On this day: 6 April
Events, births and deaths on 6 April. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Clem Burke
- Deaths · Jay North
- Deaths · Jeremiah P. Ostriker
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Merle Haggard
100 years ago1926
- Events · United Airlines
- Births · Ian Paisley
- Births · Randy Weston
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 943 · Deaths · Nasr II
Events · 33
- 46 BCE(Julian date)Battle of Thapsus — battle in Caesar's Civil War
- 402Battle of Pollentia — battle
- 1320(Julian date)Declaration of Arbroath — declaration of Scottish independence
- 1453(Julian date)Fall of Constantinople — 1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire
- 1712New York Slave Revolt of 1712 — slave rebellion in New York City in 1712
- 1776Battle of Block Island — 1776 naval battle
- 1782Chakri dynasty — royal dynasty that has ruled Thailand since 1782
- 1793Committee of Public Safety — organization
- 1830The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — Christian restorationist denomination centered on the Book of Mormon
- 1830Latter Day Saint movement — religious movement centered on the Book of Mormon
- 1862Battle of Shiloh — 1862 battle of the American Civil War
- 1865Battle of Sailor's Creek — 1865 battle of the American Civil War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics — Games of the I Olympiad, celebrated in Athens (Greece) in 1896
- 1911Battle of Deçiq — battle of the Albanian Revolt of 1911
- 1917United States declaration of war on Germany — declaration of war in World War I
- 1926United Airlines — American airline
- 1926Varney Air Lines — 1926-1934 airline, predecessor of United Airlines
- 1941Battle of Greece — WWII German invasion of Greece and Allied resistance, April 1941
- 1941Invasion of Yugoslavia — 1941 German-led attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers during the Second World War
- 1941Bombing of Belgrade in 1941 — German bombing of Belgrade, Yugoslavia during World War 2
- 1947Tony Awards — awards to recognize the excellence in live Broadway theatre, presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City
- 1948Finno-Soviet Treaty of 1948 — treaty between Finland and the Soviet Union
- 1958Capital Airlines Flight 67 — 1958 plane crash of a Capital Airlines Vickers Viscount 745D in Freeland, Michigan, US
- 1974California Jam — one-day rock music festival in April 1974 at Ontario Motor Speedway in California
- 19841984 Cameroonian coup attempt — attempt to depose President Paul Biya by presidential palace guards
- 19851985 Sudanese coup d'état — Military overthrow of President Gaafar Nimeiry
- 1992War in Bosnia and Herzegovina — 1992–1995 armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1994assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira — 1994 assassination
- 20092009 L'Aquila earthquake — earthquake
- 2010April 2010 Maoist attack in Dantewada — ambush of law enforcement by Naxalite-Maoist insurgents in Chhattisgarh, India
- 2012Azawad — Tuareg name for a territory in northern Mali
- 2012Azawadi declaration of independence — 2012 unilateral declaration
- 2018Humboldt Broncos bus crash — bus crash in Saskatchewan, Canada, on April 6, 2018
Births · 60
- 1483(Julian date)Raphael — Italian painter and architect (1483–1520)
- 1632Maria Leopoldine of Austria — queen of Bohemia
- 1660Johann Kuhnau — German composer, organist and harpsichordist
- 1670Jean-Baptiste Rousseau — French poet
- 1725Pasquale Paoli — Corsican leader (1725–1807)
- 1740Nicolas Chamfort — French journalist and moralistic author
- 1773James Mill — Scottish historian, economist, political theorist and philosopher (1773-1836)
- 1812Alexander Herzen — Russian author, philosopher, and revolutionary (1812–1870)
- 1820Nadar — French photographer and balloonist (1820–1910)
- 1826Gustave Moreau — 19th century French Symbolist painter (1826-1898)
- 1851Guillaume Bigourdan — French astronomer (1851–1932)
- 1860René Lalique — French glass designer (1860–1945)
- 1878Erich Mühsam — German-Jewish anarchist writer (1878–1934)
- 1886I. Athenagoras — ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1886–1972)
- 1886Asaf Jah VII of Hyderabad — Last Monarch of the Kingdom of Hyderabad (1886-1967)
- 1890Anthony Fokker — Dutch aviation pioneer and an aircraft manufacturer (1890-1939)
- 1898Jeanne Hébuterne — French painter (1898–1920)
- 1901Pier Giorgio Frassati — Italian Dominican tertiary and social activist (1901–1925)
- 1904Kurt Georg Kiesinger — Chancellor of West Germany (1966–1969)
- 1911Feodor Lynen — German biochemist, Nobel Laureate (1911–1979)
- 1915Tadeusz Kantor — Polish artist (1915–1990)
- 1920Edmond H. Fischer — American biochemist (1920–2021)
- 1926Ian Paisley — politician and former church minister (1926-2014)
- 1927Gerry Mulligan — American jazz musician and composer (1927–1996)
- 1928James Watson — American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
Deaths · 60
- 861(Julian date)Prudentius of Troyes — Spanish bishop
- 943Nasr II — the fourth king of Samanid dynasty (914–943)
- 1147(Julian date)Frederick II, Duke of Swabia — second Hohenstaufen duke of Swabia from 1105
- 1199(Julian date)Richard I of England — King of England from 1189 to 1199 (1157–1199)
- 1252(Julian date)Peter of Verona — Italian Roman Catholic priest, martyr, and saint
- 1340(Julian date)Basil of Trebizond — Emperor of Trebizond
- 1362(Julian date)James I, Count of La Marche — Count of Ponthieu and Count of La Marche
- 1490(Julian date)Matthias Corvinus — King of Hungary and Bohemia, Duke of Austria (1443-1490)
- 1520(Julian date)Raphael — Italian painter and architect (1483–1520)
- 1528(Julian date)Albrecht Dürer — German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist (1471-1528)
- 1590Francis Walsingham — English spy, diplomat and politician (1532-1590)
- 1707Willem van de Velde the Younger — Dutch painter (1633-1707)
- 1790Louis IX of Hesse-Darmstadt — Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1719-1790)
- 1825(Julian date)Vladimir Borovikovsky — Russian artist (1757-1825)
- 1829Niels Henrik Abel — Norwegian mathematician (1802–1829)
- 1833Adamantios Korais — Greek humanist scholar (1748–1833)
- 1838José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva — (1763-1838) Brazilian politician
- 1862Albert Sidney Johnston — Confederate States Army officer (1803–1862)
- 1906Alexander Kielland — Norwegian writer
- 1927Florence Earle Coates — American writer and poet (1850-1927)
- 1935Edwin Arlington Robinson — American poet (1869–1935)
- 1944Rose O'Neill — American illustrator (1874-1944)
- 1947Herbert Backe — German politician (1896-1947)
- 1950Louis Wilkins — athletics competitor (1882-1950)
- 1961Jules Bordet — Belgian immunologist and microbiologist (1870-1961)
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