March 6 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on March 6, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♓︎ Pisces
Feb 19 – Mar 20
Birth stone
Aquamarine
Birth flower
Daffodil
How common
#237 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous March 6 birthdays
Elizabeth Barrett Browning · English poet1806
Stanisław Jerzy Lec · Polish writer1909
Alan Greenspan · American economist and financial advisor1926
Andrzej Wajda · Polish film director1926
Gabriel García Márquez · Colombian writer and Nobel laureate1927
Gordon Cooper · American astronaut1927
Lorin Maazel · French-American conductor1930
Valentina Tereshkova · Russian cosmonaut and pilot, first woman to have flown in space1937
Rob Reiner · American filmmaker and actor1947
Dick Fosbury · American athletics competitor, high jumper1947
Carolyn Porco · American planetary scientist1953
Connie Britton · American actress1967
Moira Kelly · American actress1968
Jintara Poonlarp · Thai female singer1969
Shaquille O'Neal · American basketball player1972
Tim Howard · American soccer player1979
Kevin-Prince Boateng · Ghanaian footballer1987
Simon Mignolet · Belgian association football player1988
Tyler, the Creator · American rapper and record producer1991
Timo Werner · German association football player1996
On this day in history
1943World War II: National Liberation Front forces defeated Italian occupiers in the Battle of Fardykambos, a major sign of the Greek resistance's growth.
1945Petru Groza of the Ploughmen's Front became the first prime minister of the Communist Party-dominated government of Romania.
1964In a radio broadcast, Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad announced that American boxer Cassius Clay would change his name to Muhammad Ali.
2000The Marine Parade Community Building, the mural cladding of which is the largest installation art in Singapore, was opened.
1857The Supreme Court of the United States rules 7–2 in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case that the Constitution does not confer citizenship on black people.
1904Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Led by William Speirs Bruce, the Antarctic region of Coats Land was discovered by the Scotia.
1913First Balkan War: The Greek army captured Bizani Fortress, near Ioannina, from the Ottomans.
1930Organized by the Communist International, hundreds of thousands of people in major cities around the world marched to protest mass unemployment associated with the Great Depression.
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