On this day: 6 January
Events, births and deaths on 6 January. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Silvana Pampanini
- Deaths · Pat Harrington Jr.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Mickey Hargitay
- Births · Pat Flaherty
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1088 · Deaths · Berengar of Tours
Events · 19
- 1579(Julian date)Union of Arras — 16th-century alliance of Netherlands provinces
- 1781Battle of Jersey — battle fought on 6 January 1781 in St. Helier, Jersey
- 1839Night of the Big Wind — 1839 European windstorm
- 1912New Mexico — state of the United States of America
- 19296 January Dictatorship — period of Yugoslav history under the direct rule of King Alexander I (1929–31)
- 1951Ganghwa massacre — Korean massacre (1951)
- 1960National Airlines Flight 2511 — 1960 airplane crash
- 1967Operation Deckhouse Five — 1967 military operation
- 1968Aeroflot Flight 1668 — aviation accident
- 1969Allegheny Airlines Flight 737 — 1969 aviation accident
- 1993Lufthansa CityLine Flight 5634 — 1993 aviation incident that killed 4
- 19931993 Sopore massacre — 1993 killing of civilians in Kashmir, India
- 1994Assault of Nancy Kerrigan — assault in Detroit, Michigan on January 6, 1994
- 2005Graniteville, South Carolina train crash — 2005 rail disaster in Graniteville, South Carolina
- 2012January 2012 al-Midan bombing — 2012 suicide bombing in Damascus, Syria
- 2014Benefits Street — British documentary series
- 20172017 Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting — mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport Florida, United States, on January 6, 2017
- 2021January 6 United States Capitol attack — 2021 attempt to prevent the U.S. presidential electoral vote count
- 20212020 United States presidential election Electoral College count — US Congressional count of ballots formally cast by the electoral college on December 14, 2020
Births · 60
- 1256(Julian date)Gertrude the Great — Roman Catholic Saint
- 1367(Julian date)Richard II of England — King of England from 1377 to 1399
- 1499(Julian date)John of Ávila — Spanish priest, Doctor of the Church
- 1580John Smith — English soldier, explorer, writer (1580–1631)
- 1766José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia — Paraguayan lawyer, politician and dictator (1766-1840)
- 1822Heinrich Schliemann — German businessman and archaeologist (1822–1890)
- 1832Gustave Doré — French illustrator and painter (1832–1883)
- 1838Max Bruch — German romantic composer and conductor (1838-1920)
- 1861Victor Horta — Belgian architect, designer, publicist, teacher and creator of Art Nouveau (1861–1947)
- 1870Gustav Bauer — German trade unionist and chancellor (1870–1944)
- 1872Alexander Scriabin — Russian composer and pianist (1872–1915)
- 1878Carl Sandburg — American writer and editor (1878–1967)
- 1880Tom Mix — American film actor (1880-1940)
- 1882Fan S. Noli — Albanian politician (1882-1965)
- 1883Kahlil Gibran — Lebanese-American writer, poet, and painter (1883–1931)
- 1900Maria of Yugoslavia — Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (1922 - 1934)
- 1912Jacques Ellul — French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist
- 1913Loretta Young — American actress (1913–2000)
- 1913Edward Gierek — Polish politician (1913-2001)
- 1915Alan Watts — British American author and lecturer (1915–1973)
- 1920Sun Myung Moon — Korean religious leader (1920–2012)
- 1920John Maynard Smith — British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1920-2004)
- 1924Kim Dae-jung — 8th President of the Republic of Korea (1924–2009)
- 1928Capucine — French model and actress (1928-1990)
- 1929Babrak Karmal — 3rd General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (1929–1996)
Deaths · 60
- 786Abo of Tiflis — Christian martyr
- 1088Berengar of Tours — medieval theologian (vers 990-1088)
- 1148(Julian date)Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke — Earl of Pembroke
- 1275(Julian date)Raymond of Penyafort — Dominican Master General, archbishop and saint, catholic jurist from Catalonia
- 1448(Julian date)Christopher of Bavaria — king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1442-1448
- 1478(Julian date)Uzun Hassan — greatest shah of the Turkoman Aq Qoyunlu dynasty (r. 1453–1478)
- 1536(Julian date)Baldassare Peruzzi — Italian painter (1481–1536)
- 1537(Julian date)Alessandro de' Medici — Duke of Florence (1510-1537)
- 1693Mehmed IV — 19th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1648–1687)
- 1725Chikamatsu Monzaemon — Japanese playwright
- 1731Étienne François Geoffroy — French chemist
- 1829Josef Dobrovský — Czech historian, lexicographer, linguist, literature historian, religion writer, science writer and roman catholic priest (1753-1829)
- 1831Rodolphe Kreutzer — French violinist, conductor, composer (1766-1831)
- 1840Frances Burney — English satirical novelist, diarist, playwright (1752-1840)
- 1852Louis Braille — French organist and teacher (1809-1852), inventor of braille, a system for reading and writing text and music, used by people who are blind or visually impaired
- 1882Richard Henry Dana — American author and lawyer (1815–1882)
- 1884Gregor Mendel — Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822–1884)
- 1885Bharatendu Harishchandra — Indian Hindi writer, poet and dramatist (1850–1885); father of modern Hindi literature
- 1902Lars Hertervig — Norwegian artist (1830-1902)
- 1918Georg Cantor — German mathematician, inventor of set theory (1845–1918)
- 1919Theodore Roosevelt — 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 (1858–1919)
- 1922Jakob Rosanes — German mathematician and chess player (1842-1922)
- 1928Alvin Kraenzlein — American athletics competitor (1876-1928)
- 1933Vladimir de Pachmann — Ukrainian pianist (1848-1933)
- 1934Herbert Chapman — English association football player and manager (1878-1934)
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