List of Famous people who died in 1906

František Bartoš was a Moravian ethnomusicologist, folklorist, folksong collector, and dialectologist. He is viewed as the successor of František Sušil, the pioneer of Moravian ethnomusicology. He notably organized the collecting, categorizing and editing of hundreds of Moravian folksongs which were published is a four volume collection along with about 4000 folksongs from other ethnic traditions. The folksongs appear in ethnographic monographs and the work as a whole is viewed as one of the most important folk song collections ever published. However, Bartoš, like many other early European folk music scholars, sometimes changed the texts of the folk songs, thereby reducing the documentary value of the work.

Jules-Descartes Férat was a French artist and illustrator, famous for his portrayals of factories and their workers.

Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.

Francis Pharcellus Church was an American publisher and editor. He was a member of the Century Association.

Étienne Carjat was a French journalist, caricaturist and photographer. He co-founded the magazine Le Diogène, and founded the review Le Boulevard. He is best known for his numerous portraits and caricatures of political, literary and artistic Parisian figures. His best-known work is the iconic portrait of Arthur Rimbaud which he took in October 1871. The location of much of his photography is untraceable after being sold to a Mr. Roth in 1923.

Francisco Romero Robledo was a Spanish politician who served as Minister of Development in 1872, Minister of Governance several times from 1874 to 1879, 1879 to 1881 and 1884 to 1885, Minister of Overseas from 1891 to 1892 and Minister of Grace and Justice in 1895.

Frank Williams Hunt was the fifth Governor of Idaho from 1901 until 1903.

Jean Abraham Chrétien Oudemans was a Dutch astronomer. He was the director of the Utrecht Observatory from 1875 until 1898, when he retired.