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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 6th of October 1582 | EVENT | Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. |
| 6th of October 1600 | EVENT | Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its premiere performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period |
| 6th of October 1683 | EVENT | William Penn brings 13 German immigrant families to the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America. |
| 6th of October 1762 | EVENT | Seven Years' War: conclusion of the Battle of Manila between Britain and Spain, which resulted in the British occupation of Manila for the rest of the war. |
| 6th of October 1789 | EVENT | French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October |
| 6th of October 1849 | EVENT | The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence. |
| 6th of October 1854 | EVENT | The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured. |
| 6th of October 1884 | EVENT | The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island. |
| 6th of October 1889 | EVENT | Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture. |
| 6th of October 1908 | EVENT | Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
| 6th of October 1923 | EVENT | The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul |
| 6th of October 1927 | EVENT | Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie. |
| 6th of October 1928 | EVENT | Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China. |
| 6th of October 1939 | EVENT | World War II: The last Polish army is defeated. |
| 6th of October 1945 | EVENT | Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat). |
| 6th of October 1973 | EVENT | Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War. |
| 6th of October 1976 | EVENT | Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados after two bombs, placed on board by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded. All 73 people on board are killed. |
| 6th of October 1976 | EVENT | New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ends the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China. |
| 6th of October 1976 | EVENT | Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom, by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government. |
| 6th of October 1977 | EVENT | The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight. |
| 6th of October 1977 | EVENT | In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed. |
| 6th of October 1979 | EVENT | Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House. |
| 6th of October 1985 | EVENT | PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London. |
| 6th of October 1987 | EVENT | Fiji becomes a republic. |
| 6th of October 1995 | EVENT | 51 Pegasi is discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it. |
| 6th of October 2000 | EVENT | Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic resigns. |
| 6th of October 2000 | EVENT | Argentine vice president Carlos Alvarez resigns. |
| 6th of October 2002 | EVENT | The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen. |
| 6th of October 2007 | EVENT | Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe. |
| 6th of October 2010 | EVENT | Roy Halladay pitches the second no-hitter in MLB Postseason History during Game 1 of the NLDS versus the Cincinnati Reds |
| 6th of October 1289 | BIRTHDAY | King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306) |
| 6th of October 1459 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507) |
| 6th of October 1510 | BIRTHDAY | Rowland Taylor, English clergyman (d. 1555) |
| 6th of October 1510 | BIRTHDAY | John Caius, English physician (d. 1573) |
| 6th of October 1552 | BIRTHDAY | Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (d. 1610) |
| 6th of October 1573 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (d. 1624) |
| 6th of October 1610 | BIRTHDAY | Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (d. 1690) |
| 6th of October 1716 | BIRTHDAY | George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (d. 1771) |
| 6th of October 1738 | BIRTHDAY | Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789) |
| 6th of October 1744 | BIRTHDAY | James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1813) |
| 6th of October 1767 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Christophe, king of Haiti (d. 1820) |
| 6th of October 1769 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Isaac Brock, British commander (d. 1812) |
| 6th of October 1773 | BIRTHDAY | King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850) |
| 6th of October 1801 | BIRTHDAY | Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888) |
| 6th of October 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879) |
| 6th of October 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887) |
| 6th of October 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916) |
| 6th of October 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910) |
| 6th of October 1846 | BIRTHDAY | George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor (d. 1914) |
| 6th of October 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Reginald Fessenden, Canadian-born inventor and radio pioneer (d. 1932) |
| 6th of October 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936) |
| 6th of October 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Frank G. Allen, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950) |
| 6th of October 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (d. 1941) |
| 6th of October 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer and pianist (d. 1937) |
| 6th of October 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960) |
| 6th of October 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965) |
| 6th of October 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918) |
| 6th of October 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie Saunders, American silent film actress (d. 1954) |
| 6th of October 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline Gordon, American writer and critic (d. 1981) |
| 6th of October 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961) |
| 6th of October 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995) |
| 6th of October 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998) |
| 6th of October 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984) |
| 6th of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989) |
| 6th of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942) |
| 6th of October 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Castle, British politician (d. 2002) |
| 6th of October 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Perkins Bass, American politician and former Member of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire |
| 6th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (d. 2002) |
| 6th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Littlewood, British theatre director (d. 2002) |
| 6th of October 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (d. 2007) |
| 6th of October 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Carolyn Goodman, American psychologist and civil rights activist (d. 2007) |
| 6th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (d. 1977) |
| 6th of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Pilette, Belgian racing driver (d. 1993) |
| 6th of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Goh Keng Swee, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (d. 2010) |
| 6th of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005) |
| 6th of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Lord Donaldson of Lymington, British judge (d. 2005) |
| 6th of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Lowery, American Civil rights movement leader |
| 6th of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997) |
| 6th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Frazier, American baseball player |
| 6th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Shana Alexander, American columnist (d. 2005) |
| 6th of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Bill King, American sports broadcaster (d. 2005) |
| 6th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer |
| 6th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000) |
| 6th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004) |
| 6th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 6th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Charito Solis, Filipino actress (d. 1998) |
| 6th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Sammartino, Italian strongman and professional wrestler |
| 6th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Serge Nubret, French bodybuilder |
| 6th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | John LaFalce, American politician, and former Member of the United States House of Representatives from New York |
| 6th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Cullen, American baseball player |
| 6th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Travolta, American actress |
| 6th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Britt Ekland, Swedish actress |
| 6th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter |
| 6th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Durrell, American actor |
| 6th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Mikhailov, Soviet ice hockey player |
| 6th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1977) |
| 6th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1997) |
| 6th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Villanueva, JIL Spiritual Director, Owner of ZOE Broadcasting Network |
| 6th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Lloyd Doggett, American politician and Member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas |
| 6th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Vinod Khanna, Indian actor |
| 6th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Greig, South African : born English cricketer |
| 6th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Millie Small, Jamaican singer |
| 6th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Patxi Andion, Spanish singer-songwriter |
| 6th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician |
| 6th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Peyrac, French composer, lyricist and singer |
| 6th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | David Brin, American author |
| 6th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (d. 1985) |
| 6th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Cronin, American musician (REO Speedwagon) |
| 6th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and writer |
| 6th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jurgen Schulz, German footballer |
| 6th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (d. 1991) |
| 6th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | David Hidalgo, American musician (Los Lobos, Latin Playboys) |
| 6th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Darrell M. West, American political scientist |
| 6th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Dungy, American football coach |
| 6th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen Webb, American comic book writer and artist |
| 6th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Finder, American novelist |
| 6th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Higgins, American politician, and Member of the United States House of Representatives from New York |
| 6th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Ray Williams Jr., American bowler and horseshoes champion |
| 6th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Ray Boyd, American baseball player |
| 6th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Rich Yett, baseball player |
| 6th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth Shue, American film actress |
| 6th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jsu Garcia, American actor |
| 6th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Berry, American basketball player (d. 1989) |
| 6th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Sweet, American musician |
| 6th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Jager, American swimmer |
| 6th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Ruben Sierra, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 6th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Scalise, American politician |
| 6th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jacqueline Obradors, American actress |
| 6th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Niall Quinn, Irish footballer |
| 6th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Kennet Andersson, former Swedish footballer |
| 6th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Svend Karlsen, Norwegian strongman |
| 6th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Bjarne Goldbaek, Danish footballer |
| 6th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Troy Shaw, English snooker player |
| 6th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Oliver, American baseball player |
| 6th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Jo Johnson, American actress and singer |
| 6th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Shauna MacDonald, Canadian actress |
| 6th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Bennett, British racing driver |
| 6th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Stubbs, English footballer |
| 6th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Lola Duenas, Spanish actress |
| 6th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Anders Iwers, Swedish musician |
| 6th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ko So-young, South Korean actress |
| 6th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ryu Shi-won, South Korean actor and singer |
| 6th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer |
| 6th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvain Legwinski, French footballer |
| 6th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Davis, American comedian |
| 6th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor |
| 6th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Rebecca Lobo, American basketball player |
| 6th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer |
| 6th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Alexis Georgoulis, Greek actor |
| 6th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Sisto, American actor |
| 6th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Reon King, West Indian cricketer from Guyana |
| 6th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer |
| 6th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Briere, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 6th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Melinda Doolittle, American singer and recording artist |
| 6th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer |
| 6th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Wes Ramsey, American actor |
| 6th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer |
| 6th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Hatton, English boxer |
| 6th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | David Di Tommaso, French footballer (d. 2005) |
| 6th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Seymour, American football player |
| 6th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Lex Shrapnel, English actor |
| 6th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Abdoulaye Meite, French footballer |
| 6th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer |
| 6th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Luis Perlaza, Ecuadorian footballer |
| 6th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Arden, American actor |
| 6th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | William Butler, Musician and member of Arcade Fire |
| 6th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Levon Aronian, Armenian chess Grandmaster |
| 6th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Meiyang Ch?ng, Indian actor, singer, anchor and dancer |
| 6th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Smith, English boxer |
| 6th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | MC Lars, American hip-hop artist |
| 6th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Joanna Pacitti, American actress and singer |
| 6th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Morne Morkel, South African cricketer |
| 6th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvia Fowles, American basketball player |
| 6th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammad Shukri, Malaysian cricketer |
| 6th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Tereza Kerndlova, Czech singer |
| 6th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Olivia Thirlby, American actress |
| 6th of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Maki Horikita, Japanese model and actress |
| 6th of October 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Roshon Fegan, American actor |
| 6th of October 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Lunsford, American kidnapping victim (d. 2005) |
| 6th of October 1998 | BIRTHDAY | Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer |
| 6th of October 0869 | DEATH | Ermentrude of Orleans, consort of Charles the Bald (Born 823) |
| 6th of October 0877 | DEATH | Charles the Bald (Born 823) |
| 6th of October 1014 | DEATH | Samuil of Bulgaria (Born 958) |
| 6th of October 1101 | DEATH | Bruno of Cologne, German founder of the Carthusian order |
| 6th of October 1413 | DEATH | Dawit I of Ethiopia (Born 1382) |
| 6th of October 1542 | DEATH | Thomas Wyatt, English poet (Born 1503) |
| 6th of October 1641 | DEATH | Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer |
| 6th of October 1644 | DEATH | Elisabeth of Bourbon, consort of Philip IV of Spain (Born 1602) |
| 6th of October 1660 | DEATH | Paul Scarron, French writer |
| 6th of October 1661 | DEATH | Guru Har Rai, seventh Sikh Guru (Born 1630) |
| 6th of October 1688 | DEATH | Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (Born 1652) |
| 6th of October 1739 | DEATH | Francoise Charlotte d'Aubigne, niece of Madame de Maintenon and ancestress of the Heir to the Belgian throne (Born 1684) |
| 6th of October 1762 | DEATH | Francesco Manfredini, Italian composer (Born 1684) |
| 6th of October 1819 | DEATH | Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (Born 1751) |
| 6th of October 1829 | DEATH | Pierre Derbigny, Governor of Louisiana (Born 1769) |
| 6th of October 1873 | DEATH | Paul Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (Born 1797) |
| 6th of October 1891 | DEATH | Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (Born 1846) |
| 6th of October 1892 | DEATH | Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (Born 1809) |
| 6th of October 1912 | DEATH | Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert, Belgian statesman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1829) |
| 6th of October 1945 | DEATH | Leonardo Conti, Nazi physician (Born 1900) |
| 6th of October 1947 | DEATH | Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (Born 1887) |
| 6th of October 1951 | DEATH | Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer (Born 1860) |
| 6th of October 1951 | DEATH | Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1884) |
| 6th of October 1959 | DEATH | Bernard Berenson, American art historian (Born 1865) |
| 6th of October 1962 | DEATH | Tod Browning, American film director (Born 1880) |
| 6th of October 1968 | DEATH | Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (Born 1917) |
| 6th of October 1973 | DEATH | Francois Cevert, French race car driver (Born 1944) |
| 6th of October 1973 | DEATH | Sidney Blackmer, American actor (Born 1895) |
| 6th of October 1973 | DEATH | Dennis Price, English actor (Born 1915) |
| 6th of October 1974 | DEATH | Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian Formula One driver (Born 1948) |
| 6th of October 1976 | DEATH | Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (Born 1900) |
| 6th of October 1977 | DEATH | Danny Greene, Irish-American mobster from Cleveland (Born 1933) |
| 6th of October 1980 | DEATH | Hattie Jacques, British comedy actress (Born 1922) |
| 6th of October 1980 | DEATH | Jean Robic, French cyclist (Born 1921) |
| 6th of October 1981 | DEATH | Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1918) |
| 6th of October 1983 | DEATH | Terence Cooke, American cardinal archbishop (Born 1921) |
| 6th of October 1985 | DEATH | Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (Born 1921) |
| 6th of October 1986 | DEATH | Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (Born 1921) |
| 6th of October 1989 | DEATH | Bette Davis, American actress (Born 1908) |
| 6th of October 1991 | DEATH | Igor Talkov, Russian musician (Born 1956) |
| 6th of October 1992 | DEATH | Denholm Elliott, English actor (Born 1922) |
| 6th of October 1992 | DEATH | Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer (Born 1902) |
| 6th of October 1993 | DEATH | Larry Walters, American "lawn chair" pilot (Born 1949) |
| 6th of October 1995 | DEATH | Benoit Chamoux, French climber (Born 1961) |
| 6th of October 1997 | DEATH | Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player (Born 1914) |
| 6th of October 1998 | DEATH | Mark Belanger, American baseball player (Born 1944) |
| 6th of October 1999 | DEATH | Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler/commentator (Born 1937) |
| 6th of October 1999 | DEATH | Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (Born 1920) |
| 6th of October 2000 | DEATH | Richard Farnsworth, American actor (Born 1920) |
| 6th of October 2001 | DEATH | Arne Harris, American television sports director (Born 1934) |
| 6th of October 2002 | DEATH | Claus van Amsberg, German born Prince Consort of the Netherlands (Born 1926) |
| 6th of October 2004 | DEATH | Marvin Santiago. Puerto Rican salsa singer (Born 1947) |
| 6th of October 2006 | DEATH | Bertha Brouwer, Dutch athlete (Born 1930) |
| 6th of October 2006 | DEATH | Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (Born 1911) |
| 6th of October 2006 | DEATH | Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (Born 1940) |
| 6th of October 2006 | DEATH | Wilson Tucker, American writer (Born 1914) |
| 6th of October 2007 | DEATH | L. M. Singhvi, Indian jurist and writer (Born 1931) |
| 6th of October 2007 | DEATH | Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian politician (d. 1921) |
| 6th of October 2007 | DEATH | Bud Ekins, American stuntman (Born 1930) |
| 6th of October 2008 | DEATH | Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean actor and model (Born 1985) |
| 6th of October 2008 | DEATH | Peter Cox, Australian politician (Born 1925) |
| 6th of October 2009 | DEATH | Douglas Campbell, Scottish born Canadian actor (Born 1922) |
| 6th of October 2010 | DEATH | Colette Renard, French actress and singer (Born 1924) |
| 6th of October 2010 | DEATH | Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor and singer (Born 1966) |