06 March: today's birthdays

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning - English poet. She was married to Robert Browning
• Julio Bocca - Argentine dancer
• Johan Bojer - Norwegian writer
• Michelangelo Buonarroti - Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet. His masterpieces are David, a Renaissance sculpture, and The Last Judgment, his fresco on the ceiling of the Cappella Sistina (Sistine Chapel) in Rome
• Emilson Sanchez Cribari - Brazilian soccer player
• Michael Finley - American basketball player
• David Gilmour - English singer and guitarist
• Wesley Hoedt - Dutch soccer player
• Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe - French philosopher, writer, literary critic, and translater
• Lorin Maazel - French-born American conductor, composer and violinist
• Gabriel García Márquez - Colombian novelist, screenwriter and journalist, born Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez  and also known as Gabo. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. His most famous novel is One Hundred Years of Solitude 
• Shaquille O'Neal - American basketball player
• Agnieszka Radwańska - Polish professional tennis player
• Rob Reiner - American actor and film director
• Daphne Rooke - South African writer and journalist
• Andrzej Wajda - Polish film director and screenwriter. He won a Honorary Oscar in 2000