1906: The Year in People

The Greatest Generation · Year of the Horse 🐎 · Born in 1906 turn 120 in 2026

The year in numbers

US president

Theodore Roosevelt

In the news: San Francisco earthquake devastates the city

What happened in 1906

1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1906th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 906th year of the 2nd millennium, the 6th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1906, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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Born in 1906

62 people in our data · most viewed first

Aristotle Onassis

1906–1975 · January 20

Greek and Argentine business magnate

Adolf Eichmann

1906–1962 · March 19

German SS officer and war criminal

Bugsy Siegel

1906–1947 · February 28

American mobster

Josephine Baker

1906–1975 · June 3

American and French entertainer

George Sanders

1906–1972 · July 3

British actor and singer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

1906–1945 · February 4

German Lutheran pastor and theologian

Billy Wilder

1906–2002 · June 22

Polish-American filmmaker

Estée Lauder (businesswoman)

1906–2004 · July 1

American businesswoman

Bea Benaderet

1906–1968 · April 4

American actress

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

1906–2001 · June 22

American aviator and author

Carol Reed

1906–1976 · December 30

English film director

Albert Hofmann

1906–2008 · January 11

Swiss chemist

Gale Gordon

1906–1995 · February 20

American actor

Anna Roosevelt Halsted

1906–1975 · May 3

American writer and socialite

Brother Theodore

1906–2001 · November 11

American actor

Hans Bethe

1906–2005 · July 2

German-American physicist

Giuseppe Farina

1906–1966 · October 30

Italian racing driver

Abraham Beame

1906–2001 · March 20

Mayor of New York City from 1974 to 1977

Emmanuel Levinas

1906–1995 · January 12

Lithuanian-French philosopher

Clyde Tombaugh

1906–1997 · February 4

American astronomer

A. J. P. Taylor

1906–1990 · March 25

English historian

Anthony Mann

1906–1967 · June 30

American film director

Albert Sabin

1906–1993 · August 26

Polish-American medical researcher

Arthur Rudolph

1906–1996 · November 9

German rocket engineer

Died in 1906

James Anthony Bailey1847–1906 · American circus proprietor
Carl Schurz1829–1906 · US Secretary of the Interior, Senator, German revolutionary
John B. Stetson1830–1906 · American hat maker
Jules Breton1827–1906 · French painter
Bartolomé Mitre1821–1906 · President of Argentina
Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts1814–1906 · British peeress and philanthropist
Anton Arensky1861–1906 · Russian composer, pianist and professor of music
Eduard von Hartmann1842–1906 · German philosopher
Harry Nelson Pillsbury1872–1906 · American chess player
Aleksandr Popov (physicist)1859–1906 · Russian physicist
Dame Gruev1871–1906 · Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary
Ezequiél Moreno y Díaz1848–1906 · Spanish Catholic friar