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• January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, and establish a national assembly, the Majlis.
• January 16–April 7 – The Algeciras Conference convenes, to resolve the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany.
• January 22 – The {{SS|Valencia}} strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, Canada, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster.
• January 31 – The Ecuador–Colombia earthquake (8.8 on the Moment magnitude scale), and associated tsunami, cause at least 500 deaths.
• February 7 – {{HMS|Dreadnought|1906|6}} is launched, sparking a naval race between Britain and Germany.
• February 11
• Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos, denouncing the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State.
• Two British members of a poll tax collecting expedition are killed near Richmond, Natal, sparking the Bambatha Rebellion.{{cite book|title=History of the Zulu Rebellion 1906|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofzulureb00stua|last=Stuart|first=J.|year=1913|publisher=Macmillan and Co.|location=London}}

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• March 4 – Native American tribal governments are terminated in Indian Territory, a prerequisite for creating the US state of Oklahoma in 1907.
• March 10 – Courrières mine disaster: An explosion in a coal mine in France kills 1,060.
• March 18 – In France, Romanian inventor Traian Vuia becomes the first person to achieve an unassisted takeoff in a heavier-than-air powered monoplane, but it is incapable of sustained flight.
• April 14 – The Azusa Street Revival, the primary catalyst for the revival of Pentecostalism this century, opens in Los Angeles.
• April 18
• The San Francisco Earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, killing at least 3,000, with 225,000–300,000 left homeless, and $350 million in damages.
• Xerox, the global digital office machine brand, is founded in Rochester, New York as the Haloid Photographic Company.[http://www.xerox.com/go/xrx/template/019d.jsp?view=Factbook&id=XAG&Xcntry=USA&Xlang=en_US Online Fact Book: Xerox at a Glance] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805182953/http://www.xerox.com/go/xrx/template/019d.jsp?view=Factbook&id=XAG&Xcntry=USA&Xlang=en_US |date=August 5, 2009 }}, xerox.com. Article retrieved December 13, 2006.
• April 23 – In the Russian Empire, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.

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• May 27
• The first inmates are moved to the Culion leper colony by the American Insular Government of the Philippine Islands.
• Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 6 receives its premiere at the Saalbau Essen in Germany conducted by the composer.
• May 29 – Karl Staaff steps down as Prime Minister of Sweden over the issue of expanded voting rights. He is replaced by right-wing naval officer and public official Arvid Lindman.
• May 31 – Morral affair: The attempted regicide of Spanish King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenie on their wedding day instead kills 24 bystanders.{{Cite book |last1=Avrich |first1=Paul |author-link=Paul Avrich |title=The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States |chapter=The Martyrdom of Ferrer |date=1980 |isbn=0-691-04669-7 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton |oclc=489692159 |df=mdy-all |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X6X_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3 |access-date=April 17, 2018 |pages=27–28}}{{Cite book |last1=Sanabria |first1=Enrique A. |title=Republicanism and Anticlerical Nationalism in Spain |date=2009 |chapter=Republicanism, Anarchism, Anticlericalism, and the Attempted Regicide of 1906 |isbn=978-0-230-61331-7 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=New York |df=mdy-all |page=101}}
• June 7 – Cunard liner {{RMS|Lusitania}} is launched in Glasgow, as the world's largest ship.
• June 26 – The first Grand Prix in automobile racing is the 1906 French Grand Prix held at Le Mans in France.

• July 6 – The Second Geneva Convention meets.
• July 12 – Alfred Dreyfus is exonerated. He is reinstalled in the French Army on July 21, thus ending the Dreyfus affair.
• July 20 – In the Grand Duchy of Finland, a new electoral law is ratified, guaranteeing full women's suffrage, the first in modern Europe.If the limited rights in the Isle of Man are disregarded. {{cite web | url = https://www.jyu.fi/ajankohtaista/arkisto/2006/03/tiedote-2009-10-01-20-12-22-833815 | title = Suomi valitsi maailman ensimmäiset naiskansanedustajat | last = Kananen | first= Anitta | date = March 2006 | publisher = University of Jyväskylä | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131203035928/https://www.jyu.fi/ajankohtaista/arkisto/2006/03/tiedote-2009-10-01-20-12-22-833815 | access-date = July 15, 2021 | archive-date = December 3, 2013 | language = fi}} Women can also stand in national elections.
• August 4 – The first Imperial German Navy submarine, U-1, is launched.
• August 16 – 1906 Valparaíso earthquake: A magnitude 8.2 earthquake in Valparaíso, Chile leaves approximately 20,000 injured.
• August 23 – Unable to control a rebellion, Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma requests United States intervention. This leads to the Second Occupation of Cuba, which lasts until 1909.

• September 11 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha, to characterize the nonviolence movement in South Africa.
• September 18 – A typhoon and tsunami kill an estimated 10,000 in Hong Kong.{{cite news|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19061019.2.54|newspaper=Auckland Star|location=New Zealand|date=1906-10-19|page=5|title=Hongkong Typhoon|access-date=2017-12-30|volume=37|issue=244|quote=Over 1,000 bodies are recovered, but cabled statements are verified that the number of lives lost totalled about 10,000.|archive-date=December 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230172220/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19061019.2.54|url-status=live}} Retrieved via Papers Past.
• September 20 – The RMS Mauretania is launched at the River Tyne becoming the world’s largest ship.
• September 30 – The first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team, piloting the balloon United States, lands in Fylingdales, Yorkshire, England.
• October 1 – The Grand Duchy of Finland becomes the first nation to include the right of women to stand as candidates, when it adopts universal suffrage.
• October 6 – The Majlis of Iran convenes for the first time.
• October 11 – A United States diplomatic crisis with Japan arises, when the San Francisco public school board orders Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools (it is resolved by next year).
• October 16 – Imposter Wilhelm Voigt impersonates a Prussian officer, and takes over the city hall in Köpenick for a short time.
• October 23 – An aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off at Bagatelle in France, and flies 60 meters (200 feet). This is the first officially recorded powered flight in Europe.
• October 28 – The Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a Belgian mining trust, is created in the Congo.

• November 1 – International Exhibition opens in Christchurch, New Zealand.
• November 3 – {{overbar|SOS}} becomes adopted internationally as a distress signal (originally for ship-to-shore wireless telegraphy) on inclusion in the service regulations of the first International Radiotelegraph Convention signed in Berlin and coming into effect on 1 July 1908.{{citation|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044103239133&view=1up&seq=36|title=Article XVI|work=Service Regulations annexed to the International Radiotelegraphic Convention|location=Berlin|date=1906-11-03|page=34|access-date=October 3, 2023|archive-date=November 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129104414/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044103239133&view=1up&seq=36|url-status=live}}.
• November 18 – The steamboat Dix sinks en route from Seattle to Port Blakely claiming the lives of approximately 50 passengers and crew.
• November 22 – Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms, aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.
• December 4 – Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity forms at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; it is the first Black Greek-lettered collegiate order of its kind.
• December 15 – The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
• December 22 – The {{M|w}} 7.9 1906 Manasi earthquake in Xinjiang, China kills nearly 300 people.{{cite web |title=China: Xinjiang Province |url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/2794 |website=NGDC NCEI |publisher=NCEI |access-date=17 March 2021 |archive-date=May 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507222310/https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/2794 |url-status=live }}
• December 24 – Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts.
• December 26 – The world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, is first shown, at the Melbourne Athenaeum in Australia.
• December 30 – The All-India Muslim League is founded as a political party in Dhaka in the British Raj; it becomes a driving force for the creation of an independent Pakistan.

• The BCG vaccine for tuberculosis is first developed.
• Függetlenség, a Hungarian language daily newspaper, is founded.(Hungarian) [http://adattar.vmmi.org/folyoiratszamok/257/letunk_2002.1-2.pdf LÉTÜNK - TÁRSADALOM, TUDOMÁNY, KULTÚRA, 2002.1-2, p.16]
• Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior.
• Construction begins on the modern-day Great Mosque of Djenné.
• The Simplo Filler Pen Company is founded, later to become the Montblanc Company in Germany.
• HaRishon Le Zion-Yafo Association is officially founded as a sports club in Palestine, predecessor of Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel).{{Cite news|url=https://www.maccabi-tlv.co.il/en/the-club/about-the-club/about-the-club/|title=About the club - Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club|work=Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club|access-date=2018-06-12|language=en-US|archive-date=June 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612211115/https://www.maccabi-tlv.co.il/en/the-club/about-the-club/about-the-club/|url-status=live}}

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• January 6 – Walter Battiss, South African artist (d. 1982)
• January 11 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (d. 2008)
• January 12 – Eric Birley, British historian and archaeologist (d. 1995)
• January 13 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist (d. 2017)
• January 14 – William Bendix, American film, radio and television actor (d. 1964)
• January 15 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975)
• January 16 – Diana Wynyard, English actress (d. 1964)
• January 20 – Bretaigne Windust, American stage, film and television director (d. 1960)
• January 21 – Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007)
• January 22 – Robert E. Howard, American pulp fiction writer (suicide 1936)
• January 28 – Pat O'Callaghan, Irish athlete (d. 1991)
• February 4
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German religious, resistance leader (executed 1945)
• Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d. 1997)
• February 5 – John Carradine, American actor (d. 1988)
• February 7
• Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984)
• Puyi, Last Emperor of China (d. 1967)
• February 8 – Chester Carlson, American physicist, inventor (d. 1968)
• February 10
• Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
• Erik Rhodes, American actor and singer (d. 1990)
• February 14 – Nazim al-Qudsi, 26th Prime Minister of Syria and 14th President of Syria (d. 1998)
• February 17
• Mary Brian, American actress (d. 2002)
• Galo Plaza, 29th President of Ecuador (d. 1987)
• Käte Selbmann, German politician (d. 1962){{Cite book |last=Herbst |first=Andreas |author-link=Andreas Herbst |url=https://www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de/de/recherche/kataloge-datenbanken/biographische-datenbanken/kaete-selbmann |title=Who Was Who in the GDR? |date=2009 |publisher=Ch. Links Verlag |publication-place=Berlin |language=de |chapter=Selbmann, Käte |access-date=2024-04-12 |via=Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung}}
• February 18 – Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)
• February 22 – Helge Kjærulff-Schmidt, Danish actor (d. 1982)
• February 26 – Madeleine Carroll, British actress (d. 1987)
• February 28 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (k. 1947)

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• March 1
• Phạm Văn Đồng, Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2000)
• Abdus Sattar, 8th President of Bangladesh (d. 1985)
• March 6 – Lou Costello, American actor (d. 1959)
• March 7 – Elmar Lipping, Estonian statesman, soldier (d. 1994)
• March 8 – Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor, photographer (d. 1978)
• March 12 – Yin Shun, Chinese Buddhist master (d. 2005)
• March 13 – Dave Kaye, British pianist (d. 1996)England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 [database on-line]. London, England: General Register Office.{{Cite news |date=5 July 1940 |title=Notice |page=4137 |work=The London Gazette |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34889/page/4137/data.pdf |access-date=2 February 2022 |archive-date=February 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220203223146/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34889/page/4137/data.pdf |url-status=live }}
• March 16 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish novelist (d. 2009)
• March 17
• Brigitte Helm, German film actress (d. 1996)
• Ermance Rejebian, Armenian American book reviewer, lecturer, broadcaster and writer (d. 1989)Ermance Rejebian, "Biography of Ermance Rejebian", Folder 43(Ermance Rejebian papers, Series 4, Box 3, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University).
• March 19
• Adolf Eichmann, German war criminal (executed 1962)
• Roy Roberts, American actor (d. 1975)
• March 20 – Ozzie Nelson, American actor, director and producer (d. 1975)
• March 21 – Jim Thompson, American businessman (disappeared 1967)
• March 25 – A. J. P. Taylor, English historian (d. 1990)
• March 26
• Rafael Méndez, Mexican trumpet player (d. 1981)
• Ronald Urquhart, British general (d. 1968)
• March 31 – Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
• April 1 – Alexander Yakovlev, Russian engineer, airplane designer (d. 1989)
• April 4 – Bea Benaderet, American actress (d. 1968)
• April 6 – Luis Alberti, Dominican Republic musician (d. 1976)
• April 6 – Virginia Hall, American spy with the Special Operations Executive during WWII (d. 1982)
• April 9 – Antal Doráti, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988)
• April 11 – Julia Clements, English flower arranger and author (d. 2010)
• April 13 – Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
• April 14 – Broda Otto Barnes, American medical researcher (d. 1988)
• April 22 – Eddie Albert, American actor and activist (d. 2005)
• April 24 – William Joyce, Irish-American World War II Nazi propaganda broadcaster ("Lord Haw-Haw") (executed 1946)
• April 25
• Joel Brand, Hungarian rescue worker (d. 1964)
• William J. Brennan Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1997)
• A. W. Haydon, American inventor (d. 1982)
• April 28
• Tony Accardo, American gangster (d. 1992)
• Kurt Gödel, Austrian logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (d. 1978)
• Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)
• April 29 – Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1989){{citation|website=Last.fm|access-date=August 24, 2019|url=https://www.last.fm/es/music/Pedro+Vargas/+wiki|title=Pedro Vargas|language=es|archive-date=April 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406142553/https://www.last.fm/es/music/Pedro+Vargas/+wiki|url-status=live}}

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• May 2 – Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American photographer (d. 1979)
• May 3 – Mary Astor, American actress and writer (d. 1987)
• May 6 – André Weil, French mathematician (d. 1998)
• May 7 – Jon Lormer, American actor (d. 1986)
• May 8 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d. 1977)
• May 10 – António Ferreira Gomes, Portuguese Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1989)
• May 11
• Jacqueline Cochran, American aviator (d. 1980)
• Richard Arvin Overton, oldest living man in the United States and oldest surviving American veteran (World War II) (d. 2018)
• Ethel Weed, American promoter of Japanese women's rights (d. 1975)
• May 15 – Humberto Delgado, Portuguese general, politician (d. 1965)
• May 16 – Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer (d. 2001)
• May 17 – Jack Carr, American actor and animator (d. 1967)
• May 19
• Bruce Bennett, American athlete, actor (d. 2007)
• Jimmy MacDonald, Scottish-American sound effects artist, voice actor (d. 1991)
• May 20 – Giuseppe Siri, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1989)
• May 23 – Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (d. 1944)
• May 27 – Buddhadasa, Buddhist monk (d. 1993)
• May 29 – T. H. White, British writer (d. 1964)
• May 30 – Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (d. 1959)
• June 3 – Josephine Baker, American-born French entertainer (d. 1975)
• June 4 – Ivan Knunyants, Soviet chemist (d. 1990)
• June 6 – Max August Zorn, German-born American mathematician (d. 1993)
• June 10 – Tekla Juniewicz, Polish supercentenarian, oldest Polish person ever, last surviving person born in 1906 (d. 2022)
• June 12 – Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
• June 15 – Léon Degrelle, Belgian fascist (d. 1994)
• June 17
• James H. Flatley, American admiral, aviator (d. 1958)
• Olli Ungvere, Estonian actress (d. 1991)
• June 19 – Sir Ernst Chain, German-born British biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
• June 21 – Grete Sultan, German-American pianist (d. 2005)
• June 22
• George W. Clarke, American politician (d. 2006)
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author, aviator (d. 2001)
• Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American screenwriter, film director and producer (d. 2002)
• June 24
• Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)
• George Alexander Gale, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
• June 26
• Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer, teacher, sculptor and artist (d. 2008)
• M. P. Sivagnanam, Indian politician (d. 1995)
• June 27 – Catherine Cookson, English author (d. 1998)
• June 28
• Maria Goeppert Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972){{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1963/mayer/biographical/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=9 April 2022 |archive-date=June 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230620220855/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1963/mayer/biographical/ |url-status=live }}
• Yoshimi Ueda, Japanese basketball player, administrator (d. 1996)
• June 29 – Heinz Harmel, German officer (d. 2000)

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• July 1
• Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician, academic (d. 1992)
• Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 2004)
• Ivan Neill, British Army officer and Irish Unionist politician (d. 2001)
• July 2
• Hans Bethe, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
• Károly Kárpáti, Hungarian Jewish wrestler (d. 1996)
• Séra Martin, French middle-distance runner (d. 1993)
• July 3
• Alberto Lleras Camargo, Colombian politician, 20th President of Colombia (d. 1990)
• George Sanders, British actor (d. 1972)
• July 4 – Vincent Schaefer, American chemist, meteorologist (d. 1993)
• July 7
• William Feller, Croatian-born mathematician (d. 1970)
• Helene Johnson, African-American poet (d. 1995)
• Hugh McMahon, Scottish footballer (d. 1997)
• Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
• July 8 – Philip Johnson, American architect (d. 2005)
• July 9 – Roy Leaper, Australian rules footballer (d. 2002)
• July 10 – Ad Liska, American baseball pitcher (d. 1998)
• July 11 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)
• July 12 – Pietro Tordi, Italian actor (d. 1990)
• July 14 – Stan Devenish Meares, Australian obstetrician, gynaecologist (d. 1994)
• July 16
• Ichimaru, Japanese singer (d. 1997)
• Vincent Sherman, American director, actor (d. 2006)
• James Still, American poet, novelist and folklorist (d. 2001)
• July 17
• Leonila Garcia, 8th First Lady of the Philippines (d. 1994)
• Dunc Gray, Australian track cyclist (d. 1996)
• July 18
• Sidney Darlington, American engineer (d. 1997)
• S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-born American academic, politician (d. 1992)
• Speed Webb, American jazz drummer, territory band leader (d. 1994)
• July 21 – Caroline Smith, American diver (d. 1994)
• July 23 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
• August 5
• Joan Hickson, British actress (d. 1998)
• John Huston, American film director, screenwriter, and actor (d. 1987)
• Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• August 5 – Marie-José of Belgium, last Queen of Italy (d. 2001){{cite web |last1=Cope |first1=Rebecca |title=The extraordinary life of the beautiful, and radical, last Queen of Italy |url=https://www.tatler.com/article/last-queen-of-italy-marie-jose |website=Tatler |access-date=17 August 2020 |archive-date=March 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328214026/https://www.tatler.com/article/last-queen-of-italy-marie-jose |url-status=live }}
• August 14 – Horst P. Horst, German photographer (d. 1999)
• August 17 – Marcelo Caetano, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
• August 19 – Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (d. 1971)
• August 23 – Zoltan Sarosy, Canadian chess master (d. 2017)
• August 26 – Albert Sabin, Polish-American medical researcher (d. 1993)
• August 27 – Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
• August 28 – John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
• August 30 – Joan Blondell, American actress (d. 1979)

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• September 1
• Joaquín Balaguer, 41st, 45th, & 49th President of the Dominican Republic, writer (d. 2002)
• Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
• Eleanor Burford, English writer (d. 1993)
• September 2 – Barbara Jo Allen, American actress (d. 1974)
• September 4 – Max Delbrück, German biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
• September 5
• Ralston Crawford, American abstract painter, lithographer, and photographer (d. 1978)
• Sunnyland Slim, American blues pianist (d. 1995)
• September 6 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-born Argentine chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
• September 8 – Andrei Kirilenko, Soviet politician (d. 1990)
• September 12 – Lee Erwin, American television writer (d. 1972)
• September 17 – J. R. Jayewardene, President of Sri Lanka (d. 1996)
• September 25
• José Figueres Ferrer, 32nd, 34th, & 38th President of Costa Rica (d. 1990)
• Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
• September 27 – William Empson, English poet, critic (d. 1984)

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• October 6 – Janet Gaynor, American Academy Award-winning actress (d. 1984)
• October 9
• Georges Marie Anne, politician (d. 2001){{Cite web|url=http://www.senat.fr/senateur/marie_anne_georges57749x.html|title=Anciens sénateurs Vème République : MARIE ANNE Georges|website=www.senat.fr|date=August 13, 2023|access-date=October 16, 2022|archive-date=October 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016145746/http://www.senat.fr/senateur/marie_anne_georges57749x.html|url-status=live}}
• Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1st President of Senegal (d. 2001)
• October 10 – Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
• October 14
• Imam Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
• Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (d. 1975){{cite encyclopedia|editor-last=Honderich|editor-first=Ted|title=The Oxford Companion to Philosophy|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bJFCAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT149|date=2005|publisher=OUP|isbn=978-0-19-103747-4|chapter=Arendt, Hannah (1906–1975)|page=149}}
• October 19 – Bandō Mitsugorō VIII, Japanese actor (d. 1975)
• October 23 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
• October 24 – Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (d. 1996)
• October 26 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (d. 1967)
• October 27 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (d. 2010)
• October 29 – Fredric Brown, American writer (d. 1972)

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• November 2
• Ferit Melen, 14th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 1988)
• Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre, cinema director, writer (d. 1976)
• November 4 – Willie Love, American Delta blues pianist (d. 1953)
• November 5
• Philip Roberts, British general (d. 1997)
• Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
• November 9 – Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer (d. 1996)
• November 10 – Josef Kramer, German Nazi concentration camp commandant (d. 1945)
• November 13
• Wanrong, last Empress of China (d. 1946)
• Hermione Baddeley, English character actress (d. 1986)
• Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan business tycoon (d. 1979)
• November 14
• Albrecht Becker, German production designer, photographer, and actor (d. 2002)
• Louise Brooks, American actress (d. 1985)
• November 15 – Curtis LeMay, United States Air Force general, vice-presidential candidate (d. 1990)
• November 16 – Henri Charrière, French author (d. 1973)
• November 17
• Betty Bronson, American actress (d. 1979)
• Soichiro Honda, Japanese industrialist (d. 1991)
• November 18
• Alec Issigonis, Greek-born British automobile designer (d. 1988)
• Klaus Mann, German writer (d. 1949)
• George Wald, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
• November 19 – Patriarch Paul II Cheikho (b. 1989)
• November 22 – Jørgen Juve, Norwegian football player and journalist (d. 1983)
• November 24 – Don MacLaughlin, American actor (d. 1986)
• December 2
• Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born American engineer (d. 1977)
• Franz Reichleitner, Austrian SS officer and Nazi concentration camp commandant (d. 1944)
• Donald Woods, Canadian-American film, television actor (d. 1998)
• December 5 – Ahn Eak-tai, Korean composer (d. 1965)
• December 9 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist, naval officer (d. 1992)
• December 13
• Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (d. 1968)
• Laurens van der Post, South African author, journalist (d. 1996)
• December 19 – Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader (d. 1982)
• December 24 – James Hadley Chase, English writer (d. 1985)
• December 25 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988){{Cite journal|last=Hawkes|first=Peter W.|date=1990-07-01|title=Ernst Ruska|journal=Physics Today|volume=43|issue=7|pages=84–85|doi=10.1063/1.2810640|bibcode=1990PhT....43g..84H |issn=0031-9228|doi-access=free}}
• December 26 – Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer, actress (d. 2003)
• December 27 – Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d. 1972)
• December 30
• Alziro Bergonzo, Italian architect, painter (d. 1997)
• Carol Reed, English film director (d. 1976)

• Abdul Aziz Khan Kaka, Pashtun Anti-Colonial Politician who defeated the Imperial Crown's Political Agent, Sir Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum Khan in the elections of 1936 (d. 1987)

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• January 1 – Todor Ivanchov, 11th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1858)
• January 13 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859){{Cite web|url=https://ethw.org/Aleksandr_Popov|title=Aleksandr Popov - Engineering and Technology History Wiki|website=ethw.org|date=January 13, 2016|access-date=February 18, 2021|archive-date=February 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227224251/https://ethw.org/Aleksandr_Popov|url-status=live}}
• January 18 – Sir William Forbes Gatacre, British general (b. 1843)
• January 19 – Bartolomé Mitre, Argentine statesman, military figure and author, 6th President of Argentina (b. 1821)
• January 20 – Maria Cristina of the Immaculate Conception Brando, Italian Roman Catholic nun, saint (b. 1856)
• January 25 – Joseph Wheeler, American general, politician (b. 1836)
• January 29 – King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
• February 8 – Giuseppina Gabriella Bonino, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed (b. 1843)
• February 9 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet and publisher (b. 1872){{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/paul-laurence-dunbar|title=Paul Laurence Dunbar|date=November 7, 2022|website=Poetry Foundation|access-date=November 26, 2021|archive-date=April 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402170120/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/paul-laurence-dunbar|url-status=live}}
• February 13 – Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
• February 18 – John B. Stetson, American hat maker (b. 1830)
• February 26 – Jean Lanfray, Swiss convicted murderer (b. 1874){{cite book

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• February 27 – Samuel Langley, American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer (b. 1834){{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=April 26, 2022|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|url-status=dead}}
• March 1 – José María de Pereda, Spanish writer (b. 1833)
• March 4 – John Schofield, American general (b. 1831)
• March 8 – Henry Baker Tristram, English clergyman, ornithologist (b. 1822)
• March 12 – Manuel Quintana, 15th President of Argentina (b. 1835)
• March 13
• Susan B. Anthony, American civil rights, women's suffrage activist (b. 1820)
• Joseph Monier, French gardener, inventor (b. 1823)
• March 17 – Johann Most, German-American anarchist (b. 1846){{cite book|author=A. T. Lane|title=Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=1995|isbn=9780313299001|page=674}}
• March 19 – Victor Fatio, Swiss zoologist (b. 1838)
• March 20 – Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, American author of juvenile literature for girls (b. 1824)
• March 23 – Thomas Lake Harris, American poet (b. 1823)
• March 29
• Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter (b. 1877)
• Albert Sorel, French historian (b. 1842)
• April 6 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b. 1849)
• April 19
• Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• Spencer Gore, British tennis player, cricketer (b. 1850)
• April 25 – John Knowles Paine, American composer (b. 1839)
• May 10 – Hashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin, Sultan of Brunei (b. 1825)
• May 14 – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary, American statesman (b. 1829){{cite book |author=Helge Dvorak |title=Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft |volume=Band I: Politiker Teilband 5: R-S |chapter=Schurz, Carl Christian |publisher=Universitätsverlag C. Winter |location=Heidelberg |year=2002 |pages=372–376 |language=de |isbn=3-8253-1256-9}}
• May 23 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (b. 1828)
• June 5 – Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842){{EB1911|wstitle=Hartmann, Karl Robert Eduard von |inline=1}}
• June 10 – Richard Seddon, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1845)
• June 17 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess champion (b. 1872)
• June 25 – Stanford White, American architect (b. 1853)

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• July 1 – Manuel García, Spanish opera singer, music educator and vocal pedagogue (b. 1805)
• July 11 – Grace Brown, American murder/and or drowning victim (b. 1886)
• July 17 – Carlos Pellegrini, 11th President of Argentina (b. 1846)
• August 6 – George Waterhouse, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824)
• August 14 – Aniceto Arce, 27th President of Bolivia (b. 1824)
• August 19 – Ezequiél Moreno y Díaz, Colombian Roman Catholic priest, saint (b. 1848)
• September 1 – Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian poet, librettist (b. 1847)
• September 5 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1854)
• September 13 – Emily Pitts Stevens, American school founder (b. 1841)
• September 23 – August Bondeson, Swedish author (b. 1844)
• October 9 – Adelaide Ristori, Italian actress (b. 1822)
• October 16 – Varina Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States of America (b. 1826)
• October 19
• Arthur von Mohrenheim, Russian diplomat (b. 1824)
• Charles Pfizer, German-American chemist, co-founder of Pfizer (b. 1824)
• October 22 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839){{cite web |title=Paul Cézanne {{!}} French artist {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-Cezanne |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=14 May 2023 |language=en |archive-date=August 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180817193845/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-Cezanne |url-status=live }}
• October 23 – Vladimir Stasov, Russian music critic (b. 1824)
• October 30 – Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, British politician (b. 1814)
• November 1 – Archduke Otto of Austria (b. 1865)
• November 7 – Todor Burmov, 1st Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1834)
• November 9 – Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity, French Discalced Carmelite religious professed and saint (b. 1880)
• November 12 – William Rufus Shafter, American general (b. 1835)
• November 16 – Mother Veronica of the Passion, Ottoman-born religious leader (b. 1823)
• November 19, – Georgia Cayvan, American stage actress (b. 1857)
• November 28 – Jennie Yeamans, Australian-born American actress (b. 1862)
• November 30 – Sir Edward Reed, British naval architect, author, politician, and railroad magnate (b. 1830)
• December 7 – Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)
• December 8 – Sylvia Gerrish, American musical theatre star (b. 1860)
• December 13 – Jan Gerard Palm, Dutch composer (b. 1831)
• December 21 – Rajendrasuri, Indian religious reformer (b. 1827)
• December 30 – Josephine Butler, British feminist, social reformer (b. 1828)

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• Physics – J. J. Thomson
• Chemistry – Henri Moissan
• Medicine – Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal
• Literature – Giosuè Carducci
• Peace – Theodore Roosevelt

{{Reflist}}

• {{cite book|title=The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year: 1906|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XJU-AAAAYAAJ|year=1907|publisher=Longmans, Green}}, comprehensive guide to political events worldwide; emphasis on Britain

• Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 123 – 42.
• Hazell's Annual for 1907 (1907), worldwide events of 1906; 734pp [https://archive.org/details/hazellsannualcyc1907pric online]

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