List of Famous people who died in 1906

Farnham Maxwell-Lyte FRSC was an English chemist and the pioneer of a number of techniques in photographic processing. As a photographer he is known for his views of the French Pyrenees.

Charles Baillairgé was an architect, land surveyor, civil engineer, and an author.

Rosetta Douglass-Sprague was an American teacher and activist. She was a founding member of the National Association for Colored Women. Her father was Frederick Douglass.

Auguste Louis Himly was a French historian and geographer.

Arthur Bell Nicholls was the husband of the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. Between 1845 and 1861 Nicholls was one of Patrick Brontë's curates and was married to his eldest surviving child, Charlotte, for the last nine months of her life. He cared for Patrick Brontë after Charlotte Brontë's death and spent the rest of his life in the shadow of her reputation. He returned to his native Ireland, remarried and left the church.

Alfred Gilpin Jones, was a Canadian businessman, politician, and eighth Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.