August 2 is the 214th day of the year (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining.
- 1944 — Tony Costa is born.
- 1950 — Mark Douglas Burns is born.
- 1952 — Major Morris is born.
- 1957 — Johnny Johnson is born.
- 1958 — Curtis Don Brown is born.
- 1992 — Nathaniel White is apprehended.
- 1993 — Edgar Antonsen died.
- 1996 — Sergey Golovkin died.
- 1997 — Antonis Daglis died.
- 1999 — Gregorio Cárdenas Hernández died.
- 2019 — Yasunori Suzuki died.