* 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 )

Hermann ( 1906 ) identifies as such * ansulaikom the victory songs of the Batavi after defeating Quintus Petillius Cerialis in the Batavian rebellion of 69 AD ( according to Tacitus ' account ), and also the " nefarious song " accompanied by " running in a circle " around the head of a decapitated goat sacrificed to ( he presumes ) Wodan, sung by the Lombards at their victory celebration in 579 according to the report of Pope Gregory the Great ( Dialogues ch.

* Some right-wing Roman Catholics also claimed Giuseppe Siri ( 20 May 1906 – 2 May, 1989 ) had been elected as Pope Pius XII's successor in 1958 but that his election was in effect vetoed under Communist threat that Catholics in Communist countries would be persecuted if Siri, who allegedly had announced that he wished to be known as Pope Gregory XVII, was accepted as Pope.

He was one of the original members of the British Academy, was awarded the Gold Medal of Pope Leo XIII in 1893 and the Victorian Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1906.

He received gold medals from Pope Leo XII, the University of Pennsylvania, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and was knighted in 1906.

Giuseppe Siri ( 20 May 1906 – 2 May 1989 ) was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Genoa from 1946 to 1987, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.

She was beatified on 13 May 1906 by Pope Pius X and canonized in 1969 by Pope Paul VI.

The final answer came from the Vatican: in April 1906, Pope Pius X issued the encyclical Tribus Circiter ( Around three years ago ) which sustained the decision of the Holy Office about Sister Feliksa Kozłowska and the Mariavite community.

The original statue of Our Lady of Peace was ceremonially crowned on July 9, 1906 by the Archbishop of Paris in the name of Pope Saint Pius X.

In April 1906, Pope Pius X issued the encyclical Tribus circiter which criticized Feliksa Kozłowska ; and her followers were criticized harshly as well for treating her as a living saint and the equal to the Blessed Virgin.

Vehementer Nos was a papal encyclical promulgated by Pope Pius X on February 11, 1906.

In Rome he obtained possession of St. Leonard's Church, which he afterwards exchanged for that of Sant ' Agnese in Agone, September 18, 1598, and later he secured for the institute the church of San Lorenzo in Lucina ( June 11, 1606 ) which was made over to him by a papal bull of Pope Paul V, which was, however, annulled by the bull " Susceptum " of Pope Pius X ( November 9, 1906 ).

Pope graduated from Louisiana Tech University in 1906 and from the law department of the University of Chicago in 1909.

The College of Saint Thomas was elevated to the status of Pontificium by Pope Pius X on May 2, 1906, thus making its degrees equivalent to those of the world's other Pontifical universities.

During this generalate Mother Julie Billiart was solemnly beatified by Pius X, May 13, 1906.

He was made a Knight of the Order of Pius IX in 1906.

In 1906, convinced he could resolve the conundrum of Uranus's orbit, he began an extensive project to search for a trans-Neptunian planet, which he named Planet X.

Lowell believed that the planets Uranus and Neptune were displaced from their predicted positions by the gravity of the unseen Planet X. Lowell started a search program in 1906 using a camera in aperture.

I – X ( 1906 through 1929 )

* Concordia Theological Quarterly Volume X 1906

* Quarters " X " — Built on Evans Point as quarters for Rifle Range Officer in 1906, now a 4-unit apartment house.

* 1906 – Robert Hunter publishes " Poverty ", describing the 10 million Americans living in poverty

* The encyclical also contains a proposal for a living wage, though not called by that name in the text itself (“ Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner .”) The American theologian John A. Ryan, also trained as an economist, developed this idea in his book A Living Wage ( 1906 ).