* 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 – Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest, educator and academic administrator ( d. 1970 )

The 1906 Summer Olympics revived the momentum, and the Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world ’ s foremost sports competition.

However, the 1900 Summer Olympics were already planned for Paris and, except for the Intercalated Games of 1906, the Olympics did not return to Greece until the 2004 Summer Olympics, some 108 years later.

A pentathlon, based on the ancient Greek event, had been introduced at the 1906 Summer Olympics.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1906 Summer Olympics

Macmillan then attended Summer Fields School, Oxford ( 1903 – 6 ), but his time at Eton College ( 1906 – 10 ) was blighted by recurrent illness, starting with a near-fatal attack of pneumonia in his first half ; he missed his final year after being invalided out, and had to be taught at home by private tutors ( 1910 – 11 ), notably Ronald Knox, who did much to instil his High Church Anglicanism.

Rome had been awarded the organization of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but after the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, was forced to decline and pass the honors to London.

* Zoltán Kodály's Summer Evening ( 1906 )

* Ed Hamm ( 1906 – 1982 )-American track and field athlete, who won the gold medal in long jump at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Summer Street in 1906

James Lightbody ( James Davies " Jim " Lightbody ; March 15, 1882 – March 2, 1953 ) was an American middle distance runner, winner of six Olympic medals ( two of which are no longer recognized by the International Olympic Committee following its downgrading of the 1906 Summer Olympics ) in the early 20th century.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1906 Summer Olympics

He succeeded in bringing the 1908 Summer Olympics to Rome, but Italy had to forfeit the organization of the Olympics in 1906, due to financial and organisational problems.

En route to Greece for the 1906 Summer Olympics, Hillman was one of a half-dozen athletes who were injured by an enormous wave that washed over the deck of the ship.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1906 Summer Olympics

The DBU was founded in 1889, but did not register games officially before the 1908 Summer Olympics, meaning that the win in the 1906 Intercalated Olympics tournament was not officially recorded by DBU.

At the 1906 Summer Olympics, called " Intercalated Games ", in Athens, an unofficial football event was contested.

Cardiopulmonary problems notwithstanding, Sheppard won three consecutive AAU titles in the 880 yards ( 805 m ) from 1906 to 1908 and became a main favourite for the middle distance events at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.

Paul Henry Pilgrim ( October 26, 1883 – January 8, 1958 ) was an American athlete who won three gold medals at the 1904 and 1906 Summer Olympics.

In the 1906 Summer Olympics at Athens, Pilgrim was an 11th-hour addition to the team.

This medal does not appear in results or tables published by the International Olympic Committee, which retroactively downgraded the 1906 Summer Olympics and does not consider them to have been true " Games of the Olympiad.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1906 Summer Olympics

Harri Larva ( born Harry Edvin Lagerström, 9 September 1906 – 11 November 1980 ) was a Finnish athlete, winner of the 1500 m at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

It was also the first time since 1896 ( other than the since-downgraded 1906 Intercalated Games ) that the Olympics were held in Greece.

By winning the 400 meters, he became the first athlete since Paul Pilgrim at the 1906 Intercalated Games to do such a double at an Olympic sports event, and was the first to do so at an officially recognized Olympics.

In 1905, Lightbody won AAU titles in both the 800 and 1500 metres, and the following year he competed in his second Olympics, the Intercalated Games of 1906 in Athens.

Denmark was the winners of football at the Intercalated Games in 1906 and silver in the Olympics of 1908 and 1912.

Denmark had no club team invited in the 1900 Olympics and the 1904 Olympics, but then received a special invitation for the 1906 Olympics, to compete against 1 Greek club team ( Athens ) and 2 club teams from the Ottoman Empire ( Smyrna and Thessaloniki ).

* James Thompson ( swimmer ) ( 1906 – 1966 ), Canadian swimmer at the 1928 Olympics