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January 6th Events in History | |
| 1998 | Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach |
| 1998 | Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1997 | It's a Slippery Slope, closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City |
| 1996 | Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44) |
| 1995 | Atlanta Hawks' Lenny Wilkens becomes NBA's winningest coach (939) |
| 1994 | Government Inspector opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 37 performances |
| 1994 | Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88 |
| 1994 | Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard |
| 1994 | Yat Weiju swims world record 50m butterfly stroke (26.44) |
| 1994 | Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool (26.44) |
| 1993 | Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones |
| 1993 | Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a |
| 1993 | Last day of Test cricket for Greg Matthews |
| 1992 | New York Yankees sign free agent Danny Tartabul |
| 1992 | Robert Schenkkan's "Kentucky Cycle," premieres in LA |
| 1992 | Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* vs. Australia at the SCG |
| 1992 | Shane Warne takes 1-150 in his 1st Test innings |
| 1991 | Gypsy closes at St. James Theater New York City after 477 performances |
| 1991 | Real Life With Jane Pauley premieres on NBC-TV |
| 1991 | Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala |
| 1991 | Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec) |
| 1990 | New York Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (18-25-26-32-42-44) |
| 1987 | 100th U.S. Congress convenes |
| 1987 | Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy |
| 1986 | British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns |
| 1986 | Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg |
| 1986 | Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland |
| 1986 | STS-61-C scrubbed at T-31sec because of liquid oxygen valve problem |
| 1984 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-41 B mission |
| 1984 | Last day of Test cricket for Chappell, Marsh and Lillee |
| 1981 | 50th hat trick in Islander history - John Tonelli scored 5 goals |
| 1980 | 1940's Radio Hour closes at St. James Theater New York City after 105 performances |
| 1980 | Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India |
| 1980 | Phil Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat |
| 1978 | 1st postage stamp copyrighted by U.S. (Carl Sandburg stamp) |
| 1978 | U.S. hand over St. Stephan crown to Hungary |
| 1977 | EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols |
| 1976 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1976 | Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million |
| 1975 | AM America, premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host |
| 1975 | Wheel Of Fortune, debuts on NBC-TV |
| 1974 | CBS Mystery Theater, premieres on radio |
| 1974 | England begins 3 day work week during mine strike |
| 1973 | Schoolhouse Rock, premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock |
| 1972 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
| 1972 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley |
| 1972 | Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from U.S.S.R. |
| 1971 | Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones |
| 1971 | Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate |
| 1969 | Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame" |
| 1969 | WLIW TV channel 21 in Garden City, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 8 weeks |
| 1968 | Dr. N E Shumway performs 1st U.S. adult cardiac transplant operation |
| 1968 | Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by U.S. for soft-landing on Moon |
| 1967 | Milton Berle Show last airs on ABC-TV |
| 1967 | KHTV TV channel 39 in Houston, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140 |
| 1965 | Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling |
| 1964 | Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move Kansas City A's to Louisville |
| 1964 | Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes) |
| 1963 | Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC |
| 1963 | Oliver! opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 774 performances |
| 1958 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings |
| 1958 | Gibson patents Flying V Guitar |
| 1958 | WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, Puerto Rico (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | Elvis Presley makes his 7th and final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show |
| 1957 | Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow, Russia |
| 1956 | KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo, Texas (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group |
| 1953 | WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1951 | Pardon Our French closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 100 performances |
| 1951 | Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes |
| 1950 | Happy as Larry opens at Coronet Theater New York City for 3 performances |
| 1950 | Britain recognizes Communist government of China |
| 1947 | Ray Lindwall smashes 100 vs. England in MCG Test |
| 1946 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum |
| 1945 | Future president George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye NY |
| 1942 | 1st around world flight, Pan Am "Pacific Clipper" |
| 1942 | Bob Feller, enlists in Navy and reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia |
| 1941 | FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want and from fear) |
| 1938 | Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in Bronx |
| 1937 | Bradman scores 270 Australia vs. England at the MCG, incl 110 singles |
| 1936 | Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario) |
| 1930 | 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed |
| 1930 | Bradman scores 452* for NSW against Qld, 377 minutes, 49 fours |
| 1929 | Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia |
| 1928 | Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene) |
| 1927 | U.S. Marines sent to Nicaragua |
| 1926 | Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland |
| 1925 | Paavo Nurmi, sets indoor record, 4:13.6 mile and 14:44.6 5,000m |
| 1924 | Poulenc/Nijinska's ballet "Les Biches," premieres in Monte Carlo |
| 1922 | Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments |
| 1914 | Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded |
| 1912 | New Mexico becomes 47th state |
| 1907 | Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome) |
| 1906 | Maurice Ravel's "Miroirs," premieres in Paris |
| 1903 | Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam |
| 1900 | Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured |
| 1900 | Maurice Ravel's "Albaradode Gracioso," premieres in Paris |
| 1898 | 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake |
| 1896 | 1st U.S. women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden |
| 1896 | Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony |
| 1893 | Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast |
| 1883 | Ontario Rugby Football Union forms |
| 1880 | Record snow cover in Seattle-120 cm |
| 1873 | Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia" |
| 1873 | U.S. Congress begins investigating Credit Mobilier scandal |
| 1861 | Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola |
| 1861 | New York City mayor proposes New York become a free city, trading with N and S |
| 1857 | Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn |
| 1842 | 4,500 British and Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India |
| 1839 | 2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as "Big Wind" |
| 1838 | Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph |
| 1832 | New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston) |
| 1784 | Turkey and Russia sign treaty in Constantinople |
| 1781 | Battle of Jersey (Island in UK) |
| 1773 | Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom |
| 1759 | George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis |
| 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow |
| 1690 | Emperor Leopold's son Jozef chosen Roman Catholic king |
| 1681 | 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher) |
| 1663 | Great earthquake in New England |
| 1639 | Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed |
| 1622 | Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide |
| 1579 | Artois/Hainault/Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras |
| 1540 | King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves |
| 1535 | City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro |
| 1497 | Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria) |
| 1496 | Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christi |
| 1453 | Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria |
| 1352 | French king Jean II introduces Order of the Star |
| 1227 | Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre |
| 1099 | Henry V crowned German king |
| 1066 | King Harald of England crowned |
January 6th Birthdays in History | |
| 1989 | Baby lion-tailed macaques, at Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle |
| 1978 | Steve Hartsell, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, pairs skater, & Danielle Hartsell |
| 1977 | Amy Zappone, born in Wolcott, Connecticut, Miss America-Connecticut 1996 |
| 1977 | Stacey Gartrell, born in Sydney, Australia, swimmer 1996 Olympics |
| 1976 | Agnieszka Zielinska, Miss Poland Universe 1997 |
| 1976 | Danny Pintauro, Milltown, New Jersey, actor, Jonathan-Who's the Boss |
| 1976 | Jeremy Linn, U.S., 100m breaststroke, Olympics-silver/gold-96 |
| 1976 | Richard Zednik, born in Bystrica, Czechoslovakia, NHL forward, Team Slovakia, Wash |
| 1975 | James Farrior, linebacker for the New York Jets |
| 1975 | Laura Berg, born in Whittier, California, softball outfielder, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1974 | Juan Roque, tackle, Detroit Lions |
| 1974 | Marcus Crandell, CFL quarterback for the Edmonton Eskimos |
| 1974 | Paul Grant, NBA center, Minnesota Timberwolves |
| 1973 | Sairaj Bahatule, cricketer, promising Bombay leg-spin all-rounder |
| 1972 | Denis Montana, CFL receiver, Montreal Alouettes, Toronto Argonauts |
| 1972 | Shae Marks, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, playmate, May, 1994 |
| 1972 | Willie Clark, NFL cornerback, San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1971 | Jed DeVries, NFL tackle for the Cleveland Browns |
| 1971 | Mike Wells, NFL defensive end, Detroit Lions |
| 1971 | Myron Baker, NFL linebacker for the Chicago Bears |
| 1971 | Joey Lauren Adams, American Actress |
| 1970 | Daniel Naulty, born in Los Angeles, California, pitcher for the Minnesota Twins |
| 1970 | Gabrielle Reece, Trinidad, volleyball star/model, Extremists |
| 1970 | Geert Brusselers, soccer player, NAC |
| 1970 | John Gerak, NFL tight end/guide, Minnesota Vikings, St. Louis Rams |
| 1970 | Keenan McCardell, NFL wide receiver, Cleveland Browns, Jaguars |
| 1970 | Kerrin Petty, Townshend Vt, cross country skier 1994 Olympics |
| 1970 | Rene Binken, soccer player, Volendam |
| 1970 | Julie Chen, American Journalist |
| 1969 | Alvin Morman, born in Rockingham, North Carolina, pitcher for the Houston Astros |
| 1969 | Florence Descampe, born in Brussels, Belgium, LPGA golfer, 1992 McCall |
| 1969 | Jason Childs, NFL tackle, Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers |
| 1969 | Nick A'Hern, Australian 20k walker, Olympics-22-92, 96 |
| 1968 | Jerry Crafts, NFL/WLAF tackle, Philadelphia Eagles, Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1968 | John Singleton, director and screenwriter, Boyz in the Hood |
| 1968 | Vlastimil Plavucha, Banska Bystrica CZ, hockey forward, Team Slovakia |
| 1967 | David Belcher, Australian rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1967 | Larry Donald, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. boxer 1992 Olympics |
| 1967 | Peter Loran, born in Teaneck, New Jersey, rock vocalist, Trixter-Give It To Me Good |
| 1966 | Bob Kratch, NFL guard for the New England Patriots |
| 1966 | Donnell Woolford, NFL cornerback, Pittsburgh Steelers, Chicago Bears |
| 1966 | Shahid Saeed, cricketer, Pakistani batsman in Test vs. India 1989 |
| 1965 | Christine Wachtel, E German running star, world indoor record 800m |
| 1965 | Jose Dejesus, U.S. baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals |
| 1965 | Lindsay H Burns, Big Timber Mont, rower, 1996 Olympics silver |
| 1965 | Tim McDonald, NFL player for the San Francisco 49ers |
| 1965 | Bjorn Lomborg, Danish Scientist |
| 1964 | Charles Haley, NFL defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys |
| 1964 | Mark O'Toole, bassist/drummer, Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax |
| 1963 | Norm Charlton, born in Fort Polk, Louisiana, pitcher for the Seattle Mariners |
| 1963 | Paul Brindley, English pop bassist, Sundays, Can't Be Sure |
| 1963 | Philippe Perrin, Meknes Morocco, Lieutenant Colonel FAF/astronaut |
| 1962 | Philip Brown, Birmingham Engl, 4x400m runner 1984 Olympics silver |
| 1962 | Sean Landeta, NFL place kicker for the New York Giants |
| 1961 | Dirk de Vries, Dutch pop bassist, Kong-Slauerhoff |
| 1961 | Howie Long, former NFL tackle/actor/broadcaster, Broken Arrow |
| 1960 | Paul Azinger, born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Paul William Azinger, professional golfer, ranked in the top 10 Official World Golf Rankings for 300 weeks between 1988 and 1994, won 11 tournaments on the PGA Tour in 7 seasons, won 1993 PGA Championship |
| 1960 | Andrea Thompson, American Actress |
| 1960 | Nigella Lawson, British Journalist |
| 1959 | John Singleton, born in Los Angeles, California, director, Boyz n The Hood |
| 1959 | Kapil Dev, cricketer, India's finest all-rounder 1978-94, Cup-1982 |
| 1959 | Kathy Sledge, Philadelphia, vocalist, Sister Sledge-We are Family |
| 1959 | Nancy Rubin Sharff, New Kensington, LPGA golfer, 1991 Jamie Farr-9th |
| 1957 | C Michael Foale, Louth England, astronaut, STS-45, 56, 63, 84/86 |
| 1957 | Nancy Lopez Knight, Torrance California, pro golfer, 1981 Dinah Shore |
| 1956 | Rowan Atkinson, England, comedian/actor, Mr Bean, Blackadder |
| 1954 | Anthony Minghella, director, English Patient |
| 1954 | Norbert Hahn, born in East Germany, 2 man luge, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics |
| 1953 | Malcolm Young, born in Glasgow, Scotland, guitarist, AC/DC-Highway to Hell |
| 1952 | Armelia McQueen, North Carolina, Brooklyn Conservatory, actress |
| 1952 | Grant Goodeve, New Haven Conn, actor, David-8 is Enough, Dynasty |
| 1951 | Kim Wilson, rocker, Fabulous Thunderbirds |
| 1950 | Louis Freeh, American Lawyer |
| 1949 | Michael Boit, Nandi Kenya, 800m runner 1972 Olympics bronze |
| 1949 | Richard Horowitz, composer |
| 1948 | Dayle Hadlee, cricketer, brother of Richard, New Zealand medium-pacer of 70's |
| 1948 | Guy Spencer Gardner, Alta Vista, Virginia, Lieutenant Colonel USAF/astronaut, STS-27, STS-35 |
| 1948 | Bob Wise, born in Washington, D.C., Representative-D-West Virginia 1983 - 1993, Governor-D-West Virginia 2001 - 2005 |
| 1948 | Bob Wise, American Politician |
| 1947 | Ian Millar, Halifax NS, dressage rider, World Cup 1988, 89, Silver Medal 2008 Olympics |
| 1946 | Harold Jackson, Hattiesburg, MS, NFL wide receiver, LA, New Engl |
| 1946 | Roger Keith, Syd, Barrett, lead guitarist, Pink Floyd-Brick in Wall |
| 1946 | Syd Barrett, Cambridge England, rocker, Pink Floyd-Wall |
| 1945 | Barry Holstein Lopez, U.S. author, Of Wolves and Men |
| 1945 | Barry John, Welsh international rugby player |
| 1945 | Pepe Le Pew, cartoon skunk, Au Dorable Kitty |
| 1945 | Barry Lopez, American Author |
| 1944 | Bonnie Franklin, Santa Monica Cal, TV actress, Ann-1 Day at a Time |
| 1944 | Henry Kravis, author, The Money Machine |
| 1944 | Robert Landers, Tarrant County, Texas, PGA golfer, Ft. Worth-1976, 78, 80 |
| 1944 | Van McCoy, U.S. soul singer and songwriter, Hey Mr. DJ, Hustle |
| 1943 | Osvaldo Soriano, born in Mar del Plata, Argentina, writer, journalist, staff writer for La Opinion, wrote, 'Triste, solitarity y final', or, Sad, lonely and final' |
| 1943 | Paul James Nunn, mountaineer |
| 1943 | Terry Venables, British soccer player/manager |
| 1941 | Sandy Denny, country singer, Fairport Convention-If You Gotta Go |
| 1940 | Ed Zschau, born in Omaha, Nebraska, Representative-R-California 1983 - 1987 |
| 1939 | Murray Rose, Scottish Athlete |
| 1937 | Doris Troy, Payne, U.S. soul singer and songwriter, Just One Kiss |
| 1937 | Lou Holtz, U.S., football coach, New Jersey Jets |
| 1936 | Julio Maria Sanguinetti Cairolo, president of Uruguay, 1985-90, 95- |
| 1935 | Ian Meckiff, cricketer, Austr quick 57-63, "threw"? his career away |
| 1935 | Nino Tempo, Niagara Falls, New York, rock vocalist, Deep Purple |
| 1935 | Paul Wilson, U.S. R&B-singer, Flamingos-Lovers Never Say Goodbye |
| 1934 | Bobby Lord, Sanford, Florida, country singer, Ozark Jubilee |
| 1933 | Capucine, Germaine Lefebvre, Toulon France, actress, Pink Panther |
| 1932 | Sacha Distel, French singer |
| 1931 | E[dgar] L[aurence] Doctorow, New York City, novelist, World's Fair |
| 1931 | Gerard van Muiden, Dutch MP, CDA |
| 1931 | Graeme Hole, cricketer, Australian batsman of the fifties |
| 1931 | E. L. Doctorow, American Author |
| 1930 | Denis Pitts, film-maker, journalist, novelist, wrote, 'This City is Ours', 'The Predator' |
| 1930 | Vic Tayback, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Mel-Alice, Khan, Portrait of a Stripper |
| 1929 | Wilbert Harrison, R and B singer, Kansas City |
| 1925 | John DeLorean, former automaker, DeLorean |
| 1925 | John DeLorean, American Businessman |
| 1924 | Earl Scruggs, North Carolina, bluegrass musician, & Flat-Ballad of Jed Clampett |
| 1923 | Leah Chase, master chef, in the creole tradition |
| 1922 | Finn Einar Mortensen, composer |
| 1921 | Cary Middlecoff, golfer, 1956 Vardon Trophy, 1955 Byron Nelson Award |
| 1921 | Lou Harris, pollster, Lou Harris Poll |
| 1920 | Earl Kim, born in Dinuba, California, Korean-American composer, professor at Princeton and Harvard, studied with Roger Sessions, Arnold Schoenberg, Ernest Bloch |
| 1920 | Early Wynn, Hartford Ala, baseball Hall of famer, pitcher |
| 1920 | Sun Myung Moon, evangelist, Unification Church-Moonies |
| 1920 | John Maynard Smith, English Scientist |
| 1919 | Sylvia Syms, U.S. singer, Hello Dolly, Dream Girl, Them There Eyes |
| 1918 | Buddy Weed, Ossining, New York, pianist, Penthouse Party |
| 1918 | Caspar MB "Cas" Baas, Dutch actor/playwright/director, Ciske the Rat |
| 1917 | Guillermo Rosario, Dutch Antilles, writer, E rais ku no ke muri |
| 1916 | Philip Bezanson, composer |
| 1915 | Alan Watts, born in Kent, England, writer, speaker, and philosopher, 'The Spirit of Zen' and 'The Art of Contemplation' |
| 1915 | Don Edwards, born in San Jose, California, Representative-D-California 1963 - 1995 |
| 1915 | John Lilly, American Scientist |
| 1914 | Arnold Richardson, composer |
| 1914 | Danny Thomas, born in Deerfield, Michigan, comedian, Danny Thomas Show |
| 1914 | David Bruce, born in Kankakee, Illinois, actor, Harry-Beulah |
| 1913 | Edward Gierek, party leader, Polish CP |
| 1913 | Loretta Young, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, actress, Farmer's Daughter, Stranger |
| 1913 | Tom Brown, New York City, actor, Ed-Gunsmoke, Lt Rovacs-Mr Lucky |
| 1912 | Jacques Cesar Ellul, writer |
| 1911 | Eduardo Frei Montalva, president of Chile, 1964-70 |
| 1911 | Joey Adams, born in Brooklyn, New York, comedian/actor/columnist, ABC's Back That Fact |
| 1911 | Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov, actor, Telegram, Town People |
| 1911 | Yannis Andreou Papaioannou, composer |
| 1910 | Wright Morris, U.S. writer |
| 1909 | Johannes H Moesman, Dutch surrealist painter, Rumor |
| 1909 | Keith Davis, voice tutor/author |
| 1908 | Menahem Avidom, composer |
| 1906 | Benedict Vilakazi, South Africa, poet/educator, Zulu-English Dictionary |
| 1906 | Jaap Wagemaker, Dutch sculptor |
| 1905 | Eric Frank Russell, UK, sci-fi author, Hugo, Deep Space, Dark Tides |
| 1903 | Boris Blacher, born in Newchwang, China, German composer, Orchester-Ornament |
| 1903 | Francis L Sullivan, born in London, England, actor, Missing Rembrandt |
| 1903 | Maurice Abravanel, Saloniki Greece, conductor/composer |
| 1903 | Stanley Smith, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actor, Honey, King of Jazz, Soup to Nuts |
| 1902 | Mark Brunswick, composer |
| 1902 | Sofie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte, composer |
| 1901 | Patrick Aherne, England, actor, Bwana Devil, Botany Bay, Q Planes |
| 1901 | Tomas Gudmundsson, Iceland, poet |
| 1900 | Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer, Sarabande, Jeunesse |
| 1899 | Phyllis Haver, Douglas, Kansas, silent screen actress, What Price Glory |
| 1898 | Jan Filip Boon, Flemish author/editor, De Standaard 1929-39 |
| 1897 | Billy Greene, actor, Burton-One Man's Family |
| 1897 | Peter Veres, literary/Hungarian minister of defense |
| 1896 | Abram N Pritzker, U.S. businessman, Hyatt Hotels, McCall's magazine |
| 1896 | Freerk Siemon Wolters, notary/resistance fighter |
| 1892 | Ludwig Berger, writer |
| 1891 | Ted McDonald, cricketer, great Australian quick of 20's |
| 1889 | Alan M Bateman, Canadian geologist, Yale professor |
| 1883 | Kahlil Gibran, born in Lebanon, mystic poet, The Prophet, Broken Wings |
| 1882 | Samuel Rayburn, born in Kingston, Tennessee, Representative-D-Texas 1913 - 1961, speaker of the House, 1940 - 1957 |
| 1882 | Sam Rayburn, American Politician |
| 1880 | Tom Mix, Mix Run, Pennsylvania, silent screen cowboy actor, Dick Turpin |
| 1880 | Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, composer |
| 1878 | Carl Sandburg, U.S., poet/biographer of Lincoln, The People, Yes |
| 1878 | Carl Sandberg, American Poet |
| 1873 | Karl Straube, German organist/conductor |
| 1872 | Alexander N Scriabin, Moscow, hallucinogenic composer, Prometheus |
| 1872 | Alexander Scriabin, Russian Composer |
| 1868 | Vittorio Monti, composer |
| 1867 | Georges Martin Witkowski, composer |
| 1864 | Ban Johnson, Norwalk, Connecticut, baseball founder, American League |
| 1861 | Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer |
| 1859 | Samuel Alexander, English philosopher, Moral order and progress |
| 1856 | Giuseppe Martucci, composer |
| 1850 | Eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist, New Era |
| 1850 | Franz Xaver Scharwenka, German pianist/composer, Mataswintha |
| 1842 | Clarence King, mining engineer, geologist |
| 1838 | Max Bruch, Koln, Cologne, Germany, composer |
| 1835 | Martin Kahler, Germany, theologist |
| 1832 | Gustave Dore, Strasbourg Fr, illustrator, Inferno, Ancient Mariner |
| 1829 | Kanagaki Robun [Bunzo Nozaki], Japanese humorist/gesaku-author |
| 1827 | John Calvin Brown, Major General Confederate Army |
| 1827 | John Wesley Frazer, Brigadier General Confederate Army, die in 1906 |
| 1826 | Herman Grimm, Germany, writer/novelist, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 1822 | Heinrich Schliemann, German polyglot/archeologist, Troje |
| 1811 | Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator |
| 1807 | Joseph Holt, Major General Union Army |
| 1807 | Ludwig Erk, composer |
| 1803 | Henri Herz, composer |
| 1802 | Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer, Gramatica |
| 1800 | Willem A. Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician |
| 1799 | Jedediah Strong Smith, U.S. fur trader/explorer |
| 1798 | Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer |
| 1794 | Kaspar Masek, composer |
| 1791 | Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer |
| 1776 | Ferdinand von Schill, Prussian officer/rebel |
| 1762 | Nathaniel Smith, American Politician |
| 1745 | Jacques Montgolfier, France, aeronaut, 1st pioneer balloonist |
| 1745 | James Montgolfier, France, aeronaut, 1st pioneer balloonist |
| 1732 | Matija A. Reljkovic, Croatia, writer, Satir iliti divji covic |
| 1728 | Charles-Joseph-Balthazar Sohier, composer |
| 1728 | Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright and poet |
| 1702 | Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, composer |
| 1695 | Giuseppe Sammartini, composer |
| 1692 | Rynoldus Popma van Oevering, composer |
| 1683 | Francois de La Croix, composer |
| 1602 | Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Dutch baron of Sucha/army leader |
| 1587 | Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares, Premier of Spain, 1621-43 |
| 1585 | Claude Favre baron de Perouges seigneur de Vaugelas, French grammarian |
| 1488 | Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet, Silvae |
| 1486 | Martin Agricola, German composer/cantor |
| 1412 | Joan of Arc, Domremy, martyr |
| 1367 | Richard II, Bordeaux, France, king of England, 1377-99 |
January 6th Deaths in History | |
| 2004 | Francesco Scavullo, photographer, dies at 82 |
| 2000 | Don Martin, Mad cartoonist, dies at 68 |
| 1999 | Michel Petrucciani, jazz pianist, Both Worlds, dies at 36 |
| 1997 | Ian Peter Leslie Smith, journalist, dies at 52 |
| 1997 | Litz Pisk, movement teacher, dies at 87 |
| 1997 | Vince Williams, actor (Hamp-Guiding Light), dies of cancer at 39 |
| 1996 | Duane Hanson, sculptor, dies at 60 |
| 1996 | Henry Lennox d'Aubigny Hopkinson, diplomat/politician, dies at 94 |
| 1996 | John Phillipps Kenyon, historian/teacher, dies at 68 |
| 1996 | Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise, musician, dies at 80 |
| 1995 | Edward Sutcliffe, judge (British Central Criminal Court), dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Joe Slovo, Latvian/South African attorney/secretary-general (SACR), dies at 68 |
| 1995 | Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Dutch playwright/director (Pinter), dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Iron Adriaan van Es, Dutch Undersecretary of Navy (1963-72), dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Gerardus J Sizoo, physicist/director of Dutch Free University, dies |
| 1994 | Morty the Moose, (Northern Exposure), dies at 6 |
| 1994 | Virginia Kelley Clinton, Mother of President Clinton, dies at 70 |
| 1993 | Elisabeth, arch duch of Austria/princess of Liechtenstein, dies at 70 |
| 1993 | John B "Dizzy" Gillespe, blues trumpeter, dies of cancer at 75 |
| 1993 | Rudolph Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (Kirov), dies of AIDS at 54 |
| 1992 | Avon Jaeger Hill, entertainer, dies of cancer at 44 |
| 1992 | Elaine McKenna, Australian actress (Peg Martin-Cell Block H), dies |
| 1992 | Vincent Placoly, Martinique writer (Une journee torride), dies at 45 |
| 1991 | Ada Moore, entertainer, dies of cancer at 64 |
| 1990 | Hans Jaray, actor (Lydia, Fedora), dies |
| 1990 | Ian Charleson, actor (Gandhi, Chariots of Fire), dies of AIDS at 40 |
| 1989 | Hirohito, Japan's emperor (1922-89), dies at 87 after 62-year reign |
| 1989 | Edmund Leach, British Scientist |
| 1988 | Brent Collins, soap actor (Another World), dies of heart attack at 46 |
| 1986 | Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian, dies at 90 |
| 1985 | Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., U.S. founder/leader John Birch Society, dies at 85 |
| 1981 | A[rchibald] J[oseph] Cronin, physician/author (Citadel), dies at 84 |
| 1978 | John D MacArthur, U.S. insurance billionaire, dies at 80 |
| 1976 | Oscar Espla, Spanish philosopher/composer (Sonata del Sur), dies at 89 |
| 1975 | Noel Madison, actor (Jitterbugs, Black Raven), dies at 77 |
| 1974 | David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican sculptor/muralist, dies at 77 |
| 1968 | Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 |
| 1967 | Arnhem "Tata" Joseph Weiss, "the Zigeunerbaron," buried |
| 1967 | Johnny Keane, baseball player/manager (Cards, New York Yankees), dies at 55 |
| 1965 | John Larkin, dir (Circumstanial Evidence), dies of heart attack at 52 |
| 1964 | Edgar Maass, German/US author (Verdun), dies at 67 |
| 1963 | Lourens GM Baas Becking, Dutch botanist/resistance fighter, dies at 68 |
| 1962 | Jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter (France, N Africa), dies at 57 |
| 1961 | Regina Ullmann, writer, dies at 76 |
| 1960 | Edith Barstow, choreographer (Frankie Laine Time), dies at 52 |
| 1960 | Erik Lindahl, Swedish economist (Scope and Means), dies at 68 |
| 1959 | Jose Enrique Pedreira, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1958 | Josephine CMA, princess of Belgium/nun, dies at 85 |
| 1950 | Isaiah Bowman, geographer/co-founder (Geographical Review), dies at 71 |
| 1941 | Franz Hessel, writer, dies at 60 |
| 1936 | Charles A Stoneham, President (New York Giants), dies |
| 1935 | George P Baker, U.S. playwright (Dramatic Technique), dies at 68 |
| 1932 | Julius Rosenwald, American Businessman |
| 1929 | Nicolas Nikolayevitch, grand-duke of Russia, dies at 72 |
| 1928 | Alvin C Kraenzlein, track star (Olympic-4 gold-1900), dies at 51 |
| 1919 | Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President 1901 - 1909, dies in New York at 60 |
| 1919 | Max Heindel, Danish Celebrity |
| 1918 | Georg F L P Cantor, German mathematician: collection, dies at 72 |
| 1917 | Hendrik P G Quack, lawyer/economist (Bank of Netherlands), dies at 82 |
| 1885 | Peter C Asbjornsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer, dies at 72 |
| 1884 | Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk/heredity pioneer, dies at 61 |
| 1884 | Paul Taglioni, "the Great," Italian/Austrian choreographer, dies at 75 |
| 1831 | Rodolphe Kreutzer, French composer/violinist (Kreutzersonate), dies at 64 |
| 1800 | William Jones, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1799 | Maria G Agnesi, Italian mathematician (xy=a(a-y)), dies at 80 |
| 1799 | W G Frederik, prince of Orange/general, dies at 25 |
| 1790 | Johann Trier, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1785 | Haym Salomon, dies in Philadelphia at 44, helped finance the revolution |
| 1742 | Johann Georg Reinhardt, composer, dies |
| 1738 | Franz Xaver Murschhauser, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1725 | Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese playwright (Yotsugi Soga), dies at about 71 |
| 1702 | Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies |
| 1697 | Carlo Mannelli, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1694 | Francesco Morosini, Italian army general, dies |
| 1693 | Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey), dies at 51 |
| 1685 | Malachias Siebenhaar, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1646 | Elias Hill, German architect of Augsburg, dies at 72 |
| 1592 | Johan Casimir, palsgrave at the Rhine, dies |
| 1541 | Bernard van Orley, Flemish royal painter of Hungary, dies at about 52 |
| 1536 | Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect/painter, dies |
| 1448 | Christopher III, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies |
| 1425 | Jan of Bavaria, liege of Holland/bishop/duke, dies |
| 1374 | Andreas Corsini, Italian saint/bishop of Fiesole, dies |
| 1275 | Raymundus of Penafort, Spanish church law scholar, dies |
| 1088 | Berengarius of Tours, French theologist, dies |
