1906

1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday in the Julian calendar.

 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 (d. 2008)
 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