What happened on August 2 ?

686 - Pope John V

1100 - King William II of England

1222 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)

1511 - Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader

1589 - King Henry III of France (b. 1551)

1611 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)

1696 - Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Scottish military commander at the Massacre of Glencoe (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 artist (b. 1727)

1815 - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (murdered) (b. 1763)

1849 - Governor Muhammad Ali of Egypt (b. 1769)

1859 - Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)

1876 - James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837)

1890 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (b. 1813)

1903 - Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian (b. 1850)

1921 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)

1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1847)

1923 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)

1934 - Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician (b. 1847)

1936 - Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872)

1939 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosacrucian mystic (b. 1883)

1945 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (b. 1863)

1976 - Fritz Lang, Austrian film director (b. 1890)

1978 - Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (b. 1899)

1979 - Thurman Munson, baseball player (b. 1947)

1986 - Roy Cohn, American politician (b. 1927)

1988 - Raymond Carver, American writer (b. 1938)

1988 - Joe Carcione (also known as "The Green Grocer"), American consumer advocate (b. 1914)

1990 - Norman Mclean, American writer (b. 1902)

1997 - William S. Burroughs, American writer (b. 1914)

1998 - Shari Lewis, American puppeteer (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)