The August 6th is the 218e Jour of the Année (219e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.
Events
1 to 1900
XXe century
XXIe century
Births
Death
- 258 : the pope Sixth II
- 523: the pope Hormisdas
- 1458: the pope Calixte III
- 1503: Rodrigo Borgia (° 1431), pope since 1492 under the name of Alexandre VI
- 1890: William Kemmler, first prisoner carried out by the Electric chair
- 1973: Fulgencio Batista, cuban dictator (° 1901)
- 1978: Paul VI, born Giovanni Battista Montini, Pope
- 1983: Klaus Sperber, known as Klaus Nomi, one of the very first celebrities to die of the causes of the AIDS.
- 1987 : Leon Christmas, French politician, first president of the Constitutional council.
- 1988
- 1989: Hubert Beuve-Méry, French journalist, founder of the daily newspaper Le Monde
- 1990: Jacques Soustelle, politician and ethnologist French (° February 3rd 1912)
- 1991: Roland Michener, Canadian politician
- 1998: Andre Weil, French mathematician
- 2001: Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer
- 2002: Edsger Dijkstra, Mathematician and data processing specialist Dutch
- 2004: Rick James, American Singer
- 2005: Robin Cook, British politician
- 2005: Ibrahim Ferrer, singer Cuba in, member of the Buena Vista Social Club
- 2007: Heinz Barth, war criminal German, responsible for the Massacre for Oradour-on-Glane (° October 15th 1920)
Celebrations
- Christian Festival of the Transfiguration of the Christ on the mount Thabor (catholic, orthodoxe).
See too
Beats-smg: Rogpjūtė 6
Be-X-old: 6 жніўня
Fiu-vro: 6. põimukuu päiv
Nds-nl: 6 augustus
Simple: August 6
Zh-yue: 8 月 6 號