Born on December 6
December 6 birthdays & history
If you were born on December 6, you share a birthday with Peter Handke, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Gunnar Myrdal. December 6 babies are Sagittarius, with turquoise as their birthstone and the narcissus as their birth flower. December 6 is the 341st day of the year in leap years (340th in other years).
Famous people born on December 6
- 1942Peter Handke, Austrian author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1778Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist
- 1898Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1421Henry VI of England, King of England (r. 1422–1461; 1470–1471)
- 1823Max Müller, German-English philologist and orientalist
- 1947Geoffrey Hinton, British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, and cognitive psychologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1982Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist
- 1979Tim Cahill, Australian footballer
- 1994Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek-Nigerian basketball player
- 1920George Porter, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
What happened on December 6
- 963Leo VIII was ordained a bishop, claiming the Holy See as an antipope supported by Otto the Great.
- 1060Béla I was crowned King of Hungary in Székesfehérvár.
- 1882Transit of Venus, second and last of the 19th century.
- 1884The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
- 1897London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
- 1904President Theodore Roosevelt announced the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, justifying the exercise of "international police power" by the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere.
- 1917Finland declares independence from the Russian Empire.
- 1933In United States v. One Book Called Ulysses Judge John M. Woolsey ruled that James Joyce's novel Ulysses was not obscene, allowing it to be imported into the United States.
- 1956At the Melbourne Olympics, 14-year-old swimmer Sandra Morgan became the youngest Australian to win an Olympic gold medal.
- 1967American physician Adrian Kantrowitz and his team performed the world's first pediatric heart transplant at Maimonides Medical Center in New York City.
- 1988Self-government was granted to the Australian Capital Territory.
- 2017Under President Donald Trump, the United States government officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Also observed on December 6
- Anniversary of the Founding of Quito (Ecuador)
- Armed Forces Day (Ukraine)
- Constitution Day (Spain)
- Day of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies of Azerbaijan
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Finland from Russia in 1917.
Questions, answered
What star sign is December 6?
People born on December 6 are Sagittarius. Their birthstone is turquoise and their birth flower is the narcissus.
Which famous people were born on December 6?
Peter Handke (1942), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), Gunnar Myrdal (1898), Henry VI of England (1421), Max Müller (1823), Geoffrey Hinton (1947) were all born on December 6.
What happened on December 6 in history?
Among other things: in 1967, American physician Adrian Kantrowitz and his team performed the world's first pediatric heart transplant at Maimonides Medical Center in New York City; in 1988, Self-government was granted to the Australian Capital Territory; in 2017, Under President Donald Trump, the United States government officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Can I get a newspaper front page from December 6?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any December 6 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “December 6”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.