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1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting
on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1906th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
906th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 6th year of the 20th century,
and the 7th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1906,
the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which
remained in localized use until 1923. Contents ·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths ·
6Sources Events[edit] January–February[edit] ·
January 12 – Persian
Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants,
religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah to
grant a constitution, and establish a national assembly, the Majlis. ·
January 16–April 7 – The Algeciras Conference convenes,
to resolve the First Moroccan
Crisis between France and Germany. ·
January 22 – The SS Valencia strikes a reef
off Vancouver Island,
Canada, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster. ·
January 31 – The Ecuador–Colombia
earthquake (8.8 on the Moment magnitude
scale), and associated tsunami, cause at least 500 deaths. ·
February 10 – HMS Dreadnought is
launched, sparking a naval race
between Britain and Germany. ·
February 11 – Pope Pius X publishes the
encyclical Vehementer Nos,
denouncing the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and
the State. ·
February 11 – Two British £1-per-head tax collectors are killed
near Richmond, Natal,
sparking the Bambatha Rebellion.[1]
January 31: Ecuador earthquake (8.6). March–April[edit] ·
March 4 – Termination of Native
American tribal governments in Indian Territory, a prerequisite for creating
the state of Oklahoma in 1907. ·
March 10 ·
Courrières mine
disaster: An explosion in a coal mine in France kills 1,060. ·
The London Underground's Baker
Street and Waterloo Railway opens. ·
March 18 – In France, Romanian
inventor Traian Vuia becomes
the first person to achieve an unassisted takeoff in a heavier-than-air
powered monoplane, but it is
incapable of sustained flight. ·
April 7 – Mount Vesuvius erupts, and
devastates Naples. ·
April 14 – The Azusa Street Revival,
the primary catalyst for the revival of Pentecostalism this century, opens
in Los Angeles. ·
April 18 – The San
Francisco Earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the San Andreas Fault destroys
much of San Francisco, California, killing at least 3,000, with 225,000–300,000
left homeless, and $350 million in damages. ·
April 23 – In the Russian Empire, the Fundamental
Laws are announced at the first state Duma.
The ruins of San Franciscofollowing the April 18 earthquake and later fires May–June[edit] ·
May – Jack London's novel White Fang begins serialization, in
the American magazine Outing. ·
May 27 – The first inmates are moved to
the Culion leper colony,
by the American Insular
Government of the Philippine Islands. ·
May 29 – Karl Staaff steps down as Prime Minister of Sweden, over the issue of expanded voting
rights. He is replaced by right-wing naval officer and public official Arvid Lindman. ·
June 7 – Cunard liner RMS Lusitania is launched
in Glasgow, as the world's largest ship. ·
June 26 – The first Grand Prix is held in Le Mans, France. ·
June 30 – The Pure Food
and Drug Act of 1906 is signed into law by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (effective January 1, 1907). July–August[edit] ·
July 1 – Sporting CP,
a well known association football club in Portugal, is founded.[citation needed] ·
July 6 – The Second Geneva
Convention meets. ·
July 12 – Alfred Dreyfus is exonerated. He is
reinstalled in the French Army on July 21, thus ending the Dreyfus affair. ·
August 4 – The first Imperial German Navy submarine, U-1, is launched. ·
August 16 – 1906
Valparaíso earthquake: A magnitude 8.2
earthquake in Valparaíso, Chile leaves approximately 20,000 dead. ·
August 22 – The first Victor Victrola phonographic record player is
manufactured. ·
August 23 – Unable to control a
rebellion, Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma requests
United States intervention. This leads to the Second
Occupation of Cuba, which lasts until 1909. September–October[edit] ·
September 11 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha, to characterize the nonviolence movement in South Africa. ·
September 12 – The Newport
Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar. ·
September 18 – A typhoon and tsunami kill an estimated 10,000 in
Hong Kong.[2] ·
September 30 – The first Gordon
Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The
winning team, piloting the balloon United States, lands in Fylingdales, Yorkshire, England. ·
October 1 – The Grand Duchy of
Finland becomes the first nation to include the right of
women to stand as candidates, when it adopts universal suffrage. ·
October 6 – The Majlis of Iran convenes for the first
time. ·
October 11 – A United States diplomatic
crisis with Japan arises,
when the San Francisco public school board orders Japanese students to be
taught in racially segregated schools (it is
resolved by next year). ·
October 16 – Imposter Wilhelm Voigt impersonates a Prussian officer, and takes over the
city hall in Köpenick for a
short time. ·
October 23 – An aeroplane of Alberto
Santos-Dumont takes off at Bagatelle in
France, and flies 60 meters (200 feet). This is the first officially
recorded powered flight in Europe. ·
October 28 – The Union
Minière du Haut Katanga, a Belgian mining trust, is created in
the Congo. November–December[edit] ·
November 3 – SOS becomes
an international distress signal. ·
November 22 – Russian Prime
Minister Pyotr Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms, aimed at creating a large
class of land-owning peasants. ·
December 4 – Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity forms at
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; it is the first Black Greek-lettered
collegiate order of its kind. ·
December 15 – The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens. ·
December 24 – Reginald Fessenden makes
the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech,
from Brant
Rock, Massachusetts. ·
December 26 – The world's first feature
film, The Story of
the Kelly Gang, is first shown, at the Melbourne Athenaeum in
Australia. ·
December 30 – The All-India Muslim
League is founded as a political party in Dhaka in the British Raj; it becomes a driving force for
the creation of an independent Pakistan. Date unknown[edit] ·
The BCG vaccine for tuberculosis is first developed. ·
Richard Oldham argues
that the Earth has a molten interior. ·
Construction begins on the
modern-day Great Mosque of
Djenné. ·
The Simplo Filler Pen Company is founded,
later to become the Montblanc Company
in Germany. ·
HaRishon Le Zion-Yafo Association is
officially founded as a sports club in Palestine,
predecessor of Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel).[3] Births[edit] January–February[edit]
Puyi,
Last Emperor of China
·
January 6 – Walter Battiss, South African artist
(d. 1982) ·
January 11 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (d. 2008) ·
January 12 – Eric Birley, British historian and
archaeologist (d. 1995) ·
January 13 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist (d. 2017) ·
January 14 – William Bendix, American film, radio, and
television actor (d. 1964) ·
January 15 – Aristotle Onassis,
Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975) ·
January 16 – Diana Wynyard, English actress (d. 1964) ·
January 21 – Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer
(d. 2007) ·
January 22 – Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936) ·
Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
German religious, resistance leader (d. 1945) ·
Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer
(d. 1997) ·
February 5 – John Carradine, American actor (d. 1988) ·
Puyi,
Last Emperor of China (d. 1967) ·
Oleg
Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984) ·
February 8 – Chester Carlson, American physicist,
inventor (d. 1968) ·
Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973) ·
Erik
Rhodes, American actor and singer (d. 1990) ·
February 14 – Nazim al-Kudsi, 26th Prime Minister of
Syria and 14th President of Syria (d. 1998) ·
Mary Brian, American actress (d. 2002) ·
Galo Plaza, 29th President of Ecuador
(d. 1987) ·
February 18 – Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician
(d. 1980) ·
February 22 – Helge
Kjærulff-Schmidt, Danish actor (d. 1982) ·
February 26 – Madeleine Carroll,
British actress (d. 1987) ·
February 28 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947) March–April[edit]
·
March 1 ·
Phạm
Văn Đồng, Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2000) ·
Abdus Sattar,
8th President of Bangladesh (d. 1985) ·
March 6 – Lou Costello, American actor (d. 1959) ·
March 7 – Elmar Lipping, Estonian statesman, soldier
(d. 1994) ·
March 8 – Victor Hasselblad,
Swedish inventor, photographer (d. 1978) ·
March 12 – Yin Shun, Chinese Buddhist master (d. 2005) ·
March 16 – Francisco
Ayala, Spanish writer (d. 2009) ·
March 17 – Brigitte Helm, German film actress (d. 1996) ·
March 19 ·
Adolf Eichmann, German war criminal
(d. 1962) ·
Roy Roberts, American actor (d. 1975) ·
March 20 – Ozzie Nelson, American actor, director and
producer (d. 1975) ·
March 21 – Jim Thompson,
American businessman (disappeared 1967) ·
March 25 – A. J. P. Taylor, English historian (d. 1990) ·
March 26 ·
Rafael Méndez, Mexican trumpet player
(d. 1981) ·
Ronald Urquhart, British general (d. 1968) ·
March 31 – Shin'ichirō
Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979) ·
April 1 – Alexander Sergeyevich
Yakovlev, Russian engineer, airplane designer (d. 1989) ·
April 4 – Bea Benaderet, American actress (d. 1968) ·
April 6 – Luis Alberti, Dominican Republic musician
(d. 1976) ·
April 9 – Antal Doráti, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988) ·
April 11 – Julia Clements, English flower arranger and
author (d. 2010) ·
April 13 – Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1989) ·
April 14 – Broda Otto Barnes,
American medical researcher (d. 1988) ·
April 22 – Eddie Albert, American actor (d. 2005) ·
April 24 – William Joyce, Irish-American World War II
Nazi propaganda broadcaster ("Lord Haw-Haw") (d. 1946) ·
April 25 ·
Joel Brand, Hungarian rescue worker
(d. 1964) ·
William J. Brennan
Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1997) ·
A. W. Haydon, American inventor (d. 1982) ·
April 28 ·
Tony Accardo, American gangster (d. 1992) ·
Kurt Gödel, Austrian logician,
mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (d. 1978) ·
Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999) May–June[edit]
·
May 2 – Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American
photographer (d. 1979) ·
May 3 – Mary Astor, American actress and writer
(d. 1987) ·
May 6 – André Weil, French mathematician (d. 1998) ·
May 7 – Jon Lormer, American actor (d. 1986) ·
May 8 – Roberto Rossellini,
Italian director (d. 1977) ·
May 10 – António Ferreira
Gomes, Portuguese Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1989) ·
May 11 ·
Jacqueline Cochran,
American aviator (d. 1980) ·
Richard Arvin
Overton, oldest living man in the United States and oldest
surviving American veteran (World War II) ·
Ethel Weed, American promoter of Japanese
women's rights (d. 1975) ·
May 15 – Humberto Delgado, Portuguese general,
politician (d. 1965) ·
May 16 – Arturo Uslar Pietri,
Venezuelan writer (d. 2001) ·
May 17 – Jack Carr,
American actor and animator (d. 1967) ·
May 19 ·
Bruce Bennett, American athlete, actor
(d. 2007) ·
Jimmy
MacDonald, Scottish-American sound effects artist, voice actor
(d. 1991) ·
May 20 – Giuseppe Siri, Italian Roman Catholic
cardinal (d. 1989) ·
May 23 – Lucha Reyes,
Mexican singer (d. 1944) ·
May 27 – Buddhadasa, Buddhist monk (d. 1993) ·
May 29 – T. H. White, British writer (d. 1964) ·
May 30 – Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (d. 1959) ·
June 3 – Josephine Baker, American-born French
entertainer (d. 1975) ·
June 4 – Ivan Knunyants, Soviet chemist (d. 1990) ·
June 6 – Max August Zorn, German-born American
mathematician (d. 1993) ·
June 12 – Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977) ·
June 15 – Léon Degrelle, Belgian fascist (d. 1994) ·
June 17 ·
James H. Flatley, American admiral, aviator
(d. 1958) ·
Olli Ungvere, Estonian actress (d. 1991) ·
June 19 – Ernst Boris Chain,
German-born British biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979) ·
June 21 – Grete Sultan, German-American pianist
(d. 2005) ·
June 22 ·
George
W. Clarke, American politician (d. 2006) ·
Anne Morrow
Lindbergh, American author, aviator (d. 2001) ·
Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American
screenwriter, film director and producer (d. 2002) ·
June 24 ·
Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986) ·
George Alexander
Gale, Canadian politician (d. 1997) ·
June 26 ·
Ralph S. Johnson, American aviation pioneer,
politician (d. 2010) ·
Viktor Schreckengost,
American industrial designer, teacher, sculptor and artist (d. 2008) ·
M. P. Sivagnanam, Indian politician
(d. 1995) ·
June 27 – Catherine Cookson,
English author (d. 1998) ·
June 28 ·
Maria Goeppert-Mayer,
German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972) ·
Yoshimi Ueda, Japanese basketball player,
administrator (d. 1996) ·
June 29 – Heinz Harmel, German officer (d. 2000) July–August[edit]
·
July 1 ·
Jean Dieudonné,
French mathematician, academic (d. 1992) ·
Ivan Neill, British Army officer (d. 2001) ·
July 2 ·
Hans Bethe, German-born American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005) ·
Károly Kárpáti,
Hungarian Jewish wrestler (d. 1996) ·
Séra Martin, French middle-distance runner
(d. 1993) ·
July 3 ·
Alberto Lleras
Camargo, Colombian politician, 20th President of
Colombia (d. 1990) ·
George Sanders, British actor (d. 1972) ·
July 4 – Vincent Schaefer, American chemist,
meteorologist (d. 1993) ·
July 7 ·
William Feller, Croatian-born mathematician
(d. 1970) ·
Helene Johnson, African-American poet
(d. 1995) ·
Hugh McMahon,
Scottish footballer (d. 1997) ·
Satchel Paige, American baseball player
(d. 1982) ·
July 8 – Philip Johnson, American architect (d. 2005) ·
July 9 – Roy Leaper, Australian rules footballer
(d. 2002) ·
July 10 – Ad Liska, American baseball pitcher
(d. 1998) ·
July 11 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990) ·
July 12 – Pietro Tordi, Italian actor (d. 1990) ·
July 14 – Stanley Devenish
Meares, Australian obstetrician, gynaecologist (d. 1994) ·
July 16 ·
Ichimaru, Japanese singer (d. 1997) ·
Vincent Sherman, American director, actor
(d. 2006) ·
James Still, American poet, novelist and
folklorist (d. 2001) ·
July 17 ·
Leonila Garcia, 8th First Lady of the
Philippines (d. 1994) ·
Dunc Gray, Australian track cyclist
(d. 1996) ·
July 18 ·
Sidney Darlington,
American engineer (d. 1997) ·
S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-born American
academic, politician (d. 1992) ·
Speed Webb, American jazz drummer, territory
band leader (d. 1994) ·
July 21 – Caroline Smith,
American diver (d. 1994) ·
July 23 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1998) ·
August 5 ·
Joan Hickson, British actress (d. 1998) ·
John Huston, American film director,
screenwriter, and actor (d. 1987) ·
Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1999) ·
August 14 – Horst P. Horst, German photographer
(d. 1999) ·
August 17 – Marcelo Caetano, Prime Minister
of Portugal (d. 1980) ·
August 19 – Philo Farnsworth, American inventor
(d. 1971) ·
August 21 – Friz Freleng, American cartoon director
(d. 1995) ·
August 23 – Zoltan Sarosy, Canadian chess master
(d. 2017) ·
August 26 – Albert Sabin, Polish-American medical
researcher (d. 1993) ·
August 27 – Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984) ·
August 28 – John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984) ·
August 30 – Joan Blondell, American actress (d. 1979) September[edit]
·
Joaquín Balaguer,
Dominican politician, writer (d. 2002) ·
Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001) ·
Eleanor Burford, English writer (d. 1993) ·
September 2 – Barbara Jo Allen, American actress (d. 1974) ·
September 4 – Max Delbrück, German biologist, Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1981) ·
September 6 – Luis Federico Leloir,
French-born Argentine chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987) ·
September 8 – Andrei
Kirilenko, Soviet politician (d. 1990) ·
September 12 – Lee Erwin,
American television writer (d. 1972) ·
September 17 – J. R. Jayewardene,
President of Sri Lanka (d. 1996) ·
José Figueres Ferrer,
President of Costa Rica (d. 1990) ·
Dmitri Shostakovich,
Russian composer (d. 1975) ·
September 27 – William Empson, English poet, critic
(d. 1984) October[edit]
·
October 6 – Janet Gaynor, American Academy Award-winning
actress (d. 1984) ·
October 9 – Léopold Sédar
Senghor, President of Senegal (d. 2001) ·
October 10 – Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Indian
novelist (d. 2001) ·
Imam Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian founder of the
Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949) ·
Hannah Arendt, German political theorist
(d. 1975) ·
October 19 – Bandō
Mitsugorō VIII, Japanese actor (d. 1975) ·
October 23 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003) ·
October 24 – Marie-Louise
von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (d. 1996) ·
October 26 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (d. 1967) ·
October 27 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (d. 2010) ·
October 29 – Fredric Brown, American writer (d. 1972) November–December[edit]
·
November 2 – Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre, cinema
director, writer (d. 1976) ·
November 4 – Willie Love, American Delta blues pianist (d. 1953) ·
George
Philip Bradley "Pip" Roberts, British general (d. 1997) ·
Fred Lawrence
Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004) ·
November 9 – Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer
(d. 1996) ·
November 10 – Josef Kramer, German Nazi concentration camp
commandant (d. 1945) ·
Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan business tycoon
(d. 1979) ·
Hermione Baddeley,
English character actress (d. 1986) ·
Empress Wanrong of China (d. 1946) ·
November 14 – Louise Brooks, American actress (d. 1985) ·
November 15 – Curtis LeMay, United States Air Force
general, vice-presidential candidate (d. 1990) ·
November 16 – Henri Charrière,
French author (d. 1973) ·
November 17 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese industrialist
(d. 1991) ·
Alec Issigonis, Greek-born British
automobile designer (d. 1988) ·
Klaus Mann, German writer (d. 1949) ·
George Wald, American scientist, Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1997) ·
November 19 – Patriarch Paul II Cheikho (b. 1989) ·
November 22 – Jørgen Juve, Norwegian football player and
journalist (d. 1983) ·
Peter Carl Goldmark,
Hungarian-born American engineer (d. 1977) ·
Donald Woods,
Canadian-American film, television actor (d. 1998) ·
December 5 – Ahn Eak-tai, Korean composer (d. 1965) ·
December 9 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist,
naval officer (d. 1992) ·
Princess
Marina of Greece and Denmark (d. 1968) ·
Laurens van der Post,
South African author, journalist (d. 1996) ·
December 19 – Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader (d. 1982) ·
December 24 – James Hadley Chase,
English writer (d. 1985) ·
December 25 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1988) ·
December 26 – Imperio Argentina,
Argentinian singer, actress (d. 2003) ·
December 27 – Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer,
author, comedian, and actor (d. 1972) ·
Alziro Bergonzo, Italian architect, painter
(d. 1997) ·
Carol Reed, English film director (d. 1976) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 1 – Todor Ivanchov, 11th Prime Minister
of Bulgaria (b. 1858) ·
January 6 – William Forbes
Gatacre, British general (b. 1843) ·
January 19 – Bartolomé Mitre,
Argentine statesman, military figure and author, 6th President of
Argentina (b. 1821) ·
January 20 – Maria Cristina of the Immaculate Conception Brando,
Italian Roman Catholic nun,
saint (b. 1856) ·
January 25 – Joseph Wheeler, American general, politician
(b. 1836) ·
January 29 – King Christian IX of
Denmark (b. 1818) ·
February 8 – Giuseppina
Gabriella Bonino, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed
(b. 1843) ·
February 13 – Albert Gottschalk,
Danish painter (b. 1866) ·
February 27 – Samuel Pierpont
Langley, American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer
(b. 1834) ·
March 1 – José María de Pereda,
Spanish writer (b. 1833) ·
March 4 – John Schofield, American general (b. 1831) ·
March 8 – Henry Baker Tristram,
English clergyman, ornithologist (b. 1822) ·
March 12 – Manuel Quintana, 15th President of
Argentina (b. 1835) ·
March 13 ·
Susan B. Anthony, American civil rights,
women's suffrage activist (b. 1820) ·
Joseph Monier, French gardener, inventor
(b. 1823) ·
March 19 – Victor Fatio, Swiss zoologist (b. 1838) ·
March 20 – Adeline
Dutton Train Whitney, American author of juvenile literature for
girls (b. 1824) ·
March 23 – Thomas Lake Harris,
American poet (b. 1823) ·
March 29 ·
Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter (b. 1877) ·
Albert Sorel, French historian (b. 1842) ·
April 6 – Alexander Kielland,
Norwegian author (b. 1849) ·
April 18 – Artie Hall, American Vaudeville
comedian, San Francisco
Earthquake (b. 1881) ·
April 19 ·
Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize
laureate (b. 1859) ·
Spencer Gore,
British tennis player, cricketer (b. 1850) ·
April 25 – John Knowles Paine,
American composer (b. 1839) ·
May 10 – Hashim
Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin, Sultan of Brunei (b. 1825) ·
May 14 – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary, American
statesman (b. 1829) ·
May 23 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (b. 1828) ·
June 5 – Karl
Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842) ·
June 10 – Richard Seddon, 15th Prime
Minister of New Zealand (b. 1845) ·
June 17 – Harry Nelson
Pillsbury, American chess champion (b. 1872) ·
June 25 – Stanford White, American architect (b. 1853) July–December[edit]
·
July 1 – Manuel García,
Spanish opera singer, music educator and vocal pedagogue (b. 1805) ·
July 11 – Grace Brown,
American murder victim whose story became a famous court case (b. 1886) ·
July 17 – Carlos Pellegrini,
11th President of
Argentina (b. 1846) ·
August 6 – George
Waterhouse, 7th Prime
Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824) ·
August 14 – Aniceto Arce, 27th President of Bolivia (b. 1824) ·
August 19 – Ezequiél Moreno y
Díaz, Colombian Roman Catholic priest, saint (b. 1848) ·
September 1 – Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian poet, librettist
(b. 1847) ·
September 5 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist
(b. 1854) ·
September 13 – Emily Pitts Stevens,
American school founder (b. 1841) ·
September 23 – August Bondeson, Swedish author (b. 1844) ·
October 9 – Adelaide Ristori, Italian actress (b. 1822) ·
October 16 – Varina Davis, First Lady of the Confederate
States of America (b. 1826) ·
October 22 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839) ·
October 23 – Vladimir Stasov, Russian music critic
(b. 1824) ·
October 30 – Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook,
British politician (b. 1814) ·
November 1 – Archduke Otto
Franz of Austria (b. 1865) ·
November 7 – Todor Burmov, 1st Prime Minister
of Bulgaria (b. 1834) ·
November 9 – Elizabeth of the
Trinity, French Discalced Carmelite religious
professed and saint (b. 1880) ·
November 12 – William R. Shafter,
American general (b. 1835) ·
November 16 – Mother Veronica
of the Passion, Ottoman-born religious leader (b. 1823) ·
November 28 – Jennie Yeamans, Australian-born American
actress (b. 1862) ·
November 30 – Sir Edward Reed,
British naval architect, author, politician, and railroad magnate (b. 1830) ·
December 7 – Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and
activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833) ·
December 8 – Sylvia Gerrish, American musical theatre
star (b. 1860) ·
December 13 – Jan Gerard Palm, Dutch composer (b. 1831) ·
December 30 – Josephine Butler, British feminist, social
reformer (b. 1828) Nobel Prizes[edit]
·
Physics – J. J. Thomson ·
Medicine – Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y
Cajal ·
Literature – Giosuè Carducci References[edit] 1. ^ Stuart, J. (1913). History
of the Zulu Rebellion 1906. London: Macmillan and Co. pp. 548–581. 2. ^ "Hongkong Typhoon". Auckland Star. 37 (244).
New Zealand. 1906-10-19. p. 5. Retrieved 2017-12-30. Over
1,000 bodies are recovered, but cabled statements are verified that the
number of lives lost totalled about 10,000. Retrieved via Papers Past. 3. ^ "About the club - Maccabi Tel Aviv Football
Club". Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club. Retrieved 2018-06-12. Sources[edit] ·
The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year: 1906.
Longmans, Green. 1907., comprehensive guide to political events
worldwide; emphasis on Britain Further reading[edit] ·
Gilbert, Martin. A History of the
Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997); global coverage of
politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 123 – 42. ·
Hazell's Annual for 1907 (1907), worldwide
events of 1906; 734pp online ·
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