August 6th, 1583

Born on August 6th, 1583

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What happened on August 6th?

August 6th, 2013

A gas leak caused an explosion that collapsed a building and led to the deaths of 22 people in Rosario, Argentina.

August 6th, 2011

A series of riots broke out in several London boroughs and in cities and towns across England in response to the shooting of Mark Duggan by Metropolitan Police officers.

August 6th, 2010

Flash floods, mudslides, and debris flows across the Ladakh region of Indian-administered Kashmir left at least 255 people dead.

August 6th, 2008

Mauritanian 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.

August 6th, 1997

Korean Air Flight 801 crashed into a hill on approach to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport in Guam, killing 228 of the 254 people aboard.

August 6th, 1996

Researchers announced that the meteorite ALH84001 (pictured), discovered in the Allan Hills of Antarctica, may contain evidence of life on Mars, but further tests were inconclusive.

August 6th, 1991

British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee posted a public invitation to collaborate on a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessible via the Internet, known as the World Wide Web.

August 6th, 1965

U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, outlawing literacy tests and other discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disfranchisement of African Americans.

August 6th, 1945

World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (mushroom cloud pictured), killing about 70,000 people instantly.

August 6th, 1892

The Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company was founded in Antwerp to exploit natural rubber in the Congo Free State.

August 6th, 1777

The 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.

August 6th, 0686

Second Fitna: Pro-Alid forces defeated the Umayyad Caliphate in the Battle of Khazir, allowing them to take control of Mosul in present-day Iraq.

August 6th, 1944

World War II: Allied forces attacked German fortifications at Saint-Malo, France, beginning the Battle of Saint-Malo (pictured).

August 6th, 1623

After the death of Gregory XV, a papal conclave in Rome elected Maffeo Barberini as Pope Urban VIII.

August 6th, 1585

Toyotomi Hideyoshi is officially appointed kampaku (Imperial Regent).

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 6th

Same year
Born in 1583

62

Hugo Grotius

Dutch jurist and scholar (1583-1645)

*April 10th, 1583, Delft †August 28th, 1645, Rostock

61

Miyamoto Musashi

Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer, artist, and rōnin

*November 30th, 1583, Harima Province †June 5th, 1645, Reigandō

50

Albrecht von Wallenstein

Bohemian military leader and statesman who fought on the Catholic side during the Thirty Years' War (1583-1634)

*September 24th, 1583, Heřmanice †February 25th, 1634, Cheb

59

Girolamo Frescobaldi

Italian composer (1583–1643)

*September 13th, 1583, Ferrara †March 1st, 1643, Rome

71

Axel Oxenstierna

Swedish statesman (1583-1654)

*June 16th, 1583, Löts parish †August 28th, 1654, Stockholm

60

Simon Episcopius

Dutch theologian

*January 8th, 1583, Amsterdam †April 4th, 1643, Amsterdam

76

Peter Bulkley

English and later American Puritan

*January 31st, 1583, Odell †March 9th, 1659, Concord

52

Dodo zu Innhausen und Knyphausen

German soldier (1583-1636)

*July 2nd, 1583, Lütetsburg †January 11th, 1636, Haselünne

47

Philipp Adolf von Ehrenberg

Prince-Bishop of Wurzburg

*September 23rd, 1583, Heinsheim †July 16th, 1631, Würzburg

53

Laurens Reael

Dutch admiral (1583-1637)

*October 22nd, 1583, Amsterdam †October 21st, 1637, Amsterdam

69

Denis Pétau

French Jesuit theologian

*August 21st, 1583, Orléans †December 11th, 1652, Paris

54

John VIII, Count of Nassau-Siegen

Catholic Count of Nassau-Siegen;(1583-1638)

*September 29th, 1583, Dillenburg †July 27th, 1638, Ronse

58

Alban Roe

English Benedictine martyr

*July 20th, 1583, Bury St Edmunds †January 21st, 1642, Tyburn

73

Jean-Baptiste Morin

French astronomer

*February 23rd, 1583, Villefranche-sur-Saône †November 6th, 1656, Paris

65

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

English soldier and poet (1583–1648)

*March 3rd, 1583, Eyton on Severn †August 20th, 1648, London

83

Anthony Günther, Count of Oldenburg

Imperial count. member of House of Oldenburg (1583-1667)

*November 10th, 1583, Oldenburg †June 19th, 1667, Rastede

41

Orlando Gibbons

English composer, virginalist and organist (1583-1625)

*December 25th, 1583, Oxford †June 5th, 1625, Canterbury

71

Sebastian Beck

(1583-1654)

*January 1st, 1583, Basel †January 1st, 1654

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1583 is a normal year and no leap year.

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