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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 6th of August 1284 | EVENT | The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean. |
| 6th of August 1506 | EVENT | The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk |
| 6th of August 1538 | EVENT | Bogota, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada. |
| 6th of August 1661 | EVENT | The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic. |
| 6th of August 1787 | EVENT | Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. |
| 6th of August 1806 | EVENT | Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire. |
| 6th of August 1819 | EVENT | Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States. |
| 6th of August 1825 | EVENT | Bolivia gains independence from Spain. |
| 6th of August 1845 | EVENT | The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg. |
| 6th of August 1861 | EVENT | The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria. |
| 6th of August 1862 | EVENT | 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. |
| 6th of August 1870 | EVENT | Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Worth results in a decisive Prussian victory. |
| 6th of August 1890 | EVENT | At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair. |
| 6th of August 1901 | EVENT | Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation. |
| 6th of August 1909 | EVENT | Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip. |
| 6th of August 1912 | EVENT | The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum. |
| 6th of August 1914 | EVENT | World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia. |
| 6th of August 1914 | EVENT | World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic : 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. |
| 6th of August 1915 | EVENT | World War I: Battle of Sari Bair : the Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay. |
| 6th of August 1917 | EVENT | World War I: Battle of Marasesti between the Romanian and German armies begins. |
| 6th of August 1926 | EVENT | Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel. |
| 6th of August 1926 | EVENT | In New York City, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore. |
| 6th of August 1926 | EVENT | Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping. |
| 6th of August 1930 | EVENT | Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears to be never seen again. |
| 6th of August 1942 | EVENT | Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress. |
| 6th of August 1945 | EVENT | World War II: 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. |
| 6th of August 1956 | EVENT | After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series. |
| 6th of August 1960 | EVENT | Cuban Revolution: in response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation. |
| 6th of August 1962 | EVENT | Jamaica becomes independent. |
| 6th of August 1964 | EVENT | Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down. |
| 6th of August 1965 | EVENT | US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. |
| 6th of August 1966 | EVENT | Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, NE killing all 42 on board. |
| 6th of August 1976 | EVENT | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi. |
| 6th of August 1986 | EVENT | 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. |
| 6th of August 1988 | EVENT | The Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City spurs a reform of the NYPD, held responsible for the event. |
| 6th of August 1990 | EVENT | Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. |
| 6th of August 1991 | EVENT | Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet. |
| 6th of August 1991 | EVENT | Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives. |
| 6th of August 1993 | EVENT | Heavy rains and debris kill 72 in the Kagoshima and Aira areas of Kyushu, Japan. |
| 6th of August 1996 | EVENT | NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms. |
| 6th of August 1997 | EVENT | Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228. |
| 6th of August 2008 | EVENT | A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'etat in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi. |
| 6th of August 2010 | EVENT | The incoming coalition government of the United Kingdom discontinues the use of the controversial ContactPoint database of children. |
| 6th of August 1180 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239) |
| 6th of August 1504 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1575) |
| 6th of August 1609 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675) |
| 6th of August 1619 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Strozzi (baptized), Italian singer and composer (d. 1677) |
| 6th of August 1638 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (d. 1715) |
| 6th of August 1644 | BIRTHDAY | Louise de la Valliere, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1710) |
| 6th of August 1656 | BIRTHDAY | Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (d. 1733) |
| 6th of August 1666 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Sofia of Neuburg, German-born consort of Peter II of Portugal (d. 1699) |
| 6th of August 1697 | BIRTHDAY | Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745) |
| 6th of August 1715 | BIRTHDAY | Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (d. 1747) |
| 6th of August 1766 | BIRTHDAY | William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (d. 1828) |
| 6th of August 1768 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Baptiste Bessieres, French marshal (d. 1813) |
| 6th of August 1775 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel O'Connell, Irish politician (d. 1847) |
| 6th of August 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892) |
| 6th of August 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (d. 1915) |
| 6th of August 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900) |
| 6th of August 1844 | BIRTHDAY | James Henry Greathead, British engineer (d. 1896) |
| 6th of August 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Edith Roosevelt, American First Lady of the United States (d. 1948) |
| 6th of August 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Henson, American Arctic explorer (d. 1955) |
| 6th of August 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Claudel, French poet (d. 1955) |
| 6th of August 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Fort, American writer and researcher (d. 1932) |
| 6th of August 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (d. 1952) |
| 6th of August 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964) |
| 6th of August 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Carrillo, American actor (d. 1961) |
| 6th of August 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (d. 1972) |
| 6th of August 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1955) |
| 6th of August 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Nearing, American writer and educator (d. 1983) |
| 6th of August 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Dudley Benjafield, British racing driver (d. 1957) |
| 6th of August 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (d. 1952) |
| 6th of August 1889 | BIRTHDAY | George Kenney, American Air Force General (d. 1977) |
| 6th of August 1889 | BIRTHDAY | John Middleton Murry, English poet (d. 1957) |
| 6th of August 1891 | BIRTHDAY | William Slim, British general (d. 1970) |
| 6th of August 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Hoot Gibson, American actor (d. 1962) |
| 6th of August 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976) |
| 6th of August 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban pianist and composer (d. 1963) |
| 6th of August 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Cecil H. Green, American geophysicist (d. 2003) |
| 6th of August 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Dutch Schultz, American organized crime figure (d. 1935) |
| 6th of August 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Iba, American basketball coach (d. 1993) |
| 6th of August 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984) |
| 6th of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (d. 1997) |
| 6th of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Will Lee, American actor (d. 1982) |
| 6th of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Crichton, British film director (d. 1999) |
| 6th of August 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Constance Fecher Heaven, British romance writer (d. 1995) |
| 6th of August 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Lucille Ball, American actress (d. 1989) |
| 6th of August 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Gordon, South African cricketer |
| 6th of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Richard C. Miller, American photographer (d. 2010) |
| 6th of August 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Charles Dobson, British racing driver (d. 1980) |
| 6th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Hofstadter, American historian (d. 1970) |
| 6th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Dom Mintoff, Maltese politician |
| 6th of August 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997) |
| 6th of August 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Granz, American record producer (d. 2001) |
| 6th of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Ella Raines, American actress (d. 1988) |
| 6th of August 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Freddie Laker, English entrepreneur (d. 2006) |
| 6th of August 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Jess Collins, American artist (d. 2004) |
| 6th of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Bowers, American murder and Ku Klux Klan leader (d. 2006) |
| 6th of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Bates, American actress (d. 1969) |
| 6th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth Beresford, British author and creator of The Wombles (d. 2010) |
| 6th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Finlay, British actor |
| 6th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999) |
| 6th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Clem Labine, American baseball player (d. 2007) |
| 6th of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987) |
| 6th of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Herb Moford, American baseball player (d. 2005) |
| 6th of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Roch La Salle, Canadian politician (d. 2007) |
| 6th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Abbey Lincoln, American jazz singer |
| 6th of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Chalmers Johnson, American political scholar and author (d. 2010) |
| 6th of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Hodgkin, British painter |
| 6th of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | A. G. Kripal Singh, Indian cricketer (d. 1987) |
| 6th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Piers Anthony, English writer |
| 6th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Boston, Welsh rugby league footballer |
| 6th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Bonington, British mountaineer |
| 6th of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist (d. 2000) |
| 6th of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Windsor, English actress |
| 6th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Bartel, American actor (d. 2000) |
| 6th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Bonerz, American actor |
| 6th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Mukhu Aliyev, Russian politician |
| 6th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Sorel, American actress |
| 6th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Lyle Berman, American poker player |
| 6th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Culp, American baseball player |
| 6th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | George Jung, American convicted drug trafficker |
| 6th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Postel, American computer scientist (d. 1998) |
| 6th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Inday Badiday, Filipina journalist and television personality (d. 2003) |
| 6th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Jones, British TV director (d. 1993) |
| 6th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Messersmith, American baseball player |
| 6th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Holdsworth, British guitarist and composer |
| 6th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Roh Moo-hyun, 16th President of South Korea (d. 2009) |
| 6th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Masaaki Sakai, Japanese comedian |
| 6th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Dell, Australian cricketer |
| 6th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Dino Bravo, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1993) |
| 6th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Campbell, Northern Irish clergyman |
| 6th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Clarence Richard Silva, American Catholic Bishop of Honolulu |
| 6th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Dorian Harewood, American actor |
| 6th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Daryl Somers, Australian television personality |
| 6th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine Hicks, American actress |
| 6th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Vinnie Vincent, American musician (Kiss) |
| 6th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Iqbal Qasim, Pakistani cricketer |
| 6th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Steigerwald, American sports announcer |
| 6th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Rusty Magee, American composer (d. 2003) |
| 6th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Gregory Bryant-Bey, American convicted murderer (d. 2008) |
| 6th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Stepfanie Kramer, American actress |
| 6th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jim McGreevey, American politician |
| 6th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Horner, American baseball player |
| 6th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Dale Ellis, American basketball player |
| 6th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Lavoine, French singer and actor |
| 6th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-born Hong Kong actress |
| 6th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker |
| 6th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Ingram, British game show contestant |
| 6th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Valenciano, Filipino singer |
| 6th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Moosie Drier, American actor and director |
| 6th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Yuki Kajiura, Japanese composer |
| 6th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Juliane Kohler, German actress |
| 6th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | David Robinson, American basketball player |
| 6th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Wells, England cricketer |
| 6th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Speight, British television presenter (d. 2008) |
| 6th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Archbishop Alexy Bondarenko, Ukrainian-born American theologian |
| 6th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Greenberg, American sportscaster |
| 6th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Snyder, Quebec talk show host and producer |
| 6th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Doull, New Zealand cricketer |
| 6th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003) |
| 6th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-born American film director |
| 6th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Erwin Thijs, Belgian cyclist |
| 6th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Merrin Dungey, American actress |
| 6th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Minto, English footballer |
| 6th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Piyal Wijetunge, Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 6th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Geri Halliwell, British singer (Spice Girls) |
| 6th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Vera Farmiga, American actress |
| 6th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Monica Goodling, American George W. Bush Administration appointee |
| 6th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart O'Grady, Australian cyclist |
| 6th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Max Kellerman, American sportscaster |
| 6th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Karenna Gore Schiff, American author and political figure |
| 6th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ever Carradine, American actress |
| 6th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Vizcaino, Dominican baseball player |
| 6th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Alvin Williams, American basketball player |
| 6th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Renate Gotschl, Austrian alpine skier |
| 6th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 6th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Soleil Moon Frye, American actress |
| 6th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa George, Australian actress |
| 6th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Nielsen, Danish footballer |
| 6th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer |
| 6th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Lyons, American actress |
| 6th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Luciano Zavagno, Argentine footballer |
| 6th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Marisa Miller, American model |
| 6th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Maillard, Swiss guitarist (Dominici) |
| 6th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Bellotti, Italian cyclist |
| 6th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Collins, Welsh footballer |
| 6th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Wilber Pan, American-born Taiwanese singer and actor |
| 6th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Seneca Wallace, American football player |
| 6th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Adrianne Curry, American model and reality television personality |
| 6th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin van der Perren, Belgian figure skater |
| 6th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Romola Garai, British actress and model |
| 6th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer |
| 6th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | C. J. Mosley, American football player |
| 6th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Vedad Ibisevic, Bosnian footballer |
| 6th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Mickael Delage, French cyclist |
| 6th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Bafetimbi Gomis, French footballer |
| 6th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer |
| 6th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Raphael Pyrasch, German rugby player |
| 6th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Joran van der Sloot, Dutch figure in the Natalee Holloway case |
| 6th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Jared Murillo, American dancer |
| 6th of August 1990 | BIRTHDAY | JonBenet Ramsey, American beauty pageant contestant and murder victim (d. 1996) |
| 6th of August 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer |
| 6th of August 2001 | BIRTHDAY | Ty Simpkins, American actor |
| 6th of August 0258 | DEATH | Pope Sixtus II (birth date unknown) |
| 6th of August 0523 | DEATH | Pope Hormisdas (Born c. 450) |
| 6th of August 1162 | DEATH | Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (Born c. 1113) |
| 6th of August 1195 | DEATH | Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (Born 1129) |
| 6th of August 1221 | DEATH | Saint Dominic, Spanish founder of the Dominican Order (Born 1170) |
| 6th of August 1272 | DEATH | King Stephen V of Hungary (Born 1239) |
| 6th of August 1414 | DEATH | King Ladislas of Naples (Born 1377) |
| 6th of August 1458 | DEATH | Pope Callixtus III (Born 1378) |
| 6th of August 1623 | DEATH | Anne Hathaway, English wife of William Shakespeare (Born 1555 or 1556) |
| 6th of August 1628 | DEATH | Johannes Junius, German Mayor of Bamberg, condemned to death at the Bamberg witch trials (Born 1573) |
| 6th of August 1637 | DEATH | Ben Jonson, English writer (Born 1572) |
| 6th of August 1645 | DEATH | Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (Born 1575) |
| 6th of August 1657 | DEATH | Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian-born Polish-Lithuanian noble |
| 6th of August 1660 | DEATH | Diego Velazquez, Spanish painter (Born 1599) |
| 6th of August 1679 | DEATH | John Snell, English royalist (Born 1629) |
| 6th of August 1694 | DEATH | Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (Born 1612) |
| 6th of August 1695 | DEATH | Francois de Harlay de Champvallon, French Catholic archbishop (Born 1625) |
| 6th of August 1753 | DEATH | Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (Born 1711) |
| 6th of August 1759 | DEATH | Eugene Aram, English philologist (Born 1704) |
| 6th of August 1794 | DEATH | Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (Born 1714) |
| 6th of August 1815 | DEATH | James A. Bayard (elder), American Senator from Delaware (Born 1767) |
| 6th of August 1828 | DEATH | Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (Born 1785) |
| 6th of August 1850 | DEATH | Edward Walsh, Irish poet (Born 1805) |
| 6th of August 1866 | DEATH | John Mason Neale, English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (Born 1818) |
| 6th of August 1881 | DEATH | James Springer White, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (Born 1821) |
| 6th of August 1884 | DEATH | Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (Born 1812) |
| 6th of August 1890 | DEATH | William Kemmler, American axe murderer (Born 1860) |
| 6th of August 1893 | DEATH | Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (Born 1811) |
| 6th of August 1904 | DEATH | Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (Born 1825) |
| 6th of August 1914 | DEATH | Ellen Louise Wilson, first wife of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson (Born 1860) |
| 6th of August 1920 | DEATH | Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator, author of the first military flight in independent Poland (Born 1890) |
| 6th of August 1925 | DEATH | Sir Surendranath Banerjea, Indian leader of the Indian National Congress (Born 1848) |
| 6th of August 1931 | DEATH | Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz cornetist and pianist (Born 1903) |
| 6th of August 1945 | DEATH | Richard Bong, American ace fighter pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (Born 1920) |
| 6th of August 1945 | DEATH | Wu, Prince of Korea (Born 1912) |
| 6th of August 1945 | DEATH | Hiram Johnson, American politician (Born 1866) |
| 6th of August 1946 | DEATH | Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (Born 1903) |
| 6th of August 1959 | DEATH | Preston Sturges, American playwright, screenwriter, and director (Born 1898) |
| 6th of August 1964 | DEATH | Sir Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (Born 1893) |
| 6th of August 1966 | DEATH | Cordwainer Smith, American writer (Born 1913) |
| 6th of August 1969 | DEATH | Theodor Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (Born 1903) |
| 6th of August 1970 | DEATH | Nikos Tsiforos, Greek screenwriter and film director (Born 1912) |
| 6th of August 1973 | DEATH | Memphis Minnie, American blues singer (Born 1897) |
| 6th of August 1973 | DEATH | Fulgencio Batista, Cuban president and de facto leader (Born 1901) |
| 6th of August 1974 | DEATH | Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (Born 1925) |
| 6th of August 1976 | DEATH | Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (Born 1903) |
| 6th of August 1978 | DEATH | Pope Paul VI (Born 1897) |
| 6th of August 1978 | DEATH | Edward Durell Stone, American architect (Born 1902) |
| 6th of August 1979 | DEATH | Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Laureate (Born 1911) |
| 6th of August 1983 | DEATH | Klaus Nomi, German singer (Born 1944) |
| 6th of August 1985 | DEATH | Forbes Burnham, Guyanese visionary, 3rd President and 1st Prime Minister of Guyana (Born 1923) |
| 6th of August 1986 | DEATH | Emilio Fernandez, Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director (Born 1904) |
| 6th of August 1987 | DEATH | Ira Eaker, American Air Force leader (Born 1896) |
| 6th of August 1990 | DEATH | Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist (Born 1912) |
| 6th of August 1991 | DEATH | Harry Reasoner, American television reporter (Born 1923) |
| 6th of August 1991 | DEATH | Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian prime minister (assassinated) (Born 1915) |
| 6th of August 1991 | DEATH | Roland Michener, Canadian politician and governor general (Born 1900) |
| 6th of August 1992 | DEATH | Leszek B?azynski, Polish boxer (Born 1949) |
| 6th of August 1993 | DEATH | Tex Hughson, American baseball player (Born 1916) |
| 6th of August 1994 | DEATH | Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (Born 1928) |
| 6th of August 1998 | DEATH | Andre Weil, French mathematician (Born 1906) |
| 6th of August 1999 | DEATH | Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (Born 1934) |
| 6th of August 2001 | DEATH | Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (Born 1912) |
| 6th of August 2001 | DEATH | Wilhelm Mohnke, one of the original 120 members of the Nazi SS-Staff Guard (Born 1911) |
| 6th of August 2001 | DEATH | Dorothy Tutin, English actress (Born 1930) |
| 6th of August 2002 | DEATH | Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (Born 1930) |
| 6th of August 2004 | DEATH | Rick James, American R&B singer and multi-instrumentalist (Born 1948) |
| 6th of August 2005 | DEATH | Robin Cook, British politician (Born 1946) |
| 6th of August 2005 | DEATH | Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (Born 1928) |
| 6th of August 2005 | DEATH | Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban singer (Buena Vista Social Club) (Born 1927) |
| 6th of August 2007 | DEATH | Heinz Barth, German SS officer (Born 1920) |
| 6th of August 2007 | DEATH | Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian rock guitarist (Born 1969) |
| 6th of August 2008 | DEATH | Angelos Kitsos, Greek lawyer and script writer (Born 1934) |
| 6th of August 2009 | DEATH | Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer (Born 1909) |
| 6th of August 2009 | DEATH | Willy DeVille, American singer and songwriter (Born 1950) |
| 6th of August 2009 | DEATH | John Hughes, American film director (Born 1950) |
| 6th of August 2009 | DEATH | W. S. Rendra, Indonesian poet and playwright (Born 1935) |