Anniversaries 6 May
Birth
![James Townley photo]()
English clergyman and dramatist
1714–1778
![Maximilien Robespierre photo]()
French revolutionary lawyer and politician
1758–1794
![François Andrieux photo]()
French man of letters and playwright
1759–1833
![Joseph Brackett photo]()
American songwriter
1797–1882
![Juan Donoso Cortés photo]()
Spanish author, political theorist and diplomat
1809–1853
![Elizabeth Drew Stoddard photo]()
United States poet and novelist
1823–1902
![Sigmund Freud photo]()
Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psycho…
1856–1939
![Nicholas II of Russia photo]()
Emperor of All the Russias, Grand Duke of Finland and King …
1868–1918
![Ahmed Djemal photo]()
Ottoman general
1872–1922
![Willem de Sitter photo]()
Dutch cosmologist
1872–1934
![William D. Leahy photo]()
United States admiral, ambassador to France, Chief of Staff
1875–1959
![Ernst Ludwig Kirchner photo]()
German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker
1880–1938
![André Weil photo]()
French mathematician
1906–1998
![Alberto Assa photo]()
Colombian eductor and translator
1909–1996
![Angelo Herndon photo]()
African American communist
1913–1997
![Randall Jarrell photo]()
poet, critic, novelist, essayist
1914–1965
![George Perle photo]()
American composer
1915–2009
![Marvin J. Ashton photo]()
Apostle of the LDS Church
1915–1994
![Orson Welles photo]()
American actor, director, writer and producer
1915–1985
![Sydney Carter photo]()
British musician and poet
1915–2004
![Robert H. Dicke photo]()
American astronomer
1916–1997
![Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan photo]()
Sheikh of Abu Dhabi (1918-2004)
1918–2004
![Kamisese Mara photo]()
President of Fiji
1920–2004
![Erich Fried photo]()
Austrian writer
1921–1988
![Jean-Michel Cousteau photo]()
French explorer and environmentalist; son of Jacques-Yves C…
1938
![Carl I. Hagen photo]()
Norwegian politician
1944
![Bob Seger photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1945
![Martha C. Nussbaum photo]()
American philosopher
1947
![Jeffery Deaver photo]()
novelist, journalist, lawyer
1950
![Chiaki Mukai photo]()
astronaut, medical doctor
1952
![Lee Chu-feng photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1953
![Larry Andersen photo]()
American baseball player
1953
![Tony Blair photo]()
former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1953
![Alec Baldwin photo]()
American actor, writer, producer, and comedian
1954
![Marek Żukow-Karczewski photo]()
Polish historian, journalist and opinion journalist
1961
![George Clooney photo]()
American actor, filmmaker, and activist
1961
![Kerry Ellis photo]()
English stage actress and singer
1979
![Dustin Colquitt photo]()
American football punter
1982
Death
![Juan Luis Vives photo]()
Spanish philosopher
1492–1540
![Alexander Suvorov photo]()
Russian military commander
1730–1800
![Adolph Freiherr Knigge photo]()
German writer and Freemason
1752–1796
![Alexander von Humboldt photo]()
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer
1769–1859
![Syed Ahmad Barelvi photo]()
Muslim activist
1786–1831
![Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet photo]()
Scottish metaphysician (1788–1856)
1788–1856
![Judah P. Benjamin photo]()
American politician and lawyer
1811–1884
![Joseph Edwards Carpenter photo]()
British composer, songwriter and playwright
1813–1885
![Henry David Thoreau photo]()
1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitio…
1817–1862
![Alexander William Williamson photo]()
English scientist
1824–1904
![Ian Maclaren photo]()
British theologian and writer
1850–1907
![Theodore Chickering Williams photo]()
American hymnwriter
1855–1915
![L. Frank Baum photo]()
Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter
1856–1919
![Maurice Maeterlinck photo]()
Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist
1862–1949
![Maria Montessori photo]()
Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician
1870–1952
![B.C. Forbes photo]()
American journalist
1880–1954
![Theodore von Kármán photo]()
Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and ph…
1881–1963
![Bernard Leach photo]()
British studio potter and art teacher
1887–1979
![Marlene Dietrich photo]()
German-American actress and singer
1901–1992
![Dorothy B. Hughes photo]()
American writer
1904–1993
![William Grey Walter photo]()
American-born British neuroscientist and roboticist
1910–1977
![Philip Kapleau photo]()
American Zen Buddhist monk
1912–2004
![Ezra Jack Keats photo]()
American children's writer and illustrator
1916–1983
![Farley Mowat photo]()
Canadian author and environmentalist
1921–2014
![Valentin Varennikov photo]()
Soviet general and russian politician
1923–2009
![John Clive Ward photo]()
British-Australian nuclear physicist
1924–2000
![Pim Fortuyn photo]()
Dutch politician
1948–2002
