* 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 )

** Klaus Mann, German writer ( suicide ) ( b. 1906 )

Composer Klaus Egge, born 1906 in Gransherad, also lived in Notodden.

She had an elder sister, Erika ( 1905 – 1969 ), two elder brothers, Klaus ( 1906 – 1949 ) and " Golo " ( 1909 – 1994 ), a younger sister Elisabeth ( 1918 – 2002 ) and a younger brother Michael ( 1919 – 1977 ).

* Klaus Mann ( 1906 – 1949 ), German, son of Thomas Mann

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

He attended the Horace Mann School upon his return to New York City and after having passed a special examination, he was admitted in 1902 to the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1906.

Anthony Mann ( June 30, 1906 – April 29, 1967 ) was an American actor and film director, most notably of film noirs and Westerns.

Classes began on June 13, 1906 with a lab school teaching Maryville's children ( that was eventually named the Horace Mann school ) in kindergarten through third grade.

* Der Mann im Salz ( novel, 1906 )-freely available on www. wissen-im-netz. info

* Anthony Mann ( 1906 – 1967 ), American actor and film director

* Jack Mann, MBE ( 1906 – 1989 ), Western Australian winemaker and underarm bowler.

* 1906 – Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist ( d. 1973 )

* 1975 – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist ( b. 1906 )

* 1906 – Franz Waxman, German film composer ( d. 1967 )

* 1945 – Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant ( b. 1906 )

The first large encyclopedia in Russian, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary ( 86 volumes, 1890 – 1906 ), was a direct cooperation with the German Brockhaus.

* 1842 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher ( d. 1906 )

* 1906 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher ( b. 1842 )

* 1906 – Herbert Wehner, German politician ( d. 1990 )

* 1863 – Paul Drude, German physicist ( d. 1906 )

Gödel was born April 28, 1906, in Brünn, Austria-Hungary into the ethnic German family of Rudolf Gödel, the manager of a textile factory, and Marianne Gödel ( born Handschuh ).

In 1896 Krupp bought Germaniawerft in Kiel, which became Germany ’ s main warship builder, and built the first German U-Boat in 1906.

The British Admiralty estimated that the German navy would be the world's second largest by 1906.

In February 1906, when a quarter of Chicago's population was of German descent, James Keeley, editor of The Chicago Tribune traveled to Germany to procure the services of the most popular humor artists.

German attempts to counter this growing influence led to the First Moroccan Crisis of 1905 – 1906 and the Second Moroccan Crisis ( 1911.

Recognition by the United Kingdom in the 1904 Entente Cordiale of France's " sphere of influence " in Morocco provoked a German reaction ; the " crisis " of 1905 – 1906 was resolved at the Algeciras Conference ( 1906 ), which formalized France's " special position " and entrusted policing of Morocco jointly to France and Spain.

* 1906 – Camilla Spira, German actress ( d. 1997 )

* 1829 – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman ( d. 1906 )

* 1906 – Bruno Gröning, German mystic ( d. 1959 )

Max August Zorn ( June 6, 1906 in Krefeld, Germany – March 9, 1993 in Bloomington, Indiana, United States ) was a German mathematician.

* 1906 – Brigitte Helm, German actress ( d. 1996 )

* 1906 – Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer ( d. 1996 )

For example, Hamburg's memorial, unveiled in 1906, is considered one of the greatest expressions of imperial Germany's Bismarck cult and an important development in the history of German memorial art.

* 1906 – Hermann Fegelein, German Nazi official and brother-in-law to Adolf Hitler ( d. 1945 )