On This Day — October 6
4208 noted people were born and 1836 died on October 6 in our archive, including Ernest Walton, Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz and John Warnock.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on October 6
Ernest Walton
1903 – 1995
Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz
1836 – 1921
John Warnock
1940 – 2023
Nevil Maskelyne
1732 – 1811
Reginald Fessenden
1866 – 1932
Riccardo Giacconi
1931 – 2018
Abraham Robinson
1918 – 1974
Abul Maal Abdul Muhith
1934 – 2022
Adolfo Ernst
1832 – 1899
Alec Garden Fraser
1873 – 1962
Amina Helmi
b. 1970
Bruno Bonnell
b. 1958
Charles Dupin
1784 – 1873
Charles Wilkins Short
1794 – 1863
Clarence Cook Little
1888 – 1971
David Baker
b. 1962
Elisha Bartlett
1804 – 1855
Ernesto Laclau
1935 – 2014
Ernst Albert Gäumann
1893 – 1963
Florence Barbara Seibert
1897 – 1991
François Magendie
1783 – 1855
Goh Keng Swee
1918 – 2010
Guillermo Fernández Vara
1958 – 2025
Günther Gereke
1893 – 1970
Jan Bułhak
1876 – 1950
Jan Czekanowski
1882 – 1965
Jerzy Hausner
b. 1949
Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard
b. 1950
Lonnie Johnson
b. 1949
Marian Filar
1942 – 2020
Mario Capecchi
b. 1937
Meghnad Saha
1893 – 1956
Michael Hardie Boys
1931 – 2023
Michel Balinski
1933 – 2019
Mihai Drăgănescu
1929 – 2010
Paolo Savona
b. 1936
Robert Langlands
b. 1936
Seema Kennedy
b. 1974
Sir Edmund Monson, 1st Baronet
1834 – 1909
Todd Howard
b. 1970
Udo Zimmermann
1943 – 2021
Vera Baboun
b. 1964
Yuri G. Zdesenko
1943 – 2004
Abraham J. Twerski
1930 – 2021
Adam Kubert
b. 1959
Adolf von Hildebrand
1847 – 1921
Akio Koizumi
b. 1945
Albert Harkness
1822 – 1907
Albert J. Beveridge
1862 – 1927
Albert Kramer
1882 – 1943
Alberto de' Stefani
1879 – 1969
Alexander Vinnikov
b. 1955
Alfred Bossom
1881 – 1965
Ali Lutfi Mahmud
1935 – 2018
Ana María Ochoa
b. 1962
Andrei Krylov
b. 1956
Andrei Markovits
b. 1948
Andrew D. Maynard
b. 1965
Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia
b. 1962
Aziz Seyidov
b. 1956
Barbara Castle
1910 – 2002
Barbara Jatta
b. 1962
Bill Thompson
b. 1960
Bo Bergman
1869 – 1967
Boris Balmont
1927 – 2022
Brian MacDevitt
b. 1956
Brian Wandell
b. 1951
Bruno Abakanowicz
1852 – 1900
Carl Fredrik Meinander
1916 – 2004
Carola Schouten
b. 1977
Catriona Kelly
b. 1959
Chiang Wei-kuo
1916 – 1997
Christian Noyer
b. 1950
Daisuke Katayama
b. 1966
David Gompert
1945 – 2024
David Simmons
b. 1955
Denise Frossard
b. 1950
Diego Molano Vega
b. 1967
Eberhard Zeidler
1940 – 2016
Edvard Beyer
1920 – 2003
Edwin Fischer
1886 – 1960
Ellen Kushner
b. 1955
Emil Grigoryevich Gilels
1916 – 1985
Ernest Lapointe
1876 – 1941
Ernest Mallet
1863 – 1956
Ervin Dennis
b. 1936
Eugene A. Stead
1908 – 2005
Evan E. Eichler
b. 1968
Evgenii Landis
1921 – 1997
Filip Hjulström
1902 – 1982
François de La Rocque
1885 – 1946
Fábio Konder Comparato
b. 1936
George Horace Lorimer
1867 – 1937
George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax
1716 – 1771
George Westinghouse
1846 – 1914
Graham Oppy
b. 1960
Guillaume Abel Blouet
1795 – 1853
Gustaf Lagerbjelke
1817 – 1895
Halina Bieda
b. 1962
Harold Sonny White
b. 1965
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
1803 – 1879
Helena Helmersson
b. 1973
Henri-Thomas Taschereau
1841 – 1909
Henry Longueville Mansel
1820 – 1871
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton
1573 – 1624
Herman Quirmbach
b. 1950
Horace Chapin Henry
1844 – 1928
Humberto Sousa Medeiros
1915 – 1983
Ian H. White
b. 1959
Ian Jacobs
b. 1957
Jacob Needleman
1934 – 2022
Jakuta Alikavazovic
b. 1979
James Caulfeild, 3rd Earl of Charlemont
1820 – 1892
James Duff, 4th Earl Fife
1776 – 1857
James McGill
1744 – 1813
Janet Gaynor
1906 – 1984
Jean François Aimé Dejean
1749 – 1824
Jenni Olson
b. 1962
Jerzy Owsiak
b. 1953
Jitan Ram Manjhi
b. 1944
John Caius
1510 – 1573
John MacCulloch
1773 – 1835
John Mudge
1721 – 1793
John Roe
1959 – 2018
Jonathan Alter
b. 1957
Joost-Pieter Katoen
b. 1964
Josef Moser
b. 1955
Joseph Finder
b. 1958
Joseph d'Arbaud
1874 – 1950
Ju Gau-jeng
1954 – 2021
Julius L. Chambers
1936 – 2013
K. Padmanabhaiah
b. 1938
Ken Goldberg
b. 1961
Lai Ching-te
b. 1959
Lauri Hakulinen
1899 – 1985
Leopold Hager
b. 1935
Les Moonves
b. 1949
Lesley B. Wells
1937 – 2025
Liu Yang
b. 1978
Lowell Thomas Jr.
1923 – 2016
Lydia Fotiyeva
1881 – 1975
Lyuben Berov
1925 – 2006
Marcelo Fuentes
b. 1948
Mauri Pekkarinen
b. 1947
Max Butting
1888 – 1976
Melvyn Bragg
b. 1939
Michael Struwe
b. 1955
Miguel García Cuesta
1803 – 1873
Mikhail Babushkin
1893 – 1938
Muhammad V of Kelantan
b. 1969
Ngô Đình Thục
1897 – 1984
Nichola J. Raihani
b. 1980
Owsei Temkin
1902 – 2002
Paul Badura-Skoda
1927 – 2019
Paula Scher
b. 1948
Perkins Bass
1912 – 2011
Peter Dowding
b. 1943
Peter Pellegrini
b. 1975
Pieter Steinz
1963 – 2016
Prince Lucien Campbell
1861 – 1925
Raymond A. Thomas
b. 1958
René Richard Louis Castel
1758 – 1832
René de Marees van Swinderen
1860 – 1955
Ricardo Rozzi
b. 1960
Richard Dedekind
1831 – 1916
Richard Geoffrey Gerard
1904 – 1997
Richie Benaud
1930 – 2015
Robert Courrier
1895 – 1986
Saifur Rahman
1932 – 2009
Samuel Abraham Poznański
1864 – 1921
Santiago Schnell
b. 1971
Sebastian Bonhoeffer
b. 1965
Steven Sinofsky
b. 1965
Tadao Satō
1930 – 2022
Takatoshi Ito
1950 – 2025
Teus Hagen
b. 1945
Thomas Brown
1861 – 1934
Thore Horve
1899 – 1990
Ulf Fink
1942 – 2025
Ulysses Guimarães
1916 – 1992
Ursula Reutner
b. 1975
Vadim Gutzeit
b. 1971
Vasile Tarlev
b. 1963
Vico Magistretti
1920 – 2006
Vinod Khanna
1946 – 2017
Wang Huning
b. 1955
Wang Yupu
1956 – 2020
Willem Mörzer Bruyns
b. 1943
William J. Bratton
b. 1947
William Klemperer
1927 – 2017
Wolfgang Langhoff
1901 – 1966
Yang Huanming
b. 1952
Yevgeny Berkovich
b. 1945
Yves Leterme
b. 1960
Addison Rae
b. 2000
Adham Baba
b. 1962
Aida Nersisyan
b. 1948
Akatsuki Kambayashi
1902 – 1980
Akihiro Ōta
b. 1945
Alan W. Jones
1894 – 1969
… and 4,008 more
Died on October 6
Nathanael Pringsheim
1823 – 1894
Otto Fritz Meyerhof
1884 – 1951
Auguste Himly
1823 – 1906
Balthasar van der Pol
1889 – 1959
Benjamin Peirce
1809 – 1880
Bernard Germain de Lacépède
1756 – 1825
Evgeni Bushmin
1958 – 2019
Hans Horst Meyer
1853 – 1939
Herbert Feuerstein
1937 – 2020
Ivan Vidav
1918 – 2015
Oleg Seleznyov
1959 – 2021
Per-Olov Löwdin
1916 – 2000
Roger A. Sheldon
1942 – 2025
Simone Mayer
1920 – 2006
Tatevik Sazandaryan
1916 – 1999
Tetsundo Iwakuni
1936 – 2023
Werner Maihofer
1918 – 2009
Émile Mâle
1862 – 1954
Adolf Wüllner
1835 – 1908
Adrien Albert Marie de Mun
1841 – 1914
Aleksandr Skochinsky
1874 – 1960
Alexander Kronrod
1921 – 1986
Alfred Tennyson
1809 – 1892
Antoine Derizet
1697 – 1768
Anwar Sadat
1918 – 1981
Araz Alizadeh
1951 – 2022
Arthur von Mohrenheim
1824 – 1906
August Leopold Crelle
1780 – 1855
Auguste Beernaert
1829 – 1912
Bahriye Üçok
1919 – 1990
Bert Schwarz
1917 – 1999
Bette Davis
1908 – 1989
Carlo Emanuele IV of Sardinia
1751 – 1819
Charles Philippe Robin
1821 – 1885
Christen Schmidt
1727 – 1804
Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle
1653 – 1688
Constant Puyo
1857 – 1933
Dana Drábová
1961 – 2025
David Masson
1822 – 1907
Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
1812 – 1871
Elizabeth Bishop
1911 – 1979
Eugène Fabry
1856 – 1944
Ferdinand von Richthofen
1833 – 1905
François Budan de Boislaurent
1761 – 1840
Frederica de Laguna
1906 – 2004
George Pollock
1786 – 1872
Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim
1771 – 1853
Granville Bantock
1868 – 1946
Gustaf Nyblæus
1816 – 1902
Heinz Sielmann
1917 – 2006
Henry Gurney
1898 – 1951
Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton
1817 – 1907
Henry Horner
1878 – 1940
Hugh Kindersley, 2nd Baron Kindersley
1899 – 1976
Ismael Tocornal
1850 – 1929
J. Reuben Clark
1871 – 1961
Jean-François Le Sueur
1760 – 1837
Jessie Bernard
1903 – 1996
John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton
1928 – 2020
John V. Wehausen
1913 – 2005
John Young
1773 – 1837
John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar
1807 – 1876
Jules Audent
1834 – 1910
Julian Przyboś
1901 – 1970
Karl I of Württemberg
1823 – 1891
Khristo Kabakchiev
1878 – 1940
Konstantin Nevolin
1806 – 1855
L. L. Langstroth
1810 – 1895
Laxmi Mall Singhvi
1931 – 2007
Leslie Issott Grange
1894 – 1980
Louis Olivier Bourbeau
1811 – 1877
Lucien Brouha
1899 – 1968
Luther H. Hodges
1898 – 1974
Marian Seldes
1928 – 2014
Mark Shevelev
1904 – 1991
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes
1895 – 1982
Mohsen Foroughi
1907 – 1983
Montserrat Caballé
1933 – 2018
Moreira Alves
1933 – 2023
Moritz Schiff
1823 – 1896
Nicholas Crafts
1949 – 2023
Noé Jitrik
1928 – 2022
Osborn Bergin
1873 – 1950
Paul Ledoux
1914 – 1988
Pavlo Muravskyi
1914 – 2014
Porter H. Dale
1867 – 1933
Prince Claus of the Netherlands
1926 – 2002
Raden Eddy Martadinata
1921 – 1966
Raymond Federman
1928 – 2009
Robert Munro, 1st Baron Alness
1868 – 1955
Robert Pitofsky
1929 – 2018
Roderic Hill
1894 – 1954
Rolan Bykov
1929 – 1998
Ruth L. Kirschstein
1926 – 2009
Samuil Bernstein
1910 – 1997
Shigemaru Takenokoshi
1906 – 1980
Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Baronet
1769 – 1843
Terence Cooke
1921 – 1983
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon
1896 – 1974
Vera Mukhina
1889 – 1953
Vilhelm Melbye
1824 – 1882
Walter William Skeat
1835 – 1912
William Bundy
1917 – 2000
William Withering
1741 – 1799
Yukio Ozaki
1858 – 1954
Yury Yegorov
1938 – 2018
Árpád Göncz
1922 – 2015
Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al Zamil
1941 – 2019
Abel Mix Phelps
1851 – 1902
Alan Neil Bloch
1932 – 2024
Alexander Carr-Saunders
1886 – 1966
Alexandr Fedorovich Okulov
1908 – 1993
Alphonse Gallegos
1931 – 1991
Alphonse Périn
1798 – 1874
Anastasios Orlandos
1887 – 1979
Anders Jahan Retzius
1742 – 1821
Anthony Cleasby
1804 – 1879
Antonio Cisneros
1942 – 2012
Anđelko Habazin
1924 – 1978
Arthur Prior
1914 – 1969
Atef Sadat
1948 – 1973
Augustus Matthiessen
1831 – 1870
Bailey Brown
1917 – 2004
Barbara Oliver Hagerman
1943 – 2016
Bede Clifford
1890 – 1969
Ben Eastman
1911 – 2002
Benjamin T. Eames
1818 – 1901
Bernard Berenson
1865 – 1959
Bill O'Reilly
1905 – 1992
Buck O'Neil
1911 – 2006
Carlo Bascapè
1550 – 1615
Chadli Bendjedid
1929 – 2012
Chaim Landau
1916 – 1981
Chapman Revercomb
1895 – 1979
Charles A. Doyen
1859 – 1918
Charles Edward Adams
1867 – 1936
Charles Marie de Beaumont d'Autichamp
1770 – 1859
Charles Stewart Parnell
1846 – 1891
Charles de Viel-Castel
1800 – 1887
Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf
1738 – 1815
Claire Celsi
1966 – 2025
Clifton A. Woodrum
1887 – 1950
Connie Hawkins
1942 – 2017
Cyril George Hopkins
1866 – 1919
Daniel da Silva
1814 – 1878
Danny Greene
1933 – 1977
Datto Vaman Potdar
1890 – 1979
Dave Hobson
1936 – 2024
David D. Terry
1881 – 1963
David Petel
1921 – 2019
Denholm Elliott
1922 – 1992
Diane Cilento
1932 – 2011
Diego C. Asencio
1931 – 2020
Diego Fernández de Córdoba, Marquis of Guadalcázar
1578 – 1630
Domenico Cotugno
1736 – 1822
Don Goodsir
1937 – 2010
Dudley E. Littlewood
1903 – 1979
Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave
1565 – 1646
Eef Brouwers
1939 – 2018
Eugen Steimle
1909 – 1987
Filippo Severoli
1762 – 1822
Filomeno Caseñas
1888 – 1944
Francisco Acuña de Figueroa
1791 – 1862
Frank Emilio
1935 – 2023
François Baby
1733 – 1820
Frazelia Campbell
1849 – 1930
Fred L. Walker
1887 – 1969
Frederick Henry Norman
1839 – 1916
Frederick L. Ransome
1868 – 1935
Gaylord Simpson
1902 – 1984
Geoffrey Yeend
1927 – 1994
George Bedbrook
1921 – 1991
George Cotton
1813 – 1866
George Cromwell Scott
1864 – 1948
George F. Senner, Jr.
1921 – 2007
George Hay
1715 – 1778
George Huntston Williams
1914 – 2000
George Rawlinson
1812 – 1902
Gertrude Healy
1894 – 1984
Gordon Mydland
1922 – 2022
Gorilla Monsoon
1937 – 1999
Gugliemo Sirleto
1514 – 1585
Gyula Gömbös
1886 – 1936
Hans Berger
1938 – 2022
Hans Primas
1928 – 2014
Harold W. Roberts
1895 – 1918
Henrik Petrini
1863 – 1957
Henry Calvin
1918 – 1975
Henry Lascelles, 5th Earl of Harewood
1846 – 1929
Henryk Vogelfanger
1904 – 1990
Herbert Brede
1888 – 1942
Hugh White
1798 – 1870
Igor Mitoraj
1944 – 2014
J. Russell Capps
1931 – 2020
Jacob Dircksz de Graeff
1569 – 1638
James Chalmers McRuer
1890 – 1985
James E. Shepard
1875 – 1947
James Grove Fulton
1903 – 1971
James Redfield
1824 – 1864
James S. Copley
1916 – 1973
… and 1,636 more