1906
common year starting on Monday
1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday in the Julian calendar.
| 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 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1906 MCMVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2659 |
| Armenian calendar | 1355 ԹՎ ՌՅԾԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6656 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 62–63 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1827–1828 |
| Bengali calendar | 1313 |
| Berber calendar | 2856 |
| British Regnal year | 5 Edw. 7 – 6 Edw. 7 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2450 |
| Burmese calendar | 1268 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7414–7415 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4602 or 4542 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4603 or 4543 |
| Coptic calendar | 1622–1623 |
| Discordian calendar | 3072 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1898–1899 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5666–5667 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1962–1963 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1827–1828 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5006–5007 |
| Holocene calendar | 11906 |
| Igbo calendar | 906–907 |
| Iranian calendar | 1284–1285 |
| Islamic calendar | 1323–1324 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiji 39 (明治３９年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1835–1836 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4239 |
| Minguo calendar | 6 before ROC 民前6年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 438 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2448–2449 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 2032 or 1651 or 879 — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 2033 or 1652 or 880 |
Events
change- April 18 – An earthquake in San Francisco, California kills at least three thousand people.
- Camillo Golgi, Italian doctor, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Santiago Ramón y Cajal
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish doctor, won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Camillo Golgi
Births
change- January 11 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss scientist, invented LSD
- January 14 - William Bendix, American actor (d. 1964)
- 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
change- "Anchors Aweigh"
Movies Released
change- Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, the first animated movie
- The Story of the Kelly Gang, the first feature-length movie