* 1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scots army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.

* 1265 – Second Barons ' War: Battle of Evesham – the army of Prince Edward ( the future king Edward I of England ) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.

* 1222 – Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier ( d. 1262 )

In January Elizabeth married William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby.

* George Hamilton-Gordon, 6th Earl of Aberdeen ( 1841 – 1870 )

* 1680 – John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor ( d. 1737 )

* 1706 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier ( b. 1638 )

* 1638 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet ( d. 1706 )

* 1264 – The Battle of Lewes, between King Henry III of England and the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, begins.

The original principal alternative candidate was Francis Bacon, but by the beginning of the twentieth century other candidates, typically aristocrats, were put forward, most notably Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland and William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby.

Literary scholars say that biographical interpretations of literature are unreliable in attributing authorship, and that catalogues of similarities between incidents in the plays and the life of an aristocrat are flawed as arguments because similar lists have been drawn up for many competing candidates, such as Francis Bacon and William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby.

* Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, was killed of wounds suffered at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, his corpse was beheaded, castrated and quartered by the knights of King Henry III of England.

Urgent letters were sent ordering Bruce to support Edward's commander, John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey ( to whom Bruce was related ) in the summer of 1297 ; but instead of complying, Bruce continued to support the revolt against Edward.

John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey's professional army of 3, 000 cavalry and 8, 000 to 10, 000 infantry met disaster as they crossed over to the north side of the river.

* February 14 – John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor ( d. 1737 )

* February 24 – Execution of the Jacobite leaders James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater and William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure.

* January 24 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier ( d. 1706 )

* June 29 – Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland ( b. 1502 )

* September 27 – John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor ( b. 1680 )

* John FitzAlan, 6th Earl of Arundel ( d. 1267 )

* Henry de Montfort, son of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester ( d. 1265 )

** George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman ( d. 1590 )

* August 4 – Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier ( d. 1262 )

* April 17 – Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford ( b. c. 1257 )

Lord Dunmore married Lady Charlotte, daughter of Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway, in 1759.

* Alexander Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore ( 1804 – 1845 )

* Alexander Edward Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore ( 1804 – 1845 )

His grandparents included Alexander Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore, Lady Catherine Herbert, Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester, and Lady Juliana Whitbread.

* Alexander Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore

The son of the 15th Lord Elphinstone and Constance, daughter of the 6th Earl of Dunmore, he was educated at Marlborough College and succeeded his father in 1893.

His fellow Knights of the Garter created in 1867 were Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland, Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Franz Joseph I of Austria and Alexander II of Russia.

Remnants of these languages lingered into Persian times ( 6th – 4th centuries BC ) and were finally extinguished by the spread of Hellenism which followed Alexander the Great's conquest of Asia Minor in the 4th century BC.

* 1929 – King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution ( the January 6th Dictatorship ).

In the Græco – Roman world of 5th-century European Classical antiquity, the city-state of Sparta was the hegemon of the Peloponnesian League ( 6th – 4th centuries BC ) and King Philip II of Macedon was the hegemon of the League of Corinth in 337 BC ( a kingship he willed to his son, Alexander the Great ).

The Lake Station Community Schools district consists of three elementary schools, Virgil I. Bailey, Carl J. Polk, Alexander and Hamilton, a preschool and 6th grade school combined named Central, and one combined junior and senior high school Thomas A. Edison Junior-Senior High School.

* Henry Pelham Alexander Pelham-Clinton, 6th Duke of Newcastle ( 1834 – 1879 ), eldest son of the 5th Duke

The township had been formed in 1817 and was named for Alexander J. Dallas, who was the 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury and the father of George M. Dallas, the vice president of James Polk.

The township was formed in 1817 from territory taken from Kingston Township, and it was named for Alexander J. Dallas, who was the 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury and also the father of George M. Dallas, the vice president of James Polk.

Among the other historical figures depicted are William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas and his brother David ( mostly their violent deaths in 1440 ), Margaret Douglas, Fair Maid of Galloway ( protagonist of the second novel ), Sir Alexander Livingston of Callendar, William Crichton, 1st Lord Crichton, Charles VII of France and his Dauphin ( Louis XI and Agnès Sorel.

General Alexander Löhr, the theatre commander, was convinced the island could be taken with two divisions, but decided to keep 6th Mountain Division in Athens as a reserve.

William Erskine ( 5th Division ), Alexander Campbell ( 6th Division ) and 300 Portuguese cavalry under Count Barbacena were detached, facing the French II Corps.

In the 6th century, the Byzantine historian Procopius ( d. after 562 ) saw Attila and the Huns as the nation locked out by Alexander, and a little later other Christian writers identified them with the Saracens.

# Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Baron Balfour of Burleigh 1904-1921

# Alexander Charles Thomas Wriothesley Russell ( b. 1950 ), great-great-grandson of Lt .- Col. Lord Charles James Fox Russell, seventh son of the 6th Duke

There have been two creations of the title, the first in 1889 and the second in 1900, both in favour of Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife in the Peerage of Ireland and 1st Earl of Fife in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

* Alexander, J. J. G., Insular Manuscripts: 6th to the 9th Century, no.

* Alexander Napier, 6th of Merchiston

With 363 wins, Spahn is the 6th most winning pitcher in history, trailing only Cy Young ( 511 ), Walter Johnson ( 417 ), Grover Cleveland Alexander ( 373 ), Christy Mathewson ( 373 ), and Pud Galvin ( 364 ) on MLB's all-time list.

* Alexander, J. J. G. Insular manuscripts, 6th to the 9th century.

The poets, Christian Friedrich Alexander von Württemberg and Nikolaus Lenau were constant guests, and in 1826 Friederike Hauffe ( 1801 – 1829 ), the daughter of a forester in Prevorst, a somnambulist and clairvoyante, arrived ; she forms the subject of Kerner's famous work Die Seherin von Prevorst, Eröffnungen über das innere Leben des Menschen und über das Hineinragen einer Geisterwelt in die unsere ( The Seeress of Prevorst, revelations of the human inner life and about the penetrations of the spirit world into ours, 1829 ; 6th ed., 1892 ).

* Doris Mary Thérèse Harcourt ( 30 March 1900-1981 ); married Alexander Baring, 6th Baron Ashburton ; their elder son was John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton

* John George Charles Henry Alton Alexander Chetwynd-Talbot, 21st Earl of Shrewsbury, 21st Earl of Waterford, 6th Earl Talbot ( 1914 – 1980 )