Notable Deaths - 1906
1906 Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer, dies at 51 |
Jan 1 |
Sir Hugh Nelson, Premier of Queensland (b. 1835) |
Jan 5 |
Kathleen Kenyon, English Archaeologist who excavated Jericho (the oldest known continuously occupied human settlement that has been inhabited for the last 11,000 years), dies at 72 |
Jan 8 |
Edouard Blau, Werther |
Jan 13 |
Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859) |
Jan 16 |
Marshall Field, founder of Marshall Field and Company (b. 1834) |
Jan 18 |
Bartolomé Mitre, president of Argentina (1862-70), dies at 84 |
Jan 25 |
Joseph Wheeler II, Confederate General, dies at 70 |
Jan 25 |
Pierre L Goossens, Belgian archbishop of Malines/Cardinal, dies at 78 |
Jan 25 |
Joseph Wheeler, General Wheeler and Secretary of War Alger at Camp Wikoff |
Jan 29 |
Christaan IX, King of Denmark (1893-1906), dies |
Jan 29 |
Christian IX, De kongelige skal fotograferes |
Jan 30 |
Paul Dresser, The Myth of Fingerprints |
Feb 9 |
Paul Laurence Dunbar, black dialect poet, dies at 33 in Dayton, Ohio |
Feb 9 |
Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Sport of the Gods |
Feb 10 |
Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician (b. 1827) |
Feb 13 |
Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866) |
Feb 18 |
Willem Doorenbos, literary/critic, dies at 85 |
Feb 18 |
John Batterson Stetson, American manufacturer (b. 1830) |
Feb 23 |
Johann Hoch, US murderer, executed |
Feb 25 |
Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Russian composer/conductor c t, dies at 44 |
Feb 25 |
Anton Stepanovich Arenski, Peace One Day |
Feb 26 |
Manuel Fernandez Caballero, composer, dies at 70 |
Feb 26 |
Manuel Fernández Caballero, El dúo de la africana |
Feb 27 |
Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer and pioneer aviator, dies at 71 |
Mar 1 |
José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (b. 1833) |
Mar 4 |
John McAllister Schofield, former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army (b. 1831) |
Mar 10 |
Eugen Richter, German MP (Liberal), dies at 67 |
Mar 13 |
Susan Brownell Anthony, American suffragist, dies at 85 |
Mar 15 |
Alfred Gilpin Jones, lt-gov of Nova Scotia (1900-06), dies at 81 |
Mar 17 |
Carlos Calvo, Argentina diplomat (Calvo Clause), dies at 82 |
Mar 22 |
Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer, dies at 59 |
Mar 23 |
Victor Barton, cricketer (scored 23 in Test Eng v South Africa 1892), dies |
Mar 29 |
Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878) |
Mar 30 |
Betsy Perk, [Christina E], journalist/writer/feminist, dies at 73 |
Apr 6 |
Alexander L Kielland, Norwegian writer (Working People), dies at 57 |
Apr 6 |
Alexander Kielland, Jacobs stege |
Apr 8 |
Auguste D, First recorded Alzheimer's victim (b. 1950) |
Apr 11 |
Georgi Apollonovitch Gapon, Rus-orthodox clergyman/tsarist agent, dies |
Apr 11 |
James A Bailey, circus showman (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 58 |
Apr 11 |
Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839) |
Apr 18 |
Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846) |
Apr 19 |
Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies |
Apr 19 |
Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850) |
Apr 20 |
Australian wombat; oldest known marsupial, dies in London Zoo at 26 |
Apr 25 |
John Knowles Paine, US composer, dies at 67 |
Apr 26 |
Henry J.W. Dam, Her Silent Sacrifice |
May 14 |
Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829) |
May 23 |
Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (Doll House), dies at 78 |
May 23 |
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House |
May 30 |
William Yeates Hurlstone, composer, dies at 30 |
May 31 |
Hermann Schell, German theologist (Gott und Geist), dies at 56 |
May 31 |
King Alfonso XIII, assassinated in Madrid |
May 31 |
Victoria von Battenberg, assassinated in Madrid |
Jun 5 |
Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842) |
Jun 7 |
Johan P Van de Kellen, stamp cutter/lithographer, dies at 74 |
Jun 8 |
Christian Frederik Emil Horneman, composer, dies at 65 |
Jun 9 |
Aranka Hegyi, A táncz |
Jun 10 |
Richard John Seddon, longest serving Prime Minister of New Zealand, 61 |
Jun 11 |
Heinrich Hart, German writer (Das Lied der Menschheit), dies at 50 |
Jun 17 |
Harry N Pillsbury, US chess player, dies |
Jun 17 |
William Dale, international legal consultant, dies |
Jun 20 |
John Clayton Adams, British landscape artist (b. 1840) |
Jun 22 |
Fritz Schaudinn, German animal scholar: examined amoebasis, dies at 34 |
Jun 25 |
Stanford White, Architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit |
Jun 26 |
Alexander Muir, poet (Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76 |
Jul 12 |
Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer, dies at 70 |
Jul 19 |
Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (b. 1849) |
Jul 29 |
Alexandre Luigini, composer, dies at 56 |
Aug 10 |
Arnaldo Gandolini, Policarpo |
Aug 12 |
Stevan Sremac, Zona Zamfirova |
Aug 24 |
Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter, dies |
Aug 26 |
Eugen Gura, Ein Fest auf Hederlevhuus. Drama in einem Vorspiel und vier Akten |
Aug 30 |
Hans Auer, Swiss architect (b. 1847) |
Sep 2 |
Guiseppe Giacosa, Ital screenwriter (libretti opera Puccini), dies |
Sep 2 |
Giuseppe Giacosa, Quantum of Solace |
Sep 5 |
Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844) |
Sep 13 |
Georg Jacobi, composer, dies at 66 |
Sep 19 |
Maria Georgina Grey, British writer and founder of the Girls' Day School Trust (b. 1816) |
Sep 20 |
Robert R. Hitt, American politician (b. 1834) |
Sep 21 |
Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1838) |
Sep 23 |
Jan van Rijswijck, Flemish journalist/mayor of Antwerp, dies |
Sep 24 |
Mrs. J.H. Riddell, The Beckoning Shadow |
Oct 2 |
Raja Ravi Varma, |
Oct 7 |
Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1848) |
Oct 7 |
Domingos Olimpio, Luzia Homem |
Oct 9 |
Joseph F Glidden, inventor (barbed wire), dies |
Oct 20 |
William "Buck" Ewing, hall of fame catcher (NY Giants), dies at 67 |
Oct 21 |
[Georgette A] Helena Amelung, actress (Small Lord), dies at 55 |
Oct 22 |
Paul Cézanne, French Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1839) |
Oct 22 |
Paul Cézanne, Paul Cézanne 1839-1906 |
Nov 4 |
John H. Ketcham, American politician (b. 1832) |
Nov 9 |
Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor of Ukkel, dies at 64 |
Nov 12 |
William Rufus Shafter, Major General Shafter |
Nov 14 |
Hendrik J Schimmel, author/dramatist, dies |
Nov 22 |
Earnest Josephson, Swedish painter, dies |
Dec 7 |
Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833) |
Dec 10 |
Nikolai Garin-Mikhajlovsky, Detstvo Tyomy |
Dec 14 |
John A C Oudemans, Dutch geographer/astronomer, dies at 78 |
Dec 21 |
Adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 58 |
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