On This Day — February 6
4162 noted people were born and 2116 died on February 6 in our archive, including Alessandra Todde, Amintore Fanfani and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on February 6
Alessandra Todde
b. 1969
Amintore Fanfani
1908 – 1999
Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin
1865 – 1939
Arthur Kingsley Porter
1883 – 1933
Babatunde Osotimehin
1949 – 2017
C. Boyden Gray
1943 – 2023
C. Lloyd Morgan
1852 – 1936
Charles Wheatstone
1802 – 1875
Christine Boutin
b. 1944
Corneliu Mănescu
1916 – 2000
Eckehard Schöll
b. 1951
Erik Izraelewicz
1954 – 2012
John Burn
b. 1952
John C. Kornblum
1943 – 2023
John Stephenson
1871 – 1933
Joseph Winlock
1826 – 1875
Józef Borzyszkowski
b. 1946
Mykola Zelinsky
1861 – 1953
Neri Oxman
b. 1976
Olena Zelenska
b. 1978
Pedro Aguirre Cerda
1879 – 1941
Petr Hájek
1940 – 2016
Rafał Poborski
b. 1976
René Fasel
b. 1950
Ronald Reagan
1911 – 2004
Siegmund Günther
1848 – 1923
Stuart Schreiber
b. 1956
Tameyuki Amano
1861 – 1938
Timothy M. Dolan
b. 1950
Władysław Ślebodziński
1884 – 1972
Zehev Tadmor
b. 1937
Zvi Laron
b. 1927
Émile Vaudremer
1829 – 1914
Abdul Ghaffar Khan
1890 – 1988
Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali
1943 – 2025
Akinwumi Adesina
b. 1960
Alexander Yefimov
1923 – 2012
Alexandre-Achille Souques
1860 – 1944
Alfonso Yuchengco
1923 – 2017
Alice Weidel
b. 1979
Allan H. Meltzer
1928 – 2017
Amanda Taylor Norris
1849 – 1944
Amir Hetsroni
b. 1968
Anatoly Bibilov
b. 1970
Anne Glover
b. 1954
Aravinda Chakravarti
b. 1954
Aris Fioretos
b. 1960
Armando de Ramón
1927 – 2004
Arnold Spielberg
1917 – 2020
Arthur William Moore
1853 – 1909
Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven
1914 – 2007
Boaz Tsaban
b. 1973
Boris Ugarov
1922 – 1991
Bruno Thürlimann
1923 – 2008
Carl Ramsauer
1879 – 1955
Charles Barbier de Meynard
1826 – 1908
Charles Frédéric Martins
1806 – 1889
Chen Show Mao
b. 1961
Craig Santos Perez
b. 1980
Cyril Garbett
1875 – 1955
Daniel Yergin
b. 1947
Denis Obua
b. 1980
Dina Andersen-Raabjerg
b. 1971
Don Cameron
b. 1940
Dragan Markovina
b. 1981
Eduard Hitzig
1838 – 1907
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
b. 1962
Edward Lansdale
1908 – 1987
Edwin Klebs
1834 – 1913
Ernst Eckstein
1845 – 1900
Esther Ferraz
1915 – 2008
Florence Aubenas
b. 1961
Francesco Calogero
1935 – 2026
Franz N. D. Kurie
1907 – 1972
François Lecointre
b. 1962
Fritz Strack
b. 1950
George A. Bicknell
1815 – 1891
George Murray
1772 – 1846
George Weinstock
1949 – 2023
Gerard K. O'Neill
1927 – 1992
Gerhardus Diephuis
1817 – 1892
Haskell Wexler
1922 – 2015
Henry Liddell
1811 – 1898
Henry Moncreiff Wellwood
1750 – 1827
Henry Petroski
1942 – 2023
Hideto Kishida
1899 – 1966
Horst Schumann
1924 – 1993
Hubert Bruls
b. 1966
Hugh Beadle
1905 – 1980
Irène Kälin
b. 1987
James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn
1762 – 1837
Jean Grenier
1898 – 1971
Jean-Bernard Raimond
1926 – 2016
Jeremy Bowen
b. 1960
Jerome L. Singer
1924 – 2019
Jerzy Szacki
1929 – 2016
John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin
1893 – 1957
John Stuttard
b. 1945
Josef Frings
1887 – 1978
Julie Story Byerley
b. 1970
Jun Kondō
1930 – 2022
Karl Sapper
1866 – 1945
Kirstine Frederiksen
1845 – 1903
Klára Póczy
1923 – 2008
Konstantin Ernst
b. 1961
Krishan Kant Paul
b. 1948
Kwang Soo Kim
b. 1950
Lee Breuer
1937 – 2021
Leslie Green
1875 – 1908
Lionel Blue
1930 – 2016
Louis-Philippe de Grandpré
1917 – 2008
Lu Zhiwei
1894 – 1970
Luz Rivas
b. 1974
Malu Dreyer
b. 1961
Maria Ulyanova
1878 – 1937
Martua Sitorus
b. 1960
Marty Sklar
1934 – 2017
Maurice Le Roux
1923 – 1992
Merze Tate
1905 – 1996
Michael Pollan
b. 1955
Miranda Wolpert
b. 1962
Mireya D. Correa
1940 – 2022
Mohamed Gharib Bilal
b. 1945
Muhammad Zafarullah Khan
1893 – 1985
Naomi Lebowitz
b. 1932
Nikolai Korzhenevskiy
1879 – 1958
Nikolay Veduta
1913 – 1998
Nils John Nilsson
1933 – 2019
Nizar Baraka
b. 1964
Obed Yao Asamoah
b. 1936
Olivier Marleix
1971 – 2025
Orkut Büyükkökten
b. 1975
Otto Gessler
1875 – 1955
Paolo Volponi
1924 – 1994
Paul Teitgen
1919 – 1991
Petras Geniušas
b. 1961
Pierre Bourguignon
1942 – 2019
R. Walton Moore
1859 – 1941
Raoul Le Mouton de Boisdeffre
1839 – 1919
Roger Blais
1917 – 2012
Roger-Pol Droit
b. 1949
Romuald Gutt
1888 – 1974
Scott Atran
b. 1952
Semyon Timoshenko
1895 – 1970
Sophia Mendonça
b. 1997
Spencer Walpole
1839 – 1907
Stavros Lambrinidis
b. 1962
Takashi Yanase
1919 – 2013
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
1962 – 2024
Tjibbe Joustra
b. 1951
Tom Brokaw
b. 1940
Tsit Yuen Lam
b. 1942
Tu Weiming
b. 1940
Una Marson
1905 – 1965
Vern Ehlers
1934 – 2017
Victor Goddard
1897 – 1987
Victor Pinsky
b. 1964
Viktor Pshonka
b. 1954
Vladimir Gruzdev
b. 1967
Vladimir Korepin
b. 1951
Wang Tso-jung
1919 – 2013
Werner Kuhn
1899 – 1963
Wiesław Ochman
b. 1937
William Campbell James Meredith
1904 – 1960
William H. Blanchard
1916 – 1966
William P. Murphy
1892 – 1987
Wolfgang Weingart
1941 – 2021
Władysław Gomułka
1905 – 1982
Xavier Barbier de Montault
1830 – 1901
Yasuo Ichikawa
b. 1942
Yury Onufriyenko
b. 1961
Äbilgazy Qusaiynov
b. 1952
Élisabeth du Réau
1937 – 2021
Aaron Burr
1756 – 1836
Achille Devéria
1800 – 1857
Adam Weishaupt
1748 – 1830
Adley Rutschman
b. 1998
Adolfo Tito Yllana
b. 1948
Akira Yamaoka
b. 1968
Alan Gagloyev
b. 1981
Albert Poulain
1851 – 1937
Albert Stubblebine
1930 – 2017
Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov
1874 – 1926
Alexander Ivanovich Chuprov
1842 – 1908
Alexander Tietze
1864 – 1927
Alfred Egerton
1854 – 1890
Alfred-Amédée Dodds
1842 – 1922
Allola Indrakaran Reddy
b. 1949
Amanda Aguirre
b. 1953
Amaury du Closel
1956 – 2024
Andrea Pallaoro
b. 1982
Andrei Kolesnikov
b. 1977
Andrey Zvyagintsev
b. 1964
Andrés Arauz
b. 1985
Anna Diop
b. 1988
Annelies Verbeke
b. 1976
Annemarie Biechl
b. 1949
Annie Warburton Goodrich
1866 – 1954
Anoushka Schut-Welkzijn
b. 1969
Antoine Wright
b. 1984
… and 3,962 more
Died on February 6
Assia Djebar
1936 – 2015
Caius Iacob
1912 – 1992
Donald Lynden-Bell
1935 – 2018
Edward Emerson Barnard
1857 – 1923
George Shultz
1920 – 2021
Hubert Curien
1924 – 2005
Ira S. Bowen
1898 – 1973
Jorge Guillén
1893 – 1984
Joseph Priestley
1733 – 1804
Ken Olsen
1926 – 2011
Leo von Caprivi
1831 – 1899
Li Wenliang
1985 – 2020
Lubertha Johnson
1906 – 1989
Manfred Eigen
1927 – 2019
Max Perutz
1914 – 2002
Menachem Elon
1923 – 2013
Neil Gehrels
1952 – 2017
Rudolf Leuckart
1822 – 1898
Răzvan Theodorescu
1939 – 2023
Sebastián Piñera
1949 – 2024
Theodor Billroth
1829 – 1894
Wilhelm Heinrich Solf
1862 – 1936
Władysław Dziewulski
1878 – 1962
Yechiel Eckstein
1951 – 2019
Abd el-Krim
1882 – 1963
Aldus Manutius
1449 – 1515
Aleksei Birilev
1844 – 1915
Alison Jolly
1937 – 2014
Amrit Kaur
1889 – 1964
Anatoliy Danylenko
1953 – 2021
Andrew Fraser
1946 – 2021
André Brink
1935 – 2015
Anthony Epstein
1921 – 2024
Anton Menger
1841 – 1906
Arthur Groussier
1863 – 1957
Arthur W. Hummel
1920 – 2001
Barbara W. Tuchman
1912 – 1989
Bent Skovmand
1945 – 2007
Brigid Leventhal
1935 – 1994
Candido Portinari
1903 – 1962
Cecil Clementi Smith
1840 – 1916
Charles Langbridge Morgan
1894 – 1958
Charles Royster
1944 – 2020
Chen Bojun
1910 – 1974
Christian Tønsberg
1813 – 1897
Christopher Clavius
1538 – 1612
Clement XII
1652 – 1740
Concordia Antarova
1886 – 1959
Don Dunstan
1926 – 1999
Eduard Wahl
1903 – 1985
Ellen Wilkinson
1891 – 1947
Emilio Aguinaldo
1869 – 1964
Firmanzah
1976 – 2021
Frances Ivens
1870 – 1944
Francis Henry May
1860 – 1922
František Mareš
1857 – 1942
Frederick Coutts
1899 – 1986
Friedrich Meinecke
1862 – 1954
Georg August Zenker
1855 – 1922
Georg Friedrich Creuzer
1771 – 1858
George Crumb
1929 – 2022
George Decker
1902 – 1980
George R. Rossman
1944 – 2026
George VI
1895 – 1952
Gottlieb Burckhardt
1836 – 1907
Heinrich von Bülow
1792 – 1846
Henry Bedingfield
1632 – 1687
Henry Miller
1830 – 1918
Henry Morgenthau Jr.
1891 – 1967
Hirayama Shin
1867 – 1945
Hiroaki Abe
1889 – 1949
Holger Christian Reedtz
1800 – 1857
Issa Pliyev
1903 – 1979
Ivan Dejmal
1946 – 2008
J. B. Sumarlin
1932 – 2020
Jaan Soots
1880 – 1942
Jacques Amyot
1513 – 1593
Jalil Javadov
1918 – 1980
James Merrill
1926 – 1995
James Musgrove
1862 – 1935
Janice E. Voss
1956 – 2012
Jao Tsung-I
1917 – 2018
John Bruton
1947 – 2024
John Dankworth
1927 – 2010
John Le Marchant
1803 – 1874
John Sankey, 1st Viscount Sankey
1866 – 1948
Joseph Kudler
1786 – 1853
José Gea Escolano
1929 – 2017
Juho Mannermaa
1871 – 1943
Keith Park
1892 – 1975
Klaus Wagner
1910 – 2000
Knut Blom
1916 – 1996
Krzysztof Kowalewski
1937 – 2021
Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland
1876 – 1961
Li Mei-shu
1902 – 1983
Llewellyn Thompson
1904 – 1972
Lubomír Štrougal
1924 – 2023
Ludwig von Graff
1851 – 1924
Luis Alberto Sánchez
1900 – 1994
Margaret Harwood
1885 – 1979
María Zambrano
1904 – 1991
Matthew Mbu
1929 – 2012
Maxine Kumin
1925 – 2014
Mehdi Bayani
1906 – 1968
Mohammad Natsir
1908 – 1993
Natalia Zabila
1903 – 1985
Nelson Carneiro
1910 – 1996
Nicolae Simionescu
1926 – 1995
Nicole Mosconi
1942 – 2021
Nikolay Krasilnikov
1927 – 2020
Nikolay Zinin
1812 – 1880
Njål Hole
1914 – 1988
Oliver Max Gardner
1882 – 1947
Ossian Schauman
1862 – 1922
Otto Niemeyer
1883 – 1971
Otto von Stülpnagel
1878 – 1948
Pierre André Latreille
1762 – 1833
Raffaele Cadorna
1815 – 1897
Ralph Kiner
1922 – 2014
Robert Brasillach
1909 – 1945
Robert Dana
1929 – 2010
Robert Lee
1793 – 1877
Robert Plemmons
1938 – 2026
Salvador Luria
1912 – 1991
Samuel Tenney
1748 – 1816
Shelomo Dov Goitein
1900 – 1985
Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather
1934 – 2024
Stanisław Rogalski
1904 – 1976
Teodósio de Gouveia
1889 – 1962
Thomas Abney
1640 – 1722
Thomas Clifton Webb
1889 – 1962
Thomas Phillipps
1792 – 1872
Upendranath Brahmachari
1873 – 1946
Vasil Biľak
1917 – 2014
Vasil Kanchov
1862 – 1902
Victor Gomoiu
1882 – 1960
Vince Guaraldi
1928 – 1976
Vitaly Popkov
1922 – 2010
Vladimir Titov
1958 – 2025
Willem Huyssen van Kattendijke
1816 – 1866
William Bromley-Davenport
1862 – 1949
William Fitzherbert
1810 – 1891
William Wilson Hunter
1840 – 1900
Wolf Wilhelm Friedrich von Baudissin
1847 – 1926
Xia Yan
1900 – 1995
Yasuhiro Ishimoto
1921 – 2012
Zdzisław Jan Ryn
1938 – 2022
Élisabeth du Réau
1937 – 2021
Abdul Samad of Selangor
1804 – 1898
Abiel Foster
1735 – 1806
Agha Hilaly
1911 – 2001
Agustín Cotorruelo Sendagorta
1925 – 1989
Alan Nunnelee
1958 – 2015
Albert Neuhuys
1844 – 1914
Albert Stubblebine
1930 – 2017
Alberto Casañal Shakery
1874 – 1943
Alec McCowen
1925 – 2017
Alejandro Gómez
1908 – 2005
Aleksandr Kozlov
1949 – 2021
Alf Hanlon
1866 – 1944
Alfred Woltmann
1841 – 1880
André Cayatte
1909 – 1989
Antoni Tàpies
1923 – 2012
Antônio Luís von Hoonholtz
1837 – 1931
Aoyama Yukiyoshi
1855 – 1930
Arif Baytın
1874 – 1950
Armistead Thomson Mason
1787 – 1819
Arthur Ashe
1943 – 1993
Arthur Sauvé
1874 – 1944
Arthur Wynne
1846 – 1936
Axel Seeberg
1931 – 2011
Azita Raji
1961 – 2022
Bansi Kaul
1949 – 2021
Ben Nicholson
1894 – 1982
Benjamin M. Miller
1864 – 1944
Bernhard Fernow
1851 – 1923
Brynolfus
1250 – 1317
Bulkeley Bandinel
1781 – 1861
Carlo Cattaneo
1801 – 1869
Caroline Burghardt
1831 – 1922
Cayetano Valdés y Flórez
1767 – 1835
Cecil Reddie
1858 – 1932
Charles Anderson-Pelham, 3rd Earl of Yarborough
1835 – 1875
Charles II of England
1630 – 1685
Charles L. Terry
1900 – 1970
Chester E. Holifield
1903 – 1995
Christian Frederik Lütken
1827 – 1901
Clemens August of Bavaria
1700 – 1761
Constantin Argetoianu
1871 – 1955
Cyril Lowe
1891 – 1983
D. Raghavarao
1938 – 2013
Dan Hicks
1941 – 2016
Danny Thomas
1912 – 1991
David A. Winter
1930 – 2012
Dieter Noll
1927 – 2008
Dmitri Bantysh-Kamensky
1788 – 1850
Dominique Gaspard
1884 – 1938
Donald MacCrimmon MacKay
1922 – 1987
Douglas V. Steere
1901 – 1995
Edmond Du Sommerard
1817 – 1885
… and 1,916 more