Calendar sheet for October 6, 2026: name days, historical events and birthdays

The current calendar page for October 6, 2026

Name day

Adalbero, Bruno, Renatus

Historical data

2021 - German Max Planck researcher Benjamin List and his US colleague David MacMillan receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. They developed reaction accelerators (catalysts) that revolutionized the construction of organic molecules. The technology is used, for example, in the production of pharmaceuticals.

1991 - Captain Blaubär made his first appearance on “Sendung mit der Maus”. The blue sea dog, who regularly tells his three grandchildren bold stories full of lies and exaggerations, was invented by Walter Moers. He was lent his voice by actor Wolfgang Völz, who died in 2018.

1981 - Egyptian President Anwar el Sadat falls victim to an assassination attempt by Islamic fanatics in Cairo. He had made peace with the “hereditary enemy” Israel.

1976 - The so-called Gang of Four, a group from the left wing of the Chinese Communist Party around Mao's widow Jiang Qing, is arrested shortly after Mao Tsetung's death. The four were seen as symbols of the Cultural Revolution and its riots that Mao had begun 10 years earlier.

1961 - For the first time, a pacemaker is inserted into a patient in Germany.

Birthdays

1986 - Justin Krueger (40), German ice hockey player, national team 2010-2018

1981 - Abdelkarim (45), German-Moroccan cabaret artist and presenter

1951 - Manfred Winkelhock, German Formula 1 racing driver, died 1985

1901 - Wolfgang Langhoff, German actor, director, theater director and author (autobiographical concentration camp report “The Moor Soldiers”), director of the German Theater and the Kammerspiele in East Berlin 1946-1963, died 1966

Days of death

2006 - Heinz Sielmann, German animal filmmaker and conservationist (TV series “Expeditions into the Animal Kingdom”), born in 1917