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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 6th of September 0394 | EVENT | Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast. |
| 6th of September 1492 | EVENT | Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time. |
| 6th of September 1522 | EVENT | The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlucar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world. |
| 6th of September 1620 | EVENT | The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.) |
| 6th of September 1628 | EVENT | Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony. |
| 6th of September 1634 | EVENT | Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nordlingen the Catholic Imperial army defeats Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany. |
| 6th of September 1669 | EVENT | The siege of Candia ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans. |
| 6th of September 1781 | EVENT | The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory. |
| 6th of September 1847 | EVENT | Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts. |
| 6th of September 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control of the mouth of the Tennessee River. |
| 6th of September 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina. |
| 6th of September 1870 | EVENT | Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807. |
| 6th of September 1885 | EVENT | Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished. |
| 6th of September 1888 | EVENT | Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season : a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times). |
| 6th of September 1901 | EVENT | Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. |
| 6th of September 1930 | EVENT | Democratically elected Argentine president Hipolito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup. |
| 6th of September 1937 | EVENT | Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco. |
| 6th of September 1939 | EVENT | World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany. |
| 6th of September 1939 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek. |
| 6th of September 1940 | EVENT | King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael. |
| 6th of September 1943 | EVENT | The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, is founded in Monterrey, Mexico. |
| 6th of September 1944 | EVENT | World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces. |
| 6th of September 1948 | EVENT | Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands. |
| 6th of September 1949 | EVENT | Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control. |
| 6th of September 1949 | EVENT | A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey, with a souvenir Luger to become the first U.S. single-episode mass murderer. |
| 6th of September 1952 | EVENT | Canada's first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal. |
| 6th of September 1955 | EVENT | Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul's Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom. |
| 6th of September 1963 | EVENT | The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded. |
| 6th of September 1965 | EVENT | War of 1965: India retaliates following Pakistan's failed Operation Grand Slam which resulted in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that is ended following the signing of the Tashkent Declaration. |
| 6th of September 1966 | EVENT | In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting. |
| 6th of September 1968 | EVENT | Swaziland becomes independent. |
| 6th of September 1970 | EVENT | Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field in Jordan. |
| 6th of September 1972 | EVENT | Munich Massacre: 9 Israel athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group died (as did a German policeman) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt. 2 other Israeli athletes are slain in the initial attack the previous day. |
| 6th of September 1976 | EVENT | Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States. |
| 6th of September 1983 | EVENT | The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace. |
| 6th of September 1985 | EVENT | Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31. |
| 6th of September 1986 | EVENT | In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services. |
| 6th of September 1991 | EVENT | The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. |
| 6th of September 1991 | EVENT | The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924. |
| 6th of September 1992 | EVENT | Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher Johnson McCandless at his camp 20 miles (32 km) west of the town of Healy, Alaska. |
| 6th of September 1995 | EVENT | Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years. |
| 6th of September 1997 | EVENT | Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Over a million people lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched around the world on television. |
| 6th of September 2008 | EVENT | Turkish President Abdullah Gul attends an association football match in Armenia after an invitation by Armenian President Serzh Sarkisyan; he is the first Turkish head of state to visit the country. |
| 6th of September 1535 | BIRTHDAY | Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (d. 1612) |
| 6th of September 1620 | BIRTHDAY | Isabella Leonarda, Italian composer (d. 1704) |
| 6th of September 1656 | BIRTHDAY | Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1723) |
| 6th of September 1666 | BIRTHDAY | Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696) |
| 6th of September 1711 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (d. 1787) |
| 6th of September 1729 | BIRTHDAY | Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher (d. 1786) |
| 6th of September 1732 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796) |
| 6th of September 1757 | BIRTHDAY | Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and statesman (d. 1834) |
| 6th of September 1766 | BIRTHDAY | John Dalton, British chemist and physicist (d. 1844) |
| 6th of September 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher and composer (d. 1858) |
| 6th of September 1795 | BIRTHDAY | Frances Wright, English writer and lecturer (d. 1852) |
| 6th of September 1800 | BIRTHDAY | Catharine Beecher, American educator (d. 1878) |
| 6th of September 1802 | BIRTHDAY | Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857) |
| 6th of September 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri, Algerian political and military leader (d. 1883) |
| 6th of September 1814 | BIRTHDAY | George-Etienne Cartier, Canadian politician (d. 1873) |
| 6th of September 1815 | BIRTHDAY | St. John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Confederate general (d. 1870) |
| 6th of September 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician (d. 1893) |
| 6th of September 1819 | BIRTHDAY | William Rosecrans, American Civil War general and US ambassador to Mexico (d. 1898) |
| 6th of September 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Zakrzewska, Polish physician (d. 1902) |
| 6th of September 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (d. 1906) |
| 6th of September 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Schalk Willem Burger, South African politician, military leader and State President (d. 1918) |
| 6th of September 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (d. 1933) |
| 6th of September 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Addams, American social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1935) |
| 6th of September 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Haberlin, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1947) |
| 6th of September 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Salten, Austrian author (d. 1945) |
| 6th of September 1876 | BIRTHDAY | John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935) |
| 6th of September 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Buddy Bolden, American musician (d. 1930) |
| 6th of September 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Wirth, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1956) |
| 6th of September 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936) |
| 6th of September 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American banker and diplomat (d. 1969) |
| 6th of September 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Clara Kimball Young, American actress (d. 1960) |
| 6th of September 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Edward Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965) |
| 6th of September 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Claire Chennault, American pilot (d. 1958) |
| 6th of September 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Rose, American composer (d. 1966) |
| 6th of September 1900 | BIRTHDAY | W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979) |
| 6th of September 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Julien Green, French-born American novelist (d. 1998) |
| 6th of September 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Max Rosenbloom, American boxer (d. 1976) |
| 6th of September 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987) |
| 6th of September 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Gordon, American actor and director (d. 1993) |
| 6th of September 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Giesler, American soccer coach, (d. 1976) |
| 6th of September 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Danning, American baseball player (d. 2004) |
| 6th of September 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Josef Strauss, German politician (d. 1988) |
| 6th of September 1917 | BIRTHDAY | John Berry, American film director (d. 1999) |
| 6th of September 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Philipp von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler (d. 2008) |
| 6th of September 1917 | BIRTHDAY | George Mann, England cricketer (d. 2001) |
| 6th of September 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Wilson Greatbatch, American inventor |
| 6th of September 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (d. 2004) |
| 6th of September 1923 | BIRTHDAY | King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970) |
| 6th of September 1924 | BIRTHDAY | John Melcher, American politician |
| 6th of September 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (d. 1976) |
| 6th of September 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Claus van Amsberg, German born Prince Consort of the Netherlands (d. 2002) |
| 6th of September 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Prather, American motion picture and still photographer (d. 2001) |
| 6th of September 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Robert M. Pirsig, American author |
| 6th of September 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer (d. 2002) |
| 6th of September 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Yash Johar, Indian film producer (d. 2005) |
| 6th of September 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Gilles Tremblay, Canadian composer |
| 6th of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Aragones, Spanish-born illustrator |
| 6th of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Jo Anne Worley, American actress |
| 6th of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Brigid Berlin, American actor |
| 6th of September 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Cragg, American soldier and author |
| 6th of September 1939 | BIRTHDAY | David Allan Coe, American country singer |
| 6th of September 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| 6th of September 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Murray, American artist (d. 2007) |
| 6th of September 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Anthony Hutton, England cricketer |
| 6th of September 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Wayne, American actress (d. 1985) |
| 6th of September 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| 6th of September 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Waters, British musician (Pink Floyd) |
| 6th of September 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Donna Haraway, American professor, writer, and lecturer |
| 6th of September 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Swoosie Kurtz, American actress |
| 6th of September 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Lucchino, American baseball executive |
| 6th of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvester James, American singer (d. 1988) |
| 6th of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach |
| 6th of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Curtin, American actress |
| 6th of September 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Claydes Charles Smith, American musician (Kool & the Gang) (d. 2006) |
| 6th of September 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Lockhart, American actress |
| 6th of September 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Carly Fiorina, Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard |
| 6th of September 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Eve Luquet, French stamp designer |
| 6th of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Benson, American author |
| 6th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Ritter, American politician |
| 6th of September 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Divandari, Iranian artist |
| 6th of September 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Michaelle Jean, 27th Governor-General of Canada |
| 6th of September 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Whitnall, English actor and narrator |
| 6th of September 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Socrates, Prime Minister of Portugal |
| 6th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Buster Bloodvessel, British singer |
| 6th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian |
| 6th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Westlake, Australian musician and composer |
| 6th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Arsinee Khanjian, Armenian-Canadian actress |
| 6th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Winslow, American actor and comedian |
| 6th of September 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Root, Canadian ice hockey defenceman |
| 6th of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Reeve, Australian journalist |
| 6th of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Travis, American musician (Judas Priest) |
| 6th of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian musician (a-ha) |
| 6th of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Vargas, American journalist |
| 6th of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Willis, American basketball player |
| 6th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Sebold, American novelist |
| 6th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Nevin, Scottish footballer |
| 6th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Simonaire, American politician |
| 6th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Geert Wilders, Dutch politician |
| 6th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Rosie Perez, American actress |
| 6th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Van Tiffin, American football player |
| 6th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | John Polson, Australian actor and film director |
| 6th of September 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Macy Gray, American singer-songwriter |
| 6th of September 1967 | BIRTHDAY | William DuVall, American singer (Alice In Chains) |
| 6th of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Saeed Anwar, Pakistani cricketer |
| 6th of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish writer |
| 6th of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Rea, American television journalist |
| 6th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Michellie Jones, Australian triathlete |
| 6th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Finegold, American chess player |
| 6th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | CeCe Peniston, American dance music singer |
| 6th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Devang Gandhi, Indian cricketer |
| 6th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (The Cranberries) |
| 6th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Dylan Bruno, American actor (Numb3rs) |
| 6th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Idris Elba, English/American actor |
| 6th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene Hutz, Ukrainian singer and composer (Gogol Bordello) |
| 6th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Anika Noni Rose, American actress and singer |
| 6th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Justina Machado, Puerto Rican actress |
| 6th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | China Mieville, English writer |
| 6th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer |
| 6th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Rusedski, Canadian-born tennis player |
| 6th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro Troncon, Italian rugby player |
| 6th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Henman, English tennis player |
| 6th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Nina Persson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans) |
| 6th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Danielle Madison, American actress |
| 6th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Whalin, American actor |
| 6th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Strange, Canadian actress |
| 6th of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Derrek Lee, American baseball player |
| 6th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Naomie Harris, English actress |
| 6th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Rodrigo Amarante, Brazilian musician (Little Joy, Los Hermanos) |
| 6th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | N.O.R.E., American rapper |
| 6th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Hyun Young, South Korean actress and pop singer |
| 6th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Pappas, American decathlete |
| 6th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kiyoshi Hikawa, Japanese enka singer |
| 6th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Cisco Adler, American singer |
| 6th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Marlen Angelidou, Greek singer |
| 6th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Barjie, Gambian international footballer with dual Gambian : Italian nationality |
| 6th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Natalia Cigliuti, American actress |
| 6th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 6th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Mathew Horne, English actor |
| 6th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Thaxton, drummer (Motion City Soundtrack) |
| 6th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Foxy Brown, American rapper |
| 6th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Arnaoutis, Greek boxer |
| 6th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer |
| 6th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Silvestry, American professional wrestler |
| 6th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Adrian Morales, Mexican footballer |
| 6th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jillian Hall, American professional wrestler |
| 6th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Yuji Hamano, Japanese archer |
| 6th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kerry Katona, British singer and media personality |
| 6th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Peter, Nigerian heavyweight boxer |
| 6th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer |
| 6th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Teahen, American baseball player |
| 6th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Yuki Abe, Japanese footballer |
| 6th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Yumiko Cheng, Hong Kong singer |
| 6th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitri Champion, French professional bicyclist |
| 6th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Pippa Middleton, Sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge |
| 6th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Helena Jonsson, Swedish biathlete |
| 6th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Orsi Kocsis, Hungarian model |
| 6th of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Ashfaq, Maldivian footballer |
| 6th of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Webbie, American rapper |
| 6th of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Alberto Valerio, Brazilian racing driver |
| 6th of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Raven Riley, American porn star |
| 6th of September 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Ramiele Malubay, American singer |
| 6th of September 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Tonucci, Italian footballer |
| 6th of September 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Boutzikos, Greek footballer |
| 6th of September 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Kim So Eun, South Korean actress |
| 6th of September 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Fabiola Rodas, Guatemalan-American artist |
| 6th of September 2006 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese imperial family member |
| 6th of September 0957 | DEATH | Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (Born 930) |
| 6th of September 0972 | DEATH | Pope John XIII |
| 6th of September 1276 | DEATH | Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (Born ca. 1215) |
| 6th of September 1431 | DEATH | Demetrios Laskaris Leontares, Byzantine soldier and statesman |
| 6th of September 1511 | DEATH | Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (Born 1481) |
| 6th of September 1536 | DEATH | William Tyndale, Protestant bible translator (Born c.1494) |
| 6th of September 1625 | DEATH | Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (Born 1579) |
| 6th of September 1635 | DEATH | Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (Born 1571) |
| 6th of September 1649 | DEATH | Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (Born 1574) |
| 6th of September 1683 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister finance (Born 1619) |
| 6th of September 1708 | DEATH | Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (Born 1623) |
| 6th of September 1748 | DEATH | Edmund Gibson, English jurist (Born 1669) |
| 6th of September 1782 | DEATH | Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (Born 1748) |
| 6th of September 1783 | DEATH | Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (Born 1710) |
| 6th of September 1808 | DEATH | Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (Born 1723) |
| 6th of September 1868 | DEATH | Pierre Adolphe Rost, Louisiana judge, Confederate commissioner (Born 1797) |
| 6th of September 1902 | DEATH | Frederick Augustus Abel, English chemist (Born 1827) |
| 6th of September 1907 | DEATH | Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1839) |
| 6th of September 1938 | DEATH | John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (Born 1907) |
| 6th of September 1939 | DEATH | Arthur Rackman, English book illustrator (Born 1867) |
| 6th of September 1945 | DEATH | John McCain, Sr., American admiral (Born 1884) |
| 6th of September 1950 | DEATH | Olaf Stapledon, British writer and philosopher (Born 1886) |
| 6th of September 1951 | DEATH | James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (Born 1867) |
| 6th of September 1952 | DEATH | Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (Born 1898) |
| 6th of September 1962 | DEATH | Hanns Eisler, German-born composer (Born 1898) |
| 6th of September 1962 | DEATH | Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (Born 1892) |
| 6th of September 1966 | DEATH | Margaret Sanger, American birth control activist (Born 1879) |
| 6th of September 1966 | DEATH | Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa (Born 1901) |
| 6th of September 1969 | DEATH | Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (Born 1892) |
| 6th of September 1974 | DEATH | Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (Born 1896) |
| 6th of September 1978 | DEATH | Tom Wilson, American record producer (Born 1931) |
| 6th of September 1981 | DEATH | Christy Brown, Irish author (Born 1932) |
| 6th of September 1984 | DEATH | Ernest Tubb, American singer (Born 1914) |
| 6th of September 1985 | DEATH | Johnny Desmond, American singer (Born 1919) |
| 6th of September 1986 | DEATH | Blanche Sweet, American actress (Born 1895) |
| 6th of September 1987 | DEATH | Quinn Martin, American television producer (Born 1922) |
| 6th of September 1988 | DEATH | Leroy Brown, wrestler (Born 1950) |
| 6th of September 1990 | DEATH | Tom Fogerty, American singer (Born 1941) |
| 6th of September 1990 | DEATH | Len Hutton, English cricketer (Born 1916) |
| 6th of September 1991 | DEATH | Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1922) |
| 6th of September 1992 | DEATH | Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter and producer (Born 1912) |
| 6th of September 1994 | DEATH | Nicky Hopkins, British musician (Born 1944) |
| 6th of September 1996 | DEATH | Esther Sore, Chilean musician (Born 1915) |
| 6th of September 1997 | DEATH | P. H. Newby, British author and BBC radio director (Born 1918) |
| 6th of September 1998 | DEATH | Ernst-Hugo Jaregard, Swedish actor (Born 1928) |
| 6th of September 1998 | DEATH | Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (Born 1910) |
| 6th of September 1998 | DEATH | Ric Segreto, Filipino Pop-Balladeer (Born 1952) |
| 6th of September 1999 | DEATH | Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician and former President (Born 1938) |
| 6th of September 1999 | DEATH | Rene Lecavalier, French Canadian sportscaster (Born 1918) |
| 6th of September 2001 | DEATH | Carl Crack, German musician (Atari Teenage Riot) (Born 1971) |
| 6th of September 2003 | DEATH | Harry Goz, American actor (Born 1932) |
| 6th of September 2003 | DEATH | Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber (Born 1969) |
| 6th of September 2005 | DEATH | Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet (Born 1929) |
| 6th of September 2007 | DEATH | Madeleine L'Engle, American author (Born 1918) |
| 6th of September 2007 | DEATH | Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (Born 1935) |
| 6th of September 2007 | DEATH | Percy Rodrigues, Canadian actor (Born 1918) |
| 6th of September 2008 | DEATH | Soren Nordin, Swedish harness racing driver and trainer (Born 1917) |
| 6th of September 2008 | DEATH | Anita Page, American actress (Born 1910) |