Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 6

Births

• 1757 - Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and statesman (d. 1834)
• 1766 - John Dalton, (pictured) British chemist and physicist (d. 1844)
• 1879 - Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
• 1928 - Robert M. Pirsig, American author (d. 2017)
• 1943 - Roger Waters, bassist, songwriter, and previous leader of Pink Floyd
• 1972 - China Miéville, English writer
• 1974 - Tim Henman, English tennis player
• 1979 - Foxy Brown, American rapper

Deaths

• 1683 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister finance (b. 1619)
• 1923 - King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
• 1966 - Margaret Sanger, American birth control activist (b. 1879)
• 1998 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)