10th » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
24th » Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
30th » The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dhaka called Dacca, East Bengal, Presidencies and provinces of British India or British India. It went on to lay the foundations of Pakistan.
31st » Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.
Famous Birthdays on December in 1906
2nd » Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer (d. 1977)
5th » Otto Preminger, Austrian-American actor, director, and producer (d. 1986)
9th » Grace Hopper, American admiral and computer scientist, designed COBOL (d. 1992)
13th » Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (d. 1968)
13th » Laurens van der Post, South African-English soldier and author (d. 1996)
17th » Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and conductor (d. 1994)
17th » Russell C. Newhouse, American engineer (d. 1998)
19th » Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian marshal, engineer, and politician, 4th List of heads of state of the Soviet Union known as Head of State of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
24th » Frank DiPaolo, American politician (d. 2013)
24th » Franz Waxman, German-American composer (d. 1967)
25th » Lew Grade, Ukrainian-English film producer (d. 1998)
25th » Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
26th » Imperio Argentina, Argentinian actress and singer (d. 2003)
27th » Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, and actor (d. 1972)
30th » Carol Reed, English director and producer (d. 1976)
Famous Deaths for December 1906
7th » Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and educator, Nobel Peace Prize known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)
9th » Ferdinand Brunetière, French author and critic (b. 1849)
11th » Charles Townsend (fencer) e.g Charles Townsend, American fencer (b. 1872)