Famous People who were Born or Who Died on This Date-- Born today.com

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
Michelangelo Buonarotti
(03/06/1475 – 02/18/1564)
Italian painter, sculptor

"Since when was genius found respectable?" Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(03/06/1806 – 06/29/1861)
English writer (was married to Robert Browning)

"If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell." General Philip Sheridan
(03/06/1831 – 08/05/1888)
US civil war general

"I would rather be beaten and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog." Davy Crockett
(08/17/1786 – 03/06/1836)
US explorer, politician

"I have already given two cousins to the war, and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother." Artemus Ward
(04/26/1834 – 03/06/1867)
US writer

"If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had better stop writing for them." Louisa May Alcott
(11/29/1832 – 03/06/1888)
US writer

"Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?" Stanislaw Lec
(03/06/1906 – 05/07/1966)

Polish writer (Note: a different person from Stanislaw Lem)

"The term 'comics' long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. 'Sequential Art' is a more accurate description of the form." Will Eisner
(03/06/1917 – 01/03/2005)
US sequential artist

"If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera." Sarah Caldwell
(03/06/1924 – 03/23/2006)
US opera conductor

"He who expects much can expect little." Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(03/06/1928 – )
Colombian writer

"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(03/08/1841 – 03/06/1935)
US Supreme Court Justice (son of Holmes Senior; see other Supreme Court justices; died near his birthday)

"I am providing you with a copulation of answers to several questions raised..." Marion Barry, Jr.
(03/06/1936 – )
US mayor (Washington, DC)

"I think 'immoral' is the wrong word for [my] acts. I prefer the word 'unethical.'" Ivan Boesky
(03/06/1937 – )
US insider trader

"Let's just say there's not a drop of Jewish blood in him." Rob Reiner
(03/06/1947 – )
US actor-director (son of Carl Reiner) , on Tom Cruise

"The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd." Ivor Novello
(01/15/1893 – 03/06/1951)
US actor

"If there is another way to skin a cat, I don't want to know about it." Steven Kravitz
(03/06/1956 – )
US comic, actor

"I want to keep going till I drop." Nelson Eddy
(06/29/1901 – 03/06/1967)
US actor , on touring in the 60s

"An unchecked ego will sooner or later be bad for business."
Shaquille O'Neal
(03/06/1972 – )
US basketball player

"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied." Pearl S. Buck
(06/26/1892 – 03/06/1973)
US writer

"We actors are born at the rise of a curtain, and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever. What use is it then to say to our critics, 'Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday'?" Micheál MacLiammóir
(10/25/1899 – 03/06/1978)
English writer, actor

"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is." Ayn Rand
(02/02/1905 – 03/06/1982)
Russia-born US writer

"I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart." Georgia O'Keeffe
(11/15/1887 – 03/06/1986)
US artist