| 114481 | October 6 | Death | 1883 – Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1852) |
| 114482 | October 6 | Death | 1891 – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846) |
| 114483 | October 6 | Death | 1892 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet and translator (b. 1809) |
| 114484 | October 6 | Death | 1912 – Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829) |
| 114485 | October 6 | Death | 1923 – Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1853) |
| 114486 | October 6 | Death | 1942 – Siegmund Glücksmann, German-Jewish politician (b. 1884) |
| 114487 | October 6 | Death | 1945 – Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900) |
| 114488 | October 6 | Death | 1947 – Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887) |
| 114489 | October 6 | Death | 1951 – Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860) |
| 114490 | October 6 | Death | 1951 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884) |
| 114491 | October 6 | Death | 1953 – Porter Hall, American actor (b. 1888) |
| 114492 | October 6 | Death | 1959 – Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (b. 1865) |
| 114493 | October 6 | Death | 1962 – Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1880) |
| 114494 | October 6 | Death | 1968 – Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1917) |
| 114495 | October 6 | Death | 1973 – Sidney Blackmer, American actor and singer (b. 1895) |
| 114496 | October 6 | Death | 1973 – François Cevert, French race car driver (b. 1944) |
| 114497 | October 6 | Death | 1973 – Dick Laan, Dutch actor, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894) |
| 114498 | October 6 | Death | 1973 – Dennis Price, English actor (b. 1915) |
| 114499 | October 6 | Death | 1973 – Margaret Wilson, American missionary and author (b. 1882) |
| 114500 | October 6 | Death | 1974 – Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian race car driver (b. 1948) |
| 114501 | October 6 | Death | 1976 – Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher and author (b. 1900) |
| 114502 | October 6 | Death | 1977 – Danny Greene, American mobster (b. 1933) |
| 114503 | October 6 | Death | 1978 – Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer (b. 1935) |
| 114504 | October 6 | Death | 1979 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and author (b. 1911) |
| 114505 | October 6 | Death | 1980 – Hattie Jacques, English actress and producer (b. 1922) |
| 114506 | October 6 | Death | 1980 – Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921) |
| 114507 | October 6 | Death | 1981 – Anwar Sadat, Egyptian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) |
| 114508 | October 6 | Death | 1983 – Terence Cooke, American cardinal (b. 1921) |
| 114509 | October 6 | Death | 1985 – Nelson Riddle, American composer, conductor, and bandleader (b. 1921) |
| 114510 | October 6 | Death | 1986 – Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1921) |