| 87211 | August 2 | Birth | 1899 – Charles Bennett, English director and screenwriter (d. 1995) |
| 87212 | August 2 | Birth | 1900 – Holling C. Holling, American author and illustrator (d. 1973) |
| 87213 | August 2 | Birth | 1900 – Helen Morgan, American actress and singer (d. 1941) |
| 87214 | August 2 | Birth | 1902 – Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (d. 1971) |
| 87215 | August 2 | Birth | 1905 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (d. 1963) |
| 87216 | August 2 | Birth | 1905 – Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993) |
| 87217 | August 2 | Birth | 1907 – Mary Hamman, American journalist and author (d. 1984) |
| 87218 | August 2 | Birth | 1910 – Roger MacDougall, Scottish director, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1993) |
| 87219 | August 2 | Birth | 1911 – Ann Dvorak, American actress (d. 1979) |
| 87220 | August 2 | Birth | 1912 – Palle Huld, Danish actor (d. 2010) |
| 87221 | August 2 | Birth | 1912 – Håkon Stenstadvold, Norwegian painter, illustrator, and critic (d. 1977) |
| 87222 | August 2 | Birth | 1912 – Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian economist and author (d. 2001) |
| 87223 | August 2 | Birth | 1913 – Xavier Thaninayagam, Sri Lankan scholar and academic (d. 1980) |
| 87224 | August 2 | Birth | 1914 – Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (d. 1988) |
| 87225 | August 2 | Birth | 1914 – Big Walter Price, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2012) |
| 87226 | August 2 | Birth | 1914 – Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001) |
| 87227 | August 2 | Birth | 1915 – Gary Merrill, American actor and singer (d. 1990) |
| 87228 | August 2 | Birth | 1916 – Alfonso A. Ossorio, Filipino-American painter and sculptor (d. 1990) |
| 87229 | August 2 | Birth | 1919 – Nehemiah Persoff, Israeli-American actor and singer |
| 87230 | August 2 | Birth | 1920 – Louis Pauwels, French journalist and author (d. 1997) |
| 87231 | August 2 | Birth | 1920 – Augustus Rowe, Canadian physician and politician (d. 2013) |
| 87232 | August 2 | Birth | 1921 – Alan Whicker, Egyptian-English journalist (d. 2013) |
| 87233 | August 2 | Birth | 1922 – Gábor Agárdy, Hungarian actor (d. 2006) |
| 87234 | August 2 | Birth | 1922 – Betsy Bloomingdale, American philanthropist and socialite |
| 87235 | August 2 | Birth | 1922 – Geoffrey Dutton, Australian historian and author (d. 1998) |
| 87236 | August 2 | Birth | 1923 – Shimon Peres, Polish-Israeli lawyer and politician, 9th President of Israel |
| 87237 | August 2 | Birth | 1924 – James Baldwin, American author, poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1987) |
| 87238 | August 2 | Birth | 1924 – Joe Harnell, American pianist and composer (d. 2005) |
| 87239 | August 2 | Birth | 1924 – Carroll O'Connor, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001) |
| 87240 | August 2 | Birth | 1925 – K. Arulanandan, Ceylon-American engineer and academic (d. 2004) |