Famous people died in 2 August

Baruj Benacerraf was a Venezuelan-born American immunologist who was one of the co-recipients of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Michel Jean-Pierre Debre was a French political leader who became the first Prime Minister of the French Fifth Republic

Wild Bill Hickok was an American frontiersman who helped bring order to the frontier West

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-American scientist and inventor, referred to as ‘Father of the Telephone’

William II (Rufus) was the King of England from 1087 to 1100 who ascended the throne upon the death of his father, William I the Conqueror.

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Thomas Gainsborough was an 18th century English painter famous for his versatility

Holden Roberto was an Angolan independence leader who founded the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA)

Sir James Douglas was a British Colonial Governor of Vancouver Island and British Columbia

Fela Kuti was a Nigerian musician and composer who pioneered the Afrobeat genre

Henry III of France was the last King of France of the House of Valois