April 6 is the birthday of 42 notable people we've found so far, including authors, historical figures, scientists and artists, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Patrizio Bertelli is an Italian businessman and former co-chief executive officer (CEO) of the Prada Group, a role he shared with his wife Miuccia Prada.
Vadim Nikolaevich Moshkovich is a Cypriot-Russian billionaire businessman. His business interests include major investments in agriculture and real estate development. In 2014, Forbes magazine put his net worth at $1.3bn, 81st place among Russian businesspeople.
Пресс-служба Совета Федерации Федерального Собрания РФ, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Share of the 42 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors33% (14 people)
Artists21% (9 people)
Scientists21% (9 people)
Entrepreneurs19% (8 people)
Actors14% (6 people)
Athletes14% (6 people)
Politicians14% (6 people)
Countries
19 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States14 (14 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
France3 (3 people)
Argentina2 (2 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland2 (2 people)
Cisleithania1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on April 6 doing at your age?
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
Paul Stephen Rudd is an American actor. Rudd studied theatre at the University of Kansas and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before making his acting debut in 1991.
James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick co-authored an academic paper on DNA entitled, "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid".
Newspaper Enterprise Association, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Anton Herman Gerard "Anthony" Fokker was a Dutch aviation pioneer, aviation entrepreneur, aircraft designer, and aircraft manufacturer. He produced fighter aircraft in Germany during the First World War such as the Eindecker monoplanes, the Dr.1 triplane and the D.VII biplane.
Fritz Heuschkel the Elder, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Emil Jellinek, known after 1903 as Emil Jellinek-Mercedes, was an automobile entrepreneur of the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG), responsible in 1900 for commissioning the first modern automobile, the Mercedes 35hp.
Henri de Rothschild, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Barry Levinson is an American filmmaker. He has received numerous accolades including the Academy Award for Best Director for Rain Man (1988), as well as four Primetime Emmy Awards and nominations for three Golden Globe Awards.
Moses ben Maimon, commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam, was a Sephardic Jewish rabbi who is widely acknowledged as one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages.
No machine-readable author provided. Makinal~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Merle Ronald Haggard was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in country music, he was a central pioneer of the Bakersfield sound.
whittlz at https://www.flickr.com/photos/whittlz/, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
André George Previn was a German and American conductor, composer, and pianist. His career had three facets: Hollywood films, jazz, and classical music. In each he achieved success, and the latter two were part of his life until the end. In movies, he arranged and composed music.
Steve Bowbrick (cropped - lossless - by HaeB), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Xuanzang, born Chen Hui or Chen Yi, also known by his Sanskrit Dharma name Mokṣadeva, was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveller, and translator.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mary Leonora Carrington was a British and Mexican surrealist painter and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s.
John William Waterhouse was an English painter known for working first in the Academic style and for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter.
Hayman Seleg Mendelssohn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known by the pseudonym Nadar or Félix Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist who was a proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs.
Nichiren was a Japanese Buddhist monk and philosopher of the Kamakura period. His teachings form the basis of Nichiren Buddhism, a unique branch of Japanese Mahayana Buddhism based on the Lotus Sutra.
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen was a Russian writer and thinker known as the precursor of Russian socialism and one of the main precursors of agrarian populism.
Étienne Carjat, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1773–1836 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
James Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, and political theorist, who was a founder of the Ricardian school of economics. He wrote the influential The History of British India (1817) which divided Indian history into three parts: Hindu, Muslim and British.
http://www.utilitarian.net/jmill.jpg, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Kovač is a professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back. He is currently the assistant coach of Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund.
Helmut S Otto, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas, known in his adult life as Nicolas Chamfort and as Sébastien Nicolas de Chamfort, was a French writer, best known for his epigrams and aphorisms. He was secretary to Louis XVI's sister Madame Élisabeth, and of the Jacobin club.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Fra Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo, also known as Bartolommeo di Pagholo, Bartolommeo di San Marco, Bartolomeo di Paolo di Jacopo del Fattorino, and his original nickname Baccio della Porta, was an Italian Renaissance painter of religious subjects.
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=2757 2007-04-30, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sharon Ooja Nwoke, known professionally as Sharon Ooja, is a Nigerian actress. She came into the limelight after she played the role of "Shalewa" in the web series Skinny Girl in Transit.
Harold Eugene Edgerton, also known as Papa Flash, was an American scientist and researcher, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Bill Chaplis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1810–1888 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Philip Henry Gosse, known to his friends as Henry, was an English naturalist, populariser of natural science, prolific author, "Father of the Aquarium", scientific illustrator, lecturer, entrepreneur and pioneer in the study of marine biology and ornithology.
Maull & Polybank, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Iryna Mykolayivna Bilyk is a Ukrainian singer-songwriter, holder of the Order of Princess Olga of the 3rd class, Merited (1996) and People's Artist of Ukraine (2008).
This page lists 42 people born on April 6, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of May 2025. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on April 6. Read the full methodology.
Discover another birthday →
Every date is a different rabbit hole. Try a friend's, a parent's, or a random one.
