Who Was Born Today – March 6 Birthdays
Important and famous people from throughout history born on this day
Born on March 6 | ||
1475 | Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter, sculptor and architect. | |
1806 | Elizabeth Barret Browning, poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese). | |
1831 | Philip Henry Sheridan, Union Army general. | |
1885 | Ring Lardner, writer (You Know Me, Al). | |
1899 | Richard Leo Simon, publisher, partner of Max Schuster. | |
1908 | Lou Costello, American comedian, partner of Bud Abbott. | |
1928 | Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Columbian-born novelist (One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera). | |
1937 | Valentina Nikolayeva-Tereshkova, Russian astronaut, the first woman to orbit the Earth. | |
1944 | Dame Kiri Te Kannawa, operatic soprano. |