* Bunny Austin ( 1906 – 2000 ), British tennis player

* 1906 – Ed Gein, American serial killer ( d. 1984 )

* 1906 – Vic Dickenson, American trombonist ( d. 1984 )

* 1906 – The all black infantrymen of the U. S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence ; all are later dishonorably discharged.

* 1906 – Miklós Borsos, Hungarian sculptor ( d. 1990 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

Casa Batlló () is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904 – 1906 ; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia ( passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue ), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia ( the " Block of Discord ") in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain.

* 1847 – Hans Auer, Swiss architect ( d. 1906 )

* 1906 – An estimated 8. 2 M < sub > W </ sub > earthquake hits Valparaíso, Chile, killing 3, 886 people.

* 1906 – Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach ( d. 1985 )

* 1906 – Tedd Pierce, American animator, screenwriter, and producer ( d. 1972 )

* 1846 – Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader ( d. 1906 )

* 1906 – Philo Farnsworth, American inventor, invented the Fusor ( d. 1971 )

* 1906 – Friz Freleng, American animator, director, and producer ( d. 1995 )

* 1906 – Jim Smith, English cricketer ( d. 1979 )

* María Teresa, ( 12 November 1882 – 23 September 1912 ), married to Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria on 12 January 1906

1929 portrait of King Alfonso XIIIOn 31 May 1906, at the Royal Monastery of San Geronimo in Madrid, Alfonso married Scottish-born Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ( 1887 – 1969 ), a niece of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

* 1906 – The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.

Alphonse-Marie Parent, ( April 2, 1906 – October 7, 1970 ) was a Canadian priest, educator and academic administrator.

Parent also served as mayor of Quebec City from 1894 to 1906.

295 ), the Canada Supreme Court opined that the 1906 Lord's Day Act that required most places to be closed on Sunday did not have a legitimate secular purpose, and was an unconstitutional attempt to establish a religious-based closing law in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

* 1906 – Joseph Schull, Canadian playwright and historian ( d. 1980 )

* 1906 – Patsy Callighen, Canadian ice hockey Player ( d. 1964 )

* 1906 – Herbert Jasper, Canadian neurosurgeon ( d. 1999 )

* 1906 – Lionel Bertrand, Canadian politician and newspaper editor ( d. 1979 )

* 1906 – Charles Ritchie, Canadian diplomat ( d. 1995 )

Seton, a British-born Canadian living in the United States, met Baden-Powell in October 1906, and they shared ideas about youth training programs.

* 1906 – Leonard Marsh, Canadian scientist and educator ( d. 1982 )

The Government of the province of Ontario, Canada eventually brought power transmission operations under public control in 1906, distributing Niagara's energy to various parts of the Canadian province.

" The Maple Leaf Forever " is a Canadian song written by Alexander Muir ( 1830 – 1906 ) in 1867, the year of Canada's Confederation.

* Herbert Jasper ( 1906 – 1999 ), a Canadian psychologist, physiologist, anatomist, chemist and neurologist

* Gabriel Dumont ( Métis leader ) ( 1837 – 1906 ), Canadian indigenous leader of the Métis people

AM radio began with the first, experimental broadcast on Christmas Eve, 1906, by Canadian experimenter Reginald Fessenden, and was used for small-scale voice and music broadcasts up until World War I. San Francisco, California, radio station KCBS claims to be the direct descendant of KQW, founded by radio experimenter Charles " Doc " Herrold, who made regular weekly broadcasts in San Jose, California, as early as June 1909.

* Earl W. Bascom ( 1906 – 1995 ), Hollywood actor, artist, inventor, rodeo cowboy, Canadian Rodeo Hall of Fame, Utah Sports Hall of Fame, " Father of Modern Rodeo "

The townsite was established by three lot sales beginning with the Canadian Valley Construction Company sale on September 19, 1906.

Later in 1906, Leslie Coleman, a Canadian Entomologist and Mycologist succeeded Lehmann and served for 25 years.

* James M. Lemoine, " The First Canadian Novelist, 1769 ," Maple Leaves 7 ( 1906 ): 239-45.

Although never attacked, Citadel Hill's various fortifications were garrisoned by the British Army until 1906 and afterward by the Canadian Army throughout the First and Second World Wars ; Fort George having been used as temporary barracks during 1939-1940 and as the coordinating point for the city's anti-aircraft defences.

The committee's work nevertheless led in 1906 to the first federal regulation of telephone and telegram service by the Board of Railway Commissioners, the ancestor of the current Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

James McIntyre ( baptised 25 May 1828 – 31 March 1906 ), called The Cheese Poet, was a Canadian poet.

* James Baker ( Canadian politician ) ( 1830 – 1906 ), British soldier and politician in British Columbia, Canada

* John Joseph Connolly ( 1906 – 1982 ), Canadian parliamentarian and law professor

Sir Hector-Louis Langevin, ( August 25, 1826 – June 11, 1906 ) was a Canadian lawyer, politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation.

After the AHAC, Quebec played in the Canadian Amateur Hockey League from 1899 to 1905, and the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association from 1906 to 1909.