What happened on August 6 ?

258 - Saint Pope Sixtus II

523 - Saint Pope Hormisdas

1162 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona

1195 - Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129)

1221 - Saint Dominic, Spanish founder of the Dominicans (b. 1170)

1272 - King Stephen V of Hungary

1414 - King Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377)

1458 - Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)

1623 - Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife) (b. 1556)

1628 - Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573)

1637 - Ben Jonson, English writer (b. 1572)

1645 - Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (b. 1575)

1657 - Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Polish-Lithuanian noble

1660 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)

1679 - John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629)

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), U.S. Senator from Delaware (b. 1767)

1828 - Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman

1850 - Edward Walsh, Irish poet (b. 1805)

1866 - John Mason Neale, English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (b. 1818)

1904 - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)

1914 - Ellen Louise Wilson, First Lady of the United States, first wife of President Woodrow Wilson (b. 1860)

1931 - Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (b. 1903)

1942 - Jonathan Campbell, American film pioneer (b. 1875)

1945 - Prince Wu of Korea (b. 1912)

1945 - Richard Bong, America's all time Ace of Aces (b. 1920)

1946 - Tony Lazzeri, 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)

1973 - Fulgencio Batista, Cuban dictator (b. 1901)

1973 - Memphis Minnie, American blues singer (b. 1897)

1974 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)

1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (b. 1903)

1978 - Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)

1979 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)

1983 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944)

1985 - Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana (b. 1923)

1987 - Quinn Martin, American television producer (b. 1922)

1991 - Harry Reasoner, American reporter (b. 1923)

1993 - Tex Hughson, baseball player (b. 1916)

1994 - Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1928)

1998 - Andre Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)

2001 - Jorge Amado de Faria, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)

2002 - Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)

2004 - Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)

2005 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (b. 1928)

2005 - Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)

2005 - Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1927)