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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd of July 0626 | EVENT | Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor of China, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Incident at Xuanwu Gate. |
| 2nd of July 0706 | EVENT | In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang inters the bodies of relatives in the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang outside Chang'an. |
| 2nd of July 0963 | EVENT | The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea. |
| 2nd of July 1298 | EVENT | The Battle of Gollheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg. |
| 2nd of July 1494 | EVENT | The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain. |
| 2nd of July 1555 | EVENT | The Ottoman Admiral Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola. |
| 2nd of July 1561 | EVENT | Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz. |
| 2nd of July 1582 | EVENT | Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide. |
| 2nd of July 1613 | EVENT | The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place. |
| 2nd of July 1644 | EVENT | English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor. |
| 2nd of July 1679 | EVENT | Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth. |
| 2nd of July 1698 | EVENT | Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine. |
| 2nd of July 1776 | EVENT | The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4. |
| 2nd of July 1777 | EVENT | Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery. |
| 2nd of July 1823 | EVENT | Bahia Independence Day: the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia. |
| 2nd of July 1839 | EVENT | Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinque take over the slave ship Amistad. |
| 2nd of July 1853 | EVENT | The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia--providing the spark that set off the Crimean War. |
| 2nd of July 1871 | EVENT | Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States. |
| 2nd of July 1881 | EVENT | Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19. |
| 2nd of July 1890 | EVENT | The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. |
| 2nd of July 1897 | EVENT | Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London. |
| 2nd of July 1900 | EVENT | The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany. |
| 2nd of July 1917 | EVENT | The East St. Louis Riots end. |
| 2nd of July 1934 | EVENT | The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Rohm. |
| 2nd of July 1937 | EVENT | Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight. |
| 2nd of July 1940 | EVENT | Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta. |
| 2nd of July 1950 | EVENT | The Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan burns down. |
| 2nd of July 1962 | EVENT | The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas. |
| 2nd of July 1964 | EVENT | U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places. |
| 2nd of July 1966 | EVENT | The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldebaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific. |
| 2nd of July 1976 | EVENT | Fall of the Republic of Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam declares their union to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. |
| 2nd of July 1993 | EVENT | 37 participants in an Alevi cultural and literary festival are killed when a mob of demonstrators set fire to their hotel in Sivas during a violent protest. |
| 2nd of July 2000 | EVENT | Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of Mexico from an opposition party, the Partido Accion Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional. |
| 2nd of July 2001 | EVENT | The AbioCor self contained artificial heart is first implanted. |
| 2nd of July 2002 | EVENT | Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon. |
| 2nd of July 2003 | EVENT | Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy, insults German MP Martin Schulz by calling him a "kapo" during a session of the European Parliament. |
| 2nd of July 2004 | EVENT | ASEAN Regional Forum accepts Pakistan as its 24th member. |
| 2nd of July 2008 | EVENT | Ingrid Betancourt, and 14 other hostages held by FARC guerrillas, are rescued by the Colombian armed forces. |
| 2nd of July 2010 | EVENT | The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people. |
| 2nd of July 0419 | BIRTHDAY | Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (d. 455) |
| 2nd of July 1262 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312) |
| 2nd of July 1363 | BIRTHDAY | Mary, Queen of Sicily and Duchess of Athens (d. 1401) |
| 2nd of July 1489 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1556) |
| 2nd of July 1492 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Tudor, English princess (d. 1495) |
| 2nd of July 1647 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English privy councilor (d. 1730) |
| 2nd of July 1665 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (d. 1726) |
| 2nd of July 1667 | BIRTHDAY | Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (d. 1740) |
| 2nd of July 1698 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena (d. 1780) |
| 2nd of July 1714 | BIRTHDAY | Christoph Willibald von Gluck, German composer (d. 1787) |
| 2nd of July 1724 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (d. 1803) |
| 2nd of July 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (d. 1900) |
| 2nd of July 1820 | BIRTHDAY | George Law Curry, American newspaper publisher and 5th and 7th Governor of the Oregon Territory (d. 1878) |
| 2nd of July 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Tupper, 6th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1915) |
| 2nd of July 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Czech-born Queen consort of Bavaria (d. 1919) |
| 2nd of July 1862 | BIRTHDAY | William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942) |
| 2nd of July 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Lily Braun, German writer (d. 1916) |
| 2nd of July 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1933) |
| 2nd of July 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1962) |
| 2nd of July 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Royal H. Weller, American politician (d. 1929) |
| 2nd of July 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931) |
| 2nd of July 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Hancock, Welsh garden designer (Rockefeller Center) (d. 1950) |
| 2nd of July 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Lydia Mei, Estonian painter (d. 1965) |
| 2nd of July 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Tyrone Guthrie, English actor (d. 1971) |
| 2nd of July 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Alec Douglas-Home, 66th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995) |
| 2nd of July 1903 | BIRTHDAY | King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991) |
| 2nd of July 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman (d. 1996) |
| 2nd of July 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Bethe, German-born nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005) |
| 2nd of July 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Christos Tsaganeas, Greek actor (d. 1982) |
| 2nd of July 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Thurgood Marshall, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1993) |
| 2nd of July 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990) |
| 2nd of July 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Fennell, American conductor (d. 2004) |
| 2nd of July 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, Italy-born British peer |
| 2nd of July 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (d. 1991) |
| 2nd of July 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German combat pilot, the highest-decorated German soldier of WWII (d. 1982) |
| 2nd of July 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Murry Wilson, American songwriter and record producer (The Beach Boys) (d. 1973) |
| 2nd of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (d. 2005) |
| 2nd of July 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Craighead George, American writer |
| 2nd of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Wis?awa Szymborska, Polish poet, Nobel laureate |
| 2nd of July 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (d. 1963) |
| 2nd of July 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Patrice Lumumba, 1st democratically elected Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1961) |
| 2nd of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Octavian Paler, Romanian writer and journalist (d. 2007) |
| 2nd of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Brock Peters, American actor (d. 2005) |
| 2nd of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | John A. Cade, American politician |
| 2nd of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Imelda Marcos, Filipino First Lady, wife of Ferdinand Marcos |
| 2nd of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Menem, Argentine politician, 50th President of Argentina |
| 2nd of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (Wendy's) (d. 2002) |
| 2nd of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Wharram, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 2nd of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Springfield, British singer and songwriter (The Springfields) |
| 2nd of July 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Polly Holliday, American actress |
| 2nd of July 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Petty, American race car driver |
| 2nd of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | John H. Sununu, White House Chief of Staff under George HW Bush |
| 2nd of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet |
| 2nd of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1973) |
| 2nd of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Clarke, British politician |
| 2nd of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Stephane Venne, French-Canadian songwriter |
| 2nd of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Vicente Fox, Mexican politician, 35th President of Mexico |
| 2nd of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Godefroot, Belgian cyclist |
| 2nd of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Axel, American neuroscientist, Nobel laureate |
| 2nd of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Silver, American actor (d. 2009) |
| 2nd of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Larry David, American television producer |
| 2nd of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Saul Rubinek, Canadian actor |
| 2nd of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Gene McFadden, American songwriter (d. 2006) |
| 2nd of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Brown, American folk singer |
| 2nd of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Bittan, American keyboardist (E Street Band) |
| 2nd of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Hanno Poschl, Austrian actor |
| 2nd of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Paquette, French-Canadian singer and songwriter |
| 2nd of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth Brooks, Canadian actress (d. 1997) |
| 2nd of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Michele Santoro, Italian TV journalist |
| 2nd of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Colla, American guitarist and saxophonist (Huey Lewis and the News) |
| 2nd of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Armas, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 2nd of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Hart, American multi-instrumentalist (Crowded House, Supertramp) |
| 2nd of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Briquette, Irish bassist (The Boomtown Rats) |
| 2nd of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Divoff, Venezuelan actor |
| 2nd of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Michael Grace, Canadian journalist |
| 2nd of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Hall, American actress |
| 2nd of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Bret "The Hitman" Hart, Canadian pro wrestler |
| 2nd of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Bickerton, American Methodist bishop |
| 2nd of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Hallett, English snooker player |
| 2nd of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Rossio, American screenwriter |
| 2nd of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Lindsay, American voice actor |
| 2nd of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Samy Naceri, French actor |
| 2nd of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Kermode, British film critic |
| 2nd of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Canseco, Cuban-born American baseball player |
| 2nd of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ozzie Canseco, Cuban-born American baseball player |
| 2nd of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Magrane, American baseball player |
| 2nd of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Hisakatsu Oya, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 2nd of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Tait, Scotland rugby player |
| 2nd of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Robinson, American wrestling referee |
| 2nd of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Yates, American murderer |
| 2nd of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Kathryn Erbe, American actress |
| 2nd of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Cox, American convicted felon |
| 2nd of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Rodber, England rugby player |
| 2nd of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Yancy Butler, American actress |
| 2nd of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Edwin, Australian bassist (Porcupine Tree) |
| 2nd of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Monie Love, English rapper |
| 2nd of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Morrow, Irish footballer |
| 2nd of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Scotty 2 Hotty, American professional wrestler |
| 2nd of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Evelyn Lau, Canadian poet and novelist |
| 2nd of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Redpath, Scottish rugby player |
| 2nd of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Troy Brown, American football player |
| 2nd of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Shan, Irish children's author |
| 2nd of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Kay, British comedian |
| 2nd of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Rocky Gray, American drummer and guitarist (Evanescence, Living Sacrifice) |
| 2nd of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Casey, American baseball player |
| 2nd of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Christensen, Danish singer and multi-instrumentalist (Dizzy Mizz Lizzy) |
| 2nd of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Reilly, Australian author |
| 2nd of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Moon So-ri, South Korean actress |
| 2nd of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Daze, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 2nd of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Ohlsson, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin) |
| 2nd of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Terblanche, South African rugby player |
| 2nd of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Krisztian Lisztes, Hungarian footballer |
| 2nd of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tomas Vokoun, Czech ice hockey player |
| 2nd of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Night, American pornographic actress |
| 2nd of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Juri Ratas, Estonian politician |
| 2nd of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Diana Gurtskaya, Georgian singer |
| 2nd of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Hornish, Jr., American race car driver |
| 2nd of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Thornton, Canadian hockey player |
| 2nd of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole Briscoe, American beauty queen and sports commentator |
| 2nd of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Nyjer Morgan, American baseball player |
| 2nd of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Ellington, English soccer player |
| 2nd of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Koroknay-Palicz, American youth rights activist |
| 2nd of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Rogers, American football player |
| 2nd of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Voros, Canadian hockey player |
| 2nd of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Angel Pagan, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 2nd of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Branch, American singer (The Wreckers) |
| 2nd of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Sammy J, Australian comedian |
| 2nd of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Vanessa Lee Chester, American actress |
| 2nd of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Kortegaard, Danish footballer |
| 2nd of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Weir, American figure skater |
| 2nd of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Rhett Bomar, American football player |
| 2nd of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Corey Bringas, American actor |
| 2nd of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Chad Henne, American football player |
| 2nd of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer |
| 2nd of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jurgen Roelandts, Belgian cyclist |
| 2nd of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Iain Grigor, Scottish Athlete |
| 2nd of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Cecil, American baseball player |
| 2nd of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Lindsay Lohan, American actress |
| 2nd of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakh model (d. 2008) |
| 2nd of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Chung-Yong, South Korean footballer |
| 2nd of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Dev, American singer and recording artist |
| 2nd of July 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Madison Chock, American ice dancer |
| 2nd of July 0862 | DEATH | Swithun, Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester (Born 789) |
| 2nd of July 1298 | DEATH | King Adolf of Germany (Born 1220) |
| 2nd of July 1504 | DEATH | Prince Stephen III of Moldavia ("Stefan cel Mare") (Born 1434) |
| 2nd of July 1566 | DEATH | Nostradamus, French astrologer (Born 1503) |
| 2nd of July 1582 | DEATH | Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai (Born 1528) |
| 2nd of July 1591 | DEATH | Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (Born 1520) |
| 2nd of July 1621 | DEATH | Thomas Harriot, English astronomer |
| 2nd of July 1656 | DEATH | Francois-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (Born 1611) |
| 2nd of July 1674 | DEATH | Eberhard III, Duke of Wurttemberg (Born 1614) |
| 2nd of July 1743 | DEATH | Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, 2nd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1673) |
| 2nd of July 1746 | DEATH | Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (Born 1656) |
| 2nd of July 1778 | DEATH | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (Born 1712) |
| 2nd of July 1778 | DEATH | Bathsheba Spooner, American murderer (Born 1746) |
| 2nd of July 1822 | DEATH | Denmark Vesey, St. Thomas-born American freed slave who planned a revolt, hanged (Born c. 1767) |
| 2nd of July 1833 | DEATH | Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine politician (Born 1757) |
| 2nd of July 1843 | DEATH | Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (Born 1755) |
| 2nd of July 1850 | DEATH | Robert Peel, British politician, 28th and 30th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1788) |
| 2nd of July 1857 | DEATH | Carlo Pisacane, Italian patriot (Born 1818) |
| 2nd of July 1903 | DEATH | Ed Delahanty, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Born 1867) |
| 2nd of July 1912 | DEATH | Tom Richardson, English cricketer (Born 1870) |
| 2nd of July 1914 | DEATH | Joseph Chamberlain, British politician and businessman, father of Neville Chamberlain (Born 1836) |
| 2nd of July 1915 | DEATH | Porfirio Diaz, Mexican general and politician, 19th, 21st and 23rd President of Mexico (Born 1830) |
| 2nd of July 1920 | DEATH | William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (Born 1846) |
| 2nd of July 1926 | DEATH | Emile Coue, French psychologist (Born 1857) |
| 2nd of July 1929 | DEATH | Gladys Brockwell, American actress (Born 1893) |
| 2nd of July 1932 | DEATH | King Manuel II of Portugal (Born 1889) |
| 2nd of July 1934 | DEATH | Ernst Rohm, German Nazi official (Born 1887) |
| 2nd of July 1955 | DEATH | Edward Lawson, Scottish soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (Born 1873) |
| 2nd of July 1961 | DEATH | Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1899) |
| 2nd of July 1964 | DEATH | Fireball Roberts, American race car driver (Born 1929) |
| 2nd of July 1966 | DEATH | Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (Born 1900) |
| 2nd of July 1969 | DEATH | Michael DiBiase, American pro wrestler (Born 1923) |
| 2nd of July 1972 | DEATH | Joseph Fielding Smith, American religious figure, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Born 1876) |
| 2nd of July 1973 | DEATH | Chick Hafey, American baseball player (Born 1903) |
| 2nd of July 1973 | DEATH | George McBride, American baseball player (Born 1880) |
| 2nd of July 1973 | DEATH | Betty Grable, American actress (Born 1916) |
| 2nd of July 1973 | DEATH | Ferdinand Schorner, German field marshal (Born 1892) |
| 2nd of July 1975 | DEATH | James Robertson Justice, British actor (Born 1907) |
| 2nd of July 1977 | DEATH | Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (Born 1899) |
| 2nd of July 1978 | DEATH | Aris Alexandrou, Greek novelist, poet and translator (Born 1922) |
| 2nd of July 1984 | DEATH | Paul Dozois, Quebec politician (Born 1908) |
| 2nd of July 1985 | DEATH | David Purley, British Formula 1 driver (Born 1945) |
| 2nd of July 1986 | DEATH | Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player (Born 1917) |
| 2nd of July 1989 | DEATH | Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician (Born 1909) |
| 2nd of July 1989 | DEATH | Franklin Schaffner, American film director (Born 1920) |
| 2nd of July 1990 | DEATH | Snooky Lanson, American singer (Born 1914) |
| 2nd of July 1991 | DEATH | Lee Remick, American actress (Born 1935) |
| 2nd of July 1992 | DEATH | Camaron de la Isla, Spanish flamenco singer (Born 1950) |
| 2nd of July 1993 | DEATH | Fred Gwynne, American actor (Born 1926) |
| 2nd of July 1994 | DEATH | Andres Escobar, Colombian footballer (Born 1967) |
| 2nd of July 1995 | DEATH | Krissy Taylor, American model (Born 1978) |
| 2nd of July 1997 | DEATH | James Stewart, American actor (Born 1908) |
| 2nd of July 1999 | DEATH | Mario Puzo, American writer (Born 1920) |
| 2nd of July 2000 | DEATH | Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (Born 1952) |
| 2nd of July 2002 | DEATH | Ray Brown, American jazz bassist (Born 1926) |
| 2nd of July 2004 | DEATH | John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (Born 1919) |
| 2nd of July 2004 | DEATH | Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese writer (Born 1919) |
| 2nd of July 2005 | DEATH | Norm Prescott, American animation producer (Born 1927) |
| 2nd of July 2005 | DEATH | Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (Born 1915) |
| 2nd of July 2006 | DEATH | Jan Murray, American comedian (Born 1916) |
| 2nd of July 2007 | DEATH | Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano (Born 1929) |
| 2nd of July 2008 | DEATH | Natasha Shneider, Russian keyboardist and bassist (Eleven) (Born 1956) |
| 2nd of July 2008 | DEATH | Elizabeth Spriggs, English actress (Born 1929) |
| 2nd of July 2010 | DEATH | Beryl Bainbridge, Author (Born 1932) |