History of Today in India – 06 April

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

Last updated on 06 April 2026, 04:23 AM

📜 Important Events on 06 April in World History

• 06 Apr 2018: A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior ice hockey team collides with a semi-truck in Saskatchewan, Canada, killing 16 people and injuring 13 others. Read more
• 06 Apr 2017: U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base in Syria. Russia describes the strikes as an "aggression", adding they significantly damage US-Russia ties. Read more
• 06 Apr 2012: Azawad declares itself independent from the Republic of Mali. Read more
• 06 Apr 2011: In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 victims of Los Zetas were exhumed from several mass graves. Read more
• 06 Apr 2010: Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India. Read more
• 06 Apr 2009: A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307. Read more
• 06 Apr 2008: The 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activists. Read more
• 06 Apr 2005: Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day. Read more
• 06 Apr 2004: Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment. Read more
• 06 Apr 1998: Nuclear weapons testing: Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India. Read more
• 06 Apr 1997: In Greene County, Tennessee, the Lillelid murders occur. Read more
• 06 Apr 1994: The Rwandan genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down. Read more
• 06 Apr 1992: The Bosnian War begins. Read more
• 06 Apr 1985: Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiry is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Field Marshal Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab. Read more
• 06 Apr 1984: Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya. Read more
• 06 Apr 1974: In Brighton, United Kingdom, ABBA wins the 1974 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with "Waterloo", the first of a joint-record seven Swedish wins. Read more
• 06 Apr 1974: The first California Jam festival takes place at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California. Co-headlined by Deep Purple and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. The festival set what were then records for the loudest amplification system ever installed, the highest paid attendance, and highest gross in history. Read more
• 06 Apr 1973: Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft. Read more
• 06 Apr 1973: The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter. Read more
• 06 Apr 1972: Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments. Read more
• 06 Apr 1970: Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout. Read more
• 06 Apr 1968: In the downtown district of Richmond, Indiana, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150. Read more
• 06 Apr 1968: Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Liberal Party leadership election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon afterward. Read more
• 06 Apr 1965: Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit. Read more
• 06 Apr 1958: Capital Airlines Flight 67 crashes in Tittabawassee Township, Michigan, near Freeland Tri-City Airport, killing 47. Read more
• 06 Apr 1957: The flag carrier airline of Greece for decades, Olympic Airways, is founded by Aristotle Onassis following the acquisition of "TAE – Greek National Airlines". Read more
• 06 Apr 1948: The Finno-Soviet Treaty is signed in Moscow. Read more
• 06 Apr 1947: The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement. Read more
• 06 Apr 1945: World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans. Read more
• 06 Apr 1945: World War II: The Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end. Read more
• 06 Apr 1941: World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece). Read more
• 06 Apr 1936: Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203. Read more
• 06 Apr 1930: At the end of the Salt March, Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." Read more
• 06 Apr 1929: Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives. Read more
• 06 Apr 1926: Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines). Read more
• 06 Apr 1918: Finnish Civil War: The battle of Tampere ends. Read more
• 06 Apr 1917: World War I: The United States declares war on Germany. Read more
• 06 Apr 1911: During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg). Read more
• 06 Apr 1909: Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability. Read more
• 06 Apr 1896: In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I. Read more
• 06 Apr 1866: The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956. Read more
• 06 Apr 1865: American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia, during the Appomattox Campaign. Read more
• 06 Apr 1862: American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins: In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston. Read more
• 06 Apr 1860: The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, later renamed Community of Christ, is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois. Read more
• 06 Apr 1841: U.S. President John Tyler is sworn in, two days after having become president upon William Henry Harrison's death. Read more
• 06 Apr 1830: Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith and others at either Fayette or Manchester, New York. Read more
• 06 Apr 1814: Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restoration; anniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba. Read more
• 06 Apr 1812: British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France. Read more
• 06 Apr 1808: John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire. Read more
• 06 Apr 1800: The Treaty of Constantinople establishes the Septinsular Republic, the first autonomous Greek state since the Fall of the Byzantine Empire. (Under the Old Style calendar then still in use in the Ottoman Empire, the treaty was signed on 21 March.) Read more

🎂 Important Births on 06 April in World History

• 06 Apr 2009: Shaylee Mansfield, deaf American actress and YouTuber Shaylee Ava Mansfield is an American actress. Mansfield, who is deaf, first gained recognition by making YouTube videos in which she told Christmas stories in American Sign Language. Mansfield appeared in an "Unforgettable Stories" video advertisement by Disney Parks, in which she met Minnie Mouse, who was learning sign language at Walt Disney World. The video quickly went viral and became one of Disney's most-watched advertisements. Read more
• 06 Apr 2009: Valentina Tronel, French child singer Valentina Tronel, known mononymously as Valentina, is a French singer. She rose to prominence after she won Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020, becoming the first French entrant to win the contest. Previously, in 2017, she took part in the French version of The Voice Kids. Between 2018 and 2021, she was part of the child pop group Kids United Nouvelle Génération. Read more
• 06 Apr 2002: Andrea Botez, Canadian-American chess player, commentator, Twitch streamer and YouTuber Andrea Cecilia Cristina Botez is a Canadian chess player, commentator, DJ and internet personality. She is mostly known as part of the BotezLive Twitch channel with her sister Alexandra Botez. She is also credited as one of the creators who popularized chess on Twitch. Read more
• 06 Apr 2002: Leyre Romero Gormaz, Spanish tennis player Leyre Romero Gormaz is a Spanish tennis player.
  She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 124 by the WTA, achieved on 7 April 2025, and a best doubles ranking of world No. 130, reached on 25 November 2024. Read more
• 06 Apr 2001: Oscar Piastri, Australian racing driver Oscar Jack Piastri is an Australian racing driver who competes in Formula One for McLaren. Piastri has won nine Formula One Grands Prix across four seasons. Read more
• 06 Apr 2001: Moritz Seider, German ice hockey player Moritz Seider is a German professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman and alternate captain for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted sixth overall by the Red Wings in the 2019 NHL entry draft. Read more
• 06 Apr 2000: Shaheen Afridi, Pakistani cricketer Shaheen Shah Afridi is a Pakistani international cricketer who plays for the Pakistan national team. He is the captain of the national ODI team and previously captained the T20I team. A left-arm fast bowler, he made his international debut in 2018 and was named the ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year in 2021, becoming the first Pakistani to win the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy. He led Lahore Qalandars to Pakistan Super League titles in 2022, 2023, and 2025, becoming the first captain to win three championships. Read more
• 06 Apr 2000: Maxence Lacroix, French footballer Maxence Guy Lacroix is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Crystal Palace and the France national team. Read more
• 06 Apr 1998: Nicolás González, Argentine footballer Nicolás Iván González is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a winger for La Liga club Atlético Madrid, on loan from Serie A club Juventus, and the Argentina national team. Read more
• 06 Apr 1998: Peyton List, American actress and model Peyton Roi List is an American actress. She began her career as a child model, and transitioned to acting with a minor role in the film 27 Dresses (2008) at the age of nine. She appeared in the films Remember Me and Bereavement, and achieved her breakout role as Holly Hills in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series (2011–2012). She gained further attention for portraying Emma Ross on the Disney Channel sitcom Jessie (2011–2015) and its spinoff Bunk'd. Read more
• 06 Apr 1998: Spencer List, American actor Spencer W. List is an American actor. List is best known from the Fox show Fringe. He has played Carter in The Fosters and its spin-off Good Trouble. He has also been on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Jack Ketchum's Offspring. Read more
• 06 Apr 1998: Nahuel Molina, Argentine footballer Nahuel Molina Lucero is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a right-back for La Liga club Atlético Madrid and the Argentina national team. Read more
• 06 Apr 1997: Mingyu, South Korean singer and rapper Kim Min-gyu, known mononymously as Mingyu (민규), is a South Korean rapper and singer. Managed by Pledis Entertainment, he is a member of the South Korean boy band Seventeen and its hip hop team, and in 2025, debuted in a sub-unit with S.Coups as CxM. Read more
• 06 Apr 1996: Al-Musrati, Libyan footballer Al-Mu'attasim Billah Ali Mohamed Al-Musrati, known simply as Al-Musrati, is a Libyan professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Serie A club Hellas Verona, on loan from Beşiktaş. Read more
• 06 Apr 1995: Darya Lebesheva, Belarusian tennis player Darya Vyacheslavovna Lebesheva is a Belarusian tennis player. Read more
• 06 Apr 1994: Adrián Alonso, Mexican actor Adrián Alonso Barona is a Mexican actor. As a child actor, he was best known for the movie The Legend of Zorro. Read more
• 06 Apr 1992: Ken, South Korean singer Lee Jae-hwan, known professionally as Ken (Korean: 켄), is a South Korean singer and actor, formerly signed under Jellyfish Entertainment. He is one of the members of the South Korean boy group VIXX, and has been widely praised for his unique, soulful, and husky vocal tone. Ken began his acting career in 2014 in MBC Every 1's comedy drama Boarding House No. 24 as Lee Jae-hwan. Read more
• 06 Apr 1992: Julie Ertz, American soccer player Julie Beth Ertz is an American former professional soccer player. From 2014 to 2021, she played for National Women's Soccer League club Chicago Red Stars, and in 2023 she played for Angel City FC. A member of the United States women's national team from 2013 to 2023, she first appeared for the United States national team during an international friendly against Scotland on February 9, 2013, eventually making 123 total appearances for the team. Read more
• 06 Apr 1992: Huh Chan-mi, South Korean singer Huh Chan-mi, also known mononymously as Chanmi, is a South Korean singer. Chanmi made her debut in 2010 as a member of a South Korean co-ed group Coed School and its female unit F-ve Dolls from 2011 until her departure from the group in February 2012. Chanmi briefly returned to training and appeared on the survival shows Produce 101 (2016) and Mix Nine (2017). Chanmi later signed FirstOne Entertainment in 2020 prior to release her debut solo single album, Highlight, later that year. Read more
• 06 Apr 1990: Lachlan Coote, Australian rugby league player Lachlan Coote is a former professional rugby league footballer who last played for Hull Kingston Rovers in the Super League. Read more
• 06 Apr 1990: Charlie McDermott, American actor Charles Joseph McDermott Jr. is an American musician and actor. After making his film debut in The Village (2004), McDermott had his breakout with a starring role in the crime drama film Frozen River (2008), earning him a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. Read more
• 06 Apr 1990: Andrei Veis, Estonian footballer Andrei Veis is an Estonian retired international footballer who played as a defender and a midfielder. Read more
• 06 Apr 1988: Jucilei, Brazilian footballer Jucilei da Silva, known simply as Jucilei, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a central or defensive midfielder. Read more
• 06 Apr 1988: Leigh Adams, Australian footballer Leigh Adams is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Read more
• 06 Apr 1988: Daniele Gasparetto, Italian footballer Daniele Gasparetto is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for ASD Sant'Agostino. Read more
• 06 Apr 1988: Carlton Mitchell, American football player Carlton Lorange Mitchell is an American former professional football wide receiver. He was selected by the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) in the sixth round of the 2010 NFL draft. He played college football at South Florida. Read more
• 06 Apr 1988: Fabrice Muamba, Congolese-English footballer Fabrice Ndala Muamba is a Congolese-born English former professional footballer who played for Arsenal, Birmingham City and Bolton Wanderers as a central midfielder. Born in Zaire, Muamba moved to England at the age of 11 and subsequently played for England up to under-21 level. Read more
• 06 Apr 1988: Ivonne Orsini, Puerto Rican model and television host, Miss World Puerto Rico 2008 Ivonne Marie Orsini López is a Puerto Rican actress, model, tv host and beauty pageant titleholder. Her career began in the pageantry industry, but she has moved into other media. Orsini was one of the hosts of WAPA-TV show ¡Viva la tarde!. Currently, she is now the co-host of the Puerto Rican version of Hoy Día on Telemundo station WKAQ-TV. Read more
• 06 Apr 1987: Benjamin Corgnet, French footballer Benjamin Corgnet is a French former professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Read more
• 06 Apr 1987: Heidi Mount, American model Heidi Mount is an American fashion model, modeling for fashion houses such as Michael Kors, Bottega Veneta, Sonia Rykiel, Versace, and Valentino. She has appeared in campaigns for Chanel, Prada, and Bally. Read more
• 06 Apr 1987: Levi Porter, English footballer Levi Roger Porter is an English footballer who most recently played for Melton Town. Read more
• 06 Apr 1987: Hilary Rhoda, American model Hilary Rhoda Hollis is an American model. She is perhaps best known for her work with the brand Estée Lauder and her 2009, 2010 and 2011 appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Read more
• 06 Apr 1986: Nikolas Asprogenis, Cypriot footballer Nikolas Asprogenous is a Cypriot former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Read more
• 06 Apr 1986: Aaron Curry, American football player Aaron Curry is an American professional football coach and former linebacker who most recently served as the linebackers coach for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). Curry was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the first round in the 2009 NFL draft out of Wake Forest. Curry also played for the Oakland Raiders in 2011 and 2012. Read more
• 06 Apr 1986: Goeido Gotaro, Japanese sumo wrestler Gōeidō Gōtarō is a former sumo wrestler from Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He made his professional debut in January 2005 and reached the top makuuchi division in September 2007. Long regarded as one of the most promising Japanese wrestlers in sumo, Gōeidō holds the modern record for the most consecutive appearances at sumo's third highest rank of sekiwake, at 14 tournaments. He was finally promoted to the rank of ōzeki following the July 2014 tournament, after scores of twelve wins against three losses in two of the previous three tournaments. However, he only managed to win ten or more bouts in a tournament as an ōzeki on six occasions, and was kadoban, or in danger of demotion, eight times. He won his only top division tournament in September 2016 with a perfect 15–0 record and was a runner-up seven times in his career. He retired in January 2020 after two consecutive losing records that would have seen him demoted, to become an elder of the Japan Sumo Association under the name of Takekuma. Read more
• 06 Apr 1986: Ryota Moriwaki, Japanese footballer Ryota Moriwaki is a Japanese football player who plays for Ehime FC. Read more
• 06 Apr 1985: Fatau Dauda, Ghanaian footballer Abdul Fatawu Dauda, known as Fatau Dauda, is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Read more
• 06 Apr 1985: Clarke MacArthur, Canadian ice hockey player Clarke MacArthur is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He was a left winger in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Ottawa Senators, Buffalo Sabres, Atlanta Thrashers and Toronto Maple Leafs. He was originally selected by Buffalo in the third round, 74th overall, at the 2003 NHL entry draft. Read more
• 06 Apr 1985: Frank Ongfiang, Cameroonian footballer Franck Olivier Ongfiang is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Read more
• 06 Apr 1985: Sinqua Walls, American basketball player and actor Sinqua Walls is an American actor known for appearing in Friday Night Lights, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, American Soul, and White Men Can't Jump. Read more
• 06 Apr 1984: Max Bemis, American singer-songwriter Maxim Adam Bemis is an American musician, best known as the lead singer and primary songwriter of the rock band Say Anything. He sang alongside Chris Conley in the supergroup Two Tongues. He plays alongside his former wife Sherri DuPree under the name Perma, and is a comic book writer, chiefly for Marvel Comics, creating X-Men: Worst X-Man Ever and Foolkiller: Psycho Therapy. Read more
• 06 Apr 1984: Michaël Ciani, French footballer Michaël Henry Ciani is a French former professional footballer who played as a centre back. Read more
• 06 Apr 1984: Siboniso Gaxa, South African footballer Siboniso "Pa" Gaxa is a former South African football defender who played for Ajax Cape Town, Kaizer Chiefs F.C., Mamelodi Sundowns F.C. and the South African national team. Read more
• 06 Apr 1984: Diana Matheson, Canadian soccer player Diana Beverly Matheson is a Canadian former professional soccer player who played for the Canada national team from 2003 to 2020 and multiple professional women's teams over the course of her career. She is best known for scoring the bronze medal-winning goal for Canada in the 92nd minute against France at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She also won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics and gold medal at the 2011 Pan American Games with the senior national team. Matheson was inducted to the Canada Soccer Hall of Fame in 2025. Read more
• 06 Apr 1983: Mehdi Ballouchy, Moroccan footballer Mehdi Ballouchy is a retired Moroccan professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently one of the coaching staff for New York City FC. Read more
• 06 Apr 1983: Jerome Kaino, New Zealand rugby player Jerome Kaino is a former New Zealand rugby union player. Read more
• 06 Apr 1983: Mitsuru Nagata, Japanese footballer Mitsuru Nagata is a Japanese retired football player. He played for Japan national team. Read more
• 06 Apr 1983: Remi Nicole, English singer-songwriter and actress Remi Nicole Wilson, better known as Remi Nicole, is a British singer-songwriter and actress who was born in North London, but now resides in Los Angeles. She is best known for her single "Go Mr Sunshine", which was released in 2007. Her debut album, My Conscience and I, was released later that year and her second, Cupid Shoot Me, on 31 August 2009. As an actress she is credited as Remi Wilson. Read more
• 06 Apr 1983: James Wade, English darts player James Martin Wade is an English professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where he is ranked world number six; he reached a peak ranking of world number two in 2010. Widely regarded as one of the greatest ever darts players to have never won a world championship and the greatest left-hander in the history of the sport, Wade is a four-time PDC World Championship semi-finalist and eleven-time PDC major winner, placing him fourth in the all-time list behind Phil Taylor, Michael van Gerwen and Luke Littler. Read more
• 06 Apr 1983: Katie Weatherston, Canadian ice hockey player Katherine Marie "Katie" Weatherston is a Canadian retired ice hockey player and head coach of the Lebanese women’s national ice hockey team. As a member of the Canadian women's national ice hockey team, she won Olympic gold in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and medalled at two IIHF Women's World Championships. Read more
• 06 Apr 1982: Travis Moen, Canadian ice hockey player Travis Shawn Moen is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger. He was selected in the fifth round, 155th overall, by the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL) in the 2000 NHL entry draft and previously played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Anaheim Ducks, with whom he won the Stanley Cup in 2007, San Jose Sharks, Montreal Canadiens, and Dallas Stars. Read more
• 06 Apr 1982: Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Spanish actor Miguel Ángel Silvestre Rambla is a Spanish actor. He rose to prominence with his performance as El Duque in Sin tetas no hay paraíso. Read more
• 06 Apr 1981: Robert Earnshaw, Welsh footballer Robert Earnshaw is a Welsh former international footballer who played as a forward. He is the only player to have scored a hat-trick in the Premier League, all three divisions of the English Football League, the League Cup, the FA Cup, and for his country in an international match. Read more
• 06 Apr 1981: Jeff Faine, American football player Jeffrey Kalei Faine is an American former professional football player who was a center in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Cleveland Browns 21st overall in the 2003 NFL draft. He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Read more
• 06 Apr 1981: Lucas Licht, Argentine footballer Lucas Matías Licht is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a left-back but also as a left winger. Read more
• 06 Apr 1981: Alex Suarez, American bass player Cobra Starship is an American dance-rock band from New York City, New York, formed in 2005 by Gabe Saporta. He recorded the first album as a solo project, While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets. Saporta later enlisted guitarist Ryland Blackinton, bassist Alex Suarez, drummer Nate Novarro, and keytarist Victoria Asher, all of whom provide backing vocals. Read more
• 06 Apr 1980: Tommi Evilä, Finnish long jumper Jaakko Tommi Kristian Evilä is a Finnish former long jumper. He gained fame following his surprise bronze in the 2005 Helsinki World Championships, which was Finland's only medal in the championships. Read more
• 06 Apr 1980: Tanja Poutiainen, Finnish skier Tanja Tuulia Poutiainen is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Finland. She specialized in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom, and was the silver medalist in the women's giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino. Read more
• 06 Apr 1979: Lord Frederick Windsor, English journalist and financier Lord Frederick Michael George David Louis Windsor is a member of the British royal family. He is the only son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, and is 54th in the line of succession to the British throne. He is married to British actress Sophie Winkleman and is a financial analyst by profession. As a great-grandchild of King George V and Queen Mary, he is a second cousin of King Charles III. Read more
• 06 Apr 1979: Clay Travis, American sports journalist, blogger, and broadcaster Richard Clay Travis is an American writer, lawyer, radio host and television analyst, and founder of OutKick. Read more
• 06 Apr 1978: Imani Coppola, American singer-songwriter and violinist Imani Francesca Coppola is an American singer-songwriter and violinist. Her debut single "Legend of a Cowgirl" reached the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart in 1997. Her debut album, Chupacabra, released by Columbia Records, was praised by critics and appeared on the US Heatseekers Albums chart. In 2001, Coppola appeared as a guest artist on the Baha Men single "You All Dat", which broke the top 10 in Australia and gave Coppola her second entry on the Billboard Hot 100 to date. Read more
• 06 Apr 1978: Robert Glasper, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer Robert Andre Glasper is an American pianist, record producer, songwriter, and musical arranger. His music embodies numerous musical genres, primarily centered around jazz. Glasper has won five Grammy Awards from 11 nominations. Read more
• 06 Apr 1978: Tim Hasselbeck, American football player and sportscaster Timothy Thomas Hasselbeck is an American sports journalist and former professional football player who is an analyst for ESPN. He played as a quarterback for eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the New York Giants, Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, Buffalo Bills, Baltimore Ravens, and Arizona Cardinals as well as the Berlin Thunder of NFL Europe. He played college football for the Boston College Eagles. He is the younger brother of former NFL quarterback Matt Hasselbeck. Read more
• 06 Apr 1978: Myleene Klass, Austrian/Filipino-English singer, pianist, and model Myleene Angela Klass is a British musician, singer, television presenter, model, writer and designer. She was a member of the pop group Hear'Say, and later released a solo classical crossover album in 2003, followed by additional "lullaby" albums from 2022 onward. Klass then went into television and radio presenting, hosting series including Popstar to Operastar (2010–2011) and BBQ Champ (2015) on ITV and The One Show (2007) on BBC One. She was a regular panellist on the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women in 2014 and again from 2024 onwards. In 2006, Klass was runner-up on the sixth series of I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!, and returned in 2023 for the "all-stars" series I'm a Celebrity… South Africa, which she won. Read more
• 06 Apr 1978: Martín Méndez, Uruguayan bass player and songwriter Martín Méndez is a Uruguayan Swedish musician. He migrated to Sweden when he was 17 years old. He is the bassist of the progressive metal band Opeth and the second-longest-serving member of the band, behind frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt. He founded the band White Stones in Barcelona in 2019. Read more
• 06 Apr 1978: Blaine Neal, American baseball player Blaine Neal is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. Neal played with the Florida Marlins (2001–2003), San Diego Padres (2004), Boston Red Sox (2005), and Colorado Rockies (2005) of Major League Baseball (MLB). He bats left-handed and throws right-handed. Read more
• 06 Apr 1978: Igor Semshov, Russian footballer Igor Petrovich Semshov is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. Read more
• 06 Apr 1977: Ville Nieminen, Finnish ice hockey player Ville Juhani Nieminen is a Finnish former professional ice hockey forward who played over 400 games in the National Hockey League. Read more
• 06 Apr 1977: Andy Phillips, American baseball player and coach George Andrew Phillips is an American baseball coach and former infielder. He played college baseball at Alabama for coach Jim Wells from 1996 to 1999 and played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, New York Mets, and Cincinnati Reds. Phillips was raised in Demopolis, Alabama, where he played baseball for the Demopolis Academy Generals. Phillips was an All-American for the Tide. Read more
• 06 Apr 1976: Candace Cameron Bure, American actress and talk show panelist Candace Helaine Cameron Bure is an American actress, author and former talk show panelist best known as D.J. Tanner in Full House and Fuller House, Summer van Horne in Make It or Break It, and many Hallmark Channel original films—including the title character in their adaptations of the Aurora Teagarden novel series. Read more
• 06 Apr 1976: James Fox, Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor James Richard Mullett, known professionally as James Fox, is a Welsh pop singer and musician. He represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 in Istanbul. In 2008, he wrote and recorded the Cardiff City F.C. FA Cup Final song, "Bluebirds Flying High". Read more
• 06 Apr 1976: Chris Hoke, American football player Christopher L. Hoke is an American former professional football player. Hoke was a nose tackle for his entire career with the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the BYU Cougars. Read more
• 06 Apr 1976: Georg Hólm, Icelandic bass player Georg "Goggi" Hólm is the bassist of the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. He is the most prominent member of Sigur Rós in the English press, as he does significantly more press than the other members due to him being the most fluent English speaker in the band. Read more
• 06 Apr 1976: Hirotada Ototake, Japanese author and educator Hirotada Ototake is a Japanese writer from Tokyo, who has written in the memoir, fiction and sports journalism genres. Read more
• 06 Apr 1975: Zach Braff, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Zachary Israel Braff is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his role as John Michael "J.D." Dorian on the NBC/ABC television series Scrubs, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2005 as well as for three Golden Globe Awards from 2005 to 2007. He starred in The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000), The Last Kiss (2006), The Ex (2006), and In Dubious Battle (2016). He has done voice-work for Chicken Little (2005) and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013). Read more
• 06 Apr 1975: Hal Gill, American ice hockey player Harold Priestley Gill III is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played 16 NHL seasons with six different teams, winning the Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2009. Read more
• 06 Apr 1973: Donnie Edwards, American football player Donnie Lewis Edwards Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for 13 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Kansas City Chiefs and San Diego Chargers. He played college football for the UCLA Bruins, earning third-team All-American honors in 1994. He was selected by the Chiefs in the fourth round of the 1996 NFL draft. Read more
• 06 Apr 1973: Randall Godfrey, American football player Randall Euralentris Godfrey is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). Godfrey played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs football and was selected in the 1996 NFL draft by the Dallas Cowboys with the 49th overall pick. He then played for the Tennessee Titans and the Seattle Seahawks. Read more
• 06 Apr 1973: Rie Miyazawa, Japanese model and actress Rie Miyazawa is a Japanese actress and former idol singer. She is regarded as one of Japan's top actresses, and her accolades include six Japan Academy Film Prizes and three Kinema Junpo Awards. Read more
• 06 Apr 1973: Sun Wen, Chinese footballer Sun Wen is a Chinese former professional footballer who played as a forward. She previously captained the China national team and the Atlanta Beat of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA). Read more
• 06 Apr 1972: Anders Thomas Jensen, Danish director and screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen is a Danish screenwriter and film director. His film Election Night won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Read more
• 06 Apr 1972: Dickey Simpkins, American basketball player and sportscaster LuBara Dixon "Dickey" Simpkins is an American former professional basketball player best known for his tenure with the Chicago Bulls in the late 1990s. He is currently a commentator for Fox Sports. Read more
• 06 Apr 1970: Olaf Kölzig, South African-German ice hockey player and coach Olaf Kölzig is a South African-born German professional ice hockey goaltender and current goaltender coach and player development coach for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL). With the exception of eight games with the Tampa Bay Lightning, he played his entire 14-year NHL career with the Capitals. Read more
• 06 Apr 1970: Roy Mayorga, American drummer, songwriter, and producer Roy Mayorga is an American musician, best known as the drummer of heavy metal bands Soulfly, Hellyeah and Stone Sour and is currently the drummer for the industrial metal band Ministry. Read more
• 06 Apr 1970: Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer Huang Xiaomin is a Chinese former breaststroke swimmer, whose best performance during her career was winning the silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. She was born in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang. She admitted to have used doping substances during her active career and is now publicly opposed to it. Read more
• 06 Apr 1969: Bret Boone, American baseball player and manager Bret Robert Boone is an American former professional baseball second baseman who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners and Minnesota Twins. During his career, Boone was a three-time All-Star, four-time Gold Glove winner, and two-time Silver Slugger Award winner. He is a third-generation professional athlete. His brother is Aaron Boone, manager of the New York Yankees. Read more
• 06 Apr 1969: Bison Dele, American basketball player (died 2002) Bison Dele was an American professional basketball player who played center for the NBA's Orlando Magic, Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Clippers, Chicago Bulls and Detroit Pistons. Dele played college basketball for the Maryland Terrapins during 1987–1988 and for the Arizona Wildcats during 1988–1991 before being selected by the Magic with the 10th overall pick in the 1991 NBA draft. He won a championship with the Bulls in 1997. Read more
• 06 Apr 1969: Philipp Peter, Austrian race car driver Philipp Peter is a race car driver from Austria. Read more
• 06 Apr 1969: Paul Rudd, American actor Paul Stephen Rudd is an American actor. Rudd studied theatre at the University of Kansas and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before making his acting debut in 1991. He was included on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2019, and was named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" in 2021. The accolades he has received include a Critics' Choice Television Award, alongside nominations for a Golden Globe Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Read more
• 06 Apr 1969: Spencer Wells, American geneticist and anthropologist Rush Spencer Wells is an American geneticist, anthropologist, author and entrepreneur. He co-hosts The Insight podcast with Razib Khan. Wells led The Genographic Project from 2005 to 2015, as an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. Read more
• 06 Apr 1968: Archon Fung, American political scientist, author, and academic Archon Fung is the Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Democracy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and co-founder of the Transparency Policy Project. Fung served as an assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School from July 1999–June 2004, then as an associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School from July 2004–October 2007, and finally as a professor of public policy from October 2007–March 2009 before being named as the Ford Foundation Chair of Democracy and Citizenship in March 2009. In 2015, he was elected to the Common Cause National Governing Board. Read more
• 06 Apr 1968: Affonso Giaffone, Brazilian race car driver Affonso Giaffone Neto is a Brazilian former racing driver. He is one of several racing drivers in his family; he is a cousin of Felipe Giaffone, and a cousin-in-law of Rubens Barrichello. His father Affonso Giaffone Jr. was also a racing driver. Read more
• 06 Apr 1967: Julian Anderson, English composer and educator

  Julian Anderson is a British composer and teacher of composition. Read more

• 06 Apr 1967: Kathleen Barr, Canadian voice actress and singer Kathleen Barr is a Canadian voice actress. She is best known for the voices of Marie Kanker and Kevin in Ed, Edd n Eddy, Dot Matrix in ReBoot, and Trixie Lulamoon and Queen Chrysalis in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. She also voiced Henri Richard Maurice Dutoit LeFevbre in Liberty's Kids, Kaiko Nekton in The Deep, Wheezie in Dragon Tales, and Gelorum in Hot Wheels: World Race and its 4-film sequel AcceleRacers. Read more
• 06 Apr 1967: Tanya Byron, English psychologist and academic Tanya Byron is a British psychologist, writer, and media personality, best known for her work as a child therapist on television shows Little Angels and The House of Tiny Tearaways. She also co-created the BBC Two sitcom The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle with Jennifer Saunders, and still contributes articles to various newspapers. Read more
• 06 Apr 1967: Jonathan Firth, English actor Jonathan Stephen Firth is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in such British television productions as Middlemarch, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Victoria & Albert. Read more
• 06 Apr 1966: Vince Flynn, American author (died 2013) Vincent Joseph Flynn was an American author of political thriller novels featuring the fictional assassin Mitch Rapp. He was a story consultant for the fifth season of the television series 24. He died of prostate cancer on June 19, 2013. Read more
• 06 Apr 1966: Young Man Kang, South Korean-American director and producer Young Man Kang is a South Korean filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California, United States. Kang directed and produced The Last Eve (2005), Soap Girl (2002), Cupid's Mistake (2001) and Kimchi Warrior (2009). He is the director and founder of Seoul Webfest. Read more
• 06 Apr 1965: Black Francis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV, known professionally as Black Francis and formerly Frank Black, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who is the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Pixies. Following the band's breakup in 1993, he embarked on a solo career releasing fifteen albums and forming his band, the Catholics. Pixies regrouped in 2004, and he declared his solo career to be over in 2013. Read more
• 06 Apr 1965: Sterling Sharpe, American football player and sportscaster Sterling Sharpe is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the South Carolina Gamecocks, and played in the NFL from 1988 to 1994 with the Packers in a career shortened by a neck injury. He became an analyst for the NFL Network. He is the older brother of Pro Football Hall of Fame tight end Shannon Sharpe. In 2025, Sterling Sharpe was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Read more
• 06 Apr 1964: Tim Walz, American politician, Governor of Minnesota & vice presidential candidate Timothy James Walz is an American politician, former educator, and Army National Guard veteran serving since 2019 as the 41st governor of Minnesota. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2019, representing Minnesota's 1st congressional district, and was the Democratic nominee for vice president in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Read more
• 06 Apr 1963: Rafael Correa, Ecuadorian economist and politician, 54th President of Ecuador Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as the 45th president of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017. The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement from its foundation until 2017, Correa is a democratic socialist and his administration focused on the implementation of left-wing policies. Internationally, he served as president pro tempore of the UNASUR. Since 2017, he has been living with his family in Belgium. Read more
• 06 Apr 1962: Iris Häussler, German sculptor and academic Iris Haeussler is a conceptual and installation art artist of German origin. She lives in Toronto, Canada. Many of Iris Haeussler's works are detailed, hyperrealistic installations that visitors can decode as narrative stories. Recurring topics in her work include historic, cultural, social and geographic origins; family ties, relationships, memory, history, trauma and obsession. Read more
• 06 Apr 1962: Marco Schällibaum, Swiss footballer, coach, and manager Marco Schällibaum is a Swiss football manager and former player. He was most recently the manager of Swiss Super League side Grasshopper Club Zürich, whom he saved from relegation. Read more
• 06 Apr 1961: Rory Bremner, Scottish impressionist and comedian Roderick Keith Ogilvy "Rory" Bremner, is a Scottish impressionist and comedian, noted for his work in political satire and impressions of British public figures. He is best known for co-starring with John Bird and John Fortune in the comedy sketch shows Rory Bremner…Who Else? and Bremner, Bird and Fortune, as well as being a team captain on the first two series of comedy panel show Mock the Week. Read more
• 06 Apr 1961: Peter Jackson, English footballer and manager Peter Allan Jackson is a football manager and former player. He has previously had two spells as Huddersfield Town manager, whom he helped win the Division Three play-off in 2004, and he has also managed Lincoln City, before taking charge at his former playing club Bradford City in 2011. Read more
• 06 Apr 1960: Warren Haynes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Warren Haynes is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known for his work as longtime guitarist with the Allman Brothers Band and as founding member of the jam band Gov't Mule. Early in his career he was a guitarist for David Allan Coe and The Dickey Betts Band. Haynes is also known for his associations with the surviving members of the Grateful Dead, including touring with Phil Lesh and Friends and the Dead. In addition, Haynes founded and manages Evil Teen Records. Read more
• 06 Apr 1960: Richard Loe, New Zealand rugby player Richard Wyllie Loe is a New Zealand former rugby union player. He won 49 international caps for New Zealand, the All Blacks, as a prop forward. He is a sports broadcaster on BSport, Radio Live and SKY Sport. Read more
• 06 Apr 1960: John Pizzarelli, American singer-songwriter and guitarist John Paul Pizzarelli Jr. is an American jazz guitarist and vocalist. He has recorded over twenty solo albums and has appeared on more than forty albums by other recording artists, including Paul McCartney, James Taylor, Rosemary Clooney; his father, jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli; and his wife, singer Jessica Molaskey. Read more
• 06 Apr 1959: Gail Shea, Canadian politician Anne Marie Gail Shea was a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Egmont from 2008 to 2015. She had previously been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 2000 to 2007, representing the electoral district of Tignish-DeBlois as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. Read more
• 06 Apr 1958: Graeme Base, Australian author and illustrator Graeme Rowland Base is a British-Australian author and artist of picture books. He is perhaps best known for his second book, Animalia published in 1986, and third book The Eleventh Hour which was released in 1989. Read more
• 06 Apr 1957: Giorgio Damilano, Italian race walker and coach Giorgio Damilano is an Italian former race walker. Read more
• 06 Apr 1957: Maurizio Damilano, Italian race walker and coach Maurizio Damilano is an Italian former race walker. He won 15 individual medals, at senior level, at the International athletics competitions. Read more
• 06 Apr 1957: Jaroslava Maxová, Czech soprano and educator Jaroslava Maxová is a Czech mezzo-soprano opera singer and vocal coach. Read more
• 06 Apr 1957: Paolo Nespoli, Italian soldier, engineer, and astronaut Major Paolo Angelo Nespoli is an Italian astronaut and engineer of the European Space Agency (ESA). In 2007, he first traveled into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a mission specialist of STS-120. In December 2010 he again traveled into space aboard the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft as an Expedition 26/27 flight engineer. Nespoli's third spaceflight was on board Soyuz MS-05, which launched in July 2017 for Expedition 52/53. He was also the European Space Agency's oldest active astronaut prior to his retirement in 2019. Read more
• 06 Apr 1956: Michele Bachmann, American lawyer and politician Michele Marie Bachmann is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 2007 until 2015. A member of the Republican Party, she was a candidate for president of the United States in the 2012 election, but dropped out after the Iowa caucuses. Read more
• 06 Apr 1956: Normand Corbeil, Canadian composer (died 2013) Normand Corbeil was a Canadian composer known for his work on films, video games and television. Read more
• 06 Apr 1956: Mudassar Nazar, Pakistani cricketer Mudassar Nazar is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer with a career in Test cricket for Pakistan and in league cricket in Pakistan and England. He was an all-rounder and opening batsman who played 76 test and 122 one-day matches for Pakistan. After retiring from professional cricket, he has had a number of administrative positions in the cricketing world, including two stints as coach for Pakistan in 1993 and 2001, for Kenya and for several other teams. He was born in Lahore, Punjab. Read more
• 06 Apr 1956: Lee Scott, English politician Lee Scott is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford North from 2005 until his defeat at the 2015 general election. Scott is an officer of the Conservative Friends of Israel. In the 2021 Essex County Council election he was elected to the ward of Chigwell & Loughton Broadway. Read more
• 06 Apr 1956: Sebastian Spreng, Argentinian-American painter and journalist Sebastian Spreng is an Argentine-born American visual artist and music journalist. He is a self-taught artist. He lives in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida. Read more
• 06 Apr 1956: Dilip Vengsarkar, Indian cricketer and coach Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar is a former Indian cricketer and a cricket administrator. He was considered to have a very good drive. Along with Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath, he was a key player in the Indian batting line up in the late 70s and early 80s. He was a member of the Indian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. Vengsarkar also led the national side to 1988 Asia Cup victory. He was also a part of the Indian squad which won the 1985 World Championship of Cricket. He went on to play until 1992. Read more
• 06 Apr 1955: Rob Epstein, American director and producer Robert P. Epstein, is an American director, producer, writer, and editor. He is known for directing numerous documentaries, several of them focusing on the LGBTQ community and has won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. Read more
• 06 Apr 1955: Michael Rooker, American actor, director, and producer Michael Rooker is an American actor. He first rose to prominence for portraying the titular role in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), and is best known for starring as Merle Dixon in the AMC series The Walking Dead (2010–2013) and as Yondu Udonta in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), and its sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017). He is a recurring collaborator of Guardians of the Galaxy director and co-CEO of DC Studios James Gunn, appearing in all of his films to date including Slither (2006), Super (2010) and The Suicide Squad (2021), along with the TV series Peacemaker. Read more
• 06 Apr 1955: Cathy Jones, Canadian actress, comedian, and writer Catherine Frederica "Cathy" Jones is a Canadian actress, comedian and writer. She is known for her work for 28 years on the Canadian television series This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Jones left the show in 2021. Read more
• 06 Apr 1953: Patrick Doyle, Scottish actor and composer Patrick Doyle is a Scottish composer and occasional actor best known for his film scores. During his 50-year career in film, television and theatre, he has composed the scores for over 60 feature films. A longtime collaborator of actor-director Kenneth Branagh, Doyle is known for his work on films such as Henry V, Sense and Sensibility, Hamlet, Carlito's Way, Quest for Camelot, and Gosford Park, as well as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Thor, Brave, Cinderella, Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile. Read more
• 06 Apr 1953: Christopher Franke, German-American drummer and songwriter Christopher Franke, born 6 April, 1953, is best known as a German pioneer of electronic music and a Hollywood composer for film and television. He studied composition at Berlin Conservatory where his influences included Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage. Read more
• 06 Apr 1952: Udo Dirkschneider, German singer-songwriter Udo Dirkschneider is a German singer who first rose to fame with the heavy metal band Accept. After leaving the band in 1987, he formed the band U.D.O., in which he has also enjoyed commercial success. Read more
• 06 Apr 1952: Marilu Henner, Greek-Polish American actress and author Marilu Henner is an American actress, singer, and author. She began her career appearing in the original production of the musical Grease in 1971, before making her screen debut in the 1977 comedy-drama film Between the Lines. In 1978, Henner was cast in her breakthrough role as Elaine O'Connor Nardo in the ABC/NBC sitcom Taxi, a role she played until 1983 and for which she received five Golden Globe Award nominations. Read more
• 06 Apr 1952: Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (died 1992) Michel Raymond "Bunny" Larocque was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Philadelphia Flyers and St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League. He was a four-time Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens. Read more
• 06 Apr 1951: Bert Blyleven, Dutch-American baseball player and sportscaster Rik Aalbert Blyleven is a Dutch-American former professional baseball pitcher and color commentator. He played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1970 to 1992, primarily with the Minnesota Twins, and from 1996 to 2020 was a color commentator for Minnesota Twins television broadcasts. Blyleven recorded 3,701 career strikeouts, the fifth-most in MLB history. He won 287 games, 27th-most all-time, and pitched 4,970 innings, 14th-most all-time. A renowned curveball pitcher, Blyleven was a two-time All-Star and World Series champion. In 2011, Blyleven was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Read more
• 06 Apr 1951: Jean-Marc Boivin, French skier, mountaineer, and pilot (died 1990) Jean-Marc Boivin was a French mountaineer, extreme skier, hang glider and paraglider pilot, speleologist, BASE jumper, film maker and author. The holder of several altitude records for hang gliding and paragliding, the creator of numerous first ascents and first ski descents in the Alps, a member of the team that broke the record for a sub-glacial dive and the first person to paraglide from the summit of Mount Everest, Boivin was a pioneer of extreme sports. He died from injuries incurred after BASE jumping off Angel Falls in Venezuela, the highest waterfall in the world. Read more
• 06 Apr 1951: Pascal Rogé, French pianist Pascal Rogé is a French pianist. Read more
• 06 Apr 1950: Claire Morissette, Canadian cycling activist (died 2007) Claire Morissette was a Canadian cycling advocate who fought for equal cyclists' rights in Montreal since 1976. She was a member of the group Le Monde à Bicyclette. Notable were the stunts they organized to raise consciousness of automobile transportation's negative impact on cities and their inhabitants, such as bringing snow skis and toboggans on subways to protest the exclusion of bicycles and a die-in on the corner of St. Catherine and University streets in which 100 people lay in the street adorned with fake blood and surrounded with wrecked bikes. Read more
• 06 Apr 1950: Cleo Odzer, American anthropologist and author (died 2001) Cleo Odzer was an American author and anthropologist renowned for her works exploring subcultures, including prostitution in Thailand, the hippie culture of Goa, and the emerging phenomenon of cybersex. Her works provided unique perspectives on subcultures often marginalized or misunderstood, blending personal experience with anthropological insight. Read more
• 06 Apr 1949: Alyson Bailes, English academic and diplomat (died 2016) Alyson Judith Kirtley Bailes CMG was a British diplomat, political scientist, academic and polymath. Read more
• 06 Apr 1949: Patrick Hernandez, French singer-songwriter Patrick Pierre Hernandez is a French singer who had a worldwide hit with "Born to Be Alive" in 1979. Read more
• 06 Apr 1949: Ng Ser Miang, Singaporean athlete, entrepreneur and diplomat Ng Ser Miang, is a Singaporean entrepreneur, diplomat, retired sailor, and sports administrator. He founded Trans-Island Bus Services in 1982 and is a board member of Singapore Press Holdings. Ng has been the vice-president of the Singapore National Olympic Council since 1990, and served as the president of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics organising committee. From 2009 to 2013, and again from 2020 to 2024, he served as a vice-president of the International Olympic Committee. In 2013, he was a candidate for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee, but lost to Thomas Bach. Domestically, Ng was a Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) from 2002 to 2005, and served Singapore as the Ambassador to Norway and Hungary under prime ministers Goh Chok Tong and Lee Hsien Loong. Read more
• 06 Apr 1949: Horst Ludwig Störmer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Horst Ludwig Störmer is a German physicist, Nobel laureate and emeritus professor at Columbia University.
  He was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Daniel Tsui and Robert Laughlin "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations". He and Tsui were working at Bell Labs at the time of the experiment cited by the Nobel committee. Read more
• 06 Apr 1947: John Ratzenberger, American actor and director John Ratzenberger is an American actor. He is best known for playing the character Cliff Clavin on the comedy series Cheers, for which he earned two Primetime Emmy nominations. Ratzenberger reprised the role in the short-lived spin-off The Tortellis, an episode of Wings, as well as in an episode of Frasier. He has voiced various characters in several Pixar animated feature films including Hamm in the Toy Story franchise, Yeti the Abominable Snowman in the Monsters, Inc. franchise, The Underminer in The Incredibles franchise, Mack in the Cars franchise, Fritz in the Inside Out franchise, and many others. Read more
• 06 Apr 1947: André Weinfeld, French-American director, producer, and screenwriter André Weinfeld is a French and American film and television producer, director, screenwriter, cinematographer, photographer, and journalist. Read more
• 06 Apr 1947: Mike Worboys, English mathematician and computer scientist

  Michael Worboys is a British mathematician, computer scientist and composer. Read more

• 06 Apr 1946: Paul Beresford, New Zealand-English dentist and politician Sir Alexander Paul Beresford is a British–New Zealander politician who served as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Mole Valley in Surrey from 1997 to 2024. He previously served as MP for Croydon Central from 1992 to 1997. Read more
• 06 Apr 1945: Rodney Bickerstaffe, English trade union leader (died 2017) Rodney Kevan Bickerstaffe was a British trade unionist. He was General Secretary of the National Union of Public Employees (1982–1993) and UNISON (1996–2001), Britain's largest trade union at the time. He later became president of the UK National Pensioners Convention (2001–2005). Read more
• 06 Apr 1945: Peter Hill, English journalist Peter Hill is a British journalist and a former editor of the Daily Express. Read more
• 06 Apr 1944: Felicity Palmer, English operatic soprano

  Dame Felicity Joan Palmer,, is an English mezzo-soprano and music professor. She sang soprano roles until 1983. Read more

• 06 Apr 1944: Charles Sobhraj, French serial killer Charles Sobhraj is a French serial killer, fraudster, and thief whose victims were mainly Western tourists travelling on the hippie trail of South Asia during the 1970s. He is of Indian and Vietnamese origin. He was known as the Bikini Killer because of the attire of several of his victims, as well as the Splitting Killer and the Serpent for "his snake-like ability to avoid detection by authorities". Read more
• 06 Apr 1943: Max Clifford, English journalist and publicist (died 2017) Maxwell Frank Clifford was an English publicist and convicted sex offender who was particularly associated with promoting "kiss and tell" stories in tabloid newspapers. Read more
• 06 Apr 1943: Roger Cook, New Zealand-English journalist and academic Roger Cook is a New Zealand-born British investigative journalist and television broadcaster. In 1997, he won a British Academy of Film & Television Arts special award "for 25 years of outstanding quality investigative reporting", for his show The Cook Report. Read more
• 06 Apr 1943: Ian MacRae, New Zealand rugby player Ian Robert MacRae is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A second five-eighth and centre, MacRae represented West Coast, Bay of Plenty and Hawke's Bay at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1963 to 1970. He played 28 matches for the All Blacks—three as captain—including 17 internationals. Read more
• 06 Apr 1943: Mitchell Melton, American lawyer and politician (died 2013) Mitchell Wesley Melton was a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He was the founder, organizer and original spokesman of the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus, founded in 1969. Read more
• 06 Apr 1942: Barry Levinson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Barry Lee Levinson is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Levinson won the Academy Award for Best Director for Rain Man (1988). His other best-known works are Diner (1982), The Natural (1984), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Bugsy (1991), and Wag the Dog (1997). In 2021, he co-executive produced the Hulu miniseries Dopesick and directed the first two episodes. Read more
• 06 Apr 1942: Anita Pallenberg, Italian-English model, actress, and fashion designer (died 2017) Anita Pallenberg was an Italian-German film actress, artist, and model. A style icon and "It girl" of the 1960s and 1970s, Pallenberg was credited as the muse of the Rolling Stones: she was the romantic partner of the Stones multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and later, from 1967 to 1980, the partner of Stones guitarist Keith Richards, with whom she had three children. Read more
• 06 Apr 1941: Christopher Allsopp, English economist and academic Christopher Allsopp was a British economist. He was Director of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies from 2006 to 2013, was emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and a Reader in Economic Policy at the University of Oxford. Read more
• 06 Apr 1941: Phil Austin, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 2015) Philip Baine Austin was an American comedian and writer, best known as a member of the Firesign Theatre. Read more
• 06 Apr 1941: Hans W. Geißendörfer, German director and producer Hans W. Geißendörfer is a German film director and producer. Read more
• 06 Apr 1941: Angeliki Laiou, Greek-American Byzantinist and politician (died 2008) Angeliki E. Laiou was a Greek-American Byzantinist and politician. She taught at the University of Louisiana, Harvard University, Brandeis University, and Rutgers University. She was the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Studies at Harvard University from 1981 until her death. From 2000 to 2002, she was also a member of the Hellenic Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK): she served as Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs for six months in 2000. Read more
• 06 Apr 1941: Don Prudhomme, American race car driver and manager Don Prudhomme, nicknamed "the Snake", is an American drag racer. He won the NHRA FC championship four times across a 35-year career. Read more
• 06 Apr 1941: Gheorghe Zamfir, Romanian flute player and composer Gheorghe Zamfir is a Romanian nai musician. Read more
• 06 Apr 1940: Homero Aridjis, Mexican journalist, author, and poet Homero Aridjis is a Mexican poet, novelist, environmental activist, journalist, and former ambassador and ex-president of PEN International. Read more
• 06 Apr 1940: Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., Mexican-American actor and producer (died 2011) Pedro Armendáriz Bohr, better known by his stage name Pedro Armendáriz Jr., was a Mexican actor. Read more
• 06 Apr 1939: André Ouellet, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs André Ouellet, is a former longtime Liberal federal politician and cabinet member in Canada. Following his political career, he served as chairman of Canada Post. Read more
• 06 Apr 1939: John Sculley, American businessman, co-founded Zeta Interactive John Sculley III is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and investor in high-tech startups. Sculley was vice-president (1970–1977) and president of PepsiCo (1977–1983), until he became chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc. on April 8, 1983, a position he held until leaving on October 15, 1993. In 1987, Sculley was named Silicon Valley's top-paid executive, with an annual salary of US$10.2 million. Read more
• 06 Apr 1938: Paul Daniels, English magician and television host (died 2016) Newton Edward Daniels, known professionally as Paul Daniels, was an English magician and television presenter. He achieved international fame through his television series The Paul Daniels Magic Show, which ran on the BBC from 1979 to 1994. Read more
• 06 Apr 1938: Roy Thinnes, American television and film actor Roy Thinnes is an American former television and film actor best known for his portrayal of lonely hero David Vincent in the ABC 1967–68 television series The Invaders. Read more
• 06 Apr 1937: Merle Haggard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2016) Merle Ronald Haggard was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in country music, he was a central pioneer of the Bakersfield sound. With a career spanning over five decades, Haggard had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genre singles chart. Read more
• 06 Apr 1937: Tom Veivers, Australian cricketer and politician Thomas Robert Veivers is an Australian former cricketer, teacher, politician and public administrator who played in 21 cricket Test matches between 1963 and 1967. He is the great-uncle of Jack Wildermuth. Read more
• 06 Apr 1937: Billy Dee Williams, American actor, singer, and writer William December Williams Jr. is an American actor, novelist and painter. He has appeared in over 100 films and television roles over six decades. He is best known for portraying Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars franchise and has also appeared in critically acclaimed and popular titles such as Mahogany (1975), Scott Joplin (1977), and Nighthawks (1981), as Harvey Dent in Batman (1989) and The Lego Batman Movie (2017), The Last Angry Man (1959), Carter's Army, The Out-of-Towners (1969), The Final Comedown and Lady Sings the Blues, Hit! (1973), Fear City and Terror in the Aisles, Alien Intruder (1993) and The Visit (2000). Read more
• 06 Apr 1936: Helen Berman, Dutch-Israeli painter and illustrator Helen Berman is a Dutch-Israeli visual artist. She was a textile designer in the 1960s and has been a painter and occasionally an art educator since the 1970s. She is well known in Israel and has exhibited also in Germany and the Netherlands. She created modern and postmodern art and has engaged in realistic impressionism and lyrical abstract expressionism. Read more
• 06 Apr 1936: Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist, biologist, and academic Jean-Pierre Changeux is a French neuroscientist known for his research in several fields of biology, from the structure and function of proteins, to the early development of the nervous system up to cognitive functions. Although being famous in biological sciences for the MWC model, the identification and purification of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, the theory of epigenesis by synapse selection and the global neuronal workspace theory for conscious processing are also notable scientific achievements. Changeux is known by the non-scientific public for his ideas regarding the connection between mind and physical brain. As put forth in his book, Conversations on Mind, Matter and Mathematics, Changeux strongly supports the view that the nervous system functions in a projective rather than reactive style and that interaction with the environment, rather than being instructive, results in the selection amongst a diversity of preexisting internal representations. Read more
• 06 Apr 1935: Douglas Hill, Canadian author and critic (died 2007) Douglas Arthur Hill was a Canadian science fiction author, editor and reviewer. He was born in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of a railroad engineer, and was raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. An avid science fiction reader from an early age, he studied English at the University of Saskatchewan and at the University of Toronto. He married fellow writer and U. of S. alumna Gail Robinson in 1958; they moved to Britain in 1959, where he worked as a freelance writer and editor for Aldus Books. In 1967–1968 he served as assistant editor of the controversial New Worlds science fiction magazine under Michael Moorcock. Read more
• 06 Apr 1934: Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (died 1996) Enrique Álvarez Félix was a Mexican actor. Read more
• 06 Apr 1934: Anton Geesink, Dutch martial artist and wrestler (died 2010) Antonius Johannes Geesink was a Dutch 10th dan judoka. He was the first non-Japanese judoka to win gold at the World Judo Championships, a feat he accomplished in 1961 and 1965. He was also an Olympic Champion, having won gold at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Japan, and won a record 21 European Judo Championships during his career. Read more
• 06 Apr 1934: Guy Peellaert, Belgian painter, illustrator, and photographer (died 2008) Guy Peellaert was a Belgian artist, painter, illustrator, comic artist and photographer, most famous for the book Rock Dreams, and his album covers for rock artists like David Bowie and the Rolling Stones. He also designed film posters for films like Taxi Driver (1976), Paris, Texas (1984), and Short Cuts (1993). The band Frankie Goes to Hollywood took their name from Peellaert's painting, titled Frank Sinatra, which featured the headline "Frankie Goes Hollywood". Read more
• 06 Apr 1933: Roy Goode, English lawyer and academic

  Sir Royston Miles "Roy" Goode is an academic commercial lawyer in the United Kingdom. He founded the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. He was awarded the OBE in 1972 followed by the CBE in 1994 before being knighted for services to academic law in 2000. Read more

• 06 Apr 1933: Tom C. Korologos, American journalist and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Belgium (died 2024) Tom Chris Korologos was an American lobbyist, political advisor, and diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Belgium. Read more
• 06 Apr 1933: Eduardo Malapit, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Kauai (died 2007) Eduardo Enabore Malapit was an American Democratic politician who served as Mayor of Kauaʻi, Hawaii. Elected for four consecutive two-year terms as mayor of Kauaʻi beginning in 1974, he was the first Filipino American mayor of any United States municipality. He was widely respected in Kauaʻi and throughout Hawaii for his belief in community service, and was known as "Mala" by friends and constituents. Read more
• 06 Apr 1932: Connie Broden, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2013) Thomas Connell Broden was a Canadian ice hockey forward. Broden is the only player to have won the International Ice Hockey Federation's World Championships and the Stanley Cup in the same year (1958). Read more
• 06 Apr 1932: Helmut Griem, German actor and director (died 2004) Helmut Griem was a German film, television and stage actor, and director. Read more
• 06 Apr 1931: Ram Dass, American author and educator (died 2019) Ram Dass, also known as Baba Ram Dass, was an American spiritual teacher, guru of modern yoga, psychologist, and writer. His best-selling 1971 book Be Here Now, which has been described by multiple reviewers as "seminal", helped popularize Eastern spirituality and yoga in the West. He authored or co-authored twelve more books on spirituality over the next four decades, including Grist for the Mill (1977), How Can I Help? (1985), and Polishing the Mirror (2013). Read more
• 06 Apr 1931: Ivan Dixon, American actor, director, and producer (died 2008) Ivan Nathaniel Dixon III was an American actor, director, and producer best known for his series role in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes, and for his starring roles in the 1964 independent drama Nothing But a Man and the 1967 television film The Final War of Olly Winter. In addition, he directed many episodes of television series. Read more
• 06 Apr 1930: Qiu Dahong, Chinese coastal and offshore engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (died 2025) Qiu Dahong was a Chinese coastal and offshore engineer. He served as chief engineer of the Dalian Fishing Port, the New Dalian Port, the Qinhuangdao Petroleum Port, and many other projects. He was a professor of the Dalian University of Technology and directed the State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. Read more
• 06 Apr 1929: Willis Hall, English playwright and author (died 2005) Willis Edward Hall was an English playwright and radio, television and film writer who drew on his working-class roots in Leeds for much of his writing. Willis formed an extremely prolific partnership with his life-long friend Keith Waterhouse producing over 250 works. He wrote plays such as Billy Liar, The Long and the Short and the Tall, and Celebration; the screenplays for Whistle Down the Wind, A Kind of Loving and Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain; and television programmes including Budgie, Worzel Gummidge and Minder. His passion for musical theatre led to a string of hits, including Wind in the Willows, The Card, and George Stiles' and Anthony Drewe's Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure. Read more
• 06 Apr 1929: Joi Lansing, American model, actress and nightclub singer (died 1972) Joi Lansing was an American model, film and television actress, and nightclub singer. She was noted for her pin-up photos and roles in B-movies, as well as a prominent role in the famous opening "tracking shot" in Orson Welles' 1958 crime drama Touch of Evil. Read more
• 06 Apr 1929: André Previn, American pianist, composer, and conductor (died 2019) André George Previn was a German and American conductor, composer, and pianist. His career had three facets: Hollywood films, jazz, and classical music. In each he achieved success, and the latter two were part of his life until the end. In movies, he arranged and composed music. In jazz, he was a celebrated pianist, accompanist to singers, and interpreter of songs from the "Great American Songbook". In classical music, he also performed as a pianist but gained television fame as a conductor, and during his last thirty years created his legacy as a composer. Read more
• 06 Apr 1929: Christos Sartzetakis, Greek jurist, supreme justice and President of Greece (died 2022) Christos Sartzetakis was a Greek jurist and a supreme justice of the Court of Cassation, who served as the president of Greece from 1985 to 1990. Read more
• 06 Apr 1928: James Watson, American biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025) James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he and Francis Crick co-authored an academic paper in Nature proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, building on research by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling. In 1962, Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material". Read more
• 06 Apr 1927: Gerry Mulligan, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (died 1996) Gerald Joseph Mulligan, also known as Jeru, was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, pianist, composer and arranger. Though primarily known as one of the leading jazz baritone saxophonists—playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz—Mulligan was also a significant arranger working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. His piano-less quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the best cool jazz ensembles. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments. Several of his compositions, including "Walkin' Shoes" and "Five Brothers", have become standards. Read more
• 06 Apr 1926: Sergio Franchi, Italian-American singer and actor (died 1990) Sergio Franchi was an Italian-American tenor and actor who enjoyed success in the United States and internationally after gaining notice in Britain in the early 1960s. In 1962, RCA Victor signed him to a seven-year contract and in October of that year Franchi appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and performed at Carnegie Hall. Sol Hurok managed Franchi's initial American concert tour. Read more
• 06 Apr 1926: Gil Kane, Latvian-American author and illustrator (died 2000) Gil Kane was a Latvian-born American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character. Read more
• 06 Apr 1926: Ian Paisley, Northern Irish evangelical minister and politician, 2nd First Minister of Northern Ireland (died 2014) Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, was a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 1971 to 2008 and First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2007 to 2008. Read more
• 06 Apr 1926: Randy Weston, American jazz pianist and composer (died 2018) Randolph Edward "Randy" Weston was an American jazz pianist and composer whose creativity was inspired by his ancestral African connection. Read more
• 06 Apr 1923: Herb Thomas, American race car driver (died 2000) Herbert Watson Thomas was a stock car racer who was one of NASCAR's most successful drivers in the 1950s. Thomas was NASCAR's first multi-time Cup Champion. Read more
• 06 Apr 1922: Gordon Chater, English-Australian comedian and actor (died 1999) Gordon Maitland Chater AM was an English Australian comedian and actor, and recipient of the Gold Logie, he appeared in revue, theatre, radio, television and film, with a career spanning almost 50 years. Read more
• 06 Apr 1921: Wilbur Thompson, American shot putter (died 2013) Wilbur Marvin "Moose" Thompson was an American shot putter who won a gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics, leading an American sweep of the medals. Read more
• 06 Apr 1920: Jack Cover, American pilot and physicist, invented the Taser gun (died 2009) John Higson Cover Jr. was an American aerospace scientist who invented the taser stun gun. Read more
• 06 Apr 1920: Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021) Edmond Henri Fischer was a Swiss-American biochemist. He and his collaborator Edwin G. Krebs were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes. From 2007 until 2014, he was the Honorary President of the World Cultural Council. At the time of his death at age 101 in 2021, he was the oldest living Nobel Prize laureate. Read more
• 06 Apr 1919: Georgios Mylonas, Greek politician, 11th Greek Minister of Culture (died 1998) Georgios Mylonas was a Greek Center Union politician and government minister. He was a close aide to Greek statesman and premier Georgios Papandreou, and was repeatedly elected deputy for the Ioannina seat with the Center Union. Mylonas had served as an undersecretary to the premier's office and education undersecretary from 1963 to 1965. He assumed the transport ministry in the first post-junta government in 1974 and was Minister for Culture from 1989 to 1990. Mylonas was the author of the book Escape From Amorgos, detailing his escape from the island, where he was exiled during the 1967-1974 military dictatorship. The escape was organized by his then, son-in-law Elias B.M. Kulukundis and his daughter Eleni Mylonas with the help of Maria Becket. Read more
• 06 Apr 1918: Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian general and politician, 56th President of Bolivia (died 1982) Alfredo Ovando Candia was a Bolivian military officer and political leader who served as the 48th president of Bolivia from 1965 to 1966 and 1969 to 1970. During his first term, he shared power with René Barrientos as co-president of a military junta. Read more
• 06 Apr 1917: Leonora Carrington, English-Mexican painter and author (died 2011) Mary Leonora Carrington was a British and Mexican Surrealist painter and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. Carrington was also a founding member of the women's liberation movement in Mexico during the 1970s. Read more
• 06 Apr 1916: Phil Leeds, American actor (died 1998) Phil Leeds was an American character actor. He appeared in many movies and television series, including guest appearances on The Dick Van Dyke Show, Maude, The Monkees, Friends, Barney Miller, The Golden Girls, Everybody Loves Raymond, Boy Meets World and more. Read more
• 06 Apr 1916: Vincent Ellis McKelvey, American geologist and author (died 1987) Vincent Ellis McKelvey was an American geologist and earth scientist. Recognized as an international authority on deep-sea mineral deposits, he spent 46 years with the United States Geological Survey. From 1968 to 1982, he served as scientific adviser and senior deputy to the United States delegation to the Law of the Sea Conference of the United Nations, where fellow delegates often depended on his ability to render complex scientific issues into plain English. Read more
• 06 Apr 1915: Tadeusz Kantor, Polish director, painter, and set designer (died 1990) Tadeusz Kantor was a Polish painter, assemblage and Happenings artist, set designer and theatre director. Kantor is renowned for his revolutionary theatrical performances in Poland and abroad. Laureate of Witkacy Prize – Critics' Circle Award (1989). Read more
• 06 Apr 1913: Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune, American geographer and academic (died 1993) Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune was an American geographer who was the civil administrator of the Ryukyu Islands from 1962 to 1964, the first civilian to hold that office. He was president of the University of Vermont from 1964 to 1966. Read more
• 06 Apr 1911: Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979) Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen was a German biochemist. In 1964, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Konrad Bloch for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism while he was director of the Max-Planck Institute for Cellular Chemistry in Munich. Read more
• 06 Apr 1910: Barys Kit, Belarusian-American rocket scientist (died 2018) Barys Kit was a Belarusian-American rocket scientist. Read more
• 06 Apr 1909: William M. Branham, American minister and theologian (died 1965) William Marrion Branham was an American Christian minister and faith healer who initiated the post-World War II healing revival, and claimed to be a prophet with the anointing of Elijah, who had come to prelude Christ's second coming; He is credited as "a principal architect of restorationist thought" for charismatics by some Christian historians, and has been called the "leading individual in the second wave of Pentecostalism." He made a lasting influence on televangelism and the modern charismatic movement, and his "stage presence remains a legend unparalleled in the history of the Charismatic movement". At the time they were held, Branham's inter-denominational meetings were the largest religious meetings ever held in some American cities. Branham was the first American deliverance minister to successfully campaign in Europe; his ministry reached global audiences with major campaigns held in North America, Europe, Africa, and India. Read more
• 06 Apr 1909: Hermann Lang, German race car driver (died 1987) Hermann Albert Lang was a German racing driver who raced motorcycles, Grand Prix cars, and sports cars. Read more
• 06 Apr 1908: Marcel-Marie Desmarais, Canadian preacher, missionary, and author (died 1994) Marcel-Marie Desmarais,, was a Quebec writer, preacher and broadcaster. A member of the Roman Catholic Dominican Order, he became a personality through his popular books and radio and TV programs in Quebec. He was also sent as missionary to Brazil during the 1940s. Read more
• 06 Apr 1908: Ernie Lombardi, American baseball player (died 1977) Ernesto Natali Lombardi was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher for the Brooklyn Robins, Cincinnati Reds, Boston Braves, and New York Giants during a career that spanned 17 years, from 1931 through 1947. He had several nicknames, including "Schnozz", "Lumbago", "Bocci", "the Cyrano of the Iron Mask", and "Lom". He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1986. Read more
• 06 Apr 1906: Virginia Hall, American who was a spy in France for the UK and US during WWII (died 1982) Virginia Hall Goillot DSC, Croix de Guerre,, code name Bookworm, was an American who worked with the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in France during World War II. Read more
• 06 Apr 1904: Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer, politician and Chancellor of Germany (died 1988) Kurt Georg Kiesinger was a German politician and lawyer who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1 December 1966 to 21 October 1969. Before he became chancellor, he served as Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg from 1958 to 1966 and as President of the Bundesrat from 1962 to 1963. He was chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1967 to 1971. Read more
• 06 Apr 1904: Erwin Komenda, Austrian car designer and engineer (died 1966) Erwin Komenda was an Austrian automobile designer and Porsche employee, and a lead contributor to the design of the bodies for the VW Beetle and various Porsche sports cars. Read more
• 06 Apr 1903: Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player and manager (died 1962) Gordon Stanley "Mickey" Cochrane, nicknamed "Black Mike", was an American professional baseball player, manager and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Philadelphia Athletics and Detroit Tigers. Cochrane was considered one of the best catchers in baseball history and is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. In his first season as manager, he led the Tigers to 101 wins, which was the most for a rookie manager for 27 years. Read more
• 06 Apr 1903: Harold Eugene Edgerton, American engineer and academic (died 1990) Harold Eugene Edgerton, also known as Papa Flash, was an American scientist and researcher, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. He also was deeply involved with the development of sonar and deep-sea photography, and his equipment was used in collaboration with Jacques Cousteau in searches for shipwrecks and even the Loch Ness Monster. Read more
• 06 Apr 1902: Julien Torma, French author, poet, and playwright (died 1933) Julien Torma was credited as a French writer, playwright and poet who was part of the Dadaist movement. Read more
• 06 Apr 1901: Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian activist (died 1925) Pier Giorgio Frassati was an Italian Catholic activist and a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. He was dedicated to social justice issues and joined several charitable organizations, including Catholic Action and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, to better aid the poor and less fortunate living in his hometown of Turin. Read more
• 06 Apr 1900: Leo Robin, American composer and songwriter (died 1984) Leo Robin was an American composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song "Thanks for the Memory," sung by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938, and with Jule Styne on "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend". Read more
• 06 Apr 1898: Jeanne Hébuterne, French painter and author (died 1920) Jeanne Hébuterne was a French painter and art model best known as the frequent subject and common-law wife of the artist Amedeo Modigliani. She died by suicide two days after Modigliani's death, and is now buried beside him. Read more
• 06 Apr 1895: Dudley Nichols, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1960) Dudley Nichols was an American screenwriter and film director. He was the first person to decline an Academy Award, as part of a boycott to gain recognition for the Screen Writers Guild; he would later accept his Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1938. Read more
• 06 Apr 1892: Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American businessman, founded the Douglas Aircraft Company (died 1981) Donald Wills Douglas Sr. was an American aircraft industrialist and engineer. Read more
• 06 Apr 1892: Lowell Thomas, American journalist and author (died 1981) Lowell Jackson Thomas was an American writer, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker, known as a world traveler. He authored more than fifty non-fiction books, mostly travel narratives and popular biographies of explorers and military men. Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, Thomas appeared regularly on radio and occasionally on television as a travel and news commentator. Until the 1950s, he was a narrator of Movietone newsreels shown in cinemas. Read more
• 06 Apr 1890: Anthony Fokker, Dutch engineer and businessman, founded Fokker Aircraft Manufacturer (died 1939) Anton Herman Gerard "Anthony" Fokker was a Dutch aviation pioneer, aviation entrepreneur, aircraft designer, and aircraft manufacturer. He produced fighter aircraft in Germany during the First World War such as the Eindecker monoplanes, the Dr.1 triplane and the D.VII biplane. Read more
• 06 Apr 1888: Hans Richter, Swiss painter, illustrator, and director (died 1976) Hans Johannes Siegfried Richter was a German Dada painter, graphic artist, avant-garde film producer, and art historian. In 1965 he authored the book Dadaism about the history of the Dada movement. He was born in Berlin into a well-to-do family and died in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland. Read more
• 06 Apr 1888: Gerhard Ritter, German historian and academic (died 1967) Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter was a German historian who served as a professor of history at the University of Freiburg from 1925 to 1956. He studied under Professor Hermann Oncken. A Lutheran, he first became well known for his 1925 biography of Martin Luther and hagiographic portrayal of Prussia. A member of the German People's Party during the Weimar Republic, he was a lifelong monarchist and remained sympathetic to the political system of the defunct German Empire. Read more
• 06 Apr 1886: Athenagoras I of Constantinople (died 1972) Athenagoras I of Constantinople, born Aristocles Matthaiou Spyrou, was Greek Orthodox Archbishop of North and South America from 1930 to 1948 and the 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1948 to 1972. Read more
• 06 Apr 1886: Walter Dandy, American physician and neurosurgeon (died 1946) Walter Edward Dandy was an American neurosurgeon and scientist. He is considered one of the founding fathers of neurosurgery, along with Victor Horsley and Harvey Cushing. Dandy is credited with numerous neurosurgical discoveries and innovations, including the description of the circulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, surgical treatment of hydrocephalus, the invention of air ventriculography and pneumoencephalography, the description of brain endoscopy, the establishment of the first intensive care unit, and the first clipping of an intracranial aneurysm, which marked the birth of cerebrovascular neurosurgery. Read more
• 06 Apr 1886: Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, Indian ruler (died 1967) Mir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII was the last Nizam (ruler) of Hyderabad State, the largest state in the erstwhile Indian Empire. He ascended the throne on 29 August 1911, at the age of 25 and ruled the State of Hyderabad until 1948, when the Indian Union annexed it. He was styled as His Exalted Highness (H.E.H) the Nizam of Hyderabad, and was widely considered one of the world's wealthiest people of all time. With some estimates placing his wealth at 2% of U.S. GDP, his portrait was on the cover of Time magazine in 1937. As a semi-autonomous monarch, he had his mint, printing his currency, the Hyderabadi rupee, and had a private treasury that was said to contain £100 million in gold and silver bullion, and a further £400 million of jewels. The major source of his wealth was the Golconda mines, the only supplier of diamonds in the world at that time. Among them was the Jacob Diamond, valued at some £50 million, and used by the Nizam as a paperweight. Read more
• 06 Apr 1884: J. G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh race car driver and engineer (died 1927) John Godfrey Parry Thomas was a Welsh engineer and motor-racing driver who at one time held the land speed record. He was the first driver to be killed in pursuit of the land speed record. Read more
• 06 Apr 1881: Karl Staaf, Swedish pole vaulter and hammer thrower (died 1953) Karl Gustaf Vilhelm Staaf was a Swedish track and field athlete and tug of war competitor who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was born in Stockholm and died in Motala. Read more
• 06 Apr 1878: Erich Mühsam, German author, poet, and playwright (died 1934) Erich Mühsam was a German antimilitarist anarchist essayist, poet and playwright. He emerged at the end of World War I as one of the leading agitators for a federated Bavarian Soviet Republic, for which he served five years in prison. Read more
• 06 Apr 1869: Levon Shant, Armenian author, poet, and playwright (died 1951) Levon Shant was an Armenian playwright, novelist, poet and founder of the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society. Read more
• 06 Apr 1866: Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, Canadian cardinal (died 1931) Félix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1926 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1927. Read more
• 06 Apr 1864: William Bate Hardy, English biologist and academic (died 1934) Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS was a British biologist and food scientist. The William Bate Hardy Prize is named in his honour. Read more
• 06 Apr 1861: Stanislas de Guaita, French poet and author (died 1897) Stanislas de Guaita was a French poet based in Paris, an expert on esotericism and European mysticism, and an active member of the Rosicrucian Order. He was very celebrated and successful in his time. He had many disputes with other people who were involved with occultism and magic. Occultism and magic were part of his novels. Read more
• 06 Apr 1860: René Lalique, French sculptor and jewellery designer (died 1945) René Jules Lalique was a French jeweller, medallist, and glass designer known for his creations of glass art, perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks, and automobile hood ornaments. Read more
• 06 Apr 1857: Arthur Wesley Dow, American painter and photographer (died 1922) Arthur Wesley Dow was an American painter, printmaker, photographer and an arts educator. Read more
• 06 Apr 1855: Charles Huot, Canadian painter and illustrator (died 1930) Charles Édouard Masson Huot was a French-Canadian painter and illustrator based in Quebec City. Read more
• 06 Apr 1852: Will Crooks, English trade unionist and politician (died 1921) William Crooks was a noted trade unionist and politician from Poplar, London, and a member of the Fabian Society. He is particularly remembered for his campaigning work against poverty and inequality. Read more
• 06 Apr 1851: Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer and academic (died 1932) Camille Guillaume Bigourdan was a French astronomer. Read more
• 06 Apr 1844: William Lyne, Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales (died 1913) Sir William John Lyne KCMG was an Australian politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 1899 to 1901, and later as a federal cabinet minister under Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin. He is best known as the subject of the so called "Hopetoun Blunder", unexpectedly being asked to serve as the first Prime Minister of Australia but proving unable to form a government. Read more
• 06 Apr 1826: Gustave Moreau, French painter and academic (died 1898) Gustave Moreau was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence". He was an influential forerunner of symbolism in the visual arts in the 1860s, and at the height of the symbolist movement in the 1890s, he was among the most significant painters. Art historian Robert Delevoy wrote that Moreau "brought symbolist polyvalence to its highest point in Jupiter and Semele." He was a prolific artist who produced over 15,000 paintings, watercolors, and drawings. Moreau painted allegories and traditional biblical and mythological subjects favored by the fine art academies. J. K. Huysmans wrote, "Gustave Moreau has given new freshness to dreary old subjects by a talent both subtle and ample: he has taken myths worn out by the repetitions of centuries and expressed them in a language that is persuasive and lofty, mysterious and new." The female characters from the Bible and mythology that he so frequently depicted came to be regarded by many as the archetypical symbolist woman. His art fell from favor and received little attention in the early 20th century but, beginning in the 1960s and 70s, he has come to be considered among the most paramount of symbolist painters. Read more
• 06 Apr 1824: George Waterhouse, English-New Zealand politician, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1906) George Marsden Waterhouse was a Premier of South Australia from 8 October 1861 until 3 July 1863 and the seventh premier of New Zealand from 11 October 1872 to 3 March 1873. Read more
• 06 Apr 1823: Joseph Medill, Canadian-American publisher and politician, 26th Mayor of Chicago (died 1899) Joseph Medill was a Canadian-American newspaper editor, publisher, and Republican Party politician. He was co-owner and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, and he was Mayor of Chicago from after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 until 1873. Read more
• 06 Apr 1820: Nadar, French photographer, journalist, and author (died 1910) Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known by the pseudonym Nadar or Félix Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist who was a proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs. Photographic portraits by Nadar are held by many of the great national collections of photographs. His son, Paul Nadar, continued the studio after his death. Read more
• 06 Apr 1818: Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian journalist and poet (died 1870) Aasmund Olavsson Vinje was a Norwegian poet and journalist who is remembered for poetry, travel writing, and his pioneering use of Landsmål. Read more
• 06 Apr 1815: Robert Volkmann, German organist, composer, and conductor (died 1883) Friedrich Robert Volkmann was a German composer. Read more
• 06 Apr 1812: Alexander Herzen, Russian philosopher and author (died 1870) Alexander Ivanovich Herzen was a Russian writer and thinker known as the precursor of Russian socialism and one of the main precursors of agrarian populism. With his writings, many composed while exiled in London, he attempted to influence the situation in Russia, contributing to a political climate that led to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. He published the important social novel Who is to Blame? (1845–46). His autobiography, My Past and Thoughts, is often considered one of the best examples of that genre in Russian literature. Read more
• 06 Apr 1810: Philip Henry Gosse, English biologist and academic (died 1888) Philip Henry Gosse, known to his friends as Henry, was an English naturalist and populariser of natural science, prolific author, "Father of the Aquarium", scientific illustrator, lecturer, entrepreneur, and pioneer in the study of marine biology and ornithology. Gosse created and stocked the world's first public marine aquarium at London Zoo in 1853, and coined the term "aquarium". His 1854 work The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea was the catalyst for the aquarium craze in mid-Victorian England. Over thirty years later, Gosse co-authored a three-volume work on Rotifera considered at the time "the most complete and exhaustive history of the Rotifera in any language", with drawings of "extreme minuteness, accuracy, and beauty". Read more

🕊️ Important Deaths on 06 April in World History

• 06 Apr 2025: Clem Burke, American drummer (born 1954) Clement Anthony Burke was an American musician best known as the drummer for the band Blondie. He joined the band shortly after its formation in 1975 and remained with Blondie throughout the band's entire career until his death in 2025. He appeared on all of the band's albums with two of the founding members, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein. He was drummer for the Ramones for a brief time in 1987 under the name Elvis Ramone, and played on albums by other artists, including Eurythmics, Bob Dylan and Iggy Pop. He was a member of the Romantics from 1990 until 2004. Read more
• 06 Apr 2025: Jay North, American actor (born 1951) Jay Waverly North Jr. was an American actor and later a corrections officer after retiring from acting. His career as a child actor began in the late 1950s, and he went on to appear in eight TV series, two variety shows, and three feature films. At age seven, he became a household name for his role as the good-natured but mischievous Dennis Mitchell on the CBS situation comedy Dennis the Menace (1959–1963), based on the comic strip created by Hank Ketcham. Read more
• 06 Apr 2024: Joseph E. Brennan, American politician, 70th Governor of Maine (born 1934) Joseph Edward Brennan was an American lawyer and politician from Maine. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 70th governor of Maine from 1979 to 1987 and in the United States House of Representatives for Maine's 1st congressional district from 1987 to 1991. Brennan was a commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission during the Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama administrations. Read more
• 06 Apr 2022: Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian and Soviet politician (born 1946) Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky was a Russian right-wing populist politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) from its creation in 1992 until his death in 2022. Read more
• 06 Apr 2022: Jill Knight, British politician (born 1923) Joan Christabel Jill Knight, Baroness Knight of Collingtree, was a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, she served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1966 to 1997. She was created a life peer as Baroness Knight of Collingtree, of Collingtree in the County of Northamptonshire, in 1997 after she had stood down at that year's general election, and retired from the House of Lords in 2016. Read more
• 06 Apr 2021: Hans Küng, Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author (born 1928) Hans Küng was a Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author. From 1995 he was president of the Foundation for a Global Ethic. Read more
• 06 Apr 2021: Alcee Hastings, American politician (born 1936) Alcee Lamar Hastings was an American politician and judge from the state of Florida. Read more
• 06 Apr 2020: Al Kaline, American baseball player, broadcaster and executive (born 1934) Albert William Kaline, nicknamed "Mr. Tiger", was an American professional baseball right fielder who played his entire 22-season career in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers. For most of his career, Kaline played in the outfield, mainly as a right fielder where he won ten Gold Glove Awards and was known for his strong throwing arm. He was selected to 18 All-Star Games, including selections each year between 1955 and 1967. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980 in his first year of eligibility. Read more
• 06 Apr 2019: Michael O'Donnell, British physician, journalist, author and broadcaster (born 1928) Michael O'Donnell was a British physician, journalist, author and broadcaster. Read more
• 06 Apr 2017: Don Rickles, American actor and comedian (born 1926) Donald Jay Rickles was an American actor and stand-up comedian known primarily for his insult comedy. His film roles include Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), Enter Laughing (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), and Casino (1995). From 1976 to 1978, Rickles had a two-season starring role in the NBC television sitcom C.P.O. Sharkey, having previously starred in two eponymous half-hour programs, an ABC variety series titled The Don Rickles Show (1968) and a CBS sitcom identically titled The Don Rickles Show (1972). A veteran headline performer at Las Vegas hotel-casinos and peripheral member of the Rat Pack via friendship with Frank Sinatra, Rickles received widespread exposure as a frequent guest on talk and variety shows, including The Dean Martin Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and The Late Show with David Letterman, and voiced Mr. Potato Head in the first three films of the Toy Story franchise (1995–2010), with archive recordings used for Toy Story 4 (2019). He won a Primetime Emmy Award for the 2006 documentary Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project. In 2014, he was honored by fellow comedians in a show at the Apollo Theater, which was taped and released on Spike TV titled Don Rickles: One Night Only. Read more
• 06 Apr 2016: Merle Haggard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937) Merle Ronald Haggard was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in country music, he was a central pioneer of the Bakersfield sound. With a career spanning over five decades, Haggard had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genre singles chart. Read more
• 06 Apr 2015: Giovanni Berlinguer, Italian lawyer and politician (born 1924) Giovanni Berlinguer was an Italian politician, humanist, and professor of social medicine. Read more
• 06 Apr 2015: James Best, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1926) Jewel Franklin Guy, known professionally as James Best, was an American television, film, stage, and voice actor, as well as a writer, director, acting coach, artist, college professor, and musician. During a career that spanned more than 60 years, Best, who was known for his high-pitched, exasperated voice, performed not only in feature films, but also in scores of television series. Read more
• 06 Apr 2015: Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter and conductor (born 1918) Ray Charles was an American musician, singer, songwriter, vocal arranger and conductor who was best known as organizer and leader of the Ray Charles Singers, who accompanied Perry Como on his records and television shows for 35 years and were also known for a series of 30 choral record albums produced in the 1950s and 1960s for the MGM, Essex, Decca and Command labels. Read more
• 06 Apr 2015: Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1929) Joseph Dollard Herve St. Laurent was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman. Read more
• 06 Apr 2014: Mary Anderson, American actress (born 1918) Mary Bebe Anderson was an American actress, who appeared in 31 films and 22 television productions between 1939 and 1965. She was best known for her small supporting role in the film Gone With the Wind as well as one of the main characters in Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 film Lifeboat. Read more
• 06 Apr 2014: Jacques Castérède, French pianist and composer (born 1926) Jacques Castérède was a French composer and pianist. Read more
• 06 Apr 2014: Liv Dommersnes, Norwegian actress (born 1922) Liv Dommersnes was a Norwegian actress and reciter of poetry. She was a member of group that founded Studioteatret in 1945. Read more
• 06 Apr 2014: Mickey Rooney, American soldier, actor, and dancer (born 1920) Mickey Rooney was an American actor. In a career spanning nearly nine decades, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the silent-film era. He was the top box-office attraction from 1939 to 1941, and one of the best-paid actors of that era. At the height of a career ultimately marked by declines and comebacks, Rooney performed the role of Andy Hardy in a series of 16 films in the 1930s and 1940s that epitomized the mainstream United States self-image. Read more
• 06 Apr 2014: Chuck Stone, American soldier, journalist, and academic (born 1924) Charles Sumner "Chuck" Stone, Jr. was an American pilot, newspaper editor, journalism professor, and author. He was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II and was the first president of the National Association of Black Journalists, serving from 1975 to 1977. Passionate about racial issues and supportive of many liberal causes, he refused to follow any party line, "but called the issues as he saw them." Read more
• 06 Apr 2014: Massimo Tamburini, Italian motorcycle designer, co-founded Bimota (born 1943) Massimo Tamburini was an Italian motorcycle designer for Cagiva, Ducati, and MV Agusta, and one of the founders of Bimota. Tamburini's designs are iconic in their field, with one critic calling him the "Michelangelo of motorbike design". His Ducati 916 and MV Agusta F4 were included in the Guggenheim Museum's The Art of the Motorcycle exhibit of 1998–1999. Read more
• 06 Apr 2013: Hilda Bynoe, Grenadian physician and politician, 2nd Governor of Grenada (born 1921) Dame Hilda Louisa Bynoe, DBE was the Governor of Grenada between 1968 and 1974. Read more
• 06 Apr 2013: Bill Guttridge, English footballer and manager (born 1931) William Henry Guttridge was an English professional football player and manager. Read more
• 06 Apr 2013: Bigas Luna, Spanish director and screenwriter (born 1946) José Juan Bigas Luna was a Spanish film director, designer and artist. His films are typically characterised by a strong emphasis on the erotic, often related to food, something for which he admitted a strong passion. His work often explores and parodies clichés of Spanish identity, but he had an international career and made films in Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French and English. Read more
• 06 Apr 2013: Ottmar Schreiner, German lawyer and politician (born 1946) Ottmar Schreiner was a German lawyer and left-wing politician. He was known as one of the leading leftists in his party, SPD. Read more
• 06 Apr 2012: Roland Guilbault, American admiral (born 1934) Roland George "Gil" Guilbault was an American U.S. Navy rear admiral who commanded the USS Ticonderoga, the first Aegis cruiser. In 1987, he served as a battle force commander aboard the USS Eisenhower. He retired as a rear admiral in 1994. Read more
• 06 Apr 2012: Thomas Kinkade, American painter and illustrator (born 1958) William Thomas Kinkade III was an American painter of popular realistic, pastoral, and idyllic subjects. He is notable for achieving success during his lifetime with the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products by means of the Thomas Kinkade Company. According to Kinkade's company, at one point one in every 20 American homes owned a copy of one of his paintings. Read more
• 06 Apr 2012: Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist and academic (born 1936) Fang Lizhi was a Chinese astrophysicist, vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China, and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986–87 and, finally, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Fang was considered as one of the leaders of the New Enlightenment in the 1980s. Because of his activism, he was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party in January 1987. For his work, Fang was a recipient of the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award in 1989, given each year. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980, but his position was revoked after 1989. Read more
• 06 Apr 2012: Sheila Scotter, Australian fashion designer and journalist (born 1920) Sheila Winifred Gordon Scotter, AM, MBE was an Australian businesswoman. She was a fashion designer and third editor of the Vogue Australia magazine. She also founded the Vogue Living magazine. She was famous for always wearing black and white clothing and leaving her hair silver. This earned her the nickname, the Silver Duchess. She was honoured for her journalism and her fundraising for opera. Read more
• 06 Apr 2012: Reed Whittemore, American poet and critic (born 1919) Edward Reed Whittemore Jr. was an American poet, biographer, critic, literary journalist and college professor. He was appointed the sixteenth and later the twenty-eighth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1964, and in 1984. Read more
• 06 Apr 2011: Gerald Finnerman, American director and cinematographer (born 1931) Gerald Perry Finnerman was an American cinematographer who worked on TV series such as Moonlighting and the original Star Trek. He served as vice president of the American Society of Cinematographers, and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography in Entertainment Programming for a Special. Read more
• 06 Apr 2010: Wilma Mankiller, American tribal leader (born 1945) Wilma Pearl Mankiller was a Native American activist, social worker, community developer and the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, she lived on her family's allotment in Adair County, Oklahoma, until the age of 11, when her family relocated to San Francisco as part of a federal government program to urbanize Indigenous Americans. After high school, she married a well-to-do Ecuadorian and raised two daughters. Inspired by the social and political movements of the 1960s, Mankiller became involved in the Occupation of Alcatraz and later participated in the land and compensation struggles with the Pit River Tribe. For five years in the early 1970s, she was employed as a social worker, focusing mainly on children's issues. Read more
• 06 Apr 2010: Corin Redgrave, English actor (born 1939) Corin William Redgrave was an English actor. He was also a left-wing activist, cofounding the Marxist Party with his sister Vanessa Redgrave. Read more
• 06 Apr 2009: J. M. S. Careless, Canadian historian and academic (born 1919) James Maurice Stockford Careless was a Canadian historian. He taught history at the University of Toronto for 39 years, from 1945 until his retirement in 1984, and served as Chairman of the History Department from 1959 to 1967. He was known for his work in Canadian history, particularly his elaboration of the metropolitan-hinterland thesis and his studies on urban history. He twice won the Governor General's Awards for English-language non-fiction books for Canada: A Story of Challenge (1953) and his biography Brown of the Globe (1963). Read more
• 06 Apr 2009: Shawn Mackay, Australian rugby player and coach (born 1982) Shawn Mackay was an Australian rugby union player with the Canberra based Brumbies in the Super 14 competition. He was the son of former Eastern Suburbs rugby league player John Mackay. Read more
• 06 Apr 2007: Luigi Comencini, Italian director and producer (born 1916) Luigi Comencini was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola, and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the "commedia all'italiana" genre. Read more
• 06 Apr 2006: Maggie Dixon, American basketball player and coach (born 1977) Margaret Mary Dixon was an American collegiate women's basketball coach. Read more
• 06 Apr 2006: Francis L. Kellogg, American soldier and diplomat (born 1917) Francis Leonard Kellogg was an American diplomat, a special assistant to the Secretary of State during the Nixon and Ford Administrations and a prominent socialite in New York City. Read more
• 06 Apr 2006: Stefanos Stratigos, Greek actor and director (born 1926) Stefanos Stratigos was a Greek actor in film and television. Read more
• 06 Apr 2005: Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (born 1923) Rainier III was Prince of Monaco from 1949 to his death in 2005. Rainier ruled the Principality of Monaco for almost 56 years. Read more
• 06 Apr 2005: Anthony F. DePalma, American orthopedic surgeon and professor (born 1904) Anthony F. DePalma was an American orthopedic surgeon and professor at Thomas Jefferson University, as well as the founder of the orthopedic department at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. DePalma was a commander in the US Navy during World War II, an author of numerous medical manuscripts and textbooks, and the creator and first editor-in-chief of the medical journal Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. Read more
• 06 Apr 2004: Lou Berberet, American baseball player (born 1929) Louis Joseph Berberet was an American catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees, Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers between 1954 and 1960. He was born in Long Beach, California. Read more
• 06 Apr 2004: Larisa Bogoraz, Russian linguist and activist (born 1929) Larisa Iosifovna Bogoraz was a dissident in the Soviet Union. Read more
• 06 Apr 2003: David Bloom, American journalist (born 1963) David Jerome Bloom was an American television journalist until his sudden death in 2003 after a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) became a pulmonary embolism at the age of 39. Read more
• 06 Apr 2003: Anita Borg, American computer scientist and educator; founded Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (born 1949) Anita Borg was an American computer scientist celebrated for advocating for women’s representation and professional advancement in technology. She founded the Institute for Women and Technology and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Read more
• 06 Apr 2003: Gerald Emmett Carter, Canadian cardinal (born 1912) Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter was a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Toronto from 1978 to 1990, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979. Read more
• 06 Apr 2003: Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer, educator, and activist (born 1927) Michael Babatunde Olatunji was a Nigerian drummer, educator, social activist, and recording artist. Read more
• 06 Apr 2003: Dino Yannopoulos, Greek stage director of the Metropolitan Opera (born 1919) Konstantinos "Dino" Yannopoulos was the principal stage director of the Metropolitan Opera between 1945 and 1977. One of his major works was a production of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca with Maria Callas on the title role. He founded the Athens Music Festival. Read more
• 06 Apr 2001: Charles Pettigrew, American singer-songwriter (born 1963) Charles & Eddie was an American soul music duo composed of Charles Pettigrew and Eddie Chacon. Their single "Would I Lie to You?", taken from their 1992 debut album, Duophonic, won Ivor Novello Awards in 1993 in the Best Contemporary Song, Best-Selling Song and International Hit of the Year categories. From 1992 to 1995 they hit the top 40 three more times in the UK. Read more
• 06 Apr 2000: Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician, 1st President of Tunisia (born 1903) Habib Bourguiba was a Tunisian politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of the Kingdom of Tunisia from 1956 to 1957, and then as the first president of Tunisia from 1957 to 1987. Prior to his presidency, he led the nation to independence from France, ending the 75-year-old protectorate and earning the title of "Supreme Combatant". Read more
• 06 Apr 1999: Red Norvo, American vibraphone player and composer (born 1908) Red Norvo was an American musician, one of jazz's early vibraphonists, known as "Mr. Swing". He helped establish the xylophone, marimba, and vibraphone as jazz instruments. His recordings included "Dance of the Octopus", "Bughouse", "Knockin' on Wood", "Congo Blues", and "Hole in the Wall". Read more
• 06 Apr 1998: Norbert Schmitz, German footballer (born 1958) Norbert "Nobbi" Christian Schmitz was a German footballer who made a total of 89 2. Bundesliga appearances for Tennis Borussia Berlin and SC Fortuna Köln during his professional career. Read more
• 06 Apr 1998: Tammy Wynette, American singer-songwriter (born 1942) Tammy Wynette was an American country music singer and songwriter, considered among the genre's most influential and successful artists. Along with Loretta Lynn, Wynette helped bring a woman's perspective to the male-dominated country music field that helped other women find representation in the genre. Her characteristic vocal delivery has been acclaimed by critics, journalists and writers for conveying unique emotion. Twenty of her singles topped the US country chart during her career. Her signature song "Stand by Your Man" received both acclaim and criticism for its portrayal of women's loyalty to their husbands. Read more
• 06 Apr 1996: Greer Garson, English-American actress (born 1904) Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson was a British and American actress and singer. Known for playing graceful, noble, and dignified women in period and war dramas, she quickly rose to popularity during the Golden Age of Hollywood. A top star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM), Garson was among the most popular stars of the 1940s, becoming one of the highest-paid actresses in the United States and Britain. From 1942 to 1946, Garson was consistently ranked by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America’s top box-office draws. Read more
• 06 Apr 1995: Ioannis Alevras, Greek banker and politician, President of Greece (born 1912) Ioannis Alevras, sometimes spelled Yannis Alevras, was a Greek Panhellenic Socialist Movement politician and Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament, who served as acting President of Greece in March 1985. Read more
• 06 Apr 1994: Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwandan banker and politician, 3rd President of Rwanda (born 1937) Juvénal Habyarimana was a Rwandan politician and military officer who was the second president of Rwanda, from 1973 until his assassination in 1994. He was nicknamed Kinani, a Kinyarwanda word meaning "invincible". Read more
• 06 Apr 1994: Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician, 5th President of Burundi (born 1955) Cyprien Ntaryamira was a Burundian politician who served as President of Burundi from 5 February 1994 until his assassination two months later in the context of the Burundian Civil War. Read more
• 06 Apr 1992: Isaac Asimov, American science fiction writer (born 1920) Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. He wrote or edited more than 500 books. He also wrote an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Best known for his hard science fiction, Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as popular science and other non-fiction, including guides to the Bible and Shakespeare. Read more
• 06 Apr 1983: Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri, Indian General who served as the Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1962 to 1966 and the Military Governor of Hyderabad State from 1948 to 1949. (born 1908) General Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri was an Indian army general who served as the 5th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1962 to 1966 and the Military Governor of Hyderabad State from 1948 to 1949. After his retirement from the Indian Army, he served as the Indian High Commissioner to Canada from 19 July 1966 until August 1969. Read more
• 06 Apr 1979: Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect, designed the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library (born 1893) Ivan Vasilyov was a Bulgarian architect, born in 1893, deceased in 1979. Read more
• 06 Apr 1977: Kōichi Kido, Japanese politician, 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan (born 1889) Marquess Kōichi Kido was a Japanese statesman who served as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan from 1940 to 1945, and was the closest advisor to emperor Hirohito throughout World War II. He was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment, of which he served 6 years before being released in 1953. Read more
• 06 Apr 1974: Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (born 1884) Willem Marinus Dudok was a famous Dutch modernist architect. He was born in Amsterdam. He became City Architect for the town of Hilversum in 1928 where he was best known for the brick Hilversum Town Hall, completed in 1931. Not only did he design the building, but also the interior including the carpets, furniture and even the mayor's meeting hammer. He also designed and built about 75 houses, public buildings and entire neighborhoods. Read more
• 06 Apr 1974: Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (born 1895) Sir Wilmot Hudson Fysh was an Australian aviator and businessman. A founder of the Australian airline company Qantas, Fysh was born in Launceston, Tasmania. Serving in the Battle of Gallipoli and Palestine Campaign as a lieutenant of the Australian Light Horse Brigade, Fysh later became an observer and gunner to Paul McGinness in the AFC. He was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross during the aftermath of the war for his services to aerial warfare. Read more
• 06 Apr 1971: Igor Stravinsky, Russian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1882) Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer and conductor with French and American citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music. Read more
• 06 Apr 1970: Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (born 1933) Maurice Stokes was an American professional basketball player. He played for the Cincinnati/Rochester Royals of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1955 to 1958. Stokes was a three-time NBA All-Star, a three-time All-NBA Second Team member and the 1956 NBA Rookie of the Year. His career – and later his life – was cut short by a debilitating brain injury and paralysis. Read more
• 06 Apr 1963: Otto Struve, Ukrainian-American astronomer and academic (born 1897) Otto Lyudvigovich Struve was a Russian-American astronomer of Baltic German origin. Otto was the descendant of famous astronomers of the Struve family; he was the son of Ludwig Struve, grandson of Otto Wilhelm von Struve and great-grandson of Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve. He was also the nephew of Karl Hermann Struve. Read more
• 06 Apr 1961: Jules Bordet, Belgian microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1870) Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist. The bacterial genus Bordetella is named after him. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to him in 1919 for his discoveries relating to immunity. Read more
• 06 Apr 1959: Leo Aryeh Mayer, Polish-Israeli scholar and academic (born 1895) Leo Aryeh Mayer OBE, was an Israeli scholar of Islamic art and rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Read more
• 06 Apr 1953: Idris Davies, Welsh poet and author (born 1905) Idris Davies was a Welsh poet. Born in Rhymney, near Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales, he became a poet, originally writing in Welsh, but later writing exclusively in English. Read more
• 06 Apr 1950: Louis Wilkins, American pole vaulter (born 1882) Louis Gary Wilkins was an American athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault. He competed for the United States in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St Louis, United States in the pole vault where he won the bronze medal. Read more
• 06 Apr 1947: Herbert Backe, German agronomist and politician (born 1896) Herbert Friedrich Wilhelm Backe was a German politician and SS-Obergruppenführer who served as State Secretary and Reichsminister in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture. He was a doctrinaire racial ideologue, a long-time associate of Richard Walther Darré and a personal friend of Reinhard Heydrich. He developed and implemented the Hunger Plan that envisioned death by starvation of tens of millions of Slavic and Jewish "useless eaters" following Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. Read more
• 06 Apr 1944: Rose O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer (born 1874) Rose Cecil O'Neill was an American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. She rose to fame for her creation of the popular comic strip characters, Kewpies, in 1909, and was also the first published female cartoonist in the United States. Read more
• 06 Apr 1935: Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and playwright (born 1869) Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet and playwright. Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on three occasions and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. Read more
• 06 Apr 1927: Florence Earle Coates, American poet (born 1850) Florence Van Leer Nicholson Coates was an American poet whose prolific output was published in dozens of literary magazines, some of it set to music. She was mentored by the English poet Matthew Arnold, with whom she maintained a lasting friendship. She was famous for her many nature poems, inspired by the flora and fauna of the Adirondacks, where she and her husband Edward Hornor Coates maintained a summer camp. She was elected poet laureate by the State Federation of Women's Clubs (Pennsylvania) in 1915. Read more
• 06 Apr 1913: Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore (born 1835) Somerset Richard Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore,, styled as Viscount Corry from 1841 to 1845, was an Irish nobleman and Conservative politician who served as Governor of New South Wales from 1868 to 1872. Read more
• 06 Apr 1906: Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author, playwright, and politician, 6th County Governor of Møre og Romsdal (born 1849) Alexander Lange Kielland was a Norwegian realistic writer of the 19th century. He is one of the so-called "The Four Greats" of Norwegian literature, along with Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Jonas Lie. Read more
• 06 Apr 1899: Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (born 1809) Alvan Wentworth Chapman was an American physician and pioneering botanist in the study of flora of the American Southeast. He wrote Flora of the Southern United States, the first comprehensive description of U.S. plants in any region beyond the northeastern states. Read more
• 06 Apr 1886: William Edward Forster, English businessman, philanthropist, and politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (born 1818) William Edward Forster, PC, FRS was an English industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party statesman. As a minister in Gladstone's government, he steered through the Elementary Education Act 1870 which was the foundation of compulsory national free education for children in the UK. However his reputation was later greatly tarnished by his coercive policies as Chief Secretary for Ireland during the Land War. His purported advocacy of the Irish Constabulary's use of lethal force against the National Land League earned him the nickname Buckshot Forster from Irish nationalists. Read more
• 06 Apr 1883: Benjamin Wright Raymond, American merchant and politician, 3rd Mayor of Chicago (born 1801) Benjamin Wright Raymond was an American politician who twice served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois for the Whig Party. Read more
• 06 Apr 1862: Albert Sidney Johnston, American general (born 1803) General Albert Sidney Johnston was an American military officer who served as a general officer in three different armies: the Texian Army, the United States Army, and the Confederate States Army. He saw extensive combat during his 34-year military career, fighting actions in the Black Hawk War, the Texas-Indian Wars, the Mexican–American War, the Utah War, and the American Civil War, where he died on the battlefield. Read more
• 06 Apr 1860: James Kirke Paulding, American author and politician, 11th United States Secretary of the Navy (born 1778) James Kirke Paulding was an American writer and, for a time, the United States Secretary of the Navy. Paulding's early writings were satirical and violently anti-British, as shown in The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan (1812). He wrote numerous long poems and serious histories. Among his novels are Konigsmarke, the Long Finne (1823) and The Dutchman's Fireside (1831). He is best known for creating the inimitable Nimrod Wildfire, the "half horse, half alligator" in The Lion of the West (1831), and as collaborator with William Irving and Washington Irving in Salmagundi. (1807–08). Paulding was also, by the mid-1830s, an ardent and outspoken defender of slavery who later endorsed southern secession from the United States. Read more
• 06 Apr 1838: José Bonifácio de Andrada, Brazilian poet, academic, and politician (born 1763) José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva was a Brazilian statesman, naturalist, mineralist, professor and poet, born in Santos, São Paulo, then part of the Portuguese Empire. Read more
• 06 Apr 1833: Adamantios Korais, Greek philosopher and scholar (born 1748) Adamantios Korais or Koraïs was a Greek scholar credited with laying the foundations of modern Greek literature and a major figure in the Greek Enlightenment. His activities paved the way for the Greek War of Independence and the emergence of a purified form of the Greek language, known as Katharevousa. Encyclopædia Britannica asserts that "his influence on the modern Greek language and culture has been compared to that of Dante on Italian and Martin Luther on German". Read more
• 06 Apr 1829: Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician and theorist (born 1802) Niels Henrik Abel was a Norwegian mathematician who made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields. His most famous single result is the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals. This question was one of the outstanding open problems of his day, and had been unresolved for over 250 years. He was also an innovator in the field of elliptic functions and the discoverer of Abelian functions. He made his discoveries while living in poverty and died at the age of 26 from tuberculosis. Read more
• 06 Apr 1827: Nikolis Apostolis, Greek naval commander during the Greek War of Independence (born 1770) Nikolis Apostolis was a Greek naval commander, leader of the Psarian fleet during the Greek War of Independence. Read more
• 06 Apr 1825: Vladimir Borovikovsky, Ukrainian-Russian painter and educator (born 1757) Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky was a Russian artist of Ukrainian Cossack origin. He served at the court of Catherine the Great and dominated portraiture in Russia at the turn of the 19th century. Read more

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