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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 6th of April 0402 | EVENT | Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia. |
| 6th of April 1199 | EVENT | King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder. |
| 6th of April 1250 | EVENT | Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur. |
| 6th of April 1320 | EVENT | The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath. |
| 6th of April 1327 | EVENT | The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon. |
| 6th of April 1385 | EVENT | John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal. |
| 6th of April 1453 | EVENT | Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (Istanbul), which falls on May 29. |
| 6th of April 1580 | EVENT | One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place. |
| 6th of April 1652 | EVENT | At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town . |
| 6th of April 1667 | EVENT | An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state. |
| 6th of April 1776 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat. |
| 6th of April 1782 | EVENT | Rama I of Siam (modern day Thailand) founds the Chakri dynasty. |
| 6th of April 1793 | EVENT | During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic. |
| 6th of April 1808 | EVENT | John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire. |
| 6th of April 1812 | EVENT | British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France. |
| 6th of April 1814 | EVENT | Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restoration -- anniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba. (Rule by the Bourbon's is delayed a few weeks, though allies held most key locales of France.) |
| 6th of April 1830 | EVENT | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette or Manchester, New York. |
| 6th of April 1860 | EVENT | The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints--later renamed Community of Christ--is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois |
| 6th of April 1861 | EVENT | First performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas. |
| 6th of April 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins : in Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston. |
| 6th of April 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek : Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia. |
| 6th of April 1866 | EVENT | The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956. |
| 6th of April 1869 | EVENT | Celluloid is patented. |
| 6th of April 1888 | EVENT | Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College. |
| 6th of April 1893 | EVENT | Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff. |
| 6th of April 1895 | EVENT | Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry. |
| 6th of April 1896 | EVENT | In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. |
| 6th of April 1903 | EVENT | The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world. |
| 6th of April 1909 | EVENT | Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole. |
| 6th of April 1911 | EVENT | During the Battle of Deciq, Dede Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malesori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after Gjergj Kastrioti (Skenderbeg). |
| 6th of April 1917 | EVENT | World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress). |
| 6th of April 1919 | EVENT | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike. |
| 6th of April 1923 | EVENT | The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia. |
| 6th of April 1926 | EVENT | Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines). |
| 6th of April 1929 | EVENT | Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives. |
| 6th of April 1930 | EVENT | Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." beginning the Salt Satyagraha. |
| 6th of April 1936 | EVENT | Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203. |
| 6th of April 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece). |
| 6th of April 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans. |
| 6th of April 1947 | EVENT | The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement. |
| 6th of April 1957 | EVENT | Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines. |
| 6th of April 1962 | EVENT | Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms' First Piano Concerto. |
| 6th of April 1965 | EVENT | The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project. |
| 6th of April 1965 | EVENT | Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit. |
| 6th of April 1968 | EVENT | In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150. |
| 6th of April 1970 | EVENT | Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout. |
| 6th of April 1972 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Easter Offensive : American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments. |
| 6th of April 1973 | EVENT | The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter. |
| 6th of April 1973 | EVENT | Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft. |
| 6th of April 1974 | EVENT | ABBA win the 19th annual Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton with Waterloo. |
| 6th of April 1982 | EVENT | Estonian Communist Party bureau declares "fight against bourgeois TV" -- meaning Finnish TV -- a top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR |
| 6th of April 1984 | EVENT | Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya. |
| 6th of April 1994 | EVENT | The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down. |
| 6th of April 1998 | EVENT | Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India. |
| 6th of April 1998 | EVENT | Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank. |
| 6th of April 2004 | EVENT | Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment. |
| 6th of April 2005 | EVENT | Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day. |
| 6th of April 2009 | EVENT | A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307. |
| 6th of April 2010 | EVENT | Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India. |
| 6th of April 1483 | BIRTHDAY | Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520) |
| 6th of April 1613 | BIRTHDAY | Stjepan Gradic, Croatian philosopher and scientist (d. 1683) |
| 6th of April 1632 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1649) |
| 6th of April 1651 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Dacier, French classical scholar (d. 1722) |
| 6th of April 1664 | BIRTHDAY | Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (d. 1742) |
| 6th of April 1671 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (d. 1741) |
| 6th of April 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (d. 1807) |
| 6th of April 1741 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (d. 1794) |
| 6th of April 1766 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter and printmaker (d. 1853) |
| 6th of April 1773 | BIRTHDAY | James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1836) |
| 6th of April 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Henry Gosse, English naturalist (d. 1888) |
| 6th of April 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (d. 1870) |
| 6th of April 1815 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Volkmann, German composer (d. 1883) |
| 6th of April 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet (d. 1870) |
| 6th of April 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Nadar, French photographer (d. 1910) |
| 6th of April 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Medill, journalist and mayor of Chicago (d. 1899) |
| 6th of April 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Gustave Moreau, French painter (d. 1898) |
| 6th of April 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Binding, German jurist (d. 1920) |
| 6th of April 1849 | BIRTHDAY | John William Waterhouse, British painter (d. 1917) |
| 6th of April 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (d. 1932) |
| 6th of April 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Stanislas de Guaita, French occultist (d. 1897) |
| 6th of April 1864 | BIRTHDAY | William Bate Hardy, British biochemist (d. 1934) |
| 6th of April 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Levon Shant, Armenian playwright, novelist and poet (d. 1951) |
| 6th of April 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Alexander John of Wales (d. 1871) |
| 6th of April 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Erich Muhsam, German author (d. 1934) |
| 6th of April 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (d. 1950) |
| 6th of April 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, The Last Nizam of Hyderabad state (d. 1967) |
| 6th of April 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Edward Dandy, American neurosurgery pioneer (d. 1946) |
| 6th of April 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Gerhard Ritter, German historian (d. 1967) |
| 6th of April 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Richter, Swiss painter, film maker, graphic artist and avant-gardist (d. 1976) |
| 6th of April 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Fokker, Dutch aviation engineering pioneer (d. 1939) |
| 6th of April 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aviation industrialist (d. 1981) |
| 6th of April 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Lowell Thomas, American travel writer (d. 1981) |
| 6th of April 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Gertrude Baines, American supercentenarian (d. 2009) |
| 6th of April 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Dudley Nichols, American screenwriter (d. 1960) |
| 6th of April 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Robin, American songwriter (d. 1984) |
| 6th of April 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Catholic (d. 1925) |
| 6th of April 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Julien Torma, French writer, playwright and poet (d. 1933) |
| 6th of April 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (d. 1989) |
| 6th of April 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (d. 1962) |
| 6th of April 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer (d. 1990) |
| 6th of April 1909 | BIRTHDAY | William M. Branham, American evangelist (d. 1965) |
| 6th of April 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann Lang, German race car driver (d. 1987) |
| 6th of April 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979) |
| 6th of April 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune, American geographer (d. 1993) |
| 6th of April 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, set designer and theater director (d. 1990) |
| 6th of April 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Ellis McKelvey, American geologist (d. 1987) |
| 6th of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Leonora Carrington, British-born surrealist painter |
| 6th of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Alfredo Ovando Candia, Bolivian president (d. 1982) |
| 6th of April 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Mylonas, Greek politician (d. 1998) |
| 6th of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist, Nobel laureate |
| 6th of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Franchi, Italian-born singer and actor (d. 1990) |
| 6th of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician |
| 6th of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000) |
| 6th of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Gerry Mulligan, American musician (d. 1996) |
| 6th of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | James D. Watson, American geneticist, Nobel laureate |
| 6th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Willis Hall, English playwright and radio and television writer (d. 2005) |
| 6th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Joi Lansing, American model and actress (d. 1972) |
| 6th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Previn, German-born composer and conductor |
| 6th of April 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Baba Ram Dass, American Hindu spiritual teacher |
| 6th of April 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Dixon, American actor and director (d. 2008) |
| 6th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Helmut Griem, German actor (d. 2004) |
| 6th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Goode, British lawyer |
| 6th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Eduardo Malapit, American politician (d. 2007) |
| 6th of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Enrique Alvarez Felix, Mexican actor (d. 1996) |
| 6th of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Peellaert, Belgian visual artist (d. 2008) |
| 6th of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka (d. 2010) |
| 6th of April 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Hill, Canadian-born science fiction writer (d. 2007) |
| 6th of April 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Berman, Dutch-Israeli visual artist |
| 6th of April 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Maivia, Samoan professional wrestler (d. 1982) |
| 6th of April 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Merle Haggard, American musician |
| 6th of April 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Dee Williams, American actor |
| 6th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Daniels, English magician |
| 6th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Thinnes, American actor |
| 6th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Ouellet, French Canadian politician |
| 6th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Armendariz Jr., Mexican actor |
| 6th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Homero Aridjis, Mexican writer and diplomat |
| 6th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Austin, American comedian |
| 6th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Hans W. Geissendorfer, German filmmaker |
| 6th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Gheorghe Zamfir, Romanian musician |
| 6th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Don "The Snake" Prudhomme, American drag racer |
| 6th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Levinson, American film producer/director |
| 6th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Felicity Palmer, English soprano |
| 6th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Neal Boortz, American radio personality |
| 6th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | John Ratzenberger, American actor |
| 6th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Worboys, British mathematician |
| 6th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Patrika Darbo, American actress |
| 6th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Horst Ludwig Stormer, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 6th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Cleo Odzer, American writer |
| 6th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bert Blyleven, Dutch-born baseball player |
| 6th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Udo Dirkschneider, German singer |
| 6th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Marilu Henner, American actress |
| 6th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992) |
| 6th of April 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Franke, German musician and composer |
| 6th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Epstein, American filmmaker and journalist |
| 6th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Hunter Jesperson, Canadian serial killer |
| 6th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Cathy Jones, Canadian comedian |
| 6th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Blind Mississippi Morris, American delta blues musician |
| 6th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Rooker, American actor |
| 6th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastian Spreng, Argentinean visual artist |
| 6th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Dilip Vengsarkar, Indian cricketer and administrator |
| 6th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Paolo Nespoli, Italian astronaut |
| 6th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jaroslava Maxova, Czech opera singer |
| 6th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Batem, French comic book artist |
| 6th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | John Pizzarelli, American jazz guitarist, song writer, singer and bandleader |
| 6th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Haynes, American guitarist and song writer |
| 6th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Rory Bremner, English comedian and impressionist |
| 6th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Iris Haussler, German installation artist |
| 6th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador |
| 6th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Gayle, English news presenter |
| 6th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Lieve Slegers, Belgian athlete |
| 6th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Black, American singer/songwriter (Pixies and Frank Black and the Catholics) |
| 6th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Sterling Sharpe, American football player |
| 6th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Young Man Kang, South Korean film director |
| 6th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Firth, British actor |
| 6th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Mika Koivuniemi, Finnish ten-pin bowler |
| 6th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Affonso Giaffone, Brazilian racing driver |
| 6th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Vanessa Lann, American composer |
| 6th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Louie Spence, English dancer/choreographer and TV personality |
| 6th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Rudd, American actor |
| 6th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Bret Boone, American baseball player |
| 6th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ari Meyers, Puerto Rican/American actress |
| 6th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Bison Dele, American basketball player (disappeared 2002) |
| 6th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Canfora, American playwright |
| 6th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Philipp Peter, Austrian racing driver |
| 6th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Spencer Wells, American geneticist |
| 6th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Olaf Kolzig, South African/German ice hockey player |
| 6th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer |
| 6th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Merloni, American baseball player |
| 6th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Hervey, American actor |
| 6th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ami James, Israeli/American tattoo artist |
| 6th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jo Van Daele, Belgian discus thrower |
| 6th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Donnie Edwards, American football player |
| 6th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Rie Miyazawa, Japanese actress/singer |
| 6th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Machine, English artist, poet and writer |
| 6th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Sun Wen, Chinese footballer |
| 6th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Gina Yashere, English comedian |
| 6th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Kovac, Croatian footballer |
| 6th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Zach Braff, American actor |
| 6th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Hal Gill, American ice hockey player |
| 6th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Candace Cameron Bure, American actress |
| 6th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Holm, Icelandic musician (Sigur Ros) |
| 6th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Hirotada Ototake, Japanese sports writer |
| 6th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ville Nieminen, Finnish ice hockey player |
| 6th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Phillips, American baseball player |
| 6th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Mendez, Uruguayan bassist (Opeth) |
| 6th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Hasselbeck, American football player |
| 6th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Myleene Klass, British singer |
| 6th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Blaine Neal, American baseball player |
| 6th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Earnshaw, Zambian/Welsh footballer |
| 6th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Kari Jobe, American singer-songwriter |
| 6th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Guy Chislett, Australian guitarist (The Academy Is...) |
| 6th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ilan Hall, American chef |
| 6th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Bret Harrison, American actor |
| 6th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Travis Moen, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 6th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Diora Baird, American actress and model |
| 6th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jade Seah, Singaporean model, host and actress |
| 6th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Kaino, New Zealand rugby player |
| 6th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mitsuru Nagata, Japanese footballer |
| 6th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Bobbi Starr, American pornographic actress |
| 6th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Dash Shaw, American comic book writer and artist |
| 6th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | James Wade, English darts player |
| 6th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Max Bemis, American musician and songwriter |
| 6th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Clarke MacArthur, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 6th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Ongfiang, Italian footballer |
| 6th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolas Asprogenis, Cypriot footballer |
| 6th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Curry, American football player |
| 6th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ryota Moriwaki, Japanese footballer |
| 6th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Levi Porter, English footballer |
| 6th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Hilary Rhoda, American model |
| 6th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Leigh Adams, Australian footballer |
| 6th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Bailey, English actor |
| 6th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Fabrice Muamba, Congolese/English footballer |
| 6th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Carlton Mitchell, American football player |
| 6th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Jucilei da Silva, Brazilian footballer |
| 6th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Daniele Gasparetto, Italian footballer |
| 6th of April 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Ryutaro Morimoto, Japanese actor and singer |
| 6th of April 0885 | DEATH | Saint Methodius (Born c. 815) |
| 6th of April 1147 | DEATH | Frederick II, Duke of Swabia (Born 1090) |
| 6th of April 1199 | DEATH | King Richard I of England (Born 1157) |
| 6th of April 1199 | DEATH | Pierre Basile, French soldier |
| 6th of April 1362 | DEATH | James I, Count of La Marche, French soldier (Born 1319) |
| 6th of April 1490 | DEATH | Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, King of Hungary and Croatia (Born 1443) |
| 6th of April 1520 | DEATH | Raphael, Italian painter and architect (Born 1483) |
| 6th of April 1528 | DEATH | Albrecht Durer, German artist (Born 1471) |
| 6th of April 1551 | DEATH | Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (Born 1484) |
| 6th of April 1571 | DEATH | John Hamilton, Scottish prelate and politician |
| 6th of April 1590 | DEATH | Francis Walsingham, English spymaster |
| 6th of April 1605 | DEATH | John Stow, English historian |
| 6th of April 1655 | DEATH | David Blondel, French Protestant clergyman (Born 1591) |
| 6th of April 1686 | DEATH | Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (Born 1614) |
| 6th of April 1707 | DEATH | Willem van de Velde, the younger, Dutch painter (Born 1633) |
| 6th of April 1755 | DEATH | Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian (Born 1690) |
| 6th of April 1825 | DEATH | Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (Born 1757) |
| 6th of April 1829 | DEATH | Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (Born 1802) |
| 6th of April 1833 | DEATH | Adamantios Korais, Greek humanist scholar (Born 1748) |
| 6th of April 1838 | DEATH | Jose Bonifacio de Andrade e Silva, Brazilian statesman and geologist (Born 1763) |
| 6th of April 1862 | DEATH | Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general (Born 1803) |
| 6th of April 1883 | DEATH | Benjamin Wright Raymond, American politician (Born 1801) |
| 6th of April 1899 | DEATH | Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (Born 1809) |
| 6th of April 1906 | DEATH | Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (Born 1849) |
| 6th of April 1933 | DEATH | Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (Born 1842) |
| 6th of April 1935 | DEATH | Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (Born 1869) |
| 6th of April 1947 | DEATH | Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (Born 1896) |
| 6th of April 1953 | DEATH | Idris Davies, Welsh poet (Born 1905) |
| 6th of April 1959 | DEATH | Leo Aryeh Mayer, Israeli professor and scholar of Islamic art (Born 1895) |
| 6th of April 1961 | DEATH | Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1870) |
| 6th of April 1963 | DEATH | Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer (Born 1897) |
| 6th of April 1970 | DEATH | Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (Born 1933) |
| 6th of April 1970 | DEATH | Sam Sheppard, American accused murderer (Born 1923) |
| 6th of April 1971 | DEATH | Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (Born 1882) |
| 6th of April 1974 | DEATH | Sir Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and businessman (Born 1895) |
| 6th of April 1974 | DEATH | Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (Born 1884) |
| 6th of April 1976 | DEATH | Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (Born 1903) |
| 6th of April 1992 | DEATH | Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (Born 1920) |
| 6th of April 1994 | DEATH | Juvenal Habyarimana, Rwandan politician (Born 1937) |
| 6th of April 1994 | DEATH | Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician (Born 1956) |
| 6th of April 1995 | DEATH | Ioannis Alevras, Greek politician (Born 1912) |
| 6th of April 1996 | DEATH | Greer Garson, Irish actress (Born 1904) |
| 6th of April 1998 | DEATH | Wendy O. Williams, American singer (Plasmatics) (Born 1949) |
| 6th of April 1998 | DEATH | Norbert Schmitz, German footballer (Born 1958) |
| 6th of April 1998 | DEATH | Tammy Wynette, American singer (Born 1942) |
| 6th of April 1999 | DEATH | Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (Born 1908) |
| 6th of April 2000 | DEATH | Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician (Born 1903) |
| 6th of April 2001 | DEATH | Charles Pettigrew, American singer (Born 1963) |
| 6th of April 2003 | DEATH | Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (Born 1927) |
| 6th of April 2003 | DEATH | David Bloom, American reporter (Born 1963) |
| 6th of April 2003 | DEATH | Gerald Emmett Carter, Canadian cardinal (Born 1912) |
| 6th of April 2004 | DEATH | Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (Born 1929) |
| 6th of April 2004 | DEATH | Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets) (Born 1937) |
| 6th of April 2005 | DEATH | Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (Born 1923) |
| 6th of April 2006 | DEATH | Maggie Dixon, American college basketball coach (Born 1977) |
| 6th of April 2006 | DEATH | Francis L. Kellogg, U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (Born 1917) |
| 6th of April 2006 | DEATH | Stefanos Stratigos, Greek actor (Born 1926) |
| 6th of April 2007 | DEATH | Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (Born 1916) |
| 6th of April 2009 | DEATH | Shawn Mackay, Australian rugby player (Born 1982) |
| 6th of April 2010 | DEATH | Wilma Mankiller, Native-American activist, chief of the Cherokee Nation (Born 1945) |
| 6th of April 2010 | DEATH | Corin Redgrave, British actor and political activist (Born 1939) |