List of Famous people who died in 1906

Susan B. Anthony

Susan Anthony
First Name Susan
Born on February 15, 1820
Died on March 13, 1906 (aged 86)

Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.

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Pierre Curie

First Name Pierre
Last Name Curie
Born on May 15, 1859
Died on April 19, 1906 (aged 46)

Pierre Curie was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity. In 1903, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Curie, and Henri Becquerel, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel".

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James Anthony Bailey

First Name James
Last Name Bailey
Born on July 4, 1847
Died on April 11, 1906 (aged 58)

James Anthony Bailey, born James Anthony McGinnis, was an American circus ringmaster and impresario.

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Auguste Deter

First Name Auguste
Born on May 16, 1850
Died on April 8, 1906 (aged 55)
Born in Germany, Hesse

Auguste Deter was a German woman notable for being the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

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James Wood Bush

First Name James
Last Name Bush
Born on November 30, 1843
Died on April 24, 1906 (aged 62)

James Wood Bush was an American Union Navy sailor of British and Native Hawaiian descent. He was among a group of more than one hundred Native Hawaiian and Hawaii-born combatants in the American Civil War, at a time when the Kingdom of Hawaii was still an independent nation.

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Josephine Butler

Josephine Elizabeth Grey
First Name Josephine
Last Name Butler
Born on April 13, 1828
Died on December 30, 1906 (aged 78)

Josephine Elizabeth Butler was an English feminist and social reformer in the Victorian era. She campaigned for women's suffrage, the right of women to better education, the end of coverture in British law, the abolition of child prostitution, and an end to human trafficking of young women and children into European prostitution.

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William Rockefeller Sr.

First Name William
Last Name Sr.
Born on November 13, 1810
Died on May 11, 1906 (aged 95)

William Avery "Devil Bill" Rockefeller Sr. was an American businessman, lumberman, herbalist, salesman, and con-artist who went by the alias of Dr. William Levingston. He worked as a lumberman and then a traveling salesman who identified himself as a "botanic physician" and sold elixirs. He was known to buy and sell horses, and was also known at one point to have bought a barge-load of salt in Syracuse. Land speculation was another type of his business, and the selling of elixirs served to keep him with cash and aided in his scouting of land deals. He loaned money to farmers at twelve percent, but tried to lend to farmers who could not pay so as to foreclose and take the farms. Two of his sons were Standard Oil co-founders John Davison Rockefeller Sr. and William Avery Rockefeller Jr.

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Jim Hogg

First Name Jim
Last Name Hogg
Born on March 24, 1851
Died on March 3, 1906 (aged 54)

James Stephen "Big Jim" Hogg was an American lawyer and statesman, and the 20th Governor of Texas. He was born near Rusk, Texas. Hogg was a follower of the conservative New South Creed which became popular following the U.S. Civil War, and was also associated with populism. He was the first Texas Governor to have been born in Texas. Jim Hogg County is named after him.

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Joseph Forsyth Johnson

First Name Joseph
Last Name Johnson
Born on November 30, 1839
Died on July 17, 1906 (aged 66)

Joseph Forsyth Johnson was an English landscape architect and disciple of John Ruskin.

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Princess Alexandrine of Prussia

Friederike Wilhelmina Luise Elisabeth Alexandrine von Preußen
First Name Princess
Last Name Prussia
Born on February 1, 1842
Died on March 26, 1906 (aged 64)
Born in Germany

Princess Frederica Wilhelmina Louise Elisabeth Alexandrine of Prussia was a member of the House of Hohenzollern as the daughter of Prince Albert of Prussia and his wife Princess Marianne of the Netherlands.

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