Is May 6th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on May 6th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?
If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.
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May 6th was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:
May 6th Birthdays: Famous Artists
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German Expressionist painter (Berlin Street Scene, Brandenburger Tor, Naked Playing People, Nollendorfplatz, Portrait of a Woman, Potsdamer Platz, Self-Portrait as a Soldier, Sitting Woman, Tavern and Two Brothers), was born on May 6, 1880.
May 6th Birthdays: Famous Athletes
Brooke Marie Bennett, American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist (1996 and 2000), was born on May 6, 1980.
Canadian professional hockey player Martin Pierre Brodeur was born on May 6, 1972. Martin Brodeur played for the New Jersey Devils.
Wilbur Charles (Weeb) Ewbank, American professional football coach, was born on May 6, 1907. Weeb Ewbank coached for the Baltimore Colts and New York Jets.
Dick Fosbury, American high jumper and Olympic gold medalist (1968), was born on May 6, 1947.
American professional baseball player William Alfred (Bill or Froggy) Hands was born on May 6, 1940. Bill Hands played for the Chicago Cubs, Minnesota Twins, San Francisco Giants and Texas Rangers.
Marlin (Pat) Harder, American professional football player, was born on May 6, 1922. Pat Harder played for the Chicago Cardinals and Detroit Lions.
American professional football player Dennis Eugene Havig was born on May 6, 1949. Dennis Havig played for the Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers and Houston Oilers.
Grier Jones, American professional golfer, was born on May 6, 1946.
American professional baseball player William Howard (Willie) Mays, Jr., was born on May 6, 1931. Known as The Say Hey Kid, Willie Mays played for the New York Mets, New York Yankees and San Francisco Giants.
Frederick Arnold (Fred) McNeill, American professional football player, was born on May 6, 1952. Fred McNeill played for the Minnesota Vikings.
Canadian professional hockey player Harry Percival Watson was born on May 6, 1923. Harry Watson played for the Brooklyn Americans, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs.
May 6th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists
Harry Martinson, Swedish poet, author (Aimless Journeys, The Easy and the Hard, Flowering Nettles, The Lost Jaguar, Reality to Death, The Road, The Way Out and Trade Wind) and Nobel Prize winner (1974), was born on May 6, 1904.
American cartoonist (Bird Center Cartoons, Cartoons: A Selection of One Hundred Drawings, Injun Summer, The Mysterious Stranger and Other Cartoons and T.R. in Cartoons) and Pulitzer Prize winner (1932) John T. McCutcheon was born on May 6, 1870.
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, Polish author (Chlopi – Peasants, Ferments and Komediantka – The Deceiver) and Nobel Prize winner (1924), was born on May 6, 1868.
Indian poet and Nobel Prize winner (1913) Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 6, 1861. Writing under the pseudonyms Bhanushingho and Gurudev, Rabindranath Tagore wrote Ghare-Baire –The Home and the World, Gitanjali – Song Offerings and Gora – Fair-Faced.
Theodore H. White, American historian and author (America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President, Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon, Fire in the Ashes, In Search of History: A Personal Adventure, The Mountain Road and Thunder Out of China), was born on May 6, 1915.
May 6th Birthdays: Famous Business Leaders
American entertainment executive and movie producer (Columbia Pictures) Martin (Ross Hunter) Fuss was born on May 6, 1920. Ross Hunter produced Airport, Flower Drum Song, Magnificent Obsession, Midnight Lace, My Man Godfrey, Pillow Talk, Son of Ali Baba, Tammy and the Bachelor, Thoroughly Modern Millie and other films.
May 6th Birthdays: Famous Performers
Tom Bergeron, American television personality (Dancing with the Stars), was born on May 6, 1955.
American rock guitarist, mandolin player and singer Mark Bryan (Hootie and the Blowfish) was born on May 6, 1967.
Adriana Caselotti, American actress and voice-over artist (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), was born on May 6, 1916.
American pianist and actor Carmen Cavallaro (Diamond Horseshoe, The Eddy Duchin Story, Hollywood Canteen and Out of This World) was born on May 6, 1913.
Lew Christensen, American ballet dancer and choreographer, was born on May 6, 1909.
American actor and Academy Award winner (2006) George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961. Son of television newscaster Nick Clooney and nephew of singer Rosemary Clooney, George Clooney has appeared in Baby Talk, Batman & Robin, Bodies of Evidence, ER, The Facts of Life, From Dusk Till Dawn, O Brother Where Art Thou, Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Thirteen, Ocean’s Twelve, The Peacemaker, The Perfect Storm, Red Surf, Return of the Killer Tomatoes, Roseanne, Sisters, Sunset Beat and The Thin Red Line.
Kate Collins, American actress (All My Children) and television personality (Good Morning America), was born on May 6, 1958. Kate Collins is the daughter of astronaut Michael Collins.
New Zealand actor Alan Hugh Dale was born on May 6, 1947. Alan Dale has appeared in Hollywood Homicide, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Neighbours, The O.C., Star Trek Nemesis, Ugly Betty and The Young Doctors.
Roma Downey, Irish actress (One Life to Live and Touched by an Angel), was born on May 6, 1961.
American actor Richard Ross Eyer (The Desperate Hours, Friendly Persuasion, The Invisible Boy, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad and Stagecoach West) was born on May 6, 1945. Richard Eyer’s brother, actor Robert Eyer, was born on May 6, 1948.
John Conant Flansburgh, American alternative rock guitarist, singer and songwriter (They Might Be Giants), was born on May 6, 1960.
American country music guitarist, singer and songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore (“Honky Tonk Song” and “White Freight Liner Blues”) was born on May 6, 1945.
Italian-American dancer and actor Rodolfo (Rudolph Valentino) Guglielmi di Valentina d’Antonguolla was born on May 6, 1895. Rudolph Valentino appeared in The Big Little Person,Blood and Sand, The Delicious Little Devil, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Monsieur Beaucaire, The Sheik and The Son of the Sheik.
Gregg Lee Henry, American actor, was born on May 6, 1952. Gregg Henry has appeared in The Black Dahlia, Body Double, ER, Femme Fatale, The Hunt for the BTK Killer, Payback, The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, Raising Cain, Scarface, Slither and Star Trek: Insurrection.
Canadian actress Leslie Hope (Commander in Chief, Everest ’82, Human Cargo, Never Back Down, Paris France, Runaway, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, An Unexpected Love and Ups and Downs) was born on May 6, 1965.
Davey Johnstone, British rock guitarist, was born on May 6, 1951. Davey Johnstone has performed with Elton John.
Ettore Manni, Italian actor (Fatal Desire and Heroes in Hell), was born on May 6, 1927.
American actor Ben Masters (All That Jazz, Another World, Dream Lover, Heartbeat, Making Mr. Right, Mandingo, Noble House and Running Mates) was born on May 6, 1947.
Adrianne Palicki, American actress (Friday Night Lights), was born on May 6, 1983.
American model and actress Julianne Phillips was born on May 6, 1960. Julianne Phillips, who was married to rocker Bruce Springsteen, has appeared in His Mistress, Sisters and Summer Fantasy.
Marguerite Piazza, American operatic soprano and television personality (Your Show of Shows), was born on May 6, 1926.
American actor Bill Quinn (All in the Family, Archie Bunker’s Place, The Bob Newhart Show, Dead and Buried, How to Frame a Figg, Little House on the Prairie, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, McHale’s Navy, Newhart, The Rifleman and Star Trek V: The Final Frontier) was born on May 6, 1912. Bill Quinn’s son-in-law is comedian Bob Newhart.
Tony Scalzo, American rocker (Fastball), was born on May 6, 1964.
American folk and rock singer and songwriter Bob Seger (Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band) was born on May 6, 1945.
Elizabeth Sellars, Scottish actress (The Chalk Garden, Desiree, Never Let Go, Three Cases of Murder and A Voyage Round My Father), was born on May 6, 1923.
American rock guitarist Chris Shiflett (Foo Fighters) was born on May 6, 1971.
Orson Welles, American film director, radio personality (The War of the Worlds), screenwriter (Citizen Kane), Academy Award winner (1941) and actor, was born on May 6, 1915. Orson Welles appeared in Casino Royale, Catch-22, Chimes at Midnight, Citizen Kane, Jane Eyre, MacBeth, A Man for All Seasons, Moby Dick, Othello, Someone to Love, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Third Man, The Trial and Touch of Evil.
American actress Lynn Whitfield was born on May 6, 1953. Lynn Whitfield has appeared in Eve’s Bayou, The Josephine Baker Story and A Thin Line Between Love and Hate.
Claire Whitney, American silent film actress (Blind Fools and Haunted Mine), was born on May 6, 1890.
May 6th Birthdays: Famous Scientists
Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist and author, was born on May 6, 1856. Sigmund Freud has been credited with the development of psychoanalysis. Psychiatrist Anna Freud was the daughter of Sigmund Freud. Sigmund Freud’s most famous published works included The Ego and the Id, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, The Interpretation of Dreams, Moses and Monotheism, New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality and Totem and Taboo.
German-American pediatrician Abraham Jacobi was born on May 6, 1830. Abraham Jacobi has been credited with the formation of the first children’s medical clinic in the United States, located in New York City.
American explorer and author (North Pole and Secrets of Polar Travel) Robert E. Peary was born on May 6, 1856. Robert Peary’s wife, Josephine Diebitsch Perry, joined him on his Arctic explorations and published My Arctic Journal. Robert Peary is perhaps best remembered for leading the first North Pole expedition.
May 6th Birthdays: Famous World (and Other) Leaders
Anthony Charles Lynton (Tony) Blair, British Prime Minister, was born on May 6, 1953.
Do you know any others who are celebrating birthdays on May 6th?
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Happy Birthday, May 6th.
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