August 2
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Art and culture
- 1936 - Start of the Fourteenth Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association
- 1937 - The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
Births
- 1865 - Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933)
- 1905 - Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993)
Deaths
- 1876 - James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837)
- 1921 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
- 1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1847)
- 1973 - Jean-Pierre Melville, French film director (b. 1917)
- 1976 - Fritz Lang, Austrian film director (b. 1890)
- 1988 - Raymond Carver, American writer (b. 1938)
- 1997 - William S. Burroughs, American writer (b. 1914)
Notes
- Ludwig Marcuse (February 8 1894 in Berlin – August 2 1971 in Bad Wiessee, Germany), was a philosopher and writer of Jewish origin.
- Fela Kuti October 15 1938 - August 2 1997),
- Philippe Soupault (August 2, 1897 – March 12, 1990) was a French writer and poet,
- Renaat Braem (Antwerpen, August 2 1910 – Essen, January 24 2001) was a Flemish-Belgian architect.
- Luigi Colani
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