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March 6

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1475

Michelangelo

Died aged 88

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1475 · 551 yrs

Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence but was mostly active in Rome from his 30s onwards.

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ArtDied aged 88

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1483 · 543 yrs

Francesco Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini (Italian:; 6 March 1483 – 22 May 1540) was an Italian historian and statesman. A friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli, he is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance.

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LiteratureDied aged 57

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1492 · 534 yrs

Juan Luis Vives

Juan Luis Vives y March (Spanish:; Latin: Joannes Ludovicus Vives; Catalan: Joan Lluís Vives i March; Dutch: Jan Ludovicus Vives; 6 March 1493 – 6 May 1540) was a Spanish (Valencian) scholar and Renaissance humanist who spent most of his adult life in the southern Habsburg Netherlands.

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PhilosophyDied aged 48

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1508 · 518 yrs

Humayun

Nasir al-Din Muhammad (Persian: نصیرالدین محمد, 6 March 1508 – 27 January 1556), commonly known by his regnal name Humayun (Persian: همایون, Persian pronunciation:), was the second Mughal emperor, who ruled much of what is now eastern Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Northern India, and Pakistan from 1530 to 1540 and again…

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RoyaltyDied aged 47

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1619 · 407 yrs

Cyrano de Bergerac

Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac ( SIRR-ə-noh də BUR-zhə-rak, – BAIR-, French:; 6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist. A bold and innovative author, his work was part of the libertine literature of the first half of the 17th century.

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LiteratureDied aged 36

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1787 · 239 yrs

Joseph von Fraunhofer

Joseph Ritter von Fraunhofer (German:; 6 March 1787 – 7 June 1826) was a German physicist and optical lens manufacturer. He made optical glass, an achromatic telescope, and objective lenses.

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ScienceDied aged 39

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1806 · 220 yrs

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death.

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LiteratureDied aged 55

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1844 · 182 yrs

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (18 March 1844 – 21 June 1908) was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five.

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MusicDied aged 64

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1874 · 152 yrs

Nikolai Berdyaev

Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (Russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Бердя́ев; 18 March 1874 – 24 March 1948) was a Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialist who emphasized the existential spiritual significance of human freedom and the human person.

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PhilosophyDied aged 74

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1909 · 117 yrs

Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Stanisław Jerzy Lec (Polish pronunciation:; 6 March 1909 – 7 May 1966), born Baron Stanisław Jerzy de Tusch-Letz, was a Polish aphorist and poet.

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LiteratureWould be 117

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1926 · 100 yrs

Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Witold Wajda (Polish:; 6 March 1926 – 9 October 2016) was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d'Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the "Polish Film School".

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1926 · 100 yrs100 Club

Alan Greenspan

Alan Greenspan (March 6, 1926 – June 22, 2026) was an American economist who served as the 13th chair of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. He worked as a private adviser and provided consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC.

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ScienceWould be 100

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Famous deaths15

1836 · 190 yrs

Davy Crockett

David Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was an American politician, militia officer and frontiersman. Often referred to in popular culture as the "King of the Wild Frontier", he represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives and fought in the Texas Revolution.

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PoliticsDied aged 49

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1888 · 138 yrs

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott ( AWL-kət; November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886).

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LiteratureDied aged 55

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1900 · 126 yrs

Gottlieb Daimler

Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (German:; 17 March 1834 – 6 March 1900) was a German engineer, industrial designer and industrialist. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development.

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TechnologyDied aged 65

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1950 · 76 yrs

Albert Lebrun

Albert François Lebrun (French:; 29 August 1871 – 6 March 1950) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1932 to 1940. He was the last president of the Third Republic before its dissolution into the rump state of Vichy France in the early days of the Second World War.

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PoliticsDied aged 78

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1964 · 62 yrs

Paul of Greece

Paul (Greek: Παύλος, romanized: Pavlos; 14 December 1901 – 6 March 1964) was King of Greece from 1 April 1947 until his death on 6 March 1964. Paul was born at Tatoi Palace as the third son of Crown Prince Constantine and Crown Princess Sophia of Greece.

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RoyaltyWould be 124

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1967 · 59 yrs

Zoltán Kodály

Zoltán Kodály (UK:, US:; Hungarian: Kodály Zoltán, pronounced; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music education.

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MusicWould be 143

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1973 · 53 yrs

Pearl S. Buck

Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and humanitarian. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932.

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LiteratureWould be 134

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1982 · 44 yrs

Ayn Rand

Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; February 2, 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system which she named Objectivism.

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LiteratureWould be 121

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1984 · 42 yrs

Martin Niemöller

Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (German:; 14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984) was a German theologian and Lutheran pastor. He opposed the Nazi regime during the late 1930s, and was sent to a concentration camp for his affiliation with the Confessing Church and his opposition to state involvement in Church.

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ReligionWould be 134

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1986 · 40 yrs

Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements.

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ArtWould be 138

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1994 · 32 yrs

Melina Mercouri

Maria Amalia "Melina" Mercouri (Greek: Μαρία Αμαλία "Μελίνα" Μερκούρη, 18 October 1920 – 6 March 1994) was a Greek actress, singer, activist, and politician. She came from a prominent political family for multiple generations.

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MusicWould be 106

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2005 · 21 yrs

Hans Bethe

Hans Albrecht Eduard Bethe (German:; 2 July 1906 – 6 March 2005) was a German-American physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.

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ScienceWould be 120

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Events5

1714 · 312 yrs

Treaty of Rastatt

The Treaty of Rastatt was a peace treaty between France and Austria that was concluded on 7 March 1714 in the Baden city of Rastatt to end the War of the Spanish Succession between both countries.

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Politics

1945 · 81 yrs

Operation Spring Awakening

Operation Spring Awakening (German: Unternehmen Frühlingserwachen) was the last major German offensive of World War II. The operation was referred to in Germany as the Plattensee Offensive and in the Soviet Union as the Balaton Defensive Operation.

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War

2005 · 21 yrs

2005 Australian Grand Prix

The 2005 Australian Grand Prix (officially the 2005 Formula 1 Foster's Australian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit on 6 March 2005. It was the first round of the 2005 Formula One season.

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Sports

2020 · 6 yrs

2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia

The COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia was an outbreak of the disease COVID-19 in Serbia caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2. Its first case in Serbia was reported on 6 March 2020, and confirmed by Minister of Health Zlatibor Lončar.

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Disaster

2026 · 0 yrs

2026 Winter Paralympics

The 2026 Winter Paralympics (Italian: Giochi paralimpici invernali di Milano Cortina 2026), also known as the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympic Games, were the 14th edition of the Winter Paralympic Games, an international winter multi-sport parasports event governed by the International Paralympic Committee.

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