Deaths on 2 August
2000s
Nitin Chandrakant Desai
2023
Indian art director (1965–2023)
Vin Scully
2022
American sportscaster (1927–2022)
Suzanne Perlman
2020
Dutch Hungarian painter (1922–2020)
Judith Jones
2017
American book editor (1924–2017)
Terence Bayler
2016
New Zealand actor (1930–2016)
David Huddleston
2016
American film and television actor (1930–2016)
Franciszek Macharski
2016
Polish cardinal (1927–2016)
Ahmed Zewail
2016
Egyptian and American chemist (1946–2016)
Forrest Bird
2015
American physician
Giovanni Conso
2015
Italian politician (1922–2015)
Piet Fransen
2015
Dutch footballer
Jack Spring
2015
American baseball player (1933–2015)
Ed Joyce (journalist)
2014
American television executive (1932–2014)
Billie Letts
2014
American novelist and educator
Barbara Prammer
2014
Austrian politician (1954–2014)
James Thompson (crime writer)
2014
American-Finnish crime writer (1964–2014)
Julius L. Chambers
2013
American lawyer, civil rights leader and educator
Richard E. Dauch
2013
American businessman
Alla Kushnir
2013
Soviet-Israeli chess player and classicist (1941–2013)
Gabriel Horn
2012
British biologist
Magnus Isacsson
2012
Canadian documentary filmmaker (1948–2012)
Jimmy Jones (singer)
2012
American singer-songwriter (1930–2012)
John Keegan
2012
English military historian (1934–2012)
Bernd Meier
2012
German footballer (1972–2012)
Marguerite Piazza
2012
American opera singer and philanthropist
José Sanchis Grau
2011
Spanish comic book writer (1932–2011)
Fujio Akatsuka
2008
Japanese mangaka
Chauncey Bailey
2007
American journalist (1949–2007)
Steven Vincent
2005
American author and journalist (1955-2005)
Ferenc Berényi
2004
Hungarian painter
François Craenhals
2004
Belgian cartoonist (1926–2004)
Heinrich Mark
2004
Estonian politician
Peter Safar
2003
Austrian physician (1924–2003)
1900s
Willie Morris
1999
American writer and editor (1934–1999)
Shari Lewis
1998
American ventriloquist and puppeteer (1933–1998)
William S. Burroughs
1997
American writer and visual artist (1914–1997)
Harald Kihle
1997
Norwegian painter and illustrator
Fela Kuti
1997
Nigerian musician and activist (1938–1997)
Michel Debré
1996
Prime Minister of France from 1959 to 1962
Obdulio Varela
1996
Uruguayan footballer (1917–1996)
Mohamed Farrah Aidid
1996
Somali military officer and Disputed President Of Somalia (1934–1996)
Sergey Golovkin
1996
Russian serial killer and rapist (1959–1996)
Michel Berger
1992
French singer and songwriter (1947–1992)
Norman Maclean
1990
American author (1902–1990)
Edwin Richfield
1990
English actor (1921–1990)
Joe Carcione
1988
American activist (1914–1988)
Raymond Carver
1988
American story writer and poet (1938–1988)
Roy Cohn
1986
American lawyer and prosecutor (1927–1986)
James Jamerson
1983
American bassist (1936–1983)
Kieran Doherty (hunger striker)
1981
Irish republican hunger striker and politician (1955–1981)
Stefanie Clausen
1981
Danish diver
Thurman Munson
1979
American baseball player (1947–1979)
Carlos Chávez
1978
Mexican composer (1899–1978)
Antony Noghès
1978
Founder of the Monaco Grand Prix
László Kalmár
1976
Hungarian mathematician (1905–1976)
Fritz Lang
1976
Austrian filmmaker (1890–1976)
Douglas Hawkes
1974
British racing driver (1893–1974)
Ismail Abdul Rahman
1973
Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1970 to 1973
Jean-Pierre Melville
1973
French filmmaker and actor (1917–1973)
Brian Cole (musician)
1972
American bassist (1942–1972)
Paul Goodman
1972
American writer and public intellectual (1911–1972)
Helen Hoyt
1972
American poet
Angus MacFarlane-Grieve
1970
British academic, mathematician, rower and British Army officer
Walter Terence Stace
1967
British philosopher (1886–1967)
Oliver La Farge
1963
American novelist and anthropologist (1901–1963)
Alfred Lépine
1955
Canadian ice hockey player
Wallace Stevens
1955
American poet (1879–1955)
Pietro Mascagni
1945
Italian composer (1863–1945)
Harvey Spencer Lewis
1939
American writer and mystic (1883–1939)
Artur Sirk
1937
Estonian lawyer
Paul von Hindenburg
1934
President of Germany from 1925 to 1934
Warren G. Harding
1923
President of the United States from 1921 to 1923
Joseph Whitty
1923
Irish Republican hunger striker (d. 1923)
Alexander Graham Bell
1922
Inventor of the telephone (1847–1922)
Enrico Caruso
1921
Italian opera tenor (1873–1921)
Jaan Mahlapuu
1917
Estonian aviator
John Downer
1915
Australian politician
Ferenc Pfaff
1913
Hungarian architect, teacher
Ioryi Mucitano
1911
Aromanian revolutionary in Ottoman Macedonia
Eduard Magnus Jakobson
1903
Estonian artist and missionary
Edmond Nocard
1903
French veterinarian and microbiologist
1800s
Louise-Victorine Ackermann
1890
French poet (1813–1890)
Eduardo Gutiérrez
1889
Argentine writer (1851–1889)
Wild Bill Hickok
1876
American folk hero and lawman (1837–1876)
Horace Mann
1859
American educational reformer and politician (1796–1859)
Heinrich Clauren
1854
German writer
Muhammad Ali of Egypt
1849
Ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848
Harriet Arbuthnot
1834
English diarist (1793–1834)
Lazare Carnot
1823
French politician, engineer and mathematician (1753–1823)
Guillaume Brune
1815
French Marshal
Before 1800
Montgolfier brothers
1799
18th-century French inventors
Thomas Gainsborough
1788
English painter (1727–1788)
Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea
1769
British peer and politician
Robert Campbell of Glenlyon
1696
Scottish soldier
Francesco Borromini
1667
Italian Baroque architect (1599–1667)
Katō Kiyomasa
1611
Japanese daimyō of the Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo periods (1562–1611)
Richard Leveson (admiral)
1605
English naval officer, politician, and landowner
Henry III of France
1589
King of France from 1574 to 1589
Alessandro Achillini
1512
Italian philosopher and physician
Andrew Barton (privateer)
1511
Scottish sailor
Elizabeth of Görlitz
1451
Duchess of Luxemburg
Oswald von Wolkenstein
1445
German poet, composer and diplomat
Thomas Grey (conspirator)
1415
English nobleman and conspirator in the Southampton Plot (1415)
Christopher II of Denmark
1332
King of Denmark (1320–1326, 1329–1332)
Yolande of Dreux, Queen of Scotland
1330
Countess of Montfort, Queen of Scots, Duchess of Brittany (1263–1330)
Louis of Burgundy
1316
Titular king of Thessalonica
Mu'in al-Din Parwana
1277
Ruler of Sinope from 1265 to 1277
Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse
1222
Count of Toulouse
William II of England
1100
King of England from 1087 to 1100
John VIII of Constantinople
1075
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1064 to 1075
Ælfweard of Wessex
924
King of Wessex in 924 (disputed)
Ahmad ibn Hanbal
855
Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian (780–855)
Pope John V
686
Head of the Catholic Church from 685 to 686
Pope Severinus
640
Head of the Catholic Church in 640
Ahudemmeh
575
1st Maphrian of the East of Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch
Pope Stephen I
257
Head of the Catholic Church from 254 to 257
Gnaeus Servilius Geminus
-216
Roman consul 217 BC
Lucius Aemilius Paullus (consul 219 BC)
-216
Roman general and senator (died 216 BC)
Marcus Minucius Rufus
-216
Roman consul and magister equitum (died 216 BC)