May 6
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[edit] Births
- 1501 - Pope Marcellus II (d. 1555)
- 1574 - Pope Innocent X (d. 1655)
- 1758 - Maximilien Robespierre, revolutionary (d. 1794)
- 1758 - André Masséna, French soldier (d. 1817)
- 1769 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1824)
- 1797 - Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882)
- 1856 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
- 1856 - Robert Peary, explorer (d. 1920)
- 1861 - Rabindranath Tagore, author (d. 1941)
- 1868 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918)
- 1868 - Gaston Leroux, writer (d. 1927)
- 1871 - Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
- 1871 - Christian Morgenstern, author (d. 1914)
- 1879 - Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (d. 1952)
- 1880 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, painter (d. 1938)
- 1882 - Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II (d. 1951)
- 1895 - Rudolph Valentino, actor (d. 1926)
- 1902 - Max Ophüls, director (d. 1957)
- 1902 - Harry Golden, American journalist (d. 1981)
- 1904 - Moshe Feldenkrais, founder of the Feldenkrais method (d. 1984)
- 1915 - Orson Welles, director (d. 1985)
- 1915 - Theodore H. White, writer (d. 1986)
- 1920 - Ross Hunter, producer (d. 1996)
- 1920 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister and later President of Fiji (d. 2004)
- 1921 - Erich Fried, author (d. 1988)
- 1925 - Hanns Dieter Hüsch, cabaretist
- 1931 - Willie Mays, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1937 - Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, boxer
- 1945 - Bob Seger, rock music singer
- 1945 - Jimmie Dale Gilmore, musician
- 1947 - Martha Nussbaum, philosopher
- 1953 - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1955 - Tom Bergeron, game show host
- 1960 - John Flansburgh, musician
- 1961 - George Clooney, actor
- 1964 - Dana Hill, actress
- 1970 - George Rivas, Texas 7 ringleader
- 1972 - Martin Brodeur, hockey player
- 1980 - Kate Lawler, Big Brother contestant
[edit] Deaths
[edit] Events
- 1937-LZ 129 Hindenburg catches on fire while landing in New Jersey.
