August 6
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August 6 is the 218th day of the year (219th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 147 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1180 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)
- 1504 – Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1575)
- 1666 - Maria Sofia of Neuburg, German-born consort of Peter II of Portugal (d. 1699)
- 1697 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745)
- 1765 - Petros Mavromichalis, Greek independence leader (d. 1848)
- 1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (d. 1828)
- 1775 – Daniel O'Connell, Irish politician (d. 1847)
- 1809 – Alfred Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
- 1844 – James Henry Greathead, engineer (d. 1896)
- 1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
- 1861 – Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (d. 1948)
- 1866 – Matthew Henson, American Arctic explorer (d. 1955)
- 1868 – Paul Claudel, French poet (d. 1955)
- 1874 – Charles Fort, writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena (d. 1932)
- 1877 – Wallace H. White, Jr., United States Senator from Maine (d. 1952)
- 1880 – Hans Moser, actor (d. 1964)
- 1881 – Leo Carrillo, actor (d. 1961)
- 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist and physician (d. 1955)
- 1881 – Louella Parsons, gossip columnist (d. 1972)
- 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet (d. 1957)
- 1892 – Hoot Gibson, American cowboy actor (d. 1962)
- 1893 – Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976)
- 1900 – Cecil H. Green, Texas Instruments founder (d. 2003)
- 1902 – Dutch Schultz, bootlegger, gangster (d. 1935)
- 1904 – Jean Desses, French couturier (d. 1970)
- 1908 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (d. 1997)
- 1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress and comedienne (d. 1989)
- 1916 – Richard Hofstadter, historian (d. 1970)
- 1916 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese politician
- 1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (Night of the Hunter, Cape Fear 1961 version) (d. 1997)
- 1919 – Pauline Betz, American tennis player (d. 2011)
- 1922 – Sir Freddie Laker, American entrepreneur (d. 2006)
- 1928 – Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
- 1930 - Abbey Lincoln, American jazz singer (d. 2010)
- 1932 – Howard Hodgkin, painter and print-maker
- 1933 – Ulrich Biesinger, German footballer (d. 2011)
- 1934 – Chris Bonington, British climber
- 1937 – Charlie Haden, American musician
- 1937 - Barbara Windsor, British actress
- 1937 - Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian musician (d. 2000)
- 1940 - Louise Sorel, American actress
- 1943 – Jon Postel, creator of DNS
- 1946 – Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea (d. 2009), possibly born on September 1
- 1946 – Masaaki Sakai, Japanese comedian
- 1949 – Clarence Richard Silva, Roman Catholic bishop of Honolulu
- 1951 – Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
- 1957 – Jim McGreevey, governor of New Jersey
- 1959 – Joyce Sims, American singer-songwriter
- 1962 – Michelle Yeoh, Chinese-Malaysian actress
- 1965 - Juliane Koehler, German actress
- 1965 – David Robinson, American basketball player
- 1965 – Mark Speight, English television presenter (d. 2008)
- 1969 - Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003)
- 1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, film director, writer, producer, actor
- 1971 – Merrin Dungey, actress
- 1972 – Geri Halliwell, British singer
- 1976 – Melissa George, actress
- 1978 – Billy Klippert, singer
- 1980 - Roman Weidenfeller, German footballer
- 1982 - Romola Garai, British actress
- 1983 – Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
- 1984 – Vedad Ibisevic, footballer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1985 - Bafetimbi Gomis, French footballer
- 1990 – JonBenét Ramsey, young beauty queen and young victim of crime (d. 1996)
Deaths [change]
- 258 - Pope Sixtus II
- 523 - Pope Hormisdas (b. 450)
- 1221 - Saint Dominic, Spanish monk and founder of the Dominican Order (b. 1170)
- 1272 - King Stephen V of Hungary (b. 1239)
- 1458 - Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
- 1623 - Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare (b. 1555)
- 1660 – Diego Velazquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)
- 1694 - Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)
- 1753 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (b. 1711)
- 1828 - Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b. 1785)
- 1904 - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music writer and critic (b. 1825)
- 1914 – Ellen Louise Wilson, first wife of US President Woodrow Wilson (b. 1860)
- 1920 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator (b. 1890)
- 1931 - Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz cornetist and pianist (b. 1903)
- 1954 – Emilie Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets (b. 1934)
- 1969 - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher (b. 1903)
- 1973 – Fulgencio Batista, President of Cuba (b. 1901)
- 1978 – Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
- 1978 – Edward Durrell Stone, American architect (b. 1902)
- 1979 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist (b. 1911)
- 1983 - Kalus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944)
- 1985 – Forbes Burnham, leader of Guyana (b. 1923)
- 1991 – Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician (b. 1915)
- 1998 - Andre Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
- 2002 - Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
- 2005 – Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
- 2005 - Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban singer (b. 1927)
- 2007 - Heinz Barth, German SS officer (b. 1920)
- 2009 - Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer (b. 1909)
- 2009 - Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
- 2009 – John Hughes, American film director (b. 1950)
- 2010 - Fredrik Ericsson, Swedish mountaineer (b. 1975)
- 2010 - Catfish Collins, American musician (b. 1944)
- 2010 – Tony Judt, British historian (b. 1948)
- 2012 - Bernard Lovell, British physicist and radio astronomer (b. 1913)
- 2012 - Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist (b. 1918)
Events [change]
- 1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1825 – Bolivia gains independence from Peru.
- 1861 – British annexation of Lagos, Nigeria.
- 1862 – American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, the first execution by electric chair is performed, with murderer William Kemmler as the subject.
- 1914 - World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany.
- 1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair begins - The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
- 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
- 1926 – In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
- 1945 – World War II: An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright with another 60,000 died by the end of the year due to fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bomb.
- 1960 – Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
- 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into United States law.
- 1966 - Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Fall City, Nebraska, killing all 42 people.
- 1984 – Pop star Prince releases Purple Rain, the album which would launch him to superstardom.
- 1985 – In Hiroshima, tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.
- 1988 – "Police riot" in New York City's Tompkins Square Park
- 1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
- 1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.
- 1991 - Takako Doi becomes the first female speaker of the Japanese House of Representatives.
- 1993 - Heavy rains kill 72 people in the Aira and Kagoshima areas of Kyushu, Japan.
- 1993 – Louis Freeh is confirmed by the United States Senate to be the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- 1993 – The Fugitive opens in theaters, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.
- 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
- 1996 – Australian census conducted.
- 1997 – Microsoft buys $150 million worth of shares of financially troubled Apple Computer.
- 1997 – Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
- 2001 – President George W. Bush receives President's Daily Briefing entitled Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US.
- 2002 – Marquis de la Fayette is made Honorary Citizen of the United States.
- 2002 – Manaindra Agrawal et al. prove the long standing number theory conjecture in the article entitled "Primes in P".
- 2008 – In Mauritania, President Sidi Ould Sheikh Abdallahi is removed from office in a military coup, led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.
- 2011 - The 2011 England riots begin.
