List of Famous people who born in 1906

Born in 1906
Died in 1906

Josephine Baker

Freda Josephine McDonald
First Name Josephine
Last Name Baker
Born on June 3, 1906
Died on April 12, 1975 (aged 68)

Josephine Baker was an American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. She was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics, directed by Mario Nalpas and Henri Étiévant.

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Ed Gein

Edward Theodore Gein
First Name Ed
Last Name Gein
Born on August 27, 1906
Died on July 26, 1984 (aged 77)

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

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Adolf Eichmann

Otto Adolf Eichmann
First Name Adolf
Last Name Eichmann
Born on March 19, 1906
Died on May 31, 1962 (aged 56)

Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust—the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" in Nazi terminology. He was tasked by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved in the mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe during World War II. Eichmann was captured by the Mossad in Argentina on 11 May 1960 and subsequently found guilty of war crimes in a widely publicised trial in Jerusalem, where he was executed by hanging in 1962.

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Satchel Paige

First Name Satchel
Born on July 7, 1906
Died on June 8, 1982 (aged 75)
Height 190 cm | 6'3

Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball (MLB). His career spanned five decades and culminated with his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Georgette Chen

First Name Georgette
Died on March 15, 1993 (aged 23)
Net Worth $1.4B

Georgette Liying Chendana Chen, born Chang Li Ying and more commonly known as Georgette Chen, was a first-generation Singaporean painter and one of the pioneers of the Nanyang style of art. A key figure in the development of modern art in Singapore, Chen is known for her oil paintings and contributions to art education as a teacher at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) from 1954 to 1981. Prior to being based in Malaya and Singapore from the 1950s onwards, Chen moved between cities such as Shanghai, Paris, and New York. In 1982, Chen was awarded the Cultural Medallion for her contributions to the visual arts in Singapore.

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Puyi

Born on February 7, 1906
Died on October 17, 1967 (aged 61)

Puyi was the last Emperor of China as the eleventh and final Qing dynasty ruler. Becoming the Xuantong Emperor at age two, forced to abdicate on 12 February 1912 due to the Xinhai Revolution, he later served as the nominal ruler of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo during World War II.

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Prithviraj Kapoor

First Name Prithviraj
Born on November 3, 1906
Died on May 29, 1972 (aged 65)
Born in Pakistan, Punjab

Prithviraj Kapoor was a pioneer of Indian theatre and of the Hindi film industry, who started his career as an actor in the silent era of Hindi cinema, associated with IPTA as one of its founding members and who founded the Prithvi Theatres, a travelling theatre company based in Mumbai, in 1944. He was the patriarch of the Kapoor family of Hindi films, four generations of which, beginning with him, have played active roles in the Hindi film industry, with two generations still active in Bollywood. He's also acted in a Kannada movie Sākshatkāra. However, his father, Basheshwar Nath Kapoor, also played a short role in his movie Awara. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Bhushan in 1969 and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1971 for his contributions towards Indian cinema.

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King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

First Name King
Last Name Saud
Born on April 14, 1906
Died on March 25, 1975 (aged 68)

Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was King of Saudi Arabia and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques from 2 November 1964 to 25 March 1975.

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John Huston

First Name John
Last Name Huston
Born on August 5, 1906
Died on August 28, 1987 (aged 81)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist. He travelled widely, settling at various times in France, Mexico, and Ireland. Huston was a citizen of the United States by birth but renounced U.S. citizenship to become an Irish citizen and resident in 1964. He later returned to the United States, where he lived the rest of his life. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), The Misfits (1961), Fat City (1972), The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and Prizzi's Honor (1985).

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Luchino Visconti

First Name Luchino
Born on November 2, 1906
Died on March 17, 1976 (aged 69)
Born in Italy, Lombardy

Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo, was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. Visconti was one of the fathers of Italian neorealism in film, but later moved towards luxurious-looking films obsessed with beauty, death and European history – especially the decay of aristocracy. Among his best-known films are Ossessione (1943), Senso (1954), Rocco and His Brothers (1960), The Leopard (1963), The Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1971) and Ludwig (1972).

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Hannah Arendt

Johanna Arendt
First Name Hannah
Last Name Arendt
Born on October 14, 1906
Died on December 4, 1975 (aged 69)

Hannah Arendt was a German-born American political theorist. Her many books and articles have had a lasting influence on political theory and philosophy. Arendt is widely considered one of the most important political thinkers of the 20th century.

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Zhou Youguang

周耀平
First Name Zhou
Last Name Youguang
Born on January 13, 1906
Died on January 14, 2017 (aged 111)

Zhou Youguang, also known as Chou Yu-kuang or Chou Yao-ping, was a Chinese economist, banker, linguist, sinologist, publisher, and supercentenarian, known as the "father of Pinyin", a system for the writing of Mandarin Chinese in Roman script, or romanization, which was officially adopted by the government of the People's Republic of China in 1958, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1982, and the United Nations in 1986.

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Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent

Marina of Greece and Denmark
First Name Princess
Last Name Kent
Born on December 13, 1906
Died on August 27, 1968 (aged 61)

Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, was a princess of the Greek royal house, who married Prince George, Duke of Kent, fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary in 1934. They had three children: Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, Princess Alexandra, and Prince Michael.

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Sergei Korolev

First Name Sergei
Last Name Korolev
Born on December 30, 1906
Died on January 14, 1966 (aged 59)

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was a lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He is regarded by many as the father of practical astronautics. He was involved in the development of the R-7 Rocket, Sputnik 1, and launching Laika and the first human being, Yuri Gagarin, into space.

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Kurt Gödel

Kurt Friedrich Gödel
First Name Kurt
Last Name Gödel
Born on April 28, 1906
Died on January 14, 1978 (aged 71)

Kurt Friedrich Gödel was a German-Austrian logician, mathematician, and analytic philosopher. Considered along with Aristotle and Gottlob Frege to be one of the most significant logicians in history, Gödel had an immense effect upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century, a time when others such as Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, and David Hilbert were analyzing the use of logic and set theory to understand the foundations of mathematics pioneered by Georg Cantor.

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Mary Astor

Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke
First Name Mary
Last Name Astor
Born on May 3, 1906
Died on September 25, 1987 (aged 81)
Height 166 cm | 5'5

Mary Astor was an American actress. Although her career spanned several decades, she may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941).

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Grace Hopper

Grace Brewster Murray
First Name Grace
Last Name Hopper
Born on December 9, 1906
Died on January 1, 1992 (aged 85)

Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended to create COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today.

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Henri Charrière

First Name Henri
Last Name Charrière
Born on November 16, 1906
Died on July 29, 1973 (aged 66)

Henri Charrière was a French writer, convicted as a murderer by the French courts. He wrote the novel Papillon, a memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony in French Guiana. While Charrière claimed that Papillon was largely true, modern researchers believe that much of the book’s material came from other inmates, rather than Charrière himself. Charrière denied committing the murder, although he freely admitted to having committed various other petty crimes prior to his incarceration.

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Pedro Linares

First Name Pedro
Last Name Linares
Born on June 29, 1906
Died on January 26, 1992 (aged 85)
Born in Mexico

Pedro Linares López was a Mexican artist born in Mexico City known for his papier-mâché figurines named alebrijes.

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Nusch Éluard

Maria Benz
First Name Nusch
Born on June 21, 1906
Died on November 28, 1946 (aged 40)
Born in France, Grand Est

Nusch Éluard was a French performer, model and surrealist artist.

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