On This Day — July 2
3971 noted people were born and 1902 died on July 2 in our archive, including Hans Bethe, Juan Peset Aleixandre and Marcel Bertrand.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on July 2
Hans Bethe
1906 – 2005
Juan Peset Aleixandre
1886 – 1941
Marcel Bertrand
1847 – 1907
Mário Schenberg
1914 – 1990
William Burnside
1852 – 1927
Adolf Yushkevich
1906 – 1993
Alfons Maria Jakob
1884 – 1931
Charles Virolleaud
1879 – 1968
Cindy Kiro
b. 1958
Doron Zeilberger
b. 1950
Erich Christian Werlauff
1781 – 1871
Erich Topp
1914 – 2005
Francis Amasa Walker
1840 – 1897
Francis Simon
1893 – 1956
Harriet Brooks
1876 – 1933
James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern
1927 – 2026
Joseph Unger
1828 – 1913
Krzysztof Gawedzki
1947 – 2022
Krzysztof Olendzki
b. 1963
Linda M. Godwin
b. 1952
Lynne Brindley
b. 1950
Olga Arsenievna Oleinik
1925 – 2001
Patrick Hetzel
b. 1964
Pierre Lescure
b. 1945
Robert Ridgway
1850 – 1929
Sultan bin Mohamed Al-Qasimi
b. 1939
Thomas Anderson
1819 – 1874
Thomas William Walker
1916 – 2010
Tina Stowell, Baroness Stowell of Beeston
b. 1967
Tomasz Siemoniak
b. 1967
Tomáš Zima
b. 1966
Vicente Fox
b. 1942
Wang Huiyao
b. 1958
William Henry Bragg
1862 – 1942
Yevgeny Dyakonov
1935 – 2006
Zbigniew Kiernikowski
b. 1946
Akilah Weber
b. 1978
Albert Ladenburg
1842 – 1911
Alec Douglas-Home
1903 – 1995
Alexander Hilferding
1831 – 1872
Alexander Kovarski
b. 1944
Alexander Turchyn
b. 1975
Alexandros Panagoulis
1939 – 1976
Alfred Nicolas Rambaud
1842 – 1905
Ali Erdemir
b. 1954
Andreas Wahl
b. 1983
Andrew Gray
1847 – 1925
André Lafargue
1917 – 2017
Armen Sarvazyan
1939 – 2026
Arnold Walfisz
1892 – 1962
Athanasius
1887 – 1962
Aydin Mirzazade
b. 1957
Bret Hart
b. 1957
Brian Clarke
1953 – 2025
Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter
1795 – 1867
C. Kumar N. Patel
b. 1938
Carl Malamud
b. 1959
Carlos Menem
1930 – 2021
Carolyne Wright
b. 1949
Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
1893 – 1980
Charles P. Nelson
1907 – 1962
Charles Poletti
1903 – 2002
Charles Tupper
1821 – 1915
Charles-Eugène Galiber
1824 – 1909
Chia-ying Yeh
1924 – 2024
Christoph Willibald von Gluck
1714 – 1787
Claudio Bisogniero
b. 1954
Dan Nica
b. 1960
Dang Thai Son
b. 1958
Dave Thomas
1932 – 2002
David B. Kaplan
b. 1958
Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho
b. 1966
Dionísio Paulo Lachovicz
b. 1946
Edward Ebenezer Kay
1822 – 1897
Elizabeth Anionwu
b. 1947
Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh
b. 1952
Elmar Mammadyarov
b. 1960
Erich Hilgenfeldt
1897 – 1945
Ernest Hamel
1826 – 1898
Francine Houben
b. 1955
Frederick Fennell
1914 – 2004
Fredrik Sejersted
b. 1965
Gaisa Enikeev
1864 – 1931
Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault
1872 – 1934
George Thom
1842 – 1916
Hans-Jürgen Appelrath
1952 – 2016
Hayat Mahmud
b. 1939
Heinrich Hetsch
1873 – 1947
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne
1780 – 1863
Hugh Latimer Dryden
1898 – 1965
Imelda Marcos
b. 1929
Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan
b. 1957
Iris Radisch
b. 1959
Ivan Ivanov
1891 – 1965
J. Michael Bailey
b. 1957
J. S. Roskell
1913 – 1998
James Hirvisaari
b. 1960
James W. Patterson
1823 – 1893
Jan Lipavský
b. 1985
Jean Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers
1907 – 1991
Jeremiah D. M. Ford
1873 – 1958
John F. Banzhaf III
b. 1940
John Hick
1815 – 1894
John States Seybold
1897 – 1984
Jonathan Capehart
b. 1967
Jorge del Castillo
b. 1950
Joseph Isidore Samson
1793 – 1871
Julius Carl Raschdorff
1823 – 1914
János Sztipanovits
b. 1946
Jüri Ratas
b. 1978
Karin Kock-Lindberg
1891 – 1976
Karl Gerstner
1930 – 2017
Kenneth Clarke
b. 1940
Kenneth Fok
b. 1979
King Liu
1934 – 2026
Konrad Rudnicki
1926 – 2013
Lee Maracle
1950 – 2021
Lewis Williams Douglas
1894 – 1974
Ludvig Hektoen
1863 – 1951
Madeleine Atkins
b. 1952
Madeleine Gustafsson
b. 1937
Maffeo Pantaleoni
1857 – 1924
Marcel Peyrouton
1887 – 1983
Marcel Wanders
b. 1963
Margot Robbie
b. 1990
Michael Castle
1939 – 2025
Michael J. Hunter
b. 1956
Mojca Drčar Murko
b. 1942
Monika Hohlmeier
b. 1962
Moon So-ri
b. 1974
Mylswamy Annadurai
b. 1958
Najat El Hachmi
b. 1979
Nathan Read
1759 – 1849
Nebojša Čović
b. 1958
Octavian Paler
1926 – 2007
Olav Bergersen
1880 – 1973
Olav V of Norway
1903 – 1991
Ora Kedem
1924 – 2026
Palladiusz
1827 – 1898
Paul von Bruns
1846 – 1916
Petr Pimashkov
1948 – 2021
Piera Aiello
b. 1967
Pieter Bogaers
1924 – 2008
Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark
1908 – 1980
Richard Axel
b. 1946
Robert Wipper
1859 – 1954
Ron Silver
1946 – 2009
Scott Sloan
1954 – 2019
Sergei Khrushchev
1935 – 2020
Sergey Lapin
1912 – 1990
Sir Horace Rumbold, 8th Baronet
1829 – 1913
Stanislav Drobyshevsky
b. 1978
Steven Vertovec
b. 1957
Tadeusz Figiel
1948 – 2025
Tatyana Larionova
b. 1955
Tatyana Piletskaya
b. 1928
Thaddeus Holownia
b. 1949
Thomas Cranmer
1489 – 1556
Thomas Phillipps
1792 – 1872
Thomas Seddon
1884 – 1972
Thomas Simpson
1808 – 1840
Thomas von der Dunk
b. 1961
Thurgood Marshall
1908 – 1993
Tikhon
b. 1958
Tyrone Guthrie
1900 – 1971
Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington
1915 – 2014
Victoria Calzada
b. 1985
Victoria Recaño
b. 1975
Vladimir Kostitsyn
b. 1945
Walter Nathan Tobriner
1902 – 1979
Wendy B. Lawrence
b. 1959
Werner Weidenfeld
b. 1947
Willie Haughey
b. 1956
Włodzimierz Sokorski
1908 – 1999
Yana Zinkevych
b. 1995
Yoshihisa Okumura
1926 – 2023
Émile Henriot
1885 – 1961
Émile Maupas
1842 – 1916
Ľudovít Ódor
b. 1976
Aaron Henry
1922 – 1997
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali
b. 1965
Adrien, Count of Rougé
1782 – 1838
Agustí Riera i Pau
1876 – 1936
Ahmad Jamal
1930 – 2023
Ahmad Rabaie
b. 1964
Ahmad Uyahya
b. 1952
Ahmed Mestiri
1925 – 2021
Alan Goulty
b. 1947
Alberto Jerez Horta
1927 – 2023
Alec Hill
1916 – 2008
Alex Morgan
b. 1989
Alexander Bagration of Mukhrani
1853 – 1918
Alexander Boroda
b. 1968
Alexander C. M. Pennington
1810 – 1867
Alexander Rodnyansky
b. 1961
Alexandr Chvylja
1905 – 1976
Alexandra Vydrina
1988 – 2021
Alfonso Bonafede
b. 1976
Ana Claudia Almirón
b. 1984
Anatoliy Sidorov
b. 1958
… and 3,771 more
Died on July 2
Anton Rosen
1859 – 1928
Carl Adam Petri
1926 – 2010
Douglas Engelbart
1925 – 2013
Ferdinand Sauerbruch
1875 – 1951
Félix Pons
1942 – 2010
Harald Høffding
1843 – 1931
Joseph Chamberlain
1836 – 1914
Lee Iacocca
1924 – 2019
Michel Rocard
1930 – 2016
Nikolai Chebotaryov
1894 – 1947
Oscar Liebreich
1839 – 1908
Peter Chalmers Mitchell
1864 – 1945
Robert Peel
1788 – 1850
Rudolf E. Kálmán
1930 – 2016
Thomas Thomson
1773 – 1852
Valeriano Bozal
1940 – 2023
Élie Metchnikoff
1845 – 1916
Alfred Norton Goldsmith
1888 – 1974
Andrei Gromyko
1909 – 1989
Anne Neville
1970 – 2022
Antonio Fortich
1913 – 2003
Ashkharbek Kalantar
1884 – 1942
Betty Meggers
1921 – 2012
Beverly Sills
1929 – 2007
Bibha Chowdhuri
1913 – 1991
Campbell Percy McMeekan
1908 – 1972
Carlyle Smith Beals
1899 – 1979
Christian Herbst
1818 – 1911
Christian Lambert
1946 – 2026
Christian Schweigaard Stang
1900 – 1977
Dante Livio Bianco
1909 – 1953
Doug Naysmith
1941 – 2023
Eduard Zuckmayer
1890 – 1972
Edvard Hjelt
1855 – 1921
Elie Wiesel
1928 – 2016
Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete
1856 – 1920
Franklin J. Schaffner
1921 – 1989
François Bazin
1816 – 1878
Giuseppe Ferrari
1811 – 1876
Harry Edward Spiller Cordeaux
1870 – 1943
Hasan Esat Işık
1916 – 1989
Helena Morsztynkiewicz
1894 – 1983
Henri-Charles Lambrecht
1848 – 1889
Henriëtte Bosmans
1895 – 1952
James M. Love
1820 – 1891
James Robertson Justice
1907 – 1975
James West
1703 – 1772
Jean Daubigny
1948 – 2024
Johann Baptist Gradl
1904 – 1988
John Shirley Wood
1888 – 1966
John of Shanghai and San Francisco
1896 – 1966
Konrád Burchard-Bélaváry
1837 – 1916
Lalit Mohan Nath
1935 – 2016
Manuel Cardona Castro
1934 – 2014
Martin Hengel
1926 – 2009
Matsukata Masayoshi
1835 – 1924
Nicholas Golitsyn
1850 – 1925
Norman Davis
1878 – 1944
Omar Lara
1941 – 2021
Patrick Finnegan
1949 – 2018
Paul Wild
1925 – 2014
Peter Brook
1925 – 2022
Porfirio Díaz
1830 – 1915
Robert Keeton
1919 – 2007
Robert Sklar
1936 – 2011
Roscoe Brown
1922 – 2016
Salih Zeki
1864 – 1921
Samuel Hahnemann
1755 – 1843
Sergio Páez Verdugo
1933 – 2025
Seth Barnes Nicholson
1891 – 1963
Shekhar Dutt
1945 – 2025
Shen Chang-huan
1913 – 1998
Sherwood Lett
1895 – 1964
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
1919 – 2004
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
1673 – 1743
Theodor Reye
1838 – 1919
Thomas Harriot
1560 – 1621
Thuqan hindawi
1927 – 2005
Tibor Szilágyi
1942 – 2026
Vasily Stepanovich Popov
1894 – 1967
Viktor Chebrikov
1923 – 1999
Vladimir Kastorsky
1870 – 1948
Vladimir Nabokov
1899 – 1977
Václav Černý
1905 – 1987
Wilfrid Sellars
1912 – 1989
Wilhelm Koppe
1896 – 1975
Willem van Zwet
1934 – 2020
William Weir, 1st Viscount Weir
1877 – 1959
Yamanashi Hanzō
1864 – 1944
A. J. Beck
1914 – 2006
Afonso Furtado de Mendonça
1561 – 1630
Alain de Cadenet
1945 – 2022
Albert Ronsin
1928 – 2007
Albert Taylor Goodwyn
1842 – 1931
Alex Law
1952 – 2022
Alexander Rogers
1842 – 1933
Alfred Suenson-Taylor, 1st Baron Grantchester
1893 – 1976
Alice Mary Dowd
1855 – 1943
Alice Vibert Douglas
1894 – 1988
Alicia Patterson
1906 – 1963
Alick Stevens
1898 – 1987
Angelo Mangiarotti
1921 – 2012
Anna Howard Shaw
1847 – 1919
Anthony G. Bosco
1927 – 2013
Anthony Llewellyn
1933 – 2013
Antoinette Garnes
1887 – 1938
Anton Chekhov
1860 – 1904
Antonin Besse
1877 – 1951
Antonio de Nebrija
1444 – 1522
Arlan Stangeland
1930 – 2013
Arthur Cowell-Stepney
1834 – 1909
Arthur Plugge
1877 – 1934
Asim Zeneli
1916 – 1943
B. J. Monkiewicz
1898 – 1971
Balázs Horváth
1942 – 2006
Bartholomaeus Pitiscus
1561 – 1613
Bengt Hallberg
1932 – 2013
Benny Benson
1913 – 1972
Bernardino Realino
1530 – 1616
Betty Grable
1916 – 1973
Bill Ramsey
1931 – 2021
Bob Smalhout
1927 – 2015
Bodo Uhse
1904 – 1963
Borislav Pekić
1930 – 1992
Caroline Yale
1848 – 1933
Cesare Forni
1890 – 1943
Charles F. Brannan
1903 – 1992
Charles Oakes
1861 – 1928
Charlie Sanders
1946 – 2015
Charlotte Burgis DeForest
1879 – 1973
Chiu Chuang-huan
1925 – 2020
Chris Arlman
1944 – 2008
Cyrus Avery
1871 – 1963
Dafydd Stephens
1942 – 2012
David Purley
1945 – 1985
Dvora Omer
1932 – 2013
Earle Brown
1926 – 2002
Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg
1614 – 1674
Edward Ernest Green
1861 – 1949
Elias Sunde
1851 – 1910
Elmer Brandon
1906 – 1956
Emilio Álvarez Montalván
1919 – 2014
Ernest Eugène Altès
1830 – 1899
Ernest Hemingway
1899 – 1961
Fireball Roberts
1929 – 1964
Francisco Armero Peñaranda
1804 – 1866
Francisco Huerta Montalvo
1940 – 2022
François-Marie de Broglie, 1st Count of Broglie
1611 – 1656
Frederick James Furnivall
1825 – 1910
Frederick Mackenzie
1841 – 1889
G. Ram Reddy
1929 – 1995
Geoffrey Cather
1890 – 1916
Georg August Forstén
1857 – 1910
George B. Patton
1898 – 1987
George Bell Swift
1845 – 1912
George Henson Estes
1873 – 1969
George Lang
1821 – 1881
George S. Wise
1906 – 1987
George Sherman Batcheller
1837 – 1908
George Valentin Bibescu
1880 – 1941
Georgi Dimitrov
1882 – 1949
Glencairn Balfour Paul
1917 – 2008
Hans Jendretzky
1897 – 1992
Harold W. Kuhn
1925 – 2014
Helen Steinbinder
1923 – 2015
Helen Stuart Campbell
1839 – 1918
Henno Käo
1942 – 2004
Henri Antoine Jules-Bois
1868 – 1943
Henry Cadogan, Viscount Chelsea
1868 – 1908
Henry Haydn Jones
1863 – 1950
Horatio Wright
1820 – 1899
Howell M. Estes II
1914 – 2007
Hoàng Văn Thái
1915 – 1986
Hugh Lee
1955 – 2013
Ingvar Berg
1905 – 1993
Ion Ciocanu
1940 – 2021
Ivan Allen, Jr.
1911 – 2003
Ivo Whitton
1893 – 1967
Jack Collom
1931 – 2017
Jacob A. Cantor
1854 – 1921
Jacobo Zabludovsky
1928 – 2015
James M. Safford
1822 – 1907
James MacKay
1919 – 2004
James Stewart
1908 – 1997
James W. Robison
1831 – 1909
Jan Brzechwa
1898 – 1966
Jan Murray
1916 – 2006
Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni
1931 – 2018
Jean Painlevé
1902 – 1989
Jeffrey Plale
1968 – 2022
Jessie Street
1889 – 1970
Jimmy Ball
1903 – 1988
Jimmy Walker
1944 – 2007
Joe Graboski
1930 – 1998
Johannes Christian Piene
1832 – 1912
John Benjamin Stone
1838 – 1914
John Evans
1814 – 1897
John Fenwick
1610 – 1644
John James Burnet
1857 – 1938
John Kneller
1916 – 2009
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