| 88801 | August 6 | Birth | 1874 – Charles Fort, American author (d. 1932) |
| 88802 | August 6 | Birth | 1877 – Wallace H. White, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1952) |
| 88803 | August 6 | Birth | 1880 – Hans Moser, Austrian actor and singer (d. 1964) |
| 88804 | August 6 | Birth | 1881 – Leo Carrillo, American actor, singer, and cartoonist (d. 1961) |
| 88805 | August 6 | Birth | 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955) |
| 88806 | August 6 | Birth | 1881 – Louella Parsons, American actress, screenwriter, and journalist (d. 1972) |
| 88807 | August 6 | Birth | 1882 – Ernst Eklund, Swedish actor (d. 1971) |
| 88808 | August 6 | Birth | 1883 – Scott Nearing, American economist and educator (d. 1983) |
| 88809 | August 6 | Birth | 1886 – Edward Ballantine, American composer and academic (d. 1971) |
| 88810 | August 6 | Birth | 1887 – Dudley Benjafield, English race car driver (d. 1957) |
| 88811 | August 6 | Birth | 1888 – Heinrich Schlusnus, German singer (d. 1952) |
| 88812 | August 6 | Birth | 1889 – George Kenney, Canadian-American general (d. 1977) |
| 88813 | August 6 | Birth | 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet and author (d. 1957) |
| 88814 | August 6 | Birth | 1890 – Wentworth Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Allendale, English captain and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland (d. 1956) |
| 88815 | August 6 | Birth | 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English field marshal and politician, 13th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1970) |
| 88816 | August 6 | Birth | 1892 – Hoot Gibson, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1962) |
| 88817 | August 6 | Birth | 1893 – Wright Patman, American lieutenant and politician (d. 1976) |
| 88818 | August 6 | Birth | 1895 – Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban pianist and composer (d. 1963) |
| 88819 | August 6 | Birth | 1900 – Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist and businessman, co-founded Texas Instruments (d. 2003) |
| 88820 | August 6 | Birth | 1902 – Dutch Schultz, American mob boss (d. 1935) |
| 88821 | August 6 | Birth | 1904 – Jean Dessès, Greek-Egyptian fashion designer (d. 1970) |
| 88822 | August 6 | Birth | 1904 – Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach (d. 1993) |
| 88823 | August 6 | Birth | 1906 – Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984) |
| 88824 | August 6 | Birth | 1908 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player and commander (d. 1997) |
| 88825 | August 6 | Birth | 1908 – Will Lee, American actor (d. 1982) |
| 88826 | August 6 | Birth | 1908 – Lajos Vajda, Hungarian painter and illustrator (d. 1941) |
| 88827 | August 6 | Birth | 1909 – Diana Keppel, Countess of Albemarle (d. 2013) |
| 88828 | August 6 | Birth | 1910 – Charles Crichton, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1999) |
| 88829 | August 6 | Birth | 1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress, singer, and producer (d. 1989) |
| 88830 | August 6 | Birth | 1911 – Norman Gordon, South African cricketer (d. 2014) |