06 October: today's birthdays

• Mohamed Siad Barre - Somali politician born in Ethiopia, ​3rd President of Somalia
• Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind - German mathematician
• Roland Garros - French aviator, war hero and tennis player. The Stade de Roland Garros in Paris was named after him
• Ioan Gruffudd - Welsh actor.
• Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris - Swiss-born French architect, urban planner, painter and designer, best known as
  Le Corbusier
• Ernesto Laclau - Argentine political theorist
• Le Corbusier - Pseudonym of Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, Swiss-born French architect
• François Magendie - French physiologist
• Marios Oikonomou - Greek footballer
• Charles Poswick - Belgian political, born Charles Marie Jean Joseph Elvire Ghislain baron Poswick 
• Frank Seiberling - American inventor and entrepreneur born Franklin Augustus Seiberling
• Elizabeth Shue - American actress. She starred in Leaving Las Vegas, co-star Nicolas Cage, The Saint, and Hollow Man 
• William Tyndale - English scholar and translator
  
  
• Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz - German anatomist, best known for summarizing the nervous system studies by Italian scientist Camillo Golgi and his Spanish colleague Santiago Ramón y Cajal, both awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906. He is also known for naming the neurone and the chromosome