Anniversaries 6 April

Birth

Raphael2

Italian painter and architect 1483–1520

Francis Xavier6

Navarrese Basque Roman Catholic saint and missionary 1506–1552

Nicolas Chamfort54

French writer 1741–1794

Samuel Vince4

British mathematician, astronomer and physicist 1749–1821

James Mill12

Scottish historian, economist, political theorist and philo… 1773–1836

John Pierpont2

American writer 1785–1866

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn1

Swiss poet (1792-1870) 1792–1870

Edmund Sears4

American minister 1810–1876

Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney7

American writer 1823–1908

Gustave Moreau6

French painter 1826–1898

Arthur Wesley Dow7

painter from the United States 1857–1922

Lincoln Steffens2

American journalist (1866-1936) 1866–1936

Donald Wills Douglas Sr.4

American businessman 1892–1981

John Paton Davies, Jr.1

American diplomat 1908–1999

Leonora Carrington4

Mexican artist, surrealist painter and novelist 1917–2011

Caren Marsh Doll2

actress, dancer 1919

Armand V. Feigenbaum8

American businessman 1922–2014

Yehuda Bauer3

Israeli historian of the Holocaust 1926

Ian Paisley8

Politician and former church minister 1926–2014

James D. Watson47

American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. 1928

Peter Townsend (sociologist)1

British sociologist 1928–2009

Ram Dass100

American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of t… 1931–2019

Merle Haggard6

American country music song writer, singer and musician 1937–2016

Anita Pallenberg5

German actress, model and Rolling Stones groupie 1942–2017

Celestino Aós Braco2

Roman Catholic cardinal 1945

Neal Boortz6

American author, journalist, and radio host 1945

John Ratzenberger1

actor 1947

Horst Ludwig Störmer3

German physicist 1949

Bert Blyleven3

Major League Baseball player and broadcaster 1951

Hilda Heine1

Marshallese politician 1951

Marilu Henner2

American actress 1952

Clayton M. Christensen23

Mormon academic 1952–2020

Michele Bachmann49

American politician 1956

Robert M. Sapolsky25

American endocrinologist 1957

Miss Foozie3

drag queen 1960

Rory Bremner4

British comedian 1961

Rafael Correa1

45th President of Ecuador 1963

David Woodard12

American writer, conductor and businessman 1964

Vince Flynn7

American writer of fiction 1966–2013

Zach Braff6

American actor, director, screenwriter, producer 1975

Margarita Simonyan2

Russian propagandist 1980

Diora Baird4

American actress and model 1983

Death

Richard I of England3

English king 1157–1199

Albrecht Dürer6

German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist 1471–1528

Raphael2

Italian painter and architect 1483–1520

Francis Walsingham2

English spy, diplomat and politician 1532–1590

Niels Henrik Abel6

Norwegian mathematician 1802–1829

Moses Hess8

German philosopher 1812–1875

Florence Earle Coates22

American writer and poet 1850–1927

Edwin Arlington Robinson12

American poet 1869–1935

Igor Stravinsky13

Russian composer, pianist and conductor 1882–1971

Форрест Шакли1

1894–1985

Vítězslav Nezval2

Czech poet, writer and translator 1900–1958

Jimmy Kennedy12

Irish songwriter 1902–1984

Habib Bourguiba29

Tunisian politician 1903–2000

John D. Bulkeley4

United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient 1911–1996

Isaac Asimov303

American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni… 1920–1992

Ernest Hollings3

politician from the United States 1922–2019

Rainier III, Prince of Monaco4

Prince of Monaco 1923–2005

Jerzy Vetulani39

Polish scientist 1936–2017

Fang Lizhi4

Professor of astrophysics; civil rights activist and dissid… 1936–2012

Merle Haggard6

American country music song writer, singer and musician 1937–2016

Vladimir Zhirinovsky9

Russian politician and political activist 1946–2022

Ernest Debrah1

Ghanian politician 1947–2016

Thomas Kinkade2

American painter of popular realistic, bucolic, and idyllic… 1958–2012