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Famous people born on August 6
Short answer
Well-known people born on August 6 include Andy Warhol (1928), Alexander Fleming (1881), Alfred Tennyson (1809) and Robin van Persie (1983). Our list below has 84 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 6 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1619 (Barbara Strozzi) and the most recent is 2004 (Diego Moreira). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, writer.
Who was born on August 6?
- Andy Warhol 1928 American artist, film director, and producer
- Alexander Fleming 1881 Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate
- Alfred Tennyson 1809 British Poet Laureate
- Robin van Persie 1983 Dutch association football player and manager
- Lucille Ball 1911 American actress
- Michelle Yeoh 1962 Malaysian actress
- Robert Mitchum 1917 American actor
- Johann Bernoulli 1667 Swiss mathematician
- Vera Farmiga 1973 American actress
- François Fénelon 1651 French archbishop, theologian and writer
- M. Night Shyamalan 1970 American filmmaker
- Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor 1697 Holy Roman Emperor
- Mohammad Najibullah 1947 4th General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
- Nicolas Malebranche 1638 French philosopher
- Geri Halliwell 1972 English singer and actress
- Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues 1715 French writer, a moralist
- Kevin Mitnick 1963 American hacker
- William Hyde Wollaston 1766 English chemist and physicist
- Roman Weidenfeller 1980 German association football player
- Yutaka Akita 1970 Japanese association football player and manager
- Marcus Thuram 1997 French footballer
- Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême 1775 French prince
- Vedad Ibišević 1984 Bosnian association football player
- Edith Roosevelt 1861 First Lady of the United States from 1901 to 1909
- David Robinson 1965 American basketball player
- Elliott Smith 1969 American musician
- Friedrich List 1789 German economist
- Daniel O'Connell 1775 Irish political leader
- Melissa George 1976 Australian actress
- Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1844 Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1893 to 1900
- Bafétimbi Gomis 1985 French association football player
- Vitantonio Liuzzi 1980 Italian racing driver
- Marisa Miller 1978 American model
- Dražan Jerković 1936 Croatian footballer
- Dom Mintoff 1916 Maltese politician
- Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen 1983 Lithuanian chess player and politician
- Jean-Baptiste Bessières 1768 Marshal of France
- Catherine Hicks 1951 American retired actress
- Abbey Lincoln 1930 American singer
- Douglas 1990 Brazilian association football player, born 1990
- Barbara Strozzi 1619 Italian singer and composer
- Didier Reynders 1958 Belgian politician, currently European Commissioner for Justice
- Linda Maria Baros 1981 French poet
- Amin Younes 1993 German association football player
- Hólmar Örn Eyjólfsson 1990 Icelandic footballer
- Abdul Kader Keïta 1981 Ivorian association football player
- Aymen Abdennour 1989 Tunisian association football player
- Charlie Haden 1937 American musician and educator
- Judah P. Benjamin 1811 American politician and lawyer
- Paolo Bacigalupi 1972 American science fiction and fantasy writer
- Diego Moreira 2004 Belgian association football player
- Romola Garai 1982 British actress
- Suchinda Kraprayoon 1933 Thai politician and general
- Mehdi Abeid 1992 Algerian-French footballer
- Ty Simpkins 2001 American actor
- Khurshidbanu Natavan 1832 Azerbaijani poet
- Barbara Windsor 1937 English actress and singer
- William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim 1891 Former Governor-General of Australia
- Yuki Kajiura 1965 Japanese composer and music producer
- Pedro Miguel 1990 Qatari association football player
- Jon Postel 1943 American computer scientist
- Helen Jacobs 1908 American tennis player
- Frank Finlay 1926 British actor
- Allan Holdsworth 1946 British musician
- Stéphane Peterhansel 1965 French racecar driver and motorcycle rider
- Juliane Köhler 1965 German actress
- Diane di Prima 1934 American poet
- Sofia Essaïdi 1984 French-Moroccan singer
- Mário Coluna 1935 Portuguese footballer
- Queen Geraldine of Albania 1915 Queen Consort of Albania
- Maria Sofia of Neuburg 1666 Queen consort of Portugal
- Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld 1651 Swedish field marshal
- Kjell Westö 1961 Swedish-speaking writer and journalist from Finland
- Leslie Odom Jr. 1981 American actor and singer
- Charles Fort 1874 American writer
- Renate Götschl 1975 Austrian Alpine skier
- Jakub Brabec 1992 Czech soccer player
- Piers Anthony 1934 English-American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres
- Heinrich Rose 1795 German chemist
- Alfred Hettner 1859 German geomorphologist
- Dipika Kakar 1986 Indian actress
- Antonella Palmisano 1991 Italian racewalker
- Natsumi Tsunoda 1992 Japanese judoka
- Erik Nilsson 1916 Swedish footballer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 6 share the 6th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.