Anniversaries 6 March

Birth

Michelangelo Buonarroti27

Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet 1475–1564

Francesco Guicciardini8

Italian writer, historian and politician 1483–1540

Juan Luis Vives1

Spanish philosopher 1492–1540

Humayun2

second Mughal Emperor 1508–1556

Cyrano de Bergerac57

French novelist, dramatist, scientist and duelist 1619–1655

Joseph von Fraunhofer7

German optical physicist 1787–1826

Elizabeth Barrett Browning88

English poet, author 1806–1861

Philip Sheridan2

United States Army general 1831–1888

Isaac H. Bromley1

American newspaper editor 1833–1899

George du Maurier2

French-British cartoonist and author 1834–1896

Edwin Manners1

American lawyer 1855–1913

Nikolai Berdyaev33

Russian philosopher 1874–1948

Ring Lardner2

Sportswriter, short story writer 1885–1933

Nguyễn Công Hoan2

1903–1977

Stanisław Jerzy Lec28

Polish writer 1909–1966

Will Eisner87

American cartoonist 1917–2005

Frankie Howerd3

British actor 1917–1992

Samael Aun Weor10

Colombian writer 1917–1977

Donald Davidson (philosopher)6

scriitor amator 1917–2003

Alan Greenspan51

13th Chairman of the Federal Reserve in the United States 1926

Gabriel García Márquez218

Colombian writer 1927–2014

Nicolas Bouvier1

Swiss writer, artist and traveller 1929–1998

Lorin Maazel3

French-American conductor 1930–2014

Chun Doo-hwan1

Korean politician and army general 1931–2021

William Blum17

American author and historian 1933–2018

Marion Barry6

American politician and former mayor of Washington, D.C. 1936–2014

Ivan Boesky3

American investor, white-collar criminal 1937

David Gilmour21

guitarist, singer, best known as a member of Pink Floyd 1946

John Stossel6

American consumer reporter, investigative journalist, autho… 1947

Jeffrey H. Schwartz25

American anthropologist 1948

Stephen Schwartz4

American musical theatre lyricist and composer 1948

Stedman Graham4

American businessman 1951

Vittorio Agnoletto1

European Parliament member 1958

D. L. Hughley6

American actor and comedian 1963

Lora Leigh27

American writer 1965

Maurice Ashley3

Chess Grandmaster 1966

Glenn Greenwald27

American journalist, lawyer and writer 1967

Shaquille O'Neal3

American basketball player 1972

Dotsie Bausch1

cyclist 1973

Daniel H. Wilson7

American writer 1978

Alaska Thunderfuck 50005

American Drag queen 1985

Tyler, The Creator2

American rapper, record producer, music video director and … 1991

Death

Francis Beaumont5

British dramatist 1584–1616

Davy Crockett29

American politician 1786–1836

William Whewell12

English philosopher & historian of science 1794–1866

Timothy Shay Arthur3

Novelist, short story writer, publisher 1809–1885

Louisa May Alcott174

American novelist 1832–1888

Artemus Ward24

American writer 1834–1867

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.107

United States Supreme Court justice 1841–1935

John Henry Boner3

American writer 1845–1903

Alice James2

American diarist 1848–1892

Francesco Filippini2

Italian impressionist painter 1853–1895

Pandit Lekh Ram2

Hindu leader 1858–1897

Harold W. Percival12

Barbadian writer 1868–1953

Anton Cermak2

American politician 1873–1933

Georgia O'Keeffe59

American artist 1887–1986

Herbert Morrison10

British Labour politician 1888–1965

Pearl S. Buck95

American writer 1892–1973

Martin Niemöller13

German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor 1892–1984

George Kelly (psychologist)20

American psychologist and therapist 1905–1967

Ayn Rand322

Russian-American novelist and philosopher 1905–1982

Hans Bethe2

German-American nuclear physicist 1906–2005

Scott Corbett1

American children's writer 1913–2006

Nancy Reagan25

actress and first lady of the United States 1921–2016

Eric Wolf24

American anthropologist 1923–1999

Ernest Becker26

American anthropologist 1924–1974

Jerry Bridges6

American writer 1929–2016

Jean Baudrillard64

French sociologist and philosopher 1929–2007

Peter Freund3

American physicist 1936–2018

Carolee Schneemann3

American photographer, performance artist, and video artist 1939–2019

Dana Reeve10

Actress, singer, activist 1961–2006