March 6th, 1947

Born on March 6th, 1947

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What happened on March 6th?

March 6th, 2000

The Marine Parade Community Building, the mural cladding of which is the largest installation art in Singapore, was opened.

March 6th, 1988

The Troubles: In Operation Flavius, the Special Air Service killed three volunteers of the Provisional Irish Republican Army conspiring to bomb a parade of British military bands in Gibraltar.

March 6th, 1987

The ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized while leaving the harbour of Zeebrugge, Belgium, killing 193 people on board.

March 6th, 1953

Following Joseph Stalin's death, Georgy Malenkov succeeded him as Premier of the Soviet Union.

March 6th, 1945

Petru Groza of the Ploughmen's Front became the first prime minister of the Communist Party-dominated government of Romania.

March 6th, 1943

World War II: National Liberation Front forces defeated Italian occupiers in the Battle of Fardykambos, a major sign of the Greek resistance's growth.

March 6th, 1933

The day after the federal election, the Nazi Party banned elected Communist Party of Germany members from taking their seats in the Reichstag.

March 6th, 1930

Organized by the Communist International, hundreds of thousands of people in major cities around the world marched to protest mass unemployment associated with the Great Depression.

March 6th, 1913

First Balkan War: The Greek army captured Bizani Fortress, near Ioannina, from the Ottomans.

March 6th, 1904

Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Led by William Speirs Bruce (pictured), the Antarctic region of Coats Land was discovered by the Scotia.

March 6th, 1853

Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata premiered at La Fenice in Venice, but the performance was considered so bad that it caused him to revise portions of the opera.

March 6th, 1836

Texas Revolution: Mexican troops captured the Alamo Mission in San Antonio from Texian forces after a 13-day siege.

March 6th, 1447

Tommaso Parentucelli was elected as Pope Nicholas V in Rome.

March 6th, 0845

The Abbasid Caliphate executed 42 Byzantine officials who had been captured in the sack of Amorium of 838 for refusing to convert to Islam.

March 6th, 1836

Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo: After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 6th

Born on March 6th, 1947

77

Rob Reiner

American actor and director

*March 6th, 1947, The Bronx

76

Dick Fosbury

American athletics competitor, high jumper

*March 6th, 1947, Portland †March 12th, 2023, Salt Lake City

77

John Stossel

American consumer reporter, investigative journalist, author and libertarian columnist

*March 6th, 1947, Chicago Heights

77

Kiki Dee

English pop singer

*March 6th, 1947, Bradford

77

Tarso Genro

Brazilian politician

*March 6th, 1947, São Borja

73

Ivan Vakarchuk

Ukrainian physicist and politician

*March 6th, 1947, Brătușeni †April 4th, 2020, Lviv

77

Jim Mather

Scottish politician (born 1947)

*March 6th, 1947, Lochwinnoch

77

Pratap Bhanu Sharma

Indian MP

*March 6th, 1947, Vidisha

77

Rita Gildemeister

German athletics competitor

*March 6th, 1947, Güstrow

77

Reagan Wilson

American actress

*March 6th, 1947, Torrance

77

Teru Miyamoto

Japanese writer

*March 6th, 1947, Kobe

77

Jean-Claude Osman

Footballer

*March 6th, 1947, La Suze-sur-Sarthe

77

Eric Gravatt

American musician

*March 6th, 1947, Philadelphia

77

Martin Bland

British statistician

*March 6th, 1947, Stockport

77

Sinikka Laisaari

Finnish physician and politician

*March 6th, 1947, Sippola

77

Andy Burgin

English footballer (born 1947)

*March 6th, 1947, Sheffield

77

Ivan Dombrovskyy

Chairman and Judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine

*March 6th, 1947, Tsekhanivka

77

Youlou Mabiala

Musician

*March 6th, 1947, Brazzaville

77

Rayda Jacobs

South African writer and film-maker

*March 6th, 1947, Cape Town

77

Ray Baartz

Australian soccer player

*March 6th, 1947, Newcastle

77

Imre Géra

Hungarian cyclist

*March 6th, 1947, Abaújszántó

77

Chuck Detwiler

American football player

*March 6th, 1947, Rome

77

Fermán Cienfuegos

Salvadoran rebel

*March 6th, 1947, San José

77

Judy Loe

British actress

*March 6th, 1947, Urmston

76

Killer Khan

Japanese professional wrestler

*March 6th, 1947, Tsubame †December 29th, 2023, Tokyo

74

Tas László Dobos

Hungarian poet and philosopher (1947-2021)

*March 6th, 1947, Budapest †March 25th, 2021

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Who's birthday is on March 6th?

78

David Gilmour

English musician, member of Pink Floyd (born 1946)

*March 6th, 1946, Cambridge

78

Patrick Baudry

French astronaut

*March 6th, 1946, Douala

32

Gebby Ristiyani Imawan

Badminton player

*March 6th, 1992, Tangerang City

87

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)

*March 6th, 1927, Aracataca †April 17th, 2014, Mexico City

76

Stephen Schwartz

American musical theatre lyricist and composer

*March 6th, 1948, New York City

76

Dieter Möhrmann

German politician

*March 6th, 1948, Soltau

37

Kevin-Prince Boateng

Ghanaian association football player

*March 6th, 1987, West Berlin

55

Jintara Poonlarp

Thai female singer

*March 6th, 1969, Kaset Wisai

32

Kim Astrup Sørensen

Badminton player

*March 6th, 1992, Herning

87

Valentina Tereshkova

Russian cosmonaut and pilot, first woman to have flown in space

*March 6th, 1937, Bolshoye Maslennikovo

57

Mihai Tudose

Romanian politician

*March 6th, 1967, Brăila

74

Tim Groser

New Zealand politician

*March 6th, 1950, Perth

94

Ejler Bille

Danish artist (1910-2004)

*March 6th, 1910, Odder †May 1st, 2004, Copenhagen

56

Vincent Gale

Actor

*March 6th, 1968, Glasgow

65

Tom Arnold

American stand-up comedian and actor (born 1959)

*March 6th, 1959, Ottumwa

32

Raphael Beck

German badminton player

*March 6th, 1992, Düsseldorf

36

Simon Mignolet

Belgian association football player

*March 6th, 1988, Sint-Truiden

27

Teoh Mei Xing

Malaysian badminton player

*March 6th, 1997, Subang Jaya

40

Floé Kühnert

German pole vaulter

*March 6th, 1984, Ulm

88

Michelangelo

Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475–1564)

*March 6th, 1475, Caprese Michelangelo †February 18th, 1564, Rome

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Born in 1947

76

Rodney Williams

Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (born 1947)

*November 2nd, 1947, Swetes

76

Hillary Clinton

American politician and diplomat (born 1947)

*October 26th, 1947, Edgewater Hospital

77

Ulf Brunnberg

Actor

*April 7th, 1947, Bromma parish

69

Gregg Allman

American musician

*December 8th, 1947, Saint Thomas Hospital †May 27th, 2017, Richmond Hill

76

Hans-Jürgen Kreische

German association football player and manager

*July 19th, 1947, Dresden

69

David Bowie

English musician and actor (1947–2016)

*January 8th, 1947, Brixton †January 10th, 2016, Manhattan

77

Wiranto

Indonesian politician

*April 4th, 1947, Yogyakarta City

76

Stephen King

American writer (born 1947)

*September 21st, 1947, Portland

76

Angry Anderson

Australian rock singer

*August 5th, 1947, Melbourne

76

Kjell Magne Bondevik

33rd Prime Minister of Norway

*September 3rd, 1947, Molde Municipality

76

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)

*July 30th, 1947, Thal

76

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

77

Mitt Romney

United States Senator from Utah since 2019

*March 12th, 1947, Detroit

76

Dilma Rousseff

President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016 (born 1947)

*December 14th, 1947, Belo Horizonte

77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

76

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV

*July 30th, 1947, Paris

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

68

Johan Cruyff

Dutch footballer and manager (1947–2016)

*April 25th, 1947, Amsterdam †March 24th, 2016, Barcelona

77

Glenn Close

American actress

*March 19th, 1947, Greenwich

77

Edward James Olmos

American actor

*February 24th, 1947, Los Angeles

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No: With 365 days 1947 is a normal year and no leap year.

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