Famous Deaths Happened 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  Death of Berengarius II, markgraaf of Ivrea/king of Italy (950-963) on August - 06.   

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

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

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

1548  Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies on this day in history.   

1623  On August - 06 anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, dies   

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 this day in history.   

1660  Diego Rodriguez de Silva Valezquez, Spanish (court)painter, dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1661  Jacqueline-M-A the Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess, dies on August - 06.   

1666  On this day in history tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43   

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

1686  Paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

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

1718  Death of Jacob F Muller, [Sjako/Jaco], Germ/Neth crowd leader, beheaded at 28 on this day in history.   

1727  On this day in history francois Valentijn, vicar/writer, dies at 61   

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

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

1759  On this day in history death of eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704)   

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

1783  Willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70 on August - 06.   

1784  Karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

1794  Death of Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714) on August - 06.   

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

1815  Death of James A. Bayard (elder), United States Senator from Delaware (b. 1767) on this day in history.   

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 August - 06.   

1504  Matthew "Nosey" Parker, archbishop of Canterbury was born on this day in history.   

1609  Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675) was born on August - 06.   

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

1638  Nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher was born on this day in history.   

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