About the day » Sunday April 29, 1906Calender converter

• Agatha Rijsdam, Aarlanderveen
• Agatha Hermine Wasch, Djokjakarta, Midden-Java († 1976)
• Achillus Ludovicus Benedictus Collin, Ekeren, Antwerpen
• Adriaan Corba, Leiden († 1906)
• Albertus (Adam) Slottje, Oldeboorn Friesland Nederland († 1983)
• (Stillborn) KLOOSTRA, Niawier (Oostdongeradeel) Friesland Netherlands († 1906)
• Aaltje Bos, Brunsting, Beilen
• Agatha Margarethe Seesink, Rhoon
• Alexander Bethune, 1 Suladale, Clachamish, Snizort, Isle of Skye († 1977)
• Agnes Hergaarden, Franeker, Friesland, Nederland

• Bella van SON (83), zaltbommel
• Adriana Bekkers (57), Erp, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Dul (71), Epe
• Aaltje ZEEMAN (78), Marken, Waterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Amandus Franciscus O (26), St.Martens-Lennik
• (Stillborn) KLOOSTRA (0), Niawier (Oostdongeradeel) Friesland Netherlands
• Antonius Theodorus Hoogeslag (0), Raalte
• Belia van Zon (83), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• (Stillborn) GELDERLOOS (0), Wagenborgen (Delfzijl) Groningen Netherlands
• Albert Achterkamp (74), Brummen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1899 » Duke Ellington, American pianist, composer, and bandleader († 1974)
• 1899 » Mary Petty, American illustrator († 1976)
• 1900 » Amelia Best, Australian politician, one of the first women elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly († 1979)
• 1900 » Concha de Albornoz, Spanish feminist and intellectual, exiled during the Spanish Civil War († 1972)
• 1901 » Hirohito, Japanese emperor († 1989)
• 1907 » Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director and producer († 1997)
• 1908 » Jack Williamson, American author and academic († 2006)
• 1909 » Tom Ewell, American actor († 1994)
• 1912 » Richard Carlson, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1977)
• 1915 » Henry H. Barschall, German-American physicist and academic († 1997)

• 1903 » Paul Du Chaillu, French-American anthropologist and zoologist (b. 1835)
• 1905 » Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (b. 1847)
• 1916 » Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1850)
• 1920 » William H. Seward Jr., American general and banker (b. 1839)
• 1921 » Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
• 1933 » Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet and journalist (b. 1863)
• 1937 » William Gillette, American actor and playwright (b. 1853)
• 1944 » Bernardino Machado, Portuguese academic and politician, 3rd President of Portugal (b. 1851)
• 1945 » Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)
• 1947 » Irving Fisher, American economist and statistician (b. 1867)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacob
12. Dirk
13. Hendrikus
14. Wilhelmus
15. Arie
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Aaltje
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Margaretha
16. Jantje

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
• April 27 » The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
• June 8 » Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
• August 16 » The 8.2 M_w Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people.
• September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.
• December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
• December 30 » The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).

The temperature on April 29, 1906 was between 1.1 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.