* 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 )

He offered the position to Hans Richter in February, 1905, who declined, to Felix Mottl in November, who was previously engaged, and then to previous director Nikisch, who declined ; the post was finally offered to Karl Muck, who accepted and began his duties in October, 1906..

He performed his own Piano Concerto under the conductorship of Sir Henry Wood in 1903 and under Hans Richter in 1906.

Its first solo ascent was made by Hans Pfann in 1906, and the first winter ascent was made by H. Masson and E. Petrig on March 25, 1948.

Hans Aumeier ( August 20, 1906 – January 28, 1948 ) was a Nazi war criminal, an SS-Sturmbannführer ( Major ) and the deputy commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp.

The old building of the Slotsholmen site was built in 1906 by Hans Jørgen Holm.

* October 21 – Hans Asperger ( b. 1906 ), Austrian pediatrician.

* Hans Asperger ( 1906 – 1980 ), Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger syndrome is named

* March 6 — Hans Bethe, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1906 )

Hans Renold established a large engineering works at Burnage from 1906 to manufacture roller chain.

* March 6 – Hans Bethe ( b. 1906 ), Nobelaureate in Physics ( 1967 ) for his discoveries concerning the energy production mechanism in stars.

Hans Christian Svane Hansen ( November 8, 1906 – February 19, 1960 ), often known as H. C. Hansen or simply H. C., was a social democrat and Prime Minister of Denmark from 29 January 1955 to 19 February 1960 as the head of the Cabinet of H. C. Hansen I and II.

There then followed a decade of prestigious commissions and performances, with notable works including the poem for chorus and orchestra Queen Mab ( Leeds Festival, conducted by the composer, 6 October 1904 ), the orchestral poem Ulalume ( Queen's Hall, conducted by the composer, 26 November 1904 ), the scena for baritone and orchestra Marino Faliero ( Bristol Festival, conducted by the composer, 12 October 1905 ), the Bohemian Songs for baritone and orchestra ( Norwich Festival, conducted by the composer, 25 October 1905 ), the poem for chorus and orchestra The Bells ( Birmingham Festival, conducted by Hans Richter, 3 October 1906 ), the orchestral suite Les Hommages ( Queen's Hall Promenade Concert, conducted by Henry Wood, 25 October 1906 ) and the choral symphony Homage to E. A.

Hans von Zwiedineck-Südenhorst ( 14 April 1845 – 22 November 1906 ) was a German historian.

* 1906 – Anton Karas, Austrian zither player ( d. 1985 )

* 1985 – Anton Karas, Austrian zither player and composer ( b. 1906 )

Kurt Friedrich Gödel (; ; April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978 ) was an Austrian American logician, mathematician, and philosopher.

Polish Deputies were members of the Austrian State Council ( from 1867 ), and from 1906 were also elected to the Russian Imperial State Duma ( lower chamber ) and to the State Council ( upper chamber ).

The first three-element device ( mercury-vapor filled with a control grid ) was patented on March 4 1906 by the Austrian Robert von Lieben independent from that, on October 25 1906 Lee De Forest patented his two-element Audion.

** Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter ( b. 1906 )

** Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist ( d. 1906 )

* Ferdinand von Saar ( 1833 – 1906 ), Austrian writer

She was the stepmother of Archduke Otto, who died in 1906, and the step-grandmother of Archduke Charles of Austria-Este, at that time second-in-line to the Austrian throne.

Images from early Austrian erotic movies ( about 1906, first image showing Am Sklavenmarkt ) by photographer Johann Schwarzer and his Saturn Film company.

Lehár was born in the northern part of Komárom, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary ( now Komárno, Slovakia ), the eldest son of Franz Lehar ( senior ) ( 1838 – 1888 ), an Austrian bandmaster in the Infantry Regiment No. 50 of the Austro-Hungarian Army and Christine Neubrandt ( 1849 – 1906 ), a Hungarian woman from a family of German descent.

Image: Stamp Austrian PO Turkish 1906 10pa. jpg | 1906, 10 paras used at Beirut

* Wolf Albach-Retty ( 1906 – 1967 ), Austrian actor

* Johann von Appel ( 1826 – 1906 ), Austrian governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abraham Reles, the son of Austrian Jewish immigrants, was born in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York on May 10, 1906.

* February 20-Ludwig Boltzmann ( died 1906 ), Austrian physicist famous for the invention of statistical mechanics.

He studied at Vienna's Technical Military Academy and subsequently ( 1895 – 1906 ) served with the Austrian Army, resigning after reaching the rank of captain.

Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann ( February 20, 1844 – September 5, 1906 ) was an Austrian physicist whose greatest achievement was in the development of statistical mechanics, which explains and predicts how the properties of atoms ( such as mass, charge, and structure ) determine the visible properties of matter ( such as viscosity, thermal conductivity, and diffusion ).

The Austrian premiere was given at the Graz Opera in 1906 under the composer, with Arnold Schoenberg, Giacomo Puccini, Alban Berg, and Gustav Mahler in the audience.

Johann Freiherr von Appel ( also Baron Johann von Appel ), ( 1826 – 1906 ) was an Austrian administrator.