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May 6
- 1856 - Birth of Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
- 1859 - Death of Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (b. 1769)
- 1871 - Birth of Victor Grignard, French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
- 1889 - The Eiffel Tower, often regarded as a symbol of modernity, is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
- 1897 - Death of Edward James Stone, British astronomer (b. 1831)
- 1897 - Death of Alfred Des Cloizeaux, French mineralogist (b. 1817)
- 1916 - Birth of Robert H. Dicke, American experimental physicist (d. 1997)
- 1929 - Birth of Paul Lauterbur, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1963 - Death of Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American physicist (b. 1881)
