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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 6th of February 1649 | EVENT | The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland. This move was not followed by the Parliament of England nor the Parliament of Ireland. |
| 6th of February 1685 | EVENT | James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II. |
| 6th of February 1778 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic. |
| 6th of February 1788 | EVENT | Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution. |
| 6th of February 1806 | EVENT | Battle of San Domingo British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean. |
| 6th of February 1815 | EVENT | New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens. |
| 6th of February 1817 | EVENT | The Argentinian San Martin crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule. |
| 6th of February 1819 | EVENT | Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore. |
| 6th of February 1820 | EVENT | The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia. |
| 6th of February 1840 | EVENT | Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony. |
| 6th of February 1843 | EVENT | The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City). |
| 6th of February 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: US Navy gives the Union its first victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee, known as the Battle of Fort Henry. |
| 6th of February 1899 | EVENT | Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate. |
| 6th of February 1900 | EVENT | The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree. |
| 6th of February 1922 | EVENT | The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy. |
| 6th of February 1933 | EVENT | The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution, establishing the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices, goes into effect. |
| 6th of February 1934 | EVENT | Far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France. |
| 6th of February 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Thailand. |
| 6th of February 1951 | EVENT | The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history. |
| 6th of February 1952 | EVENT | Elizabeth II becomes the first Queen regnant of the United Kingdom and several other realms since Queen Victoria, upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya. |
| 6th of February 1958 | EVENT | Eight Manchester United F.C. players are killed in the Munich air disaster. |
| 6th of February 1959 | EVENT | Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit. |
| 6th of February 1959 | EVENT | At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished. |
| 6th of February 1978 | EVENT | The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour. |
| 6th of February 1981 | EVENT | The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War. |
| 6th of February 1987 | EVENT | Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed. |
| 6th of February 1989 | EVENT | The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe. |
| 6th of February 1996 | EVENT | Flooding in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest. |
| 6th of February 1998 | EVENT | Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport. |
| 6th of February 2000 | EVENT | Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile. |
| 6th of February 1347 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothea of Montau, Catholic saint (d. 1394) |
| 6th of February 1452 | BIRTHDAY | Joan, Princess of Portugal, Portuguese princess and saint (d. 1490) |
| 6th of February 1461 | BIRTHDAY | Dzore Drzic, Croatian poet and playwright (d. 1501) |
| 6th of February 1465 | BIRTHDAY | Scipione del Ferro, Italian mathematician (d. 1526) |
| 6th of February 1577 | BIRTHDAY | Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (d. 1599) |
| 6th of February 1582 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Bettinus, Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1657) |
| 6th of February 1605 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard of Corleone, Catholic saint (d. 1667) |
| 6th of February 1608 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer (d. 1697) |
| 6th of February 1611 | BIRTHDAY | Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1644) |
| 6th of February 1612 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Arnauld, French theologian, philosopher and mathematician (d. 1694) |
| 6th of February 1639 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691) |
| 6th of February 1643 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg, first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1712) |
| 6th of February 1664 | BIRTHDAY | Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1703) |
| 6th of February 1665 | BIRTHDAY | Anne of Great Britain, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (d. 1714) |
| 6th of February 1695 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1726) |
| 6th of February 1721 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Friedrich Heinecken, German child prodigy (d. 1725) |
| 6th of February 1726 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Russell, Scottish surgeon and naturalist (d. 1805) |
| 6th of February 1732 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Lee, British-born American Revolutionary War figure (d. 1782) |
| 6th of February 1736 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German-Austrian sculptor (d. 1783) |
| 6th of February 1744 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (d. 1795) |
| 6th of February 1748 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher (d. 1811) |
| 6th of February 1753 | BIRTHDAY | Evariste de Parny, French poet (d. 1814) |
| 6th of February 1756 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Burr, American politician and 3rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1836) |
| 6th of February 1757 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish scholar and statesman. (d. 1841) |
| 6th of February 1769 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Austrian general (d. 1862) |
| 6th of February 1772 | BIRTHDAY | Karl von Kugelgen, German landscape and history painter (d. 1832) |
| 6th of February 1772 | BIRTHDAY | Sir George Murray, Scottish soldier and politician (d. 1830) |
| 6th of February 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer and poet (d. 1827) |
| 6th of February 1781 | BIRTHDAY | John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, British noble and officer (d. 1844) |
| 6th of February 1796 | BIRTHDAY | John Stevens Henslow, English botanist and geologist (d. 1861) |
| 6th of February 1797 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph von Radowitz, Prussian statesman and general (d. 1853) |
| 6th of February 1799 | BIRTHDAY | Imre Frivaldszky, Hungarian botanist and entomologist (d. 1870) |
| 6th of February 1800 | BIRTHDAY | Achille Deveria, French painter and lithographer (d. 1857) |
| 6th of February 1802 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Wheatstone, English scientist and inventor (d. 1875) |
| 6th of February 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Henry George Liddell, father of Alice Liddell (d. 1898) |
| 6th of February 1818 | BIRTHDAY | William M. Evarts, American lawyer and statesman (d. 1901) |
| 6th of February 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Charles Litolff, British musician and composer (d. 1891) |
| 6th of February 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Jenaro Quesada y Matheus, Spanish nobleman and politician (d. 1889) |
| 6th of February 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Auguste Emile Vaudremer, French architect (d. 1914) |
| 6th of February 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Oliver, British botanist (d. 1916) |
| 6th of February 1832 | BIRTHDAY | John Brown Gordon, American politician (d. 1904) |
| 6th of February 1833 | BIRTHDAY | James Ewell Brown Stuart, American Civil War figure (d. 1864) |
| 6th of February 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Maria de Pereda, Spanish novelist (d. 1906) |
| 6th of February 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin Klebs, German-born Swiss pathologist (d. 1913) |
| 6th of February 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (d. 1889) |
| 6th of February 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm von Scherff, German general and military writer (d. 1911) |
| 6th of February 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Henry Irving, British actor (d. 1905) |
| 6th of February 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Yisrael Meir Kagan, Chofetz Chayim (d. 1933) |
| 6th of February 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Eduard Hitzig, German neurologist and neuropsychiatrist (d. 1907) |
| 6th of February 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Rudge, English chess master (d. 1919) |
| 6th of February 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Frederic William Henry Myers, English poet and essayist (d. 1901) |
| 6th of February 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Inoue Kowashi, Japanese statesman (d. 1895) |
| 6th of February 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect (d. 1918) |
| 6th of February 1852 | BIRTHDAY | C. Lloyd Morgan, British zoologist and psychologist (d. 1936) |
| 6th of February 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Vasily Safonov, Russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer (d. 1918) |
| 6th of February 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Ignacij Klemencic, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901) |
| 6th of February 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Tommaso Alberto Vittorio of Savoy-Genoa, Italian prince (d. 1931) |
| 6th of February 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Cohn, German chess master (d. 1913) |
| 6th of February 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolay Zelinsky, Russian chemist (d. 1953) |
| 6th of February 1864 | BIRTHDAY | John Henry Mackay, Scottish individualist anarchist, thinker and writer (d. 1933) |
| 6th of February 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Sapper, German explorer and linguist (d. 1945) |
| 6th of February 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Maillart, Swiss bridge engineer (d. 1940) |
| 6th of February 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (d. 1915) |
| 6th of February 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Blogg, English lifeboatman, George Cross and British Empire Medal recipient (d. 1954) |
| 6th of February 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Walter B. Pitkin, American lecturer (d. 1953) |
| 6th of February 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Othon Friesz, French artist (d. 1949) |
| 6th of February 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin Samuel Montagu, British statesman (d. 1924) |
| 6th of February 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Magnus Gu?mundsson, Icelandic politician (d. 1937) |
| 6th of February 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Ramsauer, German physicist (d. 1955) |
| 6th of February 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Nishinoumi Kajiro II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 25th Yokozuna (d. 1931) |
| 6th of February 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1938) |
| 6th of February 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Cohen, French linguist (d. 1974) |
| 6th of February 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978) |
| 6th of February 1892 | BIRTHDAY | William Parry Murphy, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1987) |
| 6th of February 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Maximilian Fretter-Pico, German general (d. 1984) |
| 6th of February 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, Pakistani diplomat (d. 1985) |
| 6th of February 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Partridge, New Zealand lexicographer (d. 1979) |
| 6th of February 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Kirpal Singh, Indian religious figure (d. 1974) |
| 6th of February 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Babe Ruth, American baseball player (d. 1948) |
| 6th of February 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Buchalter, American organized crime figure (d. 1944) |
| 6th of February 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Alla Tarasova, Soviet actress (d. 1973) |
| 6th of February 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Ramon Novarro, Mexican actor (d. 1968) |
| 6th of February 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Lyon, American actor (d. 1979) |
| 6th of February 1902 | BIRTHDAY | George Brunies, American musician (d. 1974) |
| 6th of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991) |
| 6th of February 1905 | BIRTHDAY | W?adys?aw Gomu?ka, Polish leader (d. 1982) |
| 6th of February 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Werich, Czech actor, playwright and writer (d. 1980) |
| 6th of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician (d. 1999) |
| 6th of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Maltese, American screenwriter (d. 1981) |
| 6th of February 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982) |
| 6th of February 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (d. 1993) |
| 6th of February 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004) |
| 6th of February 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Braun, German mistress and wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945) |
| 6th of February 1912 | BIRTHDAY | John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian (d. 2003) |
| 6th of February 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Leakey, British anthropologist (d. 1996) |
| 6th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (d. 2005) |
| 6th of February 1916 | BIRTHDAY | John Crank, British mathematician (d. 2006) |
| 6th of February 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-born actress |
| 6th of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Lothar-Gunther Buchheim, German author (d. 2007) |
| 6th of February 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Takashi Yanase, Japanese manga artist |
| 6th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer (d. 2007) |
| 6th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Macnee, British actor |
| 6th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Norden, British television personality |
| 6th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer |
| 6th of February 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Gyula Lorant, Hungarian football player and manager (d. 1981) |
| 6th of February 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Wright, English footballer (d. 1994) |
| 6th of February 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Jin Yong, Chinese-language novelist |
| 6th of February 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian author (d. 2006) |
| 6th of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Walker Edmiston, American actor (d. 2007) |
| 6th of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist (d. 1992) |
| 6th of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Meltzer, American economist |
| 6th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Brice, French actor |
| 6th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Murdoch, New Zealand pharmacist, inventor of the tranquilliser gun (d. 2008) |
| 6th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Valentin Yanin, Russian historian |
| 6th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan writer |
| 6th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Jun Kondo, Japanese theoretical physicist |
| 6th of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Rip Torn, American actor |
| 6th of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Vidal, Filipino Roman Catholic Cardinal |
| 6th of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Mamie Van Doren, American actress |
| 6th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1959) |
| 6th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984) |
| 6th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Heinz-Klaus Metzger, German music critic and theorist (d. 2009) |
| 6th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie Crowther, British comedian (d. 1996) |
| 6th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (d. 2000) |
| 6th of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | J. Howard Marshall III, American businessman |
| 6th of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2009) |
| 6th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Farrell, American actor |
| 6th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Orlando Parga, Puerto Rican politician |
| 6th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Brokaw, American news anchorman |
| 6th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Tarbuck, British comedian |
| 6th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Petr Hajek, Czech mathematician |
| 6th of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Spencer Silver, American chemist |
| 6th of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Gigi Perreau, American actress |
| 6th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | James Loewen, American sociologist and historian |
| 6th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Valentina Titova, Russian actress |
| 6th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Brady, American gun-control activist |
| 6th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Fabian Forte, American singer |
| 6th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Gayle Hunnicutt, American actress |
| 6th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Christine Boutin, French politician |
| 6th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Tee, American singer and songwriter (d. 2007) |
| 6th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Tucker, American actor |
| 6th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Marley, Jamaican musician (d. 1981) |
| 6th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Turner, American politician |
| 6th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer and songwriter (d. 2010) |
| 6th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Richie Hayward, American musician (Little Feat) (d. 2010) |
| 6th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Staines, American singer and songwriter |
| 6th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Batt, British composer |
| 6th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Sheridan, Irish film director |
| 6th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Natalie Cole, American singer |
| 6th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Antonio, Brazilian footballer |
| 6th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Margo O'Donnell, Irish singer |
| 6th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Villeret, French film actor (d. 2005) |
| 6th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Whately, English actor |
| 6th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Lavolpe, Argentine football coach |
| 6th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Giacobbo, Swiss writer, comedian, moderator and actor |
| 6th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Pollan, American journalist |
| 6th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Stolorz, French rugby coach |
| 6th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Kathy Najimy, American actress and comedienne |
| 6th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Phillips, Drummer (Toto) |
| 6th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Townsend, American actor |
| 6th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Cecily Adams, American actress (d. 2004) |
| 6th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Miller, American actor |
| 6th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Nelson, English record producer |
| 6th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Megan Gallagher, American actress |
| 6th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Yuri Onufriyenko, Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut |
| 6th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Stavros Lambrinidis, Greek politician |
| 6th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | W. Axl Rose, American singer (Guns N' Roses) |
| 6th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Quentin Letts, British journalist |
| 6th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Trudeau, American entrepreneur |
| 6th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Downie, Canadian musician (The Tragically Hip) |
| 6th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russian film director and actor |
| 6th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Sverak, Czech film director |
| 6th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Astley, British singer |
| 6th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (d. 2007) |
| 6th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Anita Cochran, American singer |
| 6th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Adolfo Valencia, Colombian footballer |
| 6th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Akira Yamaoka, Japanese composer |
| 6th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Masaharu Fukuyama, Japanese singer |
| 6th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Sherwood, English footballer |
| 6th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | David Hayter, American voice actor |
| 6th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Per Frandsen, Danish footballer |
| 6th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Dana Eskelson, American actress |
| 6th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Hogg, Australian cricket player |
| 6th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Rogers, American basketball player |
| 6th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Stepanek, American actor |
| 6th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | David Binn, American football player |
| 6th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Stefano Bettarini, Italian footballer |
| 6th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Hawke, Australian swimmer |
| 6th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Orkut Buyukkokten, Turkish software engineer |
| 6th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer |
| 6th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Svend-Allan S?rensen, Danish artist |
| 6th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast |
| 6th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tanja Frieden, Swiss snowboarder |
| 6th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kasper Hvidt, Danish handball goalkeeper |
| 6th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Marie of Denmark |
| 6th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Euell, English-born footballer |
| 6th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Stewart, American actor |
| 6th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Balan, Moldovan singer (O-Zone) |
| 6th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Reentko, German musician and composer |
| 6th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mamiko Noto, Japanese seiyu |
| 6th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Poirier, Canadian actress |
| 6th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Ravenstahl, American politician |
| 6th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Calum Best, American model |
| 6th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Barnes, American professional golfer |
| 6th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ty Warren, American football player |
| 6th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jens Lekman, Swedish musician |
| 6th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Shim Eun Jin, South Korean singer (Baby V.O.X.) |
| 6th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Alison Haislip, American actress and TV personality |
| 6th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Eve, English actress |
| 6th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tank Lu, Taiwanese singer (Mandopop) |
| 6th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jade Edmistone, Australian swimmer |
| 6th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | S. Sreesanth, Indian cricketer |
| 6th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Dimas Delgado, Spanish footballer |
| 6th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Brodie Croyle, American football player |
| 6th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Whincup, Australian racing driver |
| 6th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Myron Wolf Child, Canadian politician (d. 2007) |
| 6th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Melrose Bickerstaff, American fashion model |
| 6th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Bent, English footballer |
| 6th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Piret Jarvis, Estonian singer |
| 6th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Wright, American basketball player |
| 6th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Yang Yu, Chinese swimmer |
| 6th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Joji Kato, Japanese speedskater |
| 6th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Kris Humphries, American basketball player |
| 6th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Greczyn, American actress |
| 6th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jung Yunho, South Korean singer (TVXQ) |
| 6th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Taylor, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 6th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Bailey Hanks, American actress |
| 6th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Allison Holker, American dancer |
| 6th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Cathcart, Irish footballer |
| 6th of February 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Manon, Mexican footballer |
| 6th of February 0891 | DEATH | St. Photius I the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople |
| 6th of February 1215 | DEATH | Hojo Tokimasa, Head of the Hojo clan and shikken of the Kamakura bakufu (Born 1138) |
| 6th of February 1378 | DEATH | Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (Born 1338) |
| 6th of February 1497 | DEATH | Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer (Born c.1410) |
| 6th of February 1515 | DEATH | Aldus Manutius, Italian printer |
| 6th of February 1585 | DEATH | Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (Born 1518) |
| 6th of February 1593 | DEATH | Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (Born 1517) |
| 6th of February 1593 | DEATH | Jacques Amyot, French writer (Born 1513) |
| 6th of February 1617 | DEATH | Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (Born 1553) |
| 6th of February 1685 | DEATH | King Charles II of England (Born 1630) |
| 6th of February 1740 | DEATH | Pope Clement XII (Born 1652) |
| 6th of February 1775 | DEATH | William Dowdeswell, English politician (Born 1721) |
| 6th of February 1783 | DEATH | Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (Born 1716) |
| 6th of February 1793 | DEATH | Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (Born 1707) |
| 6th of February 1806 | DEATH | Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, French general and father of author Alexandre Dumas, pere (Born 1762) |
| 6th of February 1807 | DEATH | John Reid, British army general and composer (Born 1721) |
| 6th of February 1816 | DEATH | Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (Born 1744) |
| 6th of February 1833 | DEATH | Pierre Andre Latreille, French entomologist (Born 1762) |
| 6th of February 1834 | DEATH | Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (Born 1804) |
| 6th of February 1855 | DEATH | Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (Born 1791) |
| 6th of February 1899 | DEATH | Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (Born 1831) |
| 6th of February 1899 | DEATH | Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince of Edinburgh (Born 1874) |
| 6th of February 1910 | DEATH | Alfonso Maria Fusco. Beatified Italian Roman Catholic priest and founder (Born 1839) |
| 6th of February 1916 | DEATH | Ruben Dario, Nicaraguan writer (Born 1867) |
| 6th of February 1918 | DEATH | Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (Born 1862) |
| 6th of February 1927 | DEATH | Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (Born 1879) |
| 6th of February 1938 | DEATH | Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (Born 1860) |
| 6th of February 1950 | DEATH | Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (Born 1884) |
| 6th of February 1951 | DEATH | Gabby Street, former MLB player (Born 1882) |
| 6th of February 1952 | DEATH | George VI of the United Kingdom (Born 1895) |
| 6th of February 1958 | DEATH | Tommy Taylor, English footballer (Born 1932) |
| 6th of February 1958 | DEATH | David Pegg, English footballer (Born 1935) |
| 6th of February 1958 | DEATH | Geoff Bent, English footballer (Born 1932) |
| 6th of February 1958 | DEATH | Roger Byrne, English footballer (Born 1929) |
| 6th of February 1958 | DEATH | Mark Jones, English footballer (Born 1933) |
| 6th of February 1958 | DEATH | Eddie Colman, English footballer (Born 1936) |
| 6th of February 1958 | DEATH | Walter Crickmer, English football club secretary and manager |
| 6th of February 1958 | DEATH | Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (Born 1913) |
| 6th of February 1963 | DEATH | Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi, Moroccan politician |
| 6th of February 1964 | DEATH | Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and President (Born 1869) |
| 6th of February 1966 | DEATH | Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (Born 1877) |
| 6th of February 1967 | DEATH | Martine Carol, French film actress (Born 1920) |
| 6th of February 1976 | DEATH | Vince Guaraldi, American musician (Born 1928) |
| 6th of February 1976 | DEATH | Ritwik Ghatak, Bengali Indian film maker and scriptwriter (Born 1925) |
| 6th of February 1981 | DEATH | Hugo Montenegro, American film music composer (Born 1925) |
| 6th of February 1981 | DEATH | Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (Born 1917) |
| 6th of February 1985 | DEATH | James Hadley Chase, English writer (Born 1906) |
| 6th of February 1986 | DEATH | Frederick Coutts, Salvation Army general (Born 1899) |
| 6th of February 1986 | DEATH | Dandy Nichols, English actress (Born 1907) |
| 6th of February 1986 | DEATH | Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (Born 1912) |
| 6th of February 1988 | DEATH | Nuno Oliveira, Bass Player (Born 1925) |
| 6th of February 1989 | DEATH | Chris Gueffroy, East German attempted defector (Born 1968) |
| 6th of February 1989 | DEATH | Andre Cayatte, French filmmaker (Born 1909) |
| 6th of February 1989 | DEATH | Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (Born 1912) |
| 6th of February 1989 | DEATH | Osbourne 'King Tubby' Ruddock, Jamaican Dub music performer (Born 1941) |
| 6th of February 1991 | DEATH | Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (Born 1914) |
| 6th of February 1991 | DEATH | Salvador Luria, Italian biologist, Nobel laureate (Born 1912) |
| 6th of February 1993 | DEATH | Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (Born 1943) |
| 6th of February 1994 | DEATH | Joseph Cotten, American actor (Born 1905) |
| 6th of February 1994 | DEATH | Jack Kirby, American comic book writer (Born 1917) |
| 6th of February 1995 | DEATH | James Merrill, American poet (Born 1926) |
| 6th of February 1996 | DEATH | Guy Madison, American actor (Born 1922) |
| 6th of February 1997 | DEATH | Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (Born 1913) |
| 6th of February 1998 | DEATH | Falco, Austrian singer (Born 1957) |
| 6th of February 1998 | DEATH | Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (Born 1946) |
| 6th of February 1998 | DEATH | Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist (Born 1914) |
| 6th of February 1998 | DEATH | Jose Marroquin Leal (better known as Pipo), Mexican actor and performer (Born 1933) |
| 6th of February 2001 | DEATH | Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (Born 1953) |
| 6th of February 2001 | DEATH | Fulgence Charpentier, Canadian journalist (Born 1897) |
| 6th of February 2002 | DEATH | Max Perutz, Austrian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (Born 1914) |
| 6th of February 2005 | DEATH | Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (Born 1930) |
| 6th of February 2005 | DEATH | Karl Haas, American radio presenter (Born 1913) |
| 6th of February 2007 | DEATH | Lew Burdette, American baseball player (Born 1926) |
| 6th of February 2007 | DEATH | Len Hopkins, Canadian politician (Born 1930) |
| 6th of February 2007 | DEATH | Frankie Laine, American singer (Born 1913) |
| 6th of February 2007 | DEATH | Lee Hoffman, American author (Born 1932) |
| 6th of February 2007 | DEATH | Willye White, American athlete (Born 1939) |
| 6th of February 2008 | DEATH | John McWethy, American journalist (Born 1947) |
| 6th of February 2008 | DEATH | Tony Rolt, English racing driver (Born 1918) |
| 6th of February 2011 | DEATH | Gary Moore, British musician (Born 1952) |