List of Famous people who died in 1906

Albert Baur was a German painter, illustrator and engraver, associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. He is sometimes referred to as Albert Baur the Elder, to distinguish him from his son, Albert, who was also an artist.

Nathaniel Southgate Shaler was an American paleontologist and geologist who wrote extensively on the theological and scientific implications of the theory of evolution.

Guillaume-Marie-Joseph Labouré was a French archbishop and cardinal.

Alexander Nikolayevich Veselovsky was a leading Russian literary theorist who laid the groundwork for comparative literary studies.

Wilhelm von Rümann was a prominent German sculptor, based in Munich.

Ras Mekonnen Wolde Mikael : ራስ መኮንን ወልደ ሚካኤል), or simply Ras Makonnen, was a Shewan royal from Sheno, grandson of the Shewan king Sahle Selassie of Shoa, a military leader, the governor of Harar province in Ethiopia, and the father of Tafari Mäkonnen. His father was Fitawrari Makonnen was a grandson of Negus Sahle Selassie of Shewa through his mother, Leult Tenagnework Sahle Selassie. As such, he was a first cousin of the Ethiopian Emperor, Menelik II.

Muhammad El Hadi Bey, commonly referred to as Hédi Bey was the son of Ali III ibn al-Husayn and the fourteenth Husainid Bey of Tunis, ruling from 1902 until his death.

Sir Walter Lawry Buller was a New Zealand lawyer and naturalist who was a dominant figure in New Zealand ornithology. His book, A History of the Birds of New Zealand, first published in 1873, was published as an enlarged version in 1888 and became a New Zealand classic.