Famous Deaths on 2nd August

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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, balloonist, 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 educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)
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
Folk Hero of the American Old West Wild Bill Hickok (1876) 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
1881 - Marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author (His Natural Life) at 35
1889 - Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (b. 1851)
1903 - Martha Jane Cannary, [Calamity Jane], US desperado, dies
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)
1921 - Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer, dies at 48
1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US physicist (telephone), dies
1922 - [Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, Dutch author/feminist, dies at 82
1923 - Warren Harding, 29th Pres (1921-23), dies at Palace Hotel SF at 57
1929 - Mae Costello, American actress (b. 1882)
1932 - Gheorghe Cucu, composer, dies at 50
1934 - Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Hindenburg, soldier/statesman, dies at 86
Inventor Alexander Graham Bell (1922) 1938 - Bjarni Thorsteinsson, composer, dies at 76
1939 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosicrucian mystic (b. 1883)
1941 - Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (La Feria), dies at 70
1942 - Friedrich Aereboe, Dutch landlord, dies at 77
1945 - Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer (Donna Diana), dies at 85
1945 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (Cavalleria Rusticana), dies at 81
1954 - Rene Amengual, composer, dies at 42
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)
1956 - Albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109
1958 - Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80
1959 - Prospero Bisquertt, composer, dies at 78
1961 - Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies at 64
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
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)
1976 - Fritz Lang, director (Cloak & Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85
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
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
1982 - Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93
1982 - Rudolf Maros, composer, dies at 65
1985 - Frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79
1985 - Sandy Bell, South African cricket pace bowler (16 Tests), dies
1986 - Roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies
1986 - Roy Cohn, American politician (b. 1927)
1987 - Myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79
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)
1990 - Norman Mclean, American writer (b. 1902)
1990 - Edwin Richfield, British actor (b. 1921)
1991 - Gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen
1991 - Helen Page Camp
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
1994 - Bhagwatpersad Ausan, commandant Suriname military police, dies at 38
1995 - Brian Smith, British sportscaster, dies
1995 - Colin Gray, airman, dies at 80
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
1997 - William S Burroughs, author (Naked Lunch), dies at 83
1997 - Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Nigerian musician (b. 1938)
1998 - Shari Lewis, American puppeteer (b. 1933)
2001 - Ron Townson, American singer (The Fifth Dimension) (b. 1933)
2003 - Don Estelle, British actor (b. 1933)
2003 - Mike Levey, American television personality (b. 1948)
2003 - Peter Safar, Austrian physician (b. 1924)
2004 - Don Tosti, American musician (b. 1923)
2004 - François Craenhals, Belgian comics artist (b. 1926)
2005 - Steven Vincent, American journalist and writer (b. 1955)
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)
2008 - Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1935)
2011 - DeLois Barrett Campbell, American gospel singer (b. 1926)
2012 - Marguerite Piazza, American operatic soprano, dies at 86