Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 6

Births

• 1475 - Michelangelo, Italian artist (d. 1564)
• 1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (d. 1655)
• 1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet (d. 1861) (pictured)
• 1928 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
• 1937 - Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut
• 1947 - Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, and film producer
• 1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player

Deaths

• 1836 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman (b. 1786)
• 1888 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (b. 1832)
• 1932 - John Philip Sousa, American band leader, conductor, and composer (b. 1854)
• 1973 - Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)