Famous Deaths In August - 06

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

0523  Hormisdas, Pope (514-23), dies on August - 06.   

0966  Death of Berengarius II, markgraaf of Ivrea/king of Italy (950-963) on this day in history.   

1162  Death of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona on this day in history.   

1195  On August - 06 henry de Leeuw, duke of Saxon/Bayern, dies   

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 August - 06 death of king Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377)   

1458  Callistus III, [Alfonso the Borja], Pope (1455-58), dies at 79 on August - 06.   

1548  On this day in history georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies   

1623  On this day in history anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, dies   

1628  Death of Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573) on this day in history.   

1637  On August - 06 ben Johnson, dramatist/playwright, dies at 65   

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  On August - 06 jacqueline-M-A the Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess, dies   

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

1679  On August - 06 death of john Snell, English royalist (b. 1629)   

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

1695  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1746  On this day in history 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  On this day in history heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer, dies at 72   

1783  On this day in history willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70   

1784  Karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57 on August - 06.   

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

1799  On this day in history joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74   

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 this day in history.   

1820  On this day in history antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59   

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1180  On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)   

1504  Matthew "Nosey" Parker, archbishop of Canterbury was born on this day in history.   

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

1619  Barbara Strozzi, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

1644  On this day in history 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  On this day in history birth of johann Michael Zacher, composer