Saturday 2nd of August 1834

Sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi known for sculpting the Statue of Liberty is born in Colmar, Alsace, France.

Monday 2nd of August 1875

Lawman, gunfighter and gambler Bill James Butler Hickok is shot in the back of the head by Jack McCall aka Crooked Nose Jack at the age of 38 in Nuttal & Mann's Saloon, 624 Main Street, Deadwood, South Dakota, United States.

Monday 2nd of August 1897

SS Standartenführer Karl-Otto Koch known for becoming the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen is born in Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany.

Tuesday 2nd of August 1921

Tenor Enrico Caruso dies of peritonitis arising from a burst subrenal abscess at the age of 48 in Vesuvio Hotel, Via Partenope 45, Napoli, Campania, Italy.

Wednesday 2nd of August 1922

Scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator Alexander Graham Bell dies of diabetes at the age of 75 in Beinn Bhreagh, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Upon the conclusion of Bell's funeral, "every phone on the continent of North America was silenced in honor of the man who had given to mankind the means for direct communication at a distance".

Thursday 2nd of August 1923

29th President of the United States Warren Gamaliel Harding dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in San Francisco, California, United States.

Saturday 2nd of August 1924

Writer, poet and activist James Arthur Baldwin is born in New York, Harlem, New York, United States.

Tuesday 2nd of August 1932

Actor Peter Seamus O'Toole is born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Some sources give O'Toole's birthplace as Connemara, County Galway, Ireland.

Thursday 2nd of August 1934

Generalfeldmarschall and politician Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff von Hindenburg dies of lung cancer at the age of 87 in Neudeck, Ostpreußen, Germany.

Wednesday 2nd of August 1939

Horror film director Wes Wesley Earl Craven known for inventing the ‘slasher’ film genre is born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

Thursday 2nd of August 1945

Victim of Richard Speck aka Born To Raise Hell Pamela Wilkening is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Thursday 2nd of August 1962

Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal Edward Eddie Smith aka The Sheik is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

Friday 2nd of August 1974

19-year-old Carol L. Platt Valenzuela is strangled by serial killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness in Vancouver, Washington, United States.

Valenzuela's remains were discovered two months later in a shallow grave south of Olympia along with those of 17-year-old Martha Morrison.

Monday 2nd of August 1976

Film director Fritz Friedrich Christian Anton Lang dies of a stroke at the age of 86 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.

Saturday 2nd of August 1980

85 die in railway station bomb attack in Bologna Centrale, Piazza delle Medaglie d'Oro, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Several members of the neo-fascist terrorist organization Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari were sentenced for the bombing although the group denied involvement.

Sunday 2nd of August 1981

Irish republican hunger striker Kieran Doherty dies after 73 days of hungerstriking at the age of 26 in Maze Prison, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Doherty was the eighth and longest hungerstriker to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.

Sunday 2nd of August 1981

Tour bus driver Willibrordus A. Meuffels known for becoming the first man to live with an artificial heart dies of kidney failure, lung problems and infection at the age of 36 in St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States.

Meuffels had been kept alive for 54 hours by an artificial heart implant and then for a week on a transplanted human heart.

Thursday 2nd of August 1984

16-year-old Natalya Golosovskaya is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Park of Aviators, Rostov, Rostov Oblast, Russia.

Friday 2nd of August 1985

137 die in Delta Air Lines Flight 191 Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crash and disintegration in Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Dallas, Texas, United States.

Saturday 2nd of August 1986

32-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Eva Sybille Haule-Frimpong is arrested in an ice-cream parlour in Rüsselsheim, Hessen, Germany.

Tuesday 2nd of August 1994

Murderer Robert Nelson Drew is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Saturday 2nd of August 1997

Serial killer Andonis Daglis aka The Athens Ripper commits suicide hanging at the age of 23 in Athens, Attica, Greece.

Saturday 2nd of August 1997

Writer, painter and spoken word performer William Seward Burroughs dies of a heart attack at the age of 83 in Lawrence, Kansas, United States.

Wednesday 2nd of August 2006

Fashion model Luisel Ramos dies of heart failure caused by anorexia nervosa at the age of 22 in Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Ramos died of heart failure while participating in a fashion show during Fashion Week.

Thursday 2nd of August 2007

A graffiti in our neighbourhood in Antwerpen, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Saturday 2nd of August 2014

View on the passing landscape from the TGV window in Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, France.

Thursday 2nd of August 2018

Paradise by the Dashboard Light in San Rocco, Oostende, Mariakerke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.