1906

1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1906th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 906th year of the 2nd millennium, the 6th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1906, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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

1906 in other calendars

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

• 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

• 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

• "Anchors Aweigh"

Movies Released

• Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, the first animated movie
• The Story of the Kelly Gang, the first feature-length movie