About the day » Thursday October 4, 1906Calender converter

• Adrianus Stadhouders, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1985)
• Adrianus Fortgens, Haarlem († 1981)
• Alva Thomas, Menifee, Kentucky, United States († 1995)
• Albert Barelds, Exloermond, Odoorn
• Anna Christina Elisabeth Doumen, Neeroeteren, Provincie Limburg, België († 2001)
• Albertus Theodorus[Bep] Bottelier, Haarlemmerliede
• Anna Maria Josephina Vermeeren, Baarle-Hertog (B), België († 1983)
• Anna Kelderman, Arnhem (Gelderland)
• van Toorn, Tiel († 1906)
• Annigje Steffens, Steenwijk, Overijssel, Nederland

• Alida Petronella van Eck (0), Zeist
• Anna Kuiken (0), Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Pronk (73), Wildervank, Gemeente Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonie van Geffen (66), Ammerzoden
• Alida Magdalena de Jong (0), Utrecht
• Adriana Verhoeven, Stratum
• Antje Blom (79), Den Helder
• Albertien Freerks Smit (58), Odoorn, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Alida Petronella van Eck (0), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Sluiter, Anna Antonetta (0), 's-Hertogenbosch

• 1900 » August Mälk, Estonian author and playwright († 1987)
• 1903 » Bona Arsenault, Canadian genealogist, historian, and politician († 1993)
• 1903 » Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German lawyer and general († 1946)
• 1903 » John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff-Berry computer († 1995)
• 1903 » Pierre Garbay, French general († 1980)
• 1906 » Mary Celine Fasenmyer, American mathematician († 1996)
• 1907 » Alain Daniélou, French-Swiss historian and academic († 1994)
• 1910 » Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, Turkish poet and author († 1956)
• 1910 » Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player and coach († 2002)
• 1913 » Martial Célestin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti († 2011)

• 1871 » Sarel Cilliers, South African spiritual leader and preacher (b. 1801)
• 1890 » Catherine Booth, English theologian and saint, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
• 1903 » Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (b. 1880)
• 1904 » Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (b. 1847)
• 1904 » Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834)
• 1910 » Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
• 1935 » Jean Béraud, French painter and academic (b. 1849)
• 1935 » Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano, actress, and director (b. 1874)
• 1943 » Irena Iłłakowicz, German-Polish lieutenant (b. 1906)
• 1944 » Al Smith, American lawyer and politician, 42nd Governor of New York (b. 1873)

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.
• August 5 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
• August 16 » The 8.2 M_w Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people.
• September 13 » The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
• September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
• October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.
• December 10 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.

The temperature on October 4, 1906 was between 10.7 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.