6th August anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1809
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet laureate"
  • 1881
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin"
  • 1908
  • United States
  • "Birth of Helen Jacobs, American tennis player ."
  • 1928
  • United States
  • "Birth of Andy Warhol, American artist who initiated the Pop art movement."
• event
  • 1806
  • Italy
  • The Holy Roman Empire was officially dissolved
  • 1890
  • United States
  • The execution of William Kemmler in Auburn Prison New York was the first use of the Electric Chair
  • 1945
  • Japan
  • Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
• Death
  • 258
  • Greece
  • Death of Pope Sixtus II more
  • 523
  • Italy
  • Death of Pope Hormisdas more
  • 1458
  • Spain
  • Death of Pope Callistus III more
  • 1623
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Anne Hathaway, widow of William Shakespeare"
  • 1637
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Ben Jonson, English writer" more
  • 1660
  • Spain
  • "Death if Diego Velazquez, painter"
  • 1931
  • "Death of Bix Beiderbecke, American Jazz musician" more
  • 1959
  • United States
  • "Death of Preston Sturges, American film director, screenwriter and playwright, best known for his satirical comedies of the 1940s"
  • 1998
  • France
  • "Death of Andre Weil, French mathematician ."