What happened on March 6 ?

1405 - King John II of Castile (d. 1454)

1459 - Jacob Fugger, German banker (d. 1525)

1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter (d. 1564)

1483 - Francesco Guicciardini, Italian statesman and historian (d. 1540)

1495 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (d. 1556)

1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (d. 1655)

1663 - Francis Atterbury, British man of letters (d. 1732)

1706 - George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792)

1716 - Pehr Kalm, Swedish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779)

1761 - Antoine-Francois Andreossy, French General (d. 1828)

1779 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (d. 1869)

1787 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (d. 1826)

1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet (d. 1861)

1812 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison American watch manufacturer (d. 1895)

1841 - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (d. 1902)

1882 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d. 1980)

1885 - Ring Lardner, American writer (d. 1933)

1903 - Empress Nagako of Japan (d. 2000)

1904 - Joseph Schmidt, Austrian tenor (d. 1942)

1905 - Bob Wills, American singer (d. 1975)

1906 - Lou Costello, American actor comedian (d. 1959)

1914 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981)

1915 - Pete Gray, American baseball player (d. 2002)

1917 - Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005)

1923 - Ed McMahon, American television personality

1923 - Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)

1926 - Alan Greenspan, American economist

1926 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director

1927 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut (d. 2004)

1928 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate

1930 - Lorin Maazel, French-born American conductor

1931 - Hal Needham, American stunt man

1933 - Ted Abernathy, baseball player (d. 2004)

1934 - John Noakes, British television presenter

1935 - Ron Delany, Irish athlete

1936 - Marion Barry Jr., Mayor of Washington DC

1937 - Ivan Boesky, American stock trader

1937 - Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut

1939 - Adam Osborne, British author and computer designer (d. 2003)

1940 - Willie Stargell, baseball player (d. 2001)

1942 - Ben Murphy, American actor

1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano

1944 - Mary Wilson, American singer (Supremes)

1946 - David Gilmour, British musician (Pink Floyd)

1947 - Kiki Dee, British singer

1947 - Dick Fosbury, American athlete

1947 - Martin Kove, American actor

1947 - Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author

1947 - Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, and film producer

1949 - Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of Pakistan

1949 - Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer

1951 - Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004)

1953 - Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author

1953 - Jacklyn Zeman, American actress

1955 - Alberta Watson, Canadian actress

1959 - Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian

1962 - Valerie French, American artist and animatronics art director

1964 - Madonna Wayne Gacy, Musician

1968 - Moira Kelly, American actress

1969 - Tari Phillips, American basketball player

1972 - Terry Murphy, Northern Irish snooker player

1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player

1976 - Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler

1979 - Tim Howard, American soccer player