On this day: 6 February
Events, births and deaths on 6 February. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Virginia Halas McCaskey
10 years ago2016
- Events · 2016 Kaohsiung earthquake
- Deaths · Dan Hicks
- Deaths · Dan Gerson
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1918 · Deaths · Gustav Klimt
- 1932 · Births · François Truffaut
- 1917 · Births · Zsa Zsa Gabor
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 21
- 1579(Julian date)Archdiocese of Manila — archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the Philippines
- 1778Treaty of Alliance — 1778 defense pact between France and the United States
- 1788Massachusetts — state of the United States of America
- 1806Battle of San Domingo — 1806 naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars
- 18191819 Singapore Treaty — Agreement to set up British trading post in Singapore
- 1851Black Thursday — disastrous bushfires that occurred 6 February 1851 in Victoria
- 1862Battle of Fort Henry — 1862 battle of the American Civil War
- 1919Seattle General Strike — five-day strike for higher wages by more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle in February 1919. Most local unions joined, including members of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
- 1922Washington Naval Treaty — 1922 international treaty concerning naval construction and fleet limits
- 19346 February 1934 crisis — French demonstration in Paris
- 1951Woodbridge train derailment — 1951 train derailment in New Jersey, United States
- 1958Munich air disaster — 1958 aviation accident in West Germany
- 19731973 Luhuo earthquake — Earthquake in China
- 1981Ugandan Bush War — guerrilla war waged between 1981 and 1986 in Uganda by the National Resistance Army (NRA) under the leadership of Yoweri Museveni against the government of Milton Obote, and later that of Tito Okello
- 1989Polish Round Table Agreement — series of agreements between Poland and its trade unions in 1989
- 1996Birgenair Flight 301 — 1996 aviation accident in the Dominican Republic
- 20122012 Visayas earthquake — earthquake
- 2012Wang Lijun incident — scandal in Chinese politics
- 20162016 Kaohsiung earthquake — deadly earthquake centered north of Pingtung City, Taiwan
- 2016
- 20232023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes — The earthquake that caused destruction in Türkiye and Syria on February 6, 2023
Births · 60
- 885(Julian date)Daigo — 60th emperor of Japan
- 1465(Julian date)Scipione del Ferro — Italian mathematician
- 1577(Julian date)Beatrice Cenci — Italian noblewoman and murderer
- 1608António Vieira — Portuguese diplomat and missionary (1608-1697)
- 1611Chongzhen Emperor — emperor of the Ming Dynasty
- 1612(Julian date)Antoine Arnauld — French theologian, philosopher, mathematician (1612-1694)
- 1665(Julian date)Anne of Great Britain — Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1702 to 1714 (1665–1714)
- 1695Nicolaus II Bernoulli — Russian mathematician (1695-1726)
- 1748Adam Weishaupt — German philosopher and founder of the Illuminati (1748–1830)
- 1756Aaron Burr — vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805, lived (1756–1836)
- 1778Ugo Foscolo — Italian writer and poet (1778–1827)
- 1802Charles Wheatstone — British scientist and inventor (1802–1875)
- 1833J. E. B. Stuart — Confederate cavalry general (1833–1864)
- 1838Henry Irving — English stage actor of the Victorian era (1838–1905)
- 1890Abdul Ghaffar Khan — Pashtun independence activist against British rule in India
- 1892William P. Murphy — American scientist (1892–1987)
- 1895Babe Ruth — American baseball player (1895–1948)
- 1899Ramón Novarro — Mexican actor (1899–1968)
- 1903Claudio Arrau — Chilean pianist (1903-1991)
- 1905Władysław Gomułka — Polish politician (1905-1982)
- 1908Amintore Fanfani — Italian politician statesman (1908–1999)
- 1911Ronald Reagan — president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor (1911–2004)
- 1912Eva Braun — photographer, longtime companion and later wife of Adolf Hitler (1912–1945)
- 1912Christopher Hill — British historian (1912–2003)
- 1913Mary Leakey — British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)
Deaths · 60
- 743(Julian date)Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik — tenth Umayyad caliph
- 1135(Julian date)Elvira of Leon — Queen of Sicily
- 1378(Julian date)Joanna of Bourbon — Queen of France
- 1497(Julian date)Johannes Ockeghem — Franco-Flemish composer
- 1515(Julian date)Aldus Manutius — Italian printer and humanist (1449-1515)
- 1539(Julian date)John III, Duke of Cleves — First ruler of the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg
- 1593Ōgimachi — emperor of Japan
- 1593Jacques Amyot — French writer (1513–1593)
- 1597Francesco Patrizi — Venetian philosopher and scientist (1529-1597)
- 1612Christopher Clavius — German astronomer and mathematician (1538–1612)
- 1685(Julian date)Charles II of England — King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1630-1685)
- 1695Ahmed II — 21th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1691–1695)
- 1740Clement XII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1730 to 1740
- 1783Lancelot Brown — British landscape architect (1716–1783)
- 1793Carlo Goldoni — Italian playwright (1707-1793)
- 1804Joseph Priestley — English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
- 1833Pierre André Latreille — French zoologist and entomologist (1762–1833)
- 1865Isabella Beeton — British journalist, editor, publisher, and writer
- 1899Leo von Caprivi — German Chancellor and Prussian General of the Infantry and Prime Minister (1831–1899)
- 1916Rubén Darío — Nicaraguan poet, journalist and diplomat (1867–1916)
- 1918Gustav Klimt — Austrian symbolist painter (1862–1918)
- 1929Maria Christina of Austria — Queen consort of Spain (1858-1929)
- 1931Motilal Nehru — Indian lawyer and politician (1861–1931)
- 1938Marianne von Werefkin — Russian-German-Swiss expressionist painter (1860–1938)
- 1952George VI — King of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952
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