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| August 2nd, 2007 (August 02 2007) | Death | Chauncey Bailey, American journalist and editor (born in 1950) | |
| August 2nd, 2007 (August 02 2007) | Death | Holden Roberto, Angolan founder and leader of the FNLA (born in 1923) | |
| August 2nd, 2007 (August 02 2007) | Death | Kay Dotrice, English repertory actress (born in 1929) | |
| August 2nd, 2005 (August 02 2005) | Death | Steven Vincent, American journalist and writer (born in 1955) | |
| August 2nd, 2004 (August 02 2004) | Death | Don Tosti, American musician (born in 1923) | |
| August 2nd, 2004 (August 02 2004) | Death | Francois Craenhals, Belgian comics artist (born in 1926) | |
| August 2nd, 2003 (August 02 2003) | Death | Don Estelle, British actor (born in 1933) | |
| August 2nd, 2003 (August 02 2003) | Death | Mike Levey, American television personality (born in 1948) | |
| August 2nd, 2003 (August 02 2003) | Death | Peter Safar, Austrian physician (born in 1924) | |
| August 2nd, 2001 (August 02 2001) | Death | Ron Townson, American singer (The Fifth Dimension) (born in 1933) | |
| August 2nd, 1998 (August 02 1998) | Death | Shari Lewis, American puppeteer (born in 1933) | |
| August 2nd, 1997 (August 02 1997) | Death | William S. Burroughs, American writer (born in 1914) | William S. Burroughs Quotes |
| August 2nd, 1996 (August 02 1996) | Death | Michel Debre, French politician (born in 1912) | |
| August 2nd, 1996 (August 02 1996) | Death | Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian Warlord (born in 1934) | |
| August 2nd, 1992 (August 02 1992) | Birth | Hallie Kate Eisenberg, American actress | |
| August 2nd, 1992 (August 02 1992) | Death | Michel Berger, French singer and songwriter (born in 1947) | |
| August 2nd, 1990 (August 02 1990) | Event | Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to conflict with coalition forces in the Gulf War. | |
| August 2nd, 1990 (August 02 1990) | Death | Norman Mclean, American writer (born in 1902) | |
| August 2nd, 1990 (August 02 1990) | Death | Edwin Richfield, British actor (born in 1921) | |
| August 2nd, 1988 (August 02 1988) | Birth | Brittany Hargest, American singer (Jump5) | |
| August 2nd, 1988 (August 02 1988) | Death | Raymond Carver, American writer (born in 1938) | |
| August 2nd, 1988 (August 02 1988) | Death | Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate (born in 1914) | |
| August 2nd, 1986 (August 02 1986) | Birth | Mathieu Razanakolona, Malagasy skier | |
| August 2nd, 1986 (August 02 1986) | Death | Roy Cohn, American politician (born in 1927) | |
| August 2nd, 1985 (August 02 1985) | Event | Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137. | |
| August 2nd, 1985 (August 02 1985) | Birth | Harry Smith, Canadian professional wrestler | |
| August 2nd, 1984 (August 02 1984) | Birth | Chiara Mastalli, Italian actress | |
| August 2nd, 1984 (August 02 1984) | Birth | Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer | |
| August 2nd, 1983 (August 02 1983) | Birth | Nick Diaz, American MMA fighter | |
| August 2nd, 1982 (August 02 1982) | Birth | Helder Postiga, Portuguese footballer | |
| August 2nd, 1982 (August 02 1982) | Birth | Grady Sizemore, American baseball player | |
| August 2nd, 1980 (August 02 1980) | Event | A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200. | |
| August 2nd, 1980 (August 02 1980) | Birth | Ivica Banovic, Croatian footballer | |
| August 2nd, 1980 (August 02 1980) | Birth | Nadia Bjorlin, American actress | |
| August 2nd, 1979 (August 02 1979) | Birth | Reuben Kosgei, Kenyan athlete | |
| August 2nd, 1979 (August 02 1979) | Death | Thurman Munson, American baseball player (born in 1947) | |
| August 2nd, 1978 (August 02 1978) | Birth | Goran Gavrancic, Serbian footballer | |
| August 2nd, 1978 (August 02 1978) | Birth | Matt Guerrier, American baseball player | |
| August 2nd, 1978 (August 02 1978) | Death | Carlos Chavez, Mexican composer (born in 1899) | |
| August 2nd, 1977 (August 02 1977) | Birth | Edward Furlong, American actor | |
| August 2nd, 1976 (August 02 1976) | Birth | Reyes Estevez, Spanish athlete | |
| August 2nd, 1976 (August 02 1976) | Birth | Sam Worthington, Australian actor | |
| August 2nd, 1976 (August 02 1976) | Death | Fritz Lang, Austrian film director (born in 1890) | |
| August 2nd, 1975 (August 02 1975) | Birth | Mineiro, Brazilian footballer | |
| August 2nd, 1975 (August 02 1975) | Birth | Xu Huaiwen, Chinese-born badminton player | |
| August 2nd, 1975 (August 02 1975) | Birth | Ingrid Rubio, Spanish actress | |
| August 2nd, 1974 (August 02 1974) | Birth | Angie Cepeda, Colombian actress | |
| August 2nd, 1974 (August 02 1974) | Death | W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (born in 1893) | |
| August 2nd, 1973 (August 02 1973) | Event | A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man. | |
| August 2nd, 1973 (August 02 1973) | Birth | Hiroyuki Goto, Japanese game designer | |
| August 2nd, 1973 (August 02 1973) | Death | Jean-Pierre Melville, French film director (born in 1917) | |
| August 2nd, 1972 (August 02 1972) | Birth | Mohamed Al-Deayea, Saudi Arabian footballer | |
| August 2nd, 1972 (August 02 1972) | Birth | Jacinda Barrett, Australian model and actress | |
| August 2nd, 1972 (August 02 1972) | Birth | Daniele Nardello, Italian professional road racing cyclist | |
| August 2nd, 1972 (August 02 1972) | Birth | Jimmy Pop, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang) | |
| August 2nd, 1972 (August 02 1972) | Birth | Justyna Steczkowska, Polish singer | |
| August 2nd, 1972 (August 02 1972) | Death | Helen Hoyt, American poet (born in 1887) | |
| August 2nd, 1972 (August 02 1972) | Death | Brian Cole, American bass player (The Association) (born in 1942) | |
| August 2nd, 1971 (August 02 1971) | Birth | Michael Hughes, Irish footballer | |
| August 2nd, 1970 (August 02 1970) | Birth | Tony Amonte, American ice hockey player | |
| August 2nd, 1970 (August 02 1970) | Birth | Kevin Smith, American director and screenwriter | Kevin Smith Quotes |
| August 2nd, 1969 (August 02 1969) | Birth | Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer | |
| August 2nd, 1969 (August 02 1969) | Birth | Jan Axel Blomberg (Hellhammer), drummer for the bands Dimmu Borgir, Winds, Mayhem, and many others | |
| August 2nd, 1969 (August 02 1969) | Birth | Richard Hallebeek, Dutch guitarist | |
| August 2nd, 1968 (August 02 1968) | Event | The 1968 Casiguran Earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261. | |
| August 2nd, 1968 (August 02 1968) | Birth | Stefan Effenberg, German footballer | |
| August 2nd, 1967 (August 02 1967) | Event | The second Blackwall Tunnel opens in Greenwich, London. | |
| August 2nd, 1967 (August 02 1967) | Birth | Aaron Krickstein, American tennis player | |
| August 2nd, 1967 (August 02 1967) | Birth | Aline Brosh McKenna, American screenwriter | |
| August 2nd, 1966 (August 02 1966) | Birth | Tim Wakefield, American baseball player | |
| August 2nd, 1965 (August 02 1965) | Event | French Riviera fires: At least 7,000 people, mostly holidaymakers, evacuate to a local beach as fires swept the hills between the Provence resorts of Hyeres and St Tropez. | |
| August 2nd, 1965 (August 02 1965) | Birth | Hisanobu Watanabe, Japanese baseball player and coach | |
| August 2nd, 1964 (August 02 1964) | Event | Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin IncidentNorth Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fires on U.S. destroyers, USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy. | |
| August 2nd, 1964 (August 02 1964) | Birth | Frank Biela, German race car driver | |
| August 2nd, 1964 (August 02 1964) | Birth | Mary-Louise Parker, American actress | |
| August 2nd, 1961 (August 02 1961) | Birth | Linda Fratianne, American figure skater | |
| August 2nd, 1961 (August 02 1961) | Birth | Cold 187um, American rapper (Above the Law) | |
| August 2nd, 1960 (August 02 1960) | Birth | Neal Morse, American musician (Spock s Beard and Transatlantic) | |
| August 2nd, 1960 (August 02 1960) | Birth | David Yow, American musician (Scratch Acid, The Jesus Lizard) | |
| August 2nd, 1959 (August 02 1959) | Birth | Victoria Jackson, American comedian | |
| August 2nd, 1959 (August 02 1959) | Birth | Apollonia Kotero, American singer and actress | |
| August 2nd, 1957 (August 02 1957) | Birth | Mojo Nixon, American musician and actor | |
| August 2nd, 1956 (August 02 1956) | Birth | Fulvio Melia, Italian-American physicist/astrophysicist and author | |
| August 2nd, 1956 (August 02 1956) | Birth | Jim Neidhart, American professional wrestler | |
| August 2nd, 1956 (August 02 1956) | Birth | Isabel Pantoja, Spanish singer | |
| August 2nd, 1955 (August 02 1955) | Birth | Caleb Carr, American novelist and military historian | |
| August 2nd, 1955 (August 02 1955) | Birth | Tim Dunigan, American Actor | |
| August 2nd, 1955 (August 02 1955) | Death | Alfred Lepine, Canadian ice hockey player (born in 1901) | Alfred Ayer Quotes |
| August 2nd, 1954 (August 02 1954) | Birth | James Charles Kopp, American citizen who murdered Barnett Slepian | |
| August 2nd, 1954 (August 02 1954) | Birth | Sammy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and manager | |
| August 2nd, 1953 (August 02 1953) | Birth | Marjo, Quebec singer | |
| August 2nd, 1953 (August 02 1953) | Birth | Butch Patrick, American actor | |
| August 2nd, 1951 (August 02 1951) | Birth | Andrew Gold, American musician and songwriter | |
| August 2nd, 1951 (August 02 1951) | Birth | Joe Lynn Turner, American singer (Deep Purple and Rainbow | |
| August 2nd, 1951 (August 02 1951) | Birth | Freddie Wadling, Swedish actor and musician (The Leather Nun, Fleshquartet) | |
| August 2nd, 1951 (August 02 1951) | Birth | Per Westerberg, Swedish politician | |
| August 2nd, 1950 (August 02 1950) | Birth | Lance Ito, American judge | |
| August 2nd, 1950 (August 02 1950) | Birth | Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate (died in 1994) | |
| August 2nd, 1949 (August 02 1949) | Birth | James Fallows, American journalist | James Fallows Quotes |
| August 2nd, 1948 (August 02 1948) | Birth | Andy Fairweather Low, British guitarist | |
| August 2nd, 1948 (August 02 1948) | Birth | Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host and author | |
| August 2nd, 1947 (August 02 1947) | Birth | Massiel, Spanish singer | |
| August 2nd, 1945 (August 02 1945) | Event | World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes. | |
| August 2nd, 1945 (August 02 1945) | Birth | Joanna Cassidy, American actress | |
| August 2nd, 1945 (August 02 1945) | Birth | Alex Jesaulenko, Australian rules footballer | |
| August 2nd, 1945 (August 02 1945) | Death | Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (born in 1863) | |
| August 2nd, 1944 (August 02 1944) | Birth | Jim Capaldi, British musician and songwriter (Traffic) (died in 2005) | |
| August 2nd, 1944 (August 02 1944) | Birth | Nana Vasconcelos, Brazilian jazz musician | |
| August 2nd, 1943 (August 02 1943) | Event | Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka. | |
| August 2nd, 1943 (August 02 1943) | Event | World War II: PT-109 rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future US President, saves all but two of his crew. | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| August 2nd, 1943 (August 02 1943) | Birth | Tom Burgmeier, American baseball player | |
| August 2nd, 1943 (August 02 1943) | Birth | Max Wright, American actor | |
| August 2nd, 1942 (August 02 1942) | Birth | Isabel Allende, Chilean author | |
| August 2nd, 1941 (August 02 1941) | Birth | Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (died in 2000) | |
| August 2nd, 1939 (August 02 1939) | Event | Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon. | Leo Szilard Quotes |
| August 2nd, 1939 (August 02 1939) | Birth | Wes Craven, American film director | |
| August 2nd, 1939 (August 02 1939) | Birth | John W. Snow, American 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury | |
| August 2nd, 1939 (August 02 1939) | Death | Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosicrucian mystic (born in 1883) | |
| August 2nd, 1938 (August 02 1938) | Birth | Pierre de Bane, French Canadian politician | |
| August 2nd, 1938 (August 02 1938) | Birth | Terry Peck, Falkland Islander (died in 2006) who acted as a scout for 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment in the Falklands War | |
| August 2nd, 1937 (August 02 1937) | Event | The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal. | |
| August 2nd, 1937 (August 02 1937) | Birth | Billy Cannon, American football player | |
| August 2nd, 1937 (August 02 1937) | Birth | Garth Hudson, Canadian musician (The Band) | |
| August 2nd, 1936 (August 02 1936) | Death | Louis Bleriot, French aviation pioneer (born in 1872) | |
| August 2nd, 1935 (August 02 1935) | Birth | Hank Cochran, American country music singer and songwriter | |
| August 2nd, 1934 (August 02 1934) | Event | Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| August 2nd, 1934 (August 02 1934) | Birth | Valery Bykovsky, Soviet cosmonaut | |
| August 2nd, 1934 (August 02 1934) | Death | Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and President of Germany (born in 1847) | |
| August 2nd, 1932 (August 02 1932) | Event | The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson. | |
| August 2nd, 1932 (August 02 1932) | Birth | Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (died in 2006) | |
| August 2nd, 1932 (August 02 1932) | Birth | Peter O Toole, Irish-born actor | |
| August 2nd, 1931 (August 02 1931) | Event | Einstein urges all scientists to refuse military work. | |
| August 2nd, 1931 (August 02 1931) | Birth | Pierre DuMaine, Catholic bishop | |
| August 2nd, 1931 (August 02 1931) | Birth | Viliam Schrojf, Slovak footballer (died in 2007) | |
| August 2nd, 1930 (August 02 1930) | Birth | Vali Myers (artist), Australian painter (died in 2003) | |
| August 2nd, 1929 (August 02 1929) | Death | Mae Costello, American actress (born in 1882) | |
| August 2nd, 1926 (August 02 1926) | Birth | Betsy Bloomingdale, American socialite and namesake of the Bloomingdale department store chain | |
| August 2nd, 1925 (August 02 1925) | Birth | John Dexter, English stage and film director | |
| August 2nd, 1925 (August 02 1925) | Birth | Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian dictator | |
| August 2nd, 1925 (August 02 1925) | Birth | Alan Whicker, British journalist and broadcaster | |
| August 2nd, 1924 (August 02 1924) | Birth | James Baldwin, American author (died in 1987) | James Baldwin Quotes |
| August 2nd, 1924 (August 02 1924) | Birth | Carroll O Connor, American actor (died in 2001) | |
| August 2nd, 1923 (August 02 1923) | Birth | Shimon Peres, Israeli politician. | Shimon Peres Quotes |
| August 2nd, 1923 (August 02 1923) | Death | Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (born in 1865) | Warren G. Harding Quotes |
| August 2nd, 1922 (August 02 1922) | Death | Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor, invented the telephone(born in 1847) | Alexander Graham Bell Quotes |
| August 2nd, 1921 (August 02 1921) | Death | Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (born in 1873) | |
| August 2nd, 1920 (August 02 1920) | Birth | Louis Pauwels, French journalist and writer (died in 1997) | |
| August 2nd, 1920 (August 02 1920) | Death | Ormer Locklear, American stunt pilot (born in 1891) | |
| August 2nd, 1918 (August 02 1918) | Event | Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I. | |
| August 2nd, 1916 (August 02 1916) | Event | World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto. | |
| August 2nd, 1915 (August 02 1915) | Birth | Gary Merrill, American actor (died in 1990) | |
| August 2nd, 1914 (August 02 1914) | Birth | Felix Leclerc, Quebec singer, songwriter and writer (died in 1988) | |
| August 2nd, 1914 (August 02 1914) | Birth | Beatrice Straight, American actress (died in 2001) | |
| August 2nd, 1912 (August 02 1912) | Birth | Ann Dvorak, American actress (died in 1979) | |
| August 2nd, 1912 (August 02 1912) | Birth | Vladimir Zerjavic, Croatian statistician (died in 2001) | |
| August 2nd, 1910 (August 02 1910) | Birth | Roger MacDougall, writer (died in 1993) | |
| August 2nd, 1907 (August 02 1907) | Birth | Mary Hamman, American writer (died in 1984) | |
| August 2nd, 1905 (August 02 1905) | Birth | Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (died in 1963) | |
| August 2nd, 1905 (August 02 1905) | Birth | Myrna Loy, American actress (died in 1993) | |
| August 2nd, 1903 (August 02 1903) | Event | Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising. | |
| August 2nd, 1903 (August 02 1903) | Death | Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian (born in 1850) | |
| August 2nd, 1902 (August 02 1902) | Birth | Helen Morgan, American actress (died in 1941) | |
| August 2nd, 1899 (August 02 1899) | Birth | Charles Bennett, British screenwriter (died in 1995) | |
| August 2nd, 1897 (August 02 1897) | Birth | Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (died in 1945) | |
| August 2nd, 1897 (August 02 1897) | Birth | Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (died in 1974) | |
| August 2nd, 1896 (August 02 1896) | Birth | Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer (died in 1960) | |
| August 2nd, 1892 (August 02 1892) | Birth | Jack Warner, Canadian film producer (died in 1978) | |
| August 2nd, 1891 (August 02 1891) | Birth | Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (died in 1971) | |
| August 2nd, 1890 (August 02 1890) | Birth | Marin Sais, American actress (died in 1971) | |
| August 2nd, 1890 (August 02 1890) | Death | Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (born in 1813) | |
| August 2nd, 1889 (August 02 1889) | Death | Eduardo Gutierrez, Argentinian author (born in 1851) | |
| August 2nd, 1886 (August 02 1886) | Birth | John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian Aviator ( died in 1961) | |
| August 2nd, 1884 (August 02 1884) | Birth | Romulo Gallegos, President of Venezuela (died in 1969) | |
| August 2nd, 1882 (August 02 1882) | Birth | Red Ames, baseball player (died in 1936) | |
| August 2nd, 1878 (August 02 1878) | Birth | Aino Kallas, FinnishEstonian author (died in 1956) | |
| August 2nd, 1876 (August 02 1876) | Death | James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, American gunfighter (born in 1837) | |
| August 2nd, 1875 (August 02 1875) | Birth | Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian artist (died in 1957) | |
| August 2nd, 1871 (August 02 1871) | Birth | John French Sloan, American artist (died in 1951) | |
| August 2nd, 1870 (August 02 1870) | Event | Tower Subway, the world s first underground tube railway, opens in London. | |
| August 2nd, 1869 (August 02 1869) | Event | Japan s samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinokosho) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869). | Osho Quotes |
| August 2nd, 1868 (August 02 1868) | Birth | King Constantine I of Greece (died in 1923) | |
| August 2nd, 1865 (August 02 1865) | Birth | Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (died in 1933) | |
| August 2nd, 1865 (August 02 1865) | Birth | John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (died in 1955) | |
| August 2nd, 1859 (August 02 1859) | Death | Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (born in 1796) | Horace Mann Quotes |
| August 2nd, 1858 (August 02 1858) | Birth | Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, queen of the Netherlands (died in 1934) | |
| August 2nd, 1849 (August 02 1849) | Death | Governor Muhammad Ali of Egypt (born in 1769) | Muhammad Ali Quotes |
| August 2nd, 1835 (August 02 1835) | Birth | Elisha Gray, American inventor and entrepreneur (died in 1901) | |
| August 2nd, 1834 (August 02 1834) | Birth | Frederic Bartholdi, French sculptor (died in 1904) | |
| August 2nd, 1828 (August 02 1828) | Birth | Manuel Pavia y Rodriguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general (died in 1895) | |
| August 2nd, 1823 (August 02 1823) | Death | Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (born in 1753) | |
| August 2nd, 1815 (August 02 1815) | Birth | Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer (died in 1894) | |
| August 2nd, 1815 (August 02 1815) | Death | Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (born in 1763) | |
| August 2nd, 1798 (August 02 1798) | Event | French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) concludes in a British victory | |
| August 2nd, 1790 (August 02 1790) | Event | The first US Census is conducted. | |
| August 2nd, 1788 (August 02 1788) | Birth | Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (died in 1853) | |
| August 2nd, 1788 (August 02 1788) | Death | Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (born in 1727) | |
| August 2nd, 1776 (August 02 1776) | Event | Delegates to the Continental Congress begin signing the United States Declaration of Independence. | |
| August 2nd, 1776 (August 02 1776) | Death | Louis Francois I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (born in 1717) | |
| August 2nd, 1769 (August 02 1769) | Death | Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (born in 1689) | |
| August 2nd, 1703 (August 02 1703) | Birth | Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (died in 1775) | |
| August 2nd, 1696 (August 02 1696) | Birth | Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (died in 1754) | |
| August 2nd, 1696 (August 02 1696) | Death | Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Scottish military commander (born in 1630) | |
| August 2nd, 1674 (August 02 1674) | Birth | Philip II, Duke of Orleans, Regent of France (died in 1723) | |
| August 2nd, 1672 (August 02 1672) | Birth | Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (died in 1733) | |
| August 2nd, 1611 (August 02 1611) | Death | Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (born in 1562) | |
| August 2nd, 1610 (August 02 1610) | Event | Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean. | |
| August 2nd, 1589 (August 02 1589) | Death | King Henry III of France (born in 1551) | |
| August 2nd, 1533 (August 02 1533) | Birth | Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (died in 1588) | |
| August 2nd, 1511 (August 02 1511) | Death | Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader | |
| August 2nd, 1222 (August 02 1222) | Death | Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (born in 1156) | |
| August 2nd, 1100 (August 02 1100) | Death | King William II of England | William King Quotes |
| August 2nd, 0924 (August 02 0924) | Death | ?lfweard of Wessex | |
| August 2nd, 0686 (August 02 0686) | Death | Pope John V | |
| August 2nd, 0338 (August 02 0338) | Event | 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. | |
| August 2nd, 0216 (August 02 0216) | Event | Second Punic War: Battle of CannaeThe Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro. | |
