The 126th day of the year, the 127th in a leap year
Born on 6 May
Every 6 May birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Taurus, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- TaurusEarth, fixed, ruled by Venus.
- Birthstone
- EmeraldThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Lily of the valley, HawthornUsually taken today to mean returning happiness and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Friday and Wednesday16 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 May in any year.
Which weekday 6 May falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 6 May falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Wednesday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Monday 15.
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How common a birthday 6 May is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,765 babies were born on 6 May in each year of the twenty, making it the 330th 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 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Sigmund Freud | 1856–1939 | Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis |
| Tony Blair | 1953– | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 |
| Maximilien Robespierre | 1758–1794 | French revolutionary lawyer and politician |
| George Clooney | 1961– | American-French actor and filmmaker |
| Orson Welles | 1915–1985 | American actor and filmmaker |
| Harry Martinson | 1904–1978 | Swedish writer |
| Dani Alves | 1983– | Brazilian footballer |
| Pope Innocent X | 1574–1655 | pope from 1644 to 1655 |
| Victor Grignard | 1871–1935 | French chemist |
| Pope Marcellus II | 1501–1555 | pope of the Catholic Church and bishop of Rome from 9 April to 1 May 1555 |
| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | 1880–1938 | German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker |
| Rudolph Valentino | 1895–1926 | Italian actor |
| Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor | 973–1024 | Holy Roman Emperor from 1014 to 1024 |
| Robert Peary | 1856–1920 | explorer from the United States |
| Mateo Kovačić | 1994– | Croatian association football player |
| Cole Palmer | 2002– | English footballer |
| Naomi Scott | 1993– | British actress and singer |
| Paul Lauterbur | 1929–2007 | American chemist |
Died on 6 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Marlene Dietrich | 1901–1992 | German and American actress and singer |
| Henry David Thoreau | 1817–1862 | American essayist, poet, and philosopher |
| Alexander von Humboldt | 1769–1859 | Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer |
| Maurice Maeterlinck | 1862–1949 | Belgian playwright and essayist |
| Edward VII | 1841–1910 | King of the United Kingdom from 1901 to 1910 |
| Maria Montessori | 1870–1952 | Italian physician and educator |
| Giulio Andreotti | 1919–2013 | Italian politician and statesman |
| L. Frank Baum | 1856–1919 | American author of children's books |
| Ted Turner | 1938–2026 | American media mogul |
| Johan Ludvig Runeberg | 1804–1877 | Finnish poet who wrote the lyrics of Finland's national anthem |
| Juan Luis Vives | 1493–1540 | Spanish philosopher |
| Theodore von Kármán | 1881–1963 | Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist |
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