List of Famous people born on October 6th

Siegfried Köhler is a German cyclist. He won the silver medal in team pursuit in the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Michael Joseph O'Connor is a Northern Ireland international footballer who plays as a midfielder for NIFL Premiership club Glenavon.

Nine Choucroun, born Fortunée Schecroun was a French biochemist. She was director of research at the Institut de biologie physico-chimique in Paris. She developed, inter alia, the electrophoresis.

Yang Huanming, also known as Henry Yang, is a Chinese biologist, businessman and one of China's leading genetics researchers. He is Chairman and co-founder of the Beijing Genomics Institute, formerly of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was elected as member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007, a foreign academician of Indian National Science Academy in 2009, a member of the German National Academy of Sciences in 2012, and foreign associate of the US National Academy of Science in 2014.

Alexander Aronovich Vinnikov is a Russian politician and formerly the governor of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.

Otmar Bernhard is a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. He is a member of the Bavarian Landtag. From 2005 to 2007 he was Secretary of Health and from 2007 to 2008 was Bavarian State Minister for the Environment.

Claudio Gabriele de Launay was prime minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia from 27 March to 7 May 1849. Previously he had been the last Viceroy of Sardinia from 1843 to 1848.

Shinji Kawada is a Japanese voice actor. He works on eroge, under the name Wassyoi Tarou .

Maria Jeritza was a Czech soprano singer, long associated with the Vienna State Opera (1912–1935) and the Metropolitan Opera. Her rapid rise to fame, beauty and personality earned her the nickname "The Moravian Thunderbolt".