Famous people born on 6 January

• Johannes KeplerGerman mathematician and astronomer · 1572–1630
  58 yrs
• Kahlil GibranLebanese-American writer, poet, and painter · 1883–1931
  48 yrs
• Kim Dae-jung8th President of the Republic of Korea · 1924–2009
  85 yrs
• Carl SandburgAmerican writer and editor · 1878–1967
  89 yrs
• Alexander ScriabinRussian composer and pianist · 1872–1915
  43 yrs
• Gustave DoréFrench illustrator and painter · 1832–1883
  51 yrs
• Heinrich SchliemannGerman businessman and archaeologist · 1822–1890
  68 yrs
• Marcellus IPope · AD 255–309
  54 yrs
• Syd BarrettBritish musician · 1946–2006
  60 yrs
• Eduard BernsteinGerman politician and theorist · 1850–1932
  82 yrs
• Loretta YoungAmerican actress · 1913–2000
  87 yrs
• Anthony Minghella ↗British film director, playwright and screenwriter · 1954–2008
  54 yrs
• Victor Horta ↗Belgian architect, designer, publicist, teacher and creator of Art Nouveau · 1861–1947
  86 yrs
• Babrak Karmal ↗3rd General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan · 1929–1996
  67 yrs
• John Smith ↗English soldier, explorer, writer · 1580–1631
  51 yrs
• Alan Watts ↗British American author and lecturer · 1915–1973
  58 yrs
• Gustav Bauer ↗German trade unionist and chancellor · 1870–1944
  74 yrs
• Hristo Botev ↗Bulgarian poet, journalist and revolutionary · 1848–1876
  28 yrs
• Nikolai Marr ↗Georgian ethnologist and linguist · 1865–1934
  69 yrs
• Valeriy Lobanovskyi ↗Ukrainian football manager · 1939–2002
  63 yrs
• E. L. Doctorow ↗Novelist, editor, professor · 1931–2015
  84 yrs
• Malcolm Young ↗Australian guitarist · 1953–2017
  64 yrs
• Max Bruch ↗German romantic composer and conductor · 1838–1920
  82 yrs
• Sun Myung Moon ↗Korean religious leader · 1920–2012
  92 yrs
• Edward Gierek ↗Polish politician · 1913–2001
  88 yrs
• Ferenc Szálasi ↗Hungarian fascist politician, executed for war crimes · 1897–1946
  49 yrs
• Harri Holkeri ↗Prime minister of Finland from 1987 to 1991 · 1937–2011
  74 yrs
• José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia ↗Paraguayan lawyer, politician and dictator · 1766–1840
  74 yrs
• Capucine ↗French model and actress · 1928–1990
  62 yrs
• Maria of Yugoslavia ↗Queen Consort of Yugoslavia · 1900–1961
  61 yrs
• Vasyl Stus ↗Ukrainian poet, publicist and dissident · 1938–1985
  47 yrs
• Fan S. Noli ↗Albanian politician · 1882–1965
  83 yrs
• John Maynard Smith ↗British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist · 1920–2004
  84 yrs
• Larisa Shepitko ↗Soviet film director and screenwriter · 1938–1979
  41 yrs
• Liisi Oterma ↗Finnish astronomer · 1915–2001
  86 yrs
• Yōzei ↗Emperor of Japan · AD 869–949
  80 yrs
• Jacques Ellul ↗French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist · 1912–1994
  82 yrs
• John Singleton ↗American film director, screenwriter, and producer · 1968–2019
  51 yrs
• Terry Venables ↗English football player and manager · 1943–2023
  80 yrs

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