| 87151 | August 2 | Event | 1943 – Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka. |
| 87152 | August 2 | Event | 1943 – World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew. |
| 87153 | August 2 | Event | 1944 – ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia. |
| 87154 | August 2 | Event | 1944 – World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches. |
| 87155 | August 2 | Event | 1945 – World War II: End of the Potsdam Conference. |
| 87156 | August 2 | Event | 1947 – A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998. |
| 87157 | August 2 | Event | 1964 – Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident: North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U.S. destroyer USS Maddox. |
| 87158 | August 2 | Event | 1968 – An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261. |
| 87159 | August 2 | Event | 1973 – A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man. |
| 87160 | August 2 | Event | 1980 – A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200. |
| 87161 | August 2 | Event | 1985 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137. |
| 87162 | August 2 | Event | 1989 – Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972. |
| 87163 | August 2 | Event | 1989 – A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians. |
| 87164 | August 2 | Event | 1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War. |
| 87165 | August 2 | Event | 1998 – The Second Congo War begins. |
| 87166 | August 2 | Event | 2005 – Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities. |
| 87167 | August 2 | Event | 2014 – At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in an explosion at a factory near Shanghai. |
| 87168 | August 2 | Birth | 1455 – John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1499) |
| 87169 | August 2 | Birth | 1533 – Theodor Zwinger, Swiss physician and scholar (d. 1588) |
| 87170 | August 2 | Birth | 1612 – Saskia van Uylenburgh, Dutch model (d. 1642) |
| 87171 | August 2 | Birth | 1672 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist and scholar (d. 1733) |
| 87172 | August 2 | Birth | 1674 – Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1723) |
| 87173 | August 2 | Birth | 1696 – Mahmud I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1754) |
| 87174 | August 2 | Birth | 1702 – Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1769) |
| 87175 | August 2 | Birth | 1703 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1775) |
| 87176 | August 2 | Birth | 1740 – Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general (d. 1817) |
| 87177 | August 2 | Birth | 1754 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. (d. 1825) |
| 87178 | August 2 | Birth | 1788 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist and academic (d. 1853) |
| 87179 | August 2 | Birth | 1815 – Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German poet and historian (d. 1894) |
| 87180 | August 2 | Birth | 1820 – John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and mountaineer (d. 1893) |