March 6

2024 Calendar

March 6 is the 65th day of the year (66th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 300 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

1052 - Emma of Normandy (b. 985)
1252 - Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)
1282 - Agnes of Bohemia (b. 1211)
1466 – Francesco I Sforza, Italian ruler (b. 1401)
1490 – Ivan the Young, ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
1627 - Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (b. 1580)
1754 – Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694)
1764 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1690)
1836 – Davy Crockett, American historical figure (b. 1786)
1836 - James Bowie, Texan pioneer (b. 1796)
1836 - William Travis, Texan soldier (b. 1809)
1842 – Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1763)
1860 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783)
1881 – Horatia Nelson, daughter of Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton (b. 1801)
1888 – Louisa May Alcott, American writer (b. 1832)
1895 – Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)
1899 – Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
1900 – Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer (b. 1834)

1901 – 2000

1925 – Georgy Lvov, Russian politician (b. 1861)
1930 - Alfred von Tirpitz, German admiral (b. 1849)
1932 – John Philip Sousa, American conductor and composer (b. 1854)
1933 – Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873)
1935 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American politician (b. 1841)
1941 - Gutzon Borglum, Danish sculptor (b. 1867)
1950 – Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871)
1951 – Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician and composer (b. 1893)
1951 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1880)
1952 - Jürgen Stroop, German SS officer (b. 1895)
1961 – George Formby, English comedian, singer and musician (b. 1904)
1964 – King Paul of Greece (b. 1901)
1965 - Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889)
1967 – Zoltan Kodaly, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
1967 - Nelson Eddy, American actor and singer (b. 1901)
1971 – Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (b. 1921)
1973 – Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize winner (b. 1892)
1982 – Ayn Rand, Russian-American writer (b. 1905)
1984 – Martin Niemöller, German theologian (b. 1892)
1986 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)
1990 - Taro Kagawa, Japanese footballer (b. 1922)
1994 - Ken Noritake, Japanese footballer (b. 1922)
1994 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and politician (b. 1920)
1997 – Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (b. 1918)
1997 – Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924)
1999 – Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, Emir of Bahrain (b. 1933)

From 2001

2002 - Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1969)
2004 - Frances Dee, American actress (b. 1909)
2005 – Hans Bethe, German physicist (b. 1906)
2006 - King Floyd, American singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
2006 - Dana Reeve, American actress and activist (b. 1961)
2007 – Jean Baudrillard, French theorist and photographer (b. 1929)
2009 - Francis Magalona, Filipino media artist and photographer (b. 1964)
2009 – Susan Tsvangirai, wife of Morgan Tsvangirai (b. 1958)
2011 – Jan Popluhar, Slovakian footballer (b. 1935)
2012 - Francisco Xavier do Amaral, 1st President of East Timor (b. 1937)
2013 - Alvin Lee, British guitarist (b. 1944)
2013 - Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country musician (b. 1936)
2014 - Jojon, Indonesian comedian (b. 1947)
2014 - Manlio Sgalambro, Italian philosopher and writer (b. 1924)
2014 - Maurice Faure, French diplomat and politician (b. 1922)
2014 - Sérgio Guerra, Brazilian economist and politician (b. 1947)
2014 - Martin Nesbitt, American politician (b. 1946)
2014 - Frank Jobe, American surgeon (b. 1925)
2014 - Sheila MacRae, English-American actress (b. 1921)
2014 - Ron Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933)
2014 - Alemayehu Atomsa, Ethiopian politician (b. 1969)
2015 - Ram Sundar Das, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1921)
2015 - Kishore Te, Indian movie editor (b. 1978)
2015 - Fred Craddock, American minister (b. 1928)
2015 - Vasilios Magginas, Greek politician (b. 1949)
2016 - Kalabhavan Mani, Indian actor (b. 1971)
2016 - Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the United States (b. 1921)
2016 - Elizabeth Garrett, American educator (b. 1963)
2016 - Sheila Varian, American horse breeder (b. 1937)
2017 - Bill Hougland, American basketball player and businessman (b. 1930)
2017 - Robert Osborne, American film historian and actor (b. 1932)
2017 - Alberto Zedda, Italian conductor and musicologist (b. 1928)
2017 - Eddy Pauwels, Belgian cyclist (b. 1935)
2017 - Geoffrey Wainwright, British archaeologist (b. 1937)
2018 - Indra Bahadur Rai, Indian writer (b. 1927)
2018 - John Sulston, English biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1942)
2018 - Peter Nicholls, Australian writer (b. 1939)
2018 - Shammi, Indian actress (b. 1929)
2018 - Peter Freund, Romanian-American physicist (b. 1936)
2019 - John Habgood, English bishop, academic and life peer (b. 1927)
2019 - José Pedro Pérez-Llorca, Spanish lawyer, politician and diplomat (b. 1940)
2019 - Carolee Schneemann, American artist (b. 1939)

Births

1901 – 1950

1903 – Empress Kojun of Japan (d. 2000)
1904 - José Antonio Aguirre, 1st President of the Basque Country (d. 1960)
1905 - Bob Wills, American bandleader and songwriter (d. 1975)
1906 – Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (d. 1959)
1911 - George Webb, English actor (d. 1998)
1913 - Louise Latimer, American actress (d. 1973)
1915 - Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian spiritual leader (d. 2014)
1917 – Frankie Howerd, English comedian (d. 1992)
1917 – Donald Davidson, American philosopher (d. 2003)
1917 – Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005)
1917 - Samael Aun Weor, Colombian author, lecturer and teacher (d. 1977)
1919 - Harry Coover, American inventor of Super Glue (d. 2011)
1920 - Lewis Gilbert, English movie director, movie producer and screenwriter (d. 2018)
1921 - Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American Holocaust survivor (d. 2014)
1923 - Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)
1923 – Ed McMahon, American television personality (d. 2009)
1924 – Ottmar Walter, German footballer (d. 2013)
1924 - Sarah Caldwell, American conductor (d. 2006)
1924 - William H. Webster, 14th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
1926 - Ray O'Connor, 22nd Premier of Western Australia (d. 2013)
1926 – Alan Greenspan, American economist
1926 – Andrzej Wajda, Polish movie director (d. 2016)
1927 – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize winner (d. 2014)
1927 - Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (d. 2004)
1928 - Glyn Owen, Welsh actor (d. 2004)
1930 - Lorin Maazel, French-American violinist, composer and conductor (d. 2014)
1931 - Hal Needham, American stuntman, director, actor and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1931 - Ed Whitlock, English-Canadian runner (d. 2017)
1932 – Bronislaw Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (d. 2008)
1932 - Marc Bazin, Haitian politician (d. 2010)
1932 - Jean Boht, English actress
1933 - Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1934 - Red Simpson, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
1934 - John Noakes, British television presenter (d. 2017)
1935 - Ron Delany, Irish middle-distance runner
1936 – Choummaly Sayasone, former President of Laos
1936 - Marion Barry, American politician (d. 2014)
1937 – Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut, first woman in space
1939 – Infanta Margarita of Spain
1939 - Kit Bond, American politician, 47th Governor of Missouri
1939 - Adam Osborne, writer and computer designer (d. 2003)
1941 - Peter Broetzmann, German jazz saxophonist
1944 – Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand opera singer
1944 – Mary Wilson, American singer (d. 2021)
1946 – David Gilmour, British musician (Pink Floyd)
1947 - Kiki Dee, British singer-songwriter
1947 – Rob Reiner, American director
1948 - Stephen Schwartz, American musical theatre lyricist and composer
1949 – Shaukat Aziz, Pakistani politician
1949 - Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer

1951 – 1975

1951 - Stedman Graham, American writer
1951 - Walter Trout, American composer, guitarist and singer
1953 - Carolyn Porco, American planetary scientist
1953 – Madhav Kumar Nepal, Nepalese politician
1954 – Harald Schumacher, German footballer
1955 – Cyprien Ntaryamira, President of Burundi (d. 1994)
1955 - Alberta Watson, Canadian actress (d. 2015)
1959 – Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian
1959 - Tommy Sheppard, Northern Irish-Scottish politician
1963 - Gary Stevens, American jockey
1963 - Suzanne Crough, American actress (d. 2015)
1964 – Sandro Rosell, Spanish football manager
1966 – Alan Davies, English actor and comedian
1967 - Connie Britton, American actress
1967 - Julio Bocca, Argentine ballet dancer and director
1967 - Shuler Hensley, American actor and singer
1968 - Moira Kelly, American actress
1969 - Amy Pietz, American actress
1970 – Chris Broderick, American musician
1971 – Karst Tates, Dutch attempted assassin (d. 2009)
1972 – Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player
1973 - Michael Kelly, American basketball player

From 1976

1976 – Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler
1977 – Giorgos Karagounis, Greek footballer
1978 – Lara Cox, Australian actress
1978 - Teruaki Kurobe, Japanese footballer
1979 – Rufus Hound, English comedian
1979 - Garry Monk, English footballer and manager
1979 – Tim Howard, American soccer player
1981 - Tim Brown, New Zealand footballer
1981 – Zlatan Muslimovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina footballer
1981 - Ellen Muth, American actress
1983 – Andranik Teymourian, Iranian footballer
1985 - Bakaye Traoré, French-born Malian footballer
1985 - Yael Stone, Australian actress
1986 - Paul Aguilar, Mexican footballer
1986 - Danny Jones, Welsh rugby league player (d. 2015)
1986 – Charlie Mulgrew, Scottish footballer
1987 – Kevin-Prince Boateng, German-Ghanaian footballer
1987 – Hannah Taylor-Gordon, British actress
1987 - José Manuel Flores, Spanish footballer
1988 - Agnes Carlsson, Swedish singer
1988 - Simon Mignolet, Belgian footballer
1989 - Lee Seung-Yeoul, South Korean footballer
1989 – Agnieszka Radwanska, Polish tennis player
1990 - Clara Lago, Spanish actress
1991 - Lex Luger, American producer
1991 - Tyler, The Creator, American rapper and producer
1991 - Rodrigo, Brazilian-Spanish footballer
1992 - Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese actress and singer
1992 - Sarah De Bono, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1993 - Andres Renteria, Colombian footballer
1994 - Nathan Redmond, English footballer
1994 - Marcus Smart, American basketball player
1996 - Timo Werner, German footballer
2001 – Aryana Engineer, Canadian actress

Deaths

Observances

Independence Day (Ghana)
Alamo Day (Texas)
Foundation Day (Norfolk Island)