The 6th day of the year
Born on 6 January
Every 6 January birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Capricorn, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- CapricornEarth, cardinal, ruled by Saturn.
- Birthstone
- GarnetThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Carnation, SnowdropUsually taken today to mean devotion and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Tuesday and Friday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 6 January in any year.
Which weekday 6 January falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 6 January falls on every day of the week: Tuesday 16, Friday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Wednesday 15, Monday 15.
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How common a birthday 6 January is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,817 babies were born on 6 January in each year of the twenty, making it the 163rd most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 6 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Joan of Arc | 1412–1431 | French military leader in the Hundred Years' War and Catholic saint |
| Kahlil Gibran | 1883–1931 | Lebanese-American writer, poet, and painter |
| Rowan Atkinson | 1955– | English actor, comedian, and screenwriter |
| Kim Dae-jung | 1924–2009 | 8th President of the Republic of Korea |
| Carl Sandburg | 1878–1967 | American writer and editor |
| Adriano Celentano | 1938– | Italian musician and actor |
| Gustave Doré | 1832–1883 | French illustrator and painter |
| Alexander Scriabin | 1872–1915 | Russian composer and pianist |
| Eddie Redmayne | 1982– | English actor |
| Richard II of England | 1367–1400 | King of England from 1377 to 1399 |
| Heinrich Schliemann | 1822–1890 | German businessman and archaeologist |
| Syd Barrett | 1946–2006 | British musician |
| Loretta Young | 1913–2000 | American actress |
| A. R. Rahman | 1967– | Indian composer and musician |
| Irina Shayk | 1986– | Russian model and television personality |
| Anthony Minghella | 1954–2008 | British film director, playwright and screenwriter |
| Norman Reedus | 1969– | American actor |
| Victor Horta | 1861–1947 | Belgian architect, designer, publicist, teacher and creator of Art Nouveau |
Died on 6 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Theodore Roosevelt | 1858–1919 | 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 |
| Gregor Mendel | 1822–1884 | Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar |
| Georg Cantor | 1845–1918 | German mathematician, inventor of set theory |
| Sidney Poitier | 1927–2022 | Bahamian and American actor and diplomat |
| Louis Braille | 1809–1852 | French educator and inventor of braille |
| Pavel Cherenkov | 1904–1990 | Soviet physicist |
| Rudolf Nureyev | 1938–1993 | Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer |
| Mehmed IV | 1642–1693 | 19th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1648–1687) |
| Vladimir Vernadsky | 1863–1945 | Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist |
| Dizzy Gillespie | 1917–1993 | American jazz trumpeter |
| A. J. Cronin | 1896–1981 | Scottish novelist |
| David Alfaro Siqueiros | 1896–1974 | Mexican painter and muralist |
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