Famous Deaths Happened In August - 06

0258  On August - 06 death of sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded   

0523  Hormisdas, Pope (514-23), dies on this day in history.   

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

1623  Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, dies on this day in history.   

1628  Death of Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573) on August - 06.   

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  On August - 06 death of bohdan Khmelnytsky, Polish-Lithuanian noble   

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 this day in history.   

1666  Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43 on this day in history.   

1679  Death of John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629) on August - 06.   

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 August - 06.   

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

1746  On August - 06 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  On August - 06 willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70   

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

1794  Death of Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714) on this day in history.   

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

1820  Antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

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1180  Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239) was born on this day in history.   

1504  On this day in history birth of matthew "Nosey" Parker, archbishop of Canterbury   

1609  On this day in history birth of richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)   

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

1638  Nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher was born on August - 06.   

1644  On August - 06 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 August - 06.   

1651  Johann Michael Zacher, composer was born on August - 06.