June 6
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[edit] Births
- 1436 - Regiomontanus (Johannes Mller), German astronomer
- 1502 - King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
- 1553 - Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
- 1599 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
- 1606 - Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1684)
- 1622 - Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d.1857)
- 1755 - Nathan Hale, American writer, patriot (d. 1776)
- 1756 - John Trumbull, American painter (d. 1843)
- 1799 - Alexander Pushkin Russian poet (d. 1837)
- 1810 - Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, German classical scholar (d. 1856)
- 1829 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (d. 1862)
- 1850 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918)
- 1857 - Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918)
- 1862 - Henry John Newbolt, English author (d. 1938)
- 1868 - Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (d. 1912)
- 1872 - Tsarina Alexandra of Russia (d. 1918)
- 1875 - Thomas Mann, German novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1955)
- 1890 - Ted Lewis, American bandleader (d. 1971)
- 1892 - Donald Duncan, Sr., American marketer, modifier of yo-yo (d. 1971)
- 1898 - Ninette de Valois, Irish dancer (d. 2001)
- 1901 - Sukarno, first President of Indonesia (d. 1970)
- 1903 - Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (d. 1978)
- 1906 - Max August Zorn, mathematician (d. 1993)
- 1907 - Bill Dickey, baseball star, coach, manager, and scout (d. 1993)
- 1916 - Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972)
- 1926 - Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998)
- 1929 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician
- 1933 - Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (Nobel Prize 1986 for scanning tunneling microscope)
- 1934 - King Albert II of Belgium
- 1934 - Gilbert Cates, producer, director
- 1935 - Bobby Mitchel, American football player
- 1936 - Levi Stubbs, American musician (The Four Tops)
- 1939 - Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer
- 1939 - Gary U.S. Bonds, musician
- 1940 - Larry Lujack, American disc jockey
- 1945 - David Dukes, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1947 - David Blunkett, politician
- 1949 - Robert Englund, American actor (aka. Freddy Krueger)
- 1953 - Jack Novak, American football player
- 1954 - Harvey Fierstein, American actor
- 1954 - Cynthia Rylant, author
- 1955 - Sandra Bernhard, American actress, comedian
- 1956 - Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player
- 1960 - Gary Graham, American actor
- 1960 - Steve Vai, American musician
- 1961 - Tom Araya, Chilean musician (Slayer)
- 1963 - Wolfgang Drechsler, German social scientist
- 1967 - Max Casella, American actor
- 1970 - James "Munky" Shaffer, American musician (Korn guitarist)
- 1975 - Staci Keanan, American actress
- 1978 - Carl Barat, singer and guitarist (The Libertines)
- 1978 - Judith Barsi, actress (d. 1988)
