List of Famous people who born in 1906

Irina Vsevolodovna Murzaeva was a Soviet actress of theater and cinema.

Joseph Höffner was a German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Archbishop of Cologne from 1969 to 1987 and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1969.

Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov was a Soviet aeroplane designer, and the founder of the Antonov aircraft company, later named in his honour. Antonov designed a number of known Soviet aeroplanes and numerous gliders for both civilian and military use.

Arseny Grigoryevich Golovko was a Soviet admiral, whose naval service extended from the 1920s through the early Cold War.

Emmanuel Levinas was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work related to Jewish philosophy, existentialism, ethics, phenomenology and ontology.

Estée Lauder was an American businesswoman. She co-founded her eponymous cosmetics company with her husband, Joseph Lauter. Lauder was the only woman on Time magazine's 1998 list of the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20th century.

Gerd Bucerius was a German politician, publisher and journalist, one of the founding members of Die Zeit. He is the namesake of the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and of the Bucerius Kunst Forum, an art gallery.

Hannes Neuner was a German painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Edmund Heckler was a German engineer & weapons manufacturer, born in Tuttlingen, Germany. After completing his apprenticeship at the Mauser company in the city of Oberndorf, he attended the Württemberg State Higher Mechanical Engineering School in Esslingen from 1925. was employed by Hugo Schneider AG (HASAG), a metal processing and armaments company with approximately 50,000 employees. Heckler, who initially worked as a senior engineer, soon became one of the company's authorized officers and was given the task of setting up branch plants in Leipzig, Berlin, Taucha and Altenburg. He later worked in the three latter plants during WWII. On December 28, 1949, together with two other Mauser engineers Theodor Koch and Alex Seidel, he founded Heckler & Koch which later developed into one of the most important German arms manufacturers in the post-war period.

Shinichiro Tomonaga , usually cited as Sin-Itiro Tomonaga in English, was a Japanese physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger.