06 November: today's birthdays

  • Emmanuelle Bercot - French film director, screenwriter and actress. She directed the film Standing Tall 
  • Niccolò Campriani - Italian sport shooter. He won two gold medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympics
  • Jacques Charrier - French actor and producer. He is one of the four Brigitte Bardot's ex husbands
  • Colley Cibber - English dramatist, poet and actor. He wrote his memoir Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber
  • François Englert - Belgian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 2013, shared with English physicist Peter Higgs
  • Gerald Epstein - American psychiatrist, researcher and author. He teaches that imagery is a tool for healing
  • Sally Field - American actress, singer, screenwriter and producer. She won two Oscars for Best Actress
  • Laura Flessel - French épée fencer and politician born Laura Élodie Flessel-Colovic 
  • Glenn Frey - American singer, songwriter, and musician. He was the founder of rock band Eagles
  • Ethan Hawke - American actor, writer, screenwriter, and film director, born Ethan Green Hawke. He starred in the films Training Day and Boyhood obtaining Oscar two nominations for Best Supporting Actor. He also wrote two novels: The Hottest State, in 1996, and Ash Wednesday, in 2002. He was married to American actress Uma Thurman
  • Aaron Hernandez - American football tight end
  • Siegmund Loewe - German entrepreneur and pioneer in the industrial production of radio technology. He was the founder of Loewe
  • Cesare Lombroso - Italian physician, anthropologist and criminologist, founder of Anthropological criminology   
  • Robert Musil - Austrian writer and playwright. The unfinished novel Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man Without Qualities) is his major work
  • James Naismith - Canadian sportsman and inventor of basketball
  • Thandie Newton - English actress of Zimbabwean descent, born Thandiwe Adjewa Newton  
  • Mike Nichols - German-born American film director and writer. He won an Oscar for Best Director
  • Mino Raiola - Italian football agent, born Carmine Raiola 
  • Rebecca Romijn - American actress and model
  • ​André Schürrle - German professional footballer
  • Solimano (IT) - Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
  • June Squibb - American actress
  • Emma Stone - American actress, born Emily Jean Stone. She won an Oscar for Best Actress in 2017 for her performance in the musical film La La Land 
  • Frank Vandenbroucke - Belgian racing cyclist
  • Joseph Wilson - American politician
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