Birthdays in History on March 6

Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance (David, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel), born in Caprese, Tuscany

1483 Francesco Guicciardini, Italian attorney/president of Romagna
1492 Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer
1495 Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Opere Toscane, La Coltivazione)
1619 Cyrano de Bergerac, French playwright (Voyage to the Moon), known for his large nose
1663 Francis Atterbury, English man of letters, politician, and priest (Church of England Bishop of Rochester, 1713-23), born in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire (d. 1732)
1698 John Alberti, Dutch theologist/philologist
1706 George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792)
1716 Pehr Kalm, Swedish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779)
1740 Giovanni Meli, Siclian poet (Buccolica)

Polish Military Leader, known as "the father of American cavalry', born in Warsaw, Poland

1761 Antoine-Francois Andreossy, French General and diplomat (d. 1828)
1765 Jan Kops, Dutch agronomist/vicar
1787 Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (studied Sun's spectrum)
1791 Anna Claypoole Peale, American painter of miniatures, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1878)

English poet ("Sonnets from the Portuguese"), born in Kelloe, Durham

1812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking
1817 Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)
1818 William Claflin, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
1820 Horatio Gouverneur Wright, American Major General (Union Army), born in Clinton, Connecticut (d. 1899)
1831 Friedrich C K von Bodelschwingh, German theologist (Home Mission)
1831 Philip Henry Sheridan, Major General (Union Army), born in Albany, New York
1834 George du Maurier, Franco-British illustrator and writer (Trilby), born in Paris, France (d. 1896)
1835 Charles Ewing, American attorney and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Lancaster, Ohio (d. 1883)

American businessman (founder of Target Corporation), born in Clifton Springs, New York

1882 F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d. 1980)
1882 Geoffrey Mander, English industrialist (Mander Brothers Ltd.), born in Wolverhampton, England (d. 1962)
1890 Fernand Ansseau, Belgian operator/theory (Orfeo)
1893 Kathleen Smoothy, housewife (last link to Siege of SIdney Street)
1900 John Henry Pyle Pafford, British librarian (University of London), born in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire (d. 1996)
1903 Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000)
1904 José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (d. 1960)
1909 Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian statesman and nationalist, born in Ikenne, British Nigeria (d. 1987)
1911 Charles Frank, physicist
1912 Madge Adam, astronomer
1913 David Bowman, trade unionist
1915 Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, 52nd Da'i al Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras
1917 Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005)
1919 Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (d. 2006)
1921 Oliver Wright, British Ambassador (To US)
1922 Ruben Ayala, Chino, California, politician (California State Senator 1974-1998) (d. 2012)
1923 (Raymond) "Bill" Hoffenberg, South African-British endocrinologist and college president (Wolfson at Oxford, 1985-93), born in Port Elizabeth, Union of South Africa (d. 2007)

1924 American judge, Director of the FBI (1978-87) and Director of the CIA (1987-91), born in St. Louis, Missouri

1926 American economist, presidential advisor and Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States (1987-2006), born in NYC, New York

1926 Elwood Hillis, American politician (Rep-R-IN, 1971-87), born in Kokomo, Indiana
1927 John Fairchild, CEO (Fairchild publishing), born in Newark, New Jersey
1927 Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr, Shawnee Oklahoma, USAF/astronaut (Mer 9, Gem 5)
1929 Hal Miller, British MP
1929 Ho Dam, North Korean secretary of State (1970-83)
1929 Tom Foley, American politician (Rep-D, 1965-1995) and speaker of the house (1989-95), born in Spokane, Washington (d. 2013)
1931 David Haddon Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker's Almanack)
1931 Hal Needham, American stuntman, (d. 2013)
1933 Heiko Wierenga, Dutch soc-dem mayor of Enschede (1977-94)
1936 A "Bram" Stemerdink, Dutch minister of Defense (PvdA)
1936 Marion S Barry, (Mayor-D-Washington, D.C., 1979-90, 95- ), drug indictment
1937 Ivan Boesky, stockbroker inside trading, born in Detroit, Michigan

1937 Soviet cosmonaut and 1st woman in space (Vostok 6), born in Maslennikovo, Russia

1938 Pauline Boty, English artist, born in London (d. 1966)
1939 Christopher Bond, (Sen-R Missouri)
1939 Infanta Margarita of Spain, duchess of Soria
1941 Ann Winterton, British MP
1946 Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry, Cameroon, astronaut (STS 18)
1946 Richard Noble, Scottish businessman (land speed record 1983-97), born in Edinburgh
1946 Tony Klatka, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1947 Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
1948 James FCS "Jim" Woude, cartoonist
1952 Lyn Perrin, executive administrator (WIC)
1953 Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author
1955 Cyprien Ntaryamira, 5th President of Burundi (1994) who was assassinated at the start of the Rwandan genocide, born in Mubimbi, Bujumbura Rural Province, Burundi (d. 1994)
1959 Saul Anuzis, American politician
1962 Valerie French, American animatronics art director
1966 Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian militant (chief bombmaker for Hamas), born in Rafat, West Bank (d. 1996)
1967 Mihai Tudose, Romanian politician, Prime Minister (2017-), born in Brăila, Romania
1967 Özlem Türeci, German scientist (BioNTech - created 1st mRNA-based vaccine for COVID-19), born in Siegen, West Germany
1984 Becky, Japanese-British entertainer
1985 Alaska Thunderf**k [Justin Andrew Honard], American drag queen and TV performer (RuPaul's Drag Race), born in Erie, Pennsylvania
1987 Alexey Molchanov, Russian freediver (25 world records), born in Volgograd, Russia
1992 Sam Bankman-Fried, American entrepreneur (founder of cypto currency FTX), born in Stanford, California