* 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 )

* February 12 – Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood ( b. 1906 )

His father, Abol Hassan Alavi, took part in the 1906 Constitutional Revolution and later published ( with Hasan Taqizadeh ) the progressive newsletter Kaveh ( Kaweh ) in Germany.

Robert D. Hassan, an American mechanical engineer, was hired in 1906 to build a mill in Exshaw, Alberta for the Western Canada Cement and Coal Company.

However, around the turn of the 20th century, the contrabass sarrusophones in EE ♭ and CC enjoyed a vogue, the latter as a substitute for the contrabassoon, ( the French model patterned after the German Heckel model, having been introduced later around 1906 by Buffet et al.

In 1906 the Regia Scuola Superiore di Studi Applicati al Commercio ( the Royal School of Applied Studies in Commerce ) commenced its courses.

In 1906 the Sultan Abdelaziz ratified the Algeciras Conference, granting colonial powers substantial concessions over Morocco, Ma al -' Aynayn's deemed this a betrayal, and supported in 1907 the Sultan's brother and rival Abdelhafid ( at the time opposed to the French ).

During sporadic excavations at Boğazköy ( Hattusa ) that began in 1906, the archaeologist Hugo Winckler found a royal archive with 10, 000 tablets, inscribed in cuneiform Akkadian and the same unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of the two names.

In 1906, the Ottoman Porte formally transferred administration of Sinai to the Egyptian government, which essentially meant that it fell under the control of the United Kingdom, who had occupied and largely controlled Egypt since 1882.

Egyptian nationalist sentiment reached a high point after the 1906 Dinshaway Incident, when following an altercation between a group of British soldiers and Egyptian farmers, four of the farmers were hanged while others were condemned to public flogging.

The Cairo Electric Railways & Heliopolis Oases Company (), is the original name of the Heliopolis Company for Housing and Development (), a company formed in Cairo in 1906 in a partnership between a consortium of Belgian developers led by Édouard Empain and Boghos Nubar Pasha, son of the former Egyptian Prime Minister Nubar Nubarian.

At the end of Lord Cromer's reign there was a rising amount of nationalistic activity and some temporary concessions were made by the Protectorate, notably the appointment in 1906 of Saad Zaghlul, an ethnic Egyptian and later nationalist leader, as Minister of Education.

* Sayyid Qutb ( 1906 – 1966 ), an Egyptian author and Islamist, older brother of Muhammad Qutb

In 1906 Edward R. Ayrton reopened it, and removed one mummy, KV60B, together with the coffin it was in, to the Egyptian Museum.

Although majority Hindu and minority Muslim political leaders were able to collaborate closely in their criticism of British policy into the 1920s, British support for a distinct Muslim political organisation, the Muslim League from 1906 and insistence from the 1920s on separate electorates for religious minorities, is seen by many in India as having contributed to Hindu-Muslim discord and the country's eventual Partition.

* December 3 – Jain Acharya Rajendrasuri, religious reformer ( d. 1906 )

* Elizabeth of the Trinity ( Marie – Élisabeth Catez, 1880 – 1906 ), Carmelite nun and religious writer

Victor Grayson recalled a 1906 campaign in the Colne Valley which he was proud to have conducted " like a religious revival ," without reference to specific political problems.

Just prior to a religious census of the United States in 1906, David Lipscomb, who earlier had opposed segmenting the Stone-Campbell Movement, indicated to the United States Census Bureau that the differences among the congregations over the two aforementioned innovations had become so widely acknowledged that the census should enumerate the Disciples of Christ and the Churches of Christ separately, the latter group having become identified with the Gospel Advocate.

By this time the decennial religious census was a thing of the past and it is impossible to use it as a delineation as it was in 1906.

The Persian Constitutional Revolution in 1906 allowed some release from previous religious restrictions with regards to music.

From 1905 – 1906, the religious needs of the residents were filled by visiting clergy.

The shah's failure to respond to protests by the religious establishment, the merchants, and other classes led the merchants and clerical leaders in January 1906 to take sanctuary from probable arrest in mosques in Tehran and outside the capital.

In 1906 the religious studies department of Livingstone College came to be known as the Hood Seminary.

Ciezskowski's later works, Gott und Paligenesie ( God and Palingenesis ) ( 1842 ) and Ojcze Nasz ( Our Father ) ( 1848 – 1906, four volumes ), reformulate his triad in much more explicitly religious terms.

Before the word ecumenopolis had been coined, the American religious leader Thomas Lake Harris ( 1823 – 1906 ) mentioned city-planets in his verses, and science fiction author Isaac Asimov uses the city-planet Trantor as the setting of some of his novels.

In February 1906 the couple left for France to spend more than two years in what they saw as voluntary exile, introducing the western intellectuals to their ‘ new religious consciousness ’ ideas.

: In 1906 a rising attributed to religious fanaticism occurred near Sokoto in which unfortunately three white officers lost their lives.

They had six synagogues in 1906 ( whose rabbis include Aaron M. Ashinsky and M. S. Sivitz ), many ḥebras, and a number of small religious societies.

In Spring 1906, Merezhkovsky and Filosofov went into what they regarded as a self-imposed exile, seeing " promoting the New religious consciousness " as their mission.

In 1906, Antoine discovered a spirituality he called a " new spiritualism ", which led him to give up his remedies as well as traditional spiritualism, to decide to heal by faith alone and to perform only collective healing in a temple, and thus started to lay the foundations of a structured religious movement.