Notable Deaths on August 2nd
August 2nd Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
257 |
St Stephen I, bishop of Rome (Pope) (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies |
640 |
Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies |
686 |
Pope John V, 1st Greek-Syrian Pope (685-86) dies |
924 |
Ælfweard of Wessex |
1002 |
Abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64 |
1075 |
John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies |
1100 |
William II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44 |
1222 |
Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156) |
1511 |
Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader |
1512 |
Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher, dies at 48 |
1589 |
Henry III, king of Poland/France (1573-89), assassinated at 37 |
1600 |
Arent van Dorp, Dutch governor of East-Zealand, dies at about 70 |
1611 |
Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562) |
1649 |
Elisabeth Bas, wife of Dutch Adm Swartenhondt, dies at about 78 |
1655 |
Alfonso de la Cueva, Spanish marquis of Bedmar/diplomat, dies at 83 |
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 (Blue Boy), dies at 61 |
1792 |
Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, composer, dies at 60 |
1799 |
Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, French inventor, dies at 54 |
1811 |
William Williams, US merchant/signer (Decl of Indep), dies at 80 |
1815 |
Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (b. 1763) |
1823 |
Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (b. 1753) |
1827 |
James Hewitt, composer, dies at 57 |
1849 |
Governor Muhammad Ali of Egypt (b. 1769) |
1858 |
A Emma WT von Waldeck-Pyrmont, queen/regent, dies at 76 |
1859 |
Horace Mann, American education advocate, dies at 63 |
1869 |
Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer/photographer, murdered at 30+ |
1872 |
Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59 |
1873 |
Frank Mori, composer, dies at 53 |
1876 |
Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's |
1880 |
Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch, Los amantes de Teruel |
1881 |
Marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author (His Natural Life) at 35 |
1881 |
Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life |
1889 |
Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (b. 1851) |
1889 |
Eduardo Gutiérrez, Juan Moreira |
1895 |
Joseph Thomson, Scottish geologist and early African explorer (Thomson's Gazelle), dies of pneumonia at 37 |
1903 |
Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian (b. 1850) |
1914 |
Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont, composer, dies at 36 |
1916 |
Hamish MacCunn, composer, dies at 48 |
1920 |
Ormer Locklear, American stunt pilot (b. 1891) |
1920 |
Ormer Locklear, The Skywayman |
1920 |
George W. Anson, The President's Special |
1920 |
Milton 'Skeets' Elliott, The Skywayman |
1921 |
Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer, dies at 48 |
1921 |
Enrico Caruso, Match Point |
1922 |
Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor (telephone), dies at 75 |
1922 |
[Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, Dutch author/feminist, dies at 82 |
1922 |
Alexander Graham Bell, Animated Weekly, No. 12 |
1923 |
warren harding, 29th Pres (1921-23), dies at Palace Hotel SF at 57 |
1923 |
Warren G. Harding, Redskins Pay Tribute to Big Chief Harding |
1924 |
Margaret Sidney, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew |
1929 |
Mae Costello, American actress (b. 1882) |
1929 |
Leo Wood, The Aviator |
1931 |
William 'Shorty' Blanche, Sally of the Sawdust |
1932 |
Gheorghe Cucu, composer, dies at 50 |
1932 |
Oili Siikaniemi, Sano se suomeksi |
1933 |
Louis Evan Shipman, John Ermine of Yellowstone |
1934 |
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Hindenburg, soldier/statesman, dies at 86 |
1934 |
Lucille Young, Margie of the Underworld |
1934 |
Paul von Hindenburg, Hindenburg |
1935 |
Madge Hunt, Auntie's Ante |
1936 |
Louis Blériot, French aviator who made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft, dies of a heart attack at 64 |
1936 |
Edward Reinach, A Man's Past |
1936 |
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, The Perfect Tribute |
1936 |
Louis Blériot, Aeroplane Contests at Rheims |
1938 |
Bjarni Thorsteinsson, composer, dies at 76 |
1938 |
Charles A. Logue, Dracula |
1938 |
Charles Logue, The Drake Case |
1939 |
Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosicrucian mystic (b. 1883) |
1941 |
Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (La Feria), dies at 70 |
1941 |
Eugene Clifford, Scarlet Saint |
1941 |
Marieluise Claudius, Two Merry Adventurers |
1942 |
Friedrich Aereboe, Dutch landlord, dies at 77 |
1942 |
Robert Welles Ritchie, Two Moons |
1943 |
Mathilde Sussin, Frühlingserwachen |
1944 |
Owen Rutter, Once in a New Moon |
1945 |
Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer (Donna Diana), dies at 85 |
1945 |
Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (Cavalleria Rusticana), dies at 81 |
1945 |
Fiske O'Hara, Paddy the Next Best Thing |
1945 |
Pietro Mascagni, Raging Bull |
1947 |
Sidney P. Dones, Reformation |
1948 |
Georges Gorby, La conscience de Monsieur Cachalot |
1949 |
Charles Oelze, Dogs of War |
1949 |
Harry Frazer, Chappie's Code |
1950 |
Nina Boucicault, Juggernaut |
1951 |
Max Terr, The Gold Rush |
1952 |
Carl Lamac, Bílý ráj |
1952 |
Charles K. French, A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate |
1952 |
J. Farrell MacDonald, Sunrise |
1952 |
Victoria Cross, Notte di tentazione |
1954 |
Rene Amengual, composer, dies at 42 |
1954 |
Bruno Tyron, Højt paa en kvist |
1954 |
Josef Lebzelter, Wetterleuchten am Dachstein |
1954 |
Georg Berthelsen, Haanden, der griber |
1955 |
Ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern/general-fieldmarshal, dies |
1955 |
Wallace Stevens, US poet/writer (Owl's Clover), dies at 75 |
1955 |
Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901) |
1955 |
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways... |
1956 |
Albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109 |
1956 |
Adorján Nagy, A szerelem mindent legyöz |
1957 |
Ebbe Neergaard, Mødrehjælpen |
1957 |
H. Sheridan Bickers, Her Body in Bond |
1957 |
J.D. Kendis, Gambling with Souls |
1957 |
Reed Heustis, The Strong Man |
1958 |
Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80 |
1959 |
Prospero Bisquertt, composer, dies at 78 |
1959 |
Jean Benoît-Lévy, Ballerina |
1960 |
Annette DeFoe, An Aerial Joy Ride |
1961 |
Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies at 64 |
1961 |
Giovan Battista Angioletti, L'ebreo errante |
1961 |
Christian Eriksen, De pokkers unger |
1962 |
Fleming Ward, The Invisible Bond |
1963 |
Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, US anthropologist/writer, dies at 61 |
1964 |
Jack Kirkwood, actor (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 69 |
1964 |
Jose Maria Castro, composer, dies at 71 |
1965 |
Milton B Babbitt, US composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49 |
1965 |
N. Howell Furman, American Chemist whose work on separating uranium contributed to the development of the atomic bomb, dies at 73 |
1967 |
Claude A Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press), dies at 77 |
1969 |
Clarence Dickinson, composer, dies at 96 |
1971 |
Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher, dies at 77 |
1972 |
Brian Cole, vocalist/bassist (Association), dies of overdose at 29 |
1972 |
Paul Goodman, US social critic/writer, dies at 60 |
1972 |
Rudolf Ganz, composer, dies at 95 |
1972 |
Helen Hoyt, American poet (b. 1887) |
1973 |
Jean-Pierre Melville, director (Bob Le Flambeur), dies at 57 |
1974 |
W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (b. 1893) |
1975 |
Jean Yarbrough, Jack and the Beanstalk |
1976 |
Fritz Lang, director (Cloak & Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85 |
1976 |
Evangelina Sobredo, Three Days with the Family |
1976 |
Fritz Lang, M |
1978 |
Carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer, dies at 79 |
1978 |
Satomi Myodo, Zen nun/attendant of Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, dies at 82 |
1978 |
Totie Fields, [Sophie Feldman], comedienne, dies at about 48 |
1978 |
Carlos Chavez, Sinfonia de México |
1979 |
Thurmon Munson, NY Yankee, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32 |
1980 |
Verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ), dies |
1980 |
Donald Ogden Stewart, The Philadelphia Story |
1980 |
Tamara Daykarhanova, A Dream of Kings |
1980 |
Gigi Ballista, Midnight Express |
1982 |
Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93 |
1982 |
Rudolf Maros, composer, dies at 65 |
1982 |
Cathleen Nesbitt, An Affair to Remember |
1982 |
Rudolf Maros, As You Like It |
1982 |
Gunnar Bärlund, Hieronta on poikaa!! |
1982 |
James Davis, Fritz the Cat |
1983 |
James Jamerson, Standing in the Shadows of Motown |
1983 |
János Fülöp, Keresztút |
1984 |
Malcolm Curley, When the Legends Die |
1984 |
Kenneth Lundeen, Tentacles |
1984 |
Marian Lacz, Teddy Bear |
1984 |
Quirino Cristiani, El apóstol |
1985 |
Frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79 |
1985 |
Sandy Bell, South African cricket pace bowler (16 Tests), dies |
1985 |
Bob Holt, Wizards |
1985 |
June Harlow, The Velvet Trap |
1985 |
Karl-Heinz Stroux, Der große Mandarin |
1985 |
Renato Leduc, A Renato Leduc |
1985 |
Frank Faylen, It's a Wonderful Life |
1985 |
Iris Ashton, The Lamplighter |
1986 |
Roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies |
1986 |
Roy Cohn, American politician (b. 1927) |
1986 |
Isaak Shmaruk, Sudba Mariny |
1986 |
Roy M. Cohn, How Should Ex-Communists Cooperate? |
1987 |
Myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79 |
1987 |
Dave Martin, When the Boys Meet the Girls |
1988 |
Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50 |
1988 |
Roger Vuataz, composer, dies at 90 |
1988 |
Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate (b. 1914) |
1988 |
Joe Carcione, Episode #2.76 |
1988 |
Raymond Carver, Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) |
1988 |
Robert Emmet Smith, Operation Petticoat |
1988 |
Valle Resko, 'Jees, olympialaiset', sanoi Ryhmy |
1989 |
Friedl Behn-Grund, Murderers Among Us |
1989 |
Luiz Gonzaga, Rio, I Love You |
1989 |
Leif Mønsted, Corny |
1989 |
Marcel Stern, Meetings |
1989 |
John Hirsch, Peep Show |
1990 |
Norman Mclean, American writer (b. 1902) |
1990 |
Edwin Richfield, British actor (b. 1921) |
1990 |
Adonias Filho, Um Anjo Mau |
1990 |
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It |
1990 |
Edwin Richfield, Five Million Years to Earth |
1990 |
Carmen Beretta, Paris in the Spring |
1990 |
Al Rosen, The Triangle |
1991 |
Helen Page Camp |
1991 |
Tom Orme, The Best Dressed Man |
1991 |
Marcel Blistène, Le sorcier du ciel |
1992 |
Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies |
1992 |
Jim Whaley, TV host (Cinema Showcase), dies of heart attack at 44 |
1992 |
Julio C Fernandez, Cuban/US journalist (founder Alma Mater), dies |
1992 |
Michel Berges, French composer, dies of a heart attack at 44 |
1992 |
Michel Berger, 8 Women |
1992 |
Rafe Blasi, Groundhog Day |
1992 |
Thomas W. Blackburn, Cheyenne |
1992 |
Howard Phillips, The Last Mile |
1992 |
James Donnelly, The Swappers |
1992 |
Joe Dixie, Haie vor Helgoland |
1993 |
Kamal Mitra, Barnali |
1993 |
Bernard Jaffe, True Love |
1993 |
Bob Kanter, The Thin Red Line |
1994 |
Bhagwatpersad Ausan, commandant Suriname military police, dies at 38 |
1994 |
Hugo Soto, Man Facing Southeast |
1994 |
Bert Freed, Paths of Glory |
1995 |
Brian Smith, British sportscaster, dies |
1995 |
Colin Gray, airman, dies at 80 |
1995 |
Al Adamson, Dracula vs. Frankenstein |
1995 |
Lillian Bronson, In the Good Old Summertime |
1995 |
Janet Ward, Night Moves |
1995 |
Yuriy Koval, Nedopesok Napoleon III |
1995 |
Irja Ranin, Linnasta linnaan |
1995 |
Irwin Bazelon, Wilma |
1996 |
Humphrey Fisher, TV Producer, dies at 72 |
1996 |
Michel Debre, PM of France in (1959-62), dies |
1996 |
U Hia Than, politician, dies at 52 |
1996 |
Humphrey Fisher, A Queen Is Crowned |
1996 |
Michel Debré, Lazare Carnot ou Le glaive de la révolution |
1996 |
Vili Auvinen, Vikaa jossakin |
1996 |
Paul Dallas, Stargate |
1997 |
William S Burroughs, author (Naked Lunch), dies at 83 |
1997 |
Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Nigerian musician (b. 1938) |
1997 |
James Krüss, Prodannyy smekh |
1997 |
Ricardo Muñoz Suay, The Moment of Truth |
1997 |
William Cowley, Dennis' Paper Drive |
1997 |
Fela Kuti, The Visitor |
1997 |
William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch |
1998 |
Shari Lewis, American puppeteer (b. 1933) |
1998 |
Nate Smidt, Loosiers |
1998 |
Ralph Bell, Guiding Light |
1998 |
Shari Lewis, A Picture of Us |
1998 |
Freddy Scorticati, ¡Tango! |
1998 |
John Birkinshaw, Full Metal Jacket |
1998 |
Mapy Cortés, Un beso en la noche |
1999 |
Willie Morris, My Dog Skip |
1999 |
Donn Davison, Moonshiner's Woman |
1999 |
Jan Moonen, Ik ben Joep Meloen |
1999 |
Leroy Vinnegar, Deceiver |
1999 |
Donald Chaffin, Fletch |
2000 |
Belva Lannan, Singin' in the Rain |
2000 |
Tony Maffatone, Rambo: First Blood Part II |
2000 |
Adolf Scherbaum, 10 Jahre ARD-Fernsehlotterie - Ein Platz an der Sonne für jung und alt |
2000 |
Patricia Moyes, School for Scoundrels |
2000 |
Zofia Gall, Szkoda twoich lez |
2000 |
Tony McCoy, Bride of the Monster |
2000 |
Gyearbuor Asante, Local Hero |
2001 |
Ron Townson, American singer (The Fifth Dimension) (b. 1933) |
2001 |
Ron Townson, The 5th Dimension Traveling Sunshine Show |
2001 |
Zygmunt Koziarski, Smak czekolady |
2002 |
Galina Pashkova, Sluchainaya vstrecha |
2002 |
Gilles Thibault, Happy Feet |
2002 |
Roberto Cobo, Los Olvidados |
2002 |
Ilona Kolonits, Negyedik találkozás |
2002 |
Roy Kral, Episode #1.34 |
2002 |
Joe Allison, The Spectacular Now |
2003 |
Don Estelle, British actor (b. 1933) |
2003 |
Mike Levey, American television personality (b. 1948) |
2003 |
Peter Safar, Austrian physician (b. 1924) |
2003 |
Mike Levey, Promises, Promises |
2003 |
Redd Stewart, Shrek |
2003 |
Willem Wilmink, Afscheid |
2003 |
Kseniya Kozmina, Office Romance |
2003 |
Don Estelle, Santa Claus |
2003 |
Lesley Woods, All My Children |
2003 |
Oscar Müller, Der Funk-Amateur |
2003 |
Nicolette Pendrell, The Dominators: Episode 1 |
2003 |
Knud Poulsen, Our Home Is Our Castle |
2003 |
Vibeke Reumert, Give God a Chance on Sunday |
2004 |
Don Tosti, American musician (b. 1923) |
2004 |
François Craenhals, Belgian comics artist (b. 1926) |
2004 |
Verlen Kruger, Never Before, Never Again |
2004 |
Fred Pinkard, Rocky II |
2004 |
José Omar Pastoriza, Yo gané el prode, ¿y usted? |
2004 |
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye |
2004 |
Louis Cavecche, Circus Girl |
2004 |
Lou Walker, My Cousin Vinny |
2005 |
Steven Vincent, American journalist and writer (b. 1955) |
2005 |
Jay Hammond, The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced |
2005 |
Sandro Bolchi, Episode #1.4 |
2005 |
Loulie Jean Norman, The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant |
2005 |
Jerzy Pietraszkiewicz, Uczta Baltazara |
2005 |
Willy Egger, Fedora |
2006 |
Jonathan Short, Big Fish |
2006 |
Baglan Sadvakasov, MTV Russia Music Awards 2007 |
2006 |
Ferenc Szusza, Civil a pályán |
2007 |
Chauncey Bailey, American journalist and editor (b. 1950) |
2007 |
Holden Roberto, Angolan founder and leader of the FNLA (b. 1923) |
2007 |
Kay Dotrice, English repertory actress (b. 1929) |
2007 |
Gleb Morozov, Ograblenie po... |
2007 |
Ed Brown, Pittsburgh Steelers vs. San Francisco 49ers |
2007 |
Anna Maria Rimoaldi, Episode #1.5 |
2007 |
Frank Edward Rosenfelt, The Lion Roars Again |
2007 |
Holden Roberto, Good Guys, Bad Guys |
2007 |
Kay Dotrice, Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers |
2008 |
Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1935) |
2008 |
Charles H. Gray, The Young and the Restless |
2008 |
Charlene Arnold, Blue Skies |
2008 |
Gerard McDonnell, Disaster on K2 |
2008 |
Pérez Celis, Puerta de la muerte |
2008 |
Fujio Akatsuka, Osomatsu-kun |
2008 |
Babe Vázquez, Pepito y los robachicos |
2008 |
Osman Yagmurdereli, Angel Island |
2008 |
Eberhard Rebling, Friedrich Schiller |
2009 |
June Mitchell, The Bostonians |
2009 |
Jim Ingram, The Last White Knight |
2009 |
Sidney Zion, The Walker Report |
2009 |
Francis Jeanson, La chinoise |
2009 |
Billy Lee Riley, Walk the Line |
2009 |
Sándor Püski, Minden másképp van - Márairól |
2010 |
Brian Beck, X-Men |
2010 |
Kamal Kapoor, Don |
2010 |
Mitch Jayne, The Darling Baby |
2011 |
DeLois Barrett Campbell, American gospel singer (b. 1926) |
2011 |
Stuart Wickison, The Boy Who Can Never Grow Old |
2011 |
Ítalo Rossi, Noite Sem Homem |
2011 |
Delois Barrett Campbell, Say Amen, Somebody |
2011 |
John Harling, Bird on a Wire |
2011 |
Richard Pearson, The Wind in the Willows |
2012 |
Marguerite Piazza, American operatic soprano, dies at 86 |
2012 |
Roy Steffens, Leonardo DaVinci |
2012 |
Reijo Lås, Night or Day |
2012 |
Floria Bloise, The Official Story |
2012 |
Liselotte Funcke, |
2012 |
John Keegan, Why War? |
2012 |
Gilbert Prouteau, God Chose Paris |
2012 |
Charles Stalmaker, Battle of the Bulge |
2012 |
Tomasz Szukalski, The War of the Worlds: Next Century |
2012 |
Marguerite Piazza, The Marguerite Piazza Show |
2012 |
Jimmy Jones, Jennifer 8 |
2013 |
Barbara Trentham, Rollerball |
2013 |
Jozef Adamovic, Sípová Ruzenka |
2013 |
Azat Gasparyan, The Mechanics of Happiness |
2013 |
José G. Moreno de Alba, De la lengua a la lingüistica: una vocación |
2013 |
Dakshinamoorthy, Oru Oodhappu Kan Simittugiradhu |
2013 |
Vic Coleman, World of Sport |
2014 |
Billie Letts, Where the Heart Is |
2014 |
Craig Lowe, Hell's Kitchen |
2014 |
Hans-Henrik Ley, The Jungle Creature: Hugo |
2014 |
Olga Voronets, Legenda No. 17 |
2014 |
Gösta Holmström, Förhöret |
2014 |
Fedor Khramtsov, Priklyucheniya v gorode, kotorogo net |
2015 |
Guðmunda Elíasdóttir, Jar City |
2015 |
Tyler Drumheller, Curve Ball/The Ivory War/Captain of Capitalism |
2015 |
Forrest Bird, The Man from Interpol/Roots/Springsteen/The Bird Man of Idaho |
2015 |
Jacques Navadic, The Eurovision Song Contest |
2015 |
Valentin Bukin, Russian Ark |
2016 |
Oliver Hughes, founder of The Porterhouse pub chain, dies aged 55 |
2016 |
Dai Dower: Former British flyweight champion dies aged 83 |
2016 |
Gloria DeHaven, star of golden age cinema, dies aged 91 |
2016 |
Romania's former Queen Anne dies in Swiss hospital aged 92 |
2016 |
Legendary Australian Olympian Forbes Carlile dies aged 95 |
2017 |
Costco Co-Founder Jeff Brotman Dies At Age 74 |
2018 |
Mary Carlisle, a perpetual ingenue in dozens of 1930s films, dies at 104 |
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