Famous people born in 6 October

Jenny Lind was a Swedish opera singer often called the "Swedish Nightingale"

Carole Lombard was an American film actress known for her energetic and often unusual roles in screwball comedies of the 1930s

Janet Gaynor was an American film, stage and television actress who won the first ever Academy Award for Best Actress

Ernest Walton was an Irish physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Crockcroft for their work on splitting the atomic nucleus

Shahabuddin Nagari is a distinguished Bangladeshi poet, author and musician

Hafez Al-Assad was a Syrian politician and statesman who ruled the country with an iron grip for almost three decades

A famous ethnologist and explorer, Thor Heyerdahl, is known for his transoceanic explorations and study of South American immigration patterns

Valerie Adams is a prominent shot putter from New Zealand who is a two-time Olympic champion

Meghnad Saha was an eminent astrophysicist best known for his theory of thermal ionization

Richard Dedekind was a German mathematician famous for his contributions to abstract algebra