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b. 2002Cole Palmer
England international footballer known for his prolific goalscoring at Chelsea
Did you know? He earned the nickname 'Cold Palmer' due to his calm composure during matches and his signature shivering goal celebration.
b. 1994Mateo Kovačić
Croatian midfielder who has won numerous UEFA Champions League titles
Did you know? He is one of a select group of players to have won the Champions League with three different clubs.
b. 1993Naomi Scott
British actress who played Princess Jasmine in Aladdin
Did you know? She began her musical career singing in a church youth band before being discovered by a member of the girl group Eternal.
b. 1992Takashi Usami
Japanese professional footballer who plays as a forward or winger
Did you know? At seventeen years old, he became the youngest player to debut and score for the Japanese club Gamba Osaka.
b. 1987Moon Geun-young
South Korean actress known as the Nation's Little Sister
Did you know? She became the youngest ever recipient of a Daesang, the highest acting honour in South Korea, for her role in Painter of the Wind.
b. 1986Emily Armstrong
Los Angeles rock singer, co-founder of Dead Sara, who became Linkin Park's new co-vocalist in 2024
Did you know? She was announced at a surprise Linkin Park concert livestreamed in September 2024.
b. 1983Daniel Alves
Brazilian right-back who won three Champions Leagues with Barcelona and became the most decorated footballer by trophies won
Did you know? Before his professional football career took off, he worked as an extra in a Brazilian film about a legendary local folk hero.
b. 1961George Clooney
American actor and director who rose to fame in ER, starred in Ocean's Eleven and won an Oscar for Syriana
Did you know? Before his acting career took off, he tried out for the Cincinnati Reds baseball team but failed to earn a contract.
b. 1953Tony Blair
Labour leader who won three general elections and served as British Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007, including during the Iraq War
Did you know? During his student years at Oxford, he was the lead singer of a rock band called Ugly Rumours.
1929–2007Paul Lauterbur
American chemist who co-developed the magnetic resonance imaging scanner
Did you know? He first noted down the core ideas for the MRI scanner on a paper napkin while eating at a restaurant.
1918–2004Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
Founding father and the first president of the United Arab Emirates
Did you know? He oversaw a massive greening project that involved planting millions of trees to transform the desert landscape of his country.
1915–1985Orson Welles
American director and actor who made Citizen Kane at 25 and caused a panic with his War of the Worlds radio broadcast
Did you know? His 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds was so realistic that it reportedly caused widespread panic among listeners.
1904–1978Harry Martinson
Nobel Prize-winning Swedish author and poet
Did you know? He spent much of his youth as a merchant sailor, an experience that heavily influenced his literary work.
1895–1926Rudolph Valentino
Italian actor and iconic leading man of the silent film era
Did you know? His sudden death at the age of thirty-one caused mass hysteria and grief among his devoted fans across the world.
1880–1938Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German Expressionist painter and co-founder of the group Die Brücke
Did you know? His artwork was branded as degenerate by the Nazi regime, leading to hundreds of his paintings being removed from public museums.
1871–1935Victor Grignard
Nobel Prize-winning chemist who discovered the Grignard reaction
Did you know? He initially studied mathematics before switching to chemistry, a subject he reportedly disliked at first.
1861–1941Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, composer and painter who wrote Gitanjali and became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
Did you know? He is the only person to have composed the national anthems for two different countries, India and Bangladesh.
1856–1939Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist who founded psychoanalysis and introduced ideas such as the unconscious, repression and the interpretation of dreams
Did you know? He was a lifelong smoker who continued the habit despite undergoing dozens of surgeries for jaw cancer.
1856–1920Robert Peary
American explorer who led several expeditions to reach the North Pole
Did you know? His claim of being the first to reach the North Pole remains controversial among historians due to navigation errors and missing data.
1758–1794Maximilien Robespierre
French revolutionary lawyer who led the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror and was guillotined in 1794
Did you know? Despite his later association with the guillotine, he was an outspoken opponent of the death penalty early in his career.
1574–1655Innocent X
Seventeenth-century Pope famously depicted in a portrait by Velázquez
Did you know? He was involved in a long-standing family rivalry with the Barberini family, whom he accused of misappropriating public funds.
1501–1555Marcellus II
Head of the Catholic Church who reigned for twenty-two days
Did you know? He is one of the few popes to have kept his original birth name as his official papal title.
1405–1468Skanderbeg
National hero of Albania who resisted the Ottoman Empire
Did you know? He was raised in the Ottoman court and served as a high-ranking commander before returning to his homeland to lead a rebellion.
AD 973–1024Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
Eleventh-century German monarch and Holy Roman Emperor
Did you know? He is the only German king to have been canonised as a saint by the Catholic Church.
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On This Day: May 6 in history5
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🇩🇪Marlene DietrichGerman and American actress and singer whose career spanned nearly seven decadesView profile Photo (modified): für die Datei Arths-at · Public domain1992Died
🇺🇸Henry David ThoreauAmerican naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopherView profile Photo (modified): B. D. Maxham · Public domain1862Died
Alexander von HumboldtGerman polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and scienceView profile Photo (modified): Joseph Karl Stieler · Public domain1859Died
🇧🇪Maurice MaeterlinckBelgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in FrenchView profile Photo (modified): Gerschel · Public domain1949Died
🇬🇧Edward VIIKing of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910View profile Photo (modified): W. & D. Downey · Public domain1910Died
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May 6: birthdays, history and star sign
24 famous people were born on May 6, including Sigmund Freud, Rabindranath Tagore and Tony Blair. Anyone born on May 6 is a Taurus, an earth sign ruled by Venus. Notable events on May 6 include Eurovision Song Contest 2014 (2014) and 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis.
Famous people born on May 6
- 2002Cole Palmer · English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Premier League club Chelsea and the…
- 1994Mateo Kovačić · Professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the Croatia…
- 1993Naomi Scott · English actress and singer
- 1987Moon Geun-young · South Korean actress
- 1983Daniel Alves · Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a right-back
- 1961George Clooney · American actor and filmmaker
- 1953Tony Blair · British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party…
- 1915Orson Welles · American actor and filmmaker
- 1904Harry Martinson · Swedish writer, poet and former sailor
- 1895Rudolph Valentino · Italian-born actor and dancer
- 1880Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · German expressionist painter and printmaker
- 1871Victor Grignard · French chemist who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the eponymously named Grignard reagent and Grignard…
- 1861Rabindranath Tagore · Bengali poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher, social reformer, painter, and one of the foremost…
- 1856Sigmund Freud · Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies…
- 1856Robert Peary · American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and…
- 1758Maximilien Robespierre · French lawyer and statesman, widely recognised as one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution
- 1574Innocent X · Head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 September 1644 to his death, in January 1655
- 1501Marcellus II · Head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 10 April 1555 to his death, 22 days later
- 1405Skanderbeg · Albanian nobleman and military leader who led the League of Lezhë in the Ottoman-Albanian Wars until his death
- AD 973Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor · Henry II, also known as Saint Henry, Obl
On May 6 in history
- 2014Eurovision Song Contest 2014 · The Eurovision Song Contest 2014 was the 59th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It consisted of two semi-finals on 6 and 8 May and a final on 10 May…
- 20212021 Israel–Palestine crisis · A major outbreak of violence in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, sometimes called the Unity Intifada, mainly commenced on 10 May 2021 and continued until a…
- 1989Eurovision Song Contest 1989 · The Eurovision Song Contest 1989 was the 34th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 6 May 1989 at the Palais de Beaulieu in Lausanne, Switzerland…
- 20102010 United Kingdom general election · A general election was held in the United Kingdom on 6 May 2010 to elect 650 MPs to the House of Commons. This was the first election to be held after the…
- 2023Coronation of Charles III and Camilla · The coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms, took place on Saturday, 6…
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Taurus · Earth · ruled by Venus · Reliable, Patient, Sensual, Stubborn
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1818–1883Karl Marx
German philosopher and economist who co-wrote The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, inspiring socialist and communist movements worldwide
Did you know? He is buried in Highgate Cemetery in London, where his tomb is a Grade I listed monument.
1840–1893Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian Romantic composer of the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker and the 1812 Overture
Did you know? Although he trained as a civil servant at a school of jurisprudence, he abandoned his legal career to study music at age twenty-two.
1813–1855Søren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher and theologian of Either/Or and Fear and Trembling, widely regarded as the father of existentialism
Did you know? He wrote most of his books using various pen names to represent different philosophical perspectives.
1833–1897Johannes Brahms
German Romantic composer of four symphonies, A German Requiem, the Hungarian Dances and the famous Lullaby
Did you know? He was such a rigorous perfectionist that he destroyed many of his early works and sketches, leaving only his most polished compositions.
1846–1916Henryk Sienkiewicz
Polish novelist of Quo Vadis and the historical Trilogy, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905
Did you know? His portrait appeared on the Polish 500,000 zloty banknote during the early 1990s before the currency was redenominated.
b. 1988Adele
English singer-songwriter of Rolling in the Deep, Someone Like You and Hello, whose albums 21 and 25 broke sales records
Did you know? She attended the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology alongside other future stars like Leona Lewis and Jessie J.
1892–1980Josip Broz Tito
Partisan leader who freed Yugoslavia from Nazi occupation and ruled it for 35 years, defying Stalin
Did you know? During the Second World War, he led one of the most effective anti-Nazi resistance movements in occupied Europe.
1919–1952Eva Perón
Argentine actress who became First Lady as the wife of Juan Perón, champion of the poor and women's suffrage, known as Evita
Did you know? Despite having no official government post, she was posthumously given the title of Spiritual Leader of the Nation.
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- Who was born on May 6?
- Famous people born on May 6 include Sigmund Freud (1856), Rabindranath Tagore (1861), Tony Blair (1953), Maximilien Robespierre (1758) and George Clooney (1961). In total, 24 famous people in our archive were born on May 6.
- Which celebrities share a May 6 birthday?
- Famous people alive today with a May 6 birthday include Tony Blair, George Clooney, Daniel Alves and Cole Palmer.
- What star sign is someone born on May 6?
- People born on May 6 are Taurus, an earth sign ruled by Venus. Taurus runs from April 20 to May 20.
- What happened on May 6 in history?
- Notable events on May 6 include Eurovision Song Contest 2014 (2014), 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis (2021) and Eurovision Song Contest 1989 (1989).
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- May 6 in historyYour birthday has a story. See every famous birth, historic event and notable death recorded on May 6, the day the world welcomed you.Date page
- Your most famous birthday match: Sigmund FreudOf the 24 famous people who share your birthday, Sigmund Freud is the best known. Read their story and see what you have in common.Person
- Taurus zodiac signAs a Taurus you're known for being reliable, patient and sensual, just like Sigmund Freud. Meet others who share your star sign.Zodiac
- Famous birthdays in MaySee the best-known people born on every day of May, from the 1st to the last day of the month.Month
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