Anniversaries 6 August

Birth

Nicolas Malebranche2

philosopher 1638–1715

François Fénelon43

Catholic bishop 1651–1715

Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues60

French writer, a moralist 1715–1747

Daniel O'Connell10

Irish political leader 1775–1847

Friedrich List15

German economist with dual American citizenship 1789–1846

William Alcott6

American physician and author 1798–1859

Alfred, Lord Tennyson213

British poet laureate 1809–1892

Judah P. Benjamin2

American politician and lawyer 1811–1884

Andrew Taylor Still5

Founder of Osteopathic Medicine 1828–1917

Robert Charles (scholar)1

Biblical scholar, theologian 1855–1931

Paul Claudel6

French diplomat 1868–1955

Frank I. Cobb1

American newspaper editor 1869–1923

Charles Fort30

American writer 1874–1932

Alexander Fleming5

Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and sexiest man 1881–1955

Scott Nearing5

American activist 1883–1983

John Middleton Murry2

English writer (1889–1957) 1889–1957

William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim6

former Governor-General of Australia 1891–1970

Cecil Howard Green1

American businessman 1900–2003

Dutch Schultz12

American mobster 1902–1935

Lucille Ball25

American actress and businesswoman 1911–1989

Richard Hofstadter34

American historian 1916–1970

Barbara Cooney2

American writer and illustrator of children's books 1917–2000

Robert Mitchum8

American film actor, author, composer and singer 1917–1997

Donald Hill3

British historian and engineer 1922–1994

Moira Lister3

actress 1923–2007

Paul Hellyer2

engineer, politician, writer 1923–2021

Andy Warhol133

American artist 1928–1987

Roger Lea MacBride2

American writer, TV producer, and politician; 1976 Libertar… 1929–1995

Chalmers Johnson1

American political scientist 1931–2010

Howard Hodgkin2

British artist 1932–2017

Piers Anthony12

English-American writer in the science fiction and fantasy … 1934

Jon Postel7

American computer scientist 1943–1998

Margaret Nasha3

Motswana politician 1947

Lorna Dee Cervantes2

American writer 1954

Ko Wen-je8

Taiwanese politician and physician 1959

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero41

Former Prime Minister of Spain 1960

Michelle Yeoh2

Malaysian-born actress of Chinese ethnicity 1962

Kevin Mitnick1

American computer security consultant, author, convicted cr… 1963–2023

Elliott Smith51

American singer-songwriter 1969–2003

Paolo Bacigalupi20

American science fiction and fantasy writer 1972

Vera Farmiga11

American actress 1973

Nat Friedman3

American computer programmer 1977

Marisa Miller11

American model 1978

Ralph Torres1

an American Republican politician from Saipan, Northern Mar… 1979

Dipika Kakar4

Indian actress 1986

Cam F. Awesome3

American boxer 1988

Death

Fracastorius1

Italian physician 1478–1553

Ben Jonson93

English writer 1572–1637

Eduard Hanslick7

austrian musician and musicologist 1825–1904

Hiram Johnson1

Governor of California 1866–1945

F. Tennyson Jesse1

British criminologist 1888–1958

Pope Paul VI10

262nd Pope of the Catholic Church 1897–1978

Marino Marini11

Italian sculptor 1901–1980

Theodor W. Adorno90

German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for … 1903–1969

André Weil11

French mathematician 1906–1998

Wilhelm Mohnke3

German general 1911–2001

Jorge Amado4

Brazilian writer 1912–2001

Cordwainer Smith1

American author 1913–1966

Ben Klassen12

American engineer, author and politician 1918–1993

Donald Justice4

Poet, teacher 1925–2004

Edsger W. Dijkstra68

Dutch computer scientist 1930–2002

Robert Hughes37

Australian critic, historian, writer 1938–2012

Tony Judt37

British historian 1948–2010

John Hughes1

1950–2009

Sushma Swaraj3

Indian politician 1952–2019