Replaying Saturday, October 6, 2012

The October 6, 2012 was a Saturday under the star sign of . It was the 279 day of the year. President of the United States was Barack Obama.

If you were born on this day, you are 13 years old. Your last birthday was on the Monday, October 6, 2025, 242 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, in 122 days. You have lived for 4,990 days, or about 119,763 hours, or about 7,185,805 minutes, or about 431,148,300 seconds.

Some people who share this birthday:

  • Elisabeth Shue (actor, film actor, film producer, singer, television actor, born October 6, 1963)
  • Bobby Farrell (disc jockey, musician, singer, born October 6, 1949)
  • Louis Philippe I (politician, born October 6, 1773)
  • Ioan Gruffudd (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born October 6, 1973)
  • Le Corbusier (architect, painter, photographer, urban planner, writer, born October 6, 1887)
  • Sophia Thomalla (actor, film actor, model, presenter, born October 6, 1989)
  • LeBron James Jr. (athlete, basketball player, born October 6, 2004)
  • Yoo Ah-in (actor, creative director, film actor, television actor, born October 6, 1986)
  • Hafez al-Assad (military personnel, politician, born October 6, 1930)
  • Carole Lombard (film actor, born October 6, 1908)
  • Hans Zhang (actor, singer, television actor, born October 6, 1984)
  • Jeremy Sisto (film actor, film producer, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born October 6, 1974)
  • So Wa Wai (athletics competitor, born October 6, 1981)
  • Olivia Thirlby (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born October 6, 1986)
  • Britt Ekland (actor, autobiographer, model, television presenter, writer, born October 6, 1942)
  • Thor Heyerdahl (adventurer, anthropologist, archaeologist, ethnographer, explorer, film director, historian, marine biologist, sailor, screenwriter, world traveler, writer, born October 6, 1914)
  • Jenny Lind (actor, music pedagogue, opera singer, singer, stage actor, born October 6, 1820)
  • Maki Horikita (actor, child actor, film actor, model, seiyū, born October 6, 1988)
  • Dhruva Sarja (actor, born October 6, 1988)
  • Amy Jo Johnson (actor, film actor, film director, screenwriter, singer, songwriter, stage actor, television actor, born October 6, 1970)
  • Jerry Heller (film producer, music producer, talent agent, talent manager, writer, born October 6, 1940)
  • Barbie Hsu (actor, film actor, singer, television actor, writer, born October 6, 1976)
  • Jazz Jennings (LGBTI rights activist, YouTuber, children's writer, reality television participant, spokesperson, television producer, born October 6, 2000)
  • Vinod Khanna (film actor, film producer, politician, television actor, born October 6, 1946)
  • Ricky Hatton (autobiographer, boxer, born October 6, 1978)
  • Yair Rodríguez (mixed martial arts fighter, taekwondo athlete, born October 6, 1992)
  • Bruno Sammartino (professional wrestler, born October 6, 1935)
  • Roland Garros (aircraft pilot, military personnel, rugby union player, born October 6, 1888)
  • Gerry Adams (politician, born October 6, 1948)
  • Yekaterina Gradova (actor, teacher, born October 6, 1946)
  • George Westinghouse (engineer, entrepreneur, inventor, born October 6, 1846)
  • Johnny Yong Bosch (actor, film director, guitarist, judoka, musician, singer, television actor, voice actor, born October 6, 1976)
  • John McWhorter (creolist, professor, writer, born October 6, 1965)
  • William Tyndale (Bible translator, linguist, theologian, translator, writer, born September 27, 1494)
  • Wang Huning (full professor, political scientist, political theorist, politician, strategist, born October 6, 1955)
  • Tony Dungy (American football player, basketball player, born October 6, 1955)
  • Brett Gelman (comedian, film actor, podcaster, screenwriter, television actor, voice actor, born October 6, 1976)
  • Miyuki Matsuda (actor, photographer, born October 6, 1961)
  • Raj Koothrappali (astrophysicist, born October 6, 1981)
  • Lisa Sparks (pornographic actor, born October 6, 1977)
  • Scarlett Byrne (actor, film actor, born October 6, 1990)
  • Sareh Bayat (actor, born October 6, 1979)
  • Levon Aronian (chess player, born October 6, 1982)
  • Lai Ching-te (physician, politician, born October 6, 1959)
  • Han Sunhwa (film actor, pop singer, television actor, born October 6, 1990)
  • Siad Barre (military personnel, politician, born October 6, 1919)
  • Todd Howard (computer scientist, presenter, video game designer, video game director, video game producer, born October 6, 1970)
  • Ellen Travolta (actor, film actor, television actor, born October 6, 1939)
  • Frances Tomelty (actor, born October 6, 1948)
  • Steve Scalise (marketing executive, politician, software engineer, born October 6, 1965)
  • Chiang Wei-kuo (politician, born October 6, 1916)
  • Bruno Cremer (film actor, stage actor, television actor, born October 6, 1929)
  • Sanjay Mishra (actor, television actor, born October 6, 1963)
  • Mahendra Singh Tikait (farmer, born October 6, 1935)
  • Princess Noor bint Asem (princess, born October 6, 1982)
  • Robert Kuok (businessperson, entrepreneur, born October 6, 1923)
  • Jacqueline Obradors (actor, film actor, television actor, born October 6, 1966)
  • Vladimir Gusinsky (businessperson, entrepreneur, politician, born October 6, 1952)
  • Bruce Grobbelaar (association football manager, association football player, born October 6, 1957)
  • Yaşar Kemal (journalist, novelist, poet, screenwriter, short story writer, translator, writer, born October 6, 1923)
  • Valerie Adams (athletics competitor, shot putter, born October 6, 1984)
  • Honor Swinton Byrne (actor, born October 6, 1997)
  • Lady Victoria Hervey (aristocrat, author, model, socialite, born October 6, 1976)
  • Sunny Singh (actor, model, television actor, born October 6, 1985)
  • Kevin Cronin (guitarist, rock musician, singer, born October 6, 1951)
  • Les Moonves (chief executive officer, entrepreneur, born October 6, 1949)
  • Izumi Ashikawa (actor, born October 6, 1935)
  • Yotuel Romero (actor, singer, songwriter, television actor, born October 6, 1976)
  • Jim Downey (actor, screenwriter, television actor, television producer, born October 6, 1952)
  • Jürgen Kohler (association football manager, association football player, born October 6, 1965)
  • Klaas Bruinsma (drug lord, born October 6, 1953)
  • Julián Arango (actor, television actor, born October 6, 1968)
  • Romero Britto (painter, sculptor, born October 6, 1963)
  • Muhammad V of Kelantan (politician, born October 6, 1969)
  • Matt Vogel (puppeteer, voice actor, born October 6, 1970)
  • Fannie Lou Hamer (autobiographer, politician, born October 6, 1917)
  • Frederick VII of Denmark (monarch, born October 6, 1808)
  • Rebecca Lobo (basketball player, sports commentator, born October 6, 1973)
  • KSHMR (disc jockey, musician, record producer, born October 6, 1988)
  • Javad Nekounam (association football player, born October 6, 1980)
  • Janet Gaynor (film actor, stage actor, television actor, born October 6, 1906)
  • Abe Saffron (nightclub owner, real estate development, born October 6, 1919)
  • Mark Schwarzer (association football player, born October 6, 1972)
  • Henri Christophe (politician, born October 6, 1767)
  • Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (sovereign, born September 29, 1289)
  • Pizzi (association football player, born October 6, 1989)
  • David Gilbert (writer, born October 6, 1944)
  • Jynx Maze (pornographic actor, born October 6, 1990)
  • Marshall Rosenberg (academic, non-fiction writer, psychologist, born October 6, 1934)
  • Billy Murray (actor, television actor, born October 6, 1941)
  • Karol Szymanowski (composer, music pedagogue, pianist, university teacher, born October 6, 1882)
  • Roman Vlasov (amateur wrestler, born October 6, 1990)
  • Xuân Quỳnh (poet, writer, born October 6, 1942)
  • Min Kyung-hoon (singer, born October 6, 1984)
  • Meiyang Chаng (actor, dentist, born October 6, 1982)
  • Ricardo Pereira (association football player, born October 6, 1993)
  • Mukarram Jah (farmer, born October 6, 1933)
  • Lee Boo-jin (businessperson, born October 6, 1970)
  • Wes Ramsey (actor, film actor, television actor, born October 6, 1977)
  • Vasilios Zaharoff (arms trader, businessperson, born October 6, 1849)
  • Sibiraj (actor, born October 6, 1982)
  • Mohamed Kallon (association football player, born October 6, 1979)
  • Nail Yakupov (ice hockey player, born October 6, 1993)
  • Jack Ryan (investment banker, politician, teacher, born October 6, 1959)
  • Mel Robbins (motivational speaker, radio personality, television presenter, writer, born October 6, 1968)
  • Francisco Gabilondo Soler (astronomer, children's writer, composer, singer, born October 6, 1907)
  • Dixie Carter (entrepreneur, born October 6, 1964)
  • Bronagh Waugh (actor, born October 6, 1982)
  • Peter McNeeley (boxer, born October 6, 1968)
  • Lonnie Johnson (aerospace engineer, inventor, scientist, born October 6, 1949)
  • Ivan Graziani (composer, recording artist, singer-songwriter, born October 6, 1945)
  • Attila Ambrus (ceramicist, ice hockey player, writer, born October 6, 1967)
  • Kennet Andersson (association football player, born October 6, 1967)
  • Sukumari (actor, born October 6, 1940)
  • Eileen Derbyshire (actor, born October 6, 1930)
  • Nazem Kadri (ice hockey player, born October 6, 1990)
  • Jeremy Grantham (manager, born October 6, 1938)
  • William J. Bratton (actor, police officer, born October 6, 1947)
  • Sabyasachi Mishra (actor, born October 6, 1985)
  • Meg Myers (composer, singer-songwriter, born October 6, 1986)
  • Roshon Fegan (actor, composer, dancer, film actor, pianist, rapper, singer, television actor, born October 6, 1991)
  • Adam Gemili (association football player, athletics competitor, sprinter, born October 6, 1993)
  • Claudia Álvarez (actor, model, television actor, born October 6, 1982)
  • Jerzy Owsiak (journalist, born October 6, 1953)
  • Melvyn Bragg (biographer, historian, journalist, librettist, novelist, politician, screenwriter, television presenter, writer, born October 6, 1939)
  • Samara Felippo (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, television presenter, born October 6, 1978)
  • Helmut Zierl (film actor, stage actor, born October 6, 1954)
  • Carolina Gynning (autobiographer, blogger, journalist, model, television presenter, born October 6, 1978)
  • Luisa D'Oliveira (actor, film actor, born October 6, 1986)
  • Yuan Quan (actor, singer, born October 6, 1977)
  • Fito Cabrales (composer, guitarist, singer, born October 6, 1966)
  • Larry R. Williams (investor, writer, born October 6, 1942)
  • Ernesto Laclau (philosopher, sociologist, university teacher, born October 6, 1935)
  • Niall Quinn (Gaelic football player, association football manager, association football player, hurler, born October 6, 1966)
  • Bruno Bichir (film actor, film director, stage actor, television actor, born October 6, 1967)
  • Matthew Sweet (composer, guitarist, singer, singer-songwriter, born October 6, 1964)
  • Jenny Wade (actor, film actor, television actor, born October 6, 1980)
  • Ko So-young (actor, film actor, model, born October 6, 1972)
  • Barry Darsow (professional wrestler, born October 6, 1959)
  • Meghnad Saha (astronomer, astrophysicist, physicist, politician, university teacher, born October 6, 1893)
  • Jennifer Maia (mixed martial arts fighter, born October 6, 1988)
  • Serge Nubret (actor, bodybuilder, born October 6, 1938)
  • Rhyon Nicole Brown (actor, film actor, singer, television actor, born October 6, 1992)
  • Ulysses Guimarães (lawyer, politician, writer, born October 6, 1916)
  • Bradley John Murdoch (serial killer, truck driver, born October 6, 1958)
  • Seiya Motoki (actor, born October 6, 1993)
  • Bruno Oscar Schmidt (beach volleyball player, born October 6, 1986)
  • Stephen Darby (association football player, born October 6, 1988)
  • Richard Dedekind (mathematician, philosopher, university teacher, born October 6, 1831)
  • Morné Morkel (cricketer, born October 6, 1984)

6th of October 2012 News

News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on October 6, 2012

News From the Advertising Industry

Date: 07 October 2012

By Stuart Elliott

Stuart Elliott

Account assignments, executive appointments and miscellaneous news from advertising agencies.

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Better News on Jobs

Date: 06 October 2012

The latest report on unemployment, while stronger than expected, also underlines the need for further federal action.

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The Week’s Business News in Pictures

Date: 06 October 2012

Auto sales show renewed strength, workers protested a Walmart in California and the September unemployment report topped expectations.

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Romney Is No Reagan

Date: 07 October 2012

By Albert R. Hunt | Bloomberg News

Albert Hunt

The belief that Mitt Romney could defeat Barack Obama, based on this election's similarities to the 1980 election between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, is false. They are far from analogous.

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Corrections: October 7, 2012

Date: 07 October 2012

Corrections appearing in print on October 7, 2012.

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Oct. 5: Day After Debate, Strong Swing State Polls for Romney

Date: 06 October 2012

By Nate Silver

Nate Silver

On Friday, Mitt Romney had his best day in state-level polling since at least the party conventions, something that very probably reflects improvement in his standing following the debate on Wednesday.

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Week in Pictures for Oct. 5

Date: 07 October 2012

By The New York Times

Subjects include the opening event at the Barclays Center, police layoffs in Camden, New Jersey, and a police involved shooting in Queens.

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Defiant Message Amid Iran Currency Crisis

Date: 06 October 2012

By Rick Gladstone

Rick Gladstone

At Friday Prayer, clerics accused the United States of leading an economic war against Iran, and asserted that the currency crisis would ease.

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Obama and Democrats Raise $181 Million in September

Date: 06 October 2012

By Nicholas Confessore

Nicholas Confessore

The $181 million in September is the most money President Obama and the Democrats have raised in one month during this election cycle.

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Europe’s Richer Regions Want Out

Date: 06 October 2012

By Steven Erlanger

Steven Erlanger

The euro zone crisis has accelerated calls for independence from the richer regions of member countries, angry at having to finance their poorer neighbors.

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