Famous Deaths Happened In August - 06

0258  Death of Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded on August - 06.   

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  On August - 06 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 this day in history.   

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

1548  On August - 06 georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies   

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  On this day in history ben Johnson, dramatist/playwright, dies at 65   

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 August - 06.   

1661  Jacqueline-M-A the Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess, dies on this day in history.   

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

1679  On this day in history death of john Snell, English royalist (b. 1629)   

1686  Paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60 on August - 06.   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

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

1799  Joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74 on August - 06.   

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 this day in history.   

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 August - 06 birth of barbara Strozzi, composer   

1638  On this day in history birth of nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher   

1644  Francoise L de la Baume Le Blanc, French mistress of Louis XIV was born on this day in history.   

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

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