* 1906 – Shin ' ichiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1979 )

* 1906 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese automobile pioneer ( d. 1991 )

* 1906 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer ( d. 2010 )

* 1906 – San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.

Japanese magazines specifically for girls, known as shōjo magazines, first appeared in 1903 with the founding of, and continued with others such as ( 1906 ) and the long-running ( 1908 ).

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.

** Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1906 )

They inspected Japanese military bases at Nagasaki, Kobe and Kyoto, then headed to India via Shanghai, Hong Kong, Java and Singapore, reaching Calcutta in January 1906.

Britain's First Sea Lord Admiral Fisher argued the Japanese victory at Tsushima confirmed the importance of large guns and speed on modern battleships, and in October 1905 the British began construction of HMS Dreadnought, which upon her launching in 1906 began a dreadnought naval arms race between Britain and Germany in the years before 1914.

In 1906, Japan laid the South Manchurian Railway to Port Arthur ( Japanese: Ryojun ).

In 1906, Tanaka helped draft a defense plan which was so highly regarded by the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff and General Yamagata Aritomo that it was adopted by as basic policy until World War I.

Following the opening of Japan to the West in 1854, some works of this style were written in English by natives of Japan ; they include Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Nitobe Inazo ( 1900 ), concerning samurai ethics, and The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo ( 1906 ), which deals with the philosophical implications of the Japanese tea ceremony.

Iha Fuyū suggested that Japanese and Ryukyuan people have the same ethnic origin, based on his 1906 research of the Ryukyuan languages.

In the 20th century, various protests against Japanese occupation used the term in their names, including a pro-independence newspaper established in 1906, the March 1st Movement of 1919, and the June 10th Movement of 1926.

Modern whaling for Bryde's whales is thought to have begun from coastal stations in Japan in 1906, where it continued uninterrupted until 1987 — they were also caught offshore in the western North Pacific by both Japanese ( 1971 – 79 ) and Soviet ( 1966 – 79 ) fleets, as well as from Taiwan ( 1976 – 80 ), the Bonin Islands ( 1946 – 52 and 1981 – 87 ) and the Philippines ( 1983 – 85 ).

In 1906, the San Francisco, California Board of Education passed a regulation whereby children of Japanese descent would be required to attend separate, racially specific schools.

* Japanese battleship Kashima, a pre-dreadnought battleship operating from 1906 to 1924

Ōkawa originally had little rice fields, but in 1906 this led the chairman of the Ōkawa Junior Chamber of Commerce, Takeji Fujita and 11 other people to spearhead the reclamation of forest lands and the cultivation of Japanese pears as a cash crop in Ōkawa.

In 1906, he played an instrumental role in founding the first Japanese Socialist Party, from which he advocated a Christian Socialist viewpoint.

He published numerous anarchist periodicals, helped translate various western anarchist essays into Japanese for the first time, and created Japan's first Esperanto school in 1906.

The station was first opened on 23 October 1906 by a private company as a station on the Chūō Main Line, but was nationalized only a week later when the Japanese National Railways took over the company and all of its assessments.

He attended the Imperial Japanese Army Academy, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Infantry in December 1906.

Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa ( July 18, 1906 – February 27, 1992 ) was a Canadian-born American academic and political figure of Japanese ancestry.

In 1906 Siemens AG made and laid the section from Guam to Bonin Island in the Japanese archipelago.

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 ).

* 1833 – José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist ( d. 1906 )

* 1906 – Charles Exbrayat, French novelist ( d. 1989 )

* 1906 – R. K. Narayan, Indian novelist ( d. 2001 )

* Thoby Stephen, elder brother of novelist Virginia Woolf, died of typhoid fever in 1906 at age 26.

* May 13 – R. K. Narayan, Indian novelist ( b. 1906 )

Another exception was Alberto Franchetti's 1906 opera La figlia di Iorio which was a close rendering of a highly successful play by its librettist, Gabriele D ' Annunzio, a celebrated Italian poet, novelist, and dramatist of the day.

Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd ( 8 December 1906 – 30 November 1983 ), better known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn, was a British novelist.

In 1911, it was rechristened Place Émile Goudeau for Émile Goudeau ( 1849 – 1906 ), a popular novelist, poet, and journalist who founded Les Hydropathes, a renowned literary club.

* J. I. M. Stewart ( Michael Innes ) ( 1906 – 1994 ), literary critic and novelist

Scottish novelist and academic J. I. M. Stewart ( 1906 – 1994 ), and published between 1974 and 1978.

Other children were Sergey ( 1900 – 1945 ), Kirill ( 1911 – 1964 ), Elena ( 1906 – 2000 ) and Olga ( 1903 – 1978 ), who was a childhood friend of novelist Ayn Rand.

She created a scandal at the turn of the 20th century by her lesbian affair with the French novelist Colette who had taken up work in the music halls of Paris in 1906 under her wing, and with whom she became romantically involved.

* February 18-Alexander Kielland, Norwegian novelist ( died 1906 )

* Eleanor Hibbert ( 1906 – 1993 ), British novelist

In 1911 Bland began to go blind and had to be supported by Edith, by this time a successful poet and novelist, The Railway Children ( 1906 ) being perhaps her most famous work.

* 13 May-R. K. Narayan, novelist ( born 1906 ).

* George Davis ( editor ) ( 1906 – 1957 ), American fiction editor and minor novelist

Sinclair was the great-grandfather of novelist Upton Sinclair, author of the novel The Jungle ( 1906 ).

* 22 December-Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize in Literature 1969, playwright, novelist and poet ( born 1906 ).

Ferdinand Ludwig Adam von Saar ( 30 September 1833 in Vienna, Austria – 24 July 1906 in Döbling ) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet.

Hendrik Jan Schimmel ( June 30, 1823-November 14, 1906 ), Dutch poet and novelist, was born at's-Graveland, in the province of North Holland, where his father was a notary and the burgomaster.

Celebrities who were far more famous after their deaths than during their lifetime ( and often were completely or relatively unknown ) include Greek philosopher Socrates ; scientist Galileo Galilei ; 1800s-era poet John Keats ; painter Vincent van Gogh ; poet and novelist Edgar Allan Poe ; singer Eva Cassidy ; writer Emily Dickinson ; artist Edith Holden, whose 1906 diary was a best-seller when published posthumously in 1977 ); writer Franz Kafka ; diarist Anne Frank ; philosopher Soren Kierkegaard ; writer John Kennedy Toole ( who posthumously won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 12 years after his death ); author Stieg Larsson ( who died with his Millennium novels unpublished ) and William Webb Ellis, the alleged inventor of Rugby football.

* James Still ( 1906 – 2001 ), American poet, novelist and folklorist