November 6 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on November 6, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♏︎ Scorpio
Oct 23 – Nov 21
Birth stone
Topaz
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
How common
#158 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous November 6 birthdays
Adolphe Sax · Belgian musical instrument designer and musician1814
John Philip Sousa · American conductor and composer1854
James Naismith · Canadian-American coach1861
Robert Musil · Austrian philosophical writer1880
June Squibb · American actress1929
Mike Nichols · American director and comedian1931
François Englert · Belgian theoretical physicist1932
Sally Field · American actress1946
Glenn Frey · American rock musician1948
Michael Cunningham · American novelist and screenwriter1952
Paul Romer · American economist1955
Cam Clarke · American voice actor1957
Ethan Hawke · American actor and writer1970
Rebecca Romijn · American actress and model1972
Lamar Odom · American basketball player1979
Ana Ivanovic · Serbian tennis player1987
Emma Stone · American actress and producer1988
Conchita Wurst · Austrian singer and drag queen1988
Jozy Altidore · American soccer player1989
André Schürrle · German association football player1990
On this day in history
1863American Civil War: A Union brigade defeated a Confederate force at the Battle of Droop Mountain in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
1868Red Cloud, a Native American leader of the Oglala Lakota tribe, signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie, ending Red Cloud's War and establishing the Great Sioux Reservation.
1944The B Reactor at the Hanford Site in the U.S. state of Washington began producing plutonium, with the facility later going on to create more for nearly the entire American nuclear arsenal.
2012Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
1924The Spanish anarchist group Los Solidarios unsuccessfully attempted to launch an insurrection against the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.
1939As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of the Jagiellonian University (location pictured) in Kraków.
2002Jiang Lijun is detained by Chinese police for signing the Open Letter to the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.
2016Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces launched a successful military campaign to isolate and eventually capture Raqqa, the Islamic State's capital.
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