The 249th day of the year, the 250th in a leap year

Born on 6 September

Every 6 September birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Virgo, in every time zone.

Star sign
VirgoEarth, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
Birthstone
SapphireThe same as on the 1912 list.
Birth flower
Aster, Morning gloryUsually taken today to mean patience and affection.
Most common weekdays
Tuesday and Sunday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where the sun stands on 6 September. The marked arc is every position it has held on 6 September, 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 September in any year.

Which weekday 6 September falls on

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

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How common a birthday 6 September is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,844 babies were born on 6 September in each year of the twenty, making it the 97th 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 September

18 people born on 6 September, 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
John Dalton1766–1844British chemist and mathematician
Jane Addams1860–1935American feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writer
Idris Elba1972–British actor
Edward Victor Appleton1892–1965English physicist
Emir Abdelkader1808–1883Algerian religious and military leader
Roger Waters1943–English musician, co-founder of Pink Floyd
Marquis de Lafayette1757–1834French general and politician
Geert Wilders1963–Dutch politician
Dolores O'Riordan1971–2018Irish musician
John Macleod1876–1935Nobel prize-winning Scottish physician and physiologist; co-discoverer of insulin
Ivan V of Russia1666–1696Tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1696
Moses Mendelssohn1729–1786German-Jewish philosopher and theologian
Luis Federico Leloir1906–1987Argentine biochemist
Naomie Harris1976–British actress
Yuki Abe1981–Japanese association football player
José Sócrates1957–Prime Minister of Portugal from 2005 to 2011
Peter II of Yugoslavia1923–1970last King of Yugoslavia from 1934 to 1945
Joseph Wirth1879–1956German chancellor

Died on 6 September

12 people who died on 6 September, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Akira Kurosawa1910–1998Japanese filmmaker
Suleiman the Magnificent1494–1566Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566
Robert Mugabe1924–2019President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017
Sully Prudhomme1839–1907French poet, winner of the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature
Luciano Pavarotti1935–2007Italian operatic tenor
Jean-Paul Belmondo1933–2021French actor
Burt Reynolds1936–2018American actor
Pope John XIIIdied 972Head of the Catholic Church from 965 to 972
Jean-Baptiste Colbert1619–1683French statesman
Margaret Sanger1879–1966American birth control activist and nurse
Olaf Stapledon1886–1950British novelist and philosopher
Kate Millett1934–2017American writer, educator, artist, and activist

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