Anniversaries 6 February

Birth

Christopher Marlowe55

English dramatist, poet and translator 1564–1593

Anne of Great Britain4

queen of England, queen of Scotland and queen of Ireland (1… 1665–1714

Adam Weishaupt8

German philosopher and founder of the Order of Illuminati 1748–1830

Aaron Burr4

American Vice President and politician 1756–1836

Henry George Liddell4

Headmaster, lexicographer, classical scholar, and dean 1811–1898

Henry Howard Brownell3

American writer and historian 1820–1872

Chilton A. White1

American politician 1826–1900

Iburi Izō2

1833–1907

Frederic William Henry Myers1

English poet and essayist 1843–1901

Ernest Flagg65

American architect 1857–1947

Katharine Fullerton Gerould5

American writer 1879–1944

LeGrand Richards1

American Mormon leader 1886–1983

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan9

Indian independence activist 1890–1988

Muhammad Zafrulla Khan1

Pakistani diplomat 1893–1985

Babe Ruth70

American baseball player 1895–1948

Semyon Timoshenko10

Soviet military commander 1895–1970

Itsurō Sakisaka4

Japanese economist 1897–1985

Louis Nizer5

American lawyer 1902–1994

Robert Gordis4

American rabbi and theologian 1908–1992

Ronald Reagan264

American politician, 40th president of the United States (i… 1911–2004

Zsa Zsa Gabor4

Hungarian-American socialite and actress 1917–2016

Denis Norden4

British comedy scriptwriter and television presenter 1922–2018

Pramoedya Ananta Toer7

Indonesian writer 1925–2006

Gerard O'Neill4

Physicist, author, and inventor 1927–1992

Larry Wilde1

American comedian 1928

Keith Waterhouse6

British writer 1929–2009

Mamie Van Doren2

American actress 1931

Fred Trueman1

English cricketer 1931–2006

Francois Truffaut6

film director 1932–1984

Martin Bobrow1

geneticist 1938

Tom Brokaw3

Television journalist 1940

James W. Loewen17

American historian 1942

Bob Marley118

Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945–1981

Bonnie Watson Coleman1

Ametrican politician (Democrat) 1945

Eric Flint2

American author 1947

Roger-Pol Droit1

French philosopher 1949

Timothy M. Dolan2

American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church 1950

Charles Thomson (artist)6

British artist 1953

Michael Pollan37

American author, journalist, activist, and professor of jou… 1955

Kathy Najimy1

American actress 1957

Thomas Hylland Eriksen18

Norwegian social anthropologist and professor 1962

Axl Rose4

American singer-songwriter and musician 1962

Rick Astley3

British singer and songwriter 1966

Акира Ямаока1

Japanese composer 1968

Anatoly Bibilov1

Russian politician 1970

Frances Hardinge16

British children's writer 1973

Princess Marie of Denmark5

Danish princess 1976

Olena Zelenska4

Ukrainian architect and screenwriter 1978

Sophia Bartolai1

2001

Death

Charles II of England6

King of England, Ireland and Scotland 1630–1685

Carlo Goldoni9

Italian playwright and librettist 1707–1794

Joseph Priestley47

English theologian, chemist, educator, and political theori… 1733–1804

Marianne von Werefkin28

expressionist painter 1860–1938

Rubén Darío6

Nicaraguan poet and writer 1867–1916

Charles Morgan1

British writer 1894–1958

Ben Nicholson1

British painter 1894–1982

Jorge VI4

King of the United Kingdom 1895–1952

James Hadley Chase1

writer from England 1906–1985

Barbara W. Tuchman45

American historian and author 1912–1989

Max Perutz1

Austrian-born British molecular biologist 1914–2002

Frederica of Hanover1

Queen consort of Greece as the wife of King Paul; daughter … 1917–1981

Jack Kirby22

American comic book artist, writer and editor 1917–1994

Raymond Smullyan10

American mathematician 1919–2017

Josefa Iloilo23

President of Fiji 1920–2011

Antoni Tàpies39

Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist 1923–2012

Menachem Elon2

Israeli High Court judge 1923–2013

Rosamunde Pilcher7

British novelist 1924–2019

Ritwik Ghatak4

Bengali filmmaker and script writer 1925–1976

Maxine Kumin2

American poet and author 1925–2014

Ken Olsen1

American engineer and businessman 1926–2011

Roger Kahn30

American baseball writer 1927–2020

John Dankworth6

British musician 1927–2010

Piero Manzoni16

Italian artist 1933–1963

James W. Sire1

American writer 1933–2018

Arthur Ashe9

American tennis player 1943–1993