Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 6

Births

• 1758 - Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary (d. 1794) (pictured)
• 1856 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
• 1856 - Robert Peary, American explorer (d. 1920)
• 1868 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918)
• 1895 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (d. 1926)
• 1915 - Orson Welles, American director (d. 1985)
• 1953 - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1961 - George Clooney, American actor

Deaths

• 1862 - Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b. 1817)
• 1902 - Bret Harte, American author (b. 1836)
• 1910 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
• 1919 - L. Frank Baum, American writer (b. 1856)
• 1992 - Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)