On This Day
Thursday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
June 6 1968
Born on This Day
Albert Ferrer🇪🇸
Spanish footballer · b. 1970
Alexander Vindman🇺🇸
Military officer · b. 1975
Andreas Vogel🇩🇪
scientist · b. 1929
Days alive
14,245
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Barry Maister🇳🇿
field hockey player · b. 1948
Days alive
7,305
Birgit Hagen🇩🇪
German field hockey player · b. 1957
Days alive
4,018
Björn Borg🇸🇪
Swedish tennis player (born 1956) · b. 1956
Days alive
4,383
Boris Wyszynski🇲🇰
journalist · b. 1929
Days alive
14,245
Brandon Ghee🇺🇸
American football player, cornerback · b. 1987
Brendon Nasser🇦🇺
Australian rugby union player · b. 1964
Days alive
1,461
Cameron Britton
Actor · b. 1986
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Chantal Akerman🇧🇪
deceasedartist · 1950–2015
Days lived
23,862
Chu Shong Tin🇨🇳
deceasedHong Kong Wing Chun practitioner · 1933–2014
Days lived
29,637
Emil Ernst
deceasedGerman astronomer (1889–1942) · 1889–1942
Days lived
19,377
Emiliano Tardif🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian priest (1928–1999) · 1928–1999
Days lived
25,934
Ernst Plischke🇦🇹
deceasedarchitect (1903–1992) · 1903–1992
Days lived
32,494
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Eytan Schwartz🇮🇱
media person and Director of Tel Aviv Municipality · b. 1974
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Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé
politician · b. 1966
Days alive
731
Haechan (Lee Dong-hyuck)🇰🇷
K-pop Idol (NCT) · b. 2000
Hanns Eisler🇺🇸
deceasedmusician · 1898–1962
Days lived
23,467
Hans Weusthof
Dutch field hockey player · b. 1949
Days alive
6,940
Heinrich von Brentano🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician and lawyer (1904-1964) · 1904–1964
Days lived
22,076
HyunA (Kim Hyun-ah)🇰🇷
K-pop Idol (Solo Artist) · b. 1992
Isaiah Berlin🇬🇧
deceasedRusso-British-Latvian Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas (1909–1997) · 1909–1997
Days lived
32,294
Iskandar Widjaja🇩🇪
German violinist and musician · b. 1986
Italo Balbo
deceasedpolitician · 1896–1940
Days lived
16,092
Jochen Pollex🇩🇪
basketball player · b. 1947
Days alive
7,671
John Hargrave🇬🇧
deceasedBritish social credit leader (1894-1982) · 1894–1982
Days lived
32,309
John Rudometkin🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican basketball player (1940-2015) · 1940–2015
Days lived
27,452
Jonathan Nolan🇬🇧
Screenwriter · b. 1976
Judith Barsi🇺🇸
deceasedActor · 1978–1988
Days lived
3,702
Junichi Tazawa🇯🇵
Baseball pitcher · b. 1986
Jürgen Marcus🇩🇪
deceasedGerman singer · 1948–2018
Days lived
25,547
Leslie Carter🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican pop singer (1986–2012) · 1986–2012
Days lived
9,370
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Ludolf Kuchenbuch🇩🇪
musician · b. 1939
Days alive
10,593
M. J. Hyland🇬🇧
writer · b. 1968
Days alive
0
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Marwan Barghouti🇵🇸
Politician · b. 1959
Days alive
3,288
Max Venable🇺🇸
film director · b. 1957
Days alive
4,018
Megumi Ogata🇯🇵
Japanese actress, voice actress and singer · b. 1965
Days alive
1,096
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Pape Souaré🇸🇳
Senegalese association football player · b. 1990
Paul Sutermeister🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss theologian, pastor and contributing editor of the Berner Tagblatt (1864-1905) · 1864–1905
Days lived
14,850
Pete Hegseth🇺🇸
Politician · b. 1980
Rainer Kaufmann🇩🇪
German film director and screenwriter · b. 1959
Days alive
3,288
Richard Smalley🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1943–2005
Days lived
22,790
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Roberto De Zerbi🇮🇹
Association football player · b. 1979
Rudi Fink🇩🇪
East German boxer · b. 1958
Days alive
3,653
Ryan Higa🇺🇸
actor · b. 1990
Sándor Szalay🇭🇺
deceasedathlete · 1893–1965
Days lived
26,235
Sebastian Larsson🇸🇪
Swedish association football player · b. 1985
Sidy Koné🇲🇱
football player · b. 1992
Stanislav Prins🇪🇪
football player · b. 1988
Steve Vai
guitarist · b. 1960
Days alive
2,922
Sukarno
deceasedNotable Trials · 1901–1970
Days lived
25,217
Thomas Mann🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1875–1955
Days lived
29,286
Tommie Smith🇺🇸
American track and field athlete · b. 1944
Days alive
8,766
Vladimir Dolgov🇷🇺
deceasedRussian tech executive (1959-2016) · 1959–2016
Days lived
20,978
Weijia Jiang🌍
Reporter · b. 1983
Willie John McBride🇬🇧
Irish rugby union footballer and coach · b. 1940
Days alive
10,227
Yunchen Juan🇨🇳
actor · b. 1981
Died on This Day
Benjamín González🇪🇸
deceasedSpanish middle-distance runner (1958-2011) · 1958–2011
Days lived
19,413
Carl Jung🇨🇭
deceasedYouTube personality · 1875–1961
Days lived
31,361
Douglas Bartles-Smith
deceasedArchdeacon of Southwark · 1937–2014
Days lived
28,127
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Dr. John🇺🇸
deceasedsinger-songwriter · 1941–2019
Days lived
28,321
Fernando Paternoster🇦🇷
deceasedfootball player · 1903–1967
Days lived
23,389
Gerhart Hauptmann
deceasedGerman dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 (1862-1946) · 1862–1946
Days lived
30,518
Hans Leip🇨🇭
deceasedGerman writer (1893–1983) · 1893–1983
Days lived
32,763
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Hiram Bingham III🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican academic, explorer, treasure hunter and politician (1875–1956) · 1875–1956
Days lived
29,419
Kurt Ranke🇩🇪
deceasedGerman ethnologist (1908–1985) · 1908–1985
Days lived
28,177
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Lee Raymond
deceasedActor · 1938–2026
Days lived
32,074
Lina Loos🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1882–1950
Days lived
24,711
Margaret Wycherly🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish stage and film actress (1881-1956) · 1881–1956
Days lived
27,251
Miklós Bánffy🇭🇺
deceasedjournalist · 1873–1950
Days lived
27,916
Robert F. Kennedy🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican politician and lawyer · 1925–1968
Days lived
15,539
Salim Kumar🇮🇳
deceasedActor · 1969–2026
Days lived
20,693
Shanta Shelke🇮🇳
deceasedMarathi poet and writer (1922–2002) · 1922–2002
Days lived
29,092
Stan Getz🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican jazz saxophonist (1927–1991) · 1927–1991
Days lived
23,500
Władysław Raczkiewicz🇵🇱
deceasedmilitary person · 1885–1947
Days lived
22,778
Yves Klein🇫🇷
deceasedartist · 1928–1962
Days lived
12,457
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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
42,159
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
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
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067
Wang Zi-Ping🇨🇳
deceasedathlete · 1881–1973
Days lived
33,602
Hans Reiter🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Nazi physician (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,413
Rudolf Pannwitz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer and philosopher (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,076
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
49,830
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Digit🇷🇼
deceasedMountain gorilla · 1967–1977
Days lived
4,017
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
48,003
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,700
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,273
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,715
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,681
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,315
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,759
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,411
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,210
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,724
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,742
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,411
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,763
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,306
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,216
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,193
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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