Birthdays in History on April 6

Raphael (1483-1520)

Italian painter and master builder (Sistine Madonna, School of Athens) [Julian calendar date], born in Urbino, Duchy of Urbino

1613 Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (d. 1683)
1632 Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1649)
1651 André Dacier, French classical scholar (d. 1722)
1664 Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (d. 1742)
1671 Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French playwright/poet (Sacred Odes & Songs)
1773 James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian (History of British India), born in Angus, Scotland (d. 1836)
1810 Philip Gosse, inventor of institutional aquarium, writer (Omphalos)
1812 Aaron Bernstein, writer
1812 Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (d. 1870)
1818 Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet (d. 1870)
1819 Johann A H Scheler, Belgian librarian
1823 Joseph Medill, St John NB Canada, newspaper editor (Chicago Tribune)
1826 Gustave Moreau, French painter
1828 Charles William Field, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1892)
1830 James Augustine Healy, Macon Ga, 1st African American Roman Catholic bishop
1833 Johan H C Kern, Dutch linguist (Sanskrit, Old Javan)
1841 Karl Binding, German jurist (d. 1920)
1849 John William Waterhouse, British painter, born in Rome, Roman Republic (now Italy) (d. 1917)
1851 Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (d. 1932)
1860 René Lalique, French jewel designer
1866 Joseph Lincoln Steffens, muckraker/journalist (Shame of the Cities)
1869 Louis Raemakers, Dutch draftsman/painter
1871 Alexander, grandson of England's Queen Victoria
1878 Erich Mühsam, German author (d. 1934)
1883 Mien Labberton, Dutch poetress
1886 Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, The Last Nizam of Hyderabad state (d. 1967)
1888 Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet/writer (Svarta Ballader)
1890 Andre L Danjon, French astronomer
1890 Anthony Fokker, Dutch aviation pioneer and an aircraft manufacturer (Eindecker monoplanes, Fokker Triplane)

Donald Wills Douglas (1892-1981)

American aircraft industrialist (McDonnell Douglas) and aviation pioneer (Douglas DC-3), born in Brooklyn, New York

1894 Gertrude Baines, American supercentenarian who was the oldest person in the world and the last person known to be born in 1894, born in Shellman, Georgia (d. 2009)
1901 Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Catholic (d. 1925)
1902 Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (d. 1989)
1903 Harold Edgerton, foremost high-speed photographer
1904 Kurt G Kiesinger, German chancellor (Wherever They May Be)
1906 Virginia Hall [Goillot], American spy with British Special Operations during WWII (1940-1966), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1982)
1909 William M. Branham, American evangelist (d. 1965)
1910 Desmond Dreyer, British admiral
1917 Julian Faber, CEO (Willis Faber)
1917 Leonora Carrington, Clayton-le-Woods UK, British-Mexican Surrealist artist
1918 Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president (d. 1982)
1918 Joan Bernard, Principal (Trevelyan College, Durham)
1920 Bernard Carter, British painter and etcher
1921 Franta Belsky, Czecg-British sculptor, born in Brno, Czechia (d. 2000)
1921 Lord Moore of Wolvercote [Philip Brian Cecil Moore], Private Secretary to the Sovereign (UK)
1925 John Knox, British supreme court justice
1925 Marcus Worsley, Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, (d. 2012)
1926 Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)

Ian Paisley (1926-2014)

First Minister of Northern Ireland (Democratic Unionist Party: 2007-08), loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader, born in Armagh, Northern Ireland

1927 David Ingram, Vice-Chancellor (University of Kent at Canterbury)

James Watson (94 years old)

1928 American molecular biologist who co-discovered DNA's structure, with Francis Crick (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1962), geneticist and zoologist, born in Chicago, Illinois [1] [2]

1929 Li Yuan-chia, Chinese artist (Ton Fan group), born in Guangxi, China (d. 1994)
1929 Willis Hall, British writer
1933 Eduardo Malapit, American Democratic politician (d. 2007)
1933 Roy Goode, British lawyer
1935 James Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose, Southern Rhodesia-born hereditary peer of the Peerage of Scotland
1935 John Pepper Clark, Nigeria, writer (Horn, Song of a Goat)
1938 Frances Schreuder, American socialite convicted of murder, born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2004)
1938 Paul Daniels, British magician (The Paul Daniels Magic Show), born in South Bank, Yorkshire (d. 2016)
1939 André Ouellet, French Canadian politician
1940 Homero Aridjis, Mexican poet (La Tumba de Filidor)
1941 Hans W Geissendorfer, Augsburg Germany, director (Sternsteinhof)
1943 Harry Conroy, trade unionist
1945 Neal Boortz, American radio host (The Neal Boortz Show), born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
1945 Rodney Bickerstaffe, English trade unionist (National Union of Public Employees), born in London, England (d. 2015)
1947 Jan-Kees Wiebenga, Dutch politician (VVD), born in Haarlem, Netherlands
1949 Mary Maples Dunn, American college president (Smith College), born in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin (d. 2017)
1950 Dennis E. Eckart, American politician (Rep-D-OH, 1981-93), born in Cleveland, Ohio
1955 Keith Hunter Jesperson, Canadian-born serial killer
1957 Paolo Nespoli, Italian astronaut
1959 Dianne Brill, Tampa, fashion designer/party girl (Queen of the Night)
1961 Rory Bremner, impressionist
1963 Rafael Correa, Ecuadorian politician and 43rd President of Ecuador (2007-2017), born in Guayaquil, Ecuador
1964 Phil Gayle, British news presenter (DW News, The Big Breakfast), born in Birmingham, England
1964 Tim Walz, American politician (Rep-DFL-Minnesota 2007-19), Governor of Minnesota (2019-), born in West Point, Nebraska
1969 Jack Canfora, American playwright
1979 Frederick MGDL Windsor, son of English prince Michael
1982 Ilan Hall, Israeli-American chef
2007 Princess Haalah bint Hashim, Princess of Jordan