August 6 Events 1284 - The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa , thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean. 1538 - Bogotá , Colombia , is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada . 1661 - The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic . 1777 - American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix . 1787 - Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . 1806 - Francis II , the last Holy Roman Emperor , abdicates, ending the Holy Roman Empire . 1819 - Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States. 1824 - Peruvian War of Independence: The Battle of Junín . 1825 - Bolivia gains independence from Spain. 1861 - The United Kingdom annexes Lagos , Nigeria . 1862 - American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana . 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory. 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory. 1890 - At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair . 1901 - Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation . 1912 - The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum . 1914 - World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium , ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea . 1914 - World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia . 1915 - World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay . 1917 - World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins. 1926 - Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel . 1926 - In New York City , the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore . 1930 - Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears, never to be seen again. 1940 - Estonia is illegally annexed by the Soviet Union . 1942 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress . 1944 - The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1 . It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising , that was planned but never carried out. 1945 - World War II: Hiroshima , Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay . Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning . 1956 - After going bankrupt in 1955 , the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series. 1960 - Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation. 1962 - Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom. 1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. 1986 - A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia . 1990 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait . 1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web . WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet . 1991 - Takako Doi , chair of the Social Democratic Party , becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives. 1996 - The Ramones played their farewell concert at The Palace, Los Angeles, CA. 1996 - NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars , contains evidence of primitive life-forms. 1997 - Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill , Guam killing 228 of 254 people on board. 2001 - Erwadi fire incident , 28 mentally ill persons tied to a chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi , Tamil Nadu . 2008 - A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania , overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi . 2010 - Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India , damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people. 2011 - War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down , killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan . 2012 - NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars. 2015 - A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha .Births 1180 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan 1504 - Matthew Parker , English archbishop 1572 - Fakhr-al-Din II , Ottoman prince 1605 - Bulstrode Whitelocke , English lawyer 1609 - Richard Bennett , English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia 1619 - Barbara Strozzi , Italian composer and singer-songwriter 1622 - Tjerk Hiddes de Vries , Dutch admiral 1638 - Nicolas Malebranche , French priest and philosopher 1644 - Louise de La Vallière , French mistress of Louis XIV of France 1651 - François Fénelon , French archbishop and poet 1656 - Claude de Forbin , French general 1666 - Maria Sophia of Neuburg 1667 - Johann Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician 1697 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor 1715 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues , French author 1765 - Petros Mavromichalis , Greek general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Greece 1766 - William Hyde Wollaston , English chemist and physicist 1768 - Jean-Baptiste Bessières , French general and politician 1775 - Daniel O'Connell , Irish lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Dublin 1809 - Alfred, Lord Tennyson , English poet 1826 - Thomas Alexander Browne , English-Australian author 1835 - Hjalmar Kiærskou , Danish botanist 1844 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1844 - James Henry Greathead , South African-English engineer 1848 - Susie Taylor , American writer and first African-American Army nurse 1846 - Anna Haining Bates , Canadian-American giant 1868 - Paul Claudel , French poet and playwright 1874 - Charles Fort , American author 1877 - Wallace H. White Jr., American lawyer and politician 1880 - Hans Moser , Austrian actor and singer 1881 - Leo Carrillo , American actor 1881 - Alexander Fleming , Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate 1881 - Louella Parsons , American journalist 1883 - Scott Nearing , American economist and educator 1886 - Edward Ballantine , American composer and academic 1887 - Dudley Benjafield , English racing driver 1889 - George Kenney , Canadian-American general 1889 - John Middleton Murry , English poet and author 1890 - Wentworth Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Allendale , English captain and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland 1891 - William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim , English field marshal and politician, 13th Governor-General of Australia 1892 - Hoot Gibson , American actor, director, and producer 1893 - Wright Patman , American lieutenant and politician 1895 - Ernesto Lecuona , Cuban pianist and composer 1895 - Frank Nicklin , Australian politician, 28th Premier of Queensland 1900 - Cecil Howard Green , English-American geophysicist and businessman, co-founded Texas Instruments 1902 - Dutch Schultz , American gangster 1903 - Virginia Foster Durr , American civil rights activist 1904 - Jean Dessès , Greek-Egyptian fashion designer 1904 - Henry Iba , American basketball player and coach 1906 - Vic Dickenson , American trombonist 1908 - Maria Ludwika Bernhard , Polish classical archaeologist and a member of WWII Polish resistance 1908 - Helen Jacobs , American tennis player and commander 1908 - Lajos Vajda , Hungarian painter and illustrator 1909 - Diana Keppel, Countess of Albemarle 1910 - Adoniran Barbosa , Brazilian musician, singer, composer, humorist, and actor 1910 - Charles Crichton , English director, producer, and screenwriter 1911 - Lucille Ball , American actress, television producer and businesswoman 1911 - Norman Gordon , South African cricketer 1911 - Constance Heaven , English author and actress 1912 - Richard C. Miller, American photographer 1914 - Gordon Freeth , Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs 1916 - Richard Hofstadter , American historian and academic 1916 - Dom Mintoff , Maltese journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Malta 1917 - Barbara Cooney , American author and illustrator 1917 - Robert Mitchum , American actor 1918 - Norman Granz , American-Swiss record producer and manager 1919 - Pauline Betz , American tennis player 1920 - Selma Diamond , Canadian-American actress and screenwriter 1920 - John Graves , American author 1920 - Ella Raines , American actress 1922 - Freddie Laker , English businessman, founded Laker Airways 1922 - Dan Walker , American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Illinois 1923 - Jess Collins , American painter 1923 - Paul Hellyer , Canadian engineer and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of Defence 1924 - Samuel Bowers , American activist, co-founded the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan 1926 - Elisabeth Beresford , French-English journalist and author 1926 - Frank Finlay , English actor 1926 - Clem Labine , American baseball player and manager 1926 - János Rózsás , Hungarian author 1926 - Norman Wexler , American screenwriter 1928 - Herb Moford , American baseball player 1928 - Andy Warhol , American painter and photographer 1929 - Mike Elliott , Jamaican saxophonist 1929 - Roch La Salle , Canadian politician, 42nd Canadian Minister of Public Works 1930 - Abbey Lincoln , American singer-songwriter and actress 1931 - Chalmers Johnson , American scholar and author 1932 - Michael Deeley , English screenwriter and producer 1932 - Howard Hodgkin , English painter 1932 - Charles Wood , English playwright and screenwriter 1933 - A. G. Kripal Singh, Indian cricketer 1934 - Piers Anthony , English-American soldier and author 1934 - Chris Bonington , English mountaineer and author 1934 - Billy Boston , Welsh rugby player and soldier 1935 - Fortunato Baldelli , Italian cardinal 1935 - Octavio Getino , Spanish-Argentinian director and screenwriter 1937 - Baden Powell de Aquino , Brazilian guitarist and composer 1937 - Charlie Haden , American bassist and composer 1937 - Barbara Windsor , English actress 1938 - Paul Bartel , American actor, director, and screenwriter 1938 - Peter Bonerz , American actor and director 1938 - Bert Yancey , American golfer 1940 - Mukhu Aliyev , Russian philologist and politician, 2nd President of Dagestan 1940 - Egil Kapstad , Norwegian pianist and composer 1940 - Louise Sorel , American actress 1941 - Ray Culp , American baseball player 1941 - Andrew Green, Baron Green of Deddington , English diplomat 1942 - Byard Lancaster , American saxophonist and flute player 1943 - Jon Postel , American computer scientist and academic 1944 - Inday Badiday , Filipino journalist and actress 1944 - Michael Mingos , English chemist and academic 1944 - Martin Wharton , English bishop 1945 - Ron Jones , English director and production manager 1946 - Allan Holdsworth , English guitarist, songwriter, and producer 1947 - Radhia Cousot , French computer scientist and academic 1947 - Tony Dell , English-Australian cricketer and soldier 1948 - William McCrea , Northern Irish politician 1949 - Dino Bravo , Italian-Canadian wrestler 1949 - Richard Prince , American painter and photographer 1949 - Clarence Richard Silva , American bishop 1950 - Dorian Harewood , American actor 1951 - Catherine Hicks , American actress 1951 - Daryl Somers , Australian television host and singer 1952 - Pat MacDonald , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1952 - David McLetchie , Scottish lawyer and politician 1952 - Ton Scherpenzeel , Dutch keyboard player, songwriter, and producer 1954 - Mark Hughes , English-Australian rugby league player 1956 - Bill Emmott , English journalist and author 1957 - Bob Horner , American baseball player 1957 - Jim McGreevey , American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of New Jersey 1958 - Randy DeBarge , American singer-songwriter and bass player 1959 - Rajendra Singh , Indian environmentalist 1960 - Dale Ellis , American basketball player 1961 - Mary Ann Sieghart , English journalist and radio host 1962 - Michelle Yeoh , Malaysian-Hong Kong actress and producer 1963 - Charles Ingram , English soldier, author, and game show contestant 1963 - Kevin Mitnick , American computer hacker and author 1964 - Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo , Nigerian journalist, activist, social media expert, and pharmacist 1965 - Stéphane Peterhansel , French racing driver 1965 - Yuki Kajiura , Japanese pianist and composer 1965 - David Robinson , American basketball player and lieutenant 1965 - Vince Wells , English cricketer 1967 - Lorna Fitzsimons , English businesswoman and politician 1967 - Mike Greenberg , American journalist and sportscaster 1967 - Julie Snyder , Canadian talk show host and producer 1968 - Jack de Gier , Dutch footballer 1969 - Simon Doull , New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster 1969 - Elliott Smith , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1970 - M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, producer, and screenwriter 1972 - Paolo Bacigalupi , American author 1972 - Darren Eales , English footballer and lawyer 1972 - Geri Halliwell , English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress 1972 - Ray Lucas , American football player and sportscaster 1973 - Vera Farmiga , American actress 1973 - Max Kellerman , American sportscaster and radio host 1973 - Iain Morris , English screenwriter and producer 1973 - Stuart O'Grady , Australian cyclist 1974 - Bobby Petta , Dutch footballer 1974 - Luis Vizcaíno , Dominican baseball player 1974 - Alvin Williams , American basketball player and coach 1975 - Jason Crump , English-Australian motorcycle racer 1975 - Renate Götschl , Austrian skier 1975 - Víctor Zambrano , Venezuelan baseball player 1976 - Soleil Moon Frye , American actress and producer 1976 - Melissa George , Australian-American actress 1976 - Adam Ritson , Australian rugby league player 1976 - Shaun Timmins , Australian rugby league player 1977 - Leandro Amaral , Brazilian footballer 1977 - Rebecca Maddern , Australian journalist and television host 1977 - Jimmy Nielsen , Danish footballer and manager 1977 - Luciano Zavagno , Argentinian footballer 1978 - Marvel Smith , American football player 1979 - Francesco Bellotti , Italian cyclist 1979 - Jaime Correa , Mexican footballer 1979 - Travis Reed , American basketball player 1980 - Danny Collins , English-Welsh footballer 1980 - Seneca Wallace , American football player 1980 - Roman Weidenfeller , German footballer 1980 - Vitantonio Liuzzi , Italian racing driver 1981 - Diána Póth , Hungarian figure skater 1983 - Neil Harvey , English-Barbadian footballer 1983 - C. J. Mosley, American football player 1983 - Robin van Persie , Dutch footballer 1984 - Vedad Ibišević , Bosnian footballer 1984 - Jesse Ryder , New Zealand cricketer 1985 - Viktoria Baškite , Estonian chess player 1985 - Mickaël Delage , French cyclist 1985 - Bafétimbi Gomis , French footballer 1985 - Garrett Weber-Gale , American swimmer 1986 - Mehmet Akgün , Turkish footballer 1986 - Raphael Pyrasch , German rugby player 1987 - Leanne Crichton , Scottish footballer 1991 - Jiao Liuyang , Chinese swimmer 1992 - Tara Moore , British tennis player 1995 - Rebecca Peterson , Swedish tennis playerDeaths 258 - Pope Sixtus II 523 - Pope Hormisdas 750 - Marwan II , Umayyad general and caliph 1027 - Richard III, Duke of Normandy 1162 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona 1195 - Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria 1221 - Saint Dominic , Spanish priest, founded the Dominican Order 1272 - Stephen V of Hungary 1384 - Francesco I of Lesbos 1412 - Margherita of Durazzo , Queen consort of Charles III of Naples 1414 - Ladislaus of Naples 1458 - Pope Callixtus III 1530 - Jacopo Sannazaro , Italian poet 1553 - Girolamo Fracastoro , Italian physician 1628 - Johannes Junius , German lawyer and politician 1637 - Ben Jonson , English poet and playwright 1645 - Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex , English merchant and politician 1657 - Bohdan Khmelnytsky , Ukrainian soldier and politician, 1st Hetman of Zaporizhian Host 1660 - Diego Velázquez , Spanish painter and educator 1666 - Tjerk Hiddes de Vries, Frisian naval hero and commander 1679 - John Snell , Scottish-English soldier and philanthropist, founded the Snell Exhibition 1694 - Antoine Arnauld , French mathematician and philosopher 1695 - François de Harlay de Champvallon , French archbishop 1753 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann , Estonian-Russian physicist and academic 1757 - Ádám Mányoki , Hungarian painter 1794 - Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst , English lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain 1815 - James A. Bayard, American lawyer and politician 1828 - Konstantin von Benckendorff , Russian general and diplomat 1850 - Edward Walsh , Irish poet and songwriter 1866 - John Mason Neale , English priest, scholar, and hymnwriter 1881 - James Springer White , American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church 1893 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel , Swiss lawyer and politician 1904 - Eduard Hanslick , Austrian author and critic 1906 - George Waterhouse , English-New Zealand politician, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand 1915 - Jennie de la Montagnie Lozier , American physician 1920 - Stefan Bastyr , Polish pilot and author 1925 - Surendranath Banerjee , Indian academic and politician 1925 - Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro , Italian mathematician 1931 - Bix Beiderbecke , American cornet player, pianist, and composer 1945 - Richard Bong , American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient 1945 - Hiram Johnson , American lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of California 1946 - Tony Lazzeri , American baseball player and coach 1952 - Betty Allan , Australian statistician and biometrician 1959 - Preston Sturges , American director, screenwriter, and playwright 1964 - Cedric Hardwicke , English actor and director 1969 - Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher 1970 - Nikos Tsiforos , Greek director and screenwriter 1973 - Fulgencio Batista , Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba 1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky , Russian-American cellist and educator 1978 - Pope Paul VI 1978 - Edward Durell Stone , American architect, designed Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center 1979 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen , German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1983 - Klaus Nomi , German singer-songwriter and actor 1985 - Forbes Burnham , Guyanese politician, 2nd President of Guyana 1986 - Emilio Fernández , Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter 1987 - Ira C. Eaker, American general 1990 - Jacques Soustelle , French anthropologist and politician 1991 - Shapour Bakhtiar , Iranian soldier and politician, 74th Prime Minister of Iran 1991 - Roland Michener , Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada 1991 - Harry Reasoner , American journalist, co-created 60 Minutes 1992 - Leszek Błażyński , Polish boxer 1993 - Tex Hughson , American baseball player 1994 - Domenico Modugno , Italian singer-songwriter and politician 1997 - Shin Ki-ha , South Korean lawyer and politician 1998 - André Weil , French-American mathematician and academic 2001 - Jorge Amado , Brazilian novelist and poet 2001 - Adhar Kumar Chatterji , Indian Naval officer 2001 - Wilhelm Mohnke , German general 2001 - Shan Ratnam , Sri Lankan physician and academic 2001 - Dorothy Tutin , English actress 2002 - Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch physicist, computer scientist, and academic 2003 - Julius Baker , American flute player and educator 2004 - Rick James , American singer-songwriter and producer 2004 - Donald Justice , American poet and academic 2005 - Robin Cook , Scottish educator and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 2007 - Zsolt Daczi , Hungarian guitarist 2008 - Angelos Kitsos , Greek lawyer and author 2009 - Riccardo Cassin , Italian mountaineer and author 2009 - Willy DeVille , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 2009 - John Hughes , American director, producer, and screenwriter 2011 - Fe del Mundo , Filipino pediatrician and educator 2012 - Richard Cragun , American-Brazilian ballet dancer and choreographer 2012 - Marvin Hamlisch , American pianist, composer, and conductor 2012 - Robert Hughes , Australian-American author and critic 2012 - Bernard Lovell , English physicist and astronomer 2012 - Mark O'Donnell , American playwright 2012 - Ruggiero Ricci , American violinist and educator 2012 - Dan Roundfield , American basketball player 2013 - Stan Lynde , American author and illustrator 2013 - Mava Lee Thomas , American baseball player 2013 - Jerry Wolman , American businessman 2014 - Ralph Bryans , Northern Irish motorcycle racer 2014 - Ananda W.P. Guruge, Sri Lankan scholar and diplomat 2014 - John Woodland Hastings , American biochemist and academic 2015 - Ray Hill , American football player 2015 - Orna Porat , German-Israeli actress 2017 - Betty Cuthbert , Australian sprinter 2017 - Darren Daulton , American baseball player 2018 - Joël Robuchon , French Chef 2018 - Margaret Heckler , American politician 2018 - Anya Krugovoy Silver , American poetHolidays and observances *Blessed Anna Maria Rubatto *Hormisdas *Justus and Pastor *August 6 H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession Day . Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bolivia from Spain in 1825 . Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Jamaica from the United Kingdom in 1962 . Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony Russian Railway Troops Day
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