Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 6

Births

• 1814 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor (d.1894)
• 1851 - Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (d.1902)
• 1854 - John Philip Sousa, American composer (d. 1932) (pictured)
• 1861 - James Naismith, Canadian inventor of basketball (d. 1939)
• 1946 - Sally Field, American actress
• 1949 - Arturo Sandoval, Cuban-born trumpeter
• 1955 - Maria Shriver, American journalist
• 1970 - Ethan Hawke, American actor

Deaths

• 1790 - James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (b. 1726)
• 1796 - Catherine II of Russia (b. 1729)
• 1822 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (b. 1748)
• 1836 - King Charles X of France (b. 1757)
• 1893 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840)
• 1991 - Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)