About the day » Tuesday May 29, 1906Calender converter

• Anna Fredrika van Wijk, Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alice Hagens († 1972)
• Adriana Johanna Burgman, Nieuwer Amstel († 1973)
• Antje Maria Wilhelmina Burger, Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Vreugdenhil, Maasland, 3155, Nederland († 1908)
• Adèle Cox, Paal (B), België († 1997)
• Anna Schat, Sint Jacobiparochie, Het Bildt, Friesland, Netherlands († 1998)
• (Stillborn) KOOI, Ezinge (Winsum) Groningen Netherlands († 1906)
• Eijken, Rijswijk († 1906)
• Annetje Bos, Putten († 1978)

• Baukje Bosma (30), Haskerland
• Adrianus van der MAST (73), Zundert,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND
• Arie Graafland (78), 's-Heeraartsberg en Berg-Ambacht
• Albertina LIsa TAELS (1), Veerle Belgie
• Albertje Popkes van der Heide (50), Enumatil
• Anne Pedersdatter Langehaug Intelhus (69), United States
• Barzilla H Thomas (83), Kickapoo Town, Vernon, Wisconsin, United States
• Bravenboer (1877), Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertinus Reginus ten Cate (45)
• Annechien Luinge (77), Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1899 » Douglas Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Defence († 1987)
• 1902 » Harry Kadwell, Australian rugby league player and coach († 1999)
• 1903 » Bob Hope, English-American actor, singer, and producer († 2003)
• 1904 » Hubert Opperman, Australian cyclist and politician († 1996)
• 1905 » Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director, and playwright († 1994)
• 1906 » T. H. White, Indian-English author († 1964)
• 1907 » Hartland Molson, Canadian captain and politician († 2002)
• 1908 » Diana Morgan, Welsh-English playwright and screenwriter († 1996)
• 1910 » Ralph Metcalfe, American sprinter and politician († 1978)
• 1913 » Tony Zale, American boxer († 1997)

• 1892 » Bahá'u'lláh, Persian religious leader, founded the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817)
• 1896 » Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist and academic (b. 1814)
• 1903 » Bruce Price, American architect, designed the Château Frontenac and American Surety Building (b. 1845)
• 1910 » Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1837)
• 1911 » W. S. Gilbert, English playwright and poet (b. 1836)
• 1914 » Henry Seton-Karr, English explorer, hunter, and author (b. 1853)
• 1914 » Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, English author and playwright (b. 1871)
• 1917 » Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (b. 1831)
• 1919 » Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
• 1920 » Carlos Deltour, French rower (b. 1864)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
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.
• February 18 » Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
• April 14 » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
• June 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
• September 5 » The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
• September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
• December 31 » Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.

The temperature on May 29, 1906 was between 11.2 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.