(+) Sculptor of the Statue of Liberty Fréderic-Auguste Bartholdi aka Amilcar Hasenfratz, is born in Colmar, Alsace, France.
137 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 August 1876
(-) Gunfighter James Butler Hickok aka Wild Bill Hickok, is shot in the back of the head by Jack McCall at the age of 39 in Deadwood, Nuttal & Mann's Saloon, Dakota, United States.
116 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 August 1897
(+) First commander of Buchenwald KZ Karl Otto Koch is born in Germany.
92 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 August 1921
(-) Tenor Enrico Caruso dies of an infection of the abdomen at the age of 48 in Napoli, Italy.
91 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 August 1922
(-) Scientist, inventor and engineer Alexander Graham Bell dies of diabetes at the age of 75 in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.
(-) 29th president of the USA Warren Gamaliel Harding dies of pneumonia at the age of 57 in San Francisco, California, United States.
89 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 August 1924
(+) Writer James Baldwin is born in Hamilton, New York, United States.
81 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 August 1932
(+) Actor Peter O’Toole is born in Connemara, Ireland.
79 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 August 1934
(-) Reichspresident Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg dies of lung cancer at the age of 86 in Neudeck, Germany.
77 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 August 1936
(-) Aircraft pioneer Louis Blériot dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in Cambrai, France.
74 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 August 1939
(+) Filmmaker Wesley “Wes” Earl Craven is born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
68 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 August 1945
(+) Victim of Richard Speck aka Born To Raise Hell, Pamela Wilkening is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
51 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 August 1962
(+) Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Edward Smith aka The Sheik, is born in Wisconsin, United States.
40 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 August 1973
(x) 50 Die in Summerland carnival-park fire in the Isle of Man, United Kingdom.
It turned out to be a case of arson.
39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 August 1974
(-) Carol Valenzuela is strangled by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 20 in Vancouver, Canada.
37 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 August 1976
(-) Filmmaker Fritz Lang dies at the age of 85 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.
33 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 August 1980
(x) 84 Die in fascist bomb-attack in Bologna railway station, Italy.
32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 August 1981
(-) IRA-member Kieran Doherty originally Ciaran O Dochartaigh, dies after 73 days of hungerstriking at the age of 25 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
He was the eighth and longest hungerstriker to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.
32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 August 1981
(-) The first man to live with an artificial heart, Willibrordus A. Meuffels dies at the age of 36 in Houston, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Texas, United States.
He lived for 54 hours with the electric powered device.
29 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 August 1984
(-) Natascha Golossowskaja is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 16 in Rostow, Russia.
28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 August 1985
(x) 133 Die in Delta Airlines Flight 191 Lockheed L-1011 Tristar crash in Dallas, Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, United States.
27 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 August 1986
(x) 32-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion 3rd Generation member Eva Sybille Haule-Frimpong is arrested in Rüsselheim, Germany.
19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 August 1994
(-) Murderer Robert Drew is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
16 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 August 1997
(-) Musician and politician Fela Anikulapo Kuti originally Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, dies of aids at the age of 58 in Lagos, Nigeria.
16 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 August 1997
(-) Writer William Seward Burroughs dies of a heart attack at the age of 83 in Lawrence, Kansas, United States.
7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 August 2006
(-) Fashion model Luisel Ramos dies of anorexia nervosa at the age of 22 in Montevideo, Uruguay.
6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 August 2007
(-) Actor Alec Guinnes de Cuffe dies of liver cancer at the age of 93 in Midhurst, United Kingdom.
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