December 6 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on December 6, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♐︎ Sagittarius
Nov 22 – Dec 21
Birth stone
Turquoise
Birth flower
Narcissus
How common
#190 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous December 6 birthdays
Max Müller · German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist1823
Frédéric Bazille · French painter1841
Gunnar Myrdal · Swedish economist1898
Agnes Moorehead · American actress1900
Dave Brubeck · American jazz pianist and composer1920
George Porter · British chemist1920
Peter Handke · Austrian writer, playwright and film director1942
Geoffrey Hinton · British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist1947
Yoshihide Suga · Prime Minister of Japan from 2020 to 20211948
Keke Rosberg · Finnish racing driver1948
Joe Hisaishi · Japanese composer, conductor, pianist1950
Randy Rhoads · American guitarist1956
Andrew Cuomo · American politician and lawyer1957
Satoru Iwata · Japanese video game programmer and businessman1959
Judd Apatow · American comedian and filmmaker1967
Sadyr Japarov · Kyrgyz politician and the president of Kyrgyzstan1968
Tim Cahill · Australian association football player1979
Alberto Contador · Spanish professional cyclist1982
CoCo Vandeweghe · American tennis player1991
Giannis Antetokounmpo · Nigerian-Greek basketball player1994
On this day in history
1917World War I: USS Jacob Jones became the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it was torpedoed by German submarine SM U-53.
1933In United States v. One Book Called Ulysses Judge John M. Woolsey ruled that James Joyce's novel Ulysses was not obscene, allowing it to be imported into the United States.
1967American physician Adrian Kantrowitz and his team performed the world's first pediatric heart transplant at Maimonides Medical Center in New York City.
2017Under President Donald Trump, the United States government officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
1846Mexican–American War: American and Mexican forces clashed at the Battle of San Pasqual, a series of skirmishes near San Diego, California.
1865Slavery in the United States was officially abolished with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
1904President Theodore Roosevelt announced the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, justifying the exercise of "international police power" by the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere.
2006NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
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