* 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 – John Betjeman, English poet ( d. 1984 )

* 1906 – Mimi Smith, English nurse and secretary, aunt and guardian of John Lennon ( d. 1991 )

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

The land and financial assets of the Harmony Society were sold off by the few remaining members under the leadership of John Duss and his wife, Susanna, by the year 1906.

* John Ford ( American football coach ) ( before 1880 – after 1906 ), college football head coach for Marquette University Golden Eagles in Milwaukee during 1905 and 1906 seasons

* 1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow ( Clydebank ), Scotland.

* 1871 – John Maxwell, American golfer ( d. 1906 )

John Ambrose Fleming ( 1906 )

* John Nash ( cricket administrator ) ( 1906 – 1977 ), English Secretary of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, 1931 – 1971

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

* 1830 – John Batterson Stetson, American hat manufacturer, invented the cowboy hat and founded the John B. Stetson Company ( d. 1906 )

* 1906 – John McAllister Schofield, former U. S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U. S. Army ( b. 1831 )

Much of this first construction was destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but the university retains the Quad, the old Chemistry Building ( which is not in use and has been boarded up since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake ), and Encina Hall ( the residence of Herbert Hoover, John Steinbeck, and Anthony Kennedy during their times at Stanford ).

* May 19 – John Betjeman, English poet ( b. 1906 )

* November 27 – John Carradine, American actor ( b. 1906 )

** John Peltz, professional baseball player ( d. 1906 )

* April 24 – John Carroll, American actor ( b. 1906 )

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

* September 29 – John Schofield, American general ( d. 1906 )

* May 5 – John Batterson Stetson, hat maker ( d. 1906 )

* December 21 – John H. Ketcham, American politician ( d. 1906 )

* Wetzel, Richard D. Frontier Musicians on the Connoquenessing, Wabash, and Ohio: A History of the Music and Musicians of George Rapp's Harmony Society ( 1805 – 1906 ).

* Wetzel, Richard D. " The Music of George Rapp's Harmony Society: 1805 – 1906.

* 1906 – Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American radio personality, daughter of Franklin D. Roosevelt ( d. 1975 )

* 1906 – James D. Norris, American businessman and sports team owner ( d. 1966 )

Another exception was Alberto Franchetti's 1906 opera La figlia di Iorio which was a close rendering of a highly successful play by its librettist, Gabriele D ' Annunzio, a celebrated Italian poet, novelist, and dramatist of the day.

It was revived as a class D league in 1902, moved to class C in 1904 where it played through 1910 ( except for 1906 as class D again ), played at class B until 1920, and finally moved up to class A in 1921.

After A Princess of Kensington, Mrs. D ' Oyly Carte relinquished control of the theatre until December 8, 1906, when she produced two seasons of G & S revivals in repertory, with Gilbert returning to direct.

The D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company returned to the Savoy for repertory seasons between 1906 and 1909, in which year C. H. Workman took over the management of the theatre.

** No. 1 in D minor, Op. 33 ( 1906 ) with 2 Violas

* J. D. Grey, a figure in the Southern Baptist Convention, was born in Princeton in 1906.

* PIKE Captain Robinson D. Pike ( 1838 – 1906 ) of Bayfield, Wisconsin took over the former ALPHA option in 1889.

W. D. Fogg's Store c. 1906

The community received its name, McLean, from John Roll McLean, the former publisher and owner of The Washington Post, who, with Stephen Benton Elkins and French aristocrat Jean-Pierre Guenard, built in 1906 the electrified Great Falls and Old Dominion Railway ( later the Washington and Old Dominion Railway ), which connected the area with Washington, D. C. McLean named a railroad station after himself where the rail line ( traveling on the present route of Old Dominion Drive ) crossed the old Chain Bridge Road.

Scene from The Yeomen of the Guard D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company 1906 Revival

Platted August 10, 1906 by real estate promoter Clarence Dayton Hillman as " C. D.

* George Townsend Turner ( 1906 – 1979 ), philatelist of Washington, D. C.

D. H. Lawrence, 1906

D ' Agoult's other works include Lettres Républicaines in Esquisses morales et politiques ( 1849, collected articles ), Trois journées de la vie de Marie Stuart ( 1856 ), Florence et Turin ( 1862 ), Histoire des commencements de la république aux Pays-Bas ( 1872 ), " A Catholic Mother Speaks to Her Children " ( 1906, posthumously ) and Mes souvenirs ( 1877, posthumously ).

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.

Monographs on the art and life of Courbet have been written by Estignard ( Paris, 1874 ), D ' Ideville, ( Paris, 1878 ), Silvestre in Les artistes français, ( Paris, 1878 ), Isham in Van Dyke's Modern French Masters ( New York, 1896 ), Meier-Graefe, Corot and Courbet, ( Leipzig, 1905 ), Cazier ( Paris, 1906 ), Riat, ( Paris, 1906 ), Muther, ( Berlin, 1906 ), Robin, ( Paris, 1909 ), Benedite, ( Paris, 1911 ) and Lazár Béla ( Paris, 1911 ).

In 1906, Mason, Jeter and D. J.