Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 6
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Births
- 1757 - Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and statesman (d. 1834)
- 1766 - John Dalton, (pictured) British chemist and physicist (d. 1844)
- 1879 - Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
- 1928 - Robert M. Pirsig, American author (d. 2017)
- 1943 - Roger Waters, bassist, songwriter, and previous leader of Pink Floyd
- 1972 - China Miéville, English writer
- 1974 - Tim Henman, English tennis player
- 1979 - Foxy Brown, American rapper
Deaths
- 1683 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister finance (b. 1619)
- 1923 - King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
- 1966 - Margaret Sanger, American birth control activist (b. 1879)
- 1998 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)