Historical figures in 1906

The atlas holds 58 people and 78 moments here, in 1906. The most recorded lives are Sarah Bernhardt, Maxim Gorky and Lu Xun. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Jurists.

Notable people

1. Alexander Graham Bell

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   Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist, teacher of the deaf, and engineer best known for patenting the first practical telephone.…

2. Calvin Coolidge

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   John Calvin Coolidge Jr. (1872–1933) was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as governor of Massachusetts, vice president of the…

3. Chiang Kai-shek

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   Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman. Chiang Kai-shek led the Nationalist government of China through the Northern Expedition,…

4. Emiliano Zapata

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   Mexican revolutionary and agrarian leader of the Liberation Army of the South during the Mexican Revolution.…

5. Emilio Aguinaldo

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   Filipino revolutionary, military leader, and political figure who led forces in the Philippine Revolution, headed the First Philippine Republic,…

6. Emperor Meiji

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   Emperor Meiji (Mutsuhito) was emperor of Japan from 1867 to 1912. His reign encompassed the Meiji Restoration, the transfer of the imperial court…

7. Erwin Schrödinger

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   Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate whose work on wave mechanics and the Schrödinger equation became foundational to quantum…

8. Franz Kafka

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   German-language Jewish Czech writer whose fiction transformed modern literature. Born and educated in Prague, Kafka trained as a lawyer and worked…

9. George Bernard Shaw

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   Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist. Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in 1876, became a leading Fabian and dramatist,…

10. Golda Meir

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    Golda Meir was an Israeli political leader who served as Israel’s prime minister from 1969 to 1974.…

11. Grigori Rasputin

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    Russian mystic and faith healer whose rise from a Siberian peasant village to influence at the court of Nicholas II made him one of the most…

12. Harry S. Truman

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    Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.…

13. Henrik Ibsen

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    Norwegian playwright and poet whose career took him from Telemark and coastal Norway to theatre work in Bergen and Christiania, then to long…

14. Henri Matisse

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    French painter, sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker, and major figure of modern art. Born in Le Cateau-Cambresis, Matisse trained and worked…

15. H. G. Wells

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    Herbert George Wells was an English novelist, journalist, historian, teacher, and social critic.…

16. Howard Florey

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    Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who led the Oxford team that developed penicillin into a practical therapeutic drug.…

17. Jack London

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    American novelist, journalist, sailor, war correspondent, and socialist activist. Born John Griffith Chaney in San Francisco, he grew up around the…

18. James Joyce

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    Irish novelist, poet, and critic whose life moved between Dublin, continental Europe, and Switzerland.…

19. John Maynard Keynes

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    English economist, civil servant, Cambridge fellow, and British international negotiator whose work shaped modern macroeconomics.…

20. Katherine Mansfield

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    Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, later Murry) was a New Zealand modernist short-story writer, poet, critic and diarist.…

21. Leon Trotsky

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    Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet political leader, Marxist theorist, and organizer of the Red Army.…

22. Léopold Sédar Senghor

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    Senegalese poet, theorist of Négritude, and statesman who became Senegal’s first president in 1960.…

23. Ludwig Wittgenstein

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    Austro-British philosopher whose work in logic, language, mathematics, and mind shaped twentieth-century analytic philosophy.…

24. Lu Xun

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    Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren; 1881–1936) was a Chinese writer, critic, translator, lecturer, and civil servant whose work was central to modern Chinese…

Moments

1. 1906 Honorary degree at the University of Edinburgh Alexander Graham Bell
2. 1906 First stay in Tokyo Chiang Kai-shek
3. 1906 Work at Hacienda de San Carlos Borromeo Emiliano Zapata
4. 1906 Photographed with his son Emilio Aguinaldo
5. 1906 University studies in Vienna Erwin Schrödinger
6. 1906 Home at Shaw's Corner George Bernard Shaw
7. 1906 Arrival in Quebec Golda Meir
8. 1906 Return to the Grandview farm Harry S. Truman
9. 1906 Journey to Algeria Henri Matisse
10. 1906 Visit to Chicago H. G. Wells
11. 1906 Visit to Theodore Roosevelt H. G. Wells
12. 1906 Family home at Coreega Howard Florey
13. 1906 Departure from Sendai Medical School Lu Xun
14. 1906 Moves her household to Sceaux Marie Curie
15. 1906 Testifies before Congress on copyright Mark Twain
16. 1906 Fund-raising visit to New York City Maxim Gorky
17. 1906 Residence on Capri Maxim Gorky
18. 1906 Stay on Staten Island Maxim Gorky
19. 1906 Writing Mother in the Adirondacks Maxim Gorky
20. 1906 Bachelor's degree at Trinity College Muhammad Iqbal
21. 1906 Returns clandestinely to Salonica Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
22. 1906 Broadway office Nikola Tesla
23. 1906 Childhood move to Temuco Pablo Neruda
24. 1906 Attendance at Allora Public School P. L. Travers
25. 1906 Bihari Students Conference Rajendra Prasad
26. 1906 Congress volunteer in Calcutta Rajendra Prasad
27. 1906 Discussions with Bolshevik leaders Rosa Luxemburg
28. 1906 Imprisonment in Warsaw Rosa Luxemburg
29. 1906 Brief stop in Buenos Aires Rubén Darío
30. 1906 Third Pan-American Conference Rubén Darío
31. 1906 Studies in Bordeaux Saint-John Perse
32. 1906 Injury during Rio de Janeiro performance Sarah Bernhardt
33. 1906 Recital for San Quentin inmates Sarah Bernhardt
34. 1906 Congress and Social Conference address Sarojini Naidu
35. 1906 Move to Calcutta and Bengal National College Sri Aurobindo
36. 1906 Pachaiyappa's College Srinivasa Ramanujan
37. 1906 Harvard College undergraduate T. S. Eliot
38. 1906 Organized from Kuokkala Vladimir Lenin
39. 1906 Family move to Marceline Walt Disney
40. 1906 Vacation in Bermuda Woodrow Wilson
41. 1906 Enrollment at Toyokawa Elementary School Yasunari Kawabata
42. 1906 Return to Saint Petersburg clinics Mikhail Vrubel
43. 1906 Birth in Beijing Puyi
44. 1906 Return to Tokyo after leaving medicine Lu Xun
45. 1906 Russo-Japanese War victory parade Emperor Meiji
46. 1906 Meeting Pablo Picasso at Gertrude Stein's salon Henri Matisse
47. 1906 Earthquake reportage in San Francisco Jack London
48. 1906 Fourth RSDLP Congress Mikhail Frunze
49. 1906 Tour of earthquake ruins Sarah Bernhardt
50. 1906 Tongmenghui branch in Singapore Sun Yat-sen

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