| 88771 | August 6 | Event | 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms. |
| 88772 | August 6 | Event | 1997 – Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 228 of 254 people on board. |
| 88773 | August 6 | Event | 2001 – Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu. |
| 88774 | August 6 | Event | 2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi. |
| 88775 | August 6 | Event | 2010 – Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people. |
| 88776 | August 6 | Event | 2011 – A march in protest of the death of Mark Duggan in Tottenham, London, ends in a riot, sparking off a wave of rioting throughout the country over the following four nights. |
| 88777 | August 6 | Event | 2011 – War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, 7 Afghan soldiers, and 1 Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afgh |
| 88778 | August 6 | Event | 2012 – NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars. |
| 88779 | August 6 | Event | 2015 – A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the south-western Saudi city of Abha. |
| 88780 | August 6 | Birth | 1180 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239) |
| 88781 | August 6 | Birth | 1504 – Matthew Parker, English archbishop (d. 1575) |
| 88782 | August 6 | Birth | 1609 – Richard Bennett, English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675) |
| 88783 | August 6 | Birth | 1619 – Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1677) |
| 88784 | August 6 | Birth | 1638 – Nicolas Malebranche, French priest and philosopher (d. 1715) |
| 88785 | August 6 | Birth | 1644 – Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1710) |
| 88786 | August 6 | Birth | 1656 – Claude de Forbin, French general (d. 1733) |
| 88787 | August 6 | Birth | 1666 – Maria Sophia of Neuburg (d. 1699) |
| 88788 | August 6 | Birth | 1697 – Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745) |
| 88789 | August 6 | Birth | 1715 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French author (d. 1747) |
| 88790 | August 6 | Birth | 1765 – Petros Mavromichalis, Greek general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1848) |
| 88791 | August 6 | Birth | 1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (d. 1828) |
| 88792 | August 6 | Birth | 1768 – Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French general and politician (d. 1813) |
| 88793 | August 6 | Birth | 1775 – Daniel O'Connell, Irish lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Dublin (d. 1847) |
| 88794 | August 6 | Birth | 1809 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet and author (d. 1892) |
| 88795 | August 6 | Birth | 1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, English-Australian author (d. 1915) |
| 88796 | August 6 | Birth | 1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900) |
| 88797 | August 6 | Birth | 1844 – James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (d. 1896) |
| 88798 | August 6 | Birth | 1846 – Anna Haining Bates, Canadian-American giant (d. 1888) |
| 88799 | August 6 | Birth | 1861 – Edith Roosevelt, American wife of Theodore Roosevelt, 27th First Lady of the United States (d. 1948) |
| 88800 | August 6 | Birth | 1868 – Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (d. 1955) |