Famous people born in 1906

The best-known people born in 1906, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
April 13 · d. 1989
Photo: Roger Pic, Public domain
Hannah Arendt
German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)
October 14 · d. 1975
Photo: Barbara Niggl Radloff, CC BY-SA 4.0
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
April 28 · d. 1978
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Dmitri Shostakovich
Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)
September 25 · d. 1975
Photo: Fotothek_df_roe-neg_0002792_002_Portrait_Dmitri_Dmitrijewitsch_Schostakowitchs_im_Publikum_der_Bachf, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Joan Crawford
American actress (1908–1977)
March 23 · d. 1977
Photo: George Hurrell, Public domain
Maria Göppert Mayer
German-born American theoretical physicist (1906-1972)
June 28 · d. 1972
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Josephine Baker
American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)
June 3 · d. 1975
Photo: Studio Harcourt, Public domain
Hans Bethe
German-American nuclear physicist
July 2 · d. 2005
Photo: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Attribution
Léopold Sédar Senghor
first president of Senegal, poet, and cultural theorist (1906–2001)
October 9 · d. 2001
Photo: Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F011981-0003,_Frankfurt-Main,_Staatspräsident_von_Senegal.jpg : Steiner, Ego, CC BY-SA 3.0
Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
December 9 · d. 1992
Photo: James S. Davis, Public domain
Puyi
Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo (1906–1967)
February 7 · d. 1967
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Aristotle Onassis
Greek shipping magnate (1906–1975)
January 15 · d. 1975
Photo: Pieter Jongerhuis, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975
April 14 · d. 1975
Photo: Arrival_ceremony_welcoming_King_Faisal_of_Saudi_Arabia_05-27-1971.jpg : Knudsen, Robert L. (Robert L, Public domain
Billy Wilder
Austrian and American filmmaker (1906–2002)
June 22 · d. 2002
Photo: Foto: Galerie Poll Berlin / Ausschnitt: Christoph Waghubinger ( Lewenstein ), CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident (1906–1945)
February 4 · d. 1945
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
January 11 · d. 2008
Photo: Philip H. Bailey (E-mail), CC BY-SA 2.5
Shinichiro Tomonaga
Japanese physicist (1906-1979)
March 31 · d. 1979
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Ernst Ruska
German physicist (1906–1988)
December 25 · d. 1988
Photo: J Brew , uploaded on the English-speaking Wikipedia by en:User:Hat'nCoat ., CC BY-SA 3.0
Luchino Visconti
Italian director (1906–1976)
November 2 · d. 1976
Photo: Marisa Rastellini (Mondadori Publisher), Public domain
Roberto Rossellini
Italian film director (1906–1977)
May 8 · d. 1977
Photo: newspaper press photo, Rome, Italy, Public domain
Clyde Tombaugh
American astronomer (1906–1997)
February 4 · d. 1997
John Huston
American film director, screenwriter, and actor (1906–1987)
August 5 · d. 1987
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author , distributed by: Embassy Pictures, Public domain
Janet Gaynor
American actress (1906–1984)
October 6 · d. 1984
Photo: Studio, Public domain
Wassily Leontief
Russian economist (1906-1999)
August 5 · d. 1999
Photo: Keystone, Public domain
Philip Johnson
American architect (1906–2005)
July 8 · d. 2007
Photo: B. Pietro Filardo,, CC BY-SA 3.0
Vladimir Prelog
Bosnian-Swiss chemist (1906-1998)
July 23 · d. 1998
Photo: ETH Zürich, CC BY-SA 3.0
Sayyid Qutb
Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary (1906–1966)
October 9 · d. 1967
Mary Astor
American actress and author (1906–1987)
May 3 · d. 1987
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Max Delbrück
biophysicist (1906–1981)
September 4 · d. 1981
Photo: The original uploader was MalteAhrens at German Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0
Ernst Chain
Jewish-German-born British biochemist (1906–1979)
June 19 · d. 1979
Photo: Nobel Foundation, Public domain

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Month by month

January

January 3 · Alexey Stakhanov, Soviet miner, namesake of Stakhanovite movement (1906-1977)
January 12 · Emmanuel Levinas, Jewish-French-Lithuanian philosopher (1906-1995)
January 12 · Daniil Kharms, Russian writer (1905–1942)
January 13 · Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist, sinologist (1906–2017)
January 17 · Guillermo Stábile, Argentine football player and manager
January 22 · Robert E. Howard, American author (1906–1936)

February

February 5 · John Carradine, American actor (1906-1988)
February 7 · Oleg Antonov, Soviet aeroplane designer (1906-1984)
February 10 · Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (1906–1974)
February 15 · Shigemaru Takenokoshi, Japanese association football player and manager (1906–1980)
February 15 · Musa Cälil, Soviet poet
February 18 · Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician, medical theorist, and medical professor (1906-1980)

March

March 1 · Vera Menchik, Czech chess player (1906–1944)
March 1 · Phạm Văn Đồng, First Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, diplomat (1906–2000)
March 6 · Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (1906–1959)
March 16 · Francisco Ayala, Spanish novelist
March 21 · Samad Vurgun, Azerbaijani-Soviet writer (1906-1956)
March 25 · A. J. P. Taylor, English historian (1906-1990)

April

April 1 · Alexandr Yakovlev, Soviet aeronautical engineer, aircraft designer and founder of the Yakovlev Design Bureau (1906–1989)
April 9 · Victor Vasarely, French-Hungarian painter and printmaker (1906–1997)
April 13 · Gabriel Ramanantsoa, President of Madagascar (1906-1979)
April 22 · Eddie Albert, American actor (1906–2005)
April 22 · Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, Swedish prince, heir apparent until his death (1906–1947); father of Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
April 24 · William Joyce, British fascist and propaganda broadcaster (1906-1946)

May

May 2 · Philippe Halsman, American photographer (1906-1979)
May 6 · André Weil, French mathematician (1906-1998)
May 11 · Jacqueline Cochran, American aviator and businesswoman (1906–1980)
May 21 · Sergei Gerasimov, Soviet film director, screenwriter, actor (1906-1985)
May 29 · T. H. White, English author (1906–1964)
May 30 · Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, Greco-Danish princess (1906-1969); sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

June

June 5 · Eraldo Monzeglio, Italian footballer and manager (1906-1981)
June 22 · Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American aviator and writer (1906–2001)
June 26 · Edward Akufo-Addo, second President of the Republic of Ghana (1906-1979)
June 29 · Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Soviet general (1906–1945)
June 30 · Anthony Mann, American film director (1906–1967)
June 30 · Tribhuvan I of Nepal, King of Nepal (1906-1955)

July

July 1 · Estée Lauder, American businesswoman (1906–2004)
July 3 · George Sanders, British actor (1906–1972)
July 3 · Alberto Lleras Camargo, Colombian journalist and politician (1906-1990)
July 18 · Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress, dancer and vedette (1908—1944)
July 23 · Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian activist and socialist and revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer (1906–1931)
July 29 · Thelma Todd, American actress (1906-1935)

August

August 5 · Ettore Majorana, Italian physicist (1906-1938?)
August 16 · Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Prince of Liechtenstein (1938-1989)
August 17 · Marcelo Caetano, Portuguese politician (1906-1980)
August 18 · Marcel Carné, French film director (1906 – 1996)
August 19 · Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (1906–1971)
August 26 · Albert B. Sabin, Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccines (1906-1993)

September

September 1 · Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (1906-2002)
September 1 · Missak Manouchian, Armenian resistance fighter and poet (1906-1944)
September 6 · Luis Federico Leloir, Argentine biochemist
September 15 · Jacques Becker, French screenwriter and film director (1906-1960)
September 17 · Junius Richard Jayewardene, President of Sri Lanka from 1978 to 1989
September 25 · José Figueres Ferrer, Costa Rican politician (1906–1990)

October

October 7 · James E. Webb, administrator of NASA in 1961–1968 (1906–1992)
October 10 · R. K. Narayan, Indian English-language writer (1906–2001)
October 14 · Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian Islamist leader and politician (1906—1949)
October 16 · Dino Buzzati, Italian writer (1906-1972)
October 29 · Fredric Brown, American novelist, short story author (1906–1972)
October 30 · Giuseppe Farina, Italian racecar driver (1906-1966)

November

November 14 · Louise Brooks, American actress (1906–1985)
November 17 · Sōichirō Honda, Japanese engineer and industrialist
November 18 · Klaus Mann, German writer (1906–1949)
November 18 · George Wald, American biologist, biochemist, physiologist and Nobel laureate (1906–1997)
November 18 · Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Turkish writer of short stories and poetry (1906-1954)
November 23 · Betti Alver, Estonian novelist and poet (1906-1989)

December

December 13 · Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Duchess of Kent from 1934 to 1968
December 15 · Edmond Debeaumarché, French Resistance member
December 16 · Martí Ventolrà, Spanish footballer (1906-1977)
December 24 · James Hadley Chase, British writer (1906–1985)
December 24 · Franz Waxman, German film composer (1906-1967)
December 30 · Carol Reed, English film director (1906–1976)

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