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 August - 06.   

0966  On August - 06 death of berengarius II, markgraaf of Ivrea/king of Italy (950-963)   

1162  Death of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona on August - 06.   

1195  On August - 06 henry de Leeuw, duke of Saxon/Bayern, dies   

1221  On this day in history death of dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans)   

1272  On this day in history stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72), dies   

1414  On this day in history death of king Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377)   

1458  Callistus III, [Alfonso the Borja], Pope (1455-58), dies at 79 on August - 06.   

1548  On this day in history georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies   

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

1628  Death of Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573) on this day in history.   

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  Jacqueline-M-A the Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess, dies on August - 06.   

1666  Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43 on August - 06.   

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

1686  On August - 06 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 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 this day in history.   

1746  On this day in history christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway, dies   

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

1759  On August - 06 death of eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704)   

1775  Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

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

1784  Karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57 on August - 06.   

1794  On August - 06 death of henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)   

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

1815  On August - 06 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 August - 06 birth of emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)   

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 this day in history.   

1638  On August - 06 birth of nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher   

1644  On August - 06 birth of francoise L de la Baume Le Blanc, French mistress of Louis XIV   

1651  On August - 06 birth of francois Fenelon, France, writer (Playing for Time)   

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