List of Famous people who died in 1906

Alfred Beit was a Anglo-German gold and diamond magnate in South Africa, and a major donor and profiteer of infrastructure development on the African continent. He also donated much money to university education and research in several countries, and was the "silent partner" who structured the capital flight from post-Boer War South Africa to Rhodesia, and the Rhodes Scholarship, named after his employee, Cecil Rhodes. Beit's assets were structured around the so-called Corner House Group, which through its holdings in various companies controlled 37 per cent of the gold produced at the Witwatersrand's goldfields in Johannesburg in 1913.

Paul Friedrich Wolfskehl, was a physician with an interest in mathematics. He bequeathed 100,000 marks to the first person to prove Fermat's Last Theorem.

Eduard Julius Ludwig von Lewinski was a Prussian general. His younger brother Alfred von Lewinski also became a Prussian general.

Mary Victoria Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston, CI was a British peeress of American background who was Vicereine of India, as the wife of Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India. As Vicereine of India, she held the highest official title in the Indian Empire that a woman could hold.

William Wallace Hozier, 1st Baron Newlands, known as Sir William Hozier, Bt, between 1890 and 1898, was a Scottish soldier and businessman.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Fitzwilliam Lenox-Conyngham, was an Irish soldier.