Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 2

Births

• 1754 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-born architect and city planner (d. 1825)
• 1905 - Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993)
• 1924 - James Baldwin, American author (d. 1987)
• 1932 - Peter O'Toole, Irish-born actor (d. 2013)
• 1970 - Kevin Smith, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1977 - Edward Furlong, American actor
• 1982 - Grady Sizemore, American baseball player

Deaths

• 1876 - James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837)
• 1921 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
• 1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, (pictured) Scottish-born inventor (b. 1847)
• 1923 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
• 1979 - Thurman Munson, baseball player (b. 1947)
• 1988 - Raymond Carver, American writer (b. 1938)
• 1997 - William S. Burroughs, American writer (b. 1914)

Recent days: August 1 – July 31 – July 30