Famous Births on 6 Dec

Famous Births on 6 Dec

1285 - King Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312)
1421 - King Henry VI of England (d. 1471)
1478 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529)
1550 - Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (baptism) (d. 1605)
1586 - Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1670)
1608 - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (d. 1670)
1637 - Sir Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (d. 1714)
1640 - Claude Fleury, French historian (d. 1723)
1642 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (d. 1703)
1685 - Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, mother of Louis XV of France d. 1712
1721 - James Elphinston, British philologist (d. 1809)
1721 - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (d. 1794)
1752 - Gabriel Duvall, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1844)
1778 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
1792 - King William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849)
1805 - Adolf Reubke, German organ builder (d. 1875)
1805 - Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861)
1812 - Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (d. 1884)
1823 - Friedrich Max Müller, German orientalist (d. 1900)
1833 - John Singleton Mosby, American Confederate guerrilla leader (d. 1916)
1841 - Frédéric Bazille, French painter (d. 1870)
1849 - August von Mackensen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1853 - Haraprasad Shastri, Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist and historian of Bengali literature (d. 1931)
1863 - Charles Martin Hall, American chemist (d. 1914)
1872 - William S. Hart, American actor (d. 1946)
1875 - Evelyn Underhill, British poet (d. 1941)
1876 - Fred Duesenberg, German-born automobile pioneer (d. 1932)
1886 - Joyce Kilmer, American poet (d. 1918)
1887 - Joseph Lamb, American ragtime composer (d. 1960)
1888 - Will Hay, English comedian and actor (d. 1949)
1890 - Dion Fortune, British occultist (d. 1946)
1890 - Rudolf Schlichter, German artist and writer (d. 1955)
1890 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (d. 1951)
1892 - Sir Osbert Sitwell, British author (d. 1969)
1896 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (d. 1983)
1898 - Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-born photojournalist (d. 1995)
1898 - Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (d. 1987)
1900 - Agnes Moorehead, American actress (d. 1974)
1903 - Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1904 - Ève Curie French writer (d. 2007)
1905 - James J. Braddock, American boxer (d. 1974)
1908 - Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2003)
1908 - Baby Face Nelson, American bank robber (d. 1934)
1913 - Karl Haas, German-American music educator (d. 2005)
1913 - Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (d. 2004)
1916 - Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and record producer (d. 1986)
1916 - Kristján Eldjárn, Curator at the National Museum of Iceland and 3rd president of Iceland (d. 1982)
1917 - Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur (d. 2008)
1917 - Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (d. 1977)
1919 - Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (d. 1983)
1920 - Dave Brubeck, American pianist and composer
1920 - George Porter, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1921 - Otto Graham, American football player (d. 2003)
1921 - Piero Piccioni, Italian musician and composer (d. 2004)
1922 - John Henry Cound Brunt, Victoria Cross holder (d. 1944)
1924 - Wally Cox, American actor (d. 1973)
1928 - Bobby Van, American singer (d. 1980)
1929 - Alain Tanner, Swiss filmmaker
1929 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German conductor
1929 - Frank Springer, American comics artist
1930 - Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia
1931 - Zeki Müren, Turkish actor, singer, and composer (d. 1996)
1933 - Henryk Górecki, Polish composer
1935 - Jean Lapointe, Quebec comedian, singer and senator
1936 - Kenneth Copeland, American televangelist
1936 - David Ossman, American comedian
1937 - Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian footballer (d. 2006)
1938 - Patrick Bauchau, Belgian actor
1940 - Lawrence Bergman, Quebec politician
1940 - Richard Edlund, American special effects photographer
1941 - Richard Speck, American mass murderer (d. 1991)
1942 - Peter Handke, Austrian writer
1945 - Dan Harrington, American poker player
1945 - Larry Bowa, baseball player and Major League manager
1945 - Shekhar Kapur, Indian filmmaker
1947 - Lawrence Cannon, Canadian politician
1947 - Miroslav Vitous, Czech jazz musician
1948 - JoBeth Williams, American actress
1948 - Keke Rosberg, Finnish race car driver and one-time F1 world champion
1948 - Marius Müller-Westernhagen, German actor and musician
1949 - Doug Marlette, American editorial cartoonist (d. 2007)
1949 - Linda Creed, American songwriter (d. 1986)
1950 - Joe Hisaishi, Japanese composer
1950 - Sonia Manzano, American actress and writer
1951 - Gerry Francis, English footballer and manager
1952 - Rick Charlesworth, Australian hockey player
1952 - Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist
1953 - Tom Hulce, American actor
1953 - Gary Ward, baseball player
1955 - Rick Buckler, British drummer (The Jam)
1955 - Steven Wright, American comedian
1956 - Peter Buck, American guitarist (R.E.M.)
1956 - Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (d. 1982)
1957 - Adrian Borland, English musician (The Sound) (d. 1999)
1958 - Nick Park, British filmmaker and animator
1959 - Satoru Iwata, president and CEO of Nintendo
1961 - David Lovering, American drummer (Pixies)
1962 - Janine Turner, American actress
1963 - Ulrich Thomsen, Danish actor
1965 - Gordon Durie, Scottish footballer
1966 - Natascha Badmann, Swiss triathlete
1967 - Hacken Lee, Hong Kong singer
1970 - Ulf Ekberg, Swedish musician (Ace of Base)
1970 - Éric Lemieux, Quebec keyboardist (a/k/a "La Chicane")
1971 - Naozumi Takahashi, seiyuu
1971 - Ryan White, American AIDS activist (d. 1990)
1971 - Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
1971 - José Contreras, Cuban baseball player
1972 - Rick Short, baseball player
1974 - Nick Stajduhar, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 - Noel Clarke, English actor and writer
1976 - Lindsay Price, American actress
1976 - Colleen Haskell, American television personality
1976 - Alicia Machado, Venezuelan actress and Miss Universe
1977 - Paul McVeigh, Irish footballer
1977 - Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer
1977 - Kevin Cash, baseball player
1978 - K. D. Aubert, American actress
1978 - Darrell Jackson, American football player
1978 - Chris Basak, American baseball player
1979 - Tim Cahill, Australia footballer
1980 - Steve Lovell, British footballer
1980 - Ehren Wassermann, American baseball player
1982 - Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist and 2007 Tour de France winner
1982 - Robbie Gould, American football player
1982 - Ryan Carnes, American actor
1982 - Sean Ervine, Zimbabwean cricketer
1985 - Dulce María, Mexican actress and singer
1985 - Rudra Pratap Singh, Indian Cricketer
1986 - Cintia Dicker, Brazilian model
1986 - Matt Niskanen, National Hockey League Player
1995 - Joy Gruttmann, German singer
2000 - Pablo Nicolás Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal
846 - Hasan al-Askari, Shia Imam (d. 874)