The 310th day of the year, the 311th in a leap year

Born on 6 November

Every 6 November birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Scorpio, in every time zone.

Star sign
ScorpioWater, fixed, ruled by Mars.
Birthstone
Topaz, CitrineThe 1912 list gave Topaz.
Birth flower
ChrysanthemumUsually taken today to mean loyalty.
Most common weekdays
Sunday and Friday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where the sun stands on 6 November. The marked arc is every position it has held on 6 November, midnight to midnight UTC, in any year since 1920.

Your year

Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 6 November in any year.

Which weekday 6 November falls on

Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 6 November falls on every day of the week: Sunday 16, Friday 16, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Wednesday 15.

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How common a birthday 6 November is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,831 babies were born on 6 November in each year of the twenty, making it the 124th 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 November

18 people born on 6 November, from English Wikipedia's list of births on this day, chosen and ordered by how many Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have a page about them.
NameYearsKnown for
Suleiman the Magnificent1494–1566Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566
Emma Stone1988–American actress
Sally Field1946–American actress
Charles II of Spain1661–1700king of Spain from 1665 to 1700
Conchita Wurst1988–Austrian singer and drag queen
François Englert1932–2026Belgian theoretical physicist
Ana Ivanovic1987–Serbian tennis player
André Schürrle1990–German association football player
Rebecca Romijn1972–American actress and model
Adolphe Sax1814–1894Belgian musical instrument designer and musician
Mike Nichols1931–2014American director and comedian
James Naismith1861–1939Canadian-American coach; inventor of basketball
Glenn Frey1948–2016American rock musician
John Philip Sousa1854–1932American conductor and composer
Michael Cunningham1952–American novelist and screenwriter
Jozy Altidore1989–American soccer player
Jerry Yang1968–founder of Yahoo!
Lamar Odom1979–American basketball player

Died on 6 November

12 people who died on 6 November, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1840–1893Russian composer
James Watson1928–2025American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate
Pope Innocent VII1339–1406pope of the Catholic Church from 1404 to 1406
Pope John XVIIdied 1003pope
Clive Dunn1920–2012British actor
Gene Tierney1920–1991American actress
Heinrich Schütz1585–1672German composer and organist
Yitzhak Navon1921–2015President of Israel from 1978 to 1983
Tony Todd1954–2024American actor
Richard F. Gordon Jr.1929–2017American astronaut
Antoni Martí1963–2023Prime Minister of Andorra from 2011 to 2019
King Von1994–2020American rapper

Names are the titles of the English Wikipedia articles; years and the short descriptions are from Wikidata, which publishes under CC0, checked and corrected by hand where they needed it, and nothing is said about anybody beyond that. Ask for a removal.

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