| 114241 | October 6 | Birth | 1744 – James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University (d. 1813) |
| 114242 | October 6 | Birth | 1767 – Henri Christophe, Grenadian-Haitian king (d. 1820) |
| 114243 | October 6 | Birth | 1769 – Isaac Brock, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (d. 1812) |
| 114244 | October 6 | Birth | 1773 – John MacCulloch, Scottish geologist and academic (d. 1835) |
| 114245 | October 6 | Birth | 1773 – Louis Philippe I of France (d. 1850) |
| 114246 | October 6 | Birth | 1801 – Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (d. 1888) |
| 114247 | October 6 | Birth | 1803 – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Polish-German physicist and meteorologist (d. 1879) |
| 114248 | October 6 | Birth | 1820 – James Caulfeild, 3rd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Armagh (d. 1892) |
| 114249 | October 6 | Birth | 1820 – Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano and actress (d. 1887) |
| 114250 | October 6 | Birth | 1831 – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1916) |
| 114251 | October 6 | Birth | 1838 – Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian soldier, poet, and author (d. 1910) |
| 114252 | October 6 | Birth | 1846 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman, founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (d. 1914) |
| 114253 | October 6 | Birth | 1862 – Albert J. Beveridge, American historian and politician (d. 1927) |
| 114254 | October 6 | Birth | 1866 – Reginald Fessenden, Canadian engineer and academic, invented radiotelephony (d. 1932) |
| 114255 | October 6 | Birth | 1874 – Frank G. Allen, American merchant and politician, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950) |
| 114256 | October 6 | Birth | 1876 – Ernest Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Justice (d. 1941) |
| 114257 | October 6 | Birth | 1882 – Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1937) |
| 114258 | October 6 | Birth | 1886 – Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960) |
| 114259 | October 6 | Birth | 1887 – Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and painter, designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy (d. 1965) |
| 114260 | October 6 | Birth | 1888 – Roland Georges Garros, French soldier and pilot (d. 1918) |
| 114261 | October 6 | Birth | 1891 – Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet and educator (d. 1946) |
| 114262 | October 6 | Birth | 1892 – Jackie Saunders, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1954) |
| 114263 | October 6 | Birth | 1893 – Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (d. 1956) |
| 114264 | October 6 | Birth | 1895 – Caroline Gordon, American author and critic (d. 1981) |
| 114265 | October 6 | Birth | 1896 – David Howard, American film director (d. 1941) |
| 114266 | October 6 | Birth | 1897 – Florence B. Seibert, American biochemist and academic (d. 1991) |
| 114267 | October 6 | Birth | 1900 – Willy Merkl, German mountaineer (d. 1934) |
| 114268 | October 6 | Birth | 1900 – Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961) |
| 114269 | October 6 | Birth | 1901 – Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German-Brazilian zoologist and academic (d. 1990) |
| 114270 | October 6 | Birth | 1903 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995) |