Bainbridge, Beryl (2010)
The author of An Awfully Big Adventure
Famous People Who Died on July 2
From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:
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Chekhov, Anton (1904)
Author of The Cherry Orchard -
Earhart, Amelia (1937)
The pioneering female pilot who disappeared in the South Pacific in 1937 -
Grable, Betty (1973)
Pinup queen of World War II -
Hemingway, Ernest (1961)
The famously manly author of For Whom the Bell Tolls -
Lehman, Ernest (2005)
The guy who wrote Hitchcock's North by Northwest -
Nabokov, Vladimir (1977)
Author of the novel Lolita -
Nostradamus (1566)
The 16th-century French physician who made creepy predictions -
Peel, Robert (1850)
British Prime Minister and "father of modern policing" -
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1778)
Author of The Social Contract -
Stewart, Jimmy (1997)
The lanky, aw-shucks star of It's A Wonderful Life -
Vesey, Denmark (1822)
The alleged leader of South Carolina's 1822 slave rebellion plot -
Wiesel, Elie (2016)
Author of the Holocaust classic Night