* 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 )

Philip Cortelyou Johnson ( July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005 ) was an influential American architect.

Philip Roman Catholic Church, built in 1906, located at 50 West Crafton Avenue

* Philip Johnson ( 1906 – 2005 ), American architect

In 1906 Philip Duprey and Irving Stoddard established the Worcester Lunch Car Company, which shipped ' diners'all over the Eastern Seaboard.

* 1906 in art-Death of Paul Cézanne, Birth of Philip Johnson, David Smith

He was the 13th and last child of Philip Stephens ( 1841 – 1906 ) and his wife Catherine Kolb ( 1843 – 1913 ), both natives of Baden-Baden.

Philip Hardwick's pupils included John Loughborough Pearson, Gothic revival architect of Truro Cathedral, Thomas Henry Wyatt ( 1807 – 1880 ) and Charles Locke Eastlake ( 1836 – 1906 ).

Their son Jack was born in Melbourne on 20 October 1900, followed by Raymond in 1903 and Philip in 1906.

Stanhope's second son, Edward Stanhope ( 1840 – 1893 ), was a well-known Conservative politician, while another son, Philip ( 1847 – 1923 ), was a Liberal politician who was elevated to the peerage as Baron Weardale in 1906.

* Philip Grantham Yorke, 9th Earl of Hardwicke ( 1906 – 1974 )

* Wicksteed, Philip H. ( 1906 ).

* Philip Smith ( VC ) ( 1825 – 1906 ), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross

* de Commynes, Philippe, Jean de Troyes, and Andrew Richard Scoble, The memoirs of Philip de Commines, Lord of Argenton, ( George Bell and sons: London, 1906 )

Environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin has cited Pardee as one of the unsung heroes of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.

Wishing to increase the scholarly mission of Dumbarton Oaks, in the early 1960s the Blisses sponsored the construction of two new wings, one designed by Philip Johnson ( 1906 – 2005 ) to house the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art and its research library and, the other, a garden library designed by Frederic Rhinelander King ( 1887 – 1972 ), of the New York City architectural firm Wyeth and King, to house the botanical and garden architecture rare books and garden history reference materials that Mildred Bliss had collected.

* George Philip Bradley Roberts ( 1906 – 1997 ), British World War II general

Philip Felix Smith VC ( 5 October 1825 – 16 January 1906 ) was born in Lurgan, County Armagh and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

They had six children: Penelope ( b. 1891 ), Christopher ( b. 1894 ), Richard ( 1898 – 1918 ), Michael ( 1901 – 1983 ), Philip ( b. 1903 ) and Arthur ( b. 1906 ).

* Christopher Cardew ; Richard Cardew ; Michael Cardew ; Philip Cardew 1906 photograph at the National Portrait Gallery

Working in close association with A. H. Bullen, he produced Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama ( 1906 ), the first edited version of the account books of Philip Henslowe ( 1906-8 ) and the papers of Edward Alleyn.

* Philip E. B. Jourdain, Selected essays on the history of set theory and logics ( 1906 – 1918 ) ( 1991, Bologna: CLUEB ), xlii + 352 pages.

She lectured in South Wales on socialism and women's suffrage in autumn 1905, but was ill during the 1906 election campaign and unable to help Philip in his successful election contest in Blackburn.

* George M. Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip ’ s War ( 1906 ), chap.

Philip Henry Wodehouse Currie, 1st Baron Currie GCB ( 13 October 1834 – 12 May 1906 ), known as Sir Philip Currie between 1885 and 1899, was a British diplomat.