August 6th
Holidays and Festivals
Independence Day (Jamaica)
Independence Day (Bolivia)
Toro Nagashi (Hiroshima, Japan) * (see below)
Hiroshima Rememberance Day
H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession Day (UAE)
Wiggle Your Toes Day
National Fresh Breath (Halitosis) Day
Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ
Feast of Saint Agapitus (died 258)
Feast of Saint Donatus, bishop of Arezzo, martyr (Paris)
Feast of Joachim (father of Mary (mother of Jesus), according to Catholic tradition)
Feast of Saints Justus and Pastor, martyrs in 304 at Complutum [France]
Feast of St. Xystus/Sixtus II, pope, martyr [common]
Feast of Saint Walburga, virgin [Bruges]
* Cowes Week Cowes, England - August - (6of8)
* Big Chill Eastnor Park, Herefordshire, UK August 5 - 8 (2of4) (2010)
* Lollapalooza August 6 – 8 (2010 Chicago) (1of3)
* Toro Nagashi (Hiroshima Japan) Floating lantern ceremony to honor those killed by the U.S. atomic bomb in Hiroshima. AKA Hiroshima Day (world)
Fête de la Gentiane Translation: Gentian Day (French Republican) The 19th day of the Month of Thermidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"May your troubles be less
and your blessings be more
and nothing but happiness
come through the door."
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
Old Jamaican
Appleton Reserve rum
lime juice
mint
simple syrup
Abbot's bitters
sparkling wine
Muddle mint. Shake first five ingredients and Strain into a Cocktail Glass. Top with Sparkling Wine and garnish with a Mint leaf.
- In Celebration of Independence Day in Jamaica (August 6th)
Wine of The Day
Barefoot NV Shiraz
Style - Shiraz
California
$10
Beer of The Day
Baltika N°8 Wheat
Brewer - Baltika Breweries St. Petersburg, Russia
Style - Hefeweissbier
Joke of The Day
One for the Guys...
"Yesterday scientists revealed that beer contains small traces of female hormones. To prove their theory, the scientists fed 100 men 12 pints of beer and observed that 100% of them gained weight, talked excessively without making sense, became emotional, and couldn't drive. No further testing is planned."
And One for the Gals...
Husband says to wife ‘My Olympic condoms have arrived – I think I’ll wear gold tonight’.
Wife says, ‘Why don’t you wear silver and come second for a change’.
Quote of The Day
"You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid."
- Actual sign In a Japanese hotel
Whiskey Of The Day
Price: $25 (700ml)
August Observances
Admit You're Happy Month
American Adventures Month
American Artists Appreciation Month
American History Essay Contest (8/1 - 12/15)
American Indian Heritage Month (Also November)
Beach Month
Black Business Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Celery, Fennel and Cactus Month
Children's Eye Health and Safety Month
Children’s Vision and Learning Month
Family Fun Month
Get Ready for Kindergarten Month
Golf Month
Happiness Happens Month
Learn Japanese Month
Motor Sports Awareness Month
National Catfish Month
National Eye Exam Month
National Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Month
National Goat Cheese Month
National Golf Month
National Immunization Awareness Month
National Inventors Month
National Minority Donor Awareness Month
National Panini Month
National Parks Month
National Picnic Month
National Runaway Prevention Month
National Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
National Truancy Prevention Month
National Water Quality Month
National Win With Civility Month
National Women's Month
Neurosurgery Outreach Month
Orange and Papaya Month
Peach Month
Psoriasis Awareness Month
Romance Awareness Month
Water Quality Month
What Will Be Your Legacy Month
Observances this Week
National Simplify your Life Week First Week in AugustInternational Clown Week First Week in August
Carnaval del Pueblo (Burgess Park, London), The first week of August
World Breastfeeding Week First Week in August
National Farmers' Market Week First Full Week in August
Old Fiddler's Week First Full Week in August
Assistance Dog Week First Full Week in August
Knights of Columbus Family Week First Full Week in August
National Resurrect Romance Week First Full Week in August
Exercise With Your Child Week First Full Week in August
National Fraud Awareness Week (FCC) First Full Week in August
Single Working Women's Week Full Week including August 4th
Exhibitor Appreciation Week First Work Week in August
Rock for Life Week First Work Week in August
Psychic Week First Work Week in August
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week First Work Week in August
National Bargain Hunting Week First Full Week of August Monday to Sunday
Sturgis Rally First Full Week of August Monday to Second Tuesday
Intimate Apparel Week (Feb. 4-8, May 6-10, Aug. 5-9, Nov. 4-8)
Historical Events on August 6th
258 St Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
523 St Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope
768 Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope
939 Battle at Simancas-Spain beats Moors
1181 Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers
1284 Italian city of Pisa is defeated in Battle of Meloria by Genoa, ruining its naval power.
1497 John Cabot returns to Bristol from North-America
1538 Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
1588 Spanish Armada under Medina Sidonia anchors
1600 Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588
1601 Spanish garrison of Meurs surrender to earl Mauritius
1623 Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII
1625 Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as viceroy of Groningen
1661 The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic, Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders.
1675 Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut
1726 Emperor Karel VI & tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty
1774 Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY
1787 Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention. Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia begans debate
1806 Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
1815 US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli
1819 Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
1821 1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels
1824 Battle at Junan Simon Bolívars army beats Spanish
1825 Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day)
1845 The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
1854 Congress passes Confiscation Act
1861 Lexington KY-Union milt camp forms in neutral state
1861 The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria.
1862 The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana during the American Civil War.
1864 Rebels evacuate Ft Powell, Mobile Bayd
1870 Battle at Spicheren, Prussia beats France
1870 Battle of Wörth is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory in the Franco-Prussian War.
1870 White conservatives suppresed black vote & captured Tennesse legislature
1890 At Auburn Prison in New York murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
1890 Denton True "Cy" Young pitched his 1st major league baseball game
1896 France annexes Madagascar
1901 Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
1905 26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record)
1908 St Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn
1909 Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
1910 NYC Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt
1912 The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
1914 Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia & Serbia
1914 Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I.
1914 French cavalry enter Belgium
1914 German Zeppelin bombs Liege City, 9 killed
1914 First Battle of the Atlantic of World War I, two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Helgoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
1914 Serbia declares war on Germany, Austria declares war on Russia in World War I.
1915 Battle of Sari Bair of World War I, the Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
1917 Battle of Marasesti of World War I, between the Romanian and German armies begins.
1918 Ferdinand Foch becomes marshal of France
1918 In WW I 2nd battle of the Marne ends
1919 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler)
1919 Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest
1921 Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins
1926 Don Juan with John Barrymore shown
1926 New Yorker Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
1926 Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
1926 In New York City, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
1926 Warner Bros premieres Vitaphone sound-on-disc movie system (NY)
1930 Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York City and disappears.
1930 Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen
1934 US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915
1936 1st time in 20th century, 1st 2 batters in a game-Roy Johnson & Rabbit Warstler of Boston Bees-lead off with HRs
1937 Franco-artillery fire on Madrid
1937 Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest
1937 US & USSR sign trade treaty
1939 1st broadcast of "Dinah Shore Show" on NBC-radio
1940 Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire
1941 Detroit pitcher Al Benton is 1st to collect 2 sacrifices in an inning
1942 Riots by Dutch Jews
1942 Assinibaine destroyer sinks U-210
1942 Churchill fires Gen Auchinlek as Middle-East commandant
1942 Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder"
1942 Queen Wilhelmina becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
1943 US 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily
1944 All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died
1944 Anti-German attack at Avranches fails
1944 Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins
1944 US 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes
1945 Keith Miller scores 110 in the 4 Victory Test Cricket at Lord's
1945 Hiroshima Peace Day, Hiroshima is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 "Enola Gay". Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
1946 US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
1947 1st performance of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 8"
1948 Bob Mathias, US, wins decathlon at London Olympics
1948 Dreesgovernment (KVP/Social Democratics/CHU/Liberal) forms
1948 Fanny Blankers-Koen (Neth) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics
1949 Luke Appling record of 2,154 (en route to 2,218) games at shortstop
1951 Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria
1952 Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout
1953 Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from the military
1954 WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena.
1958 Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles
1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1960 In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
1960 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto
1961 1st case of motion sickness in space reported
1961 Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits)
1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1962 Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule
1964 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Ecclesiam Suam
1964 Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
1965 32nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game, Cleveland 24, All-Stars 16 (68,000)
1965 Beatles release "Help" album in UK
1965 Indian troops invade Pakistan
1965 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks.
1966 Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, NE killing all 42 on board.
1966 Muhammad Ali KOs Brian London in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1966 Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge of Europe)
1966 US citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam
1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1967 Minn Twin Dean Chance perfect games Boston Red Sox, 2-0 in 5 innings
1967 Oriole Brooks Robinson hits into a record 4th triple play
1967 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Pro comperto sane
1969 Baltimore Orioles pull their 3rd triple play (5-4-3 vs KC Royals)
1970 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1972 Garry Player wins PGA golf tournament
1972 Hank Aaron hits 660th & 661st HRs for Braves (record for 1 team)
1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Knoxville Ladies Golf Classic
1973 Roberto Clemente & Warren Spahn inducted into Hall of Fame
1973 Stevie Wonder involved in car crash, goes into a 4 day coma
1974 6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game, no other team did it twice
1974 Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Wash
1976 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
1977 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate European Women's Golf Open
1978 60th PGA Championship, John Mahaffey shoots a 276 at Oakmont CC PA
1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Europea Golf Open
1979 61st PGA Championship, David Graham shoots a 272 at Oakland Hills Mich
1979 Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel
1980 University adm declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles & post-season play due to transcript & curriculum abuses
1981 Argentina ex-president Isabel Peron freed
1981 Due to strike, Yankees, A's, Philles & Dodgers declared 1st ½ champions
1981 NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed
1981 crowned Miss National Teen-Ager
1982 22nd Curtis Cup, US, 14½-3½
1982 California Doug DeCinces hits 3 HRs again in game (did it 5 days ago also)
1982 WQXI (Atlanta) is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system
1983 Minnesota Vikings beat St Louis Cards 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo)
1983 Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa
1984 203.05 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1984 Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics
1985 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB
1985 Major League Baseball Players Association go on midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day)
1985 STS 51-I vehicle moves to launch pad
1986 A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney.
1986 Orioles (Dwyer & Sheets) & Rangers (Harrah) hit record 3 grand slams
1986 Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for IBM
1986 Record 3 grand slams hit in game Tx vs Balt (Harrah, Sheets & Dwyer)
1988 Oakland A's Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases
1988 Rich Gossage 300th career save (beats Phillies)
1988 The Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City spurs reform of the NYPD, who were responsible for the melee that transpired the night of August 6-7.
1989 "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 5959 performances
1989 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open
1989 Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8
1989 Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia
1989 Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines
1990 The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, precursor to the Gulf War.
1990 NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th HR in 1st 86 at bats
1990 Pres Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan
1990 UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstensions Cuba & Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq
1991 Debbie Doom (US) pitches 2nd consecutive perfect game in women's softball at the Pan American Games, beats Nicaragua, 8-0
1991 Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party (Japan), becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
1991 Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1992 Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500
1993 Heavy rains and debris kill 72 in the Kagoshima and Aira areas, of Kyushu, Japan.
1993 Japan Hosokawa government begins
1993 Pope John Paul II publishes Veritatis splendor encyclical
1994 Algerian Moslem fundamentalists threaten school/Universities
1995 "Damn Yankees" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 510 performances
1995 Dottie Mochrie wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain
1995 Indians & Browns play in Cleveland on same day for 1st time ever both lose Chicago 5, Indians 1; Giants 19, Browns 13 (exhibition)
1995 Thousands of people in Hiroshima tribute on 50th anniversary of bomb
1996 NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars, the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
1997 Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
1997 Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc
1997 NHL Nashville Tenn names Barry Trotz as its 1st coach
2008 Access 31 TV stops broadcasting in Perth, Western Australia.
2008 A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi
2011 A helicopter containing members of Navy SEAL 6 is shot down in Afghanistan killing 38.
2012 Mount Tongariro, New Zealand, erupts for the first time in a century
2013 18 people are killed and 55 are wounded by a car bomb explosion in Damascus, Syria
2013 25 people are killed and 60 are wounded by a series of car bombs in Baghdad, Iraq
2013 1 person is killed and 4 are injured after a hot air balloon crash in Montbovon, Sweden
2013 An alleged chemical weapons attack on Damascus, Syria, is claimed by Syrian rebels
2015 Eqyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi inaugurates the Suez Canal Expansion at a ceremony in Ismaïlia
2015 World's largest ever Pinball tournament Pinburgh with 700 machines held in Pittsburgh
2015 Republican Presidental nomination race begins with debate between 7 lesser ranked candidates in Cleveland, Ohio
2015 Comedian Jon Stewart hosts "The Daily Show" for the last time.
Born on August 6th
1180 Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)
1504 Matthew "Nosey" Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1575)
1609 Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)
1619 Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
1638 Nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher (d. 1715)
1644 Francoise L de la Baume Le Blanc, French mistress of Louis XIV of France
1644 Louise de la Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1710)
1651 Francois Fenelon, France, writer (Playing for Time)
1651 Johann Michael Zacher, composer
1656 Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (d. 1733)
1664 Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer
1665 Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer
1666 Maria Sofia of the Palatinate, queen of Portugal (d. 1699)
1697 Charles VII, Holy Roman emperor (1742-45) (d. 1745)
1715 Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (d. 1747)
1748 Bernhard Haltenberger, composer
1766 William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (d. 1828)
1768 Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (d. 1813)
1775 Daniel O'Connell, Irish politician (d. 1847)
1775 Louis-Antoine the Bourbon, French duke of Angouleme/General of France
1800 Catherine Beecher, educator (championed higher education for women)
1804 Justinus van der Brugghen, Dutch lawyer/minister of Justice (1856-58)
1809 Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
1811 Judah Philip Benjamin, Secy War/Secy State (Confederacy) [or Aug 11]
1819 Samuel Powhatan Carter, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (d. 1915)
1844 Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
1844 James Henry Greathead, British engineer (d. 1896)
1845 Anthonie A Vorsterman van Oyen, Dutch genealogist
1858 Albert Fuchs, composer
1859 J Arthur S Berson, Austria meteorologist (Balloon flights, Amazon)
1861 Edith (Kermit Carow) Roosevelt, American First Lady of the United States, 2nd wife of Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1948)
1866 Chief Thundercloud (Scott T Williams), MT, actor (Lone Ranger)
1866 Matthew Henson, Arctic explorer (d. 1955)
1868 Paul Claudel, French diplomat, poet (L'Otage-1909) (d. 1955)
1871 Emanuel Querido (Joost Mendes), author, publisher
1873 John Wesley Work, composer
1873 Mary Carr Moore, composer
1874 Charles Fort, American writer and researcher (d. 1932)
1875 Marcel Labey, composer
1877 Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (d. 1952)
1879 Joseph Wirth, German politician (Stalin Peace Prize)
1880 Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964)
1881 Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist (Penicillin) (Nobel laureate 1954) (d. 1955)
1881 Leo Carrillo, American actor (American Empire, Cisco Kid) (d. 1961)
1881 Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (d. 1972)
1882 Gerrit H Kersten, Dutch vicar, founder (Calvinist party)
1883 Francesco Santoliquido, composer
1883 Scott Nearing, US sociologist/pacifist/author (The Good Life)
1885 Jozef M E Meeus, Belgian director H-Heart union
1886 Edward Ballantine, composer
1887 Dudley Benjafield, British racing driver (d. 1957)
1888 Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (d. 1952)
1889 George Kenney, American Air Force General (d. 1977)
1889 John Middleton Murry, English poet (d. 1957)
1891 William Slim, British general (d. 1970)
1892 Hoot Gibson, American western actor (Horse Soldier, Last Outlaw) (d. 1962)
1893 Guthrie McClintic, Seattle Wash, Broadway producer/dir (Winterset)
1893 Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976)
1895 Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban pianist and composer (d. 1963)
1896 Cyril Mockridge, composer
1900 Cecil H. Green, American geophysicist (d. 2003)
1902 Dutch Schultz, American bootlegger (d. 1935)
1902 Michal Vilec, composer
1902 Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright (Ultimatum Factory) [OS]
1904 Henry Payne Iba, American basketball coach (Olympic-gold-64, 68) (d. 1993)
1904 M Revis (Willem Fisherman), author (Gelakte Brain)
1906 Ken Strong, NFL, AFL halfback (Staten Island, NY Yanks, NY Giants)
1906 Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)
1908 George Singer, composer
1908 Helen Hull Jacobs, American tennis player, champion (1932-35) (d. 1997)
1908 James Lees-Milne, architecural historian
1908 Sol Adler, economist Sinophile
1908 Svend Erik Tarp, composer
1908 Will Lee, American actor (d. 1982)
1910 Charles Crichton, British film director (Battle of Sexes) (d. 1999)
1910 Friedrich Schroder, composer
1910 William J Law, sailor
1911 Constance Fecher Heaven, British romance writer (d. 1995)
1911 Lucille Ball, American actress (I Love Lucy, Mame) (d. 1989)
1911 Norman Gordon, South African cricketer
1914 Arthur Charles Dobson, British racing driver (d. 1980)
1914 Susan Cowdy, ornithologist
1916 Dom(inic) Mintoff, Maltese Prime Minister
1916 Michael Burke, sports executive (NY Yankees, NY Knicks)
1916 Richard Hofstadter, American historian (d. 1970)
1917 Robert Mitchum, American actor (Winds of War, North & South) (d. 1997)
1918 Norman Granz, American record producer (d. 2001)
1919 Pauline Betz Addie, Dayton Ohio, tennis champ (Wimbledon 1946)
1920 Ella Raines, American actress (Janice Dean RN) (d. 1988)
1922 Freddie Laker, English entrepreneur, CEO (Laker airlines) (d. 2006)
1923 Jack Parnell, London England, orchestra leader (Englebert Humperdick Show)
1923 Jackie Kelk, Brooklyn NY, actor (Homer-Aldrich Family)
1923 Jess Collins, American artist (d. 2004)
1923 William B Williams, Babylon NY, DJ (WNEW, Sammy & Company)
1925 Barbara Bates, American actress (Kathy-It's a Great Life) (d. 1969)
1925 Leland Smith, composer
1926 Christa Reinig, writer
1926 Clem Labine, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1926 Frank Finlay, British actor (Robbery, Lifeforce)
1926 J(anet) O(pal) Jeppson (nee Janet Asimov), author (2nd Experiment)
1926 Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
1927 William David Ford, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1965)
1928 Andy Warhol, American pop artist & film producer (Frankenstein, Bad) (d. 1987)
1928 Herb Moford, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1928 Janice-Lee York Romary, California, fencer (Olympics-1948-68)
1929 Anneliese Kuppers, German FR, equestrian dressage (Oly-silver-1956)
1929 Mike Elliot, rocker
1929 Roch La Salle, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1930 Abbey Lincoln, American jazz singer (Nothing But a Man)
1932 Anneli Sauli (Savolainen), actress (Milkmaid)
1932 Howard Hodgkin, British painter
1933 A. G. Kripal Singh, Indian cricketer (d. 1987)
1934 Billy Boston, Welsh rugby league footballer
1934 Chris Bonington, British mountaineer
1934 John Storey Bonington, UK, mountain climber (Annapurna I in 1970)
1934 Leopold M de Beer, Dutch MP (VVD)
1934 Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, English sci-fi author (Chthon, Phthor)
1937 Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist (d. 2000)
1937 Barbara Windsor, English actress (Study in Terror)
1938 Carry Tefsen, Dutch actress (Say A)
1938 Paul Bartel, American actor (Eating Raoul) (d. 2000)
1938 Peter Bonerz, American actor (Jerry-Bob Newhart Show, 9 to 5)
1939 William "Sonny" Sanders, US singer (Rayber Voices)
1940 Louise Sorel, American actress (BS I Love You, Crimes of Passion)
1940 Mukhu Aliyev, Russian politician, President of Dagestan
1941 Doris Ernestine Hays, composer
1941 Hubertus AGM "Bert" Andre, Dutch actor (Turkish Fruit-Come Back)
1941 Lyle Berman, American poker player
1941 Ray Culp, American baseball player
1942 George Jung, American convicted drug felon
1943 Jon Postel, American computer scientist (d. 1998)
1943 Michael Anderson Jr, London, actor (Clay-The Monroes)
1943 Ray Buktenica, Greenwich Village NYC, actor (Rhoda, House Calls)
1945 Andy Messersmith, American baseball player
1945 Ron Jones, British TV director (d. 1995)
1946 Allan Holdsworth, British musician
1946 Dusty Rhodes, Australian baseball coach (Olympics-1996)
1946 Masaaki Sakai, Japanese comedian
1946 Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea (d. 2009)
1947 Sally Eaton, Ill, Broadway actress (Jeanie-Hair)
1947 Tony Dell, Australian cricketer
1948 Michael Peters, choreographer (What's Love Got to Do with It)
1949 Alan Campbell, Northern Irish clergyman
1949 Clarence Richard Silva, Catholic Bishop of Honolulu
1949 Dino Bravo, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1993)
1949 Joyce McKinney, Avery County NC, Miss Wyoming (1972)
1950 Dorian Harewood, American actor (Earl-Glitter, Trauma Center)
1950 Nathan Purdee, actor (Nathan-Young & Restless, Hank-1 Life to Live)
1950 Winston E Scott, Miami Fla, USN Commander/astronaut (STS 72, 87)
1951 Catherine Hicks, American actress (Star Trek IV, Child's Play)
1951 Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
1952 Barrel Scherpenzeel, rocker (Earth & Fire)
1952 Ton Scherpenzeel, Dutch rock keyboardist (Earth & Fire)
1952 Vinnie Vincent, American musician (Kiss, Solo)
1952 Wojiech Fortuna, Poland, ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
1953 Iqbal Qasim, Pakistani cricketer
1953 Pat MacDonald, rocker (Timbuk 3)
1954 Carl C Perkins, (Rep-D-KY, 1984)
1954 Paul Steigerwald, American sports announcer
1955 Gregory Bryant-Bey, American convicted murderer (d. 2008)
1955 Rusty Magee, American composer (d. 2003)
1955 Tom Inskeep, Bluffton Ind, Canadian Tour golfer
1956 Stepfanie Kramer, LA California, actress (Claudia-We Got it Made, Hunter)
1957 Bob Horner, American baseball player
1957 Faith Prince, Augusta Ga, Broadway actress (Guys & Dolls, Carousel)
1957 Jim McGreevey, American politician
1958 Randy DeBarge, Grand Rapids Mich, rock vocalist/bassist (Debarge)
1958 Simon Francken, Dutch bassist (Ivy Green)
1959 Grant Aleksander, Balt Md, actor (Guiding Light, All My Children)
1959 Joyce Sims, rocker (All & All)
1960 Dale Ellis, American basketball player, NBA guard and forward (Seattle Supersonics, Denver Nuggets)
1961 Bruce Matthews, center/guard (Tennessee Oilers)
1961 Carol Norman, Ardmore Oklahoma, bowler (LPBT Rookie of Year 1982)
1961 Earl Winfield, CFL receiver (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1961 Mary Lou, Daniels Chicago lL, tennis star
1962 Marc Lavoine, French singer and actor
1962 Michelle Yeoh, Chinese-Malaysian actress
1962 Thomas Jefferson, Cleve Ohio, 200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1984)
1963 Charles Ingram, British controversial contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
1963 Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker
1963 Kimberley Conrad Hefner, Moulton Al, playmate of year (Jan, 1988)
1963 Thomas Bohrer, US West Islip NY, rower (Olympic-92)
1963 (Michael) Tony Dees, Pascagoula Miss, hurdler
1964 John Mooney, Seattle Wash, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1964 Lauren Cowan, Benalla Victoria, golfer (1994 66th English Womens Open)
1964 Lisa Boyle, Chicago Ill, actress (Showgirls)
1964 Moosie Drier, American actor and director (Laugh-in)
1964 Robert Mimbs, CFL running back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1965 Brian Kinchen, NFL tight end (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1965 David Robinson, American basketball player, NBA center (San Antonio Spurs, Olympic-gold-92)
1965 Juliane Köhler, German actress
1965 Mark Speight, British television presenter (d. 2008)
1965 Vincent Wells, England cricketer
1965 Yuki Kajiura, Japanese composer
1966 William Fred Mayfair, Phoenix AZ, PGA golfer (1993 Greater Milw Open)
1967 Archbishop Alexy (Bondarenko), Ukrainian-born theologian
1967 Julie Snyder, Quebec talk show host and producer
1967 Mike Greenberg, American sportscaster
1967 Willie Williams, NFL/CFL tackle (Toronto Argonauts, NO Saints)
1968 Celena Mondie-Milner, Milledgeville Ga, 100m/200m runner
1968 Chris Boardman, English cyclist (world 1 hour record)
1968 Jack de Gier, soccer player (Cambuur L, Go Ahead Eagles)
1968 Jeff Barlow, Jackson MS, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Carolina Classic-5th)
1968 Patricia Tarabini, La Plata Argentina, tennis star (1985 Futures ITA)
1968 Siran Stacy, WLAF running back (Scottish Claymores)
1969 Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003)
1969 Roberto Lanckohr, soccer player (MVV)
1969 Simon Doull, New Zealand cricketer
1970 Erwin Thijs, Belgian cyclist
1970 M. Night Shyamalan, Indian/American film director
1970 Mike Strange, Niagara Falls Ontario, boxer (Olympics-96)
1971 Curtis Shearer, WLAF receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 Merrin Dungey, American actress
1971 Mike Bales, Saskatoon, NHL goalie (Ottawa Senators)
1971 Piyal Wijetunge, Sri Lankan cricketer
1971 Scott Minto, English footballer
1972 Geri Estelle Halliwell, "Ginger Spice" singer (Spice Girls)
1972 Mike Frederick, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1973 Karenna Gore Schiff, American author and political figure
1973 Max Kellerman, American sportscaster
1973 Mike Sheldon, WLAF Guard (Rhein Fire)
1973 Robert Lee, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 Stuart O'Grady, Australian cyclist
1973 Vera Farmiga, American actress
1974 Adrian Voinea, Focsani Romania, tennis star (1995 Malta)
1974 Alvin Williams, American basketball player, NBA guard (Portland Trailblazers)
1974 Bobby Petta, soccer player (Feyenoord, RKC)
1974 Ever Carradine, American actress
1974 Luis Vizcaino, Dominican baseball player
1974 Nelson Vargas, Holoyoke Mass, soccer forward (Olympics-gold-96)
1975 Jamie McGonnigal, American actor
1975 Renate Götschl, Austrian alpine skier
1975 Rik Platvoet, Dutch soccer player, (FC Twente, MVV)
1975 Victor Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player
1976 Melissa George, Australian actress
1976 Parmeso Emekrasha, Buddhist Monk
1976 Soleil Moon Frye, American actress (Punky Brewster)
1977 Jennifer Lyons, American actress
1977 Jimmy Nielsen, Danish footballer
1977 Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer
1977 Luciano Zavagno, Argentine footballer
1978 Brian Maillard, Swiss guitarist (Dominici)
1978 Marisa Miller, American model
1979 Jennifer Exaltacion, Windsor Ontario, gymnist (Olympics-96)
1980 Danny Collins, Welsh footballer
1980 Wilber Pan, American-Taiwanese singer
1981 Travis McCoy, American alternative hip-hop artist
1982 Adrianne Curry, American model and reality television personality
1982 Justin Germano, American baseball player
1982 Karl Davies, British actor
1982 Kevin van der Perren, Belgian figure skater
1982 Ryan Sypek, American actor
1983 Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
1984 Vedad Ibisevic, Bosnian footballer
1985 Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer
1985 Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer
1988 $ndash (Jared Murillo), American dancer
1990 Jon Benet Ramsey, American beauty pageant contestant and murder victim (d. 1996)
2003 Prince Pierre of Orléans
Died on August 6th
258 Sixtus II, Pope, Saint, Bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded
523 Hormisdas, Pope (514-23)
966 Berengarius II, markgraaf of Ivrea/king of Italy (950-963)
1162 Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
1195 Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129)
1221 Dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans) (b. 1170)
1272 Stefanus V, Prince of Transylvania, King of Hungary (1270-72)
1414 King Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377)
1458 Callistus III (Alfonso the Borja), Pope (1455-58) (b. 1378)
1548 Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher
1623 Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare (b. 1556)
1628 Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573)
1637 Ben Jonson, English writer (b. 1572)
1645 Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (b. 1575)
1657 Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Polish-Lithuanian noble
1660 Diego Rodriguez de Silva Valezquez, Spanish painter (Court) (b. 1599)
1661 Jacqueline-M-A the Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess
1666 Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian
1679 John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629)
1686 Paul Hainlein, composer
1694 Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)
1695 François de Harlay de Champvallon, French Catholic archbishop (b. 1625)
1718 Jacob F Muller (Sjako/Jaco), Germ/Neth crowd leader, beheaded
1727 Francois Valentijn, vicar/writer
1746 Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway
1753 Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)
1759 Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704)
1775 Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer
1783 Willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer
1784 Karl Kohaut, composer
1794 Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)
1799 Joseph Friebert, composer
1815 James A. Bayard (elder), United States Senator from Delaware (b. 1767)
1816 Karl Frieberth, composer
1820 Antonin Vranicky, composer
1820 M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca
1821 Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer
1828 Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b. 1785)
1848 Nicola Vaccai, Italian composer
1850 Edward Walsh, Irish poet (b. 1805)
1853 Josif Josifovich Genishta, composer
1862 Francisco Acuna de Figueroa, Uruguay national anthem
1866 John Mason Neale, English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
1881 James White, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)
1884 Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (b. 1812)
1886 Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian
1890 John Hart or William Kemmler, US, 1st executed in electric chair (NY)
1890 William Kemmler, American axe murderer
1893 Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
1895 George Frederick Root, composer
1900 Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist
1904 Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
1914 Ellen Louise Wilson, first wife of President Woodrow Wilson, U.S. First Lady (1913-14) (b. 1860)
1920 Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator, first flight in independent Poland (b. 1890)
1924 John Henry Roberts, composer
1925 Sir Surendranath Banerjea, leader, Indian National Congress (b. 1848)
1928 William Henry Grattan Flood, composer
1931 Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (b. 1903)
1935 Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer
1937 Annie E F Horniman, England, theater owner (Abbey Theatre)
1937 Ferdinand CS Schiller, British philosopher (Mind!)
1938 Warner Oland, actor (Werewolf of London, Jazz Singer)
1943 Tom Garrett, cricketer (last survivor of 1st Test in 1877)
1945 Hiram Johnson, American politician (b. 1866)
1945 Prince Wu of Korea (b. 1912)
1945 Richard Bong, American ace fighter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1920)
1946 Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1954 Theo(by) Van Reijn, sculptor/drawer/lithograph
1959 Preston Sturges (Edmund Biden), American playwright, screenwriter, and director (b. 1898)
1961 Jozef E Van Roey, Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechelen
1963 Tom Keene, actor (Our Daily Bread)
1964 Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (Capt Hook-Peter Pan) (b. 1893)
1965 Aksel Sandemose, writer
1965 Everett Sloane, Aparent suicide
1965 Nancy Carroll, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family)
1965 Peter Ronnefeld, composer
1966 Cordwainer Smith, American writer (b. 1913)
1966 Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords)
1968 Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician
1969 Theodor Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
1970 Ingolf Dahl, German composer (Andante & Arioso)
1970 Nikos Tsiforos, Greek screenwriter and film director
1973 Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, Cuban president and de facto leader (1940-58) (b. 1901)
1973 Memphis Minnie, American blues singer (b. 1897)
1974 Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
1976 Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (b. 1903)
1978 Edward Durell Stone, American architect (b. 1902)
1978 Paul VI (Giovanni Montini), Italian Pope (1963-78) (b. 1897)
1979 Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911)
1979 Kurt Kasznar, actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants)
1980 Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player
1983 Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944)
1985 Forbes Burnham, Guyanese visionary and leader of Guyana from 1964 to his death (b. 1923)
1986 Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre) (b. 1904)
1986 Manfred Hausmann, writer
1986 William J Schroeder, (longest-survivor with permanent artificial) heart, dies at 54, after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump)
1987 Ira C Eaker, American Air Force leader in Europe (WW II) (b. 1896)
1987 Sherwood Bailey, actor (Spud-Our Gang)
1988 Anatoli S Levchenko, cosmonaut (TM-4)
1988 J Skelly Wright, US judge (anti-segregationist)
1990 Charles Arnt, actor (Double Exposure)
1990 Gordon Metcalfe, actor (Monster in the Closet)
1990 Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist, minister of Information (b. 1912)
1990 Mario De Andrade, founder (Movimiento Popular of Lib of Angola)
1990 Robert Alex, shot to death by robber
1991 Harry Reasoner, American television reporter (60 Minutes) (b. 1923)
1991 Roland Michener, Canadian politician and governor general (b. 1900)
1991 Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian prime minister (1979), assassinated in Paris (b. 1915)
1993 Milton "Milt" Thompson, US NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer
1993 Tex Hughson, American baseball player (b. 1916)
1994 Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (Volare) (b. 1928)
1995 Paul James Nunn, mountaineer
1995 Youly Algaroff, ballet dancer
1996 Buland Al Haidary, poet
1996 Hernan Siles Zuazo, Pres of Bolivia (1956-60, 1982-85)
1996 Leonard John Coldwell, cricketer
1996 Muhammad al-Badr, magnate of Northern Yemen (1962)
1996 Ossie Raymond Clark, fashion designer
1996 Richard Murphey Goodwin, economist
1998 Andre Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
1999 Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (b. 1934)
2001 Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930)
2001 Jorge Amado de Faria, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
2001 Wilhelm Mohnke, one of the original 120 members of the Nazi SS-Staff Guard (b. 1911)
2002 Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
2004 Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)
2005 Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1927)
2005 Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (b. 1928)
2005 Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
2007 Heinz Barth, German convicted war criminal (SS) (b. 1920)
2007 Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian rock guitarist (Bikini, Omen, Carpathia Project Tirana Rockers, solo) (b. 1969)
2008 Angelos Kitsos, Greek lawyer and script writer (b. 1934)
2009 John Hughes, American film director (b. 1950)
2011 Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist (b. 1911)
2012 Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor
2012 Ruggiero Ricci, American composer/violinist
2012 Sir Bernard Lovell, English radio astronomer
2012 Robert Hughes, Australian art critic and writer (Barcelona)
2015 Louise Suggs, American golfer (US Women's Open 1949, 1952) and co-founder of LPGA
2015 George Cole, English actor (Minder)
2016 Pete Fountain, American jazz clarinetist (Lawrence Welk 1957-59)
2016 Helen Delich Bentley, American politician (Rep-R-MD, 1985-950)
