List of Famous people who born in 1906

Albert Bousser

First Name Albert
Last Name Bousser
Born on February 8, 1906
Died on May 2, 1995 (aged 89)

Albert Bousser was a Luxembourgish politician, railway inspector, and trade unionist.

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Matvei Petrovich Bronstein

First Name Matvei
Born on November 19, 1906
Died on February 18, 1938 (aged 31)

Matvei Petrovich Bronstein was a Soviet theoretical physicist, a pioneer of quantum gravity, author of works in astrophysics, semiconductors, quantum electrodynamics and cosmology, as well as of a number of books in popular science for children.

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William Cottrell

First Name William
Last Name Cottrell
Born on November 19, 1906
Died on December 22, 1995 (aged 89)
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Andrey Tikhonov

Андрей Николаевич Тихонов
First Name Andrey
Last Name Tikhonov
Born on October 17, 1906
Died on November 7, 1993 (aged 87)

Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and geophysicist known for important contributions to topology, functional analysis, mathematical physics, and ill-posed problems. He was also one of the inventors of the magnetotellurics method in geophysics. Other transliterations of his surname include "Tychonoff", "Tychonov", "Tihonov", "Tichonov."

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Daniel Edwin Rutherford

First Name Daniel
Last Name Rutherford
Born on July 4, 1906
Died on November 9, 1966 (aged 60)

Daniel "Dan" Edwin Rutherford FRSE was a Scottish mathematician, known for his work on the representation theory of symmetric groups.

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Mark Clifton

First Name Mark
Last Name Clifton
Born on January 1, 1906
Died on January 1, 1963 (aged 57)

Mark Clifton (1906–1963) was an American science fiction writer, the co-winner of the second Hugo Award for best novel. He began publishing in May 1952 with the widely anthologized story "What Have I Done?".

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Edwin F. Beckenbach

Edwin Ford Beckenbach
First Name Edwin
Last Name Beckenbach
Born on July 18, 1906
Died on September 5, 1982 (aged 76)

Edwin Ford Beckenbach was an American mathematician.

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Leonila Garcia

First Name Leonila
Born on July 17, 1906
Died on May 17, 1994 (aged 87)
Born in Central Visayas

Leonila "Inday" de la Serna Dimataga Garcia was the wife of Philippine President Carlos P. Garcia, and was the eighth First Lady of the Philippines. She assumed the title on March 18, 1957 upon the accession of her husband, who was then-Vice President, shortly after the death of President Ramon Magsaysay.

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Bengt Edlén

First Name Bengt
Born on November 2, 1906
Died on February 10, 1993 (aged 86)

Bengt Edlén was a Swedish professor of physics and astronomer who specialized in spectroscopy. He was the first who identified the unknown coronal spectral lines in the Corona, which was used to calculate the temperature of the corona.

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Prosper Poswick

First Name Prosper
Last Name Poswick
Born on September 5, 1906
Died on October 18, 1992 (aged 86)
Born in Belgium, Wallonia
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