0 Holidays August 2

Christian feast day: Ceferino Giménez Malla

Name: Christian feast day: Ceferino Giménez Malla
Start: 2000-08-02
End: 2000-08-02
Location: Histories Today Editorial Team

On August 2, in the year 0, Christian feast day: Ceferino Giménez Malla. This event is recorded as a Holidays event in the history of August 2, one of 452 recorded events on this date across all of history.

Ceferino Giménez Malla was a Spanish Romani Catholic catechist and activist. A victim of the Republican militias during the Spanish Civil War, Giménez Malla was beatified on 4 May 1997, now his feast day. He is the patron of Romani people.

Key Facts

This event took place on August 2, 0 (AD era).
It is categorised as a Holidays event in recorded history.
Referenced in 1 Wikipedia article.
Wikipedia source last updated on 18 March 2026.

On This Date in History 452

Type	Year	Date	Event
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Notable Deaths	2022	Aug 2	Vin Scully, American sportscaster and game show host (born 1927)
Notable Deaths	2020	Aug 2	Suzanne Perlman, Hungarian-Dutch visual artist (born 1922)
Notable Deaths	2017	Aug 2	Judith Jones, American literary and cookbook editor (born 1924)
Notable Deaths	2016	Aug 2	Terence Bayler, New Zealand actor (born 1930)
Notable Deaths	2016	Aug 2	David Huddleston, American actor (born 1930)
Notable Deaths	2016	Aug 2	Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal (born 1927)
Notable Deaths	2016	Aug 2	Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1946)
Notable Deaths	2015	Aug 2	Forrest Bird, American pilot and engineer (born 1921)
Notable Deaths	2015	Aug 2	Giovanni Conso, Italian jurist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (born 1922)
Notable Deaths	2015	Aug 2	Piet Fransen, Dutch footballer (born 1936)
Notable Deaths	2015	Aug 2	Jack Spring, American baseball player (born 1933)
Historical Events	2014	Aug 2	At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.
Notable Deaths	2014	Aug 2	Ed Joyce, American journalist (born 1932)
Notable Deaths	2014	Aug 2	Billie Letts, American author and educator (born 1938)
Notable Deaths	2014	Aug 2	Barbara Prammer, Austrian social worker and politician (born 1954)
Notable Deaths	2014	Aug 2	James Thompson, American-Finnish author (born 1964)
Notable Deaths	2013	Aug 2	Julius L. Chambers, American lawyer and activist (born 1936)
Notable Deaths	2013	Aug 2	Richard E. Dauch, American businessman, co-founded American Axle (born 1942)
Notable Deaths	2013	Aug 2	Alla Kushnir, Russian–Israeli chess player (born 1941)
Notable Deaths	2012	Aug 2	Gabriel Horn, English biologist and academic (born 1927)
Notable Deaths	2012	Aug 2	Magnus Isacsson, Canadian director and producer (born 1948)
Notable Deaths	2012	Aug 2	Jimmy Jones, American singer-songwriter (born 1930)
Notable Deaths	2012	Aug 2	John Keegan, English historian and journalist (born 1934)
Notable Deaths	2012	Aug 2	Bernd Meier, German footballer (born 1972)
Notable Deaths	2012	Aug 2	Marguerite Piazza, American soprano (born 1920)
Notable Deaths	2011	Aug 2	José Sanchis Grau, Spanish author and illustrator (born 1932)
Notable Deaths	2008	Aug 2	Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese illustrator (born 1935)
Selected Events	2008	Aug 2	A taxi driver is murdered in Bangkok by a teenager addicted to video games leading to the Thai government banning the…
Notable Deaths	2007	Aug 2	Chauncey Bailey, American journalist (born 1950)
Selected Events	2007	Aug 2	Raúl Iturriaga, a former deputy director of the Chilean secret police, was captured in Viña del Mar after having been…
Notable Births	2006	Aug 2	Héctor Fort, Spanish footballer
Historical Events	2005	Aug 2	Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to…
Notable Deaths	2005	Aug 2	Steven Vincent, American journalist and author (born 1955)
Notable Deaths	2004	Aug 2	Ferenc Berényi, Hungarian painter and academic (born 1929)
Notable Deaths	2004	Aug 2	François Craenhals, Belgian illustrator (born 1926)
Notable Deaths	2004	Aug 2	Heinrich Mark, Estonian lawyer and politician, 5th prime minister of Estonia in exile (born 1911)
Notable Deaths	2003	Aug 2	Peter Safar, Austrian-American physician and academic (born 1924)
Notable Births	2000	Aug 2	Varvara Gracheva, Russian tennis player
Notable Births	2000	Aug 2	Mohammed Kudus, Ghanaian footballer
Historical Events	1999	Aug 2	The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.
Notable Births	1999	Aug 2	Mark Lee, Korean-Canadian singer
Notable Deaths	1999	Aug 2	Willie Morris, American writer (born 1934)
Notable Deaths	1998	Aug 2	Shari Lewis, American television host and puppeteer (born 1933)
Notable Births	1997	Aug 2	Austin Theory, American wrestler
Notable Deaths	1997	Aug 2	William S. Burroughs, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1914)
Notable Deaths	1997	Aug 2	Harald Kihle, Norwegian painter and illustrator (born 1905)
Notable Deaths	1997	Aug 2	Fela Kuti, Nigerian singer-songwriter and activist (born 1938)
Notable Births	1996	Aug 2	Keston Hiura, American baseball player
Notable Births	1996	Aug 2	Simone Manuel, American swimmer