1906
1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1870s 1880s 1890s – 1900s – 1910s 1920s 1930s |
| Years: | 1903 1904 1905 – 1906 – 1907 1908 1909 |
Events
- April 18 – An earthquake in San Francisco, California kills at least three thousand people.
- Camillo Golgi, Italian doctor, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Santiago Ramón y Cajal
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish doctor, won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Camillo Golgi
Births
- January 11 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss scientist, invented LSD
- January 14 - William Bendix, American actor (d. 1964)
- March 6 – Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (d. 1959)
- April 13 – Samuel Beckett, Irish writer (d. 1989)
- April 28 – Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American mathematician (d. 1978)
- July 14 – William H. Tunner, American World War II general (d. 1983)
- August 27 – Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
- September 25 – José Figueres Ferrer, President of Costa Rica (d. 1990)
- September 25 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Soviet composer (d. 1975)
- October 30 – Alexander Gode, German-American linguist and translator (d. 1970)
- November 14 – Louise Brooks, American actress and dancer (d. 1985)
- December 19 – Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
Hit songs
- "Anchors Aweigh"
Movies Released
- Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, the first animated movie
- The Story of the Kelly Gang, the first feature-length movie
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