October 6 is the birthday of 52 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, scientists, actors and authors, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Lee Boo-jin is a South Korean businesswoman who has served as president and chief executive of one of Seoul's leading hotels and conference centers, Hotel Shilla, since 2010.
Share of the 52 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs29% (15 people)
Scientists25% (13 people)
Actors17% (9 people)
Authors17% (9 people)
Creators15% (8 people)
Politicians13% (7 people)
Athletes12% (6 people)
Countries
30 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States16 (16 people)
Sweden3 (3 people)
France2 (2 people)
India2 (2 people)
Poland2 (2 people)
South Korea2 (2 people)
Switzerland2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on October 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.
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22Janet GaynorReceived the Academy Award for Best Actress (1929)
Addison Rae Easterling is an American singer, actress, and social media personality. She joined TikTok in 2019, becoming one of the platform's most-followed creators. Rae went on to expand her career into music and acting.
David Baker is an American biochemist and computational biologist who has pioneered methods to design proteins and predict their three-dimensional structures.
Mario Ramberg Capecchi is an Italian-born American molecular geneticist and a co-awardee of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a method to create mice in which a specific gene is turned off, known as knockout mice.
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish experimental physicist. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Cockcroft "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles."
Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Riccardo Giacconi was an Italian-American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid down the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.
Cropped from http://www.nationalmedals.org/2003photos/giacconi/20050314_RKM_Medals_9316.JPG, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Leslie Roy Moonves is an American retired media executive who was the chairman and CEO of CBS Corporation from 2006 until his resignation in September 2018 following numerous allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault and abuse.
John Edward Warnock was an American computer scientist, inventor, technology businessman, and philanthropist best known for co-founding Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company, with Charles Geschke in 1982.
Basil Zaharoff was a Greek arms dealer and industrialist. One of the richest men in the world during his lifetime, Zaharoff was described as both a "merchant of death" and a "mystery man of Europe".
Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Vinod Khanna was an Indian actor, film producer, and politician known for his work in Hindi cinema. Recognised as a style and fashion icon, he was often referred to as the "Sexy Sanyasi" in the media, as well a sex symbol.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer is an English actress and filmmaker. She began acting in stage productions and has since appeared in several film and television roles. In 2003, she won an Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Lovely and Amazing.
Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Carole Lombard was an American actress, particularly noted for her energetic, often off-beat roles in screwball comedies. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Lombard 23rd on its list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
Metro-Goldwy-Mayer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Théo Bernard François Hernandez is a French professional footballer who plays primarily as a left-back for Saudi Pro League club Al Hilal and the France national team.
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was a French-Swiss architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.
Joop van Bilsen for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Johanna Maria "Jenny" Lind, was a Swedish opera singer, often called the "Swedish Nightingale".
John Carl Frederick Polycarpus Von Schneidau (Daguerreotype in America by Beaumont Newhall. New York: Dover, 1976, p. 59, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mohammed Siad Barre was a Somali military officer, politician, and revolutionary who served as the third president of Somalia from 21 October 1969 to 26 January 1991.
Government of Somalia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mark Schwarzer is an Australian former soccer goalkeeper. He represented Australia at international level from 1993 to 2013, and was selected for both the 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cups.
Janet Gaynor was an American actress. She began her career as an extra in shorts and silent films. After signing with Fox Film in 1926, she rose to fame and became one of the biggest box office draws of the era.
Meghnad Saha was an Indian astrophysicist and politician who helped devise the theory of thermal ionisation. His Saha ionisation equation allowed astronomers to accurately relate the spectral classes of stars to their actual temperatures.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jürgen Kohler is a German former professional footballer and manager, who played as a centre-back. He is currently the U17 manager of Bonner SC. During his playing career, he won the World Cup with the German national team in 1990 and the European Championship in 1996.
Glen David Brin is an American science fiction author. He has won the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards. His novel The Postman was adapted into a 1997 feature film starring Kevin Costner.
Glogger at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind was a German mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, abstract algebra, and the axiomatic foundations of arithmetic. His best known contribution is the definition of real numbers through the notion of Dedekind cut.
Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer, pianist and writer. He was a member of the modernist Young Poland movement that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century.
George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Yves Camille Désiré Leterme is a Belgian politician, a leader of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD&V). He was the prime minister of Belgium from March 2008 to December 2008, and later from November 2009 to December 2011.
Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was a Canadian-American electrical engineer and inventor who received hundreds of patents in fields related to radio and sonar between 1891 and 1936.
Yaşar Kemal was a leading Turkish writer of Kurdish descent and a human rights activist. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of his 1955 novel Memed, My Hawk.
William Wrigley Jr. is an American billionaire businessman, and CEO of Parallel, a company that sells cannabis products. He is the former chairman and CEO of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company.
Liu Yang is a Chinese military transport pilot and taikonaut. On June 16, 2012, Yang became the first Chinese woman in space, as a crew member of Shenzhou 9.
Hotaru Yamaguchi is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder and currently plays for J1 League club, V-Varen Nagasaki. He was also a member of the Japan national team until 2019.
Светлана Бекетова, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ellis Short is an American businessman and founder of Kildare Partners, a private equity fund investing in distressed European real estate assets. Short was also the owner and chairman of English football club Sunderland A.F.C. from September 2008 to April 2018.
Maria Dąbrowska was a Polish writer, novelist, essayist, journalist and playwright, author of the popular Polish historical novel Noce i dnie written between 1932 and 1934 in four separate volumes. The novel was made into a film by the same title in 1975 by Jerzy Antczak.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Raam Jethmal Punjabi is an Indonesian media magnate and president of Multivision Plus (MVP). In 2001, due to his production of soap operas, he was referred to as "Indonesia's own soap king".
Robert Norman Edmiston, Baron Edmiston is a British billionaire businessman and motor trade entrepreneur based in the West Midlands, who has established a number of religious and educational charities, including Christian Vision.
This page lists 52 people born on October 6, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 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 June 2026. 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 October 6. Read the full methodology.
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