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This article is about the year 1906. For other uses, see 1906 (disambiguation). Year 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar. Events January February January 31: Ecuador earthquake (8.6). March April - March 10 – Courri res mine disaster: an explosion in a coal mine in France kills 1,060.
- March 18 – Traian Vuia makes a short flight in a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft.
- April 7 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
- April 18 – San Francisco earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, USA, killing at least 3,000, with 225,000 300,000 left homeless, and $350 million in damages.
- April 23 – In Tsarist Russia, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.
The ruins of San Francisco following the April 18 earthquake and later fires May June July August September October November December Date unknown Births January–February - January 11 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (d. 2008)
- January 13 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist
- January 14 – William Bendix, American film, radio, and television actor (d. 1964)
- January 21 – Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007)
- January 22 – Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936)
- February 4
- February 5 – John Carradine, American actor (d. 1988)
- February 7 – Puyi, Last Emperor of China (d. 1967)
- February 10 – Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
- February 18 – Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)
- February 22 – Helge Kj rulff-Schmidt, Danish actor (d. 1982)
- February 26 – Madeleine Carroll, British actress (d. 1987)
- February 28 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947)
March–April - March 1 – Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2000)
- March 6
- March 7 – Elmar Lipping, Estonian statesman and soldier (d. 1994)
- March 16 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer (d. 2009)
- March 19
- March 25 – A. J. P. Taylor, English historian (d. 1990)
- March 26 – Rafael M ndez, Mexican trumpet player (d. 1981)
- March 31 – Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
- April 1 – Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Russian engineer and airplane designer (d. 1989)
- April 4 – Bea Benaderet, American actress (d. 1968)
- April 9 – Antal Dor ti, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988)
- April 13 – Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1989)
- April 19 – Luis Alberti, Dominican Republic musician (d. 1976)
- April 22 – Eddie Albert, American actor (d. 2005)
- April 28
May–June - May 2 – Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American photographer (d. 1979)
- May 3 – Mary Astor, American actress and writer (d. 1987)
- May 6 – Andr Weil, French mathematician (d. 1998)
- May 8 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d. 1977)
- May 11 – Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (d. 1980)
- May 15 – Humberto Delgado, Portuguese general and politician (d. 1965)
- May 16 – Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer (d. 2001)
- May 19 – Bruce Bennett, American athlete and actor (d. 2007)
- May 20 – Giuseppe Siri, Italilan 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 Gr ning, 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 – L on Degrelle, Belgian fascist (d. 1994)
- June 19 – Ernst Boris Chain, German-born British biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
- June 22
- June 24 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)
- June 28 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
July–August - July 1 – Est e Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 2004)
- July 2
- July 3 – George Sanders, British actor (d. 1972)
- July 7
- July 11 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)
- July 12 – Pietro Tordi, Italian actor (d. 1990)
- July 23 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
- July 25 – Jos Figueres Ferrer, President of Costa Rica (d. 1990)
- August 5 – Joan Hickson, British actress (d. 1998)
- August 14 – Horst P. Horst, German photographer (d. 1999)
- August 19 – Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (d. 1971)
- August 27 – Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
- August 28 – John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
September–October - September 1
- September 4 – Max Delbr ck, German biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
- September 6 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-born Argentine chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
- September 8 – Andrei Kirilenko (politician), Soviet politician (d. 1990)
- September 17 – Junius Richard Jayewardene, President of Sri Lanka (d. 1996)
- September 25 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
- October 6 – Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
- October 9 – L opold S dar Senghor, President of Senegal (d. 2001)
- October 10 – Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
- October 14
- 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)
November–December - November 2 – Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and cinema director and writer (d. 1976)
- November 5 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
- November 13 – Hermione Baddeley, English character actress (d. 1986)
- November 14 – Louise Brooks, American actress (d. 1985)
- November 15 – Curtis LeMay, United States Air Force general (d. 1990)
- November 16 – Henri Charri re, French author (d. 1973)
- November 17 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese industrialist (d. 1991)
- November 18
- December 5 – Otto Preminger, Austrian-born American film director (d. 1986)
- December 6 – Ahn Eak-tai, Korean composer (d. 1965)
- December 9 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and naval officer (d. 1992)
- December 19 – Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader (d. 1982)
- December 24 – James Hadley Chase, English writer (d. 1985)
- December 25 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
- December 26 – Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (d. 2003)
- December 27 – Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d. 1972)
Deaths January–June - January 19 – Bartolom Mitre President of Argentina (b. 1821)
- January 25 – Joseph Wheeler, American general and politician (b. 1836)
- January 29 – King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
- February 13 – Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
- February 27 – Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer (b. 1834)
- March 4 – John Schofield, American general (b. 1831)
- March 8 – Henry Baker Tristram, English clergyman, and ornithologist. (b. 1822)
- March 13 – Susan B. Anthony, American civil rights and women's suffrage activist (b. 1820)
- March 19 – Victor Fatio, Swiss zoologist (b. 1838)
- March 29 – Slava Ra kaj, Croatian painter (b. 1877)
- April 6 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b. 1849)
- April 19
- May 14 – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and American statesman (b. 1829)
- May 23 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (b. 1828)
- June 17 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess champion (b. 1872)
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