Famous Deaths for Year 1906
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Months in Year 1906: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 76 of 76
Jan 1st - Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer, dies at 51
Jan 1st - Sir Hugh Nelson, Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)
Jan 13th - Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859)
Jan 16th - Marshall Field, founder of Marshall Field and Company (b. 1834)
Jan 18th - Bartolomé Mitre, president of Argentina (1862-70), dies at 84
Jan 25th - Joseph Wheeler II, Confederate General, dies at 70
Jan 25th - Pierre L Goossens, Belgian archbishop of Malines/Cardinal, dies at 78
Jan 29th - Christaan IX, King of Denmark (1893-1906), dies
Feb 9th - Paul Laurence Dunbar, black dialect poet, dies at 33 in Dayton, Ohio
Feb 10th - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician (b. 1827)
Feb 13th - Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
Feb 18th - Willem Doorenbos, literary/critic, dies at 85
Feb 18th - John Batterson Stetson, American manufacturer (b. 1830)
Feb 23rd - Johann Hoch, US murderer, executed
Feb 25th - Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Russian composer/conductor c t, dies at 44
Feb 26th - Manuel Fernandez Caballero, composer, dies at 70
Mar 1st - José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (b. 1833)
Mar 4th - John McAllister Schofield, former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army (b. 1831)
Mar 10th - Eugen Richter, German MP (Liberal), dies at 67
Suffragette Susan Brownell Anthony (Mar 13th)
Mar 13th - Susan Brownell Anthony, American suffragist, dies at 85
Mar 15th - Alfred Gilpin Jones, lt-gov of Nova Scotia (1900-06), dies at 81
Mar 17th - Carlos Calvo, Argentina diplomat (Calvo Clause), dies at 82
Mar 22nd - Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer, dies at 59
Mar 23rd - Victor Barton, cricketer (scored 23 in Test Eng v South Africa 1892), dies
Mar 29th - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878)
Mar 30th - Betsy Perk, [Christina E], journalist/writer/feminist, dies at 73
Apr 6th - Alexander L Kielland, Norwegian writer (Working People), dies at 57
Apr 8th - Auguste D, First recorded Alzheimer's victim (b. 1950)
Apr 11th - Georgi Apollonovitch Gapon, Rus-orthodox clergyman/tsarist agent, dies
Apr 11th - James A Bailey, circus showman (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 58
Apr 11th - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)
Apr 18th - Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
Apr 19th - Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies
Apr 19th - Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
Apr 20th - Australian wombat; oldest known marsupial, dies in London Zoo at 26
Apr 25th - John Knowles Paine, US composer, dies at 67
May 14th - Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829)
May 23rd - Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (Doll House), dies at 78
May 30th - William Yeates Hurlstone, composer, dies at 30
May 31st - Hermann Schell, German theologist (Gott und Geist), dies at 56
May 31st - King Alfonso XIII, assassinated in Madrid
May 31st - Victoria von Battenberg, assassinated in Madrid
Jun 5th - Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
Jun 7th - Johan P Van de Kellen, stamp cutter/lithographer, dies at 74
Jun 8th - Christian Frederik Emil Horneman, composer, dies at 65
Jun 11th - Heinrich Hart, German writer (Das Lied der Menschheit), dies at 50
Jun 17th - Harry N Pillsbury, US chess player, dies
Jun 17th - William Dale, international legal consultant, dies
Jun 20th - John Clayton Adams, British landscape artist (b. 1840)
Jun 22nd - Fritz Schaudinn, German animal scholar: examined amoebasis, dies at 34
Jun 25th - Stanford White, Architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit
Jun 26th - Alexander Muir, poet (Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76
Jul 12th - Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer, dies at 70
Jul 19th - Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (b. 1849)
Jul 29th - Alexandre Luigini, composer, dies at 56
Aug 24th - Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter, dies
Aug 30th - Hans Auer, Swiss architect (b. 1847)
Sep 2nd - Guiseppe Giacosa, Ital screenwriter (libretti opera Puccini), dies
Sep 5th - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
Sep 13th - Georg Jacobi, composer, dies at 66
Sep 19th - Maria Georgina Grey, British writer and founder of the Girls' Day School Trust (b. 1816)
Sep 20th - Robert R. Hitt, American politician (b. 1834)
Sep 21st - Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1838)
Sep 23rd - Jan van Rijswijck, Flemish journalist/mayor of Antwerp, dies
Oct 7th - Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
Oct 9th - Joseph F Glidden, inventor (barbed wire), dies
Oct 20th - William "Buck" Ewing, hall of fame catcher (NY Giants), dies at 67
Oct 21st - [Georgette A] Helena Amelung, actress (Small Lord), dies at 55
Oct 22nd - Paul Cezanne, French painter (b. 1839)
Nov 4th - John H. Ketcham, American politician (b. 1832)
Nov 9th - Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor of Ukkel, dies at 64
Nov 14th - Hendrik J Schimmel, author/dramatist, dies
Nov 22nd - Earnest Josephson, Swedish painter, dies
Dec 7th - Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833)
Dec 14th - John A C Oudemans, Dutch geographer/astronomer, dies at 78
Dec 21st - Adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 58
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