Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 6

Births

 * 1814 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor (d.1894)
 * 1851 - Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (d.1902)
 * 1854 - John Philip Sousa, American composer (d. 1932) (pictured)
 * 1861 - James Naismith, Canadian inventor of basketball (d. 1939)
 * 1946 - Sally Field, American actress
 * 1949 - Arturo Sandoval, Cuban-born trumpeter
 * 1955 - Maria Shriver, American journalist
 * 1970 - Ethan Hawke, American actor

Deaths

 * 1790 - James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (b. 1726)
 * 1796 - Catherine II of Russia (b. 1729)
 * 1822 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (b. 1748)
 * 1836 - King Charles X of France (b. 1757)
 * 1893 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840)
 * 1991 - Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)