List of Famous people who born in 1906

Esmond Knight

First Name Esmond
Last Name Knight
Born on May 4, 1906
Died on February 23, 1987 (aged 80)

Esmond Penington Knight was an English actor. He had a successful stage and film career before World War II. For much of his later career Knight was half-blind. He had been badly injured in 1941 whilst on active service on board HMS Prince of Wales when she fought the Bismarck at the Battle of the Denmark Strait, and remained totally blind for two years, though he later regained some sight in his right eye.

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Brigadier Richard Frank Sherlock Gooch

First Name Brigadier
Last Name Gooch
Born on November 8, 1906
Died on June 6, 1973 (aged 66)
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John Lewen Le Fanu

First Name John
Last Name Fanu
Born on July 17, 1906
Died on April 6, 2005 (aged 98)
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Jacques Companéez

Яков Владимирович Компанейцев
First Name Jacques
Last Name Companéez
Born on March 5, 1906
Died on September 15, 1956 (aged 50)

Jacques Companeez was a Russian Jewish émigré screenwriter in Paris.

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Ernle Terrick Dudley Ryder

First Name Ernle
Last Name Ryder
Born on April 18, 1906 (age 120)
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Madeline Alix Brandreth

First Name Madeline
Born on June 2, 1906 (age 119)
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John Carroll

First Name John
Last Name Carroll
Born on July 17, 1906
Died on April 24, 1979 (aged 72)

John Carroll was an American actor.

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Sir John Richard Staples, 14th Bt.

First Name Sir
Born on April 5, 1906
Died on January 1, 1989 (aged 82)
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Elizabeth Christine Fane

First Name Elizabeth
Last Name Fane
Born on April 6, 1906
Died on May 30, 1997 (aged 91)
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John Mercer-Henderson, 8th Earl of Buckinghamshire

First Name John
Last Name Buckinghamshire
Born on April 16, 1906
Died on January 2, 1963 (aged 56)

John Hampden Mercer-Henderson, 8th Earl of Buckinghamshire, styled Lord Hobart until 1930, was a British soldier and politician.

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