On this day: 6 December
Events, births and deaths on 6 December. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Peter Vaughan
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1917 · Events · Finland
- 1920 · Births · George Porter
- 1922 · Events · Irish Free State
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 25
- 1534(Julian date)Quito — capital of Ecuador
- 1648Pride's Purge — Event in second English Civil War
- 1846Battle of San Pasqual — military encounter during the Mexican-American War that occurred north of San Diego, Ca.
- 1877The Washington Post — daily broadsheet newspaper in Washington, D.C.
- 1882transit of Venus, 1882 — transit of Venus across the Sun visible from Earth in 1882
- 1907Monongah Mining disaster — 1907 disaster in West Virginia
- 1916Battle of Bucharest — 1916 battle in Bucharest, Romania
- 1917Finland — country in Northern Europe
- 1917Halifax explosion — 1917 maritime disaster in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- 1921Anglo-Irish Treaty — 1921 agreement which ended the Irish War of Independence
- 1922Irish Free State — state on the island of Ireland between December 1922 and December 1937
- 1939Battle of Taipale — 1939 battle of the Winter War
- 1941Camp X — training installation
- 1942Stary Ciepielów and Rekówka massacre — World War II massacre of Poles who were aiding the Jewish refugees
- 1947Everglades National Park — one-and-a-half million acres in Florida (US) managed by the National Park Service
- 1956Blood in the Water match — water polo match between Hungary and the USSR in 1956
- 1969Altamont Free Concert — 1969 musical festival by the Rolling Stones
- 1975Balcombe Street Siege — 1975 hostage incident
- 1977Bophuthatswana — former bantustan in South Africa
- 1982Droppin Well bombing — 1982 nightclub bombing in Northern Ireland
- 1989École Polytechnique massacre — 1989 mass shooting in Montréal, Canada
- 1992demolition of Babri Masjid — religious riot in India
- 20052005 Iranian Air Force C-130 crash — air crash in Tehran
- 20152015 Venezuelan parliamentary election — election in Venezuela
- 2017United States recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel — 2017 U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital city
Births · 60
- 1285(Julian date)Ferdinand IV of Castile — Spanish monarch
- 1421(Julian date)Henry VI of England — King of England from 1422 to 1461 and from 1470 to 1471, disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453
- 1478(Julian date)Baldassarre Castiglione — Italian Renaissance author (1478-1529)
- 1520(Julian date)Barbara Radziwiłł — (1520-1551) queen-consort of Poland, Grand Duchess of Lithuania
- 1608(Julian date)George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle — English soldier and politician (1608-1670)
- 1685Marie Adélaïde of Savoy — Dauphine of France
- 1732Warren Hastings — Governor-General of Bengal, 1773–1785
- 1778Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac — French chemist and physicist (1778–1850)
- 1792William II of the Netherlands — King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1840 to 1849 (1792-1849)
- 1803Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony — Queen consort of Spain
- 1823Friedrich Max Müller — German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823–1900)
- 1841Frédéric Bazille — French painter (1841–1870)
- 1848Johann Palisa — Austrian astronomist (1848–1925)
- 1849August von Mackensen — German field marshal (1849–1945)
- 1887Lynn Fontanne — British actress (1887–1983)
- 1896Ira Gershwin — American lyricist (1896–1983)
- 1898Gunnar Myrdal — Swedish economist (1898–1987)
- 1898Alfred Eisenstaedt — German American photographer (1898–1995)
- 1900Agnes Moorehead — American actress (1900–1974)
- 1904Ève Curie — writer, journalist and pianist, younger daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie (1904–2007)
- 1916Kristján Eldjárn — Icelandic politician, 3rd President of Iceland (1916-1982)
- 1920George Porter — British chemist (1920–2002)
- 1920Dave Brubeck — American jazz pianist and composer (1920–2012)
- 1929Nikolaus Harnoncourt — Austrian conductor (1929–2016)
- 1929Alain Tanner — Swiss film director (1929–2022)
Deaths · 60
- 343(Julian date)Saint Nicholas — 4th-century Christian bishop and saint
- 762Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya — Descendant of Muhammad and revolutionary leader (died 762)
- 1185(Julian date)Afonso I of Portugal — king of Portugal from 1139 to 1185
- 1352(Julian date)Clement VI — Pope of the Catholic Church and the fourth Avignon Pope (1342–1352)
- 1550(Julian date)Pieter Coecke van Aelst — Flemish painter painter, sculptor, architect, author and designer of woodcuts, goldsmith's work, stained glass and tapestries (1502–1550)
- 1562(Julian date)Jan van Scorel — painter from the Northern Netherlands (1495–1562)
- 1618Jacques Davy Duperron — Catholic cardinal (1556–1618)
- 1658Baltasar Gracián — Aragonese Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher in Castilian language (1601-1658)
- 1675John Lightfoot — English churchman, rabbinical scholar (1602–1675)
- 1686Eleonora Gonzaga — Austrian queen
- 1718Nicholas Rowe — English poet, writer (1674-1718)
- 1771Giovanni Battista Morgagni — Italian anatomist (1682–1771)
- 1779Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin — painter from France (1699-1779)
- 1855William Swainson — English naturalist and artist (1789–1855)
- 1867Jean Pierre Flourens — Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens was a french physiologist, the first to demonstrate the function of most of the vertebrates central nervous system. (1794-1867)
- 1868August Schleicher — German philologist (1821–1868)
- 1878Theodoros Vryzakis — Greek painter (1814-1878)
- 1882Anthony Trollope — English novelist of the Victorian period (1815-1882)
- 1882Alfred Escher — Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur (1819–1882)
- 1887Shimazu Hisamitsu — 19th-century samurai
- 1889Jefferson Davis — President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865 (1808–1889)
- 1892Werner von Siemens — German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist (1816–1892)
- 1924Gene Stratton-Porter — American writer and naturalist (1863–1924)
- 1955Honus Wagner — American baseball player (1874-1955)
- 1956
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