| Year |
Month & Date |
Day |
Name |
|---|
| 1180 |
August 6 |
Thursday |
Emperor Go-Toba of Japan |
(d. 1239) |
| 1504 |
August 6 |
Sunday |
Matthew Parker |
Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1575) |
| 1609 |
August 6 |
Thursday |
Richard Bennett |
British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675) |
| 1619 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Barbara Strozzi |
Italian singer and composer (d. 1677) |
| 1638 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Nicolas Malebranche |
French philosopher (d. 1715) |
| 1644 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Louise de la Valli?re |
French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1710) |
| 1656 |
August 6 |
Sunday |
Claude de Forbin |
French naval commander (d. 1733) |
| 1666 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Maria Sofia of the Palatinate |
queen of Portugal (d. 1699) |
| 1697 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Charles VII‚ Holy Roman Emperor |
(d. 1745) |
| 1715 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Luc de Clapiers‚ marquis de Vauvenargues |
French writer (d. 1747) |
| 1766 |
August 6 |
Wednesday |
William Hyde Wollaston |
English chemist (d. 1828) |
| 1768 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Jean-Baptiste Bessi?res |
French marshal (d. 1813) |
| 1775 |
August 6 |
Sunday |
Daniel O'Connell |
Irish politician (d. 1847) |
| 1809 |
August 6 |
Sunday |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
English poet (d. 1892) |
| 1826 |
August 6 |
Sunday |
Thomas Alexander Browne |
Australian writer (d. 1915) |
| 1844 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Alfred‚ Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha |
(d. 1900) |
| 1844 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
James Henry Greathead |
British engineer (d. 1896) |
| 1861 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Edith Roosevelt |
American First Lady of the United States (d. 1948) |
| 1866 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Matthew Henson |
Arctic explorer (d. 1955) |
| 1868 |
August 6 |
Thursday |
Paul Claudel |
French poet (d. 1955) |
| 1874 |
August 6 |
Thursday |
Charles Fort |
American writer and researcher (d. 1932) |
| 1877 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Wallace H. White‚ Jr. |
American politician (d. 1952) |
| 1880 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Hans Moser |
Austrian actor (d. 1964) |
| 1881 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Leo Carrillo |
American actor (d. 1961) |
| 1881 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Alexander Fleming |
Scottish scientist‚ Nobel laureate (d. 1955) |
| 1881 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Louella Parsons |
American gossip columnist (d. 1972) |
| 1883 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Scott Nearing |
American writer‚ educator‚ and activist (d. 1983) |
| 1887 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Dudley Benjafield |
British racing driver (d. 1957) |
| 1888 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Heinrich Schlusnus |
German baritone (d. 1952) |
| 1889 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
George Kenney |
American Air Force General (d. 1977) |
| 1889 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
John Middleton Murry |
English poet (d. 1957) |
| 1891 |
August 6 |
Thursday |
William Slim |
British general (d. 1970) |
| 1892 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Hoot Gibson |
American actor (d. 1962) |
| 1893 |
August 6 |
Sunday |
Wright Patman |
American politician (d. 1976) |
| 1895 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Ernesto Lecuona |
Cuban pianist and composer (d. 1963) |
| 1900 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Cecil H. Green |
American geophysicist (d. 2003) |
| 1902 |
August 6 |
Wednesday |
Dutch Schultz |
American bootlegger (d. 1935) |
| 1904 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Henry Iba |
American basketball coach (d. 1993) |
| 1906 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Vic Dickenson |
American trombonist (d. 1984) |
| 1908 |
August 6 |
Thursday |
Helen Jacobs |
American tennis player (d. 1997) |
| 1908 |
August 6 |
Thursday |
Will Lee |
American actor (d. 1982) |
| 1910 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Charles Crichton |
British film director (d. 1999) |
| 1911 |
August 6 |
Sunday |
Lucille Ball |
American actress (d. 1989) |
| 1911 |
August 6 |
Sunday |
Norman Gordon |
South African cricketer |
| 1911 |
August 6 |
Sunday |
Constance Fecher Heaven |
British romance writer (d. 1995) |
| 1914 |
August 6 |
Thursday |
Arthur Charles Dobson |
British racing driver (d. 1980) |
| 1916 |
August 6 |
Sunday |
Richard Hofstadter |
American historian (d. 1970) |
| 1916 |
August 6 |
Sunday |
Dom Mintoff |
Maltese Prime Minister |
| 1917 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Robert Mitchum |
American actor (d. 1997) |
| 1918 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Norman Granz |
American record producer (d. 2001) |
| 1920 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Ella Raines |
American actress (d. 1988) |
| 1922 |
August 6 |
Sunday |
Sir Freddie Laker |
English entrepreneur (d. 2006) |
| 1923 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Jess Collins |
American artist (d. 2004) |
| 1925 |
August 6 |
Thursday |
Barbara Bates |
American actress (d. 1969) |
| 1926 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Clem Labine |
American baseball player (d. 2007) |
| 1926 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Frank Finlay |
British actor |
| 1926 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Norman Wexler |
American screenwriter (d. 1999) |
| 1928 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Herb Moford |
American baseball player (d. 2005) |
| 1928 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Andy Warhol |
American artist (d. 1987) |
| 1929 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Roch La Salle |
Canadian politician (d. 2007) |
| 1930 |
August 6 |
Wednesday |
Abbey Lincoln |
American jazz singer |
| 1932 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Howard Hodgkin |
British painter |
| 1933 |
August 6 |
Sunday |
A. G. Kripal Singh |
Indian cricketer (d. 1987) |
| 1934 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Piers Anthony |
English writer |
| 1934 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Chris Bonington |
British mountaineer |
| 1934 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Billy Boston |
Welsh rugby league footballer |
| 1937 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Baden Powell de Aquino |
Brazilian guitarist (d. 2000) |
| 1937 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Barbara Windsor |
English actress |
| 1938 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Paul Bartel |
American actor (d. 2000) |
| 1938 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Peter Bonerz |
American actor |
| 1940 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Mukhu Aliyev |
Russian politician‚ President of Dagestan |
| 1940 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Louise Sorel |
American actress |
| 1941 |
August 6 |
Wednesday |
Lyle Berman |
American poker player |
| 1941 |
August 6 |
Wednesday |
Ray Culp |
American baseball player |
| 1942 |
August 6 |
Thursday |
George Jung |
American convicted drug felon |
| 1943 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Jon Postel |
American computer scientist (d. 1998) |
| 1945 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Ron Jones |
British TV director (d. 1993) |
| 1945 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Andy Messersmith |
American baseball player |
| 1946 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Allan Holdsworth |
British musician |
| 1946 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Roh Moo-hyun |
former President of South Korea (d. 2009) |
| 1946 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Masaaki Sakai |
Japanese comedian |
| 1947 |
August 6 |
Wednesday |
Tony Dell |
Australian cricketer |
| 1949 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Dino Bravo |
Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1993) |
| 1949 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Alan Campbell |
Northern Irish clergyman |
| 1949 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Clarence Richard Silva |
Catholic Bishop of Honolulu |
| 1950 |
August 6 |
Sunday |
Dorian Harewood |
American actor |
| 1951 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Catherine Hicks |
American actress |
| 1951 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Daryl Somers |
Australian television personality |
| 1952 |
August 6 |
Wednesday |
Vinnie Vincent |
American musician (Kiss) |
| 1953 |
August 6 |
Thursday |
Iqbal Qasim |
Pakistani cricketer |
| 1954 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Paul Steigerwald |
American sports announcer |
| 1955 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Rusty Magee |
American composer (d. 2003) |
| 1955 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Gregory Bryant-Bey |
American convicted murderer (d. 2008) |
| 1957 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Bob Horner |
American baseball player |
| 1957 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Jim McGreevey |
American politician |
| 1960 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Dale Ellis |
American basketball player |
| 1962 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Marc Lavoine |
French singer and actor |
| 1962 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Michelle Yeoh |
Chinese-Malaysian actress |
| 1963 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Kevin Mitnick |
American computer hacker |
| 1963 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Charles Ingram |
British controversial contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? |
| 1964 |
August 6 |
Thursday |
Moosie Drier |
American actor and director |
| 1964 |
August 6 |
Thursday |
Gary Valenciano |
Filipino singer |
| 1965 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Yuki Kajiura |
Japanese composer |
| 1965 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Juliane Kohler |
German actress |
| 1965 |
August 6 |
Friday |
David Robinson |
American basketball player |
| 1965 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Mark Speight |
British television presenter (d. 2008) |
| 1965 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Vincent Wells |
England cricketer |
| 1967 |
August 6 |
Sunday |
Archbishop Alexy |
Ukrainian-born theologian |
| 1967 |
August 6 |
Sunday |
Mike Greenberg |
American sportscaster |
| 1967 |
August 6 |
Sunday |
Julie Snyder |
Quebec talk show host and producer |
| 1969 |
August 6 |
Wednesday |
Simon Doull |
New Zealand cricketer |
| 1969 |
August 6 |
Wednesday |
Elliott Smith |
American musician (d. 2003) |
| 1970 |
August 6 |
Thursday |
M. Night Shyamalan |
Indian/American film director |
| 1970 |
August 6 |
Thursday |
Erwin Thijs |
Belgian cyclist |
| 1971 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Merrin Dungey |
American actress |
| 1971 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Scott Minto |
English footballer |
| 1971 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Piyal Wijetunge |
Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 1972 |
August 6 |
Sunday |
Geri Halliwell |
British singer (Spice Girls) |
| 1973 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Vera Farmiga |
American actress |
| 1973 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Karenna Gore Schiff |
American author and political figure |
| 1973 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Max Kellerman |
American sportscaster |
| 1973 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Stuart O'Grady |
Australian cyclist |
| 1974 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Ever Carradine |
American actress |
| 1974 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Luis Vizcaino |
Dominican baseball player |
| 1974 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Alvin Williams |
American basketball player |
| 1975 |
August 6 |
Wednesday |
Victor Zambrano |
Venezuelan baseball player |
| 1975 |
August 6 |
Wednesday |
Renate Gotschl |
Austrian alpine skier |
| 1975 |
August 6 |
Wednesday |
Jamie McGonnigal |
American actor |
| 1976 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Melissa George |
Australian actress |
| 1976 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Soleil Moon Frye |
American actress |
| 1977 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Leandro Amaral |
Brazilian footballer |
| 1977 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Jennifer Lyons |
American actress |
| 1977 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Jimmy Nielsen |
Danish footballer |
| 1977 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Luciano Zavagno |
Argentine footballer |
| 1978 |
August 6 |
Sunday |
Marisa Miller |
American model |
| 1978 |
August 6 |
Sunday |
Brian Maillard |
Swiss guitarist (Dominici) |
| 1979 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Francesco Bellotti |
Italian cyclist |
| 1980 |
August 6 |
Wednesday |
Danny Collins |
Welsh footballer |
| 1980 |
August 6 |
Wednesday |
Wilber Pan |
American/Taiwanese singer |
| 1980 |
August 6 |
Wednesday |
Seneca Wallace |
American football player |
| 1982 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Adrianne Curry |
American model and reality television personality |
| 1982 |
August 6 |
Friday |
Kevin van der Perren |
Belgian figure skater |
| 1983 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Robin van Persie |
Dutch footballer |
| 1983 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
C. J. Mosley |
American football player |
| 1984 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Vedad Ibisevic |
Bosnian footballer |
| 1985 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Bafetimbi Gomis |
French footballer |
| 1985 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Garrett Weber-Gale |
American swimmer |
| 1985 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Mickael Delage |
French cyclist |
| 1986 |
August 6 |
Wednesday |
Raphael Pyrasch |
German rugby player |
| 1988 |
August 6 |
Saturday |
Jared Murillo |
American dancer |
| 1990 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Jon Benet Ramsey |
American beauty pageant contestant and murder victim (d. 1996) |
| 1991 |
August 6 |
Tuesday |
Jiao Liuyang |
Chinese swimmer |
| 2001 |
August 6 |
Monday |
Ty Simpkins |
American actor |
