May 6
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Events
- 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. 147 Swiss Guards, including their commander, die fighting the forces of Charles V during the Sack of Rome in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant'Angelo.
- 1889 - Exposition Universelle, world fair opens in Paris
- 1933 - Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Research) destroyed by the Nazis
- 1966 - Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England.
- 2002 - Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is shot and killed by a left-wing extremist.
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Births
- 1713 – Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780)
- 1758 – Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary (d. 1794)
- 1856 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
- 1868 – Gaston Leroux, French writer (d. 1927)
- 1871 – Christian Morgenstern, German author (d. 1914)
- 1880 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (d. 1938)
- 1895 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (d. 1926)
- 1902 – Max Ophüls, German-born director (d. 1957)
- 1905 – Carlo Mollino, Italian architect and designer (d. 1973)
- 1915 – Orson Welles, American director (d. 1985)
- 1920 – Martha Beck, American convicted murderer (d. 1951)
- 1943 – Andreas Baader, member of the Red Army Fraction (d. 1977)
- 1945 – Bob Seger, American singer/songwriter
- 1947 – Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher
- 1961 – George Clooney, American actor
- 1965 – Leslie Hope, Canadian actress
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Deaths
- 1859 – Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (b. 1769)
- 1862 – Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b. 1817)
- 1910 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
- 1949 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
- 1969 - Don Drummond, Jamaican musician (The Skatalites) (b. 1932)
- 1992 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)
- 2002 – Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (b. 1948)
- 2007 – Curtis Harrington, American film director (b. 1926)
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