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6th March in the Stars – Star Sign Pisces

Today, the zodiac sign Pisces celebrates its birthday.

Personality Profile

Personality Those born on 6 March embody Piscean sensitivity with a pronounced artistic inclination. They are introspective, deeply empathetic, and often lost in reverie, driven by a desire to understand and heal the world.

Strengths & Weaknesses Their strengths lie in creativity, intuition, and boundless compassion. However, they tend toward escapism, emotional overwhelm, and lack of practical grounding, leading to uncertainty and confusion.

Love These natives crave profound emotional and spiritual connection, seeking romantic idealism. They give themselves completely but may harbor unrealistic expectations, requiring partners who honor their sensitivity.

Caree & Finance March 6 births thrive in creative, helping professions like art, music, therapy, or social work. Financial management proves challenging; they benefit from practical advisors and structured budgeting.

Health Their tender nature makes them susceptible to emotional stress and psychosomatic ailments. Meditation, artistic expression, and mindful rest are healing; setting boundaries protects against overwhelm.

That night, the moon was in its new moon phase.

Chinese year of the Horse (Fire).

Fun Facts About 6th March

Name Days in Your Language: Carlton, Charlton, Colette, Collette

Someone born on this day would be just 92 days old today — roughly 2,227 hours, 133,631 minutes, or 8,017,907 seconds spent on Earth so far.

It's the 65. day of the year. In 2026, 6th March falls on a Friday.

There are 300 days still to come.

We’re currently in Week 10 — the year marches on.

Famous Birthdays on 6th March

On this day, 166 notable people were born on 6th March — spanning from 1340 to 2001. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

06/03/2001

Milo Manheim, American actor

Milo Jacob Manheim is an American actor. He is best known for his starring role as Zed in the Disney television film franchise Zombies and as Joseph in the 2023 Christmas musical, Journey to Bethlehem. In 2018, he finished in second place on season 27 of Dancing with the Stars. Manheim currently stars in the Paramount+ original School Spirits. Manheim was announced to be playing Flynn Rider in Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Tangled, joining Teagan Croft in the lead cast.

06/03/2000

Armando Bacot, American basketball player

Armando Linwood Bacot Jr. is an American professional basketball player for Fenerbahçe of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels. He holds the program records for double-doubles and career rebounds. Over his 5-year career, Bacot played in a UNC-record 171 games.

Jacob Bertrand, American actor

Jacob Scott Thomas Bertrand is an American actor. From 2018 to 2025, Bertrand played the series regular role of Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz in the Netflix series Cobra Kai. He is also known for the voice of Bam in Batwheels, portraying the titular character in Disney XD's Kirby Buckets and playing Jack Malloy in the 2016 Disney Channel Original Movie, The Swap.

06/03/1999

Ylena In-Albon, Swiss tennis player

Ylena In-Albon is a Swiss tennis player.

06/03/1998

Kyle Trask, American football player

Kyle Jacob Trask is an American professional football quarterback. He played college football for the Florida Gators and was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the second round of the 2021 NFL draft.

06/03/1997

Lee Lu-da, South Korean singer and actress

Lee Lu-da, also known mononymously as Luda, is a South Korean singer and actress. She is a member of the South Korean girl group WJSN.

06/03/1996

Christian Coleman, American sprinter

Christian Lee Coleman is an American professional track and field sprinter who competes in the 60 metres, 100 m, and 200 m. The 2019 world champion in the 100 meters, he also won gold as part of men's 4 × 100-meter relay. He holds personal bests of 9.76 seconds for the 100 m, which made him the 7th fastest all-time in the history of 100 metres event, and 19.85 for the 200 m. Coleman is the world record holder for the indoor 60 meters with 6.34 seconds. He was the Diamond League champion in 2018 and 2023 and the world number one ranked runner in the men's 100 m for the 2017, 2018 and 2019 seasons.

Mohamed Magdy, Egyptian footballer

Mohamed Magdy Mohamed Morsy, known by his nickname Afsha, is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Egyptian Premier League club Al Ahly.

Timo Werner, German footballer

Timo Werner is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Major League Soccer club San Jose Earthquakes.

06/03/1995

Josh Hart, American basketball player

Joshua Aaron Hart is an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He holds the Knicks franchise record for the most triple-doubles in a single season.

Georgi Kitanov, Bulgarian footballer

Georgi Georgiev Kitanov is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Dunav Ruse.

06/03/1994

Marcus Smart, American basketball player

Marcus Osmond Smart is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Regarded as one of the best defenders of his generation, he has been selected to the NBA All-Defensive First Team thrice and was the NBA Defensive Player of the Year in 2022, becoming only the second point guard after Gary Payton to win the award. Smart played college basketball for the Oklahoma State Cowboys.

06/03/1993

Nicklas Jensen, Danish ice hockey player

Nicklas Jensen is a Danish professional ice hockey player who is a winger for SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers of the National League (NL).

Andrés Rentería, Colombian footballer

Andrés Jair Rentería Morelo, commonly known as Andrés Rentería, is a Colombian footballer who plays as a forward for Jaguares de Córdoba.

06/03/1991

John Jenkins, American basketball player

John Logan Jenkins III is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Adelaide 36ers of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball for the Vanderbilt Commodores before being selected by the Atlanta Hawks with the 23rd pick in the 2012 NBA draft. He played in the NBA for the Hawks, Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns, Washington Wizards and New York Knicks from 2012 to 2019. Jenkins has also played professionally in Spain, China, Israel, France, Puerto Rico, Russia and Romania.

06/03/1990

Derek Drouin, Canadian athlete

Derek Drouin is a Canadian retired track and field athlete who competes in the high jump. He won gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and was the 2015 World Champion. He also won gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the 2015 Pan American Games, and won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2013 World Championships. Drouin was originally awarded the bronze at the 2012 Olympics which was retroactively changed to silver when the original gold medallist Ivan Ukhov was stripped of his medal for doping violations. He was belatedly presented with the upgraded silver in a presentation during the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, one of 10 Olympians who were presented with “reallocated” medals from previous Olympics. He holds both the world decathlon best and the world heptathlon best in the high jump with clearances of 2.28 m and 2.30 m, respectively.

06/03/1989

Dwight Buycks, American basketball player

Dwight Buycks is an American professional basketball player for Kalleh Mazandaran of the Iranian Basketball Super League. He played college basketball for the Indian Hills Warriors and Marquette Golden Eagles.

Ray Chen, Taiwanese-Australian violinist

Ray Chen is a Taiwanese-Australian violinist and YouTuber. He was the winner of the 2008 International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition and the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition. Since then, he has regularly collaborated with the world's foremost orchestras and appeared at renowned concert halls.

Agnieszka Radwańska, Polish tennis player

Agnieszka Roma Radwańska is a Polish former professional tennis player and current coach. She was ranked world No. 2 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), in July 2012. Radwańska won 20 WTA Tour singles titles, including the 2015 WTA Finals, and two doubles titles. She was also the runner-up at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships.

06/03/1988

Agnes, Swedish singer

Agnes Emilia Carlsson, known mononymously as Agnes, is a Swedish singer. She rose to fame as the winner of Idol 2005, the second season of the Swedish Idol series. She was then signed to Sony Music, through which she released her self-titled debut album, Agnes, and follow-up, Stronger, both of which topped the Swedish Top 60 Albums Chart. In early 2008, it was announced that Agnes had parted ways with her record label, and was now signed to small independent label Roxy Recordings. Released on 28 October 2008, her third album, Dance Love Pop, reached number five in Sweden, 70 in Austria, 38 in France, 45 in Switzerland and 13 in the United Kingdom. With 200,000 albums sold worldwide this is her most successful album, 50,000 albums were sold in France, 40,000 in Sweden. Its first two singles, "On and On" and "Release Me" became international hits, reaching the top-ten in charts worldwide. "Release Me" topped the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs and peaked at three in the United Kingdom, selling over 4 million copies worldwide.

Marina Erakovic, New Zealand tennis player

Marina Erakovic is a former tennis player from New Zealand. She achieved career-high rankings of 39 in singles and 25 in doubles, and won a singles title and eight doubles titles on the WTA Tour.

Leonys Martín, Cuban-American baseball player

Leonys Martín Tápanes, nicknamed "Ikadi", is a Cuban-American professional baseball center fielder for the Bravos de León of the Mexican League. He signed with the Texas Rangers in 2011, and made his MLB debut later that season. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Rangers, Seattle Mariners, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, and Cleveland Indians, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Chiba Lotte Marines.

Simon Mignolet, Belgian footballer

Simon Luc Hildebert Mignolet is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

06/03/1987

Mário Bližňák, Slovak ice hockey player

Mário Bližňák is a Slovak former professional ice hockey center. He previously played for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). After playing in the Slovak Extraliga, Bližňák was selected by the Canucks in the 2005 NHL entry draft, and moved to North America, joining the Vancouver Giants of the major junior Western Hockey League (WHL) in 2005. Bližňák played three seasons with the Giants, helping them win the Memorial Cup, the national championship for major junior hockey in Canada, in 2007, before joining the Moose in 2008. He is best known as a defensive forward.

Kevin-Prince Boateng, Ghanaian-German footballer

Kevin-Prince Boateng is a football manager and former player who is the coach of the Australian national team in socca.

Chico Flores, Spanish footballer

José Manuel Flores Moreno, commonly known as Chico Flores, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central defender.

06/03/1986

Jake Arrieta, American baseball player

Jacob Joseph Arrieta is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, and San Diego Padres.

Francisco Cervelli, Venezuelan-Italian baseball player

Francisco Cervelli is an Italian-Venezuelan former professional baseball catcher and current manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2008 to 2020 for the New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Braves, and Miami Marlins.

Timothy DeLaGhetto, American Internet personality

Tim Chantarangsu, formerly known as Timothy DeLaGhetto and Traphik, is an American internet and television personality and rapper. He is best known from the improv comedy show Wild 'N Out where he was a cast member from 2013 to 2018 and 2020 to 2021.

Charlie Mulgrew, Scottish footballer

Charles Patrick Mulgrew is a Scottish professional football coach and former player who was most recently manager of Scottish League One side Kelty Hearts.

06/03/1985

Pierre-Édouard Bellemare, French ice hockey player

Pierre-Édouard Bellemare is a French professional ice hockey player who is a forward for HC Ajoie of the National League (NL). He previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 2014 to 2024 for the Philadelphia Flyers, Vegas Golden Knights, Colorado Avalanche, Tampa Bay Lightning and Seattle Kraken.

Bakaye Traoré, French-Malian footballer

Bakaye Traoré is a former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder for Amiens SC and AS Nancy in France, for A.C. Milan in Italy, and for Kayseri Erciyesspor and Bursaspor in Turkey. Born in France, he was capped 24 times at international level by Mali national team scoring twice.

Daniel Winnik, Canadian ice hockey player

Daniel Spencer Winnik is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger. He played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and played his final six seasons in Switzerland for Genève-Servette HC.

06/03/1984

Daniël de Ridder, Dutch footballer

Daniël Robin Frederick de Ridder is a Dutch former professional footballer. He played as a winger operating either on the right or left side but would occasionally play a more advanced role. He represented Ajax, Celta Vigo, Birmingham City, Wigan Athletic, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Grasshoppers, Heerenveen, RKC Waalwijk and Cambuur.

Eskil Pedersen, Norwegian politician

Eskil Pedersen is a Norwegian politician and former leader of the Workers' Youth League (AUF) from 2010 to 2014, the youth organisation associated with Norway's leading Labour Party.

06/03/1983

Andranik Teymourian, Armenian-Iranian footballer

Andranik "Ando" Timotian-Samarani, commonly known as Andranik Teymourian is a former Iranian professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is notably the first Christian to captain the Iran national team.

06/03/1981

Ellen Muth, American actress

Ellen Muth is a retired American actress best known for her role as Georgia "George" Lass in Showtime's series Dead Like Me.

06/03/1980

Emílson Cribari, Brazilian footballer

Emílson Sánchez Cribari is a Brazilian footballer who played as a centre back.

06/03/1979

David Flair, American wrestler

David Richard Fliehr, better known by the ring name David Flair, is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where he held the WCW United States Championship and WCW World Tag Team Championship. He is the son of professional wrestler Ric Flair, and the half-brother of professional wrestlers Charlotte Flair and Reid Flair.

Tim Howard, American soccer player

Timothy Matthew Howard is an American former professional soccer player who played as a goalkeeper. Nicknamed the "Secretary of Defense", Howard is regarded as one of the greatest American players of all time.

Garry Monk, English footballer and manager

Garry Alan Monk is an English football manager and former professional player who was most recently the head coach of EFL League One club Cambridge United.

06/03/1978

Sage Rosenfels, American football player

Sage Jamen Rosenfels is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Iowa State Cyclones and was selected by the Washington Redskins in the fourth round of the 2001 NFL draft. He also played in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins from 2002 to 2005, the Houston Texans from 2006 to 2008, the Minnesota Vikings in 2009, and the New York Giants in 2010. He spent portions of the 2011 season with the Vikings and Dolphins, after being released by the Giants during preseason.

Chad Wicks, American wrestler

Charles Wicks is an American retired professional wrestler best known for his time with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he wrestled as Chad Toland in its Ohio Valley Wrestling affiliate and later as Chad Dick on its SmackDown! brand.

06/03/1977

Nantie Hayward, South African cricketer

Mornantau "Nantie" Hayward is a South African former cricketer, who played in 16 Test matches and 21 One Day Internationals for the national team between 1998 and 2004.

Giorgos Karagounis, Greek footballer

Georgios Karagkounis, known as Giorgos Karagounis, is a former Greek professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Shabani Nonda, Congolese footballer

Shabani Christophe Nonda is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. Born in Burundi, he played for the DR Congo national team, earning 36 caps and scoring 20 goals. He was selected for DR Congo's squad for the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations. He had a prominent Career with the East African giants Young Africans (Yanga), before joining Vaal professionals in South Africa.

06/03/1976

Ken Anderson, American wrestler and actor

Kenneth Anthony Anderson is an American professional wrestler. He is known for his tenure in WWE from 2005 to 2009 under the ring name Mr. Kennedy, and his tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as Mr. Anderson from 2010 to 2016. He also works as an announcer for Top Rank Boxing.

06/03/1975

Aracely Arámbula, Mexican actress and singer

Aracely Arámbula Jáquez, known professionally as Aracely Arámbula, is a Mexican actress, model, singer, television personality and entrepreneur.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Canadian pianist and conductor

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, CC is a Canadian conductor and pianist. He is the music director of the Orchestre Métropolitain (Montréal), the Metropolitan Opera, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. He was the principal conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra from 2008 to 2018.

06/03/1974

Guy Garvey, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Guy Edward John Patrick Garvey is an English musician, singer, songwriter and radio presenter. He is the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Elbow. He has a weekly show on BBC Radio 6 Music titled Guy Garvey's Finest Hour.

06/03/1973

Michael Finley, American basketball player

Michael Howard Finley is an American former professional basketball player who is an interim general manager and vice president of player personnel for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 15 seasons in the NBA, predominantly with the Mavericks, but also for the Phoenix Suns, the San Antonio Spurs, and the Boston Celtics. He was a two-time NBA All-Star and won an NBA championship with the Spurs in 2007.

Peter Lindgren, Swedish guitarist and songwriter

Peter Lindgren is a Swedish musician and songwriter. He is best known as the former guitarist of Swedish progressive metal band Opeth.

Greg Ostertag, American basketball player

Gregory Donovan Ostertag is an American politician and former professional basketball player. A center, he spent most of his career with the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks.

06/03/1971

Darrick Martin, American basketball player and coach

Darrick David Martin is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. Martin played professionally for over a decade, shuttling between NBA and the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), where he won the 2003 CBA Playoffs MVP. In 2003, he even played for the Harlem Globetrotters. He then went on to play for the Los Angeles Lightning of the Independent Basketball Association (IBL). He was named the head coach of the Reno Bighorns of the NBA G League in 2016.

06/03/1968

Carla McGhee, American basketball player and coach

Carla Renee McGhee is an American former basketball player most notable for her career at the University of Tennessee. She was injured in a car crash in October 1987 and was in a coma for 47 hours, suffering brain injuries and breaking nearly every bone in her face. She was told she'd never play again. She was a member of the gold medal-winning 1996 Olympic Team.

06/03/1967

Julio Bocca, Argentine ballet dancer and director

Julio Adrián Lojo Bocca is an Argentine ballet dancer. Bocca spent twenty years as a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre. From 2010 to 2018, he served as artistic director of the National Ballet of Uruguay, administered by SODRE, the country's broadcasting and cultural authority.

Glenn Greenwald, American journalist and author

Glenn Edward Greenwald is an American journalist, author, and former lawyer.

06/03/1966

Alan Davies, English comedian, actor and screenwriter

Alan Roger Davies is an English actor, presenter, stand-up comedian, and writer. He is known for his portrayal of the title role in the BBC mystery drama series Jonathan Creek (1997–2016) and as the only permanent panellist on the BBC panel show QI since its premiere in 2003, outlasting its original host Stephen Fry. He began his career as a stand-up comic, and has undertaken several tours performing on stage, most recently in 2025.

06/03/1964

Linda Pearson, Scottish sport shooter

Linda Pearson is a Scottish clay target shooter. She competed in the women's double trap event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the bronze medal. Linda has represented Great Britain in four different international clay target disciplines: Olympic Trap, Double Trap, Universal Trench and Compak Sporting.

06/03/1963

D. L. Hughley, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

Darryl Lynn Hughley is an American actor and stand-up comedian. Hughley is best known as the original host of BET's ComicView from 1992 to 1993, the eponymous character on the ABC/UPN sitcom The Hughleys, and as one of the "Big Four" comedians in The Original Kings of Comedy. Additionally, he has been the host of CNN's D. L. Hughley Breaks the News, a correspondent for The Jay Leno Show on NBC, and a local radio personality and interviewer in New York City. In early 2013, D. L. Hughley landed in ninth place on Dancing with the Stars.

06/03/1962

Alison Nicholas, British golfer

Alison Nicholas is an English professional golfer, who won the 1997 U.S. Women's Open.

06/03/1960

Sleepy Floyd, American basketball player and coach

Eric Augustus "Sleepy" Floyd is an American former professional basketball player. An NBA All-Star in 1987 as a Warrior, he is best known for his tenures in Golden State and Houston.

06/03/1956

Peter Roebuck, English cricketer, journalist, and sportcaster (died 2011)

Peter Michael Roebuck was an English cricketer who later became an Australian newspaper columnist and radio commentator.

Steve Vizard, Australian television host, actor, and producer

Stephen William Vizard is an Australian television and radio presenter, producer, writer, lawyer and businessman. He is a research professor at Monash University and the University of Adelaide.

06/03/1955

Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician, 5th President of Burundi (died 1994)

Cyprien Ntaryamira was a Burundian politician who served as President of Burundi from 5 February 1994 until his assassination two months later in the context of the Burundian Civil War.

Alberta Watson, Canadian actress (died 2015)

Faith Susan Alberta Watson was a Canadian film and television actress. She was known for her roles as Dr. Rebecca Meyer on Buck James (1987-88), Madeline on La Femme Nikita (1997-2001) and Erin Driscoll on 24 (2004-05).

06/03/1954

Harald Schumacher, German footballer and manager

Harald Anton "Toni" Schumacher is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. At club level, he won a Bundesliga title and three DFB-Pokal titles with 1. FC Köln. At international level, he represented West Germany. Schumacher won the 1980 European Championship and reached two World Cup finals, in 1982 and 1986, being on the losing side for both. In the 1982 FIFA World Cup semi-final, he controversially collided with and seriously injured French defender Patrick Battiston. Schumacher was voted German Footballer of the Year in 1984 and 1986. Since April 2012, he has served as vice president at 1. FC Köln.

06/03/1953

Madhav Kumar Nepal, Nepali banker and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Nepal

Madhav Kumar Nepal, is a Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister of Nepal. He served as prime minister from 25 May 2009 to 6 February 2011.

Carolyn Porco, American astronomer and academic

Carolyn C. Porco is an American planetary scientist who explores the outer Solar System, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s. She led the imaging science team on the Cassini mission in orbit around Saturn. She is an expert on planetary rings and the Saturnian moon, Enceladus.

06/03/1952

Denis Napthine, Australian politician, 47th Premier of Victoria

Denis Vincent Napthine is an Australian former politician and veterinarian who served as the 47th premier of Victoria from 2013 to 2014. He held office as the leader of the Victorian division of the Liberal Party of Australia (LPA) and was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the district of Portland from 1988 to 2002, before transferring to that of South-West Coast from 2002 to 2015.

06/03/1951

Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (died 2004)

Gerard Friedrich Knetemann was a Dutch road bicycle racer who won the 1978 World Championship. He wore the Yellow Jersey early in each Tour de France for four consecutive years between 1977 and 1980.

06/03/1950

Arthur Roche, English archbishop

Arthur Roche is a British bishop and cardinal of the Catholic Church. He has been prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments since 2021. He was previously secretary of the congregation from 2012 to 2021.

06/03/1949

Shaukat Aziz, Pakistani economist and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Pakistan

Shaukat Aziz is a Pakistani-born British former banker who served as the 15th prime minister of Pakistan from 28 August 2004 to 15 November 2007. When his term as Prime Minister was over, he immediately left Pakistan and settled in the United Kingdom. Previously, he served as the finance minister of Pakistan from 6 November 1999 to 15 November 2007.

Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer and manager

Martin McLean Buchan is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a centre back. Born in Aberdeen, he played for Aberdeen, Manchester United and Oldham Athletic. He also played in 34 international matches for Scotland between 1971 and 1978 including at two World Cups. Buchan later managed Burnley.

06/03/1948

Stephen Schwartz, American composer and producer

Stephen Lawrence Schwartz is an American musical theatre composer and lyricist. In a career spanning over five decades, Schwartz has written hit musicals including Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972), and Wicked (2003). He has contributed lyrics to successful films including Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), The Prince of Egypt, Enchanted (2007), Disenchanted (2022), and the two-part adaptation of Wicked.

06/03/1947

Rob Reiner, American actor, director, producer, and activist (died 2025)

Robert Reiner was an American filmmaker, actor, and political activist. He directed a series of acclaimed studio films in a career that spanned comedy, drama, romance, and documentary. Reiner received numerous accolades, including winning two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Hugo Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and nine Golden Globe Awards. He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999 and received the Chaplin Gala Tribute at the Film at Lincoln Center in 2014. Three of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry.

Jean Seaton, English historian and academic

Jean Seaton is Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster and the Official Historian of the BBC. She is the Director of the Orwell Prize and on the editorial board of Political Quarterly. She is the widow of Ben Pimlott, the British historian.

06/03/1946

Patrick Baudry, French military officer and astronaut

Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry is a retired colonel in the French Air Force and a former CNES astronaut. In 1985, he became the second French citizen in space, after Jean-Loup Chrétien, when he flew aboard NASA's Space Shuttle mission STS-51-G.

Martin Kove, American actor

Martin Kove is an American actor and martial artist. He is best known for his role as John Kreese, the main antagonist of The Karate Kid (1984). Kove reprised the role in The Karate Kid Part II (1986), The Karate Kid Part III (1989), and the television series Cobra Kai (2018–2025). He was a regular on the television series Cagney & Lacey (1982–1988), portraying Police Detective Victor Isbecki. Kove also appeared in Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).

06/03/1945

Angelo Castro Jr., Filipino actor and journalist (died 2012)

Angelo Ylagan Castro Jr. was a Filipino broadcast journalist and actor. He was a news anchor for The World Tonight, the flagship news program of ABS-CBN and ANC. He anchored several ABS-CBN and ANC news and current events programs for the past 25 years. Castro is a recipient of the Ka Doroy Broadcaster of the Year award from the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas.

06/03/1944

Richard Corliss, American journalist and critic (died 2015)

Richard Nelson Corliss was an American film critic and magazine editor for Time. He focused on movies, with occasional articles on other subjects.

Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano and actress

Dame Kiri Jeanette Claire Te Kanawa is a New Zealand opera singer. She has a full lyric soprano voice, which has been described as "mellow yet vibrant, warm, ample and unforced". On 1 December 1971 she was recognised internationally when she appeared as the Countess in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Royal Opera House in London.

Mary Wilson, American singer (died 2021)

Mary Wilson was an American singer. She gained worldwide recognition as a founding member of the Supremes, the most successful Motown act of the 1960s and the best-charting female group in U.S. chart history, as well as one of the best-selling girl groups of all-time. The trio reached number one on Billboard's Hot 100 with 12 of their singles, ten of which feature Wilson on backing vocals.

06/03/1941

Peter Brötzmann, German saxophonist and clarinet player (died 2023)

Peter Brötzmann was a German jazz saxophonist and clarinetist regarded as a central and pioneering figure in European free jazz. Throughout his career, he released over fifty albums as a bandleader. Amongst his many collaborators were key figures in free jazz, including Derek Bailey, Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor, as well as experimental musicians such as Keiji Haino and Charles Hayward. His 1968 Machine Gun became "one of the landmark albums of 20th-century free jazz".

06/03/1940

Ken Danby, Canadian painter (died 2007)

Ken Danby, D.F.A. was a Canadian painter who created highly realistic paintings that study everyday life. His 1972 painting At the Crease, portraying a masked hockey goalie defending his net, is widely recognized and reproduced in Canada.

R. H. Sikes, American golfer (died 2023)

Richard Horace Sikes was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s.

06/03/1939

Kit Bond, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of Missouri (died 2025)

Christopher Samuel Bond was an American attorney and politician from Missouri. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. senator from 1987 to 2011, following two non-consecutive terms as the governor of Missouri from 1973 to 1977 and 1981 to 1985, and two years as State Auditor of Missouri from 1971 to 1973. His first election as governor ended a 28-year Democratic streak in that office.

Adam Osborne, Thai-Indian engineer and businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (died 2003)

Adam Osborne was a British author, software publisher, and computer designer who founded several companies in the United States and elsewhere. He introduced the Osborne 1, the first commercially successful portable computer.

06/03/1938

Keishu Tanaka, Japanese politician, 17th Japanese Minister of Justice (died 2022)

Keishu Tanaka was a Japanese politician, who served in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Democratic Party. He was Minister of Justice under Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda from 1 to 23 October 2012 before resigning due to scandals over financial donations and links to organized crime.

06/03/1937

Ivan Boesky, American businessman (died 2024)

Ivan Frederick Boesky was a convicted criminal and an American stock trader who was infamous for his prominent role in an insider trading scandal in the mid-1980s. After getting caught he became a government informant and then pleaded guilty, and was fined a record $100 million, and served twenty months in prison.

Norman Coburn, Australian actor

Norman Coburn is an Australian former actor, playwright and writer best known for his television serial and soap opera roles. He started his early career in theatre, film and television in the United Kingdom in the mid-1950s.

Valentina Tereshkova, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a Russian engineer, politician, and former Soviet cosmonaut. She was the first woman in space, having flown a solo mission on Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, is the only woman to have been on a solo space mission and is the last surviving Vostok programme cosmonaut. Twenty-six years old at the time of her spaceflight, she remains the youngest woman to orbit Earth.

06/03/1936

Marion Barry, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia (died 2014)

Marion Shepilov Barry was an American politician who served as mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991 and 1995 to 1999. A Democrat, Barry had served three tenures on the Council of the District of Columbia, representing as an at-large member from 1975 to 1979, in Ward 8 from 1993 to 1995, and again from 2005 to 2014.

Choummaly Sayasone, Laotian politician, 5th President of Laos

Lieutenant General Choummaly Sayasone is a Laotian politician who was General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and President of Laos from 2006 to 2016.

06/03/1932

Marc Bazin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 49th President of Haiti (died 2010)

Marc Louis Bazin was a World Bank official, former United Nations functionary, and Haitian Minister of Finance and Economy under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier. He was the prime minister of Haiti, appointed on June 4, 1992, by the military government that had seized power on September 30, 1991.

Jean Boht, English actress (died 2023)

Jean Boht was an English actress, most famous for the role of Nellie Boswell in Carla Lane's sitcom Bread, one of several actors to remain with the show for its entire seven-series tenure from 1986 to 1991.

Bronisław Geremek, Polish historian and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2008)

Bronisław Geremek was a Polish social historian and politician. He was an opposition activist in the Polish People's Republic and participated in the Polish Round Table Agreement.

Timofei Moșneaga, Moldovan physician and politician, Moldovan Minister of Health (died 2014)

Timofei Moșneaga was a Moldovan and Soviet physician and politician who served as Minister of Health of Moldova from 1994 to 1997. He was the Director of the Republican Clinical Hospital for over forty years (1960–2003). As of 2017, the hospital is named after him.

06/03/1930

Lorin Maazel, French-American violinist, composer, and conductor (died 2014)

Lorin Varencove Maazel was an American conductor, violinist and composer. He began conducting at the age of eight and by 1953 had decided to pursue a career in music. He had established a reputation in the concert halls of Europe by 1960 but his career in the U.S. progressed far more slowly. He served as music director of The Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Münchner Philharmoniker and the New York Philharmonic, among other posts. Maazel was well regarded in baton technique and had a photographic memory for scores. Described as mercurial and forbidding in rehearsal, he mellowed in old age.

06/03/1929

Tom Foley, American lawyer and politician, 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (died 2013)

Thomas Stephen Foley was an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician who served as the 49th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's 5th congressional district for 30 years (1965–1995). He was the first Speaker of the House in over a century since Galusha Grow in 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign.

David Sheppard, English cricketer and bishop (died 2005)

David Stuart Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Liverpool was a Church of England bishop who played cricket for Sussex and England in his youth, before serving as Bishop of Liverpool from 1975 to 1997. Sheppard remains the only ordained minister to have played Test cricket, though others such as Tom Killick were ordained after playing Tests.

06/03/1927

Gordon Cooper, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (died 2004)[citation needed]

Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first human space program of the United States. Cooper learned to fly as a child, and after service in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, he was commissioned into the United States Air Force in 1949. After serving as a fighter pilot, he qualified as a test pilot in 1956 and was selected as an astronaut in 1959.

Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)

Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.

06/03/1926

Ann Curtis, American swimmer (died 2012)

Ann Elizabeth Curtis, known after 1949 by her married name Ann Elisabeth Cuneo was an American competition swimmer and two-time Olympic champion at the 1948 London games. She would later have a career as a swim coach opening the Ann Curtis Swim Club and School of Swimming in Terra Linda, California.

Alan Greenspan, American economist and politician

Alan Greenspan is an American economist who served as the 13th chairman 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.

Ray O'Connor, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Western Australia (died 2013)

Raymond James O'Connor was an Australian politician who served as the premier of Western Australia from 25 January 1982 to 25 February 1983. He was a member of the Parliament of Western Australia from 1959 to 1984, and a minister in the governments of David Brand and Charles Court. O'Connor was born in Perth and attended schools in the Wheatbelt towns of Narrogin and York as well as St Patrick's Boys' School in Perth, leaving school at the age of 14. He competed in athletics and played Australian rules football as a teenager and young adult, including playing 14 matches for East Perth in the Western Australian National Football League. During World War II, he served in the Second Australian Imperial Force in New Britain and Bougainville.

Andrzej Wajda, Polish director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2016)

Andrzej Witold Wajda 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". He was known especially for his trilogy of war films consisting of A Generation (1955), Kanał (1957) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958).

06/03/1924

Sarah Caldwell, American opera director, impresario, and stage director (died 2006)

Sarah Caldwell was an American opera conductor, impresario, and stage director.

Ottmar Walter, German footballer (died 2013)

Ottmar Kurt Herrmann Walter was a German footballer who played as a forward.

William H. Webster, American lawyer and jurist, Director of Central Intelligence (died 2025)

William Hedgcock Webster was an American attorney and jurist who served as chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Council from 2005 until 2020. He was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit before serving as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1978 to 1987 and director of Central Intelligence (CIA) from 1987 to 1991. He is the only person to have held both positions.

06/03/1923

Ed McMahon, American comedian, game show host, and announcer (died 2009)

Edward Leo Peter McMahon Jr. was an American announcer, game show host, comedian, actor, singer, and combat aviator. McMahon and Johnny Carson began their association in their first TV series, the ABC game show Who Do You Trust?, appearing from 1958 to 1962. McMahon then made his famous thirty-year mark as Carson's sidekick and announcer on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from 1962 to 1992.

Wes Montgomery, American guitarist and songwriter (died 1968)

John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery was an American jazz guitarist. He is most known for his unusual technique of plucking the strings with the side of his thumb and for his extensive use of octaves, which gave him a distinctive sound. Montgomery often worked with his brothers Buddy and Monk, as well as organist Melvin Rhyne. His recordings up to 1965 were oriented toward hard bop, soul jazz, and post bop, but around 1965 he began recording more pop-oriented instrumental albums that found mainstream success. His later guitar style influenced jazz fusion and smooth jazz.

06/03/1920

Lewis Gilbert, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2018)

Lewis Gilbert was an English film director, producer and screenwriter who directed more than 40 films during six decades; among them such varied titles as Cast a Dark Shadow (1955), Reach for the Sky (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Alfie (1966), Educating Rita (1983) and Shirley Valentine (1989), as well as three James Bond films: You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

06/03/1918

Howard McGhee, American trumpeter (died 1987)

Howard McGhee was one of the first American bebop jazz trumpeters, alongside Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, and Idrees Sulieman. He was known for his fast fingering and high notes. He had an influence on younger bebop trumpeters such as Navarro.

06/03/1917

Donald Davidson, American philosopher and academic (died 2003)

Donald Herbert Davidson was an American philosopher. He served as Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1981 to 2003 after having also held teaching appointments at Stanford University, Rockefeller University, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago. Davidson was known for his charismatic personality and difficult writing style, as well as the systematic nature of his philosophy. His work exerted considerable influence in many areas of philosophy from the 1960s onward, particularly in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and action theory. While Davidson was an analytic philosopher, with most of his influence lying in that tradition, his work has attracted attention in continental philosophy as well, particularly in literary theory and related areas.

Will Eisner, American illustrator and publisher (died 2005)

William Erwin Eisner was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series The Spirit (1940–1952) was noted for its experiments in content and form. In 1978, he popularized the term "graphic novel" with the publication of his book A Contract with God. He was an early contributor to formal comics studies with his book Comics and Sequential Art (1985). The Eisner Award was named in his honor and is given to recognize achievements each year in the comics medium; he was one of the three inaugural inductees to the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

06/03/1912

Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq (died 2014)

Mohammed Burhanuddin was the 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq of Dawoodi Bohras from 1965 to 2014. He led the community for 49 years in a period of social, economic, and educational prosperity; strengthened and re-institutionalized the fundamental core of the community's faith; revived its culture, tradition, and heritage. In successfully achieving coexistence of traditional Islamic values and modern Western practices within the community, Burhanuddin completed the work his predecessor Taher Saifuddin had started.

06/03/1910

Emma Bailey, American auctioneer and author (died 1999)

Emma Bailey was an American auctioneer and author, credited with being the first American woman auctioneer. She held her first auction in Brattleboro, Vermont, on May 12, 1950, as a way to supplement her family's income. In 1952 she became the first woman admitted to the National Auctioneers Association. She continued auctioneering for nearly 20 years and wrote a book about her experiences, entitled Sold to the Lady in the Green Hat (1962), before retiring in the late 1960s.

06/03/1909

Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician (died 1987)

Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo was a Nigerian politician and statesman who served as the first Premier of the Western region of Nigeria. He was known as one of the key figure towards Nigeria's independence movement from 1957 to 1960. Awolowo founded the Yoruba nationalist group Egbe Omo Oduduwa as well as the Premier of the Western Region under Nigeria's parliamentary system from 1952 to 1959. He was the official opposition leader in the federal parliament to the Balewa government from 1959 to 1963.

Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Polish poet and author (died 1966)

Stanisław Jerzy Lec, born Baron Stanisław Jerzy de Tusch-Letz, was a Polish aphorist and poet. Often mentioned among the greatest writers of post-war Poland, he was one of the most influential aphorists of the 20th century, known for lyric poetry and ironic philosophical-moral aphorisms, often with a political subtext.

06/03/1906

Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (died 1959)

Louis Francis Cristillo, better known as Lou Costello, was an American comedian, actor and producer. He was best known for his double act with Bud Abbott and their routine "Who's on First?".

06/03/1905

Bob Wills, American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader (died 1975)

James Robert Wills was an American musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the founder of Western swing, he was known widely as the King of Western Swing. He was also noted for punctuating his music with his trademark "ah-haa" calls.

06/03/1904

José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (died 1960)

José Antonio Aguirre y Lecube was a Basque politician and activist in the Basque Nationalist Party. He was the first president of the Provisional Government of the Basque Country and the executive defense advisor during the Spanish Civil War. Under his mandate, the Provisional Government formed the Basque Army and fought for the Second Spanish Republic.

06/03/1903

Empress Nagako of Japan (died 2000)

Nagako , posthumously honoured as Empress Kōjun , was a member of the Imperial House of Japan, the wife of Emperor Hirohito and the mother of Emperor Emeritus Akihito. She served as Empress of Japan from 1926 until her husband's death in 1989, making her the longest-serving empress consort in Japanese history.

06/03/1900

Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano and actress (died 2001)

Gina Cigna was a French-Italian dramatic soprano.

Lefty Grove, American baseball player (died 1975)

Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove was an American professional baseball pitcher. After having success in the minor leagues during the early 1920s, Grove became a star in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the American League's Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox. One of the greatest pitchers in history, Grove led the American League in wins in four separate seasons, in strikeouts seven consecutive seasons, and had the league's lowest earned run average a record nine times. Over the course of the three years from 1929 to 1931, he twice won the pitcher's Triple Crown, leading the league in wins, strikeouts, and ERA, while amassing a 79–15 record and leading the Athletics to three straight AL championships. Overall, Grove won 300 games in his 17-year MLB career. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1947.

Henri Jeanson, French journalist and author (died 1970)

Henri Jules Louis Jeanson was a French writer and journalist. He was a "satrap" in the "College of 'Pataphysics".

06/03/1895

Albert Tessier, Canadian priest and historian (died 1976)

Albert Tessier was a French-speaking Canadian priest, historian and a film maker.

06/03/1893

Furry Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1981)

Walter E. "Furry" Lewis was an American country blues guitarist and songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee. He was one of the earliest of the blues musicians active in the 1920s to be brought out of retirement and given new opportunities to record during the folk blues revival of the 1960s.

Ella P. Stewart, pioneering Black American pharmacist (died 1987)

Ella P. Stewart was an American pharmacist who was one of the first African American female pharmacists in the United States.

06/03/1892

Bert Smith, English international footballer (died 1969)

Bertram "Bert" Smith was a professional footballer, who played for Huddersfield Town, Tottenham Hotspur and played international football for England.

06/03/1885

Ring Lardner, American journalist and author (died 1933)

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries—Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald—all professed strong admiration for his writing, and author John O'Hara directly attributed his understanding of dialogue to him.

06/03/1884

Molla Mallory, Norwegian-American tennis player (died 1959)

Anna Margrethe "Molla" Bjurstedt Mallory was a Norwegian-American tennis player, at one time ranked number 2 in the world. She won a record eight singles titles at the U.S. National Championships. She was the first woman to represent Norway at the Olympics.

María Collazo, Uruguayan journalist and activist (died 1942)

María Collazo was a Uruguayan educator and journalist. She was active in Buenos Aires and she was repatriated to Uruguay in 1907.

06/03/1882

F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect, co-designed Villa Vizcaya (died 1980)

F. Burrall Hoffman, Jr. was an American architect, best known for his work for James Deering at Villa Vizcaya in Miami, Florida.

Guy Kibbee, American actor and singer (died 1956)

Guy Bridges Kibbee was an American stage and film actor.

06/03/1877

Rose Fyleman, English writer and poet (died 1957)

Rose Amy Fyleman was an English writer and poet, noted for her works on fairies for children. Her 1917 poem "There are fairies at the bottom of our garden" was set to music by English composer Liza Lehmann.

06/03/1876

A. A. Kannisto, Finnish politician (died 1930)

Anders Anshelm Kannisto was a Finnish trade unionist and politician who was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1907 to 1911. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Mikkeli Province. A member of the Red Guard, he was taken prisoner by the White Guard at the start of the Finnish Civil War in 1918. After the war Kannisto was sentenced to eight years in prison for treason, but was released in 1921.

06/03/1872

Sarah Roberts, subject of a vampire legend (died 1913)

Sarah Ellen Roberts was an Englishwoman who died and was buried in Pisco, Peru. After her death, a legend evolved that she was a vampire and bride of Dracula. On 9 June 1993, the 80th anniversary of her death, locals in Pisco feared she would come back to life and take her revenge.

06/03/1871

Afonso Costa, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 59th Prime Minister of Portugal (died 1937)

Afonso Augusto da Costa, GCTE, GCL was a Portuguese lawyer, professor and republican politician.

06/03/1870

Oscar Straus, Viennese composer and conductor (died 1954)

Oscar Nathan Straus was a Viennese composer of operettas, film scores, and songs. He also wrote about 500 cabaret songs, chamber music, and orchestral and choral works. His original name was actually Strauss, but for professional purposes he deliberately omitted the final 's'. He wished not to be associated with the musical Strauss family of Vienna. However, he did follow the advice of Johann Strauss II in 1898 about abandoning the prospective lure of writing waltzes for the more lucrative business of writing for the theatre.

06/03/1865

Duan Qirui, Chinese warlord and politician (died 1936)

Duan Qirui was a Chinese statesman and general who controlled the Beijing Government during the late 1910s. He was the Premier of China on four occasions between 1913 and 1918, and from 1924 to 1926 he served as acting Chief Executive of China in Beijing. As the last leader of the Beiyang Army, Duan was highly respected among the warlords and people of China, and was the founder of the Anhui Clique.

06/03/1849

Georg Luger, Austrian gun designer, designed the Luger pistol (died 1923)

Georg Johann Luger was an Austrian designer of the famous Luger pistol and the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge.

06/03/1841

Viktor Burenin, Russian author, poet, playwright, and critic (died 1926)

Viktor Petrovich Burenin was a Russian literary and theatre critic, publicist, novelist, dramatist, translator and satirical poet notorious for his confrontational articles and satirical poems, mostly targeting leftist writers. He was the author of several popular plays, novels and opera librettos.

06/03/1834

George du Maurier, French-English author and illustrator (died 1896)

George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier was a French-British cartoonist, illustrator, and novelist. His first novel Peter Ibbetson was published in 1891 and has been adapted into films, an opera, and a play. He was known for his work in Punch and his 1894 Gothic novel Trilby, featuring the character Svengali.

06/03/1831

Philip Sheridan, Irish-American general (died 1888)

Philip Henry Sheridan was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with General-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac in the East. In 1864, he defeated Confederate forces under General Jubal Early in the Shenandoah Valley and his destruction of the economic infrastructure of the Valley, called "The Burning" by residents, was one of the first uses of scorched-earth tactics in the war. In 1865, his cavalry pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee and was instrumental in forcing his surrender at Appomattox Courthouse.

06/03/1826

Annie Feray Mutrie, British painter (died 1893)

Annie Feray Mutrie was a British still-life painter. She exhibited regularly and she and her sister Martha were considered the best flower painters in oils.

06/03/1823

Charles I of Württemberg (died 1891)

Charles was the third King of Württemberg from 25 June 1864 until his death in 1891.

06/03/1818

William Claflin, American businessman and politician, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1905)

William Claflin was an American politician, industrialist, and philanthropist from Massachusetts. He served as the 27th governor of Massachusetts from 1869 to 1872 and as a member of the United States Congress from 1877 to 1881. He also served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1868 to 1872, serving as a moderating force between the Radical and moderate wings of the Republican Party. His name is given to Claflin University in South Carolina, a historically black college founded with funding from him and his father.

06/03/1806

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English-Italian poet and translator (died 1861)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15, she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life. Later in life, she also developed lung problems, possibly tuberculosis. She took laudanum for the pain from an early age, which is likely to have contributed to her frail health.

06/03/1787

Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist and astronomer (died 1826)

Joseph Ritter von Fraunhofer was a German physicist and optical lens manufacturer. He made optical glass, an achromatic telescope, and objective lenses. He developed diffraction gratings and also invented the spectroscope. In 1814, he discovered and studied the dark absorption lines in the spectrum of the sun now known as Fraunhofer lines.

06/03/1785

Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer and conductor (died 1857)

Karol Kazimierz Kurpiński was a Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue. He was a representative of late classicism and early romanticism as well as being a member of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning. He is also known for having composed the music to the 1831 patriotic song La Varsovienne with lyrics by Casimir Delavigne. He was also a mentor and an influence on young Chopin.

06/03/1780

Lucy Barnes, American writer (died 1809)

Lucy Barnes was an 18th-century American writer. Soon after her death, some of Barnes' letters, dissertations, and poems were collected and printed. Entitled, The Female Christian, it may have been the first written by a woman in defense of Universalism.

06/03/1779

Antoine-Henri Jomini, Swiss-French general (died 1869)

Baron Antoine-Henri Jomini was a Swiss-French military officer who served as a general in French and later in Russian service, and one of the most celebrated writers on the Napoleonic art of war. Jomini was largely self-taught in military strategy, and his ideas are a staple at military academies, the United States Military Academy at West Point being a prominent example; his theories were thought to have affected many officers who later served in the American Civil War. He may have coined the term logistics in his Summary of the Art of War (1838).

06/03/1761

Antoine-François Andréossy, French general and diplomat (died 1828)

Antoine-François, comte Andréossy was a Franco-Italian nobleman, who served as a French Army artillery general, diplomat and parliamentarian.

06/03/1724

Henry Laurens, English-American merchant and politician, 5th President of the Continental Congress (died 1792)

Henry Laurens was an American Founding Father, merchant, slave trader, and rice planter from South Carolina who became a political leader during the Revolutionary War. A delegate to the Second Continental Congress, Laurens succeeded John Hancock as its president. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and, as president, presided over its passage.

06/03/1716

Pehr Kalm, Swedish-Finnish botanist and explorer (died 1779)

Pehr Kalm, also known as Peter Kalm, was a Swedish-Finnish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was one of the most important apostles of Carl Linnaeus.

06/03/1663

Francis Atterbury, English bishop and poet (died 1732)

Francis Atterbury was an English man of letters, politician and bishop. A High Church Tory and Jacobite, he gained patronage under Queen Anne, but was mistrusted by the Hanoverian Whig ministries, and banished for communicating with the Old Pretender in the Atterbury Plot. He was a noted wit and a gifted preacher.

06/03/1619

Cyrano de Bergerac, French author and playwright (died 1655)

Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist.

06/03/1536

Santi di Tito, Italian painter (died 1603)

Santi di Tito was one of the most influential and leading Italian painters of the proto-Baroque style – what is sometimes referred to as "Counter-Maniera" or Counter-Mannerism.

06/03/1495

Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and diplomat (died 1556)

Luigi Alamanni was an Italian poet and statesman. He was regarded as a prolific and versatile poet. He was credited with introducing the epigram into Italian poetry.

06/03/1483

Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and politician (died 1540)

Francesco Guicciardini 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. In his masterpiece, The History of Italy, Guicciardini paved the way for a new style in historiography with his use of government sources to support arguments and the realistic analysis of the people and events of his time.

06/03/1475

Michelangelo, Italian painter and sculptor (died 1564)

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, 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. His work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. Michelangelo's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as an archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and elder contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci. Given the sheer volume of surviving correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences, Michelangelo is one of the best-documented artists of the 16th century. He was lauded by contemporary biographers as the most accomplished artist of his era.

06/03/1459

Jakob Fugger, German merchant and banker (died 1525)

Jakob Fugger of the Lily, also known as Jakob Fugger the Rich or sometimes Jakob II, was a major German merchant, mining entrepreneur, and banker. He was a descendant of the Fugger merchant family located in the Free Imperial City of Augsburg. He was born and later also elevated through marriage to Grand Burgher of Augsburg. Within a few decades, he expanded the family firm to a business operating in all of Europe. He began his education at the age of 14 in Venice, which also remained his main residence until 1487. At the same time, he was a cleric and held several prebends. American journalist Greg Steinmetz has estimated his overall wealth to be around 2% of the GDP of Europe at that time, the equivalent of around $400 billion adjusted to 2015.

06/03/1405

John II of Castile (died 1454)

John II of Castile was King of Castile and León from 1406 to 1454. He succeeded his older sister, Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, as Prince of Asturias in 1405.

06/03/1340

John of Gaunt (probable; d. 1399)

John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, was an English prince, military leader and statesman. He was the fourth son of King Edward III, and the father of King Henry IV. Because of Gaunt's royal origin, advantageous marriages and some generous land grants, he was one of the richest men of his era and an influential figure during the reigns of both his father and his nephew, Richard II. As Duke of Lancaster, he is the founder of the royal House of Lancaster, whose members would ascend the throne after his death. His birthplace, Ghent in Flanders, then known in English as Gaunt, was the origin of his name.

Lives Remembered on 6th March

On 6th March, 117 remarkable people passed away — from 190 to 2025. Remember the lives and legacies of those we lost on this day.

06/03/2025

Australian Suicide, Australian professional wrestler (born 1992)

Broderick Shepherd was an Australian professional wrestler, best known by the ring name Australian Suicide, who worked for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), where he was an AAA World Cruiserweight Champion. Before arriving in Mexico, Shepherd competed in other independent companies in both Australia and the United States under the name Ryan Rollins.

Brian James, British guitarist (born 1955)

Brian James was an English punk rock guitarist, who was a founding member of the Damned as well as of the Lords of the New Church.

06/03/2021

Lou Ottens, Dutch engineer and inventor (born 1926)

Lodewijk Frederik Ottens, known as Lou Ottens, was a Dutch engineer and inventor, best known as the inventor of the cassette tape, and for his work in helping to develop the compact disc. Ottens was employed by Philips for the entirety of his career.

Graham Pink, British nurse (born 1929)

Graham Pink was a nurse and whistleblower at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

06/03/2018

Peter Nicholls, Australian science fiction critic and encyclopedist (born 1939)

Peter Douglas Nicholls was an Australian literary scholar and critic. He was the creator and a co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction with John Clute.

06/03/2017

Robert Osborne, American actor and historian (born 1932)

Robert Jolin Osborne was an American film historian, author, actor and the primary television host for the premium cable channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM) for over twenty years.

06/03/2016

Nancy Reagan, American actress, 42nd First Lady of the United States (born 1921)

Nancy Davis Reagan was an American actress who was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. She was the second wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States.

Sheila Varian, American horse trainer and breeder (born 1937)

Sheila Varian was an American breeder of Arabian horses who lived and worked at the Varian Arabians Ranch near Arroyo Grande, California. She grew up with a strong interest in horses, and was mentored in horsemanship by Mary "Sid" Spencer, a local rancher and Morgan horse breeder who also introduced Varian to the vaquero or "Californio" tradition of western riding. She started her horse ranch, Varian Arabians, in 1954 with the assistance of her parents. Raising and training horses was her full-time occupation beginning in 1963. She used vaquero-influenced methods of training horses, although she adapted her technique over the years to fit the character of the Arabian horse, which she viewed as a horse breed requiring a smart yet gentle approach.

06/03/2015

Fred Craddock, American minister and academic (born 1928)

Fred Brenning Craddock Jr. was Bandy Distinguished Professor of Preaching and New Testament Emeritus in the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He was an ordained minister of the Christian Church from rural Tennessee. He was the director of the Craddock Center, a non-profit service group which operates in rural Appalachia.

Ram Sundar Das, Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Chief Minister of Bihar (born 1921)

Ram Sundar Das was an Indian freedom fighter, politician and former Chief Minister of Bihar state. He was a two-time Member of Parliament from Hajipur constituency.

Enrique "Coco" Vicéns, Puerto Rican-American basketball player and politician (born 1926)

Enrique "Coco" Alberto Vicéns Sastre was a Puerto Rican professional basketball player that also served as senator-at-large in the Puerto Rico State Legislature from 1973 until 1978. He played for the Leones de Ponce basketball team and was also a volleyball player and track and field athlete. His brother was basketball star Juan "Pachín" Vicéns.

06/03/2014

Alemayehu Atomsa, Ethiopian educator and politician (born 1969)

Alemayehu Atomsa was an Ethiopian politician who served as the president of the Oromia Region, the largest of the country's regions, from 2010 until his resignation due to illness in 2014, from which he died in Bangkok, Thailand, on 6 March 2014.

Frank Jobe, American soldier and surgeon (born 1925)

Frank Wilson Jobe was an American orthopedic surgeon and co-founder of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic. Jobe pioneered both elbow ligament replacement and major reconstructive shoulder surgery for baseball players.

Sheila MacRae, English-American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1921)

Sheila Margaret MacRae was an English-born American actress, singer, and dancer.

Martin Nesbitt, American lawyer and politician (born 1946)

Martin Luther Nesbitt Jr. was a Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate. He represented the 49th district. An attorney from Asheville, North Carolina, Nesbitt was elected to eleven terms in the state House before moving to the state senate in 2004.

Manlio Sgalambro, Italian philosopher, author, and poet (born 1924)

Manlio Sgalambro was an Italian philosopher, writer, and poet born in Lentini.

06/03/2013

Chorão, Brazilian singer-songwriter (born 1970)

Alexandre Magno Abrão, known professionally as Chorão, was a Brazilian singer-songwriter, skateboarder, filmmaker, screenwriter and businessman. Best known for being a founding member and the vocalist/main lyricist of the influential rock band Charlie Brown Jr., Folha de S.Paulo critic André Barcinski considered him "the nearest thing to a punk hero Brazilian mainstream music ever had", and Eduardo Tristão Girão of Portal Uai called him "the bad boy of Brazilian rock" and "the spokesman of the youth of the 1990s". Having been born and raised for most of his childhood in São Paulo, Chorão was the only Charlie Brown Jr. member not to be a Santos native, and its only founding member to remain consistently in all of the group's line-ups.

Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936)

Charles Thomas "Stompin' Tom" Connors, OC was a Canadian country and folk singer-songwriter. Focusing his career exclusively on his native Canada, he is credited with writing more than 300 songs and has released four dozen albums, with total sales of nearly four million copies.

Alvin Lee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1944)

Alvin Lee was an English guitarist, singer and songwriter, who was best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the blues rock band Ten Years After.

W. Wallace Cleland, American biochemist and academic (born 1930)

William Wallace Cleland (January 6, 1930 – March 6, 2013, often cited as W. W. Cleland, and known almost universally as "Mo Cleland", was a University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemistry professor. His research was concerned with enzyme reaction mechanism and enzyme kinetics, especially multiple-substrate enzymes. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1985.

06/03/2012

Francisco Xavier do Amaral, East Timorese politician, 1st President of East Timor (born 1937)

Francisco Xavier do Amaral was an East Timorese politician. A founder of the Frente Revolucionária de Timor Leste Independente (Fretilin), Amaral was sworn in as the first President of East Timor when the country, then a Portuguese colony, made a unilateral declaration of independence on 28 November 1975. He was a member of the National Parliament for the Timorese Social Democratic Association from 2001 until his death in 2012. Amaral was also known as "Abo (Grandfather) Xavier", a term of endearment, by East Timorese.

Donald M. Payne, American businessman and politician (born 1934)

Donald Milford Payne Sr. was an American politician who was the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 10th congressional district from 1989 until his death in 2012. He was a member of the Democratic Party. The district encompassed most of the city of Newark, parts of Jersey City and Elizabeth, and some suburban communities in Essex and Union counties. He was the first African American to represent New Jersey in Congress.

Helen Walulik, American baseball player (born 1929)

Helen Kiely was a pitcher and an outfield/infield utility who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m), 121 lb, she batted and threw right-handed.

06/03/2011

Sasao Gouland, governor of Chuuk State, Micronesia (born 1933)

Sasao H. Gouland was the governor of Chuuk State, Micronesia from 1990 to June 1996.

06/03/2010

Endurance Idahor, Nigerian footballer (born 1984)

Endurance Idahor was a Nigerian professional football player who played for Sudanese club Al-Merreikh. On 6 March 2010, Idahor collapsed during a league game and later died on his way to the hospital.

Mark Linkous, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1962)

Frederick Mark Linkous was an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known as leader of Sparklehorse. He was also known for his collaborations with such artists as Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Daniel Johnston, Cracker, Radiohead, Black Francis, Julian Casablancas, Nina Persson, David Lynch, Fennesz, Danger Mouse, and Sage Francis.

Betty Millard, American philanthropist and activist (born 1911)

Elizabeth Boynton Millard was a writer, artist, political activist, philanthropist, and a feminist. She is known for her feminist publication "Woman against Myth", as well as her involvement with the United States Communist Party in the 1940s and 1950s.

06/03/2009

Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper, producer, and actor (born 1964)

Francis Durango Magalona, also known as Francis M, was a Filipino rapper, songwriter, and actor. He is regarded as an influential figure in Pinoy hip hop.

06/03/2008

Peter Poreku Dery, Ghanaian cardinal (born 1918)

Peter Porekuu Dery, originally Porekuu Der, was a Ghanaian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Tamale from 1974 to 1994, and was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2006. He was the Bishop of Wa from 1960 to 1974.

06/03/2007

Jean Baudrillard, French photographer and theorist (born 1929)

Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist and philosopher with an interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as his formulation of concepts such as hyperreality. Baudrillard wrote about diverse subjects, including consumerism, critique of economy, social history, aesthetics, Western foreign policy, and popular culture. Among his best-known works are Forget Foucault (1977), Seduction (1978), Simulacra and Simulation (1981), America (1986), and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991). His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism. Nevertheless, Baudrillard had also opposed post-structuralism, and had distanced himself from postmodernism.

Ernest Gallo, American businessman, co-founded E & J Gallo Winery (born 1909)

Ernest J. Gallo was an American businessman and philanthropist. Gallo co-founded the E & J Gallo Winery in Modesto, California.

06/03/2006

Anne Braden, American journalist and activist (born 1924)

Anne McCarty Braden was an American civil rights activist, journalist, and educator dedicated to the cause of racial equality. She and her husband bought a suburban house for an African American couple during Jim Crow. White neighbors burned crosses and bombed the house. During McCarthyism, Anne was charged with sedition. She wrote and organized for the southern civil rights movement before violations became national news. Anne was among nation's most outspoken white anti-racist activists, organizing across racial divides in environmental, women's, and anti-nuclear movements.

Kirby Puckett, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1960)

Kirby Puckett was an American professional baseball player. He played his entire 12-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the Minnesota Twins (1984–1995). Puckett was instrumental in helping the Twins to win World Series championships in 1987 and 1991. Puckett generally played center field, although he was shifted to right field later in his career.

Ali Farka Touré, Malian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1939)

Ali Ibrahim "Ali Farka" Touré was a Malian singer and multi-instrumentalist, and one of the African continent's most internationally renowned musicians. His music blends traditional Malian music and its derivative, African American blues and is considered a pioneer of African desert blues. Touré was ranked number 76 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and number 37 on Spin magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

06/03/2005

Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)

Hans Albrecht Eduard Bethe 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. For most of his career, Bethe was a professor at Cornell University.

Danny Gardella, American baseball player and trainer (born 1920)

Daniel Lewis Gardella was an American professional baseball player who played most of his Major League Baseball (MLB) career as a left fielder with the New York Giants from 1944 to 1945. Born in New York City, he batted and threw left-handed.

Tommy Vance, English radio host (born 1943)

Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston, known professionally as Tommy Vance, was an English radio broadcaster. He was an important factor in the rise of the new wave of British heavy metal, along with London-based disc jockey Neal Kay, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Vance was one of the first radio hosts in the United Kingdom to broadcast hard rock and heavy metal in the early 1980s, providing the only national radio forum for both bands and fans. The Friday Rock Show that he hosted gave new bands airtime for their music and fans an opportunity to hear it. He used a personal tagline of "TV on the radio". His voice was heard by millions around the world announcing the Wembley Stadium acts at Live Aid in 1985.

Teresa Wright, American actress (born 1918)

Muriel Teresa Wright was an American actress. She won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Carol Beldon in Mrs. Miniver. She was nominated for the same award in 1941 for her debut work in The Little Foxes. Also in 1942, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Pride of the Yankees, opposite Gary Cooper. She is also known for her performances in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and in William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Additionally, Wright received five Photoplay Awards, two National Board of Review Awards, and two Hollywood Walk of Fame Stars for her contributions to motion pictures and television.

Gladys Marín, Chilean activist and political figure (born 1938)

Gladys del Carmen Marín Millie was a Chilean activist and political figure. She was Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh) (1994–2002) and then president of the PCCh until her death. She was a staunch opponent of General Augusto Pinochet and filed the first lawsuit against him, in which she accused him of committing human rights violations during his seventeen-year dictatorship. Gladys Marín was the youngest person ever elected to the Chilean Congress, the first woman alongside Sara Larraín to run for the country's presidency and the only female leader of a Chilean political party.

06/03/2004

Hercules, American wrestler (born 1957)

Raymond Constantine Fernandez Jr. was an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Hercules Hernandez, or simply Hercules. Fernandez began his career in 1979, primarily wrestling in Florida and Texas before earning his greatest success by joining the World Wrestling Federation in 1985, where he was a member of The Heenan Family. He later split from the stable and feuded with Heenan and Ted DiBiase, afterwards turning heel in 1990, forming Power and Glory with Paul Roma, where they had a feud with The Rockers. Fernandez was also a featured bodybuilder, appearing in several muscle magazines. He is also known for his appearances in World Championship Wrestling, Jim Crockett Promotions, and New-Japan Pro Wrestling.

Frances Dee, American actress (born 1909)

Frances Marion Dee was an American actress. Her first film was the musical Playboy of Paris (1930). She starred in films An American Tragedy (1931), Little Women (1933) and Becky Sharp (1935). She is perhaps also known for starring in the 1943 Val Lewton psychological horror film I Walked With a Zombie.

06/03/2002

Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1969)

Bryan Charles Fogarty was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman who played for the Quebec Nordiques, Pittsburgh Penguins and Montreal Canadiens. He set several records while in the junior leagues and was a high draft choice in the National Hockey League (NHL). However, his hockey career was marred by persistent alcohol and drug use, which prevented him from playing a full season at any point and led to him being frequently traded.

06/03/2000

John Colicos, Canadian actor (born 1928)

John Colicos was a Canadian actor. He was noted for his Shakespearean roles on stage, particularly with the Stratford Festival, but became well-known to science fiction fans for his roles as Klingon commander Kor on Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and as the villainous Baltar on the original Battlestar Galactica.

06/03/1999

Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahrain king (born 1933)

Isa bin Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa was a Bahraini royal who served as the first Emir of Bahrain from 1961 until his death in 1999.

06/03/1997

Cheddi Jagan, Guyanese politician, 4th President of Guyana (born 1918)

Cheddi Berret Jagan was a Guyanese politician and dentist who was first elected Chief Minister in 1953 and later Premier of British Guiana from 1961 to 1964. He later served as President of Guyana from 1992 to his death in 1997. In 1953, he became the first Hindu and person of Indian descent to be a head of government outside of the Indian subcontinent.

Michael Manley, Jamaican soldier, pilot, and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (born 1924)

Michael Norman Manley was a Jamaican politician, trade unionist and journalist who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica, from 1972 to 1980, and from 1989 to 1992. Manley championed a democratic socialist programme, and has been described as a populist, although many in the country feared he would turn Jamaica into a communist state. He remains one of Jamaica's most popular prime ministers.

Ursula Torday, English author (born 1912)

Ursula Torday, was a British writer of some 60 gothic, romance and mystery novels from 1935 to 1982. She also used the pseudonyms of Paula Allardyce, Charity Blackstock, Lee Blackstock, and Charlotte Keppel. In 1961, her novel Witches' Sabbath won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association

06/03/1994

Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and politician, 9th Greek Minister of Culture (born 1920)

Maria Amalia "Melina" Mercouri was a Greek actress, singer, activist, and politician. She came from a prominent political family for multiple generations. She received an Academy Award nomination and won a French Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for her performance in the film Never on Sunday (1960) and an Italian David di Donatello for Topkapi (1964). Mercouri was also nominated for one Tony Award, three Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and one New York Film Critics Circle Award during the course of her acting career. In 1987, she was awarded a special accolade in the first edition of the Europe Theatre Prize.

06/03/1988

Mairéad Farrell, Provisional IRA volunteer (born 1957)

Mairéad Farrell was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). She was shot and killed by the Special Air Service in Gibraltar during Operation Flavius.

Daniel McCann, Provisional IRA volunteer (born 1957)

Daniel McCann was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), who was shot dead by the British Army on 6 March 1988 whilst being accused of attempting to plant a car bomb in Gibraltar.

Seán Savage, Provisional IRA volunteer (born 1965)

Seán Savage was a member of the Provisional IRA who was shot dead by the British Army whilst allegedly attempting to plant a car bomb in Gibraltar. The car believed to hold the bomb planted by Savage and his fellow conspirers was later found to hold no bomb.

06/03/1986

Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (born 1887)

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers, hills and desert-inspired landscapes, which were often drawn from and related to places and environments in which she lived. Although she was a figure associated with interpretations regarding feminism, she did not want to be seen as a "woman artist", she wanted to be seen as an artist.

06/03/1984

Billy Collins Jr., American boxer (born 1961)

William Ray Collins Jr. was an American professional boxer who competed from 1981 to 1983. He was undefeated before his career was cut short after his final fight when he sustained serious injuries against Luis Resto in their ten-round bout. Aided by his trainer Panama Lewis, Resto used illegal, tampered gloves with an ounce of the gloves' cushioning removed, along with hand wraps that had been soaked in plaster of Paris.

Martin Niemöller, German pastor and theologian (born 1892)

Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller 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. After the war, he went on tour around the world to condemn the Nazi cause and educate people about the importance of human rights. In 1946 he published the confessional piece "First They Came".

Homer N. Wallin, American admiral (born 1893)

Homer Norman Wallin was a vice admiral in the United States Navy, best known for his salvage of ships sunk in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican-American actor and producer (born 1905)

Henry Wilcoxon was a British-American actor and film producer, born in the British West Indies. He was best known as part of the stock company of director Cecil B. DeMille, playing both leading men and supporting roles, and also serving as DeMille's associate producer on his later films.

06/03/1982

Ayn Rand, Russian-American philosopher, author, and playwright (born 1905)

Alice O'Connor, 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.

06/03/1981

George Geary, English cricketer and coach (born 1893)

George Geary was a first-class cricketer who played for Leicestershire County Cricket Club and the England cricket team. Primarily a bowler, he took 46 wickets in 14 Tests.

Rambhau Mhalgi, Indian politician and member of the Lok Sabha (born 1921)

Ramchandra Kashinath Mhalgi (1921-1982), commonly known as Rambhau Mhalgi, was an Indian politician and a member of the Lok Sabha.

06/03/1977

Alvin R. Dyer, American religious leader (born 1903)

Alvin Rulon Dyer was an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served as a member of the church's First Presidency from 1968 to 1970.

06/03/1976

Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer (born 1903)

Max Everitt Rosenbloom was an American professional boxer, actor, and television personality. Nicknamed "Slapsy Maxie", he was inducted into The Ring's Boxing Hall of Fame in 1972, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1984, the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1985, the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1993., and the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 2026. He was sometimes billed as Slapsy Maxie Rosenbloom for film appearances.

06/03/1974

Ernest Becker, American anthropologist and author (born 1924)

Ernest Becker was an American cultural anthropologist and author of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Denial of Death.

06/03/1973

Pearl S. Buck, American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)

Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck 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. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents.

06/03/1970

William Hopper, American actor (born 1915)

William DeWolf Hopper Jr. was an American stage, film, and television actor. The only child of actor DeWolf Hopper and actress and Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper, he appeared in more than 80 feature films in the 1930s and 1940s. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, he left acting, but was persuaded by director William Wellman in the 1950s to resume his film career. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of private detective Paul Drake in the CBS television series Perry Mason.

06/03/1967

John Haden Badley, English author and educator, founded the Bedales School (born 1865)

John Haden Badley was an English author, educator, and founder of Bedales School, which claims to have become the first coeducational boarding public school in England in 1893.

Nelson Eddy, American actor and singer (born 1901)

Nelson Ackerman Eddy was an American actor and baritone singer who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs. A classically trained baritone, he is best remembered for the eight films in which he costarred with soprano Jeanette MacDonald. He was one of the first "crossover" stars, a superstar appealing both to shrieking bobby soxers and opera purists, and in his heyday, he was the highest paid singer in the world.

Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer, linguist, and philosopher (born 1882)

Zoltán Kodály 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.

06/03/1965

Margaret Dumont, American actress (born 1889)

Margaret Dumont was an American stage and film actress. She is best remembered as the comic foil to the Marx Brothers in seven of their films; Groucho Marx called her "practically the fifth Marx brother."

06/03/1964

Paul of Greece (born 1901)

Paul was King of Greece from 1 April 1947 until his death on 6 March 1964.

06/03/1961

George Formby, English singer-songwriter and actor (born 1904)

George Formby was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, comic songs, usually accompanying himself on the ukulele or banjolele, and became the UK's highest-paid entertainer.

06/03/1955

Mammad Amin Rasulzade, Azerbaijani scholar and politician (born 1884)

Mahammad Amin Akhund Haji Molla Alakbar oghlu Rasulzade was an Azerbaijani politician, journalist and the head of the Azerbaijani National Council. He is mainly considered the founder of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918 and the father of its statehood. His expression "Bir kərə yüksələn bayraq, bir daha enməz!" became the motto of the independence movement in Azerbaijan in the early 20th century. He faced numerous exiles from both Turkey and Iran. During World War II, Rasulzade attempted to form a strategic alliance with Nazi Germany in order to garner support for an independent Azerbaijan.

06/03/1954

Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, British-born German nobleman and Nazi politician (born 1884)

Charles Edward was at various points in his life a British prince and royal duke, a German duke, and a Nazi politician. He was the last ruling Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a state of the German Empire, from 30 July 1900 to 14 November 1918. He later held multiple positions in the Nazi regime, including leader of the German Red Cross, and acted as an unofficial diplomat for the German government.

06/03/1952

Jürgen Stroop, German SS general, and executed war criminal (born 1895)

Jürgen Stroop was a German SS commander and perpetrator of the Holocaust during the Nazi era, who served as SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland and Greece from 1942–1943 and 1943–1944. He held the rank of SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei from 1942–1945. He led the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and wrote the Stroop Report, a twelve-page account of the operation annexed with many original documents and pictures. Following the defeat of Germany, Stroop was prosecuted during the Dachau Trials and convicted of murdering nine U.S. prisoners of war. After his extradition to Poland, Stroop was tried, convicted, and executed for crimes against humanity.

06/03/1951

Ivor Novello, Welsh singer-songwriter and actor (born 1893)

Ivor Novello was a Welsh actor, dramatist, singer and composer who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.

Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian playwright and politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1880)

Volodymyr Kyrylovych Vynnychenko was a Ukrainian statesman, political activist, writer, playwright and artist who served as the first prime minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic. Prior to his entry onto the stage of Ukrainian politics, he was a long-time political activist, who lived abroad in Western Europe from 1906 to 1914 escaping persecution by Russian authorities.

06/03/1950

Albert François Lebrun, French engineer and politician, 15th President of France (born 1871)

Albert François Lebrun was a French politician who served as President of France from 1932 to 1940. He was the last president of the Third Republic. He was a member of the centre-right Democratic Republican Alliance (ARD).

06/03/1948

Ross Lockridge Jr., American author, poet, and academic (born 1914)

Ross Franklin Lockridge Jr. was an American writer known for his novel Raintree County (1948). The novel became a bestseller and has been praised by readers and critics alike. Some have considered it a "Great American Novel". Lockridge died by suicide at the peak of his novel's success at age 33.

Alice Woodby McKane, First Black woman doctor in Savannah, Georgia (born 1865)

Alice Woodby McKane was the first woman to work as a medical doctor in Savannah, Georgia. She was not only known as a physician but also as a politician and an author. She and her husband Cornelius McKane contributed an important part in medical history. She opened the first school of nurse training for black people in Savannah. She also helped her husband to make his dream which was opening the Hospital in Liberia come true. After returning from Liberia, they established the MCKane Hospital for Women and Children and later was known as Charity Hospital to treat for all people in Savannah, especially for African American people.

06/03/1941

Francis Aveling, Canadian priest, psychologist, and author (born 1875)

Francis Arthur Powell Aveling MC ComC was a Canadian psychologist and Catholic priest. He married Ethel Dancy of Steyning, Sussex in 1925.

Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor and academic, designed Mount Rushmore (born 1867)

John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum was an American sculptor best known for his work on Mount Rushmore. He is also associated with various other public works of art across the U.S., including Stone Mountain in Georgia, statues of Union General Philip Sheridan in Washington, D.C., and in Chicago, as well as a bust of Abraham Lincoln exhibited in the White House by Theodore Roosevelt and now held in the United States Capitol crypt in Washington, D.C.

06/03/1939

Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician and academic (born 1852)

Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann was a German mathematician who proved in 1882 that π (pi) is a transcendental number, meaning it is not a root of any nonzero polynomial with rational coefficients.

06/03/1935

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., American colonel, lawyer, and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1841)

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932. Holmes is one of the most widely cited and influential Supreme Court justices in American history, noted for his long tenure on the Court and for his pithy opinions – particularly those on civil liberties and American constitutional democracy – and deference to the decisions of elected legislatures. Holmes retired from the Court at the age of 90, an unbeaten record for oldest justice on the Supreme Court. He previously served the Union as a brevet colonel in the American Civil War, as an associate justice and chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and as Weld Professor of Law at his alma mater, Harvard Law School. His positions, distinctive personality, and writing style made him a popular figure, especially with American progressives.

06/03/1933

Anton Cermak, Czech-American lawyer and politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (born 1873)

Anton Joseph Cermak was an American politician who served as the 44th Mayor of Chicago from 1931 until he was fatally wounded in 1933 by Giuseppe Zangara, who was trying to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.

06/03/1932

John Philip Sousa, American conductor and composer (born 1854)

John Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known primarily for US military marches. He is known as "The March King". Among Sousa's best-known marches are "The Stars and Stripes Forever", "Semper Fidelis", "The Liberty Bell", "The Thunderer", and "The Washington Post".

06/03/1920

Ömer Seyfettin, Turkish author and educator (born 1884)

Ömer Seyfettin, was a Turkish writer from the late 19th to early 20th century, considered to be one of the greatest modern Turkish authors. His work is much praised for simplifying the Turkish language from the Persian and Arabic words and phrases that were common at the time.

06/03/1919

Oskars Kalpaks, Latvian colonel (born 1882)

Oskars Kalpaks was the commander of 1st Latvian Independent Battalion, also known as "Kalpaks Battalion".

06/03/1905

John Henninger Reagan, American surveyor, judge, and politician, 3rd Confederate States of America Secretary of the Treasury (born 1818)

John Henninger Reagan was an American politician from Texas. A Democrat, Reagan resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives when Texas seceded from the United States and joined the Confederate States of America. He served in the Confederate cabinet of Jefferson Davis as Postmaster General.

Makar Yekmalyan, Armenian composer (born 1856)

Makar Grigori Yekmalyan was an Armenian composer.

06/03/1900

Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (born 1834)

Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler was a German engineer, industrial designer and industrialist. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. He invented the high-speed liquid petroleum-fueled engine.

06/03/1899

Kaʻiulani of Hawaii (born 1875)

Princess Kaʻiulani was a Hawaiian royal, the only child of Princess Miriam Likelike, and the last heir apparent to the throne of the Hawaiian Kingdom. She was the niece of King Kalākaua and Queen Liliʻuokalani. After the death of her mother, Kaʻiulani was sent to Europe at age 13 to complete her education under the guardianship of British businessman and Hawaiian sugar investor Theo H. Davies. She had not yet reached her eighteenth birthday when the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom altered her life. The Committee of Safety rejected proposals from both her father Archibald Scott Cleghorn, and provisional president Sanford B. Dole, to seat Kaʻiulani on the throne, conditional upon the abdication of Liliʻuokalani. The Queen thought the Kingdom's best chance at justice was to relinquish her power temporarily to the United States.

06/03/1895

Camilla Collett, Norwegian novelist and activist (born 1813)

Jacobine Camilla Collett was a Norwegian writer, often referred to as the first Norwegian feminist. She was also the younger sister of Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland, and is recognized as being one of the first contributors to realism in Norwegian literature. Her younger brother was Major General Joseph Frantz Oscar Wergeland. She became an honorary member of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights when the association was founded in 1884.

06/03/1888

Louisa May Alcott, American novelist and poet (born 1832)

Louisa May Alcott 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). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Encouraged by her family, Alcott began writing from an early age.

06/03/1867

Charles Farrar Browne, American-English author and educator (born 1834)

Charles Farrar Browne was an American humor writer, better known under his nom de plume, Artemus Ward. Ward was the character of an illiterate rube with "Yankee common sense", whom Browne also played in public performances. He is considered to be America's first stand-up comedian. His birth name was Brown but he added the "e" after he became famous.

06/03/1866

William Whewell, English priest, historian, and philosopher (born 1794)

William Whewell was an English polymath. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In his time as a student there, he achieved distinction in both poetry and mathematics.

06/03/1854

Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, Irish colonel and diplomat, Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (born 1778)

Lieutenant-General Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry,, was an Anglo-Irish nobleman, soldier and politician. He served in the French Revolutionary Wars, in the suppression of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, and in the Napoleonic Wars. He excelled as a cavalry commander in the Peninsular War (1807–1814) under Sir John Moore and the Duke of Wellington.

06/03/1836

Deaths at the Battle of the Alamo:

James Butler Bonham was a 19th-century American soldier who died at the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution. He was a second cousin of William B. Travis and was a messenger of the Battle of the Alamo. His younger brother, Milledge Luke Bonham, was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War, and served as Governor of South Carolina from 1862 to 1864.

Deaths at the Battle of the Alamo:

James Bowie was an American military officer, landowner and slave trader who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution. He was among the Americans who died at the Battle of the Alamo. Stories of him as a fighter and frontiersman, both real and fictitious, have made him a legendary figure in Texas history and a folk hero of American culture. Bowie was born on April 10, 1796, in Logan County, Kentucky. He spent most of his life in Louisiana, where he was raised and where he later worked as a land speculator. His rise to fame began in 1827 on reports of the Sandbar Fight near present-day Vidalia, Louisiana. What began as a duel between two other men deteriorated into a mêlée in which Bowie, having been shot and stabbed, killed the sheriff of Rapides Parish with a large knife. This, and other stories of Bowie's prowess with a knife, led to the widespread popularity of the Bowie knife.

Deaths at the Battle of the Alamo:

David Crockett 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.

Deaths at the Battle of the Alamo:

William Barret "Buck" Travis was a Texian Army officer and lawyer. He is known for helping set the Texas Revolution in motion during the Anahuac disturbances and defending the Alamo Mission during the battle of the Alamo.

06/03/1796

Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French historian and author (born 1713)

Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, also known as Abbé Raynal, was a French writer, former Catholic priest, and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment.

06/03/1764

Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (born 1690)

Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, was an English lawyer and politician who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. He was a close confidant of the Duke of Newcastle, Prime Minister between 1754 and 1756 and 1757 until 1762.

06/03/1758

Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Durham (born 1705)

Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, PC (Ire), known as Lord Barnard between 1753 and 1754, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1726 to 1753 when he succeeded to a peerage as Baron Barnard.

06/03/1754

Henry Pelham, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1694)

Henry Pelham was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1743 until his death in 1754. He was the younger brother of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, who served in Pelham's government and succeeded him as prime minister. Pelham is generally considered to have been Britain's third prime minister, after Robert Walpole and the Earl of Wilmington.

06/03/1616

Francis Beaumont, English playwright (born 1584)

Francis Beaumont was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher.

06/03/1531

Pedro Arias Dávila, Spanish explorer and diplomat (born 1440)

Pedro Arias de Ávila was a Spanish soldier and colonial administrator. He led the first great Spanish expedition to the mainland of the Americas. There, he served as governor of Panama (1514–1526) and Nicaragua (1527–1531), and founded Panama City (1519). He died in 1531 aged around 90 or 91.

06/03/1491

Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers

Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers succeeded his brother, Anthony Woodville, as the third Earl Rivers. He was the son of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, and Jacquetta of Luxembourg. Richard was the brother of the English queen Elizabeth Woodville.

06/03/1490

Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (born 1458)

Ivan Ivanovich or Ioann Ioannovich, also known as Ivan the Young, was the eldest son and heir of Ivan III of Russia from his first marriage to Maria of Tver. In 1471, he was given the title of grand prince by his father and made co-ruler. In 1485, he was given Tver as an appanage.

06/03/1466

Alvise Loredan, Venetian admiral and statesman (born 1393)

Alvise Loredan was a Venetian nobleman of the Loredan family. At a young age he became a galley captain, and served with distinction as a military commander, with a long record of battles against the Ottomans, from the naval expeditions to aid Thessalonica, to the Crusade of Varna, and the opening stages of the Ottoman–Venetian War of 1463–1479, as well as the Wars in Lombardy against the Duchy of Milan. He also served in a number of high government positions, as provincial governor, savio del consiglio, and Procuratore de Supra of Saint Mark's Basilica.

06/03/1447

Colette of Corbie, French abbess and saint in the Catholic Church (born 1381)

Colette of Corbie, PCC was a French abbess and the foundress of the Colettine Poor Clares, a reform branch of the Order of Saint Clare, better known as the Poor Clares. She is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church. Due to a number of miraculous events claimed during her life, she is venerated as a patron saint of women seeking to conceive, expectant mothers, and sick children.

06/03/1353

Roger Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Ruthyn

Roger Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Ruthin was summoned to parliament in 1324. He saw much service as a soldier.

06/03/1251

Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (born 1235)

Rose of Viterbo, TOSF, was a young woman born in Viterbo, then a contested commune of the Papal States. She spent her brief life as a recluse, and was outspoken in her support of the papacy. Otherwise leading an unremarkable life, she later became known for her mystical gifts of prophecy and having miraculous powers. She is honoured as a saint by the Catholic Church.

06/03/1070

Ulric I, Margrave of Carniola

Ulric I, also Odalric or Udalrich, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde, was margrave of Carniola from 1045 and of Istria from 1060 to his death.

06/03/0903

Lu Guangqi, Chinese official and chancellor

Lu Guangqi (盧光啟), courtesy name Zizhong (子忠), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty, who briefly served as chancellor from 901 to 902, while Emperor Zhaozong was under the physical control of the warlord Li Maozhen the military governor (Jiedushi) of Fengxiang Circuit and Li's eunuch allies, led by Han Quanhui. After Li Maozhen was forced to surrender Emperor Zhaozong to another warlord, Zhu Quanzhong the military governor of Xuanwu Circuit, Lu was forced to commit suicide.

Su Jian, Chinese official and chancellor

Su Jian (蘇檢), courtesy name Shengyong (聖用), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty, who briefly served as chancellor from 902 to 903, while Emperor Zhaozong was under the physical control of the warlord Li Maozhen the military governor (Jiedushi) of Fengxiang Circuit and Li's eunuch allies, led by Han Quanhui. After Li Maozhen was forced to surrender Emperor Zhaozong to another warlord, Zhu Quanzhong, the military governor of Xuanwu Circuit, Su was forced to commit suicide.

06/03/0766

Chrodegang, Frankish bishop and saint

Chrodegang was the Frankish Bishop of Metz from 742 or 748 until his death. He served as chancellor for his kinsman, Charles Martel. Chrodegang is claimed to be a progenitor of the Frankish dynasty of the Robertians. He is recognized as a saint in the Catholic Church and in the Orthodox Church.

06/03/0653

Li Ke, prince of the Tang Dynasty (born 619)

Li Ke, posthumously known as the Prince of Yùlín (鬱林王), often known by his greater title as the Prince of Wú (吳王), was an imperial prince of the Tang dynasty. As a highly honored son of Emperor Taizong, he was one time considered a possible candidate as crown prince after both his older brother Li Chengqian and younger brother Li Tai were both deposed in 643, but eventually, his younger brother Li Zhi, as a son of Emperor Taizong's wife Empress Zhangsun, was created crown prince and inherited the throne after Emperor Taizong's death in 649, under the insistence of Li Zhi's uncle and Emperor Taizong's brother-in-law Zhangsun Wuji. Zhangsun, however, detested Li Ke, and in 653, he implicated Li Ke in a plot by the official Fang Yi'ai (房遺愛) and had Emperor Gaozong order Li Ke to commit suicide.

06/03/0190

Liu Bian (poisoned by Dong Zhuo) (born 176)

Liu Bian, also known as Emperor Shao of Han and the Prince of Hongnong, was the 13th emperor of the Eastern Han dynasty in China. He became emperor around the age of 13 upon the death of his father, Emperor Ling, and ruled briefly from 15 May to 28 September 189 before he was deposed, after which he became known as the "Prince of Hongnong". His emperor title, "Emperor Shao", was also used by other emperors who were in power for very short periods of time. In March 190, he was poisoned by Dong Zhuo, who deposed him and replaced him with his younger half-brother, Liu Xie.

Celebrations & Special Days Worldwide on 6th March

Christian feast day: Chrodegang

Chrodegang was the Frankish Bishop of Metz from 742 or 748 until his death. He served as chancellor for his kinsman, Charles Martel. Chrodegang is claimed to be a progenitor of the Frankish dynasty of the Robertians. He is recognized as a saint in the Catholic Church and in the Orthodox Church.

Christian feast day: Colette of Corbie

Colette of Corbie, PCC was a French abbess and the foundress of the Colettine Poor Clares, a reform branch of the Order of Saint Clare, better known as the Poor Clares. She is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church. Due to a number of miraculous events claimed during her life, she is venerated as a patron saint of women seeking to conceive, expectant mothers, and sick children.

Christian feast day: Fridolin of Säckingen

Fridolin of Säckingen, also known as Fridold or Fredelinus, is a legendary Irish missionary, apostle of the Alamanni and founder of Säckingen Abbey on the Upper Rhine. He is also the patron saint of the Swiss canton of Glarus.

Christian feast day: Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba

Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba were female members of the royal family of Mercia in 7th-century England. They are venerated as saints.

Christian feast day: Marcian of Tortona

Marcian of Tortona is a saint of Roman Catholic church. He is traditionally said to have been the first bishop of Tortona, in what is now north-western Italy, a post he held for forty-five years.

Christian feast day: March 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

March 5 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 7

European Day of the Righteous, commemorates those who have stood up against crimes against humanity and totalitarianism with their own moral responsibility. (Europe)

The European Day of the Righteous is a celebration established in 2012 by the European Parliament to commemorate those who have stood up against crimes against humanity and totalitarianism with their own moral responsibility. By this celebration the concept of Righteous as worked out by Yad Vashem is broadened to all genocide cases and forms of totalitarianism thanks to the commitment of Moshe Bejski.

Norfolk Island Foundation Day, the founding of Norfolk Island in 1788.

Foundation Day is an annual public holiday in Norfolk Island commemorating the arrival of the original British settlers on 6 March 1788.

Independence Day (Ghana), celebrates the independence of Ghana from the UK in 1957.

The Independence Day of Ghana is a national holiday celebrated yearly. This day is an official state holiday for the citizens of Ghana both within and in the diaspora to honour and celebrate the heroes of Ghana who led the country to attain its independence. Independence Day is celebrated on 6 March every year. Independence Day is also remembrance of the day that marks the declaration of Ghanaian independence from the British colonial rule. The first Prime Minister of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, became the Head of Government from 1957 to 1960. On Wednesday, 6 March 1957, Kwame Nkrumah declared to the people of Ghana about their freedom, he added that, "the African People are capable of managing their own affairs and Ghana our beloved country is free forever." Ghana was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to achieve its independence from European colonial rule. Many Ghanaians who have had the opportunity to serve as president have remembered the occasion and made Ghana Independence Day a public holiday to celebrate. Granting the day as a national holiday recognized that if 6 March of a year fell on a weekend of the Independence Day celebration, the working day that follows, which is a Monday, will be observed as a holiday by the whole nation. Many presidents from other African countries and Europe have been invited to Ghana to join in the celebration either as guest speakers or invited guests, since the reign of former President Kwame Nkrumah till now.

What Happened on 6th March?

33 significant events took place on Monday, 6th March — stretching from -12 to 2020. Explore the moments that shaped history on this day.

06/03/2020

32 people are killed and 82 are injured when gunmen open fire on a ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack.

On 6 March 2020, a mass shooting occurred in Kabul, Afghanistan. Two gunmen fired from a building under construction, killing 32 people and injuring another 82. The terrorist attack happened during a ceremony to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the assassination by the Taliban of Afghan Shia leader Abdul Ali Mazari. The ceremony was attended by Afghan politician Abdullah Abdullah, who escaped unharmed. The two gunmen were killed later the same day. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for the attack.

06/03/2018

Forbes names Jeff Bezos as the world's richest person, for the first time, at $112 billion net worth.

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917. It has been owned by the Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014. Its chairman and editor-in-chief is Steve Forbes, while Sherry Phillips has been CEO since January 2025. The company is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.

06/03/2008

A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.

The 6 March 2008 Baghdad bombing was a suicide bombing attack on a shopping district in Baghdad, the capital city of Iraq, on 6 March 2008, killing 68 people and wounding 120.

06/03/2003

Air Algérie Flight 6289 crashes at the Aguenar – Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport in Tamanrasset, Algeria, killing 102 out of the 103 people on board.

Air Algérie Flight 6289 (AH6289) was an Algerian domestic passenger flight from Tamanrasset to the nation's capital of Algiers with a stopover in Ghardaïa, operated by Algerian national airline Air Algérie. On 6 March 2003, the aircraft operating the flight, a Boeing 737-200, crashed near the Trans-Sahara Highway shortly after taking off from Tamanrasset's Aguenar – Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport, killing all but one of the 103 people on board. At the time of the accident, it was the deadliest aviation disaster on Algerian soil.

06/03/1988

Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.

The Provisional Irish Republican Army, officially known as the Irish Republican Army and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent socialist republic encompassing all of Ireland. It was the most active republican paramilitary group during the Troubles. It argued that the all-island Irish Republic continued to exist, and it saw itself as that state's army, the sole legitimate successor to the original IRA from the Irish War of Independence. It was designated a terrorist organisation in the United Kingdom and an unlawful organisation in the Republic of Ireland, both of whose authority it rejected.

06/03/1987

The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193.

MS Herald of Free Enterprise was a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferry which capsized moments after leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on the night of 6 March 1987, killing 193 passengers and crew.

06/03/1984

In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the country's miners.

Brampton Bierlow, near Barnsley, often known as Brampton, is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the south side of the Dearne Valley, between Barnsley and Rotherham.

06/03/1975

The Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience for the first time by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.

The Zapruder film is a silent 8mm color motion picture sequence shot by Abraham Zapruder with a Bell & Howell home-movie camera, as U.S. President John F. Kennedy's motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. It unexpectedly captured the president's assassination.

Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.

The 1975 Algiers Agreement, also known as the Algiers Accords and the Algiers Declaration, was signed between Iran and Iraq to settle any outstanding territorial disputes along the Iran–Iraq border. Mediated by Algeria, it served as the basis for additional bilateral treaties signed on 13 June 1975 and 26 December 1975. The territorial disputes in question concerned Iraq's Shatt al-Arab and Iran's Khuzestan Province, and Iraq had wished to negotiate to end Iran's support for the then-ongoing Iraqi Kurdish rebellion after suffering a military defeat in the 1974–1975 Shatt al-Arab conflict. On 17 September 1980, shortly after the Iranian Revolution, the Iraqi government abrogated the treaty in light of another series of cross-border clashes between the two countries. On 22 September 1980, the treaty was completely voided with the Iraqi invasion of Iran, which triggered the eight-year-long Iran–Iraq War.

06/03/1967

Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held office as the General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and as the premier from 1941 until his death. Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become a dictator by the 1930s. Stalin codified the Communist Party's official interpretation of Marxism as Marxism–Leninism, and his version of it is referred to as Stalinism.

06/03/1964

Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.

The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a religious organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930. A centralized and hierarchical group committed to black nationalism, it focuses attention on the black African diaspora, especially on African Americans. While describing itself as Islamic and using Islamic terminology, its religious tenets differ substantially from orthodox Islamic traditions. Scholars of religion characterize it as a new religious movement.

Constantine II becomes the last King of Greece.

Constantine II was the last King of Greece, reigning from 6 March 1964 until the abolition of the Greek monarchy on 1 June 1973.

06/03/1957

Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated with the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to the east. Ghana covers an area of 239,567 km2 (92,497 sq mi), spanning diverse ecologies, from coastal savannas to tropical rainforests. With over 35 million inhabitants, Ghana is ranked thirteenth-most populous country in Africa, and the second-most populous country in West Africa. The capital and largest city is Accra.

06/03/1953

Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov was a Soviet politician who succeeded Joseph Stalin as Premier and the overall leader of the Soviet Union in March 1953. Shortly thereafter, Malenkov entered into a power struggle with the party's First Secretary, Nikita Khrushchev, which culminated in his removal from the premiership in 1955 as well as the Central Committee Presidium in 1957.

06/03/1946

Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.

Hồ Chí Minh, colloquially known as Uncle Ho among other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman who founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945. He served as its first president from 1946 until his death in 1969 and as its first prime minister from 1945 to 1955. A committed Marxist–Leninist, Hồ played a central role in establishing the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930 and later led its successor, the Workers' Party of Vietnam, as chairman until his death.

06/03/1945

World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops. On the same day, Operation Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of the war, begins.

Cologne is the fourth-most populous city of Germany and the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region. Cologne is also part of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, the second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Centered on the left bank of the Rhine, Cologne is located on the River Rhine, about 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of the North Rhine-Westphalia state capital Düsseldorf and 22 kilometres (14 mi) northwest of Bonn, the former capital of West Germany.

06/03/1944

World War II: Soviet Air Forces bomb the evacuated town of Narva in German-occupied Estonia, destroying the entire historical Swedish-era town.

The Soviet Air Forces was one of two air forces belonging to the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces were formed from components of the Imperial Russian Air Service in 1917, and faced their greatest test during World War II. The groups were also involved in the Korean War, and dissolved along with the Soviet Union itself in 1991–92. Former Soviet Air Forces' assets were subsequently divided into several air forces of former Soviet republics, including the new Russian Air Force. The "March of the Pilots" was its marching song.

06/03/1943

World War II: Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel launches the Battle of Medenine in an attempt to slow down the British Eighth Army. It fails, and he leaves Africa three days later.

World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, the latter enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the only nuclear weapons used in war. World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 60 to 75 million people. Millions died as a result of massacres, starvation, disease, and genocides, including the Holocaust. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.

World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, ends with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion, the bulk of the garrison of the town of Grevena, leading to its liberation a fortnight later.

The Battle of Fardykambos, also known as the Battle of Bougazi, was fought between the National Liberation Front (EAM-ELAS) of the Greek Resistance against the Italian troops during the Axis Occupation of Greece. The battle was notable for the large-scale and spontaneous participation of the local populace, and of officers from other groups and organizations, including right-wing rivals to ELAS.

06/03/1930

International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern.

International Unemployment Day was a coordinated international campaign of marches and demonstrations, marked by hundreds of thousands of people in major cities around the world taking to the streets to protest mass unemployment associated with the Great Depression. The Unemployment Day marches, organized by the Communist International and coordinated by its various member parties, resulted in two deaths of protestors in Berlin, injuries at events in Vienna and the Basque city of Bilbao, and less violent outcomes in London and Sydney.

06/03/1912

Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 1,800 m.

The Italo-Turkish War, also known as the Turco-Italian War, was fought between the Kingdom of Italy and the Ottoman Empire from 29 September 1911 to 18 October 1912. As a result of this conflict, Italy captured coastal areas of the Ottoman Tripolitania Vilayet, of which the main sub-provinces were Fezzan, Cyrenaica, and Tripoli itself. These territories became the colonies of Italian Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, which would later merge into Italian Libya.

06/03/1904

Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Led by William Speirs Bruce, the Antarctic region of Coats Land is discovered from the Scotia.

The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (SNAE), 1902–1904, was organised and led by William Speirs Bruce, a natural scientist and former medical student from the University of Edinburgh. Although overshadowed in terms of prestige by Robert Falcon Scott's concurrent Discovery Expedition, the SNAE completed a full programme of exploration and scientific work. Its achievements included the establishment of a staffed meteorological station, the first in Antarctic territory, and the discovery of new land to the east of the Weddell Sea. Its large collection of biological and geological specimens, together with those from Bruce's earlier travels, led to the establishment of the Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory in 1906.

06/03/1901

An anarchist assassin tries to kill German Emperor Wilhelm II.

Wilhelm II was the last German Emperor from 1888 until his abdication in 1918. His fall from power marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 400-year rule over Prussia.

06/03/1857

The Supreme Court of the United States rules 7–2 in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case that the Constitution does not confer citizenship on black people.

Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held that the United States Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent, and therefore they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens. The decision is widely considered the worst in the Supreme Court's history and is broadly denounced for its overt racism, judicial activism, and poor legal reasoning. It de jure nationalized slavery, and thus played a crucial role in the events that led to the American Civil War four years later. Legal scholar Bernard Schwartz said that it "stands first in any list of the worst Supreme Court decisions." Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes called it the Court's "greatest self-inflicted wound".

06/03/1836

Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo: After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.

The Texas Revolution was a rebellion by Anglo-American immigrants as well as Hispanic Texans against the centralist government of Mexico in the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. Although the uprising was part of a larger revolt that included other provinces opposed to the regime of President Miguel Barragán and General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican government believed the United States had instigated the Texas insurrection with the goal of annexation. The Mexican Congress passed the Tornel Decree, declaring that any foreigners fighting against Mexican troops "will be deemed pirates and dealt with as such, being citizens of no nation presently at war with the Republic and fighting under no recognized flag". Only the province of Texas succeeded in breaking with Mexico, establishing the Republic of Texas. It was eventually annexed by the United States about a decade later.

06/03/1820

The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by United States President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.

The Missouri Compromise was federal legislation of the United States that balanced the desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it. It admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and declared a policy of prohibiting slavery in the remaining Louisiana Purchase lands north of the 36°30′ parallel. The 16th United States Congress passed the legislation on March 3, 1820, and President James Monroe signed it on March 6, 1820.

06/03/1788

The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.

The First Fleet were eleven British ships which transported a group of settlers to mainland Australia, marking the beginning of the European colonisation of Australia. It consisted of two Royal Navy vessels, three storeships and six convict transports under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip. On 13 May 1787, the ships, with over 1,400 convicts, marines, sailors, colonial officials, and free settlers onboard, left Portsmouth and travelled over 24,000 kilometres and over 250 days before arriving in Botany Bay, New South Wales, on 18 January 1788. Governor Arthur Phillip rejected Botany Bay, choosing instead Port Jackson to the north as the site for the new colony; the Fleet arrived there on 26 January 1788. The Fleet established the Colony of New South Wales as a penal colony; the first British settlement in Australia.

06/03/1651

The town of Kajaani, known at the time as Cajanaburg, is founded by Count Per Brahe, the Governor-General of Finland.

Kajaani, is a town in Finland and the regional capital of Kainuu. Kajaani is located southeast of Lake Oulu, which drains into the Gulf of Bothnia through the Oulu River. The population of Kajaani is approximately 36,000, while the sub-region has a population of approximately 51,000. It is the 32nd most populous municipality in Finland.

06/03/1447

Election of Pope Nicholas V following the death of Pope Eugene IV on 23 February 1447.

The 1447 papal conclave, meeting in the Roman basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, elected Pope Nicholas V to succeed Pope Eugene IV.

06/03/1323

Treaty of Paris of 1323 is signed.

The Treaty of Paris was signed on March 6, 1323. It established clarity over the following: Count Louis I of Flanders relinquished Flemish claims over the County of Zeeland and acknowledged the Count of Holland, William I, as the Count of Zeeland. William, in turn, agreed to renounce all claims on Flanders.

06/03/1204

The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus.

The siege of Château Gaillard was a part of Philip II's campaign to conquer John, King of England's continental territories. The French king besieged Château Gaillard, a Norman fortress, for six months. The Anglo-Normans were beaten in the battle and the consequence was the fall of Normandy. The fortress was notable for having been a very technologically advanced castle at the time it was built, having several notable features in its construction such as having notably thick walls ranging from 2.5 to 3.5 meters in thickness and the first stone machicoulis ever constructed within France.

06/03/0845

The 42 Martyrs of Amorium are killed after refusing to convert to Islam.

The 42 Martyrs of Amorium were a group of Byzantine senior officials taken prisoner by the Abbasid Caliphate in the Sack of Amorium in 838 and executed in 845, after they refused to convert to Islam. They are commemorated by the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church on March 6. Amorium is located at Hisar, Turkey.

01/01/1970

The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor.

The Roman emperor was the ruler and monarchical head of state of the Roman Empire, starting with the granting of the title augustus to Octavian in 27 BC. The title of imperator, originally a military honorific, was usually used alongside caesar, originally a cognomen. When a given Roman is described as becoming emperor in English, it generally reflects his accession as augustus, and later as basileus. Early emperors also used the title princeps alongside other Republican titles, notably consul and pontifex maximus.

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