Birthday twins
September 6 is the birthday of 53 notable people we've found so far, including scientists, athletes, politicians and historical figures, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
What the data says
Athlete
1989 · South Korea
$8.1Bolder estimate, as of 2019 · Forbes
Seo Jung-jin is a South Korean footballer who plays as a winger for Hwaseong FC.
Reported estimate as of 2019: $8.1B. Wealth changes; this is not a live figure.
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every September birthday · battle September 6 against another date · all rankings
Who shares September 6
Share of the 53 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
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.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Actor
1972 · United Kingdom
Sir Idrissa Akuna Elba is an English actor, DJ, rapper, and producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for three BAFTA Awards and eight Primetime Emmy Awards. He was named in the Time 100 list of the Most Influential People in the World in 2016.
Top tier
Musician
1971–2018 · Ireland
Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan was an Irish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who achieved international fame as the lead vocalist of the rock band the Cranberries. O'Riordan was the principal songwriter of the band and also played acoustic and electric guitars.
Bart Notermans from Rotterdam, The Netherlands, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Entrepreneur
1996 · United States
Lana Rhoades is an American internet personality, podcaster and former pornographic film actress. She has appeared in publications such as Hustler, Penthouse and Playboy.
Toglenn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Musician
1943 · United Kingdom
George Roger Waters is an English singer-songwriter, musician and political activist. In 1965, he co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd as the bassist.
digboston, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Entrepreneur · RKO Pictures · entertainment
1888–1969 · United States
Joseph Patrick Kennedy was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and politician. Known for his own political prominence as well as that of his children, he was the patriarch of the Kennedy family.
Photographer: Larry Gordon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Author
1860–1935 · United States
Laura Jane Addams was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author. She was a leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage.
Harris Ewing, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur
1967 · Mexico
María Guadalupe "Lupita" Jones Garay is a Mexican producer, actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned Miss Universe 1991.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/15555796@N06/, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1819–1898 · United States
William Starke Rosecrans was an American inventor, coal-oil company executive, diplomat, politician, and U.S. Army officer. He gained fame for his role as a Union general during the American Civil War.
Brady National Photographic Art Gallery, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1954 · United States
Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorina is an American businesswoman and politician, known primarily for her tenure as chief executive officer (CEO) of Hewlett-Packard (HP) from 1999 to 2005. Fiorina is the first woman to lead a Fortune Top-20 company.
Founder · Magna International · automotive
1932 · Canada
Frank Stronach is an Austrian-Canadian billionaire businessman and politician. He was convicted of indecent assault.
Entrepreneur
1943 · Sweden
Antonia Margaret Ax:son Johnson is the fourth-generation head of the family company Axel Johnson AB, founded by her great-grandfather in 1873. In 1982 she succeeded her father as chairman of the board for Axel Johnson AB, Sweden, and Axel Johnson Inc., Stamford, U.S.
Jörgen Hildebrand, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1970 · Taiwan
Chang Kuo-wei, also known as K.W. Chang, is a Taiwanese billionaire businessman and aviator. He is the founder and chairman of Starlux Airlines and previously served as the chairman of EVA Air from 2013 to 2016.
September 6 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More birthday twins
Actor
1976 · United Kingdom
Naomie Melanie Harris is a British actress. She started her career when she was a child, appearing in the television series Simon and the Witch in 1987.
Segolene Liger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1964 · United States
Rosa Maria Perez is an American actress. Her breakthrough came at age 24 with her portrayal of Tina in the film Do the Right Thing (1989).
Joella Marano from Manhattan, NYC, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1958 · United States
Jeffrey Marshall Foxworthy is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and radio and television host. He is a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, with Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall, and formerly Ron White.
Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1967 · United States
Natalie Renée McIntyre, known professionally as Macy Gray, is an American R&B and soul singer. She is known for her distinctive raspy voice and a singing style heavily influenced by Billie Holiday.
Bruce Baker, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1766–1844 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Dalton was an English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist whose work laid the foundations of modern atomic theory and stoichiometric chemistry.
https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/56/cc/016e0ae305e97524425fbfe50c53.jpg Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.o, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1974 · United Kingdom
Timothy Henry Henman is a British former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 4 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) during the early 2000s. Henman won 15 career ATP Tour titles, including a Masters event at the 2003 Paris Masters.
Politician
1977 · Hungary
Katalin Éva Veresné Novák is a Hungarian politician who served as president of Hungary from 2022 to 2024. Elected at the age of 44, she was the first woman and youngest person ever to hold the post.
Palácio do Planalto from Brasilia, Brasil, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1808–1883
Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din, known as Emir Abdelkader or ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Hasani al-Jazaʾiri, was an Arab Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the French colonial invasion of Algiers from 1831 to 1847.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1944 · United States
Donna Jeanne Haraway is an American philosopher, who contributed to the intersection of information technology and feminist theory, and is a scholar in contemporary ecofeminism.
Rusten Hogness, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1913–2004 · Brazil
Leônidas da Silva was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward. He is regarded as one of the most important players of the first half of the 20th century. At the height of his career, Leônidas was very popular amongst the people of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1729–1786 · Germany
Moses Mendelssohn was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion and identity were a central element in the development of the Haskalah, or 'Jewish Enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
After Anton Graff, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1957 · Canada
Michaëlle Jean is a Canadian former journalist who served as the 27th governor general of Canada from 2005 to 2010. She is the first Haitian Canadian and Black person to hold this office.
LGOntario, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1545–1592 · Spain
Alexander Farnese was an Italian noble and military leader, who was Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Castro from 1586 to 1592, as well as Governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1578 to 1592.
Otto van Veen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1809–1882 · Saxe-Altenburg
Bruno Bauer was a German philosopher, theologian, and historian. Initially a student of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, he became a radical rationalist critic of the Bible and Christianity, and a prominent member of the Young Hegelians.
unknown, must be dead for more than 70 years, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1926–2002 · Germany
Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Jonkheer van Amsberg was Prince of the Netherlands from 30 April 1980 until his death on 6 October 2002, as the husband of Queen Beatrix.
Croes, Rob C. for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1980 · Nigeria
Joseph Michael Yobo is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a centre back.
Ultraslansi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1869–1945 · Austria
Felix Salten was an Austrian author and literary critic. His most famous work is Bambi, a Life in the Woods, which was adapted into an animated feature film, Bambi, by Walt Disney Productions in 1942.
Ferdinand Schmutzer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1978 · Japan
Homare Sawa is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a forward and midfielder. Her club career spanned 24 seasons, mostly with Nippon TV Beleza and INAC Kobe Leonessa.
The original uploader was Thewomensgame at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1925–2019 · Italy
Andrea Calogero Camilleri was an Italian writer best known for his Salvo Montalbano crime novels.
Associazione Amici di Piero Chiara, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1939–2026 · Japan
Susumu Tonegawa was a Japanese scientist who was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of V(D)J recombination, the genetic mechanism which produces antibody diversity.
User9131986 A cropped version, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1876–1935 · United Kingdom
John James Rickard Macleod, was a Scottish biochemist and physiologist. He devoted his career to diverse topics in physiology and biochemistry, but was chiefly interested in carbohydrate metabolism.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1895–1980 · United States
Major-General Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger was a German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket programme and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Centre.
Scientist
1906–1987 · France
Luis Federico Leloir was an Argentine physician and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the metabolic pathways by which carbohydrates are synthesized and converted into energy in the body.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1966 · Romania
Emil Boc is a Romanian politician who was Prime Minister of Romania from 22 December 2008 until 6 February 2012 and is the current mayor of Cluj-Napoca, the largest city of Transylvania, where he was first elected in July 2004.
Estabien4555, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1892–1965 · United Kingdom
Sir Edward Victor Appleton was a British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his contributions to the knowledge of the ionosphere, which led to the development of radar and shortwave radio.
Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1963 · Czech Republic
Ivan Hašek is a Czech professional football coach and former player.
English biochemist and molecular biologist
1943 · United Kingdom
Sir Richard John Roberts is a British biochemist and molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing.
paloma.cl, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1919–2011 · United States
Wilson Greatbatch was an American engineer and pioneering inventor. He held more than 325 patents and was a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Lemelson–MIT Prize and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1990).
Inventor
1921–2012 · United States
Inventor of the barcode (1921–2012)
Athlete
1981 · Japan
Yuki Abe is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He played 53 times for Japan between 2005 and 2011 and was a member of the 2010 FIFA World Cup squad.
Yuya Shino, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 53 people born on September 6, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 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 2019. 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 September 6. Read the full methodology.
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