Anniversaries 6 October
Birth
![William Tyndale photo]()
Bible translator and agitator from England
1494–1536
![Louis Philippe I photo]()
King of the French
1773–1850
![Charles Dupin photo]()
French mathematician
1784–1873
![George Henry Boker photo]()
American poet, playwright, and diplomat
1823–1890
![Richard Dedekind photo]()
German mathematician
1831–1916
![Hussain Ahmed Madani photo]()
19th century Islamic scholar of India
1879–1957
![Le Corbusier photo]()
architect, designer, urbanist, and writer
1887–1965
![Caroline Gordon photo]()
Novelist, literary critic
1895–1981
![Herbert M. Shelton photo]()
American medical writer
1895–1985
![Carole Lombard photo]()
American actress
1908–1942
![Barbara Castle photo]()
British politician
1910–2002
![Thor Heyerdahl photo]()
Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer
1914–2002
![Fannie Lou Hamer photo]()
American civil rights activist (October 6, 1917 – March 14,…
1917–1977
![Henry M. Morris photo]()
American young earth creationist and Christian apologist
1918–2006
![Siad Barre photo]()
Head of State of Somalia
1919–1995
![Vico Magistretti photo]()
Italian architect
1920–2006
![George R. Price photo]()
American population geneticist
1922–1975
![Robert Kuok photo]()
Malaysian businessman
1923
![Hafez al-Assad photo]()
former president of Syria
1930–2000
![Marshall B. Rosenberg photo]()
American psychologist
1934–2015
![Robert Langlands photo]()
Canadian mathematician
1936
![Anthony C. Yu photo]()
American scholar of literature and religion
1938–2015
![Melvyn Bragg photo]()
British broadcaster and author
1939
![Alice Borchardt photo]()
American fiction writer
1939–2007
![Stephen Arroyo photo]()
American astrologer, astrological writer
1946
![David Brin photo]()
novelist, short story writer
1950
![William Lai photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1959
![Bill Thompson photo]()
English technology writer, born 1960
1960
![Peg O'Connor photo]()
American philosopher
1965
![John McWhorter photo]()
American linguist and political commentator
1965
![Ricky Hatton photo]()
English former professional boxer
1978
Death
![Magnus Björnstjerna photo]()
Swedish count and general (1779-1847)
1779–1847
![Nehemiah Adams photo]()
Massachusetts clergyman
1806–1878
![Benjamin Peirce photo]()
American mathematician
1809–1880
![Alfred, Lord Tennyson photo]()
British poet laureate
1809–1892
![Charles Stewart Parnell photo]()
Irish politician
1846–1891
![Bernard Berenson photo]()
American art critic
1865–1959
![J. Reuben Clark photo]()
Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
1871–1961
![Yehuda Ashlag photo]()
Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and Kabbalist
1886–1954
![Joseph N. Welch photo]()
American lawyer
1890–1960
![Beatrice Kaufman photo]()
American writer and playwright
1895–1945
![Gilbert Ryle photo]()
British philosopher
1900–1976
![George Gaylord Simpson photo]()
American paleontologist
1902–1984
![Bette Davis photo]()
film and television actress from the United States
1908–1989
![Anwar Sadat photo]()
Egyptian president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
1918–1981
![J. J. C. Smart photo]()
Australian philosopher and academic
1920–2012
![J. J. C. Smart photo]()
Australian philosopher and academic
1920–2012
![Nico van Kampen photo]()
Dutch theoretical physicist
1921–2013
![Alexander Kronrod photo]()
Russian mathematician
1921–1986
![Harbhajan Singh Yogi photo]()
Indian-American Sikh Yogi
1929–2004
![Paavo Haavikko photo]()
Finnish poet and writer from 20th century
1931–2008
![Walter Greiner photo]()
German physicist
1935–2016
![Pete McCarthy photo]()
British travel writer
1951–2004
