March 6th
March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). There are 298 days remaining.
It is 啓蟄 (Keichitsu) in the Japanese calendar.
Events
Births
- 1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter, (d. 1564)
- 1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, soldier, poet, (d. 1655)
- 1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet, (d. 1861)
- 1831 - Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, theologian, (d. 1910)
- 1885 - Ring Lardner, writer, (d. 1933)
- 1898 - Therese Giehse, actress, (d. 1975)
- 1904 - Joseph Schmidt, tenor, (d. 1942)
- 1905 - Bob Wills, country music singer, (d. 1975)
- 1906 - Lou Costello, actor, comedian, (d. 1959)
- 1923 - Ed McMahon, television personality
- 1923 - Jürgen von Manger, cabaretist, (d. 1994)
- 1926 - Alan Greenspan, American economist
- 1926 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director
- 1927 or 1928 - Gabriel García Márquez, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1982
- 1927 - Wes Montgomery, musician
- 1927 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut
- 1929 - Günter Kunert, writer and lyricist
- 1930 - Lorin Maazel, opera conductor
- 1936 - Marion Barry Jr., mayor of Washington, DC
- 1937 - Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut
- 1941 - Willie Stargell, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, opera singer
- 1946 - David Gilmour, musican ("Pink Floyd")
- 1947 - Rob Reiner, actor, comedian, movie producer
- 1947 - Dick Fosbury, athlete
- 1947 - Kiki Dee, singer
- 1959 - Tom Arnold, actor, comedian
- 1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player
Deaths
- 1888 - Louisa May Alcott, novelist, (b. 1832)
- 1929 - David Buick, automobile pioneer
- 1932 - John Philip Sousa, band leader, conductor, composer, (b. 1854)
- 1933 - Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago, Illinois, wounded weeks earlier by an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin D. Roosevelt, dies of his injuries, (b. 1873)
- 1941 - Gutzon Borglum, sculptor, (b. 1867)
- 1951 - Ivor Novello, actor, musician, composer, (b. 1893)
- 1965 - Margaret Dumont, actress
- 1967 - Zoltán Kodály, composer, (b. 1882)
- 1967 - Nelson Eddy, singer, actor
- 1973 - Pearl S. Buck, writer, (b. 1892)
- 1976 - Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, boxer, actor
- 1982 - Ayn Rand, author, (b. 1905)
- 1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, artist, (b. 1887)
Holidays and observances
See Also:
March 5 - March 7 - February 6 - April 6 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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