On This Day — January 6
4592 noted people were born and 2159 died on January 6 in our archive, including Gene E. Likens, Todd Gitlin and William Browder.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on January 6
Gene E. Likens
b. 1935
Todd Gitlin
1943 – 2022
William Browder
1934 – 2025
Alberto Baltra
1912 – 1981
Alfred Baudrillart
1859 – 1942
Ari Rath
1925 – 2017
Ben Knapen
b. 1951
Carolyn D. Wright
1949 – 2016
David Fleay
1907 – 1993
David Reitze
b. 1961
Edward Henryk Materski
1923 – 2012
Fátima Báñez
b. 1967
Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares
1587 – 1645
Georgios Babiniotis
b. 1939
Harri Holkeri
1937 – 2011
Heinrich Nordhoff
1899 – 1968
Henri Nallet
1939 – 2024
Herman Grimm
1828 – 1901
Ian McColl, Baron McColl of Dulwich
b. 1933
Janet Douglas
b. 1960
John Maynard Smith
1920 – 2004
José Caeiro da Mata
1877 – 1963
Jyrki Kasvi
1964 – 2021
Kenneth Pitzer
1914 – 1997
Kim Dae-jung
1924 – 2009
Maria Chudnovsky
b. 1977
Michael Foale
b. 1957
Miguel San Martín
b. 1953
Oscar Camilión
1930 – 2016
Paul E. Tapponnier
1947 – 2023
Peter J. Denning
b. 1942
Pieter Willems
1840 – 1898
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
b. 1944
Salvatore Rossi
b. 1949
Sergey Korepanov
1948 – 2022
Thomas Mirow
b. 1953
Walter Hayman
1926 – 2020
Abbott Lawrence Rotch
1861 – 1912
Adolf Kirchhoff
1826 – 1908
Adrianne Wadewitz
1977 – 2014
Ahmad al-Tayyeb
b. 1946
Alan Stivell
b. 1944
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre
b. 1936
Alex Berenson
b. 1973
Alexander Moor
b. 1974
Alexei Abrikosov
1875 – 1955
Ali Shariatmadari
1924 – 2017
Allan R. Wagner
1934 – 2018
Alwyn Howard Gentry
1945 – 1993
Andreas Dressel
b. 1975
Andris Liepa
b. 1962
Anja Meulenbelt
b. 1945
Anna Braude-Hellerowa
1888 – 1943
Anne Dejean-Assémat
b. 1957
Anselme Payen
1795 – 1871
Anthony Scaramucci
b. 1964
Antonya Nelson
b. 1961
Arthur Gore, 5th Earl of Arran
1839 – 1901
Aslan Vezirzade
1898 – 1984
Babrak Karmal
1929 – 1996
Bernd Neumann
b. 1942
Berthe Bovy
1887 – 1977
Bjørn Lomborg
b. 1965
Carlotta Joaquina Maury
1874 – 1938
Carolina Isakson Proctor
1930 – 2012
Charles B. Elliott
1861 – 1935
Christine Charles
b. 1955
Corrado Tommasi-Crudeli
1834 – 1900
David Quarrey
b. 1966
David Richard Morier
1784 – 1877
David Sproxton
b. 1954
Davor Ivo Stier
b. 1972
Don Edwards
1915 – 2015
Dražen Bošnjaković
b. 1961
Duncan U. Fletcher
1859 – 1936
E. L. Doctorow
1931 – 2015
Earl Kim
1920 – 1998
Ed Zschau
b. 1940
Elbert Dijkgraaf
b. 1970
Elizabeth Strout
b. 1956
Eric Trump
b. 1984
Estefania Aldaba-Lim
1917 – 2006
Eva Granados
b. 1975
Ferenc Szálasi
1897 – 1946
Fergal Keane
b. 1961
Filip Ivanović
b. 1986
Francis Peabody Magoun
1895 – 1979
Frank Lucas
b. 1960
Fred Kilgour
1914 – 2006
Galina Antyufeyeva
b. 1960
Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine
1787 – 1871
George Phillips
1804 – 1872
Gordon Campbell
1886 – 1953
Gustave Doré
1832 – 1883
Guy Gardner
b. 1948
Hanna Chubach
1941 – 2019
Harriette Chick
1875 – 1977
Heinrich Gattineau
1905 – 1985
Helen Scott Hay
1869 – 1932
Henri Herz
1803 – 1888
Henry Pellatt
1859 – 1939
Hikojirō Ijichi
1860 – 1912
Hilarion Kapral
1948 – 2022
Horace Marden Albright
1890 – 1987
Hryhorii Zabolotnyi
b. 1952
Ian Frazer
b. 1953
Isha Sesay
b. 1976
J. Scott Angle
b. 1953
Jacob Sverdrup Smitt
1835 – 1889
Jacques Ellul
1912 – 1994
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
1673 – 1744
James Domengeaux
1907 – 1988
Johannes Miraeus
1560 – 1611
John Smith
1580 – 1631
Jonas Collin
1776 – 1861
Joseph E. Steinmetz
b. 1955
Joseph I. Goldstein
1939 – 2015
Joseph Petzval
1807 – 1891
José Manuel Pérez Tornero
b. 1954
José Pacheco Pereira
b. 1949
José Saraiva Martins
b. 1932
Julio María Sanguinetti
b. 1936
Justin Welby
b. 1956
Jānis Pommers
1876 – 1934
Karl Heinrich von Boetticher
1833 – 1907
Kate Edger
1857 – 1935
Kazunori Yamanoi
b. 1962
Kim Atienza
b. 1967
Kim Eun-hye
b. 1971
Kinji Imanishi
1902 – 1992
Laurence D. Hurst
b. 1965
Laurence Danon
b. 1956
Liang Shih-chiu
1903 – 1987
Liisi Oterma
1915 – 2001
Linas Linkevičius
b. 1961
Louis Joseph Freeh
b. 1950
Louis-Édouard Cestac
1801 – 1868
Lucien Lefort
1850 – 1916
Luigi Jacobini
1832 – 1887
Luis Simarro Lacabra
1851 – 1921
Lyudmila Ocheretnaya
b. 1958
Léon Bérard
1876 – 1960
Max Bruch
1838 – 1920
Max Streibl
1932 – 1998
Melchor Cano
1509 – 1560
Michaela DePrince
1995 – 2024
Mieszko Więckiewicz
b. 1985
Mikhail Ryklin
b. 1948
Miroslav Moravec
1939 – 2009
Nigella Lawson
b. 1960
Nikola Zhekov
1865 – 1949
Odile de Vasselot
1922 – 2025
Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov
1933 – 2003
Onik Gasparyan
b. 1970
Oscar Lanford
1940 – 2013
Oscar P. Snyder
1895 – 1983
Ołeksandr Feldman
b. 1960
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
1795 – 1868
Philippe Busquin
b. 1941
Philippe-Auguste Choquette
1854 – 1948
Péter Veres
1897 – 1970
Raisa Bogatyrova
b. 1953
Ramiro Prialé
1904 – 1988
Raymond Arsenault
b. 1948
Richard A. Muller
b. 1944
Rick Dantzler
b. 1956
Rosa María Mateo
b. 1942
Russell R. Waesche
1886 – 1946
Sam Rayburn
1882 – 1961
Samuel Alexander
1859 – 1938
Samuel Bowles
b. 1939
Santiago Grisolía García
1923 – 2022
Sophie Teboul
b. 1976
Stefan Hecht
b. 1974
Sun Myung Moon
1920 – 2012
Sven Ludvig Lovén
1809 – 1895
Tatiana Felgenhauer
b. 1985
Thierry Ardisson
1949 – 2025
Thomas Fincke
1561 – 1656
Thomas M. Cooley
1824 – 1898
Thomas R. Morgan
1930 – 2024
Timothy Brook
b. 1951
Tokonami Takejirō
1867 – 1935
Truman Henry Safford
1836 – 1901
Tuija Brax
b. 1965
Usha Vance
b. 1986
Vasile Goraș
1882 – 1975
Vasyl Stus
1938 – 1985
Vladimir Gardin
1877 – 1965
Vladimir Kuznetsov
b. 1954
Vladimir Lamsdorf
1845 – 1907
Volodymyr Antonovych
1834 – 1908
W. Richard West, Jr.
b. 1943
Wanda Pełczyńska
1894 – 1976
Yuji Horii
b. 1954
Zhantoro Satybaldiyev
b. 1956
Éric Piolle
b. 1973
Éric Trappier
b. 1960
A. R. Rahman
b. 1966
Aaron Simpson
b. 1972
… and 4,392 more
Died on January 6
Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen
1839 – 1920
Vladimir Vernadsky
1863 – 1945
Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant
1797 – 1886
Béla Tarr
1955 – 2026
Carl Gotthelf Lehmann
1812 – 1863
Edith M. Flanigen
1929 – 2026
Ernesto Capocci
1798 – 1864
Georg Cantor
1845 – 1918
Gregor Mendel
1822 – 1884
Harald Hjärne
1848 – 1922
James Haynes
1933 – 2021
Luigi Spaventa
1934 – 2013
Mamie Till
1921 – 2003
Pavel Cherenkov
1904 – 1990
Ricardo Piglia
1941 – 2017
Thomas Patrick Melady
1927 – 2014
Virginia Haviland
1911 – 1988
William Bleckwenn
1895 – 1965
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
1856 – 1943
Adri van Es
1913 – 1994
Albert Lebourg
1849 – 1928
Aleksandr Dymshits
1910 – 1975
Andrzej Bogusławski
1931 – 2026
Ariy Pazovsky
1887 – 1953
Benjamin Bederson
1921 – 2023
Betty Boyd
1924 – 2011
Byron L. Johnson
1917 – 2000
Carl von Blixen-Finecke
1822 – 1873
Chen Yi
1901 – 1972
Chi-Ming Chu
1917 – 1998
Clinton Bailey
1936 – 2025
Conrad Moench
1744 – 1805
Dave Toschi
1931 – 2018
David Alfaro Siqueiros
1896 – 1974
Domingos Soares Ferreira Penna
1818 – 1888
Edmund Castell
1606 – 1685
Edmund Ware Sinnott
1888 – 1968
Eduard Study
1862 – 1930
Erik Lindahl
1891 – 1960
Ernest Hamel
1826 – 1898
Felice Carlo Besostri
1944 – 2024
Francesco Amirante
1933 – 2024
Frank Tuttle
1892 – 1963
Frederick Shaw
1861 – 1942
Frederick William Borden
1847 – 1917
Frederick William, Elector of Hesse
1802 – 1875
Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg
1794 – 1874
George Brudenell-Bruce, 2nd Marquess of Ailesbury
1804 – 1878
George Pierce Baker
1866 – 1935
Gerard Helders
1905 – 2013
Giordano Dell'Amore
1902 – 1981
Gustav Andreas Tammann
1932 – 2019
Gustavs Zemgals
1871 – 1939
H. Owen Reed
1910 – 2014
Heinrich Lammasch
1853 – 1920
Henri de Baillet-Latour
1876 – 1942
Henry Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton
1902 – 1996
Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright
1840 – 1903
Iacob Negruzzi
1842 – 1932
Ilmari Turja
1901 – 1998
James R. Arnold
1923 – 2012
Jan Willem de Pous
1920 – 1996
Joe Slovo
1926 – 1995
John Peter Grant
1807 – 1893
Kurt Liebknecht
1905 – 1994
Leonard F. Chapman, Jr.
1913 – 2000
Lillias Hamilton
1858 – 1925
Louis Robichaud
1925 – 2005
Mike Fitzpatrick
1963 – 2020
Montague Shearman
1857 – 1930
Nadezhda Grigoryevna Grekova
1910 – 2001
Paul Streeten
1917 – 2019
Peter Olrog Schjøtt
1833 – 1926
Philip S. Post
1833 – 1895
Pyotr Sumin
1946 – 2011
Roberta Wohlstetter
1912 – 2007
Ron Boswell
1940 – 2026
Roy Yorke Calne
1930 – 2024
Sanya Dharmasakti
1907 – 2002
Seth Ward
1617 – 1689
Shalva Nutsubidze
1888 – 1969
Shang Yue
1902 – 1982
Slavko Pengov
1908 – 1966
Sophocles Dousmanis
1868 – 1952
Stanley Pargellis
1898 – 1968
Theodore Roosevelt
1858 – 1919
Thomas Stockham
1933 – 2004
Victorine du Pont Homsey
1900 – 1998
Vladimir Biryukov
1933 – 2021
Vladimir Gudev
1940 – 2022
Volodymyr Pak
1934 – 2022
Wilfred Tsukiyama
1897 – 1966
William Martin Leake
1777 – 1860
Xavier Vallat
1891 – 1972
Xu Shunshou
1917 – 1968
Yang Yong
1913 – 1983
Zbigniew Turski
1908 – 1979
A. J. Cronin
1896 – 1981
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
1892 – 1977
Abraham Van Vechten
1762 – 1837
Adhar Lal Sen
1855 – 1885
Afrasiab Badalbeyli
1907 – 1976
Albert Berry
1836 – 1908
Albert Gleaves
1858 – 1937
Albert Hudson
1875 – 1947
Albert Poulain
1851 – 1937
Albert S. Willis
1843 – 1897
Albrecht Brandi
1914 – 1966
Alexander Whyte
1836 – 1921
Alfred L. Pearson
1838 – 1903
Alister MacKenzie
1870 – 1934
Alok Chatterjee
1960 – 2025
Aloïse Moudileno Massengo
1933 – 2020
Amvrosy Buchma
1891 – 1957
Andreas Johan Sjögren
1794 – 1855
Anne Evans
1871 – 1941
António Couto dos Santos
1949 – 2025
Aphra Wilson
1895 – 1976
Aristide Gunnella
1931 – 2025
Ashli Babbitt
1985 – 2021
Auguste Lefèvre
1828 – 1907
Bendix Hallenstein
1835 – 1905
Bern Dibner
1897 – 1988
Bob Falkenburg
1926 – 2022
Bob Jenson
1931 – 2018
Burton Edelson
1926 – 2002
Burton K. Wheeler
1882 – 1975
Carl Diener
1862 – 1928
Cecil Aldin
1870 – 1935
Charles Ginner
1878 – 1952
Charles Hawks, Jr.
1899 – 1960
Charles M. Roessel
1961 – 2025
Charles Morison
1861 – 1920
Charlotte Riefenstahl
1899 – 1993
Christian Albert I of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp
1641 – 1695
Christoph Wilhelm Mitscherlich
1760 – 1854
Christopher Dunkin
1812 – 1881
Coriolano Ponza di San Martino
1842 – 1926
Daisy de Galard
1929 – 2007
Danilo Lim
1955 – 2021
David W. Dennis
1912 – 1999
Dick Savitt
1927 – 2023
Dizzy Gillespie
1917 – 1993
Dmitri Konovalov
1856 – 1929
Doug LaMalfa
1960 – 2026
Duane Hanson
1925 – 1996
Dudley Peter Allen
1852 – 1915
Duncan Dowson
1928 – 2020
Earle Davis Gregory
1897 – 1972
Edith Frank-Holländer
1900 – 1945
Edmund Orbeck
1915 – 2012
Edward Kilenyi, Jr.
1910 – 2000
Edward W. Curley
1873 – 1940
Edwin Stephen Goodrich
1868 – 1946
Eileen Desmond
1932 – 2005
Elizabeth B. Bryant
1875 – 1953
Elizabeth Riddle Graves
1916 – 1972
Emily Landau
1960 – 2020
Engelbert Pernerstorfer
1850 – 1918
Enos H. Nebeker
1836 – 1913
Ernest Désiré Glasson
1839 – 1907
Ernst Siemerling
1857 – 1931
Ettore Pedotti
1842 – 1919
Ferdinand Hartmann
1774 – 1842
Fernando Capalla
1934 – 2024
Filip Trifonov
1947 – 2021
Francisco de Eguía
1750 – 1827
Frederick Howard
1828 – 1915
Frederik Schuh
1875 – 1966
Gene Zwozdesky
1948 – 2019
Georg Achen
1860 – 1912
George Duncan
1791 – 1878
George Henry Murray
1861 – 1929
George Jehoshaphat Mountain
1789 – 1863
George Loomis Becker
1829 – 1904
George Washington Brooks
1821 – 1882
Georgy Sviridov
1915 – 1998
Giorgio Colli
1917 – 1979
Giovanni Vacca
1872 – 1953
Giuseppe Chiaravalloti
1934 – 2025
Grigol Dadiani (Kolkhideli)
1814 – 1902
Hanns Lilje
1899 – 1977
Heinrich Dathe
1910 – 1991
Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack
1834 – 1917
Henri Frey
1847 – 1932
Henry Bandidt
1906 – 1990
Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield
1830 – 1901
Herbert Chapman
1878 – 1934
Herbert Lumsden
1897 – 1945
Hermann Kanzler
1822 – 1888
Hermann Pleuer
1863 – 1911
Horace W. Bailey
1852 – 1914
Hugh Thompson Jr.
1943 – 2006
Ida Tarbell
1857 – 1944
Ioan Pușcariu
1824 – 1912
Ippolit Bogdanovich
1743 – 1803
Isaiah Bowman
1878 – 1950
J. B. S. Jackson
1806 – 1879
J. Elmer Lehr
1868 – 1958
James Edward Van Zandt
1898 – 1986
… and 1,959 more