Also on This Day in History September 6
Discover what happened on September 6 with HISTORY's summaries of major events, anniversaries,
famous births and notable deaths.
Births on This Day, September 6
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1930
Charles Foley
American game designer who co-created the game Twister
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1908
Louis Essen
British physicist (time measurement, speed of light determination)
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1906
Luis Federico Leloir
Argentine biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1970 for "his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates"
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1830
John Henry Dallmeyer
German-British inventor and manufacturer of lenses and telescopes
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1919
Wilson Greatbatch
American engineer and pioneering inventor (cardiac pacemaker)
Deaths on This Day, September 6
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2018
Richard DeVos
American businessman who co-founded Amway
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1966
Margaret Sanger
American nurse, birth control proponent and feminist
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1857
Johann Salamo Christoph Schweigger
German physicist who invented the galvanometer (1820)
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1978
Adolf Dassler
German entrepreneur (founder sportswear company Adidas)
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2016
Raymond Hide
British geophysicist (geomagnetism, meteorology, geodesy and oceanography)