* 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 )

* 1906 – Eugene Eisenmann, Panamanian-American ornithologist ( d. 1981 )

* Committee of Fifty ( 1906 ), called into existence by Mayor Eugene Schmitz during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

It has been rumored that on April 8, 1933, Wyman married Ernest Eugene Wyman ( or Weymann ) ( 1906 – 1970 ), a salesman ; the marriage was mentioned in Dutch, the authorized biography of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris, who says that the marriage certificate is on file with the State of California, with the bride giving her name as Jane Fulks, daughter of Richard D. and Emma Reise Fulks.

In the 1900s, Jack London ( 1876 – 1916 ), Theodore Dreiser ( 1871 – 1945 ), Sherwood Anderson ( 1876 – 1941 ), Eugene O ' Neill ( 1888 – 1953 ), Clifford Odets ( 1906 – 1963 ), T. S. Eliot ( 1888 – 1965 ), John Dos Passos ( 1896 – 1970 ), Francis Scott Fitzgerald ( 1896 – 1940 ), and Henry Louis Mencken ( 1880 – 1956 ).

* Gustave Cahen, Eugene Boudin ( Paris, 1899 ); Arsène Alexandre, Essais ; Frederick Wedmore, Whistler and Others ( 1906 ).

The first issue was part of the 1906 omnibus issue of the French West Africa, consisting of 17 stamps in three designs: portraits of Louis Faidherbe, Eugene Ballay, and an oil palm, with values ranging from 1 centime to 5 francs.

* Eugene Lukacs ( 1906 – 1987 ), a Hungarian-American statistician

Image: judge-Roosevelt. jpg | A 1906 cover of Judge magazine showing a cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt by Eugene Zimmerman

Eugene Carson Blake ( November 7, 1906 – July 31, 1985 ) was an American Protestant Church leader in the 1950s and 1960s, and President of the National Council of Churches in the United States, 1954 — 1957.

On April 18, 1906, just after the San Francico earthquake recently retired Captain Edward Ord of the 22nd Regiment was appointed a Special Police Officer by Mayor Eugene Schmitz and liasioned with Major General Adolphus Greely for relief work with the 22nd Regiment and other military units involved in the emergency.

" Adams ' account is consistent with a 1906 newspaper article in the Nevada State Journal that the Mason's Valley of the nearby Walker River in Yerington, Nevada was well known to " the early trappers and fur hunters ... Kit Carson knew it to the bone ... The beavers of course were all trapped long ago, and you never see an elk nowadays ..."

That North American Beaver ( Castor canadensis ) were once native to the Walker River is evidenced by a 1906 article in the Nevada State Journal newspaper by newspaper mining writer Fitz-James MacCarthy ( aka Fitz-Mac ) stated that the Mason's Valley of the Walker River in Yerington, Nevada was well known to " the early trappers and fur hunters ... Kit Carson knew it to the bone ... The beavers of course were all trapped long ago, and you never see an elk nowadays ..."

In response to agricultural and cattle ranch concerns, the V & T built a short branch line to Minden, NV, about 26 miles south of Carson City, in 1906.

In 1906, Luther Lee Blake founded the Standard Statistics Bureau, with the view to providing financial information on non-railroad companies.

His mother, Elizabeth Cafone ( b. 1910 ), was married to Giacomo ( James ) Gubitosi ( 1906 – 1956 ), however according to Blake in an interview with Piers Morgan, his biological father was actually Giacomo's brother.

He proceeded to win the next seven Championships: Southport 1905 and Shrewsbury 1906, again scoring 8. 5 / 11 each time ; Crystal Palace 1907 ( 7. 5 / 11 ); Tunbridge Wells 1908 ( 8 / 11 ); Scarborough 1909, where he tied for first with Joseph Henry Blake, each scoring 8. 5 / 11, but won the playoff with 2. 5 / 3 ; Oxford 1910 ( 8. 5 / 11 ); and Glasgow 1911, tying for first with Frederick Yates at 8. 5 / 11, and winning all three games in the playoff.

* 1906 – Joan Blondell, American actress ( d. 1979 )

* 1906 – Sidney R. Garfield, American physician ( d. 1984 )

* ABC ( 1906 automobile ), an American car

* 1985 – Nate Barragar, American football player ( b. 1906 )

* 1906 – William J. Brennan, American Supreme Court Justice ( d. 1997 )

* 2004 – Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founder of Estée Lauder Companies ( b. 1906 )

* 1872 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess player ( d. 1906 )

* 1975 – Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt ( b. 1906 )

* 1906 – Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer and actor ( d. 1972 )

* 1906 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist ( d. 1992 )

* 2002 – Mary Brian, American actress ( b. 1906 )

* 1906 – U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.

Illegal and experimental forward passes had been attempted as early as 1876, but the first legal forward pass in American football took place in 1906, after a change in rules.

The American situation led to a worldwide boom in the production and exhibition of films from 1906 onwards.

* 1972 – Tedd Pierce, American animator ( b. 1906 )

* 1839 – Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher ( d. 1906 )

* 1820 – Susan B. Anthony, American suffragist ( d. 1906 )

* 1906 – John Carradine, American actor ( d. 1988 )

* 1906 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster ( d. 1947 )

* 1906 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet ( b. 1872 )