Births on 6 August
2000s
Takhmina Ikromova
2004
Uzbekistani rhythmic gymnast
Nessa Barrett
2002
American singer-songwriter and media personality (born 2002)
1900s
Hunter Greene
1999
American baseball player (born 1999)
Rebeka Masarova
1999
Spanish–Swiss tennis player (born 1999)
Rebecca Peterson
1995
Swedish tennis player (born 1995)
Wilmer Flores
1991
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1991)
Jiao Liuyang
1991
Chinese swimmer (born 1991)
Leanne Crichton
1987
Scottish footballer
Raphael Pyrasch
1986
Germany international rugby union player
Mickaël Delage
1985
Road bicycle racer (born 1985)
Bafétimbi Gomis
1985
French footballer (born 1985)
Garrett Weber-Gale
1985
American swimmer (born 1985)
Vedad Ibišević
1984
Bosnian footballer (born 1984)
Maja Ognjenović
1984
Serbian volleyball player
Jesse Ryder
1984
New Zealand cricketer
Robin van Persie
1983
Dutch football player and coach (born 1983)
Leslie Odom Jr.
1981
American actor, singer and songwriter (born 1981)
Diána Póth
1981
Hungarian figure skater
Francesco Bellotti
1979
Italian cyclist
Jaime Correa (footballer)
1979
Mexican footballer (born 1979)
Travis Reed
1979
American basketball player
Leandro Amaral
1977
Brazilian footballer (born 1977)
Jimmy Nielsen
1977
Danish footballer (born 1977)
Luciano Zavagno
1977
Argentine footballer
Soleil Moon Frye
1976
American actress (born 1976)
Melissa George
1976
Australian and American actress (born 1976)
Jason Crump
1975
Australian speedway rider
Renate Götschl
1975
Austrian alpine skier
Víctor Zambrano
1975
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1975)
Vera Farmiga
1973
American actress and singer (born 1973)
Stuart O'Grady
1973
Australian cyclist (born 1973)
Geri Halliwell
1972
English singer (born 1972)
Jason O'Mara
1972
Irish actor (born 1972)
M. Night Shyamalan
1970
American filmmaker (born 1970)
Simon Doull
1969
New Zealand cricketer (born 1969)
Elliott Smith
1969
American musician (1969–2003)
Jack de Gier
1968
Dutch footballer and manager
Stéphane Peterhansel
1965
French rally racer
Yuki Kajiura
1965
Japanese composer (born 1965)
David Robinson
1965
American basketball player (born 1965)
Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo
1964
Nigerian activist (born 1964)
Charles Ingram
1963
English fraudster (born 1963)
Kevin Mitnick
1963
American hacker (1963–2023)
Michelle Yeoh
1962
Malaysian actress (born 1962)
Mary Ann Sieghart
1961
English author, journalist and radio presenter (born 1961)
Dale Ellis
1960
American basketball player (born 1960)
Rajendra Singh
1959
Indian environmentalist (born 1959)
Joyce Sims
1959
American singer and songwriter (1959–2022)
Randy DeBarge
1958
Musical artist
Bob Horner
1957
American baseball player (born 1957)
Jim McGreevey
1957
Governor of New Jersey from 2002 to 2004
Bill Emmott
1956
English journalist, author, and consultant (born 1956)
Mark Hughes (rugby league, born 1954)
1954
English rugby league footballer
Pat MacDonald (musician)
1952
American musician and songwriter (born 1952)
David McLetchie
1952
Scottish Conservative politician (1952–2013)
Ton Scherpenzeel
1952
Musical artist
Catherine Hicks
1951
American actress (born 1951)
Daryl Somers
1951
Australian television personality and musician
Dorian Harewood
1950
American actor (born 1950)
Dino Bravo
1949
Canadian professional wrestler (1948–1993)
Radhia Cousot
1947
Inventor of abstract interpretation
Allan Holdsworth
1946
British jazz musician (1946–2017)
Ron Jones (television director)
1945
British television director (1945–1993)
Inday Badiday
1944
Filipino talk show host (1944-2003)
Michael Mingos
1944
British chemist and academic
Martin Wharton
1944
British Anglican bishop
Jon Postel
1943
American computer scientist and Internet pioneer (1943–1998)
Byard Lancaster
1942
American jazz musician (1942–2012)
Ray Culp
1941
American baseball player (born 1941)
Mukhu Aliyev
1940
Russian politician
Egil Kapstad
1940
Norwegian jazz pianist (1940–2017)
Louise Sorel
1940
American actress (born 1940)
Paul Bartel
1938
American actor and director (1938–2000)
Peter Bonerz
1938
American actor and director (born 1938)
Bert Yancey
1938
American professional golfer (1938–1994)
Baden Powell (guitarist)
1937
Brazilian guitarist
Charlie Haden
1937
American musician and educator (1937–2014)
Barbara Windsor
1937
English actress (1937–2020)
Fortunato Baldelli
1935
Italian prelate
Octavio Getino
1935
Argentine film director and writer (1935–2012)
Piers Anthony
1934
English-American writer (born 1934)
Chris Bonington
1934
British mountaineer (born 1934)
Billy Boston
1934
GB international rugby league footballer
A. G. Kripal Singh
1933
Indian cricket player. (1933–1987)
Michael Deeley
1932
British film producer (born 1932)
Howard Hodgkin
1932
British painter and printmaker (1932–2017)
Charles Wood (playwright)
1932
British playwright and scriptwriter (1932–2020)
Chalmers Johnson
1931
American political scientist (1931–2010)
Abbey Lincoln
1930
American singer, actress and activist (1930–2010)
Mike Elliott (saxophonist)
1929
Musical artist
Roch La Salle
1929
Canadian politician (1928–2007)
Herb Moford
1928
American baseball player (1928–2005)
Andy Warhol
1928
American artist and filmmaker (1928–1987)
Elisabeth Beresford
1926
English children's author (1926–2010)
Frank Finlay
1926
English actor (1926–2016)
Clem Labine
1926
American baseball player (1926–2007)
János Rózsás
1926
Hungarian writer
Norman Wexler
1926
American screenwriter, script doctor and playwright
Samuel Bowers
1924
American white supremacist leader (1924–2006)
Ella Jenkins
1924
American folk singer (1924–2024)
Jess Collins
1923
American artist (1923–2004)
Paul Hellyer
1923
Canadian engineer, politician, and writer (1923–2021)
Freddie Laker
1922
English airline entrepreneur (1922–2006)
Dan Walker (politician)
1922
Governor of Illinois from 1973 to 1977
John Graves (author)
1920
American writer
Ella Raines
1920
American actress (1920–1988)
Pauline Betz
1919
American tennis player (1919–2011)
Norman Granz
1918
American jazz musician and producer (1918–2001)
Barbara Cooney
1917
American writer and illustrator of children's books
Robert Mitchum
1917
American actor (1917–1997)
Richard Hofstadter
1916
American historian and public intellectual (1916–1970)
Dom Mintoff
1916
Maltese politician (1916–2012)
Gordon Freeth
1914
Australian politician and diplomat
Richard C. Miller
1912
Lucille Ball
1911
American actress (1911–1989)
Norman Gordon
1911
South African cricketer (1911–2014)
Constance Heaven
1911
British writer
Adoniran Barbosa
1910
Brazilian singer and composer
Charles Crichton
1910
English film director, film editor, screenwriter and film producer (1910–1999)
Diana Keppel, Countess of Albemarle
1909
British noblewoman
Maria Ludwika Bernhard
1908
Polish classical archaeologist and Greek Art specialist
Helen Jacobs
1908
American tennis player (1908–1997)
Lajos Vajda
1908
Hungarian painter and graphic artist
Vic Dickenson
1906
American jazz musician (1906–1984)
Jean Dessès
1904
Greek fashion designer (1904 - 1970)
Henry Iba
1904
American basketball player and coach
Virginia Foster Durr
1903
American civil rights activist and lobbyist (1903–1999)
Dutch Schultz
1901
American mobster (1901–1935)
Cecil Howard Green
1900
British-born American geophysicist, engineer and electronics executive
1800s
Frank Nicklin
1895
Australian politician (1895–1978)
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
1891
British Army field marshal, Governor-General of Australia, and author (1891–1970)
George Kenney
1889
United States Army Air Forces general
John Middleton Murry
1889
English writer (1889–1957)
Dudley Benjafield
1887
Edward Ballantine
1886
American composer
Florence Goodenough
1886
American psychologist (1886–1959)
Constance Georgina Adams
1883
South African collector and housewife
Scott Nearing
1883
American economist, pacifist, and homesteader (1883–1983)
Leo Carrillo
1881
American actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist (1881–1961)
Alexander Fleming
1881
Scottish physician and microbiologist (1881–1955)
Louella Parsons
1881
American gossip columnist (1881–1972)
Hans Moser (actor)
1880
Austrian actor
Wallace H. White
1877
American politician (1877–1952)
Charles Fort
1874
American writer (1874–1932)
Paul Claudel
1868
French diplomat, poet and playwright (1868–1955)
Susie King Taylor
1848
First black nurse during the American Civil War (1848-1912)
Anna Haining Bates
1846
Canadian woman notable for her great height (1846–1888)
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
1844
Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1893 to 1900
James Henry Greathead
1844
English mechanical and civil engineer (1844–1896)
Hjalmar Kiærskou
1835
Danish botanist (1835–1900)
Thomas Alexander Browne
1826
Australian author (1826–1915)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1809
British Poet Laureate (1809–1892)
Before 1800
Daniel O'Connell
1775
Irish political leader (1775–1847)
Jean-Baptiste Bessières
1768
French Marshal (1768–1813)
William Hyde Wollaston
1766
English chemist and physicist (1766–1828)
Petrobey Mavromichalis
1765
Greek general, politician and revolutionary
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
1715
French writer, nobleman and moralist (1715–1747)
Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
1697
Holy Roman Emperor from 1742 to 1745
Johann Bernoulli
1667
Swiss mathematician (1667–1748)
Maria Sophia of Neuburg
1666
Queen of Portugal from 1687 to 1699
Claude de Forbin
1656
French Navy officer and diplomat (1656–1733)
François Fénelon
1651
French archbishop, theologian and writer (1651–1715)
Louise de La Vallière
1644
Mistress of Louis XIV (1644–1710)
Nicolas Malebranche
1638
French priest and rationalist philosopher (1638–1715)
Tjerk Hiddes de Vries
1622
Barbara Strozzi
1619
Venetian baroque singer and composer
Richard Bennett (Virginia politician)
1609
Governor of the Virginia Colony (1652-1655)
Bulstrode Whitelocke
1605
English politician (1605–1675)
Fakhr al-Din II
1572
Druze emir of Mount Lebanon (6 August 1572–13 April 1635)
Matthew Parker
1504
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1559 to 1575
Emperor Go-Toba
1180
Emperor of Japan from 1183 to 1198