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.
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
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| John Dalton | 1766–1844 | British chemist and mathematician |
| Jane Addams | 1860–1935 | American feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writer |
| Idris Elba | 1972– | British actor |
| Edward Victor Appleton | 1892–1965 | English physicist |
| Emir Abdelkader | 1808–1883 | Algerian religious and military leader |
| Roger Waters | 1943– | English musician, co-founder of Pink Floyd |
| Marquis de Lafayette | 1757–1834 | French general and politician |
| Geert Wilders | 1963– | Dutch politician |
| Dolores O'Riordan | 1971–2018 | Irish musician |
| John Macleod | 1876–1935 | Nobel prize-winning Scottish physician and physiologist; co-discoverer of insulin |
| Ivan V of Russia | 1666–1696 | Tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1696 |
| Moses Mendelssohn | 1729–1786 | German-Jewish philosopher and theologian |
| Luis Federico Leloir | 1906–1987 | Argentine biochemist |
| Naomie Harris | 1976– | British actress |
| Yuki Abe | 1981– | Japanese association football player |
| José Sócrates | 1957– | Prime Minister of Portugal from 2005 to 2011 |
| Peter II of Yugoslavia | 1923–1970 | last King of Yugoslavia from 1934 to 1945 |
| Joseph Wirth | 1879–1956 | German chancellor |
Died on 6 September
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Akira Kurosawa | 1910–1998 | Japanese filmmaker |
| Suleiman the Magnificent | 1494–1566 | Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566 |
| Robert Mugabe | 1924–2019 | President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017 |
| Sully Prudhomme | 1839–1907 | French poet, winner of the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| Luciano Pavarotti | 1935–2007 | Italian operatic tenor |
| Jean-Paul Belmondo | 1933–2021 | French actor |
| Burt Reynolds | 1936–2018 | American actor |
| Pope John XIII | died 972 | Head of the Catholic Church from 965 to 972 |
| Jean-Baptiste Colbert | 1619–1683 | French statesman |
| Margaret Sanger | 1879–1966 | American birth control activist and nurse |
| Olaf Stapledon | 1886–1950 | British novelist and philosopher |
| Kate Millett | 1934–2017 | American writer, educator, artist, and activist |
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