Births on 6 May
2000s
Prince Archie of Sussex
2019
British prince (born 2019)
Cole Palmer
2002
English footballer (born 2002)
Angel Reese
2002
American basketball player (born 2002)
1900s
Pato O'Ward
1999
Mexican racing driver (born 1999)
Luigi Mangione
1998
American homicide suspect (born 1998)
Maymay Entrata
1997
Filipino actress and singer (born 1997)
Ranz Kyle
1997
Filipino YouTuber and dancer
Duncan Scott (swimmer)
1997
Scottish swimmer (born 1997)
Mateo Kovačić
1994
Croatian footballer (born 1994)
Gustavo Gómez
1993
Paraguayan footballer (born 1993)
Naomi Scott
1993
British actress and singer (born 1993)
Brendan Gallagher
1992
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Baekhyun
1992
South Korean singer (born 1992)
Jonas Valančiūnas
1992
Lithuanian basketball player (born 1992)
Jose Altuve
1990
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1990)
Péter Gulácsi
1990
Hungarian footballer (born 1990)
Dominika Cibulková
1989
Slovak tennis player
Cameron Heyward
1989
American football player (born 1989)
Ryan Anderson (basketball, born 1988)
1988
American basketball player
Dakota Kai
1988
Kiwi professional wrestler (born 1988)
Dries Mertens
1987
Belgian footballer (born 1987)
Gerardo Parra
1987
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1987)
Adrienne Warren
1987
American actress, singer and dancer (born 1987)
Goran Dragić
1986
Slovenian basketball player (born 1986)
Dani Alves
1983
Brazilian footballer (born 1983)
Gabourey Sidibe
1983
American actress (born 1983)
Trinley Thaye Dorje
1983
Tibetan Lineage Tulku (born 1983)
Jason Witten
1982
American football player and coach (born 1982)
Brooke Bennett
1980
American swimmer (born 1980)
Dimitris Diamantidis
1980
Greek basketball player (born 1980)
Ricardo Oliveira
1980
Brazilian footballer (born 1980)
Gerd Kanter
1979
Estonian discus thrower (born 1979)
Jon Montgomery
1979
Canadian skeleton racer and television host
John Abraham (American football)
1978
American football player (born 1978)
Tony Estanguet
1978
French canoeist (born 1978)
Fredrick Federley
1978
Former Swedish politician
Mark Eaton (ice hockey)
1977
American ice hockey player (born 1977)
Chantelle Newbery
1977
Australian diver
Iván de la Peña
1976
Spanish footballer
Martin Brodeur
1972
Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1972)
Chris Shiflett
1971
American guitarist (born 1971)
Jim Magilton
1969
Northern Irish football manager (born 1969)
Lætitia Sadier
1968
French singer (born 1968)
Leslie Hope
1965
Canadian actress
Alessandra Ferri
1963
Italian prima ballerina
George Clooney
1961
American actor and filmmaker (born 1961)
Tom Hunter
1961
Scottish businessman and philanthropist (born 1961)
Frans Timmermans
1961
Dutch politician (born 1961)
Keith Dowding
1960
British political scientist (born 1960)
Roma Downey
1960
Irish actress, producer and author
John Flansburgh
1960
American musician (born 1960)
Anne Parillaud
1960
French actress (born 1960)
Charles Hendry
1959
British Conservative Party politician (born 1959)
Tom Bergeron
1955
American television personality (born 1955)
John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness
1955
British Labour politician (born 1955)
Dora Bakoyannis
1954
Greek politician (born 1954)
Aleksandr Akimov
1953
Soviet engineer (1953–1986)
Tony Blair
1953
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007
Graeme Souness
1953
Scottish footballer, manager and pundit (born 1953)
Chiaki Mukai
1952
Japanese physician and JAXA astronaut (born 1952)
Gerrit Zalm
1952
Dutch politician (born 1952)
Samuel Doe
1951
Leader of Liberia from 1980 to 1990
Jeffery Deaver
1950
American mystery and crime writer
Alan Dale
1947
New Zealand actor (born 1947)
Martha Nussbaum
1947
American philosopher and academic (born 1947)
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
1945
American country singer
Bob Seger
1945
American singer-songwriter (born 1945)
Masanori Murakami
1944
Japanese baseball player (born 1944)
Andreas Baader
1943
German far-left militant leader (1943–1977)
Milton William Cooper
1943
American conspiracy theorist (1943–2001)
James Turrell
1943
American artist known for work with light
Ariel Dorfman
1942
Argentine-Chilean writer and human rights activist (born 1942)
Rubin Carter
1937
American boxer (1937–2014)
Richard Shelby
1934
American lawyer and politician (born 1934)
Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath
1932
English politician, artist, and author (1932–2020)
Willie Mays
1931
American baseball player (1931–2024)
David Carpenter
1930
American serial killer (born 1930)
Rosemary Cramp
1929
British archaeologist (1929–2023)
Paul Lauterbur
1929
American chemist (1929–2007)
Nestor Basterretxea
1924
Basque artist
Patricia Kennedy Lawford
1924
American socialite (1924–2006)
Harry Watson (ice hockey, born 1923)
1923
Canadian ice hockey player (1923-2002)
Kamisese Mara
1920
Fijian former prime minister and president
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
1918
President of the United Arab Emirates from 1971 to 2004
Robert H. Dicke
1916
American astronomer and physicist (1916–1997)
Orson Welles
1915
American actor and filmmaker (1915–1985)
Theodore H. White
1915
American historian and author (1915–1986)
Carmen Cavallaro
1913
American pianist (1913–1989)
Stewart Granger
1913
British actor (1913–1993)
Guy des Cars
1911
French novelist (1911–1993)
Peter Barnes (Irish republican)
1907
Weeb Ewbank
1907
American football coach (1907–1998)
André Weil
1906
French mathematician (1906-1998)
Moshé Feldenkrais
1904
Israeli engineer (1904–1984)
Catherine Lacey
1904
English actress (1904–1979)
Harry Martinson
1904
Swedish writer
Toots Shor
1903
American restaurateur (1903–1977)
Max Ophüls
1902
German-French film director (1902–1957)
1800s
Konrad Henlein
1898
Sudeten German politician, Gauleiter, SS-Obergruppenführer (1898–1945)
Paul Alverdes
1897
German novelist and poet (1897–1979)
Rolf Maximilian Sievert
1896
Swedish medical physicist (1896–1966)
Júlio César de Mello e Souza
1895
Brazilian mathematician (1895–1974)
Fidél Pálffy
1895
Rudolph Valentino
1895
Italian actor (1895–1926)
Alberto Collo
1883
Italian actor (1883–1955)
Winifred Brunton
1880
English painter
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880
German expressionist painter (1880–1938)
Bedřich Hrozný
1879
Czech archeologist, linguist and orientalist (1879–1952)
Hendrik van Heuckelum
1879
Dutch footballer (1879–1929)
Willem de Sitter
1872
Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1872–1934)
Djemal Pasha
1872
Ottoman military leader (1872–1922)
Victor Grignard
1871
French chemist (1871–1935)
Christian Morgenstern
1871
German author and poet (1871–1914)
Walter Rutherford (golfer)
1870
Scottish golfer
Junnosuke Inoue
1869
Gaston Leroux
1868
French author and journalist (1868–1927)
Motilal Nehru
1861
Indian lawyer and politician (1861–1931)
Sigmund Freud
1856
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
Robert Peary
1856
American explorer (1856–1920)
Aristide Bruant
1851
French cabaret singer, comedian, and nightclub owner (1851–1925)
Henry Edward Armstrong
1848
British chemist
Grove Karl Gilbert
1843
American geologist (1843–1918)
Max Eyth
1836
German engineer and writer
Hermann Raster
1827
American journalist
Roman Sanguszko
1800
Russian and Polish nobleman and officer
Before 1800
Joseph Brackett
1797
American songwriter and author (1797–1882)
Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
1781
German philosopher (1781–1832)
Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany
1769
Grand Duke of Tuscany (1790–1801; 1814–1824)
Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette
1769
French mathematician (1769–1834)
André Masséna
1758
French Marshal (1758–1817)
Maximilien Robespierre
1758
French revolutionary lawyer and politician (1758–1794)
Jean Senebier
1742
Genevan Calvinist pastor and naturalist (1742–1809)
Anton Raaff
1714
German tenor
Charles Batteux
1713
French philosopher and writer (1713–1780)
Jean-Baptiste Stuck
1680
Alain-René Lesage
1668
French novelist
Johann Joachim Becher
1635
German physician (1635–1682)
Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua
1580
Duke of Mantua and Montferrat
Pope Innocent X
1574
Head of the Catholic Church from 1644 to 1655
Pope Marcellus II
1501
Head of the Catholic Church in 1555
Girolamo Seripando
1493
Augustinian friar
Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach
1464
Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
973
Holy Roman Emperor from 1014 to 1024