August 6
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Art and culture
- 1926: premier of Don Juan, silent film with fully synchronized score
- 1984 - Pop star Prince releases Purple Rain, the album which would launch him to superstardom.
- 1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.
Births
- 1928 - Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
- 1938 - Paul Bartel, American actor (d. 2000)
Deaths
- 1660 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)
- 1969 - Theodor Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
- 1973 - Fulgencio Batista, Cuban president and de facto leader (b. 1901)
- 1973 - Memphis Minnie, American blues singer (b. 1897)
- 1974 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
- 1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (b. 1903)
- 1978 - Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
- 1979 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911)
- 1983 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944)
- 1985 - Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana (b. 1923)
- 1986 - Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director (b. 1904)
- 1987 - Ira Eaker, American Air Force leader (b. 1896)
- 1987 - Quinn Martin, American television producer (b. 1922)
- 1990 - Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist (b. 1912)
- 1991 - Harry Reasoner, American reporter (b. 1923)
- 1993 - Tex Hughson, American baseball player (b. 1916)
- 1994 - Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
- 1998 - Andre Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
- 2001 - Jorge Amado de Faria, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
- 2001 - Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930)
- 2002 - Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
- 2004 - Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)
- 2005 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (b. 1928)
- 2005 - Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
- 2005 - Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1927)
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