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| August 2nd, 2005 (August 02 2005) | Death | Steven Vincent, American journalist and writer (born in 1955) | |
| 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 1935 (August 02 1935) | Birth | Hank Cochran, American country music singer and songwriter | |
| 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, 1915 (August 02 1915) | Birth | Gary Merrill, American actor (died in 1990) | |
| 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, 1875 (August 02 1875) | Birth | Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian artist (died in 1957) | |
| 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, 1835 (August 02 1835) | Birth | Elisha Gray, American inventor and entrepreneur (died in 1901) | |
| 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) | |
