1906 Deaths

Events

January–February

* January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, and establish a national assembly, the Majlis.
* January 16–April 7 – The Algeciras Conference convenes, to resolve the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany.
* January 22 – The strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, Canada, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster.
* January 31 – The Ecuador–Colombia earthquake (8.8 on the Moment magnitude scale), and associated tsunami, cause at least 500 deaths.
* February 7 – is launched, sparking a naval race between Britain and Germany.
* February 11
** Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical ''Vehementer Nos'', denouncing the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State.
** Two British members of a poll tax collecting expedition are killed near Richmond, Natal, sparking the Bambatha Rebellion.

March–April

* March 4 – Native American tribal governments are terminated in Indian Territory, a prerequisite for creating the US state of Oklahoma in 1907.
* March 10 – Courrières mine disaster: An explosion in a coal mine in France kills 1,060.
* March 18 – In France, Romanian inventor Traian Vuia becomes the first person to achieve an unassisted takeoff in a heavier-than-air powered monoplane, but it is incapable of sustained flight.
* April 14 – The Azusa Street Revival, the primary catalyst for the revival of Pentecostalism this century, opens in Los Angeles.
* April 18
** The San Francisco Earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, killing at least 3,000, with 225,000–300,000 left homeless, and $350 million in damages.
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* April 23 – In the Russian Empire, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.

May–June

* May 27
** The first inmates are moved to the Culion leper colony by the American Insular Government of the Philippine Islands.
** Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 6 receives its premiere at the Saalbau Essen in Germany conducted by the composer.
* May 29 – Karl Staaff steps down as Prime Minister of Sweden over the issue of expanded voting rights. He is replaced by right-wing naval officer and public official Arvid Lindman.
* May 31 – Morral affair: The attempted regicide of Spanish King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenie on their wedding day instead kills 24 bystanders.
* June 7 – Cunard liner is launched in Glasgow, as the world's largest ship.
* June 26 – The first Grand Prix in automobile racing is the 1906 French Grand Prix held at Le Mans in France.

July–August

* July 6 – The Second Geneva Convention meets.
* July 12 – Alfred Dreyfus is exonerated. He is reinstalled in the French Army on July 21, thus ending the Dreyfus affair.
* July 20 – In the Grand Duchy of Finland, a new electoral law is ratified, guaranteeing full women's suffrage, the first in modern Europe. Women can also stand in national elections.
* August 4 – The first Imperial German Navy submarine, ''U-1'', is launched.
* August 16 – 1906 Valparaíso earthquake: A magnitude 8.2 earthquake in Valparaíso, Chile leaves approximately 20,000 injured.
* August 23 – Unable to control a rebellion, Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma requests United States intervention. This leads to the Second Occupation of Cuba, which lasts until 1909.

September–October

* September 11 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term ''Satyagraha'', to characterize the nonviolence movement in South Africa.
* September 18 – A typhoon and tsunami kill an estimated 10,000 in Hong Kong.
* September 20 – The RMS Mauretania is launched at the River Tyne becoming the world’s largest ship.
* September 30 – The first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team, piloting the balloon ''United States'', lands in Fylingdales, Yorkshire, England.
* October 1 – The Grand Duchy of Finland becomes the first nation to include the right of women to stand as candidates, when it adopts universal suffrage.
* October 6 – The Majlis of Iran convenes for the first time.
* October 11 – A United States diplomatic crisis with Japan arises, when the San Francisco public school board orders Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools ( it is resolved by next year).
* October 16 – Imposter Wilhelm Voigt impersonates a Prussian officer, and takes over the city hall in Köpenick for a short time.
* October 23 – An aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off at Bagatelle in France, and flies 60 meters (200 feet). This is the first officially recorded powered flight in Europe.
* October 28 – The Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a Belgian mining trust, is created in the Congo.

November–December

* November 1 – International Exhibition opens in Christchurch, New Zealand.
* November 3 – becomes adopted internationally as a distress signal (originally for ship-to-shore wireless telegraphy) on inclusion in the service regulations of the first International Radiotelegraph Convention signed in Berlin and coming into effect on 1 July 1908.
* November 18 – The steamboat ''Dix'' sinks en route from Seattle to Port Blakely claiming the lives of approximately 50 passengers and crew.
* November 22 – Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms, aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.
* December 4 – Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity forms at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; it is the first Black Greek-lettered collegiate order of its kind.
* December 15 – The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
* December 22 – The 7.9 1906 Manasi earthquake in Xinjiang, China kills nearly 300 people.
* December 24 – Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts.
* December 26 – The world's first feature film, ''The Story of the Kelly Gang'', is first shown, at the Melbourne Athenaeum in Australia.
* December 30 – The All-India Muslim League is founded as a political party in Dhaka in the British Raj; it becomes a driving force for the creation of an independent Pakistan.

Date unknown

* The BCG vaccine for tuberculosis is first developed.
* '' Függetlenség'', a Hungarian language daily newspaper, is founded.
* Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior.
* Construction begins on the modern-day Great Mosque of Djenné.
* The Simplo Filler Pen Company is founded, later to become the Montblanc Company in Germany.
* HaRishon Le Zion-Yafo Association is officially founded as a sports club in Palestine, predecessor of Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel).

Births

January–February

* January 6 – Walter Battiss, South African artist (d. 1982)
* January 11 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (d. 2008)
* January 12 – Eric Birley)
* January 13 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist (d. 2017)
* January 14 – William Bendix, American film, radio and television actor (d. 1964)
* January 15 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975)
* January 16 – Diana Wynyard, English actress (d. 1964)
* January 20 – Bretaigne Windust, American stage, film and television director (d. 1960)
* January 21 – Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007)
* January 22 – Robert E. Howard, American pulp fiction writer (suicide 1936)
* January 28 – Pat O'Callaghan, Irish athlete (d. 1991)
* February 4
** Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German religious, resistance leader (executed 1945)
** Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d. 1997)
* February 5 – John Carradine, American actor (d. 1988)
* February 7
** Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984)
** Puyi, Last Emperor of China (d. 1967)
* February 8 – Chester Carlson, American physicist, inventor (d. 1968)
* February 10
** Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
** Erik Rhodes, American actor and singer (d. 1990)
* February 14 – Nazim al-Qudsi, 26th Prime Minister of Syria and 14th President of Syria (d. 1998)
* February 17
** Mary Brian, American actress (d. 2002)
** Galo Plaza, 29th President of Ecuador (d. 1987)
** Käte Selbmann, German politician (d. 1962)
* February 18 – Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)
* February 22 – Helge Kjærulff-Schmidt, Danish actor (d. 1982)
* February 26 – Madeleine Carroll, British actress (d. 1987)
* February 28 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (k. 1947)

March–April

* March 1
** Phạm Văn Đồng, Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2000)
** Abdus Sattar, 8th President of Bangladesh (d. 1985)
* March 6 – Lou Costello, American actor (d. 1959)
* March 7 – Elmar Lipping, Estonian statesman, soldier (d. 1994)
* March 8 – Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor, photographer (d. 1978)
* March 12 – Yin Shun, Chinese Buddhist master (d. 2005)
* March 13 – Dave Kaye, British pianist (d. 1996)''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007'' atabase on-line London, England: General Register Office.
* March 16 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish novelist (d. 2009)
* March 17
** Brigitte Helm, German film actress (d. 1996)
** Ermance Rejebian, Armenian American book reviewer, lecturer, broadcaster and writer (d. 1989)
* March 19
** Adolf Eichmann, German war criminal (executed 1962)
** Roy Roberts, American actor (d. 1975)
* March 20 – Ozzie Nelson, American actor, director and producer (d. 1975)
* March 21 – Jim Thompson, American businessman (disappeared 1967)
* March 25 – A. J. P. Taylor, English historian (d. 1990)
* March 26
** Rafael Méndez, Mexican trumpet player (d. 1981)
** Ronald Urquhart, British general (d. 1968)
* March 31 – Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
* April 1 – Alexander Yakovlev, Russian engineer, airplane designer (d. 1989)
* April 4 – Bea Benaderet, American actress (d. 1968)
* April 6 – Luis Alberti, Dominican Republic musician (d. 1976)
* April 6 – Virginia Hall, American spy with the Special Operations Executive during WWII (d. 1982)
* April 9 – Antal Doráti, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988)
* April 11 – Julia Clements, English flower arranger and author (d. 2010)
* April 13 – Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
* April 14 – Broda Otto Barnes, American medical researcher (d. 1988)
* April 22 – Eddie Albert, American actor and activist (d. 2005)
* April 24 – William Joyce, Irish-American World War II Nazi propaganda broadcaster ("Lord Haw-Haw") (executed 1946)
* April 25
** Joel Brand, Hungarian rescue worker (d. 1964)
** William J. Brennan Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1997)
** A. W. Haydon, American inventor (d. 1982)
* April 28
** Tony Accardo, American gangster (d. 1992)
** Kurt Gödel, Austrian logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (d. 1978)
** Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)
*April 29 – Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1989)

May–June

* May 2 – Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American photographer (d. 1979)
* May 3 – Mary Astor, American actress and writer (d. 1987)
* May 6 – André Weil, French mathematician (d. 1998)
* May 7 – Jon Lormer, American actor (d. 1986)
* May 8 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d. 1977)
* May 10 – António Ferreira Gomes, Portuguese Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1989)
* May 11
** Jacqueline Cochran, American aviator (d. 1980)
** Richard Arvin Overton, oldest living man in the United States and oldest surviving American veteran (World War II) (d. 2018)
** Ethel Weed, American promoter of Japanese women's rights (d. 1975)
* May 15 – Humberto Delgado, Portuguese general, politician (d. 1965)
* May 16 – Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer (d. 2001)
* May 17 – Jack Carr, American actor and animator (d. 1967)
* May 19
** Bruce Bennett, American athlete, actor (d. 2007)
** Jimmy MacDonald, Scottish-American sound effects artist, voice actor (d. 1991)
* May 20 – Giuseppe Siri, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1989)
* May 23 – Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (d. 1944)
* May 27 – Buddhadasa, Buddhist monk (d. 1993)
* May 29 – T. H. White, British writer (d. 1964)
* May 30 – Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (d. 1959)
* June 3 – Josephine Baker, American-born French entertainer (d. 1975)
* June 4 – Ivan Knunyants, Soviet chemist (d. 1990)
* June 6 – Max August Zorn, German-born American mathematician (d. 1993)
* June 10 – Tekla Juniewicz, Polish supercentenarian, oldest Polish person ever, last surviving person born in 1906 (d. 2022)
* June 12 – Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
* June 15 – Léon Degrelle, Belgian fascist (d. 1994)
* June 17
** James H. Flatley, American admiral, aviator (d. 1958)
** Olli Ungvere, Estonian actress (d. 1991)
* June 19 – Sir Ernst Chain, German-born British biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
* June 21 – Grete Sultan, German-American pianist (d. 2005)
* June 22
** George W. Clarke, American politician (d. 2006)
** Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author, aviator (d. 2001)
** Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American screenwriter, film director and producer (d. 2002)
* June 24
** Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)
** George Alexander Gale, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
* June 26
** Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer, teacher, sculptor and artist (d. 2008)
** M. P. Sivagnanam, Indian politician (d. 1995)
* June 27 – Catherine Cookson, English author (d. 1998)
* June 28
** Maria Goeppert Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
** Yoshimi Ueda, Japanese basketball player, administrator (d. 1996)
* June 29 – Heinz Harmel, German officer (d. 2000)

July–August

* July 1
** Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician, academic (d. 1992)
** Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 2004)
** Ivan Neill, British Army officer and Irish Unionist politician (d. 2001)
* July 2
** Hans Bethe, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
** Károly Kárpáti, Hungarian Jewish wrestler (d. 1996)
** Séra Martin, French middle-distance runner (d. 1993)
* July 3
** Alberto Lleras Camargo, Colombian politician, 20th President of Colombia (d. 1990)
** George Sanders, British actor (d. 1972)
* July 4 – Vincent Schaefer, American chemist, meteorologist (d. 1993)
* July 7
** William Feller, Croatian-born mathematician (d. 1970)
** Helene Johnson, African-American poet (d. 1995)
** Hugh McMahon, Scottish footballer (d. 1997)
** Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
* July 8 – Philip Johnson, American architect (d. 2005)
* July 9 – Roy Leaper, Australian rules footballer (d. 2002)
* July 10 – Ad Liska, American baseball pitcher (d. 1998)
* July 11 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)
* July 12 – Pietro Tordi, Italian actor (d. 1990)
* July 14 – Stan Devenish Meares, Australian obstetrician, gynaecologist (d. 1994)
* July 16
** Ichimaru, Japanese singer (d. 1997)
** Vincent Sherman, American director, actor (d. 2006)
** James Still, American poet, novelist and folklorist (d. 2001)
* July 17
** Leonila Garcia, 8th First Lady of the Philippines (d. 1994)
** Dunc Gray, Australian track cyclist (d. 1996)
* July 18
** Sidney Darlington, American engineer (d. 1997)
** S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-born American academic, politician (d. 1992)
** Speed Webb, American jazz drummer, territory band leader (d. 1994)
* July 21 – Caroline Smith, American diver (d. 1994)
* July 23 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
* August 5
** Joan Hickson, British actress (d. 1998)
** John Huston, American film director, screenwriter, and actor (d. 1987)
** Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
* August 5 – Marie-José of Belgium, last Queen of Italy (d. 2001)
* August 14 – Horst P. Horst, German photographer (d. 1999)
* August 17 – Marcelo Caetano, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
* August 19 – Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (d. 1971)
* August 23 – Zoltan Sarosy, Canadian chess master (d. 2017)
* August 26 – Albert Sabin, Polish-American medical researcher (d. 1993)
* August 27 – Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
* August 28 – John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
* August 30 – Joan Blondell, American actress (d. 1979)

September

* September 1
** Joaquín Balaguer, 41st, 45th, & 49th President of the Dominican Republic, writer (d. 2002)
** Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
** Eleanor Burford, English writer (d. 1993)
* September 2 – Barbara Jo Allen, American actress (d. 1974)
* September 4 – Max Delbrück, German biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
* September 5
** Ralston Crawford, American abstract painter, lithographer, and photographer (d. 1978)
** Sunnyland Slim, American blues pianist (d. 1995)
* September 6 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-born Argentine chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
* September 8 – Andrei Kirilenko, Soviet politician (d. 1990)
* September 12 – Lee Erwin, American television writer (d. 1972)
* September 17 – J. R. Jayewardene, President of Sri Lanka (d. 1996)
* September 25
** José Figueres Ferrer, 32nd, 34th, & 38th President of Costa Rica (d. 1990)
** Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
* September 27 – William Empson, English poet, critic (d. 1984)

October

* October 6 – Janet Gaynor, American Academy Award-winning actress (d. 1984)
* October 9
** Georges Marie Anne, politician (d. 2001)
** Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1st President of Senegal (d. 2001)
* October 10 – Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
* October 14
** Imam Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
** Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (d. 1975)
* October 19 – Bandō Mitsugorō VIII, Japanese actor (d. 1975)
* October 23 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
* October 24 – Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (d. 1996)
* October 26 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (d. 1967)
* October 27 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (d. 2010)
* October 29 – Fredric Brown, American writer (d. 1972)

November–December

* November 2
** Ferit Melen, 14th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 1988)
** Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre, cinema director, writer (d. 1976)
* November 4 – Willie Love, American Delta blues pianist (d. 1953)
* November 5
** Philip Roberts, British general (d. 1997)
** Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
* November 9 – Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer (d. 1996)
* November 10 – Josef Kramer, German Nazi concentration camp commandant (d. 1945)
* November 13
** Wanrong, last Empress of China (d. 1946)
** Hermione Baddeley, English character actress (d. 1986)
** Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan business tycoon (d. 1979)
* November 14
** Albrecht Becker, German production designer, photographer, and actor (d. 2002)
** Louise Brooks, American actress (d. 1985)
* November 15 – Curtis LeMay, United States Air Force general, vice-presidential candidate (d. 1990)
* November 16 – Henri Charrière, French author (d. 1973)
* November 17
** Betty Bronson, American actress (d. 1979)
** Soichiro Honda, Japanese industrialist (d. 1991)
* November 18
** Alec Issigonis, Greek-born British automobile designer (d. 1988)
** Klaus Mann, German writer (d. 1949)
** George Wald, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
* November 19 – Patriarch Paul II Cheikho (b. 1989)
* November 22 – Jørgen Juve, Norwegian football player and journalist (d. 1983)
* November 24 – Don MacLaughlin, American actor (d. 1986)
* December 2
** Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born American engineer (d. 1977)
** Franz Reichleitner, Austrian SS officer and Nazi concentration camp commandant (d. 1944)
** Donald Woods, Canadian-American film, television actor (d. 1998)
* December 5 – Ahn Eak-tai, Korean composer (d. 1965)
* December 9 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist, naval officer (d. 1992)
* December 13
** Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (d. 1968)
** Laurens van der Post, South African author, journalist (d. 1996)
* December 19 – Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader (d. 1982)
* December 24 – James Hadley Chase, English writer (d. 1985)
* December 25 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
* December 26 – Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer, actress (d. 2003)
* December 27 – Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d. 1972)
* December 30
** Alziro Bergonzo, Italian architect, painter (d. 1997)
** Carol Reed, English film director (d. 1976)

Date Unknown

* Abdul Aziz Khan Kaka, Pashtun Anti-Colonial Politician who defeated the Imperial Crown's Political Agent, Sir Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum Khan in the elections of 1936 (d. 1987)

Deaths

January–June

* January 1 – Todor Ivanchov, 11th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1858)
* January 13 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859)
* January 18 – Sir William Forbes Gatacre, British general (b. 1843)
* January 19 – Bartolomé Mitre, Argentine statesman, military figure and author, 6th President of Argentina (b. 1821)
* January 20 – Maria Cristina of the Immaculate Conception Brando, Italian Roman Catholic nun, saint (b. 1856)
* January 25 – Joseph Wheeler, American general, politician (b. 1836)
* January 29 – King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
* February 8 – Giuseppina Gabriella Bonino, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed (b. 1843)
* February 9 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet and publisher (b. 1872)
* February 13 – Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
* February 18 – John B. Stetson, American hat maker (b. 1830)
* February 26 – Jean Lanfray, Swiss convicted murderer (b. 1874)
* February 27 – Samuel Langley, American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer (b. 1834)
* March 1 – José María de Pereda, Spanish writer (b. 1833)
* March 4 – John Schofield, American general (b. 1831)
* March 8 – Henry Baker Tristram, English clergyman, ornithologist (b. 1822)
* March 12 – Manuel Quintana, 15th President of Argentina (b. 1835)
* March 13
** Susan B. Anthony, American civil rights, women's suffrage activist (b. 1820)
** Joseph Monier, French gardener, inventor (b. 1823)
* March 17 – Johann Most, German-American anarchist (b. 1846)
* March 19 – Victor Fatio, Swiss zoologist (b. 1838)
* March 20 – Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, American author of juvenile literature for girls (b. 1824)
* March 23 – Thomas Lake Harris, American poet (b. 1823)
* March 29
** Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter (b. 1877)
** Albert Sorel, French historian (b. 1842)
* April 6 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b. 1849)
* April 19
** Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
** Spencer Gore, British tennis player, cricketer (b. 1850)
* April 25 – John Knowles Paine, American composer (b. 1839)
* May 10 – Hashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin, Sultan of Brunei (b. 1825)
* May 14 – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary, American statesman (b. 1829)
* May 23 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (b. 1828)
* June 5 – Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
* June 10 – Richard Seddon, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1845)
* June 17 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess champion (b. 1872)
* June 25 – Stanford White, American architect (b. 1853)

July–December

* July 1 – Manuel García, Spanish opera singer, music educator and vocal pedagogue (b. 1805)
* July 11 – Grace Brown, American murder/and or drowning victim (b. 1886)
* July 17 – Carlos Pellegrini, 11th President of Argentina (b. 1846)
* August 6 – George Waterhouse, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824)
* August 14 – Aniceto Arce, 27th President of Bolivia (b. 1824)
* August 19 – Ezequiél Moreno y Díaz, Colombian Roman Catholic priest, saint (b. 1848)
* September 1 – Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian poet, librettist (b. 1847)
* September 5 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1854)
* September 13 – Emily Pitts Stevens, American school founder (b. 1841)
* September 23 – August Bondeson, Swedish author (b. 1844)
* October 9 – Adelaide Ristori, Italian actress (b. 1822)
* October 16 – Varina Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States of America (b. 1826)
* October 19
** Arthur von Mohrenheim, Russian diplomat (b. 1824)
** Charles Pfizer, German-American chemist, co-founder of ''Pfizer'' (b. 1824)
* October 22 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
* October 23 – Vladimir Stasov, Russian music critic (b. 1824)
* October 30 – Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, British politician (b. 1814)
* November 1 – Archduke Otto of Austria (b. 1865)
* November 7 – Todor Burmov, 1st Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1834)
* November 9 – Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity, French Discalced Carmelite religious professed and saint (b. 1880)
* November 12 – William Rufus Shafter, American general (b. 1835)
* November 16 – Mother Veronica of the Passion, Ottoman-born religious leader (b. 1823)
* November 19, – Georgia Cayvan, American stage actress (b. 1857)
* November 28 – Jennie Yeamans, Australian-born American actress (b. 1862)
* November 30 – Sir Edward Reed, British naval architect, author, politician, and railroad magnate (b. 1830)
* December 7 – Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)
* December 8 – Sylvia Gerrish, American musical theatre star (b. 1860)
* December 13 – Jan Gerard Palm, Dutch composer (b. 1831)
* December 21 – Rajendrasuri, Indian religious reformer (b. 1827)
* December 30 – Josephine Butler, British feminist, social reformer (b. 1828)

Nobel Prizes

* Physics – J. J. Thomson
* Chemistry – Henri Moissan
* Medicine – Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal
* Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Giosuè Carducci
* Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Theodore Roosevelt

References

Sources

* , comprehensive guide to political events worldwide; emphasis on Britain

Further reading

* Gilbert, Martin. ''A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933'' (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 123 – 42.
* ''Hazell's Annual for 1907'' (1907), worldwide events of 1906; 734pp
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