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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 6th of January 1066 | EVENT | Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England. |
| 6th of January 1205 | EVENT | Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans. |
| 6th of January 1449 | EVENT | Constantine XI is crowned Byzantine-Roman Emperor at Mistra. |
| 6th of January 1540 | EVENT | King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves. |
| 6th of January 1579 | EVENT | The Union of Atrecht is signed. |
| 6th of January 1661 | EVENT | English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London. |
| 6th of January 1690 | EVENT | Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans. |
| 6th of January 1721 | EVENT | The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings. |
| 6th of January 1780 | EVENT | An earthquake hits Tabriz ,a major city of Iran, with the magnitude of 7.7 killing about 80,000 people and causing several damages. |
| 6th of January 1781 | EVENT | In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey. |
| 6th of January 1838 | EVENT | Samuel Morse first successfully tests the electrical telegraph. |
| 6th of January 1839 | EVENT | The most damaging storm in 300 years sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin. |
| 6th of January 1853 | EVENT | President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts. |
| 6th of January 1870 | EVENT | The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna. |
| 6th of January 1893 | EVENT | The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison. |
| 6th of January 1900 | EVENT | Second Boer War: Having already sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders. |
| 6th of January 1907 | EVENT | Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome. |
| 6th of January 1910 | EVENT | The Great White Fleet passes through the Suez Canal, the largest group of ships to pass through up to that time. |
| 6th of January 1912 | EVENT | New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state. |
| 6th of January 1921 | EVENT | Formation of the Iraqi Army. |
| 6th of January 1929 | EVENT | King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship). |
| 6th of January 1929 | EVENT | Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people. |
| 6th of January 1930 | EVENT | The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City. |
| 6th of January 1931 | EVENT | Thomas Edison submits his last patent application. |
| 6th of January 1941 | EVENT | President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. |
| 6th of January 1942 | EVENT | Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world. |
| 6th of January 1950 | EVENT | The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response. |
| 6th of January 1953 | EVENT | The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. |
| 6th of January 1960 | EVENT | National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami. |
| 6th of January 1967 | EVENT | Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta. |
| 6th of January 1974 | EVENT | In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States. |
| 6th of January 1978 | EVENT | The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II. |
| 6th of January 1994 | EVENT | Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit. |
| 6th of January 1995 | EVENT | A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack. |
| 6th of January 2005 | EVENT | American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers. |
| 6th of January 2010 | EVENT | The Ady Gil, a ship owned by Sea Shepherd, is sunk during a skirmish with the Japanese Whaling Fleet's Shonan Maru. |
| 6th of January 1367 | BIRTHDAY | King Richard II of England (d. 1400) |
| 6th of January 1412 | BIRTHDAY | Joan of Arc, French military figure and Roman Catholic Saint (legendary date) (d. 1431) |
| 6th of January 1486 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Agricola, German composer (d. 1556) |
| 6th of January 1488 | BIRTHDAY | Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (d. 1540) |
| 6th of January 1525 | BIRTHDAY | Caspar Peucer, German reformer (d. 1602) |
| 6th of January 1561 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician (d. 1656) |
| 6th of January 1580 | BIRTHDAY | (baptised) John Smith of Jamestown (d. 1631) |
| 6th of January 1587 | BIRTHDAY | Gaspar de Guzman, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (d. 1645) |
| 6th of January 1595 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French man of letters (d. 1650) |
| 6th of January 1617 | BIRTHDAY | Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673) |
| 6th of January 1655 | BIRTHDAY | Empress Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1720) |
| 6th of January 1655 | BIRTHDAY | Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1705) |
| 6th of January 1673 | BIRTHDAY | James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English noble (d. 1744) |
| 6th of January 1714 | BIRTHDAY | Percivall Pott, English physician (d. 1788) |
| 6th of January 1745 | BIRTHDAY | Etienne Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1799) |
| 6th of January 1793 | BIRTHDAY | James Madison Porter, American politician (d. 1862) |
| 6th of January 1795 | BIRTHDAY | Anselme Payen, French chemist (d. 1871) |
| 6th of January 1799 | BIRTHDAY | Jedediah Strong Smith, American hunter and explorer (d. 1831) |
| 6th of January 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Herz, Austrian pianist, composer (d. 1888) |
| 6th of January 1807 | BIRTHDAY | Jozef Maximilian Petzval, Slovak inventor (d. 1891) |
| 6th of January 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (d. 1864) |
| 6th of January 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Sumner, American politician (d. 1874) |
| 6th of January 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary figure (d. 1919) |
| 6th of January 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (d. 1886) |
| 6th of January 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890) |
| 6th of January 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Gustave Dore, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883) |
| 6th of January 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwig Schuler, German politician (d. 1930) |
| 6th of January 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920) |
| 6th of January 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet and revolutionary (d. 1876) |
| 6th of January 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German pianist and composer (d. 1924) |
| 6th of January 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Martucci, Italian composer (d. 1909) |
| 6th of January 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Mahon, Irish-born Australian politician (d. 1931) |
| 6th of January 1857 | BIRTHDAY | William E. Russell, American politician and 37th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896) |
| 6th of January 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Alexander, Australian-born British philosopher (d. 1938) |
| 6th of January 1861 | BIRTHDAY | George Lloyd (bishop of Saskatchewan), Anglican bishop and theologian (d. 1940) |
| 6th of January 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Vittorio Monti, Italian composer (Csardas) (d. 1922) |
| 6th of January 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1944) |
| 6th of January 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915) |
| 6th of January 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Niblo, American film actor, director, producer (d. 1948) |
| 6th of January 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Dame Adeline Genee, Danish-born British ballerina (d. 1970) |
| 6th of January 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967) |
| 6th of January 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940) |
| 6th of January 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Rayburn, American politician, Member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas and 48th, 50th & 52nd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1961) |
| 6th of January 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop (d. 1965) |
| 6th of January 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (d. 1949) |
| 6th of January 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Khalil Gibran, Lebanese writer (d. 1931) |
| 6th of January 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Veres, Hungarian writer and politician (d. 1970) |
| 6th of January 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Charles E. Pont, American artist (d. 1971) |
| 6th of January 1898 | BIRTHDAY | James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (d. 1965) |
| 6th of January 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Phyllis Haver, American actress (d. 1960) |
| 6th of January 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer (d. 1968) |
| 6th of January 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Kathryn Hulme, American novelist (d. 1981) |
| 6th of January 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Helmut Poppendick, German physician (d. 1994) |
| 6th of January 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Francis L. Sullivan, English actor (d. 1956) |
| 6th of January 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (d. 1993) |
| 6th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Idris Davies, Welsh poet (d. 1953) |
| 6th of January 1907 | BIRTHDAY | David Fleay, Australian naturalist (d. 1993) |
| 6th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Menachem Avidom, Austro-Hungarian born Israeli composer (d. 1995) |
| 6th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Wright Morris, American writer (d. 1998) |
| 6th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | G. N. Balasubramaniam, Indian Carnatic musician (d. 1960) |
| 6th of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Thomas, American actor (d. 1991) |
| 6th of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Gierek, Polish politician (d. 2001) |
| 6th of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000) |
| 6th of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Godfrey Edward Arnold, Austrian-born American otolaryngologist (d. 1989) |
| 6th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Watts, English writer/philosopher (d. 1973) |
| 6th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | John C. Lilly, American psychoanalyst (d. 2001) |
| 6th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Don Edwards, American politician |
| 6th of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Serventy, Australian writer and conservationist (d. 2007) |
| 6th of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene T. Maleska, American crossword puzzle creator and editor (d. 1993) |
| 6th of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (d. 2005) |
| 6th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Early Wynn, American baseball player (d. 1999) |
| 6th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004) |
| 6th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (d. 1987) |
| 6th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist |
| 6th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (d. 1998) |
| 6th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Kirk, New Zealander politician (d. 1974) |
| 6th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (d. 1999) |
| 6th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Earl Scruggs, American musician |
| 6th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | John DeLorean, American auto maker (d. 2005) |
| 6th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (d. 2002) |
| 6th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born American actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006) |
| 6th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (d. 2003) |
| 6th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Branca, American baseball player |
| 6th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | George H. Ross, American businessman |
| 6th of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Babrak Karmal, Afghani politician (d. 1996) |
| 6th of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Rogers Clark, American dog breeder and trainer (d. 2006) |
| 6th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Vic Tayback, American actor (d. 1990) |
| 6th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | E. L. Doctorow, American author |
| 6th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Dickie Moore, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 6th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Goytisolo, Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist |
| 6th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Capucine, French actress (d. 1990) |
| 6th of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart A. Rice, American chemist |
| 6th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Oleg Makarov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2003) |
| 6th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Emil Steinberger, Swiss comedian |
| 6th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvia Sims, English actress |
| 6th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | John Wieners, American lyric poet (d. 2002) |
| 6th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Harry M. Miller, Australian entrepreneur |
| 6th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Tsaritsa Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela of Bulgaria |
| 6th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Nino Tempo, American singer and actor |
| 6th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Ruben Amaro, Sr., Mexican baseball player |
| 6th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Darlene Hard, American tennis player |
| 6th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Julio Maria Sanguinetti Coirolo, President of Uruguay |
| 6th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Doris Troy, American singer (d. 2004) |
| 6th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Paolo Conte, Italian singer |
| 6th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Holtz, American football coach |
| 6th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Adriano Celentano, Italian singer and actor |
| 6th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Rodriguez Cobos, Argentine writer and spiritual leader |
| 6th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Adrienne Clarke, Australian botanist and politician |
| 6th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Murray Rose, Australian swimmer |
| 6th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Penny Lernoux, American journalist (d. 1989) |
| 6th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Van McCoy, American musician (d. 1979) |
| 6th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Hak Ja Han, Korean church leader |
| 6th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Venables, English football manager |
| 6th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Bonnie Franklin, American actress |
| 6th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist, Nobel laureate |
| 6th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Allen Appel, American novelist |
| 6th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Syd Barrett, English guitarist, singer and songwriter Pink Floyd (d. 2006) |
| 6th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Sandy Denny, English singer and songwriter (d. 1978) |
| 6th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Millar, Canadian equestrian |
| 6th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Gardner, American astronaut |
| 6th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Freeh, American jurist, and 10th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| 6th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Don Gullett, American baseball player |
| 6th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Wilson, American musician (The Fabulous Thunderbirds) |
| 6th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Sivero, Italian-born American actor |
| 6th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Moondog Spot, American professional wrestler (d. 2003) |
| 6th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist (AC/DC) |
| 6th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Robert Hiegel, German architect |
| 6th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Minghella, British film director (d. 2008) |
| 6th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Yuji Horii, Japanese video game designer |
| 6th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Moras, Australian swimmer |
| 6th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Trudie Styler, English actress |
| 6th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor |
| 6th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Corbett, British politician |
| 6th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Angus Deayton, English comedian, actor and television presenter |
| 6th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Lopez, American golfer |
| 6th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | C. Michael Foale, American astronaut |
| 6th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Bryce, American actor |
| 6th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Themos Anastasiadis, Greek journalist and newspaper editor |
| 6th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Kathy Sledge, American singer |
| 6th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Kapil Dev, Indian cricketer |
| 6th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Azinger, American golfer |
| 6th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kari Jalonen, Finnish ice hockey player |
| 6th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Nigella Lawson, English chef and writer |
| 6th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Howie Long, American football player and analyst |
| 6th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Thompson, American actress |
| 6th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (d. 2002) |
| 6th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Halme, Finnish boxer and politician (d. 2010) |
| 6th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan athlete (d. 2005) |
| 6th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Haley, American football player |
| 6th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Maske, German boxer |
| 6th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jacqueline Moore, American wrestler |
| 6th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mark O'Toole, English bass guitarist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) |
| 6th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Denise Borino, American actress (d. 2010) |
| 6th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Yuri, Mexican actress and singer |
| 6th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Konnan, Cuban-born professional wrestler |
| 6th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Bj?rn Lomborg, Danish political scientist and public policy activist |
| 6th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Muhammed al-Ahari, American Muslim writer |
| 6th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Carrillo, Venezuelan actor |
| 6th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | A. R. Rahman, Indian composer |
| 6th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Sharon Cuneta, Filipina singer and actress |
| 6th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | John Singleton, American film director |
| 6th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Reedus, American model and actor |
| 6th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Carabali, Venezuelan track and field athlete |
| 6th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Gabrielle Reece, American volleyball player |
| 6th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Chen, American television presenter |
| 6th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Wiseman, American punk-rock drummer |
| 6th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Irwin Thomas, Australian singer (Southern Sons) |
| 6th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Nek, Italian singer |
| 6th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Vasso Karantasiou, Greek beach volleyball player |
| 6th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Ferguson, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 6th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Cordone, Argentine footballer |
| 6th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Grant, American basketball player |
| 6th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole DeHuff, American actress (d. 2005) |
| 6th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Clarke, Pro Bull Rider |
| 6th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | James Farrior, American football player |
| 6th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Yukana, Japanese seiyu |
| 6th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jason King, English radio DJ (Radio 1) |
| 6th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Pintauro, American actor |
| 6th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Lu Yi, Chinese actor |
| 6th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Zednik, Slovak ice hockey player |
| 6th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor, and musician |
| 6th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Tynell, Swedish cross-country skier |
| 6th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Johnson, American skateboarder |
| 6th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Bubba Franks, American football player |
| 6th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Nikki Einfeld, Canadian opera singer |
| 6th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Casey Fossum, American baseball player |
| 6th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tara Spencer-Nairn, Canadian actress |
| 6th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Steed Malbranque, French footballer |
| 6th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Rinko Kikuchi, Japanese actress |
| 6th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Jones, American rapper |
| 6th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Asante Samuel, American football player |
| 6th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremie Renier, Belgian actor |
| 6th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Gilbert Arenas, American basketball player |
| 6th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tiffany Pollard, American reality television personality |
| 6th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Bass, American baseball player |
| 6th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mithra Jin, South-Korean hip hop musician |
| 6th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Burish, American ice hockey player |
| 6th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sean O'Brien, Australian windsurfer |
| 6th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Irina Shayk, Russian-born model, 2011 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover model |
| 6th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Simm, German rugby player |
| 6th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Teel, American football player |
| 6th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Paul McShane, Irish footballer |
| 6th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Turner, English musician (Arctic Monkeys) |
| 6th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Petter Northug, Norwegian skier |
| 6th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Zhang Lin, Chinese swimmer |
| 6th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Carroll, English footballer |
| 6th of January 0664 | DEATH | Amr ibn al-A'as, Arab general (Born c.583) |
| 6th of January 1088 | DEATH | Berengar of Tours, French theologian (Born c.999) |
| 6th of January 1275 | DEATH | St. Raymond of Penafort (Born c.1175) |
| 6th of January 1448 | DEATH | Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (Born 1418) |
| 6th of January 1481 | DEATH | Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Golden Horde |
| 6th of January 1537 | DEATH | Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (Born 1481) |
| 6th of January 1537 | DEATH | Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (Born 1510) |
| 6th of January 1592 | DEATH | Johann Casimir of Simmern, Elector Palatine (Born 1543) |
| 6th of January 1616 | DEATH | Philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur (Born c.1550) |
| 6th of January 1646 | DEATH | Elias Holl, German Architect (Born 1573) |
| 6th of January 1689 | DEATH | Seth Ward, English mathematician and astronomer (Born 1617) |
| 6th of January 1693 | DEATH | Mehmed IV, ex-Ottoman Sultan (Born 1642) |
| 6th of January 1711 | DEATH | Philipp van Almonde, Dutch admiral (Born 1646) |
| 6th of January 1718 | DEATH | Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (Born 1664) |
| 6th of January 1718 | DEATH | Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (Born 1648) |
| 6th of January 1725 | DEATH | Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist (Born 1653) |
| 6th of January 1731 | DEATH | Etienne Francois Geoffroy, French chemist (Born 1672) |
| 6th of January 1734 | DEATH | John Dennis, English dramatist (Born 1657) |
| 6th of January 1813 | DEATH | Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (Born 1764) |
| 6th of January 1829 | DEATH | Josef Dobrovsky, Czech philologist (Born 1753) |
| 6th of January 1831 | DEATH | Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer and conductor (Born 1766) |
| 6th of January 1840 | DEATH | Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (Born 1752) |
| 6th of January 1847 | DEATH | Tyagaraja, Carnatic Classic Music Composer,Indian(Born 1767) |
| 6th of January 1852 | DEATH | Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille (Born 1809) |
| 6th of January 1855 | DEATH | Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (Born 1779) |
| 6th of January 1872 | DEATH | James "Big Jim" Fisk, American entrepreneur (Born 1834) |
| 6th of January 1882 | DEATH | Richard Henry Dana, Jr., U.S. author (Two Years Before the Mast) (Born 1815) |
| 6th of January 1884 | DEATH | Gregor Johann Mendel, Austrian geneticist (Born 1822) |
| 6th of January 1885 | DEATH | Peter Christen Asbj?rnsen, Norwegian writer and scientist (Born 1812) |
| 6th of January 1896 | DEATH | Thomas W. Knox, American writer and journalist (Born 1835) |
| 6th of January 1913 | DEATH | Frederick Hitch, English Victoria Cross Winner (Born 1856) |
| 6th of January 1918 | DEATH | Georg Cantor, German mathematician (Born 1845) |
| 6th of January 1919 | DEATH | Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (Born 1858) |
| 6th of January 1919 | DEATH | Max Heindel, Danish astrologer and mystic (Born 1865) |
| 6th of January 1922 | DEATH | Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (Born 1842) |
| 6th of January 1928 | DEATH | Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (Born 1876) |
| 6th of January 1933 | DEATH | Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian-German pianist (Born 1848) |
| 6th of January 1934 | DEATH | Herbert Chapman , English football player and manager (Born 1878) |
| 6th of January 1937 | DEATH | Andre Besette, Canadian religious figure (Born 1845) |
| 6th of January 1941 | DEATH | Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (Born 1882) |
| 6th of January 1942 | DEATH | Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president (Born 1876) |
| 6th of January 1942 | DEATH | Emma Calve, French soprano (Born 1858) |
| 6th of January 1944 | DEATH | Ida Tarbell, American journalist (Born 1857) |
| 6th of January 1945 | DEATH | Edith Frank, mother of Anne Frank (Born 1900) |
| 6th of January 1945 | DEATH | Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (Born 1863) |
| 6th of January 1949 | DEATH | Victor Fleming, American director (Born 1883) |
| 6th of January 1966 | DEATH | Jean Lurcat, French painter and tapestry designer (Born 1892) |
| 6th of January 1972 | DEATH | Chen Yi, Chinese military commander and politician (Born 1901) |
| 6th of January 1974 | DEATH | David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (Born 1896) |
| 6th of January 1978 | DEATH | Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (Born 1899) |
| 6th of January 1981 | DEATH | A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (Born 1896) |
| 6th of January 1984 | DEATH | Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-U.S. cinematographer (Born 1898) |
| 6th of January 1990 | DEATH | Pavel Alekseyevich Cerenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1904) |
| 6th of January 1990 | DEATH | Ian Charleson, Scottish actor (Born 1949) |
| 6th of January 1993 | DEATH | Dizzy Gillespie, acclaimed jazz trumpet player (Born 1917) |
| 6th of January 1993 | DEATH | Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (Born 1910) |
| 6th of January 1993 | DEATH | Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (Born 1938) |
| 6th of January 1994 | DEATH | Virginia Dell Cassidy, Bill Clinton's mother (Born 1923) |
| 6th of January 1995 | DEATH | Joe Slovo, South African politician (Born 1926) |
| 6th of January 1997 | DEATH | Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (Born 1912) |
| 6th of January 1999 | DEATH | Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist (Born 1962) |
| 6th of January 2000 | DEATH | Don Martin, American cartoonist (Born 1931) |
| 6th of January 2003 | DEATH | Hirini Melbourne, New Zealand musician and composer (Born 1949) |
| 6th of January 2004 | DEATH | Charles Dumas, American athlete (Born 1937) |
| 6th of January 2004 | DEATH | Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (Born 1921) |
| 6th of January 2004 | DEATH | Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (Born 1954) |
| 6th of January 2005 | DEATH | Louis Robichaud, Premier of New Brunswick (Born 1925) |
| 6th of January 2005 | DEATH | Lois Hole, Lt. Governor of Alberta (Born 1933) |
| 6th of January 2006 | DEATH | Lou Rawls, American singer (Born 1933) |
| 6th of January 2006 | DEATH | Hugh Thompson, Jr., decorated Vietnam War helicopter pilot (Born 1943) |
| 6th of January 2007 | DEATH | Roberta Wohlstetter, military historian and strategist (Born 1912) |
| 6th of January 2007 | DEATH | Mario Danelo, American football player (Born 1985) |
| 6th of January 2007 | DEATH | Sneaky Pete Kleinow, American musician and special-effects artist (Born 1934) |
| 6th of January 2009 | DEATH | John Scott Martin, English actor (Born 1926) |
| 6th of January 2009 | DEATH | Ron Asheton, American guitarist (The Stooges) (Born 1948) |
| 6th of January 2011 | DEATH | Uche Okafor, Nigerian footballer (Born 1967) |