List of Famous people born on August 6th

Justinus Jacob Leonard van der Brugghen was a Dutch politician.

Tantan Dzalikha is an Indonesian professional footballer who played as a forward.

Alfred Alexander Taylor, known as Alf Taylor, was an American politician and lecturer from eastern Tennessee. He served as Governor of Tennessee from 1921 to 1923, one of three Republicans to hold the position from the end of Reconstruction to the latter half of the 20th century. He also served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 1889 to 1895.

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. She was president of the Society for Research in Child Development from 1946-1947. She is best known for published book The Measurement of Intelligence, where she introduced the Goodenough Draw-A-Man test to assess intelligence in young children through nonverbal measurement. She is noted for developing the Minnesota Preschool Scale. In 1931 she published two notable books titled Experimental Child Study and Anger in Young Children which analyzed the methods used in evaluating children. She wrote the Handbook of Child Psychology in 1933, becoming the first known psychologist to critique ratio I.Q.

Berk İsmail Ünsal is a Turkish footballer who plays as a striker for Sakaryaspor. He made his Süper Lig debut on 29 March 2014 against Torku Konyaspor.

Wallace Humphrey White Jr. was an American politician and Republican leader in the United States Congress from 1917 until 1949. White was from the U.S. state of Maine and served in the U.S. House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S. Senate, where he was Senate Minority Leader and later Majority Leader before his retirement.

Joseph Villevieille (1829–1916) was a French painter.