June 6th, 1978

Born on June 6th, 1978

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Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 246 days, exactly on December 21st, 2024, people who were born on June 6th, 1978 will be 17,000 days old!

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What happened on June 6th?

June 6th, 1912

The largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century began, forming the volcano Novarupta in the Alaska Peninsula.

June 6th, 1894

Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered the Colorado state militia to protect and support miners engaged in a five-month strike in Cripple Creek.

June 6th, 1882

The Shewan army defeated Gojjame forces at the Battle of Embabo, an event that contributed to the supremacy of Shewa within the Ethiopian Empire.

June 6th, 1862

American Civil War: The Union Army's victory in the First Battle of Memphis virtually eradicated the Confederate naval presence on the Mississippi River.

June 6th, 1822

Alexis St. Martin, a Canadian voyageur, was accidentally shot in the stomach; medical investigations of his injury led to a greater understanding of the processes of digestion.

June 6th, 1813

War of 1812: The British ambushed an American encampment near present-day Stoney Creek, Ontario, capturing two senior officers.

June 6th, 1749

A plot by Muslim slaves in Malta to assassinate Manuel Pinto da Fonseca of the Knights Hospitaller was uncovered.

June 6th, 1674

Shivaji (pictured), who led a resistance to free the Maratha from the Bijapur Sultanate and the Mughal Empire, was crowned the first chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire.

June 6th, 1513

War of the League of Cambrai: Milanese forces with Swiss mercenaries defeated the French in Novara, forcing them to withdraw from the Duchy of Milan and Italy.

June 6th, 2021

A man rammed a pickup truck into Muslim Pakistani Canadian pedestrians in Ontario, Canada, killing 4 members of the same family and injuring the family's nine year old son.

June 6th, 2017

Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (soldiers pictured) opened the Second Battle of Raqqa, the final phase of the Raqqa campaign, capturing the de facto capital of the Islamic State four months later.

June 6th, 1985

The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for performing human experiments on Auschwitz inmates, were exhumed in Embu das Artes, Brazil.

June 6th, 1982

Falklands War: The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff engaged and destroyed a British Army helicopter in a friendly-fire incident.

June 6th, 1971

Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collided with a US Marine Corps jet near Duarte, California, killing 50 people.

June 6th, 1944

World War II: The largest amphibious military operation in history began with Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy in France.

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

Born on June 6th, 1978

45

D-Bo

German rapper

*June 6th, 1978, Göttingen

45

Faudel

French singer

*June 6th, 1978, Mantes-la-Jolie

10

Judith Barsi

American child actress (1978-1988)

*June 6th, 1978, San Fernando Valley †July 25th, 1988, Canoga Park

45

Carl Barât

English musician

*June 6th, 1978, Basingstoke

45

ODB

American professional wrestler

*June 6th, 1978, Nashville

45

Mauro Castillo

Colombian singer, composer, and actor

*June 6th, 1978, Cali

45

Igors Vihrovs

Gymnast

*June 6th, 1978, Riga

45

Jeremy Gara

Canadian drummer

*June 6th, 1978, Ottawa

45

Gastón Grande

Argentinian actor

*June 6th, 1978, Argentina

45

Andrew Reynolds

American skateboarder

*June 6th, 1978, Lakeland

45

Leonora Balcarce

Argentinian actor

*June 6th, 1978, Buenos Aires

45

Joy Enriquez

American actress and singer

*June 6th, 1978, Whittier

40

Konstantīns Konstantinovs

Latvian strongman

*June 6th, 1978, Liepāja †October 28th, 2018

21

Mirko Saric

Argentinian association football player (1978-2000)

*June 6th, 1978, Buenos Aires †April 4th, 2000

45

Isaac Keys

American gridiron football player and actor (born 1978)

*June 6th, 1978, St. Louis

45

Kevin Evans

South African bicycle racer

*June 6th, 1978, Jozini

45

Naoki Matsushita

Japanese association football player

*June 6th, 1978, Fukushima Prefecture

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Who's birthday is on June 6th?

46

Frédéric Chau

French actor and humorist

*June 6th, 1977, Ho Chi Minh City

46

Meike Evers-Rölver

German rower

*June 6th, 1977, Berlin

33

Gavin Hoyte

English-Trinidadian footballer (born 1990)

*June 6th, 1990, Leytonstone

76

Robert Englund

American actor, voice-actor, singer, and director

*June 6th, 1947, Glendale

47

Jonathan Nolan

British-American screenwriter

*June 6th, 1976, London

27

Alexander Rossipal

German association football player

*June 6th, 1996, Stuttgart

64

Colin Quinn

American comedian and actor

*June 6th, 1959, Brooklyn

72

Dwight Twilley

American singer

*June 6th, 1951, Tulsa †October 18th, 2023, Tulsa

56

Max Casella

American actor

*June 6th, 1967, Washington, D.C.

69

Harvey Fierstein

American actor and playwright

*June 6th, 1954, Brooklyn

79

Heinrich Rohrer

Swiss physicist (1933-2013)

*June 6th, 1933, Buchs †May 16th, 2013, Wollerau

46

Małgosia Bela

Polish model and actress

*June 6th, 1977, Kraków

67

Björn Borg

Swedish tennis player

*June 6th, 1956, Stockholm

40

Michael Krohn-Dehli

Danish association football player

*June 6th, 1983, Copenhagen

44

Jacinta Stapleton

Australian actress

*June 6th, 1979, Malvern

49

Guillaume Musso

French writer

*June 6th, 1974, Antibes

80

Thomas Mann

German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)

*June 6th, 1875, Lübeck †August 12th, 1955, Zürich

43

Lauren Anderson

American model

*June 6th, 1980, Milwaukee

62

Michel Dernies

Belgian cyclist

*June 6th, 1961, Nivelles

38

Sebastian Larsson

Swedish association football player

*June 6th, 1985, Eskilstuna

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Born in 1978

45

Miroslav Klose

German association football player

*June 9th, 1978, Opole

45

Ani Lorak

Ukrainian singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur

*September 27th, 1978, Kitsman

45

Joachim Fischer Nielsen

Danish badminton player

*November 23rd, 1978, Copenhagen

45

Vibeke Stene

Gothic metal soprano singer, ex female vocals of Tristania

*August 17th, 1978, Sokndal

46

Malin Arvidsson

Swedish actress and dancer

*February 19th, 1978, El Salvador

45

Marit Berger Røsland

Norwegian lawyer and politician

*September 21st, 1978, Lørenskog

45

Ella Diehl

Badminton player

*August 5th, 1978, Samara

46

Didier Drogba

Ivorian and French association football player

*March 11th, 1978, Abidjan

46

Jonas Dahl

Danish politician

*February 26th, 1978, Randers

45

Kim Yong-hyun

South Korean badminton player

*May 13th, 1978, Incheon

45

Yim Bang-eun

Badminton player

*April 25th, 1978, Incheon

46

Chris Blair

Badminton player

*March 4th, 1978, Invercargill

45

Konstrakta

Serbian singer-songwriter

*October 12th, 1978, Belgrade

45

Jessica Pilnäs

Swedish singer

*July 5th, 1978, Åryd

46

Jörn Wollschläger

German biathlete

*March 4th, 1978, Suhl

45

Poo Bear

American songwriter and singer

*September 4th, 1978, Connecticut

46

Jamie Carragher

English footballer and sportcaster

*January 28th, 1978, Bootle

46

Aparna Popat

Indian badminton player

*January 18th, 1978, Mumbai

46

Dicky Palyama

Dutch badminton player

*March 26th, 1978, Gouda

46

Gianluigi Buffon

Former Italian footballer (born 1978)

*January 28th, 1978, Carrara

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No: With 365 days 1978 is a normal year and no leap year.

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