August 6th, 1954

Born on August 6th, 1954

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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 Mohamed 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 (pictured with crew) dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, 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, 2015

A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.

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

Born on August 6th, 1954

70

Jürgen Owczarzak

German association football player

*August 6th, 1954, Stuttgart

62

El Hortelano

Spanish painter (1954-2016)

*August 6th, 1954, Valencia †December 19th, 2016, Madrid

70

Mark Hughes

Australian rugby league footballer (1954-)

*August 6th, 1954, Worcester

56

Kevin Jarre

American screenwriter

*August 6th, 1954, Detroit †April 3rd, 2011, Santa Monica

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 6th?

44

Roman Weidenfeller

German association football player

*August 6th, 1980, Diez

26

Einar Lurås Oftebro

Norwegian nordic combined skier

*August 6th, 1998, Norway

62

Michelle Yeoh

Malaysian actress (born 1962)

*August 6th, 1962, Ipoh

84

Howard Hodgkin

British artist (1932-2017)

*August 6th, 1932, Hammersmith †March 9th, 2017, London

72

Hans-Jörn Arp

German politician

*August 6th, 1952, Wacken

70

Allan Holdsworth

British musician (1946–2017)

*August 6th, 1946, Bradford †April 15th, 2017, Vista

78

Silvano Basagni

Italian sport shooter (1938-2017)

*August 6th, 1938, Florence †May 10th, 2017, Florence

64

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)

*August 6th, 1960, Valladolid

82

Jan Kubr

Czechoslovak biker

*August 6th, 1934, Krásný Dvůr †February 11th, 2017

41

Robin van Persie

Dutch association football player and manager

*August 6th, 1983, Rotterdam

58

Andy Warhol

American artist, film director, and producer (1928–1987)

*August 6th, 1928, Pittsburgh †February 22nd, 1987, New York City

67

Faith Prince

American actress

*August 6th, 1957, Augusta

54

M. Night Shyamalan

American screenwriter, film director and producer

*August 6th, 1970, Mahé

39

Bafétimbi Gomis

French-Senegalese association football player

*August 6th, 1985, La Seyne-sur-Mer

74

Dorian Harewood

American actor (born 1950)

*August 6th, 1950, Dayton

43

Leslie Odom Jr.

American actor and singer (born 1981)

*August 6th, 1981, Queens

69

Ron Davis

American baseball player

*August 6th, 1955, Houston

63

Christophe de Margerie

French businessman, CEO of Total S.A. from 2007 to his death in 2014

*August 6th, 1951, Mareuil-sur-Lay-Dissais †October 20th, 2014, Vnukovo International Airport

51

Asia Carrera

American pornographic actress

*August 6th, 1973, New York City

64

Philippe Omnès

Fencer

*August 6th, 1960, Paris

Same year
Born in 1954

70

François Hollande

President of France from 2012 to 2017

*August 12th, 1954, Rouen

70

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021

*July 17th, 1954, Eimsbüttel

69

Renate Franz

German journalist and sport historian

*November 18th, 1954, Solingen

70

Lim Swee Say

Former Singaporean politician

*July 13th, 1954, Singapore

70

Rudolf Simek

Austrian philologist and Germanist

*February 21st, 1954, Eisenstadt

70

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

President of the Republic of Turkey since 2014

*February 26th, 1954, Kasımpaşa

69

Lorraine Bracco

American actress

*October 2nd, 1954, Brooklyn

70

Jackie Chan

Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)

*April 7th, 1954, Victoria Peak

67

Shinzō Abe

Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020 (1954-2022)

*September 21st, 1954, Shinjuku †July 8th, 2022, Nara Medical University Hospital

58

Hugo Chávez

President of Venezuela, 1999–2002 and 2002–2013

*July 28th, 1954, Sabaneta †March 5th, 2013, Hospital Militar de Caracas

69

Uli Stielike

German association football player and manager

*November 15th, 1954, Ketsch

69

Emir Kusturica

Serbian and French film director, screenwriter, writer, actor and musician

*November 24th, 1954, Sarajevo

70

Eckhardt Rehberg

German politician

*April 3rd, 1954, Ribnitz-Damgarten

70

Caroline Cossey

English model and actress

*August 31st, 1954, Brooke

69

Kathy Kinney

American actress

*November 3rd, 1954, Stevens Point

70

Petra Uhlig

East German handball player

*July 22nd, 1954, Penig

70

Isabelle McEwen

Canadian film director

*January 6th, 1954, Montreal

69

Karl-Heinz Körbel

German association football player and manager

*December 1st, 1954, Dossenheim

69

Sven-Erik Bucht

Swedish politician

*December 28th, 1954, Karungi

70

Robert Hochbaum

German politician

*June 5th, 1954, Pforzheim

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No: With 365 days 1954 is a normal year and no leap year.

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