* 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 )

* 1842 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher ( d. 1906 )

* 1906 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher ( b. 1842 )

* 1906 – Robert E. Howard, American author ( d. 1936 )

* 1834 – Robert R. Hitt, American politician ( d. 1906 )

Robert Ervin Howard ( January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936 ) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres.

Robert E. Howard at about five years old ( circa 1911 ). Howard was born January 22, 1906 in Peaster, Texas, the only son of a traveling country physician, Dr. Isaac Mordecai Howard, and his wife, Hester Jane Ervin Howard.

The first three-element device ( mercury-vapor filled with a control grid ) was patented on March 4 1906 by the Austrian Robert von Lieben independent from that, on October 25 1906 Lee De Forest patented his two-element Audion.

In 1906, Robert von Lieben filed for a patent for a cathode ray tube which included magnetic deflection.

* Bob Smart's Dream, a 1906 poem by Robert Service that speculates about the Whitehorse of the future.

** Robert Alton, American dancer and choreographer ( b. 1906 )

** Robert E. Dolan, American composer ( b. 1906 )

* June 11 – Robert E. Howard, American author ( suicide ) ( b. 1906 )

Washington's wealthy friends included Andrew Carnegie and Robert C. Ogden, seen here in 1906 while visiting Tuskegee Institute.

However, the first documented instance where the possibility of electric propulsion is considered is found in Robert H. Goddard's handwritten notebook in an entry dated 6 September 1906.

In 1906 Robert Peary led an expedition in northern Ellesmere Island, from Cape Sheridan along the coast to the western side of Nansen Sound ( 93 ° W ).

The Valkyrie's Vigil ( 1906 ) by Edward Robert Hughes

* Robert H. Snyder, state representative from Tensas Parish from 1890 – 1896 and 1904 – 1906, Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives in the second term, died in office ; Lieutenant governor from 1896 – 1900

* Robert H. Snyder ( died 1906 ), state representative and Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1904 until his death.

* Robert Klark Graham ( June 9, 1906 – February 13, 1997 ), inventor, eugenisist, businessman.

It was founded about 1906, and was named for Robert Driscoll Jr., a landowner.

* Robert Roosevelt ( 1829 – 1906 ), uncle of U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt

* Robert Stewart ( sailor ) ( 1906 – 1988 ), New Zealand yachtsman

The Conrad-style ball bearing is named after its inventor, Robert Conrad, who was awarded British patent 12, 206 in 1903 and U. S. patent 822, 723 in 1906.

The Cornells had four children: Joseph, Elizabeth ( b. 1905 ), Helen ( b. 1906 ), and Robert ( b. 1910 ).