About the day » Saturday August 18, 1906Calender converter

• Anna Catharina Paagman, Kloosterburen, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Eijk,, Delft († 1906)
• Allen Senden Zenden, Marchall Lyon Minnesota(USA)
• Doeblien, Yatala, Queensland, Australia († 1976)
• Alida Leeuwenkamp, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1991)
• Adele Mathilde Vetter, Amsterdam, NH, Nederland
• Albertus Gezinus Markslag
• Alda dos Santos Pereira, Portugal († 1994)
• Alida Anthonia Maria van Noordt, Kethel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1910)
• "Yvonne" Lucie Noëlle Migayrou, Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, France († 1995)

• Anna-Maria Schreppers (63), Arnhem
• Antje Bos(ch) (81), Haarlem
• Antje Bos (81), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia van DRONGELEN (46), 's-Gravendeel
• Catharina Cornelia Petronella Hagenaars (0), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Henrica Cammel (0), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Caroline Marie Craw (54), San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, California
• Bartje van Engelenhoven (68), Ede, Gld, NL
• Bartje van Engelenhoven (68), Ede
• Aagje Ruis (0), Hof van Delft

• 1902 » Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter († 1968)
• 1903 » Lucienne Boyer, French singer († 1983)
• 1904 » Max Factor, Jr., American businessman († 1996)
• 1905 » Enoch Light, American bandleader, violinist, and recording engineer († 1978)
• 1906 » Curtis Jones, American blues pianist and singer († 1971)
• 1906 » Marcel Carné, French director and screenwriter († 1996)
• 1908 » Bill Merritt, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster († 1977)
• 1908 » Edgar Faure, French historian and politician, 139th Prime Minister of France († 1988)
• 1908 » Olav H. Hauge, Norwegian poet and gardener († 1994)
• 1909 » Gérard Filion, Canadian businessman and journalist († 2005)

• 1850 » Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Alberto Hurtado, Chilean priest, lawyer, and saint (b. 1901)

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.
• May 2 » Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
• May 22 » The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
• 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 31 » Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.

The temperature on August 18, 1906 was between 10.0 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.