List of Famous people who born in 1906

Anna Roosevelt Halsted

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
First Name Anna
Last Name Halsted
Died on December 1, 1975 (aged 5)

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American writer who worked as a newspaper editor and in public relations. She was the eldest child and only daughter of the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt and assisted him in social and administrative duties at the White House. She wrote two children's books published in the 1930s.

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Seiei Tōyama

First Name Seiei
Born on December 14, 1906
Died on February 27, 2004 (aged 97)
Born in Japan

Seiei Toyama is Japanese recipient of 2003 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding the board of trustees recognizes his twenty-year crusade to green the deserts of China in a spirit of solidarity and peace.

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Aimé Maeght

Aimé Ernest Auguste Maeght
First Name Aimé
Last Name Maeght
Born on April 27, 1906
Died on September 5, 1981 (aged 75)

Aimé Maeght was a French art dealer, collector, lithographer, and publisher. He founded the Galerie Maeght in Paris and Barcelona, and the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence near Nice. Though the original Flemish pronunciation is pronounced "," the French pronunciation of surname Maeght sounds more similar to.

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Bandō Mitsugorō VIII

First Name Bandō
Last Name VIII
Born on October 19, 1906
Died on January 16, 1975 (aged 68)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Bandō Mitsugorō VIII was one of Japan's most revered kabuki actors from the 1930s until his death. He was a renowned tachiyaku and katakiyaku, specializing in particular in the aragoto style. He was officially designated as a "Living National Treasure" by the Japanese government in 1973.

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Arthur Rudolph

First Name Arthur
Last Name Rudolph
Born on November 9, 1906
Died on January 1, 1996 (aged 89)

Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph was a German rocket engineer who was a leader of the effort to develop the V-2 rocket for Nazi Germany. After World War II, the United States Government's Office of Strategic Services (OSS) brought him to the U.S. as part of the clandestine Operation Paperclip, where he became one of the main developers of the U.S. space program. He worked within the U.S. Army and NASA, where he managed the development of several systems, including the Pershing missile and the Saturn V Moon rocket. In 1984, the U.S. Government investigated him for war crimes, and he agreed to renounce his United States citizenship and leave the U.S. in return for not being prosecuted.

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Sigfrit Steiner

First Name Sigfrit
Born on October 31, 1906
Died on March 21, 1988 (aged 81)

Sigfrit Steiner was a Swiss actor. His first stage performance was in 1928 in Gera. He performed in more than one hundred films. He was married to journalist and author Anne Rose Katz.

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Barbara Bennett

First Name Barbara
Last Name Bennett
Born on August 13, 1906
Died on August 8, 1958 (aged 51)

Barbara Jane Bennett was an American stage and film actress and dancer.

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Prince Raphael Rainer of Thurn and Taxis

First Name Prince
Last Name Taxis
Born on May 30, 1906
Died on June 8, 1993 (aged 87)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Raphael Rainer Karl Maria Joseph Antonius Ignatius Hubertus Lamoral Prince of Thurn and Taxis was the sixth son of Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis and his wife Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria. He is the father of Prince Max Emanuel of Thurn and Taxis, the heir presumptive to Albert, 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis.

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Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

First Name Johann
Last Name Gotha
Born on August 2, 1906
Died on May 4, 1972 (aged 65)
Born in Germany, Bavaria, Coburg

Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the eldest son of Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

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Leo Rudolf Raubal

First Name Leo
Last Name Raubal
Born on October 12, 1906
Died on August 18, 1977 (aged 70)

Leo Rudolf Raubal Jr. was an Austrian nephew of Adolf Hitler who served in the German Luftwaffe during World War II.

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