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January 2 – Steele Sidebottom, Australian Rules footballer
 January 4 – Pascal Bodmer, German ski jumper
 January 8 – Hinoi Asuka, Japanese singer
 January 8 – Josh Hazlewood, Australian cricketer
 January 12 – Pixie Lott, British singer
 January 15 – Rubab Raza, Pakistani swimmer
 January 16 – Julie Dubela, American singer
 January 19 – Erin Sanders, American actress
 January 21 – Brittany Tiplady, Canadian actress
 January 28 – Calum Worthy, Canadian actor and musician
 February 10 – Emma Roberts, American actress
 February 10 – Ceng De Ping, Taiwanese singer
 February 16 – Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg
 February 17 – Bonnie Wright, English actress
 February 18 – Malese Jow, American actress
 February 18 – Henry Surtees, British racing driver (d. 2009)
 February 25 – Gerran Howell, Welsh actor
 February 28 – Sarah Bolger, Irish actress
 March 4 – Diandra Newlin, American actress, singer, and model
 March 8 – Devon Werkheiser, American actor
 March 11 – Qian Lin, Chinese singer
March 15 – Kie Kitano, Japanese actress
 March 23 – George William Carnegie, British noble
 March 24 – Nate Vanderveen, American musician
 March 26 – Brittney Wilson, Canadian actress
 March 26 – Jack Watts, Australian rules footballer
 March 28 – Amy Bruckner, American actress
April 4 – Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress
 April 10 – Amanda Michalka, American singer and actress
 April 10 – Sergiusz Żymełka, Polish actor
 April 11 – Thiago Alcántara, Italian footballer
 April 15 – Daiki Arioka, Japanese singer (Hey! Say! JUMP)
 April 18 – Joey Gaydos, American actor and guitarist
 April 20 – Thomas Curtis, American actor
 April 27 – Rebecca Ryan, British actress
 April 28 – Aleisha Allen, American actress
 May 17 – Daniel Curtis Lee, American actor
 May 19 – Jordan Pruitt, American singer
 May 21 – Sarah Ramos, American actress 
 May 23 – Lena Meyer-Landrut, German singer
 May 24 – Erika Umeda, Japanese singer
 May 26 – Julianna Rose Mauriello, American stage actress
 May 29 – Kristen Alderson, American actress
 June 4 – Jordan Hinson, American actress
 June 4 – Megan Prescott and Kathryn Prescott, British actresses
 June 18 – Willa Holland, American model and actress
 June 19 – Pontus Ekhem, Swedish hockey player
 June 24 – Hiba Abu Nada, Palestinian poet and novelist
June 27 – Madylin Sweeten, American actress
 June 30 – Kaho, Japanese actress
July 5 – Jason Dolley, American actor
 July 6 – Victoire Thivisol, French actress
 July 7 – Devon Alan, American actor
 July 9 – Mitchel Musso, American actor
 July 10 – Atsuko Maeda, Japanese singer
 July 12 – Erik Per Sullivan, American actor
 July 14 – Lewis McGibbon, British actor
 July 20 – William Tomlin, British actor
 July 28 – Rina Aizawa, Japanese actress
 July 29 – Miki Ishikawa, American actress and singer
 July 30 – Diana Vickers, Scottish singer
 August 6 – Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer
 August 16 – Evanna Lynch, Irish actress
 August 16 – Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Canadian actress
 August 17 – Qory Sandioriva, Putri Indonesia 2009
 August 21 – Tess Gaerthé, Dutch singer and actress
 August 28 – Kyle Massey, American actor
 September 4 – Carter Jenkins, American actor
 September 5 – Skandar Keynes, British actor
 September 6 – Ashli Adams, American actress
 September 9 – Kelsey Chow, American actress
 September 12 – Kristin Klabunde, American actress
 September 17 – Ryo Ishikawa, Japanese golfer
September 20 – Spencer Locke, American actress
 September 21 – Zoe Weizenbaum, American actress
 September 23 – Melanie Oudin, American tennis player
 September 25 – Emmy Clarke, American actress
October–December

 October 2 – Emma Maree Urquhart, Scottish novelist and artist
 October 4 – Nicolai Kielstrup, Danish singer
 October 14 – Shona McGarty, English actress
 October 10 – Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer-songwriter
 October 19 – Christopher Gerse, American actor
 October 23 – Sophie Tamiko Oda, Japanese American actress
 October 31 – Jordan-Claire Green, American actress
 November 6 – Camila Finn, Brazilian model
 November 11 – Christa B. Allen, American actress
 November 15 – Shailene Woodley, American actress
 November 22 – Saki Shimizu, Japanese singer
 December 3 – Masahiro Usui, Japanese actor
 December 9 – Prince Joachim, Archduke of Austria-Este, Belgian prince
 December 12 – Daniel Magder, Canadian actor
 December 13 – Jay Greenberg, American music composer
 December 19 – Declan Galbraith, British singer

Deaths

January
Deaths

January

 January 2 – Renato Rascel, Italian actor (b. 1927)
 January 3 – Luke Appling, American baseball player (b. 1907)
 January 5 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (b. 1922)
 January 8 – Steve Clark, English guitarist (b. 1960)
 January 11 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist (b. 1905)
 January 12 – Keye Luke, Chinese-born actor (b. 1904)
 January 12 – Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (b. 1913)
 January 14 – Salah Khalaf, Palestinian officer (b. 1933)
 January 17 – King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
 January 22 – Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician (b. 1942)
 January 28 – Red Grange, American football player (b. 1903)
 January 29 – Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907)
 January 29 – John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)
 January 30 – John Bardeen, American physicist (b. 1908)
 January 30 – Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)

February
February 1 – Carol Dempster, American actress (b. 1901)
 February 2 – Pete Axthelm, American sportswriter (b. 1943)
 February 3 – Nancy Kulp, American actress (b. 1921)
 February 5 – Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903)
 February 5 – Pedro Arrupe, 28th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1907)
 February 6 – María Zambrano, Spanish essayist (b. 1904)
 February 6 – Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist (b. 1912)
 February 6 – Danny Thomas, American singer (b. 1914)
 February 7 – Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier (b. 1920)
 February 13 – Arno Breker, German sculptor (b. 1900)
 February 14 – John A. McCone, American politician, 6th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1902)
 February 16 – Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan Contras leader (b. 1932)
 February 21 – John Sherman Cooper, American politician (b. 1901)
 February 21 – Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (b. 1919)
 February 24 – John Charles Daly, South African-born journalist and game show host (b. 1914)
February 24 – Héctor Rial, Argentinian footballer (b. 1928)
 February 24 – George Gobel, American comedian (b. 1919)
 February 24 – Jean Rogers, American actress (b. 1916)
March

 March 1 – Edwin H. Land, American scientist (b. 1909)
 March 2 – Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (b. 1928)
 March 3 – Arthur Murray, American dancer (b. 1895)
 March 3 – William Penney, Baron Penney, British nuclear physicist (b. 1909)
 March 7 – Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
 March 12 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist (b. 1900)
 March 13 – Jimmy McPartland, American jazz musician (b. 1907)
 March 14 – Howard Ashman, American lyricist (b. 1950)
 March 14 – Doc Pomus, American composer (b. 1925)
 March 15 – George Sherman, American movie director (b. 1908)
 March 18 – Vilma Bánky, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1898)
 March 21 – Leo Fender, Greek-American instrument maker (b. 1909)
 March 25 – Marcel Lefebvre, French Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1905)
 March 27 – Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
 March 29 – Lee Atwater, American presidential advisor (b. 1951)

April
April 1 – Paulo Muwanga, President of Uganda (b. 1924)
 April 1 – Martha Graham, American dancer (b. 1894)
 April 1 – Jaime Guzmán, Chilean right-wing politician (b. 1946)
 April 3 – Charles Goren, American bridge player (b. 1901)
 April 3 – Graham Greene, English writer (b. 1904)
 April 4 – Max Frisch, Swiss writer (b. 1911)
 April 4 – H. John Heinz III, American politician (b. 1938)
 April 4 – Louis Guglielmi, French composer (b. 1916)
 April 4 – Forrest Towns, American runner (b. 1914)
 April 4 – Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (b. 1920)
 April 5 – Sonny Carter, American astronaut (b. 1947)
 April 5 – John Tower, American politician (b. 1929)
 April 7 – Ruth Page, American dancer (b. 1899)
 April 8 – Per Yngve Ohlin, Swedish singer (b. 1969)
 April 10 – Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (b. 1955)
 April 10 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (b. 1900)
 April 16 – David Lean, British movie director (b. 1908)
 April 17 – Jack Yellen, American lyricist (b. 1892)
April 18 – Barry Rogers, American jazz musician (b. 1935)
 April 19 – Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian movie producer (b. 1905)
 April 20 – Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1916) 
 April 20 – Steve Marriott, English musician (b. 1947) 
 April 20 – Don Siegel, American movie director (b. 1912)
 April 26 – Carmine Coppola, American composer (b. 1910)
 April 27 – Robert Velter, French cartoonist (b. 1909)
 April 28 – Ken Curtis, American actor (b. 1916)
 April 28 – Johnny Eck, American sideshow performer (b. 1911)
 April 29 – Gonzaguinha, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
 April 29 – Claude Gallimard, Son of Gaston Gallimard (b. 1914)
May 1 – Cesare Merzagora, Italian politician (b. 1898)
 May 1 – Richard Thorpe, American movie director (b. 1896)
 May 3 – Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American writer (b. 1933)
 May 3 – Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer (b. 1907)
 May 6 – Wilfrid Hyde-White, British actor (b. 1903)
 May 7 – Dennis Crosby, American singer (b. 1934)
 May 8 – Jean Langlais, French composer (b. 1907)
 May 8 – Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (b. 1903)
 May 14 – Jiang Qing, Chinese radical revolutionary (b. 1914)
 May 15 – Shintaro Abe, Japanese Politician (b. 1924)
 May 15 – Andreas Floer, German mathematician (b. 1956)
 May 18 – Edwina Booth, American actress (b. 1904)
 May 21 – Lino Brocka, Filipino movie director (b. 1939)
 May 21 – Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1944)
 May 22 – Derrick Henry Lehmer, American mathematician (b. 1905)
 May 23 – Jean Van Houtte, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1907)
 May 23 – Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist (b. 1895)
 May 27 – Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904)
May 29 – Coral Browne, Australian actress (b. 1913)
 May 30 – Manolo Gómez Bur, Spanish actor (b. 1917)
June

 June 1 – David Ruffin, American singer (b. 1941)
 June 2 – Hailu Yimenu, Acting Prime Minister of Ethiopia
 June 3 – Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1946) 
 June 3 – Katia Krafft French volcanologist (b. 1942)
 June 3 – Eva Le Gallienne, English-born actress (b. 1899)
 June 5 – Larry Kert, American actor (b. 1930)
 June 5 – Sylvia Porter, American economist and journalist (b. 1913)
 June 6 – Stan Getz, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1927)
 June 9 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)
 June 11 – Cromwell Everson, South African composer (b. 1925)
 June 14 – Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (b. 1907)
 June 15 – Arthur Lewis, British economist (b. 1915)
 June 17 – Pierre Jamet, French harpist (b. 1893)
 June 18 – Joan Caulfield, American actress (b. 1922)
 June 19 – Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900)
 June 27 – Molly Geertsema, Dutch liberal politician (b. 1918)
 June 28 – Hans Nüsslein, German tennis player (b. 1910)
 June 29 – Henri Lefebvre, French sociologist (b. 1901)

July
July

 July 1 – Michael Landon, American actor (b. 1936)
 July 2 – Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)
 July 4 – Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
 July 5 – Mildred Dunnock, American actress (b. 1901)
 July 5 – Howard Nemerov, American poet (b. 1920)
 July 6 – Anton Yugov, Bulgarian Politician (b. 1904)
 July 8 – James Franciscus, American actor (b. 1934)
 July 15 – Bert Convy, American game show host (b. 1933)
 July 16 – Robert Motherwell, American painter (b. 1915)
 July 18 – André Cools, Belgian Socialist politician (b. 1927)
 July 24 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Yiddish writer (b. 1904)
 July 25 – Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician (b. 1893)
 July 29 – Christian de Castries, French general (b. 1902)

August
August 1 – Chris Short, American baseball pitcher (b. 1937)
 August 3 – Ali Sabri, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1920)
 August 4 – Yevgeny Dragunov, Russian weapons designer (b. 1920)
 August 5 – Paul Brown, American football coach (b. 1908)
 August 5 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer (b. 1917)
 August 6 – Harry Reasoner, American journalist (b. 1923)
 August 6 – Shapour Bakhtiar, Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1915)
 August 8 – James Irwin, American astronaut (b. 1930)
 August 11 – J. D. McDuffie, American race car driver (b. 1938)
 August 13 – James Roosevelt, American businessman and politician (b. 1907)
 August 14 – Richard A. Snelling, Governor of Vermont (b. 1927)
 August 16 – Luigi Zampa, Italian movie-maker (b. 1905)
 August 22 – Colleen Dewhurst, American actress (b. 1924)
 August 22 – Boris Pugo, Latvian communist politician (b. 1937)
 August 24 – Sergey Akhromeyev, Russian marshall (b. 1923)
 August 25 – Niven Busch, American novelist (b. 1903)
 August 30 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter (b. 1925)
August 30 – Cyril Knowles, English footballer (b. 1944)
September 2 – Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat (b. 1911)
 September 3 – Dottie West, American singer (b. 1932)
 September 3 – Frank Capra, Italian-born movie director (b. 1897)
 September 4 – Charles Barnet, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1913)
 September 4 – Tom Tryon, American actor (b. 1926)
 September 6 - Pee Wee Gaskins, American serial killer (b. 1933)
 September 7 – Edwin McMillan, American chemist (b. 1907)
 September 8 – Brad Davis, American actor (b. 1949)
 September 8 – Alex North, American movie composer (b. 1910)
 September 10 – Jack Crawford, Australian tennis champion (b. 1908)
 September 13 – Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-born movie director (b. 1901)
 September 14 – Russell Lynes, American art historian (b. 1910)
 September 15 – John Hoyt, American actor (b. 1905)
 September 17 – Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
 September 24 – Dr. Seuss, American writer (b. 1904)
 September 25 – Klaus Barbie, German Gestapo leader (b. 1913)
September 25 – Viviane Romance, French actress (b. 1912)
 September 28 – Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926)
October

 October 6 – Igor Talkov, Russian singer (b. 1956)
 October 11 – Redd Foxx, American comedian (b. 1922) 
 October 12 – Aline MacMahon, American actress (b. 1899)
 October 12 – Regis Toomey, American actor (b. 1898)
 October 17 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer (b. 1919)
 October 24 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (b. 1921)
 October 28 – Sylvia Fine, American lyricist (b. 1913)
 October 31 – Joseph Papp, American theater producer (b. 1921)

November
November

 November 2 – Irwin Allen, American television producer (b. 1941)
 November 5 – Fred MacMurray, American actor (b. 1908)
 November 5 – Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (b. 1923)
 November 6 – Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)
 November 7 – Tom of Finland, Finnish artist (b. 1920)
 November 9 – Yves Montand, French actor (b. 1921)
 November 14 – Tony Richardson, English theater director (b. 1928)
 November 18 – Gustáv Husák, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (b. 1913)
 November 21 – Daniel Mann, American movie director (b. 1912)
 November 23 – Klaus Kinski, German actor (b. 1926)
 November 24 – Eric Carr, American drummer (b. 1950)
 November 24 – Anton Furst, American art director (b. 1944)
 November 24 – Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (b. 1946)
 November 29 – Ralph Bellamy, American actor (b. 1904)
December
 December 1 – George Stigler, American economist (b. 1911)
 December 6 – Richard Stone, British economist (b. 1913)
 December 9 – Berenice Abbott, American photographer (b. 1898)
 December 10 – Franco Maria Malfatti, 3rd President of the European Commission (b. 1927)
 December 10 – Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
 December 11 – Robert Q. Lewis, American radio (b. 1920)
 December 12 – Eleanor Boardman, American actress (b. 1898)
 December 15 – Vasily Zaytsev, Russian World War II hero (b. 1915)
 December 15 – Aad Mansveld, Dutch footballer (b. 1944)
 December 18 – George Abecassis, English race car driver (b. 1913)
 December 25 - Soviet Union, Country (b. 1917)
 December 28 – Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (b. 1941)
Nobel Prizes 
 Nobel Prize in Physics won by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist
 Nobel Prize in Chemistry won by Richard R. Ernst, Swiss physical chemist
 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine shared by Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann
 Nobel Prize in Literature won by Nadine Gordimer, South African writer
 Nobel Peace Prize won by Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese diplomat
 Nobel Prize in Economics won by Ronald Coase, British economist
Movies released 
 The Addams Family
 Beauty and the Beast, an animated movie by Walt Disney Pictures
 Beethoven
 Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
 Bugsy, the story of mobster Bugsy Siegel
 Boyz n the Hood
 Cape Fear
 City Slickers, winning Best Supporting Actor for Jack Palance
 Double Impact
 The Doors
 Father of the Bride
 Fried Green Tomatoes
 The Fisher King, nominated for 9 Academy Awards
 Hook
 JFK, directed by Oliver Stone
 New Jack City
 Out for Justice
 Oscar
 Point Break
 Thelma & Louise
 The Last Boy Scout
 The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, winning a BAFTA Award for Alan Rickman
 The Silence of the Lambs, based on the book by Thomas Harris
 Sleeping with the Enemy
 Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the highest-grossing movie of 1991
 What About Bob?, another highest-grossing movie of 1991

Hit songs
"Black" - Pearl Jam
 "American Music" – The Violent Femmes
 "Baby Baby" – Amy Grant
 "Black Or White" – Michael Jackson
 "Bring The Noise" – Public Enemy and Anthrax
 "Can't Stop This Thing We Started" – Bryan Adams
 "Close My Eyes" – Marillion
 "Do You Remember" – Phil Collins
 "Don't Cry" – Guns N' Roses
 "Enter Sandman" – Metallica
 "Every Heartbeat" – Amy Grant
 "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)" – Bryan Adams
 "Get The Funk Out" – Extreme
 "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" – C&C Music Factory
 "Good For Me" – Amy Grant
 "Good Times" – INXS and Jimmy Barnes
 "Higher + Higher" – Jimmy Barnes
 "I Can't Make You Love Me" – Bonnie Raitt
 "I Will Remember You" – Amy Grant
 "Live And Let Die" – Guns N' Roses
 "Live For Loving You" – Gloria Estefan
 "Losing My Religion" – R.E.M.
 "More Than Words" – Extreme
 "Mysterious Ways" – U2
 "One" – U2
 "Poundcake" – Van Halen
 "Right Here, Right Now" – Jesus Jones
 "Rock The Casbah" – The Clash
 "Rush Rush" – Paula Abdul
 "Shameless" – Garth Brooks
"Shiny Happy People" – R.E.M.
 "Sing Your Life" – Morrissey
 "Smells Like Teen Spirit" – Nirvana
 "Something To Talk About" – Bonnie Raitt
 "That's What Love Is For" – Amy Grant
 "Radio Song" – R.E.M.
 "There'll Never Be Another Tonight" – Bryan Adams
 "Top Of The World" – Van Halen
 "Train In Vain(Stand By Me)" – The Clash
 "Twist And Shout" – Deacon Blue
 "Unbelievable" – EMF
 "When Something's Wrong With My Baby" – John Farnham + Jimmy Barnes
 "Who Said I Would" – Phil Collins
 "When A Man Loves A Woman" – Michael Bolton
 "Wicked Game" – Chris Isaak
 "Violent Blue" – Chagall Guevara
 "You Could Be Mine" – Guns N' Roses
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
 As the Crow Flies – Jeffrey Archer
 Damage – Josephine Hart
 Dead Certainties – Simon Schama
 Den of Thieves – James B. Stewart
 Dirty Weekend – Helen Zahavi
 The Doomsday Conspiracy – Sidney Sheldon
 Druids – Morgan Llywelyn
 The Firm – John Grisham
 For Love of the Game – Michael Shaara (posthumous)
 Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture – Douglas Coupland
 Gojiro – Mark Jacobson
 He, She and It – Marge Piercy
 Heartbeat – Danielle Steel
 Imajica – Clive Barker
 Jernigan – David Gates
 The Kitchen God's Wife – Amy Tan
 A Life of Picasso – John Richardson
 Loves Music, Loves to Dance – Mary Higgins Clark
 The Man from Barbarossa – John Gardner
 Mao II – Don DeLillo
 Mexico – James A. Michener
 Possession: A Romance – A. S. Byatt
 Reaper Man – Terry Pratchett
 Say It With Poison – Ann Granger
 Scarlett – Alexandra Ripley
 The Secret Pilgrim – John le Carré
 SEX – Madonna
 Star Wars: Heir to the Empire – Timothy Zahn
 Such a Long Journey – Rohinton Mistry
The Sum of All Fears – Tom Clancy
 A Thousand Acres – Jane Smiley
 Through the Vast Halls of Memory – Haifa Zangana
 Time's Arrow, or The Nature of the Offense – Martin Amis
 The Van – Roddy Doyle
 The Werewolf and the Wormlord – Hugh Cook
 Wicca Craft – Gerina Dunwich
 Witches Abroad – Terry Pratchett
2005 (MMV) was .

Events

January 
 January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 604, a Boeing 737, crashes into the Red Sea off Egypt, killing 148 people.
 January 9 -
 The same storm which pounded the United States earlier in the month hits England and Scandinavia. At least 13 are dead among hurricane force winds and the worst flooding in northwest England in 40 years.
 Mahmoud Abbas is elected to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian Authority president in the Palestinian election.
 January 12 – Deep Impact (space mission) is launched from Cape Canaveral by a Delta 2 rocket.
 January 14 – The Huygens probe lands on Titan, largest moon of planet Saturn.
 January 16 – Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66, the oldest woman in the world to do so.
January 20 – George W. Bush is inaugurated in Washington D.C. for his second term as the 43rd President of the United States.
 January 21 – In Belize's capital city Belmopan, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
 January 23 – Viktor Yushchenko is sworn in as the third President of Ukraine in Kiev, Ukraine.
 January 25 – A stampede during a religious pilgrimage in India kills at least 215, mostly women and small children.
 January 26 – A helicopter crash in eastern Iraq kills 31 United States soldiers.
 January 30 -
 The first Parliamentary elections in Iraq since the overthrow of the Ba'ath Party government led by Saddam Hussein take place.
 A Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes in Iraq, killing 10 British servicemen. Iraqi insurgents release a video claiming to have shot the aircraft down using a missile.

February 
 February 14 – YouTube was founded.

March 
 March 28 – A strong Earthquake strikes off the coast of Sumatra.
April 
 April 2 – Pope John Paul II dies.
 April 6 – Prince Rainier III of Monaco dies aged 81. He is succeeded by his son, Albert II of Monaco.
 April 8 – Prince Charles marries Camilla Parker Bowles.
 April 19 – Cardinal Joseph Alois Ratzinger becomes Pope Benedict XVI.

May 
 May 8 – The 60th anniversary of VE Day is marked.
 May 29 – French voters reject the proposed European Constitution.

June 
 June 1 – Dutch voters reject the proposed European Constitution.
July 
 July 1 – German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder loses a vote of confidence.
 July 6 – July 9 – The G8 Summit takes place in Gleneagles, Scotland.
 July 6 – London is awarded the 2012 Olympic Games.
 July 7 – Four suicide bombers kill 56 people (including the bombers) on London's public transport system – three Tube trains and one bus. The attacks were carried out by Al Qaeda.
 July 21 – Four attempted suicide bombers fail to detonate their bombs on London's public transport system. All four bombers escape, but are later captured.
 July 22 – An innocent Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes is shot dead by officers of the London Metropolitan Police.
 July 23 – Terrorist attacks occur at Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt.

August 
 August 1 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies. He is succeeded by his half-brother, Abdullah.
 August 29 – Hurricane Katrina devastates the southeastern United States.
September 
 September 30 – The controversial drawings of the Prophet Muhammad first appear in the Danish newspaper, Jyllands Posten.

October 
 October 1 – Terrorist bombings occur on the island of Bali.
 October 8 – A devastating earthquake hits Kashmir.
 October 27 – Widespread rioting erupts across France.
 October 30 - Having been destroyed in the Firebombing of Dresden in World War II, the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady), is reconsecrated.

November 
 November 8 – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is elected as Liberia's, and Africa's first female President.
 November 22 – Angela Merkel becomes Germany's first female chancellor.

December 
 December 11 – An explosion occurs at the Buncefield Oil Depot in Hertfordshire, England.
 December 31 – An extra Leap Second is added onto the year.
Births 
 January 4 – Dafne Keen, Actress
 January 11 – Roksana Węgiel, The winner of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018
 February 19 — Alma Deutscher, Violinist and pianist
 February 20 — Gabriel Fernandez, American murder victim (d. 2013)
 February 26 — Marcel Moswitzer, Footballer and midfielder for FC Liefering
 February 27 — Nina Hillman, Actress and a member of NiziU
 March 7 — Jade Weber, Model
 March 11 — Valentin Sulzbacher, Footballer and defender for FC Liefering
 Riley Ann Sawyers, American murder victim (d. 2007)
 March 13 — Zeteny Jano, Footballer and midfielder for FC Liefering
 March 26 — Ella Anderson, Actress
 May 9 — Homare Okamura, Singer and former child model
 June 28 — Mei Yamazaki, Singer
 July 20 — Paulette Gebara Farah, Mexican murder victim (d. 2010)
 August 9 - Caylee Anthony, American murder victim (d. 2008)
 October 5 - Alex Beznea, Romanian guitarist (Timpuri Grele)
 October 31 – Leonor, Princess of Asturias, Infanta of Spain
November 4 - Eduard Necula, Romanian singer & guitarist (Timpuri Grele)
 November 15 - Tsehay Hawkins, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
 November 16 – Mariam Mamadashvili, The winner of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016
 November 19 — Gitanjali Rao, Scientist
 December 27 — Kristina Pimenova, Model
Death

January 

 January 1 – Shirley Chisholm, American politician (b. 1924)
 January 12 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
 January 17 – Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919)
 January 23 – Johnny Carson, American actor, comedian and writer (b. 1925)

February 

 February 2 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905)
 February 10 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
 February 18 - Bonar Bain, Canadian actor (b. 1923)
 February 20 – Hunter S. Thompson, American writer (b. 1937)

March 

 March 3 – Rinus Michels, Dutch footballer (b. 1928)
 March 6 – Hans Bethe, German-American nuclear physicist (b. 1906)
 March 26 – James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912)
 March 29 – Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b. 1968)
 March 31 – Terri Schiavio, American patient in right-to-die case (b. 1963)

April
April 

 April 2 – Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)
 April 6 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923)
 April 11 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)
 April 22 – Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish artist (b. 1924)
 April 24 – Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (b. 1924)
 April 26 – Maria Schell, Austrian actress (b. 1926)

May

June 

 June 6 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)

July 

 July 1 – Luther Vandross, American singer (b. 1951)
 July 6 – Evan Hunter, American writer (b. 1926)
 July 17 – Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
 July 22 – Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian shooting victim (b. 1978).
 July 31 – Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist (b. 1935)

August 

 August 1 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1924).
 August 6 – Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
 August 13 – David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942)

September
September 

 September 3 – William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)
 September 20 – Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust survivor (b. 1908)

October 

 October 10 – Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1924)
 October 24 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)

November 

 November 9 – K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1920)
 November 13 – Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler (b. 1967)
 November 24 – Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
 November 25 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)

December 
 December 1 - Jack Colvin, American actor (b. 1934)
 December 10 – Richard Pryor, American actor (b. 1940)
 December 25 – 
 Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (b. 1918)
 Robert Barbers, Philippine senator (b. 1944)
 December 26 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (b. 1948)

Nobel prize winners
Chemistry – Yves Chauvin
 Chemistry – Robert H. Grubbs
 Chemistry – Richard R. Schrock
 Economics – Robert J. Aumann
 Economics – Thomas C. Schelling
 Literature – Harold Pinter
 Medicine – Barry J. Marshall
 Medicine – J. Robin Warren
 Peace – International Atomic Energy Agency
 Peace – Mohamed ElBaradei
 Physics – Roy J. Glauber
 Physics – John L. Hall
 Physics – Theodor W. Hänsch
2006 (MMVI) was .

In the Chinese calendar, 2006 was the Year of the Dog. Chinese New Year is January 29.

Events

January
January 1 – Sydney, Australia, has its warmest day on record, when the city reaches 45 °C (113 °F).
 January 1 – Russia cuts natural gas to Ukraine over a price dispute.
 January 2 – The Bad Reichenhall ice rink roof in Germany collapses after heavy snowfall in the Bavarian Alps, killing 15.
 January 4 – Powers are transferred from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to his deputy, Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, after Sharon suffers a massive hemorrhagic stroke.
 January 5 – A hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia collapses, killing 76 pilgrims visiting to perform hajj.
 January 6 – The record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season officially draws to a close as Tropical Storm Zeta dissipates.
 January 7 – Embroiled in multiple scandals, former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay announces he will not seek to reassume his former post.
 January 7 – UK Liberal Democratic leader Charles Kennedy resigns after revelations that he has a drinking problem.
January 8 – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake, centered off the coast of the Greek island of Kythera, shakes much of Greece and is felt throughout the eastern Mediterranean basin.
 January 9 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 (11,011.90) for the first time since June 7, 2001.
 January 11 – The Augustine Volcano in Alaska erupts twice, marking its first major eruption since 1986.
 January 12 – A stampede during the Stoning of the devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills 362 pilgrims.
 January 14 – A natural gas explosion in a coal mine kills seven and injures five in Romania.
 January 15 – NASA's Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a comet.
 January 19 – A suicide bomber in Tel Aviv, Israel injures 20, seriously injuring one.
 January 23 – Stephen Harper wins the federal election in Canada, forming a minority government.
 January 25 – Hamas wins the majority of seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections.
January 25 – Pope Benedict XVI issues his first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est.
 January 27 – Celebrations are held in Salzburg and around the world, for the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
 January 27 – Manuel Zelaya becomes President of Honduras.
 January 28 – Trade hall roof collapses in Katowice, Poland, killing 66 people.
 January 31 – Samuel Alito is sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
February 1 – UAL Corporation, United Airlines' parent company, emerges from bankruptcy after being in that position since December 9, 2002, the longest such filing in history.
 February 3 – An Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people, sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast.
 February 4 – The Wowowee stampede at the PhilSports Arena in Pasig City, Philippines kills 74 people and leaves 600 injured.
 February 5 – Super Bowl XL: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Seattle Seahawks 21–10 
 February 6 – Stephen Harper is sworn in as Canada's 22nd Prime Minister. He is the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada
 February 8 – 2006 East Timor crisis: 404 soldiers desert their barracks in East Timor.
 February 10–26 – The 2006 Winter Olympics are held in Turin, Italy.
 February 17 – A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.
February 19 – Pasta de Conchos mine disaster: Sixty-five miners die after becoming trapped underground, following an explosion in Nueva Rosita, Mexico.
 February 22 – A bomb heavily damages the Al Askari Mosque, a Shiite holy site in Samarra, Iraq.
 February 22 – Over £53.1 million is stolen during the Securitas depot robbery, the largest ever cash robbery in the United Kingdom.
 February 23 – A roof collapses on a Moscow market, killing 56 people.
 February 24 – A state of emergency is declared in the Philippines, after an alleged coup d'état against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is foiled.
 February 25 – Police officers and protesters in Dublin, Ireland are injured when a protest prior to the Love Ulster parade turns into a major riot.
 February 25 – Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni wins his second re-election, sparking riots in Kampala by opposition supporters.
March 4 – The final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 receives no response.
 March 6–20 – The first World Baseball Classic is held in San Diego, California, U.S.A..
 March 7 – 20 people die and many others are injured in 3 blasts throughout Varanasi, India.
 March 9 – NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers of a liquid substance shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of water.
 March 10 – NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit.
 March 14 – Penumbral lunar eclipse
 March 15–26 – The 2006 Commonwealth Games take place in Melbourne, Australia.
 March 16 – The Blu-ray Disc format is released in the United States
 March 17 – The United States strikes its 2 remaining Iowa-class battleships from the Naval Vessel Register, ending the age of the battleship.
 March 22 – ETA declares a permanent ceasefire in their campaign for Basque independence from Spain.
 March 22 – The Federal Reserve stops the publishing of M3 money supply data.
March 25 – A scramjet jet engine, Hyshot III, designed to fly at 7 times the speed of sound, is successfully tested at Woomera, South Australia.
 March 25 – Seven die in the Capitol Hill Massacre in Seattle, Washington.
 March 29 – Total solar eclipse
 March 30 – The first Brazilian astronaut, Marcos Pontes, goes into space in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, Soyuz TMA-8, at 2:29:00 CET.
 March 30 – The al-Dana capsizes off the coast of Bahrain, killing at least 56 people.
April 5 – A swan with Avian Flu is discovered in Cellardyke in Fife, Scotland (the first case in the United Kingdom).
 April 8 – The bodies of 8 murdered men are found in Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario.
 April 9 – Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is removed from office after 4 months in a coma.
 April 10 – The Brand India Fair Victoria Park fire at Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, kills at least 100.
 April 11 – The European Space Agency's Venus Express spaceprobe enters Venus' orbit.
 April 11 – President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirms that Iran has successfully produced a few grams of low-grade enriched uranium.
 April 16 – Albert II, Prince of Monaco, reaches the North Pole, becoming the first reigning monarch ever to do so.
 April 16 – Ireland commemorates the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising, for the first time since 1971.
 April 17 – An Islamic Jihad suicide bombing in Tel Aviv kills 9 people and injures dozens.
April 20 – Iran announces a deal with Russia, involving a joint uranium enrichment firm on Russian soil; 9 days later Iran announces that it will not move all activity to Russia, thus leading to a de facto termination of the deal.
 April 22 – Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb (the worst one-day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War).
 April 24 – Three explosions in a tourist section of Dahab, Egypt kill 30 and injure over 115.
 April 25 – The Beaconsfield mine collapse occurs in Tasmania, Australia.
 April 29 – Massive anti-war demonstrations and a march down Broadway in New York City mark the third year of war in Iraq.
 April 29 – The Global Night Commute takes place in over 130 cities around the world, to promote the visibility of the Invisible Children in Uganda.
May 1 – Bolivian President Evo Morales nationalizes his nation's gas fields.
 May 1 – The Great American Boycott takes place across the United States as marchers protest for immigration rights.
 May 5 – Fiat chairman Sergio Marchionne announces that the Alfa Romeo automobile brand will return to the United States in 2008, after a 13-year hiatus.
 May 9 – Beaconsfield mine collapse: After 14 days trapped underground, miners Todd Russell and Brant Webb are rescued in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia.
 May 20 – Lordi win the Eurovision Song Contest, the first win for Finland and the first hard rock song to win the contest.
 May 24 – East Timor's Foreign Minister José Ramos-Horta officially requests military assistance from the governments of Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Portugal.
 May 27 – A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes central Java in Indonesia, killing more than 6,000, injuring at least 36,000 and leaving some 1.5 million people homeless.
June 3 – Montenegro declares independence after a May 21 referendum. The state union of Serbia and Montenegro is dissolved on June 5, leaving Serbia as the successor state.
 June 3 – Seventeen men are arrested in the Greater Toronto Area for alleged ties to a terrorist plot to blow up targets in the region.
 June 6 – The Union of Islamic Courts gains control of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, ending warlord rule of the city.
 June 7 – Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and 7 of his aides are killed in a U.S. air raid just north of the town of Baqouba, Iraq.
 June 9 – An explosion kills 8 Palestinian civilians on a Gaza beach; Israel denies responsibility for the blast.
 June 9 – Thailand begins celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the accession of Bhumibol Adulyadej to the throne.
 June 9 – July 9 – The 2006 FIFA World Cup is held in Germany.
 June 18 – The first Kazakh space satellite KazSat is launched.
June 22 – The Magen David Adom and Palestine Red Crescent Society are officially recognized by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
 June 23 – In Miami, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrests 7 men, accusing them of planning to bomb the Sears Tower (now Willis Tower) in Chicago and other attacks in Miami.
 June 25 – Warren Buffett donates over US$30 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
 June 28 – Operation Summer Rains: Israel launches an offensive against militants in Gaza.
July 1 – The Qinghai-Tibet Railway launches a trial operation, connecting China proper and Tibet for the first time.
 July 4 – STS-121: Space Shuttle Discovery is launched to the International Space Station. It returns safely on July 17. It is the second return to flight mission after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
 July 5 – North Korea test fires missiles, timed with the liftoff of Discovery, preceding the fireworks celebrations that night in America. The long range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails shortly after takeoff.
 July 6 – The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.
 July 9 – S7 Airlines Flight 778 crashes into a concrete barrier shortly after landing, killing at least 122 people and leaving many injured.
 July 10 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff.
July 11 – A series of coordinated bomb attacks strikes several commuter trains in Mumbai, India during the evening rush hour.
 July 12 – 2006 Lebanon War: Israeli troops invade Lebanon in response to Hezbollah kidnapping two Israeli soldiers and killing 3. Hezbollah declares open war against Israel 2 days later.
 July 18 – The SS Nomadic, the last floating link to Titanic, returns home to a large reception in Belfast.
 July 31 – Cuban president Fidel Castro temporarily relinquishes power to his brother Raúl before surgery.
August 10 – London Metropolitan Police make 21 arrests in connection to an apparent terrorist plot that involved aircraft traveling from the United Kingdom to the United States. Liquids and gels are banned from checked and carry-on baggage.
 August 11 – A resolution to end the 2006 Lebanon War is unanimously accepted by the United Nations Security Council.
 August 14 – A UN cease fire takes effect in the 2006 Lebanon War.
 August 22 – Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border in Ukraine, killing 171 people, including 45 children.
 August 22 – The ICM awards Grigori Perelman the Fields Medal for proving the Poincaré conjecture, one of 7 Millennium Prize Problems; Perelman refuses the medal.
 August 23 – In Austria, Natascha Kampusch manages to escape after being kidnapped 8 years ago by Wolfgang Priklopil, who locked her up in his cellar. Priklopil commits suicide by throwing himself in front of a train.
August 24 – The International Astronomical Union defines 'planet' at its 26th General Assembly, demoting Pluto to the status of 'dwarf planet' more than 70 years after its discovery.
 August 27 – Comair Flight 5191, carrying 50 people, crashes shortly after takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky.
 August 28 – A Greyhound Lines bus from New York City to Montreal, carrying 52 people, crashes at mile 115 on Interstate 87 near Elizabethtown, killing 5 people (including the driver) and seriously injuring others.
 August 31 – Edvard Munch paintings The Scream and Madonna are recovered in a police raid in Oslo, Norway.
September 1 – A fire kills 29 of 148 aboard an Iran Air Tours Tu-154M aircraft after the plane lands in Mashhad, Iran.
 September 2 – A Nimrod MR2 based at RAF Kinloss, Scotland, crashes in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, due to a technical fault. All 14 crew onboard are killed.
 September 7 – Partial lunar eclipse
 September 12 – A stampede at a rally in Yemen leaves 41 dead and injures 50.
 September 12 – Pope Benedict XVI gives a lecture in Germany; he quotes a criticism of the Islamic faith, sparking mass protests.
 September 13 – The solar system's largest dwarf planet, designated until now as 2003 UB313, is officially named "Eris"; its satellite is now known as "Dysnomia".
 September 15 – Spinach contaminated with E. coli kills 2 and poisons over 100 others in 20 states of the United States.
 September 16 – Five churches are attacked in Palestinian areas following the Pope's comments on Islam.
 September 17 – Protests start near the Hungarian Parliament.
September 19 – Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand declares a state of emergency in Bangkok as members of the Royal Thai Army stage a coup d'état. The army announces the removal of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra from power.
 September 22 – A Transrapid Maglev train crashes into a maintenance vehicle on a test track in Germany, killing 23 and injuring 10; it is the first recorded fatal accident involving a Maglev.
 September 22 – Annular solar eclipse
 September 29 – Gol Flight 1907 (Boeing 737-800) collides with a business jet over the Amazon Rainforest, killing all 155 on board.
October 

 October 2 – Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-yr-old milk-truck driver, kills 5 girls at an Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania before shooting himself.
 October 6 – A hazardous waste plant near Apex, North Carolina explodes, releasing chlorine gas, and resulting in the evacuation of thousands and the hospitalization of over 100 residents.
October 9 - Actor Tommy Kirk becomes a Disney Legend
 October 9 – North Korea claims to have conducted its first-ever nuclear test.
 October 10 – Google buys YouTube for USD $1.65 billion.
 October 12 – A freak snowstorm blows into Buffalo, New York, leaving over 400,000 without power and killing 13.
 October 13 – South Korean Ban Ki-moon is elected as the new Secretary-General of the United Nations.
 October 15 – The UN agrees to sanction North Korea over nuclear testing claims.
 October 15 – The establishment of the Islamic State of Iraq is declared.
 October 16 – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport. see 2006 Hawaii Earthquake.
 October 16 – The last American MASH is decommissioned.
 October 16 – CBeebies 2006-2009 show of Numberjacks.
 October 24 – NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its first flyby of Venus (it will be captured into Mercury's orbit on March 18, 2011).
October 29 – Aviation Development Company Flight 53 crashes shortly after takeoff in Nigeria killing 96 people.
 October 30 – Former President of Chile Augusto Pinochet is placed under house arrest for crimes committed at the Villa Grimaldi detention centre.
 October 30 – An airstrike on a madrasah in Bajaur, Pakistan kills dozens of suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
November 5 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein and 2 of his senior allies are sentenced to death by hanging, after an Iraqi court finds them guilty of crimes against humanity.
 November 8 – A transit of Mercury occurs.
 November 9 – Margaret Chan is elected as the Director-General of the World Health Organization.
 November 12 – The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia.
 November 15 – Al Jazeera launches its English language news channel, Al Jazeera English.
 November 16 – Rioting in Nukualofa, the capital of Tonga, destroys approx. 80% of the CBD; 8 bodies found and foreign forces requested.
 November 17 – The PlayStation 3 is released in North America.
 November 19 – The Wii is released in North America.
 November 20 – Iran and Syria recognize the government of Iraq, restore diplomatic relations, and call for a peace conference.
 November 21 – Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanon's Minister of Industry, is assassinated in Beirut.
November 21 – A gas explosion in the coal mine Halemba in Ruda Slaska, Poland, kills 23 miners approximately 1,000 meters below ground.
 November 22 – The Kolkata leather factory fire traps and kills 9 in India.
 November 23 – A series of car bombs and mortar attacks in Sadr City, Baghdad, kill at least 215 people and injure 257 other people.
 November 30 – Typhoon Durian triggers a massive mudslide and kills at least 720 people in Albay province on the island of Luzon in the Philippines.
December 1 – Felipe Calderón takes office as President of Mexico.
 December 1 – The 15th Asian Games start in Doha, Qatar; the closing ceremony takes place on December 15.
 December 2 – In Rome, about 2 million people, led by opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi, demonstrate against Romano Prodi's government.
 December 2 – Stéphane Dion is elected the new Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, on the fourth ballot.
 December 2–19 – 2006 Ipswich murder investigation: The bodies of 5 murdered prostitutes are discovered at different locations near Ipswich in Suffolk, England.
 December 3 – Ed Stelmach is elected the new Leader of the Progressive Conservatives, Alberta, after the second ballot results, and second choice votes for Ted Morton have been added up. Ed becomes the Premier-designate of Alberta.
 December 3 – Hugo Chávez is re-elected President of Venezuela.
 December 3 – Germany's tallest chimney is demolished by explosion at the former Westerholt Power Station.
December 5 – The military seizes power in Fiji, in a coup d'état led by Commodore Josaia Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama.
 December 7 – Smoking is banned in all Ohio bars, restaurants, workplaces, and other public places.
 December 9 – The Moscow hospital fire kills 45 people.
 December 10 – Space Shuttle Mission STS-116: Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center on the first night launch since the 2003 loss of Columbia.
 December 10 – Christer Fuglesang becomes the first Swede in space.
 December 11 – The Holocaust conference is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
 December 12 – Peugeot produces their last car at the Ryton Plant, signalling the end of mass car production in a city that was once a major centre of the British motor industry; Coventry.
 December 13 – The Chinese River Dolphin or Baiji becomes extinct.
 December 13 – U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) suffers a stroke during a radio interview.