1906
Centuries: 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
Events:
- BCG (Bacilli-Calmette-Guerin) immunization for Tuberculosis first developed
- Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior
- December 24 - The first radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, broadcasts
Art, Culture & Fashion
- 1906 in film
- 1906 in literature
- What is Man? by Mark Twain
- 1906 in music
- 1906 in sports
Births:
- January 12 - Henny Youngman, comedian
- February 4 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian in Nazi Germany
- February 11 - Denis Barnett, British air chief marshal.
- March 19 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official responsible for the execution of the holocaust
- April 13 - Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1969
- April 28 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian/US mathematician
- August 7 - Nelson Goodman, philosopher and coiner of the term "irrealism"
- August 27 - Ed Gein, serial killer
- September 25 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer
- October 14 - Hannah Ahrend, German/US intellectual
- Robert E. Howard, fantasy author
Deaths:
- March 13 - Susan B. Anthony, civil rights and women's suffrage activist
- April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher
- May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright
- September 5 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist