August 2 - Deaths

Deaths

• 686 – Pope John V (birth year unknown)
• 924 – King Ælfweard of Wessex (b. 904)
• 1100 – King William II of England (b. c. 1056)
• 1222 – Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)
• 1316 – Louis of Burgundy, Prince of Achaea (b. 1297)
• 1445 – Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer (b. 1376 or 1377)
• 1511 – Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader (b. c. 1466)
• 1589 – King 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 I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (b. 1717)
• 1788 – Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (b. 1727)
• 1799 – Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1745)
• 1815 – Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (b. 1763)
• 1823 – Lazare Carnot, French general, politician and mathematician (b. 1753)
• 1849 – Governor Muhammad Ali of Egypt (b. 1769)
• 1859 – Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)
• 1876 – Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837)
• 1889 – Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian writer (b. 1851)
• 1890 – Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (b. 1813)
• 1903 – Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian (b. 1850)
• 1920 – Ormer Locklear, American stunt pilot (b. 1891)
• 1921 – Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
• 1922 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born Canadian inventor of the first practical telephone (b. 1847)
• 1923 – Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
• 1929 – Mae Costello, American actress (b. 1882)
• 1934 – Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and 2nd President of Germany (b. 1847)
• 1936 – Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872)
• 1939 – Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosicrucian mystic (b. 1883)
• 1945 – Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (b. 1863)
• 1955 – Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901)
• 1972 – Helen Hoyt, American poet (b. 1887)
• 1972 – Brian Cole, American bass player (The Association) (b. 1942)
• 1973 – Jean-Pierre Melville, French film director (b. 1917)
• 1974 – W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (b. 1893)
• 1976 – Fritz Lang, Austrian film director (b. 1890)
• 1978 – Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (b. 1899)
• 1979 – Thurman Munson, American baseball player (b. 1947)
• 1983 – James Jamerson, American bassist (b. 1936)
• 1986 – Roy Cohn, American politician (b. 1927)
• 1988 – Raymond Carver, American writer (b. 1938)
• 1988 – Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate (b. 1914)
• 1990 – Norman Mclean, American writer (b. 1902)
• 1990 – Edwin Richfield, British actor (b. 1921)
• 1992 – Michel Berger, French singer and songwriter (b. 1947)
• 1996 – Michel Debré, French politician (b. 1912)
• 1996 – Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian warlord (b. 1934)
• 1997 – William S. Burroughs, American writer (b. 1914)
• 1997 – Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Nigerian multi-instrumentalist (b. 1938)
• 1998 – Shari Lewis, American puppeteer (b. 1933)
• 2001 – Ron Townson, American singer (The 5th Dimension) (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Don Estelle, British actor (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Mike Levey, American television personality (b. 1948)
• 2003 – Peter Safar, Austrian physician (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Don Tosti, American violinist, composer and bandleader (b. 1923)
• 2004 – François Craenhals, Belgian comics artist (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Steven Vincent, American journalist and writer (b. 1955)
• 2007 – Chauncey Bailey, American journalist and editor (b. 1950)
• 2007 – Holden Roberto, Angolan founder and leader of the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Kay Dotrice, English repertory actress (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1935)