2 August
Aniversări:
1815 – Adolf Friedrich von Schack, poet, istoric german
1865 – Irving Babbitt, academician, critic literar american
1867 – Ernest Dowson, scriitor, poet englez
1878 – Aino Kallas, scriitor finlandez/estonian
1900 – Holling C. Holling, scriitor american
1907 – Mary Hamman, scriitor, jurnalist american
1912 – Vladimir Žerjavić, scriitor croat
1914 – Félix Leclerc, poet, actor canadian
1920 – Louis Pauwels, scriitor, jurnalist francez
1922 – Geoffrey Dutton, scriitor, istoric australian
1924 – James Baldwin, scriitor, poet, critic literar american
1929 – K. M. Peyton, scriitor englez
1931 – Karl Miller, critic literar, jurnalist englez
1939 – Benjamin Barber, scriitor american
1942 – Isabel Allende, scriitor, jurnalist chilian/american
1943 – Rose Tremain, scriitor, academician englez
1946 – James Howe,scriitor, jurnalist american
1950 – Jussi Adler-Olsen, scriitor danez
1953 – Anthony Seldon, scriitor, istoric englez
1955 – Caleb Carr, scriitor, istoric american