June 6 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on June 6, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♊︎ Gemini
May 21 – Jun 20
Birth stone
Pearl
Birth flower
Rose
How common
#125 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous June 6 birthdays
K. Ferdinand Braun · German physicist1850
Robert Falcon Scott · Royal Navy officer and explorer1868
Alexandra Feodorovna · Empress consort of Russia1872
Thomas Mann · German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate1875
Igor Sikorsky · American aviation pioneer from Russian Empire1889
Sukarno · 1st President of Indonesia1901
Aram Khachaturian · Soviet Armenian composer1903
Isaiah Berlin · Russo-British-Latvian Jewish social and political theorist1909
Edwin G. Krebs · American biochemist1918
David Scott · American engineer1932
Heinrich Rohrer · Swiss physicist1933
Albert II of Belgium · Sixth king of the Belgians1934
Richard Smalley · American chemist1943
Phillip Allen Sharp · American biologist1944
Björn Borg · Swedish tennis player1956
Steve Vai · American guitarist1960
Tom Araya · Chilean-American musician1961
Faure Gnassingbé · Togolese politician1966
Paul Giamatti · American actor1967
Jonathan Nolan · British-American filmmaker1976
On this day in history
1813War of 1812: The British ambushed an American encampment near present-day Stoney Creek, Ontario, capturing two senior officers.
1944World War II: Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious military operation in history, began with Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy in France.
1982Falklands War: The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff engaged and destroyed a British Army helicopter in a friendly-fire incident.
1985The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for performing human experiments on Auschwitz inmates, were exhumed in Embu das Artes, Brazil.
1882The Shewan army defeated Gojjame forces at the Battle of Embabo, an event that contributed to the supremacy of Shewa within the Ethiopian Empire.
1894Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered the Colorado state militia to protect and support miners engaged in a five-month strike in Cripple Creek.
1912The largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century began, forming the volcano Novarupta in the Alaska Peninsula.
1934New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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