February 6 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on February 6, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♒︎ Aquarius
Jan 20 – Feb 18
Birth stone
Amethyst
Birth flower
Violet
How common
#271 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous February 6 birthdays
Charles Wheatstone · British scientist and inventor1802
Abdul Ghaffar Khan · Pashtun independence activist against British rule in India1890
William P. Murphy · American scientist1892
Babe Ruth · American baseball player1895
Władysław Gomułka · Polish politician1905
Ronald Reagan · 40th President of the United States1911
Eva Braun · Photographer, longtime companion and later wife of Adolf Hitler1912
Mary Leakey · British paleoanthropologist1913
Rip Torn · American actor1931
François Truffaut · French film director1932
Camilo Cienfuegos · Cuban revolutionary fighter and guerilla1932
Bob Marley · Jamaican reggae musician1945
Natalie Cole · American singer1950
Axl Rose · American singer-songwriter1962
Andrey Zvyagintsev · Russian film director, screenwriter and actor1964
Rick Astley · British singer1966
Olena Zelenska · First Lady of Ukraine since 20191978
Alice Weidel · German politician, AfD1979
Dane DeHaan · American actor1986
Leon Goretzka · German association football player1995
On this day in history
1788Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the constitution of the United States.
1820The first ship of the American Colonization Society departed from New York for West Africa with 86 African-American emigrants aboard to found the colony of Liberia.
1862Union forces earned one of their first important victories in the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.
1919World War I: More than 65,000 workers in Seattle began a five-day general strike to gain higher wages after two years of wage controls in the United States.
1778France and the United States signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance, respectively establishing commercial and military ties between the two nations.
1996Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
1998Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
2021U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken suspends agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to send asylum seekers back to their home countries.
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