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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 6th of December 1060 | EVENT | Bela I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary. |
| 6th of December 1240 | EVENT | Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan. |
| 6th of December 1534 | EVENT | The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastian de Belalcazar. |
| 6th of December 1648 | EVENT | Colonel Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge". |
| 6th of December 1704 | EVENT | Battle of Chamkaur. |
| 6th of December 1745 | EVENT | Charles Edward Stewart's army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising. |
| 6th of December 1768 | EVENT | The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is published. |
| 6th of December 1790 | EVENT | The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| 6th of December 1849 | EVENT | American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery. |
| 6th of December 1865 | EVENT | The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery. |
| 6th of December 1877 | EVENT | The first edition of the Washington Post is published. |
| 6th of December 1877 | EVENT | Thomas Edison, using his new phonograph, makes one of the earliest recordings of a human voice, reciting "Mary Had a Little Lamb". |
| 6th of December 1884 | EVENT | The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed. |
| 6th of December 1897 | EVENT | London becomes the world's first city to host licenced taxicabs. |
| 6th of December 1907 | EVENT | A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia kills 362 workers. |
| 6th of December 1916 | EVENT | World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest. |
| 6th of December 1917 | EVENT | Finland declares independence from Russia. |
| 6th of December 1917 | EVENT | Halifax Explosion: In Canada, a munitions explosion kills more than 1,900 people and destroys part of the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
| 6th of December 1921 | EVENT | The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives. |
| 6th of December 1922 | EVENT | One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence. |
| 6th of December 1928 | EVENT | The government of Colombia sent military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths. |
| 6th of December 1933 | EVENT | U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene. |
| 6th of December 1941 | EVENT | World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War. |
| 6th of December 1947 | EVENT | The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated. |
| 6th of December 1956 | EVENT | A violent water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. |
| 6th of December 1957 | EVENT | Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit. |
| 6th of December 1965 | EVENT | Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level. |
| 6th of December 1967 | EVENT | Adrian Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States. |
| 6th of December 1969 | EVENT | Meredith Hunter is killed by the Hells Angels during a The Rolling Stones's concert at the Altamont Speedway in California. |
| 6th of December 1971 | EVENT | Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India following New Delhi's recognition of Bangladesh. |
| 6th of December 1973 | EVENT | The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92 to 3). |
| 6th of December 1975 | EVENT | Balcombe Street Siege: An IRA Active Service Unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London. |
| 6th of December 1977 | EVENT | South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country. |
| 6th of December 1978 | EVENT | Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum. |
| 6th of December 1982 | EVENT | Droppin Well bombing: The Irish National Liberation Army detonate a bomb in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven British soldiers and six civilians. |
| 6th of December 1988 | EVENT | The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government. |
| 6th of December 1989 | EVENT | The Ecole Polytechnique Massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lepine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. |
| 6th of December 1991 | EVENT | In Croatia, forces of the Yugoslav People's Army bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege to the city since May. |
| 6th of December 1992 | EVENT | The Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India is demolished, leading to widespread riots causing the death of over 1500 people. |
| 6th of December 1997 | EVENT | A Russian Antonov An-124 cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67. |
| 6th of December 2001 | EVENT | The Canadian province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador. |
| 6th of December 2005 | EVENT | Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China. |
| 6th of December 2006 | EVENT | NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars. |
| 6th of December 2008 | EVENT | The 2008 Greek riots break out upon the murder of a 15-year-old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a police officer. |
| 6th of December 0846 | BIRTHDAY | Hasan al-Askari, Shia Imam (d. 874) |
| 6th of December 1285 | BIRTHDAY | King Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312) |
| 6th of December 1421 | BIRTHDAY | King Henry VI of England (d. 1471) |
| 6th of December 1478 | BIRTHDAY | Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529) |
| 6th of December 1550 | BIRTHDAY | Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (baptism) (d. 1605) |
| 6th of December 1586 | BIRTHDAY | Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1670) |
| 6th of December 1608 | BIRTHDAY | George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (d. 1670) |
| 6th of December 1637 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (d. 1714) |
| 6th of December 1640 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Fleury, French historian (d. 1723) |
| 6th of December 1642 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (d. 1703) |
| 6th of December 1685 | BIRTHDAY | Marie-Adelaide of Savoy, mother of Louis XV of France (d. 1712) |
| 6th of December 1721 | BIRTHDAY | James Elphinston, British philologist (d. 1809) |
| 6th of December 1721 | BIRTHDAY | Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (d. 1794) |
| 6th of December 1752 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Duvall, American jurist, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1844) |
| 6th of December 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850) |
| 6th of December 1792 | BIRTHDAY | King William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849) |
| 6th of December 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861) |
| 6th of December 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Adolf Reubke, German organ builder (d. 1875) |
| 6th of December 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (d. 1884) |
| 6th of December 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Max Muller, German orientalist (d. 1900) |
| 6th of December 1833 | BIRTHDAY | John S. Mosby, American Civil War figure (d. 1916) |
| 6th of December 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Frederic Bazille, French painter (d. 1870) |
| 6th of December 1849 | BIRTHDAY | August von Mackensen, German field marshal (d. 1945) |
| 6th of December 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Haraprasad Shastri, Indian scholar and historian (d. 1931) |
| 6th of December 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Martin Hall, American chemist (d. 1914) |
| 6th of December 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Henry Adams, Australian writer (d. 1936) |
| 6th of December 1872 | BIRTHDAY | William S. Hart, American actor (d. 1946) |
| 6th of December 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Evelyn Underhill, British poet (d. 1941) |
| 6th of December 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Duesenberg, German-born American automobile maker (d. 1932) |
| 6th of December 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Joyce Kilmer, American poet (d. 1918) |
| 6th of December 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Lamb, American ragtime composer (d. 1960) |
| 6th of December 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Lynn Fontanne, British-American actress (d. 1983) |
| 6th of December 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Will Hay, English comedian and actor (d. 1949) |
| 6th of December 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (d. 1951) |
| 6th of December 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Dion Fortune, British occultist (d. 1946) |
| 6th of December 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Schlichter, German artist and writer (d. 1955) |
| 6th of December 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Osbert Sitwell, British author (d. 1969) |
| 6th of December 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (d. 1983) |
| 6th of December 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-born American photojournalist (d. 1995) |
| 6th of December 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (d. 1987) |
| 6th of December 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Agnes Moorehead, American actress (d. 1974) |
| 6th of December 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (d. 1946) |
| 6th of December 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Eve Curie, French writer (d. 2007) |
| 6th of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Baby Face Nelson, American bank robber (d. 1934) |
| 6th of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2003) |
| 6th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Haas, German-American music educator (d. 2005) |
| 6th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (d. 2004) |
| 6th of December 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and record producer (d. 1986) |
| 6th of December 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Kristjan Eldjarn, Icelandic museum curator and politician (d. 1982) |
| 6th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese leader of the Lebanese Druze (d. 1977) |
| 6th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Irv Robbins, Canadian-born American entrepreneur (d. 2008) |
| 6th of December 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Paul de Man, Belgian literary critic (d. 1983) |
| 6th of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Brubeck, American pianist and composer |
| 6th of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | George Porter, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002) |
| 6th of December 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Piero Piccioni, Italian musician and composer (d. 2004) |
| 6th of December 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Graham, American football player (d. 2003) |
| 6th of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | John Henry Cound Brunt, English soldier, Victoria Cross holder (d. 1944) |
| 6th of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin A. Gilman, American politician |
| 6th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Wally Cox, American actor (d. 1973) |
| 6th of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Van, American singer (d. 1980) |
| 6th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German conductor |
| 6th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Springer, American comics artist |
| 6th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Tanner, Swiss filmmaker |
| 6th of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Lisulo, Zambian Prime Minister of Zambia |
| 6th of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Zeki Muren, Turkish, singer, actor, and composer (d. 1996) |
| 6th of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Henryk Gorecki, Polish composer (d. 2010) |
| 6th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Bockwinkel, American professional wrestler |
| 6th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Lapointe, Quebec singer and senator |
| 6th of December 1936 | BIRTHDAY | David Ossman, American comedian |
| 6th of December 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Copeland, American televangelist |
| 6th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian footballer (d. 2006) |
| 6th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Bauchau, Belgian actor |
| 6th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Edlund, American special effects photographer |
| 6th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Bergman, Quebec politician |
| 6th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Goldman, American father of Ronald Goldman |
| 6th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Speck, American murderer (d. 1991) |
| 6th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Thomas, American politician |
| 6th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Handke, Austrian writer |
| 6th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Shekhar Kapur, Indian filmmaker |
| 6th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Harrington, American poker player |
| 6th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Bowa, American baseball player and manager |
| 6th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Frankie Beverly, American singer-songwriter and record producer |
| 6th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Cannon, Canadian politician |
| 6th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Miroslav Vitous, Czech jazz musician |
| 6th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Marius Muller-Westernhagen, German actor and musician |
| 6th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Don Nickles, American politician |
| 6th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | JoBeth Williams, American actress |
| 6th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Keke Rosberg, Finnish race car driver |
| 6th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Creed, American songwriter (d. 1986) |
| 6th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Gregory Venables, British Anglican bishop |
| 6th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Marlette, American editorial cartoonist (d. 2007) |
| 6th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Hisaishi, Japanese composer |
| 6th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Karlheinz Subklewe, German footballer |
| 6th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Sonia Manzano, American actress and writer |
| 6th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Gerry Francis, English football player and manager |
| 6th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Ric Charlesworth, Australian field hockey player |
| 6th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Newmark, American internet entrepreneur |
| 6th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Ward, American baseball player |
| 6th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Goodman, Australian cricket player |
| 6th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Hulce, American actor |
| 6th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Wright, American comedian |
| 6th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Buckler, British drummer (The Jam) |
| 6th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Buck, American guitarist (R.E.M.) |
| 6th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (d. 1982) |
| 6th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Borland, English musician (The Sound) (d. 1999) |
| 6th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Park, British filmmaker and animator |
| 6th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Satoru Iwata, Japanese video game industry executive |
| 6th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | David Lovering, American drummer (Pixies) |
| 6th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Reuter, German race car driver |
| 6th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Janine Turner, American actress |
| 6th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Ulrich Thomsen, Danish actor |
| 6th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Durie, Scottish footballer |
| 6th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Natascha Badmann, Swiss triathlete |
| 6th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Judd Apatow, American film director, and screenwriter |
| 6th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Hacken Lee, Hong Kong singer |
| 6th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Lucia Rijker, Dutch boxer and actress |
| 6th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Torri Higginson, Canadian actress |
| 6th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Fenty, American politician |
| 6th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Rouse, American swimmer |
| 6th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Isabelle Arnould, Belgian swimmer |
| 6th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Ulf Ekberg, Swedish musician (Ace of Base) |
| 6th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Michaela Schaffrath, German actress |
| 6th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan White, American AIDS victim (d. 1990) |
| 6th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player |
| 6th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Naozumi Takahashi, Japanese seiyuu |
| 6th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Contreras, Cuban baseball player |
| 6th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Heather Mizeur, American politician |
| 6th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Short, American baseball player |
| 6th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Monica Santa Maria, Peruvian model and TV host (Nubeluz) (d. 1994) |
| 6th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jens Pulver, American mixed martial artist |
| 6th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Stajduhar, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 6th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Noel Clarke, English actor and writer |
| 6th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Colleen Haskell, American television personality |
| 6th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Lindsay Price, American actress |
| 6th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Alicia Machado, Venezuelan actress and former Miss Universe |
| 6th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer |
| 6th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Cash, American baseball player |
| 6th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Paul McVeigh, Irish footballer |
| 6th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | K. D. Aubert, American actress |
| 6th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Darrell Jackson, American football player |
| 6th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Basak, American baseball player |
| 6th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ramiro Pez, Argentine-born Italian rugby player |
| 6th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Cahill, Australian footballer |
| 6th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Lovell, British footballer |
| 6th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ehren Wassermann, American baseball player |
| 6th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist |
| 6th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Ervine, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 6th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Carnes, American actor |
| 6th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Susie Stoddart, Scottish racing driver |
| 6th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Robbie Gould, American football player |
| 6th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Syndric Steptoe, American football player |
| 6th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Shannon Bobbitt, American basketball player |
| 6th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Aristeidis Grigoriadis, Greek swimmer |
| 6th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Dulce Maria, Mexican actress and singer |
| 6th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Rudra Pratap Singh, Indian cricketer |
| 6th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Niskanen, American hockey player |
| 6th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Georgia Horsley, Miss England 2007 |
| 6th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Sandra Nurmsalu, Estonian musician |
| 6th of December 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Tamira Paszek, Austrian tennis player |
| 6th of December 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Joy Gruttmann, German singer |
| 6th of December 2000 | BIRTHDAY | Pablo Nicolas Urdangarin y de Borbon, Spanish royal |
| 6th of December 0343 | DEATH | Saint Nicholas (Born 270) |
| 6th of December 1185 | DEATH | King Afonso I of Portugal (Born 1109) |
| 6th of December 1352 | DEATH | Pope Clement VI (Born 1291) |
| 6th of December 1562 | DEATH | Jan van Scorel Dutch painter and architect (Born 1495) |
| 6th of December 1618 | DEATH | Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (Born 1556) |
| 6th of December 1658 | DEATH | Baltasar Gracian y Morales, Spanish writer (Born 1601) |
| 6th of December 1672 | DEATH | King John II Casimir of Poland (Born 1609) |
| 6th of December 1675 | DEATH | John Lightfoot, English churchman (Born 1602) |
| 6th of December 1716 | DEATH | Benedictus Buns, Dutch Carmelite and composer (Born 1642) |
| 6th of December 1718 | DEATH | Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (Born 1674) |
| 6th of December 1746 | DEATH | Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (Born 1665) |
| 6th of December 1771 | DEATH | Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (Born 1682) |
| 6th of December 1779 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, French painter (Born 1699) |
| 6th of December 1788 | DEATH | Jonathan Shipley, British bishop and politician (Born 1714) |
| 6th of December 1855 | DEATH | William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (Born 1789) |
| 6th of December 1867 | DEATH | Jean Pierre Flourens, French physician (Born 1794) |
| 6th of December 1868 | DEATH | August Schleicher, German linguist (Born 1821) |
| 6th of December 1879 | DEATH | Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American industrialist (Born 1814) |
| 6th of December 1882 | DEATH | Anthony Trollope, British author (Born 1815) |
| 6th of December 1882 | DEATH | Alfred Escher, Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur (Born 1819) |
| 6th of December 1889 | DEATH | Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (Born 1808) |
| 6th of December 1892 | DEATH | Ernst Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist (Born 1816) |
| 6th of December 1924 | DEATH | Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (Born 1863) |
| 6th of December 1934 | DEATH | Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Born 1863) |
| 6th of December 1949 | DEATH | Leadbelly, American musician (Born 1888) |
| 6th of December 1951 | DEATH | Harold Ross, American magazine editor (Born 1892) |
| 6th of December 1955 | DEATH | Honus Wagner, American baseball player (Born 1874) |
| 6th of December 1956 | DEATH | Bhimrao Ambedkar, social reformer and architect of the Constitution of India (Born 1891) |
| 6th of December 1961 | DEATH | Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (Born 1925) |
| 6th of December 1964 | DEATH | Consuelo Vanderbilt American socialite (Born 1877) |
| 6th of December 1972 | DEATH | Janet Munro, British actress (Born 1934) |
| 6th of December 1976 | DEATH | Joao Goulart, President of Brazil (Born 1918) |
| 6th of December 1976 | DEATH | Brian Lieberman, Miami Beach Restauranteurl (Born 1979) |
| 6th of December 1983 | DEATH | Lucienne Boyer, French singer (Born 1903) |
| 6th of December 1985 | DEATH | Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (Born 1917) |
| 6th of December 1988 | DEATH | Roy Orbison, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter (Born 1936) |
| 6th of December 1989 | DEATH | John Payne, American actor (Born 1912) |
| 6th of December 1989 | DEATH | Sammy Fain, American popular music composer (Born 1902) |
| 6th of December 1989 | DEATH | Frances Bavier, American actress (Born 1902) |
| 6th of December 1990 | DEATH | Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek singer and songwriter (Born 1948) |
| 6th of December 1990 | DEATH | Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia's first prime minister (Born1903) |
| 6th of December 1991 | DEATH | Sir Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1913) |
| 6th of December 1991 | DEATH | Mimi Smith, maternal aunt and guardian of John Lennon (Born 1906) |
| 6th of December 1993 | DEATH | Don Ameche, American actor (Born 1908) |
| 6th of December 1996 | DEATH | Pete Rozelle, commissioner of the National Football League (Born 1926) |
| 6th of December 1997 | DEATH | Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (Born 1942) |
| 6th of December 1998 | DEATH | Cesar Baldaccini, French sculptor. (Born 1921) |
| 6th of December 2000 | DEATH | Werner Klemperer, German actor (Born 1920) |
| 6th of December 2000 | DEATH | Aziz Mian, Pakistani singer (Born 1942) |
| 6th of December 2001 | DEATH | Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (Born 1948) |
| 6th of December 2001 | DEATH | Charles McClendon, Hall of Fame college football coach (Born 1923) |
| 6th of December 2002 | DEATH | Philip Berrigan, American civil rights activist (Born 1923) |
| 6th of December 2003 | DEATH | Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (Born 1909) |
| 6th of December 2003 | DEATH | Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (Born 1918) |
| 6th of December 2003 | DEATH | Jerry Tuite, American professional wrestler (Born 1966) |
| 6th of December 2004 | DEATH | Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (Born 1921) |
| 6th of December 2005 | DEATH | William P. Yarborough, Lieutenant General of the US Army and designer of "jump wings" (Born 1912) |
| 6th of December 2005 | DEATH | Charly Gaul, Luxembourger cyclist (Born 1932) |
| 6th of December 2005 | DEATH | Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore (Born 1923) |
| 6th of December 2005 | DEATH | Danny Williams, South African singer (Born 1942) |
| 6th of December 2006 | DEATH | John Feeney, New Zealand documentary film-director (Born 1922) |
| 6th of December 2007 | DEATH | Katy French, Irish supermodel and socialite (Born 1983) |
| 6th of December 2008 | DEATH | Alexandros Grigoropoulos, 15-year-old Greek student killed by the police (Born 1993) |
| 6th of December 2010 | DEATH | Mark Dailey, Canadian television journalist and announcer (Born 1953) |