On This Day — December 6
3798 noted people were born and 1964 died on December 6 in our archive, including Charles Frederick Chandler, George Porter and George Uhlenbeck.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on December 6
Charles Frederick Chandler
1836 – 1925
George Porter
1920 – 2002
George Uhlenbeck
1900 – 1988
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
1778 – 1850
Arul Chinnaiyan
b. 1969
Bertrand Halperin
b. 1941
Bill Thomas
b. 1941
Carl Julius Salomonsen
1847 – 1924
Charles Graves
1812 – 1899
Craig Newmark
b. 1952
Crawford S. Holling
1930 – 2019
Deborah Estrin
b. 1959
Ewan Birney
b. 1972
François de Rugy
b. 1973
Friedrich Max Müller
1823 – 1900
Geoffrey Hinton
b. 1947
Gunnar Myrdal
1898 – 1987
Henryk Mikolaj Górecki
1933 – 2010
Hichem Djaït
1935 – 2021
Hou Renzhi
1911 – 2013
Iryna Kalynets
1940 – 2012
Janusz Wojciechowski
b. 1954
Jean-Pierre Wintenberger
1954 – 2019
Johann Palisa
1848 – 1925
Kristján Eldjárn
1916 – 1982
Masatoshi Ōkōchi
1878 – 1952
Mykola Amosov
1913 – 2002
Nevile Bland
1886 – 1972
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
1929 – 2016
Philippe Bouvard
1929 – 2026
Sadyr Japarov
b. 1968
Sutiyoso
b. 1944
Sylvie Goulard
b. 1964
Walther von Dyck
1856 – 1934
Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig
1835 – 1910
William John Sullivan
b. 1976
Wu Maw-kuen
b. 1949
Yakov Malik
1906 – 1980
Abish Kekilbayev
1939 – 2015
Akram Aylisli
b. 1937
Alberto Carlos Taquini
1905 – 1998
Albin Weisbach
1833 – 1901
Alicia Munnell
b. 1942
Ana Lydia Vega
b. 1946
Andrea Agnelli
b. 1975
Andreas Bernkop-Schnürch
b. 1965
Andrew Cuomo
b. 1957
Angelika Brandt
b. 1961
Anne Begg
b. 1955
Anne Lammila
b. 1957
Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd
1871 – 1947
Arne Magnéli
1914 – 1996
Arne Sunde
1883 – 1972
Arnon Milchan
b. 1944
August Sicard von Sicardsburg
1813 – 1868
Auguste Caristie
1783 – 1862
Benjamin A. Gilman
1922 – 2016
Berhanu Nega
b. 1958
Bernard Keble Sandwell
1876 – 1954
Brit Morin
b. 1985
Christopher Wenner
1954 – 2021
Clyde Cowan
1919 – 1974
Cándida Martínez López
b. 1951
David L. Spector
b. 1952
Duilio Arigoni
1928 – 2020
Evelyn Ruggles-Brise
1857 – 1935
F. David Mathews
b. 1935
Fauzia Nasreen
b. 1950
Feng Gong
b. 1957
Fouad Ali El Himma
b. 1962
François Flameng
1856 – 1923
Geoff Hoon
b. 1953
Gerrit Smith Miller Jr.
1869 – 1956
Gunnar Kulldorff
1927 – 2015
Hans Schinz
1858 – 1941
Harold E. Shear
1918 – 1999
Helen Greiner
b. 1967
Helen Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke
b. 1950
Henriëtte Bosmans
1895 – 1952
Henry Francis Cary
1772 – 1844
Henry John Cody
1868 – 1951
Henryk Stępień
b. 1948
Ignaz Schustala
1822 – 1891
Igor Kastyukevich
b. 1976
Jacques Biot
b. 1952
Jan Haag
1933 – 2024
Jan Jesenius
1566 – 1621
Janine Turner
b. 1962
Jason Reynolds
b. 1983
Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant
1790 – 1872
Joe Hisaishi
b. 1950
Johann Friedrich Mayer
1650 – 1712
Johannes Brand
1823 – 1888
John Cowan
1866 – 1953
John D. Mayer
b. 1953
John E. Baldwin
1931 – 2010
Jonathan King
b. 1944
Josip Globevnik
b. 1945
Juan Carlos Genao Pérez
1959 – 2024
Juan Prim, 1st Marquis of los Castillejos
1814 – 1870
Julian E. Zelizer
b. 1969
Kalev Kallo
1948 – 2024
Kamal Jumblatt
1917 – 1977
Karen Bakker
1971 – 2023
Karine Nahon
b. 1972
Karl Rathgen
1856 – 1921
Khachatur Bezirjyan
b. 1950
Lee Chunhee
b. 1955
Lev Gudkov
b. 1946
Libbie Henrietta Hyman
1888 – 1969
Ludwika Nitschowa
1889 – 1989
Malcolm Richard Wilkey
1918 – 2009
Margaret Morse Nice
1883 – 1974
Marian Pilot
1936 – 2024
Marian Spychalski
1906 – 1980
Mariana Enriquez
b. 1973
Marjorie O'Neill
b. 1985
Martha Minow
b. 1954
Martin Hirsch
b. 1963
Matt Dunigan
b. 1960
Matthew F. McHugh
b. 1938
Michael Bidwill
b. 1964
Michael E. Wysession
b. 1961
Michael Greenstone
b. 1968
Mikhail Khilkov
1834 – 1909
Mineke Schipper
b. 1938
Mortimer Taube
1910 – 1965
Motohisa Furukawa
b. 1965
Mykola Yunakiv
1871 – 1931
Na Kyung-won
b. 1963
Nancy Brinker
b. 1946
Nicholas Annenkov
1799 – 1865
Nicos Christodoulides
b. 1973
Nikola Pašić
1845 – 1926
Nikolai Tomsky
1900 – 1984
Nikolay Mikhaylovich Kharlamov
1905 – 1983
Nikos Tornaritis
b. 1964
Nirupama Rao
b. 1950
Odd Nansen
1901 – 1973
Oronike Odeleye
b. 1979
Oskaras Koršunovas
b. 1969
Oswald Hoffmann
1913 – 2005
Otto Nordenskjöld
1869 – 1928
Paco Lobaton
b. 1951
Patsy Mink
1927 – 2002
Paul Bonatz
1877 – 1956
Paul Reeves
1932 – 2011
Paul-Émile Botta
1802 – 1870
Pierre Boutroux
1880 – 1922
Pyotr Durnovo
1835 – 1918
Pyotr Vannovskiy
1822 – 1904
Ralph Eberhart
b. 1946
Ray LaHood
b. 1945
Richard D. Leapman
b. 1950
Richard Davies Hanson
1805 – 1876
Richard Edlund
b. 1940
Robert A. Seiple
b. 1942
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala
1810 – 1890
Rolf Hoppe
1930 – 2018
Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson
1878 – 1937
Satoru Iwata
1959 – 2015
Savka Dabčević-Kučar
1923 – 2009
Sherman Kent
1903 – 1986
Shūmei Ōkawa
1886 – 1957
Suh Hoon
b. 1954
Susie Wolff
b. 1982
Syed Saddiq
b. 1992
Séverine Autesserre
b. 1976
Tadeusz Romer
1894 – 1978
Takuma Miyaji
b. 1979
Tareque Masud
1956 – 2011
Tim Cahill
b. 1979
Timothy Harris
b. 1964
Uehara Yūsaku
1856 – 1933
Ulrich K. Preuss
b. 1939
Vladimir Naumov
1927 – 2021
Wilhelm Herrmann
1846 – 1922
Wilhelmina Seegmiller
1866 – 1913
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
1592 – 1676
William Denny
1872 – 1946
William II of the Netherlands
1792 – 1849
William Marcellus Howard
1857 – 1932
William N. Schoenfeld
1915 – 1996
William Wilfred Sullivan
1839 – 1920
Willibald Jentschke
1911 – 2002
Wojciech Zabłocki
1930 – 2020
Yan Rachinsky
b. 1958
Yoshihide Suga
b. 1948
Yoshio Nishina
1890 – 1951
Zhanna Agalakova
b. 1965
Ève Curie
1904 – 2007
Abdulhussain Abdulredha
1939 – 2017
Adam Heydel
1893 – 1941
Adam Szłapka
b. 1984
Adolfo Saldías
1849 – 1914
Adrian Fenty
b. 1970
Adrian Sebastian Fleming
1872 – 1940
Agnes Moorehead
1900 – 1974
Agustín Antolínez
1554 – 1626
Aires Ali
b. 1955
… and 3,598 more
Died on December 6
Friedrich Ernst Dorn
1848 – 1916
Jean Pierre Flourens
1794 – 1867
Rudolf Wolf
1816 – 1893
Arve Johnsen
1934 – 2023
Dyzma Gałaj
1915 – 2000
Félix Archimède Pouchet
1800 – 1872
Gustaaf Wappers
1803 – 1874
Helmut Landsberg
1906 – 1985
Heorhii Maiboroda
1913 – 1992
Jefferson Davis
1808 – 1889
John Brooks Slaughter
1934 – 2023
Joseph Leonard Walsh
1895 – 1973
Joseph Lieutaud
1703 – 1780
Kåre Willoch
1928 – 2021
Pentti Eskola
1883 – 1964
Tabaré Vázquez
1940 – 2020
Vavro Šrobár
1867 – 1950
Werner von Siemens
1816 – 1892
Yevda Abramov
1948 – 2019
Adolphe Alphand
1817 – 1891
Alexander Dianin
1851 – 1918
Alexandre Frédéric Jacques de Masson Pezay
1741 – 1777
Alice Freeman Palmer
1855 – 1902
André Moulonguet
1887 – 1983
Arthur de Capell Brooke
1791 – 1858
August Schleicher
1821 – 1868
Auguste Chapuis
1858 – 1933
Burr Tillstrom
1917 – 1985
Béla Schick
1877 – 1967
Charles Caesar
1590 – 1642
Charles Otis Whitman
1842 – 1910
Chōzaburō Kusumoto
1871 – 1946
César Baldaccini
1921 – 1998
Dan J. Stein
1962 – 2025
David John Galloway
1942 – 2014
Denis de Rougemont
1906 – 1985
Emilian Voiutschi
1850 – 1920
Enrique Anderson Imbert
1910 – 2000
Erhard Schmidt
1876 – 1959
Esko Seppänen
1946 – 2025
Eugen Dücker
1841 – 1916
Fred Hiatt
1955 – 2021
George Dunbar
1774 – 1851
Giuseppe Trabucchi
1904 – 1975
Gustave Stoskopf
1869 – 1944
Hanns Dieter Hüsch
1925 – 2005
Huang Fu
1883 – 1936
Illia Kyva
1977 – 2023
Jacques Hébert
1923 – 2007
James Reston
1909 – 1995
James William Colvile
1810 – 1880
James Yorke Scarlett
1799 – 1871
Janusz Dzięcioł
1953 – 2019
Jean Claude Eugène Péclet
1793 – 1857
Jean-Pierre Rioux
1939 – 2024
Jenkin Coles
1843 – 1911
Johann Karl Rodbertus
1805 – 1875
John Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington
1866 – 1936
John Lightfoot
1602 – 1675
John Payne
1912 – 1989
Joseph Black
1728 – 1799
João Goulart
1918 – 1976
János Scheffler
1887 – 1952
Karl Ludwig Lautenschlaeger
1888 – 1962
Leo Stanton Rowe
1871 – 1946
Louis Bertrand
1866 – 1941
Lucien Tesnière
1893 – 1954
Marie Emmanuel Augustin Savard
1861 – 1942
Maximilian Steinberg
1883 – 1946
Melvin Kranzberg
1917 – 1995
Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov
1904 – 1974
Nikolay Moiseyev
1902 – 1955
Paul Sarbanes
1933 – 2020
Pavel Dolukhanov
1937 – 2009
Peder Olivarius Bugge
1764 – 1849
Peeter Mudist
1942 – 2013
Percival Proctor Baxter
1876 – 1969
Peter Lorenz
1922 – 1987
Philip Bouverie Bowyer Nichols
1894 – 1962
Pierre-François Audry de Puyraveau
1773 – 1852
Ralph A. Sawyer
1895 – 1978
Richard Dacres
1799 – 1886
Richard Stone
1913 – 1991
Robert A. Swanson
1947 – 1999
Robert Esnault-Pelterie
1881 – 1957
Robert Ludvigovich Bartini
1897 – 1974
Ron Leibman
1937 – 2019
Rowland Egerton-Warburton
1804 – 1891
Russell Conwell
1843 – 1925
Sidney Willard
1780 – 1856
Soedardjat Nataatmadja
1938 – 2020
Tadashige Daigo
1891 – 1947
Thomas R. Morgan
1930 – 2024
Tom Hicks
1946 – 2025
Tom W. Bonner
1910 – 1961
Tunku Abdul Rahman
1903 – 1990
Valfrid Palmgren
1877 – 1967
Vishnu Madhav Ghatage
1908 – 1991
Vsevolod Ivanovich Romanovsky
1879 – 1954
William H. Gass
1924 – 2017
Yaakov Moshe Charlap
1882 – 1951
Yoginder K Alagh
1939 – 2022
Adolf Burger
1917 – 2016
Adolph Olson Eberhart
1870 – 1944
Afanasy Selishchev
1886 – 1942
Albert Tarantola
1949 – 2009
Aleksandr Palladin
1885 – 1972
Alexander Hollaender
1898 – 1986
Alfred Escher
1819 – 1882
Ali Jawad Zaidi
1916 – 2004
Ali-Asghar Zarei
1956 – 2020
Aloisea Inyumba
1964 – 2012
Ambrosio Echebarria Arroita
1922 – 2010
Amos Ettinger
1937 – 2023
Andrew A. Bruce
1866 – 1934
André Aschieri
1937 – 2021
André Brouillet
1857 – 1914
André-Gaston Prételat
1874 – 1969
Anthony Trollope
1815 – 1882
Antonia Nantel
1886 – 1955
Antonino Caponnetto
1920 – 2002
Archibald Henderson
1877 – 1963
Arthur Hobhouse, 1st Baron Hobhouse
1819 – 1904
Ba Swe
1915 – 1987
Baltzar von Platen
1766 – 1829
Bartomeu Melià
1932 – 2019
Bashford Dean
1867 – 1928
Bhagwan Sahay
1905 – 1986
Bina Rai
1931 – 2009
Bruce Irons
1924 – 1983
Carla Voltolina
1921 – 2005
Carlos Camacho
1924 – 1979
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
1918 – 2003
Champfleury
1821 – 1889
Chang Hsin-hai
1900 – 1972
Chang Sŏng-man
1932 – 2015
Charles A. Storke
1847 – 1936
Charles Bass Reed
1941 – 2016
Christodoulos Sozos
1872 – 1912
Clement VI
1291 – 1352
Curtis Keeble
1922 – 2008
Daniel Parker Coke
1745 – 1825
Dennis Ralston
1942 – 2020
Derenik Demirchian
1877 – 1956
Devan Nair
1923 – 2005
Dmitri Volkogonov
1928 – 1995
Dmitry Timofeyevich Kozlov
1896 – 1967
Don Ameche
1908 – 1993
Donald K. Fry
1937 – 2021
Duke Carl Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
1863 – 1934
Dumitru Popovici
1902 – 1952
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim
1937 – 2021
Edith Mary Brown
1864 – 1956
Edme Castaing
1796 – 1823
Edmund Dwyer-Gray
1870 – 1945
Eduard von Rindfleisch
1836 – 1908
Ernest Scott
1867 – 1939
Eugène Brieux
1858 – 1932
Eugène Deully
1860 – 1933
F. Jay Nimtz
1915 – 1990
Florence Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh
1889 – 1969
Frances Bavier
1902 – 1989
Francesco Contarini
1566 – 1624
Francis George Atkinson
1874 – 1902
Francisco de Borbón y de la Torre
1882 – 1952
George Alfred Carlson
1876 – 1926
George Edwards
1850 – 1933
George Fleming
1938 – 2021
George Van Horn Moseley Jr.
1905 – 1976
Gian Maria Volonte
1933 – 1994
Gordon Bridson
1909 – 1972
Grigol Peradze
1899 – 1942
Hans Hotter
1909 – 2003
Harold Ross
1892 – 1951
Harry B. Amey
1868 – 1949
Harry Harlow
1905 – 1981
Henry Fagan
1889 – 1963
Henry Fox-Strangways, 5th Earl of Ilchester
1847 – 1905
Henry Haig
1930 – 2007
Henry Lowther
1790 – 1867
Herbert Ratner
1907 – 1997
Hilda Thegerström
1838 – 1907
Ho Yin
1908 – 1983
Ion Mincu
1852 – 1912
Irena Laskowska
1925 – 2019
Isa Sedigh
1894 – 1978
Jacky Morael
1959 – 2016
Jacques Davy Duperron
1556 – 1618
Jakob Sporrenberg
1902 – 1952
James Bigwood
1839 – 1919
James Leslie
1786 – 1873
James Mellor Paulton
1857 – 1923
James Raine
1791 – 1858
James Thomas Lynn
1927 – 2010
Jan Paweł Woronicz
1757 – 1829
Jarl Hemmer
1893 – 1944
Jaromír Kohlíček
1953 – 2020
Jean-Baptiste Meilleur
1796 – 1878
Jean-Baptiste Verchère de Reffye
1821 – 1880
Jean-Marie Seroney
1927 – 1982
… and 1,764 more