| 101281 | September 6 | Event | 1986 – In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom Synagogue during Shabbat services. |
| 101282 | September 6 | Event | 1991 – The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. |
| 101283 | September 6 | Event | 1991 – The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been known as Leningrad since 1924. |
| 101284 | September 6 | Event | 1992 – Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher McCandless at his camp 20 miles (32 km) west of the town of Healy, Alaska. |
| 101285 | September 6 | Event | 1995 – Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years. |
| 101286 | September 6 | Event | 1997 – The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched around the world on television. |
| 101287 | September 6 | Event | 2008 – Turkish President Abdullah Gül attends an association football match in Armenia after an invitation by Armenian President Serzh Sarkisyan, making him the first Turkish head of state to visit the country. |
| 101288 | September 6 | Event | 2009 – The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard all but ten are rescued. |
| 101289 | September 6 | Event | 2012 – Sixty-one people die and 48 others are injured after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands. |
| 101290 | September 6 | Birth | 1535 – Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian and author (d. 1612) |
| 101291 | September 6 | Birth | 1620 – Isabella Leonarda, Italian composer and educator (d. 1704) |
| 101292 | September 6 | Birth | 1633 – Sebastian Knüpfer, German cantor and composer (d. 1676) |
| 101293 | September 6 | Birth | 1656 – Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and politician (d. 1723) |
| 101294 | September 6 | Birth | 1666 – Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696) |
| 101295 | September 6 | Birth | 1711 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-American pastor and missionary (d. 1787) |
| 101296 | September 6 | Birth | 1729 – Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1786) |
| 101297 | September 6 | Birth | 1732 – Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1796) |
| 101298 | September 6 | Birth | 1757 – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French general (d. 1834) |
| 101299 | September 6 | Birth | 1766 – John Dalton, English chemist, meteorologist, and physicist (d. 1844) |
| 101300 | September 6 | Birth | 1781 – Vincent Novello, English composer and publisher (d. 1861) |
| 101301 | September 6 | Birth | 1795 – Frances Wright, Scottish-American author and activist (d. 1852) |
| 101302 | September 6 | Birth | 1800 – Catharine Beecher, American educator and activist (d. 1878) |
| 101303 | September 6 | Birth | 1802 – Alcide d'Orbigny, French zoologist, palaeontologist, and geologist (d. 1857) |
| 101304 | September 6 | Birth | 1808 – Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian emir (d. 1883) |
| 101305 | September 6 | Birth | 1814 – George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Premier of East Canada (d. 1873) |
| 101306 | September 6 | Birth | 1815 – St. John Richardson Liddell, American general (d. 1870) |
| 101307 | September 6 | Birth | 1817 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, English-Canadian businessman and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Finance (d. 1893) |
| 101308 | September 6 | Birth | 1819 – William Rosecrans, American general, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Mexico (d. 1898) |
| 101309 | September 6 | Birth | 1829 – Maria Zakrzewska, German-American physician (d. 1902) |
| 101310 | September 6 | Birth | 1838 – Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (d. 1906) |