List of Famous people who died in 1906
Unnamed Kinnaird
Mary Jane Nicholson
Anne Emily Worsley-Holmes
Ella Alison
Lady Mary Octavia Somerset
Varina Davis
Varina Anne Banks Howell Davis was the only First Lady of the Confederate States of America, and the longtime second wife of President Jefferson Davis. She moved to the Presidential Mansion in Richmond, Virginia, in mid-1861, and lived there for the remainder of the American Civil War. Born and raised in the South and educated in Philadelphia, she had family on both sides of the conflict and unconventional views for a woman in her public role. She did not support the Confederacy's position on slavery and states' rights, and was ambivalent about the war.
Edward Perowne
Edward Henry Perowne was an English clergyman and college head, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Paul Drude
Paul Karl Ludwig Drude was a German physicist specializing in optics. He wrote a fundamental textbook integrating optics with Maxwell's theories of electromagnetism.
Jean Cabanis
Jean Louis Cabanis was a German ornithologist.
Johannes Steen
Johannes Wilhelm Christian Steen was a Norwegian educator who served as Prime Minister of Norway from 1891 to 1893 and from 1898 to 1902.