History of Today in India – 06 March

Explore the history of today 06 March in India, including important events, famous personalities, and milestones for UPSC SSC,Banking & PSC exams.

Last updated on 06 March 2026, 04:37 AM

📜 Important Events on 06 March in World History

06 Mar 2020: 32 people are killed and 82 are injured when gunmen open fire on a ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack. Read more
06 Mar 2018: Forbes names Jeff Bezos as the world's richest person, for the first time, at $112 billion net worth. Read more
06 Mar 2008: A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem. Read more
06 Mar 2003: Air Algérie Flight 6289 crashes at the Aguenar – Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport in Tamanrasset, Algeria, killing 102 out of the 103 people on board. Read more
06 Mar 1992: The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers. Read more
06 Mar 1988: Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius. Read more
06 Mar 1987: The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193. Read more
06 Mar 1984: In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the country's miners. Read more
06 Mar 1975: The Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience for the first time by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory. Read more
06 Mar 1975: Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute. Read more
06 Mar 1970: An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three. Read more
06 Mar 1968: Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation. Read more
06 Mar 1967: Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States. Read more
06 Mar 1965: Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office. Read more
06 Mar 1964: Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali. Read more
06 Mar 1964: Constantine II becomes the last King of Greece. Read more
06 Mar 1957: Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British. Read more
06 Mar 1953: Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Read more
06 Mar 1951: Cold War: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins. Read more
06 Mar 1946: Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union. Read more
06 Mar 1945: World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops. On the same day, Operation Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of the war, begins. Read more
06 Mar 1944: World War II: Soviet Air Forces bomb the evacuated town of Narva in German-occupied Estonia, destroying the entire historical Swedish-era town. Read more
06 Mar 1943: World War II: Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel launches the Battle of Medenine in an attempt to slow down the British Eighth Army. It fails, and he leaves Africa three days later. Read more
06 Mar 1943: World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, ends with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion, the bulk of the garrison of the town of Grevena, leading to its liberation a fortnight later. Read more
06 Mar 1930: International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern. Read more
06 Mar 1912: Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 1,800 m. Read more
06 Mar 1904: Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Led by William Speirs Bruce, the Antarctic region of Coats Land is discovered from the Scotia. Read more
06 Mar 1901: An anarchist assassin tries to kill German Emperor Wilhelm II. Read more
06 Mar 1857: The Supreme Court of the United States rules 7–2 in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case that the Constitution does not confer citizenship on black people. Read more
06 Mar 1836: Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo: After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured. Read more
06 Mar 1820: The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free. Read more

🎂 Important Births on 06 March in World History

06 Mar 2003: Millicent Simmonds, American actress Millicent Simmonds is a deaf American actress who starred in the 2018 horror film A Quiet Place and its 2020 sequel A Quiet Place Part II. Her breakout role was in the 2017 drama film Wonderstruck. For Wonderstruck and A Quiet Place, she was nominated for several awards for best youth performance. Read more
06 Mar 2001: Milo Manheim, American actor Milo Jacob Manheim is an American actor. He is best known for his starring role as Zed in the Disney television film franchise Zombies and as Joseph in the 2023 Christmas musical, Journey to Bethlehem. In 2018, he finished in second place on season 27 of Dancing with the Stars. Manheim currently stars in the Paramount+ original School Spirits. Manheim was announced to be playing Flynn Rider in Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Tangled, joining Teagan Croft in the lead cast. Read more
06 Mar 2000: Armando Bacot, American basketball player Armando Linwood Bacot Jr. is an American professional basketball player for Fenerbahçe Beko of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels. He holds the program records for double-doubles and career rebounds. Over his 5-year career, Bacot played in a UNC-record 171 games. Read more
06 Mar 2000: Jacob Bertrand, American actor Jacob Scott Thomas Bertrand is an American actor. From 2018 to 2025, Bertrand played the series regular role of Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz in the YouTube Premium and Netflix series Cobra Kai. He is also known for the voice of Bam in Batwheels, portraying the titular character in Disney XD's Kirby Buckets and playing Jack Malloy in the 2016 Disney Channel Original Movie, The Swap. Read more
06 Mar 1999: Ylena In-Albon, Swiss tennis player Ylena In-Albon is a Swiss tennis player. Read more
06 Mar 1998: Kyle Trask, American football player Kyle Jacob Trask is an American professional football quarterback. He played college football for the Florida Gators and was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the second round of the 2021 NFL draft. Read more
06 Mar 1997: Lee Lu-da, South Korean singer and actress Lee Lu-da, also known mononymously as Luda, is a South Korean singer and actress. She is a member of the South Korean girl group WJSN. Read more
06 Mar 1996: Christian Coleman, American sprinter Christian Lee Coleman is an American professional track and field sprinter who competes in the 60 metres, 100 m, and 200 m. The 2019 world champion in the 100 meters, he also won gold as part of men's 4 × 100-meter relay. He holds personal bests of 9.76 seconds for the 100 m, which made him the 6th fastest all-time in the history of 100 metres event, and 19.85 for the 200 m. Coleman is the world record holder for the indoor 60 meters with 6.34 seconds. He was the Diamond League champion in 2018 and 2023 and the world number one ranked runner in the men's 100 m for the 2017, 2018 and 2019 seasons. Read more
06 Mar 1996: Mohamed Magdy, Egyptian footballer Mohamed Magdy Mohamed Morsy, known by his nickname Afsha, is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Egyptian Premier League club Al Ahly. Read more
06 Mar 1996: Timo Werner, German footballer Timo Werner is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Major League Soccer club San Jose Earthquakes. Read more
06 Mar 1995: Josh Hart, American basketball player Joshua Aaron Hart is an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He holds the Knicks franchise record for the most triple doubles in a single season. Read more
06 Mar 1995: Georgi Kitanov, Bulgarian footballer Georgi Georgiev Kitanov is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Dunav Ruse. Read more
06 Mar 1994: Marcus Smart, American basketball player Marcus Osmond Smart is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most versatile defenders of his generation, he has been selected to the NBA All-Defensive First Team thrice and was the NBA Defensive Player of the Year in 2022, becoming only the second point guard after Gary Payton to do so. He played college basketball for the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Read more
06 Mar 1993: Nicklas Jensen, Danish ice hockey player Nicklas Jensen is a Danish professional ice hockey player who is a winger for SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers of the National League (NL). Read more
06 Mar 1993: Andrés Rentería, Colombian footballer Andrés Jair Rentería Morelo, commonly known as Andrés Rentería, is a Colombian footballer who plays as a forward for Jaguares de Córdoba. Read more
06 Mar 1991: John Jenkins, American basketball player John Logan Jenkins III is an American professional basketball player for the Adelaide 36ers of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball for the Vanderbilt Commodores before being selected by the Atlanta Hawks with the 23rd pick in the 2012 NBA draft. He played in the NBA for the Hawks, Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns, Washington Wizards and New York Knicks from 2012 to 2019. Jenkins has also played professionally in Spain, China, Israel, France, Puerto Rico, Russia and Romania. Read more
06 Mar 1991: Tyler, the Creator, American rapper, songwriter, producer, and actor Tyler Gregory Okonma, known professionally as Tyler, the Creator, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, fashion designer, director and actor. Best known for his soul-influenced music, raw rhymes and extensive use of alter egos, he has been described as an influential figure in alternative hip-hop during the 2010s and 2020s. In the late 2000s he led and co-founded the music collective Odd Future. Within the group, Tyler participated as a rapper, producer, director and actor, releasing studio albums that he produced for its respective members. Tyler also performed on the group's sketch comedy show Loiter Squad (2012–2014). Read more
06 Mar 1990: Derek Drouin, Canadian athlete Derek Drouin is a Canadian retired track and field athlete who competes in the high jump. He won gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and was the 2015 World Champion. He also won gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the 2015 Pan American Games, and won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2013 World Championships. Drouin was originally awarded the bronze at the 2012 Olympics which was retroactively changed to silver when the original gold medallist Ivan Ukhov was stripped of his medal for doping violations. He was belatedly presented with the upgraded silver in a presentation during the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, one of 10 Olympians who were presented with “reallocated” medals from previous Olympics. He holds both the world decathlon best and the world heptathlon best in the high jump with clearances of 2.28 m and 2.30 m, respectively. Read more
06 Mar 1989: Dwight Buycks, American basketball player Dwight Buycks is an American professional basketball player for Kalleh Mazandaran of the Iranian Basketball Super League. He played college basketball for the Indian Hills Warriors and Marquette Golden Eagles. Read more
06 Mar 1989: Ray Chen, Taiwanese-Australian violinist Ray Chen is a Taiwanese-Australian violinist and YouTuber. He was the winner of the 2008 International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition and the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition. Since then, he has regularly collaborated with the world's foremost orchestras and appeared at renowned concert halls. Read more
06 Mar 1989: Agnieszka Radwańska, Polish tennis player Agnieszka Roma Radwańska is a Polish former professional tennis player and current coach. She was ranked world No. 2 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), in July 2012. Radwańska won 20 WTA Tour singles titles, including the 2015 WTA Finals, and two doubles titles. She was also the runner-up at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships. Read more
06 Mar 1988: Agnes, Swedish singer Agnes Emilia Carlsson, known mononymously as Agnes, is a Swedish singer. She rose to fame as the winner of Idol 2005, the second season of the Swedish Idol series. She was then signed to Sony Music, through which she released her self-titled debut album, Agnes, and follow-up, Stronger, both of which topped the Swedish Top 60 Albums Chart. In early 2008, it was announced that Agnes had parted ways with her record label, and was now signed to small independent label Roxy Recordings. Released on 28 October 2008, her third album, Dance Love Pop, reached number five in Sweden, 70 in Austria, 38 in France, 45 in Switzerland and 13 in the United Kingdom. With 200,000 albums sold worldwide this is her most successful album, 50,000 albums were sold in France, 40,000 in Sweden. Its first two singles, "On and On" and "Release Me" became international hits, reaching the top-ten in charts worldwide. "Release Me" topped the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs and peaked at three in the United Kingdom, selling over 4 million copies worldwide. Read more
06 Mar 1988: Marina Erakovic, New Zealand tennis player Marina Erakovic is a former tennis player from New Zealand. She achieved career-high rankings of 39 in singles and 25 in doubles, and won a singles title and eight doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Read more
06 Mar 1988: Leonys Martín, Cuban-American baseball player Leonys Martín Tápanes, nicknamed "Ikadi", is a Cuban-American professional baseball center fielder for the Bravos de León of the Mexican League. He signed with the Texas Rangers in 2011, and made his MLB debut later that season. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Rangers, Seattle Mariners, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, and Cleveland Indians, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Chiba Lotte Marines. Read more
06 Mar 1988: Simon Mignolet, Belgian footballer Simon Luc Hildebert Mignolet is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Belgian Pro League club Club Brugge. Read more
06 Mar 1987: Mário Bližňák, Slovak ice hockey player Mário Bližňák is a Slovak former professional ice hockey center. He previously played for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). After playing in the Slovak Extraliga, Bližňák was selected by the Canucks in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, and moved to North America, joining the Vancouver Giants of the major junior Western Hockey League (WHL) in 2005. Bližňák played three seasons with the Giants, helping them win the Memorial Cup, the national championship for major junior hockey in Canada, in 2007, before joining the Moose in 2008. He is best known as a defensive forward. Read more
06 Mar 1987: Kevin-Prince Boateng, Ghanaian-German footballer Kevin-Prince Boateng is a football manager and former player who is the coach of the Australian national team in socca. Read more
06 Mar 1987: Chico Flores, Spanish footballer José Manuel Flores Moreno, commonly known as Chico Flores, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central defender. Read more
06 Mar 1986: Jake Arrieta, American baseball player Jacob Joseph Arrieta is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, and San Diego Padres. Read more
06 Mar 1986: Francisco Cervelli, Venezuelan-Italian baseball player Francisco Cervelli is an Italian-Venezuelan former professional baseball catcher and current manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Braves, and Miami Marlins from 2008 through 2020. Read more
06 Mar 1986: Timothy DeLaGhetto, American Internet personality Tim Chantarangsu, formerly known as Timothy DeLaGhetto, is an American internet and television personality and rapper. He is best known from the improv comedy show Wild 'N Out where he was a cast member from 2013 to 2018 and 2020 to 2021. Read more
06 Mar 1986: Eli Marienthal, American actor Eli David Marienthal is an American former actor. He won the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in a Feature Production for his vocal performance as Hogarth Hughes in the animated film The Iron Giant (1999). Read more
06 Mar 1986: Charlie Mulgrew, Scottish footballer Charles Patrick Mulgrew is a Scottish professional football coach and former player who was most recently manager of Scottish League One side Kelty Hearts. Read more
06 Mar 1985: Pierre-Édouard Bellemare, French ice hockey player Pierre-Édouard Bellemare is a French professional ice hockey player who is a forward for HC Ajoie of the National League (NL). He previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 2014 to 2024 for the Philadelphia Flyers, Vegas Golden Knights, Colorado Avalanche, Tampa Bay Lightning and Seattle Kraken. Read more
06 Mar 1985: Bakaye Traoré, French-Malian footballer Bakaye Traoré is a former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder for Amiens SC and AS Nancy in France, for A.C. Milan in Italy, and for Kayseri Erciyesspor and Bursaspor in Turkey. Born in France, he was capped 24 times at international level by Mali national team scoring twice. Read more
06 Mar 1985: Daniel Winnik, Canadian ice hockey player Daniel Spencer Winnik is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger. He played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and played his final six seasons in Switzerland for Genève-Servette HC. Read more
06 Mar 1984: Daniël de Ridder, Dutch footballer Daniël Robin Frederick de Ridder is a Dutch former professional footballer. He played as a winger operating either on the right or left side but would occasionally play a more advanced role. He represented Ajax, Celta Vigo, Birmingham City, Wigan Athletic, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Grasshoppers, Heerenveen, RKC Waalwijk and Cambuur. Read more
06 Mar 1984: Eskil Pedersen, Norwegian politician Eskil Pedersen is a Norwegian politician and former leader of the Workers' Youth League (AUF) from 2010 to 2014, the youth organisation associated with Norway's leading Labour Party. Read more
06 Mar 1984: Chris Tomson, American drummer Christopher William Tomson, commonly known by his initials "CT", is an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the drummer for New York–based indie rock band Vampire Weekend. He is also the lead vocalist and guitarist for a side project called Dams of the West, for which he writes and records the entirety of its music. Read more
06 Mar 1983: Andranik Teymourian, Armenian-Iranian footballer Andranik "Ando" Timotian-Samarani, commonly known as Andranik Teymourian is a former Iranian professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is notably the first Christian to captain the Iran national team. Read more
06 Mar 1981: Ellen Muth, American actress Ellen Muth is a retired American actress best known for her role as Georgia "George" Lass in Showtime's series Dead Like Me. Read more
06 Mar 1980: Emílson Cribari, Brazilian footballer Emílson Sánchez Cribari is a Brazilian footballer who played as a centre back. Read more
06 Mar 1980: Shaun Evans, English actor and director Shaun Evans is an English actor. He is best known for playing a young Endeavour Morse in the ITV drama series Endeavour and Coxswain Elliot Glover in Vigil. Read more
06 Mar 1979: David Flair, American wrestler David Richard Fliehr, better known by the ring name David Flair, is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where he held the WCW United States Championship and WCW World Tag Team Championship. He is the son of professional wrestler Ric Flair, and the half-brother of professional wrestlers Charlotte Flair and Reid Flair. Read more
06 Mar 1979: Tim Howard, American soccer player[citation needed] Timothy Matthew Howard is an American former professional soccer player who played as a goalkeeper. Nicknamed the "Secretary of Defense", Howard is regarded as one of the greatest American players of all time. Read more
06 Mar 1979: Garry Monk, English footballer and manager Garry Alan Monk is an English football manager and former professional player who was most recently the head coach of EFL League Two club Cambridge United. Read more
06 Mar 1978: Sage Rosenfels, American football player Sage Jamen Rosenfels is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Iowa State Cyclones and was selected by the Washington Redskins in the fourth round of the 2001 NFL draft. He also played in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins from 2002 to 2005, the Houston Texans from 2006 to 2008, the Minnesota Vikings in 2009, and the New York Giants in 2010. He spent portions of the 2011 season with the Vikings and Dolphins, after being released by the Giants during preseason. Read more
06 Mar 1978: Chad Wicks, American wrestler Charles Wicks is an American retired professional wrestler best known for his time with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he wrestled as Chad Toland in its Ohio Valley Wrestling affiliate and later as Chad Dick on its SmackDown! brand. Read more
06 Mar 1977: Nantie Hayward, South African cricketer Mornantau "Nantie" Hayward is a South African former cricketer, who played in 16 Test matches and 21 One Day Internationals for the national team between 1998 and 2004. Read more
06 Mar 1977: Giorgos Karagounis, Greek footballer Georgios Karagkounis, known as Giorgos Karagounis, is a former Greek professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Read more
06 Mar 1977: Shabani Nonda, Congolese footballer Shabani Christophe Nonda is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. Born in Burundi, he played for the DR Congo national team, earning 36 caps and scoring 20 goals. He was selected for DR Congo's squad for the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations. He had a prominent Career with the East African giants Young Africans (Yanga), before joining Vaal professionals in South Africa. Read more
06 Mar 1977: Bubba Sparxxx, American rapper and songwriter Warren Anderson Mathis, better known by his stage name Bubba Sparxxx, is an American rapper. His 2001 single, "Ugly" peaked at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and led him to sign with Timbaland's Beat Club Records, an imprint of Interscope Records to release his debut studio album, Dark Days, Bright Nights (2001). A critical and commercial success, it peaked at number three on the Billboard 200. Read more
06 Mar 1976: Ken Anderson, American wrestler and actor Kenneth Anthony Anderson is an American professional wrestler. He is known for his tenure in WWE from 2005 to 2009 under the ring name Mr. Kennedy, and his tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as Mr. Anderson from 2010 to 2016. He also works as an announcer for Top Rank Boxing. Read more
06 Mar 1975: Aracely Arámbula, Mexican actress and singer Aracely Arámbula Jáquez, known professionally as Aracely Arámbula, is a Mexican actress, model, singer, television personality and entrepreneur. Read more
06 Mar 1975: Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Canadian pianist and conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, CC is a Canadian conductor and pianist. He is the music director of the Orchestre Métropolitain (Montréal), the Metropolitan Opera, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. He was the principal conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra from 2008 to 2018. Read more
06 Mar 1974: Guy Garvey, English singer-songwriter and guitarist Guy Edward John Patrick Garvey is an English musician, singer, songwriter and radio presenter. He is the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Elbow. He has a weekly show on BBC Radio 6 Music titled Guy Garvey's Finest Hour. Read more
06 Mar 1974: Matthew Guy, Australian politician Matthew Jason Guy is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal Party member of the Parliament of Victoria since 2006, representing the Northern Metropolitan Region in the Legislative Council (2006–2014) and Bulleen in the Legislative Assembly (2014–present). He was Leader of the Opposition in Victoria and state leader of the Liberal Party from 2014 to 2018 and again from 2021 to 2022, having resigned following his respective losses in the 2018 and 2022 Victorian state elections. Read more
06 Mar 1974: Brad Schumacher, American swimmer Bradley Darrell Schumacher is an American former competition swimmer, water polo player, and Olympic gold medalist. Schumacher is a two-time, two-sport Olympian. He was a member of the winning relay teams at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Four years later, he was a member of the U.S. men's water polo team at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Read more
06 Mar 1974: Beanie Sigel, American rapper Dwight Equan Grant, better known by his stage name Beanie Sigel, is an American rapper from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his association with Jay-Z and his label Roc-A-Fella Records, to which he signed in 1998. His debut studio album, The Truth (2000), was met with critical and commercial success, peaking at number five on the Billboard 200. Read more
06 Mar 1973: Michael Finley, American basketball player Michael Howard Finley is an American former professional basketball player who is an interim general manager and vice president of player personnel for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 15 seasons in the NBA, predominantly with the Mavericks, but also for the Phoenix Suns, the San Antonio Spurs, and the Boston Celtics. He was a two-time NBA All-Star and won an NBA championship with the Spurs in 2007. Read more
06 Mar 1973: Peter Lindgren, Swedish guitarist and songwriter Peter Lindgren is a Swedish musician and songwriter. He is best known as the former guitarist of Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. Read more
06 Mar 1973: Greg Ostertag, American basketball player Gregory Donovan Ostertag is an American former professional basketball player. A center, he spent most of his career with the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks. Read more
06 Mar 1973: Trent Willmon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Trent Willmon is an American country music artist, songwriter, and producer. Active since 1998 as a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, Willmon was signed to Columbia Records in 2004. He released two albums for the label and charted six singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts before exiting Columbia in 2006. A third album, Broken In, was released on the independent Compadre label in February 2008. Read more
06 Mar 1972: Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player, actor, businessman, sportscaster, and rapper Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal, commonly known as Shaq, is an American former professional basketball player and sports analyst on the television program Inside the NBA. Nicknamed "Diesel", he is a 7-foot-1-inch (2.16 m) and 325-pound (147 kg) center who played for six teams over his 19-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and is a four-time NBA champion. O'Neal is widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players and centers of all time. Read more
06 Mar 1971: Darrick Martin, American basketball player and coach Darrick David Martin is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. Martin played professionally for over a decade, shuttling between NBA and the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), where he won the 2003 CBA Playoffs MVP. In 2003, he even played for the Harlem Globetrotters. He then went on to play for the Los Angeles Lightning of the Independent Basketball Association (IBL). He was named the head coach of the Reno Bighorns of the NBA G League in 2016. Read more
06 Mar 1970: Chris Broderick, American musician and songwriter Christopher Alan Broderick is an American musician, best known as a former guitarist of the thrash metal band Megadeth. He is also formerly the lead guitarist for Jag Panzer, appearing on four albums between 1998 and 2004. He also served as a touring guitarist for Nevermore in the 2000s. Following his departure from Megadeth, Broderick formed Act of Defiance in 2014. He joined Swedish metal band In Flames in 2019 as a touring guitarist, before becoming the band's permanent guitarist in 2022. Read more
06 Mar 1969: Amy Pietz, American actress Amy Pietz is an American actress. She is known for her roles on television. She received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series nomination for her role as Annie Spadaro in the NBC sitcom Caroline in the City (1995–99). She later had starring roles in the short-lived sitcoms Cursed, Rodney, and Aliens in America. Read more
06 Mar 1968: Moira Kelly, American actress and director Moira Kelly is an American actress known for portraying Kate Moseley in the 1992 film The Cutting Edge as well as single mother Karen Roe on the teen drama One Tree Hill. She is also known for playing Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, replacing Lara Flynn Boyle in the prequel to the 1990 TV series Twin Peaks. Other roles include Dorothy Day in Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story, White House media consultant Mandy Hampton in the first season of The West Wing, and the voice of Simba's love interest Nala in The Lion King and its direct-to-video sequels The Lion King II: Simba's Pride and The Lion King 1½. She also played Hetty Kelly and Oona O'Neill in Chaplin. Read more
06 Mar 1968: Carla McGhee, American basketball player and coach Carla Renee McGhee is an American former basketball player most notable for her career at the University of Tennessee. She was injured in a car crash in October 1987 and was in a coma for 47 hours, suffering brain injuries and breaking nearly every bone in her face. She was told she'd never play again. She was a member of the gold medal-winning 1996 Olympic Team. Read more
06 Mar 1967: Julio Bocca, Argentine ballet dancer and director Julio Adrián Lojo Bocca is an Argentine ballet dancer. Bocca spent twenty years as a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre. From 2010 to 2018, he served as artistic director of the National Ballet of Uruguay, administered by SODRE, the country's broadcasting and cultural authority. Read more
06 Mar 1967: Connie Britton, American actress Connie Britton is an American actress. Her accolades include nominations for five Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. She gained prominence for her roles in the television series Spin City (1996–2000), The West Wing (2001), and 24 (2006). Further recognition came for starring as Tami Taylor in Friday Night Lights (2006–2011), Vivien Harmon in American Horror Story: Murder House (2011), and Rayna Jaymes in Nashville (2012–2018). Her other television projects include Dirty John (2018–2019), The White Lotus (2021), and Zero Day (2025). Read more
06 Mar 1967: Glenn Greenwald, American journalist and author Glenn Edward Greenwald is an American journalist, author, and former lawyer. Read more
06 Mar 1967: Shuler Hensley, American actor and singer Shuler Paul Hensley is an American singer and actor. Shuler has appeared in eight Broadway productions, earning a Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 2002 for his performance as Jud Fry in the revival of Oklahoma!, along with several nominations for Drama Desk Awards and Outer Critics Circle Awards in his career. Read more
06 Mar 1966: Alan Davies, English comedian, actor and screenwriter Alan Roger Davies is an English actor, presenter, stand-up comedian, and writer. He is known for his portrayal of the title role in the BBC mystery drama series Jonathan Creek (1997–2016) and as the only permanent panellist on the BBC panel show QI since its premiere in 2003, outlasting its original host Stephen Fry. He began his career as a stand-up comic, and has undertaken several tours performing on stage, most recently in 2025. Read more
06 Mar 1964: Linda Pearson, Scottish sport shooter Linda Pearson is a Scottish clay target shooter. She competed in the women's double trap event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the bronze medal. Linda has represented Great Britain in four different international clay target disciplines: Olympic Trap, Double Trap, Universal Trench and Compak Sporting. Read more
06 Mar 1963: D. L. Hughley, American actor, producer, and screenwriter[citation needed] Darryl Lynn Hughley is an American actor and stand-up comedian. Hughley is best known as the original host of BET's ComicView from 1992 to 1993, the eponymous character on the ABC/UPN sitcom The Hughleys, and as one of the "Big Four" comedians in The Original Kings of Comedy. Additionally, he has been the host of CNN's D. L. Hughley Breaks the News, a correspondent for The Jay Leno Show on NBC, and a local radio personality and interviewer in New York City. In early 2013, D. L. Hughley landed in ninth place on Dancing with the Stars. Read more
06 Mar 1962: Alison Nicholas, British golfer Alison Nicholas is an English professional golfer, who won the 1997 U.S. Women's Open. Read more
06 Mar 1960: Sleepy Floyd, American basketball player and coach Eric Augustus "Sleepy" Floyd is an American former professional basketball player. An NBA All-Star in 1987 as a Warrior, he is perhaps best known for his tenures for Golden State and Houston. Read more
06 Mar 1959: Tom Arnold, American actor, comedian, and television host Thomas Duane Arnold is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Arnie Thomas on Roseanne, which starred his ex-wife Roseanne Barr. Read more
06 Mar 1956: Peter Roebuck, English cricketer, journalist, and sportcaster (died 2011) Peter Michael Roebuck was an English cricketer who later became an Australian newspaper columnist and radio commentator. Read more
06 Mar 1956: Steve Vizard, Australian television host, actor, and producer Stephen William Vizard is an Australian television and radio presenter, producer, writer, lawyer and businessman. He is a research professor at Monash University and the University of Adelaide. Read more
06 Mar 1955: Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician, 5th President of Burundi (died 1994) Cyprien Ntaryamira was a Burundian politician who served as President of Burundi from 5 February 1994 until his death two months later in the context of the Burundian Civil War. Read more
06 Mar 1955: Alberta Watson, Canadian actress (died 2015) Faith Susan Alberta Watson was a Canadian film and television actress. She was known for her roles as Dr. Rebecca Meyer on Buck James (1987-88), Madeline on La Femme Nikita (1997-2001) and Erin Driscoll on 24 (2004-05). Read more
06 Mar 1954: Jeff Greenwald, American author, photographer, and monologist Jeff Greenwald is a best-selling author, photographer, and monologist. He now resides in Oakland, California. Read more
06 Mar 1954: Harald Schumacher, German footballer and manager Harald Anton "Toni" Schumacher is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. At club level, he won a Bundesliga title and three DFB-Pokal titles with 1. FC Köln. At international level, he represented West Germany. Schumacher won the 1980 European Championship and reached two World Cup finals, in 1982 and 1986, being on the losing side for both.
In the 1982 FIFA World Cup semi-final, he controversially collided with and seriously injured French defender Patrick Battiston. Schumacher was voted German Footballer of the Year in 1984 and 1986. Since April 2012, he has served as vice president at 1. FC Köln. Read more
06 Mar 1953: Madhav Kumar Nepal, Nepali banker and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Nepal Madhav Kumar Nepal, is a Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister of Nepal. He served as prime minister from 25 May 2009 to 6 February 2011. Read more
06 Mar 1953: Carolyn Porco, American astronomer and academic Carolyn C. Porco is an American planetary scientist who explores the outer Solar System, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s. She led the imaging science team on the Cassini mission in orbit around Saturn. She is an expert on planetary rings and the Saturnian moon, Enceladus. Read more
06 Mar 1952: Denis Napthine, Australian politician, 47th Premier of Victoria Denis Vincent Napthine is an Australian former politician and veterinarian who served as the 47th premier of Victoria from 2013 to 2014. He held office as the leader of the Victorian division of the Liberal Party of Australia (LPA) and was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the district of Portland from 1988 to 2002, before transferring to that of South-West Coast from 2002 to 2015. Read more
06 Mar 1951: Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (died 2004) Gerard Friedrich Knetemann was a Dutch road bicycle racer who won the 1978 World Championship. He wore the Yellow Jersey early in each Tour de France for four consecutive years between 1977 and 1980. Read more
06 Mar 1950: Arthur Roche, English archbishop Arthur Roche is a British bishop and cardinal of the Catholic Church. He has been prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments since 2021. He was previously secretary of the congregation from 2012 to 2021. Read more
06 Mar 1949: Shaukat Aziz, Pakistani economist and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Pakistan Shaukat Aziz is a Pakistani-born British former banker who served as the 15th prime minister of Pakistan from 28 August 2004 to 15 November 2007. When his term as Prime Minister was over, he immediately left Pakistan and settled in the United Kingdom. Previously, he served as the finance minister of Pakistan from 6 November 1999 to 15 November 2007. Read more
06 Mar 1949: Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer and manager Martin McLean Buchan is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a centre back. Born in Aberdeen, he played for Aberdeen, Manchester United and Oldham Athletic. He also played in 34 international matches for Scotland between 1971 and 1978 including at two World Cups. Buchan later managed Burnley. Read more
06 Mar 1948: Stephen Schwartz, American composer and producer Stephen Lawrence Schwartz is an American musical theatre composer and lyricist. In a career spanning over five decades, Schwartz has written hit musicals including Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972), and Wicked (2003). He has contributed lyrics to successful films including Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), The Prince of Egypt, Enchanted (2007), Disenchanted (2022), and the two-part adaptation of Wicked. Read more
06 Mar 1947: Kiki Dee, English singer-songwriter Pauline Matthews, better known by her stage name Kiki Dee, is an English pop singer. Known for her blue-eyed soul vocals, she was the first female singer from the UK to sign with Motown's Tamla Records. Read more
06 Mar 1947: Dick Fosbury, American high jumper (died 2023)[citation needed] Richard Douglas Fosbury was an American high jumper, who is considered one of the most influential athletes in the history of track and field. He won a gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics, revolutionizing the high jump event with a "back-first" technique now known as the Fosbury flop. His method was to sprint diagonally towards the bar, then curve and leap backward over it, which gave him a much lower center of mass in flight than traditional techniques. Debbie Brill was developing her similar "Brill Bend" around the same time. This approach has seen nearly universal adoption since Fosbury's performance in Mexico. Though he never returned to the Olympics, Fosbury continued to be involved in athletics after retirement and served on the executive board of the World Olympians Association. Read more
06 Mar 1947: Anna Maria Horsford, American actress Anna Maria Horsford is an American actress, known for her performances in television comedies. Read more
06 Mar 1947: Rob Reiner, American actor, director, producer, and activist (died 2025) Robert Reiner was an American filmmaker and actor. He directed a series of acclaimed studio films in a career that spanned comedy, drama, romance, and documentary. Reiner received numerous accolades, including winning two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Hugo Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and nine Golden Globe Awards. He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999 and received the Chaplin Gala Tribute at the Film at Lincoln Center in 2014. Three of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry. Read more
06 Mar 1947: Jean Seaton, English historian and academic

Jean Seaton is Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster and the Official Historian of the BBC. She is the Director of the Orwell Prize and on the editorial board of Political Quarterly. She is the widow of Ben Pimlott, the British historian. Read more
06 Mar 1947: John Stossel, American journalist and author John Frank Stossel is an American libertarian television presenter, author, consumer journalist, political activist, and pundit. He is known for his career as a host on ABC News, Fox Business Network, and Reason TV. Read more
06 Mar 1946: Patrick Baudry, French military officer and astronaut Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry is a retired colonel in the French Air Force and a former CNES astronaut. In 1985, he became the second French citizen in space, after Jean-Loup Chrétien, when he flew aboard NASA's Space Shuttle mission STS-51-G. Read more
06 Mar 1946: David Gilmour, English singer-songwriter and guitarist David Jon Gilmour is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter who is a member of the rock band Pink Floyd. He joined in 1967, shortly before the departure of the founder member Syd Barrett. By the early 1980s, Pink Floyd had become one of the highest-selling and most acclaimed acts in music history. Following the departure of Roger Waters in 1985, Pink Floyd continued under Gilmour's leadership and released the studio albums A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987), The Division Bell (1994) and The Endless River (2014). Read more
06 Mar 1946: Martin Kove, American actor Martin Kove is an American actor and a martial artist. He is best known for his role as John Kreese, the main antagonist of The Karate Kid (1984). Kove reprised the role in The Karate Kid Part II (1986), The Karate Kid Part III (1989), and the television series Cobra Kai (2018–2025). He was a regular on the television series Cagney & Lacey (1982–1988), portraying Police Detective Victor Isbecki. Kove also appeared in Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). Read more
06 Mar 1946: Richard Noble, Scottish race car driver and businessman Richard James Anthony Noble, OBE is a Scottish entrepreneur who was holder of the land speed record between 1983 and 1997. He was also the project director of ThrustSSC, the vehicle which holds the current land speed record, set at Black Rock Desert, Nevada in 1997. Read more
06 Mar 1945: Angelo Castro Jr., Filipino actor and journalist (died 2012) Angelo Ylagan Castro Jr. was a Filipino broadcast journalist and actor. He was a news anchor for The World Tonight, the flagship news program of ABS-CBN and ANC. He anchored several ABS-CBN and ANC news and current events programs for the past 25 years. Castro is a recipient of the Ka Doroy Broadcaster of the Year award from the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas. Read more
06 Mar 1944: Richard Corliss, American journalist and critic (died 2015) Richard Nelson Corliss was an American film critic and magazine editor for Time. He focused on movies, with occasional articles on other subjects. Read more
06 Mar 1944: Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano and actress Dame Kiri Jeanette Claire Te Kanawa is a New Zealand opera singer. She has a full lyric soprano voice, which has been described as "mellow yet vibrant, warm, ample and unforced". On 1 December 1971 she was recognised internationally when she appeared as the Countess in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Royal Opera House in London. Read more
06 Mar 1944: Mary Wilson, American singer (died 2021)[citation needed] Mary Wilson was an American singer. She gained worldwide recognition as a founding member of the Supremes, the most successful Motown act of the 1960s and the best-charting female group in U.S. chart history, as well as one of the best-selling girl groups of all-time. The trio reached number one on Billboard's Hot 100 with 12 of their singles, ten of which feature Wilson on backing vocals. Read more
06 Mar 1942: Ben Murphy, American actor Ben Murphy is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Kid Curry in the ABC television series Alias Smith and Jones. Read more
06 Mar 1941: Peter Brötzmann, German saxophonist and clarinet player (died 2023) Peter Brötzmann was a German jazz saxophonist and clarinetist regarded as a central and pioneering figure in European free jazz. Throughout his career, he released over fifty albums as a bandleader. Amongst his many collaborators were key figures in free jazz, including Derek Bailey, Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor, as well as experimental musicians such as Keiji Haino and Charles Hayward. His 1968 Machine Gun became "one of the landmark albums of 20th-century free jazz". Read more
06 Mar 1941: Marilyn Strathern, Welsh anthropologist and academic Dame Ann Marilyn Strathern is a British anthropologist, who has worked largely with the Mount Hagen people of Papua New Guinea and dealt with issues in the UK of reproductive technologies. She was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge from 1993 to 2008, and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1998 to 2009. Read more
06 Mar 1940: Ken Danby, Canadian painter (died 2007) Ken Danby, D.F.A. was a Canadian painter who created highly realistic paintings that study everyday life. His 1972 painting At the Crease, portraying a masked hockey goalie defending his net, is widely recognized and reproduced in Canada. Read more
06 Mar 1940: Joanna Miles, French-American actress Joanna Miles is an American actress. She received two Emmy Awards for her portrayal of Laura Wingfield in the 1973 film production of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Read more
06 Mar 1940: R. H. Sikes, American golfer (died 2023) Richard Horace Sikes was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s. Read more
06 Mar 1940: Willie Stargell, American baseball player and coach (died 2001)[citation needed] Wilver Dornell Stargell, nicknamed "Pops" later in his career, was an American professional baseball left fielder and first baseman who spent all of his 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) (1962–1982) with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Among the most feared power hitters in baseball history, Stargell had the most home runs (296) of any player in the 1970s decade. During his career, he batted .282 with 2,232 hits, 1,194 runs, 423 doubles, 475 home runs, and 1,540 runs batted in, helping his team win six National League (NL) East division titles, two NL pennants, and two World Series championships in 1971 and 1979, both over the Baltimore Orioles. Stargell was a seven-time All-Star and two-time NL home run leader. In 1979, at the age of 39, he became the first and currently only player to win the NL Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award, the NL Championship Series MVP Award and the World Series MVP Award in one season. In 1982, the Pirates retired his uniform number 8. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988 in his first year of eligibility. Read more
06 Mar 1940: Jeff Wooller, English accountant and banker Herbert Jeffrey Wooller is an English accountant and educationalist. He is noted for his accountancy tuition initiatives, and for campaigning for reform of his professional institute, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. The institute eventually excluded him from its membership because of his association with the Irish International University, Irish University Business School and International University Business School. Wooller has founded several educational institutions such as the Jeff Wooller College, Institute of Professional Financial Managers and Irish University Business School. Read more
06 Mar 1939: Kit Bond, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of Missouri (died 2025) Christopher Samuel Bond was an American attorney and politician from Missouri. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. senator from 1987 to 2011, following two non-consecutive terms as the governor of Missouri from 1973 to 1977 and 1981 to 1985, and two years as State Auditor of Missouri from 1971 to 1973. His first election as governor ended a 28-year Democratic streak in that office. Read more
06 Mar 1939: Adam Osborne, Thai-Indian engineer and businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (died 2003) Adam Osborne was a British author, software publisher, and computer designer who founded several companies in the United States and elsewhere. He introduced the Osborne 1, the first commercially successful portable computer. Read more
06 Mar 1938: Keishu Tanaka, Japanese politician, 17th Japanese Minister of Justice (died 2022) Keishu Tanaka was a Japanese politician, who served in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Democratic Party. He was Minister of Justice under Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda from 1 to 23 October 2012 before resigning due to scandals over financial donations and links to organized crime. Read more
06 Mar 1937: Ivan Boesky, American businessman (died 2024) Ivan Frederick Boesky was a convicted criminal and an American stock trader who was infamous for his prominent role in an insider trading scandal in the mid-1980s. After getting caught he became a government informant and then pleaded guilty, and was fined a record $100 million, and served twenty months in prison. Read more
06 Mar 1937: Norman Coburn, Australian actor Norman Coburn is an Australian former actor, playwright and writer best known for his television serial and soap opera roles. He started his early career in theatre, film and television in the United Kingdom in the mid-1950s. Read more
06 Mar 1937: Valentina Tereshkova, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut[citation needed] Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a Russian engineer, politician, and former Soviet cosmonaut. She was the first woman in space, having flown a solo mission on Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, is the only woman to have been on a solo space mission and is the last surviving Vostok programme cosmonaut. Twenty-six years old at the time of her spaceflight, she remains the youngest woman to have flown in space under the international definition of 100 km altitude, and the youngest woman to fly in Earth orbit. Read more
06 Mar 1936: Bob Akin, American race car driver and journalist (died 2002) Robert Macomber Akin, III was an American business executive, journalist, television commentator and champion sports car racing driver. Read more
06 Mar 1936: Marion Barry, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia (died 2014)[citation needed] Marion Shepilov Barry was an American politician who served as mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991 and 1995 to 1999. A Democrat, Barry had served three tenures on the Council of the District of Columbia, representing as an at-large member from 1975 to 1979, in Ward 8 from 1993 to 1995, and again from 2005 to 2014. Read more
06 Mar 1936: Choummaly Sayasone, Laotian politician, 5th President of Laos Lieutenant General Choummaly Sayasone is a Laotian politician who was General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and President of Laos from 2006 to 2016. Read more
06 Mar 1935: Ron Delany, Irish runner and coach Ronald Michael Delany is an Irish former athlete who specialised in middle-distance running. He won a gold medal in the 1500 metres at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He later earned a bronze medal in the 1500 metres event at the 1958 European Athletics Championships in Stockholm. Read more
06 Mar 1935: Derek Kevan, English footballer (died 2013) Derek Tennyson Kevan was an English footballer. He spent the majority of his club career playing as a centre-forward for West Bromwich Albion, where he earned the nickname "The Tank". In 1961–62 he was the joint leading scorer in Division One – alongside Ray Crawford of Ipswich Town – with 33 goals. He also won 14 caps for the England national team, scoring a total of eight goals, including two in the 1958 FIFA World Cup Finals. Read more
06 Mar 1934: Red Simpson, American singer-songwriter (died 2016) Joe Cecil "Red" Simpson was an American country music singer and songwriter best known for his trucker-themed country songs. Read more
06 Mar 1933: Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (died 2004) Ted Wade Abernathy was an American professional baseball player and right-handed pitcher. He appeared in 681 games in Major League Baseball (MLB), 647 as a relief pitcher, for seven different clubs over all or parts of 14 seasons between 1955 and 1972, amassed 148 saves, and twice led the National League (NL) in that category. He batted and threw right-handed, stood 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) tall, and weighed 215 pounds (98 kg). Read more
06 Mar 1933: William Davis, German-English journalist and economist (died 2019) William Davis, was a journalist, broadcaster and editor. He was born in Germany but came to Britain in his teens, working for the Financial Times, Evening Standard and Guardian. He broadcast for the BBC and was a pioneering presenter of The Money Programme and The World at One. He became editor of Punch and was the founder of the British Airways in-flight magazine High Life. He became chairman of the British Tourist Authority and English Tourist Board in the 1990s and remained an active commentator, broadcaster and writer until his death in February 2019. Read more
06 Mar 1933: Augusto Odone, Italian economist and inventor of Lorenzo's oil (died 2013) Augusto Daniel Odone and Michaela Teresa Murphy Odone were the parents of Lorenzo Michael Murphy Odone, who had adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). They became famous for developing a controversial treatment using Lorenzo's oil for their son's incurable illness. This quest was recounted in the film Lorenzo's Oil (1992). Augusto had previously been an economist for the World Bank. Read more
06 Mar 1932: Marc Bazin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 49th President of Haiti (died 2010) Marc Louis Bazin was a World Bank official, former United Nations functionary and Haitian Minister of Finance and Economy under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier. He was prime minister of Haiti appointed on June 4, 1992, by the military government that had seized power on September 30, 1991. Read more
06 Mar 1932: Jean Boht, English actress (died 2023) Jean Boht was an English actress, most famous for the role of Nellie Boswell in Carla Lane's sitcom Bread, one of several actors to remain with the show for its entire seven series tenure from 1986 to 1991. Read more
06 Mar 1932: Bronisław Geremek, Polish historian and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2008) Bronisław Geremek was a Polish social historian and politician. He was an opposition activist in the Polish People's Republic and participated in the Polish Round Table Agreement. Read more
06 Mar 1932: Timofei Moșneaga, Moldovan physician and politician, Moldovan Minister of Health (died 2014) Timofei Moșneaga was a Moldovan and Soviet physician and politician who served as Minister of Health of Moldova from 1994 to 1997. He was the Director of the Republican Clinical Hospital for over forty years (1960–2003). As of 2017, the hospital is named after him. Read more
06 Mar 1930: Lorin Maazel, French-American violinist, composer, and conductor (died 2014) Lorin Varencove Maazel was an American conductor, violinist and composer. He began conducting at the age of eight and by 1953 had decided to pursue a career in music. He had established a reputation in the concert halls of Europe by 1960 but his career in the U.S. progressed far more slowly. He served as music director of The Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic, among other posts. Maazel was well regarded in baton technique and had a photographic memory for scores. Described as mercurial and forbidding in rehearsal, he mellowed in old age. Read more
06 Mar 1929: Tom Foley, American lawyer and politician, 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (died 2013) Thomas Stephen Foley was an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician who served as the 49th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's 5th congressional district for 30 years (1965–1995). He was the first Speaker of the House in over a century since Galusha Grow in 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Read more
06 Mar 1929: David Sheppard, English cricketer and bishop (died 2005) David Stuart Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Liverpool was a Church of England bishop who played cricket for Sussex and England in his youth, before serving as Bishop of Liverpool from 1975 to 1997. Sheppard remains the only ordained minister to have played Test cricket, though others such as Tom Killick were ordained after playing Tests. Read more
06 Mar 1927: William J. Bell, American screenwriter and producer (died 2005) William Joseph Bell was an American screenwriter and television producer, best known as the creator of the soap operas Another World, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful. Read more
06 Mar 1927: Gordon Cooper, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (died 2004)[citation needed] Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first human space program of the United States. Cooper learned to fly as a child, and after service in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, he was commissioned into the United States Air Force in 1949. After service as a fighter pilot, he qualified as a test pilot in 1956, and was selected as an astronaut in 1959. Read more
06 Mar 1927: Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014) Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo. Read more
06 Mar 1926: Ann Curtis, American swimmer (died 2012) Ann Elizabeth Curtis, known after 1949 by her married name Ann Elisabeth Cuneo was an American competition swimmer and two-time Olympic champion at the 1948 London games. She would later have a career as a swim coach opening the Ann Curtis Swim Club and School of Swimming in Tera Linda, California. Read more
06 Mar 1926: Alan Greenspan, American economist and politician[citation needed] Alan Greenspan is an American economist who served as the 13th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. He worked as a private adviser and provided consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC. Read more
06 Mar 1926: Ray O'Connor, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Western Australia (died 2013) Raymond James O'Connor was an Australian politician who served as the premier of Western Australia from 25 January 1982 to 25 February 1983. He was a member of the Parliament of Western Australia from 1959 to 1984, and a minister in the governments of David Brand and Charles Court. O'Connor was born in Perth and attended schools in the Wheatbelt towns of Narrogin and York as well as St Patrick's Boys' School in Perth, leaving school at the age of 14. He competed in athletics and played Australian rules football as a teenager and young adult, including playing 14 matches for East Perth in the Western Australian National Football League. During World War II, he served in the Second Australian Imperial Force in New Britain and Bougainville. Read more
06 Mar 1926: Andrzej Wajda, Polish director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2016) Andrzej Witold Wajda was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d'Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the "Polish Film School". He was known especially for his trilogy of war films consisting of A Generation (1955), Kanał (1957) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958). Read more
06 Mar 1924: Sarah Caldwell, American opera director, impresario, and stage director (died 2006) Sarah Caldwell was an American opera conductor, impresario, and stage director. Read more
06 Mar 1924: Ottmar Walter, German footballer (died 2013) Ottmar Kurt Herrmann Walter was a German footballer who played as a forward. Read more
06 Mar 1924: William H. Webster, American lawyer and jurist, Director of Central Intelligence (died 2025) William Hedgcock Webster was an American attorney and jurist who served as chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Council from 2005 until 2020. He was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit before serving as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1978 to 1987 and director of Central Intelligence (CIA) from 1987 to 1991. He is the only person to have held both positions. Read more
06 Mar 1923: Ed McMahon, American comedian, game show host, and announcer (died 2009)[citation needed] Edward Leo Peter McMahon Jr. was an American announcer, game show host, comedian, actor, singer, and combat aviator. McMahon and Johnny Carson began their association in their first TV series, the ABC game show Who Do You Trust?, appearing from 1958 to 1962. McMahon then made his famous thirty-year mark as Carson's sidekick and announcer on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from 1962 to 1992. Read more
06 Mar 1923: Wes Montgomery, American guitarist and songwriter (died 1968) John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery was an American jazz guitarist. Montgomery was known for his unusual technique of plucking the strings with the side of his thumb and for his extensive use of octaves, which gave him a distinctive sound. Read more
06 Mar 1921: Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American holocaust survivor and author (died 2014) Leo Bretholz was a Holocaust survivor who, in 1942, escaped from a train heading for Auschwitz. He has also written a book on his experiences, titled Leap into Darkness. Read more
06 Mar 1920: Lewis Gilbert, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2018) Lewis Gilbert was an English film director, producer and screenwriter who directed more than 40 films during six decades; among them such varied titles as Cast a Dark Shadow (1955), Reach for the Sky (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Alfie (1966), Educating Rita (1983) and Shirley Valentine (1989), as well as three James Bond films: You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979). Read more
06 Mar 1918: Howard McGhee, American trumpeter (died 1987) Howard McGhee was one of the first American bebop jazz trumpeters, with Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro and Idrees Sulieman. He was known for his fast fingering and high notes. He had an influence on younger bebop trumpeters such as Fats Navarro. Read more
06 Mar 1917: Donald Davidson, American philosopher and academic (died 2003) Donald Herbert Davidson was an American philosopher. He served as Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1981 to 2003 after having also held teaching appointments at Stanford University, Rockefeller University, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago. Davidson was known for his charismatic personality and difficult writing style, as well as the systematic nature of his philosophy. His work exerted considerable influence in many areas of philosophy from the 1960s onward, particularly in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and action theory. While Davidson was an analytic philosopher, with most of his influence lying in that tradition, his work has attracted attention in continental philosophy as well, particularly in literary theory and related areas. Read more
06 Mar 1917: Will Eisner, American illustrator and publisher (died 2005) William Erwin Eisner was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series The Spirit (1940–1952) was noted for its experiments in content and form. In 1978, he popularized the term "graphic novel" with the publication of his book A Contract with God. He was an early contributor to formal comics studies with his book Comics and Sequential Art (1985). The Eisner Award was named in his honor and is given to recognize achievements each year in the comics medium; he was one of the three inaugural inductees to the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. Read more
06 Mar 1917: Frankie Howerd, English comedian (died 1992) Francis Alick Howard, better known by his stage-name Frankie Howerd, was an English actor and comedian. Read more
06 Mar 1913: Ella Logan, Scottish-American singer and actress (died 1969) Ella Logan was a Scottish-American actress and singer who appeared on Broadway, recorded and had a nightclub career in the United States and internationally. Read more
06 Mar 1912: Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq (died 2014) Mohammed Burhanuddin was the 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq of Dawoodi Bohras from 1965 to 2014. He led the community for 49 years in a period of social, economic, and educational prosperity; strengthened and re-institutionalized the fundamental core of the community's faith; revived its culture, tradition, and heritage. In successfully achieving coexistence of traditional Islamic values and modern Western practices within the community, Burhanuddin completed the work his predecessor Taher Saifuddin had started. Read more
06 Mar 1910: Emma Bailey, American auctioneer and author (died 1999) Emma Bailey was an American auctioneer and author, credited with being the first American woman auctioneer. She held her first auction in Brattleboro, Vermont, on May 12, 1950, as a way to supplement her family's income. In 1952 she became the first woman admitted to the National Auctioneers Association. She continued auctioneering for nearly 20 years and wrote a book about her experiences, entitled Sold to the Lady in the Green Hat (1962), before retiring in the late 1960s. Read more
06 Mar 1909: Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician (died 1987) Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo was a Nigerian politician and statesman who served as the first Premier of the Western region of Nigeria. He was known as one of the key figure towards Nigeria's independence movement from 1957 to 1960. Awolowo founded the Yoruba nationalist group Egbe Omo Oduduwa as well as the Premier of the Western Region under Nigeria's parliamentary system from 1952 to 1959. He was the official opposition leader in the federal parliament to the Balewa government from 1959 to 1963. Read more
06 Mar 1909: Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Polish poet and author (died 1966) Stanisław Jerzy Lec, born Baron Stanisław Jerzy de Tusch-Letz, was a Polish aphorist and poet. Often mentioned among the greatest writers of post-war Poland, he was one of the most influential aphorists of the 20th century, known for lyric poetry and ironic philosophical-moral aphorisms, often with a political subtext. Read more
06 Mar 1906: Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (died 1959) Louis Francis Cristillo, better known as Lou Costello, was an American comedian, actor and producer. He was best known for his double act with Bud Abbott and their routine "Who's on First?". Read more
06 Mar 1905: Bob Wills, American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader (died 1975) James Robert "Bob" Wills was an American musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the founder of Western swing, he was known widely as the King of Western Swing. He was also noted for punctuating his music with his trademark "ah-haa" calls. Read more
06 Mar 1904: José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (died 1960) José Antonio Aguirre y Lecube was a Basque politician and activist in the Basque Nationalist Party. He was the first president of the Provisional Government of the Basque Country and the executive defense advisor during the Spanish Civil War. Under his mandate, the Provisional Government formed the Basque Army and fought for the Second Spanish Republic. Read more
06 Mar 1903: Empress Kōjun (died 2000) Nagako , posthumously honoured as Empress Kōjun , was a member of the Imperial House of Japan, the wife of Emperor Hirohito and the mother of Emperor Emeritus Akihito. She served as Empress of Japan from 1926 until her husband's death in 1989, making her the longest-serving empress consort in Japanese history. Read more
06 Mar 1900: Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano and actress (died 2001) Gina Cigna was a French-Italian dramatic soprano. Read more
06 Mar 1900: Lefty Grove, American baseball player (died 1975) Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove was an American professional baseball pitcher. After having success in the minor leagues during the early 1920s, Grove became a star in Major League Baseball with the American League's Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox. One of the greatest pitchers in history, Grove led the American League in wins in four separate seasons, in strikeouts seven consecutive seasons, and had the league's lowest earned run average a record nine times. Over the course of the three years from 1929 to 1931, he twice won the pitcher's Triple Crown, leading the league in wins, strikeouts, and ERA, while amassing a 79–15 record and leading the Athletics to three straight AL championships. Overall, Grove won 300 games in his 17-year MLB career. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1947. Read more
06 Mar 1900: Henri Jeanson, French journalist and author (died 1970) Henri Jules Louis Jeanson was a French writer and journalist. He was a "satrap" in the "College of 'Pataphysics". Read more
06 Mar 1898: Gus Sonnenberg, American football player and wrestler (died 1944) Gustave Adolph Sonnenberg was an American football player and professional wrestler of German descent and World Heavyweight Champion. As a wrestler, he was National Wrestling Association (NWA) world heavyweight champion. He played in the National Football League (NFL) from 1923 until 1930, for the Buffalo All-Americans, Columbus Tigers, Detroit Panthers, and Providence Steam Rollers, where he was a member of the 1928 NFL championship team. Read more
06 Mar 1895: Albert Tessier, Canadian priest and historian (died 1976) Albert Tessier was a French-speaking Canadian priest, historian and a film maker. Read more
06 Mar 1893: Furry Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1981) Walter E. "Furry" Lewis was an American country blues guitarist and songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee. He was one of the earliest of the blues musicians active in the 1920s to be brought out of retirement and given new opportunities to record during the folk blues revival of the 1960s. Read more
06 Mar 1893: Ella P. Stewart, pioneering Black American pharmacist (died 1987) Ella P. Stewart was an American pharmacist who was one of the first African American female pharmacists in the United States. Read more
06 Mar 1892: Bert Smith, English international footballer (died 1969) Bertram "Bert" Smith was a professional footballer, who played for Huddersfield Town, Tottenham Hotspur and played international football for England. Read more
06 Mar 1885: Ring Lardner, American journalist and author (died 1933) Ringgold Wilmer Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries—Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald—all professed strong admiration for his writing, and author John O'Hara directly attributed his understanding of dialogue to him. Read more
06 Mar 1884: Molla Mallory, Norwegian-American tennis player (died 1959) Anna Margrethe "Molla" Bjurstedt Mallory was a Norwegian-American tennis player, at one time ranked number 2 in the world. She won a record eight singles titles at the U.S. National Championships. She was the first woman to represent Norway at the Olympics. Read more
06 Mar 1884: María Collazo, Uruguayan journalist and activist (died 1942) María Collazo was a Uruguayan educator and journalist. She was active in Buenos Aires and she was repatriated to Uruguay in 1907. Read more
06 Mar 1882: F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect, co-designed Villa Vizcaya (died 1980) F. Burrall Hoffman, Jr. was an American architect, best known for his work for James Deering at Villa Vizcaya in Miami, Florida. Read more
06 Mar 1882: Guy Kibbee, American actor and singer (died 1956) Guy Bridges Kibbee was an American stage and film actor. Read more
06 Mar 1879: Jimmy Hunter, New Zealand rugby player (died 1962) James Hunter was a rugby union footballer who played for New Zealand's national team, the All Blacks. He played mainly at second five-eighth, although he could play any position in the backline. He played for Hawera Club before being selected for Taranaki in 1898 and the North Island in 1904 before his first All Blacks selection in 1905. He toured with the 1905 All Blacks that travelled to Great Britain, France and North America. After returning he continued to be selected for the All Blacks until retiring after the 1908 season. Read more
06 Mar 1877: Rose Fyleman, English writer and poet (died 1957)

Rose Amy Fyleman was an English writer and poet, noted for her works on fairies for children. Her 1917 poem "There are fairies at the bottom of our garden" was set to music by English composer Liza Lehmann. Read more
06 Mar 1876: A. A. Kannisto, Finnish politician (died 1930) Anders Anshelm Kannisto was a Finnish trade unionist, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Mikkeli Province between May 1907 and January 1911. A member of the Red Guard, he was taken prisoner by the White Guard at the start of the Finnish Civil War in 1918. After the war Kannisto was sentenced to eight years in prison for treason. He was released in 1921. Read more
06 Mar 1872: Ben Harney, American pianist and composer (died 1938) Benjamin Robertson Harney was an American songwriter, entertainer, and pioneer of ragtime music. His 1895 composition "You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down" is known as the second ragtime composition to be published and the first ragtime hit to reach the mainstream. The first Ragtime composition published was La Pas Ma La written by Ernest Hogan in 1895. The copyright for "You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down" was registered in January 1895 source, a few months prior to La Pas Ma La source, suggesting it was in fact the first of the two. During the early years of Harney's career, he falsely promoted himself as being the inventor of ragtime and never acknowledged the genre's black origin. Many contemporary musicians criticized him for it. Although ragtime is now probably more associated with Scott Joplin, in 1924 The New York Times wrote that Ben Harney "Probably did more to popularize ragtime than any other person." Time magazine called him "Ragtime's Father" in 1938. Read more
06 Mar 1872: Sarah Roberts, subject of a vampire legend (died 1913)

Sarah Ellen Roberts was an Englishwoman who died and was buried in Pisco, Peru. After her death, a legend evolved that she was a vampire and bride of Dracula. On 9 June 1993, the 80th anniversary of her death, locals in Pisco feared she would come back to life and take her revenge. Read more
06 Mar 1871: Afonso Costa, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 59th Prime Minister of Portugal (died 1937) Afonso Augusto da Costa, GCTE, GCL was a Portuguese lawyer, professor and republican politician. Read more
06 Mar 1870: Oscar Straus, Viennese composer and conductor (died 1954) Oscar Nathan Straus was a Viennese composer of operettas, film scores, and songs. He also wrote about 500 cabaret songs, chamber music, and orchestral and choral works. His original name was actually Strauss, but for professional purposes he deliberately omitted the final 's'. He wished not to be associated with the musical Strauss family of Vienna. However, he did follow the advice of Johann Strauss II in 1898 about abandoning the prospective lure of writing waltzes for the more lucrative business of writing for the theatre. Read more
06 Mar 1865: Duan Qirui, Chinese warlord and politician (died 1936) Duan Qirui was a Chinese statesman and general who controlled the Beijing Government during the late 1910s. He was the Premier of China on four occasions between 1913 and 1918, and from 1924 to 1926 he served as acting Chief Executive of China in Beijing. As the last leader of the Beiyang Army, Duan was highly respected among the warlords and people of China, and was the founder of the Anhui Clique. Read more
06 Mar 1864: Richard Rushall, British businessman (died 1953) Captain Richard Boswell Rushall was a British sea captain and businessman who served as mayor of Rangoon, Burma, during the 1930s. He was the first Englishman to hold this position. Born in Braunston, Northamptonshire, Rushall was the eldest of eight children. After finishing school he left for sea, joined the UK's Merchant Navy, and became a ship's captain. He spent 20 years with the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, of which 17 were in command of steamships belonging to the company. He settled in Rangoon with his family, resigned from the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company and founded Rushall & Co. Ltd., a stevedoring and contracting business that employed between 3,000 and 4,000 men. Read more
06 Mar 1849: Georg Luger, Austrian gun designer, designed the Luger pistol (died 1923) Georg Johann Luger was an Austrian designer of the famous Luger pistol and the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge. Read more
06 Mar 1841: Viktor Burenin, Russian author, poet, playwright, and critic (died 1926) Viktor Petrovich Burenin was a Russian literary and theatre critic, publicist, novelist, dramatist, translator and satirical poet notorious for his confrontational articles and satirical poems, mostly targeting leftist writers. He was the author of several popular plays, novels and opera librettos. Read more
06 Mar 1834: George du Maurier, French-English author and illustrator (died 1896) George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier was a French-British cartoonist, illustrator, and novelist. He was known for his work in Punch and his 1894 Gothic novel Trilby, featuring the character Svengali. Read more
06 Mar 1831: Philip Sheridan, Irish-American general (died 1888) Philip Henry Sheridan was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with General-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac in the East. In 1864, he defeated Confederate forces under General Jubal Early in the Shenandoah Valley and his destruction of the economic infrastructure of the Valley, called "The Burning" by residents, was one of the first uses of scorched-earth tactics in the war. In 1865, his cavalry pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee and was instrumental in forcing his surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. Read more
06 Mar 1826: Annie Feray Mutrie, British painter (died 1893) Annie Feray Mutrie was a British still-life painter. She exhibited regularly and she and her sister Martha were considered the best flower painters in oils. Read more
06 Mar 1823: Charles I of Württemberg (died 1891) Charles was the third King of Württemberg from 25 June 1864 until his death in 1891. Read more
06 Mar 1818: William Claflin, American businessman and politician, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1905) William Claflin was an American politician, industrialist, and philanthropist from Massachusetts. He served as the 27th governor of Massachusetts from 1869 to 1872 and as a member of the United States Congress from 1877 to 1881. He also served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1868 to 1872, serving as a moderating force between the Radical and moderate wings of the Republican Party. His name is given to Claflin University in South Carolina, a historically black college founded with funding from him and his father. Read more
06 Mar 1812: Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American businessman, co-founded the Waltham Watch Company (died 1895) Aaron Lufkin Dennison was an American watchmaker and businessman. He is mainly known for his eponymous line of timepieces Dennison and for the invention of the mainspring gauge. Dennison was also the founder of Waltham Watch Company and responsible for the creation of many watch parts for Rolex and Omega in their early stages of mass production. Read more
06 Mar 1806: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English-Italian poet and translator (died 1861) Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15, she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life. Later in life, she also developed lung problems, possibly tuberculosis. She took laudanum for the pain from an early age, which is likely to have contributed to her frail health. Read more

🕊️ Important Deaths on 06 March in World History

06 Mar 2025: Australian Suicide, Australian professional wrestler (born 1992) Broderick Shepherd was an Australian professional wrestler, best known by the ring name Australian Suicide, who worked for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), where he was an AAA World Cruiserweight Champion. Before arriving in Mexico, Shepherd competed in other independent companies in both Australia and the United States under the name Ryan Rollins. Read more
06 Mar 2025: Brian James, British guitarist (born 1955) Brian James was an English punk rock guitarist, who was a founding member of the Damned as well as of the Lords of the New Church. Read more
06 Mar 2021: Lou Ottens, Dutch engineer and inventor (born 1926) Lodewijk Frederik Ottens, known as Lou Ottens, was a Dutch engineer and inventor, best known as the inventor of the cassette tape, and for his work in helping to develop the compact disc. Ottens was employed by Philips for the entirety of his career. Read more
06 Mar 2021: Graham Pink, British nurse (born 1929) Graham Pink was a nurse and whistleblower at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, Greater Manchester. Read more
06 Mar 2018: Peter Nicholls, Australian science fiction critic and encyclopedist (born 1939) Peter Douglas Nicholls was an Australian literary scholar and critic. He was the creator and a co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction with John Clute. Read more
06 Mar 2017: Robert Osborne, American actor and historian (born 1932) Robert Jolin Osborne was an American film historian, author, actor and the primary television host for the premium cable channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM) for over twenty years. Prior to hosting at TCM, Osborne had been a host on The Movie Channel. He had also worked as a news columnist for The Hollywood Reporter. Osborne wrote the official history of the Academy Awards, with the first edition published in 1988. Read more
06 Mar 2016: Nancy Reagan, American actress, 42nd First Lady of the United States (born 1921) Nancy Davis Reagan was an American actress who was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. She was the second wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States. Read more
06 Mar 2016: Sheila Varian, American horse trainer and breeder (born 1937) Sheila Varian was an American breeder of Arabian horses who lived and worked at the Varian Arabians Ranch near Arroyo Grande, California. She grew up with a strong interest in horses, and was mentored in horsemanship by Mary "Sid" Spencer, a local rancher and Morgan horse breeder who also introduced Varian to the vaquero or "Californio" tradition of western riding. She started her horse ranch, Varian Arabians, in 1954 with the assistance of her parents. Raising and training horses was her full-time occupation beginning in 1963. She used vaquero-influenced methods of training horses, although she adapted her technique over the years to fit the character of the Arabian horse, which she viewed as a horse breed requiring a smart yet gentle approach. Read more
06 Mar 2015: Fred Craddock, American minister and academic (born 1928) Fred Brenning Craddock Jr. was Bandy Distinguished Professor of Preaching and New Testament Emeritus in the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He was an ordained minister of the Christian Church from rural Tennessee. He was the director of the Craddock Center, a non-profit service group which operates in rural Appalachia. Read more
06 Mar 2015: Ram Sundar Das, Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Chief Minister of Bihar (born 1921) Ram Sundar Das was an Indian freedom fighter, politician and former Chief Minister of Bihar state. He was a two-time Member of Parliament from Hajipur constituency. Read more
06 Mar 2015: Enrique "Coco" Vicéns, Puerto Rican-American basketball player and politician (born 1926) Enrique "Coco" Alberto Vicéns Sastre was a Puerto Rican professional basketball player that also served as senator-at-large in the Puerto Rico State Legislature from 1973 until 1978. He played for the Leones de Ponce basketball team and was also a volleyball player and track and field athlete. His brother was basketball star Juan "Pachín" Vicéns. Read more
06 Mar 2014: Alemayehu Atomsa, Ethiopian educator and politician (born 1969) Alemayehu Atomsa was an Ethiopian politician who served as the president of the Oromia Region, the largest of the country's regions, from 2010 until his resignation due to illness in 2014, from which he died in Bangkok, Thailand, on 6 March 2014. Read more
06 Mar 2014: Frank Jobe, American soldier and surgeon (born 1925) Frank Wilson Jobe was an American orthopedic surgeon and co-founder of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic. Jobe pioneered both elbow ligament replacement and major reconstructive shoulder surgery for baseball players. Read more
06 Mar 2014: Sheila MacRae, English-American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1921) Sheila Margaret MacRae was an English-born American actress, singer, and dancer. Read more
06 Mar 2014: Martin Nesbitt, American lawyer and politician (born 1946) Martin Luther Nesbitt Jr. was a Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate. He represented the 49th district. An attorney from Asheville, North Carolina, Nesbitt was elected to eleven terms in the state House before moving to the state senate in 2004. Read more
06 Mar 2014: Manlio Sgalambro, Italian philosopher, author, and poet (born 1924) Manlio Sgalambro was an Italian philosopher, writer, and poet born in Lentini. Read more
06 Mar 2013: Chorão, Brazilian singer-songwriter (born 1970) Alexandre Magno Abrão, known professionally as Chorão, was a Brazilian singer-songwriter, skateboarder, filmmaker, screenwriter and businessman. Best known for being a founding member and the vocalist/main lyricist of the influential rock band Charlie Brown Jr., Folha de S.Paulo critic André Barcinski considered him "the nearest thing to a punk hero Brazilian mainstream music ever had", and Eduardo Tristão Girão of Portal Uai called him "the bad boy of Brazilian rock" and "the spokesman of the youth of the 1990s". Having been born and raised for most of his childhood in São Paulo, Chorão was the only Charlie Brown Jr. member not to be a Santos native, and its only founding member to remain consistently in all of the group's line-ups. Read more
06 Mar 2013: Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936) Charles Thomas "Stompin' Tom" Connors, OC was a Canadian country and folk singer-songwriter. Focusing his career exclusively on his native Canada, he is credited with writing more than 300 songs and has released four dozen albums, with total sales of nearly four million copies. Read more
06 Mar 2013: Alvin Lee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1944) Alvin Lee was an English guitarist, singer and songwriter, who was best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the blues rock band Ten Years After. Read more
06 Mar 2013: W. Wallace Cleland, American biochemist and academic (born 1930) William Wallace Cleland (January 6, 1930 – March 6, 2013, often cited as W. W. Cleland, and known almost universally as "Mo Cleland", was a University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemistry professor. His research was concerned with enzyme reaction mechanism and enzyme kinetics, especially multiple-substrate enzymes. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1985. Read more
06 Mar 2012: Francisco Xavier do Amaral, East Timorese politician, 1st President of East Timor (born 1937) Francisco Xavier do Amaral was an East Timorese politician. A founder of the Frente Revolucionária de Timor Leste Independente (Fretilin), Amaral was sworn in as the first President of East Timor when the country, then a Portuguese colony, made a unilateral declaration of independence on 28 November 1975. He was a member of the National Parliament for the Timorese Social Democratic Association from 2001 until his death in 2012. Amaral was also known as "Abo (Grandfather) Xavier", a term of endearment, by East Timorese. Read more
06 Mar 2012: Donald M. Payne, American businessman and politician (born 1934) Donald Milford Payne Sr. was an American politician who was the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 10th congressional district from 1989 until his death in 2012. He was a member of the Democratic Party. The district encompassed most of the city of Newark, parts of Jersey City and Elizabeth, and some suburban communities in Essex and Union counties. He was the first African American to represent New Jersey in Congress. Read more
06 Mar 2012: Helen Walulik, American baseball player (born 1929) Helen Kiely was a pitcher and an outfield/infield utility who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m), 121 lb, she batted and threw right-handed. Read more
06 Mar 2011: Sasao Gouland, governor of Chuuk State, Micronesia (born 1933) Sasao H. Gouland was the governor of Chuuk State, Micronesia from 1990 to June 1996. Read more
06 Mar 2010: Endurance Idahor, Nigerian footballer (born 1984) Endurance Idahor was a Nigerian professional football player who played for Sudanese club Al-Merreikh. On 6 March 2010, Idahor collapsed during a league game and later died on his way to the hospital. Read more
06 Mar 2010: Mark Linkous, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1962) Frederick Mark Linkous was an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known as leader of Sparklehorse. He was also known for his collaborations with such artists as Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Daniel Johnston, Cracker, Radiohead, Black Francis, Julian Casablancas, Nina Persson, David Lynch, Fennesz, Danger Mouse, and Sage Francis. Read more
06 Mar 2010: Betty Millard, American philanthropist and activist (born 1911) Elizabeth Boynton Millard was a writer, artist, political activist, philanthropist, and a feminist. She is known for her feminist publication "Woman against Myth", as well as her involvement with the United States Communist Party in the 1940s and 1950s. Read more
06 Mar 2009: Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper, producer, and actor (born 1964) Francis Durango Magalona, also known as Francis M, was a Filipino rapper, songwriter, and actor. He is regarded as an influential figure in Pinoy hip hop. Read more
06 Mar 2008: Peter Poreku Dery, Ghanaian cardinal (born 1918) Peter Porekuu Dery, originally Porekuu Der, was a Ghanaian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Tamale from 1974 to 1994, and was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2006. He was the Bishop of Wa from 1960 to 1974. Read more
06 Mar 2007: Jean Baudrillard, French photographer and theorist (born 1929) Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist and philosopher with an interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as his formulation of concepts such as hyperreality. Baudrillard wrote about diverse subjects, including consumerism, critique of economy, social history, aesthetics, Western foreign policy, and popular culture. Among his best-known works are Forget Foucault (1977), Seduction (1978), Simulacra and Simulation (1981), America (1986), and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991). His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism. Nevertheless, Baudrillard had also opposed post-structuralism, and had distanced himself from postmodernism. Read more
06 Mar 2007: Ernest Gallo, American businessman, co-founded E & J Gallo Winery (born 1909) Ernest J. Gallo was an American businessman and philanthropist. Gallo co-founded the E & J Gallo Winery in Modesto, California. Read more
06 Mar 2006: Anne Braden, American journalist and activist (born 1924) Anne McCarty Braden was an American civil rights activist, journalist, and educator dedicated to the cause of racial equality. She and her husband bought a suburban house for an African American couple during Jim Crow. White neighbors burned crosses and bombed the house. During McCarthyism, Anne was charged with sedition. She wrote and organized for the southern civil rights movement before violations became national news. Anne was among nation's most outspoken white anti-racist activists, organizing across racial divides in environmental, women's, and anti-nuclear movements. Read more
06 Mar 2006: Kirby Puckett, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1960) Kirby Puckett was an American professional baseball player. He played his entire 12-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the Minnesota Twins (1984–1995). Puckett was instrumental in helping the Twins to win World Series championships in 1987 and 1991. Puckett generally played center field, although he was shifted to right field later in his career. Read more
06 Mar 2006: Ali Farka Touré, Malian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1939) Ali Ibrahim "Ali Farka" Touré was a Malian singer and multi-instrumentalist, and one of the African continent's most internationally renowned musicians. His music blends traditional Malian music and its derivative, African American blues and is considered a pioneer of African desert blues. Touré was ranked number 76 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and number 37 on Spin magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Read more
06 Mar 2005: Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906) Hans Albrecht Eduard Bethe was a German-American physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. For most of his career, Bethe was a professor at Cornell University. Read more
06 Mar 2005: Danny Gardella, American baseball player and trainer (born 1920) Daniel Lewis Gardella was an American professional baseball player who played most of his Major League Baseball (MLB) career as a left fielder with the New York Giants from 1944 to 1945. Born in New York City, he batted and threw left-handed. Read more
06 Mar 2005: Tommy Vance, English radio host (born 1943) Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston, known professionally as Tommy Vance, was an English radio broadcaster. He was an important factor in the rise of the new wave of British heavy metal, along with London-based disc jockey Neal Kay, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Vance was one of the first radio hosts in the United Kingdom to broadcast hard rock and heavy metal in the early 1980s, providing the only national radio forum for both bands and fans. The Friday Rock Show that he hosted gave new bands airtime for their music and fans an opportunity to hear it. He used a personal tagline of "TV on the radio". His voice was heard by millions around the world announcing the Wembley Stadium acts at Live Aid in 1985. Read more
06 Mar 2005: Teresa Wright, American actress (born 1918) Muriel Teresa Wright was an American actress. She won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Carol Beldon in Mrs. Miniver. She was nominated for the same award in 1941 for her debut work in The Little Foxes. Also in 1942, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Pride of the Yankees, opposite Gary Cooper. She is also known for her performances in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and in William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Read more
06 Mar 2005: Gladys Marín, Chilean activist and political figure (born 1938) Gladys del Carmen Marín Millie was a Chilean activist and political figure. She was Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh) (1994–2002) and then president of the PCCh until her death. She was a staunch opponent of General Augusto Pinochet and filed the first lawsuit against him, in which she accused him of committing human rights violations during his seventeen-year dictatorship. Gladys Marín was the youngest person ever elected to the Chilean Congress, the first woman alongside Sara Larraín to run for the country's presidency and the only female leader of a Chilean political party. Read more
06 Mar 2004: Hercules, American wrestler (born 1957) Raymond Constantine Fernandez Jr. was an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Hercules Hernandez, or simply Hercules. Fernandez began his career in 1979, primarily wrestling in Florida and Texas before earning his greatest success by joining the World Wrestling Federation in 1985, where he was a member of The Heenan Family. He later split from the stable and feuded with Heenan and Ted DiBiase, afterwards turning heel in 1990, forming Power and Glory with Paul Roma, where they had a feud with The Rockers. Fernandez was also a featured bodybuilder, appearing in several muscle magazines. He is also known for his appearances in World Championship Wrestling, Jim Crockett Promotions, and New-Japan Pro Wrestling. Read more
06 Mar 2004: Frances Dee, American actress (born 1909) Frances Marion Dee was an American actress. Her first film was the musical Playboy of Paris (1930). She starred in films An American Tragedy (1931), Little Women (1933) and Becky Sharp (1935). She is perhaps also known for starring in the 1943 Val Lewton psychological horror film I Walked With a Zombie. Read more
06 Mar 2002: Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1969) Bryan Charles Fogarty was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman who played for the Quebec Nordiques, Pittsburgh Penguins and Montreal Canadiens. He set several records while in the junior leagues and was a high draft choice in the National Hockey League (NHL). However, his hockey career was marred by persistent alcohol and drug use, which prevented him from playing a full season at any point and led to him being frequently traded. Read more
06 Mar 2000: John Colicos, Canadian actor (born 1928) John Colicos was a Canadian actor. He was noted for his Shakespearean roles on stage, particularly with the Stratford Festival, but became well-known to science fiction fans for his roles as Klingon commander Kor on Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and as the villainous Baltar on the original Battlestar Galactica. Read more
06 Mar 1999: Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahrain king (born 1933) Isa bin Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa was a Bahraini royal who served as the first Emir of Bahrain from 1961 until his death in 1999. Read more
06 Mar 1997: Cheddi Jagan, Guyanese politician, 4th President of Guyana (born 1918) Cheddi Berret Jagan was a Guyanese politician and dentist who was first elected Chief Minister in 1953 and later Premier of British Guiana from 1961 to 1964. He later served as President of Guyana from 1992 to his death in 1997. In 1953, he became the first Hindu and person of Indian descent to be a head of government outside of the Indian subcontinent. Read more
06 Mar 1997: Michael Manley, Jamaican soldier, pilot, and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (born 1924) Michael Norman Manley was a Jamaican politician, trade unionist and journalist who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica, from 1972 to 1980, and from 1989 to 1992. Manley championed a democratic socialist programme, and has been described as a populist, although many in the country feared he would turn Jamaica into a communist state. He remains one of Jamaica's most popular prime ministers. Read more
06 Mar 1997: Ursula Torday, English author (born 1912) Ursula Torday, was a British writer of some 60 gothic, romance and mystery novels from 1935 to 1982. She also used the pseudonyms of Paula Allardyce, Charity Blackstock, Lee Blackstock, and Charlotte Keppel. In 1961, her novel Witches' Sabbath won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association Read more
06 Mar 1994: Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and politician, 9th Greek Minister of Culture (born 1920) Maria Amalia "Melina" Mercouri was a Greek actress, singer, activist, and politician. She came from a prominent political family for multiple generations. She received an Academy Award nomination and won a French Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for her performance in the film Never on Sunday (1960) and an Italian David di Donatello for Topkapi. Mercouri was also nominated for one Tony Award, three Golden Globes, and two BAFTA Awards in her acting career. In 1987 she was awarded a special prize in the first edition of the Europe Theatre Prize. Read more
06 Mar 1988: Mairéad Farrell, Provisional IRA volunteer (born 1957) Mairéad Farrell was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). She was shot and killed by the Special Air Service in Gibraltar during Operation Flavius. Read more
06 Mar 1988: Daniel McCann, Provisional IRA volunteer (born 1957) Daniel McCann was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), who was shot dead by the British Army on 6 March 1988 whilst being accused of attempting to plant a car bomb in Gibraltar. Read more
06 Mar 1988: Seán Savage, Provisional IRA volunteer (born 1965) Seán Savage was a member of the Provisional IRA who was shot dead by the British Army whilst allegedly attempting to plant a car bomb in Gibraltar. The car believed to hold the bomb planted by Savage and his fellow conspirers was later found to hold no bomb. Read more
06 Mar 1986: Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (born 1887) Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers, hills and desert-inspired landscapes, which were often drawn from and related to places and environments in which she lived. Read more
06 Mar 1984: Billy Collins Jr., American boxer (born 1961) William Ray Collins Jr. was an American professional boxer who competed from 1981 to 1983. He was undefeated before his career was cut short after his final fight when he sustained serious injuries against Luis Resto in their ten-round bout. Aided by his trainer Panama Lewis, Resto used illegal, tampered gloves with an ounce of the gloves' cushioning removed, along with hand wraps that had been soaked in plaster of Paris. Read more
06 Mar 1984: Martin Niemöller, German pastor and theologian (born 1892) Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller was a German theologian and Lutheran pastor. He opposed the Nazi regime during the late 1930s, and was sent to a concentration camp for his affiliation with the Confessing Church and his opposition to state involvement in Church. After the war, he went on tour around the world to condemn the Nazi cause and educate people about the importance of human rights. In 1946 he published the confessional piece "First They Came". Read more
06 Mar 1984: Homer N. Wallin, American admiral (born 1893) Homer Norman Wallin was a vice admiral in the United States Navy, best known for his salvage of ships sunk in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Read more
06 Mar 1984: Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican-American actor and producer (born 1905) Henry Wilcoxon was a British-American actor and film producer, born in the British West Indies. He was best known as part of the stock company of director Cecil B. DeMille, playing both leading men and supporting roles, and also serving as DeMille's associate producer on his later films. Read more
06 Mar 1982: Ayn Rand, Russian-American philosopher, author, and playwright (born 1905) Alice O'Connor, better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system which she named Objectivism. Read more
06 Mar 1981: George Geary, English cricketer and coach (born 1893) George Geary was a first-class cricketer who played for Leicestershire County Cricket Club and the England cricket team. Primarily a bowler, he took 46 wickets in 14 Tests. Read more
06 Mar 1981: Rambhau Mhalgi, Indian politician and member of the Lok Sabha (born 1921) Ramchandra Kashinath Mhalgi (1921-1982), commonly known as Rambhau Mhalgi, was an Indian politician and a member of the Lok Sabha. Read more
06 Mar 1977: Alvin R. Dyer, American religious leader (born 1903) Alvin Rulon Dyer was an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served as a member of the church's First Presidency from 1968 to 1970. Read more
06 Mar 1976: Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer (born 1903) Max Everitt Rosenbloom was an American professional boxer, actor, and television personality. Nicknamed "Slapsy Maxie", he was inducted into The Ring's Boxing Hall of Fame in 1972, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1984, the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1985, and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1993. He was sometimes billed as Slapsy Maxie Rosenbloom for film appearances. Read more
06 Mar 1974: Ernest Becker, American anthropologist and author (born 1924) Ernest Becker was an American cultural anthropologist and author of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Denial of Death. Read more
06 Mar 1973: Pearl S. Buck, American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892) Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and humanitarian. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents. Read more
06 Mar 1970: William Hopper, American actor (born 1915) William DeWolf Hopper Jr. was an American stage, film, and television actor. The only child of actor DeWolf Hopper and actress and Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper, he appeared in more than 80 feature films in the 1930s and 1940s. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, he left acting, but was persuaded by director William Wellman in the 1950s to resume his film career. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of private detective Paul Drake in the CBS television series Perry Mason. Read more
06 Mar 1967: John Haden Badley, English author and educator, founded the Bedales School (born 1865) John Haden Badley was an English author, educator, and founder of Bedales School, which claims to have become the first coeducational boarding public school in England in 1893. Read more
06 Mar 1967: Nelson Eddy, American actor and singer (born 1901) Nelson Ackerman Eddy was an American actor and baritone singer who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs. A classically trained baritone, he is best remembered for the eight films in which he costarred with soprano Jeanette MacDonald. He was one of the first "crossover" stars, a superstar appealing both to shrieking bobby soxers and opera purists, and in his heyday, he was the highest paid singer in the world. Read more
06 Mar 1967: Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer, linguist, and philosopher (born 1882) Zoltán Kodály was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music education. Read more
06 Mar 1965: Margaret Dumont, American actress (born 1889) Margaret Dumont was an American stage and film actress. She is best remembered as the comic foil to the Marx Brothers in seven of their films; Groucho Marx called her "practically the fifth Marx brother." Read more
06 Mar 1964: Paul of Greece (born 1901) Paul was King of Greece from 1 April 1947 until his death on 6 March 1964. Read more
06 Mar 1961: George Formby, English singer-songwriter and actor (born 1904) George Formby was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, comic songs, usually accompanying himself on the ukulele or banjolele, and became the UK's highest-paid entertainer. Read more
06 Mar 1955: Mammad Amin Rasulzade, Azerbaijani scholar and politician (born 1884) Mahammad Amin Akhund Haji Molla Alakbar oghlu Rasulzade was an Azerbaijani politician, journalist and the head of the Azerbaijani National Council. He is mainly considered the founder of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918 and the father of its statehood. His expression "Bir kərə yüksələn bayraq, bir daha enməz!" became the motto of the independence movement in Azerbaijan in the early 20th century. He faced numerous exiles from both Turkey and Iran. During World War II, Rasulzade attempted to form a strategic alliance with Nazi Germany in order to garner support for an independent Azerbaijan. Read more
06 Mar 1954: Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, British-born German nobleman and Nazi politician (born 1884) Charles Edward was at various points in his life a British prince and royal duke, a German duke, and a Nazi politician. He was the last ruling Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a state of the German Empire, from 30 July 1900 to 14 November 1918. He later held multiple positions in the Nazi regime, including leader of the German Red Cross, and acted as an unofficial diplomat for the German government. Read more
06 Mar 1952: Jürgen Stroop, German general (born 1895) Jürgen Stroop was a German SS commander and perpetrator of the Holocaust during the Nazi era, who served as SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland and Greece from 1942–1943 and 1943–1944. He held the rank of SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei from 1942–1945. He led the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 with German Troops consisted of Heer Troops including Waffen-SS and the Order Police battalions and wrote the Stroop Report, a twelve-page account of the operation annexed with many original documents and pictures. Following the defeat of Germany, Stroop was prosecuted during the Dachau Trials and convicted of murdering nine U.S. prisoners of war. After his extradition to Poland, Stroop was tried, convicted, and executed for crimes against humanity. Read more
06 Mar 1951: Ivor Novello, Welsh singer-songwriter and actor (born 1893) Ivor Novello was a Welsh actor, dramatist, singer and composer who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century. Read more
06 Mar 1951: Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian playwright and politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1880) Volodymyr Kyrylovych Vynnychenko was a Ukrainian statesman, political activist, writer, playwright and artist who served as the first prime minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic. Prior to his entry onto the stage of Ukrainian politics, he was a long-time political activist, who lived abroad in Western Europe from 1906 to 1914 escaping persecution by Russian authorities. Read more
06 Mar 1950: Albert François Lebrun, French engineer and politician, 15th President of France (born 1871) Albert François Lebrun was a French politician who served as President of France from 1932 to 1940. He was the last president of the Third Republic. He was a member of the centre-right Democratic Republican Alliance (ARD). Read more
06 Mar 1948: Ross Lockridge Jr., American author, poet, and academic (born 1914) Ross Franklin Lockridge Jr. was an American writer known for his novel Raintree County (1948). The novel became a bestseller and has been praised by readers and critics alike. Some have considered it a "Great American Novel". Lockridge died by suicide at the peak of his novel's success at age 33. Read more
06 Mar 1948: Alice Woodby McKane, First Black woman doctor in Savannah, Georgia (born 1865) Alice Woodby McKane was the first woman to work as a medical doctor in Savannah, Georgia. She was not only known as a physician but also as a politician and an author. She and her husband Cornelius McKane contributed an important part in medical history. She opened the first school of nurse training for black people in Savannah. She also helped her husband to make his dream which was opening the Hospital in Liberia come true. After returning from Liberia, they established the MCKane Hospital for Women and Children and later was known as Charity Hospital to treat for all people in Savannah, especially for African American people. Read more
06 Mar 1941: Francis Aveling, Canadian priest, psychologist, and author (born 1875) Francis Arthur Powell Aveling MC ComC was a Canadian psychologist and Catholic priest. He married Ethel Dancy of Steyning, Sussex in 1925. Read more
06 Mar 1941: Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor and academic, designed Mount Rushmore (born 1867) John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum was an American sculptor best known for his work on Mount Rushmore. He is also associated with various other public works of art across the U.S., including Stone Mountain in Georgia, statues of Union General Philip Sheridan in Washington, D.C., and in Chicago, as well as a bust of Abraham Lincoln exhibited in the White House by Theodore Roosevelt and now held in the United States Capitol crypt in Washington, D.C. Read more
06 Mar 1939: Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician and academic (born 1852) Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann was a German mathematician, noted for his proof, published in 1882, that π (pi) is a transcendental number, meaning it is not a root of any nonzero polynomial with rational coefficients. Read more
06 Mar 1935: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., American colonel, lawyer, and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1841) Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932. Holmes is one of the most widely cited and influential Supreme Court justices in American history, noted for his long tenure on the Court and for his pithy opinions – particularly those on civil liberties and American constitutional democracy – and deference to the decisions of elected legislatures. Holmes retired from the Court at the age of 90, an unbeaten record for oldest justice on the Supreme Court. He previously served the Union as a brevet colonel in the American Civil War, as an associate justice and chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and as Weld Professor of Law at his alma mater, Harvard Law School. His positions, distinctive personality, and writing style made him a popular figure, especially with American progressives. Read more
06 Mar 1933: Anton Cermak, Czech-American lawyer and politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (born 1873) Anton Joseph Cermak was an American politician who served as the 44th Mayor of Chicago from 1931 until he was fatally wounded in 1933 by Giuseppe Zangara, who was trying to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Read more
06 Mar 1932: John Philip Sousa, American conductor and composer (born 1854) John Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known primarily for U.S. military marches. He is known as "The March King" or the "American March King", to distinguish him from his British counterpart Kenneth J. Alford. Among Sousa's best-known marches are "The Stars and Stripes Forever", "Semper Fidelis", "The Liberty Bell", "The Thunderer", and "The Washington Post". Read more
06 Mar 1920: Ömer Seyfettin, Turkish author and educator (born 1884) Ömer Seyfettin, was a Turkish writer from the late 19th to early 20th century, considered to be one of the greatest modern Turkish authors. His work is much praised for simplifying the Turkish language from the Persian and Arabic words and phrases that were common at the time. Read more
06 Mar 1919: Oskars Kalpaks, Latvian colonel (born 1882) Oskars Kalpaks was the commander of 1st Latvian Independent Battalion, also known as "Kalpaks Battalion". Read more
06 Mar 1905: John Henninger Reagan, American surveyor, judge, and politician, 3rd Confederate States of America Secretary of the Treasury (born 1818) John Henninger Reagan was an American politician from Texas. A Democrat, Reagan resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives when Texas seceded from the United States and joined the Confederate States of America. He served in the Confederate cabinet of Jefferson Davis as Postmaster General. Read more
06 Mar 1905: Makar Yekmalyan, Armenian composer (born 1856) Makar Grigori Yekmalyan was an Armenian composer. Read more
06 Mar 1900: Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (born 1834) Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler was a German engineer, industrial designer and industrialist. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. He invented the high-speed liquid petroleum-fueled engine. Read more
06 Mar 1899: Kaʻiulani of Hawaii (born 1875) Princess Kaʻiulani was a Hawaiian royal, the only child of Princess Miriam Likelike, and the last heir apparent to the throne of the Hawaiian Kingdom. She was the niece of King Kalākaua and Queen Liliʻuokalani. After the death of her mother, Kaʻiulani was sent to Europe at age 13 to complete her education under the guardianship of British businessman and Hawaiian sugar investor Theo H. Davies. She had not yet reached her eighteenth birthday when the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom altered her life. The Committee of Safety rejected proposals from both her father Archibald Scott Cleghorn, and provisional president Sanford B. Dole, to seat Kaʻiulani on the throne, conditional upon the abdication of Liliʻuokalani. The Queen thought the Kingdom's best chance at justice was to relinquish her power temporarily to the United States. Read more
06 Mar 1895: Camilla Collett, Norwegian novelist and activist (born 1813) Jacobine Camilla Collett was a Norwegian writer, often referred to as the first Norwegian feminist. She was also the younger sister of Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland, and is recognized as being one of the first contributors to realism in Norwegian literature. Her younger brother was Major General Joseph Frantz Oscar Wergeland. She became an honorary member of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights when the association was founded in 1884. Read more
06 Mar 1888: Louisa May Alcott, American novelist and poet (born 1832) Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Encouraged by her family, Alcott began writing from an early age. Read more
06 Mar 1867: Charles Farrar Browne, American-English author and educator (born 1834) Charles Farrar Browne was an American humor writer, better known under his nom de plume, Artemus Ward. Ward was the character of an illiterate rube with "Yankee common sense", whom Browne also played in public performances. He is considered to be America's first stand-up comedian. His birth name was Brown but he added the "e" after he became famous. Read more
06 Mar 1866: William Whewell, English priest, historian, and philosopher (born 1794) William Whewell was an English polymath. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In his time as a student there, he achieved distinction in both poetry and mathematics. Read more
06 Mar 1854: Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, Irish colonel and diplomat, Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (born 1778) Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry,, was an Anglo-Irish nobleman, soldier and politician. He served in the French Revolutionary Wars, in the suppression of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, and in the Napoleonic Wars. He excelled as a cavalry commander in the Peninsular War (1807–1814) under Sir John Moore and the Duke of Wellington. Read more
06 Mar 1836: Deaths at the Battle of the Alamo: James Butler Bonham was a 19th-century American soldier who died at the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution. He was a second cousin of William B. Travis and was a messenger of the Battle of the Alamo. His younger brother, Milledge Luke Bonham, was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War, and served as Governor of South Carolina from 1862 to 1864. Read more
06 Mar 1836: Deaths at the Battle of the Alamo: James Bowie was an American military officer, landowner and slave trader who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution. He was among the Americans who died at the Battle of the Alamo. Stories of him as a fighter and frontiersman, both real and fictitious, have made him a legendary figure in Texas history and a folk hero of American culture. Bowie was born on April 10, 1796, in Logan County, Kentucky. He spent most of his life in Louisiana, where he was raised and where he later worked as a land speculator. His rise to fame began in 1827 on reports of the Sandbar Fight near present-day Vidalia, Louisiana. What began as a duel between two other men deteriorated into a mêlée in which Bowie, having been shot and stabbed, killed the sheriff of Rapides Parish with a large knife. This, and other stories of Bowie's prowess with a knife, led to the widespread popularity of the Bowie knife. Read more
06 Mar 1836: Deaths at the Battle of the Alamo: David Crockett was an American politician, militia officer and frontiersman. Often referred to in popular culture as the "King of the Wild Frontier", he represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives and fought in the Texas Revolution. Read more
06 Mar 1836: Deaths at the Battle of the Alamo: William Barret "Buck" Travis was a Texian Army officer and lawyer. He is known for helping set the Texas Revolution in motion during the Anahuac disturbances and defending the Alamo Mission during the battle of the Alamo. Read more

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