List of Famous people who died in 1906

Elizabeth Blair Lee was an American woman who lived through the American Civil War, and wrote hundreds of letters describing the events of the times to her husband, Samuel Philips Lee.

Edmund Backhouse, banker, J.P. on the County Durham and for the North Riding of Yorkshire benches. He was Member of Parliament for Darlington.

Johanna Pölzl, was the maternal grandmother of Adolf Hitler.

Honoré Beaugrand was a French Canadian journalist, politician, author and folklorist, born in Berthier County, Quebec.

Julius Christian Stockhausen was a German singer and singer master.

Suzanne Manet was a Dutch-born pianist and the wife of the painter Édouard Manet, for whom she frequently modeled.

Charles Owen O'Conor, O'Conor Don PC, was an Irish politician

Charles Carnegie DL, JP, styled The Honourable from 1855, was a British Liberal politician.

Georges-Antoine-Pons Rayet was a French astronomer.

Victor Mayer Amédée Mannheim was the inventor of the modern slide rule. Around 1850, he introduced a new scale system that used a runner to perform calculations. This type of slide rule became known under the name of its inventor: the Mannheim.