Did you know
Bette Davis won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, was the first person to accrue ten Academy Award nominations for acting, and was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
Notable Deaths on October 6
1989 — Bette Davis
American actress (born 1908)
October 6 has 117 recorded notable deaths across history, from 23 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
117 source records
23 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on October 6
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- 1910 Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first of seven times. Source
- 1898 Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music. Source
- 1884 The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island. Source
- 1995 The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered. Source
Did you know
Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the 3rd president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination in 1981.
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On television, Elliott won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor in 1981 and was nominated for a second for Hotel du Lac (1986).
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In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu".
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During the final descent, the aircraft became entangled in power lines, but Walters was able to climb down safely.
More major people who died on October 6
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1981
Anwar Sadat
Egyptian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the 3rd president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination in 1981.
1992
Denholm Elliott
English actor (born 1922)
Denholm Mitchell Elliott was an English actor. He appeared in numerous productions on stage and screen, receiving BAFTA Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Trading Places (1983), A Private Function (1984) and…
1892
Alfred
Lord Tennyson, English poet (born 1809)
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign.
1993
Larry Walters
American truck driver and pilot (born 1949)
On July 2, 1982, Larry Walters made a 45-minute flight in a homemade aerostat made of an ordinary lawn chair and 42 helium-filled weather balloons.
1644
Elisabeth of France
queen of Spain and Portugal (born 1602)
Elisabeth of France, also known as Isabel or Elisabeth of Bourbon was Queen of Spain from 1621 to her death and Queen of Portugal from 1621 to 1640, as the first spouse of King Philip IV & III.
1979
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet and short-story writer (born 1911)
Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Award winner in…
2006
Buck O'Neil
American baseball player and manager (born 1911)
John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil Jr. was an American first baseman and manager in the Negro American League, mostly with the Kansas City Monarchs.
1976
Gilbert Ryle
English philosopher and author (born 1900)
Gilbert Ryle was a British philosopher, principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase "ghost in the machine".
1978
Johnny O'Keefe
Australian singer-songwriter (born 1935)
John Michael O'Keefe was an Australian rock and roll singer whose career began in the early 1950s. A pioneer of Rock music in Australia, his hits include "Wild One" (1958), "Shout!" and "She's My Baby".
1923
Damat Ferid Pasha
Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1853)
"Damat" Mehmed Adil Ferid Pasha, known simply as Damat Ferid Pasha, was an Ottoman liberal statesman, who held the office of Grand Vizier, the de facto prime minister of the Ottoman Empire, during two periods under the…
1997
Johnny Vander Meer
American baseball player and manager (born 1914)
John Samuel Vander Meer was an American professional baseball player.
1985
Nelson Riddle
American composer, conductor, and bandleader (born 1921)
Nelson Smock Riddle Jr. was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s.
2000
Richard Farnsworth
American actor and stuntman (born 1920)
Richard William Farnsworth was an American actor and stuntman.
1014
Samuel
tsar of the Bulgarian Empire
Samuel was the Tsar (Emperor) of the First Bulgarian Empire from 997 to 6 October 1014.
1986
Alexander Kronrod
Russian mathematician and computer scientist (born 1921)
Aleksandr Semyonovich Kronrod was a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist, best known for the Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula which he published in 1964.
1891
Charles Stewart Parnell
Irish politician (born 1846)
Charles Stewart Parnell was an Irish nationalist politician who served as a leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882, and then of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1882 to 1891, holding the balance of power in…
2024
Johan Neeskens
Dutch footballer and manager (born 1951)
Johannes Jacobus Neeskens was a Dutch football manager and player.
2010
Antonie Kamerling
Dutch television and film actor, and musician (born 1966)
Anthonie Willem Constantijn Gneomar "Antonie" Kamerling was a Dutch actor and singer. He was member of the original cast of the Dutch soap opera Goede tijden, slechte tijden.
1398
Chŏng Tojŏn
Korean prime minister (born 1342)
Chŏng Tojŏn, also known by his art name Sambong (삼봉), was a prominent Korean scholar-official during the late Goryeo to the early Joseon periods.