1906 deaths

American academic administrator (1856-1906)

German classical philologist and historian (1833–1906)

American geologist, palaeontologist, teacher and philanthropist (d. 1906)

Norwegian painter (1823-1906)

French writer (1826–1906)

French composer (1850–1906)

(1845–1906) historian

French pathologist, hygienist, and member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine (1837-1906)

Bey of Tunis (1902-1906)

Italian-British photographer

Spanish writer (1809-1906)

American lawyer and academic (1826–1906)

French ophthalmologist (1832-1906)

American publisher and editor (1839–1906)

15th governor of Arkansas (1830-1906)

British scholar, librarian, biographer and poet (1835-1906)

Swiss engineer (1847-1906)

Ukrainian pianist and folklorist (1866-1906)

German sculptor (1850–1906)

Spanish nun (1845–1906)

Military officer, novelist

Danish composer (1840–1906)

British writer and philanthropist (1832–1906)

British botanist, mycologist and phytopathologist (1854-1906)

German physician and mathematician

Métis leader (1837-1906)

German politician (1847-1906)

American paleontologist and geologist (1841–1906)

thumb|300px|Ngungunhane when captured by the Portuguese colonial army in December, 1895 Ngungunyane, also known as Mdungazwe Ngungunyane Nxumalo, '''N'gungunhana, or Gungunhana Reinaldo Frederico Gungunhana''', (c. 1850 – 23 December 1906) was a king of the Gaza Empire and vassal of the Portuguese Empire, who rebelled, was defeated by General Joaquim Mouzinho de Albuquerque and lived out the rest of his life in exile, first in Lisbon, but later on the island of Terceira, in the Azores.

American musician (1858–1906)

Finnish theatre director (1843-1906)

American inventor (1838–1906)

British peeress of American background (1870-1906)

American chess player (1851–1906)

composer (1835-1906)

French architect (1845-1906)

German Roman Catholic religious (1826–1906)

German geologist and paleontologist (1838–1906)

Chinese writer (1867–1906)

Hungarian politician (1837-1906)

Japanese writer (1841-1906)

American artist (1816-1906)

Union Army general (1835-1906)

German prince (1837-1906)

Belgian orientalist

German art historian (1850–1906)

American lawyer, and politician (1835-1906)

pianist and composer (1860–1906)

American financier and congressman for New York (1816–1906)

United States Senator from Utah (1843-1906)

German classical philologist (1831–1906)

Austrian journalist and writer (1859-1906)

American politician (1834-1906)

United States Army general (1823–1906)

American politician and baseball player (1839-1906)

Irish novelist, editor

Mahwi ( Mehwî; full name: مەلا موحەممەد کوڕی عوسمان باڵخی ''Mela Muhemmed 'Usman Ballxî'') (1830-1906) was one of the most prominent classical Kurdish poets and sufis from Kurdistan of Iraq. He studied in Sablakh and Sanandaj in Iranian Kurdistan. He became a judge in the court of Slemani, in today's Iraq, in 1862, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. He travelled to Istanbul and met Abdul-Hamid II in 1883. He established a khaneqah, an Islamic religious school and mosque, in Slemani and named it after an Ottoman emperor. In his poems, he mainly promotes sufism, but also deals with the h

German linguist and professor (1837-1906)

Swiss romanist (1856-1906)

German botanist (1833-1906)