| 87181 | August 2 | Birth | 1828 – Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general (d. 1895) |
| 87182 | August 2 | Birth | 1834 – Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (d. 1904) |
| 87183 | August 2 | Birth | 1835 – Elisha Gray, American businessman, co-founded Western Electric (d. 1901) |
| 87184 | August 2 | Birth | 1858 – Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont (d. 1934) |
| 87185 | August 2 | Birth | 1861 – Prafulla Chandra Ray, Bangladeshi chemist and academic (d. 1944) |
| 87186 | August 2 | Birth | 1865 – Irving Babbitt, American academic and critic (d. 1933) |
| 87187 | August 2 | Birth | 1865 – John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (d. 1955) |
| 87188 | August 2 | Birth | 1867 – Ernest Dowson, English author and poet (d. 1900) |
| 87189 | August 2 | Birth | 1868 – Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923) |
| 87190 | August 2 | Birth | 1871 – John French Sloan, American painter and illustrator (d. 1951) |
| 87191 | August 2 | Birth | 1872 – George E. Stewart, Australian-American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1946) |
| 87192 | August 2 | Birth | 1875 – Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1957) |
| 87193 | August 2 | Birth | 1876 – Ravishankar Shukla, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh (d. 1956) |
| 87194 | August 2 | Birth | 1876 – Pingali Venkayya, Indian geologist, designed the Flag of India (d. 1963) |
| 87195 | August 2 | Birth | 1878 – Aino Kallas, Finnish-Estonian author (d. 1956) |
| 87196 | August 2 | Birth | 1880 – Arthur Dove, American painter and educator (d. 1946) |
| 87197 | August 2 | Birth | 1882 – Red Ames, American baseball player and manager (d. 1936) |
| 87198 | August 2 | Birth | 1882 – Albert Bloch, American painter and academic (d. 1961) |
| 87199 | August 2 | Birth | 1884 – Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan author and politician, 46th President of Venezuela (d. 1969) |
| 87200 | August 2 | Birth | 1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian pilot and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1961) |
| 87201 | August 2 | Birth | 1887 – Oskar Anderson, Bulgarian-German mathematician and statistician (d. 1960) |
| 87202 | August 2 | Birth | 1887 – Tommy Ward, Indian-South African cricketer (d. 1936) |
| 87203 | August 2 | Birth | 1890 – Marin Sais, American actress (d. 1971) |
| 87204 | August 2 | Birth | 1891 – Arthur Bliss, English composer and conductor (d. 1975) |
| 87205 | August 2 | Birth | 1891 – Viktor Zhirmunsky, Russian linguist and historian (d. 1971) |
| 87206 | August 2 | Birth | 1892 – Jack L. Warner, Canadian-born American production manager and producer, co-founded Warner Bros. (d. 1978) |
| 87207 | August 2 | Birth | 1895 – Matt Henderson, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1970) |
| 87208 | August 2 | Birth | 1897 – Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer (d. 1945) |
| 87209 | August 2 | Birth | 1897 – Max Weber, Swiss lawyer and politician (d. 1974) |
| 87210 | August 2 | Birth | 1898 – Ernő Nagy, Hungarian fencer (d. 1977) |