List of Famous people who died in 1906

William Painter was an Irish - American mechanical engineer, inventor and the founder of Crown Holdings, Inc., a Fortune 500 company. He most notably invented the crown cork bottle cap and bottle opener.

Luigi Guglielmo Cambray-Digny was an Italian politician. He was born in Florence and he was the first mayor of his hometown. He was a recipient of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus.

Luigi Tripepi was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and poet. He was one of the most important Roman Catholic apologists of the 19th century.

Alexander Konstantin von Oettingen was a Baltic German Lutheran theologian and statistician.

Elisha Dyer Jr. was a Rhode Island politician who was 45th Governor of Rhode Island from 1897 to 1900. He was the son of Elisha Dyer, Governor of Rhode Island from 1857 to 1859.

James Edward Boyd was an Irish-born American businessman and politician in early Omaha, Nebraska. The founder of Boyd's Packing House and Boyd's Theater and Opera House, he served as the Mayor of Omaha from 1881 to 1883 and from 1885 to 1887, and as the seventh Governor of the state of Nebraska in 1891 and from 1892 – 1893.

John M. Pattison was a Democratic politician from Ohio. Pattison was the 43rd Governor of Ohio, serving for a shorter period than any other person elected to the office before his death.

Fukuchi Gen'ichirō was a Japanese critic and author, also known under the pseudonym Fukuchi Ōchi .