August 6 - Deaths

Deaths

• 258 – Pope Sixtus II
• 523 – Pope Hormisdas (b. 450)
• 1162 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (b. 1113)
• 1195 – Henry the Lion, German son of Henry X, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1129)
• 1221 – Saint Dominic, Spanish founder of the Dominican Order (b. 1170)
• 1272 – Stephen V of Hungary (b. 1239)
• 1414 – Ladislaus 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 politician, victim of the Bamberg witch trials (b. 1573)
• 1637 – Ben Jonson, English writer (b. 1572)
• 1645 – Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant and politician (b. 1575)
• 1657 – Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian hetman (b. 1595)
• 1660 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)
• 1679 – John Snell, Scottish-English founder of the Snell Exhibition (b. 1629)
• 1694 – Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)
• 1695 – François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop (b. 1625)
• 1753 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (b. 1711)
• 1757 – Ádám Mányoki, Hungarian painter (b. 1673)
• 1759 – Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704)
• 1794 – Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, English lawyer and politician (b. 1714)
• 1815 – James A. Bayard, American politician (b. 1767)
• 1828 – Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and diplomat (b. 1785)
• 1850 – Edward Walsh, Irish poet (b. 1805)
• 1866 – John Mason Neale, English scholar and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
• 1881 – James Springer White, American preacher and author, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)
• 1884 – Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (b. 1812)
• 1890 – William Kemmler, American murderer (b. 1860)
• 1893 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician (b. 1811)
• 1904 – Eduard Hanslick, Austrian critic (b. 1825)
• 1914 – Ellen Axson Wilson, American wife of Woodrow Wilson, 29th First Lady of the United States (b. 1860)
• 1920 – Stefan Bastyr, Polish pilot and author (b. 1890)
• 1925 – Surendranath Banerjee, Indian leader of the Indian National Congress (b. 1848)
• 1931 – Bix Beiderbecke, American cornetist, pianist, and composer (The Wolverines) (b. 1903)
• 1945 – Richard Bong, American pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1920)
• 1945 – Hiram Johnson, American politician (b. 1866)
• 1945 – Yi Wu, Korean prince and army officer (b. 1912)
• 1946 – Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (b. 1903)
• 1957 – Ernest Linton, Canadian football player (b. 1880)
• 1959 – Preston Sturges, American playwright, screenwriter, and director (b. 1898)
• 1964 – Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1893)
• 1966 – Cordwainer Smith, American writer (b. 1913)
• 1969 – Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
• 1970 – Nikos Tsiforos, Greek screenwriter and director (b. 1912)
• 1973 – Fulgencio Batista, Cuban military leader and politician, President of Cuba (b. 1901)
• 1973 – Memphis Minnie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1897)
• 1974 – Gene Ammons, American saxophonist (b. 1925)
• 1976 – Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-American cellist (b. 1903)
• 1978 – Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
• 1978 – Edward Durell Stone, American architect, designed Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center (b. 1902)
• 1979 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1983 – Klaus Nomi, German singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1944)
• 1985 – Forbes Burnham, Guyanese politician, 2nd President of Guyana (b. 1923)
• 1986 – Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1904)
• 1987 – Ira C. Eaker, American general (b. 1896)
• 1990 – Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician, 74th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1915)
• 1991 – Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 20th Governor General of Canada (b. 1900)
• 1991 – Harry Reasoner, American journalist (b. 1923)
• 1992 – Leszek Błażyński, Polish boxer (b. 1949)
• 1993 – Tex Hughson, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1994 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter, actor, and politician (b. 1928)
• 1998 – André Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
• 1999 – Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (b. 1934)
• 2001 – Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
• 2001 – Wilhelm Mohnke, German SS staff guard (b. 1911)
• 2001 – Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930)
• 2002 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
• 2004 – Rick James, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (The Mynah Birds) (b. 1948)
• 2005 – Keter Betts, American bassist (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Robin Cook, Scottish politician (b. 1946)
• 2005 – Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban singer (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1927)
• 2007 – Heinz Barth, German SS officer (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (Bikini) (b. 1969)
• 2008 – Angelos Kitsos, Greek lawyer, scriptwriter, and author (b. 1934)
• 2009 – Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer (b. 1909)
• 2009 – Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mink DeVille) (b. 1950)
• 2009 – John Hughes, American director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1950)
• 2009 – W. S. Rendra, Indonesian poet and playwright (b. 1935)
• 2011 – Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician (b. 1911)
• 2012 – Richard Cragun, American ballet dancer (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Marvin Hamlisch, American composer, conductor, and pianist (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Robert Hughes, Australian critic and writer (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Bernard Lovell, English physicist and astronomer (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Mark O'Donnell, American playwright and author (b. 1954)
• 2012 – Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Dan Roundfield, American basketball player (b. 1953)
• 2012 – Eleftherios Verivakis, Greek politician (b. 1935)