June 6th, 1979

Born on June 6th, 1979

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 16,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 610 days, exactly on December 21st, 2025, people who were born on June 6th, 1979 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, 1979

44

Jacinta Stapleton

Australian actress

*June 6th, 1979, Malvern

44

Tamer Nafar

Arab-Israeli rapper of Palestinian descent

*June 6th, 1979, Lod

44

Roberto De Zerbi

Italian association football player and manager

*June 6th, 1979, Brescia

44

Juan Martín Jáuregui

Argentine actor

*June 6th, 1979, Mar del Plata

44

Jorge Consejo

Mexican actor

*June 6th, 1979, Mexico City

44

Lilja Nótt Þórarinsdóttir

Icelandic actor

*June 6th, 1979, Reykjavík

Same Day
Who's birthday is on June 6th?

46

Frédéric Chau

French actor and humorist

*June 6th, 1977, Ho Chi Minh City

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

46

Meike Evers-Rölver

German rower

*June 6th, 1977, Berlin

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

45

Faudel

French singer

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

69

Harvey Fierstein

American actor and playwright

*June 6th, 1954, Brooklyn

47

Jonathan Nolan

British-American screenwriter

*June 6th, 1976, London

56

Max Casella

American actor

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

79

Heinrich Rohrer

Swiss physicist (1933-2013)

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

40

Michael Krohn-Dehli

Danish association football player

*June 6th, 1983, Copenhagen

10

Judith Barsi

American child actress (1978-1988)

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

67

Björn Borg

Swedish tennis player

*June 6th, 1956, Stockholm

45

Mauro Castillo

Colombian singer, composer, and actor

*June 6th, 1978, Cali

80

Thomas Mann

German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)

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

38

Sebastian Larsson

Swedish association football player

*June 6th, 1985, Eskilstuna

62

Michel Dernies

Belgian cyclist

*June 6th, 1961, Nivelles

45

ODB

American professional wrestler

*June 6th, 1978, Nashville

Same year
Born in 1979

45

Gao Ling

Chinese badminton player

*March 14th, 1979, Wuhan

45

Yang Wei

Chinese badminton player

*January 13th, 1979, Guangdong

44

Tine Baun

Danish badminton player

*July 21st, 1979, Hørsholm

44

Deborah Secco

Brazilian actress

*November 26th, 1979, Rio de Janeiro

45

Johan Harstad

Norwegian author

*February 10th, 1979, Stavanger Municipality

44

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

44

Anders Kristiansen

Badminton player

*September 7th, 1979, Frederikssund Municipality

44

Nikhil Kanetkar

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1979, Pune

44

Guf

Russian rapper

*September 23rd, 1979, Ivanteyevskaya Street

44

Ghayath Almadhoun

Swedish poet

*July 19th, 1979, Damascus

45

Dan Tangnes

Norwegian ice hockey player (1979-)

*March 8th, 1979, Oslo

44

Patricia Aulitzky

Austrian actress

*July 7th, 1979, Salzburg

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

44

Chen Hong

Badminton player

*November 28th, 1979, Changting County

45

Ingo Kindervater

Badminton player

*January 1st, 1979, Burgwedel

44

Britta Andersen

Badminton player

*December 19th, 1979, Aarhus

44

Vincent Kartheiser

American actor

*May 5th, 1979, Minneapolis

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

44

Chris Pratt

American actor (born 1979)

*June 21st, 1979, Virginia

45

Lise Risom Olsen

Norwegian actress

*March 1st, 1979, Fredrikstad Municipality

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No: With 365 days 1979 is a normal year and no leap year.

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