Deaths in History on August 2

1769 Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician, dies at 80
1776 Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French nobleman and military leader, dies at 58
1788 Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), dies at 61
1799 Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, French inventor (1st hot air balloon), dies at 54
1811 William Williams, American merchant (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 80
1815 Guillaume Brune, French marshal, dies at 52
1823 Lazare Carnot, French politician, engineer and mathematician known as the Organizer of Victory in the French Revolutionary Wars, dies at 70
1849 Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Albanian-born Pasha and viceroy of Egypt (founder of modern Egypt), dies at 80

Horace Mann (1796-1859)

American educator, author and editor who pioneered public schools, dies at 63

1869 Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer and photographer, murdered trying to cross the Sahara at 33
1872 Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59

Wild Bill Hickok (1837-1876)

American cowboy and scout, shot dead from behind at 39 by Jack McCall while playing poker (he held a pair of Aces and a pair of 8's)

1881 Marcus Clarke, English born Australian author (For the Term of His Natural Life), dies at 35
1889 Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (Juan Moreira), dies at 38
1890 Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (works characterized by a deep sense of pessimism), dies at 76
1891 George Washington Williams, American historian (History of the Negro Race in America), dies from tuberculosis and pleurisy at 41
1895 Joseph Thomson, Scottish geologist and early African explorer (Thomson's Gazelle), dies of pneumonia at 37
1903 Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian (Louis Pasteur Institute), dies at 53

Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)

Scottish-born British-American inventor (telephone), dies of diabetes complications at 75

1922 Mina Kruseman, Dutch author and feminist, dies at 82

Warren G. Harding (1865-1923)

29th President of the United States (1921-23), dies of a heart attack at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco at 57

Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934)

German WW1 general and President of Germany (1925-34), dies of lung cancer at 86

1936 Louis Blériot, French aviator who made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft, dies of a heart attack at 64
1939 Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosicrucian author and mystic, dies at 55
1941 Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (el Florilegio), dies at 70
1942 Friedrich Aereboe, German landlord and agricultural economist, dies at 77
1955 Rupprecht, last crown prince of Bavaria and German fieldmarshall during WWI, dies at 86
1955 Wallace Stevens, American poet (The Auroras of Autumn), dies at 75
1956 Albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109
1961 Giovanni Battista Angioletti, Italian author (Il giorno del giudizio), dies at 64
1963 Oliver [Hazard Perry] La Farge, American anthropologist and novelist, dies at 61
1965 N. Howell Furman, American Chemist whose work on separating uranium contributed to the development of the atomic bomb, dies at 73
1967 Claude Albert Barnett, American journalist and founder (Associated Negro Press), dies at 77
1971 Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher (Obscene: The history of an indignation), dies at 77
1972 Helen Hoyt, American poet, dies at 85
1972 Paul Goodman, US social critic/writer, dies at 60
1973 Jean-Pierre Melville, director (Bob Le Flambeur), dies at 57
1976 Fritz Lang, Austrian-German-American director (M, Metropolis, Fury, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse), dies from a stroke at 85
1978 Satomi Myodo, Zen nun/attendant of Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, dies at 82
1978 Totie Fields [Sophie Feldman], American comedienne, dies at 48
1986 Roy Marcus Cohn, American lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies of AIDS at 59
1987 Myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79
1988 Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate (The Green Grocer), dies at 73
1988 Raymond Carver, American poet and short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50
1990 Norman Mclean, American writer (b. 1902)
1992 Julio C Fernandez, Cuban/American journalist (founder Alma Mater), dies
1994 Bhagwatpersad Ausan, commandant Suriname military police, dies at 38
1995 Colin Falkland Gray, New Zealand fighter ace of the Second World War, dies at 80
1996 Michel Debre, French politician, Prime Minister of France (1959-62), dies at 84

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)

American writer (Naked Lunch, The Nova Trilogy) and visual artist, dies of a heart attack at 83

2001 Edward Gardner, British barrister and Conservative Party politician (British Nationality Act 1981), dies at 89
2003 Charles Kerruish, Manx politician and President of Tyndwald Isle of Man, dies at 86
2003 Peter Safar, Austrian physician (pioneered cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR), dies at 79
2004 François Craenhals, Belgian comic artist (Chevalier Ardent), dies at 77
2005 Steven Vincent, American journalist and writer, kidnapped and murdered by religious extremists in Iraq at 49
2007 Chauncey Bailey, American journalist and editor, murdered while investigating a crime syndicate at 57
2007 Holden Roberto, Angolan independence leader, founder of the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA), dies at 84
2008 Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist, dies of pneumonia at 72
2008 John F. Seiberling, American politician (Rep-D-OH, 1971-86), dies at 89
2011 Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-American immunologist (Nobel 1980 - discovery of genes that regulate immune responses and of the role that some of these genes play in autoimmune diseases), dies at 90
2011 Clarence E. Miller, American politician (Rep-R-OH, 1967-93), dies at 93
2015 Forrest Bird, American aviator and inventor (1st respirators and ventilators), dies at 94
2016 Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American chemist, (Nobel Prize 1999), dies at 70
2022 Hans Bangerter, Swiss football administrator (General Secretary UEFA 1960-89), dies at 98