March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). There are 298 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter (+ 1564)
- 1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, soldier, poet
- 1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (+ 1861)
- 1831 - Friedrich von Bodelschwingh[?], theologian (+ 1910)
- 1885 - Ring Lardner, writer (+ 1933)
- 1898 - Therese Giehse[?], actress (+ 1975)
- 1904 - Joseph Schmidt[?], tenor (+ 1942)
- 1905 - Bob Wills, country music singer (+ 1975)
- 1906 - Lou Costello, actor, comedian (+ 1959)
- 1923 - Ed McMahon[?], television personality
- 1923 - Jürgen von Manger[?], cabaretist (+ 1994)
- 1926 - Alan Greenspan, American economist
- 1927 or 1928 - Gabriel García Márquez, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1982
- 1927 - Wes Montgomery, musician
- 1927 - Gordon Cooper[?], astronaut
- 1929 - Günter Kunert[?], writer and lyricist
- 1930 - Lorin Maazel[?], opera conductor
- 1936 - Marion Barry Jr.[?], mayor of Washington, DC
- 1937 - Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut
- 1941 - Willie Stargell[?], Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa[?], opera singer
- 1946 - David Gilmour, musican ("Pink Floyd")
- 1947 - Rob Reiner, actor, comedian, movie producer
- 1947 - Dick Fosbury[?], athlete
- 1947 - Kiki Dee[?], singer
- 1959 - Tom Arnold[?], actor, comedian
- 1972 - Shaquille O'Neal[?], basketball player
Deaths
- 1888 - Louisa May Alcott, novelist
- 1929 - David Buick[?], automobile pioneer
- 1932 - John Philip Sousa, band leader, conductor, composer
- 1933 - Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago, Illinois, wounded weeks earlier by an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin D. Roosevelt, dies of his injuries
- 1941 - Gutzon Borglum[?], sculptor
- 1951 - Ivor Novello, actor, musician, composer
- 1965 - Margaret Dumont[?], actress
- 1967 - Zoltán Kodály, composer
- 1967 - Nelson Eddy[?], singer, actor
- 1973 - Pearl S. Buck, writer
- 1976 - Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom[?], boxer, actor
- 1982 - Ayn Rand, author
- 1986 - Georgia O'Keefe[?], artist
Holidays and observances
See Also: January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December
March 5 - March 7 - February 6 - April 6 - more historical anniversaries
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