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| April 6th, 2007 (April 06 2007) | Birth | Princess Haalah bint Hashim, Princess of Jordan | |
| April 6th, 2007 (April 06 2007) | Death | Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (born in 1916) | |
| April 6th, 2006 (April 06 2006) | Death | Maggie Dixon, American college basketball coach (born in 1977) | |
| April 6th, 2006 (April 06 2006) | Death | Francis L. Kellogg, U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (born in 1917) | |
| April 6th, 2005 (April 06 2005) | Event | Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes the Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day. | |
| April 6th, 2005 (April 06 2005) | Death | Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (born in 1923) | |
| April 6th, 2004 (April 06 2004) | Event | Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from the post by impeachment. | |
| April 6th, 2004 (April 06 2004) | Death | Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (born in 1929) | |
| April 6th, 2004 (April 06 2004) | Death | Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets) (born in 1937) | |
| April 6th, 2003 (April 06 2003) | Death | David Bloom, American reporter (born in 1963) | |
| April 6th, 2003 (April 06 2003) | Death | Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (born in 1927) | |
| April 6th, 2003 (April 06 2003) | Death | Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, Canadian religious figure (born in 1912) | |
| April 6th, 2001 (April 06 2001) | Death | Charles Pettigrew, American singer (born in 1963) | |
| April 6th, 2000 (April 06 2000) | Death | Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician (born in 1903) | |
| April 6th, 1999 (April 06 1999) | Death | Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (born in 1908) | |
| April 6th, 1998 (April 06 1998) | Event | Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India. | |
| April 6th, 1998 (April 06 1998) | Death | Wendy O. Williams, American singer (Plasmatics) (born in 1949) | |
| April 6th, 1998 (April 06 1998) | Death | Tammy Wynette, American singer (born in 1942) | |
| April 6th, 1996 (April 06 1996) | Death | Greer Garson, Irish actress (born in 1904) | |
| April 6th, 1995 (April 06 1995) | Birth | Ryutaro Morimoto, Japanese idol | |
| April 6th, 1994 (April 06 1994) | Event | The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down. | Juvenal Quotes |
| April 6th, 1994 (April 06 1994) | Death | Juvenal Habyarimana, Rwandan politician (born in 1937) | Juvenal Quotes |
| April 6th, 1994 (April 06 1994) | Death | Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician (born in 1956) | |
| April 6th, 1992 (April 06 1992) | Event | A general strike is declared by communist groups in Nepal. | |
| April 6th, 1992 (April 06 1992) | Death | Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (born in 1920) | Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| April 6th, 1988 (April 06 1988) | Birth | Mike Bailey, English actor | |
| April 6th, 1988 (April 06 1988) | Birth | Fabrice Muamba, Anglo-Congolese footballer | |
| April 6th, 1987 (April 06 1987) | Birth | Levi Porter, English footballer | |
| April 6th, 1987 (April 06 1987) | Birth | Hilary Rhoda, American supermodel | |
| April 6th, 1985 (April 06 1985) | Birth | Garrett Zablocki, American musician | |
| April 6th, 1984 (April 06 1984) | Event | Members of Cameroon s Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya. | |
| April 6th, 1984 (April 06 1984) | Birth | Max Bemis, American musician/songwriter | |
| April 6th, 1983 (April 06 1983) | Birth | Diora Baird, American actress | |
| April 6th, 1983 (April 06 1983) | Birth | Jade Seah, Singaporean model, host and actress | |
| April 6th, 1983 (April 06 1983) | Birth | James Wade, English Darts Player | |
| April 6th, 1982 (April 06 1982) | Birth | Ilan Hall, Israeli-American chef | |
| April 6th, 1982 (April 06 1982) | Birth | Bret Harrison, American actor | |
| April 6th, 1981 (April 06 1981) | Birth | Robert Earnshaw, Zambian born, Welsh international footballer | |
| April 6th, 1978 (April 06 1978) | Birth | Tim Hasselbeck, American football player | |
| April 6th, 1978 (April 06 1978) | Birth | Myleene Klass, British singer | |
| April 6th, 1978 (April 06 1978) | Birth | Martin Mendez, Uruguayan-born Bassist (Opeth) | |
| April 6th, 1978 (April 06 1978) | Birth | Blaine Neal, American baseball player | |
| April 6th, 1977 (April 06 1977) | Birth | Andy Phillips, American Baseball Player | |
| April 6th, 1976 (April 06 1976) | Birth | Candace Cameron, American actress | |
| April 6th, 1976 (April 06 1976) | Birth | Georg Holm, Icelandic musician | |
| April 6th, 1976 (April 06 1976) | Death | Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (born in 1903) | |
| April 6th, 1975 (April 06 1975) | Birth | Zach Braff, American actor | |
| April 6th, 1975 (April 06 1975) | Birth | Hal Gill, Ice Hockey player | |
| April 6th, 1974 (April 06 1974) | Birth | Robert Kovac, Croatian footballer | |
| April 6th, 1974 (April 06 1974) | Death | Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (born in 1884) | |
| April 6th, 1974 (April 06 1974) | Death | Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and businessman (b.1895) | |
| April 6th, 1973 (April 06 1973) | Event | Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft. | |
| April 6th, 1973 (April 06 1973) | Event | The American League of Major League Baseball begin using the Designated Hitter | |
| April 6th, 1973 (April 06 1973) | Birth | Donnie Edwards, American football player | |
| April 6th, 1973 (April 06 1973) | Birth | Rie Miyazawa, Japanese actress/singer | |
| April 6th, 1973 (April 06 1973) | Birth | Sun Wen, Chinese footballer | |
| April 6th, 1973 (April 06 1973) | Birth | Gina Yashere, English comedian | |
| April 6th, 1972 (April 06 1972) | Event | Vietnam War: Easter OffensiveAmerican forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments. | |
| April 6th, 1972 (April 06 1972) | Birth | Jason Hervey, American actor | |
| April 6th, 1972 (April 06 1972) | Birth | Jo Van Daele, Belgian discus thrower | |
| April 6th, 1971 (April 06 1971) | Birth | Lou Merloni, American baseball player | |
| April 6th, 1971 (April 06 1971) | Death | Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (born in 1882) | Igor Stravinsky Quotes |
| April 6th, 1970 (April 06 1970) | Event | Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed. | |
| April 6th, 1970 (April 06 1970) | Birth | Olaf Kolzig, South African-born ice hockey player | |
| April 6th, 1970 (April 06 1970) | Birth | Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer | |
| April 6th, 1970 (April 06 1970) | Death | Sam Sheppard, American accused murderer (born in 1923) | |
| April 6th, 1970 (April 06 1970) | Death | Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (born in 1933) | |
| April 6th, 1969 (April 06 1969) | Birth | Jack Canfora, American playwright | |
| April 6th, 1969 (April 06 1969) | Birth | Bison Dele, American basketball player (disappeared 2002) | |
| April 6th, 1969 (April 06 1969) | Birth | Ari Meyers, Puerto Rican-born American actress | |
| April 6th, 1969 (April 06 1969) | Birth | Philipp Peter, Austrian racing driver | |
| April 6th, 1969 (April 06 1969) | Birth | Paul Rudd, American actor | |
| April 6th, 1969 (April 06 1969) | Birth | Bret Boone, Baseball Player | |
| April 6th, 1968 (April 06 1968) | Event | In Richmond, Indiana s downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150. | |
| April 6th, 1968 (April 06 1968) | Birth | Vanessa Lann, American composer | |
| April 6th, 1968 (April 06 1968) | Birth | Affonso Giaffone, Brazilian racing driver | |
| April 6th, 1967 (April 06 1967) | Birth | Mika Koivuniemi, Finnish ten-pin bowler | |
| April 6th, 1967 (April 06 1967) | Birth | Jonathan Firth, British actor | |
| April 6th, 1966 (April 06 1966) | Birth | Young Man Kang, South Korean film director | |
| April 6th, 1965 (April 06 1965) | Event | Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit. | |
| April 6th, 1965 (April 06 1965) | Birth | Frank Black, American singer/songwriter | |
| April 6th, 1965 (April 06 1965) | Birth | Lieve Slegers, Belgian athlete | |
| April 6th, 1964 (April 06 1964) | Birth | Phil Gayle, English news presenter | |
| April 6th, 1963 (April 06 1963) | Death | Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer (born in 1897) | |
| April 6th, 1961 (April 06 1961) | Birth | Rory Bremner, English comedian and impressionist | |
| April 6th, 1961 (April 06 1961) | Death | Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1870) | |
| April 6th, 1957 (April 06 1957) | Event | Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines. | Aristotle Quotes |
| April 6th, 1957 (April 06 1957) | Birth | Paolo Nespoli, Italian astronaut | |
| April 6th, 1956 (April 06 1956) | Birth | Dilip Vengsarkar, Indian cricketer and administrator | |
| April 6th, 1955 (April 06 1955) | Birth | Keith Hunter Jesperson, Canadian-born serial killer | |
| April 6th, 1955 (April 06 1955) | Birth | Michael Rooker, American actor | |
| April 6th, 1953 (April 06 1953) | Birth | Christopher Franke, German musician and composer | |
| April 6th, 1953 (April 06 1953) | Death | Idris Davies, Welsh poet (born in 1905) | |
| April 6th, 1952 (April 06 1952) | Birth | Udo Dirkschneider, German singer | |
| April 6th, 1952 (April 06 1952) | Birth | Marilu Henner, American actress | |
| April 6th, 1952 (April 06 1952) | Birth | Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player (died in 1992) | |
| April 6th, 1951 (April 06 1951) | Birth | Bert Blyleven, Dutch-born baseball player | |
| April 6th, 1949 (April 06 1949) | Birth | Horst Ludwig Stormer, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate | |
| April 6th, 1948 (April 06 1948) | Birth | Patrika Darbo, American actress | |
| April 6th, 1947 (April 06 1947) | Event | The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievements. | |
| April 6th, 1947 (April 06 1947) | Birth | John Ratzenberger, American actor | Ric Berger Quotes |
| April 6th, 1947 (April 06 1947) | Death | Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (born in 1896) | |
| April 6th, 1945 (April 06 1945) | Birth | Neal Boortz, American talk radio personality | |
| April 6th, 1944 (April 06 1944) | Birth | Felicity Palmer, English soprano | |
| April 6th, 1942 (April 06 1942) | Birth | Barry Levinson, American film producer/director | |
| April 6th, 1941 (April 06 1941) | Event | World War II: Operation Castigo begins. Germany invades the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Greece. | |
| April 6th, 1941 (April 06 1941) | Birth | Phil Austin, American comedian | |
| April 6th, 1941 (April 06 1941) | Birth | Don "The Snake" Prudhomme, American drag racer | |
| April 6th, 1941 (April 06 1941) | Birth | Gheorghe Zamfir, Romanian musician | |
| April 6th, 1940 (April 06 1940) | Birth | Pedro Armendariz Jr., Mexican actor | |
| April 6th, 1939 (April 06 1939) | Birth | Andre Ouellet, French Canadian politician | |
| April 6th, 1938 (April 06 1938) | Birth | Paul Daniels, English magician | |
| April 6th, 1938 (April 06 1938) | Birth | Roy Thinnes, American actor | |
| April 6th, 1937 (April 06 1937) | Birth | Merle Haggard, American musician | |
| April 6th, 1937 (April 06 1937) | Birth | Billy Dee Williams, American actor | |
| April 6th, 1936 (April 06 1936) | Event | Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203. | |
| April 6th, 1935 (April 06 1935) | Death | Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (born in 1869) | Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes |
| April 6th, 1934 (April 06 1934) | Birth | Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka | |
| April 6th, 1933 (April 06 1933) | Birth | Roy Goode, British lawyer | |
| April 6th, 1933 (April 06 1933) | Birth | Eduardo Malapit, American Democratic politician (died in 2007) | |
| April 6th, 1933 (April 06 1933) | Death | Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (born in 1842) | |
| April 6th, 1931 (April 06 1931) | Birth | Ivan Dixon, American actor and director (died in 2008) | |
| April 6th, 1930 (April 06 1930) | Event | Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." Thus he starts the Salt Satyagraha. | |
| April 6th, 1929 (April 06 1929) | Birth | Joi Lansing, American model and actress (died in 1972) | |
| April 6th, 1929 (April 06 1929) | Birth | Andre Previn, German-born composer and conductor | |
| April 6th, 1928 (April 06 1928) | Birth | James D. Watson, American geneticist, Nobel laureate | James D. Watson Quotes |
| April 6th, 1927 (April 06 1927) | Birth | Gerry Mulligan, American musician (died in 1996) | |
| April 6th, 1926 (April 06 1926) | Event | Walter Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines). | |
| April 6th, 1926 (April 06 1926) | Birth | Sergio Franchi, Italian-born singer and actor (died in 1990) | |
| April 6th, 1926 (April 06 1926) | Birth | Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (died in 2000) | |
| April 6th, 1926 (April 06 1926) | Birth | Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician | |
| April 6th, 1923 (April 06 1923) | Event | The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia. | |
| April 6th, 1920 (April 06 1920) | Birth | Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist, Nobel laureate | |
| April 6th, 1919 (April 06 1919) | Event | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a General Strike. | |
| April 6th, 1918 (April 06 1918) | Birth | Alfredo Ovando Candia, Bolivian president (died in 1982) | |
| April 6th, 1917 (April 06 1917) | Event | World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson s address to Congress). | |
| April 6th, 1911 (April 06 1911) | Event | 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). | |
| April 6th, 1911 (April 06 1911) | Birth | Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel laureate (died in 1979) | |
| April 6th, 1909 (April 06 1909) | Event | Robert Peary and Matthew Henson allegedly reach the North Pole. | |
| April 6th, 1909 (April 06 1909) | Birth | Hermann Lang, German race car driver (died in 1987) | |
| April 6th, 1909 (April 06 1909) | Birth | William M. Branham, American evangelist (died in 1965) | |
| April 6th, 1906 (April 06 1906) | Death | Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (born in 1849) | |
| April 6th, 1903 (April 06 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. | |
| April 6th, 1903 (April 06 1903) | Birth | Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (died in 1962) | |
| April 6th, 1903 (April 06 1903) | Birth | Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer (died in 1990) | |
| April 6th, 1902 (April 06 1902) | Birth | Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (died in 1989) | |
| April 6th, 1901 (April 06 1901) | Birth | Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Catholic (died in 1925) | |
| April 6th, 1896 (April 06 1896) | Event | In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games 1,500 years after the original games were banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. | |
| April 6th, 1895 (April 06 1895) | Event | Oscar Wilde is arrested (in the Cadogan Hotel, London) after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry. | Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| April 6th, 1894 (April 06 1894) | Birth | Gertrude Baines, American Supercentarian | |
| April 6th, 1893 (April 06 1893) | Event | Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff. | Jesus Christ Quotes |
| April 6th, 1892 (April 06 1892) | Birth | Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American industrialist (died in 1981) | Donald Douglas Quotes |
| April 6th, 1892 (April 06 1892) | Birth | Lowell Thomas, American travel writer (died in 1981) | |
| April 6th, 1890 (April 06 1890) | Birth | Anthony Fokker, Dutch designer of aircraft (died in 1939) | |
| April 6th, 1886 (April 06 1886) | Birth | Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, The Last Nizam of Hyderabad state (died in 1967) | |
| April 6th, 1884 (April 06 1884) | Birth | Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (died in 1950) | |
| April 6th, 1883 (April 06 1883) | Death | Benjamin Wright Raymond, American politician (born in 1801) | |
| April 6th, 1878 (April 06 1878) | Birth | Erich Muhsam, German author (died in 1934) | |
| April 6th, 1869 (April 06 1869) | Event | Celluloid is patented. | |
| April 6th, 1866 (April 06 1866) | Event | The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is foundedied in It lasts until 1956. | |
| April 6th, 1865 (April 06 1865) | Event | American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler s CreekConfederate General Robert E. Lee s Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia. | |
| April 6th, 1862 (April 06 1862) | Event | American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh beginsin Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston. | Ulysses S. Grant Quotes |
| April 6th, 1862 (April 06 1862) | Death | Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general (born in 1803) | |
| April 6th, 1860 (April 06 1860) | Event | Joseph Smith III, creates the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by reorganizing the previous church organized by his father, Joseph Smith, Jr. | Joseph Smith Quotes |
| April 6th, 1851 (April 06 1851) | Birth | Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (died in 1932) | |
| April 6th, 1849 (April 06 1849) | Birth | John William Waterhouse, British painter (died in 1917) | |
| April 6th, 1841 (April 06 1841) | Birth | Karl Binding, German jurist (died in 1920) | |
| April 6th, 1838 (April 06 1838) | Death | Jose Bonifacio de Andrade e Silva, Brazilian statesman and geologist (born in 1763) | |
| April 6th, 1833 (April 06 1833) | Death | Adamantios Korais, Greek humanist scholar (born in 1748) | |
| April 6th, 1832 (April 06 1832) | Event | Indian Wars: The Black Hawk War beginsthe Sauk warrior Black Hawk enters into war with the United States. | |
| April 6th, 1830 (April 06 1830) | Event | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette, New York. | Joseph Smith Quotes |
| April 6th, 1829 (April 06 1829) | Death | Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (born in 1802) | |
| April 6th, 1826 (April 06 1826) | Birth | Gustave Moreau, French painter (died in 1898) | |
| April 6th, 1825 (April 06 1825) | Death | Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (born in 1757) | |
| April 6th, 1823 (April 06 1823) | Birth | Joseph Medill, journalist and mayor of Chicago (died in 1899) | |
| April 6th, 1820 (April 06 1820) | Birth | Nadar, French photographer (died in 1910) | |
| April 6th, 1818 (April 06 1818) | Birth | Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet (died in 1870) | |
| April 6th, 1815 (April 06 1815) | Birth | Robert Volkmann, German composer (died in 1883) | |
| April 6th, 1814 (April 06 1814) | Event | Napoleon abdicates and is then exiled to Elba. | |
| April 6th, 1812 (April 06 1812) | Birth | Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (died in 1870) | |
| April 6th, 1808 (April 06 1808) | Event | John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company. | |
| April 6th, 1793 (April 06 1793) | Event | During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic, and the period known as the Reign of Terror begins. | |
| April 6th, 1782 (April 06 1782) | Event | Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Siam (modern day Thailand), who is overthrown in a coup d etat. | |
| April 6th, 1773 (April 06 1773) | Birth | James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian (died in 1836) | Philo Quotes |
| April 6th, 1755 (April 06 1755) | Death | Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian (born in 1690) | |
| April 6th, 1725 (April 06 1725) | Birth | Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (died in 1807) | |
| April 6th, 1707 (April 06 1707) | Death | Willem van de Velde, the younger, Dutch painter (born in 1633) | |
| April 6th, 1686 (April 06 1686) | Death | Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (born in 1614) | |
| April 6th, 1671 (April 06 1671) | Birth | Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (died in 1741) | |
| April 6th, 1667 (April 06 1667) | Event | An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state. | |
| April 6th, 1664 (April 06 1664) | Birth | Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (died in 1742) | |
| April 6th, 1655 (April 06 1655) | Death | David Blondel, French Protestant clergyman (born in 1591) | |
| April 6th, 1652 (April 06 1652) | Event | Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp at the Cape of Good Hope, which eventually becomes Cape Town. | |
| April 6th, 1651 (April 06 1651) | Birth | Andre Dacier, French classical scholar (died in 1722) | |
| April 6th, 1632 (April 06 1632) | Birth | Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress (died in 1649) | |
| April 6th, 1613 (April 06 1613) | Birth | Stjepan Gradic, Croatian philosopher and scientist (died in 1683) | Philo Quotes |
| April 6th, 1605 (April 06 1605) | Death | John Stow, English historian | |
| April 6th, 1590 (April 06 1590) | Death | Francis Walsingham, English spymaster | |
| April 6th, 1571 (April 06 1571) | Death | John Hamilton, Scottish prelate and politician | John Scott Quotes |
| April 6th, 1551 (April 06 1551) | Death | Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (born in 1484) | |
| April 6th, 1528 (April 06 1528) | Death | Albrecht Durer, German artist (born in 1471) | |
| April 6th, 1520 (April 06 1520) | Death | Raphael, Italian painter and architect (born in 1483) | |
| April 6th, 1490 (April 06 1490) | Death | King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary | |
| April 6th, 1483 (April 06 1483) | Birth | Raphael, Italian painter and architect (died in 1520) | |
| April 6th, 1385 (April 06 1385) | Event | John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal. | |
| April 6th, 1362 (April 06 1362) | Death | James I, Count of La Marche, French soldier (born in 1319) | |
| April 6th, 1327 (April 06 1327) | Event | The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon. | Petrarch Quotes |
| April 6th, 1320 (April 06 1320) | Event | The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath. | |
| April 6th, 1199 (April 06 1199) | Death | King Richard I of England (born in 1157) | |
| April 6th, 1199 (April 06 1199) | Death | Pierre Basile, French soldier | |
| April 6th, 1147 (April 06 1147) | Death | Frederick II, Duke of Swabia (born in 1090) | |
| April 6th, 0885 (April 06 0885) | Death | Saint Methodius (born in ca.815) | |
| April 6th, 0402 (April 06 0402) | Event | Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia. | |
