Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 6

Births

 * 1412 - Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date) (d. 1431)
 * 1822 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist and businessman (d. 1890)
 * 1832 - Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
 * 1878 - Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967) (pictured)
 * 1914 - Danny Thomas, American actor (d. 1991)
 * 1925 - John DeLorean, American auto maker (d. 2005)

Deaths

 * 1840 - Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (b. 1752)
 * 1852 - Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind (b. 1809)
 * 1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)
 * 1949 - Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1883)
 * 1993 - Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1917)
 * 1993  - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1938)
 * 2006 - Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933)