List of Famous people born on October 6th

Adrien Marquet was a socialist mayor of Bordeaux who turned to the far right.

Denise Frossard Loschi is a judge and politician from Brazil. She studied law and served as a magistrate in Rio de Janeiro. She has been a law professor at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation. When she retired she started working for Transparency International.

Xavier Guillaume Mertz was a Swiss polar explorer, mountaineer, and skier who took part in the Far Eastern Party, a 1912–1913 component of the Australasian Antarctic expedition, which claimed his life. Mertz Glacier on the George V Coast in East Antarctica is named after him.

Paul James Smith Jr. is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2003 to 2017. He held the English middleweight title in 2008, the British super-middleweight title twice between 2009 and 2014, and challenged three times for a super-middleweight world title. As an amateur, he won a silver medal in the light middleweight division at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

Arnaud Gérard is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2018 for the FDJ–BigMat and Fortuneo–Samsic teams. The cousin of former professional cyclist Cédric Hervé, Gérard now works as a directeur sportif for the Arkéa–Samsic team.

Václav Jan Emanuel Radimský was a Czech impressionist painter who resided in France at the turn of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. He was highly influential on French impressionism.

Moruti Mthalane is a South African professional boxer. He is a two-time IBF flyweight champion, having held the title since 2018 and previously from 2009 to 2014. He is also a former IBO flyweight champion, having held the title from 2014 to 2017.

Elizabeth Janet Gray Vining was an American professional librarian and author who tutored Emperor Akihito of Japan in English while he was crown prince. She was also a noted author, whose children's book Adam of the Road received the Newbery Medal in 1943.

Winston Ntshona was a South African playwright and actor. He won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1975.