May 6

2024 Calendar

May 6 is the 126th day of the year (127th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 239 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

1471 - Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English commander (b. 1438)
1475 – Dieric Bouts, Flemish painter (b. 1415)
1502 - James Tyrrell, English knight (b. 1450)
1596 - Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)
1638 – Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer (b. 1585)
1692 – Nathaniel Lee, English playwright (b. 1653)
1757 - Battle of Prague:
- Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
- Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b. 1684)
1757 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, English politician (b. 1683)
1840 – Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian President and independence leader (b. 1792)
1859 – Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (b. 1769)
1862 – Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher (b. 1817)
1872 – George Robert Gray, British zoologist (b. 1808)
1873 - José Antonio Báez, President of Venezuela (b. 1790)
1877 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804)

1901 – 2000

1902 - Bret Harte, American writer (b. 1836)
1910 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
1913 – Alexandros Schinas, Greek anarchist (b. 1870)
1919 – L. Frank Baum, American writer (b. 1856)
1939 - Konstantin Somov, Russian writer (b. 1869)
1949 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer (b. 1862)
1951 – Hans Andrias Djurhuus, Faroese poet (b. 1883)
1952 – Maria Montessori, Italian educator (b. 1870)
1959 - Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (b. 1897)
1961 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright and philosopher (b. 1895)
1967 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885)
1970 - Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (b. 1897)
1975 - Jozsef Mindszenty, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1892)
1985 - Julie Vega, Filipino actress and singer (b. 1968)
1987 – William Casey, American CIA director (b. 1913)
1990 - Charles Farrell, American actor (b. 1901)
1992 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)
1992 – Jilly Rizzo, American restaurateur and entertainer (b. 1917)
1998 - Chatichai Choonhavan, Prime minister of Thailand (b. 1920)

From 2001

2002 – Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (b. 1948)
2002 – Otis Blackwell, American pianist, singer and songwriter (b. 1932)
2003 - Art Houtteman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
2004 - Virginia Capers, American actress (b. 1925)
2006 – Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (b. 1926)
2006 – Lillian Asplund, RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1906)
2012 - George Lindsey, American actor, comedian, and writer (b. 1928)
2013 - Giulio Andreotti, former Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1919)
2014 - Cornelius Gurlitt, German art collector (b. 1932)
2014 - Wil Albeda, Dutch politician (b. 1925)
2014 - Farley Mowat, Canadian writer and environmentalist (b. 1921)
2014 - Jimmy Ellis, American boxer (b. 1940)
2014 - Bill Dana, American pilot and astronaut (b. 1930)
2015 - Errol Brown, Jamaican-British singer (b. 1943)
2015 - Jim Wright, American politician, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1922)
2015 - Jerome Cooper, American jazz drummer (b. 1946)
2016 - Hannes Bauer, German trombonist (b. 1954)
2016 - Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1990)
2016 - David Hall, American politician, Governor of Oklahoma (b. 1930)
2016 - Margot Honecker, German politician (b. 1927)
2016 - Valeriy Zuyev, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1952)
2016 - Nico de Bree, Dutch footballer (b. 1944)
2016 - Reg Grundy, Australian television producer (b. 1923)
2016 - Chris Mitchell, Scottish footballer (b. 1988)
2017 - Steven Holcomb, American bobsledder (b. 1980)
2017 - Val Jellay, Australian actress (b. 1927)
2017 - Rais Khan, Pakistani sitarist (b. 1939)
2017 - Marshall Julum Shakya, Nepalese politician (b. 1940)
2017 - Min Bahadur Sherchan, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1931)
2018 - Cirilo Bautista, Filipino writer (b. 1941)
2018 - Paolo Ferrari, Italian actor (b. 1929)
2018 - Tarcisio Gitti, Italian politician (b. 1936)
2018 - Khaled Mohieddin, Egyptian army general and politician (b. 1922)
2018 - Charles W. Steger, American academic (b. 1947)
2018 - Ray Szmanda, American radio personality and radio presenter (b. 1926)
2018 - Jamal Naji, Palestinian-Jordanian novelist (b. 1954)
2019 - Max Azria, Tunisian-American fashion designer (b. 1949)
2019 - Gjermund Eggen, Norwegian cross-country skier (b. 1941)

Births

Up to 1800

973 - Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1024)
1397 - Sejong the Great of Korea (d. 1450)
1405 – Skanderbeg, national hero of Albania (d. 1468)
1501 – Pope Marcellus II (d. 1555)
1562 – Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor (d. 1629)
1574 – Pope Innocent X (d. 1655)
1606 – Lorenzo Lippi, Italian poet and painter (d. 1665)
1680 - Jean-Baptiste Stuck, Italian-French composer and cellist (d. 1755)
1713 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780)
1714 - Anton Raaff, German tenor (d. 1797)
1758 – Maximilien de Robespierre, French revolutionary (d. 1794)
1758 – André Masséna, French soldier (d. 1817)
1769 – Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1824)
1769 - Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (d. 1834)
1792 - Georg Ohm, German mathematician (d. 1872)
1797 – Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882)
1800 - Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat and general (d. 1881)

1801 – 1900

1801 - José Joaquín Pérez, President of Chile (d. 1889)
1820 – Robert O'Hara Burke, explorer of Australia (d. 1861)
1851 - Arisitide Bruant, French singer and composer (d. 1925)
1853 - Philander C. Knox, American politician (d. 1921)
1856 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
1856 – Robert Peary, American Arctic explorer (d. 1920)
1861 – Motilal Nehru, Indian politician (d. 1931)
1864 - Eugenio Tosi, Archbishop of Milan (d. 1929)
1866 – Jóannes Patursson, Faroese poet and politician (d. 1946)
1868 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918), May 18 in Gregorian calendar
1868 – Gaston Leroux, French writer (d. 1927)
1870 - Walter Rutherford, Scottish golfer (d. 1936)
1871 – Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1871 – Christian Morgenstern, German writer (d. 1914)
1872 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (d. 1934)
1872 - Djemal Pasha, Ottoman Empire politician (d. 1922)
1879 – Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (d. 1952)
1880 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (d. 1938)
1882 – Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II (d. 1951)
1889 - Lyubov Popova, Russian artist and designer (d. 1924)
1895 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian-American actor (d. 1926)
1899 - Billy Cotton, English bandleader (d. 1969)

1901 – 1950

1902 – Max Ophüls, director (d. 1957)
1902 – Harry Golden, American journalist (d. 1981)
1904 – Moshe Feldenkrais, founder of the Feldenkrais method (d. 1984)
1904 – Harry Martinson, Swedish writer (d. 1978)
1906 – André Weil, French mathematician (d. 1998)
1913 – Stewart Granger, British actor (d. 1993)
1915 – Orson Welles, American director (d. 1985)
1915 – Theodore H. White, writer (d. 1986)
1916 - Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (d. 1997)
1917 – Jilly Rizzo, American restaurateur and entertainer (d. 1992)
1919 - Alejandro Finisterre, Spanish inventor of table football (d. 2007)
1919 - André Guelfi, French racing driver (d. 2016)
1920 – Ross Hunter, producer (d. 1996)
1920 – Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister and later President of Fiji (d. 2004)
1921 – Erich Fried, Austrian writer (d. 1988)
1922 - Vladimir Etush, Russian actor (d. 2019)
1923 – Galyani Vadhana, Thai princess (d. 2008)
1923 - Harry Watson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2002)
1924 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, sister of John F. Kennedy (d. 2006)
1924 - Nestor Basterretxea, Basque artist (d. 2014)
1925 – Hanns Dieter Hüsch, German cabaretist (d. 2005)
1926 - Gilles Grégoire, Canadian politician (d. 2006)
1929 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist (d. 2007)
1930 - Philippe Beaussant, French musicologist and writer (d. 2016)
1931 – Willie Mays, American Baseball Hall of Famer
1932 - Ahmet Haxhiu, Albanian political activist (d. 1994)
1932 - Fritz Lichtenhahn, Swiss actor (d. 2017)
1934 - Richard Shelby, American politician
1937 – Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, American boxer (d. 2014)
1938 - Jean Garon, Canadian politician, lawyer and academic (d. 2014)
1940 - Angela Carter, English writer (d. 1992)
1941 - Ivica Osim, Bosnian footballer
1943 – Andreas Baader, member of the Red Army Faction (d. 1977)
1944 – Masanori Murakami, Japanese baseball player
1945 – Bob Seger, rock music singer
1945 – Jimmie Dale Gilmore, musician
1946 - Susan Brown, English actress
1947 – Alan Dale, New Zealand actor
1947 – Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher

1951 – 1975

1951 – Samuel K. Doe, Liberian military officer and politician (d. 1990)
1952 - Gerrit Salm, Dutch politician
1953 – Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1953 – Graeme Souness, Scottish footballer and manager
1953 - Alexander Akimov, Ukrainian Chernobyl worker (d. 1986)
1954 - Tom Abernethy, American basketball player
1955 – Tom Bergeron, American game show host
1955 – John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness, British politician
1958 - Lorita Flores, Spanish singer and actress
1958 - Jan Leyers, Belgian singer-songwriter and television personality
1958 - Randall Stout, American architect (d. 2014)
1959 - Charles Hendry, English politician
1959 - Hiroyuki Sakashita, Japanese footballer
1960 – John Flansburgh, musician
1961 – George Clooney, American actor, movie director and screenwriter
1961 - Tom Hunter, Scottish businessman
1961 - Gina Riley, Australian actress, singer, producer and screenwriter
1963 - Alessandra Ferri, Italian ballerina
1964 – Dana Hill, American actress (d. 1996)
1965 - Leslie Hope, Canadian actress
1968 - Worku Bikila, Ethiopian long-distance runner
1968 - Shin Hae-chul, South Korean music performer and radio DJ
1968 - Laetitia Sadier, French singer and keyboardist
1969 - Vlad Filat, former Prime minister of Moldova
1970 – George Rivas, Texas 7 ringleader
1971 – Chris Shiflett, American guitarist (Foo Fighters)
1972 – Martin Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 - Naoko Takahashi, Japanese runner

From 1976

1977 – Christophe Brandt, Belgian cyclist
1977 - Nozomi Hiroyama, Japanese footballer
1978 – Aleksandr Fyodorov, Russian bodybuilder
1980 – Dimitris Diamantidis, Greek basketball player
1980 - Wolke Hegenbarth, German actress
1980 – Kate Lawler, British Big Brother contestant
1982 - Duri Camichel, Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2015)
1983 – Daniel Alves, Brazilian footballer
1983 – Adrianne Palicki, American actress
1983 – Gabourey Sidibe, American actress
1983 – Raquel Zimmermann, Brazilian model
1984 - Anton Babchuk, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
1985 – Tanerau Latimer, New Zealand rugby player
1986 - Goran Dragic, Slovenian basketball player
1987 - Moon Geun-young, South Korean actress
1987 - Dries Mertens, Belgian footballer
1987 - Meek Mill, American rapper
1989 - Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakian tennis player
1990 - Masato Kudo, Japanese footballer
1990 – Caitlin Yankowskas, American figure skater
1991 - Harriet Lee, British Paralympic swimmer
1992 - Brendan Gallagher, Canadian ice hockey player
1992 - Takashi Usami, Japanese footballer
1993 - Naomi Scott, British actress, singer and musician
1995 - Marko Pjaca, Croatian footballer
1996 - Dominic Scott Kay, American child actor
2002 - Emily Alyn Lind, American child actress
2019 - Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex

Deaths

Observances

International No Diet Day
Teacher's Day (Jamaica)
Saint George's Day (Eastern Orthodox Churches)