October 6 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on October 6, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♎︎ Libra
Sep 23 – Oct 22
Birth stone
Opal
Birth flower
Marigold
How common
#173 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous October 6 birthdays
Jenny Lind · Swedish opera singer1820
Richard Dedekind · German mathematician1831
George Westinghouse · American inventor and businessman1846
Le Corbusier · Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer1887
Ernest Walton · Irish physicist and Nobel laureate1903
Janet Gaynor · American actress1906
Carole Lombard · American actress1908
Thor Heyerdahl · Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer1914
Siad Barre · Head of State of Somalia1919
Hafez al-Assad · President of Syria from 1971 to 20001930
Riccardo Giacconi · Italian-American astrophysicist1931
Mario Capecchi · Molecular geneticist and Nobel laureate1937
David Brin · American scientist and science fiction author1950
Lai Ching-te · 16th President of Taiwan since 20241959
Yves Leterme · Former Belgian prime minister1960
David Baker · American biochemist and computational biologist1962
Elisabeth Shue · American actress1963
Peter Pellegrini · President of Slovakia1975
Levon Aronian · Armenian-American chess player1982
Addison Rae · American singer2000
On this day in history
1777American Revolutionary War: Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery were captured by British forces under Sir Henry Clinton, dismantling the Hudson River Chains.
2000Denouncing corruption in Argentine president Fernando de la Rúa's administration and the Senate, Vice President Carlos Álvarez resigned.
2008The MESSENGER probe discovered Mercury's Rembrandt – the second largest impact crater on the planet.
2018The United States Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Associate Justice, ending a contentious confirmation process.
1927The Jazz Singer, one of the first feature-length motion pictures with a synchronized recorded music score, was released.
1934Revolution of 1934: The President of the autonomous government of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, proclaims the Catalan State with the support of the Worker's Alliance.
1942World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1995Astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz reported the discovery of a planet orbiting 51 Pegasi as the first known exoplanet around a main-sequence star.
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