The #1 song on August 2, 1947

Peg o' My Heart By The Harmonicats

Other #1 songs on August 2, 1947

#1 R&B Song

Jack You’re Dead
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five

#1 Country Song

Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)
Tex Williams 's Western Caravan

Notable August 2 birthdays in the 1940s

James Fallows

Born August 02, 1949
Dennis Prager

Born August 02, 1948
James Howe

Born August 02, 1946
Joanna Cassidy

Born August 02, 1945
Herbert M. Allison

Born August 02, 1943
Isabel Allende

Born August 02, 1942
Doris Coley

Born August 02, 1941