* 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 )

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

* 1906 – William Joyce, Irish-American fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster ( d. 1946 )

He defeated William Randolph Hearst in the 1906 election to gain the position, and he was the only Republican statewide candidate to win office.

Pentecostalism achieved worldwide attention in 1906 through the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles led by William Joseph Seymour.

According to the first issue of William Seymore's newsletter, " The Apostolic Faith ," from 1906:

A March 1906 Scientific American article by American hydrofoil pioneer William E. Meacham explained the basic principle of hydrofoils.

An early twentieth-century proponent of hollow Earth, William Reed, wrote Phantom of the Poles in 1906.

* 1906 – William Calvert Kneale, English logician ( d. 1990 )

* 1876 – William Hurlstone, English composer ( d. 1906 )

William Everdell, for example, has argued that modernism began in the 1870s, when metaphorical ( or ontological ) continuity began to yield to the discrete with mathematician Richard Dedekind's ( 1831 – 1916 ) Dedekind cut, and Ludwig Boltzmann's ( 1844 – 1906 ) statistical thermodynamics.

The term originates from a 1906 address by William James entitled The Moral Equivalent of War, subsequently published in essay form in 1910.

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* 1906 – William Empson, English poet ( d. 1984 )

Roosevelt appointed three Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ( 1902 ), William Rufus Day ( 1903 ), William Henry Moody ( 1906 ).

** William Bendix, American actor ( b. 1906 )

From left, clockwise: The Wright brothers achieve the first manned flight by airplane, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina | Kitty Hawk in 1903 ; U. S. President William McKinley is William McKinley assassination | assassinated in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition ; An 1906 San Francisco earthquake | earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, killing at least 3, 000 in 1906 ; United States | America gains control over the Philippines in 1902, after the Philippine – American War ; Rock being moved to construct the Panama Canal ; Admiral Heihachiro Togo | Togo before the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, part of the Russo-Japanese War, leading to Japanese victory and their establishment as a great power.

* May 28 – Frederic William Maitland, English jurist and historian ( d. 1906 )

The Lord Mayor is also the head of the Commission of Lieutenancy, which represents the Sovereign in the City of London ( other counties usually have Lord Lieutenants, as opposed to Commissions ), and annually attends the Treloar Trust ( named after Sir William Treloar, Lord Mayor in 1906 ), in Hampshire.

William Rufus Shafter ( October 16, 1835 – November 12, 1906 ) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War who received America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Fair Oaks.

This period included a panoply of international ‘ great demographers ’ like Adolphe Quételet ( 1796 – 1874 ), William Farr ( 1807 – 1883 ), Louis-Adolphe Bertillon ( 1821 – 1883 ) and his son Jacques ( 1851 – 1922 ), Joseph Körösi ( 1844 – 1906 ), Anders Nicolas Kaier ( 1838 – 1919 ), Richard Böckh ( 1824 – 1907 ), Émile Durkheim ( 1858-1917 ), Wilhelm Lexis ( 1837 – 1914 ) and Luigi Bodio ( 1840 – 1920 ) contributed to the development of demography and to the toolkit of methods and techniques of demographic analysis.

André Weil (; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998 ) was an influential French mathematician of the 20th century, renowned for the breadth and quality of his research output, its influence on future work, and the elegance of his exposition.

* 1906 – Bruno de Finetti, Italian mathematician ( d. 1985 )

* 1906 – Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician ( d. 1992 )

Kurt Friedrich Gödel (; ; April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978 ) was an Austrian American logician, mathematician, and philosopher.

* 1906 – André Weil, French mathematician ( d. 1998 )

Max August Zorn ( June 6, 1906 in Krefeld, Germany – March 9, 1993 in Bloomington, Indiana, United States ) was a German mathematician.

* 1993 – Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician ( b. 1906 )

* 1906 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician ( d. 1968 )

* Max August Zorn ( 1906 – 1993 ), German-born American mathematician

* August 6 – André Weil, French mathematician ( b. 1906 )

** Kurt Gödel, Austrian-born mathematician ( b. 1906 )

Barringer and his partner, the mathematician and physicist Benjamin Chew Tilghman, documented evidence for the impact theory in papers presented to the U. S. Geological Survey in 1906 and published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.

* Birthplace ( November 3, 1906 ) of the mathematician and professor Carl Benjamin Boyer

Guy Waldo Dunnington ( January 15, 1906, Bowling Green, Missouri – April 10, 1974, Natchitoches, Louisiana ) was a writer, historian and professor of German known for his writings on the famous German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Jean Leray (; 7 November 1906 – 10 November 1998 ) was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology.

* Ludwig Boltzmann ( 1844 – 1906 ), physicist / mathematician

Erich Kähler ( ; 16 January 1906, Leipzig – 31 May 2000, Wedel ) was a German mathematician with wide-ranging geometrical interests.

* Erich Kähler ( 1906 – 2000 ), German mathematician

* Jean Leray ( 1906 – 1998 ), French mathematician

Sir Edward Maitland Wright ( 13 February 1906, Farnley – 2 February 2005, Reading ) was an English mathematician, best known for co-authoring with G. H. Hardy.

* E. M. Wright ( 1906 – 2005 ), British mathematician and coauthor of the " Hardy & Wright " number theory textbook

Ernesto Cesàro ( March 12, 1859 – September 12, 1906 ) was an Italian mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry.

* January 14 – Kurt Gödel ( b. 1906 ), American mathematician.