Famous Birthdays for Year 1906

Months in Year 1906: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 490

Jan 1st - Frank Stack, Canada, speed skater (Olympic-bronze-1932)
Jan 1st - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (d. 1974)
Jan 3rd - Roman Brandstaetter, writer
Jan 5th - Kathleen Kenyon, 1st person to place date on remains of Jericho
Jan 6th - Benedict Vilakazi, South Africa, poet/educator (Zulu-English Dictionary)
Jan 6th - Jaap Wagemaker, [Adrian B], Dutch sculptor
Jan 8th - Jan A H J S Bruins Slot, Dutch founder illegal Trouw/MP (ARP)
Jan 8th - Serge Poliakoff, Russian/French painter/guitarist
Jan 11th - Albert Hofmann, Switzerland, chemist (discovered LSD)
Jan 11th - Johannes Paul Thilman, composer
Jan 11th - Robert Nesbitt, impresario
Jan 12th - Henny Youngman, England, comedian (Take my wife please...)
Jan 12th - Tex Ritter, Texas, country singer (5 Star Jubilee, Wayward Wind)
Jan 12th - Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (d. 1942)
Jan 13th - Maxime Jacob, composer
Jan 14th - Walter Knape, composer
Jan 14th - William Bendix, NYC, actor (Lifeboat, Babe Ruth Story, Life of Riley)
Jan 15th - Aristotle Onassis, Greece, rich shipping magnate
Jan 15th - Rezso Kokai, composer
Jan 16th - Clement Greenberg, art critic
Jan 16th - Diana Winyard, London, actress (Cavalcade)
Jan 18th - Hans Aeschbacher, Swiss sculptor (Venus de Six-Tours)
Jan 19th - Ish Kabbible, [Merwyn Bogue], Penns, comedian (Kay Kyser's Kollege)
Jan 19th - Lanny Ross, Seattle, radio singer (Show Boat, The Swift Show)
Jan 21st - Fred Fehl, Austrian/US Broadway photographer
Jan 21st - John Putz, journalist
Jan 21st - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007)
Jan 22nd - Robert E[rvin] Howard, US, sci-fi author (Conan the Conqueror)
Jan 22nd - Willa B Brown (Coffey), US black air pioneer (NAAA)
Jan 22nd - Joe Gladwin, English actor (d. 1987)
Jan 23rd - Bob Steele, Pendleton Oregon, actor (Duffy-F Troop, Big Sleep)
Jan 24th - Norman Cook, museum curator
Jan 27th - Radames Gnattali, composer
Jan 28th - Allan Walker, actor/writer (Red Buttons Show)
Jan 28th - Harry van Kruiningen, [Henri A Janssen], painter/graphic artist
Jan 28th - Henry Foley, cricketer (batted in New Zealand's 1st Test 1930)
Jan 29th - Franciscus Hin, Holland, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1920)
Jan 29th - Joe Primeau, NHL center
Jan 30th - Greta Nissen, actress (Ambassador Bill)
Jan 31st - Benjamin Frankel, composer
Jan 31st - R W Bonham, founder (International Braille Chess Association)
Feb 1st - Hildegarde, Adell Wisc, night club vocalist (I'll Be Seeing You)
Feb 1st - Pierre Cardevielle, French composer/conductor (Amants Captifs)
Feb 3rd - Ludvig Nielsen, composer
Feb 4th - Clyde William Tombaugh, US, astronomer (discovered Pluto)
Feb 4th - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist (Confessing Church)
Feb 4th - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (champ-1933)
Feb 5th - John Carradine, Greenwich Village NY, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Howling)
Feb 7th - Henry P'u-i, last emperor of China, puppet emperor of Manchukuo
Feb 7th - Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984)
Feb 8th - Artur Balsam, Polish/US pianist (Begeleidde Menuhin, Milstein)
Feb 8th - Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopy)
Feb 8th - Henry Roth, Austria-Hungary/US writer (Call it Sleep)
Feb 9th - Gwen Catley, British(?) soprano
Feb 9th - André Kostolany, stock market expert and speculator (d. 1999)
Feb 10th - Erik Rhodes, [Ernest Sharpe], actor (Top Hat, Night at the Ritz)
Feb 10th - Henry Phelps Brown, historian/economist
Feb 10th - John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer (elected 1962)
Feb 10th - Lon Chaney Jr, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
Feb 10th - Walraven (Wally) van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis
Feb 11th - Denis Barnett, British air chief marshal
Feb 13th - Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1994)
Feb 15th - Stephen Brown, CEO (Stone-Platt Industries)
Feb 16th - Jeffrey Lynn, actor (Tony Rome, Butterfield 8, Up Front)
Feb 16th - Vera Menchik, Moscow, 1st official women's world chess champ (1927)
Feb 17th - Galo Plaza Lasso, pres of Ecuador (1948-52), head of OAS (1968-75)
Feb 17th - Ramon Tapales, composer
Feb 18th - Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)
Feb 19th - Grace Mary Williams, composer
Feb 19th - Hendrik W C Spruit, Dutch conductor
Feb 22nd - Edmund von Borck, composer
Feb 22nd - Gale Gordon, LA California, actor (Conklin-Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy)
Feb 24th - Alexis Curvers, Belgian author (Tempo di Roma, Bourg-le-Rond)
Feb 25th - Boris Papandopulo, composer
Feb 25th - Domingo Ortega, Spanish bullfighter
Feb 25th - Howard Zahniser, Father of Wilderness Act
Feb 25th - Warren Hymer, NYC, actor (Girl From Havana, Meet the Mob)
Feb 26th - Madeleine Carroll, England, actress (39 Steps, Secret Agent)
Feb 26th - Nikos Ghika, artist
Feb 27th - Alexander Matheson, NZ cricket pace bowler (2 Tests 1930-31)
Feb 27th - H Algernon F "Algy" Rumbold, English diplomat (South Africa/Tibet)
Feb 28th - Bugsy Siegel, gangster created casinos in Las Vegas
Mar 3rd - Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Swedish Academy (Agadir)
Mar 3rd - Donald Novis, Hastings England, actor (Monte Carlo)
Mar 3rd - Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist/diplomat
Mar 4th - Meindert DeJong American author (d. 1991)
Mar 4th - Georges Ronsse, Belgian national cyclo-cross and world champion road bicycle racer (d. 1969)
Mar 4th - Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., American businessman (d. 2007)
Mar 6th - Bob Wills, TX, actor (Lone Prairie, Tornado in the Saddle)
Mar 6th - Lou Costello, Paterson NJ, comedian/actor (Abbott & Costello)
Mar 7th - Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer
Mar 7th - Hans Lachman, composer
Mar 11th - Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer
Mar 14th - Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer
Mar 16th - Francisco Ayala, writer
Mar 16th - Henny Youngman, London England, comedian (Take my wife please)
Mar 17th - Brigitte Helm [Gisele Eve von Kuenheim], Berlin, actr (Gloria, Gold)
Mar 17th - Michael O'Shea, Hartford Ct, actor (Denny-It's a Great Life)
Mar 17th - Tamara Geva, dancer
Mar 18th - Roy L Johnson, US admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean)
Mar 19th - Adolf Eichmann, Ruhr Germany, Nazi Gestapo officer
Mar 19th - Normand Lockwood, composer
Mar 20th - Abraham Beame, (Mayor-D-NYC), NYC's 1st Jewish mayor
Mar 20th - Ozzie Nelson, Jersey City NJ, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet)
Mar 20th - Pavel P Parenago, Russian astronomer
Oil Industrialist John D Rockefeller (Mar 21st) Mar 21st - John D Rockefeller III, billionaire philanthropist (oil)
Mar 21st - Jim Thompson, American designer and businessman
Mar 23rd - George Posford, composer
Mar 24th - John Cameron Swayze, news correspondent/spokesman (Timex) [OS]
Mar 24th - Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Soviet singer (d. 1984)
Mar 25th - Alan J P Taylor, British historian (English history 1914-1915)
Mar 25th - Howard Pyle, (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55)
Mar 25th - Jean Sablon, crooner
Mar 26th - Rafael Mendez, Mexican trumpetist (d. 1981)
Mar 27th - Pee Wee Russell, American musician (d. 1969)
Mar 28th - Joseph Wright, Canada, oarsman (Olympic-gold-1928)
Mar 28th - Robert (Bob) Allen, actor (Texas Rangers)
Mar 29th - E Power Biggs, Westcliff-on-Sea England, organist/composer (CBS)
Mar 31st - Lauri Saikkola, composer
Apr 1st - Ned Glass, Poland, actor (Sol-Julia, Uncle Moe-Bridget Loves Bernie)
Apr 1st - Sigve Lie, Norway, yachtsmans (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
Apr 3rd - Kathleen Tillotson, Emeritus Professor of English (Bedford College)
Apr 4th - Bea Benaderet, NYC, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction)
Apr 4th - John Cameron Swayze, Wichita Ks, newscaster (Timex, Hindenberg) [NS]
Apr 5th - Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock, English agronomist
Apr 5th - Lord Buckley, American monologist (d. 1960)
Apr 6th - John Betjeman, English Poet Laureate 1972-1984 (Mount Zion)
Apr 8th - Charles J B Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer (Mirror of the Sea)
Apr 8th - Raoul Jobin, French Canadian tenor (d. 1974)
Apr 9th - Antal Dorati, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Dresden Opera 1928-29
Apr 9th - Todd Naylor "Hugh" Gaitskell, MP (Labour)
Apr 9th - Rafaela Aparicio, Spanish actress (d. 1996)
Apr 10th - Fud Livingston, composer
Apr 10th - Kathleen Major, principal (St Hilda's College, England)
Apr 10th - Lili Darvas, Budapest Hungary, actress (Szerelem, Cimmaron)
Apr 11th - Dale Messick, American cartoonist (d. 2005)
Apr 13th - Budd [Lawrence] Freeman, US jazz saxophonist (Eel)
Apr 13th - Samuel Beckett, French playwright (Waiting for Godot, Nobel 1969)
Apr 13th - Bud Freeman, American musician (d. 1991)
Apr 14th - Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, King Saudi-Arabia (1964-75)
Apr 14th - Hunter Johnson, composer
Apr 15th - A J "Sandy" Bell, South African cricket fast bowler (16 Tests 1929-35)
Apr 15th - Susan Walker, vice CEO (WRVS)
Apr 16th - Bep [Elisa H] Bakhuis, Dutch soccer star/writer
Apr 16th - Cobina W "Coby" Molenaar, Dutch peace activist
Apr 16th - Marion Lloyd Vince, Bkln NY, fencer (National champ 1928, 31)
Apr 16th - Pigmeat Markham, Durham NC, comedian (Here Comes da Judge-Laugh In)
Apr 17th - M Rooi, editor-in-chief (New Rotterdam Daily)
Apr 17th - Sidney R. Garfield, American physician (d. 1984)
Apr 18th - Clara Eggink, [Ebbele], Dutch poetess (Life with JC Bloem)