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James E. Webb
administrator of NASA in 1961–1968 (1906–1992)
Philo Farnsworth
American inventor (1906–1971)
Sergei Gerasimov
Soviet film director, screenwriter, actor (1906-1985)
Ettore Majorana
Italian physicist (1906-1938?)
Eddie Albert
American actor (1906–2005)
Anthony Mann
American film director (1906–1967)
José Figueres Ferrer
Costa Rican politician (1906–1990)
Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein
Prince of Liechtenstein (1938-1989)
Fredric Brown
American novelist, short story author (1906–1972)
Joan Blondell
American actress (1906–1979)
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark
Duchess of Kent from 1934 to 1968
Francisco Ayala
Spanish novelist
Marie José of Belgium
Queen Consort of Italy (1906–2001)
Joaquín Balaguer
President of the Dominican Republic (1906-2002)
T. H. White
English author (1906–1964)
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten
Swedish prince, heir apparent until his death (1906–1947); father of Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
Fred Lawrence Whipple
American astronomer
Junius Richard Jayewardene
President of Sri Lanka from 1978 to 1989
Lon Chaney Jr.
American actor (1906–1974)
Phạm Văn Đồng
First Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, diplomat (1906–2000)
Curtis LeMay
American general and politician (1906–1990)
John Betjeman
English poet, writer and broadcaster (1906–1984)
Bugsy Siegel
American mobster y brujo de hechicería oscura
Prithviraj Kapoor
Indian actor (1906-1972)
Olga Taussky-Todd
mathematician (1906–1995)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
American aviator and writer (1906–2001)
Lou Costello
American actor and comedian (1906–1959)
Jacqueline Cochran
American aviator and businesswoman (1906–1980)
John Dickson Carr
American writer (1906–1977)
Alberto Lleras Camargo
Colombian journalist and politician (1906-1990)
Madeleine Carroll
English actress (1906–1987)
Tribhuvan I of Nepal
King of Nepal (1906-1955)
Diana Wynyard
English actress (1906-1964)
Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark
Greco-Danish princess (1906-1969); sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Bart Bok
Dutch-American astronomer (1906–1983)
Thelma Todd
American actress (1906-1935)
Samad Vurgun
Azerbaijani-Soviet writer (1906-1956)
Empress Wanrong
Wanrong (; 13 November 1906 – 20 June 1946), of the Manchu Plain White Banner Gobulo clan, was the wife and empress consort of Puyi, the last emperor of China. She is sometimes anachronistically called Elizabeth, Xuantong Empress, referring to Puyi's era name. She was the titular empress consort of the former Qing dynasty from their marriage in 1922 until the exile of the imperial family in November 1924. She later became the empress consort of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in northeastern China from 1934 until the abolition of the monarchy in August 1945, at the conclusion of the Sec
Gabriel Ramanantsoa
President of Madagascar (1906-1979)
Alexander Gode
German-American linguist and translator (1906-1970)
Chester Carlson
American physicist (1906-1968)
Philippe Halsman
American photographer (1906-1979)
Bruce Bennett
American actor (1906–2007)
Jim Thompson
American writer (1906–1977)
Eleanor Alice Burford
English novelist (1906–1993)
Artur Lundkvist
Swedish writer (1906-1991)
Franz Waxman
German film composer (1906-1967)
Douglas McGregor
American professor of management
Andrey Tikhonov
Soviet mathematician (1906–1993)
Piero Taruffi
Italian racing driver
Wolfgang Staudte
German film director (1906-1984)
Primo Carnera
Italian boxer (1906-1967)
Junio Valerio Borghese
Italian submarine commander (1906-1974)
Edward Akufo-Addo
second President of the Republic of Ghana (1906-1979)
Pierre Fournier
French cellist (1906–1986)
Clifford Odets
American playwright, screenwriter, and actor (1906–1963)
Kathleen Kenyon
British archaeologist (1906-1978)
Jean Leray
French mathematician (1906-1998)
Harry Hammond Hess
American geologist (1906–1969)
Giuseppe Siri
Catholic cardinal (1906-1989)