February 6
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February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 328 days remaining until the end of the year (329 in leap years).
Events
Up to 1900
- 891 - Saint Photius I the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople
- 1215 - Hojo Tokimasa, Emperor of Japan (b. 1138)
- 1378 – Jeanne de Bourbon, Queen of France (b. 1338)
- 1497 – Johannes Ockeghem, Belgian composer (b. 1410)
- 1593 - Jacques Amyot, French writer (b. 1513)
- 1593 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
- 1612 - Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1538)
- 1617 - Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (b. 1553)
- 1685 – Charles II, King of England, Ireland and Scotland (b. 1630)
- 1695 - Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1643)
- 1740 – Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
- 1783 - Lancelot "Capability" Brown, English gardener (b. 1716)
- 1793 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (b. 1707)
- 1804 – Joseph Priestley, English-American theologian, philosopher, chemist and physicist (b. 1733)
- 1834 - Richard Lemon Lander, English explorer (b. 1804)
- 1855 - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1791)
- 1899 – Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
- 1899 – Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg Gotha (b. 1874)
1901 – 2000
- 1910 - Alfonso Maria Fusco, Italian Roman Catholic priest (b. 1839)
- 1916 – Ruben Dario, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
- 1918 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)
- 1929 – Maria Christina of Austria, Queen of Spain (b. 1858)
- 1931 - Motilal Nehru, Indian politician (b. 1861)
- 1933 - Jackson Showalter, American chess player (b. 1860)
- 1938 - Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)
- 1942 - Jaan Soots, Estonian general and politician (b. 1880)
- 1950 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
- 1952 – George VI, King of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
- 1956 - Henri Chrétien, French astronomer, professor and inventor (b. 1879)
- 1958 - Manchester United players killed in the Munich Air Disaster:
- David Pegg, English footballer (b. 1935)
- Tommy Taylor, English footballer (b. 1932)
- Geoff Bent, English footballer (b. 1932)
- Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929)
- Eddie Colman, English footballer (b. 1936)
- Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933)
- Frank Swift, English footballer (b. 1913)
- Walter Crickmer, English footballer and manager (b. 1900)
- 1964 – Emilio Aguinaldo, President of the Philippines (b. 1869)
- 1981 - Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1917)
- 1981 - Hugo Montenegro, American movie music composer (b. 1925)
- 1984 – Jorge Guillen, Spanish poet (b. 1893)
- 1986 - Frederick Coutts, Scottish 8th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1899)
- 1986 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b. 1912)
- 1989 – Chris Gueffroy, German, last person to die crossing the Berlin Wall (b. 1968)
- 1990 - Jimmy van Heusen, American composer (b. 1913)
- 1991 – Salvador Luria, Italian biologist (b. 1912)
- 1991 - Danny Thomas, American signer, comedian and actor (b. 1914)
- 1993 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
- 1994 - Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
- 1994 – Jack Kirby, American comic book writer (b. 1917)
- 1996 - Guy Madison, American actor (b. 1922)
- 1998 – Falco, Austrian singer (b. 1957)
- 1998 – Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946)
- 1999 - Don Dunstan, 35th Premier of South Australia (b. 1926)
- 1999 - Jimmy Roberts, American tenor (b. 1924)
From 2001
- 2002 – Max Perutz, Austrian molecular biologist (b. 1914)
- 2009 – James Whitmore, American actor (b. 1921)
- 2010 – John Dankworth, British jazz musician (b. 1927)
- 2011 – Josefa Iloilo, 3rd President of Fiji (b. 1920)
- 2011 – Gary Moore, Northern Irish musician (b. 1952)
- 2012 - Antoni Tapies, Catalan artist (b. 1923)
- 2012 - Janice E. Voss, American astronaut (b. 1956)
- 2013 - Chokri Belaid, Tunisian lawyer and politician (b. 1964)
- 2013 - Stuart Freeborn, British make-up artist (b. 1914)
- 2014 - Ralph Kiner, American baseball player (b. 1922)
- 2015 - Marisa Del Frate, Italian actress (b. 1931)
- 2015 - Alan Nunnelee, American politician (b. 1958)
- 2015 - Assia Djebar, Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker (b. 1936)
- 2015 - André Brink, South African writer (b. 1935)
- 2015 - Kathrine Windfeld, Danish movie director (b. 1966)
- 2015 - Norm Drucker, American basketball player (b. 1920)
- 2016
- Dan Hicks, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
- Robin Chandler Duke, American social advocate and diplomat (b. 1923)
- Birte Tove, Danish actress (b. 1945)
- Eddy Wally, Belgian singer (b. 1932)
- 2017 - Boy Asistio, Filipino politician (b. 1936)
- 2017 - Ritchie Yorke, Australian-English author and broadcaster (b. 1944)
- 2017 - José Gea Escolano, Spanish archbishop (b. 1929)
- 2017 - Roger Walkowiak, French cyclist (b. 1927)
- 2017 - Irwin Corey, American actor and comedian (b. 1914)
- 2017 - Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby player (b. 1971)
- 2017 - Inge Keller, German actress (b. 1923)
- 2017 - Alec McCowen, English actor (b. 1925)
- 2017 - Ivar Aronsson, Swedish rower (b. 1928)
- 2017 - Neil Gehrels, American astronomer (b. 1952)
- 2017 - Djelloul Khatib, Algerian independence activist and politician (b. 1936)
- 2017 - Raymond Smullyan, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1919)
- 2018 - John Perry Barlow, American writer, songwriter and internet activist (b. 1947)
- 2018 - Liliana Bodoc, Argentine author (b. 1958)
- 2018 - Jao Tsung-I, Chinese-Hong Kong scholar (b. 1917)
- 2018 - Joe Knollenberg, American politician (b. 1933)
- 2018 - Madavoor Vasudevan Nair, Indian dancer (b. 1929)
Births
Up to 1800
- 1347 - Dorothea of Montau, Prussian saint (d. 1394)
- 1452 – Joan, Princess of Portugal (d. 1490)
- 1465 - Scipione del Ferro, Italian mathematician (d. 1526)
- 1582 - Mario Bettinus, Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1657)
- 1605 - Bernard of Corleone, Italian saint (d. 1667)
- 1608 - Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer (d. 1697)
- 1611 – Chongzhen, Emperor of China (d. 1644)
- 1612 - Antoine Arnauld, French theologian, philosopher and mathematician (d. 1694)
- 1636 - Heiman Dullaart, Dutch painter (d. 1684)
- 1643 – Johann Casimir Kolbe von Wartenberg, 1st Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1712)
- 1664 – Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1703)
- 1665 – Anne, Queen of England, Ireland and Scotland (d. 1714)
- 1726 - Patrick Russell, Scottish surgeon and naturalist (d. 1805)
- 1730 - Januarius Zick, German painter (d. 1797)
- 1736 - Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German-Austrian sculptor (d. 1783)
- 1744 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (d. 1795)
- 1748 – Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher (d. 1811)
- 1753 - Evariste de Parny, French poet (d. 1814)
- 1756 – Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
- 1757 - Julian Ursan Niemcewicz, Polish scholar and statesman (d. 1841)
- 1778 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer and poet (d. 1827)
- 1797 - Joseph van Radowitz, Prussian statesman and general (d. 1853)
- 1799 - George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Scottish botanist (d. 1868)
1801 – 1900
- 1802 – Charles Wheatstone, English physicist and inventor (d. 1875)
- 1811 – Henry George Liddell, English philologist and lexicographer (d. 1898)
- 1818 - William M. Evarts, American lawyer and statesman (d. 1901)
- 1818 - Jenaro Quesada y Matheus, Spanish nobleman and politician (d. 1889)
- 1832 - John Brown Gordon, 32nd Governor of Georgia (d. 1904)
- 1833 - Jose Maria de Pereda, Spanish novelist (d. 1906)
- 1838 - Henry Irving, British actor (d. 1905)
- 1843 - Inoue Kowashi, Japanese statesman (d. 1895)
- 1846 - Raimundo Andueza Palacio, 24th President of Venezuela (d. 1900)
- 1847 - Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect (d. 1918)
- 1852 - Vasily Safonov, Russian pianist, composer and teacher (d. 1918)
- 1852 - C. Lloyd Morgan, British psychologist (d. 1936)
- 1854 - Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, Italian prince (d. 1931)
- 1859 – Wilhelm Cohn, German chess player (d. 1913)
- 1861 - Nikolay Zelinsky, Russian chemist (d. 1953)
- 1864 - John Henry Mackay, Scottish thinker and writer (d. 1933)
- 1866 - Karl Sapper, German explorer and linguist (d. 1945)
- 1870 - James Braid, Scottish golfer (d. 1950)
- 1872 - Robert Maillart, Swiss engineer (d. 1940)
- 1879 – Carl Ramsauer, German physicist (d. 1955)
- 1879 - Magnus Gudmundsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1937)
- 1879 - Edwin Samuel Montagu, British statesman (d. 1974)
- 1880 - Nishinoumi Kajiro II, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1931)
- 1883 - Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1938)
- 1887 - Josef Frings, German cardinal (d. 1978)
- 1892 – William P. Murphy, American doctor, won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1987)
- 1893 - Muhammad Zaffarullah Khan, Pakistani politician and diplomat (d. 1985)
- 1894 - Kirpal Singh, Indian religious leader (d. 1974)
- 1895 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player (d. 1948)
- 1897 - Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian movie director and producer (d. 1982)
1901 – 1950
- 1901 - Ben Lyon, American actor (d. 1979)
- 1903 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean pianist (d. 1991)
- 1905 – Wladyslaw Gomulka, Polish politician (d. 1982)
- 1905 - Jan Werich, Czech actor, playwright and writer (d. 1980)
- 1908 - Michael Maltese, American screenwriter (d. 1981)
- 1908 – Amintore Fanfani, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1999)
- 1911 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
- 1912 – Eva Braun, wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)
- 1913 – Mary Leakey, Kenyan archaeologist (d. 1996)
- 1914 - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (d. 2005)
- 1917 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress (d. 2016)
- 1919 - Takashi Yanase, Japanese manga artist
- 1921 - Carl Neumann Degler, American historian and author (d. 2014)
- 1922 – Patrick Macnee, British actor (d. 2015)
- 1922 - Denis Norden, British comedy writer and television presenter
- 1922 - Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer, movie producer and director (d. 2015)
- 1922 - Clifford Darling, Governor-General of the Bahamas (d. 2011)
- 1923 – Gyula Lorant, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981)
- 1924 – Billy Wright, English footballer (d. 1994)
- 1924 - Ivo Garrani, Italian actor (d. 2015)
- 1924 - Jin Yong, Hong Kong author and publisher
- 1929 – Colin Murdoch, New Zealand pharmacist and inventor (d. 2008)
- 1929 - Sixten Jernberg, Swedish cross-country skier (d. 2012)
- 1929 - Pierre Brice, French actor (d. 2015)
- 1931 – Mamie Van Doren, American actress
- 1931 - Ricardo Vidal, Filipino cardinal (d. 2017)
- 1932 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1959)
- 1932 – François Truffaut, French movie director (d. 1984)
- 1936 - Donnie Brooks, American pop music singer (d. 2007)
- 1939 – Mike Farrell, American actor
- 1939 - Jair Rodrigues, Brazilian musician and singer (d. 2014)
- 1940 – Tom Brokaw, American television journalist
- 1940 - Jimmy Tarbuck, English comedian and actor
- 1942 - Valentina Titova, Russian actress
- 1942 - Sarah Brady, American gun control campaigner (d. 2015)
- 1943 - Gayle Hunnicutt, American actress
- 1943 - Georgeanna Tillman, American singer
- 1944 - Michael Tucker, American actor
- 1945 – Bob Marley, Jamaican Reggae musician (d. 1981)
- 1946 – Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer and songwriter (d. 2010)
- 1947 - Bill Staines, American singer-songwriter
- 1948 - Claude Le Roy, French footballer and coach
- 1948 - Bunny Rugs, Jamaican singer (d. 2014)
- 1949 - Mike Batt, British composer
- 1949 - Manuel Orantes, Spanish tennis player
- 1950 – Natalie Cole, American singer (d. 2015)
- 1950 - Timothy M. Dolan, American cardinal
1951 – 1975
- 1951 – Kevin Whately, British actor
- 1952 - Viktor Giacobbo, Swiss writer, comedian and actor
- 1952 – Ricardo La Volpe, Argentine football coach
- 1954 - Bob Sirois, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1956 - Jerry Marotta, American drummer (Orleans)
- 1957 - Simon Phillips, American drummer (d. 2007)
- 1957 - Robert Townsend, American actor
- 1960 – Jeremy Bowen, British journalist
- 1960 - Frank Jeske, East German footballer (d. 1994)
- 1961 - Malu Dreyer, German politician
- 1961 - Yury Onufriyenko, Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut
- 1962 – Axl Rose, American singer (Guns N' Roses)
- 1962 - Stavros Lambrinidis, Greek politician
- 1963 - Quentin Letts, British journalist and critic
- 1964 - Gord Downie, Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, writer and activist (d. 2017)
- 1966 – Rick Astley, British singer
- 1967 – Zard, Japanese singer (d. 2007)
- 1967 - Anita Cochran, American singer
- 1968 – Adolfo Valencia, Colombian footballer
- 1969 - David Hayter, American actor
- 1969 - Tim Sherwood, English footballer and manager
- 1969 - Masaharu Fukuyama, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
- 1970 - Dina Sherman, American voice actress
- 1971 - Brian Stepanek, American actor
- 1971 - Simon Stephens, English playwright
- 1975 – Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer
From 1976
- 1976 – Princess Marie of Denmark
- 1976 – Kasper Hvidt, Danish handball player
- 1977 - Josh Stewart, American actor
- 1979 - Alice Weidel, German politician
- 1980 - Ben Lawson, Australian actor
- 1980 - Luke Ravenstahl, 59th Mayor of Pittsburgh
- 1981 - Calum Best, American-English model
- 1981 - Jens Lekman, Swedish musician
- 1981 - Shim Eun Jin, South Korean singer
- 1982 – Tank, Taiwanese singer
- 1982 - Alice Eve, English actress
- 1983 - Melrose Bickerstaff, American model and fashion designer
- 1984 - Piret Jarvis, Estonian singer
- 1984 – Darren Bent, English footballer
- 1985 – Kris Humphries, American basketball player
- 1986 – Mathew Tait, English rugby player
- 1988 - Bailey Hanks, American actress
- 1989 - Jonny Flynn, American basketball player
- 1989 - Craig Cathcart, Irish footballer
- 1989 - Sophie Bennett, Canadian actress and singer
- 1990 - Adam Henrique, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1991 - Maxi Iglesias, Spanish actor
- 1991 - Anna Sidorova, Russian curler
- 1992 - Cara McCollum, American journalist and beauty queen (d. 2016)
- 1993 - Teresa Scanlan, American model
- 1993 - Tinashe, American singer-songwriter, dancer and actress
- 1995 - Jongup, South Korean singer
- 1995 - Sam McQueen, English footballer
Deaths
Observances
- Waitangi Day in New Zealand
- International day of zero tolerance for female genital mutilation
- Sámi National Day (Finland, Norway, Sweden, parts of Russia)
- Ronald Reagan Day (California, Wisconsin, Illinois)
- Accession Day (since 1952), in the United Kingdom and all the other countries of which Queen Elizabeth II is Head of State