Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 6
- 1459 – Birth of Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507)
- 1803 – Birth of Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)
- 1831 – Birth of Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916)
- 1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture
- 1903 – Birth of Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- 1908 – Birth of Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
- 1921 – Birth of Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)
- 1931 – Birth of Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004)
- 1931 – Birth of Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1951 – Death of Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
- 1968 – Death of Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (b. 1917)
- 1986 – Death of Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
- 1995 - 51 Pegasi is discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it
- 2007 - Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe