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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 6th of May 1527 | EVENT | Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. 147 Swiss Guards, including their commander, die fighting the forces of Charles V in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant'Angelo. |
| 6th of May 1536 | EVENT | King Henry VIII orders English language Bibles be placed in every church. |
| 6th of May 1542 | EVENT | Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time. |
| 6th of May 1659 | EVENT | English Restoration: A faction of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament. |
| 6th of May 1682 | EVENT | Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles. |
| 6th of May 1757 | EVENT | Battle of Prague : A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War. |
| 6th of May 1757 | EVENT | English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums. |
| 6th of May 1801 | EVENT | Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo. |
| 6th of May 1816 | EVENT | The American Bible Society is founded in New York City. |
| 6th of May 1835 | EVENT | James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald. |
| 6th of May 1840 | EVENT | The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. |
| 6th of May 1844 | EVENT | The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens. |
| 6th of May 1857 | EVENT | The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of Indian Independence. |
| 6th of May 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union. |
| 6th of May 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is declared the new capital of the Confederate States of America. |
| 6th of May 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by Confederate troops. |
| 6th of May 1877 | EVENT | Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska. |
| 6th of May 1882 | EVENT | Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin. |
| 6th of May 1882 | EVENT | The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act. |
| 6th of May 1889 | EVENT | The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris. |
| 6th of May 1910 | EVENT | George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII. |
| 6th of May 1935 | EVENT | New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration. |
| 6th of May 1935 | EVENT | The first flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk. |
| 6th of May 1937 | EVENT | Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed. |
| 6th of May 1940 | EVENT | John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath. |
| 6th of May 1941 | EVENT | At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show. |
| 6th of May 1941 | EVENT | The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. |
| 6th of May 1942 | EVENT | World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese. |
| 6th of May 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops. |
| 6th of May 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins. |
| 6th of May 1954 | EVENT | Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes. |
| 6th of May 1960 | EVENT | More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey. |
| 6th of May 1962 | EVENT | St. Martin de Porres is canonized by Pope John XXIII. |
| 6th of May 1966 | EVENT | Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England. |
| 6th of May 1972 | EVENT | Deniz Gezmis, Yusuf Aslan and Huseyin Inan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order. |
| 6th of May 1976 | EVENT | An earthquake strikes Friuli, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages. |
| 6th of May 1981 | EVENT | A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Ying Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries. |
| 6th of May 1983 | EVENT | The Hitler diaries are revealed as a hoax after examination by experts. |
| 6th of May 1984 | EVENT | 103 Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul |
| 6th of May 1989 | EVENT | Cedar Point opens Magnum XL-200, the first roller coaster to break the 200 ft height barrier, therefore spawning what is considered to be the "coaster wars". |
| 6th of May 1994 | EVENT | Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones files a lawsuit against President Bill Clinton, alleging that he had sexually harassed her in 1991. |
| 6th of May 1994 | EVENT | Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President Francois Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel. |
| 6th of May 1996 | EVENT | The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared. |
| 6th of May 1997 | EVENT | The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history. |
| 6th of May 1998 | EVENT | Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his 5th career start. |
| 6th of May 1999 | EVENT | First elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly held. |
| 6th of May 2001 | EVENT | During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque. |
| 6th of May 2002 | EVENT | Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated by an animal rights activist. |
| 6th of May 2004 | EVENT | Aslan Abashidze, leader of Georgia's autonomous republic of Adjara resigns after public protests and months of stalemate with the central authorities. |
| 6th of May 2010 | EVENT | The second largest intraday point swing in Dow Jones Industrial Average history occurs. |
| 6th of May 1405 | BIRTHDAY | George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, Albanian hero (d. 1468) |
| 6th of May 1501 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Marcellus II (d. 1555) |
| 6th of May 1574 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Innocent X (d. 1655) |
| 6th of May 1638 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1696) |
| 6th of May 1713 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780) |
| 6th of May 1758 | BIRTHDAY | Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary (d. 1794) |
| 6th of May 1758 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Massena, French marshal (d. 1817) |
| 6th of May 1769 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1824) |
| 6th of May 1769 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (d. 1834) |
| 6th of May 1797 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882) |
| 6th of May 1800 | BIRTHDAY | Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat and general (d. 1881) |
| 6th of May 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Peary, American explorer (d. 1920) |
| 6th of May 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939) |
| 6th of May 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Motilal Nehru, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931) |
| 6th of May 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Gaston Leroux, French writer (d. 1927) |
| 6th of May 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935) |
| 6th of May 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Morgenstern, German author (d. 1914) |
| 6th of May 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist (d. 1934) |
| 6th of May 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Bedrich Hrozny, Czech orientalist (d. 1952) |
| 6th of May 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (d. 1938) |
| 6th of May 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Winifred Brunton, British-born South African painter (d. 1959) |
| 6th of May 1880 | BIRTHDAY | William J. Simmons, American Ku Klux Klan leader (d. 1945) |
| 6th of May 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany (d. 1951) |
| 6th of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Fidel Palffy, Hungarian Nazi (d. 1946) |
| 6th of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (d. 1974) |
| 6th of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (d. 1926) |
| 6th of May 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Alverdes, German writer (d. 1979) |
| 6th of May 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Konrad Henlein, Czechoslovakian politician (d. 1945) |
| 6th of May 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Cotton, British entertainer (d. 1969) |
| 6th of May 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Golden, American journalist (d. 1981) |
| 6th of May 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Max Ophuls, German-born director (d. 1957) |
| 6th of May 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Toots Shor, American restaurateur (d. 1977) |
| 6th of May 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Bailey, American actor (d. 1980) |
| 6th of May 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born founder of the Feldenkrais method (d. 1984) |
| 6th of May 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Martinson, Swedish author and poet Nobel laureate (d. 1978) |
| 6th of May 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Weil, French mathematician (d. 1998) |
| 6th of May 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (d. 2005) |
| 6th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Weeb Ewbank, American football coach (d. 1998) |
| 6th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Loyd Sigmon, American amateur radio broadcaster (d. 2004) |
| 6th of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Nelson, American actor (d. 1986) |
| 6th of May 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Stewart Granger, English film actor (d. 1993) |
| 6th of May 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Carmen Cavallaro, American pianist (d. 1989) |
| 6th of May 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore White, American writer (d. 1986) |
| 6th of May 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Orson Welles, American film director and actor (d. 1985) |
| 6th of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (d. 1997) |
| 6th of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Sif Ruud, Swedish actress |
| 6th of May 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Kal Mann, American lyricist (d. 2001) |
| 6th of May 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Ross Hunter, American film producer (d. 1996) |
| 6th of May 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Martha Beck, American convicted murderer (d. 1951) |
| 6th of May 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Kamisese Mara, Fijian statesman (d. 2004) |
| 6th of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Erich Fried, German author (d. 1988) |
| 6th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Camille Laurin, Quebec psychiatrist and politician (d. 1999) |
| 6th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Etush, Russian actor |
| 6th of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (d. 2006) |
| 6th of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Denny Wright, British guitarist (d. 1992) |
| 6th of May 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Gilles Gregoire, Quebec politician, co-founder of the Parti Quebecois (d. 2006) |
| 6th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Poujade, French politician |
| 6th of May 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2007) |
| 6th of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Mays, American baseball player |
| 6th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Shelby, American politician |
| 6th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Lemaire, French Canadian businessman (Cascades) |
| 6th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Rubin Carter, American boxer |
| 6th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Garon, Quebec economist and politician |
| 6th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Gogan, Irish radio personality |
| 6th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Rin Kaiho, professional Go player |
| 6th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Baader, member of the German terrorist organization Red Army Faction (d. 1977) |
| 6th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Furst, American production designer (d. 1991) |
| 6th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Masanori Murakami, first Japanese baseball player in major leagues |
| 6th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmie Dale Gilmore, American musician |
| 6th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Seger, American singer/songwriter |
| 6th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher |
| 6th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Dale, New Zealand actor |
| 6th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Mary MacGregor, American singer |
| 6th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Doe, President of Liberia (d. 1990) |
| 6th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Gregg Henry, American actor and country musician |
| 6th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Michael O'Hare, American actor |
| 6th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Gerrit Zalm, Dutch politician and CEO (ABN AMRO) |
| 6th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Clavier, French actor |
| 6th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1997-2007 |
| 6th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Graeme Souness, Scottish footballer/manager |
| 6th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Courchesne, Quebec politician |
| 6th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Lynn Whitfield, American actress |
| 6th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Dora Bakoyannis, Greek politician |
| 6th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Bergeron, American game show host |
| 6th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Lakis Lazopoulos, Greek comedian and scriptwriter |
| 6th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Lolita Flores, Spanish singer and actress |
| 6th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | John Flansburgh, American musician (They Might Be Giants) |
| 6th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Roma Downey, Northern Irish actress |
| 6th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Parillaud, French actress |
| 6th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Phyllis Treigle, American soprano |
| 6th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | George Clooney, American actor |
| 6th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Gina Riley, Australian actress, writer, singer and comedian |
| 6th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Yellin, American record producer |
| 6th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Dana Hill, American actress (d. 1996) |
| 6th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Scalzo, American musician (Fastball) |
| 6th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie Hope, Canadian actress |
| 6th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Laetitia Sadier, French singer (Stereolab) |
| 6th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Magilton, Northern Irish footballer |
| 6th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Roland Kun, Nauruan politician |
| 6th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kavan Smith, Canadian actor |
| 6th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tristan Ulloa, Spanish actor |
| 6th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Shiflett, American guitarist (Foo Fighters) |
| 6th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 6th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Naoko Takahashi, Japanese long-distance runner |
| 6th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Faruk Namdar, Turkish footballer |
| 6th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Chouinard, French Canadian ice hockey player |
| 6th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Christophe Brandt, Belgian cyclist |
| 6th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Eaton, American ice hockey player |
| 6th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | John Abraham, American football player |
| 6th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Fredrick Federley, Swedish politician |
| 6th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksandr Fyodorov, Russian bodybuilder |
| 6th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kerry Ellis, West End actress / singer |
| 6th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Nikki Hayes, Irish radio personality |
| 6th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Gerd Kanter, Estonian discus thrower |
| 6th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Stefanos Kotsolis, Greek footballer |
| 6th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole Brunner, American actress |
| 6th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Ladwig, American figure skater |
| 6th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Colton, American professional wrestler |
| 6th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Taebin, Korean singer (1TYM) |
| 6th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Oliveira, Brazilian footballer |
| 6th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly van der Veer, Dutch reality TV star |
| 6th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitris Diamantidis, Greek basketball player |
| 6th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas Setta, American Canadian football player (Hamilton Tiger-Cats) |
| 6th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Edyta Sliwinska, Polish dancer |
| 6th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Drake, British vocalist/guitarist (Evile) |
| 6th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Adrianne Palicki, American actress |
| 6th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Gabourey Sidibe, American actress |
| 6th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Trinley Thaye Dorje, Tibetan religious figure, the 17th Karmapa Lama (supported by the Chinese government) |
| 6th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Raquel Zimmermann, Brazilian model |
| 6th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Dani Alves, Brazilian footballer |
| 6th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Babchuk, Ukrainian ice hockey player |
| 6th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Paul, American basketball player |
| 6th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Tanerau Latimer, New Zealand All Black rugby player |
| 6th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Tyler Hynes, Canadian actor |
| 6th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Roman Kreuziger, Czech Astana pro cyclist |
| 6th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Moon Geun Young, South Korean actress |
| 6th of May 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakian tennis player |
| 6th of May 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Caitlin Yankowskas, American figure skater |
| 6th of May 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Valerio Frasca, Italian footballer |
| 6th of May 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Krystal Jung, American-born Korean singer |
| 6th of May 1996 | BIRTHDAY | Dominic Scott Kay, American actor |
| 6th of May 0680 | DEATH | Muawiyah I, first Caliph of the Umayyad dynasty (Born 602) |
| 6th of May 1502 | DEATH | James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower |
| 6th of May 1596 | DEATH | Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (Born 1535) |
| 6th of May 1620 | DEATH | Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (Born 1543) |
| 6th of May 1631 | DEATH | Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (Born 1570) |
| 6th of May 1638 | DEATH | Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer (Born 1585) |
| 6th of May 1708 | DEATH | Francois de Laval, first bishop of New France (Born 1623) |
| 6th of May 1757 | DEATH | Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (Born 1683) |
| 6th of May 1757 | DEATH | Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (Born 1705) |
| 6th of May 1757 | DEATH | Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (Born 1684) |
| 6th of May 1840 | DEATH | Francisco de Paula Santander, President of Colombia and independence leader (Born 1792) |
| 6th of May 1859 | DEATH | Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (Born 1769) |
| 6th of May 1862 | DEATH | Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (Born 1817) |
| 6th of May 1877 | DEATH | Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (Born 1804) |
| 6th of May 1882 | DEATH | Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (Born 1836) |
| 6th of May 1882 | DEATH | Thomas Henry Burke, civil servant (Born 1829) |
| 6th of May 1902 | DEATH | Bret Harte, American author (Born 1836) |
| 6th of May 1910 | DEATH | King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (Born 1841) |
| 6th of May 1913 | DEATH | Alexandros Schinas, Greek anarchist who assassinated King George I of Greece (Born 1870) |
| 6th of May 1919 | DEATH | L. Frank Baum, American writer (Born 1856) |
| 6th of May 1939 | DEATH | Konstantin Somov, Russian writer (Born 1869) |
| 6th of May 1949 | DEATH | Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1862) |
| 6th of May 1951 | DEATH | Elie Cartan, French mathematician (Born 1869) |
| 6th of May 1952 | DEATH | Maria Montessori, Italian educator (Born 1870) |
| 6th of May 1961 | DEATH | Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (Born 1895) |
| 6th of May 1963 | DEATH | Monty Woolley, American actor (Born 1888) |
| 6th of May 1963 | DEATH | Theodore von Karman, Hungarian-born physicist (Born 1881) |
| 6th of May 1967 | DEATH | Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (Born 1885) |
| 6th of May 1970 | DEATH | Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (Born 1879) |
| 6th of May 1972 | DEATH | Deniz Gezmis, Turkish left-wing political activist (Born 1947) |
| 6th of May 1973 | DEATH | Ernest MacMillan, Canadian orchestra conductor and composer (Born 1893) |
| 6th of May 1975 | DEATH | Jozsef Mindszenty, Hungarian Catholic Cardinal (Born 1892) |
| 6th of May 1983 | DEATH | Kai Winding, American trombonist and jazz composer (Born 1922) |
| 6th of May 1984 | DEATH | Bonner Pink, British Conservative Party politician (Born 1912) |
| 6th of May 1984 | DEATH | Mary Cain, Mississippi newspaper editor and politician (Born 1904) |
| 6th of May 1985 | DEATH | Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (Born 1968) |
| 6th of May 1987 | DEATH | William Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director (Born 1913) |
| 6th of May 1989 | DEATH | Earl Blaik, former American football coach (Born 1897) |
| 6th of May 1990 | DEATH | Charles Farrell, American actor (Born 1901) |
| 6th of May 1991 | DEATH | Wilfrid Hyde-White, English actor (Born 1903) |
| 6th of May 1992 | DEATH | Marlene Dietrich, German actress (Born 1901) |
| 6th of May 1992 | DEATH | Gaston Reiff, Belgian athlete (Born 1921) |
| 6th of May 1992 | DEATH | Jilly Rizzo, restaurateur (Born 1917) |
| 6th of May 1993 | DEATH | Ann Todd, English actress (Born 1909) |
| 6th of May 1995 | DEATH | Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (Born 1956) |
| 6th of May 1995 | DEATH | Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Braganca (also known as Hilda Toledano), writer, self-styled Duchess of Braganza and claimant to the throne of Portugal (Born 1907) |
| 6th of May 2002 | DEATH | Otis Blackwell, American pianist, singer and songwriter (Born 1932) |
| 6th of May 2002 | DEATH | Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (Born 1948) |
| 6th of May 2003 | DEATH | Art Houtteman, baseball player (Born 1927) |
| 6th of May 2004 | DEATH | Philip Kapleau, American Zen teacher (Born 1912) |
| 6th of May 2004 | DEATH | Barney Kessel, American jazz guitarist (Born 1923) |
| 6th of May 2006 | DEATH | Lillian Asplund, last American RMS Titanic survivor (Born 1906) |
| 6th of May 2006 | DEATH | Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (Born 1926) |
| 6th of May 2006 | DEATH | Grant McLennan, singer, songwriter and co-founder of Australian band The Go-Betweens (Born 1958) |
| 6th of May 2006 | DEATH | Lorne Saxberg, Canadian television journalist (Born 1958) |
| 6th of May 2007 | DEATH | Eneas Carneiro, Brazilian politician (Born 1938) |
| 6th of May 2007 | DEATH | Curtis Harrington, American film director (Born 1926) |
| 6th of May 2007 | DEATH | ?or?e Novkovic, Croatian songwriter (Born 1943) |
| 6th of May 2009 | DEATH | Kevin Grubb, American NASCAR driver (Born 1978) |
| 6th of May 2010 | DEATH | Robin Roberts, American baseball player (Born 1926) |