* Bunny Austin ( 1906 – 2000 ), British tennis player

* 1906 – Ed Gein, American serial killer ( 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 )

** Vic Dickenson, American trombonist ( b. 1906 )

* Vic Reinders ( 1906 – 1995 ), won the Clay Target Championship in 1958, and has the distinction of being on more All-America teams than any other shooter in history.

* 1906 – Joan Blondell, American actress ( d. 1979 )

* 1906 – Sidney R. Garfield, American physician ( d. 1984 )

* ABC ( 1906 automobile ), an American car

* 1985 – Nate Barragar, American football player ( b. 1906 )

* 1906 – William J. Brennan, American Supreme Court Justice ( d. 1997 )

* 2004 – Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founder of Estée Lauder Companies ( b. 1906 )

* 1872 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess player ( d. 1906 )

* 1975 – Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt ( b. 1906 )

* 1906 – Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer and actor ( d. 1972 )

* 1906 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist ( d. 1992 )

* 2002 – Mary Brian, American actress ( b. 1906 )

* 1906 – U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.

Illegal and experimental forward passes had been attempted as early as 1876, but the first legal forward pass in American football took place in 1906, after a change in rules.

The American situation led to a worldwide boom in the production and exhibition of films from 1906 onwards.

* 1972 – Tedd Pierce, American animator ( b. 1906 )

* 1839 – Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher ( d. 1906 )

* 1820 – Susan B. Anthony, American suffragist ( d. 1906 )

* 1906 – John Carradine, American actor ( d. 1988 )

* 1906 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster ( d. 1947 )

* 1906 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet ( b. 1872 )

Jay C. ( Jack ) Higginbotham ( May 11, 1906 – May 26, 1973 ) was an American jazz trombonist.