List of Famous people who died in 1906
Arthur Frederick Jeffreys
Arthur Frederick Jeffreys, of Burkham House in Hampshire, was a British Conservative politician.
Spencer Gore
Spencer William Gore was an English tennis player who won the first Wimbledon tournament in 1877 and a first-class cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club (1874-1875).
Heinrich von Coudenhove-Kalergi
Heinrich Johann Maria von Coudenhove-Kalergi, also known as Heinrich Coudenhove-Kalergi, was an Austro-Hungarian diplomat and writer who was a member of the Coudenhove-Kalergi family. He was born in Vienna and died in Ronsberg, Western Bohemia. He spoke 18 languages, and his diplomatic postings included Athens, Rio de Janeiro, Constantinople and Buenos Aires.
Vladimir Stasov
Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov, son of Russian architect Vasily Petrovich Stasov (1769–1848), was probably the most respected Russian critic during his lifetime. He graduated from the School of Jurisprudence in 1843, was admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1859, and was made honorary fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1900, together with his friend Leo Tolstoy.
Eugène Carrière
Eugène Anatole Carrière was a French Symbolist artist of the Fin de siècle period. His paintings are best known for their brown monochrome palette. He was a close friend of the sculptor Rodin and his work influenced Picasso. Some see traces of Carrière's monochrome style in Picasso's Blue Period.
David B. Henderson
David Bremner Henderson, a ten-term Republican Congressman from Dubuque, Iowa, was the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1899 to 1903. He was the first Congressman from west of the Mississippi River, the last Civil War veteran, the second foreign-born person, and so far the only Iowan to serve as Speaker.
Albemarle Cator
Prince Albert of Prussia
Prince Albert of Prussia was a Prussian general field marshal, Herrenmeister of the Order of Saint John from 1883 until his death, and regent of the Duchy of Brunswick from 1885, also until his death.
Princess Mathilde of Bavaria
Princess Mathilde of Bavaria was the sixth child of Ludwig III of Bavaria and his wife, Maria Theresa of Austria-Este. After her early death, Life-Dreams: The Poems of a Blighted Life, a collection of poems she wrote, was published in 1910.