1906 births

Irish writer (1906–1989)

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)

German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)

Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)

Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)

German-born American theoretical physicist (1906-1972)

American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)

German-American nuclear physicist

German-Austrian SS officer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust (1906–1962)

first president of Senegal, poet, and cultural theorist (1906–2001)

Puyi (; 7 February 190617 October 1967) was the last emperor of China, reigning as the eleventh monarch of the Qing dynasty from 1908 to 1912, and a brief return in 1917, when he was forced to abdicate. Later, he sided with Imperial Japan and was made ruler of Manchukuo—Japanese-occupied Manchuria—in hopes of regaining power as China's emperor. After over 10 years of imprisonment for war crimes following the end of World War II, Puyi worked for four years as a gardener in Beijing, China.

Aristotle Socrates Onassis was a Greek and Argentine business magnate. He amassed the world's largest privately owned shipping fleet and was one of the world's richest and most famous men. He was married to Athina Mary Livanos, had a long-standing affair with opera singer Maria Callas, and in his final years was married to American former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)

King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975

German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident (1906–1945)

Austrian-born American filmmaker and screenwriter (1906-2002)

Swiss chemist (1906–2008)

Japanese physicist (1906-1979)

German physicist (1906–1988)

Italian director (1906–1976)

Italian film director (1906–1977)

American astronomer (1906–1997)

American film director, screenwriter, and actor (1906–1987)

American actress (1906–1984)

American architect (1906–2005)

Bosnian-Swiss chemist (1906-1998)

Jewish-German-born British biochemist (1906–1979)

American actress and author (1906–1987)

biophysicist (1906–1981)

Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary (1906–1966)

American author (1906–1936)

German writer (1906–1949)

French-Hungarian painter and printmaker (1906–1997)

Jewish-French-Lithuanian philosopher

Argentine biochemist

Italian writer (1906-1972)

Italian racecar driver (1906-1966)

American biologist, biochemist, physiologist and Nobel laureate (1906–1997)

Japanese engineer and industrialist

Indian writer (1906–2001)

Japanese association football player and manager (1906–1980)

Japanese association football player (1906-1987)

Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccines (1906-1993)

British writer (1906–1985)

Austrian pediatrician, medical theorist, and medical professor (1906-1980)

British actor (1906–1972)

English historian (1906-1990)

French mathematician (1906-1998)

Estonian novelist and poet (1906-1989)

Edward Theodore Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield and the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered that he stole corpses from local graveyards and fashioned keepsakes from their bones and skin. He also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954 and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957.

American actress (1906–1985)

Portuguese politician (1906-1980)

Soviet miner, namesake of Stakhanovite movement (1906-1977)

English film director (1906–1976)

French Resistance member

John Carradine was an American actor, considered one of the greatest character actors in American cinema. He was a member of Cecil B. DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, known for his roles in horror films, Westerns, and Shakespearean theater, most notably portraying Count Dracula in House of Frankenstein (1944), House of Dracula (1945), Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966), and Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula (1979). Among his other notable roles was "Preacher Casy" in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath. In later decades of his career, he starred mostly in low-budget B-movies. In total, he holds 351 film and television credits, making him one of the most prolific English-speaking film and television actors of all time.

French convict and author (1906-1973)

Margarete Ilse Koch was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was the commandant at Buchenwald. Though Ilse Koch had no official position in Nazi Germany, she became one of the most infamous Nazi figures at the war's end and was referred to as the "Kommandeuse of Buchenwald".

Soviet aeronautical engineer, aircraft designer and founder of the Yakovlev Design Bureau (1906–1989)

administrator of NASA in 1961–1968 (1906–1992)