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Lucille Ball was recognized by Time in 2020 as one of the most influential women of the 20th century for her work in all four of these areas.
Famous Birthdays on August 6
1911 — Lucille Ball
American actress, television producer and businesswoman (died 1989)
August 6 has 171 recorded notable births across history, from 1180 to 2004. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on August 6
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- 1861 Britain imposes the Lagos Treaty of Cession to suppress slavery in what is now Nigeria. Source
- 1819 Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States. Source
- 1958 Law of Permanent Defense of Democracy, outlawing the Communist Party of Chile and banning 26,650 persons from the electoral lists, is repealed in Chile. Source
- 1825 The Bolivian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed. Source
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Geri Halliwell's slogan "girl power" was most closely associated with Halliwell and her Union Jack dress from the 1997 Brit Awards also became an enduring symbol.
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Credited as Michelle Khan in her early films, she rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s after starring in Hong Kong action and martial arts films where she performed her own stunts.
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In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu".
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In 2021, she released her debut EP, Pretty Poison, which combined elements of alternative pop and pop-rock.
More major people born on August 6
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1972
Geri Halliwell
English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
Geraldine Estelle Halliwell-Horner is an English singer, songwriter, television personality, author, and actress.
1962
Michelle Yeoh
Malaysian-Hong Kong actress and producer
Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng Todt is a Malaysian actress. In a career spanning over four decades, she has acted in film and television productions covering a wide range of genres and received various accolades, including an…
1809
Alfred
Lord Tennyson, English poet (died 1892)
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign.
2002
Nessa Barrett
American singer-songwriter
Janesa Jaida "Nessa" Barrett is an American singer-songwriter and social media personality.
1924
Samuel Bowers
American white supremacist, co-founded the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (died 2006)
Samuel Holloway Bowers Jr. was an American white supremacist who co-founded the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and became its first Imperial Wizard.
1937
Baden Powell de Aquino
Brazilian guitarist and composer (died 2000)
Baden Powell de Aquino, known professionally as Baden Powell, was a Brazilian virtuoso guitarist and composer. He combined classical techniques with popular harmony and swing.
1848
Susie Taylor
American writer and first black Army nurse (died 1912)
Susie King Taylor was an American nurse, educator, and memoirist. Born into slavery in coastal Georgia, she is known for being the first African-American nurse during the American Civil War.
1883
Scott Nearing
American economist and educator (died 1983)
Scott Nearing was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, pacifist, vegetarian and advocate of simple living.
1956
Bill Emmott
English journalist and author
William John Emmott is an English journalist, author, and consultant best known as the editor-in-chief of The Economist newspaper from 1993 to 2006.
1883
Constance Georgina Adams
South African botanist (died 1968)
Constance Georgina Adams, also known as Constance Georgina Tardrew, was a South African housewife and collector of botanical specimens.
1886
Florence Goodenough
American child psychologist (died 1959)
Florence Laura Goodenough was an American psychologist and professor at the University of Minnesota who studied child intelligence and various problems in the field of child development.
1916
Richard Hofstadter
American historian and academic (died 1970)
Richard Hofstadter was an American historian and public intellectual. Hofstadter was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University.
1959
Rajendra Singh
Indian environmentalist
Rajendra Singh is an Indian water conservationist and environmentalist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India.
1963
Kevin Mitnick
American computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker (died 2023)
Kevin David Mitnick was an American computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker.
1572
Fakhr-al-Din II
Druze emir (died 1635)
Fakhr al-Din Ma'n, commonly known as Fakhr al-Din II or Fakhreddine II, was the paramount Druze emir of Mount Lebanon from the Ma'n dynasty, an Ottoman governor of Sidon-Beirut and Safed, and the strongman over much of…
1976
Soleil Moon Frye
American actress
Soleil Moon Frye is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress at the age of two. When she was seven, Frye won the role of Penelope "Punky" Brewster in the NBC sitcom Punky Brewster.
1973
Vera Farmiga
American actress
Vera Ann Farmiga is an American actress and singer. She began her professional acting career on stage in the original Broadway production of Taking Sides (1996).
1969
Simon Doull
New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster
Simon Blair Doull is a New Zealand radio personality, commentator, and former international cricketer. He was a right-arm medium pacer who was capable of swing bowling.
1903
Virginia Foster Durr
American civil rights activist (died 1999)
Virginia Foster Durr was an American civil rights activist and lobbyist. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1903 to Dr. Sterling Foster, an Alabama Presbyterian minister, and Ann Patterson Foster.