On This Day
Wednesday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
December 6 1967
Born on This Day
Aenderli Lebius🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1858–1921) · 1858–1921
Days lived
22,733
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Alfred Eisenstaedt🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1898–1995
Days lived
35,323
Anders Johannes Brax🇫🇮
deceasedchief executive officer · 1873–1940
Days lived
24,184
Andrew Cuomo🇺🇸
politician · b. 1957
Days alive
3,652
Andrew Flintoff🇬🇧
English cricketer and TV personality · b. 1977
Andrias Christian Evensen
deceasedFaroese linguist (1874-1917) · 1874–1917
Days lived
15,659
Arnold Hottinger🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss journalist (1926-2019) · 1926–2019
Days lived
33,769
Ascan Lutteroth🇩🇪
deceasedGerman judge · 1874–1960
Days lived
31,284
Carole Thate🇳🇱
field hockey player · b. 1971
Charles Sheaffer🇺🇸
deceasedfield hockey player (1904–1989) · 1904–1989
Days lived
30,946
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CoCo Vandeweghe🇺🇸
American tennis player · b. 1991
Dave Brubeck🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican jazz pianist and composer (1920–2012) · 1920–2012
Days lived
33,602
Debbie Rowe🇺🇸
Nurse · b. 1958
Days alive
3,287
Deborah Estrin🇺🇸
American computer scientist · b. 1959
Days alive
2,922
Diederik Wissels🇳🇱
Dutch jazz pianist · b. 1960
Days alive
2,556
Eli Cohen
deceasedNotable Trials · 1924–1965
Days lived
14,773
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Ernő Verebes🇭🇺
deceasedsinger · 1902–1971
Days lived
25,026
Eugen Neufeld🇦🇹
deceasedactor (1882-1950) · 1882–1950
Days lived
24,787
Ferid Berberi
Albanian weightlifter · b. 1946
Days alive
7,670
Gaios Skordilis🇬🇷
basketball player · b. 1987
Guido Brignone🇮🇹
deceasedItalian film director (1886-1959) · 1886–1959
Days lived
26,448
Hashim al-Atassi
deceasedpolitician · 1875–1960
Days lived
31,045
Hein Müller🇩🇪
deceasedGerman boxer (1903-1945) · 1903–1945
Days lived
15,120
Heinrich von Vietinghoff🇩🇪
deceasedGerman general · 1887–1952
Days lived
23,454
Helen Aitchison🇬🇧
deceasedBritish tennis player (1881–1947) · 1881–1947
Days lived
23,911
Helmut von den Steinen🇩🇪
deceasedGerman translator (1890–1956) · 1890–1956
Days lived
23,766
Ime Oduok🇳🇬
Nigerian basketball player · b. 1971
Jasprit Bumrah🇮🇳
Cricketer · b. 1993
Jiří Kodet🇨🇿
deceasedCzech actor (1937-2005) · 1937–2005
Days lived
24,673
Jonathan Hogg🇬🇧
football player · b. 1988
José María Martín Bejarano-Serrano🇪🇸
football player · b. 1987
Joy Gruttmann🇩🇪
German singer · b. 1995
Karl Bitter🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1867–1920
Days lived
19,118
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Kim Simmonds🇬🇧
deceasedBritish rock musician (1947–2022) · 1947–2022
Days lived
27,401
Larry Bell🇺🇸
American painter and sculptor (born 1939) · b. 1939
Days alive
10,227
Lars Burgsmüller🇩🇪
German tennis player · b. 1975
Manuel Reuter🇩🇪
German racecar driver · b. 1961
Days alive
2,191
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Marko Pešić🇩🇪
basketball player · b. 1976
Natascha Badmann🇨🇭
athlete · b. 1966
Days alive
365
Niels Pauli Danielsen
Danish politician · b. 1938
Days alive
10,592
Nikolai Doktorov🇷🇺
deceasedSoviet party organizer and industrialist (1907-1983) · 1907–1983
Days lived
27,586
Paolo Meneguzzi🇨🇭
singer-songwriter · b. 1976
Paora Winitana🇳🇿
New Zealand basketball player · b. 1976
Peter Handke🇦🇹
Austrian writer, playwright and film director (born 1942) · b. 1942
Days alive
9,131
Sameer Rizvi🌍
Cricketer · b. 2003
Sergio Corbucci🇮🇹
deceasedItalian film director (1927-1990) · 1927–1990
Days lived
23,006
Simone Hanselmann🇩🇪
actor · b. 1979
Tony Lazzeri🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1903–1946
Days lived
15,584
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Ulrich K. Preuss🇩🇪
German academic (born 1939) · b. 1939
Days alive
10,227
Vittorio Mezzogiorno🇮🇹
deceasedactor · 1941–1994
Days lived
19,025
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Died on This Day
Abd-ru-shin
deceasedwriter · 1875–1941
Days lived
24,338
Adolf Rosenberger🇺🇸
deceasedentrepreneur · 1900–1967
Days lived
24,713
B. R. Ambedkar🇮🇳
deceasedIndian polymath, philosopher, and social reformer (1891–1956) · 1891–1956
Days lived
23,977
Baltasar Gracián
deceasedPhilosopher · 1601–1658
Days lived
21,151
Denis de Rougemont🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss writer (1906-1985) · 1906–1985
Days lived
28,944
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Frantz Fanon🇫🇷
deceasedFrench West Indian psychiatrist and philosopher (1925–1961) · 1925–1961
Days lived
13,288
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Franzl Lang🇩🇪
deceasedsinger · 1930–2015
Days lived
31,024
Hanns Dieter Hüsch🇩🇪
deceasedGerman author, cabaret artist, actor, songwriter and radio commentator (1925–2005) · 1925–2005
Days lived
29,434
Honus Wagner🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1874–1955
Days lived
29,869
Ichirō Mizuki🇯🇵
deceasedactor · 1948–2022
Days lived
27,362
Jakob Sporrenberg🇩🇪
deceasedNazi German SS-Gruppenführer (1902－1952) · 1902–1952
Days lived
18,344
John Payne🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor (1912–1989) · 1912–1989
Days lived
28,321
José María López Mezquita🇪🇸
deceasedSpanish painter (1883-1954) · 1883–1954
Days lived
26,159
Krizia🇮🇹
deceasedItalian fashion designer and entrepreneur (1925–2015) · 1925–2015
Days lived
33,181
Lead Belly
deceasedNotable Trials · 1885–1949
Days lived
23,686
Mills Lane🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican judge, boxer, boxing referee · 1937–2022
Days lived
31,070
Oskar Messter🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1866–1943
Days lived
28,138
Peter Lorenz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (1922-1987) · 1922–1987
Days lived
23,725
Ralph H. Baer🇺🇸
deceasedentrepreneur · 1922–2014
Days lived
33,876
Roy Orbison🇺🇸
deceasedsinger-songwriter · 1936–1988
Days lived
19,220
Rupprecht Geiger🇩🇪
deceasedGerman artist (1908–2009) · 1908–2009
Days lived
37,205
Senta Wengraf🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian actress (1924-2020) · 1924–2020
Days lived
35,274
Tabaré Vázquez🇺🇾
deceasedpolitician · 1940–2020
Days lived
29,544
Ute Klophaus🇩🇪
deceasedGerman photographer (1940–2010) · 1940–2010
Days lived
25,867
Yun Ch'iho
deceasedKorean independence activist (1864-1945) · 1864–1945
Days lived
29,564
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
41,976
Gertrude W. Hoffmann🇩🇪
deceasedcharacter actress (1871-1968) · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,335
Camille Huysmans🇧🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,338
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Edward Roberts
deceasedBritish priest · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,236
Rudolph Dirks🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,290
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Arthur Mallwitz🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
Helen Keller🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,647
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Sergeant Reckless🇺🇸
deceasedMongolian mare · 1948–1968
Days lived
7,438
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,820
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,517
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,090
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,532
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,498
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,132
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,576
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,228
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,027
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,541
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,559
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,228
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,580
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,123
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,033
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,010
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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