June 6: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

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

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company. June 6th was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

June 6th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Aram Il'yich Khachaturian, Russian composer (Gayane, Masquerade and Spartacus), was born on June 6, 1903.

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Spanish painter (Las Meninas, La Rendicion de Breda and La Venus del Espejo), was born on June 6, 1599.

John Trumbull, American painter (Battle of Bunker's Hill, Death of Montgomery at Quebec,Declaration of Independence,Surrender of General Burgoyne,Surrender of Lord Cornwallis and General George Washington Resigning His Commission), was born on June 6, 1756.

June 6th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Swedish tennis legend Bjorn Borg was born on June 6, 1956.

Sandra Morgan, American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist (1956), was born on June 6, 1942.

Vladimir Ruzicka, Czechoslovakian hockey player and Olympic gold medalist (1998), was born on June 6, 1963.

June 6th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

Pearl Sydenstrick Buck, American novelist (China Sky, Come My Beloved, East Wind West Wind, The Good Earth, A House Divided, Imperial Women, Pavilion of Women and This Proud Heart), Pulitzer Prize winner (1932) and Nobel Prize winner (1938), was born on June 6, 1892.

Pierre Corneille, French tragic dramatist (Heraclius,Le Cid, Le Menteur, La Mort de Pompee, Rodogune and Theodore), was born on June 6, 1606.

Thomas Mann, German novelist (Buddenbrooks, The Coming Victory of Democracy, Death in Venice, Doctor Faustus, Felix Krull, The Holy Sinner, Joseph and His Brothers, Lotte in Weimar, The Magic Mountain, Mario and the Musician, Tonio Kroger and Tristan) and Nobel Prize winner (1929), was born on June 6, 1875.

R. C. Sherriff, British author (Home at Seven,Journey's End and The White Carnation), was born on June 6, 1896.

June 6th Birthday: Famous Business Leaders