Births on 6 January
2000s
Stefanos Tzimas
2006
Greek footballer (born 2006)
MattyBRaps
2003
American rapper (born 2003)
Fiete Arp
2000
German footballer (born 2000)
Mohamed Camara (footballer, born January 2000)
2000
Malian professional footballer
Kwon Eun-bin
2000
South Korean singer and actress (born 2000)
Jack McBain
2000
Canadian ice hockey player (born 2000)
Shuhua
2000
Taiwanese singer (born 2000)
Tyler Oliveira
2000
American YouTuber (born 2000)
1900s
Polo G
1999
American rapper
Mac McClung
1999
American basketball player (born 1999)
Michel Aebischer
1997
Swiss footballer (born 1997)
Courtney Eaton
1996
Australian actress (born 1996)
Catriona Gray
1994
Filipina beauty pageant titleholder (born 1994)
Denis Suárez
1994
Spanish footballer (born 1994)
Jameis Winston
1994
American football player (born 1994)
Jay B
1994
South Korean singer (born 1994)
Pat Connaughton
1993
American basketball and baseball player (born 1993)
Jesús Manuel Corona
1993
Mexican footballer (born 1993)
Jérôme Roussillon
1993
Guadeloupean footballer (born 1993)
Corey Conners
1992
Canadian professional golfer (born 1992)
Duarte Alves
1991
Portuguese politician (born 1991)
Will Barton
1991
American basketball player (born 1991)
Kevin Gausman
1991
American baseball player (born 1991)
Cristian Erbes
1990
Argentine footballer
Sean Kilpatrick
1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Alex Teixeira
1990
Brazilian footballer (born 1990)
Andy Carroll
1989
English footballer (born 1989)
Sergio León
1989
Spanish footballer (born 1989)
Derrick Morgan (American football)
1989
American football player (born 1989)
Arin Hanson
1987
American YouTuber, actor, animator,and voice actor (born 1987)
Bongani Khumalo
1987
South African footballer (born 1987)
Ndamukong Suh
1987
American football player (born 1987)
Paul McShane (footballer)
1986
Irish footballer (born 1986)
Petter Northug
1986
Norwegian cross-country skier
Irina Shayk
1986
Russian fashion model (born 1986)
Alex Turner
1986
British rock musician (born 1986)
A. J. Hawk
1984
American football player and sports analyst (born 1984)
Kate McKinnon
1984
American actress and comedian (born 1984)
Eric Trump
1984
American businessman (born 1984)
Adam Burish
1983
American ice hockey player (born 1983)
Chen Nan
1983
Chinese basketball player (born 1983)
Gilbert Arenas
1982
American basketball player (born 1982)
Roy Asotasi
1982
New Zealand and Samoa international rugby league footballer
Tiffany Pollard
1982
American television personality (born 1982)
Israel Damonte
1982
Argentine footballer and manager
Eddie Redmayne
1982
English actor (born 1982)
Rinko Kikuchi
1981
Japanese actress (born 1981)
Asante Samuel
1981
American football player (born 1981)
Casey Fossum
1978
American baseball player (born 1978)
Bubba Franks
1978
American football player (born 1978)
Johan Davidsson
1976
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1976)
Danny Pintauro
1976
American actor and film producer (born 1976)
Richard Zedník
1976
Slovak ice hockey player (born 1976)
James Farrior
1975
American football player (born 1975)
Marlon Anderson
1974
American baseball player (born 1974)
Daniel Cordone
1974
Argentine footballer
Paul Grant (basketball)
1974
American basketball player (born 1974)
Vasso Karantasiou
1973
Greek beach volleyball player (born 1973)
Irwin Thomas
1971
Australian singer, guitarist
Leonardo Astrada
1970
Argentine footballer and manager
Julie Chen Moonves
1970
American journalist and television host (born 1970)
Radoslav Látal
1970
Czech football coach and former player (born 1970)
Gabrielle Reece
1970
American volleyball player (born 1970)
Norman Reedus
1969
American actor (born 1969)
Aron Eisenberg
1969
American actor and podcaster (1969–2019)
John Singleton
1968
American filmmaker (1968–2019)
A. R. Rahman
1967
Indian composer and musician (born 1967)
Sharon Cuneta
1966
Filipino actress, singer, and television personality (born 1966)
Attilio Lombardo
1966
Italian footballer (born 1966)
Bjørn Lomborg
1965
Danish author (born 1965)
Charles Haley
1964
American football player (born 1964)
Jyrki Kasvi
1964
Finnish politician (1964–2021)
Jacqueline Moore
1964
American professional wrestler (born 1964)
Norm Charlton
1963
American baseball player and coach (born 1963)
Paul Kipkoech
1963
Kenyan long-distance runner
Georges Jobé
1961
Belgian motorcycle racer
Nigel Melville
1961
England international rugby union player
Peter Whittle (politician)
1961
British politician (1961–2025)
Paul Azinger
1960
American professional golfer (born 1960)
Kari Jalonen
1960
Finnish ice hockey player and coach
Nigella Lawson
1960
English food writer and TV cook (born 1960)
Howie Long
1960
American football player, actor, and sports analyst (born 1960)
Kapil Dev
1959
Indian former cricket team captain (born 1959)
Shlomo Glickstein
1958
Israeli tennis player (born 1958)
Michael Foale
1957
British-American astrophysicist and astronaut (born 1957)
Nancy Lopez
1957
American professional golfer
Elizabeth Strout
1956
American writer
Justin Welby
1956
Archbishop of Canterbury from 2013 to 2025
Clive Woodward
1956
British rugby union player and coach
Rowan Atkinson
1955
English actor and comedian (born 1955)
Eminem
1955
American rapper (born 1972)
Anthony Minghella
1954
British playwright and filmmaker (1954–2008)
Malcolm Young
1953
Australian guitarist (1953–2017)
Don Gullett
1951
American baseball player (1951–2024)
Kim Wilson
1951
American blues singer and harmonica player (born 1951)
Louis Freeh
1950
Fifth Director of the FBI (born 1950)
Mike Boit
1949
Kenyan middle-distance athlete
Carolyn D. Wright
1949
American poet
Guy Gardner (astronaut)
1948
American astronaut (born 1948)
Dayle Hadlee
1948
New Zealand cricketer
Sandy Denny
1947
English folk rock singer-songwriter (1947–1978)
Syd Barrett
1946
English musician (1946–2006)
Barry John
1945
British Lions & Wales international rugby union player (1945–2024)
Jayanthi (actress)
1945
Indian actress (1945–2021)
Bonnie Franklin
1944
American actress (1944–2013)
Alan Stivell
1944
Breton musician (born 1944)
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
1944
Swiss immunologist (born 1944)
Terry Venables
1943
English football player and manager (1943–2023)
Van McCoy
1940
American musician, producer and songwriter (1940–1979)
Valeriy Lobanovskyi
1939
Ukrainian football manager (1939–2002)
Murray Rose
1939
Australian swimmer (1939–2012)
Adriano Celentano
1938
Italian musician and actor (born 1938)
Adrienne Clarke
1938
Australian botanist
Rajnikumar Pandya
1938
Indian Gujarati-language writer
Larisa Shepitko
1938
Soviet filmmaker (1938–1979)
Ludvík Daněk
1937
Czechoslovak discus thrower
Lou Holtz
1937
American college football coach and analyst (1937–2026)
Doris Troy
1937
American actress and singer (1937–2004)
Darlene Hard
1936
American tennis player (1936–2021)
Julio María Sanguinetti
1936
President of Uruguay (1985–1990; 1995–2000)
Ian Meckiff
1935
Australian cricketer (born 1935)
Nino Tempo
1935
American musician, singer and actor (1935–2025)
Harry M. Miller
1934
New Zealand Australian promoter (1934–2018)
Sylvia Syms
1934
British actress (1934–2023)
John Clive
1933
British actor and author (1933–2012)
Oleg Makarov (cosmonaut)
1933
Soviet engineer and cosmonaut (1933–2003)
Simon Oates
1932
English actor (1932–2009)
Stuart A. Rice
1932
American chemist (1932–2024)
E. L. Doctorow
1931
American novelist and editor (1931–2015)
Vic Tayback
1930
American actor (1930-1990)
Capucine
1928
French model and actress (1928–1990)
Jesse Leonard Steinfeld
1927
United States Surgeon general
Ralph Branca
1926
American baseball player (1926–2016)
Pat Flaherty (racing driver)
1926
American racing driver (1926–2002)
Mickey Hargitay
1926
Hungarian-American actor and bodybuilder (1926–2006)
John DeLorean
1925
American automobile engineer and executive (1925–2005)
Kim Dae-jung
1924
President of South Korea from 1998 to 2003
Earl Scruggs
1924
American musician (1924–2012)
Vladimir Kazantsev (athlete)
1923
Russian long-distance runner
Norman Kirk
1923
Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1972 to 1974
Jacobo Timerman
1923
Argentine publisher, journalist and author (1923–1999)
Marianne Grunberg-Manago
1921
French biochemist
Cary Middlecoff
1921
American professional golfer (1921–1998)
Henry Corden
1920
American actor (1920–2005)
John Maynard Smith
1920
English biologist and geneticist (1920–2004)
Sun Myung Moon
1920
Korean religious leader (1920–2012)
Early Wynn
1920
American baseball player (1920–1999)
Koo Chen-fu
1917
Taiwanese businessman and diplomat (1917–2005)
Pak Mok-wol
1916
Korean poet and academic (1916–1978)
Don Edwards
1915
American politician (1915–2015)
John C. Lilly
1915
American physician, scientist, psychonaut, and philosopher
Alan Watts
1915
British and American writer and lecturer (1915–1973)
Godfrey Edward Arnold
1914
Edward Gierek
1913
Polish politician; leader of Poland (1970–1980)
Loretta Young
1913
American actress (1913–2000)
Jacques Ellul
1912
French anarchist philosopher (1912–1994)
Danny Thomas
1912
American actor and comedian (1912–1991)
Kid Chocolate
1910
Cuban boxer (1910–1988)
Wright Morris
1910
American photographer and novelist
Maurice Abravanel
1903
Ottoman-born American conductor (1903–1993)
Maria of Yugoslavia
1900
Queen of Yugoslavia from 1922 to 1934
1800s
Heinrich Nordhoff
1899
German engineer who led the rebuilding of Volkswagen (VW) after World War II
James Fitzmaurice
1898
Irish aviation pioneer
Ted McDonald
1891
Australian cricketer
Kahlil Gibran
1883
Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer
Fan Noli
1882
Prime Minister of Albania in 1924 and writer (1882–1965)
Sam Rayburn
1882
American politician (1882–1961), speaker of the house of representatives
Ion Minulescu
1881
Romanian poet and writer (1881–1944)
Tom Mix
1880
American film actor (1880–1940)
Adeline Genée
1878
Danish-British ballet dancer
Carl Sandburg
1878
American writer and editor (1878–1967)
Fred Niblo
1874
American film director (1874–1948)
Alexander Scriabin
1872
Russian composer and pianist (1872–1915)
Gustav Bauer
1870
Chancellor of Germany from 1919 to 1920
Victor Horta
1861
Belgian architect and designer
George Exton Lloyd
1861
Anglican bishop of Saskatchewan, Canada (1861–1940)
Morton Selten
1860
British actor (1860–1939)
Samuel Alexander
1859
Australian-born British philosopher (1859-1938)
Hugh Mahon
1857
Australian politician (1857–1931)
William E. Russell (politician)
1857
American politician (1857–1896)
Giuseppe Martucci
1856
Italian composer
Clarence King
1842
American geologist (1842–1901)
Max Bruch
1838
German composer (1838–1920)
Gustave Doré
1832
French illustrator and painter (1832–1883)
Heinrich Schliemann
1822
German businessman and archaeologist (1822–1890)
Charles Sumner
1811
American abolitionist and statesman (1811–1874)
Joseph Pitty Couthouy
1808
American paleontologist
Joseph Petzval
1807
Slovak physicist, mathematician and inventor
Henri Herz
1803
19th-century Austrian musician
Before 1800
Jedediah Smith
1799
American explorer (1799–1831)
Anselme Payen
1795
French chemist (1795–1871)
James Madison Porter
1793
American politician (1793–1862)
Andreas Moustoxydis
1785
Greek historian and philologist
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia
1766
Dictator of Paraguay from 1814 to 1840
Montgolfier brothers
1745
18th-century French inventors
Percivall Pott
1714
English surgeon (1714–1788)
José de Nebra
1702
Giuseppe Sammartini
1695
Italian composer and oboist (1695–1750)
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
1673
British landowner and politician (1673–1744)
Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg
1655
Holy Roman Empress from 1676 to 1705
Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton
1632
Scottish peeress (1632–1716)
Christoffer Gabel
1617
Danish statesman
Claude Favre de Vaugelas
1595
Savoyard grammarian and man of letters
Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares
1587
Spanish royal favourite of Philip IV and minister
Thomas Fincke
1561
Danish mathematician and physicist (1561–1656)
Jane Dormer
1538
English lady-in-waiting to Mary I
Caspar Peucer
1525
German physician (1525–1602)
John of Ávila
1500
Spanish priest and Doctor of the Church
Olaus Petri
1493
Swedish clergyman and reformer (1493–1552)
Helius Eobanus Hessus
1488
German Latin poet and Lutheran humanist
Martin Agricola
1486
German Renaissance composer and music theorist (1486–1556)
Joan of Arc
1412
French folk heroine and saint (1412–1431)
Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent
1384
English nobleman
Richard II of England
1367
King of England from 1377 to 1399
Gertrude the Great
1256
German Benedictine nun and Catholic Saint