August 2

For the 2012 film, see August 2 (film).

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.

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 – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
• 461 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona (Northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.
• 1377 – Russian troops are defeated in the Battle on Pyana River because of drunkenness.
• 1610 – Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
• 1776 – The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
• 1790 – The first US 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.
• 1869 – Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) 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, 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 adjacent to India's North West Frontier Province.
• 1903 – Fall of the Ottoman Empire: an unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, takes place.
• 1916 – World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the 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 more than 50,000 people.
• 1923 – As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding
• 1932 – The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
• 1934 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
• 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 Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
• 1943 – Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
• 1943 – World War II: the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. 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 the Republic of Macedonia.
• 1944 – World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
• 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 for over 50 years.
• 1964 – Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy.
• 1968 – An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
• 1973 – A flash fire kills 51 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 restoring 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.
• 1998 – The Second Congo War begins.
• 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.

Births

• 1455 – John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1499)
• 1533 – Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)
• 1612 – Saskia van Uylenburgh, Dutch model, wife of Rembrandt (d. 1642)
• 1672 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss 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)
• 1788 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)
• 1815 – Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer (d. 1894)
• 1820 – John Tyndall, British physicist (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 inventor and businessman, co-founded Western Electric (d. 1901)
• 1858 – Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, (d. 1934)
• 1865 – Irving Babbitt, American critic and academic (d. 1933)
• 1865 – John Radecki, Australian artist (d. 1955)
• 1867 – Ernest Dowson, English poet (d. 1900)
• 1868 – Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
• 1871 – John French Sloan, American artist (d. 1951)
• 1872 – George E. Stewart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1946)
• 1875 – Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian painter (d. 1957)
• 1876 – Ravi Shankar Shukla, Indian Statesman (d. 1956)
• 1878 – Aino Kallas, Finnish-Estonian author (d. 1956)
• 1882 – Red Ames, American baseball player (d. 1936)
• 1884 – Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan author and politician, 46th President of Venezuela (d. 1969)
• 1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian pilot and engineer (d. 1961)
• 1887 – Tommy Ward, South African cricketer (d. 1936)
• 1890 – Marin Sais, American actress (d. 1971)
• 1891 – Arthur Bliss, English composer and conductor (d. 1975)
• 1891 – Viktor Zhirmunsky, Russian historian and linguist (d. 1971)
• 1892 – Jack Warner, Canadian-American film producer (d. 1978)
• 1895 – Matt Henderson, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1970)
• 1896 – Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer (d. 1960)
• 1897 – Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer (d. 1945)
• 1897 – Max Weber, Swiss politician (d. 1974)
• 1898 – Ernő Nagy, Hungarian fencer (d. 1977)
• 1899 – Charles Bennett, English screenwriter (d. 1995)
• 1900 – Holling C. Holling, American author and illustrator (d. 1973)
• 1902 – Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (d. 1971)
• 1902 – Helen Morgan, American actress (d. 1941)
• 1905 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (d. 1963)
• 1905 – Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993)
• 1907 – Mary Hamman, American writer (d. 1984)
• 1910 – Roger MacDougall, Scottish writer (d. 1993)
• 1912 – Ann Dvorak, American actress (d. 1979)
• 1912 – Palle Huld, Danish actor (d. 2010)
• 1912 – Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian economist (d. 2001)
• 1912 – Håkon Stenstadvold, Norwegian painter (d. 1977)
• 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)
• 1919 – Nehemiah Persoff, American actor
• 1920 – Louis Pauwels, French journalist and writer (d. 1997)
• 1922 – Geoffrey Dutton, Australian author and historian (d. 1998)
• 1922 – Gábor Agárdy, Hungarian actor (d. 2006)
• 1923 – Shimon Peres, Israeli politician, 9th President of Israel
• 1924 – James Baldwin, American writer (d. 1987)
• 1924 – Joe Harnell, American pianist, composer, and arranger (d. 2005)
• 1924 – Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1925 – K. Arulanandan, Ceylon Tamil engineer and academic (d. 2004)
• 1925 – John Dexter, English director (d. 1990)
• 1925 – John McCormack, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1925 – Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian general and politician, 43rd President of Argentina (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Alan Whicker, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Betsy Bloomingdale, American philanthropist
• 1928 – Malcolm Hilton, English cricketer (d. 1990)
• 1929 – Vidya Charan Shukla, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Vali Myers, Australian painter (d. 2003)
• 1931 – Pierre DuMaine, American bishop
• 1931 – Eddie Fuller, South African cricketer (d. 2008)
• 1931 – Viliam Schrojf, Slovak footballer (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (d. 2006)
• 1932 – Peter O'Toole, Irish actor
• 1933 – Ioannis Varvitsiotis, Greek politician
• 1934 – Valery Bykovsky, Soviet astronaut
• 1935 – Betty Brosmer, American model
• 1935 – Hank Cochran, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2010)
• 1937 – Billy Cannon, American football player
• 1937 – Garth Hudson, Canadian musician, composer, and producer (The Band)
• 1938 – Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
• 1938 – Pierre de Bané, Canadian politician
• 1938 – Terry Peck, Falkland Islander soldier (d. 2006)
• 1939 – Benjamin Barber, American theorist
• 1939 – Wes Craven, American director
• 1939 – John W. Snow, American politician, 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 1940 – Beko Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian doctor and activist (d. 2006)
• 1940 – Will Tura, Belgian singer-songwriter, musician, and composer
• 1941 – Doris Coley, American singer (The Shirelles) (d. 2000)
• 1941 – Jules A. Hoffmann, French biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1941 – Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter (d. 1986)
• 1941 – François Weyergans, French doctor and writer
• 1942 – Isabel Allende, Chilean author
• 1943 – Tom Burgmeier, American baseball player
• 1943 – Max Wright, American actor
• 1944 – Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer (Traffic) (d. 2005)
• 1944 – Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian singer and musician
• 1945 – Joanna Cassidy, American actress
• 1945 – Alex Jesaulenko, Australian footballer
• 1945 – Bunker Roy, Indian activist and educator
• 1946 – James Howe, American author
• 1947 – Massiel, Spanish singer and actress
• 1947 – Lawrence Wright, American author
• 1948 – Andy Fairweather Low, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (Amen Corner and Fair Weather)
• 1948 – Dennis Prager, American radio host and author
• 1949 – James Fallows, American journalist
• 1949 – Bertalan Farkas, Hungarian astronaut
• 1950 – Jussi Adler-Olsen, Danish author
• 1950 – Kathryn Harrold, American actress
• 1950 – Lance Ito, American judge
• 1950 – Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate (d. 1994)
• 1951 – Andrew Gold, American singer-songwriter and producer (Wax) (d. 2011)
• 1951 – Joe Lynn Turner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Deep Purple, Rainbow, Fandango, Brazen Abbot, and Hughes Turner Project)
• 1951 – Freddie Wadling, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Leather Nun and Blue for Two)
• 1951 – Per Westerberg, Swedish politician
• 1953 – Marjo, Canadian singer-songwriter (Corbeau)
• 1953 – Donnie Munro, Scottish singer and guitarist (Runrig)
• 1953 – Butch Patrick, American actor
• 1954 – James Charles Kopp, American murderer of Barnett Slepian
• 1954 – Ken MacLeod, Scottish science fiction author
• 1954 – Sammy McIlroy, Irish footballer and manager
• 1955 – Caleb Carr, American author and historian
• 1955 – Tim Dunigan, American actor
• 1955 – Tony Godden, English footballer
• 1956 – Fulvio Melia, Italian-American physicist, astrophysicist, and author
• 1956 – Jim Neidhart, American wrestler
• 1956 – Isabel Pantoja, Spanish singer
• 1957 – Mojo Nixon, American singer-songwriter
• 1957 – Farhat Basir Khan, Indian theoretician and activist
• 1957 – Butch Vig, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (Garbage and Spooner)
• 1958 – Arshad Ayub, Indian cricketer
• 1959 – Victoria Jackson, American comedian, actress, and singer
• 1959 – Apollonia Kotero, American singer and actress (Apollonia 6)
• 1960 – Linda Fratianne, American figure skater
• 1960 – Neal Morse, American singer and keyboardist (Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, Yellow Matter Custard, and Flying Colors)
• 1960 – David Yow, American singer-songwriter (Scratch Acid, The Jesus Lizard, and Qui)
• 1961 – Cold 187um, American rapper and producer (Above the Law)
• 1961 – Pete de Freitas, Spanish drummer (Echo & the Bunnymen) (d. 1989)
• 1962 – Lee Mavers, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The La's)
• 1962 – Cynthia Stevenson, Canadian actress
• 1963 – Laura Bennett, American fashion designer
• 1963 – Daniel Pelosi, American convicted murderer
• 1964 – Frank Biela, German race car driver
• 1964 – Mary-Louise Parker, American actress
• 1965 – Hisanobu Watanabe, Japanese baseball player and coach
• 1966 – Takayuki Iizuka, Japanese wrestler
• 1966 – M. V. Sridhar, Indian cricketer
• 1966 – Tim Wakefield, American baseball player
• 1967 – Aaron Krickstein, American tennis player
• 1967 – Aline Brosh McKenna, American screenwriter
• 1968 – Stefan Effenberg, German footballer
• 1968 – John Stanier, American drummer (Helmet, Tomahawk, The Mark of Cain, and Battles)
• 1969 – Jan Axel Blomberg Norwegian drummer (Winds, Mayhem, and Arcturus)
• 1969 – Cedric Ceballos, American basketball player
• 1969 – Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
• 1969 – Richard Hallebeek, Dutch guitarist
• 1970 – Tony Amonte, American ice hockey player
• 1970 – Kevin Smith, American director and screenwriter
• 1970 – Philo Wallace, Barbadian cricketer
• 1971 – Alice Evans, British actress
• 1971 – Michael Hughes, Irish footballer
• 1972 – Mohamed Al-Deayea, Saudi Arabian footballer
• 1972 – Jacinda Barrett, Australian model and actress
• 1972 – Daniele Nardello, Italian cyclist
• 1972 – Justyna Steczkowska, Polish singer-songwriter and actress
• 1973 – Hiroyuki Goto, Japanese game designer
• 1973 – Danie Keulder, Namibian cricketer
• 1973 – Jay Meetze, American conductor and producer
• 1973 – Miguel Mendonca, Anglo-Azorean writer
• 1973 – Susie O'Neill, Australian swimmer
• 1974 – Angie Cepeda, Colombian actress
• 1974 – Phil Williams, British journalist and radio host
• 1975 – Mineiro, Brazilian footballer
• 1975 – Xu Huaiwen, Chinese-German badminton player
• 1975 – Tamás Molnár, Hungarian water polo player
• 1975 – Ingrid Rubio, Spanish actress
• 1976 – Reyes Estévez, Spanish runner
• 1976 – Jay Heaps, American soccer player and coach
• 1976 – Michael Weiss, American figure skater
• 1976 – Sam Worthington, Australian actor
• 1976 – Mohammad Zahid, Pakistani cricketer
• 1977 – Edward Furlong, American actor
• 1978 – Goran Gavrančić, Serbian footballer
• 1978 – Dragan Vukmir, Serbian footballer
• 1978 – Matt Guerrier, American baseball player
• 1978 – Deividas Šemberas, Lithuanian footballer
• 1979 – Donna Air, English model, actress, and singer
• 1979 – Marco Bonura, Italian footballer
• 1979 – Reuben Kosgei, Kenyan runner
• 1980 – Ivica Banović, Croatian footballer
• 1980 – Nadia Bjorlin, American actress
• 1980 – Dingdong Dantes, Filipino actor
• 1980 – Uğur Rıfat Karlova, Turkish comedian and actor
• 1981 – Alexander Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist
• 1981 – Sara Foster, American actress
• 1982 – Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer
• 1982 – Kerry Rhodes, American football player
• 1982 – Grady Sizemore, American baseball player
• 1983 – Nick Diaz, American mixed martial artist
• 1983 – Michel Bastos, Brazilian footballer
• 1984 – Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer
• 1985 – Britt Nicole, American singer
• 1985 – David Hart Smith, Canadian wrestler
• 1985 – Stephen Ferris, Irish rugby player
• 1986 – Mathieu Razanakolona, Canadian skier
• 1987 – Csilla Borsányi, Hungarian tennis player
• 1987 – Yura Movsisyan, Armenian footballer
• 1988 – Nayer, American singer-songwriter
• 1988 – Brittany Hargest, American singer and dancer (Jump5)
• 1988 – Rob Kwiet, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 – Vanes-Mari Du Toit, South African netball player
• 1989 – Nacer Chadli, Belgian footballer
• 1990 – Skylar Diggins, American basketball player
• 1991 – Skyler Day, American actress
• 1991 – Evander Kane, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1992 – Hallie Eisenberg, American actress
• 1992 – Charli XCX, English singer-songwriter
• 1994 – Laura Pigossi, Brazilian tennis player

Deaths

• 640 – Pope Severinus
• 686 – Pope John V (b. 635)
• 924 – Ælfweard of Wessex (b. 904)
• 1100 – William II of England (b. c. 1056)
• 1222 – Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (b. 1156)
• 1316 – Louis of Burgundy (b. 1297)
• 1445 – Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer (b. 1376)
• 1511 – Andrew Barton, Scottish navy leader (b. c. 1466)
• 1589 – Henry III of France (b. 1551)
• 1611 – Katō Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
• 1696 – Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Scottish military commander (b. 1630)
• 1769 – Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (b. 1689)
• 1776 – Louis François, Prince of Conti (b. 1717)
• 1788 – Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (b. 1727)
• 1815 – Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune, French soldier and politician (b. 1763)
• 1823 – Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (b. 1753)
• 1849 – Muhammad Ali of Egypt (b. 1769)
• 1854 – Heinrich Clauren, German author (b. 1771)
• 1859 – Horace Mann, American educator and politician (b. 1796)
• 1876 – Wild Bill Hickok, American lawman (b. 1837)
• 1889 – Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian writer (b. 1851)
• 1890 – Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (b. 1813)
• 1903 – Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian and biologist (b. 1850)
• 1913 – Ferenc Pfaff, Hungarian architect, designed Zagreb Central Station (b. 1851)
• 1920 – Ormer Locklear, American pilot (b. 1891)
• 1921 – Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
• 1922 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-Canadian scientist and engineer, invented the telephone (b. 1847)
• 1923 – Warren G. Harding, American politician, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
• 1929 – Mae Costello, American actress (b. 1882)
• 1934 – Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and politician, 2nd President of Germany (b. 1847)
• 1936 – Louis Blériot, French pilot and engineer (b. 1872)
• 1939 – Harvey Spencer Lewis, American author, occultist, and mystic (b. 1883)
• 1945 – Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (b. 1863)
• 1951 – John Paine, American target shooter (b. 1870)
• 1955 – Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901)
• 1955 – Wallace Stevens, American Modernist poet (b. 1879)
• 1963 – Oliver La Farge, American writer and anthropologist (b. 1901)
• 1967 – Walter Terence Stace, English philosopher (b. 1886)
• 1972 – Brian Cole, American bass player (The Association) (b. 1942)
• 1972 – Paul Goodman, American social critic ans writer (b. 1911)
• 1972 – Helen Hoyt, American poet (b. 1887)
• 1973 – Jean-Pierre Melville, French director (b. 1917)
• 1974 – Douglas Hawkes, English race car driver (b. 1893)
• 1976 – László Kalmár, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1905)
• 1976 – Fritz Lang, Austrian director (b. 1890)
• 1978 – Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (b. 1899)
• 1979 – Thurman Munson, American baseball player (b. 1947)
• 1983 – James Jamerson, American bass player (The Funk Brothers) (b. 1936)
• 1986 – Roy Cohn, American politician (b. 1927)
• 1988 – Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate (b. 1914)
• 1988 – Raymond Carver, American writer (b. 1938)
• 1990 – Norman Maclean, American writer (b. 1902)
• 1990 – Edwin Richfield, English actor (b. 1921)
• 1992 – Michel Berger, French singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
• 1996 – Michel Debré, French politician (b. 1912)
• 1997 – William S. Burroughs, American author (b. 1914)
• 1997 – Fela Kuti, Nigerian singer-songwriter, musician, and activist (b. 1938)
• 1998 – Shari Lewis, American television host and puppeteer (b. 1933)
• 2001 – Ronald Townson, American singer and actor (The 5th Dimension) (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Don Estelle, English actor (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Mike Levey, American television host (b. 1948)
• 2003 – Peter Safar, Austrian physician (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Ferenc Berényi, Hungarian painter (b. 1929)
• 2004 – François Craenhals, Belgian illustrator (b. 1926)
• 2004 – Heinrich Mark, Estonian politician (b. 1911)
• 2004 – Don Tosti, American musician and composer (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Steven Vincent, American journalist and writer (b. 1955)
• 2007 – Chauncey Bailey, American journalist and editor (b. 1950)
• 2007 – Kay Dotrice, English actress (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Holden Roberto, Angolan politician (b. 1923)
• 2008 – Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1935)
• 2011 – José Sanchis Grau, Spanish writer and illustrator (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Ruy de Freitas, Brazilian basketball player (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Amos Hakham, Israeli scholar (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Gabriel Horn, English biologist (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Magnus Isacsson, Canadian activist, director, and producer (b. 1948)
• 2012 – Jimmy Jones, American singer-songwriter (b. 1930)
• 2012 – John Keegan, English historian, writer, and journalist (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Bernd Meier, German footballer (b. 1972)
• 2012 – Marguerite Piazza, American soprano (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Gilbert Prouteau, French poet and director (b. 1917)
• 2012 – William Smith, 4th Viscount Hambleden (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Mihaela Ursuleasa, Romanian pianist (b. 1978)
• 2012 – Herman van Ham, Dutch chef (b. 1931)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
  • Basil Fool for Christ (Russian Orthodox Church)
  • Eusebius of Vercelli
  • Pope Stephen I
  • August 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of Airborne Forces (Russia and Ukraine)
• Day of Azerbaijani cinema (Azerbaijan)
• Our Lady of the Angels Day (Costa Rica)
• Republic Day, also known as Ilinden. (Republic of Macedonia)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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