Anniversaries 6 February
Birth
![Christopher Marlowe photo]()
English dramatist, poet and translator
1564–1593
![Anne of Great Britain photo]()
queen of England, queen of Scotland and queen of Ireland (1…
1665–1714
![Adam Weishaupt photo]()
German philosopher and founder of the Order of Illuminati
1748–1830
![Aaron Burr photo]()
American Vice President and politician
1756–1836
![Henry George Liddell photo]()
Headmaster, lexicographer, classical scholar, and dean
1811–1898
![Henry Howard Brownell photo]()
American writer and historian
1820–1872
![Chilton A. White photo]()
American politician
1826–1900
![Frederic William Henry Myers photo]()
English poet and essayist
1843–1901
![Ernest Flagg photo]()
American architect
1857–1947
![Katharine Fullerton Gerould photo]()
American writer
1879–1944
![LeGrand Richards photo]()
American Mormon leader
1886–1983
![Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan photo]()
Indian independence activist
1890–1988
![Muhammad Zafrulla Khan photo]()
Pakistani diplomat
1893–1985
![Babe Ruth photo]()
American baseball player
1895–1948
![Semyon Timoshenko photo]()
Soviet military commander
1895–1970
![Itsurō Sakisaka photo]()
Japanese economist
1897–1985
![Louis Nizer photo]()
American lawyer
1902–1994
![Robert Gordis photo]()
American rabbi and theologian
1908–1992
![Ronald Reagan photo]()
American politician, 40th president of the United States (i…
1911–2004
![Zsa Zsa Gabor photo]()
Hungarian-American socialite and actress
1917–2016
![Denis Norden photo]()
British comedy scriptwriter and television presenter
1922–2018
![Pramoedya Ananta Toer photo]()
Indonesian writer
1925–2006
![Gerard O'Neill photo]()
Physicist, author, and inventor
1927–1992
![Fred Trueman photo]()
English cricketer
1931–2006
![Tom Brokaw photo]()
Television journalist
1940
![Bob Marley photo]()
Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
1945–1981
![Bonnie Watson Coleman photo]()
Ametrican politician (Democrat)
1945
![Timothy M. Dolan photo]()
American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
1950
![Michael Pollan photo]()
American author, journalist, activist, and professor of jou…
1955
![Thomas Hylland Eriksen photo]()
Norwegian social anthropologist and professor
1962
![Axl Rose photo]()
American singer-songwriter and musician
1962
![Rick Astley photo]()
British singer and songwriter
1966
![Frances Hardinge photo]()
British children's writer
1973
![Olena Zelenska photo]()
Ukrainian architect and screenwriter
1978
Death
![Charles II of England photo]()
King of England, Ireland and Scotland
1630–1685
![Carlo Goldoni photo]()
Italian playwright and librettist
1707–1794
![Joseph Priestley photo]()
English theologian, chemist, educator, and political theori…
1733–1804
![Marianne von Werefkin photo]()
expressionist painter
1860–1938
![Rubén Darío photo]()
Nicaraguan poet and writer
1867–1916
![Ben Nicholson photo]()
British painter
1894–1982
![Jorge VI photo]()
King of the United Kingdom
1895–1952
![James Hadley Chase photo]()
writer from England
1906–1985
![Barbara W. Tuchman photo]()
American historian and author
1912–1989
![Max Perutz photo]()
Austrian-born British molecular biologist
1914–2002
![Frederica of Hanover photo]()
Queen consort of Greece as the wife of King Paul; daughter …
1917–1981
![Jack Kirby photo]()
American comic book artist, writer and editor
1917–1994
![Raymond Smullyan photo]()
American mathematician
1919–2017
![Josefa Iloilo photo]()
President of Fiji
1920–2011
![Antoni Tàpies photo]()
Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist
1923–2012
![Menachem Elon photo]()
Israeli High Court judge
1923–2013
![Rosamunde Pilcher photo]()
British novelist
1924–2019
![Ritwik Ghatak photo]()
Bengali filmmaker and script writer
1925–1976
![Maxine Kumin photo]()
American poet and author
1925–2014
![Ken Olsen photo]()
American engineer and businessman
1926–2011
![Roger Kahn photo]()
American baseball writer
1927–2020
![John Dankworth photo]()
British musician
1927–2010
![James W. Sire photo]()
American writer
1933–2018
![Arthur Ashe photo]()
American tennis player
1943–1993
