* 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 )

By 1906, he was studying music full-time ; by 1907, he began composition lessons.

At first the predictions of Einstein's formula were seemingly refuted by a series of experiments by Svedberg in 1906 and 1907, which gave displacements of the particles as 4 to 6 times the predicted value, and by Henri in 1908 who found displacements 3 times greater than Einstein's formula predicted.

From 1907 on, English language articles sometimes used the term " Maximalist " for " Bolshevik " and " Minimalist " for " Menshevik ", which proved confusing since there was also a " Maximalist " faction within the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1904 – 1906 ( which after 1906 formed a separate Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries Maximalists ) and then again after 1917.

Total membership was 8, 400 in 1905, 13, 000 in 1906 and 46, 100 by 1907 ( 8, 400, 18, 000, 38, 200 respectively for the Mensheviks ).

To counter political corruption, he secured campaign laws in 1906 and 1907 that limited political contributions by corporations and forced candidates to account for their receipts and expenses, legislation that was quickly copied in fifteen other states.

From 1906 onwards, Jones was an active member of the International Phonetic Association, and was Assistant Secretary from 1907 to 1927, Secretary from 1927 to 1949, and President from 1950 to 1967.

The Nordisk company was set up there in 1906 by Ole Olsen, a fairground showman, and after a brief period imitating the successes of French and British film-makers, in 1907 he produced 67 films, most directed by Viggo Larsen, with sensational subjects like Den hvide Slavinde ( The White Slave ), Isbjørnenjagt ( Polar Bear Hunt ) and Løvejagten ( The Lion Hunt ).

It opened in 1906 and closed at the end of 1907.

He was also Aide-de-Camp to the King from 8 March 1906 to 8 February 1907.

Her sister Katharine ( 1906 – 1907 ) died at the age of nine months.

The company first showed cars of its own design at the 1902 Hamburg Motor Show, and started manufacturing them in 1906, with Opel-Darracq production being discontinued in 1907.

At the same time, the first Romanian language newspapers and journals began to appear: Basarabia ( 1906 ), Viața Basarabiei ( 1907 ), Moldovanul ( 1907 ), Luminătorul ( 1908 ), Cuvînt moldovenesc ( 1913 ), Glasul Basarabiei ( 1913 ).

While in the 1940s Khomeini accepted the idea of a limited monarchy under the Iranian Constitution of 1906 – 1907 — as evidenced by his book Kashf al-Asrar – by the 1970s he rejected the idea.

A government proposal to this effect was signed on April 7, 1906, by education minister Fridtjuv Berg ( 1851 – 1916 ), and put before the parliament of 1907.

Día del Trabajo () commemorates the Mexican workers ' union movements on May 1 — specifically, the 1906 Cananea, Sonora, and the 1907 Río Blanco, Veracruz, labor unrest and repression.

The art historian Douglas Cooper states that Paul Gauguin and Paul Cézanne " were particularly influential to the formation of Cubism and especially important to the paintings of Picasso during 1906 and 1907 ".

In spite of the Orthodox Church's opposition to marriage between first cousins, the couple married on 23 January 1906: their first two children, Fyodor ( Theodore ) and Ludmila, were born in 1907 and 1908, respectively.

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.

A symbol of this was the German Cultural Center (), built in 1906 and opened on 15 May 1907, today it is Celje Hall ().

* French — Alleaume, Ludovic: Poor Pierrot ( 1915 ); Derain, André: Pierrot ( 1923 – 1924 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( c. 1924 ); Gabain, Ethel: Many works, including Pierrot ( 1916 ), Pierrot's Love-letter ( 1917 ), and Unfaithful Pierrot ( 1919 ); La Fresnaye, Roger de: Study for " Pierrot " ( 1921 ); La Touche, Gaston de: Pierrot's Greeting ( n. d .); Laurens, Henri: Pierrot ( c. 1922 ); Matisse, Henri: The Burial of Pierrot ( 1943 ); Mossa, Gustav Adolf: Pierrot and the Chimera ( 1906 ), Pierrot Takes His Leave ( 1906 ), Pierrot and His Doll ( 1907 ); Picabia, Francis: Pierrot ( early 1930s ); Renoir, Pierre-Auguste: White Pierrot ( 1901 / 1902 ); Rouault, Georges: Many works, including White Pierrot ( 1911 ), Pierrot ( 1920 ), Pierrot ( 1937 – 1938 ), Pierrot ( or Pierrette ) ( 1939 ), Aristocratic Pierrot ( 1942 ), The Wise Pierrot ( 1943 ), Blue Pierrots with Bouquet ( c. 1946 ).

Morton also once boasted, " Tony Jackson and myself were using scat for novelty back in 1906 and 1907 when Louis Armstrong was still in the orphan ’ s home ".

In 1906, Berg met the singer Helene Nahowski, daughter of a wealthy family ( said by some to be in fact the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from his liaison with Anna Nahowski ); despite the outward hostility of her family, the two were married on May 3, 1911.

He completed one final tour of Sherlock Holmes in early 1906, eventually leaving the play after more than two and a half years.

The White Sox were a strong team during their first two decades, winning the 1906 World Series with a defense-oriented team dubbed " the Hitless Wonders ", and the 1917 World Series led by Eddie Cicotte, Eddie Collins, and Shoeless Joe Jackson.

While married to Mao, Chiang adopted two concubines ( concubinage was still a common practice for well-to-do, non-Christian males in China ): he married Yao Yecheng ( 姚冶誠, 1889 – 1972 ) in 1912 and Chen Jieru ( 陳潔如, 1906 – 1971 ) in December 1921.

For scientific purposes, after 1906 Doyen combined 15 of his films into three compilations, two of which survive, the six-film series Extirpation des tumeurs encapsulées ( 1906 ), and the four-film Les Opérations sur la cavité crânienne ( 1911 ).

Already during czarist Russian rule, two editions appeared of the Latvian Konversācijas vārdnīca ( 2 volumes, 1891 – 1893 ; 4 volumes, 1906 – 1921 ).

During sporadic excavations at Boğazköy ( Hattusa ) that began in 1906, the archaeologist Hugo Winckler found a royal archive with 10, 000 tablets, inscribed in cuneiform Akkadian and the same unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of the two names.

However, when in 1906 two city teams chose the city's Roman amphitheatre as a venue to showcase the game, crowd enthusiasm and media interest began to rise.

Two ships of the Prinz Adalbert class were commissioned in 1904, followed by two similar Roon class commissioned in 1905 and 1906, at costs around 17 million GM each.

* Edgar Speyer, chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL, forerunner of the London Underground ) from 1906 to 1915, a period during which the company opened three underground railway lines, electrified a fourth and took over two more.

They had two children together, Lev Sedov ( 1906 – 16 February 1938 ) and Sergei Sedov ( 21 March 1908 – 29 October 1937 ), both of whom would predecease their parents.

In Potsdam in 1906, the Danish astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung noticed that the reddest stars — classified as K and M in the Harvard scheme — could be divided into two distinct groups.

From 1906 to 1914, the two schools played rugby as their major sport, but they soon found that the objectionable practices they saw in football were introduced into rugby.

The university was closed for two months in 1905 in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday: Stravinsky was prevented from taking his final law examinations and later received a half-course diploma in April 1906.

" In 1906, he published Studies in Word Association and later sent a copy of this book to Sigmund Freud, after which a close friendship between these two men followed for some six years ( see section on Relationship with Freud ).

After this venture failed, electric trams returned on 5 May 1906, with the opening of the Victorian Railways ' " Electric Street Railway " from St Kilda to Brighton, and was followed on 11 October 1906 with the opening of the North Melbourne Electric Tramway and Lighting Company ( NMETL ) system, which opened two lines from the cable tram terminus at Flemington Bridge to Essendon and Saltwater River ( now Maribyrnong River ).

The line was opened in two stages, from St Kilda railway station to Middle Brighton on 5 May 1906 and to Brighton Beach terminus on 22 December 1906.

The system opened on 11 October 1906 operating two routes from Flemington Bridge — one to Essendon via Mount Alexander Road, Pascoe Vale Road, Fletcher Street and onto Mount Alexander Road again ( with a short branch line along Puckle Street ), and the second to Saltwater River via Mount Alexander Road, Victoria Street, Racecourse Road, Epsom Road, Union Road and Maribyrnong Road.

It was also included in two Savoy repertory seasons, in 1906 – 07 and 1908 – 09.

During these years Holst also became interested in Hindu mysticism and spirituality, and this interest led to the composition of several works set to translations of Sanskrit texts, including: Sita ( 1899 – 1906 ), a three-act opera based on an episode in the Ramayana ; Sāvitri ( 1908 ), a chamber opera based on a tale from the Mahabharata ; 4 groups of Hymns from the Rig Veda ( 1908 – 14 ); and two texts originally by Kalidasa: Two Eastern Pictures ( 1909 – 10 ) and The Cloud Messenger ( 1913 ).