August 6 Deaths

Pope Paul VI (1897 - 1978)

Italian Pope

Marvin Hamlisch (1944 - 2012)

American composer and conductor

Diego Velázquez (1599 - 1660)

Spanish painter

Fulgencio Batista (1901 - 1973)

Cuban army officer and politician, 9th President of Cuba

Rick James (1948 - 2004)

American singer-songwriter and producer

Klaus Nomi (1944 - 1983)

German singer-songwriter and actor

Joël Robuchon (1945 - 2018)

French chef

Robin Cook (1946 - 2005)

Scottish politician

Pope Callixtus III (1378 - 1458)

Pope

Bix Beiderbecke (1903 - 1931)

American jazz musician

Richard Bong (1920 - 1945)

American pilot

Domenico Modugno (1928 - 1994)

Italian singer-songwriter, actor, and politician

Willy Deville (1950 - 2009)

American musician, singer-songwriter

Preston Sturges (1898 - 1959)

Film director, screenwriter

Edsger Dijkstra (1930 - 2002)

Dutch computer scientist

John Hughes (1950 - 2009)

American film director

Jorge Amado (1912 - 2001)

Brazilian novelist

Harry Reasoner (1923 - 1991)

Journalist

Nancy Carroll (1903 - 1965)

Actress

David Fairchild (1869 - 1954)

American explorer

Carlo Little (1938 - 2005)

English rock and roll drummer

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