August 2nd Birthdays
If you were born on August 2nd you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
Isabel Allende (nee Isabel Angelica Allenda Llona)
Chilean award-winning writer, translator, journalist (El Nacional), children’s book author, best-selling novelist (The House of the Spirits; City of the Beasts; Island Beneath the Sea; Of Love and Shadows; Daughter of Fortune; Portrait in Sepia; The Japanese Lover), born August 2, 1942. (Isabel Allende 2008: Mutari)
Kathy Lennon (nee Kathleen Mary Lennon; )
American singer with The Lennon Sisters (Tonight, You Belong to Me; Sad Movies [Make Me Cry]; Scarlet Ribbons; Dominique; Greensleeves), TV performer (Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters; The Lawrence Welk Show), born August 2, 1943. Sister of Dianne, Janet, & Peggy Lennon. (Kathy Lennon 1966)
Joanna Cassidy (nee Joanna Virginia Caskey)
American actress of TV (Buffalo Bill; Six Feet Under; Body of Proof; Odd Mom Out; Diagnosis Murder; Boston Legal; Falcon Crest; L.A. Law; Melrose Place) and movies (Blade Runner; Club Paradise; Who Framed Roger Rabbit; Where the Heart Is), born August 2, 1944. (Joanna Cassidy 1973 The Laughing Policeman)
Kathryn Harrold (ex of Lawrence O’Donnell)
American actress of TV (Nola on The Doctors; Christina on I’ll Fly Away; Chicago Hope; Desperate Housewives; The Rockford Files) & movies (Nightwing; The Hunter; Modern Romance; The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper; Yes, Giorgio; Raw Deal; Heartbreakers), born August 2, 1950. (Kathryn Harrold 1981)
German screenwriter & actor of stage, TV, and movies (Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown; Luther; Christopher Columbus: The Bay Boy; Don Juan (Or if Don Juan Were a Woman); Appointment in Bray; The Discovery; Young Törless; Bluebeard), born August 2, 1950. (Mathieu Carrière 1986 Gates to Paradise)
Butch Patrick (nee Patrick Alan Lilley)
American actor of TV (Eddie Munster on The Munsters & Macabre Theatre; Lidsville; My Three Sons; The Real McCoys; Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color; I Dream of Jeannie; Gunsmoke) & films (Munster, Go Home!; The Phantom Tollbooth), born August 2, 1953. (Butch Patrick 1969 Daniel Boone)
American actress of TV (Tracy Calloway on Oh Baby; Hope Davidson on Hope & Gloria; Celia Bachelor on Men in Trees; Trisha McKay on Bob; Dead Like Me; Surviving Suburbia; According to Jim) & movies (Forget Paris; Agent Cody Banks films), born August 2, 1962. (Cynthia Stevenson Painting: A. Hamilton)
Mary-Louise Parker (ex-partner of Billy Crudup)
Emmy Award-winning American actress of TV (Nancy Botwin on Weeds; The West Wing; Angels in America; The Blacklist) and movies (Grand Canyon; Boys on the Side; Fried Green Tomatoes; RED 2; Longtime Companion; The Client), born August 2, 1964. (Mary-Louise Parker 2010 Photo: Rick Marshall)
Kevin Smith (married Jennifer Schwalbach Smith)
American comedian, writer, producer, director, host & actor of TV (The IMDB Studio at Sundance; Comic Book Men) and films (Clerks movies; Jay and Silent Bob films; Jersey Girl; Mallrats; Zack and Miri Make a Porno; Cop Out), born August 2, 1970. (Kevin Smith 2014 Photo: Neil Grabowsky / Montclair Film)
(Myrna Loy 1928: Duncan | Peter O’Toole 1976)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on August 2nd!
Remembering These August 2nd Famous Birthdays
K. M. Peyton (nee Kathleen Wendy Herald; married Mike Peyton)
Carnegie Medal-winning English children’s author (Flambards; The Edge of the Cloud; Flambards in Summer; Flambards Divided; Fly-by-Night; Pennington’s Seventeenth Summer; Prove Yourself a Hero; The Swallow Tale; Minna’s Quest; A Pattern of Roses), & novelist (The Right-Hand Man) (born Aug. 2, 1929 – died Dec. 19, 2023; age 94). (K. M. Peyton Painting: A. Hamilton)
Nehemiah Persoff
Palestinian-American actor of TV (High Hopes; Hawaii Five-O) & movies (Street of Sinners; Some Like It Hot; Green Mansions; Al Capone; The Comancheros; Men in War; A Global Affair; Fate is the Hunter; Yentl; Voyage of the Damned; The Big Show; The Wild Party; Never Steal Anything Small; This Angry Age) (born Aug. 2, 1919 – died Apr. 5, 2022; age 102). (Nehemiah Persoff 1968 Mafia)
Lisa Brown
American TV soap opera acting coach, director & actress of stage & TV (Nola Reardon Chamberlain on Guiding Light; Iva Snyder on As the World Turns; Loving; Gotham the Series; Misguiding Light; One Life to Live) (born Aug. 2, 1954 – died Nov. 24, 2021; age 67). Cause of death for Lisa Brown is unknown. (Lisa Brown 1987 As the World Turns Promo: CBS)
Carroll O’Connor (nee John Carroll O’Connor; father of Hugh O’Connor)
Emmy Award-winning American actor of TV (Archie Bunker on All in the Family & Archie Bunker’s Place; Chief Bill Gillespie on In the Heat of the Night; Party of Five; Mad About You) & movies (Lad: A Dog; Hawaii; Marlowe; Kelly’s Heroes; Gideon) (born Aug. 2, 1924 – died June 21, 2001; age 76). Carroll O’Connor died of a heart attack. (Carroll O’Connor 1978 Photo: CBS)
Emmy-winning Irish-English TV (The Tudors) & movie actor (Kidnapped; Becket; Lord Jim; How to Steal a Million; The Lion in Winter; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Murphy’s War; The Stunt Man; My Favorite Year; Man of La Mancha; Zulu Dawn: Lassie; The Day They Robbed the Bank of England) (born Aug. 2, 1932 – died Mar. 6, 2013; age 77). (Peter O’Toole 1962 Lawrence of Arabia Trailer)
French artist, painter & sculptor (Statue of Liberty; Lion of Belfort; Bartholdi Fountain; Gribeauval; Vercingetorix; Switzerland Succoring Strasbourg; Marquis de Lafayette; Francesca da Rimini), French National Guard squadron leader (Franco-Prussian War liaison to Giuseppe Garibaldi) (born Aug. 2, 1834 – died oct. 4, 1904; age 70). (Frederic Auguste Bartholdi c. 1863: F. Mulnier)
Myrna Loy (nee Myrna Adele Williams; ex-love of Spencer Tracy)
American film actress (The Thin Man; Vanity Fair; Libeled Lady; The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer; The Great Ziegfeld, Too Hot to Handle; The Best Years of Our Lives; Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House; The Red Pony; Transatlantic; Cheaper by the Dozen) (born Aug. 2, 1905 – died Dec. 14, 1993; age 88). Ex of Gene Markey, Arthur Hornblow Jr., Howland H. Sargeant. (Myrna Loy: MGM)
Gary Merrill (ex of Bette Davis)
American actor of TV (Justice; Young Dr. Kildare; The Reporter; Zane Grey Theater; Movin’ On) and movies (Twelve O’Clock High: All About Eve; Another Man’s Poison; Decision Before Dawn; Clambake; Thieves; A Girl Named Tamiko; The Great Impostor) (born Aug. 2, 1915 – died Mar. 5, 1990; age 74). Gary Merrill died of lung cancer. (Gary Merrill 1953 A Blueprint for Murder Trailer)
Wes Craven (nee Wesley Earl Craven)
American horror movie and TV series actor, screenwriter, producer & director (The Last House on the Left; The Hills Have Eyes films; A Nightmare on Elm Street movies; Freddy’s Nightmares; Scream; Red Eye; The People Under the Stairs; Deadly Blessing; Swamp Thing) (born Aug. 2, 1939 – died Aug. 30, 2015; age 76). Wes Craven died of brain cancer. (Wes Craven 2010: Bob Berkian0)
Jack L. Warner (nee Jacob Warne; brother of Harry, Albert & Sam Warner)
Canadian-American head of Warner Bros. Studios from 1923-1966 (Rin Tin Tin movies; The Jazz Singer; The Public Enemy; Yankee Doodle Dandy; Camelot; Casablanca; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; My Fair Lady; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; To Have and Have Not) (born Aug. 2, 1892 – died Sept. 9, 1978; age 86). Step-father of Joy Page. (Jack Warner 1955 Photo)
Marin Sais (nee Mae Smith; ex of Jack Hoxie)
American actress in westerns (The Pony Express Girl; Frances Ballon House Detective in The Secret Code; Twelfth Night; Barbara Brent in Tigers Unchained; His Birthright; Bonds of Honor; The Vanity Pool; Duchess in Cowboy and the Prizefighter & Red Ryder films; Ethel Porter in Stingaree movies; Deadwood Dick) (born Aug. 2, 1890 – died Dec. 31, 1971; age 81). (Maris Sais 1916: Witzel)
James Baldwin (“Jimmy” Baldwin)
American author (The Devil Finds Work; The Fire Next Time; Go Tell it on the Mountain; Giovanni’s Room; Another Country; If Beale Street Could Talk; Just Above My Head; Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone; Notes of a Native Son; Sonny’s Blues) (born Aug. 2, 1924 – died Dec. 1, 1987; age 63). James Baldwin died of stomach cancer. (James Baldwin 1969 Photo: Allen Warren)
Ann Dvorak (nee Anna McKim; daughter of Ann Lehr; ex of Leslie Fenton)
American classic & silent film actress (Scarface; Sky Devils; Three on a Match; The Crowd Roars; The Long Night; The Strange Love of Molly Louvain; Love is a Racket; The Way to Love; College Coach; Massacre; Midnight Alibi; Housewife; Racing Lady; Flame of Barbary Coast; Abilene Town) (born Aug. 2, 1911 – died Dec. 10, 1979; age 68). Ann Dvorak died of cancer. (Ann Dvorak 1935)
Doris Coley Kenner (aka Doris Coley Kenner-Jackson)
American musician and singer with Rock & Roll Hall of Fame female vocal group The Shirelles (Soldier Boy; Mama Said; Will You Love Me Tomorrow; Dedicated to the One I Love; Foolish Little Girl; Welcome Home, Baby) (born Aug. 2, 1941 – died Feb. 4, 2000; age 58). Doris Coley Kenner Jackson died of breast cancer. (Doris Coley 1962 The Shirelles Photo: Scepter Records)
André Gagnon
Juno Award-winning French-Canadian classical-pop music pianist, arranger & composer for opera (Nelligan), theatre, television and movies (The Pianist; Running; Phobia; The Hot Touch; Tell Me That You Love Me) (born Aug. 2, 1936 – died Dec. 3, 2020; age 84). André Gagnon had Lewy body disease before he died. (André Gagnon 2016 Photo: Asclepias)
Glenn Tryon (nee Glenn Monroe Kunkel; ex of Jane Frazee)
American producer, screenwriter, director & actor of silent & classic movies (Skinner Steps Out; George White’s Scandals; Hold That Ghost; Hellzapoppin; Nazty Nuisance; Bachelor Bait; The Daring Young Man; King of Jazz; Variety Girl; The Pride of the Legion; Tangled Destinies; Daybreak) (born Aug. 2, 1898 – died Apr. 18, 1970; age 71). Married Jane Frazee & Lillian Hall. (Glenn Tryon 1931)
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