Year (''' MCMVI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Sunday
of the 13-day-slower Julian Calendar ).
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- September 5 - Brandbury Robinson throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
- September 18 - Typhoon with Tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 persons in Hong Kong .
- September 22 - Race Riots in Atlanta, Georgia . At least 27 people are killed and the black-owned business district is severely damaged.
- September 24 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower the nation's first National Monument .
- September 30 - The first Gordon Bennett Cup In Ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team piloted the balloon "United States" landed in Fylingdales, Yorkshire .
- October 1
- --- Grand Duchy Of Finland becomes the first nation to adopt Universal Suffrage , giving women the right to vote.
- --- The Madeira School , a private boarding school for girls, opens with twenty-eight students attending classes in two buildings on 19th Street just off Dupont Circle in downtown Washington, DC .
- October 6 - The Majlis Of Iran convenes for the first time.
- October 11 - San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
- October 16 - Imposter Wilhelm Voigt impersonates a Prussia n officer and takes over city hall in Köpenick for a short time, amusing all of Germany and other countries.
- October 23 - Aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off on Bagatelle in France and flies 60 meters (200 feet).
- October 28 - Creation of the Union Minière Du Haut Katanga , a Belgian mining trust in Congo.
- November 3 - SOS becomes an international distress signal.
- November 9 - US President Theodore Roosevelt leaves for a trip to Panama to inspect the construction progress of the Panama Canal (the first time a sitting President Of The United States makes an official trip outside of the United States ).
- November 22 - Russian Prime Min. Peter Stolypin introduces Agrarian Reforms aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.
- December 2 - HMS Dreadnought commissioned. First all-big-gun warship.
- December 4 - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity , the first intercollegiate Greek-letter Fraternity established for African Americans , is founded at Cornell University .
- December 6 - Creation of district of Chimbote .
- December 9 - Grace Murray Hopper , pioneer computer scientist, is born in New York City, New York.
- December 10 - Pres. Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating peace in the Russo-Japanese War ( 1905 ).
- December 24 - Reginald Fessenden makes the first Radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
- December 26 - The world's first feature film, " The Story Of The Kelly Gang ", is released.
- December 30 - The All-India Muslim League , a political organization that represented the interests of Indian Muslims, is formed.
- January 11 - Albert Hofmann , Swiss chemist
- January 14 - William Bendix , American actor (d. 1964 )
- January 15 - Edna Staebler , Canadian author (d. 2006 )
- January 21 - Igor Moiseyev , Russian choreographer
- January 22 - Robert E. Howard , American author (d. 1936 )
- February 4
- --- Clyde Tombaugh , American astronomer (d. 1997 )
- --- Dietrich Bonhoeffer , German religious leader and resistance leader (d. 1945 )
- February 10
- --- Lon Chaney, Jr. , American actor (d. 1973 )
- --- Erik Rhodes , American actor (d. 1990 )
- February 18 - Hans Asperger , Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980 )
- February 26 - Madeleine Carroll , British actress (d. 1997 )
- February 28 - Bugsy Siegel , American gangster (d. 1947 )
- March 1 - Pham Van Dong , Prime Minister Of Vietnam (d. 2000 )
- March 4
- --- Meindert DeJong , American author (d. 1991 )
- --- Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr. , American businessman (d. 2007 )
- March 6 - Victor Hasselblad , Swedish inventor and photographer (d. 1978 )
- March 7
- --- Elmar Lipping , Estonian statesman and soldier (d. 1994 )
- --- Thomas Posey , doctor, medical scientist (d. 1990 )
- March 12 - Yin Shun , Chinese Buddhist master (d. 2005 )
- March 16
- --- Henny Youngman , English-born comedian (d. 1998 )
- --- Francisco Ayala , Spanish writer
- March 19 - Adolf Eichmann , Nazi official (d. 1962 )
- March 20
- --- Abraham Beame , mayor of New York (d. 2001 )
- --- Ozzie Nelson , American actor and band leader (d. 1975 )
- March 26 - Rafael Méndez , Mexican-born trumpet virtuoso (d. 1981 )
- March 31 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga , Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979 )
- April 1 - Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev , Russian engineer and airplane designer (d. 1989 )
- April 4 - John Cameron Swayze , American journalist (d. 1995 )
- April 9 - Antal Dorati , Hungarian conductor (d. 1988 )
- April 13 - Samuel Beckett , Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989 )
- April 22 - Eddie Albert , American actor, gardener and humanitarian activist (d. 2005 )
- April 25 - William J. Brennan , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997 )
- April 28
- --- Kurt Gödel , Austrian logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (d. 1978 )
- --- Paul Sacher , Swiss conductor (d. 1999 )
- May 3 - Mary Astor , American actress (d. 1987 )
- May 6 - André Weil , French mathematician (d. 1998 )
- May 8 - Roberto Rossellini , Italian director (d. 1977 )
- May 11 - Jacqueline Cochran , American aviatrix (d. 1980 )
- May 12 - Maurice Ewing , American geophysicist and oceanographer (d. 1974 )
- May 15 - Humberto Delgado , Portuguese general and politician (d. 1965 )
- May 16
- --- Alfred Pellan , Canadian painter (d. 1988 )
- --- Arturo Uslar-Pietri , Venezuelan writer (d. 2001 )
- May 17 - Zinka Milanov , Croatian-born soprano (d. 1989 )
- May 19 - Bruce Bennett , American athlete and actor (d. 2007 )
- May 20 - Giuseppe Siri , Italilan Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1989 )
- May 23
- --- Allan Scott , American screenwriter (d. 1995 )
- --- Lucha Reyes , Mexican singer (d. 1944 )
- --- Willis Hudlin , baseball player (d. 2002 )
- May 27 - Buddhadasa , Buddhist monk (d. 1993 )
- May 28 - Phil Regan , American actor (d. 1996 )
- May 29 - T. H. White , British writer (d. 1964 )
- May 30 - Bruno Gröning , German faith healer (d. 1959 )
- June 3 - Josephine Baker , American actress (d. 1975 )
- June 4 - Ivan Knunyants , Soviet chemist (d. 1990 )
- June 6 - Max August Zorn , German-born mathematician (d. 1993 )
- June 12 - Sandro Penna , Italian poet (d. 1977 )
- June 15 - Léon Degrelle , Belgian fascist (d. 1994 )
- June 19
- --- Earl W. Bascom , American rodeo pioneer, artist, inventor (d. 1995 )
- --- Ernst Boris Chain , German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1979 )
- June 20
- --- Catherine Cookson , English author (d. 1998 )
- --- Robert Trent Jones , English-born golf course designer (d. 2000 )
- June 22
- --- Anne Morrow Lindbergh , American author and aviator (d. 2001 )
- --- Billy Wilder , Austrian-born screenwriter, film director and producer (d. 2002 )
- June 24 - Pierre Fournier , French cellist (d. 1986 )
- June 26 - Viktor Schreckengost , American industrial designer
- June 28 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972 )
- June 30 - Ralph Allen , English footballer (d. 1981 )
- July 1 - Estée Lauder , American cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 2004 )
- July 2
- --- Hans Bethe , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005 )
- --- Oleg Antonov , Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984 )
- July 7
- --- William Feller , Croatian-born mathematician (d. 1970 )
- --- Satchel Paige , black baseball player (d. 1982 )
- July 11 - Herbert Wehner , German politician (d. 1990 )
- July 18 - S. I. Hayakawa , English professor and academic, United States Senator (d. 1992 )
- July 23 - Vladimir Prelog , Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998 )
- July 25 - José Figueres Ferrer , President Of Costa Rica (d. 1990 )
- August 6 - Vic Dickenson , American trombonist (d. 1984 )
- August 9 - Robert Surtees , American cinematographer (d. 1985 )
- August 12 - Tedd Pierce , American animator (d. 1972 )
- August 14 - Horst P. Horst , German photographer (d. 1999 )
- August 28 - John Betjeman , English poet (d. 1984 )
- September 1
- --- Joaquín Balaguer , Dominican politician and writer (d. 2002 )
- --- Franz Biebl , German composer (d. 2001 )
- September 4 - Max Delbrück , German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1981 )
- September 6 - Luis Federico Leloir , French-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987 )
- September 8 - Andrei Kirilenko (politician) , Soviet politician (d. 1990 )
- September 17 - Edgar Wayburn , American environmentalist
- September 21 - Henry Beachell , American plant breeder (d. 2006 )
- September 25 - Dmitri Shostakovich , Russian composer (d. 1975 )
- October 6 - Janet Gaynor , American actress (d. 1984 )
- October 9 - Léopold Sédar Senghor , first president of Senegal (d. 2001 )
- October 10 - Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan , Indian novelist (d. 2001 )
- October 14
- --- Imam Hassan Al Banna , Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949 )
- --- Hannah Arendt , German political theorist (d. 1975 )
- October 15 - Hiram Fong , American businessman and politician (d. 2004 )
- October 23 - Gertrude Ederle , American swimmer (d. 2003 )
- October 24 - Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky , Austrian painter (d. 1996 )
- October 27
- --- Kazuo Ohno , Japanese dancer
- --- Earle Cabell , American politician (d. 1975 )
- November 2 - Luchino Visconti , Italian theatre and cinema director and writer (d. 1976 )
- November 5 - Fred Lawrence Whipple , American astronomer (d. 2004 )
- November 13 - Eva Zeisel , Hungarian-born industrial designer
- November 14 - Louise Brooks , American actress (d. 1985 )
- November 16 - Henri Charrière , French author (d. 1973 )
- November 17 - Soichiro Honda , Japanese industrialist (d. 1973 )
- November 17 - Rollie Stiles , baseball player (d. 2007 )
- November 18
- --- Klaus Mann , German writer (d. 1949 )
- --- George Wald , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1997 )
- December 5 - Otto Preminger , Austrian-born film director (d. 1986 )
- December 6 - Ahn Eak-tae , Korean composer of classical music (d. 1965 )
- December 9 - Grace Hopper , American computer scientist and naval officer (d. 1992 )
- December 16 - Barbara Kent , Canadian actress
- December 17 - William McChesney Martin, Jr. , Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve (d. 1986 )
- December 19 - Leonid Brezhnev , Soviet leader (d. 1982 )
- December 24 - James Hadley Chase , English writer (d. 1985 )
- December 25 - Ernst Ruska , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988 )
- December 26 - Imperio Argentina , Argentinian singer and actress (d. 2003 )
- December 27
- --- Andreas Feininger , French-born photographer (d. 1999 )
- --- Oscar Levant , American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d. 1972 )
- January 29 - King Christian IX Of Denmark (b. 1818 )
- February 8 - Johanna Hiedler , grandmother of Adolf Hitler (b. 1830 )
- February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar , American poet and publisher (b. 1872 )
- February 27 - Samuel Pierpont Langley , American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer (b. 1834 )
- March 13 - Susan B. Anthony , American civil rights and women's suffrage activist (b. 1820 )
- March 19 - Victor Fatio , zoologist (b. 1838 )
- March 29 - Slava Raskaj , Croatian painter (b. 1877 )
- April 6 - Alexander Kielland , Norwegian author (b. 1849 )
- April 8 - Auguste D , first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease (b. 1850 )
- April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church , American editor and publisher (b. 1839 )
- April 19 - Pierre Curie , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859 )
- April 19 - Spencer Gore , British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850 )
- April 24 - Mary Hunt , American temperance activist (b. 1830 )
- May 14 - Carl Schurz , German revolutionary and American statesman (b. 1829 )
- May 23 - Henrik Ibsen , Norwegian playwright (b. 1828 )
- June 20 - John Clayton Adams , British artist (b. 1840 )
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