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August 6 is the 218th day of the year (219th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . 147 days remain until the end of the year.
135 – The Roman Empire lays siege to Betar , effectively ending the Bar Kokhba revolt .1284 – The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa , thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.1538 – Bogotá , Colombia , is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada .1661 – The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic .1777 – American Revolutionary War : The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix .1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .1806 – Francis II , the last Holy Roman Emperor , abdicates, ending the Holy Roman Empire .1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.1824 – Peruvian War of Independence : The Battle of Junín .1825 – Bolivia gains independence from Spain.1861 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos , Nigeria .1862 – American Civil War : The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana .1870 – Franco-Prussian War : The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory. 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair .1901 – Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation .1912 – The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum .1914 – World War I : First Battle of the Atlantic : Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea .1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia. 1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair : The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay .1917 – World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel .1926 – In New York City, the Warner Bros. ' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan John Barrymore . 1930 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears, never to be seen again.1940 – Estonia is illegally annexed by the Soviet Union .1942 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress .1944 – The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1 . It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising , that was planned but never carried out.1945 – World War II : Hiroshima , Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay radiation poisoning .1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955 , the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena 1960 – Cuban Revolution : Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales , Australia.1990 – Gulf War : The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait .1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web . WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet .1991 – Takako Doi , chair of the Social Democratic Party , becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives . 1996 – The Ramones played their farewell concert at The Palace, Los Angeles, CA.1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars , contains evidence of primitive life-forms. 1997 – Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill , Guam killing 228 of 254 people on board.2001 – Erwadi fire incident , 28 mentally ill persons tied to a chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi , Tamil Nadu .2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania , overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi .2010 – Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir , India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.2011 – War in Afghanistan : A United States military helicopter is shot down , killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.2012 – NASA 's Curiosity roverlands on the surface of Mars .2015 – A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha .1180 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)1504 – Matthew Parker , English archbishop (d. 1575)1572 – Fakhr-al-Din II , Ottoman prince (d. 1635)1605 – Bulstrode Whitelocke , English lawyer (d. 1675)1609 – Richard Bennett , English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)1619 – Barbara Strozzi , Italian composer and singer-songwriter (d. 1677)1622 – Tjerk Hiddes de Vries , Dutch admiral (d. 1666)1638 – Nicolas Malebranche , French priest and philosopher (d. 1715)1644 – Louise de La Vallière , French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1710)1651 – François Fénelon , French archbishop and poet (d. 1715)1656 – Claude de Forbin , French general (d. 1733)1666 – Maria Sophia of Neuburg (d. 1699)1667 – Johann Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician (d. 1748)1697 – Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745)1715 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues , French author (d. 1747)1765 – Petros Mavromichalis , Greek general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1848)1766 – William Hyde Wollaston , English chemist and physicist (d. 1828)1768 – Jean-Baptiste Bessières , French general and politician (d. 1813)1775 – Daniel O'Connell , Irish lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Dublin (d. 1847)1809 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson , English poet (d. 1892)1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne , English-Australian author (d. 1915)1835 – Hjalmar Kiærskou , Danish botanist (d. 1900)1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)1844 – James Henry Greathead , South African-English engineer (d. 1896) 1848 – Susie Taylor , American writer and first African-American Army nurse (d. 1912)[1] 1846 – Anna Haining Bates , Canadian-American giant (d. 1888)1868 – Paul Claudel , French poet and playwright (d. 1955)1874 – Charles Fort , American author (d. 1932)1877 – Wallace H. White Jr. , American lawyer and politician (d. 1952)1880 – Hans Moser , Austrian actor and singer (d. 1964)1881 – Leo Carrillo , American actor (d. 1961)1881 – Alexander Fleming , Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955) 1881 – Louella Parsons , American journalist (d. 1972) 1883 – Scott Nearing , American economist and educator (d. 1983)1886 – Edward Ballantine , American composer and academic (d. 1971)1887 – Dudley Benjafield , English racing driver (d. 1957)1889 – George Kenney , Canadian-American general (d. 1977)1889 – John Middleton Murry , English poet and author (d. 1957) 1890 – Wentworth Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Allendale , English captain and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland (d. 1956)1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim , English field marshal and politician, 13th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1970)1892 – Hoot Gibson , American actor, director, and producer (d. 1962)1893 – Wright Patman , American lieutenant and politician (d. 1976)1895 – Ernesto Lecuona , Cuban pianist and composer (d. 1963)1895 – Frank Nicklin , Australian politician, 28th Premier of Queensland (d. 1978) 1900 – Cecil Howard Green , English-American geophysicist and businessman, co-founded Texas Instruments (d. 2003)1902 – Dutch Schultz , American gangster (d. 1935)1903 – Virginia Foster Durr , American civil rights activist (d. 1999)[2] 1904 – Jean Dessès , Greek-Egyptian fashion designer (d. 1970)1904 – Henry Iba , American basketball player and coach (d. 1993) 1906 – Vic Dickenson , American trombonist (d. 1984)1908 – Maria Ludwika Bernhard , Polish classical archaeologist and a member of WWII Polish resistance (d. 1998)[3] 1908 – Helen Jacobs , American tennis player and commander (d. 1997) 1908 – Lajos Vajda , Hungarian painter and illustrator (d. 1941) 1909 – Diana Keppel, Countess of Albemarle (d. 2013)1910 – Adoniran Barbosa , Brazilian musician, singer, composer, humorist, and actor (d. 1982)1910 – Charles Crichton , English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1999) 1911 – Lucille Ball , American actress, television producer and businesswoman (d. 1989)1911 – Norman Gordon , South African cricketer (d. 2014) 1911 – Constance Heaven , English author and actress (d. 1995) 1912 – Richard C. Miller , American photographer (d. 2010)1914 – Gordon Freeth , Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 2001)1916 – Richard Hofstadter , American historian and academic (d. 1970)1916 – Dom Mintoff , Maltese journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 2012) 1917 – Barbara Cooney , American author and illustrator (d. 2000)1917 – Robert Mitchum , American actor (d. 1997) 1918 – Norman Granz , American-Swiss record producer and manager (d. 2001)1919 – Pauline Betz , American tennis player (d. 2011)1920 – Selma Diamond , Canadian-American actress and screenwriter (d. 1985)1920 – John Graves , American author (d. 2013) 1920 – Ella Raines , American actress (d. 1988) 1922 – Freddie Laker , English businessman, founded Laker Airways (d. 2006)1922 – Dan Walker , American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Illinois (d. 2015) 1923 – Jess Collins , American painter (d. 2004)1923 – Paul Hellyer , Canadian engineer and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of Defence 1924 – Samuel Bowers , American activist, co-founded the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 2006)1926 – Elisabeth Beresford , French-English journalist and author (d. 2010)1926 – Frank Finlay , English actor (d. 2016) 1926 – Clem Labine , American baseball player and manager (d. 2007) 1926 – János Rózsás , Hungarian author (d. 2012) 1926 – Norman Wexler , American screenwriter (d. 1999) 1928 – Herb Moford , American baseball player (d. 2005)1928 – Andy Warhol , American painter and photographer (d. 1987) 1929 – Mike Elliott , Jamaican saxophonist1929 – Roch La Salle , Canadian politician, 42nd Canadian Minister of Public Works (d. 2007) 1930 – Abbey Lincoln , American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2010)1931 – Chalmers Johnson , American scholar and author (d. 2010)1932 – Michael Deeley , English screenwriter and producer1932 – Howard Hodgkin , English painter (d. 2017) 1932 – Charles Wood , English playwright and screenwriter 1933 – A. G. Kripal Singh , Indian cricketer (d. 1987)1934 – Piers Anthony , English-American soldier and author1934 – Chris Bonington , English mountaineer and author 1934 – Billy Boston , Welsh rugby player and soldier 1935 – Fortunato Baldelli , Italian cardinal (d. 2012)1935 – Octavio Getino , Spanish-Argentinian director and screenwriter (d. 2012) 1937 – Baden Powell de Aquino , Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 2000)1937 – Charlie Haden , American bassist and composer (d. 2014) 1937 – Barbara Windsor , English actress 1938 – Paul Bartel , American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2000)1938 – Peter Bonerz , American actor and director 1938 – Bert Yancey , American golfer (d. 1994) 1940 – Mukhu Aliyev , Russian philologist and politician, 2nd President of Dagestan 1940 – Egil Kapstad , Norwegian pianist and composer 1940 – Louise Sorel , American actress 1941 – Ray Culp , American baseball player1941 – Andrew Green, Baron Green of Deddington , English diplomat 1942 – Byard Lancaster , American saxophonist and flute player (d. 2012)1943 – Jon Postel , American computer scientist and academic (d. 1998)1944 – Inday Badiday , Filipino journalist and actress (d. 2003)1944 – Michael Mingos , English chemist and academic 1944 – Martin Wharton , English bishop 1945 – Ron Jones , English director and production manager (d. 1993)1946 – Allan Holdsworth , English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 2017)1947 – Radhia Cousot , French computer scientist and academic1947 – Tony Dell , English-Australian cricketer and soldier 1948 – William McCrea , Northern Irish politician1949 – Dino Bravo , Italian-Canadian wrestler (d. 1993)1949 – Richard Prince , American painter and photographer 1949 – Clarence Richard Silva , American bishop 1950 – Dorian Harewood , American actor1951 – Catherine Hicks , American actress1951 – Daryl Somers , Australian television host and singer 1952 – Pat MacDonald , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1952 – David McLetchie , Scottish lawyer and politician (d. 2013) 1952 – Ton Scherpenzeel , Dutch keyboard player, songwriter, and producer 1954 – Mark Hughes , English-Australian rugby league player1956 – Bill Emmott , English journalist and author1957 – Bob Horner , American baseball player1957 – Jim McGreevey , American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of New Jersey 1958 – Randy DeBarge , American singer-songwriter and bass player 1959 – Rajendra Singh , Indian environmentalist1960 – Dale Ellis , American basketball player1961 – Mary Ann Sieghart , English journalist and radio host1962 – Michelle Yeoh , Malaysian-Hong Kong actress and producer1963 – Charles Ingram , English soldier, author, and game show contestant1963 – Kevin Mitnick , American computer hacker and author 1964 – Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo , Nigerian journalist, activist, social media expert, and pharmacist1965 – Stéphane Peterhansel , French racing driver1965 – Yuki Kajiura , Japanese pianist and composer 1965 – David Robinson , American basketball player and lieutenant 1965 – Vince Wells , English cricketer 1967 – Lorna Fitzsimons , English businesswoman and politician1967 – Mike Greenberg , American journalist and sportscaster 1967 – Julie Snyder , Canadian talk show host and producer 1968 – Jack de Gier , Dutch footballer1969 – Simon Doull , New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster1969 – Elliott Smith , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003) 1970 – M. Night Shyamalan , Indian-American director, producer, and screenwriter1972 – Paolo Bacigalupi , American author1972 – Darren Eales , English footballer and lawyer 1972 – Geri Halliwell , English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress 1972 – Ray Lucas , American football player and sportscaster 1973 – Vera Farmiga , American actress1973 – Max Kellerman , American sportscaster and radio host 1973 – Iain Morris , English screenwriter and producer 1973 – Stuart O'Grady , Australian cyclist 1974 – Bobby Petta , Dutch footballer1974 – Luis Vizcaíno , Dominican baseball player 1974 – Alvin Williams , American basketball player and coach 1975 – Jason Crump , English-Australian motorcycle racer1975 – Renate Götschl , Austrian skier 1975 – Víctor Zambrano , Venezuelan baseball player 1976 – Soleil Moon Frye , American actress and producer1976 – Melissa George , Australian-American actress 1976 – Adam Ritson , Australian rugby league player 1976 – Shaun Timmins , Australian rugby league player 1977 – Leandro Amaral , Brazilian footballer1977 – Rebecca Maddern , Australian journalist and television host 1977 – Jimmy Nielsen , Danish footballer and manager 1977 – Luciano Zavagno , Argentinian footballer 1978 – Marvel Smith , American football player1979 – Francesco Bellotti , Italian cyclist1979 – Jaime Correa , Mexican footballer 1979 – Travis Reed , American basketball player 1980 – Danny Collins , English-Welsh footballer1980 – Seneca Wallace , American football player 1980 – Roman Weidenfeller , German footballer 1980 – Vitantonio Liuzzi , Italian racing driver 1981 – Diána Póth , Hungarian figure skater1983 – Neil Harvey , English-Barbadian footballer1983 – C. J. Mosley , American football player 1983 – Robin van Persie , Dutch footballer 1984 – Vedad Ibišević , Bosnian footballer1984 – Jesse Ryder , New Zealand cricketer 1985 – Viktoria Baškite , Estonian chess player1985 – Mickaël Delage , French cyclist 1985 – Bafétimbi Gomis , French footballer 1985 – Garrett Weber-Gale , American swimmer 1986 – Mehmet Akgün , Turkish footballer1986 – Raphael Pyrasch , German rugby player 1991 – Jiao Liuyang , Chinese swimmer1992 – Tara Moore , British tennis player1995 – Rebecca Peterson , Swedish tennis player258 – Pope Sixtus II 523 – Pope Hormisdas (b. 450)750 – Marwan II , Umayyad general and caliph (b. 688)1027 – Richard III, Duke of Normandy 1162 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (b. 1113)1195 – Henry the Lion , Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129)1221 – Saint Dominic , Spanish priest, founded the Dominican Order (b. 1170)1272 – Stephen V of Hungary (b. 1239)1384 – Francesco I of Lesbos 1412 – Margherita of Durazzo , Queen consort of Charles III of Naples (b. 1347)[4] 1414 – Ladislaus of Naples (b. 1377)1458 – Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)1530 – Jacopo Sannazaro , Italian poet (b. 1458)1553 – Girolamo Fracastoro , Italian physician (b. 1478)1628 – Johannes Junius , German lawyer and politician (b. 1573)1637 – Ben Jonson , English poet and playwright (b. 1572)1645 – Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex , English merchant and politician (b. 1575)1657 – Bohdan Khmelnytsky , Ukrainian soldier and politician, 1st Hetman of Zaporizhian Host (b. 1595)1660 – Diego Velázquez , Spanish painter and educator (b. 1599)1666 – Tjerk Hiddes de Vries , Frisian naval hero and commander (b. 1622)1679 – John Snell , Scottish-English soldier and philanthropist, founded the Snell Exhibition (b. 1629)1694 – Antoine Arnauld , French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1612)1695 – François de Harlay de Champvallon , French archbishop (b. 1625)1753 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann , Estonian-Russian physicist and academic (b. 1711)1757 – Ádám Mányoki , Hungarian painter (b. 1673)1794 – Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst , English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)1815 – James A. Bayard , American lawyer and politician (b. 1767)1828 – Konstantin von Benckendorff , Russian general and diplomat (b. 1785)1850 – Edward Walsh , Irish poet and songwriter (b. 1805)1866 – John Mason Neale , English priest, scholar, and hymnwriter (b. 1818)1881 – James Springer White , American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)1884 – Robert Spear Hudson , English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1812)1893 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel , Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1811)1904 – Eduard Hanslick , Austrian author and critic (b. 1825)1906 – George Waterhouse , English-New Zealand politician, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824)1915 – Jennie de la Montagnie Lozier , American physician (b. 1841)1920 – Stefan Bastyr , Polish pilot and author (b. 1890)1925 – Surendranath Banerjee , Indian academic and politician (b. 1848)1925 – Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro , Italian mathematician (b. 1853) 1931 – Bix Beiderbecke , American cornet player, pianist, and composer (b. 1903)1945 – Richard Bong , American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1920)1945 – Hiram Johnson , American lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of California (b. 1866) 1946 – Tony Lazzeri , American baseball player and coach (b. 1903)1952 – Betty Allan , Australian statistician and biometrician (b. 1905)[5] 1959 – Preston Sturges , American director, screenwriter, and playwright (b. 1898)1964 – Cedric Hardwicke , English actor and director (b. 1893)1969 – Theodor W. Adorno , German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)1970 – Nikos Tsiforos , Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1912)1973 – Fulgencio Batista , Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (b. 1901)1976 – Gregor Piatigorsky , Russian-American cellist and educator (b. 1903)1978 – Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)1978 – Edward Durell Stone , American architect, designed Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center (b. 1902) 1979 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen , German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)1983 – Klaus Nomi , German singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1944)1985 – William Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany , Scottish soldier and politician (b. 1905)1985 – Forbes Burnham , Guyanese politician, 2nd President of Guyana (b. 1923) 1986 – Emilio Fernández , Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1904)1987 – Ira C. Eaker , American general (b. 1896)1990 – Jacques Soustelle , French anthropologist and politician (b. 1912)1991 – Shapour Bakhtiar , Iranian soldier and politician, 74th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1915)1991 – Roland Michener , Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (b. 1900) 1991 – Harry Reasoner , American journalist, co-created 60 Minutes 1992 – Leszek Błażyński , Polish boxer (b. 1949)1993 – Tex Hughson , American baseball player (b. 1916)1994 – Domenico Modugno , Italian singer-songwriter and politician (b. 1928)1997 – Shin Ki-ha , South Korean lawyer and politician (b. 1941)1998 – André Weil , French-American mathematician and academic (b. 1906)2001 – Jorge Amado , Brazilian novelist and poet (b. 1912)2001 – Adhar Kumar Chatterji , Indian Naval officer (b. 1914) 2001 – Wilhelm Mohnke , German general (b. 1911) 2001 – Shan Ratnam , Sri Lankan physician and academic (b. 1928) 2001 – Dorothy Tutin , English actress (b. 1930) 2002 – Edsger W. Dijkstra , Dutch physicist, computer scientist, and academic (b. 1930)2003 – Julius Baker , American flute player and educator (b. 1915)2004 – Rick James , American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1948)2004 – Donald Justice , American poet and academic (b. 1925) 2005 – Robin Cook , Scottish educator and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (b. 1946)2007 – Heinz Barth , German lieutenant (b. 1920)2007 – Zsolt Daczi , Hungarian guitarist (b. 1969) 2008 – Angelos Kitsos , Greek lawyer and author (b. 1934)2009 – Riccardo Cassin , Italian mountaineer and author (b. 1909)2009 – Willy DeVille , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950) 2009 – John Hughes , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1950) 2011 – Fe del Mundo , Filipino pediatrician and educator (b. 1911)2012 – Richard Cragun , American-Brazilian ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1944)2012 – Marvin Hamlisch , American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1944) 2012 – Robert Hughes , Australian-American author and critic (b. 1938) 2012 – Bernard Lovell , English physicist and astronomer (b. 1913) 2012 – Mark O'Donnell , American playwright (b. 1954) 2012 – Ruggiero Ricci , American violinist and educator (b. 1918) 2012 – Dan Roundfield , American basketball player (b. 1953) 2013 – Jeremy Geidt , English-American actor and educator (b. 1930)2013 – Stan Lynde , American author and illustrator (b. 1931) 2013 – Mava Lee Thomas , American baseball player (b. 1929) 2013 – Jerry Wolman , American businessman (b. 1927) 2014 – Ralph Bryans , Northern Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1941)2014 – Ananda W.P. Guruge , Sri Lankan scholar and diplomat (b. 1928) 2014 – John Woodland Hastings , American biochemist and academic (b. 1927) 2015 – Ray Hill , American football player (b. 1975)2015 – Frederick R. Payne, Jr. , American general and pilot (b. 1911) 2015 – Orna Porat , German-Israeli actress (b. 1924) 2017 – Betty Cuthbert , Australian sprinter (b. 1938)2017 – Darren Daulton , American baseball player (b. 1962) 2018 – Joël Robuchon , French Chef (b. 1945) [6] 2018 – Margaret Heckler , American politician (b. 1931) [7] 2018 – Anya Krugovoy Silver , American poet (b. 1968) [8] Holidays and observances [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ "Taylor, Susan (Susie) Baker King (1848-1912) | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed" . blackpast.org . Retrieved 2019-01-31 .^ "Virginia Foster Durr" . Encyclopedia of Alabama . Retrieved 2019-11-02 .^ "Maria Ludwika Bernhard" (PDF) . www.brown.edu . Retrieved 2019-01-10 .^ "Charles III" . Retrieved 13 December 2014 .^ Heyde, C. C., "Allan, Frances Elizabeth (Betty) (1905–1952)" , Australian Dictionary of Biography , National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 2019-08-02 ^ "Joël Robuchon, Michelin star French chef, dies aged 73" . BBC News World Europe . 2018-08-06.^ "Margaret Heckler" . Newsday Entertainment/Celebrities . 2018-08-10.^ "Notable Deaths 2018" . New York Times Obituaries . Retrieved 2018-09-12 . External links [ edit ] Wikimedia Commons has media related to August 6
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