* 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 )

* November 12 – Lord Buckley, American monologist ( b. 1906 )

The Lord Mayor is also the head of the Commission of Lieutenancy, which represents the Sovereign in the City of London ( other counties usually have Lord Lieutenants, as opposed to Commissions ), and annually attends the Treloar Trust ( named after Sir William Treloar, Lord Mayor in 1906 ), in Hampshire.

Monmouth Gasworks, 1906 Charles Rolls ( in basket ) and his balloon, with Lord Llangattock ( one right of Rolls ) and Lady Llangattock ( left of basket ).

Britain's First Sea Lord Admiral Fisher argued the Japanese victory at Tsushima confirmed the importance of large guns and speed on modern battleships, and in October 1905 the British began construction of HMS Dreadnought, which upon her launching in 1906 began a dreadnought naval arms race between Britain and Germany in the years before 1914.

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Seton met Scouting's founder, Lord Baden-Powell, in 1906.

* Lord Ritchie-Calder ( 1906 – 82 ), journalist and environment expert

William Joyce ( 24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946 ), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an Irish-American fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during the Second World War.

* The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville, translated by Ethel Wedgwood ( 1906 )

Tuolumne is also the birthplace of the Vaudevillian performer and hipster comedian Lord Buckley, born Richard Myrle Buckley, April 5, 1906.

* Peter Ritchie Calder, ( Lord Ritchie-Calder ) ( 1906 – 1982 ), Scottish author, journalist and academic, father of:

He was the son of Lord Ritchie Calder ( 1906 – 1982 ), a noted science writer, Humanist and pacifist.

* William Joyce, aka Lord Haw-Haw, fascist and Nazi, 1906 – 1946

Lord Steel praised his predecessor as Liberal Leader as an " overlooked radical " whose 1906 landslide victory had paved the way for a succession of reforming governments.

* HMS Lord Nelson ( 1906 ), a battleship

Following the Liberal victory in the January 1906 general elections, Lord Lansdowne became the leader of the opposition Unionists ( Conservative and Liberal Unionist peers ) in the House of Lords.

John James Robert Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland KG, GCB, PC ( 13 December 1818 – 4 August 1906 ), known as Lord John Manners before 1888, was an English statesman.

One of the features of the gardens is the large collection of sculpture, most of it acquired by the 1st Lord Astor from 1893 to 1906.

In 1860 he was appointed honorary Colonel of the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Prince of Wales ' Own ( West Yorkshire ) Regiment and later awarded the Volunteer Decoration ( VD ); in 1863 High Steward of the borough of Hull, and from 1873 to 1906 was Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire.

His son Reverend Charles Villiers was the father of 1 ) Edward Cecil Villiers, a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy, whose son Sir Michael Villiers was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy and Fourth Sea Lord from 1960 to 1963, and 2 ) Ernest Amherst Villiers, Liberal Member of Parliament for Brighton from 1906 to 1910.

** George Herbert Arthur Edward Hyde Villiers, Lord Hyde ( 1906 – 1935 )

Bloembergen belongs to prolific J. J. Thomson academic lineage tree, following in footsteps of other Nobel Laureates beginning with Lord Rayleigh ( Physics Nobel Prize in 1904 ) and J. J. Thomson ( Nobel 1906 ), and continued with Ernest Rutherford ( Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908 ), Owen Richardson ( Physics Nobel, 1928 ) and finally Bloembergen's advisor, Edward Purcell ( Physics Nobel 1952 ).

Lord Cranbrook died in October 1906, aged 92, and was succeeded by his eldest son John.