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August 2, 1999 Willie Morris, writer, The Ghosts of Medgar Evers, dies at 63 August 2, 1998 Shari Lewis, puppeteer, dies at 65 August 2, 1997 William S. Burroughs, author, Naked Lunch, dies at 83 August 2, 1996 Humphrey Fisher, TV Producer, dies at 72 August 2, 1996 Michel Debre, PM of France in (1959-62), dies August 2, 1996 U Hia Than, politician, dies at 52 August 2, 1995 Brian Smith, British sportscaster, dies August 2, 1995 Colin Gray, airman, dies at 80 August 2, 1994 Bhagwatpersad Ausan, commandant Suriname military police, dies at 38 August 2, 1992 Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies August 2, 1992 Jim Whaley, TV host (Cinema Showcase), dies of heart attack at 44 August 2, 1992 Julio C Fernandez, Cuban/US journalist (founder Alma Mater), dies August 2, 1992 Michel Berges, French composer, dies of a heart attack at 44 August 2, 1991 Gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera and Richard Cohen August 2, 1991 Helen Page Camp, August 2, 1990 Norman Maclean, American Author August 2, 1988 Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50 August 2, 1988 Roger Vuataz, composer, dies at 90 August 2, 1987 Myron Stout, U.S. abstract artist, dies at 79 August 2, 1986 Roy Marcus Cohn, U.S. lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies August 2, 1985 Frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79 August 2, 1985 Sandy Bell, South African cricket pace bowler (16 Tests), dies August 2, 1982 Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93 August 2, 1982 Rudolf Maros, composer, dies at 65 August 2, 1979 Thurmon Munson, New York Yankee, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32 August 2, 1978 Carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer, dies at 79 August 2, 1978 Satomi Myodo, Zen nun/attendant of Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, dies at 82 August 2, 1978 Totie Fields, [Sophie Feldman], comedienne, dies at about 48 August 2, 1976 Fritz Lang, director (Cloak and Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85 August 2, 1973 Jean-Pierre Melville, director (Bob Le Flambeur), dies at 57 August 2, 1972 Brian Cole, vocalist/bassist (Association), dies of overdose at 29 August 2, 1972 Paul Goodman, U.S. social critic/writer, dies at 60 August 2, 1972 Rudolf Ganz, composer, dies at 95 August 2, 1971 Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher, dies at 77 August 2, 1969 Clarence Dickinson, composer, dies at 96 August 2, 1967 Claude A. Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press), dies at 77 August 2, 1965 Milton B Babbitt, U.S. composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49 August 2, 1964 Jack Kirkwood, actor (Fibber McGee and Molly), dies at 69 August 2, 1964 Jose Maria Castro, composer, dies at 71 August 2, 1963 Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, U.S. anthropologist/writer, dies at 61 August 2, 1961 Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies at 64 August 2, 1959 Prospero Bisquertt, composer, dies at 78 August 2, 1958 Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80 August 2, 1956 Albert Woolson, last veteran U.S. Union army, dies at 109 August 2, 1955 Ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern/general-fieldmarshal, dies August 2, 1955 Wallace Stevens, U.S. poet and writer (Owl's Clover), dies at 75 August 2, 1954 Rene Amengual, composer, dies at 42 August 2, 1945 Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer (Donna Diana), dies at 85 August 2, 1945 Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (Cavalleria Rusticana), dies at 81 August 2, 1943 Zelo Bloch, Polish? Treblinka-rebel, shot to death August 2, 1942 Friedrich Aereboe, Dutch landlord, dies at 77 August 2, 1941 Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (La Feria), dies at 70 August 2, 1938 Bjarni Thorsteinsson, composer, dies at 76 August 2, 1936 Louis Bieriot, aviator, dies August 2, 1934 Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Hindenburg, soldier/statesman, dies at 86 August 2, 1934 Paul von Hindenburg, German Soldier August 2, 1932 Gheorghe Cucu, composer, dies at 50 August 2, 1923 Warren Harding, 29th President (1921-23), dies at Palace Hotel San Francisco at 57 August 2, 1922 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US physicist (telephone), dies August 2, 1922 [Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, Dutch author/feminist, dies at 82 August 2, 1921 Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer, dies at 48 August 2, 1916 Hamish MacCunn, composer, dies at 48 August 2, 1914 Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont, composer, dies at 36 August 2, 1903 Martha Jane Cannary, [Calamity Jane], U.S. desperado, dies August 2, 1892 Edouard Joseph Stevens, Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 72 August 2, 1881 Marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author (His Natural Life) at 35 August 2, 1876 Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces and a pair of 8's August 2, 1873 Frank Mori, composer, dies at 53 August 2, 1872 Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59 August 2, 1869 Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer/photographer, murdered at 30+ August 2, 1859 Horace Mann, American Educator August 2, 1858 A Emma WT von Waldeck-Pyrmont, queen/regent, dies at 76 August 2, 1849 Mehemet Ali, British viceroy to Egypt, dies August 2, 1827 James Hewitt, composer, dies at 57 August 2, 1811 William Williams, U.S. merchant/signer (Decl of Indep), dies at 80 August 2, 1799 Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, balloonist, dies at 54 August 2, 1792 Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, composer, dies at 60 August 2, 1788 Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), dies at 61 August 2, 1655 Alfonso de la Cueva, Spanish marquis of Bedmar/diplomat, dies at 83 August 2, 1649 Elisabeth Bas, wife of Dutch Adm Swartenhondt, dies at about 78 August 2, 1600 Arent van Dorp, Dutch governor of East-Zealand, dies at about 70 August 2, 1589 Henry III, king of Poland/France (1573-89), assassinated at 37 August 2, 1512 Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher, dies at 48 August 2, 1451 Elisabeth von Gorlitz, duchess of Luxembourg, dies August 2, 1332 Christoffel II, king of Denmark (Handfaestning), dies at 55 August 2, 1100 William II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44 August 2, 1075 John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies August 2, 1002 Abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64 August 2, 686 John V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies August 2, 640 Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies August 2, 257 Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies |