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Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)
Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years: 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 - 1911 - 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916
Births
- February 11: Alec Cairncross, chancellor of the University of Glasgow.
- May 8: Robert Johnson, Blues guitarist and singer.
- May 20: Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch children books writer
- May 27: Hubert H. Humphrey, U.S. Vice President and Senator
- July 21: Marshall McLuhan (author)
- December 11: Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel prize-winning Egyptian novelist.
Deaths
- February 11: Albert von Rothschild, Austrian baron and banker.
Events
- March 25: Fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Lowell, Massachusetts
- December 14: Roald Amundsen's expedition reaches the South Pole
- End of Qing Dynasty in China.
- October 10: Birth of Republic of China.
Science
- Rutherford deduces the existence of a compact atomic nucleus from scattering experiments.
- Onnes discovers superconductivity.