1906 - Wikipedia

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s

Years: 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 - 1906 - 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911

Events:

February 15 - The British Labour Party is organized
March 15 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered
April 7 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
BCG (Bacilli-Calmette-Guerin) immunization for Tuberculosis first developed
Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior
Second Geneva Convention
December 24 - Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

Art, Culture & Fashion

Births:

January 14 - William Bendix[?], actor (+ 1964)
January 15 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipowner (+1975)
January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy author (+ 1936)
February 1 - Hildegarde[?], actress, singer
February 2 - Gale Gordon[?], actor (+ 1995)
February 4 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian (+ 1945)
February 4 - Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer (+ 1997)
February 5 - John Carradine[?], actor (+ 1988)
February 10 - Lon Chaney Jr., actor (+ 1973)
February 11 - Denis Barnett[?], British air chief marshal.
February 28 - Bugsy Siegel, gangster (+ 1947)
March 6 - Lou Costello, actor, comedian (+ 1959)
March 16 - Henny Youngman, comedian (+ 1998)
March 19 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official responsible for the execution of the holocaust
March 20 - Ozzie Nelson[?], actor, band leader (+ 1975)
April 4 - John Cameron Swayze[?], journalist, television host (+ 1995)
April 4 - Bea Benaderet[?], actress (+ 1968)
April 13 - Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1969
April 28 - Gödel, Austrian/US mathematician
May 8 - Roberto Rossellini, direcotr (+ 1977)
May 19 - Gerd Bucerius[?], publisher and publicist (+ 1995)
May 20 - Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, senior cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (+ 1989)
June 27 - Catherine Cookson[?], author (+ 1998)
August 7 - Nelson Goodman[?], philosopher and coiner of the term "irrealism"
August 27 - Ed Gein, serial killer
September 4 - Max Delbrück, German biologist
September 25 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer
October 14 - Hannah Arendt, German/US intellectual
November 3 - Carl Benjamin Boyer, US historian of mathematics
November 14 - Louise Brooks, American dancer, actor and writer. (+ 1985)

Deaths:

January 29 - King Christian IX of Denmark
February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet
March 13 - Susan B. Anthony, civil rights and women's suffrage activist
April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher
May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright
September 5 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist

Nobel Prizes: