Famous Deaths In August - 06

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

0523  On August - 06 hormisdas, Pope (514-23), dies   

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

1162  On this day in history death of ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona   

1195  Henry de Leeuw, duke of Saxon/Bayern, dies on this day in history.   

1221  On August - 06 death of dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans)   

1272  Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72), dies on this day in history.   

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

1458  On August - 06 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 this day in history.   

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 August - 06.   

1660  Diego Rodriguez de Silva Valezquez, Spanish (court)painter, dies at 61 on August - 06.   

1661  On August - 06 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  Paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60 on August - 06.   

1695  Death of François de Harlay de Champvallon, French Catholic archbishop (b. 1625) on August - 06.   

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

1727  Francois Valentijn, vicar/writer, dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1746  On August - 06 christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway, dies   

1753  On August - 06 death of georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)   

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

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

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

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

1816  On this day in history karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80   

1820  On August - 06 antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59   

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

1619  Barbara Strozzi, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history.   

1651  Johann Michael Zacher, composer was born on this day in history.