Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 2
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Births
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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)