What happened on October 6 ?

1289 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)

1459 - Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507)

1510 - Rowland Taylor, English clergyman (d. 1555)

1552 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (d. 1610)

1573 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (d. 1624)

1610 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (d. 1690)

1716 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (d. 1771)

1769 - Sir Isaac Brock, British commander (d. 1812)

1773 - King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)

1801 - Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888)

1803 - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)

1820 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)

1831 - Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916)

1838 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)

1846 - George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor (d. 1914)

1872 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)

1882 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer and pianist (d. 1937)

1886 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)

1887 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)

1888 - Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)

1900 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)

1903 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)

1905 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998)

1906 - Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)

1908 - Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)

1910 - Barbara Castle, British politician (d. 2002)

1912 - Pauline Gore, mother of American Vice President Al Gore (d. 2004)

1914 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (d. 2002)

1917 - Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist

1920 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)

1920 - Lord Donaldson of Lymington, British judge (d. 2005)

1925 - Shana Alexander, American columnist (d. 2005)

1930 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)

1930 - Richie Benaud, Australian cricket player

1931 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004)

1931 - Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1935 - Bruno Sammartino, Italian strongman

1938 - Serge Nubret, French bodybuilder

1942 - Britt Ekland, Swedish actress

1943 - Michael Durrell, American actor

1943 - Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter

1945 - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil

1946 - Lloyd Doggett, American politician

1946 - Tony Greig, South African-born cricketer

1948 - Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician

1950 - David Brin, American author

1951 - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (d. 1985)

1953 - Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (d. 1991)

1963 - Chip Foose, Automobile Customizer

1963 - Elisabeth Shue, American film actress

1969 - Troy Shaw, English snooker player

1972 - Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer

1973 - Sylvain Legwinski, French footballer

1973 - Jeff Davis, American comedian

1973 - Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor

1973 - Rebecca Lobo, American basketball player

1976 - Taylor Hicks, American Idol Season 5 Winner

1981 - Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer

1982 - MC Lars, American hip-hop artist