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Year '''1906''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMVI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Monday]] (link will display full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]] (or a [[common year starting on Sunday]]
of the 13-day-slower [[Julian calendar]]).
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==Table of contents==
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==Events of 1906==
[[Image:EcuadorLocation.png|thumb|225px|right| [[January 31]]: [[Ecuador]] [[earthquake]] (8.6).]]
===January - February===
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* [[January 1]] - [[British India]] officially adopts [[Indian Standard Time]].
* [[January 8]] - [[Landslide]] in [[Haverstraw (village), New York|Haverstraw, New York]] kills 20.
* [[January 31]] - [[earthquake]] in [[Ecuador]] (8.6 on the Richter scale).
[[Image:Jungle cover.jpg|thumb|100px|right| [[February 28]]: [[The Jungle]].]]
* [[8 February]] - [[Liberal Party (UK)|The Liberal Party]] led by [[Henry Campbell-Bannerman]] win the [[United Kingdom general election, 1906|United Kingdom general election]] with a large majority.
* [[February 11]] - [[Pope Pius X]] publishes the encyclical ''Vehementer nos''.
* [[February 15]] - Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in the UK parliament take the name [[Labour Party (UK)|Parliamentary Labour Party]].
* [[February 28]] - [[Upton Sinclair]] publishes ''[[The Jungle]]'', a novel depicting the life of an [[immigrant]] family in [[Chicago]] during the early 1900s.
===March - April===
* [[March 10]] - [[Courrières mine disaster|Explosion in coal mine]] in [[Courrières]], [[France]] kills 1060.
* [[March 15]] - [[Rolls-Royce Limited|Rolls-Royce]] Ltd. is registered.
* [[March 17]] - [[Phi Kappa Tau]] Fraternity founded at [[Miami University]], [[Oxford, Ohio]]
* [[March 18]] - [[Traian Vuia]] flies a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft.
[[Image:Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost at Centenary.jpg|thumb|180px|right| [[March 15]]: [[Rolls-Royce Limited|Rolls-Royce]]]]
* [[March 27]] - The [[Alpine Club of Canada]] is founded in Winnipeg by [[Elizabeth Parker (journalist)|Elizabeth Parker]] and [[Arthur Oliver Wheeler]].
* [[April 7]] - [[Mount Vesuvius]] erupts and devastates [[Naples]].
* [[April 14]] - First service held at African Methodist Episcopal Church in [[Los Angeles]], [[California|CA]] by W.J. Seymour in a series later known as the [[Azusa Street Revival]].
* [[April 18]] - The [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]] (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the [[San Andreas Fault]] destroys much of [[San Francisco, California]], killing at least 3000, with 225,000-300,000 left homeless, $350 million in damages.
* [[April 23]] - In [[Tsarist Russia]], the [[Russian Constitution of 1906|Fundamental Laws]] are announced at the first state [[Duma]].
[[Image:San francisco 1906 earthquake.jpg|thumb|200px|right| The ruins of [[San Francisco]] following the [[April 18]] earthquake and later fires]]
===May - June===
*May
**[[Jack London]]'s novel ''[[White Fang]]'' is serialized in ''The Outing Magazine''.
**[[Club Deportivo Guadalajara]] is founded.
* [[June 6]] - [[Durham and Southern Railway]] operates its first revenue train, Bonsal to Durham, [[North carolina|North Carolina]].
* [[June 7]] - The [[RMS Lusitania]] is launched in [[Glasgow]]. It is the world's largest ship.
* [[June 8]] - [[Theodore Roosevelt]] signs the [[Antiquities Act]] into law, authorizing the [[President of the United States|President]] to restrict the use of certain parcels of [[public land]] with historical or conservation value.
* [[June 9]]- [[June 10]] - Riots in [[Stockholm]], Ladugårsdgärden - 50 policemen injured.
* [[June 22]] - [[Haakon VII]] and [[Maud of Wales]] are crowned rulers of Norway.
* [[June 25]] - [[Harry K. Thaw]] shoots architect [[Stanford White]].
* [[June 29]] - Mesa Verde declared a National Park.
* [[June 30]] - [[United States Congress]] passes the [[Meat Inspection Act]] and [[Pure Food and Drug Act]].
===July - August===
*[[July 1]] - [[Sporting Clube de Portugal]] founded.
*[[July 6]] - [[Second Geneva Convention]].
* [[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.
* [[August 16]] - A [[Richter magnitude scale|magnitude]] 8.2 [[earthquake]] in [[Valparaíso]], [[Chile]] leaves approximately 20,000 dead.
* [[August 22]] - The first Victor [[Victrola]], a phonographic record player, is manufactured.
* [[August 23]] - Unable to control a rebellion in the newly-formed Cuban republic, Pres. [[Tomás Estrada Palma]] requests U.S. intervention.
===September - October===
* [[September 5]] - [[Brandbury Robinson]] throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
* [[September 18]] - [[Typhoon]] with [[tsunami]] kills an estimated 10,000 persons in [[Hong Kong]].
* [[September 22]] - [[Atlanta Race Riot|Race riots]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]]. At least 27 people are killed and the black-owned business district is severely damaged.
* [[September 24]] - U.S. President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] proclaims [[Devils Tower National Monument|Devils Tower]] the nation's first [[U.S. National Monument|National Monument]].
* [[September 26]] - The first concert of the [[Telharmonium]], the first music synthesizer, is presented at Telharmonic Hall, Broadway at 39th St., New York City.
* [[September 30]] - The first [[Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning]] is held, starting in Paris. The winning team piloted the balloon "United States" landed in Fylingdales, [[Yorkshire]].
* [[October 1]]
**[[Grand Duchy of Finland]] becomes the first nation to adopt [[universal suffrage]], giving women the right to vote.
**[[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]].
* [[October 6]] - The [[Majlis of Iran]] convenes for the first time.
* [[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.
* [[October 16]] - Imposter [[Wilhelm Voigt]] impersonates a [[Prussia]]n officer and takes over city hall in [[Köpenick]] for a short time, amusing all of Germany and other countries.
* [[October 23]] - Aeroplane of [[Alberto Santos-Dumont]] takes off on [[Bagatelle]] in [[France]] and flies 60 meters (200 feet).
* [[October 28]] - Creation of the [[Union Minière du Haut Katanga]], a Belgian mining trust in Congo.
===November - December===
* [[November 3]] - [[SOS]] becomes an international distress signal.
* [[November 9]] - US President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] leaves for a trip to [[Panama]] to inspect the construction progress of the [[Panama Canal]] (the first time a sitting [[President of the United States]] makes an official trip outside of the [[United States]]).
* [[November 22]] - Russian Prime Min. [[Peter Stolypin]] introduces [[agrarian reforms]] aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.
* [[December 2]] - [[HMS Dreadnought]] commissioned. First all-big-gun warship.
* [[December 4]] - [[Alpha Phi Alpha|Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity]], the first inter-collegiate [[Greek alphabet|Greek-letter]] [[Fraternities and sororities|organization]] established for [[African Americans]], is founded at [[Cornell University]].
* [[December 6]] - Creation of district of [[Chimbote]].
* [[December 8]] - [[Petrified Forest National Park|Petrified Forest]], [[Arizona]] designated a National Monument.
* [[December 9]] - [[Grace Murray Hopper]], pioneer computer scientist, is born in New York City, New York.
* [[December 10]] - Pres. [[Theodore Roosevelt]] is awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] for his role in negotiating peace in the [[Russo-Japanese War]] ([[1905]]).
* [[December 14]] - The world's first [[submarine]], the [[Unterseeboot 1]], enters the [[Germany|German]] navy.
* [[December 24]] - [[Reginald Fessenden]] makes the first [[radio]] broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
* [[December 26]] - The world's first feature film, "[[The Story of the Kelly Gang]]", is released.
* [[December 30]] - The [[All-India Muslim League]], a political organization that represented the interests of Indian Muslims, is formed.
===Undated===
* [[Bacillus Calmette-Guérin]] (BCG) immunization for [[tuberculosis]] first developed.
* [[Richard Dixon Oldham|Richard Oldham]] argues that the [[Earth]] has a molten interior.
* Construction begins on the current [[Great Mosque of Djenné]].
* The [[muffuletta]] sandwich is invented in [[New Orleans, Louisiana]].
* [[Belgian]] shopkeeper [[Edgar Everaert]] creates Club Union [[Football(soccer)]] team.
* The [[Brown Dog affair|Brown Dog]] statue is erected in [[Battersea]].
==Births==
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*[[January 11]] - [[Albert Hofmann]], Swiss chemist (d. [[2008]])
*[[January 14]] - [[William Bendix]], American actor (d. [[1964]])
*[[January 15]] - [[Edna Staebler]], Canadian author (d. [[2006]])
*[[January 21]] - [[Igor Moiseyev]], Russian choreographer (d. [[2007]])
*[[January 22]] - [[Robert E. Howard]], American author (d. [[1936]])
*[[February 4]]
**[[Clyde Tombaugh]], American astronomer (d. [[1997]])
**[[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]], German religious leader and resistance leader (d. [[1945]])
*[[February 10]]
**[[Lon Chaney, Jr.]], American actor (d. [[1973]])
**[[Erik Rhodes (actor)|Erik Rhodes]], American actor (d. [[1990]])
*[[February 18]] - [[Hans Asperger]], Austrian pediatrician (d. [[1980]])
*[[February 26]] - [[Madeleine Carroll]], British actress (d. [[1987]])
*[[February 28]] - [[Bugsy Siegel]], American gangster (d. [[1947]])
===March-April===
*[[March 1]] - [[Pham Van Dong]], [[Prime Minister of Vietnam]] (d. [[2000]])
*[[March 4]]
**[[Meindert DeJong]], American author (d. [[1991]])
**[[Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr.]], American businessman (d. [[2007]])
*[[March 6]] - [[Victor Hasselblad]], Swedish inventor and photographer (d. [[1978]])
*[[March 7]]
**[[Elmar Lipping]], Estonian statesman and soldier (d. [[1994]])
**[[Thomas Posey]], doctor, medical scientist (d. [[1990]])
*[[March 12]] - [[Yin Shun]], Chinese Buddhist master (d. [[2005]])
*[[March 16]]
**[[Henny Youngman]], English-born comedian (d. [[1998]])
**[[Francisco Ayala (novelist)|Francisco Ayala]], Spanish writer
*[[March 19]] - [[Adolf Eichmann]], Nazi official (d. [[1962]])
*[[March 20]]
**[[Abraham Beame]], mayor of New York (d. [[2001]])
**[[Ozzie Nelson]], American actor and band leader (d. [[1975]])
*[[March 26]] - [[Rafael Méndez]], Mexican-born trumpet virtuoso (d. [[1981]])
*[[March 31]] - [[Sin-Itiro Tomonaga]], Japanese physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1979]])
*[[April 1]] - [[Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev]], Russian engineer and airplane designer (d. [[1989]])
*[[April 4]] - [[John Cameron Swayze]], American journalist (d. [[1995]])
*[[April 9]] - [[Antal Dorati]], Hungarian conductor (d. [[1988]])
*[[April 13]] - [[Samuel Beckett]], Irish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1989]])
*[[April 22]] - [[Eddie Albert]], American actor, gardener and humanitarian activist (d. [[2005]])
*[[April 25]] - [[William J. Brennan]], U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. [[1997]])
*[[April 28]]
**[[Kurt Gödel]], Austrian logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (d. [[1978]])
**[[Paul Sacher]], Swiss conductor (d. [[1999]])
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*[[May 2]] - [[Philippe Halsman]], [[Latvian]]-born American photographer (d. [[1979]])
*[[May 3]] - [[Mary Astor]], Academy Award winning American actress and writer (d. [[1987]])
*[[May 6]] - [[André Weil]], French mathematician (d. [[1998]])
*[[May 8]] - [[Roberto Rossellini]], Italian director (d. [[1977]])
*[[May 11]] - [[Jacqueline Cochran]], American aviatrix (d. [[1980]])
*[[May 12]] - [[Maurice Ewing]], American geophysicist and oceanographer (d. [[1974]])
*[[May 15]] - [[Humberto Delgado]], Portuguese general and politician (d. [[1965]])
*[[May 16]]
**[[Alfred Pellan]], Canadian painter (d. [[1988]])
**[[Arturo Uslar-Pietri]], Venezuelan writer (d. [[2001]])
*[[May 17]] - [[Zinka Milanov]], Croatian-born soprano (d. [[1989]])
*[[May 19]] - [[Bruce Bennett]], American athlete and actor (d. [[2007]])
*[[May 20]] - [[Giuseppe Siri]], Italilan Roman Catholic cardinal (d. [[1989]])
*[[May 23]]
**[[Allan Scott (screenwriter)|Allan Scott]], American screenwriter (d. [[1995]])
**[[Lucha Reyes (Mexican singer)|Lucha Reyes]], Mexican singer (d. [[1944]])
**[[Willis Hudlin]], baseball player (d. [[2002]])
*[[May 27]] - [[Buddhadasa]], Buddhist monk (d. [[1993]])
*[[May 28]] - [[Phil Regan (actor)|Phil Regan]], American actor (d. [[1996]])
*[[May 29]] - [[T. H. White]], British writer (d. [[1964]])
*[[May 30]] - [[Bruno Gröning]], German faith healer (d. [[1959]])
*[[June 3]] - [[Josephine Baker]], American actress (d. [[1975]])
*[[June 4]] - [[Ivan Knunyants]], Soviet chemist (d. [[1990]])
*[[June 6]] - [[Max August Zorn]], German-born mathematician (d. [[1993]])
*[[June 12]] - [[Sandro Penna]], Italian poet (d. [[1977]])
*[[June 15]] - [[Léon Degrelle]], Belgian fascist (d. [[1994]])
*[[June 19]]
**[[Earl W. Bascom]], American rodeo pioneer, artist, inventor (d. [[1995]])
**[[Ernst Boris Chain]], German-born biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1979]])
*[[June 20]]
**[[Catherine Cookson]], English author (d. [[1998]])
**[[Robert Trent Jones]], English-born golf course designer (d. [[2000]])
*[[June 22]]
**[[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]], American author and aviator (d. [[2001]])
**[[Billy Wilder]], Austrian-born screenwriter, film director and producer (d. [[2002]])
*[[June 24]] - [[Pierre Fournier]], French cellist (d. [[1986]])
*[[June 26]] - [[Viktor Schreckengost]], American industrial designer (d. [[2008]])
*[[June 28]] - [[Maria Goeppert-Mayer]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1972]])
*[[June 30]] - [[Ralph Allen (footballer)|Ralph Allen]], English footballer (d. [[1981]])
===July-August===
*[[July 1]] - [[Estée Lauder (person)|Estée Lauder]], American cosmetics entrepreneur (d. [[2004]])
*[[July 2]] - [[Hans Bethe]], German-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2005]])
*[[July 2]] - [[Oleg Antonov]], Soviet aircraft designer (d. [[1984]])
*[[July 7]] - [[William Feller]], Croatian-born mathematician (d. [[1970]])
*[[July 7]] - [[Satchel Paige]], American baseball player (d. [[1982]])
*[[July 11]] - [[Herbert Wehner]], German politician (d. [[1990]])
*[[July 18]] - [[S. I. Hayakawa]], English academic and politician (d. [[1992]])
*[[July 23]] - [[Vladimir Prelog]], Croatian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1998]])
*[[July 25]] - [[José Figueres Ferrer]], [[President of Costa Rica]] (d. [[1990]])
*[[August 6]] - [[Vic Dickenson]], American trombonist (d. [[1984]])
*[[August 9]] - [[Robert Surtees (cinematographer)|Robert Surtees]], American cinematographer (d. [[1985]])
*[[August 12]] - [[Tedd Pierce]], American animator (d. [[1972]])
*[[August 14]] - [[Horst P. Horst]], German photographer (d. [[1999]])
*[[August 27]] - [[Ed Gein]], American serial killer (d. [[1984]])
*[[August 28]] - [[John Betjeman]], English poet (d. [[1984]])
===September-October===
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*[[September 1]]
**[[Joaquín Balaguer]], Dominican politician and writer (d. [[2002]])
**[[Franz Biebl]], German composer (d. [[2001]])
*[[September 4]] - [[Max Delbrück]], German biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1981]])
*[[September 6]] - [[Luis Federico Leloir]], French-born chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1987]])
*[[September 8]] - [[Andrei Kirilenko (politician)]], Soviet politician (d. [[1990]])
*[[September 17]] - [[Raymond D. Mindlin]], American mechanician (d. [[1987]])
*[[September 17]] - [[Edgar Wayburn]], American environmentalist
*[[September 21]] - [[Henry Beachell]], American plant breeder (d. [[2006]])
*[[September 25]] - [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], Russian composer (d. [[1975]])
*[[October 6]] - [[Janet Gaynor]], American actress (d. [[1984]])
*[[October 9]] - [[Léopold Sédar Senghor]], first president of Senegal (d. [[2001]])
*[[October 10]] - [[R. K. Narayan|Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan]], Indian novelist (d. [[2001]])
*[[October 14]]
**[[Hassan al Banna|Imam Hassan al Banna]], Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. [[1949]])
**[[Hannah Arendt]], German political theorist (d. [[1975]])
*[[October 15]] - [[Hiram Fong]], American businessman and politician (d. [[2004]])
*[[October 23]] - [[Gertrude Ederle]], American swimmer (d. [[2003]])
*[[October 24]] - [[Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky]], Austrian painter (d. [[1996]])
*[[October 27]]
**[[Kazuo Ohno]], Japanese dancer
**[[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]])
*[[November 5]] - [[Fred Lawrence Whipple]], American astronomer (d. [[2004]])
*[[November 13]] - [[Eva Zeisel]], Hungarian-born industrial designer
*[[November 14]] - [[Louise Brooks]], American actress (d. [[1985]])
*[[November 16]] - [[Henri Charrière]], French author (d. [[1973]])
*[[November 17]] - [[Soichiro Honda]], Japanese industrialist (d. [[1973]])
*[[November 17]] - [[Rollie Stiles]], baseball player (d. [[2007]])
*[[November 18]]
**[[Klaus Mann]], German writer (d. [[1949]])
**[[George Wald]], American scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1997]])
*[[December 5]] - [[Otto Preminger]], Austrian-born film director (d. [[1986]])
*[[December 6]] - [[Ahn Eak-tae]], Korean composer of classical music (d. [[1965]])
*[[December 9]] - [[Grace Hopper]], American computer scientist and naval officer (d. [[1992]])
*[[December 16]] - [[Barbara Kent]], Canadian actress
*[[December 17]] - [[William McChesney Martin, Jr.]], Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve (d. [[1986]])
*[[December 19]] - [[Leonid Brezhnev]], Soviet leader (d. [[1982]])
*[[December 24]] - [[James Hadley Chase]], English writer (d. [[1985]])
*[[December 25]] - [[Ernst Ruska]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1988]])
*[[December 26]] - [[Imperio Argentina]], Argentinian singer and actress (d. [[2003]])
*[[December 27]]
**[[Andreas Feininger]], French-born photographer (d. [[1999]])
**[[Oscar Levant]], American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d. [[1972]])
==Deaths==
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*[[January 29]] - King [[Christian IX of Denmark]] (b. [[1818]])
*[[February 8]] - [[Johanna Hiedler]], grandmother of [[Adolf Hitler]] (b. [[1830]])
*[[February 9]] - [[Paul Laurence Dunbar]], American poet and publisher (b. [[1872]])
*[[February 13]] - [[Albert Gottschalk]], Danish painter (b. [[1866]])
*[[February 27]] - [[Samuel Pierpont Langley]], American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer (b. [[1834]])
*[[March 13]] - [[Susan B. Anthony]], American civil rights and women's suffrage activist (b. [[1820]])
*[[March 19]] - [[Victor Fatio]], zoologist (b. [[1838]])
*[[March 29]] - [[Slava Raskaj]], Croatian painter (b. [[1877]])
*[[April 6]] - [[Alexander Kielland]], Norwegian author (b. [[1849]])
*[[April 8]] - [[Auguste D]], first person to be diagnosed with [[Alzheimer's Disease]] (b. [[1850]])
*[[April 11]] - [[Francis Pharcellus Church]], American editor and publisher (b. [[1839]])
*[[April 19]] - [[Pierre Curie]], French physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1859]])
*[[April 19]] - [[Spencer Gore (sportsman)|Spencer Gore]], British tennis player and cricketer (b. [[1850]])
*[[April 24]] - [[Mary Hunt]], American temperance activist (b. [[1830]])
*[[May 14]] - [[Carl Schurz]], German revolutionary and American statesman (b. [[1829]])
*[[May 23]] - [[Henrik Ibsen]], Norwegian playwright (b. [[1828]])
*[[June 20]] - [[John Clayton Adams]], British artist (b. [[1840]])
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*[[August 26]] - [[Victor, 5th duc de Broglie]] (b. [[1846]])
*[[September 1]] - [[Giuseppe Giacosa]], poet and librettist (b. [[1847]])
*[[September 5]] - [[Ludwig Boltzmann]], Austrian physicist (b. [[1844]])
*[[October 8]] - [[Adelaide Ristori]], actress (b. [[1822]])
*[[October 22]] - [[Paul Cézanne]], French painter (b. [[1839]])
*[[October 24]] - [[Vladimir Stasov]], music critic (b. [[1824]])
*[[November 4]] - [[John H. Ketcham]], American politician (b. [[1832]])
*[[November 16]] - [[Mother Veronica of the Passion]], religious leader (b. [[1823]])
[[Image:Rathause petersburg.jpg|thumb|[[Saint Petersburg]] Institutions Building (1905-06).]]
*[[December 7]] - [[Élie Ducommun]], Swiss journalist and activist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1833]])
*[[December 9]] - [[Ferdinand Brunetière]], critic (b. [[1849]])
*[[December 21]]-[[Acharya Rajendrasuri]] , (b. [[1827]] )
==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Sir Joseph John Thomson]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Henri Moissan]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] - [[Camillo Golgi]], [[Santiago Ramón y Cajal]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Giosuè Carducci]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Theodore Roosevelt]]
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