Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 6
Births
[edit]- 1421 – Henry VI of England, last King of England from the House of Lancaster (d. 1471)
- 1898 – Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
- 1916 – Kristján Eldjárn, 3rd President of Iceland (d. 1982)
- 1917 – Irv Robbins, co-founder of Baskin-Robbins (d. 2008)
- 1920 – George Porter, English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
- 1930 – Daniel Lisulo, 3rd Prime Minister of Zambia (d. 2000)
Deaths
[edit]- 1352 – Pope Clement VI, 4th Avignon Pope (b. 1291)
- 1892 – Werner von Siemens, German businessman and founder of Siemens (b. 1816)
- 1889 – Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
- 1951 – Harold Ross, American journalist and founder of The New Yorker (b. 1892)
- 1976 – João Goulart, 24th President of Brazil (b. 1918)
- 1990 – Tunku Abdul Rahman, 1st Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1903)