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