Famous Deaths In August - 06

0258  Death of Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded on this day in history.  

0523  Hormisdas, Pope (514-23), dies on this day in history.  

0966  On this day in history death of berengarius II, markgraaf of Ivrea/king of Italy (950-963)  

1162  On August - 06 death of ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona  

1195  On this day in history henry de Leeuw, duke of Saxon/Bayern, dies  

1221  Death of Dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans) on this day in history.  

1272  On August - 06 stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72), dies  

1414  Death of King Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377) on August - 06.  

1458  Callistus III, [Alfonso the Borja], Pope (1455-58), dies at 79 on this day in history.  

1548  Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies on August - 06.  

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1623  Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, dies on August - 06.  

1628  On this day in history death of johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573)  

1637  Ben Johnson, dramatist/playwright, dies at 65 on August - 06.  

1645  Death of Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (b. 1575) on August - 06.  

1657  Death of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Polish-Lithuanian noble on this day in history.  

1660  On August - 06 diego Rodriguez de Silva Valezquez, Spanish (court)painter, dies at 61  

1661  On this day in history jacqueline-M-A the Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess, dies  

1666  Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43 on this day in history.  

1679  On August - 06 death of john Snell, English royalist (b. 1629)  

1686  On this day in history paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60  

1695  Death of François de Harlay de Champvallon, French Catholic archbishop (b. 1625) on this day in history.  

1718  On this day in history death of jacob F Muller, [Sjako/Jaco], Germ/Neth crowd leader, beheaded at 28  

1727  On August - 06 francois Valentijn, vicar/writer, dies at 61  

1746  Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway, dies on this day in history.  

1753  On this day in history death of georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)  

1759  Death of Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704) on this day in history.  

1775  On this day in history heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer, dies at 72  

1783  Willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70 on this day in history.  

1784  On August - 06 karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57  

1794  On this day in history death of henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)  

1799  Joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.  

1815  On this day in history death of james A. Bayard (elder), United States Senator from Delaware (b. 1767)  

1816  Karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80 on August - 06.  

1820  On this day in history antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59  

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1180  Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239) was born on this day in history.  

1504  On this day in history birth of matthew "Nosey" Parker, archbishop of Canterbury  

1609  On August - 06 birth of richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)  

1619  Barbara Strozzi, composer was born on August - 06.  

1638  Nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher was born on August - 06.  

1644  On this day in history birth of francoise L de la Baume Le Blanc, French mistress of Louis XIV  

1651  Francois Fenelon, France, writer (Playing for Time) was born on August - 06.  

1651  On this day in history birth of johann Michael Zacher, composer