Portal:Argentina/Anniversaries/August/August 2

  • 1842 Mariano Sánchez de Loria, statesman and bishop and a representative to the Congress of Tucumán dies.
  • 1925 Jorge Rafael Videla, soldier, and de facto President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981, is born in Mercedes.
  • 1981 Delfo Cabrera, Argentine athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1948 Summer Olympicsis dies in a car accident near Buenos Aires.
  • 1984 Quirino Cristiani, Argentine animation director and cartoonist is born in Santa Giuletta, Italy.
  • 2004 José Omar Pastoriza, football midfielder for Independiente dies in Buenos Aires.