Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 6

Births

 * 1475 - Michelangelo, Italian artist (d. 1564)
 * 1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (d. 1655)
 * 1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet (d. 1861) (pictured)
 * 1928 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
 * 1937 - Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut
 * 1947 - Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, and film producer
 * 1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player

Deaths

 * 1836 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman (b. 1786)
 * 1888 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (b. 1832)
 * 1932 - John Philip Sousa, American band leader, conductor, and composer (b. 1854)
 * 1973 - Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
 * 1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)