Did you know
Om Puri won two National Film Awards for Best Actor, two Filmfare Awards and India's fourth highest civilian award Padma Shri in 1990.
Notable Deaths on January 6
2017 — Om Puri
Indian actor (born 1950)
January 6 has 88 recorded notable deaths across history, from 786 to 2023. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
88 source records
786 – 2023
Today in history
Major events on January 6
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- 1946 The first general election ever in Vietnam is held. Source
- 1536 The first European school of higher learning in the Americas, Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, is founded by Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza and Bishop Juan de Zumárraga in Mexico City. Source
- 2021 Supporters of U.S. president Donald Trump storm the United States Capitol Building to disrupt certification of the 2020 presidential election, resulting in four deaths and evacuation of the U.S. Congress. Source
- 2005 Edgar Ray Killen is indicted for the 1964 murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner during the American Civil Rights Movement. Source
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Gregor Johann Mendel was an Austrian biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St.
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Mehmed IV, nicknamed as Mehmed the Hunter, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687.
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Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor was a mathematician who played a pivotal role in the creation of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics.
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The first of her four novels, Evelina (1778), was the most successful and remains her most highly regarded, followed by Cecilia (1782).
More major people who died on January 6
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1884
Gregor Mendel
Czech geneticist and botanist (born 1822)
Gregor Johann Mendel was an Austrian biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia.
1693
Mehmed IV
Ottoman sultan (born 1642)
Mehmed IV, nicknamed as Mehmed the Hunter, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687. He came to the throne at the age of six after his father was overthrown in a coup.
1918
Georg Cantor
German mathematician and philosopher (born 1845)
Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor was a mathematician who played a pivotal role in the creation of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics.
1840
Frances Burney
English author and playwright (born 1752)
Frances Burney, also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English novelist, diarist and playwright.
1981
A. J. Cronin
Scottish physician and author (born 1896)
Archibald Joseph Cronin (Cronogue) (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish physician and novelist.
1945
Vladimir Vernadsky
Russian mineralogist and chemist (born 1863)
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, known in Ukraine as Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky, was a Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry,…
1725
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Japanese actor and playwright (born 1653)
Chikamatsu Monzaemon , real name Sugimori Nobumori , was a Japanese dramatist of jōruri, the form of puppet theater that later came to be known as bunraku, and the live-actor drama, kabuki.
2016
Silvana Pampanini
Italian model, actress, and director, Miss Italy 1946 (born 1925)
Silvana Pampanini was an Italian film actress, director and singer. She was also the niece of the soprano of the golden era of opera, Dame Rosetta Pampanini.
1537
Baldassare Peruzzi
Italian architect and painter, designed the Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne (born 1481)
Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi was an Italian architect and painter, born in a small town near Siena and died in Rome. He worked for many years with Bramante, Raphael, and later Sangallo during the erection of the new St.
1928
Alvin Kraenzlein
American hurdler and long jumper (born 1876)
Alvin Christian "Al" Kraenzlein was an American track-and-field athlete known as "the father of the modern hurdling technique".
1088
Berengar of Tours
French scholar and theologian (born 999)
Berengar of Tours, in Latin Berengarius Turonensis, was an 11th-century French Christian theologian and archdeacon of Angers, a scholar whose leadership of the cathedral school at Chartres set an example of intellectual…
2022
Sidney Poitier
Bahamian-American actor, director, and diplomat (born 1927)
Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.
1537
Alessandro de' Medici
Duke of Florence (born 1510)
Alessandro de' Medici, nicknamed "il Moro" due to his dark complexion, Duke of Penne and the first Duke of the Florentine Republic, was ruler of Florence from 1530 to his death in 1537.
2022
Francisco Sionil Jose
Philippine novelist (born 1924)
Francisco Sionil José was a Filipino writer who was one of the most widely read in the English language.
1991
Alan Wiggins
American baseball player (born 1958)
Alan Anthony Wiggins was an American professional baseball player. He was a second baseman and outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres and Baltimore Orioles between 1981 and 1987.
1882
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
American lawyer and politician (born 1815)
Richard Henry Dana Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of a colonial family, who gained renown as the author of the classic American memoir Two Years Before the Mast and as an…
1993
Dizzy Gillespie
American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (born 1917)
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator, and singer.
1448
Christopher of Bavaria
King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (born 1418)
Christopher of Bavaria was King of Denmark, Sweden (1441–48) and Norway (1442–48) during the era of the Kalmar Union. He ruled after the Kalmar Union's King Erik of Pomerania was deposed.
2021
Ashli Babbitt
American participant in the January 6 United States Capitol attack
On January 6, 2021, Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old American United States Air Force veteran and pool supply owner, was fatally shot by an officer during the attack on the United States Capitol.