On this day: 6 August
Events, births and deaths on 6 August. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Edward Omane Boamah
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Frank Finlay
- Births · János Rózsás
- Births · Elisabeth Beresford
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1027 · Deaths · Richard III
Events · 24
- 686Battle of Khazir — battle of Khazir, took place in August 686 near the Khazir River in Mosul's eastern environs, in modern-day Iraq
- 1284(Julian date)Battle of Meloria — 1284 middle ages battle
- 1538(Julian date)Bogotá — capital city of Colombia
- 1661Treaty of The Hague — 1661 treaty between the Netherlands and Portugal
- 1777Battle of Oriskany — 1777 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1806Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire — abdication of Emperor Francis II on 6 August 1806
- 1824Battle of Junín — 1825 battle during the Peruvian War of Independence
- 1825Bolivian Declaration of Independence — 1825 document declaring Bolivia's independence from Spain
- 1870Battle of Spicheren — 1870 battle during the Franco-Prussian War
- 1870Battle of Wörth — 1870 battle
- 1915Battle of Sari Bair — 1915 battle
- 1917Battle of Mărășești — 1917 battle during the Romanian Campaign of World War I
- 1944Battle of Saint-Malo — 1944 World War II battle
- 1945atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — 1945 use of nuclear weapons against Japan in World War II
- 1945Little Boy — US nuclear bomb
- 1945atomic bombing of Hiroshima — bombardment of Hiroshima in Japan carried out by the United States using an atomic bomb at the end of the Second World War on 6 August 1945
- 1997Korean Air Flight 801 — aviation accident
- 20082008 Mauritanian coup d'état — military overthrow of Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi
- 20102010 Ladakh floods — inondations catastrophiques qui ont eu lieu au Ladakh, en Inde
- 20112011 England riots — 6–11 August 2011 riots in cities and towns across England
- 20112011 Chinook shootdown in Afghanistan — U.S Military helicopter shootdown incident
- 20132013 Rosario gas explosion — gas explosion in a residential area of Rosario, Argentina
- 20152015 Abha mosque bombing — suicide bombing by the Islamic State in Abha, Saudi Arabia
- 2024Kursk campaign — Ukrainian offensive into Russia's Kursk Oblast
Births · 60
- 1180(Julian date)Go-Toba — Emperor of Japan
- 1619Barbara Strozzi — Italian singer and composer (1619-1677)
- 1638Nicolas Malebranche — French philosopher
- 1644Louise de La Vallière — mistress of Louis XIV
- 1651François Fénelon — French archbishop, theologian and writer (1651–1715)
- 1666Maria Sofia of Neuburg — Queen consort of Portugal
- 1667Johann Bernoulli — Swiss mathematician (1667-1748)
- 1697Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor — Holy Roman Emperor
- 1715Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues — French writer, a moralist (1715-1747)
- 1766William Hyde Wollaston — English chemist and physicist (1766–1828)
- 1768Jean-Baptiste Bessières — Marshal of France (1768-1813)
- 1775Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême — French prince (1775–1844)
- 1775Daniel O'Connell — Irish political leader (1775–1847)
- 1809Alfred Tennyson — British Poet Laureate (1809–1892)
- 1844Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha — Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1893 to 1900 (1844–1900)
- 1861Edith Roosevelt — First Lady of the United States from 1901 to 1909
- 1868Paul Claudel — French diplomat, poet and playwright (1868-1955)
- 1874Charles Fort — American writer (1874–1932)
- 1881Alexander Fleming — Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
- 1881Louella Parsons — American gossip columnist (1881-1972)
- 1891William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim — former Governor-General of Australia (1891-1970)
- 1908Helen Jacobs — American tennis player (1908–1997)
- 1910Adoniran Barbosa — Brazilian singer and composer
- 1911Lucille Ball — American actress (1911–1989)
- 1916Dom Mintoff — Maltese politician (1916-2012)
Deaths · 60
- 258(Julian date)Sixtus II — Bishop of Rome from 257 to 258
- 523(Julian date)Hormisdas — 6th-century Italian pope and bishop of Rome, Catholic and Orthodox saint, ended the Acacian Schism and reunited the Eastern and Western churches
- 750(Julian date)Marwan II — Last Umayyad Caliph (691-750) (r. 744-750)
- 1027(Julian date)Richard III — Duke of Normandy (1001-1027)
- 1162Ramon Berenguer IV — Prince of Aragon, Count of Barcelona and consort of the Queen of Aragon
- 1195(Julian date)Henry the Lion — Welf dynasty, Duke of Saxony, as Henry III, and Duke of Bavaria, as Henry XII (1129-1195)
- 1221(Julian date)Saint Dominic — founder of the Dominican Order (1170–1221)
- 1272(Julian date)Stephen V of Hungary — King of Hungary (1239-1272)
- 1384(Julian date)Francesco I Gattilusio — Italian patrician and Archon of Lesbos
- 1412(Julian date)Margaret of Durazzo — Queen of Naples and Hungary
- 1414(Julian date)Ladislaus of Naples — king of Naples (1377-1414)
- 1530(Julian date)Jacopo Sannazaro — Italian writer (1457–1530)
- 1553(Julian date)Girolamo Fracastoro — Italian physician
- 1637(Julian date)Ben Jonson — English playwright, poet, and actor (1572-1637)
- 1660Diego Velázquez — Spanish painter (1599–1660)
- 1753Georg Wilhelm Richmann — Baltic German physicist (1711-1753)
- 1799Marcus Elieser Bloch — German physician and zoologist (1723–1799)
- 1866John Mason Neale — Anglican priest and hymnwriter
- 1881James S. White — American publisher, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1821–1881)
- 1904Eduard Hanslick — Austrian musician and musicologist (1825–1904)
- 1913Reginald Lee — Lookout and Survivor of R.M.S. Titanic (1870-1913)
- 1925Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro — Italian mathematician (1853–1925)
- 1925Surendranath Banerjee — Indian politician and scholar (1848–1925)
- 1931Bix Beiderbecke — American jazz musician (1903-1931)
- 1945Hiram Johnson — California governor (1911-17) and senator (1917-45)
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