Curated category
1906 births
- Leonid BrezhnevLeonid Ilyich Brezhnev was born on the 19th of December 1906 in Kamenskoye, Ukraine. His father worked as a metalworker and his mother came from Yenakiieve.
- Yin ShunZhang Luqin was born on the 5th of April 1906 in a village within Zhejiang Province. The Qing Dynasty had just ended when he entered the world.
- Samuel BeckettSamuel Barclay Beckett was born on the 13th of April 1906 in the Dublin suburb of Foxrock. His parents were both thirty-five years old when he arrived, and…
- Lew GradeLev Isaakovich Winogradsky was born in Tokmak, a town within the Berdyansky Uyezd of the Russian Empire. His family fled pogroms in 1912 when he was five…
- Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was born on the 9th of August 1875 in Podolskaya Street, then part of the Russian Empire.
- Robert E. HowardRobert E. Howard was born on the 22nd of January 1906 in Peaster, Texas. His father worked as a traveling country physician while his mother raised him in a…
- Kurt GödelKurt Friedrich Gödel, born on the 28th of April 1906 in Brünn, Austria-Hungary, died in Princeton Hospital on the 14th of January 1978, weighing so little…
- Delano AmesDelano Ames entered the world on the 29th of May 1906 in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. His father Benjamin worked for a local newspaper before moving the family to New…
- James E. WebbJames Edwin Webb was born on the 7th of October 1906 in a small community called Tally Ho. This place sat within Granville County, North Carolina.
- Ike DuffeyIsaac Walker Duffey was born on the 31st of May 1906 in Indiana. He grew up during a time when rural life dominated the American Midwest.