Year '1906' ('
MCMVI') was a
common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on Sunday
of the 13-day-slower
Julian calendar).
Table of contents
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Events of 1906
January - February
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January 1 -
British India officially adopts
Indian Standard Time.
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January 8 -
Landslide in
Haverstraw, New York kills 20.
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January 31 - Massive
earthquake in
Ecuador (8.6 on the Richter scale).
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8 February -
The Liberal Party led by
Henry Campbell-Bannerman win the
United Kingdom general election with a large majority.
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February 11 -
Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical ''Vehementer nos''.
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February 15 - Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in the UK parliament take the name
Parliamentary Labour Party.
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February 28 -
Upton Sinclair publishes ''
The Jungle'', a novel depicting the life of an
immigrant family in
Chicago during the early 1900s.
March - April
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March 10 -
Explosion in coal mine in
Courrières,
France kills 1060.
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March 15 -
Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.
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March 17 -
Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity founded at
Miami University,
Oxford, Ohio
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March 18 -
Traian Vuia flies a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft.
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March 27 - The
Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg by
Elizabeth Parker and
Arthur Oliver Wheeler.
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April 7 -
Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates
Naples.
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April 14 - First service held at African Methodist Episcopal Church in
Los Angeles,
CA by W.J. Seymour in a series later known as the
Azusa Street Revival.
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April 18 - The
1906 San Francisco earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the
San Andreas Fault destroys much of
San Francisco, California, killing at least 3000, with 225,000-300,000 left homeless, $350 million in damages.
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April 23 - In
Tsarist Russia, the
Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state
Duma.
May - June
★ May
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Jack London's novel ''
White Fang'' is serialized in ''The Outing Magazine''.
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Club Deportivo Guadalajara is founded.
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Sporting Clube de Portugal is founded.
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June 6 -
Durham & South Carolina Railroad operates its first revenue train, Bonsal to Durham,
North Carolina.
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June 8 -
Theodore Roosevelt signs the
Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the
President to restrict the use of certain parcels of
public land with historical or conservation value.
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June 9-
June 10 - Riots in
Stockholm, Ladugårsdgärden - 50 policemen injured.
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June 22 -
Haakon VII and
Maud of Wales are crowned rulers of Norway.
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June 25 -
Harry K. Thaw shoots architect
Stanford White.
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June 29 - Mesa Verde declared a National Park.
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June 30 -
United States Congress passes the
Meat Inspection Act and
Pure Food and Drug Act.
July - August
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July 6 -
Second Geneva Convention.
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July 12 -
Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer hastily and wrongly convicted of treason in 1899, is exonerated. He is reinstalled in the French Army
July 21, ending the "
Dreyfus Affair" that exposed
anti-Semitism in French society.
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August 22 - The first Victor
Victrola, a phonographic record player, is manufactured.
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August 23 - Unable to control a rebellion in the newly-formed Cuban republic, Pres.
Tomás Estrada Palma requests U.S. intervention.
September - October
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September 5 -
Brandbury Robinson throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
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September 18 -
Typhoon with
tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 persons in
Hong Kong.
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September 22 -
Race riots in
Atlanta, Georgia. At least 27 people are killed and the black-owned business district is severely damaged.
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September 24 - U.S. President
Theodore Roosevelt proclaims
Devils Tower the nation's first
National Monument.
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September 30 - The first
Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team piloted the balloon "United States" landed in Fylingdales,
Yorkshire.
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October 1
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Grand Duchy of Finland becomes the first nation to adopt
universal suffrage, giving women the right to vote.
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The Madeira School, a private boarding school for girls, opens with twenty-eight students attending classes in two buildings on 19th Street just off Dupont Circle in downtown
Washington, DC.
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October 6 - The
Majlis of Iran convenes for the first time.
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October 11 - San Francisco public school board sparks
United States diplomatic crisis with
Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
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October 16 - Imposter
Wilhelm Voigt impersonates a
Prussian officer and takes over city hall in
Köpenick for a short time, amusing all of Germany and other countries.
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October 23 - Aeroplane of
Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off on
Bagatelle in
France and flies 60 meters (200 feet).
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October 28 - Creation of the
Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a Belgian mining trust in Congo.
November - December
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November 3 -
SOS becomes an international distress signal.
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November 9 - US President
Theodore Roosevelt leaves for a trip to
Panama to inspect the construction progress of the
Panama Canal (the first time a sitting
President of the United States makes an official trip outside of the
United States).
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November 22 - Russian Prime Min.
Peter Stolypin introduces
agrarian reforms aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.
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December 2 -
HMS Dreadnought commissioned. First all-big-gun warship.
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December 4 -
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first intercollegiate
Greek-letter fraternity established for
African Americans, is founded at
Cornell University.
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December 6 - Creation of district of
Chimbote.
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December 9 -
Grace Murray Hopper, pioneer computer scientist, is born in New York City, New York.
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December 10 - Pres.
Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating peace in the
Russo-Japanese War (
1905).
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December 24 -
Reginald Fessenden makes the first
radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
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December 26 - The world's first feature film, "
The Story of the Kelly Gang", is released.
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December 30 - The
All-India Muslim League, a political organization that represented the interests of Indian Muslims, is formed.
Undated
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Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunization for
tuberculosis first developed.
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Richard Oldham argues that the
Earth has a molten interior.
★ Construction begins on the current
Great Mosque of Djenné.
★ The
muffuletta sandwich is invented in
New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Belgian shopkeeper
Edgar Everaert creates Club Union
Football(soccer) team.
Births
January-February
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January 11 -
Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist
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January 14 -
William Bendix, American actor (d.
1964)
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January 15 -
Edna Staebler, Canadian author (d.
2006)
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January 21 -
Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer
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January 22 -
Robert E. Howard, American author (d.
1936)
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February 4
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Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d.
1997)
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German religious leader and resistance leader (d.
1945)
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February 10
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Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (d.
1973)
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Erik Rhodes, American actor (d.
1990)
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February 18 -
Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d.
1980)
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February 26 -
Madeleine Carroll, British actress (d.
1997)
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February 28 -
Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d.
1947)
March-April
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March 1 -
Pham Van Dong,
Prime Minister of Vietnam (d.
2000)
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March 4
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Meindert DeJong, American author (d.
1991)
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Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., American businessman (d.
2007)
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March 6 -
Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (d.
1978)
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March 7
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Elmar Lipping, Estonian statesman and soldier (d.
1994)
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Thomas Posey, doctor, medical scientist (d.
1990)
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March 12 -
Yin Shun, Chinese Buddhist master (d.
2005)
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March 16
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Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (d.
1998)
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Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer
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March 19 -
Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (d.
1962)
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March 20
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Abraham Beame, mayor of New York (d.
2001)
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Ozzie Nelson, American actor and band leader (d.
1975)
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March 26 -
Rafael Méndez, Mexican-born trumpet virtuoso (d.
1981)
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March 31 -
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1979)
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April 1 -
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Russian engineer and airplane designer (d.
1989)
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April 4 -
John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (d.
1995)
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April 9 -
Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (d.
1988)
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April 13 -
Samuel Beckett, Irish writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1989)
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April 22 -
Eddie Albert, American actor, gardener and humanitarian activist (d.
2005)
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April 25 -
William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d.
1997)
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April 28
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Kurt Gödel, Austrian logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (d.
1978)
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Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d.
1999)
May-June
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May 3 -
Mary Astor, American actress (d.
1987)
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May 6 -
André Weil, French mathematician (d.
1998)
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May 8 -
Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d.
1977)
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May 11 -
Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (d.
1980)
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May 12 -
Maurice Ewing, American geophysicist and oceanographer (d.
1974)
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May 15 -
Humberto Delgado, Portuguese general and politician (d.
1965)
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May 16
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Alfred Pellan, Canadian painter (d.
1988)
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Arturo Uslar-Pietri, Venezuelan writer (d.
2001)
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May 17 -
Zinka Milanov, Croatian-born soprano (d.
1989)
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May 19 -
Bruce Bennett, American athlete and actor (d.
2007)
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May 20 -
Giuseppe Siri, Italilan Roman Catholic cardinal (d.
1989)
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May 23
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Allan Scott, American screenwriter (d.
1995)
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Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (d.
1944)
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Willis Hudlin, baseball player (d.
2002)
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May 27 -
Buddhadasa, Buddhist monk (d.
1993)
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May 28 -
Phil Regan, American actor (d.
1996)
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May 29 -
T. H. White, British writer (d.
1964)
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May 30 -
Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (d.
1959)
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June 3 -
Josephine Baker, American actress (d.
1975)
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June 4 -
Ivan Knunyants, Soviet chemist (d.
1990)
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June 6 -
Max August Zorn, German-born mathematician (d.
1993)
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June 12 -
Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d.
1977)
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June 15 -
Léon Degrelle, Belgian fascist (d.
1994)
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June 19
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Earl W. Bascom, American rodeo pioneer, artist, inventor (d.
1995)
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Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1979)
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June 20
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Catherine Cookson, English author (d.
1998)
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Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (d.
2000)
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June 22
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (d.
2001)
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Billy Wilder, Austrian-born screenwriter, film director and producer (d.
2002)
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June 24 -
Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d.
1986)
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June 26 -
Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer
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June 28 -
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1972)
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June 30 -
Ralph Allen, English footballer (d.
1981)
July-August
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July 1 -
Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (d.
2004)
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July 2
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Hans Bethe, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2005)
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Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d.
1984)
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July 7
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William Feller, Croatian-born mathematician (d.
1970)
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Satchel Paige, black baseball player (d.
1982)
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July 11 -
Herbert Wehner, German politician (d.
1990)
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July 18 -
S. I. Hayakawa, English professor and academic, United States Senator (d.
1992)
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July 23 -
Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1998)
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July 25 -
José Figueres Ferrer,
President of Costa Rica (d.
1990)
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August 6 -
Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d.
1984)
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August 9 -
Robert Surtees, American cinematographer (d.
1985)
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August 12 -
Tedd Pierce, American animator (d.
1972)
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August 14 -
Horst P. Horst, German photographer (d.
1999)
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August 28 -
John Betjeman, English poet (d.
1984)
September-October
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September 1
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Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican politician and writer (d.
2002)
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Franz Biebl, German composer (d.
2001)
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September 4 -
Max Delbrück, German biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1981)
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September 6 -
Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1987)
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September 8 -
Andrei Kirilenko (politician), Soviet politician (d.
1990)
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September 17 -
Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist
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September 21 -
Henry Beachell, American plant breeder (d.
2006)
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September 25 -
Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d.
1975)
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October 6 -
Janet Gaynor, American actress (d.
1984)
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October 9 -
Léopold Sédar Senghor, first president of Senegal (d.
2001)
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October 10 -
Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Indian novelist (d.
2001)
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October 14
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★
Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d.
1949)
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Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (d.
1975)
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October 15 -
Hiram Fong, American businessman and politician (d.
2004)
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October 23 -
Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d.
2003)
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October 24 -
Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (d.
1996)
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October 27
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Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer
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Earle Cabell, American politician (d.
1975)
November-December
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November 2 -
Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and cinema director and writer (d.
1976)
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November 5 -
Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d.
2004)
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November 13 -
Eva Zeisel, Hungarian-born industrial designer
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November 14 -
Louise Brooks, American actress (d.
1985)
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November 16 -
Henri Charrière, French author (d.
1973)
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November 17 -
Soichiro Honda, Japanese industrialist (d.
1973)
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November 17 -
Rollie Stiles, baseball player (d.
2007)
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November 18
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★
Klaus Mann, German writer (d.
1949)
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★
George Wald, American scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1997)
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December 5 -
Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director (d.
1986)
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December 6 -
Ahn Eak-tae, Korean composer of classical music (d.
1965)
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December 9 -
Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and naval officer (d.
1992)
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December 16 -
Barbara Kent, Canadian actress
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December 17 -
William McChesney Martin, Jr., Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve (d.
1986)
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December 19 -
Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader (d.
1982)
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December 24 -
James Hadley Chase, English writer (d.
1985)
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December 25 -
Ernst Ruska, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1988)
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December 26 -
Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (d.
2003)
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December 27
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★
Andreas Feininger, French-born photographer (d.
1999)
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Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d.
1972)
Deaths
January - June
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January 29 - King
Christian IX of Denmark (b.
1818)
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February 8 -
Johanna Hiedler, grandmother of
Adolf Hitler (b.
1830)
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February 9 -
Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet and publisher (b.
1872)
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February 27 -
Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer (b.
1834)
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March 13 -
Susan B. Anthony, American civil rights and women's suffrage activist (b.
1820)
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March 19 -
Victor Fatio, zoologist (b.
1838)
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March 29 -
Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b.
1877)
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April 6 -
Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b.
1849)
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April 8 -
Auguste D, first person to be diagnosed with
Alzheimer's Disease (b.
1850)
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April 11 -
Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b.
1839)
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April 19 -
Pierre Curie, French physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1859)
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April 19 -
Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b.
1850)
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April 24 -
Mary Hunt, American temperance activist (b.
1830)
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May 14 -
Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and American statesman (b.
1829)
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May 23 -
Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (b.
1828)
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June 20 -
John Clayton Adams, British artist (b.
1840)
July - December
★
August 26 -
Victor, 5th duc de Broglie (b.
1846)
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September 1 -
Giuseppe Giacosa, poet and librettist (b.
1847)
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September 5 -
Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b.
1844)
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October 8 -
Adelaide Ristori, actress (b.
1822)
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October 22 -
Paul Cézanne, French painter (b.
1839)
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October 24 -
Vladimir Stasov, music critic (b.
1824)
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November 4 -
John H. Ketcham, American politician (b.
1832)
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November 16 -
Mother Veronica of the Passion, religious leader (b.
1823)
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December 7 -
Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and activist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1833)
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December 9 -
Ferdinand Brunetière, critic (b.
1849)
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December 21-
Acharya Rajendrasuri , (b.
1827 )
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
Sir Joseph John Thomson
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Chemistry -
Henri Moissan
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Medicine -
Camillo Golgi,
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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Literature -
Giosuè Carducci
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Peace -
Theodore Roosevelt
See also
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1906 (disambiguation)
Notes
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