian politician (d. 2013)
* 1931 &ndash; Karl Miller, British literary editor, critic and writer (d. 2014)
* 1932 &ndash; Peter O'Toole, Irish–British actor (d. 2013)
* 1932 &ndash; Lamar Hunt, American sportsman (d. 2006)
* 1933 &ndash; Lorenzo Milam, writer and broadcaster
* 1934 &ndash; Valery Bykovsky, Soviet–Russian cosmonaut (d. 2019)
* 1935 &ndash; Alex Parker, Scottish footballer
* 1937 &ndash; Garth Hudson, Canadian musician, organist/keyboardist with The Band
* 1937 &ndash; Gundula Janowitz, Austrian soprano
* 1937 &ndash; Jim McLean, Scottish footballer
* 1938 &ndash; Timo Konietzka, German–Swiss footballer and manager (d. 2012)
* 1938 &ndash; Paul Jenkins, American actor (d. 2013)
* 1939 &ndash; Wes Craven, American movie director (d. 2015)
* 1939 &ndash; Benjamin Barber, American theorist, author and academic (d. 2017)
* 1939 &ndash; John W. Snow, American politician
* 1941 &ndash; Jules Hoffmann, Luxembourg–French biologist and Nobel Prize winner
* 1941 &ndash; François Weyergans, Belgian writer and director (d. 2019)
* 1941 &ndash; Doris Coley, singer (Shirelles) (d. 2000)
* 1941 &ndash; Fabio Testi, Italian actor
* 1942 &ndash; Isabel Allende, Chilean–American writer
* 1942 &ndash; Leo Beenhakker, Dutch football coach
* 1942 &ndash; Juan Formell, Cuban musician and composer (d. 2014)
* 1943 &ndash; Jon R. Cavaiani, American soldier (d. 2014)
* 1943 &ndash; Max Wright, American actor
* 1943 &ndash; Rose Tremain, British writer
* 1944 &ndash; Jim Capaldi, British drummer, singer, and songwriter (Traffic) (d. 2005)
* 1944 &ndash; Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian singer and musician (d. 2016)
* 1945 &ndash; Joanna Cassidy, American actress
* 1947 &ndash; Massiel, Spanish singer, actress and television presenter
* 1948 &ndash; Dennis Prager, radio talk show host and writer
* 1949 &ndash; Mario Illien, Swiss engineer
* 1950 &ndash; Jussi Adler-Olsen, Danish writer
* 1950 &ndash; Lance Ito, American judge
* 1950 &ndash; Mathieu Carrière, German actor
* 1950 &ndash; Ken Kutaragi, Japanese businessman, founder of PlayStation

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Per Westerberg, Swedish politician
* 1951 &ndash; Joe Lynn Turner, American singer
* 1951 &ndash; Marcel Iures, Romanian actor
* 1952 &ndash; Alain Giresse, French footballer and manager
* 1953 &ndash; Donnie Munro, Scottish musician and singer, formerly of the band Runrig
* 1953 &ndash; Butch Patrick, American actor
* 1954 &ndash; Ken MacLeod, Scottish writer
* 1954 &ndash; Sammy McIlroy, Irish footballer
* 1954 &ndash; Enrique Saura, Spanish footballer
* 1956 &ndash; Fulvio Melia, Italian–American physicist, astrophysicist and writer
* 1956 &ndash; Isabel Pantoja, Spanish singer
* 1957 &ndash; Mojo Nixon, musician and actor
* 1958 &ndash; Elaine C. Smith, Scottish actress and comedienne
* 1959 &ndash; Johnny Kemp, Bahamian singer (d. 2015)
* 1960 &ndash; Olivier Gruner, French actor
* 1961 &ndash; Linda Fratianne, American figure skater
* 1961 &ndash; Mike Ross, American politician
* 1963 &ndash; Laura Bennett, American fashion designer
* 1964 &ndash; Mary-Louise Parker, American actress
* 1965 &ndash; Hisanobu Watanabe, Japanese baseball player and coach
* 1965 &ndash; Joe Hockey, Australian politician
* 1967 &ndash; Marco Giampaolo, Italian footballer and manager
* 1967 &ndash; Aaron Krickstein, American tennis player
* 1968 &ndash; Chrystia Freeland, Canadian politician
* 1968 &ndash; Stefan Effenberg, German footballer
* 1968 &ndash; Russell Latapy, Trinidadian footballer
* 1969 &ndash; Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
* 1969 &ndash; Angélica Rivera, Mexican actress and First Lady
* 1970 &ndash; Tony Amonte, American ice hockey player
* 1970 &ndash; Kevin Smith, American actor, director, comedian and writer
* 1972 &ndash; Muriel Bowser, American politician, 8th Mayor of the District of Columbia
* 1972 &ndash; Corinne Rey-Bellet, Swiss ski racer (d. 2006)
* 1972 &ndash; Justyna Steczkowska, Polish singer
* 1972 &ndash; Carol Monaghan, Scottish politician
* 1972 &ndash; Mohamed Al-Deayea, Saudi Arabian footballer
* 1973 &ndash; Miguel Mendonça, Anglo–Azorean writer
* 1973 &ndash; Susie O'Neill, Australian swimmer
* 1974 &ndash; Jeremy Castle, singer and songwriter
* 1975 &ndash; Xu Huaiwen, Chinese–born German badminton player
* 1975 &ndash; Mineiro, Brazilian footballer

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Sam Worthington, Australian actor
* 1976 &ndash; Kati Wilhelm, German biathlete
* 1977 &ndash; Edward Furlong, American actor
* 1978 &ndash; Deividas Semberas, Lithuanian footballer
* 1982 &ndash; Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer
* 1983 &ndash; Laura Bassett, English footballer
* 1983 &ndash; Michel Bastos, Brazilian footballer
* 1984 &ndash; Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Stephen Ferris, Irish rugby player
* 1985 &ndash; Britt Nicole, American singer
* 1985 &ndash; David Hart Smith, Canadian professional wrestler
* 1986 &ndash; Alisha Annas, musician
* 1986 &ndash; Mathieu Razanakolona, Malagasy skier
* 1987 &ndash; Yura Movsisyan, Armenian footballer
* 1989 &ndash; Nacer Chadli, Belgian footballer
* 1990 &ndash; Skylar Diggins, American basketball player
* 1991 &ndash; Skyler Day, American actress
* 1991 &ndash; Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir, Icelandic swmmer
* 1992 &ndash; Charli XCX, English singer and songwriter
* 1992 &ndash; Hallie Kate Eisenberg, American actress
* 1997 &ndash; Christina Robinson, American actress

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 640 &ndash; Pope Severinus
* 686 &ndash; Pope John V
* 924 &ndash; King Ælfweard of Wessex (b. 904)
* 1100 &ndash; King William II of England (b. 1056)
* 1222 &ndash; Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (b. 1156)
* 1316 &ndash; Louis of Burgundy (b. 1297)
* 1332 &ndash; King Christopher II of Denmark (b. 1276)
* 1512 &ndash; Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician and philosopher (b. 1463)
* 1546 &ndash; Peter Faber, Jesuit priest (b. 1506)
* 1589 &ndash; King Henry III of France (b. 1551)
* 1611 &ndash; Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
* 1644 &ndash; Bernardo Strozzi, Italian Baroque painter (b. 1581)
* 1667 &ndash; Francesco Borromini, Swiss architect (b. 1599)
* 1788 &ndash; Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (b. 1727)
* 1799 &ndash; Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
* 1823 &ndash; Lazare Carnot, French general, politician and mathematician (b. 1753)
* 1849 &ndash; Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Egyptian military officer and statesman (b. 1769)
* 1859 &ndash; Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)
* 1876 &ndash; Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1913 &ndash; Ferenc Pfaff, Hungarian architect (b. 1861)
* 1921 &ndash; Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
* 1922 &ndash; Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish–American inventor (b. 1847)
* 1923 &ndash; Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
* 1929 &ndash; Mae Costello, American actress (b. 1882)
* 1932 &ndash; Ignaz Seipel, Chancellor of Austria (b. 1876)
* 1934 &ndash; Paul von Hindenburg, German military figure and President (b. 1847)
* 1936 &ndash; Louis Blériot, French aviator (b. 1872)
* 1938 &ndash; Yakov Yurovsky, Russian Bolshevik, led the execution of the family of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1878)
* 1945 &ndash; Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (b. 1863)
* 1955 &ndash; Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1901)
* 1973 &ndash; Jean-Pierre Melville, French movie director (b. 1917)
* 1976 &ndash; Fritz Lang, Austrian movie director (b. 1890)
* 1978 &ndash; Antony Noghès, French businessman (b. 1890)
* 1979 &ndash; Thurman Munson, American baseball player (b. 1947)
* 1988 &ndash; Raymond Carver, American writer (b. 1938)
* 1992 &ndash; Michel Berger, French singer-songwriter and songwriter (b. 1947)
* 1996 &ndash; Mohamed Farah Aidid, Somali warlord (b. 1934)
* 1996 &ndash; Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
* 1997 &ndash; Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician (b. 1938)
* 1997 &ndash; William S. Burroughs, American writer (b. 1914)
* 1998 &ndash; Shari Lewis, American television host and puppeteer (b. 1933)

### From 2001 
* 2004 &ndash; François Craenhals, Belgian comics artist (b. 1926)
* 2004 &ndash; José Pastoriza, Argentine footballer (b. 1942)
* 2005 &ndash; Jay Hammond, former Governor of Alaska (b. 1922)
* 2007 &ndash; Holden Roberto, Angolan rebel and activist (b. 1923)
* 2007 &ndash; Kay Dotrice, British actress (b. 1929)
* 2011 &ndash; Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan–born immunologist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1920)
* 2012 &ndash; Mihaela Ursuleasa, Romanian pianist (b. 1978)
* 2014 &ndash; Barbara Prammer, Austrian politician (b. 1954)
* 2014 &ndash; James Thompson, American–Finnish author (b. 1964)
* 2014 &ndash; Pete van Wieren, American sports broadcaster (b. 1944)
* 2015 &ndash; Piet Fransen, Dutch footballer (b. 1936)
* 2015 &ndash; Forrest Bird, American aviator and inventor (b. 1921)
* 2015 &ndash; Giovanni Conso, Italian jurist and politician (b. 1922)
* 2015 &ndash; Natalia Molchanova, Russian freediver (b. 1962)
* 2016 &ndash; Jonathan Borwein, Scottish mathematician (b. 1951)
* 2016 &ndash; Forbes Carlile, Australian swimming coach and modern pentathlete (b. 1921)
* 2016 &ndash; Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal (b. 1927)
* 2016 &ndash; Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian chemist (b. 1946)
* 2017 &ndash; Wanda Chotomska, Polish writer (b. 1929)
* 2017 &ndash; John Graham, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1935)
* 2017 &ndash; Judith Jones, American cookbook author (b. 1924)
* 2017 &ndash; Daniel Licht, American composer and musician (b. 1957)
* 2017 &ndash; Jim Marrs, American newspaper journalist and author (b. 1943)
* 2017 &ndash; Ara Parseghian, American football player and coach (b. 1923)
* 2017 &ndash; Shen Daren, Chinese politician (b. 1928)
* 2017 &ndash; Santosh Mohan Dev, Indian politician (b. 1934)
* 2018 &ndash; Neil Argo, American composer (b. 1947)
* 2018 &ndash; Armand de Las Cuevas, French cyclist (b. 1968)
* 2018 &ndash; Herbert King, Colombian actor (b. 1963)
* 2018 &ndash; Winston Ntshona, South African actor and playwright (b. 1941)
* 2018 &ndash; Daan Schrijvers, Dutch footballer (b. 1941)
* 2019 &ndash; Vahakn Dadrian, Armenian–American sociologist and historian (b. 1926)
* 2019 &ndash; Deepak Obhrai, Canadian politician (b. 1950)
* 2019 &ndash; Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau, Canadian politician (b. 1955)
* 2019 &ndash; Alexandra Strelchenko, Russian folk singer (b. 1937)

## Observances 
* The Catholic Church celebrates on August 2, starting at noon of the preceding day, the "Perdono di Assisi", the plenary indulgence related to Saint Francis of Assisi.
* Republic Day (North Macedonia)
* Emancipation Day (Bahamas)