August 6 - Deaths

Deaths

• 258 – Pope Sixtus II (birth date unknown)
• 523 – Pope Hormisdas (b. c. 450)
• 1162 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (b. c. 1113)
• 1195 – Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129)
• 1221 – Saint Dominic, Spanish founder of the Dominican Order (b. 1170)
• 1272 – King Stephen V of Hungary (b. 1239)
• 1414 – King Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377)
• 1458 – Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
• 1623 – Anne Hathaway, English wife of William Shakespeare (b. 1555 or 1556)
• 1628 – Johannes Junius, German Mayor of Bamberg, condemned to death at the Bamberg witch trials (b. 1573)
• 1637 – Ben Jonson, English writer (b. 1572)
• 1645 – Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (b. 1575)
• 1657 – Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian-born Polish-Lithuanian noble
• 1660 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)
• 1679 – John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629)
• 1694 – Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)
• 1695 – François de Harlay de Champvallon, French Catholic archbishop (b. 1625)
• 1753 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)
• 1759 – Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704)
• 1794 – Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)
• 1815 – James A. Bayard (elder), American Senator from Delaware (b. 1767)
• 1828 – Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b. 1785)
• 1850 – Edward Walsh, Irish poet (b. 1805)
• 1866 – John Mason Neale, English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
• 1881 – James Springer White, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)
• 1884 – Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (b. 1812)
• 1890 – William Kemmler, American axe murderer (b. 1860)
• 1893 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
• 1904 – Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
• 1914 – Ellen Louise Wilson, first wife of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson (b. 1860)
• 1920 – Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator, author of the first military flight in independent Poland (b. 1890)
• 1925 – Sir Surendranath Banerjea, Indian leader of the Indian National Congress (b. 1848)
• 1931 – Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz cornetist and pianist (b. 1903)
• 1945 – Richard Bong, American ace fighter pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1920)
• 1945 – Hiram Johnson, American politician (b. 1866)
• 1945 – Wu, Prince of Korea (b. 1912)
• 1946 – Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (b. 1903)
• 1959 – Preston Sturges, American playwright, screenwriter, and director (b. 1898)
• 1964 – Sir Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1893)
• 1966 – Cordwainer Smith, American writer (b. 1913)
• 1969 – Theodor Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
• 1970 – Nikos Tsiforos, Greek screenwriter and film director (b. 1912)
• 1973 – Memphis Minnie, American blues singer (b. 1897)
• 1973 – Fulgencio Batista, Cuban president and de facto leader (b. 1901)
• 1974 – Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
• 1976 – Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (b. 1903)
• 1978 – Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
• 1978 – Edward Durell Stone, American architect (b. 1902)
• 1979 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1911)
• 1983 – Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944)
• 1985 – Forbes Burnham, Guyanese visionary, 3rd President and 1st Prime Minister of Guyana (b. 1923)
• 1986 – Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director (b. 1904)
• 1987 – Ira Eaker, American Air Force leader (b. 1896)
• 1990 – Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Roland Michener, Canadian politician and governor general (b. 1900)
• 1991 – Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian prime minister (assassinated) (b. 1915)
• 1991 – Harry Reasoner, American television reporter (b. 1923)
• 1993 – Tex Hughson, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1994 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
• 1998 – André Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
• 1999 – Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (b. 1934)
• 2001 – Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
• 2001 – Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930)
• 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 R&B singer and multi-instrumentalist (b. 1948)
• 2005 – Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban singer (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
• 2007 – Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian rock guitarist (Bikini, Omen, Carpathia Project Tirana Rockers, solo) (b. 1969)
• 2007 – Heinz Barth, German SS officer (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Angelos Kitsos, Greek lawyer and script writer (b. 1934)
• 2009 – Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer (b. 1909)
• 2009 – John Hughes, American film director (b. 1950)
• 2009 – W. S. Rendra, Indonesian poet and playwright (b. 1935)