October 6

Pre-1600 • 105 BC – Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio of the Roman army of the mid-Republic • 69 BC – Third Mithridatic War: The military of the Roman Republic subdues Armenia. • AD 23 – Rebels decapitate Wang Mang, only Emperor of the Xin Dynasty, after his capital was sacked during a peasant rebellion. • 404 – Byzantine Empress Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of her seventh pregnancy. • 618 – Transition from Sui to Tang: Wang Shichong decisively defeats Li Mi at the Battle of Yanshi. • 1539 – Spain's DeSoto expedition takes over the Apalachee capital of Anhaica for their winter quarters. • 1600 – Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period. 1601–1900 • 1683 – Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America. • 1762 – Seven Years' War: The British capture Manila from Spain and occupy it. • 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River. • 1789 – French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace. • 1810 – A large fire destroys a third of all the buildings in the town of Raahe in the Grand Duchy of Finland. • 1849 – The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence. • 1854 – In England the Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead leads to 53 deaths and hundreds injured. • 1884 – The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island. • 1898 – Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music. 1901–present • 1903 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time. • 1908 – The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina. • 1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first of seven times. • 1915 – World War I: Combined Austro-Hungarian and German Central Powers, reinforced by the recently joined Bulgaria launched a new offensive against Serbia under command of August von Mackensen. • 1915 – World War I: Entente forces land in Thessaloniki, to open the Macedonian front against the Central Powers. • 1920 – Ukrainian War of Independence: The Starobilsk agreement is signed by representatives of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Makhnovshchina. • 1923 – The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople. • 1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie. • 1934 – Revolution of 1934: The President of the autonomous government of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, proclaims the Catalan State with the support of the Worker's Alliance. • 1939 – World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland. • 1942 – World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River during the Battle of Guadalcanal. • 1943 – World War II: Thirteen civilians are burnt alive by a paramilitary group in Crete during the Nazi occupation of Greece. • 1944 – World War II: Units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps enter Czechoslovakia during the Battle of the Dukla Pass. • 1973 – Egypt and Syria launch coordinated attacks against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War. • 1976 – Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group. • 1976 – Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China. • 1976 – Dozens are killed by Thai police and right-wing paramilitaries in the Thammasat University massacre; afterwards, the Seni Pramoj government is toppled in a military coup led by Sangad Chaloryu. • 1977 – The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight. • 1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House. • 1981 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists. • 1981 – NLM CityHopper Flight 431 crashes in Moerdijk after taking off from Rotterdam The Hague Airport in the Netherlands, killing all 17 people on board. • 1985 – Police constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London. • 1987 – Fiji becomes a republic. • 1990 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-41, and deploys the Ulysses space probe to study the Sun's polar regions. • 1995 – The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered. • 2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth. • 2010 – Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded. • 2018 – The United States Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Associate Justice, ending a contentious confirmation process. • 2022 – Annie Ernaux is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. • 2025 – The 2025 Alberta teachers' strike begins, leaving approximately 51,000 teachers off-work, impacting about 730,000 Albertan students. ==Births==

Pre-1600 • 649 – Yuknoom Yichʼaak Kʼahkʼ (died around 696) • 1289 – Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (died 1306) • 1459 – Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (died 1507) • 1510 – John Caius, English physician and academic, co-founded the Gonville and Caius College (died 1573) • 1510 – Rowland Taylor, English priest and martyr (died 1555) • 1552 – Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and missionary (died 1610) • 1555 – Ferenc Nádasdy, Hungarian noble (died 1604) • 1565 – Marie de Gournay, French writer (died 1645) • 1573 – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (died 1624) • 1576 – Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland (died 1612) • 1591 – Settimia Caccini, Italian singer-songwriter (died 1638) 1601–1900 • 1610 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French general (died 1690) • 1626 – Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (died 1684) • 1716 – George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1771) • 1729 – Sarah Crosby, English preacher, the first female Methodist preacher (died 1804) • 1732 – John Broadwood, Scottish businessman, co-founded John Broadwood and Sons (died 1812) • 1738 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (died 1789) • 1742 – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian-Danish poet and playwright (died 1785) • 1744 – James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University (died 1813) • 1767 – Henri Christophe, Grenadian-Haitian king (died 1820) • 1769 – Isaac Brock, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (died 1812) • 1773 – John MacCulloch, Scottish geologist and academic (died 1835) • 1773 – Louis Philippe I of France (died 1850) • 1801 – Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (died 1888) • 1803 – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Polish-German physicist and meteorologist (died 1879) • 1820 – James Caulfeild, 3rd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Armagh (died 1892) • 1820 – Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano and actress (died 1887) • 1831 – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1916) • 1838 – Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian soldier, poet, and author (died 1910) • 1846 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman, founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (died 1914) • 1862 – Albert J. Beveridge, American historian and politician (died 1927) • 1866 – Reginald Fessenden, Canadian engineer and academic, invented radiotelephony (died 1932) • 1874 – Frank G. Allen, American merchant and politician, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (died 1950) • 1876 – Ernest Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Justice (died 1941) • 1882 – Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer (died 1937) • 1886 – Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (died 1960) • 1887 – Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and painter, designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy (died 1965) • 1888 – Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot (died 1918) • 1891 – Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet and educator (died 1946) • 1893 – Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (died 1956) • 1895 – Caroline Gordon, American author and critic (died 1981) • 1896 – David Howard, American film director (died 1941) • 1897 – Florence B. Seibert, American biochemist and academic (died 1991) • 1900 – Vivion Brewer, American activist and desegregationist (died 1991) • 1900 – Willy Merkl, German mountaineer (died 1934) • 1900 – Stan Nichols, English cricketer (died 1961) 1901–present • 1901 – Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German-Brazilian zoologist and academic (died 1990) • 1903 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995) • 1905 – Helen Wills, American tennis player and painter (died 1998) • 1906 – Janet Gaynor, American actress (died 1984) • 1906 – Taffy O'Callaghan, Welsh footballer and coach (died 1946) • 1908 – Carole Lombard, American actress (died 1942) • 1922 – Joe Frazier, American baseball player and manager (died 2011) • 1922 – Teala Loring, American actress (died 2007) • 1923 – Robert Kuok, Malaysian Chinese business magnate and investor • 1923 – Yaşar Kemal, Turkish journalist and author (died 2015) • 1925 – Shana Alexander, American journalist and author (died 2005) • 1928 – Barbara Werle, American actress and singer (died 2013) • 1929 – George Mattos, American pole vaulter (died 2012) • 1930 – Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 20th President of Syria (died 2000) • 1934 – Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and author (died 2015) • 1935 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian-American wrestler and trainer (died 2018) • 1936 – Julius L. Chambers, American lawyer, educator, and activist (died 2013) • 1938 – Serge Nubret, Caribbean-French bodybuilder and actor (died 2011) • 1939 – Melvyn Bragg, English journalist, author, and academic • 1939 – Jack Cullen, American baseball player • 1939 – Richard Delgado, American lawyer and academic • 1939 – Sheila Greibach, American computer scientist and academic • 1939 – John J. LaFalce, American captain, lawyer, and politician • 1940 – Jan Keizer, Dutch footballer and referee • 1941 – Paul Popham, American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (died 1987) • 1942 – Dan Christensen, American painter (died 2007) • 1942 – Britt Ekland, Swedish actress and singer • 1959 – Turki bin Sultan, Saudi Arabian politician (died 2012) • 1959 – Oil Can Boyd, American baseball player • 1959 – Brian Higgins, American politician • 1959 – Walter Ray Williams, Jr., American bowler • 1960 – Richard Jobson, Scottish singer, songwriter director and producer. • 1961 – Miyuki Matsuda, Japanese actress • 1961 – Paul Sansome, English footballer • 1961 – Ben Summerskill, English businessman and journalist • 1962 – David Baker, American biologist and academic • 1962 – Rich Yett, American baseball player • 1963 – Sven Andersson, Swedish footballer and coach • 1963 – Elisabeth Shue, American actress • 1964 – Ricky Berry, American basketball player (died 1989) • 1964 – Mark Field, German-English lawyer and politician • 1964 – Tom Jager, American swimmer and coach • 1964 – Miltos Manetas, Greek painter • 1964 – Knut Storberget, Norwegian lawyer and politician, Norwegian Minister of Justice • 1964 – Matthew Sweet, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer • 1966 – Jacqueline Obradors, American actress • 1982 – Will Butler, American musician and composer • 1985 – Tarmo Kink, Estonian footballer • 1986 – Meg Myers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist • 1986 – Olivia Thirlby, American actress • 1990 – Nazem Kadri, Canadian ice hockey player • 1990 – Han Sun-hwa, South Korean singer and actress • 1992 – Josh Archibald, Canadian-American ice hockey player • 1992 – Taylor Paris, Canadian rugby player • 1993 – Adam Gemili, English sprinter • 1993 – Jourdan Miller, American fashion model • 1993 – Nail Yakupov, Russian ice hockey player • 1994 – Jake Guentzel, American ice hockey player • 1994 – Lee Joo-heon, South Korean rapper and songwriter • 1996 – Kevin Diks, Indonesian footballer • 1997 – Kasper Dolberg, Danish footballer • 1999 – Trevor Lawrence, American football player • 2000 – Jazz Jennings, American internet personality • 2000 – Kyle Pitts, American football player • 2000 – Addison Rae, American social media personality, dancer, and singer • 2001 – Hitomi Honda, Japanese singer based in South Korea • 2002 – Jonathan Kuminga, Congolese basketball player • 2004 – Bronny James, American basketball player • 2004 – Hanni, Australian singer ==Deaths==

Pre-1600 • AD 23 – Wang Mang, emperor of the Xin Dynasty • 404 – Aelia Eudoxia, Byzantine empress • 836 – Nicetas the Patrician, Byzantine general • 869 – Ermentrude of Orléans, Frankish queen (born 823) • 877 – Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor (born 823) • 997 – Minamoto no Mitsunaka, Japanese samurai (born 912) • 1014 – Samuel, tsar of the Bulgarian Empire • 1019 – Frederick of Luxembourg, count of Moselgau (born 965) • 1145 – Baldwin, archbishop of Pisa • 1090 – Adalbero, bishop of Würzburg • 1101 – Bruno of Cologne, German monk, founded the Carthusian Order • 1173 – Engelbert III, margrave of Istria • 1349 – Joan II of Navarre, daughter of Louis X of France (born 1312) • 1398 – Chŏng Tojŏn, Korean prime minister (born 1342) • 1413 – Dawit I, ruler (Emperor) of Ethiopia (born 1382) • 1536 – William Tyndale, English Protestant Bible translator (born c. 1494) • 1553 – Şehzade Mustafa, Ottoman prince (born 1515) • 1559 – William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count (born 1487) 1601–1900 • 1640 – Wolrad IV, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (born 1588) • 1641 – Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer • 1644 – Elisabeth of France, queen of Spain and Portugal (born 1602) • 1660 – Paul Scarron, French poet and author (born 1610) • 1661 – Guru Har Rai, Indian 7th Sikh guru (born 1630) • 1688 – Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English soldier and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (born 1652) • 1762 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian violinist and composer (born 1684) • 1819 – Charles Emmanuel IV, king of Sardinia (born 1751) • 1829 – Pierre Derbigny, French-American politician, 6th Governor of Louisiana (born 1769) • 1836 – Johannes Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter and actor (born 1770) • 1873 – Paweł Strzelecki, Polish-English geologist and explorer (born 1797) • 1883 – Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (born 1852) • 1891 – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (born 1846) • 1892 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (born 1809) 1901–present • 1912 – Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1829) • 1923 – Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1853) • 1942 – Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (born 1884) • 1945 – Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (born 1900) • 1947 – Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (born 1887) • 1951 – Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (born 1860) • 1951 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1884) • 1959 – Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (born 1865) • 1962 – Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (born 1880) • 1968 – Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (born 1917) • 1969 – Walter Hagen, American golfer (born 1892) • 1969 – Otto Steinböck, Austrian zoologist (born 1893) • 1972 – Cléo de Verberena, Brazilian actress and film director (born c. 1909) • 1973 – Sidney Blackmer, American actor (born 1895) • 1973 – François Cevert, French race car driver (born 1944) • 1973 – Dick Laan, Dutch actor, screenwriter, and author (born 1894) • 1973 – Dennis Price, English actor (born 1915) • 1973 – Margaret Wilson, American missionary and author (born 1882) • 1974 – Helmut Koinigg, Austrian race car driver (born 1948) • 1976 – Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher and author (born 1900) • 1978 – Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer-songwriter (born 1935) • 1979 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and short-story writer (born 1911) • 1980 – Hattie Jacques, English actress and producer (born 1922) • 1980 – Jean Robic, French cyclist (born 1921) • 1981 – Anwar Sadat, Egyptian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918) • 1983 – Terence Cooke, American cardinal (born 1921) • 1985 – Nelson Riddle, American composer, conductor, and bandleader (born 1921) • 1986 – Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (born 1921) • 1989 – Bette Davis, American actress (born 1908) • 1990 – Bahriye Üçok, Turkish sociologist and politician (born 1919) • 1991 – Igor Talkov, Russian singer-songwriter (born 1956) • 1992 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (born 1922) • 1992 – Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (born 1905) • 1993 – Nejat Eczacıbaşı, Turkish chemist, businessman, and philanthropist, founded Eczacıbaşı (born 1913) • 1993 – Larry Walters, American truck driver and pilot (born 1949) • 1995 – Benoît Chamoux, French mountaineer (born 1961) • 1997 – Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player and manager (born 1914) • 1998 – Mark Belanger, American baseball player (born 1944) • 1999 – Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (born 1920) • 1999 – Gorilla Monsoon, American wrestler and sportscaster (born 1937) • 2000 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor and stuntman (born 1920) • 2001 – Arne Harris, American director and producer (born 1934) • 2002 – Prince Claus of the Netherlands (born 1926) • 2006 – Bertha Brouwer, Dutch sprinter (born 1930) • 2006 – Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian director and screenwriter (born 1940) • 2006 – Buck O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (born 1911) • 2006 – Wilson Tucker, American author and critic (born 1914) • 2007 – Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian lawyer and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1921) • 2007 – Laxmi Mall Singhvi, Indian scholar, jurist, and politician (born 1931) • 2008 – Peter Cox, Australian public servant and politician (born 1925) • 2009 – Douglas Campbell, Scottish-Canadian actor and screenwriter (born 1922) • 2010 – Rhys Isaac, South-African-Australian historian and author (born 1937) • 2010 – Antonie Kamerling, Dutch television and film actor, and musician (born 1966) • 2011 – Diane Cilento, Australian actress and author (born 1932) • 2012 – Chadli Bendjedid, Algerian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Algeria (born 1929) • 2012 – Anthony John Cooke, English organist and composer (born 1931) • 2012 – Nick Curran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1977) • 2012 – Albert, Margrave of Meissen (born 1943) • 2012 – Joseph Meyer, American lawyer and politician, 19th Secretary of State of Wyoming (born 1941) • 2012 – B. Satya Narayan Reddy, Indian lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of West Bengal (born 1927) • 2012 – J. J. C. Smart, English-Australian philosopher and academic (born 1920) • 2013 – Ulysses Curtis, American-Canadian football player and coach (born 1926) • 2013 – Rift Fournier, American screenwriter and producer (born 1936) • 2013 – Paul Rogers, English actor (born 1917) • 2013 – Nico van Kampen, Dutch physicist and academic (born 1921) • 2014 – Vic Braden, American tennis player and coach (born 1929) • 2014 – Igor Mitoraj, German-Polish sculptor (born 1944) • 2014 – Diane Nyland, Canadian actress, director and choreographer (born 1944) • 2014 – Marian Seldes, American actress (born 1928) • 2014 – Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer and manager (born 1976) • 2014 – Feridun Buğeker, Turkish football player (born 1933) • 2015 – Árpád Göncz, Hungarian author, playwright, and politician, 1st President of Hungary (born 1922) • 2015 – Vladimir Shlapentokh, Ukrainian-American sociologist, historian, political scientist, and academic (born 1926) • 2015 – Juan Vicente Ugarte del Pino, Peruvian historian, lawyer, and jurist (born 1923) • 2017 – Ralphie May, American stand-up comedian and actor (born 1972) • 2017 – David Marks, British architect, designer of the London Eye (born 1952) • 2018 – Scott Wilson, American actor (born 1942) • 2018 – Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano (born 1933) • 2019 – Ginger Baker, English drummer (born 1939) • 2019 – Eddie Lumsden, Australian rugby league player (born 1936) • 2019 – Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian (born 1931) • 2020 – Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (born 1955) • 2020 – Johnny Nash, American singer-songwriter (born 1940) • 2024 – Dave Hobson, American politician (born 1936) • 2024 – Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer and manager (born 1951) ==Holidays and observances==

• Christian feast day: • Blessed Marie Rose Durocher • Blessed Juan de Palafox y Mendoza • Bruno of Cologne • Faith • Mary Frances of the Five Wounds • Pardulphus • Sagar of Laodicea • October 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) • William Tyndale (commemoration, Anglicanism), with Myles Coverdale (Episcopal Church (USA)) • World Space Week (October 4–10) • Day of Commemoration and National Mourning (Turkmenistan) • Dukla Pass Victims Day (Slovakia) • German-American Day (United States) • Memorial Day for the Martyrs of Arad (Hungary) • Teachers' Day (Sri Lanka) • Yom Kippur War commemorations: • Armed Forces Day (Egypt) • Tishreen Liberation Day (Syria) == References ==