On This Day — May 6
4126 noted people were born and 2028 died on May 6 in our archive, including Bedřich Hrozný, Grove Karl Gilbert and Willem de Sitter.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on May 6
Bedřich Hrozný
1879 – 1952
Grove Karl Gilbert
1843 – 1918
Willem de Sitter
1872 – 1934
Ain Lutsepp
b. 1954
André Weil
1906 – 1998
Anna Paulina Luna
b. 1989
Camille Laurin
1922 – 1999
Carlos Bustamante
b. 1951
Caspar Einem
1948 – 2021
Erich Jarvis
b. 1965
Friedrich August Eckstein
1810 – 1885
George Chapline, Jr.
b. 1942
Hazem Nuseibeh
1922 – 2022
James Earl Rudder
1910 – 1970
Jan Stanisław Jankowski
1882 – 1953
Joe Feagin
b. 1938
John F. Allen
1908 – 2001
Juan Donoso Cortés
1809 – 1853
Marie-Jean-Léon d'Hervey de Saint Denys
1822 – 1892
Michael Löwy
b. 1938
Oskar of Prussia
b. 1959
Paul Lauterbur
1929 – 2007
Pierre Manent
b. 1949
Ron Rivest
b. 1947
Theo van Boven
1934 – 2026
Thomas Wiegand
b. 1970
Tiny Kox
b. 1953
Tony Blair
b. 1953
Victor Grignard
1871 – 1935
Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl
1823 – 1897
Abraham Jacobi
1830 – 1919
Alar Laneman
b. 1962
Aleksandr Skvortsov
b. 1966
Aleksei Lotman
b. 1960
Alex Piquero
b. 1970
Alexander Akimov
1953 – 1986
Alexei Yepishev
1908 – 1985
Alexis Wineman
b. 1994
Ali Wardhana
1928 – 2015
Alonzo Garcelon
1813 – 1906
Andreas Norlén
b. 1973
André Granet
1881 – 1974
André-Joseph Léonard
b. 1940
Anna Krylov
b. 1967
Ariel Dorfman
b. 1942
Balázs Kocsár
b. 1963
Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae
1911 – 1980
Bernhard Nebel
b. 1956
Branville McCartney
b. 1967
Budi Gunadi Sadikin
b. 1964
Carisa Hendrix
b. 1987
Carla Dik-Faber
b. 1971
Celeste Saulo
b. 1964
Charles Hendry
b. 1959
Charlotte Deane
b. 1975
Chiaki Mukai
b. 1952
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
1934 – 2025
Christian L. Holm
1892 – 1981
Cindy Lovell
b. 1956
Craig R. McKinley
b. 1952
Daizō Nozawa
1933 – 2024
Daniel Tătaru
b. 1967
David Leestma
b. 1949
David Nirenberg
b. 1964
Diego de Saavedra Fajardo
1584 – 1648
Djemal Pasha
1872 – 1922
Donald A. Thomas
b. 1955
Dora Bakoyannis
b. 1954
Doug Richard
b. 1958
Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
1883 – 1972
Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside
1880 – 1959
Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire
1895 – 1950
Eiliv Austlid
1899 – 1940
Eugeniusz Rybka
1898 – 1988
Everard Home
1756 – 1832
Felipe Cucker
b. 1958
Frans Timmermans
b. 1961
François Andrieux
1759 – 1833
Frede Blaabjerg
b. 1963
Frederick W. Galbraith
1874 – 1921
George Gollin
b. 1953
Georgy Petrovich Egorychev
1938 – 2023
Gerrit Zalm
b. 1952
Gordon Norrie
1855 – 1941
Gregory J. Slavonic
b. 1949
Gunnar Landtman
1878 – 1940
Guy des Cars
1911 – 1993
Guzh Manukyan
1937 – 2025
Hanns Dieter Hüsch
1925 – 2005
Hava Lazarus-Yafeh
1930 – 1998
Heinz Eggert
b. 1946
Henri Evrard, marquis de Dreux-Brézé
1762 – 1829
Henrik Lax
b. 1946
Henry Edward Armstrong
1848 – 1937
Henry Phillpotts
1778 – 1869
Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf
1893 – 1961
Hugh Rowlands
1828 – 1909
James Lawson
b. 1934
Jamie S. Gorelick
b. 1950
Jan Rudolph Slotemaker de Bruïne
1869 – 1941
Jan Stanisław Olbrycht
1886 – 1968
Jana Tichá
b. 1965
Jean Garon
1938 – 2014
Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette
1769 – 1834
Jean Noté
1858 – 1922
Jean-Guy Talamoni
b. 1960
Jerry Morris
1910 – 2009
Jesse Bering
b. 1975
Jim Ramstad
1946 – 2020
Johann Joachim Becher
1635 – 1682
John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl
1729 – 1774
José Calvo Sotelo
1893 – 1936
Joyce L. Kennard
b. 1941
João Castel-Branco Goulão
b. 1954
Juan María Gutiérrez
1809 – 1878
Julia Otero
b. 1959
Junnosuke Inoue
1869 – 1932
Jóannes Patursson
1866 – 1946
Kamisese Mara
1920 – 2004
Kamran Ince
b. 1960
Karl-Heinz Kämmerling
1930 – 2012
Kazimierz Karabasz
1930 – 2018
Kazuo Hatoyama
1856 – 1911
Kirill Razlogov
1946 – 2021
Kostas Vaxevanis
b. 1966
Kwatsi Alibaruho
b. 1912
Lanny D. Schmidt
1938 – 2020
Lazăr Șăineanu
1859 – 1934
Louis Besson
1937 – 2026
Louis Hubert Farabeuf
1841 – 1910
Luiz Mott
b. 1946
Lutz Stavenhagen
1940 – 1992
Magnus Brunner
b. 1972
Margaret Cole
1893 – 1980
Margit Sahlin
1914 – 2003
Marie Bjerre
b. 1986
Marieke Ehlers
b. 1988
Martha Nussbaum
b. 1947
Martin Ohm
1792 – 1872
Marvin J. Ashton
1915 – 1994
Mary Ellen Avery
1927 – 2011
Max Kolonko
b. 1965
Max Mallowan
1904 – 1978
Maximilien Robespierre
1758 – 1794
Merrill J. Fernando
1930 – 2023
Miguel Macedo
1959 – 2025
Mikhail Myasnikovich
b. 1950
Mordechai Gur
1930 – 1995
Moshé Feldenkrais
1904 – 1984
Nadezhda Nikolaevna Ladygina-Kots
1889 – 1963
Naoko Takahashi
b. 1972
Nelson Merentes
b. 1954
Nise Yamaguchi
b. 1959
Ojo Maduekwe
1945 – 2016
Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II
b. 1950
Pat Cipollone
b. 1966
Paul D. N. Hebert
b. 1947
Paul Rübig
b. 1953
Pedro Piqueras
b. 1955
Penny Williams
1937 – 2018
Peter Corrigan
1941 – 2016
Peter Leopold von Schrenck
1826 – 1894
Philippe Grass
1801 – 1876
Randall Jarrell
1914 – 1965
Rasul Rza
1910 – 1981
Rob Fyfe
b. 1961
Robert Milne Murray
1855 – 1904
Robert O'Hara Burke
1821 – 1861
Robert Peary
1856 – 1920
Robert Poujade
1928 – 2020
Roland de Margerie
1899 – 1990
Rolf Sievert
1896 – 1966
Rupert Ryan
1884 – 1952
Samuel Doe
1951 – 1990
Sasagu Arai
1930 – 2024
Sergey Abeltsev
b. 1961
Shintaro Ito
b. 1953
Silvia Victoria Araya González
1930 – 2021
Skanderbeg
1405 – 1468
Srečko Brodar
1893 – 1987
Stanisław Bonifacy Jundziłł
1761 – 1847
Stefan Allesch-Taylor
b. 1969
Sven Gatz
b. 1967
Sy Friedman
b. 1953
Teten Masduki
b. 1963
Thierry Aubin
1942 – 2009
Thomas Tomlin, Baron Tomlin
1867 – 1935
Till Brönner
b. 1971
Tom Bergeron
b. 1955
Tsvi Piran
b. 1949
Vlad Filat
b. 1969
Vladimir Etush
1922 – 2019
Vyacheslav Starshinov
b. 1940
William D. Leahy
1875 – 1959
William Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth
1851 – 1936
William Strong
1808 – 1895
Yum-Tong Siu
b. 1943
Yuri Bilibin
1901 – 1952
Zheng Ji
1900 – 2010
Adriana Caselotti
1916 – 1997
… and 3,926 more
Died on May 6
Alexander von Humboldt
1769 – 1859
Robert Allardice
1862 – 1928
Theodore von Kármán
1881 – 1963
Élie Cartan
1869 – 1951
Alexander William Williamson
1824 – 1904
Bernard Pivot
1935 – 2024
Bill Dana
1930 – 2014
Edward James Stone
1831 – 1897
Erich Mende
1916 – 1998
Hans Chiari
1851 – 1916
James Young Simpson
1811 – 1870
Jim Wright
1922 – 2015
John R. Paul
1893 – 1971
Joseph Nye
1937 – 2025
Juan Antonio García Díez
1940 – 1998
Lucian Blaga
1895 – 1961
Maria Elena Montessori
1870 – 1952
Maurice Maeterlinck
1862 – 1949
Monty Woolley
1888 – 1963
Newton N. Minow
1926 – 2023
Pierre Riché
1921 – 2019
Stanisław Grabski
1871 – 1949
Ted Turner
1938 – 2026
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki
1886 – 1968
Werner Rolfinck
1599 – 1673
Yitzhak Arad
1926 – 2021
Aleksei Gritsai
1914 – 1998
Alfonso Rangel Guerra
1928 – 2020
Alfred Des Cloizeaux
1817 – 1897
Alla Masevich
1918 – 2008
Amos Henry Worthen
1813 – 1888
Arsha Ovanesova
1906 – 1990
Bohumil Bydžovský
1880 – 1969
Carl Brockelmann
1868 – 1956
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
1683 – 1757
Charles Lincoln Edwards
1863 – 1937
Chatchai Chunhawan
1920 – 1998
Cornelius Jansen
1585 – 1638
Edward VII
1841 – 1910
Emanuele Luigi Galizia
1830 – 1907
Ernest Guiraud
1837 – 1892
Florence Meier Chase
1902 – 1978
Franz von Lenbach
1836 – 1904
François Benoist
1794 – 1878
François de Laval
1623 – 1708
Fred Lewis Pattee
1863 – 1950
Frédéric Reech
1805 – 1884
George Robert Gray
1808 – 1872
Georgi Efremov
1932 – 2011
Georgy Golitsyn
1935 – 2026
Giulio Andreotti
1919 – 2013
Haruo Satō
1892 – 1964
Henri Carton de Wiart
1869 – 1951
Henry P. Davison
1867 – 1922
Henry Wigram
1857 – 1934
Herbert Miles
1850 – 1926
Humberto Maturana
1928 – 2021
Irmtraud Morgner
1933 – 1990
James Lawton Collins Jr.
1917 – 2002
James Walker
1863 – 1935
James William Toumey
1865 – 1932
James Wood-Mason
1846 – 1893
Johan Börjesson
1790 – 1866
Johan Ringers
1885 – 1965
Johannes Baptista Montanus
1498 – 1551
John Beazley
1885 – 1970
John Disney
1779 – 1857
John Forrest Dillon
1831 – 1914
John Lowell
1743 – 1802
Josef Vágner
1928 – 2000
José Jiménez Aranda
1837 – 1903
José Maza Fernández
1889 – 1964
Kate Edger
1857 – 1935
Khaled Mohieddin
1922 – 2018
Knud J. V. Steenstrup
1842 – 1913
Kristin Hallenga
1985 – 2024
Lancelot de Mole
1880 – 1950
Leo Joseph Suenens
1904 – 1996
Ludolph Christian Treviranus
1779 – 1864
Mantarō Kubota
1889 – 1963
Margot Honecker
1927 – 2016
Maria Lassnig
1919 – 2014
Marlene Dietrich
1901 – 1992
Menahem Pressler
1923 – 2023
Morio Takahashi
1883 – 1957
Nikolay Krymov
1884 – 1958
Oleksandr Bilash
1931 – 2003
Philipp Krementz
1819 – 1899
Pierre Dominique
1889 – 1973
Pierre-François Veil
1954 – 2026
Pim Fortuyn
1948 – 2002
Robert Herbert
1831 – 1905
Samuel David Gross
1805 – 1884
Seiichi Tobata
1899 – 1983
Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington
1571 – 1631
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
1788 – 1856
Steven Holcomb
1980 – 2017
Terence Etherton
1951 – 2025
Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland
1795 – 1873
Una Marson
1905 – 1965
Valentin Varennikov
1923 – 2009
Vasily Tarasyuk
1948 – 2017
Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire
1868 – 1938
Vladimir Sudets
1904 – 1981
Walter C. Lowdermilk
1888 – 1974
Weldon B. Gibson
1917 – 2001
Wil Albeda
1925 – 2014
William Grey Walter
1910 – 1977
William J. Casey
1913 – 1987
Wyndham Portal, 1st Viscount Portal
1885 – 1949
Adolf von Liebenberg
1851 – 1922
Ajit Singh
1939 – 2021
Alamuddin Dimyati Rois
1980 – 2025
Aleksa Jovanović
1846 – 1920
Aleksandr Rodzyanko
1879 – 1970
Alexander Suvorov
1730 – 1800
Algis Jurgis Kundrotas
1950 – 2026
Alice Allison Dunnigan
1906 – 1983
Alice Belle Northrop
1864 – 1922
Ange Hyacinthe Maxence de Damas
1785 – 1862
Anthony Browne
1500 – 1548
Arthur Levitt, Sr.
1900 – 1980
Arthur Walderne St. Clair Tisdall
1890 – 1915
Aryeh Stern
1944 – 2026
Badiozzaman Forouzanfar
1904 – 1970
Barney M. Giles
1892 – 1984
Barry Farber
1930 – 2020
Benoy Choudhury
1911 – 2000
Bep Voskuijl
1919 – 1983
Bernard Leach
1887 – 1979
Bhulabhai Desai
1877 – 1946
Bill Holman
1927 – 2024
Borys Hrinchenko
1863 – 1910
Bronson M. Cutting
1888 – 1935
Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema
1877 – 1924
Carl Fabian Emanuel Björling
1839 – 1910
Carl Hall
1848 – 1908
Catherine I of Russia
1684 – 1727
Chaim Zhitlowsky
1865 – 1943
Charles Woollcombe
1857 – 1934
Clara Bohm-Schuch
1879 – 1936
Clarence Addison Dykstra
1883 – 1950
Constantin Héger
1809 – 1896
Daniel Ford Goddard
1850 – 1922
David H. Gambrell
1929 – 2021
David Hall
1930 – 2016
David Richardson
1946 – 2026
Donald T. Campbell
1916 – 1996
Edward Aleksander Raczyński
1847 – 1926
Edward Laning
1906 – 1981
Edward S. Rogers Sr.
1900 – 1939
Edward Wingfield, 2nd Viscount Powerscourt
1729 – 1764
Enéas Carneiro
1938 – 2007
Ernest MacMillan
1893 – 1973
Ernest Tandy
1879 – 1953
Ernst Kromayer
1862 – 1933
F. D. Colson
1875 – 1958
Farley Mowat
1921 – 2014
Fedor Mirkovich
1789 – 1866
Fehmi Agani
1932 – 1999
Francis Mundy
1771 – 1837
Francis Needham, Viscount Newry
1815 – 1851
Francis Petre
1852 – 1925
Francis Shunk Brown
1858 – 1940
François Pompon
1855 – 1933
François de Montmorency
1530 – 1579
François-Frédéric Lemot
1771 – 1827
George H. Merryman
1878 – 1948
George Pérez
1954 – 2022
George William Rendel
1889 – 1979
Georgi Lozanov
1926 – 2012
Georgia Caldwell Smith
1909 – 1961
Georgios Mavros
1909 – 1995
Giacomo Margotti
1823 – 1887
Gideon Smith
1889 – 1968
Gil Ferguson
1923 – 2007
Giovanni Giuriati
1876 – 1970
Glauco Della Porta
1920 – 1976
Gordon McClymont
1920 – 2000
Gottfried Haberler
1900 – 1995
Grant E. Mouser
1868 – 1949
Greeley W. Whitford
1856 – 1940
Gurnee Munn
1887 – 1960
Gwenda Wilkin
1933 – 2020
H. A. Murena
1923 – 1975
Hans von und zu Aufseß
1801 – 1872
Harry George Drickamer
1918 – 2002
Heinrich Curschmann
1846 – 1910
Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach
1824 – 1889
Heinrich Pfusterschmid-Hardtenstein
1927 – 2024
Helen Kleberg Groves
1927 – 2022
Helen Morton Barker
1834 – 1910
Helene Weigel
1900 – 1971
Henry David Thoreau
1817 – 1862
Herbert E. Brekle
1935 – 2018
Herbert Frankenhauser
1945 – 2020
Herbert Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere
1846 – 1921
Herman T. Schneebeli
1907 – 1982
Hermann von Heeren
1833 – 1899
Hsiao-Lan Kuo
1915 – 2006
… and 1,828 more