FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS FOR OCTOBER 6
Pierre Derbigny (1829-1969) - Sixth Governor of Louisiana.
George Westinghouse (1846-1914) - Founder of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company.
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Will Keith Kellogg (1860-1951) - Founder of the Kellogg Company.
Albert J. Beveridge (1862-1927) - American historian and politician.
Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) - American historian and author.
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Tod Browning (1880-1962) - American actor, director, screenwriter.
Frank G. Allen (1874-1950) - American merchant and politician who became the 51st Governor of Massachusetts.
Margaret Wilson (1882-1973) - American missionary and author.
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Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884-1951) - German-American physician and biochemist known for his discoveries in chemical reactions in muscle contraction and metabolism.
Caroline Gordon (1895-1981)- American author and critic.
Florence B. Seibert (1897-1991) - American biochemist and academic.
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Vivion Brewer (1900-1991) - American activist and key figure in the desegregation of Little Rock High School in Arkansas.
Janet Gaynor (1906-1984) - American actress.
Carole Lombard (1908-1942) - American actress.
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Bette Davis (1908-1989) - American actress that spoke out about inequality between men and women in Hollywood.
Perkins Bass (1912-2011) - American lawyer and politician.
Wilson Tucker (1914-2006) - American author and critic who captivated fans in the horror genre.
Johnny Vander Meer (1914-1997) - American baseball player and manager.
Carolyn Goodman (1915-2007) - American psychologist and activist.
Terence Cooke (1921-1983) - American cardinal.
Nelson Riddle (1921-1985) - American composer, conductor, and bandleader best known for his collaborations with Frank Sinatra.
Joseph Lowery (1921-2020) - American minister and activist.
Teala Loring (1922-2013) - American actress.
Marian Seldes (1928-2014) - American actress.
George Mattos (1929-2012) - American pole vaulter.
Rip Taylor (1931-2019) - American actor and comedian known for his flamboyant personality.
Marshall Rosenberg (1934-2015) - American psychologist and author.
Julius L. Chambers (1936-2013) - American lawyer, educator, and activist.
Rift Fournier (1936-2013) - American screenwriter and producer.
Gorilla Monsoon (1937-1999) - American wrestler and sportscaster.
Jack Cullen (1939-Still Living) - American baseball player.
Richard Delgado (1939-Still Living) - American lawyer and academic.
Sheila Greibach (1939-Still Living) - American computer scientist and academic.
John J. LaFalce (1939-Still Living) - American captain, lawyer, and politician.
Johnny Nash (1940-2020) - American singer-songwriter.
Dan Christensen (1942-2007) - American painter.
Fred Travalena (1942-2009) - American comedian and actor.
Glenn Branca (1948-2018) - American guitarist and composer.
Larry Walters (1949-1993) - American truck driver and pilot who attempted to fly across LA with helium balloons and a lawn chair.
Lonnie Johnson (1949-Still Living) - American inventor who invented the Super Soaker water gun.
Thomas McClary (1949-Still Living) - American R&B singer-songwriter and guitarist who joined The Commodores in 1970.
Leslie Moonves (1949-Still Living) - American businessman.
David Brin (1950-Still Living) - American physicist and author.
Kevin Cronin (1951-Still Living) - American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer and band member of REO Speedwagon.
Bill Buford (1954-Still Living) - American author and journalist.
David Hidalgo (1954-Still Living) - American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Tony Dungy (1955-Still Living) - American football player and first Black NFL coach.
Kathleen Webb (1956-Still Living) - American author and illustrator.
Brian Higgins (1959-Still Living) - American politician.
Walter Ray Williams (1959-Still Living) - American bowler.
David Baker (1962-Still Living) - American biologist and academic.
Rich Yett (1962-Still Living) - American baseball player.
Elisabeth Shue (1963-Still Living) - American actress.
Ricky Berry (1964-1989) - American basketball player.
Tom Jager (1964-Still Living) - American swimmer and coach.
Matthew Sweet (1964-Still Living) - American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer.
Steve Scalise (1965-Still Living) - American lawyer and politician.
John McWhorter (1965-Still Living) - American academic and linguist.
Jacqueline Obradors (1966-Still Living) - American actress.
Tommy Stinson (1966-Still Living) - American singer-songwriter and bass player.
Amy Jo Johnson (1970-Still Living) - American actress who played the pink Power Ranger.
Ralphie May (1972-2017) - American stand-up comedian and actor.
Jeremy Sisto (1974-Still Living) - American actor, producer, and screenwriter.
Brett Gelman (1976-Still Living) - American actor and comedian.
Nick Curran (1977-2012) - American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer.
Jamie Laurie (1977-Still Living) - American singer-songwriter.
Wes Ramsey (1977-Still Living) - American actor.
Richard Seymour (1979-Still Living) - American football player.
Will Butler (1982-Still Living) - American musician and composer.
Joanna Pacitti (1984-Still Living) - American singer-songwriter.
Sylvia Fowles (1985-Still Living) - American basketball player.
Meg Myers (1986-Still Living) - American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Trey Edward Shults (1988-Still Living) - American film director.
Roshon Fegan (1991-Still Living) - American actor, rapper, and dancer.
HISTORICAL EVENTS FOR OCTOBER 6
1607 – The first English colony in America is founded in Virginia. The Jamestown colony was the beginning of European immigrant settlement in the country.
1683 – After immigrating to America, German immigrant families purchased land and founded Germantown, Pennsylvania.
1777 – British forces capture Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery on the Hudson River disrupting the 13 colonies in hopes of taking control of the colonies.
1857 – The American Chess Association in New York hosts the First American Chess Congress.
1863 – The 1st public bath opens in Brooklyn, New York.
1866 – The Reno Brothers steal $13,000 in the first train robbery in the US.
1884 – The Naval War College is founded in Rhode Island to train officers in the art of naval war.
1890 – The Woodruff Manifesto outlawed plural marriage in the LDS Church.
1926 - Babe Ruth sets a world record when he hits three home runs in the fourth game of the World Series.
1927 – The first prominent "talkie" movie, The Jazz Singer, opens for the first time.
1931 – The German passenger airship, known as the Hindenburg, crashed after catching fire in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
1935 – Trackless trolleys are used for the first time in San Francisco, California.
1961 – President John F. Kennedy advises Americans to build bomb shelters in case of nuclear war.
1966 – California is the first state in the U.S. to declare the drug LSD illegal.
1979 – Pope John Paul II visits the White House, becoming becomes the first pontiff to ever do so.
1990 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched, deploying the Ulysses space probe to study the Sun.
1995 – The planet 51 Pegasi b is discovered as the first planet orbiting another sun.
2001 - The Human Genome Project finally completes an entire sequence of genes for the human body.
2010 – Instagram is founded and becomes the first photo-sharing application.
2018 –Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed as a Supreme Court Associate Justice.
2023 – Human footprints said to be between 23,000-21,000 years old are found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico.
