October 6
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October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 86 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 23 - Wang Mang, Chinese Xin Dynasty Emperor
- 404 - Aelia Eudoxia, Roman Empress
- 877 - Charles the Bald, Roman Emperor (b. 823)
- 1014 - Samuil of Bulgaria (b. 958)
- 1101 - Bruno of Cologne, German-Italian monk and saint (b. 1037)
- 1413 - Dawit I of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
- 1542 – Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)
- 1641 - Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer
- 1644 - Elisabeth of Bourbon, consort of Philip IV of Spain (b. 1602)
- 1660 - Paul Scarron, French poet and author (b. 1610)
- 1661 - Guru Har Rai, 7th Sikh Guru (b. 1630)
- 1688 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1652)
- 1762 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian baroque composer (b. 1684)
- 1777 - Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, French author (b. 1699)
- 1819 - Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (b. 1751)
- 1829 - Pierre Debigny, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
- 1849 - Ludwig Batthyany, Hungarian Prime Minister (b. 1807)
- 1863 - Frances Trollope, English writer (b. 1779)
- 1873 – Sir Paul Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
- 1883 - Duc Duc, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1852)
- 1891 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
- 1891 - Charles I of Württemberg (b. 1823)
- 1892 – Alfred Tennyson, British poet laureate (b. 1809)
1901 – 2000
- 1912 – Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert, Belgian statesman (b. 1829)
- 1940 - Henry Horner, Governor of Illinois (b. 1878)
- 1945 - Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)
- 1946 - Per Albin Hansson, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1885)
- 1951 – Otto Meyerhof, German doctor, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
- 1951 - Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer (b. 1860)
- 1953 - Vera Mukhina, Russian sculptor (b. 1889)
- 1956 - Samuel R. McKelvie, Governor of Nebraska (b. 1881)
- 1962 – Tod Browning, American movie director (b. 1880)
- 1973 - François Cevert, French racing driver (b. 1944)
- 1974 - Luther H. Hodges, Governor of North Carolina (b. 1898)
- 1976 – Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)
- 1979 - Elizabeth Bishop, American writer (b. 1911)
- 1980 - Hattie Jacques, British comedy actress (b. 1922)
- 1980 - Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
- 1981 – Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt (assassinated) (b. 1918)
- 1983 – Terence Cardinal Cooke, tenth bishop (seventh archbishop) of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York (b. 1921)
- 1984 - George Gaylord Simpson, American zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1902)
- 1985 – Nelson Riddle, bandleader (b. 1921)
- 1988 – Larry Walters, who used 45 helium balloons and a lawnchair to propel himself to 16,000 feet in 1982, suicide (b. 1949)
- 1989 – Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
- 1992 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
- 1993 – Agnes de Mille, American dancer, choreographer (b. 1905)
- 1995 - Benoit Chamoux, French climber (b. 1961)
- 1999 – Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer (b. 1920)
- 2000 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1920)
From 2001
- 2002 – Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
- 2004 - Yogi Bhajan, Indian spiritual teacher (b. 1929)
- 2006 - Eduardo Mignogna, Argentine movie director (b. 1940)
- 2007 - Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1921)
- 2011 - Diane Cilento, Australian actress (b. 1933)
- 2012 - Chadli Bendjedid, 3rd President of Algeria (b. 1929)
- 2014 - Igor Mitoraj, Polish sculptor (b. 1944)
- 2014 - Bill Campbell, American sportscaster (b. 1923)
- 2014 - Marian Seldes, American actress (b. 1928)
- 2014 - Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1976)
- 2015 - Arpad Goncz, former President of Hungary (b. 1922)
- 2015 - Kevin Corcoran, American actor (b. 1949)
- 2015 - Billy Joe Royal, American singer (b. 1942)
- 2015 - Christine Arnothy, French writer (b. 1930)
- 2017 - Roberto Anzolin, Italian footballer (b. 1938)
- 2017 - Terry Downes, British boxer and actor (b. 1936)
- 2017 - Ralphie May, American comedian and actor (b. 1972)
- 2017 - Darsi Ferrer Ramírez, Cuban journalist and physician (b. 1969)
- 2017 - Connie Hawkins, American basketball player (b. 1942)
- 2017 - Toon Geurts, Dutch sprint canoeist (b. 1932)
- 2018 - Eef Brouwers, Dutch journalist and spokesman (b. 1939)
- 2018 - Montserrat Caballé, Spanish opera singer (b. 1933)
- 2018 - Quentin Kenihan, American disability activist (b. 1975)
- 2018 - Don Sandburg, American actor (b. 1930)
- 2018 - Scott Wilson, American actor (b. 1942)
- 2019 - Ginger Baker, English musician (Cream) (b. 1939)
- 2019 - Yevgeny Bushmin, Russian politician (b. 1958)
- 2019 - Vlasta Chramostová, Czech actress (b. 1926)
- 2019 - Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player (b. 1933)
- 2019 - Martin Lauer, German sprinter (b. 1937)
- 2019 - Neale Lavis, Australian equestrian (b. 1930)
- 2019 - Karen Pendleton, American actress (b. 1946)
- 2019 - David Petel, Iraqi-Israeli politician (b. 1921)
- 2019 - Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist leader (b. 1924)
- 2019 - Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian (b. 1935)
- 2020 - Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American guitarist (Van Halen) (b. 1955)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1903 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist (d. 1995)
- 1905 – Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998)
- 1906 – Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
- 1907 - Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Mexican composer (d. 1990)
- 1908 – Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)
- 1908 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
- 1910 – Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, British Labour politician (d. 2002)
- 1913 - Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss artist and writer (d. 1985)
- 1914 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer, leader of the Kon-Tiki expedition (d. 2002)
- 1916 - Chiang Wei-kuo, Chinese general (d. 1997)
- 1917 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (d. 1977)
- 1921 - Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)
- 1923 - Yasar Kemal, Turkish writer (d. 2015)
- 1925 - Lyuben Berov, 43rd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 2006)
- 1927 - Emmanuel III Delly, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 2014)
- 1928 - Barbara Werle, American actress (d. 2013)
- 1929 – Bruno Cremer, French actor (d. 2010)
- 1929 - Einar H. Ingman, Jr., American soldier (d. 2015)
- 1930 – Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
- 1930 – Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer (d. 2015)
- 1931 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004)
- 1931 – Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-American physicist (d. 2018)
- 1934 - Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist (d. 2015)
- 1935 - Ernesto Laclau, Argentine philosopher and political theorist (d. 2014)
- 1935 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian-American professional wrestler
- 1937 – Mario Capecchi, Italian-American molecular geneticist
- 1939 - Melvyn Bragg, British broadcaster
- 1940 - Jan Keizer, Dutch football referee
- 1940 - Ellen Travolta, American actress
- 1941 - Winston Ntshona, South African playwright and actor (d. 2018)
- 1941 - Paul Popham, American soldier and activist (d. 1987)
- 1942 – Britt Ekland, Swedish actress
- 1943 - Ottavio Bianchi, Italian footballer
- 1943 - Cees Veerman, Dutch musician (d. 2014)
- 1944 - Boris Mikhailov, Soviet ice hockey player
- 1945 - Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1997)
- 1946 – Lloyd Doggett, American politician
- 1946 - Tony Greig, South African-born English cricketer (d. 2012)
- 1947 - Patxi Andion, Spanish singer-songwriter
- 1947 - Klaus Dibiasi, diver
- 1948 – Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
- 1948 - Glenn Branca, American composer and guitarist
- 1949 - Jim Gilmore, American politician, former Governor of West Virginia
- 1949 - Bobby Farrell, Aruban-born performer (d. 2010)
- 1949 - Leslie Moonves, American businessman (CBS Corporation)
- 1950 – David Brin, American science fiction writer
1951 – 1975
- 1951 – Kevin Cronin, American musician
- 1951 – Manfred Winkelhock, German auto racing driver (d. 1985)
- 1951 - Clive Rees, Welsh rugby player
- 1953 - Claas Bruinsma, Dutch drugs dealer (d. 1991)
- 1960 - Richard Jobson, Scottish singer and musician
- 1960 - Yves Leterme, former Prime Minister of Belgium
- 1961 - Ben Summerskill, English businessman, Chief Executive of the LGBT rights charity Stonewall
- 1963 - Sven Andersson, Swedish footballer
- 1963 – Elisabeth Shue, American actress
- 1964 - Knut Storberget, Norwegian lawyer and politician
- 1964 - Mark Field, English politician
- 1966 - Fito Cabrales, Spanish singer, guitarist and composer
- 1966 – Niall Quinn, Irish footballer
- 1967 - Attila Ambrus, Hungarian bank robber and ice hockey player
- 1967 - Kennet Andersson, Swedish footballer
- 1967 - Svend Carlsen, Norwegian strongman and bodybuilder
- 1967 - Steven Woolfe, English politician
- 1969 - Muhammad V of Kelantan, former Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
- 1969 – Troy Shaw, English snooker player
- 1970 - Shauna MacDonald, Canadian actress
- 1971 – Alan Stubbs, English footballer
- 1972 – Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer
- 1972 - Dominic Andres, Swiss curler
- 1973 – Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
- 1973 - Rebecca Lobo, American basketball player
- 1974 – Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer
- 1974 - Jeremy Sisto, American actor, producer and screenwriter
- 1975 - Peter Pellegrini, Slovakian politician, Prime minister of Slovakia
From 1976
- 1977 – Melinda Doolittle, American singer
- 1977 - Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer
- 1977 – Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer
- 1978 – Ricky Hatton, British boxer
- 1979 – David Di Tommaso, French footballer (d. 2005)
- 1981 – Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer
- 1982 – Levon Aronian, Armenian chess player
- 1982 - William Butler, American musician (Arcade Fire)
- 1982 - Michael Frater, Jamaican sprinter
- 1984 - Valerie Adams, New Zealand shot putter
- 1984 - Joanna Pacitti, American actress and singer
- 1985 - Mitchell Cole, English footballer (d. 2012)
- 1985 - Sylvia Fowles, American basketball player
- 1986 - Olivia Thirlby, American actress
- 1986 - Mohammed Shukri, Malaysian cricketer
- 1988 - Stephen Darby, English footballer
- 1988 - Maki Horikita, Japanese model and actress
- 1989 - Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2014)
- 1989 - Sophia Thomalla, German actress, presenter and model
- 1990 - Scarlett Byrne, English actress
- 1990 - Han Sun-hwa, South Korean singer, dancer and rapper
- 1990 - Jordan Hamilton, American basketball player
- 1991 - Roshon Fegan, American actor
- 1993 - Adam Gemili, English athlete
- 1996 - Sara Takanashi, Japanese ski jumper
- 1998 - Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer
- 2000 - Jazz Jennings, American YouTuber, television personality and LGBT activist
- 2002 - Cleopatra Stratan, Moldovan singer