Anniversaries 2 August
Birth
![John Tyndall photo]()
British scientist
1820–1893
![Edward Augustus Freeman photo]()
English historian (1823-1892)
1823–1892
![Henry Steel Olcott photo]()
Union United States Army officer
1832–1907
![Elisha Gray photo]()
American electrical engineer
1835–1901
![Harrington Emerson photo]()
American efficiency engineer and business theorist
1853–1931
![Francis Marion Crawford photo]()
Novelist, short story writer, essayist (1854-1909)
1854–1909
![William Watson (poet) photo]()
English poet, born 1858
1858–1935
![Irving Babbitt photo]()
American academic and literary criticism
1865–1933
![John Sloan photo]()
American painter
1871–1951
![Herbert Dingle photo]()
British astronomer
1890–1978
![John Kieran photo]()
American sportswriter
1892–1981
![Roy R. Grinker, Sr. photo]()
American psychiatrist and neurologist
1900–1993
![Myrna Loy photo]()
American film, television and stage actress
1905–1993
![Dada Vaswani photo]()
Spiritual leader
1918–2018
![James Baldwin photo]()
(1924-1987) writer from the United States
1924–1987
![Jorge Rafael Videla photo]()
Argentinian President
1925–2013
![Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg photo]()
German ethnologe, sociologe, writer
1929
![Peter O'Toole photo]()
Irish film and stage actor
1932–2013
![Benjamin R. Barber photo]()
US political scientist
1939–2017
![Rose Tremain photo]()
English author, chancellor of the University of East Anglia
1943
![Damien Richardson photo]()
Irish footballer and manager
1947
![Dennis Prager photo]()
American writer, speaker, radio and TV commentator, theolog…
1948
![Vasyl Semeniuk photo]()
eparch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
1949
![Bei Dao photo]()
contemporary Chinese (PRC) avant garde poet
1949
![Graham Hancock photo]()
British writer and journalist
1950
![Ken MacLeod photo]()
Scottish science fiction writer
1954
![Caleb Carr photo]()
Novelist, screenwriter, military historian
1955
![Cui Jian photo]()
Chinese rock musician of Korean descent
1961
![Robert Wilkie photo]()
10th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
1962
![Ernesto Maguengue photo]()
Mozambican bishop of the Catholic Church
1964
![Joe Hockey photo]()
Australian politician
1965
![Kevin Smith photo]()
American screenwriter, actor, film producer, public speaker…
1970
![Emma Newman photo]()
British author and podcaster
1976
![Nick Diaz photo]()
American mixed martial artist
1983
Death
![John Hoole photo]()
British translator
1727–1803
![Thomas Gainsborough photo]()
English portrait and landscape painter
1727–1788
![Lazare Carnot photo]()
French political, engineering and mathematical figure
1753–1823
![Horace Mann photo]()
American politician
1796–1859
![Erastus Otis Haven photo]()
American Methodist Episcopal bishop
1820–1881
![Paul von Hindenburg photo]()
Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and president of …
1847–1934
![Alexander Graham Bell photo]()
scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone
1847–1922
![Warren G. Harding photo]()
American politician, 29th president of the United States (i…
1865–1923
![Walter Terence Stace photo]()
British civil servant, educator and philosopher.
1886–1967
![Norman Maclean photo]()
American author and scholar
1902–1990
![Paul Goodman photo]()
American novelist, playwright, poet and psychotherapist
1911–1972
![William S. Burroughs photo]()
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, a…
1914–1997
![Billie Letts photo]()
American novelist and educator
1938–2014
![Raymond Carver photo]()
American short story author and poet
1938–1988
