List of Famous people born on August 6th

Mykola Avilov is a retired Ukrainian Soviet decathlete (Odessa) who competed at the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympics. He won a gold medal in 1972, setting a new world record, a bronze in 1976, and finished fourth in 1968.

Johann Balzer was an 18th-century Czech engraver in the Kingdom of Bohemia.

Ravi Coltrane is an American jazz saxophonist. Co-owner of the record label RKM Music, he has produced pianist Luis Perdomo, guitarist David Gilmore, and trumpeter Ralph Alessi.

George Granville Harcourt was a British Whig and then Conservative Party politician.

Vittorio Michele Craxi, commonly known as Bobo Craxi, is an Italian politician, son of the former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and brother of Stefania Craxi.

Heinrich Rose was a German mineralogist and analytical chemist. He was the brother of the mineralogist Gustav Rose and a son of Valentin Rose. Rose's early works on phosphorescence were noted in the Quarterly Journal of Science in 1821, and on the strength of these works, he was elected privatdozent at the University of Berlin from 1822, then Professor from 1832.

Ernst Schwarz was an Austrian sinologist and translator.