The 218th day of the year, the 219th in a leap year
Born on 6 August
Every 6 August birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Leo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LeoFire, fixed, ruled by the Sun.
- Birthstone
- Peridot, Spinel, SardonyxThe 1912 list gave Sardonyx and Peridot.
- Birth flower
- Gladiolus, PoppyUsually taken today to mean strength of character and remembrance.
- Most common weekdays
- Saturday and Thursday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 6 August in any year.
Which weekday 6 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 6 August falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.
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How common a birthday 6 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,858 babies were born on 6 August in each year of the twenty, making it the 68th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 6 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Andy Warhol | 1928–1987 | American artist, film director, and producer |
| Alexander Fleming | 1881–1955 | Scottish physician and microbiologist |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 1809–1892 | British Poet Laureate |
| Robin van Persie | 1983– | Dutch association football player and manager |
| Lucille Ball | 1911–1989 | American actress |
| Michelle Yeoh | 1962– | Malaysian actress |
| Paul Claudel | 1868–1955 | French diplomat, poet and playwright |
| Robert Mitchum | 1917–1997 | American actor |
| Johann Bernoulli | 1667–1748 | Swiss mathematician |
| Vera Farmiga | 1973– | American actress |
| François Fénelon | 1651–1715 | French archbishop, theologian and writer |
| M. Night Shyamalan | 1970– | American filmmaker |
| Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor | 1697–1745 | Holy Roman Emperor |
| Nicolas Malebranche | 1638–1715 | French philosopher |
| Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues | 1715–1747 | French writer and moralist |
| Geri Halliwell | 1972– | English singer and actress |
| William Hyde Wollaston | 1766–1828 | English chemist and physicist |
| Kevin Mitnick | 1963–2023 | American hacker |
Died on 6 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Diego Velázquez | 1599–1660 | Spanish painter |
| Pope Paul VI | 1897–1978 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978 |
| Theodor W. Adorno | 1903–1969 | German philosopher, sociologist and theorist |
| Ben Jonson | 1572–1637 | English playwright, poet, and actor |
| Fulgencio Batista | 1901–1973 | President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and from 1952 to 1959 |
| Pope Callixtus III | 1378–1458 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1455 to 1458 from the Borgia family |
| Edsger W. Dijkstra | 1930–2002 | Dutch computer scientist |
| Pope Sixtus II | died 258 | Bishop of Rome from 257 to 258 |
| Pope Hormisdas | 450–523 | Pope from 514 to 523 |
| Jorge Amado | 1912–2001 | Brazilian writer |
| Dominic de Guzmán | 1170–1221 | founder of the Dominican Order |
| Bohdan Khmelnytsky | 1595–1657 | Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host from 1648 to 1657 |
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