Anniversaries 6 May

Birth

Alain-René Lesage14

French writer 1668–1747

James Townley2

English clergyman and dramatist 1714–1778

Maximilien Robespierre78

French revolutionary lawyer and politician 1758–1794

François Andrieux6

French man of letters and playwright 1759–1833

Ludwig Börne1

German writer 1786–1837

Joseph Brackett1

American songwriter 1797–1882

Juan Donoso Cortés4

Spanish author, political theorist and diplomat 1809–1853

Elizabeth Drew Stoddard1

United States poet and novelist 1823–1902

Sigmund Freud147

Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psycho… 1856–1939

Nicholas II of Russia4

Emperor of All the Russias, Grand Duke of Finland and King … 1868–1918

Gaston Leroux26

French writer 1868–1927

Christian Morgenstern21

German author 1871–1914

Ahmed Djemal5

Ottoman general 1872–1922

Willem de Sitter44

Dutch cosmologist 1872–1934

William D. Leahy4

United States admiral, ambassador to France, Chief of Staff 1875–1959

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner54

German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker 1880–1938

André Weil11

French mathematician 1906–1998

Alberto Assa2

Colombian eductor and translator 1909–1996

Angelo Herndon3

African American communist 1913–1997

Randall Jarrell215

poet, critic, novelist, essayist 1914–1965

George Perle11

American composer 1915–2009

Marvin J. Ashton5

Apostle of the LDS Church 1915–1994

Orson Welles53

American actor, director, writer and producer 1915–1985

Sydney Carter26

British musician and poet 1915–2004

Robert H. Dicke2

American astronomer 1916–1997

Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan3

Sheikh of Abu Dhabi (1918-2004) 1918–2004

Kamisese Mara20

President of Fiji 1920–2004

Erich Fried2

Austrian writer 1921–1988

Willie Mays17

Baseball player 1931

Jean-Michel Cousteau3

French explorer and environmentalist; son of Jacques-Yves C… 1938

Michael Löwy4

French sociologist 1938

Ariel Dorfman4

Chilean writer 1942

Carl I. Hagen13

Norwegian politician 1944

Bob Seger23

American singer-songwriter 1945

Bill O'Neill4

Ohio judge 1947

Martha C. Nussbaum3

American philosopher 1947

Jeffery Deaver5

novelist, journalist, lawyer 1950

Chiaki Mukai5

astronaut, medical doctor 1952

Lee Chu-feng1

Taiwanese politician 1953

Larry Andersen5

American baseball player 1953

Albert LeGatt1

Catholic bishop 1953

Tony Blair75

former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1953

Alec Baldwin7

American actor, writer, producer, and comedian 1954

Sandra Bernhard2

American actress 1955

Marek Żukow-Karczewski10

Polish historian, journalist and opinion journalist 1961

George Clooney6

American actor, filmmaker, and activist 1961

Kerry Ellis1

English stage actress and singer 1979

Dustin Colquitt1

American football punter 1982

Maitre Gims1

Congolese rapper 1986

Death

Juan Luis Vives1

Spanish philosopher 1492–1540

Nathaniel Lee6

British writer 1653–1692

Alexander Suvorov24

Russian military commander 1730–1800

Adolph Freiherr Knigge20

German writer and Freemason 1752–1796

Alexander von Humboldt11

Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer 1769–1859

Syed Ahmad Barelvi3

Muslim activist 1786–1831

Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet6

Scottish metaphysician (1788–1856) 1788–1856

Judah P. Benjamin2

American politician and lawyer 1811–1884

Joseph Edwards Carpenter2

British composer, songwriter and playwright 1813–1885

Henry David Thoreau385

1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitio… 1817–1862

Alexander William Williamson1

English scientist 1824–1904

Ian Maclaren1

British theologian and writer 1850–1907

Theodore Chickering Williams2

American hymnwriter 1855–1915

L. Frank Baum108

Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter 1856–1919

Maurice Maeterlinck21

Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist 1862–1949

Maria Montessori39

Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician 1870–1952

B.C. Forbes1

American journalist 1880–1954

Theodore von Kármán3

Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and ph… 1881–1963

Bernard Leach1

British studio potter and art teacher 1887–1979

Marlene Dietrich28

German-American actress and singer 1901–1992

Dorothy B. Hughes1

American writer 1904–1993

William Grey Walter12

American-born British neuroscientist and roboticist 1910–1977

Philip Kapleau6

American Zen Buddhist monk 1912–2004

Ezra Jack Keats1

American children's writer and illustrator 1916–1983

Farley Mowat3

Canadian author and environmentalist 1921–2014

Valentin Varennikov2

Soviet general and russian politician 1923–2009

John Clive Ward5

British-Australian nuclear physicist 1924–2000

Nahum Rabinovitch2

Israeli rabbi 1928–2020

Pim Fortuyn7

Dutch politician 1948–2002