6. august
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6 August is the 218th day of the year, 219th in a leap year. There are 147 days left in the year.
Name day
Gunnlaug, Gunnleiv.
History
1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates.
1825 – Bolivia becomes independent from Spain.
1945 – The US drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. According to official Japanese figures, the number of people killed is 118,661.
1955 – 25 people, including ten Norwegian women, died in the Voronezh accident, a plane crash in the Soviet Union.
1962 – Jamaica becomes independent.
1984 – Hans Christian Doseth and Finn Dæhli perish after first climbing "the world's highest vertical drop", the east wall of the Great Trango Tower in the Pakistani Himalayas.
Norwegian history
1975 – The Staur experimental farm in Stange sets a Norwegian record for the highest temperature in August with 35.0 degrees.
Births
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1809 – Alfred Tennyson, British poet (d. 1892)
1812 – Hans Thiis Møller, Norwegian merchant (d. 1900)
1828 – Andrew Taylor Still founder of osteopathy (d. 1917)
1844 – Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, British Duke (d. 1900)
1881 – Alexander Fleming, British scientist (d. 1955)
1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997)
1928 – Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
1932 – Kjartan Slettemark, Swedish-Norwegian painter (d. 2008)
1933 – Eva R. Finstad, Norwegian politician (d. 1998)
1937 – Charlie Haden, American jazz musician (d. 2014)
1940 – Egil Kapstad, Norwegian jazz musician (d. 2017)
1944 – Terje Dalby, Norwegian journalist (d. 2006)
1947 – Mohammed Najibullah, Afghan President (d. 1996)
1950 – John Pål Inderberg, Norwegian jazz musician
1952 – Vinnie Vincent, American guitarist
1952 – Wojciech Fortuna, Polish ski jumper
1955 – Tom Sandberg, Norwegian combined runner
1960 – Erik Solér, Norwegian footballer and player agent
1965 – Luc Alphand, French alpinist
1965 – Juliane Köhler, German actress
1965 – David Robinson, American basketball player
1969 – Arne Indrebø, Norwegian track and field athlete
1969 – Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003)
1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian/American director and screenwriter
1972 – Geri Halliwell, British artist. Known from the Spice Girls
1973 – Stuart O'Grady, Australian cyclist
1974 – Morten Hagen, Norwegian golfer
1975 – Renate Götschl, Austrian alpinist
1975 – Cato Guntveit, Norwegian footballer
1975 – Giorgio Rocca, Italian alpinist
1976 – Fabienne Feraez, Beninese athlete
1978 – Andreas Öberg, Swedish jazz musician
1981 – Abdul Kader Keïta, Ivorian footballer
1983 – Björn Kircheisen, German combined runner
1983 – Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
1984 – Andy Wilkinson, English footballer
1998 – Einar Lurås Oftebro, Norwegian combined runner
Deaths
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1195 – Henrik Løve, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129)
1458 – Pope Callistus III (b. 1378)
1660 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)
1886 – Ramakrishna, Indian (b. 1836)
1893 – Ludvig Johnsen, Norwegian painter (b. 1867)
1895 – George Frederick Root, American composer and songwriter (b. 1820)
1902 – Oscar Jacobsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1850)
1902 – Even Saxlund, Norwegian jurist, politician and civil servant (b. 1811)
1965 – Aksel Sandemose, Danish-Norwegian writer (b. 1899)
1973 – Fulgencio Batista, Cuban dictator (b. 1901)
1978 – Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
1983 – Klaus Nomi, German musician (b. 1944)
1986 – Beppe Wolgers, Swedish writer and actor (b. 1928)
1989 – Kateb Yacine, Algerian writer (b. 1929)
2004 – Jan Sture Jarlum, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1938)
2005 – Robin Cook, British Foreign Secretary (b. 1946)
2005 – Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (b. 1927)
2007 – Lino Vombömmel, Brazilian bishop (b. 1934)
2007 – Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1917)
2008 – Francine of Montenegro, Montenegrin princess and French fashion designer (b. 1950)
2009 – Wil
