On this day: 6 October
Events, births and deaths on 6 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Mohamed Tahir Ayala
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1930 · Births ·
- 1931 · Births · Riccardo Giacconi
- 1919 · Births · Siad Barre
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1014 · Deaths · Samuel of Bulgaria
- 1101 · Deaths · Bruno of Cologne
- 1019 · Deaths · Frederick of Luxembourg
Events · 18
- 69 BCEBattle of Tigranocerta — battle fought in 69 BCE
- 1683Germantown — neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- 1762British occupation of Manila — take of the Philippine city by the British between 1762 and 1764
- 1777Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery — 1777 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1799Battle of Castricum — 1799 battle
- 1854Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead — 1854 urban fire in the north-east of England
- 1920Starobilsk agreement — 1920 Russian Civil War treaty
- 1934
- 1934Catalan State — federated state of the Spanish Republic proclaimed in 1934
- 1973Yom Kippur War — October 1973 war between Egypt and Syria at one side and Israel on the other side
- 1973Operation Badr — Arab military operation against Israel in 1973
- 1976Thammasat University massacre — 1976 massacre in Thailand
- 1976Cubana Flight 455 — 1976 airliner bombing of a Cubana de Aviacion DC-8-43 near Barbados
- 1976Huairentang incident — coup d'etat against Gang of Four in October 1976
- 1981assassination of Anwar Sadat — Egyptian assassination
- 1981NLM CityHopper Flight 431 — 1981 aviation accident
- 1985Broadwater Farm riot — 1985 London riot
- 2022Nong Bua Lamphu massacre — 2022 mass murder in Thailand
Births · 60
- 1289Wenceslaus III of Bohemia — King of Hungary, Bohemia and Poland
- 1459(Julian date)Martin Behaim — German navigator and geographer to the King of Portugal (1459–1507)
- 1552(Julian date)Matteo Ricci — Italian Catholic missionary (1552–1610)
- 1565Marie de Gournay — French writer
- 1738Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria — (1738-1789)
- 1767Henri Christophe — President and King of North Haiti (1767–1820)
- 1773Louis-Philippe I — King of the French from 1830 to 1848 (1773-1850)
- 1820Jenny Lind — Swedish opera singer (1820–1887)
- 1831Richard Dedekind — German mathematician (1831–1916)
- 1846George Westinghouse — American inventor and businessman (1846–1914)
- 1866Reginald Fessenden — Canadian radio pioneer (1866–1932)
- 1882Karol Szymanowski — Polish composer (1882–1937)
- 1887Le Corbusier — Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886–1965)
- 1888Roland Garros — Reunionese aviator
- 1893Meghnad Saha — Bengali astrophysicist (1893–1956)
- 1903Ernest Walton — Irish physicist and Nobel laureate (1903-1995)
- 1905Helen Wills — American tennis player (1905–1998)
- 1906Janet Gaynor — American actress (1906–1984)
- 1908Carole Lombard — American actress (1908-1942)
- 1913Meret Oppenheim — German-Swiss surrealist artist and lyricist (1913–1985)
- 1914Thor Heyerdahl — Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer (1914-2002)
- 1919Siad Barre — Head of State of Somalia (1919–1995)
- 1923Yaşar Kemal — Kurdish writer and human rights activist (1923–2015)
- 1930
- 1931Riccardo Giacconi — Italian-American astrophysicist (1931-2018)
Deaths · 60
- 23(Julian date)Wang Mang — Han dynasty official and founding Emperor of the Xin Dynasty (c.45 BC-23 AD)
- 404(Julian date)Aelia Eudoxia — Empress consort of the Byzantine Emperor Arcadius
- 869(Julian date)Ermentrude of Orléans — Frankish queen
- 877(Julian date)Charles the Bald — King of West Francia from 843 to 877 and Carolingian Emperor from 875 to 877
- 1014(Julian date)Samuel of Bulgaria — Tsar of Bulgaria from 997 to 1014
- 1019(Julian date)Frederick of Luxembourg — Luxembourgian noble
- 1101Bruno of Cologne — founder of the Carthusian Order (1030–1101)
- 1349(Julian date)Joan II of Navarre — Queen of Navarre (1328-1349)
- 1398(Julian date)Jeong Do-jeon — Korean philosopher and politician (1342-1398)
- 1536(Julian date)William Tyndale — English Bible translator and reformer
- 1553(Julian date)Şehzade Mustafa — Ottoman prince; son of Suleiman the Magnificent (1515-1553)
- 1644Elisabeth of France — Queen consort of Spain (1602-1644)
- 1660Paul Scarron — French poet and dramatist (1610–1660)
- 1661Guru Har Rai — The seventh guru of Sikhism
- 1819Carlo Emanuele IV of Sardinia — King of Sardinia (1751-1819)
- 1873Paweł Strzelecki — Polish explorer and geologist (1797–1873)
- 1883Dục Đức — fifth emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty (1852–1883)
- 1891Charles Stewart Parnell — Irish politician (1846-1891)
- 1892Alfred Tennyson — British Poet Laureate (1809–1892)
- 1893Ford Madox Brown — British painter (1821–1893)
- 1912Auguste Beernaert — Belgian prime minister and human rights activist (1829-1912)
- 1923Damat Ferid Paşa — Ottoman Grand Vizier (1853-1923)
- 1945Leonardo Conti — physician, Nazi officer (1900-1945)
- 1951Otto Fritz Meyerhof — German biochemist (1884-1951)
- 1951Will Keith Kellogg — American businessman (1860–1951)
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