Historical Figures Born in 1906

Albert Hofmann (1906-2008)

Jan 11 Swiss chemist who first synthesized and ingested LSD, born in Baden, Switzerland

Jan 11 Robert Nesbitt, English theatre impresario (Royal Variety Show), born in London, England (d. 1995)

Zhou Youguang (1906-2017)

Jan 13 Chinese economist and linguist known as the "father of pinyin", born in Changchow, Kiangsu, Qing Empire

Jan 15 Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate, born in Konak, Turkey (d. 1975)
Jan 16 Clement Greenberg, American art critic (Art & Culture), born in New York City (d. 1994)
Jan 18 Hans Aeschbacher, Swiss sculptor (Venus de Six-Tours), born in Switzerland (d. 1980)
Jan 21 Fred Fehl, Austrian-American photographer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1995)
Jan 21 Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007)
Jan 21 John Putz, British journalist (Guardian) (d. 1995)
Jan 22 Robert E. Howard, American pulp fiction author (Conan the Barbarian), born in Peaster, Texas (d. 1936)
Jan 22 Willa Brown, American air pioneer (NAAA) and civil rights activist (1st African American woman to hold a pilot's license), born in Glasgow, Kentucky (d. 1992)
Jan 24 Norman Cook, British museum curator (d. 1994)
Jan 28 Harry van Kruiningen, Dutch painter and graphic artist, born in Kruiningen, Netherlands (d. 1996)
Feb 3 George Adamson [Baba ya Simba - "Father of Lions"], British conservationist (Born Free), born in Etawah, India (d. 1989)
Feb 4 Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (discovered Pluto), born in Streator, Illinois (d. 1997)
Feb 4 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor, theologist and anti-Nazi dissident (Confessing Church), born in Breslau, Silesia, German Empire (d. 1945)
Feb 7 Henry P'u-i, last emperor of China, puppet emperor of Manchukuo
Feb 7 Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984)
Feb 8 Chester F. Carlson, American inventor (photocopy), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1968)
Feb 8 Henry Roth, American writer (Call it Sleep), born in Tysmenitz, Austria-Hungary (d. 1995)
Feb 9 André Kostolany, stock market expert and speculator (d. 1999)
Feb 10 Henry Phelps Brown, British historian and economist, born in Calne (d. 1994)
Feb 10 Walraven (Wally) van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis
Feb 11 Denis Barnett, British air chief marshal (WWII, Suez Canal) (d. 1992)
Feb 13 Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1994)
Feb 15 Stephen Brown, CEO (Stone-Platt Industries)
Feb 17 Galo Plaza Lasso, President of Ecuador (1948-52), head of OAS (1968-75)
Feb 18 Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician and eponym of Asperger syndrome, born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1980)
Feb 24 Alexis Curvers, Belgian author (Tempo di Roma, Bourg-le-Rond)
Feb 25 Domingo Ortega, Spanish bullfighter
Feb 25 Howard Zahniser, Father of Wilderness Act
Feb 26 Nikos Ghika, Greek artist, born in Athens (d. 1994)
Feb 27 H Algernon F "Algy" Rumbold, English diplomat (South Africa/Tibet)

Bugsy Siegel (1906-1947)

Feb 28 American gangster who created casinos in Las Vegas, born in Brooklyn, New York

Mar 3 Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Swedish Academy (Agadir)
Mar 3 Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist/diplomat
Mar 4 Charles Rudolph Walgreen Jr., American businessman (President of Walgreens), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2007)
Mar 4 Georges Ronsse, Belgian road cyclist (UCI Road World C'ship 1928, 29), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1969)
Mar 4 Meindert DeJong American author (d. 1991)
Mar 11 Zino Davidoff, Ukrainian businessman, born in Novhorod-Siversky, Ukraine (d. 1994)
Mar 16 Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer, born in Granada, Spain (d. 2009)
Mar 17 Brigitte Helm [Gisele Eve von Kuenheim], German actress (Gloria, Gold, Metropolis), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1996)
Mar 18 Roy L Johnson, US admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean)

Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962)

Mar 19 German Nazi officer (SS-Obersturmbannführer, Holocaust organizer), born in Solingen, German Empire

Mar 20 Abraham Beame, (Mayor-D-NYC), NYC's 1st Jewish mayor
Mar 20 Pavel P Parenago, Russian astronomer
Mar 21 Jim Thompson, American designer and businessman
Mar 21 John D. Rockefeller III, billionaire philanthropist (oil)

A. J. P. Taylor (1906-1990)

Mar 25 English historian (The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918, Origins of the Second World War), born in Southport, England

Mar 25 John Howard Pyle, American politician (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55), born in Sheridan, Wyoming, (d. 1987)
Mar 26 Rafael Mendez, Mexican trumpetist (d. 1981)
Apr 3 Kathleen Tillotson, Emeritus Professor of English (Bedford College), born in Berwick-upon-Tweed (d. 2001)
Apr 5 Guy Clutton-Brock, English social worker (declared as national hero in Zimbabwe), born in Northwood, Middlesex (d. 1995)
Apr 6 Virginia Hall [Goillot], American spy with British Special Operations during WWII (1940-1966), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1982)
Apr 8 Charles J. B. Jonckheere, Flemish poet and writer (Mirror of the Sea)

Faisal of Saudi Arabia (1906-1975)

Apr 9 King of Saudi Arabia (1964-75), born in Riyadh, Emirate of Nejd and Hasa

Apr 9 Hugh Gaitskell, British politician (Leader of the Labour Party), born in Kensington, London (d. 1963)
Apr 9 Victor Vasarely, Hungarian-French painter and author (Op Art), born in Pécs, Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1997)
Apr 10 Kathleen Major, British historian and principal (St Hilda's College, England), born in Lincolnshire (d. 2001)
Apr 11 Dalia "Dale" Messick, American cartoonist (Brenda Starr, Reporter), born in South Bend, Indiana (d. 2005)

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

Apr 13 Irish novelist and playwright (Waiting for Godot, Nobel 1969), born in Foxrock, Ireland

Apr 16 Cobina W "Coby" Molenaar, Dutch peace activist (d. 1994)
Apr 16 Marion Lloyd Vince, American fencer (National champ 1928, 31), born in Brooklyn, New York
Apr 17 Sidney Garfield, American physician and pioneer of health maintenance organizations (Kaiser Permanente), born in Elizabeth, New Jersey (d. 1984)
Apr 18 Clara Eggink, Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1991)
Apr 21 Tom Burns, British-Chilean publisher and editor, born in Chile (d. 1995)
Apr 22 Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, Swedish prince second in line to the Swedish throne, born in Stockholm Palace, Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1947)

William Joyce (1906-1946)

Apr 24 American-born Irish Fascist politician and NAZI propagandist, born in Brooklyn, New York

Apr 25 Sally Salminen, Finnish writer (Katrina), born in Vårdö, Finland (d. 1976)
Apr 25 William J. Brennan, Jr, American Supreme Court judge (1956-90), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1997)
Apr 27 Mark Alexander Abrams, English market researcher, born in Edmonton, London (d. 1994)
Apr 27 Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (Leonís), born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (d. 1966)
Apr 28 Bart [Bartholomeus Jan] Bok, Dutch-American astronomer (Milky Way), born in Hoorn, Netherlands (d. 1983)
Apr 28 Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American mathematician (Gödel's incompleteness theorems), born in Brünn, Austria-Hungary (d. 1978)
Apr 28 Pierre Boileau, French novelist (Vertigo), born in Paris, France (d. 1989)
Apr 28 Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo, American mobster (St Valentine's Day) and boss of the Chicago Outfit, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1992)
May 1 Horst Schumann, Nazi physician, born in Halle an der Saale, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1983)
May 2 Philippe Halsman, American portrait photographer, born in Riga, Latvia (d. 1979)
May 6 André Weil, French mathematician (foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry), born in Paris (d. 1998)
May 6 Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (La Llamarada), born in Moca, Puerto Rico (d. 2005)
May 9 Eleanor Estes, author (Ginger Pye, Moffats)
May 11 Jacqueline Cochran, US pilot and 1st woman to break the sound barrier, born in Muscogee, Florida (d. 1980)
May 12 Maurice Ewing, US pioneering geologist and geophysicist, born in Lockney, Texas (d. 1974)
May 13 Thomas Mitchell, British architect and engineer, (d. 1996)
May 14 Hastings Kamuzu Banda, president of Malawi (1964-94)
May 16 Alfred Pellan, French Canadian painter (d. 1988)
May 16 Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuela, writer/minister (Lanzas Coloradas)
May 16 Margret Rey, author and illustrator (d. 1996)
May 16 Nicholas Beriozoff, ballet master
May 17 Eric Mensforth, British pioneer in the development of the helicopter in Britain, born in Stretford, Manchester (d. 2000)
May 20 Giuseppe Siri, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1989)
May 24 John Mayo, director-general (Help the Aged)
May 27 Robert Shone, British economist and director-general (NEDC), born in Birkenhead, Cheshire (d. 1992)

T. H. White (1906-1964)

May 29 English novelist (England Have My Bones) and author of the King Arthur novels,, born in Bombay, British India

May 30 Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (d. 1959)
Jun 5 John Kemp, 1st Viscount Rochdale, British soldier and businessman (d. 1993)
Jun 6 Max August Zorn, German mathematician (lemma of Zorn), born in Krefeld, Rhenish Prussia, Germany (d. 1993)
Jun 12 Sandro Penna, Italian poet, born in Perugia, Italy (d. 1977)
Jun 13 Bruno de Finetti, Italian probabilist statistician and actuary, born in Innsbruck, Austria-Hungary (d. 1985)
Jun 15 Léon Degrelle, Belgian Walloon Rexist Party leader, and Nazi collaborator, born in Bouillon, Belgium (d. 1994)
Jun 15 Louis RJ Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor (Zoelen)
Jun 17 Thomas Cowling, British mathematician and astronomer, born in Walthamstow, Essex (d. 1990)
Jun 19 Ernst Chain, German-British chemist and bacteriologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945 - for his work on penicillin), born in Berlin, German Empire (d. 1979)
Jun 19 Walter Rauff, German colonel (d. 1984)

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001)

Jun 22 American author and aviator (Gift from the Sea), born in Englewood, New Jersey

Jun 23 Wolfgang Koeppen, German author (Death in Rome), born in Greifswald, Pomerania (d. 1996)
Jun 26 Stefan Andres, German writer (Wir sind Utopia), born in Dhrönchen (d. 1970)
Jun 26 Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer, born in Sebring, Ohio (d. 2008)
Jun 27 Catherine Cookson, English novelist (Bannaman Legacy), born in Jarrow, Durham, England (d. 1998)
Jun 27 Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd), born in Maesteg, Wales (d. 1967)
Jun 28 Maria Goeppert-Mayer, American-German atomic physicist (Nobel 1963), born in Kattowitz, German Empire (d. 1972)
Jun 28 Nancy Mayhew Youngman, English painter and educationalist, born in Maidstone, England (d. 1995)
Jun 29 Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (youngest ever Soviet general of the army), born in Uman, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1945)
Jun 30 Tribhuwan Bir Bikram Shah, King of Nepal (1911-55), born in Kathmandu, Nepal (d. 1955)

Estée Lauder (1906-2004)

Jul 1 American entrepreneur (Estée Lauder cosmetics), born in Corona, Queens, New York City

Jul 2 Hans Bethe, German-American quantum physicist (Nobel 1967), born in Strassburg, Germany (d. 2005)
Jul 3 F. Gwendolen Rees, Welsh zoologist and parasitologist, born in Abercynon, Wales (d. 1994)
Jul 3 Francis Steegmuller, American biographer (Cocteau), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1994)
Jul 4 Vincent Joseph Schaefer, American chemist and meteorologist (cloud seeding), born in Schenectady, New York (d. 1993)
Jul 7 Harry Von Zell, sidekick (George Burns Show)
Jul 7 William Feller, Croatian mathematician (d. 1970)
Jul 8 Philip Johnson, Cortalyou architect, born in Cleveland, Ohio
Jul 9 Beene Dubbelboer, Dutch writer (Secret Resistance), born in Tweede Exloërmond, Netherlands (d. 1982)
Jul 11 Herbert Wehner, German communist/anti-communist politician (SPD)
Jul 14 Tom Carvel, Greek born American ice cream mogul (Carvels), born in Athens, Greece (d. 1990)
Jul 15 Edmund Davies, British lord of appeal
Jul 18 Clifford Odets, American dramatist (1961 Award of Merit-Golden Boy), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1963)
Jul 18 S. I. Hayakawa, U.S. senator from California (1977–83) and educator (Language in Action), born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 1992)
Jul 19 Wim van Doorne, Dutch auto manufacturer (DAF Trucks), born in Griendtsveen, Limburg, Netherlands (d. 1978)
Jul 23 Chandra Sekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (Hindustan Socialist Republican Army), born in Bhavra, Central India Agency, British India (d. 1931)
Jul 23 Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss organic chemist (Nobel 1975), born in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary (d. 1998)
Jul 23 Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist, born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 1980)
Jul 26 Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish agent of Intelligence, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1943)
Jul 27 Herbert Jasper, Canadian physiologist and neurologist, born in La Grande, Oregon (d. 1999)
Jul 27 Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and political activist, born in Minsk, Russian Empire (d. 2000)
Aug 1 William Hayter, British diplomat and Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1953-57), born in Oxford, England (d. 1995)
Aug 2 Albert Goodwin, English historian, born in Sheffield, England (d. 1995)
Aug 3 Leonhard Huizinga, Dutch journalist and writer (Adriaan & Olivier), born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1980)
Aug 4 Marie-Jose von Saksen-Coburg, Belgian Princess (last Queen of Italy), born in Ostend, Belgium (d. 2001)
Aug 5 Francis Walder [Francois Waldburger], Belgian author, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1997)
Aug 5 Wassely Leontief, Russian American economist (Nobel 1973), born in Munich, Germany (d. 1999)
Aug 8 Andre Demedts, Flemish writer (Rainfall of the Days)
Aug 16 Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1938-89), born in Schloss Frauenthal, Deutschlandsberg, Austria-Hungary (d. 1989)
Aug 17 Hazel Bishop, American chemist and cosmetics manufacturer, born in Hoboken, New Jersey (d. 1998)
Aug 17 Marcello Caetano, last Portuguese prime minister of the Estado Novo regime (1968-1974), born in Graça, Lisbon, Portugal (d. 1980)
Aug 21 Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, French advertising magnate and Founder of Publicis Groupe, born in Enghien-les-Bains, France (d. 1996)
Aug 25 Eugen Gerstenmaier, German politician (CDU), born in Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany (d. 1986)
Aug 25 Mollie Panter-Downes, British writer and columnist (The Shoreless Sea), born in London (d. 1997)

Albert Sabin (1906-1993)

Aug 26 Polish American physician who invented the oral polio vaccine, born in Bialystok, Russian Empire

Aug 28 John Betjeman, poet (Mount Zion) and English Poet Laureate (1972-1984), born in London (d. 1984)
Aug 30 Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, British historian, born in London (d. 2002)
Aug 31 Vivienne Byerley, English theater press agent, born in London, England (d. 1995)
Sep 4 Han G. Hoekstra, Dutch poet (Ongerijmde life), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1988)
Sep 5 Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Semj Dnej Nedeli), born in Odessa, Ukraine [NS=Sept 18]
Sep 6 Alexander Bodon, Hungarian-Dutch architect (RAI, Dollywood), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1993)
Sep 6 John Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher, born in Amsterdam (d. 1978)
Sep 8 Andrei Kirilenko, Russian member of Central Committee of Communist Party, born in Alexeyevka, Voronezh Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1990)
Sep 11 Roye England, creator and founder President of the Pendon Museum of Miniature Landscape and Transport, born in Perth, Australia (d. 1995)
Sep 16 Jack Churchill, British Army commando, born in Colombo, British Ceylon (d. 1996)
Sep 17 Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom 1999, born in Macon, Georgia (d. 2010)
Sep 17 J. R. [Junius Richard] Jayawardene, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (1978-89) and 7th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1977-78), born in Colombo, British Ceylon (d. 1996)
Sep 18 Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Semj Dnej Nedeli), born in Odessa, Ukraine [OS=Sept 5]
Sep 21 Henry Beachell, American plant breeder, born in Waverly, Nebraska (d. 2006)
Sep 22 Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (commonly known as "The Bitch of Buchenwald"), born in Dresden, German Empire (d. 1967)
Sep 22 Phyllis Hartnoll, English writer and editor, born in Lyme Regis, England (d. 1997)
Sep 25 Madeleine Bourdouxhe, Belgian writer, born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1996)
Sep 25 Phyllis Pearsall, British painter and writer (A to Z Map Company), born in London (d. 1996)
Sep 27 Jim Thompson, American author (The Killer Inside Me), born in Anadarko, Oklahoma (d. 1977)
Sep 27 William Empson, English poet and critic (Milton's God), born in Hawdon, Yorkshire, England (d. 1984)
Oct 1 John Lorne Campbell, Scottish folklorist, born in Argyll, Scotland (d. 1996)
Oct 2 John Humphreys Whitfield, British scholar of Italian language & literature, born in Wednesbury, England (d. 1995)
Oct 4 Johannes Post, Dutch farmer and resistance fighter (passage fight), born in Hollandscheveld, Drente, Netherlands (d. 1944)
Oct 5 Leopold Kohr, Austrian social philosopher, born in Oberndorf, Austria (d. 1994)
Oct 7 James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68)
Oct 9 John Dalrymple, 13th earl of Stair, Lord-Lieutenant of Wigtownshire (1961-83)

Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906-2001)

Oct 9 Senegalese poet and 1st President of Senegal (1960-80), born in Joal-Fadiouth, Senegal

R.K. Narayan (1906-2001)

Oct 10 Indian novelist (Malguidi Days), born in Madras

Oct 11 Charles H Revson, American cosmetic magnate (Revlon), born in Somerville, Massachusetts (d. 1974)
Oct 12 Eddie Myers, British WWII soldier and engineer, born in Kensington, London (d. 1997)

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

Oct 14 German-American political theorist and historian (Origins of Totalitarianism), born in Hanover, Germany

Oct 14 Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, born in Mahmoudiyah, Beheira, Egypt (d. 1949)
Oct 15 Hiram Fong, American businessman and politician (U.S. Senator from Hawaii), born in Honolulu, Hawaii (d. 2004)
Oct 16 Dino Buzzati, Italian writer (The Tartar Steppe), born in San Pellegrino, Belluno, (d. 1972)
Oct 18 James Brooks, US mural painter (Acquisition of Long Island)
Oct 21 Lillian Asplund, last American Titanic survivor (d. 2006)
Oct 22 Sidney Kingsley, US playwright (One in White, Darkness at Noon)
Oct 24 Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician, born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1968)
Oct 24 Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter, born in Vienna (d. 1996)
Oct 27 Earle Cabell, American politician, 48th Mayor of Dallas (1961-64), born in Dallas County, Texas (d. 1975)
Oct 29 Fredric Brown, American sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1972)
Oct 30 Alexander Gode, German-American linguist, born in Bremen, Imperial Germany (d. 1970)
Oct 31 Jo Vis, resistance fighter (Yad Vashem-distinction)
Nov 2 Bengt Edlén, Swedish Astrophysicist who specialized in spectroscopy and discovered the source of unidentified emission lines in solar spectrum, born in Gusum, Sweden (d. 2003)
Nov 2 Daniil Andreev, Russian writer, poet and Christian mystic, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1959)

About 1906

How Old? 116 or 117 years old
Generation: Greatest Generation

Chinese Zodiac: Snake (Feb 4, 1905 - Jan 24, 1906),
Horse (Jan 25, 1906 - Feb 12, 1907)

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