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December 6 is the 341st day of the year (342nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 24 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events [ ]
A Vanguard rocket explodes on the launchpad.
Births [ ]
846 - Hasan al-Askari , Shia Imam (d. 874 )
1285 - King Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312 )
1421 - King Henry VI of England (d. 1471 )
1478 - Baldassare Castiglione , Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529 )
1550 - Orazio Vecchi , Italian composer (baptism) (d. 1605 )
1586 - Niccolò Zucchi , Italian astronomer (d. 1670 )
1608 - George Monck , English soldier (d. 1670 )
1637 - Sir Edmund Andros , English governor in North America (d. 1714 )
1640 - Claude Fleury , French historian (d. 1723 )
1642 - Johann Christoph Bach , German composer (d. 1703 )
1685 - Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy , mother of Louis XV of France d. 1712
1721 - James Elphinston , British philologist (d. 1809 )
1721 - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes , French statesman (d. 1794 )
1752 - Gabriel Duvall , Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1844 )
1778 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac , French physicist and chemist (d. 1850 )
1792 - King William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849 )
1805 - Adolf Reubke , German organ builder (d. 1875 )
1805 - Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin , French magician (d. 1861 )
1812 - Robert Spear Hudson , English businessman (d. 1884 )
1823 - Friedrich Max Müller , German orientalist (d. 1900 )
1833 - John Singleton Mosby , American Confederate guerrilla leader (d. 1916 )
1841 - Frédéric Bazille , French painter (d. 1870 )
1849 - August von Mackensen , German field marshal (d. 1945 )
1863 - Charles Martin Hall , American chemist (d. 1914 )
1872 - William S. Hart , American actor (d. 1946 )
1875 - Evelyn Underhill , British poet (d. 1941 )
1886 - Joyce Kilmer , American poet (d. 1918 )
1887 - Joseph Lamb , American ragtime composer (d. 1960 )
1890 - Rudolf Schlichter , German artist and writer (d. 1955 )
1890 - Yoshio Nishina , Japanese physicist (d. 1951 )
1890 - Dion Fortune , British occultist (d. 1946 )
1892 - Sir Osbert Sitwell , British author (d. 1969 )
1896 - Ira Gershwin , American lyricist (d. 1983 )
1898 - Alfred Eisenstaedt , German-born photojournalist (d. 1995 )
1898 - Gunnar Myrdal , Swedish economist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (d. 1987 )
1900 - Agnes Moorehead , American actress (d. 1974 )
1903 - Tony Lazzeri , American baseball player (d. 1946 )
1904 - Ève Curie French writer (d. 2007 )
1905 - James J. Braddock , American boxer (d. 1974 )
1908 - Pierre Graber , Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2003 )
1908 - Baby Face Nelson , American bank robber (d. 1934 )
1913 - Eleanor Holm , American swimmer (d. 2004 )
1916 - Hugo Peretti , American songwriter and record producer (d. 1986 )
1916 - Kristján Eldjárn , Curator at the National Museum of Iceland and 3rd president of Iceland (d. 1982 )
1917 - Kamal Jumblatt , leader of the Lebanese Druze (d. 1977 )
1919 - Paul de Man , Belgian-born literary critic (d. 1983 )
1920 - Dave Brubeck , American pianist and composer
1920 - George Porter , British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002 )
1921 - Otto Graham , American football player (d. 2003 )
1921 - Piero Piccioni , Italian musician and composer (d. 2004 )
1922 - John Henry Cound Brunt , Victoria Cross holder (d. 1944 )
1924 - Wally Cox , American actor (d. 1973 )
1928 - Bobby Van , American singer (d. 1980 )
1929 - Alain Tanner , Swiss filmmaker
1929 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt , German conductor
1929 - Frank Springer , American comics artist
1930 - Daniel Lisulo , Prime Minister of Zambia
1931 - Don King , American Boxing Promoter
1931 - Zeki Müren , Turkish actor, singer, and composer (d. 1996)
1933 - Henryk Górecki , Polish composer
1935 - Jean Lapointe , Quebec comedian, singer and senator
1936 - David Ossman , American comedian
1937 - Alberto Spencer , Ecuadorian footballer (d. 2006 )
1940 - Lawrence Bergman , Quebec politician
1940 - Richard Edlund , American special effects photographer
1942 - Peter Handke , Austrian writer
1945 - Shekhar Kapur , Indian filmmaker
1945 - Larry Bowa , baseball player and Major League manager
1945 - Dan Harrington , American poker player
1947 - Lawrence Cannon , Canadian politician
1948 - JoBeth Williams , American actress
1948 - Keke Rosberg , Finnish race car driver
1948 - Marius Müller-Westernhagen , German actor and musician
1949 - Linda Creed , American songwriter
1949 - Doug Marlette , American editorial cartoonist
1950 - Joe Hisaishi , Japanese composer
1952 - Rick Charlesworth , Australian hockey player
1952 - Craig Newmark , founder of craigslist
1953 - Tom Hulce , American actor
1953 - Gary Ward , baseball player
1955 - Steven Wright , American comedian
1955 - Rick Buckler , British drummer (The Jam )
1956 - Peter Buck , American guitarist (R.E.M. )
1956 - Randy Rhoads , American guitarist (d. 1982 )
1957 - Adrian Borland , English musician (The Sound ) (d. 1999 )
1958 - Nick Park , British filmmaker and animator
1959 - Satoru Iwata , president and CEO of Nintendo
1961 - David Lovering , American drummer (Pixies )
1962 - Janine Turner , American actress
1963 - Ulrich Thomsen , Danish actor
1967 - Hacken Lee , Hong Kong singer
1970 - Ulf Ekberg , Swedish musician (Ace of Base )
1970 - Éric Lemieux , Quebec keyboardist (La Chicane )
1971 - José Contreras , Cuban baseball player
1971 - Richard Krajicek , Dutch tennis player
1971 - Ryan White , American AIDS activist (d. 1990 )
1971 - Naozumi Takahashi , seiyuu
1972 - Rick Short , baseball player
1974 - Nick Stajduhar , Canadian ice hockey player
1975 - Noel Clarke , English actor and writer
1976 - Colleen Haskell , American television personality
1977 - Kevin Cash , baseball player
1977 - Andrew Flintoff , England cricketer
1977 - Paul McVeigh , Irish footballer
1978 - Darrell Jackson , American football player
1978 - Chris Basak , American baseball player
1979 - Tim Cahill , Australia footballer
1980 - Steve Lovell , British footballer
1980 - Ehren Wassermann , American baseball player
1982 - Sean Ervine , Zimbabwean cricketer
1982 - Ryan Carnes , American actor
1982 - Robbie Gould , American football player
1982 - Alberto Contador , Spanish cyclist and 2007 Tour de France winner
1985 - Dulce María , Mexican actress and singer
1986 - Cintia Dicker , Brazilian model
1993 - Elián González , Cuban subject of international child custody battle
1995 - Joy Gruttmann , German singer
2000 - Pablo Nicolás Urdangarín y de Borbón , Spanish royal
Deaths [ ]
343 - Saint Nicholas
1185 - King Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109 )
1352 - Pope Clement VI (b. 1291 )
1562 - Jan van Scorel Dutch painter and architect
1618 - Jacques-Davy Duperron , French cardinal (b. 1556 )
1658 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales , Spanish writer (b. 1601 )
1672 - King John II Casimir of Poland (b. 1609 )
1675 - John Lightfoot , English churchman (b. 1602 )
1718 - Nicholas Rowe , English poet and dramatist (b. 1674 )
1746 - Lady Grizel Baillie , Scottish songwriter (b. 1665 )
1771 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni , Italian anatomist (b. 1682 )
1779 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin , French painter (b. 1699 )
1788 - Jonathan Shipley , British bishop and politician (b. 1714 )
1867 - Jean Pierre Flourens , French physician (b. 1794 )
1868 - August Schleicher , German linguist (b. 1821 )
1879 - Erastus Brigham Bigelow , American industrialist (b. 1814 )
1882 - Anthony Trollope , British author (b. 1815 )
1882 - Alfred Escher , Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819 )
1889 - Jefferson Davis , President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808 )
1892 - Ernst Werner von Siemens , German inventor and industrialist (b. 1816 )
1924 - Gene Stratton-Porter , American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863 )
1949 - Leadbelly , American musician (b. 1888 )
1951 - Harold Ross , American magazine editor (b. 1892 )
1955 - Honus Wagner , baseball player (b. 1874 )
1956 - Dr. Bhimji Ramji Ambedkar , Indian Minister of Law and architect of The Constitution of India (b. 1891 )
1961 - Frantz Fanon , West Indian psychiatrist and writer (b. 1925 )
1964 - Consuelo Vanderbilt (b. 1877 )
1972 - Janet Munro , British actress (b. 1934 )
1976 - João Goulart , President of Brazil (b. 1918 )
1983 - Lucienne Boyer , French singer (b. 1901 )
1985 - Burr Tillstrom , American puppeteer (b. 1917 )
1985 - Max Kasch , American Actor, Holes
1988 - Roy Orbison , American singer, guitarist, and songwriter (b. 1936 )
1989 - Frances Bavier , American actress (b. 1902 )
1989 - Sammy Fain , American popular music composer (b. 1902 )
1989 - John Payne , American movie actor (b. 1912 )
1990 - Pavlos Sidiropoulos , Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1948 )
1991 - Sir Richard Stone , British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913 )
1992 - Mimi Smith , maternal aunt and guardian of John Lennon (b. 1914 )
1993 - Don Ameche , American actor (b. 1908 )
1996 - Pete Rozelle , commissioner of the National Football League (b. 1926 )
1997 - Billy Bremner , Scottish footballer (b. 1942 )
2000 - Werner Klemperer , German-born actor (b. 1920 )
2001 - Sir Peter Blake , New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (b. 1948 )
2001 - Charles McClendon , Hall of Fame college football coach (b. 1923 )
2002 - Philip Berrigan , American civil rights activist (b. 1923 )
2003 - Hans Hotter , German bass-baritone (b. 1909 )
2003 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio , President of Guatemala (b. 1918 )
2003 - Jerry Tuite , American professional wrestler (b. 1966 )
2004 - Raymond Goethals , Belgian football coach (b. 1921 )
2005 - Charly Gaul , Luxembourg cyclist (b. 1932 )
2005 - Devan Nair , 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923 )
2005 - Danny Williams , South African-born singer (b. 1942 )
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109 Familypedia people were born on December 6
145 Familypedia people died on December 6
84 Familypedia people were first married on December 6