Famous People Born on October 6
Famous people born on October 6 include Le Corbusier (1887), Hafez al-Assad (1930) and Thor Heyerdahl (1914).
BORN ON THIS DAY
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Hafez al-Assad
President of Syria from 1971 to 2000
Thor Heyerdahl
Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer (1914–2002)
Louis Philippe I
King of the French from 1830 to 1848
Ernest Walton
Irish physicist (1903–1995)
Riccardo Giacconi
Italian-American astrophysicist (1931–2018)
Richard Dedekind
German mathematician (1831–1916)
Janet Gaynor
American actress (1906–1984)
Elisabeth Shue
American actress (born 1963)
Carole Lombard
American actress (1908–1942)
Matteo Ricci
Italian Catholic missionary (1552–1610)
Jenny Lind
Swedish opera singer (1820–1887)
George Westinghouse
American engineer, inventor, and businessman (1846–1914)
Levon Aronian
Armenian-American chess grandmaster (born 1982)
Liu Yang
Chinese taikonaut (born 1978)
Yaşar Kemal
Turkish writer and activist (1923–2015)
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Anwar Sadat
President of Egypt from 1970 to 1981
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
English poet (1809–1892)
Bette Davis
American actress (1908–1989)
Montserrat Caballé
Spanish operatic soprano (1933–2018)
Charles the Bald
King of West Francia from 843 to 877 and Carolingian Emperor from 875 to 877
Eddie Van Halen
American rock guitarist and songwriter (1955–2020)
Auguste Beernaert
14th Prime Minister of Belgium and human rights activist
Otto Fritz Meyerhof
German biochemist (1884–1951)
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet and short-story writer (1911–1979)
Eva Marie Saint
American actress (1924–2026)
Sources
- October 6 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Le Corbusier — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths