February 6: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

Is February 6th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on February 6th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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February 6th was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:

February 6th Birthdays: Famous Artists

German Fauvist painter Othon Friesz (Landscape with Figures and The Port of Anvers) was born on February 6, 1879.

Jim Sheridan, Irish film director (In America, In the Name of the Father and My Left Foot), was born on February 6, 1949.

Francois Roland Truffaut, French film director (The 400 Blows, Bed and Board, The Bride Wore Black, Day for Night, Fahrenheit 451, Jules and Jim, The Last Metro, Love on the Run, Shoot the Piano Player, Stolen Kisses, The Story of Adele H. and The Wild Child) and Academy Award winner (1974), was born on February 6, 1932. Francois Truffaut appeared in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, directed by Steven Spielberg.

February 6th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

American professional baseball player Forrest Harrill (Smoky) Burgess (Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Red Legs, Philadelphia Phillies and Pittsburgh Pirates) was born on February 6, 1927.

Richard Edward (Rich) Glover, American professional football player (New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles), was born on February 6, 1950.

Charles Hickcox, American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist (1968), was born on February 6, 1947.

Sixten Jernberg, Swedish skier and Olympic gold medalist (1956, 1960 and 1964), was born on February 6, 1929.

American professional golfer Rik Massengale was born on February 6, 1947.

Eric Money, American professional basketball player (Detroit Pistons, New Jersey Nets and Philadelphia 76ers), was born on February 6, 1955. Eric Money appeared in the 1979 motion picture The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh.