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August 2, 2016

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Historical Context for August 2, 2016

In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]

Notable Deaths

Terence Bayler

2016Terence Bayler, New Zealand actor (born 1930)[†]

Terence Bayler was a New Zealand film, television, and stage actor. His most memorable roles were in Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001).

David Huddleston

2016David Huddleston, American actor (born 1930)[†]

David William Huddleston was an American actor. An Emmy Award nominee, Huddleston had a prolific television career, and appeared in many films, including Rio Lobo, Blazing Saddles, Crime Busters, Santa Claus: The Movie, and The Big Lebowski.

Franciszek Macharski

2016Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal (born 1927)[†]

Franciszek Macharski was a Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was appointed Archbishop of KrakĂłw from 1978, named by Pope John Paul II to succeed him in that role. Macharski was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979, and resigned as archbishop in 2005.

Ahmed Zewail

2016Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1946)[†]

Ahmed Hassan Zewail was an Egyptian-American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry and became the first Egyptian and Arab to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field, and also the first African to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was a professor of chemistry and physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he was the first Caltech faculty member to be named the Linus Pauling Chair of Chemical Physics and served as the director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology.

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