1906
Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)
Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years: 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 - 1906 - 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911
Births
- February 11 - Denis Barnett, British air chief marshal.
- March 19 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official responsible for the execution of the holocaust
- May 23 - Henrik Ibsen
- September 25 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer
- October 14 - Hannah Ahrend, German/American intellectual
- Robert E. Howard, fantasy author
- Kurt Gödel, US mathematician
Deaths
- April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher
- September 5 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist
Events
- Physics - Sir Joseph John Thomson
- Chemistry - Henri Moissan
- Medicine - Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal
- Literature - Giosuè Carducci
- Peace - Theodore Roosevelt