Is January 6th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on January 6th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?
If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.
January 6th was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:
January 6th Birthdays: Famous Artists
Anthony Minghella, British film director (Cold Mountain, The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley and Truly Madly Deeply) and Academy Award winner (1996) was born on January 6, 1954.
Dutch Surrealist painter Johannes H. Moesman (Rumor) was born on January 6, 1909.
American film director John Daniel Singleton (Baby Boy, Boyz ‘n the Hood, Higher Learning, Hustle and Flow and Poetic Justice) was born on January 6, 1968.
January 6th Birthdays: Famous Athletes
American professional golfer Paul William Azinger was born on January 6, 1960.
Laura Berg, American softball player and Olympic gold medalist (1996), was born on January 6, 1975.
American professional baseball player Theodore Joseph (Ralph or Hawk) Branca (Brooklyn Dodgers, Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees), was born on January 6, 1926.
Norm (Wood) Charlton, American professional baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Seattle Mariners and Philadelphia Phillies), was born on January 6, 1963.
American professional football player James Farrior (New York Jets and Pittsburgh Steelers) was born on January 6, 1975.
George Francis (Pat) Flaherty, American racecar driver and Indianapolis 500 winner, was born on January 6, 1926.
Donald Edward (Don) Gullett, American professional baseball player (Cincinnati Reds and New York Yankees), was born on January 6, 1951.
Norbert Hahn, German luger and Olympic gold medalist (1976 and 1980), was born on January 6, 1954.
American professional football player Charles Haley (Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers) was born on January 6, 1964.
Howie Long, American professional football player (Los Angeles Raiders), television sportscaster and actor (Broken Arrow), was born on January 6, 1960.
American professional golfer Nancy Lopez was born on January 6, 1957.
Jeremy Linn, American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist (1996), was born on January 6, 1976.
American professional baseball player Philip Samuel (Phil) Masi (Boston Bees, Boston Braves, Chicago White Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates) was born on January 6, 1916.
Richard Winston (Dickie) Moore, Canadian professional hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues and Toronto Maple Leafs), was born on January 6, 1931.
American professional volleyball player, model, sportscaster (NBC’s Gravity Games) and actress (8 Simple Rules, Cloud Nine, Gattaca and North Shore) Gabrielle Allyse Reece was born on January 6, 1970.
Asante T. Samuel, American professional football player (Philadelphia Eagles), was born on January 6, 1981.
American professional baseball player Lee Walls (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds. Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies and Pittsburgh Pirates), was born on January 6, 1933.
Early (Gus) Wynn, American professional baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians and Washington Nationals), was born on January 6, 1920.
January 6th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists
Edgar Laurence (E.L.) Doctorow, American author (Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Creationists, Loon Lake, The March, Ragtime, Reporting the Universe, Sweet Land Stories, The Waterworks, Welcome to Hard Times and World’s Fair), was born on January 6, 1931.
Lebanese poet and author Khalil Gibran (The Garden of the Prophet,Jesus the Son of Man and The Prophet) was born on January 6, 1883.
Eugene Thomas Maleska, American syndicated crossword puzzle designer (The New York Times), was born on January 6, 1916.
American author Wright Marion Morris (A Bill of Rites – A Bill of Wrongs – A Bill of Goods, A Cloak of Light, Ceremony in Lone Tree, The Field of Vision, Fire Sermon, Glimpse into Another Country, The Huge Season, The Inhabitants, Love Among the Cannibals, Plains Song: For Female Voices, Solo, Victrola, Will’s Boy and The World in the Attic) was born on January 6, 1910.
Eric Frank Russell, British science fiction writer (Dark Tides, Deep Space and Hugo), was born on January 6, 1905.
Carl Sandburg, American poet, author (Abraham Lincoln, Always the Young Strangers, The American Songbag, Chicago Poems, Complete Poems, Cornhuskers, Good Morning America, Harvest Poems, Honey and Salt, The People Yes, Remembrance Rock, Rootabaga Stories, Slabs of the Sunburnt West and Smoke and Steel), journalist (Chicago Daily News) and Pulitzer Prize winner (1950), was born on January 6, 1878.
January 6th Birthdays: Famous Business Leaders
John Zachary DeLorean, American automaker (DeLorean Motor Company), was born on January 6, 1925.
American pollster Louis Harris was born on January 6, 1921.
January 6th Birthdays: Famous Performers
Joseph (Joey Adams) Abromowitz, American comedian, actor (Don’t Worry We’ll Think of a Title, Silent Prey and Singing in the Dark) and author (Borscht Belt), was born on January 6, 1911.
British comedian and actor Rowan Atkinson (Blackadder, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually, Mr. Bean and Rat Race) was born on January 6, 1955.
Roger Keith (Syd) Barrett, British rock guitarist and singer (Pink Floyd) was born on January 6, 1946.
American model (Buster Brown) and actor Thomas (Tom) Brown (The Adventures of Smilin’ Jack, Days of our Lives, General Hospital and Gunsmoke) was born on January 6, 1913.
Julie Chen, American television personality (Big Brother and The Early Show), was born on January 6, 1970.
Alexandra Elene Maclean (Sandy) Denny, British pop singer (“The Battle of Evermore” and “Who Knows Where the Time Goes”), was born on January 6, 1947.
Dutch pop bassist Dirk DeVries (Kong) was born on January 6, 1961.
Bonnie Franklin, American actress (Applause and One Day at a Time), was born on January 6, 1944.
American R&B; singer Wilbert Harrison (“Kansas City” and “Let’s Work Together”) was born on January 6, 1929.
Amos (Danny Thomas) Jacobs, American actor (The Danny Thomas Show and Make Room for Daddy), television personality (NBC’s All Star Revue), television producer (The Andy Griffith Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show) and philanthropist (St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital), was born on January 6, 1914. Danny Thomas was the father of actress Marlo Thomas (Mrs. Phil Donahue).
Peter Loran, American rock singer (Trixter), was born on January 6, 1967.
French model and actress Germaine (Capuchine) Lefebvre (The Pink Panther) was born on January 6, 1928.
Bobby Lord, American country singer (“Life Can Have Meaning,” “Wake Me Up Early in the Morning,” “Without Your Love” and “You and Me Against the World”) and television personality (The Bobby Lord Show and Jubilee USA), was born on January 6, 1934.
American actor Thomas Hezikiah (Tom) Mix (Destry Rides Again, The Chef at Circle G, Going West to Make Good, The Miracle Rider, On the Little Big Horn – Custer’s Last Stand, A Prisoner of Cabanas, Ranch Life in the Great Southwest, The Rider of Death Valley, Riders of the Purple Sage, Rough-Riding Romance, Rustler’s Roundup, Sagebrush Tom,Tom Mix in Arabia and The Untamed) was born on January 6, 1880.
Joyce Martin McCollough, American Christian singer (The Martins), 19–.
Van Allen Clinton McCoy, American singer and songwriter (“The Hustle”), was born on January 6, 1940. Van McCoy served as producer for Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Stacy Lattisaw, Peaches & Herb, David Ruffin, The Stylistics and other artists.
American actress Armelia McQueen (Action Jackson, Adventures in Wonderland, Bulworth, Ghost, Life, Quartet and Sparkle) was born on January 6, 1952.
Mark O’Toole, British rock bassist and drummer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood), was born on January 6, 1964.
Doris Troy Payne, American soul singer (“Just One Look”), was born on January 6, 1937.
American actor Danny Pintauro (Who’s the Boss) was born on January 6, 1976.
Earl Scruggs, American bluegrass and country music banjo player (The Bluegrass Boys and The Foggy Mountain Boys), was born on January 6, 1924. Earl Scruggs wrote “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” for The Beverly Hillbillies.
American singer Kathy Sledge (Sister Sledge) was born on January 6, 1959.
Sylvia Syms, American singer (“Dream Girl,” “Hello Dolly” and “Them There Eyes”), was born on January 6, 1919.
Vic Tayback, American actor (Alice, Khan and Portrait of a Stripper), was born on January 6, 1930.
Nino Tempo, American saxophonist and singer (Deep Purple), was born on January 6, 1935.
American actress Rebecca Andrea Thompson (Babylon 5, Falcon Crest, JAG and NYPD Blue) was born on January 6, 1960.
Alex Turner, British independent rock guitarist and singer (Arctic Monkeys), was born on January 6, 1986.
Eric Williams, American R&B; singer (Blackstreet), was born on January 6, 1960.
American country music singer Jett Williams was born on January 6, 1953. Jett Williams’ is the daughter of country music singer Hank Williams, Sr. Country music singer Hank Williams, Jr., is her brother.
American blues-rock singer and harmonica player Kim Wilson (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) was born on January 6, 1951.
Paul Wilson, American R&B-singer; (The Flamingos), was born on January 6, 1935.
American actress (Big Business Girl, The Bishop’s Wife, The Crusades, Doctor Takes a Wife, The Farmer’s Daughter, Letter to Loretta, A Night to Remember, Rachel and the Stranger and Three Blind Mice), television personality (The Loretta Young Show) and Academy Award winner (1947) Gretchen Michaela (Loretta) Young was born on January 6, 1913.
Malcolm Young, Scottish rock guitarist (AC/DC), was born on January 6, 1953.
January 6th Birthdays: Famous Scientists
Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli was born on January 6, 1655.
John Cunningham Lilly, American physician and psychoanalyst, was born on January 6, 1915. John Lilly developed the first isolation tank for sensory deprivation.
Heinrich Schliemann, German-Greek archaeologist, was born on January 6, 1822. Henrich Schliemann has been credited with the discovery of the ruins of the ancient city of Troy.
American explorer, fur trader and Oregon Trail co-creator Jedediah Strong Smith was born on January 6, 1799.
John Maynard Smith, British biologist and geneticist, was born on January 6, 1920.
January 6th Birthdays: Famous World (and Other) Leaders
Jeanne d’Arc (Joan of Ark), French heroine and Roman Catholic Saint, was born on January 6, 1402.
Uruguayan President Julio Maria Sanguinetti Cairolo was born on January 6, 1936.
Eduardo Frei Montalva, President of Chile, was born on January 6, 1911.
Samuel Taliaferro (Sam) Rayburn, American politician, U.S. Congressman (D-TX) and long-time Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was born on January 6, 1882.
Richard II, King of England, was born on January 6, 1366.
American Civil War leader and U.S. Senator (R-MA) Charles Sumner was born on January 6, 1811.
Do you know any others who are celebrating birthdays on January 6th?
If you know additional notable people (including yourself) who may be celebrating a birthday on January 6th, please indicate so in a comment below. Thank you!
Happy Birthday, January 6th.
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