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Events on Saturday 2 August 1924 2
1924 – 2001Carroll O'Connor (1924-2001)Died 21 June 2001, aged 76O'Connor played the bigoted working-class Archie Bunker in the sitcom All in the Family, one of the most watched and debated US television shows of the 1970s. He later starred in the drama In the Heat of the Night. He won four Emmy Awards.
1924 – 1987James Baldwin (1924-1987)Died 1 December 1987, aged 63Baldwin was an American novelist and essayist whose work, including Go Tell It on the Mountain and The Fire Next Time, explored race, sexuality and identity in twentieth-century America. He lived much of his later life in France. He died of stomach cancer in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.