Date·Lore

On This Day · The 214th day of the year

August 2

2075 years on from Julius Caesar, August 2 is a date with an anniversary worth pausing on. Most of the weight falls in the 20th century, where conflict is a recurring thread.

♌ZodiacLeo ◈BirthstonePeridot ❀Birth flowerGladiolus

Leo is the sign for August 2 — read more on the Leo page, or see August's birthstone & birth flower.

Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed September 6, 2026

What happened on August 2?

August 2 is the 214th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between -49 and 1989. Famous people born on August 2 include Bertalan Farkas, Stefan Effenberg and Susie O'Neill.

Released on August 2

Movies, games, albums & shows

2024

  • Game Closer the Distance
  • Game World of Goo 2
  • Game UBoat

2022

  • TV Jade Dynasty

2021

  • Game Grime

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. -49

    Julius Caesar

  2. 1790

    1790 United States census

  3. 1870

    Tower Subway

  4. 1914

    World War I

  5. 1916

    Austria-Hungary

  6. 1923

    Calvin Coolidge

  7. 1939

    Albert Einstein

  8. 1943

    World War II

  9. 1973

    Summerland disaster

  10. 1989

    Pakistan

Famous birthday twins

Born on August 2

Bertalan Farkas

b. 1949

Stefan Effenberg

b. 1968

Susie O'Neill

b. 1973

Victoria Jackson

b. 1959

Shimon Peres

b. 1923

Karl-Otto Koch

b. 1897

Leopold Gmelin

b. 1788

Frank Biela

b. 1964

Deaths

  • 1976Fritz Lang
  • 1934Paul von Hindenburg
  • 1923Warren G. Harding
  • 1922Alexander Graham Bell
  • 1876Wild Bill Hickok
  • 1445Oswald von Wolkenstein

Holidays & observances

  • —Christian feast day: Ahudemmeh (Syriac Orthodox Church).
  • —Christian feast day: Basil Fool for Christ (Russian Orthodox Church)
  • —Christian feast day: Justin Russolillo
  • —Christian feast day: Eusebius of Vercelli
  • —Christian feast day: Peter Faber
  • —Christian feast day: Peter Julian Eymard
  • —Christian feast day: Plegmund
  • —Christian feast day: Pope Stephen I

The factual record above — event titles, dates, names, and observances — is drawn from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

About the author

Roman Tailor compiles and reviews every date on DateLore. He's the writer and editor behind the site's editorial essays and the day-by-day almanac. Corrections and questions are welcome — read more about DateLore or get in touch.

Born on this day?

Make your birthday card.

Drop in your birth year and we'll work out your exact age, the day of the week you were born, your Chinese zodiac, your generation, and the countdown to your next candle.