Anniversaries 6 November

Birth

Suleiman2

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire 1494–1566

Colley Cibber26

British poet laureate 1671–1757

Cesare Lombroso7

Italian criminologist 1835–1909

Robert Musil21

Austrian writer 1880–1942

David L. Webster1

American Physicist 1888–1976

José Raúl Capablanca2

Cuban chess player 1888–1942

George Katona4

American psychologist 1901–1981

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen1

Portuguese poet and writer 1919–2004

James Jones52

American author 1921–1977

Michel Crozier5

French sociologist 1922–2013

Zig Ziglar87

American motivational speaker 1926–2012

François Englert4

Belgian theoretical physicist 1932

Eugene H. Peterson9

American translator 1932–2018

Ioan Robu1

Roman Catholic archbishop 1944

Sally Field1

American actress 1946

Michelle Magorian2

English children's writer 1947

E. Lee Spence7

German anthropologist, photographer, archaeologist, histori… 1947

Mark Crispin Miller1

American academic 1949

Joseph C. Wilson8

American ambassador 1949–2019

Joel Matthias Konzen1

Roman Catholic bishop 1950

Simon Conway Morris28

British palaeontologist 1951

Michael Cunningham28

American novelist and screenwriter 1952

Tony Parsons3

British writer 1953

Paul Romer6

American economist 1955

Maria Shriver2

journalist and author from the United States 1955

William H. McRaven7

United States admiral 1955

Catherine Asaro2

American science-fiction writer 1955

Justin Huang3

Taiwanese politician 1959

Greg Graffin2

American musician 1964

Olusegun Adeniyi1

Nigerian journalist 1965

Helen Roy2

British ecologist and entomologist 1969

Colson Whitehead12

novelist 1969

Ethan Hawke23

American actor and writer 1970

Adonis Georgiadis5

Greek politician 1972

Thandie Newton2

English actress 1972

Catherine Clark1

Canadian journalist 1976

Taryn Manning5

American actor, musician and fashion designer 1978

K8myar2

Youtuber 2002

Death

Richard Carew (antiquary)2

English scholar 1555–1620

Gouverneur Morris8

American politician 1752–1816

George Meade2

Union Army general 1815–1872

Philip James Bailey19

British writer and poet 1816–1902

Eugène Edine Pottier8

French politician 1816–1887

Henry Fairfield Osborn8

American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenist 1857–1935

Billy Sunday3

American evangelist and baseball player 1862–1935

Erich Raeder3

German naval officer and Großadmiral during World War II 1876–1960

Henri Piéron1

French psychologist 1881–1964

Edgard Varèse5

French composer 1883–1965

Annette Kellerman3

Australian swimmer, vaudeville star, film actress and writer 1886–1975

Ernst Hanfstaengl9

German businessman 1887–1975

Josef Pieper45

German philosopher 1904–1997

Hans Keller2

Austrian-British musician and writer 1919–1985

Patrick Dennis2

Novelist 1921–1976

Niklas Luhmann12

German sociologist, administration expert, and social syste… 1927–1998

Bernard Landry4

Canadian politician 1937–2018

Fred Dibnah22

English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen… 1938–2004

George V. Higgins1

American novelist, lawyer, journalist, professor 1939–1999

Mario Savio8

American activist 1942–1996