August 6 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on August 6, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♌︎ Leo
Jul 23 – Aug 22
Birth stone
Peridot
Birth flower
Gladiolus
How common
#76 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous August 6 birthdays
Alfred, Lord Tennyson · British Poet Laureate1809
Edith Roosevelt · First Lady of the United States from 1901 to 19091861
Alexander Fleming · Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate1881
Lucille Ball · American actress1911
Robert Mitchum · American actor1917
Andy Warhol · American artist, film director, and producer1928
Mohammad Najibullah · 4th General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan1947
Michelle Yeoh · Malaysian actress1962
Kevin Mitnick · American hacker1963
David Robinson · American basketball player1965
Elliott Smith · American musician1969
M. Night Shyamalan · American filmmaker1970
Yutaka Akita · Japanese association football player and manager1970
Geri Halliwell · English singer and actress1972
Vera Farmiga · American actress1973
Roman Weidenfeller · German association football player1980
Robin van Persie · Dutch association football player and manager1983
Vedad Ibišević · Bosnian association football player1984
Bafétimbi Gomis · French association football player1985
Marcus Thuram · French footballer1997
On this day in history
1777The Battle of Oriskany, one of the bloodiest battles of the American Revolutionary War, was fought about 6 mi (10 km) east of Fort Stanwix, New York.
1930New York Supreme Court judge Joseph Force Crater disappeared in Manhattan, in a case that was never solved.
2010Flash floods, mudslides, and debris flows across Ladakh in Indian-administered Kashmir left at least 255 people dead.
2012NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
1960Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
1965US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
1996Researchers announced that the meteorite ALH84001, discovered in the Allan Hills of Antarctica, may contain evidence of life on Mars, but further tests were inconclusive.
2008Mauritanian president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was ousted from power by a group of high-ranking generals that he had dismissed from office several hours earlier.
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