August 6 Deaths |
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| August 6th, 2007 (August 06 2007) | Death | Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian rock guitarist (Bikini, Omen, Carpathia Project Tirana Rockers, solo) (born in 1969) | |
| August 6th, 2007 (August 06 2007) | Death | Heinz Barth, German convicted war criminal (SS) (born in 1920) | |
| August 6th, 2005 (August 06 2005) | Death | Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (born in 1927) | |
| August 6th, 2005 (August 06 2005) | Death | Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (born in 1928) | |
| August 6th, 2005 (August 06 2005) | Death | Robin Cook, British politician (born in 1946) | |
| August 6th, 2004 (August 06 2004) | Death | Rick James, American musician (born in 1948) | |
| August 6th, 2002 (August 06 2002) | Death | Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (born in 1930) | Edsger Dijkstra Quotes |
| August 6th, 2001 (August 06 2001) | Death | Jorge Amado de Faria, Brazilian writer (born in 1912) | |
| August 6th, 2001 (August 06 2001) | Death | Dorothy Tutin, English actress (born in 1930) | |
| August 6th, 2001 (August 06 2001) | Death | Wilhelm Mohnke, one of the original 120 members of the Nazi SS-Staff Guard (born in 1911) | Wilhelm Mohnke Quotes |
| August 6th, 1998 (August 06 1998) | Death | Andre Weil, French mathematician (born in 1906) | Andre Weil Quotes |
| August 6th, 1994 (August 06 1994) | Death | Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (born in 1928) | |
| August 6th, 1993 (August 06 1993) | Death | Tex Hughson, American baseball player (born in 1916) | |
| August 6th, 1991 (August 06 1991) | Death | Roland Michener, Canadian politician and governor general (born in 1900) | |
| August 6th, 1991 (August 06 1991) | Death | Shapour Bakhtiar, Former Iranian prime minister, assassinated in Paris (born in 1915) | |
| August 6th, 1991 (August 06 1991) | Death | Harry Reasoner, American television reporter (born in 1923) | |
| August 6th, 1990 (August 06 1990) | Death | Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist (born in 1912) | |
| August 6th, 1987 (August 06 1987) | Death | Ira Eaker, American Air Force leader (born in 1896) | |
| August 6th, 1986 (August 06 1986) | Death | Emilio Fernandez, Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director (born in 1904) | |
| August 6th, 1983 (August 06 1983) | Death | Klaus Nomi, German singer (born in 1944) | |
| August 6th, 1979 (August 06 1979) | Death | Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1911) | |
| August 6th, 1978 (August 06 1978) | Death | Pope Paul VI (born in 1897) | |
| August 6th, 1976 (August 06 1976) | Death | Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (born in 1903) | |
| August 6th, 1974 (August 06 1974) | Death | Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (born in 1925) | |
| August 6th, 1973 (August 06 1973) | Death | Memphis Minnie, American blues singer (born in 1897) | |
| August 6th, 1973 (August 06 1973) | Death | Fulgencio Batista, Cuban president and de facto leader (born in 1901) | |
| August 6th, 1969 (August 06 1969) | Death | Theodor Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (born in 1903) | Theodor Adorno Quotes |
| August 6th, 1966 (August 06 1966) | Death | Cordwainer Smith, American writer (born in 1913) | |
| August 6th, 1964 (August 06 1964) | Death | Sir Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (born in 1893) | |
| August 6th, 1959 (August 06 1959) | Death | Preston Sturges, American playwright, screenwriter, and director (born in 1898) | |
| August 6th, 1946 (August 06 1946) | Death | Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (born in 1903) | |
| August 6th, 1945 (August 06 1945) | Death | Richard Bong, American ace fighter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (born in 1920) | |
| August 6th, 1945 (August 06 1945) | Death | Hiram Johnson, American politician (born in 1866) | Hiram Johnson Quotes |
| August 6th, 1945 (August 06 1945) | Death | Prince Wu of Korea (born in 1912) | |
| August 6th, 1931 (August 06 1931) | Death | Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (born in 1903) | |
| August 6th, 1920 (August 06 1920) | Death | Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator, first flight in independent Poland (born in 1890) | |
| August 6th, 1914 (August 06 1914) | Death | Ellen Louise Wilson, first wife of President Woodrow Wilson (born in 1860) | |
| August 6th, 1904 (August 06 1904) | Death | Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (born in 1825) | |
| August 6th, 1893 (August 06 1893) | Death | Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (born in 1811) | |
| August 6th, 1884 (August 06 1884) | Death | Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (born in 1812) | |
| August 6th, 1881 (August 06 1881) | Death | James White, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (born in 1821) | |
| August 6th, 1866 (August 06 1866) | Death | John Mason Neale, English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (born in 1818) | |
| August 6th, 1850 (August 06 1850) | Death | Edward Walsh, Irish poet (born in 1805) | |
| August 6th, 1828 (August 06 1828) | Death | Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman | |
| August 6th, 1815 (August 06 1815) | Death | James A. Bayard (elder), United States Senator from Delaware (born in 1767) | |
| August 6th, 1794 (August 06 1794) | Death | Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (born in 1714) | |
| August 6th, 1759 (August 06 1759) | Death | Eugene Aram, English philologist (born in 1704) | Philo Quotes |
| August 6th, 1753 (August 06 1753) | Death | Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (born in 1711) | |
| August 6th, 1695 (August 06 1695) | Death | Francois de Harlay de Champvallon, French Catholic archbishop (born in 1625) | |
| August 6th, 1694 (August 06 1694) | Death | Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (born in 1612) | Philo Quotes |
| August 6th, 1679 (August 06 1679) | Death | John Snell, English royalist (born in 1629) | |
| August 6th, 1660 (August 06 1660) | Death | Diego Velazquez, Spanish painter (born in 1599) | |
| August 6th, 1657 (August 06 1657) | Death | Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Polish-Lithuanian noble | |
| August 6th, 1645 (August 06 1645) | Death | Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (born in 1575) | |
| August 6th, 1637 (August 06 1637) | Death | Ben Jonson, English writer (born in 1572) | Ben Jonson Quotes |
| August 6th, 1628 (August 06 1628) | Death | Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (born in 1573) | Junius Quotes |
| August 6th, 1623 (August 06 1623) | Death | Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare s wife) (born in 1556) | Anne Hathaway Quotes |
| August 6th, 1458 (August 06 1458) | Death | Pope Callixtus III (born in 1378) | |
| August 6th, 1414 (August 06 1414) | Death | King Ladislas of Naples (born in 1377) | |
| August 6th, 1272 (August 06 1272) | Death | King Stephen V of Hungary | Stephen King Quotes |
| August 6th, 1221 (August 06 1221) | Death | Saint Dominic, Spanish founder of the Dominicans (born in 1170) | |
| August 6th, 1195 (August 06 1195) | Death | Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (born in 1129) | |
| August 6th, 1162 (August 06 1162) | Death | Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona | |
| August 6th, 0523 (August 06 0523) | Death | Saint Pope Hormisdas | |
| August 6th, 0258 (August 06 0258) | Death | Saint Pope Sixtus II | |
