March 6

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March 6 in recent years
2025 (Thursday)
2024 (Wednesday)
2023 (Monday)
2022 (Sunday)
2021 (Saturday)
2020 (Friday)
2019 (Wednesday)
2018 (Tuesday)
2017 (Monday)
2016 (Sunday)

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)