About the day » Tuesday August 2, 1994Calender converter

• Anthony Joseph Watt, U.S. NAVY MEDICAL CENTER, SAN DIEGO, CA, United States († 1994)
• Anouk Engelina Maria Olde Olthof, Almelo († 1996)
• "Anne" Geneviève Marie Dupont de Ligonnès, Draguignan, Var, France († 2011)
• Maudje Spapens, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1995)

• Antje Hofstee (93), Heerenveen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Gaal (79), Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Benjamin Hafkenscheid (70), Los Angeles, Californië, Verenigde Staten
• Berend Ensing (81), Vries
• Brant (Ben) Venlet (76), Morley,Mecosta,Michigan
• Antonius Wilhelmus Marinus Jerphanion (89), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Augusta DE CAUWSEMAEKER (88), Sint-Niklaas
• Albert B Cordes (91), Parkersburg, Butler County, Iowa
• Antje Hofstee (93), Gorredijk
• Bertus Kraaijveld (85), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1986 » Mathieu Razanakolona, Canadian skier
• 1988 » Rob Kwiet, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Nacer Chadli, Belgian footballer
• 1990 » Ima Bohush, Belarusian tennis player
• 1994 » Laremy Tunsil, American football player
• 1994 » Laura Pigossi, Brazilian tennis player
• 1995 » Kristaps Porziņģis, Latvian basketball player
• 1996 » Keston Hiura, American baseball player
• 1996 » Simone Manuel, American swimmer
• 1999 » Mark Lee, Korean-Canadian singer

• 1990 » Edwin Richfield, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 1990 » Norman Maclean, American short story writer and essayist (b. 1902)
• 1992 » Michel Berger, French singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
• 1996 » Michel Debré, French lawyer and politician, 150th Prime Minister of France (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian general and politician, 5th President of Somalia (b. 1934)
• 1996 » Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1917)
• 1997 » Fela Kuti, Nigerian singer-songwriter and activist (b. 1938)
• 1997 » William S. Burroughs, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1914)
• 1998 » Shari Lewis, American television host and puppeteer (b. 1933)
• 1999 » Willie Morris, American writer (b. 1934)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
• January 8 » Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
• April 6 » The Rwandan genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
• April 15 » Marrakesh Agreement relating to foundation of World Trade Organization is adopted.
• May 18 » Israeli troops finish withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, ceding the area to the Palestinian National Authority to govern.
• November 20 » The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.)
• December 24 » Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked on the ground at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers, Algeria. Over the course of three days three passengers are killed, as are all four terrorists.

The temperature on August 2, 1994 was between 12.6 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 20.0 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.