* 1915 – Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician ( d. 2006 )

* 1928 – Norman Brooks, Canadian singer ( d. 2006 )

* 1930 – Jacques Bouchard, Canadian advertising executive ( d. 2006 )

In 2006, the deviation from the national average was the largest for any province in Canadian history.

* 1925 – Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman ( b. 1927 )

For instance, since 2006, annual Canada Day celebrations have been held at Trafalgar Square — the location of Canada House — in London, England ; initiated by the Canadian community in the United Kingdom, endorsed by the Canadian High Commission, and organised by a private promotions company, the event features Canadian performers and a demonstration of street hockey, among other activities.

Also in 2006, Cronenberg was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars.

* 2006 – Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist ( b. 1937 )

* 1911 – Anna Russell, English-born Canadian singer and comedian ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player ( b. 1948 )

* 1931 – Bernie Geoffrion, Canadian hockey player ( d. 2006 )

* 1938 – Dutch Mason, Canadian blues musician ( d. 2006 )

By December 2006, over 1, 237, 000 square kilometers of forest land in Canada ( about half the global total ) had been certified as being sustainably managed ( Canadian Sustainable Forestry Certification Coalition ).

In 1990 he founded the Science & Environmental Policy Project to advocate this position, and in 2006 was named by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as one of a minority of scientists said to be creating a stand-off on a consensus on climate change.

Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan plays the harp in her 2006 holiday album, Wintersong.

* John David Ford, Canadian political figure ; Green Party leader in Ottawa South ; candidate in 2004 and 2006 federal elections ( Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007 )

* John-James Ford ( born 1972 ), Canadian foreign service officer who gained notability as poet, short story writer and novelist ; winner of 2006 Ottawa Book Award

* 2006 – John Tenta, Canadian wrestler ( b. 1963 )

* 2006 – Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector ( b. 1923 )

* 1963 – John Tenta, Canadian wrestler ( d. 2006 )

* 1981 – Kimveer Gill, Canadian murder, committed the Dawson College shooting ( d. 2006 )

This trip has also been called the " Great Sled Journey " and was dramatized in the Canadian film The Journals of Knud Rasmussen ( 2006 ).

* John M. Ford ( 1957 – 2006 ), American science fiction writer and poet ; achieved iconic status in genre community as columnist and personality known under pen name " Dr. Mike "

* 1923 – Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet ( d. 2006 )

* 1925 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist, Prime Minister of Turkey ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener ( b. 1925 )

* 1924 – Thirunalloor Karunakaran, Indian poet ( d. 2006 )

* 1929 – Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet, columnist and journalist ( d. 2006 )

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

* March 12 – Irving Layton, Canadian poet ( d. 2006 )

** Leo Chiosso, Italian poet ( d. 2006 )

* The Swedish artist and poet Johannes Heldén made a poetic web-installation entitled The Prime Directive in 2006, located at the Danish virtual exhibition room for visual poetry, literature, and visual art, Afsnit P.

Adonis ( an Arabic transliteration of the same name, أدونيس ) is the pen name of a famous Syrian poet, Ali Ahmad Said Asbar, who was nominated more than once for a Nobel Prize for literature, including in 2006.

Fiennes returned to the theatre in 2006 to perform in the one-man play Unicorns, Almost about World War II poet Keith Douglas at the Old Vic.

* Constance Hunting ( 1925 – 2006 ), American poet

* David-Matthew Barnes, class of 2006 ; novelist, playwright, poet, and filmmaker.

* Flavours of Childhood: ( a piece co-written for the Radio 4 series First Taste with poet Sean o ' Brien ) Winner of the Glenfiddich Award, 2006.

In June 2006 the Australian Electoral Commission ( AEC ) announced that the new federal electorate in Queensland to be created at the 2007 federal election would be named Wright in honour of her life as a " poet and in the areas of arts, conservation and indigenous affairs in Queensland and Australia ".

* Frank Stella 1958 poet William Corbett writes about the exhibition titled Frank Stella 1958 at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts February 4 – May 7, 2006

William Auld ( 6 November 1924 – 11 September 2006 ) was a Scottish poet, author, translator and magazine editor who wrote chiefly in Esperanto.

Next to numerous translated poems and some prose texts of other writers published in journals, she translated into Slovene language a book of poetry of Italian poet Michele Obit ( Leta na oknu, ZTT EST, Trieste, 2001, ISBN 88-7174-054-8 ), a selection of poetry of Argentinian poet Roberto Juarroz for a book Vertikalna poezija ( Vertical Poetry-with her introduction, ŠZ, Ljubljana, 2006, ISBN 961-242-035-1 ), a book of Gao Xingjian ( Ribiška palica za starega očeta / Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather, 1986 – 1990, from French together with Drago Braco Rotar ) ( Didakta, Radovljica, 2001, ISBN 961-6363-62-X ), a book of poetry written by Lithuanian poet Neringa Abrutyte ( Izpoved, CSK, Aleph, Ljubljana, 2004, ISBN 961-6036-50-5 ) and a book of fairy-tails for kids by Lucy Coats ( 100 grških mitov za otroke / Atticus the Storyteller, 2004 ; MK, Ljubljana, 2004, reprinted in 2009, ISBN 978-86-11-16964-4.

* 2006: Editor and Translator of selected poems by the Argentinian poet Roberto Juarroz, Vertikalna poezija, ( Knjižna zbirka Beletrina ).

Christiaan Karel Appel ( 25 April 1921 – 3 May 2006 ) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet.

Irving Peter Layton, OC ( March 12, 1912 – January 4, 2006 ) was a Romanian-born Canadian poet.