* 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.

* 1906 – Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest, educator and academic administrator ( d. 1970 )

* 2002 – Billy Wilder, American director ( b. 1906 )

** Billy Wilder, Polish-American film screenwriter and director ( b. 1906 )

* Billy Wilder ( 1906 – 2002 ), movie director

* Billy Wilder ( 1906 – 2002 ), American film director and producer

Burke claims that the term " skidoo " was coined in 1906 by the musical comedy star Billy B.

* Billy Wilder ( 1906 – 2002 ) Viktoria-Luise-Platz 11 from ( 1927 to1928 ).

He became the standard after which other umpires patterned themselves ; after arriving in the AL at age 22 in 1906, Billy Evans regularly worked in a team with Sheridan for several years in order to study under the senior umpire, with Sheridan usually working behind the plate and Evans on the bases.

When the ban was lifted on 31 December 1906, Turnbull moved to City's crosstown rivals Manchester United, along with Billy Meredith, Herbert Burgess and Jimmy Bannister.

* Governor William " Extra Billy " Smith Statue, 1906

* Billy Halliday ( 1906 – after 1933 ), Scottish footballer

In 1906, in the wake of a scandal regarding players ' wages, Manchester City were forced into selling most of their players, and Burgess was purchased by Manchester United along with Sandy Turnbull, Jimmy Bannister and Billy Meredith.

That team was managed by 39-year-old player-manager Billy Murray, who stayed with the team through 1906, but the team never won another championship.

In 1906 construction began on the Post Office, with local cricketer George Wilder laying an inscribed brick.

In 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Wilder U. S. consul to Hong Kong.

* 1906 – Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director, producer, and actor ( d. 1986 )

* 1906 – Carol Reed, English film director ( d. 1976 )

* 1906 – Vincent Sherman, American director ( d. 2006 )

* John Walker ( curator ) ( 1906 – 1995 ), director of the National Gallery of Art

* 1906 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian director ( d. 1977 )

* 1906 – Luchino Visconti, Italian director ( d. 1976 )

* 1906 – León Klimovsky, Argentine film director ( d. 1996 )

In 1906 Ehrlich became the director of the Georg Speyer House in Frankfurt, a private research foundation affiliated with his institute.

* 1906 – Jacques Becker, French screenwriter and director ( d. 1960 )

* March 17 – Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and film director ( b. 1906 )

** Carol Reed, English film director ( b. 1906 )

** Jacques Becker, French director ( b. 1906 )

* April 29 – Anthony Mann, American actor and director ( b. 1906 )

* August 28 – John Huston, American film director and actor ( b. 1906 )

** Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director ( b. 1906 )

Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini ( 8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977 ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

He was awarded in the Nobel Peace Prize in 1902, and served as director of the organization until his death in 1906.

John Marcellus Huston ( August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987 ) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor.

* Vincent Sherman ( 1906 – 2006 ), American film director and actor

* Paul J. Smith ( director ) ( 1906 – 1980 ), American animator and director best known for his work in Woody Woodpecker cartoons