Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/October 6
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[edit] Births
- 1289 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
- 1773 - King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850) (pictured)
- 1820 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)
- 1846 - George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor (d. 1914)
- 1887 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
- 1922 - Joe Frazier, baseball player
- 1948 - Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
- 1976 - Taylor Hicks, American Idol Season 5 Winner
[edit] Deaths
- 1101 - Bruno of Cologne, German founder of the Carthusian order
- 1413 - Dawit I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
- 1542 - Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)
- 1892 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (b. 1809)
- 1981 - Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated) (b. 1918)
- 1989 - Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
