In the year 1906, Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered (Mar 15), Mount Vesuvius erupts, devastating Naples (Apr 7), the 1906 San Francisco earthquake takes place (Apr 18), the RMS Lusitania, the world’s largest ship, is launched in Glasgow (Jun 7), a magnitude 8.2 earthquake in Chile kills thousands (Aug 16), the first phonographic record player is manufactured (Aug 22), Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa (Sep 11), the Grand Duchy of Finland becomes the first nation to adopt universal suffrage (Oct 1), SOS becomes an international distress signal (Nov 3), the world’s first submarine, the U-1, enters the German Navy (Dec 14), the world’s first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, is released (Dec 26) - and all these fine people were born:
1906-0111 Albert Hofmann* scientist/LSD experimenter - Baden, Switzerland (2008/102)
1906-0115 Aristotle Onassis* Greek shipping magnate - Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (1975/69)
1906-0119 Robin Hyde* poet - Cape Town, Cape Colony, Great Britain (1939/33)
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1906-0122 Robert E. Howard* writer/regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre - Peaster, TX USA (1936/30)
1906-0127 Atos Wirtanen* left-wing intellectual/journalist/lover of Tove Jansson - Saltvik, Åland, GD of Finland (1979/73)
1906-0204 Dietrich Bonhoeffer* pastor/theologian/ anti-Nazi dissident - Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (1945/39)
1906-0204 Clyde Tombaugh* astronomer/ dicoverer of Pluto - Streator, IL USA (1997/90)
1906-0205 John Carradine* actor - New York, NY USA (1988/82)
1906-0208 Chester Carlson* inventor of electrophotography - Seattle, WA USA (1968/62)
1906-0216 Vera Menchik* British-Czechoslovak chess player/the first women’s world chess champion - Moscow, Russian Empire (1944/38)
1906-0218 Hans Asperger* pediatrician/ eugenicist/discoverer of Asperger syndrome - Vienna, Austria-Hungary (1980/74)
1906-0221 Ahti Paulaharju* colonel/museum manager/historian - Oulu, GD of Finland (1971/65)
1906-0228 Bugsy Siegel* gangster - Brooklyn, NY USA (1947/41)
1906-0301 Abdus Sattar* lawyer/ politician/P - Birbhum, Bengal Presidency, British India (1985/79)
1906-0306 Lou Costello* (b Cristillo) actor/ comedian (The Abbott and Costello Show) - Paterson, NJ USA (1959/52)
1906-0308 Victor Hasselblad* inventor/photographer - Gothenburg, Sweden (1978/72)
1906-0316 Francisco Ayala* novelist - Granada, Spain (2009/103)
1906-0317 Ermance Rejebian* Armenian-American book reviewer/broadcaster/writer - Ottoman Empire (1989/83)
1906-0319 Adolf Eichmann* Nazi war criminal - Solingen, German Empire (1956/62)
1906-0319 Roy Roberts* actor - Dade City, FL USA (1975/69)
1906-0325 A. J. P. Taylor* historian - Southport, Lancashire, England (1990/84)
1906-0326 Rafael Méndez* virtuoso solo trumpeter - Jiquilpan, Michoacán, Mexico (1981/75)
1906-0331 Shinichiro Tomonaga*朝永 振一郎 physicist/N - Tokyo, Japan (1979/73)
1906-0401 Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev* aeronautical engineer/designer of the Yakovlev military aircraft - Moscow, Russian Empire (1989/83)
1906-0404 Bea Benaderet* actress/ comedienne - New York City, NY USA (1968/62)
1906-0404 Reino Valkama* actor/ comedian/father of Ritva Valkama - Tampere, GD of Finland (1962/56)
1906-0411 Dale Messick* comic strip artist (Brenda Starr, Reporter) - South Bend, IN USA (2005/98)
1906-0413 Samuel Beckett* novelist/ playwright/ theater director - Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland (1989/83)
1906-0414 Broda Otto Barnes* physician/ medical researcher - Missouri, USA (1988/82)
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1906-0422 Eddie Albert* actor/ activist - Rock Island, IL USA (2005/99)
1906-0422 Gustaf Adolf Bernadotte* Prince of Sweden/father of Carl XVI Gustaf - Stockholm, Sweden (1947/40)
1906-0424 William Joyce* WWII Nazi propagandist - Brooklyn, NY USA (1946/39)
1906-0425 Sally Salminen* writer - Vårdö, Finland (1976/70)
1906-0428 Kurt Gödel* logician/ mathematician/philosopher - Brünn, Austria-Hungary (1978/71)
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1906-0503 Mary Astor* actress/author - Quincy, IL USA (1987/81)
1906-0508 Roberto Rossellini* film director - Rome, Italy (1977/71)
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1906-0519 Bruce Bennett* (b Herman Brix) athlete (shot put/OS)/ actor - Tacoma, WA USA (2007/100)
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1906-0528 Matti Lehtelä* actor - Riihimäki, GD of Finland (1971/64)
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1906-0609 Huguette Clark* American painter/ heiress/philanthropist - Paris, France (2011/104)
1906-0619 Earl W. Bascom* painter/ rodeo performer/ inventor - Vernal, UT USA (1995/89)
1906-0622 Billy Wilder* film director - Sucha, Austria-Hungary (2002/95)
1906-0628 Maria Goeppert-Mayer* physicist/N - Kattowitz, German Empire (1972/65)
1906-0701 Esteé Lauder* cosmetics manufacturer - Queens, NY USA (2004/97)
1906-0703 George Sanders* actor - St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (1972/65)
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1906-0716 Lee Barnes* athlete (pole vault/OG) - Salt Lake City, UT USA (1970/64)
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1906-0725 Takashi Shimokawara* 下川原 孝 centenarian masters athlete - Kamaishi, Japan (2011/104)
1906-0727 Gunnar Ericsson* politician/artist/brother of Astrid Lindgren - Wimmerby, Sweden (1974/67)
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1906-0802 Harry Kozol* American neurologist/pioneer in forensic psychiatry and neuropsychiatry - USA (2008/102)
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1906-0819 Philo Farnsworth* inventor/ television pioneer - Beaver, UT USA (1971/64)
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1906-0826 Albert Sabin* (b Abram Saperstejn) Polish-American medical researcher/developer of the oral polio vaccine/to U.S. at age 14 - Bialystok, Russian Empire (1993/86)
1906-0827 Eino Penttilä* athlete (javelin) - Joutseno, GD of Finland (1982/76)
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1906-0901 Milton Horn* Russian-American sculptor/artist/to U.S. at age 6 - Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire (1995/88)
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1906-0914 Ludmila Anatolievna Yaroshevskaya* pianist/composer - KIev, Ukraine, Russian Empire (1975/68)
1906-0915 Henny Waljus* actress - Liperi, GD of Finland (1991/84)
1906-0919 Bedrich Fritta* artist/cartoonist/Holocaust victim - Visnova, Czechoslovakia (1944/38)
1906-0920
1906-0925 Dmitri Shostakovich* pianist/composer - St. Petersburg, Russia (1975/68)
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1906-1004 Celestino Cobiella Zaera* physician active in Tenerife - Maranchón, Spain (1990/83)
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1906-1014 Hannah Arendt* German-American philosopher/ political theorist - Linden, Prussia, German Empire (1975/69)
1906-1017 Joe Albertson* businessman/founder of the Albertsons chain of grocery stores - Yukon, Oklahoma Territory USA (1993/86)
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1906-1030 Giuseppe Farina* racing driver/WC - Turin, Piedmont, Kingdom of Italy (1966/59)
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1906-1106 James D. Norris* sports businessman - Chicago, IL USA (1966/59)
1906-1113 Hermione Baddeley* actress - Broseley, Shropshire, England (1986/79)
1906-1120 Caroline Mikkelsen* Danish-Norwegian explorer - Denmark (1998/91)
1906-1122 Karl-Gustaf Björk* middle-distance runner - Visby, Sweden (1984/78)
1906-1203 Aili Elisabet Kuivaniemi** (b Hakoniemi) married to Niilo Mikael Kuivaniemi - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1985/78)
1906-1205 Otto Preminger* film director - Wiznitz, Austria-Hungary (1986/79)
1906-1209 Grace Hopper* computer scientist/Navy rear admiral - New York City, NY USA (1992/85)
1906-1219 Leonid Brezhnev* politician - Kamenskoe, Russian Empire (1982/75)
1906-1225 Clark Clifford* lawyer/ presidential adviser - Fort Scott, KS USA (1998/91)
1906-1225 Avraham Even-Shoshan* Hebrew linguist/lexicographer/compiler of the Even-Shoshan dictionary - Minsk, Belarus, Russian Empire (1984/77)
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