* 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.

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 – André Kostolany, Hungarian stock market expert and speculator ( d. 1999 )

** Alexandre Trauner, Hungarian set designer ( b. 1906 )

* November 13 – Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor ( b. 1906 )

* Iren Marik, classical Hungarian pianist ( b. 1906 )

* September 21 – Mihály Kolossa, Hungarian Slovene writer ( d. 1906 )

* The American Hungarian Federation, founded 1906

The design of the Chauchat dates back to 1903 and its long recoil operation is based on the designs of the Remington Model 8 semi-automatic rifle of 1906, not ( as so often repeated in the past ) on the later designs ( 1910 ) of Rudolf Frommer, the Hungarian inventor of the commercial Frommer Stop pistol.

Lehár was born in the northern part of Komárom, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary ( now Komárno, Slovakia ), the eldest son of Franz Lehar ( senior ) ( 1838 – 1888 ), an Austrian bandmaster in the Infantry Regiment No. 50 of the Austro-Hungarian Army and Christine Neubrandt ( 1849 – 1906 ), a Hungarian woman from a family of German descent.

Also in 1906, Iorga traveled into the Ottoman Empire, visiting Istanbul, and published another set of volumes — Contribuţii la istoria literară (" Contributions to Literary History "), Neamul românesc în Ardeal şi Ţara Ungurească (" The Romanian Nation in Transylvania and the Hungarian Land "), Negoţul şi meşteşugurile în trecutul românesc (" Trade and Crafts of the Romanian Past ") etc.

Lauder was born Josephine Esther Mentzer in Corona, Queens in 1906, one of nine children born to a Hungarian Jewish mother, Rose Schotz Rosenthal, and a Czechoslovak Jewish father, Max Mentzer.

Despite the usual election manipulations in Hungary at that time, the SLS won 6 deputies ( and the SNS one ) out of the 415 deputies of the Hungarian Diet in 1906.

In 1906 he published his third book of poetry, Új versek ( New Poems ) – which is a landmark in literature, marking the birth of modern Hungarian poetry –, but it was his fourth collection, Vér és arany ( Blood and Gold ) which brought him real success and critical acclaim.

Ferenc Szisz ( September 20, 1873 – February 21, 1944 ), was a Hungarian race car driver and the winner of the first Grand Prix motor racing event on a Renault Grand Prix 90CV on 26 June, 1906.

In 1906, he joined a group of Romanian nationalists in the Budapest Parliament ( the Romanian National Party of Transylvania and Banat ), becoming an important opponent of the Hungarian governmental policy of forced Magyarization of Romanians, and fought for the right of Transylvania to self-determination.

All that today remains of the Hungarian colonies is the original 6000 sq / ft mansion built by Father Janisek and the immigrants, it is currently referred to as " Keys Castle " for the man " William Key " ( relative of Francis Scott Key ) that purchased the house and several vineyard plots from the Hungarians in 1906.

Gusztáv Sebes ( born Gusztáv Scharenpeck in Budapest, 22 January 1906 ; died in Budapest, 30 January 1986 ) was a Hungarian footballer and coach.

In 1906 the Hungarian Presbyterian church was established there.

* Gábor Péter, born as Benjámin " Benő " Auspitz ( or Eisenberger ) ( 1906, Újfehértó-1993 ), a Jewish Hungarian Communist politician

In 1901 Vázsonyi was elected deputy for the sixth district of the capital, on a democratic platform, of which he was the only public representative in the Hungarian Parliament as of 1906.

Róbert Tábori ( November 10, 1855 – 1906 ) was a Hungarian author born at Almas and educated in Baja, Budapest, and Vienna.

* Victor Nicolas ( 1906 – 1979 ), sculptor who created many monuments in the departments of Var and Alpes Maritimes

* Earl W. Bascom ( 1906 – 1995 )-inventor, actor, rodeo champion, internationally-known artist / sculptor who lived in Columbia 1935-1937

The fourth and current church, designed in 1906, was built from 1911 to 1913 under a design by Ralph Adams Cram ( 1863 – 1942 ) and Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue ( 1869 – 1924 ) of the architectural firm of Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson, and featuring an elaborate reredos designed by Goodhue and sculptor Lee Lawrie ( 1877 – 1963 ).

* Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas ( 1906 – 1994 ), Greek contemporary painter and sculptor

* Luis Ortiz Monasterio ( 1906 – 1990 ), Mexican sculptor

* Egon Weiner ( 1906 – 1987 ), sculptor and professor

The original plaster model by the sculptor Charles Niehaus was displayed at the entrance to the 1904 World's Fair, and the finished bronze was given to the city in 1906 by the organizers of the fair.

Having fallen in love with a married American woman, Isabel Dutaud Nagle, ( she eventually was divorced from her husband and married Lachaise ) Lachaise emigrated to the United States in 1906 and worked in Boston for H. H. Kitson, an academic sculptor producing primarily military monuments.

In 1906, when Audrey was 15 years old, she was spotted in the street by photographer Ralph Draper, who in turn introduced her to his friend, sculptor Isidore Konti.

* Virgil Fulicea ( 1906 – 1979 ), sculptor ;

* Peter Blume ( 1906 – 1992 ), an American painter and sculptor

Franz Stuck ( February 24, 1863 – August 30, 1928 ), ennobled as Franz Ritter von Stuck in 1906, was a German symbolist / Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect.

* 20 December-Heinz Henghes, German sculptor ( b. 1906 ).

Created by sculptor Ernest Bairstow in 1906 the lampposts are composed of concrete bases ( approx.

A statue of Queen Victoria, based on an original in Portsmouth and created by English sculptor Thomas Brock, was unveiled in 1906 in the gardens in front of the Lands Administration Building.