May 6 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on May 6, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♉︎ Taurus
Apr 20 – May 20
Birth stone
Emerald
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
How common
#313 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous May 6 birthdays
Sigmund Freud · Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis1856
Robert Peary · explorer from the United States1856
Victor Grignard · French chemist1871
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker1880
Rudolph Valentino · Italian actor1895
Harry Martinson · Swedish writer1904
Orson Welles · American actor and filmmaker1915
Paul Lauterbur · American chemist1929
Willie Mays · American baseball player1931
Martha Nussbaum · American philosopher1947
Tony Blair · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 20071953
George Clooney · American-French actor and filmmaker1961
Dani Alves · Brazilian footballer1983
Gabourey Sidibe · American actress1983
Chris Paul · American basketball player1985
Moon Geun-young · South Korean actress1987
Takashi Usami · Japanese association football player1992
Naomi Scott · British actress and singer1993
Mateo Kovačić · Croatian association football player1994
Cole Palmer · English footballer2002
On this day in history
1882U.S. president Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act into law (cartoon pictured), implementing a ban on Chinese immigration to the United States that remained for 61 years.
1941American entertainer Bob Hope performed his first show with the United Service Organizations, beginning a 50-year involvement with them.
1942World War II: Japanese troops overcame fierce American and Philippine resistance to win the Battle of Corregidor.
2023King Charles III and Queen Camilla were crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
1994Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
1998Steve Jobs unveiled the iMac G3' personal computer.
2004The final episode of the television sitcom Friends was aired.
2013Amanda Berry escaped from the Cleveland, Ohio, home of her captor, Ariel Castro, having been held there with two other women for ten years.
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