Famous People Born on August 6
Famous people born on August 6 include Andy Warhol (1928), Alexander Fleming (1881) and Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809).
BORN ON THIS DAY
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
English poet (1809–1892)
Robin van Persie
Dutch football player and coach (born 1983)
Lucille Ball
American actress (1911–1989)
Michelle Yeoh
Malaysian actress (born 1962)
Paul Claudel
French diplomat, poet and playwright (1868–1955)
Robert Mitchum
American actor (1917–1997)
Johann Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician (1667–1748)
Vera Farmiga
American actress and singer (born 1973)
François Fénelon
French archbishop, theologian and writer (1651–1715)
M. Night Shyamalan
American filmmaker (born 1970)
Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor from 1742 to 1745
Nicolas Malebranche
French priest and rationalist philosopher (1638–1715)
Geri Halliwell
English singer (born 1972)
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
French writer, nobleman and moralist (1715–1747)
Kevin Mitnick
American hacker (1963–2023)
DIED ON THIS DAY
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Pope Paul VI
Head of the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978
Theodor W. Adorno
German philosopher, sociologist, and theorist (1903–1969)
Ben Jonson
English playwright, poet, and actor (1572–1637)
Fulgencio Batista
Leader of Cuba (1934–1944; 1952–1959)
Pope Callixtus III
Head of the Catholic Church from 1455 to 1458
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
Pope Sixtus II
Head of the Catholic Church from 257 to 258
Pope Hormisdas
Head of the Catholic Church from 514 to 523
Jorge Amado
Brazilian writer (1912–2001)
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host from 1648 to 1657
Sources
- August 6 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Andy Warhol — Wikipedia
- Alexander Fleming — Wikipedia
- Diego Velázquez — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths