1906

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1870s  1880s  1890s  – 1900s –  1910s  1920s  1930s
Years:	1903 1904 1905 – 1906 – 1907 1908 1909

Events

• April 18 - An earthquake in San Francisco, USA kills at least three thousand people.

Births

• January 11 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss scientist, invented LSD
• March 6 - Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (d. 1959)
• April 13 - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer (d. 1989)
• April 28 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American mathematician (d. 1978)
• July 14 - William H. Tunner, American World War II general (d. 1983)
• August 27 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
• September 25 - José Figueres Ferrer, President of Costa Rica (d. 1990)
• September 25 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Soviet composer (d. 1975)
• October 30 - Alexander Gode, German-American linguist and translator (d. 1970)
• November 14 - Louise Brooks, American actress and dancer (d. 1985)
• December 19 - Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)

Hit songs

• "Anchors Aweigh"

Films Released

• Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, the first animated film.
• The Story of the Kelly Gang, the first feature length film.