On This Day
Saturday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
July 6 1968
Born on This Day
50 CentAmerican
Artist/Businessman · b. 1975
Alex Joseph🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1988
Alvin Harper🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1967
Days alive
366
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Anne Helm🇩🇪
German voice actress and politician · b. 1986
Arnold Kohlschütter🇩🇪
deceasedGerman astronomer (1883-1969) · 1883–1969
Days lived
31,372
Bernhard Schlink🇩🇪
German writer · b. 1944
Days alive
8,766
Brandon Jacobs🇺🇸
American football running back · b. 1982
Colette Audry🇫🇷
deceasedFrench novelist, screenwriter, and critic (1906-1990) · 1906–1990
Days lived
30,787
Csaba Bodrogi🇭🇺
basketball player · b. 1965
Days alive
1,096
Diego Klimowicz🇦🇷
Argentine association football player · b. 1974
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Elias Harris🇩🇪
basketball player · b. 1989
Ernst Busch🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1885–1945
Days lived
21,925
Ernst Krieck🇩🇪
deceasedTheorist and propagandist of Nazi educational theory and cultural policy (1882–1947) · 1882–1947
Days lived
23,631
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American social philosopher (1888-1973) · 1888–1973
Days lived
30,913
Frank Maurice Stinson Jenkins🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian ice hockey player (1859-1930) · 1859–1930
Days lived
26,084
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Frida Kahlo🇲🇽
deceasedMexican painter (1907–1954) · 1907–1954
Days lived
17,174
Fritz Arndt🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1885–1969
Days lived
30,835
Gary Gold🇿🇦
South African rugby union coach · b. 1967
Days alive
366
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Geoffrey Rush
Oscar Winners · b. 1951
Days alive
6,210
George W. Bush🇺🇸
politician · b. 1946
Days alive
8,036
Gregory Smith🇨🇦
actor · b. 1983
Haldun Boysan🇹🇷
deceasedTurkish actor (1958–2020) · 1958–2020
Days lived
22,702
Hans Krüger🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (1902-1971) · 1902–1971
Days lived
25,322
Heinrich Harrer🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian mountaineer and author (1912–2006) · 1912–2006
Days lived
34,153
Helmut Metzger🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1917–1995
Days lived
28,656
Isabelle Boulay🇨🇦
Canadian singer · b. 1972
Jan van Weyde🇩🇪
German actor and voice actor · b. 1979
Jean-Robert Armogathe🇫🇷
French Catholic priest · b. 1947
Days alive
7,671
Jurjen van Zijl
Dutch baseball player · b. 1984
Karl Maybach🇩🇪
deceasedGerman engineer and entrepreneur (1879-1960) · 1879–1960
Days lived
29,434
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Kevin Hart
Notable Trials · b. 1979
Liudmyla Denisova🇺🇦
Ukrainian politician (*1960) · b. 1960
Days alive
2,922
Nathalie Baye🇫🇷
deceasedActor · 1948–2026
Days lived
28,409
Ned Beatty🇺🇸
deceasedactor · 1937–2021
Days lived
30,658
Nursultan Nazarbayev🇺🇸
President of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2019 · b. 1940
Days alive
10,227
Otto Puchstein
deceasedGerman archaeologist (1856-1911) · 1856–1911
Days lived
19,968
Prince Arnulf of Bavaria🇩🇪
deceasedBavarian prince (1852-1907) · 1852–1907
Days lived
20,216
Richard Krautheimer🇺🇸
deceasedGerman art historian (1897–1994) · 1897–1994
Days lived
35,546
Roger Cicero🇩🇪
deceasedGerman pop and jazz singer (1970-2016) · 1970–2016
Days lived
16,698
Rory Delap🇮🇪
Irish association football player · b. 1976
Sarah Gronert🇩🇪
German tennis player · b. 1986
Stefan Lisewski🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1933-2016) · 1933–2016
Days lived
30,185
Stefan Schörghuber🇩🇪
deceasedGerman businessman (1961–2008) · 1961–2008
Days lived
17,309
Sylvester Stallone🇺🇸
Film actor · b. 1946
Days alive
8,036
Tenzin Gyatso🇨🇳
politician · b. 1935
Days alive
12,054
Uli Maslo🇩🇪
German footballer and manager · b. 1938
Days alive
10,958
Uwe Harttgen🇩🇪
German footballer · b. 1964
Days alive
1,461
Vato Gonzalez🇷🇸
Dutch producer and DJ · b. 1983
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Willy Guhl🇨🇭
deceasedartist · 1915–2004
Days lived
32,598
Wojciech Jaruzelski🇵🇱
deceasedmilitary person · 1923–2014
Days lived
33,196
Wolf Bickel🇩🇪
German astronomer · b. 1942
Days alive
9,497
Died on This Day
Amadeus August🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1942-1992) · 1942–1992
Days lived
18,324
Arthur von Bylandt-Rheidt🇨🇿
deceasedCzech servant (1854-1915) · 1854–1915
Days lived
22,432
Attila Abonyi🇭🇺
deceasedathlete · 1946–2023
Days lived
28,083
Cameron Boyce
deceaseddancer · 1999–2019
Days lived
7,344
Dhirubhai Ambani🇮🇳
deceasedIndian business tycoon (1932–2002) · 1932–2002
Days lived
25,392
Ennio Morricone🇮🇹
deceasedconductor · 1928–2020
Days lived
33,476
Ernst Zacharias🇩🇪
deceasedmusician · 1924–2020
Days lived
35,079
Fritz Lenz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman geneticist and professor (1887–1976) · 1887–1976
Days lived
32,626
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George Grosz🇺🇸
deceasedGerman artist (1893–1959) · 1893–1959
Days lived
24,085
Hans Wilsdorf🇬🇧
deceasedentrepreneur · 1881–1960
Days lived
28,960
James Caan🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor (1940–2022) · 1940–2022
Days lived
30,052
Jester Naefe🇦🇹
deceasedGerman actress (1924-1967) · 1924–1967
Days lived
15,637
João Gilberto🇧🇷
deceasedBrazilian musician, pioneer of bossa nova (1931–2019) · 1931–2019
Days lived
32,168
Johann Gottfried Bischoff🇩🇪
deceasedGerman priest (1871–1960) · 1871–1960
Days lived
32,692
John Mackey🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player (1941-2011) · 1941–2011
Days lived
25,487
Kurt Sethe🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Egyptologist (1869–1934) · 1869–1934
Days lived
23,654
Louis Armstrong🇺🇸
deceasedactor · 1901–1971
Days lived
25,538
Rolf Wollner🇩🇪
deceasedGerman field hockey player (1906–1988) · 1906–1988
Days lived
30,020
Shōkō Asahara🇺🇸
deceasedNotable Trials · 1955–2018
Days lived
23,137
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William Faulkner🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer (1897-1962) · 1897–1962
Days lived
23,659
Zhu De🇨🇳
deceasedpolitician · 1886–1976
Days lived
32,724
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
42,189
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
49,860
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
48,033
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,730
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,303
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,745
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,711
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,345
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,789
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,441
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,240
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,754
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,772
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,441
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,793
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,336
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,246
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,223
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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