Birthdays in History in 1906

Birthdays 1 - 200 of 252

Bugsy Siegel

Feb 28 Bugsy Siegel, American gangster who created casinos in Las Vegas, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1947)

Mar 3 Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Swedish Academy (Agadir)
Mar 3 Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist/diplomat
Mar 4 Meindert DeJong American author (d. 1991)
Mar 4 Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., American businessman (d. 2007)
Mar 16 Francisco Ayala, writer
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

Mar 19 Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi officer (SS-Obersturmbannführer, Holocaust organizer), born in Solingen, German Empire (d. 1962)

Mar 20 Abraham Beame, (Mayor-D-NYC), NYC's 1st Jewish mayor
Mar 20 Pavel P Parenago, Russian astronomer

Mar 21 John D. Rockefeller III, billionaire philanthropist (oil)
Mar 21 Jim Thompson, American designer and businessman

A. J. P. Taylor

Mar 25 A.J.P Taylor [Alan John Percival], English historian (The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918, Origins of the Second World War), born in Southport, England (d. 1990)

Mar 25 Howard Pyle, (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55)
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 5 Lord Buckley, American comedian, born in Tuolumne, California (d. 1960)
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/writer (Mirror of the Sea)
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 Dale Messick [Dalia Messick], American cartoonist (Brenda Starr), born in South Bend, Indiana (d. 2005)

Samuel Beckett

Apr 13 Samuel Beckett, Irish novelist and playwright (Waiting for Godot, Nobel 1969), born in Foxrock, Ireland (d. 1989)

Faisal of Saudia Arabia

Apr 14 Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia (1964-75), born in Riyadh, Emirate of Nejd and Hasa (d. 1975)

Apr 15 Susan Walker, vice CEO (WRVS)
Apr 16 Cobina W "Coby" Molenaar, Dutch peace activist
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, [Ebbele], Dutch poetess (Life with JC Bloem)
Apr 18 Edgar Unsworth, Justice of Appeals (Gibralter)
Apr 21 Tom Burns, British-Chilean publisher and editor, born in Chile (d. 1995)
Apr 22 Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, second in line to the Swedish throne (d. 1946)
Apr 23 Maria Arnoldo, [Adrianus Broeders], photographer/writer
Apr 24 William Joyce, Irish fascist (d. 1946)
Apr 25 Sally Salminen, writer
Apr 25 William J. Brennan, Jr, American Supreme Court judge (1956-90), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1997)
Apr 27 Mark Alexander Abrams, market researcher
Apr 27 Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (d. 1966)
Apr 28 Bartholomeus J "Bart" Bok, Dutch/US astronomer (Milky Way)
Apr 28 Pierre [Louis] Boileau, novelist (Vertigo), born in Paris, France
Apr 28 Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (d. 1978)
May 1 Horst Schumann, Nazi physician (d. 1983)
May 2 Philippe Halsman, American photographer (d. 1979)
May 6 Andre Weil, [Bourbaki], French-American mathematician
May 6 Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (d. 2005)
May 8 Roberto Rossellini, director (Open City), born in Rome, Italy
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 William M Ewing, US geologist/geophysicist
May 13 Thomas Mitchell, architect and engineer, born (d. 1996)
May 14 Hastings Kamuzu Banda, president of Malawi (1964-94)
May 16 Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuela, writer/minister (Lanzas Coloradas)
May 16 Nicholas Beriozoff, ballet master
May 16 Alfred Pellan, French Canadian painter (d. 1988)
May 16 Margret Rey, author and illustrator (d. 1996)
May 17 Eric Mensforth, president (Westland Aircraft)
May 20 Giuseppe Siri, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1989)
May 24 Edmund Sargant, solicitor
May 24 John Mayo, director-general (Help the Aged)
May 27 Robert Shone, director-general (NEDC)
May 28 Mary Ralton, director (British WRAC)
May 29 Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), born in Mumbai, India

T. H. White

May 29 T. H. White, English author (King Arthur), born in Bombay, India (d. 1964)

May 30 Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (d. 1959)
Jun 3 Louis Simmonds, bookseller
Jun 5 Kenneth Anderson, deputy comptroller (British GPO)
Jun 5 Viscount Rochdale, British CEO
Jun 6 Max Zorn, German mathematician (lemma of Zorn)
Jun 11 Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, bishop
Jun 12 Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
Jun 13 Bruno de Finetti, Italian mathematician (d. 1985)
Jun 15 Louis RJ Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor (Zoelen)
Jun 15 Léon Degrelle, Belgian SS officer (d. 1994)
Jun 17 Thomas G Cowling, British mathematician/astronomer
Jun 19 Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
Jun 19 Walter Rauff, German colonel (d. 1984)

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Jun 22 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 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 (d. 2008)
Jun 27 Catherine Cookson, English novelist (Bannaman Legacy)
Jun 27 Vernon P Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd)
Jun 28 Maria Goeppert Mayer, US atomic physicist (Nobel 1963)
Jun 28 Nancy Mayhew Youngman, English painter and educationalist, born in Maidstone, England (d. 1995)
Jun 29 Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)

Estée Lauder

Jul 1 Estée Lauder, CEO (Estée Lauder cosmetics) (d. 2004), born in New York City

Jul 2 Hans Bethe, German-American quantum physicist (Nobel 1967), born in Strassburg, Germany (d. 2005)
Jul 3 Francis Steegmuller, American biographer (Cocteau)
Jul 3 Gwendolen Rees, zoologist
Jul 4 Vincent Joseph Schaefer, Schenectady New York, American Chemist and Meteorologist (cloud seeding)
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)
Jul 11 Herbert Wehner, German communist/anti-communist politician (SPD)
Jul 14 Tom Carvel, ice cream mogul (Carvels)
Jul 15 Edmund Davies, British lord of appeal
Jul 18 Clifford Odets, American dramatist (1961 Award of Merit-Golden Boy)
Jul 18 S I Hayakawa, (Sen-R-CA), educator (Language in Action)
Jul 19 Wim van Doorne, Dutch car manufacturer (DAF)
Jul 23 Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist
Jul 23 Chandrasekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (d. 1931)
Jul 23 Vladimir Prelog, Sarajevo, Croatian-Swiss Chemist and Nobel Laureate
Jul 26 Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish agent of Intelligence, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1943)
Jul 27 Herbert Jasper, Canadian physiologist and neurologist (d. 1999)
Jul 27 Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (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, historian
Aug 3 Leonard Huizinga, Dutch journalist/writer (Adriaan & Olivier)
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
Aug 5 Wassely Leontief, Russ/US economist (Nobel 1973)
Aug 8 Andre Demedts, Flemish writer (Rainfall of the Days)
Aug 12 Tedd Pierce, American animator (d. 1972)
Aug 16 Franz Josef II, prince of Liechtenstein (1938-89)
Aug 17 Hazel Bishop, chemist/cosmetics manufacturer
Aug 17 Marcello J das Neves Alves Caetano, premier of Portugal (1968-74)
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)
Aug 26 Albert B Sabin, Russian US microbiologist (oral polio vaccine)

Ed Gein

Aug 27 Ed Gein, American serial killer (inspired Psycho & The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), born in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, (d. 1984)

Aug 28 John Betjeman, poet (Mount Zion) and English Poet Laureate (1972-1984), born in London (d. 1984)
Aug 30 Countess of Longford, biographer/historian
Aug 31 Vivienne Byerley, publicist
Sep 4 Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra, poet (Ongerijmde life)
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
Sep 8 Andrei P Kirilenko, Russian member of Central Committee of CP
Sep 11 Roye England, modeller/museum curator
Sep 16 Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, commando
Sep 17 Junius Richard Jayawardene, president (Sri Lanka, 1978-89)
Sep 17 Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist
Sep 18 Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Semj Dnej Nedeli), born in Odessa, Ukraine [OS=Sept 5]
Sep 21 Henry Beachell, American plant breeder (d. 2006)
Sep 22 Phyllis Hartnoll, writer/editor
Sep 22 Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (commonly known as "The Bitch of Buchenwald"), born in Dresden, German Empire (d. 1967)
Sep 25 Madeleine Bourdouxhe, writer
Sep 25 Phyllis Pearsall, British painter and writer (A to Z Map Company), born in London (d. 1996)
Sep 27 William Empson, English poet/critic (Milton's God)
Sep 27 Jim Thompson, American author (d. 1977)
Sep 30 Michael John Innes Mackintosh Stewart Innes, writer
Oct 1 John Lorne Campbell, folklorist
Oct 2 John Humphreys Whitfield, scholar of Italian language & literature
Oct 4 Johannes Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight)
Oct 5 Leopold Kohr, writer/mentor of Fritz Schumacher
Oct 7 James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68)
Oct 9 John Dalrymple, 13th earl of Stair, Lord-Lieutenant of Wigtownshire (1961-83)
Oct 9 Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and 1st President of Senegal (1960-80), born in Joal-Fadiouth, Senegal (d. 2001)

R.K. Narayan

Oct 10 R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (Malguidi Days), born in Madras (d. 2001)

Oct 12 Eddie Myers, British WWII soldier and engineer, born in Kensington, London (d. 1997)

Hannah Arendt

Oct 14 Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and historian (Origins of Totalitarianism), born in Hanover, Germany (d. 1975)

Oct 14 Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
Oct 15 Hiram Fong, Honolulu U.S. (Sen-R-Hawaii)
Oct 16 Dino Buzzati, Italian writer (The Tartar Steppe), born in San Pellegrino, Belluno, (d. 1972)

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