Famous Deaths In August - 06

0258  On this day in history death of sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded  

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

0966  On August - 06 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  Henry de Leeuw, duke of Saxon/Bayern, dies on August - 06.  

1221  Death of Dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans) on August - 06.  

1272  Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72), dies on August - 06.  

1414  Death of King Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377) on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1628  On August - 06 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 this day in history.  

1657  Death of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Polish-Lithuanian noble on August - 06.  

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  On this day in history tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43  

1679  Death of John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629) on August - 06.  

1686  On August - 06 paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60  

1695  On August - 06 death of françois de Harlay de Champvallon, French Catholic archbishop (b. 1625)  

1718  On August - 06 death of jacob F Muller, [Sjako/Jaco], Germ/Neth crowd leader, beheaded at 28  

1727  Francois Valentijn, vicar/writer, dies at 61 on August - 06.  

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

1753  Death of Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711) on August - 06.  

1759  Death of Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704) on August - 06.  

1775  On August - 06 heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer, dies at 72  

1783  On August - 06 willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70  

1784  On this day in history karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57  

1794  Death of Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714) on this day in history.  

1799  On August - 06 joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74  

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 this day in history.  

1820  Antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.  

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1180  On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)  

1504  Matthew "Nosey" Parker, archbishop of Canterbury was born on August - 06.  

1609  On this day in history birth of richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)  

1619  On this day in history birth of barbara Strozzi, composer  

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

1644  Francoise L de la Baume Le Blanc, French mistress of Louis XIV was born on August - 06.  

1651  On this day in history birth of francois Fenelon, France, writer (Playing for Time)  

1651  Johann Michael Zacher, composer was born on August - 06.