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Famous people born on October 6
Short answer
Well-known people born on October 6 include Le Corbusier (1887), Thor Heyerdahl (1914), Louis-Philippe I (1773) and Ernest Walton (1903). Our list below has 96 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 6 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1677 (Philip Johan von Strahlenberg) and the most recent is 2003 (Yasin Ayari). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, singer.
Who was born on October 6?
- Le Corbusier 1887 Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer
- Thor Heyerdahl 1914 Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer
- Louis-Philippe I 1773 King of the French from 1830 to 1848
- Ernest Walton 1903 Irish physicist and Nobel laureate
- Riccardo Giacconi 1931 Italian-American astrophysicist
- Richard Dedekind 1831 German mathematician
- Janet Gaynor 1906 American actress
- Yves Leterme 1960 Former Belgian prime minister
- Lai Ching-te 1959 President of Taiwan (ROC) since 2024
- Elisabeth Shue 1963 American actress
- Carole Lombard 1908 American actress
- Peter Pellegrini 1975 President of Slovakia
- Jenny Lind 1820 Swedish opera singer
- Siad Barre 1919 Head of State of Somalia
- Mario Capecchi 1937 Molecular geneticist and Nobel laureate
- George Westinghouse 1846 American inventor and businessman
- Levon Aronian 1982 Armenian-American chess player
- Liu Yang 1978 Chinese astronaut
- Hotaru Yamaguchi 1990 Japanese association football player
- Frederick VII of Denmark 1808 King of Denmark from 1848 to 1863
- Mark Schwarzer 1972 Australian association football player
- Théo Hernandez 1997 French footballer
- Jürgen Kohler 1965 German footballer
- Roland Garros 1888 Reunionese aviator
- Britt Ekland 1942 Swedish actress
- Gerry Adams 1948 Irish republican politician
- David Baker 1962 American biochemist and computational biologist
- Kasper Dolberg 1997 Danish association football player
- Maria Dąbrowska 1889 Polish writer
- Meghnad Saha 1893 Bengali astrophysicist
- Bobby Farrell 1949 Dutch dancer and singer
- Vinod Khanna 1946 Indian actor, director, politician
- Thomas Bickel 1963 Swiss association football player
- Muhammad V of Kelantan 1969 15th and former Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia & 29th and current Al-Sultan of Kelantan
- David Brin 1950 American scientist and science fiction author
- Addison Rae 2000 American singer
- Nikolai Chernykh 1931 Soviet and Ukrainian astronomer
- Ioan Gruffudd 1973 Welsh actor
- Valerie Adams 1984 New Zealand shot putter
- Henri Christophe 1767 President and King of North Haiti
- Ernesto Laclau 1935 Argentine philosopher and political theorist
- Robert Langlands 1936 Canadian mathematician
- Bruno Cremer 1929 French actor
- Kennet Andersson 1967 Swedish footballer
- Helen Wills 1905 American tennis player
- Ricardo Pereira 1993 Portuguese association football player
- Yasin Ayari 2003 Swedish association football player
- Martin Jørgensen 1975 Danish footballer
- Steve Scalise 1965 American politician
- David Limberský 1983 Czech association football player
- Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria 1738 Aristocrat, nun
- Reginald Fessenden 1866 Canadian radio pioneer
- Walter Centeno 1974 Costa Rican footballer
- Meret Oppenheim 1913 German-Swiss surrealist artist and lyricist
- Kim Bo-kyung 1989 South Korean association football player
- Lola Dueñas 1971 Spanish actress
- Marshall Rosenberg 1934 American psychologist
- Wang Huning 1955 Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
- Kálmán Kalocsay 1891 Physician, writer of Esperanto literature
- Yoo Ah-in 1986 South Korean actor
- Carl Gustaf Ekman 1872 Swedish 20th century prime minister
- Barbie Hsu 1976 Taiwanese actress, singer and television presenter
- Todd Howard 1970 American video game designer, director, and producer
- Vasile Tarlev 1963 Moldovian politician, former Prime Minister
- Olivia Thirlby 1986 American actress
- Ricky Hatton 1978 British professional boxer
- Niall Quinn 1966 Irish association football player and manager
- Pizzi 1989 Portuguese association football player
- Pato Machete 1975 Rapper
- Vera Dushevina 1986 Russian female tennis player
- Bruce Grobbelaar 1957 Zimbabwean footballer and manager
- Jeremy Sisto 1974 American actor
- Fannie Lou Hamer 1917 American civil rights activist
- John Warnock 1940 American computer scientist, inventor and technology businessman
- Francis IV of Modena 1779 Duke of Modena
- Kevin Diks 1996 Dutch-Indonesian association football player
- François Magendie 1783 French physiologist
- Mountstuart Elphinstone 1779 Governor of Bombay, Scottish historian
- Bruno Sammartino 1935 Italian-born American professional wrestler
- Cleopatra Stratan 2002 Moldovan singer
- Zoë Më 2000 Swiss singer-songwriter
- Hoang Xuan Vinh 1974 Vietnamese Olympic shooter
- Brett Gelman 1976 American actor and comedian
- Roshon Fegan 1991 American actor, rapper and singer
- Abraham Robinson 1918 American mathematician
- Paul Badura-Skoda 1927 Austrian musician
- Rodrigo Lacerda Ramos 1980 Brazilian association football player
- Carlos Pace 1944 Brazilian racing driver
- Stephen Darby 1988 English association football player
- Lloyd Kelly 1998 English association football player
- Michael Frater 1982 Jamaican sprint athlete
- Takumi Shimohira 1988 Japanese association football player
- Yair Rodríguez 1992 Mexican mixed martial artist and Taekwondo black belt
- Roman Vlasov 1990 Russian sport wrestler
- Sunette Viljoen 1983 South African cricketer and javelin thrower
- Philip Johan von Strahlenberg 1677 Swedish officer and geographer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 6 share the 6th of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.