Anniversaries 2 August

Birth

John Tyndall40

British scientist 1820–1893

Edward Augustus Freeman5

English historian (1823-1892) 1823–1892

Henry Steel Olcott7

Union United States Army officer 1832–1907

Elisha Gray7

American electrical engineer 1835–1901

Harrington Emerson9

American efficiency engineer and business theorist 1853–1931

Francis Marion Crawford13

Novelist, short story writer, essayist (1854-1909) 1854–1909

William Watson (poet)12

English poet, born 1858 1858–1935

Irving Babbitt19

American academic and literary criticism 1865–1933

Ernest Dowson5

English writer 1867–1900

John Sloan8

American painter 1871–1951

Herbert Dingle9

British astronomer 1890–1978

John Kieran1

American sportswriter 1892–1981

Roy R. Grinker, Sr.17

American psychiatrist and neurologist 1900–1993

Myrna Loy1

American film, television and stage actress 1905–1993

Dada Vaswani4

Spiritual leader 1918–2018

James Baldwin163

(1924-1987) writer from the United States 1924–1987

Jorge Rafael Videla8

Argentinian President 1925–2013

Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg4

German ethnologe, sociologe, writer 1929

Peter O'Toole1

Irish film and stage actor 1932–2013

Benjamin R. Barber15

US political scientist 1939–2017

Isabel Allende60

Chilean writer 1942

Rose Tremain2

English author, chancellor of the University of East Anglia 1943

Damien Richardson7

Irish footballer and manager 1947

Lawrence Wright9

American writer 1947

Bob Rae18

Canadian politician 1948

Dennis Prager32

American writer, speaker, radio and TV commentator, theolog… 1948

Vasyl Semeniuk1

eparch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church 1949

James Fallows4

American journalist 1949

Bei Dao6

contemporary Chinese (PRC) avant garde poet 1949

Graham Hancock2

British writer and journalist 1950

Ken MacLeod25

Scottish science fiction writer 1954

Caleb Carr3

Novelist, screenwriter, military historian 1955

Seth Lloyd4

American engineer 1960

Cui Jian7

Chinese rock musician of Korean descent 1961

Robert Wilkie1

10th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs 1962

Kuba Wojewódzki9

Polish journalist 1963

Ernesto Maguengue1

Mozambican bishop of the Catholic Church 1964

Joe Hockey3

Australian politician 1965

Kevin Smith13

American screenwriter, actor, film producer, public speaker… 1970

Alice Evans10

British actress 1971

Emma Newman1

British author and podcaster 1976

Nick Diaz9

American mixed martial artist 1983

Alice Moran1

Canadian actress 1988

Death

Nathaniel Cotton7

British writer 1707–1788

John Hoole24

British translator 1727–1803

Thomas Gainsborough28

English portrait and landscape painter 1727–1788

Lazare Carnot1

French political, engineering and mathematical figure 1753–1823

Horace Mann67

American politician 1796–1859

Erastus Otis Haven1

American Methodist Episcopal bishop 1820–1881

Paul von Hindenburg13

Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and president of … 1847–1934

Alexander Graham Bell20

scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone 1847–1922

Warren G. Harding33

American politician, 29th president of the United States (i… 1865–1923

Wallace Stevens278

American poet 1879–1955

Walter Terence Stace36

British civil servant, educator and philosopher. 1886–1967

Norman Maclean17

American author and scholar 1902–1990

Paul Goodman47

American novelist, playwright, poet and psychotherapist 1911–1972

William S. Burroughs110

American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, a… 1914–1997

Billie Letts4

American novelist and educator 1938–2014

Raymond Carver51

American short story author and poet 1938–1988