On This Day — April 6
4282 noted people were born and 2037 died on April 6 in our archive, including Andreu Veà-Baró, André-Louis Danjon and Horst Ludwig Störmer.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on April 6
Andreu Veà-Baró
b. 1969
André-Louis Danjon
1890 – 1967
Horst Ludwig Störmer
b. 1949
Jean-Pierre Changeux
b. 1936
Alain Weill
b. 1961
Alyson Bailes
1949 – 2016
Andreas Räss
1794 – 1887
Andrey Kutepov
b. 1971
Angeliki Laiou
1941 – 2008
Asta Ekenvall
1913 – 2001
Cher Scarlett
b. 1985
Christopher French
b. 1956
Christos Sartzetakis
1929 – 2022
Clare Moriarty
b. 1963
Clayton Christensen
1952 – 2020
Elisabeth Rehn
b. 1935
Eugenio Scalfari
1924 – 2022
Eulalia Pérez Sedeño
b. 1954
Guillaume Bigourdan
1851 – 1932
J. Presper Eckert
1919 – 1995
James Watson
1928 – 2025
Janusz Ziółkowski
1924 – 2000
Javier Cercas
b. 1962
Jesús Prieto Valtueña
b. 1944
Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern
1833 – 1917
Johan Thyrén
1861 – 1933
Laura Gagliardi
b. 1968
Margarita Simonyan
b. 1980
Maria J. Esteban
b. 1956
Mark M. Green
b. 1937
Mary Lou Jepsen
b. 1965
Mikayil Useynov
1905 – 1992
Muriel Casals
1945 – 2016
Paul-Werner Scheele
1928 – 2019
Rafael Correa
b. 1963
Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons
1817 – 1887
Rolf Fehlbaum
b. 1941
Samuel Vince
1749 – 1821
Sebastian Wood
b. 1961
Sheila Nevins
b. 1939
Siobhan Leachman
b. 1971
Stanisław Feliksiak
1906 – 1992
Tim Walz
b. 1964
William Hallowes Miller
1801 – 1880
Wolfgang Ischinger
b. 1946
Aharon Razin
1935 – 2019
Alan Gemmell
b. 1978
Alan Walker
b. 1930
Alexander Butterfield
1926 – 2026
Anatoliy Mohyliov
b. 1955
Anatoly Savin
1920 – 2016
Andy Hertzfeld
b. 1953
Anke Rehlinger
b. 1976
Anton Buteyko
1947 – 2019
Arne Solli
1938 – 2017
Asaf Jah VII of Hyderabad
1886 – 1967
Aslan Bzhania
b. 1963
Billy Dee Williams
b. 1937
Bita Daryabari
b. 1969
Bruno Giuranna
b. 1933
Byron Mallott
1943 – 2020
Callum G. Brown
b. 1953
Carl Thomsen
1847 – 1912
Carlos María Ramírez
1848 – 1898
Charles Rivkin
b. 1962
Charles Welter
1880 – 1972
Charles Wilbert Snow
1884 – 1977
Cho Kuk
b. 1965
Christian Leberecht Vogel
1759 – 1816
Daniel Langlois
1957 – 2023
David Conner
b. 1947
David Edwards
b. 1961
David Steel
b. 1961
Deborah Meier
b. 1931
Dmitrii Menshov
1892 – 1988
Dominic Johnson, Baron Johnson of Lainston
b. 1974
Don Bacon
1926 – 2020
Donald Wills Douglas, Sr.
1892 – 1981
Edison Denisov
1929 – 1996
Edmond H. Fischer
1920 – 2021
Edward Maltby
1770 – 1859
Edward Wynne-Pendarves
1775 – 1853
Elke U. Weber
b. 1957
Emma Vilarasau
b. 1959
Esther Lipman
1900 – 1991
Farida Bedwei
b. 1979
Feodor Lynen
1911 – 1979
Francisco Elías de Tejada y Spínola
1917 – 1978
Frank L. Stanley
1906 – 1974
Franz Dinghofer
1873 – 1956
Frederick Debartzch Monk
1856 – 1914
Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl
1806 – 1876
Gagik Sargsyan
1926 – 1998
Garrett Epps
b. 1950
George D. Louderback
1874 – 1957
George Killian
1924 – 2017
Gianfranco Ciaurro
1929 – 2000
Gustave Moreau
1826 – 1898
Hans Hürlimann
1918 – 1994
Harold Eugene Edgerton
1903 – 1990
Helmut Witte
1915 – 2005
Henryk Szumski
1941 – 2012
Hermann Schäfer
1892 – 1966
Hugh Elliot
1752 – 1830
Hugh Percy, 10th Duke of Northumberland
1914 – 1988
Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn
1801 – 1885
Ivan Lyakhov
1936 – 2006
J. P. Clark
1935 – 2020
James Berger
b. 1950
James Walker
1863 – 1935
Jaromír Štětina
1943 – 2025
Jerry Voorhis
1901 – 1984
Jo Leinen
b. 1948
Joe Courtney
b. 1953
Jorge Fernández Díaz
b. 1950
Joseph Clancy
b. 1956
Joshua Phoho Setipa
b. 1969
José M Asua
b. 1953
Juan Mayorga
b. 1965
Julijana Matanović
b. 1959
K. S. S. Nambooripad
1935 – 2020
Karin Straus
b. 1971
Keijo Liinamaa
1929 – 1980
Kolbjørn Skaare
1931 – 2017
Konstantin Konstantinov
1818 – 1871
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
1904 – 1988
Kári Stefánsson
b. 1949
Lars Erik Taxell
1913 – 2013
Levon Shant
1869 – 1951
Lowell Thomas
1892 – 1981
Marija Aušrinė Pavilionienė
b. 1944
Marion Greenwood
1909 – 1970
Mark Henn
b. 1958
Mark Horowitz
b. 1957
Maurice De Wulf
1867 – 1947
Maurice Sarrail
1856 – 1929
Michel Brunet
b. 1940
Michele Bachmann
b. 1956
Michele De Franchis
1875 – 1946
Mykola Sumtsov
1854 – 1922
Myrn
1822 – 1907
Nick Begich
1932 – 1972
Niels Annen
b. 1973
Nire Kagenori
1831 – 1900
Núria de Gispert
b. 1949
Ole Irgens
1829 – 1906
Olin Earl Teague
1910 – 1981
Oskar Vogt
1870 – 1959
Patrick Goodman
1929 – 2017
Paul Beresford
b. 1946
Pekka Toveri
b. 1961
Peter Adolf Thiessen
1899 – 1990
Rafael Tovar y de Teresa
1954 – 2016
Richard M. Noyes
1919 – 1997
Robert Hippolyte Chodat
1865 – 1934
Robert Sapolsky
b. 1957
Samuel Shepherd
1760 – 1840
Sergei Avakyants
b. 1957
Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune
1913 – 1993
Shekhar C. Mande
b. 1962
Shin Kyeong-nim
1936 – 2024
Shlomo Karhi
b. 1982
Shoichi Ozawa
1929 – 2012
Shoshana Netanyahu
1923 – 2022
Shulamit Elizur
b. 1955
Stanislav Lyubshin
b. 1933
Stefanos Streit
1837 – 1920
Steven Derounian
1918 – 2007
Svetozar Rittig
1873 – 1961
Taras Kozak
b. 1972
Theodoor Willem Jan Juynboll
1802 – 1861
Tomaž Prosen
b. 1970
Uljana Wolf
b. 1979
Vadim Moshkovich
b. 1967
Vincent Ellis McKelvey
1916 – 1987
Viorel Tilea
1896 – 1972
Virginia Hall
1906 – 1982
Vsevolod Aksyonov
1902 – 1960
Walter Dandy
1886 – 1946
Washington Beltrán
1914 – 2003
Wiebke Drenckhan
b. 1977
William Lyne
1844 – 1913
Winnie Sorgdrager
b. 1948
Wolfgang E. Nolting
b. 1948
Władysław Smoleński
1851 – 1926
Yamanashi Hanzō
1864 – 1944
Yehuda Bauer
1926 – 2024
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
b. 1962
Zhuo Lin
1916 – 2009
Abe Brault
1909 – 2007
Adriana Altaras
b. 1960
Afrasiab Badalbeyli
1907 – 1976
Alagappa Chettiar
1909 – 1957
Alan Cross
b. 1962
Albert Ouédraogo
b. 1969
Albert W. Marshall
1874 – 1958
Alberto Fabra
b. 1964
Alexander George Montgomery Moore
1833 – 1919
Alexander Pypin
1833 – 1904
Alexander W. Weddell
1876 – 1948
… and 4,082 more
Died on April 6
Adolf Slaby
1849 – 1913
Alexander Baykov
1870 – 1946
Alexander Russell Simpson
1835 – 1916
Alexandre Millerand
1859 – 1943
Anastas Ishirkov
1868 – 1937
Anatoly Dobrynin
1919 – 2010
Andrzej Stelmachowski
1925 – 2009
Arcadi Oliveres
1945 – 2021
Balabek Martirosian
1905 – 1972
Christian Schwarz-Schilling
1930 – 2026
Daniel Akaka
1924 – 2018
Earl G. Graves Sr.
1935 – 2020
Emil Brunner
1889 – 1966
Ernst David Bergmann
1903 – 1975
Fang Lizhi
1936 – 2012
Franz Klein
1854 – 1926
Fred Singer
1924 – 2020
Giovanni Berlinguer
1924 – 2015
Giuseppe Sanarelli
1864 – 1940
Henriette Faraggi
1915 – 1985
Herbert Backe
1896 – 1947
Herbert Spiro
1924 – 2010
James Charles McGuigan
1894 – 1974
Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger
1923 – 1997
John Bruce
1745 – 1826
John Charles
1893 – 1971
Josep Piqué
1955 – 2023
José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva
1763 – 1838
Jules Bordet
1870 – 1961
Kustaa Vilkuna
1902 – 1980
Mario Briceño Iragorry
1897 – 1958
Niels Henrik Abel
1802 – 1829
Pierre-Henri Teitgen
1908 – 1997
Vakhtang Chabukiani
1910 – 1992
Volodymyr Stretovych
1958 – 2023
William Hamilton
1730 – 1803
Adolf Neubauer
1832 – 1907
Alexander Bezborodko
1747 – 1799
André Néron
1922 – 1985
Armand Gatti
1924 – 2017
Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey
1614 – 1686
Ben Telders
1903 – 1945
Beryl Smalley
1905 – 1984
Boris Gutnikov
1931 – 1986
Charles Tegart
1881 – 1946
Constant-Philippe Serrure
1805 – 1872
Curtis Guild
1860 – 1915
David Armitage Bannerman
1886 – 1979
David J. Thouless
1934 – 2019
Dieter Oesterlen
1911 – 1994
Donald McKayle
1930 – 2018
Erwin Payr
1871 – 1946
Esko-Juhani Tennilä
1947 – 2024
Franz Wickhoff
1853 – 1909
Fritiof S. Sjöstrand
1912 – 2011
Fritz Hollings
1922 – 2019
Fyodor Vronchenko
1779 – 1852
Gabriel Auphan
1894 – 1982
Gabriel Davioud
1824 – 1881
Georg Christian Freund
1821 – 1900
Guy de Wendel
1878 – 1955
Gyula Juhász
1883 – 1937
Habib Bourguiba
1903 – 2000
Han Sorya
1900 – 1976
Hans Küng
1928 – 2021
Heinrich Lübke
1894 – 1972
Henri Mondor
1885 – 1962
Henry Barker Hill
1849 – 1903
Henry Lucien de Vries
1909 – 1987
Henryk Skolimowski
1930 – 2018
Imekanu
1875 – 1961
Isaac Asimov
1920 – 1992
James Barrett
1862 – 1945
James Harrison Oliver
1857 – 1928
Jan Svatopluk Presl
1791 – 1849
Jerzy Vetulani
1936 – 2017
Johann Gottfried Zinn
1727 – 1759
John R. McGuire
1916 – 2002
Josep Maria Benet i Jornet
1940 – 2020
Joseph Kampé de Fériet
1893 – 1982
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri
1908 – 1983
Jussi Saukkonen
1905 – 1986
Juvénal Habyarimana
1937 – 1994
Kōichi Kido
1889 – 1977
Libuše Havelková
1924 – 2017
Louis Boutan
1859 – 1934
Louis Joxe
1901 – 1991
Loye Holmes Miller
1874 – 1970
Marc Chardonnens
1960 – 2020
Margaret Newton
1887 – 1971
Marianne Winder
1918 – 2001
Martin Braine
1926 – 1996
Max Lenz
1850 – 1932
Mishik Kazaryan
1948 – 2020
Nicolas Nabokov
1903 – 1978
Ottmar Schreiner
1946 – 2013
Otto Manninen
1872 – 1950
Otto Struve
1897 – 1963
Owen Lanyon
1842 – 1887
Paul Rabinow
1944 – 2021
Pavel Rotmistrov
1901 – 1982
Perizonius
1651 – 1715
Petru Dumitriu
1924 – 2002
Pyotr Lopukhin
1753 – 1827
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
1923 – 2005
Richard Titmuss
1907 – 1973
Robert Broom
1866 – 1951
Roderich Stintzing
1854 – 1933
Romualdas Ozolas
1939 – 2015
Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet
1806 – 1881
Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore
1835 – 1913
Stanisław Smreczyński
1899 – 1975
Stanley Christopherson
1861 – 1949
Tadao Takahashi
1950 – 2022
Tang Shengzhi
1889 – 1970
Toshihide Iguchi
1951 – 2019
Trevor Platt
1942 – 2020
V. J. Sukselainen
1906 – 1995
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
1946 – 2022
Werner Leinfellner
1921 – 2010
Whitmell P. Martin
1867 – 1929
Willem Marinus Dudok
1884 – 1974
William Edward Forster
1818 – 1886
William Ifould
1877 – 1969
William Markwick
1739 – 1812
Wilma Mankiller
1945 – 2010
Yataro Tsuda
1952 – 2026
Émile de Kératry
1832 – 1904
Adrienne McNeil Herndon
1869 – 1910
Al Kaline
1934 – 2020
Albert Eggen
1878 – 1966
Albert Sidney Johnston
1803 – 1862
Alcee Hastings
1936 – 2021
Alexander Kielland
1849 – 1906
Alfred Sohn-Rethel
1899 – 1990
Alton Meister
1922 – 1995
Anatoly Rogozhin
1893 – 1972
Andrew Lawrence Somers
1895 – 1949
Angus Ellis Taylor
1911 – 1999
Anita Borg
1949 – 2003
Anna Wasilewska
1958 – 2021
Arabella Goddard
1836 – 1922
Arthur Cruttenden Mace
1874 – 1928
August Annist
1899 – 1972
Augustyn Bloch
1929 – 2006
Barthélemy de Lesseps
1766 – 1834
Basanta Kumar Das
1899 – 1957
Bengt Hesselman
1875 – 1952
Benjamin Hall Kennedy
1804 – 1889
Bernard Ford
1947 – 2023
Bernhard Hammer
1822 – 1907
Bertram Forer
1914 – 2000
Biswa Ranjan Nag
1932 – 2004
Bobby Schilling
1964 – 2021
Bradley A. Fiske
1854 – 1942
Camille Piché
1865 – 1909
Carlo Rossi
1775 – 1849
Chadwick A. Tolman
1938 – 2024
Charles B. Carter
1880 – 1927
Charles Burkill
1900 – 1993
Charles Henry Coolidge
1921 – 2021
Charles Levert
1825 – 1899
Chuck Darling
1930 – 2021
Clyde See
1941 – 2017
Cyprien Ntaryamira
1955 – 1994
D. Wyatt Aiken
1828 – 1887
David McKee
1935 – 2022
Dimitrije Davidović
1789 – 1838
Dimitrije Pavlović
1846 – 1930
Dmitry Selivanov
1855 – 1932
Don Rickles
1926 – 2017
Douglas G. Stuart
1931 – 2019
Drury Drury-Lowe
1830 – 1908
E. L. B. Hurulle
1919 – 2009
Edith Katherine Cash
1890 – 1992
Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein
1797 – 1885
Edward Curtis Smith
1854 – 1935
Edward P. Moxey
1881 – 1943
Edward Seymour
1539 – 1621
Edwin Arlington Robinson
1869 – 1935
Eleanor Jourdain
1863 – 1924
Elias Corneliussen
1881 – 1951
Elisha Phelps
1779 – 1847
Emanuel Geibel
1815 – 1884
Erich Ohser
1903 – 1944
Ernest L. Wilkinson
1899 – 1978
Erwin Frink Smith
1854 – 1927
Eugene Paul Bennett
1892 – 1970
Fakihe Öymen
1900 – 1983
Fatou Djibo
1927 – 2016
Felipe Fernández García
1935 – 2012
Ferdinand Gumbert
1818 – 1896
Firmino Filho
1963 – 2021
Francis Trasuns
1864 – 1926
Francis Walsingham
1532 – 1590
Francisco Luis Urquizo
1891 – 1969
Frank Attkisson
1956 – 2017
Frederic Barker
1808 – 1882
Friedrich Drake
1805 – 1882
Funmilayo Olayinka
1960 – 2013
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