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| December 6th, 2007 (December 06 2007) | Death | Katy French, Irish Supermodel and Socialite (born in 1983) | |
| December 6th, 2006 (December 06 2006) | Event | NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars. | |
| December 6th, 2006 (December 06 2006) | Death | John Feeney, Documentary film-director (born in 1922) | |
| December 6th, 2005 (December 06 2005) | Event | Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China. | |
| December 6th, 2005 (December 06 2005) | Death | Charly Gaul, Luxembourg cyclist (born in 1932) | |
| December 6th, 2005 (December 06 2005) | Death | Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore (born in 1923) | |
| December 6th, 2005 (December 06 2005) | Death | Danny Williams, South African-born singer (born in 1942) | |
| December 6th, 2004 (December 06 2004) | Death | Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (born in 1921) | |
| December 6th, 2003 (December 06 2003) | Death | Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (born in 1909) | |
| December 6th, 2003 (December 06 2003) | Death | Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (born in 1918) | |
| December 6th, 2003 (December 06 2003) | Death | Jerry Tuite, American professional wrestler (born in 1966) | |
| December 6th, 2002 (December 06 2002) | Death | Philip Berrigan, American civil rights activist (born in 1923) | |
| December 6th, 2001 (December 06 2001) | Event | The Canadian province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador. | |
| December 6th, 2001 (December 06 2001) | Death | Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (born in 1948) | |
| December 6th, 2001 (December 06 2001) | Death | Charles McClendon, Hall of Fame college football coach (born in 1923) | |
| December 6th, 2000 (December 06 2000) | Birth | Pablo Nicolas Urdangarin y de Borbon, Spanish royal | |
| December 6th, 2000 (December 06 2000) | Death | Werner Klemperer, German-born actor (born in 1920) | |
| December 6th, 1998 (December 06 1998) | Event | Hugo Chavez Frias, Venezuelan military and politician, is elected President of Venezuela. | |
| December 6th, 1997 (December 06 1997) | Event | A Russian Antonov An-124 transport cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67. | |
| December 6th, 1997 (December 06 1997) | Death | Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (born in 1942) | |
| December 6th, 1996 (December 06 1996) | Death | Pete Rozelle, commissioner of the National Football League (born in 1926) | |
| December 6th, 1995 (December 06 1995) | Birth | Joy Gruttmann, German singer | |
| December 6th, 1993 (December 06 1993) | Death | Don Ameche, American actor (born in 1908) | |
| December 6th, 1992 (December 06 1992) | Event | Extremist Hindu activists demolish Babri Masjida 16th century mosque in Ayodhya, India which had been used as temple since 1949. Hindus believe this structure was built on the site of the birthplace of Lord Rama. | |
| December 6th, 1992 (December 06 1992) | Death | Mimi Smith, maternal aunt and guardian of John Lennon (born in 1914) | John Lennon Quotes |
| December 6th, 1991 (December 06 1991) | Event | In Croatia, forces of the Yugoslav People s Army bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege to the city since May. | |
| December 6th, 1991 (December 06 1991) | Death | Sir Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1913) | |
| December 6th, 1990 (December 06 1990) | Death | Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek singer and songwriter (born in 1948) | |
| December 6th, 1989 (December 06 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. | |
| December 6th, 1989 (December 06 1989) | Death | Frances Bavier, American actress (born in 1902) | |
| December 6th, 1989 (December 06 1989) | Death | Sammy Fain, American popular music composer (born in 1902) | |
| December 6th, 1989 (December 06 1989) | Death | John Payne, American movie actor (born in 1912) | |
| December 6th, 1988 (December 06 1988) | Death | Roy Orbison, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter (born in 1936) | |
| December 6th, 1986 (December 06 1986) | Birth | Cintia Dicker, Brazilian model | |
| December 6th, 1985 (December 06 1985) | Birth | Dulce Maria, Mexican actress and singer | |
| December 6th, 1985 (December 06 1985) | Birth | Rudra Pratap Singh, Indian Cricketer | |
| December 6th, 1985 (December 06 1985) | Death | Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (born in 1917) | |
| December 6th, 1983 (December 06 1983) | Death | Lucienne Boyer, French singer (born in 1903) | |
| December 6th, 1982 (December 06 1982) | Birth | Sean Ervine, Zimbabwean cricketer | |
| December 6th, 1982 (December 06 1982) | Birth | Ryan Carnes, American actor | |
| December 6th, 1982 (December 06 1982) | Birth | Robbie Gould, American football player | |
| December 6th, 1982 (December 06 1982) | Birth | Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist and 2007 Tour de France winner | |
| December 6th, 1980 (December 06 1980) | Birth | Steve Lovell, British footballer | |
| December 6th, 1980 (December 06 1980) | Birth | Ehren Wassermann, American baseball player | |
| December 6th, 1979 (December 06 1979) | Birth | Tim Cahill, Australia footballer | |
| December 6th, 1978 (December 06 1978) | Event | Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum. | |
| December 6th, 1978 (December 06 1978) | Birth | Darrell Jackson, American football player | |
| December 6th, 1978 (December 06 1978) | Birth | Chris Basak, American baseball player | |
| December 6th, 1977 (December 06 1977) | Event | South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country. | |
| December 6th, 1977 (December 06 1977) | Birth | Kevin Cash, baseball player | |
| December 6th, 1977 (December 06 1977) | Birth | Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer | |
| December 6th, 1977 (December 06 1977) | Birth | Paul McVeigh, Irish footballer | |
| December 6th, 1976 (December 06 1976) | Birth | Colleen Haskell, American television personality | |
| December 6th, 1976 (December 06 1976) | Birth | Alicia Machado, Venezuelan actress and Miss Universe | |
| December 6th, 1976 (December 06 1976) | Birth | Lindsay Price, American actress | |
| December 6th, 1976 (December 06 1976) | Death | Joao Goulart, President of Brazil (born in 1918) | |
| December 6th, 1975 (December 06 1975) | Event | Balcombe Street Siege: An IRA Active Service Unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London. | |
| December 6th, 1975 (December 06 1975) | Birth | Noel Clarke, English actor and writer | |
| December 6th, 1974 (December 06 1974) | Birth | Nick Stajduhar, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| December 6th, 1973 (December 06 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). | Gerald Ford Quotes |
| December 6th, 1972 (December 06 1972) | Birth | Rick Short, baseball player | |
| December 6th, 1972 (December 06 1972) | Death | Janet Munro, British actress (born in 1934) | |
| December 6th, 1971 (December 06 1971) | Event | Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India following New Delhi s recognition of Bangladesh. | |
| December 6th, 1971 (December 06 1971) | Birth | Jose Contreras, Cuban baseball player | |
| December 6th, 1971 (December 06 1971) | Birth | Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player | |
| December 6th, 1971 (December 06 1971) | Birth | Ryan White, American AIDS activist (died in 1990) | |
| December 6th, 1971 (December 06 1971) | Birth | Naozumi Takahashi, seiyuu | |
| December 6th, 1970 (December 06 1970) | Birth | Ulf Ekberg, Swedish musician (Ace of Base) | |
| December 6th, 1970 (December 06 1970) | Birth | Eric Lemieux, Quebec keyboardist (a/k/a "La Chicane") | |
| December 6th, 1969 (December 06 1969) | Event | Meredith Hunter is killed by the Hells Angels during a The Rolling Stones s concert at the Altamont Speedway in California. | |
| December 6th, 1967 (December 06 1967) | Birth | Hacken Lee, Hong Kong singer | |
| December 6th, 1966 (December 06 1966) | Birth | Natascha Badmann, Swiss triathlete | |
| December 6th, 1965 (December 06 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. | |
| December 6th, 1965 (December 06 1965) | Birth | Gordon Durie, Scottish footballer | |
| December 6th, 1964 (December 06 1964) | Death | Consuelo Vanderbilt (born in 1877) | |
| December 6th, 1963 (December 06 1963) | Birth | Ulrich Thomsen, Danish actor | |
| December 6th, 1962 (December 06 1962) | Birth | Janine Turner, American actress | |
| December 6th, 1961 (December 06 1961) | Birth | David Lovering, American drummer (Pixies) | |
| December 6th, 1961 (December 06 1961) | Death | Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (born in 1925) | |
| December 6th, 1959 (December 06 1959) | Birth | Satoru Iwata, president and CEO of Nintendo | |
| December 6th, 1958 (December 06 1958) | Birth | Nick Park, British filmmaker and animator | |
| December 6th, 1957 (December 06 1957) | Event | Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit. | |
| December 6th, 1957 (December 06 1957) | Birth | Adrian Borland, English musician (The Sound) (died in 1999) | |
| December 6th, 1956 (December 06 1956) | Event | A 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. | |
| December 6th, 1956 (December 06 1956) | Birth | Peter Buck, American guitarist (R.E.M.) | |
| December 6th, 1956 (December 06 1956) | Birth | Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (died in 1982) | |
| December 6th, 1956 (December 06 1956) | Death | Dr. Bhimji Ramji Ambedkar, Indian Minister of Law and architect of The Constitution of India (born in 1891) | |
| December 6th, 1955 (December 06 1955) | Birth | Steven Wright, American comedian | Steven Wright Quotes |
| December 6th, 1955 (December 06 1955) | Birth | Rick Buckler, British drummer (The Jam) | |
| December 6th, 1955 (December 06 1955) | Death | Honus Wagner, baseball player (born in 1874) | |
| December 6th, 1953 (December 06 1953) | Birth | Tom Hulce, American actor | |
| December 6th, 1953 (December 06 1953) | Birth | Gary Ward, baseball player | |
| December 6th, 1952 (December 06 1952) | Birth | Rick Charlesworth, Australian hockey player | |
| December 6th, 1952 (December 06 1952) | Birth | Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist | |
| December 6th, 1951 (December 06 1951) | Birth | Gerry Francis, English footballer and manager | |
| December 6th, 1951 (December 06 1951) | Death | Harold Ross, American magazine editor (born in 1892) | |
| December 6th, 1950 (December 06 1950) | Birth | Joe Hisaishi, Japanese composer | |
| December 6th, 1949 (December 06 1949) | Birth | Linda Creed, American songwriter (died in 1986) | |
| December 6th, 1949 (December 06 1949) | Birth | Doug Marlette, American editorial cartoonist (died in 2007) | |
| December 6th, 1949 (December 06 1949) | Death | Leadbelly, American musician (born in 1888) | |
| December 6th, 1948 (December 06 1948) | Birth | JoBeth Williams, American actress | |
| December 6th, 1948 (December 06 1948) | Birth | Keke Rosberg, Finnish race car driver and one-time F1 world champion | |
| December 6th, 1948 (December 06 1948) | Birth | Marius Muller-Westernhagen, German actor and musician | |
| December 6th, 1947 (December 06 1947) | Event | The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated. | |
| December 6th, 1947 (December 06 1947) | Birth | Lawrence Cannon, Canadian politician | |
| December 6th, 1947 (December 06 1947) | Birth | Miroslav Vitous, Czech jazz musician | |
| December 6th, 1945 (December 06 1945) | Birth | Shekhar Kapur, Indian filmmaker | |
| December 6th, 1945 (December 06 1945) | Birth | Larry Bowa, baseball player and Major League manager | |
| December 6th, 1945 (December 06 1945) | Birth | Dan Harrington, American poker player | |
| December 6th, 1942 (December 06 1942) | Birth | Peter Handke, Austrian writer | |
| December 6th, 1941 (December 06 1941) | Event | World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War. | |
| December 6th, 1941 (December 06 1941) | Birth | Richard Speck, American mass murderer (died in 1991) | |
| December 6th, 1940 (December 06 1940) | Birth | Lawrence Bergman, Quebec politician | |
| December 6th, 1940 (December 06 1940) | Birth | Richard Edlund, American special effects photographer | |
| December 6th, 1938 (December 06 1938) | Birth | Patrick Bauchau, Belgian actor | |
| December 6th, 1937 (December 06 1937) | Birth | Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian footballer (died in 2006) | |
| December 6th, 1936 (December 06 1936) | Birth | Kenneth Copeland, American televangelist | |
| December 6th, 1936 (December 06 1936) | Birth | David Ossman, American comedian | |
| December 6th, 1935 (December 06 1935) | Birth | Jean Lapointe, Quebec comedian, singer and senator | |
| December 6th, 1934 (December 06 1934) | Death | Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (born in 1863) | |
| December 6th, 1933 (December 06 1933) | Event | U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce s novel Ulysses is not obscene. | James Joyce Quotes |
| December 6th, 1933 (December 06 1933) | Birth | Henryk Gorecki, Polish composer | |
| December 6th, 1931 (December 06 1931) | Birth | Zeki Muren, Turkish actor, singer, and composer (died in 1996) | |
| December 6th, 1930 (December 06 1930) | Birth | Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia | |
| December 6th, 1929 (December 06 1929) | Birth | Alain Tanner, Swiss filmmaker | |
| December 6th, 1929 (December 06 1929) | Birth | Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German conductor | |
| December 6th, 1929 (December 06 1929) | Birth | Frank Springer, American comics artist | |
| December 6th, 1928 (December 06 1928) | Birth | Bobby Van, American singer (died in 1980) | |
| December 6th, 1924 (December 06 1924) | Birth | Wally Cox, American actor (died in 1973) | |
| December 6th, 1924 (December 06 1924) | Death | Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (born in 1863) | |
| December 6th, 1922 (December 06 1922) | Event | One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence. | |
| December 6th, 1922 (December 06 1922) | Birth | John Henry Cound Brunt, Victoria Cross holder (died in 1944) | |
| December 6th, 1921 (December 06 1921) | Event | The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives. | |
| December 6th, 1921 (December 06 1921) | Birth | Otto Graham, American football player (died in 2003) | |
| December 6th, 1921 (December 06 1921) | Birth | Piero Piccioni, Italian musician and composer (died in 2004) | |
| December 6th, 1920 (December 06 1920) | Birth | Dave Brubeck, American pianist and composer | |
| December 6th, 1920 (December 06 1920) | Birth | George Porter, British chemist, Nobel laureate (died in 2002) | |
| December 6th, 1919 (December 06 1919) | Birth | Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (died in 1983) | |
| December 6th, 1917 (December 06 1917) | Event | Finland declares independence from Russia. | |
| December 6th, 1917 (December 06 1917) | Event | Halifax Explosion: In Canada, a munitions explosion kills more than 1900 people and destroys part of the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia. | |
| December 6th, 1917 (December 06 1917) | Birth | Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (died in 1977) | |
| December 6th, 1917 (December 06 1917) | Birth | Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur (died in 2008) | |
| December 6th, 1916 (December 06 1916) | Event | World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest. | |
| December 6th, 1916 (December 06 1916) | Birth | Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and record producer (died in 1986) | |
| December 6th, 1916 (December 06 1916) | Birth | Kristjan Eldjarn, Curator at the National Museum of Iceland and 3rd president of Iceland (died in 1982) | |
| December 6th, 1913 (December 06 1913) | Birth | Karl Haas, German-American music educator (died in 2005) | |
| December 6th, 1913 (December 06 1913) | Birth | Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (died in 2004) | |
| December 6th, 1908 (December 06 1908) | Birth | Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (died in 2003) | |
| December 6th, 1908 (December 06 1908) | Birth | Baby Face Nelson, American bank robber (died in 1934) | |
| December 6th, 1907 (December 06 1907) | Event | A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia kills 362 workers. | |
| December 6th, 1905 (December 06 1905) | Birth | James J. Braddock, American boxer (died in 1974) | |
| December 6th, 1904 (December 06 1904) | Birth | Eve Curie French writer (died in 2007) | |
| December 6th, 1903 (December 06 1903) | Birth | Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (died in 1946) | |
| December 6th, 1900 (December 06 1900) | Birth | Agnes Moorehead, American actress (died in 1974) | |
| December 6th, 1898 (December 06 1898) | Birth | Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-born photojournalist (died in 1995) | |
| December 6th, 1898 (December 06 1898) | Birth | Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (died in 1987) | |
| December 6th, 1897 (December 06 1897) | Event | London becomes the world s first city to host licenced taxicabs. | |
| December 6th, 1896 (December 06 1896) | Birth | Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (died in 1983) | Ira Gershwin Quotes |
| December 6th, 1892 (December 06 1892) | Birth | Sir Osbert Sitwell, British author (died in 1969) | |
| December 6th, 1892 (December 06 1892) | Death | Ernst Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist (born in 1816) | |
| December 6th, 1890 (December 06 1890) | Birth | Rudolf Schlichter, German artist and writer (died in 1955) | |
| December 6th, 1890 (December 06 1890) | Birth | Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (died in 1951) | |
| December 6th, 1890 (December 06 1890) | Birth | Dion Fortune, British occultist (died in 1946) | |
| December 6th, 1889 (December 06 1889) | Death | Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (born in 1808) | |
| December 6th, 1888 (December 06 1888) | Birth | Will Hay, English comedian and actor (died in 1949) | |
| December 6th, 1887 (December 06 1887) | Birth | Joseph Lamb, American ragtime composer (died in 1960) | |
| December 6th, 1886 (December 06 1886) | Birth | Joyce Kilmer, American poet (died in 1918) | Joyce Kilmer Quotes |
| December 6th, 1884 (December 06 1884) | Event | The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed. | |
| December 6th, 1882 (December 06 1882) | Death | Anthony Trollope, British author (born in 1815) | Anthony Trollope Quotes |
| December 6th, 1882 (December 06 1882) | Death | Alfred Escher, Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur (born in 1819) | |
| December 6th, 1879 (December 06 1879) | Death | Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American industrialist (born in 1814) | |
| December 6th, 1877 (December 06 1877) | Event | The first edition of the Washington Post is published. | |
| December 6th, 1876 (December 06 1876) | Birth | Fred Duesenberg, German-born automobile pioneer (died in 1932) | |
| December 6th, 1875 (December 06 1875) | Birth | Evelyn Underhill, British poet (died in 1941) | |
| December 6th, 1872 (December 06 1872) | Birth | William S. Hart, American actor (died in 1946) | |
| December 6th, 1868 (December 06 1868) | Death | August Schleicher, German linguist (born in 1821) | |
| December 6th, 1867 (December 06 1867) | Death | Jean Pierre Flourens, French physician (born in 1794) | |
| December 6th, 1865 (December 06 1865) | Event | The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery. | |
| December 6th, 1863 (December 06 1863) | Birth | Charles Martin Hall, American chemist (died in 1914) | |
| December 6th, 1855 (December 06 1855) | Death | William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (born in 1789) | John Wain Quotes |
| December 6th, 1853 (December 06 1853) | Birth | Haraprasad Shastri, Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist and historian of Bengali literature (died in 1931) | |
| December 6th, 1849 (December 06 1849) | Event | American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery. | |
| December 6th, 1849 (December 06 1849) | Birth | August von Mackensen, German field marshal (died in 1945) | |
| December 6th, 1845 (December 06 1845) | Event | Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity is founded at Yale College. | |
| December 6th, 1841 (December 06 1841) | Birth | Frederic Bazille, French painter (died in 1870) | |
| December 6th, 1833 (December 06 1833) | Birth | John Singleton Mosby, American Confederate guerrilla leader (died in 1916) | |
| December 6th, 1823 (December 06 1823) | Birth | Friedrich Max Muller, German orientalist (died in 1900) | |
| December 6th, 1812 (December 06 1812) | Birth | Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (died in 1884) | |
| December 6th, 1805 (December 06 1805) | Birth | Adolf Reubke, German organ builder (died in 1875) | |
| December 6th, 1805 (December 06 1805) | Birth | Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin, French magician (died in 1861) | |
| December 6th, 1792 (December 06 1792) | Birth | King William II of the Netherlands (died in 1849) | William King Quotes |
| December 6th, 1790 (December 06 1790) | Event | The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | |
| December 6th, 1788 (December 06 1788) | Death | Jonathan Shipley, British bishop and politician (born in 1714) | |
| December 6th, 1779 (December 06 1779) | Death | Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, French painter (born in 1699) | |
| December 6th, 1778 (December 06 1778) | Birth | Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (died in 1850) | |
| December 6th, 1771 (December 06 1771) | Death | Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (born in 1682) | |
| December 6th, 1768 (December 06 1768) | Event | The first edition of the Encyclop?dia Britannica is published. | |
| December 6th, 1752 (December 06 1752) | Birth | Gabriel Duvall, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (died in 1844) | |
| December 6th, 1746 (December 06 1746) | Death | Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (born in 1665) | |
| December 6th, 1721 (December 06 1721) | Birth | James Elphinston, British philologist (died in 1809) | Philo Quotes |
| December 6th, 1721 (December 06 1721) | Birth | Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (died in 1794) | |
| December 6th, 1718 (December 06 1718) | Death | Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (born in 1674) | |
| December 6th, 1716 (December 06 1716) | Death | Benedictus Buns, Dutch Carmelite and composer (born in 1642) | |
| December 6th, 1685 (December 06 1685) | Birth | Marie-Adelaide of Savoy, mother of Louis XV of France died in 1712 | |
| December 6th, 1675 (December 06 1675) | Death | John Lightfoot, English churchman (born in 1602) | |
| December 6th, 1672 (December 06 1672) | Death | King John II Casimir of Poland (born in 1609) | |
| December 6th, 1658 (December 06 1658) | Death | Baltasar Gracian y Morales, Spanish writer (born in 1601) | Baltasar Gracian Quotes |
| December 6th, 1648 (December 06 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". | |
| December 6th, 1642 (December 06 1642) | Birth | Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (died in 1703) | |
| December 6th, 1640 (December 06 1640) | Birth | Claude Fleury, French historian (died in 1723) | |
| December 6th, 1637 (December 06 1637) | Birth | Sir Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (died in 1714) | |
| December 6th, 1618 (December 06 1618) | Death | Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (born in 1556) | |
| December 6th, 1608 (December 06 1608) | Birth | George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (died in 1670) | |
| December 6th, 1586 (December 06 1586) | Birth | Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer (died in 1670) | |
| December 6th, 1562 (December 06 1562) | Death | Jan van Scorel Dutch painter and architect | |
| December 6th, 1550 (December 06 1550) | Birth | Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (baptism) (died in 1605) | |
| December 6th, 1534 (December 06 1534) | Event | The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastian de Belalcazar. | |
| December 6th, 1478 (December 06 1478) | Birth | Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author (died in 1529) | |
| December 6th, 1421 (December 06 1421) | Birth | King Henry VI of England (died in 1471) | |
| December 6th, 1352 (December 06 1352) | Death | Pope Clement VI (born in 1291) | |
| December 6th, 1285 (December 06 1285) | Birth | King Ferdinand IV of Castile (died in 1312) | |
| December 6th, 1240 (December 06 1240) | Event | Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan. | |
| December 6th, 1185 (December 06 1185) | Death | King Afonso I of Portugal (born in 1109) | |
| December 6th, 1060 (December 06 1060) | Event | Bela I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary | |
| December 6th, 0846 (December 06 0846) | Birth | Hasan al-Askari, Shia Imam (died in 874) | |
| December 6th, 0343 (December 06 0343) | Death | Saint Nicholas | |
