John Hughes, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1950)

John Wilden Hughes Jr. was an American filmmaker and producer. He is best known for writing, producing, and directing such films as Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, and Uncle Buck, and writing Pretty in Pink and Home Alone.

August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 147 days remain until the end of the year.