1906
1906 (
MCMVI) was a
common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
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January 8 -
Landslide in
Haverstraw, New York kills 20.
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January 31 -
Earthquake in
Ecuador (8.6 in Richter scale).
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February 11 -
Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical
Vehementer nos.
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February 15 - Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in the UK parliament take the name
Parliamentary Labour Party.
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March 10 -
Explosion in coal mine in
Courrières,
France kills 1060.
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March 15 -
Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.
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March 18 -
Traian Vuia flies a self-propelled heavier than air aircraft.
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April 7 -
Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates
Naples.
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April 18 -
1906 San Francisco earthquake on the
San Andreas Fault destroys much of
San Francisco, California, killing at least 3000. 225,000-300,000 left homeless. $350 million in damages. The estimated magnitude of the earthquake is 7.8.
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April 23 - the
Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state
Duma in
Tzarist Russia.
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June 6 -
Durham & South Carolina Railroad operates its first revenue train, Bonsal to Durham,
North Carolina.
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June 8 -
Theodore Roosevelt signs the
Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the
President to restrict the use of certain parcels of
public land with historical or conservation value.
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June 9-
June 10 - Riots in
Stockholm, Ladugårsdgärden - 50 policemen injured.
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June 25 - New York playboy
Harry K. Thaw shoots architect
Stanford White.
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June 28-
July 6 -
Crown Jewels of Ireland stolen during this period.
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June 30 -
United States Congress passes the
Meat Inspection Act and
Pure Food and Drug Act.
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July 12 -
Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer hastily and wrongly convicted of treason in 1899, is exonerated. He is reinstalled in the French Army
July 21, ending the "
Dreyfus Affair" that exposed
anti-Semitism in French society.
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August 22 - The first Victor
Victrola, a phonographic record player, is manufactured.
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August 23 - Unable to control a rebellion in the newly-formed Cuban republic, Pres.
Tomás Estrada Palma requests U.S. intervention.
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September 5 -
Brandbury Robinson throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
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September 18 -
Typhoon with
tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 persons in
Hong Kong.
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September 22 -
Race riots in
Atlanta, Georgia. At least 21 people are killed and the black-owned business district is severely damaged.
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September 24 - U.S. President
Theodore Roosevelt proclaims
Devils Tower the nation's first
National Monument.
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October 1 -
The Madeira School, a private boarding school for girls, opens with twenty-eight students attending classes in two buildings on 19th Street just off Dupont Circle in downtown
Washington, DC.
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October 11 - San Francisco public school board sparks
United States diplomatic crisis with
Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
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October 16 - The
Captain of Köpenick fools a city hall in
Köpenick by impersonating a
Prussian officer.
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October 23 - Aeroplane of
Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off on
Bagatelle in
France and flies 60 meters (200 feet).
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October 28 - Creation of the
Union Minière du Haut Katanga, a Belgian mining trust in Congo.
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November 3 -
SOS becomes an international distress signal.
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November 9 - US President
Theodore Roosevelt leaves for a trip to
Panama to inspect the construction progress of the
Panama Canal (this was the first time a sitting
President of the United States made an official trip outside of the
United States).
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November 22 - Russian Prime Min.
Peter Stolypin introduces
agrarian reforms aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.
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December 4 -
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first intercollegiate
Greek-letter fraternity established for
African Americans, was founded at
Cornell University.
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December 6 - Politic creation of district of
Chimbote.
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December 10 - Pres.
Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating peace in the
Russo-Japanese War (
1905).
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December 24 -
Reginald Fessenden makes the first
radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
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December 26 - The world's first feature film, "
The Story of the Kelly Gang", is released.
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December 30 - The
All-India Muslim League, a political organization that represented the interests of Indian Muslims, is formed.
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Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunization for
tuberculosis first developed
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Richard Oldham argues that the
Earth has a molten interior
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Second Geneva Convention* Construction begins on the current
Great Mosque of Djenné.
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muffuletta sandwich is invented in
New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Belgian shopkeeper
Edgar Everaert creates Club Union
Football(soccer) team.
January-March
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January 11 -
Jaroslav Šindelář, Czech psychiatrist and neurologist (d.
1990)
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January 11 -
Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist who discovered LSD
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January 14 -
William Bendix, U.S. actor (d.
1964)
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January 22 -
Robert E. Howard, U.S. author (d.
1936)
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February 4 -
Clyde Tombaugh, U.S. astronomer (d.
1997)
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February 4 -
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German religious leader and participant in the resistance (d.
1945)
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February 10 -
Lon Chaney, Jr., U.S. actor (d.
1973)
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February 10 -
Erik Rhodes, U.S. actor (d.
1990)
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February 18 -
Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician. (d.
1980)
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February 26 -
Madeleine Carroll, British actress (d.
1997)
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February 28 -
Bugsy Siegel, U.S. gangster (d.
1947)
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March 1 -
Pham Van Dong,
Prime Minister of Vietnam (d.
2000)
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March 6 -
Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (d.
1978)
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March 7 â€"
Elmar Lipping, Estonian statesman and soldier (d.
1994)
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March 12 -
Yin Shun,
Buddhist master (d.
2005)
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March 16 -
Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (d.
1998)
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March 19 -
Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (d.
1962)
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March 20 -
Abraham Beame, mayor of New York (d.
2001)
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March 20 -
Ozzie Nelson, American actor and band leader (d.
1975)
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March 31 -
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1979)
April
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April 1 -
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Russian engineer and airplane designer (d.
1989)
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April 4 -
John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (d.
1995)
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April 9 -
Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (d.
1988)
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April 13 -
Samuel Beckett, Irish writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1989)
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April 23 -
Philip Rood Wheeler, Inventor and Social Activist celebrating his 100th Birthday
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April 25 -
William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d.
1997)
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April 28 -
Kurt Gödel, logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (d.
1978)
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April 28 -
Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d.
1999)
May
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May 3 -
Mary Astor,
Academy Award-winning U.S. actress (d.
1987)
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May 3 -
Anna E. Roosevelt, first child of
Eleanor Roosevelt and
Franklin D. Roosevelt (d.
1975)
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May 6 -
André Weil, French mathematician (d.
1998)
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May 8 -
Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d.
1977)
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May 11 -
Jacqueline Cochran, pioneer U.S aviatrix (d.
1980)
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May 12 -
Maurice Ewing, U.S. geophysicist and oceanographer (d.
1974)
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May 15 -
Humberto Delgado, Portuguese general and politician (d.
1965)
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May 16 -
Alfred Pellan, Canadian painter (d.
1988)
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May 16 -
Arturo Uslar-Pietri, Venezuelan writer (d.
2001)
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May 17 -
Zinka Milanov, Croatian-born soprano (d.
1989)
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May 20 -
Giuseppe Cardinal Siri,
cardinal of the
Roman Catholic Church (d.
1989)
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May 23 -
Allan Scott, U.S. screenwriter (d.
1995)
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May 23 -
Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (d.
1944)
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May 23 -
Willis Hudlin,
Major League Baseball pitcher (d.
2002)
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May 27 -
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu,
Buddhist monk (d.
1993)
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May 28 -
Phil Regan, American actor (d.
1996)
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May 29 -
T. H. White, British writer (d.
1964)
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May 30 -
Bruno Gröning, a faith healer in Germany (d.
1959)
June
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June 3 -
Josephine Baker, American actress (d.
1975)
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June 4 -
Ivan Knunyants, Soviet chemist (d.
1990)
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June 6 -
Max August Zorn, German-born U.S. mathematician (d.
1993)
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June 7 -
Glen Gray, American saxophonist (d.
1963)
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June 12 -
Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d.
1977)
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June 15 -
Léon Degrelle, Belgian fascist (d.
1994)
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June 19 -
Earl W. Bascom, American rodeo pioneer and artist (d.
1995)
* June 19 -
Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1979)
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June 20 -
Catherine Cookson, English author (d.
1998)
* June 20 -
Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (d.
2000)
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June 22 -
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (d.
2001)
* June 22 -
Billy Wilder, screenwriter, film director and producer (d.
2002)
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June 24 -
Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d.
1986)
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June 28 -
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1972)
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June 30 -
Ralph Allen, English footballer (d.
1981)
July-August
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July 1 -
Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (d.
2004)
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July 2 -
Hans Bethe, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2005)
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July 2 -
Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d.
1984)
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July 7 -
William Feller, Croatian-American mathematician (d.
1970)
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July 11 -
Herbert Wehner, German politician (d.
1990)
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July 18 -
S. I. Hayakawa, English professor and academic, United States Senator (d.
1992)
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July 23 -
Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1998)
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July 25 -
José Figueres Ferrer, President of Costa Rica (d.
1990)
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August 5 -
Wassily Leontief, Russian economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1999)
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August 9 -
Robert Surtees (cinematographer), U.S. cinematographer, 3 Academy Awards (d.
1985)
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August 12 -
Tedd Pierce, American animator (d.
1972)
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August 14 -
Horst P. Horst, photographer (d.
1999)
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August 28 -
John Betjeman, English poet (d.
1984)
September-October
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September 1 -
JoaquÃn Balaguer, Dominican politician and writer (d.
2002)
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September 1 -
Franz Biebl, German composer (d.
2001)
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September 4 -
Max Delbrück, German biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1981)
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September 6 -
Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1987)
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September 8 -
Andrei Kirilenko (politician), Soviet politician (d.
1990)
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September 25 -
Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d.
1975)
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October 6 -
Janet Gaynor, American actress (d.
1984)
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October 10 -
Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Indian novelist (d.
2001)
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October 14 -
Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d.
1949)
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October 14 -
Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (d.
1975)
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October 27 -
Hiram Fong, U.S. elder statesman and business tycoon (d.
2004)
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October 23 -
Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d.
2003)
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October 27 -
Earle Cabell, American politician (d.
1975)
November-December
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November 2 -
Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and cinema director and writer (d.
1976)
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November 5 -
Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d.
2004)
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November 16 -
Henri Charrière, author (d.
1973)
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November 17 -
Soichiro Honda, Japanese industrialist (d.
1973)
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November 18 -
Klaus Mann, German writer (d.
1949)
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November 18 -
George Wald, American scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1997)
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December 5 -
Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director (d.
1986)
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December 6 -
Ahn Eak-tae, Korean composer of classical music (d.
1965)
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December 9 -
Grace Hopper, U.S. computer scientist and naval officer (d.
1992)
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December 17 -
William McChesney Martin, Jr., ninth Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve (d.
1986)
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December 19 -
Leonid Brezhnev, politician, leader of the Soviet Union 1964 to 1982 (d.
1982)
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December 24 -
James Hadley Chase, English crime writer (d.
1985)
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December 25 -
Ernst Ruska, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1988)
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December 27 -
Andreas Feininger, photographer (d.
1999)
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December 27 -
Oscar Levant, U.S. pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d.
1972)
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January 29 - King
Christian IX of Denmark (b.
1818)
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February 9 -
Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet and publisher (b.
1872)
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February 27 -
Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer (b.
1834)
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March 13 -
Susan B. Anthony, American civil rights and women's suffrage activist (b.
1820)
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March 29 -
Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b.
1877)
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April 6 -
Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b.
1849)
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April 11 -
Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b.
1839)
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April 19 -
Pierre Curie, French physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1859)
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April 24 -
Mary Hunt, American
temperance movement leader (b.
1830)
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May 14 -
Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and American statesman (b.
1829)
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May 23 -
Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (b.
1828)
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June 20 -
John Clayton Adams, British Landscape Artist (b.
1840)
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September 5 -
Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b.
1844)
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October 22 -
Paul Cézanne, French painter (b.
1839)
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December 7 -
Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and activist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1833)
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Physics -
Sir Joseph John Thomson*
Chemistry -
Henri Moissan*
Medicine -
Camillo Golgi,
Santiago Ramón y Cajal*
Literature -
Giosuè Carducci*
Peace -
Theodore Roosevelt*
Saint Petersburg City Institutions*
St Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic School*
Balboa Pavilion in
Newport Beach,
California
