June 6 is the birthday of 55 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, historical figures and musicians, and 4 of them are billionaires.
Eva Kirsten Elisabet Rausing is a Swedish-British businesswoman, who owns a third of the holding company Tetra Laval and sits on the company board alongside other members of her family.
Eli Broad was an American businessman and philanthropist. In June 2019, Forbes ranked him as the 233rd-wealthiest person in the world and the 78th-wealthiest in the United States, with an estimated net worth of $6.7 billion.
Thomas Pritzker is an American billionaire heir and businessman. A member of the Pritzker family, he is the executive chairman and former chief executive officer (CEO) of the Pritzker Organization (TPO), which manages the various Pritzker family business assets.
Entrepreneur · MGM Resorts International · hospitality
1917–2015 · United States
$3.9Bolder estimate, as of 2013 · Forbes
Kerkor "Kirk" Kerkorian was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was the president and CEO of Tracinda Corporation, his private holding company based in Beverly Hills, California.
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Share of the 55 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors25% (14 people)
Entrepreneurs24% (13 people)
Musicians18% (10 people)
Creators16% (9 people)
Politicians16% (9 people)
Actors15% (8 people)
Scientists15% (8 people)
Countries
26 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States17 (17 people)
Russian Empire4 (4 people)
Sweden3 (3 people)
Belgium2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Kingdom of France2 (2 people)
Nigeria2 (2 people)
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Peter Brian Hegseth is an American government official, veteran, and former television personality who has served as the 29th United States secretary of defense since 2025.
Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti is an American actor. Giamatti's breakout film role was in Private Parts (1997), followed by supporting roles in Saving Private Ryan (1998), Man on the Moon (1999), Big Momma's House (2000), Storytelling (2001), and Planet of the Apes (2001).
Phillip Allen Sharp is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J.
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Erik Dean Prince is an American businessman, who is the founder of private military contractor Blackwater. He was Blackwater's CEO until 2009 and its chairman until its sale to a group of investors in 2010.
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Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky was a Russian-American aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. His first success came with the Sikorsky S-2, the second aircraft of his design and construction.
SDASM Archives, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Eric Ivan Cantor is an American politician and lawyer who served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 7th congressional district from 2001 until his resignation in 2014.
Office of Congressman Eric Cantor, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian literature.
Orest Kiprensky, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jonathan Nolan is a British and American screenwriter and producer. He is the creator of the CBS science fiction series Person of Interest (2011–2016) and co-creator of the HBO science fiction/Western series Westworld (2016–2022).
Björn Rune Borg is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 109 weeks.
Michaël Bemelmans, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alexandra Feodorovna was the last empress of Russia as the consort of Nicholas II from their marriage on 26 November [O.S. 14 November] 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March [O.S. 2 March] 1917.
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Robert Barton Englund is an American actor and director. Englund is best known for playing the villain Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise.
Author : @Kiri Karma - Miguel Discart from Bruxelles, Belgique, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Steven Siro Vai is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer. A three-time Grammy Award winner and fifteen-time nominee, Vai started his music career in 1978 at the age of eighteen as a transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, and played in Zappa's band from 1980 to 1983.
Wojciech Pędzich, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish Baroque painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He is generally considered one of the greatest artists in the history of Western art.
Diego Velázquez, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1868–1912 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Captain Robert Falcon Scott was a British naval officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904 and the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910–1913.
Henry Maull (1829–1914) and John Fox (1832–1907), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kim Hyun-ah, known professionally as Hyuna, is a South Korean singer-songwriter, rapper and model. She debuted as a member of the girl group Wonder Girls in February 2007.
Hirokazu Kore-eda is a Japanese filmmaker. He rose to prominence with his drama films Nobody Knows (2004), Still Walking (2008) and Like Father, Like Son (2013), for the latter he won the Jury Prize at the 66th Cannes Film Festival.
Tomás Enrique "Tom" Araya Díaz is a Chilean-American musician, best known as the vocalist and bassist of the thrash metal band Slayer. He was ranked 58th by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time.
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Fernando Carlos Redondo Neri is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He most notably played for Real Madrid and AC Milan. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest defensive midfielders of all time.
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Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé is a Togolese politician who has led Togo since 2005, first as the fourth president until 2025 and then as president of the Council of Ministers.
Press Service of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily was the last Holy Roman Empress and first Empress of Austria as the spouse of Francis II. She was born a Princess of Naples as the eldest daughter of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Queen Maria Carolina.
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Bengt Ulf Sebastian Larsson is a Swedish professional football coach and former player who is assistant coach of the Sweden national team. Renowned for being a set-piece specialist, Larsson played as a midfielder.
Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.
After Charles Le Brun, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov was a Russian novelist best known for his novels The Same Old Story, Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice. He also served in many official capacities, including the position of censor.
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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov was a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist. He was the son of the astronomer Mikhail Lyapunov and the brother of the pianist and composer Sergei Lyapunov.
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Tonto Charity Dikeh is a Nigerian actress, singer, songwriter, and humanitarian. On 27 August 2000, Dikeh set up her foundation, the Tonto Dikeh Foundation.
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Theobald I, also called the Troubadour and the Posthumous, was Count of Champagne from birth and King of Navarre from 1234. He initiated the Barons' Crusade, was famous as a trouvère, and was the first Frenchman to rule Navarre.
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Richard Errett Smalley was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University.
Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German applied physicist who shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi for their contributions to the development of radio. With his two circuit system, long range radio transmissions and modern telecommunications were made possible.
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Eliza Orzeszkowa was a Polish novelist and a leading writer of the Positivism movement during the foreign Partitions of Poland. In 1905, together with Henryk Sienkiewicz, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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This page lists 55 people born on June 6, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 4 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 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 June 6. Read the full methodology.
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