Anniversaries 6 January

Birth

Richard II of England2

King of England 1367–1400

Francesco Maria Zanotti2

Italian philosopher 1692–1777

Edward Dorr Griffin2

American academic administrator 1770–1837

Charles Sumner16

American abolitionist and politician 1811–1874

Owen Lovejoy37

American politician 1811–1864

Eugene Lee-Hamilton3

English poet and translator 1845–1907

Eduard Bernstein8

German politician 1850–1932

Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar2

Scottish Distiller and Conservative Party politician 1864–1930

Carl Sandburg62

American writer and editor 1878–1967

Sam Rayburn10

lawmaker from Bonham, Texas 1882–1961

Khalil Gibran111

Lebanese artist, poet, and writer 1883–1931

Tim Buck14

Canadian politician 1891–1973

G. Ledyard Stebbins1

American botanist and geneticist 1906–2000

Joey Adams2

American comedian, newspaper columnist 1911–1999

Jacques Ellul125

French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarch… 1912–1994

John Lilly7

American physician 1915–2001

Alan Watts107

British philosopher, writer and speaker 1915–1973

Sun Myung Moon58

Korean religious leader 1920–2012

John Maynard Smith9

British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist 1920–2004

Kim Dae-jung2

South Korean politician 1924–2009

E.L. Doctorow25

novelist, editor, professor 1931–2015

Lou Holtz23

American college football coach, professional football coac… 1937

Underwood Dudley1

American mathematician 1937

Penny Lernoux6

American writer and journalist 1940–1989

Barry Lopez5

American writer 1945

Syd Barrett12

English musician 1946–2006

Rowan Atkinson6

English actor, comedian, and screenwriter 1955

Elizabeth Strout14

American writer 1956

Justin Welby5

British Anglican bishop; the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury 1956

Kapil Dev17

Indian cricketer 1959

Nigella Lawson22

British food writer, journalist and broadcaster 1960

Peter Whittle (politician)3

British author, politician, and journalist 1961

Tony Halme1

Finnish boxer and politician 1963–2010

Anthony Scaramucci4

American financier and political figure 1964

Wendelin Van Draanen47

American writer 1965

James Taranto3

American journalist 1966

A. R. Rahman25

Indian singer and composer 1966

Karin Slaughter5

US-american crime writer 1971

Davor Ivo Stier1

Croatian politician 1972

Adrianne Wadewitz34

academic and Wikipedian 1977–2014

Aiysha Saagar1

Australian singer 1980

Eric Trump2

American businessman and philanthropist 1984

Derrick Morgan (American football)1

Player of American football 1989

Noam Cohen14

American journalist 1999

Death

John Dennis2

British dramatist 1658–1734

Khwaja Mir Dard2

Urdu writer 1721–1785

Frances Burney16

English writer 1752–1840

Tyagaraja6

Carnatic musician and composer 1767–1847

Hartley Coleridge35

British poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher 1796–1849

Richard Henry Dana Jr.13

United States author and lawyer 1815–1882

Gregor Mendel11

Silesian scientist and Augustinian friar 1822–1884

Georg Cantor27

mathematician, inventor of set theory 1845–1918

André Bessette1

Canadian Catholic brother and saint 1845–1937

Theodore Roosevelt445

American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858–1919

Elizabeth Bisland Whetmore7

American writer and journalist 1861–1929

Max Heindel8

American asrologer and occultist 1865–1919

Burton K. Wheeler2

American politician and lawyer 1882–1975

A. J. Cronin7

Scottish novelist and physician 1896–1981

Edmund Leach2

British anthropologist 1910–1989

Robert L. Kahn11

American psychologist 1918–2019

George R. Price2

American population geneticist 1922–1975

Basil John Mason1

British meteorologist 1923–2015

Florence King9

American writer 1936–2016

Rudolf Nureyev9

Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer 1938–1993

Robert Haugen13

American economist 1942–2013

Hugh Thompson, Jr.11

United States helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War 1943–2006

Michel Petrucciani1

French jazz pianist 1962–1999