Year (''' MDCCVI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ). Year 1706 of the Swedish Calendar was a Common Year Starting On Monday , one day ahead of the Julian calendar.
- January 7 - Johann Heinrich Zedler , German publisher (died 1751 )
- January 17 - Benjamin Franklin , American (died 1790 )
- January 28 - John Baskerville , English printer (died 1775 )
- March 6 - Sir George Pocock , British admiral (died 1792 )
- April 24 - Giovanni Battista Martini , Italian musician (died 1784 )
- May 17 - Andreas Felix Von Oefele , German historian and librarian (died 1780 )
- May 20 - Seth Pomeroy , American gunsmith and soldier (died 1777 )
- June 10 - John Dollond , English optician (died 1761 )
- October 18 - Baldassare Galuppi , Italian composer (died 1785 )
- November 8 - Johann Ulrich Von Cramer , German judge and philosopher (died 1772 )
- December 17 - Emilie Du Chatelet , French mathematician and physicist (died 1749 )
- ''date unknown'' - James Abercrombie , British general (died 1781 )
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- January 21 - Adrien Baillet , French scholar and critic (born 1649 )
- January 29 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl Of Dorset , English poet and courtier (born. 1638 )
- February 27 - John Evelyn , English writer, gardener and diarist (born 1620 )
- March 1 - Heino Heinrich Graf Von Flemming , German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (born 1632 )
- March 3 - Johann Pachelbel , German composer (born 1653 )
- April 10 - Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl Of Donegall , Irish soldier (born 1666 )
- September 9 - Ferdinand De Marsin , Marshal Of France , mortally wounded at the battle of Turin (born 1656 )
- October 13 - Iyasus I Of Ethiopia (born 1682 )
- November 15 - Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (born 1683 )
- December 9 - Peter II Of Portugal (born 1648 )
- December 28 - Pierre Bayle , French philosopher (born 1647 )
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