* 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 )

* 2002 – Mary Brian, American actress ( b. 1906 )

He married three times: to Rose Harvey in 1906, Dorothy Kantrowitz in 1921, and Mary Hancher in 1951.

Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, DBE ( 5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978 ), was a leading archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent.

In 1906 Mary, Lottie and Jack supported the great Irish American singer Chauncey Olcott on Broadway in the play Edmund Burke.

400 AD ), Ada Lovelace ( 1815 – 1852 ), Maria Gaetana Agnesi ( 1718 – 1799 ), Emmy Noether ( 1882 – 1935 ), Sophie Germain ( 1776 – 1831 ), Sofia Kovalevskaya ( 1850 – 1891 ), Alicia Boole Stott ( 1860 – 1940 ), Rózsa Péter ( 1905 – 1977 ), Julia Robinson ( 1919 – 1985 ), Olga Taussky-Todd ( 1906 – 1995 ), Émilie du Châtelet ( 1706 – 1749 ), Mary Cartwright ( 1900 – 1998 ), Olga Ladyzhenskaya ( 1922 – 2004 ), and Olga Oleinik ( 1925 – 2001 ).

* April 26 – Joan Mary Wayne Brown, British author who the pseudonyms Mary Gervaise, Hilary Wayne and Bellamy Brown ( b. 1906 )

** Mary Astor, American actress ( b. 1906 )

* October 20 – Mary Coyle Chase, American playwright ( b. 1906 )

* Mary Hunt, American activist ( d. 1906 )

* Mary Elizabeth Gilbreth ( December 13, 1906 – January 31, 1912 ); died of diphtheria at age 5.

Alexandra again looked after her grandchildren when George and Mary went on a second tour, this time to British India, over the winter of 1905 – 1906.

* October 10, 1906: Cleveland, Ohio Harry Smith shot and killed 22-year-old teacher Mary Shepard at South Euclid School after she had rejected him.

In 1906, the Sint Anna mental hospital for women was built by the Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary.

* Mary Brian, silent film era movie star ( 1906 – 2002 )

Mary died in 1906 and Curzon devoted himself to private matters, including establishing a new home.

* Mary Astor ( 1906 – 1987 ), actress

On 3 April 1906, King Edward VII, in order to elevate her standing prior to her wedding, raised her status to Royal Highness per royal warrant which read: " Our Will and Pleasure is and we do hereby declare and ordain that from and after the date of this Warrant our Most Dear Niece Princess Victoria Eugénie Julia Ena, only daughter of Our Most Dear Sister Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore ( Princess Henry of Battenberg ) shall be styled entitled and called " Her Royal Highness " before her name and such Titles and Appellations which to her belong in all Deeds Records Instruments or Documents whatsoever wherein she may at any time hereafter be named or described.

* Mary Astor ( 1906 – 1987 ), an Academy Award-winning American actress

* Mary Weightman MBE ( 1906 – 2005 ), pianist and animal welfare worker

Eventually finished and occupied by Mary, the structure burned to the ground in a fire caused by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

One of her earliest works was North Star House in Grass Valley, California, commissioned in 1906 by mining engineer Arthur De Wint Foote and his wife, the author and illustrator Mary Hallock Foote.

* Mary Elizabeth Houtz ( 19 May 1840 Pennsylvania-31 May 1906.

Curley married twice, first to Mary Emelda Herlihy ( 1884 – 1930 ) in 1906 and then to Gertrude Casey Dennis in 1937, on his last day as governor.