02 August: today's birthdays

• Isabel Allende - Chilean writer. She wrote The House of the Spirits, Eva Luna, Of love and Shadows and Paula
• James Baldwin - American writer, poet, and playwright. He wrote Go Tell It on the Mountain and Giovanni's Room
• Frédéric Bartholdi - French sculptor. He is best known for designing the Statue of Liberty in New York
• Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard - French photographer
• Zoltán Egressy - Hungarian poet and playwright
• Jules Hoffmann - Luxembourgish-born French biologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2011
• Francis Scott Key - American lawyer, writer and poet
• Peter O'Toole - Irish actor. He won an Honorary Oscar in 2003. He starred in Lawrence of Arabia
• Shimon Peres - Polish-born Israeli politician, born Szymon Perski. He won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat. He was the 9th President of Israel
• John Tyndall - Irish physicist
• Jorge Rafael Videla - Argentine politician and former military
• Herman Witkin - American psychologist