* 1906 – Stephen Tennant, English writer and socialite ( d. 1987 )

Astaire was married for the first time in 1933, to the 25-year-old Phyllis Potter ( née Phyllis Livingston Baker ; born 1908, died September 13, 1954 ), a Boston-born New York socialite and former wife of Eliphalet Nott Potter III ( 1906 – 1981 ), after pursuing her ardently for roughly two years, and despite the objections of his mother and sister.

* Robert B. Evans ( 1906 – 1998 ), industrialist, socialite, sportsman, and Chairman of AMC

His landlord is modelled on his real-life landlord Stephen Tennant ( 1906 – 1987 ) a 1920s socialite and a Bright Young Thing who is also the model for the Hon.

His son Romilly ( 1906 – 1986 ) was in the RAF, briefly a civil servant, then a poet, author and an amateur physicist.

Indeed, in 1906 Wreford-Brown was one of the leading figures in the movement to create the Amateur Football Alliance in London in order to keep the amateur game separate from the Football Association, an organisation that the amateur clubs found to be increasingly driven by the financial gain of the professional clubs.

While the University's football team reesumed play in 1906, the Heralds continued to play as an amateur team.

However, it may have been as early as 1906 when an amateur club with the same name was formed.

The FAW became members of FIFA, world football's governing body, in 1906, but the relationship between FIFA and the British associations was fraught and the British nations withdrew from FIFA in 1928 in a dispute over payments to amateur players.

Football was adopted on an amateur basis in 1902, and has since been the main sport, as the name was changed to the current Aalborg Boldspilklub af 1885 ( Aalborg ballgameclub of 1885 ) in 1906.

It was formed in 1906, due to the growth of the professional game which meant that amateur players could no longer easily find places in the main England national team.

The strength of the English amateur team meant they were still able to beat many of these sides, and in fact they were unbeaten in 20 matches from 1906 to 1910.

Managers since 1906 and later to the accession to professional status in 1932, with the exception of 1939 – 1941, where the Stade Rennais reverted to amateur status, and 1942 – 1944, where no manager was appointed by the board, and 1945 where the club didn't compete in any competition.

On 28 February 1906 Estudiantes adopted a jersey design of striped red and white, in honor of Alumni's, who had won ten amateur championships between 1900 and 1911.

It was formed as the amateur Cottesloe Beach Football Club in 1906, and joined the peak amateur competition, the Western Australian Football Association the following year.

It was first introduced by George Forrest from Yunnan province, China, in 1906, and named after Arthur K Bulley, his first sponsor, who was a cotton Broker from Liverpool and a keen amateur gardener.

Although the university team returned in 1906, the amateur team remained, eventually evolving into a semi-professional team, then a professional team, ultimately joining the National Football League charter member in 1920.

* Bertie Fulton ( 1906 – 1979 ), amateur footballer from Northern Ireland who played as a left back

One of North America's oldest amateur musical theatre societies, Ottawa, Ontario based Orpheus Musical Theatre Society was founded in 1906.

One influential hypothesis was given by the anthropologist James Frazer, who in 1906 said that Osiris, like other " dying and rising gods " across the ancient Near East, began as a personification of vegetation.

* John Davy Hayward ( 1906 – 1965 ), English editor, critic and anthropologist

The Canadian Arctic Expedition was the brainchild of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, a US-based, Canadian-born anthropologist of Icelandic origin who had spent most of the years between 1906 and 1912 studying Inuit life in the remote Arctic Canada.

Henry " Harry " Evans Maude, OBE ( 1 October 1906 – 4 November 2006 ) was a British civil servant and anthropologist.

For example, in 1906, Congolese pygmy Ota Benga was put by anthropologist Madison Grant in a cage in the Bronx Zoo, labelled " the missing link " between an orangutan and the " white race " — Grant, a renowned eugenicist, was also the author of The Passing of the Great Race ( 1916 ).

Her great-granddaughter Cäcilie Lotte Eleonore Overbeck ( 1856-post 1920 ), married the anthropologist and ethnologist Emil Ludwig Schmidt ( 1837 – 1906 ), who was personal physician of the hypochondriac " Cannon King " Alfred Krupp.

* Ralph O ' Reilly Piddington ( 1906 – 1974 ) was a New Zealand psychologist, anthropologist and university professor.

Madison was incorporated in 1906.

Madison, WI: Western Historical Association, 1906.

However, TAD's earliest usage of " hot dog " was not in reference to a baseball game at the Polo Grounds, but to a bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, in The New York Evening Journal December 12, 1906, by which time the term " hot dog " in reference to sausage was already in use.

White ’ s presence at Madison Square Garden on the night of June 25, 1906 had been an impromptu decision.

“ If only he had gone Philadelphia !” Years later, he would write bitterly, " On the night of June 25th, 1906, while attending a performance at Madison Square Garden, Stanford White was shot from behind a crazed profligate whose great wealth was used to besmirch his victim's memory during the series of notorious trials that ensued.

Madison mills and a bird's-eye view of Anson c. 1906

Thaw had murdered architect Stanford White, Nesbit's former lover, at Madison Square Garden in 1906.

* June 25, 1906 – Stanford White is shot and killed by Harry Kendall Thaw at what was then Madison Square Gardens.

Construction of the present capitol building, the third in Madison, began during late 1906 and was completed during 1917 at a cost of $ 7. 25 million.

The Seattle Carnegie Library, the first permanent library located in its own dedicated building at Fourth Avenue and Madison Street, opened in 1906 with a Beaux-Arts design by Peter J. Weber.

Beadle served as president of the Madison State Normal School from 1889 to 1906, and as a professor of history until his retirement in 1912.

* The Wisconsin State Capitol, Madison, Wisconsin, 1906

The Met Life Tower absorbed the site of the architecturally distinguished 1854 building of the former Madison Square Presbyterian Church designed by architect Richard Upjohn on the southeast corner of 24th Street, while the Metropolitan Life North Building replaced the 1906 replacement church on the northeast corner of 24th Street and Madison designed by Stanford White and demolished in 1919.

* Kimball and Harry E. Donnell were the architects for the Brunswick Building, a 1906 Beaux-Arts building located on the site of the former Brunswick Hotel at 225 Fifth Avenue, on Madison Square Park ( source: NYC Landmarks ), now the Grand Madison

View west on Madison Avenue, ending with the University of Memphis, School of Law | Customs House ( 1906 )