About the day » Friday November 9, 1906Calender converter

• Adrianus van Kessel, Geldermalsen († 1960)
• Anna Marie McBride, San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten († 1992)
• Anje Huttenga, Groningen
• Alphonsus Maria Emilius Clement, Oostende († 1985)
• Adèle Marie Gabrielle FOURNEREAU, Paris 17 Batignolles-Monceau,Paris,Île-de-France,FRANCE († 1993)
• Agatha Marguerite Acey, York, Ontario, Canada († 2007)
• Alcides Soares Fragoso Padilha de Andrade, Teixeira Soares, Paraná, Brasil
• Aalltje Ketting, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alvin Edward Simmons, Saba
• Anna Antonia Louisa Zimmer, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland († 1986)

• Christena Christensen (49), Moroni, Sanpete, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Aartje Maria Brenkman (69)
• Anna Carolina Maes (75), Temse
• Arie Plomp (8), Zwijndrecht
• Ariaantje van den Berg (61), Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana van Weers (40)
• Cornelia Visser (71), Rotterdam
• Aaltje Drost (33), Giethoorn
• claudine BRETON (42), St. Denis (F-93)
• Bartje van Eikenhorst (25)

• 1897 » Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player († 1941)
• 1900 » Oskar Loorits, Estonian author and academic († 1961)
• 1902 » Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter († 1968)
• 1904 » Heiti Talvik, Estonian poet († 1947)
• 1904 » Viktor Brack, German SS officer († 1948)
• 1905 » Erika Mann, German-Swiss actress and author († 1969)
• 1906 » Arthur Rudolph, German scientist and engineer († 1996)
• 1913 » Paulene Myers, American actress († 1996)
• 1914 » Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress and inventor († 2000)
• 1914 » Thomas Berry, American priest, historian, and theologian († 2009)

• 1880 » Edwin Drake, American businessman (b. 1819)
• 1911 » Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (b. 1853)
• 1918 » Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1880)
• 1918 » Peter Lumsden, English general (b. 1829)
• 1919 » Eduard Müller, Swiss lawyer and politician, 26th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1848)
• 1924 » Henry Cabot Lodge, American historian and politician (b. 1850)
• 1932 » Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (b. 1901)
• 1937 » Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
• 1938 » Vasily Blyukher, Russian marshal (b. 1889)
• 1940 » Stephen Alencastre, Portuguese-American bishop (b. 1876)

• 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.
• May 6 » The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).
• 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.
• 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 20 » The Cunard Line's RMSMauretania is launched at Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

The temperature on November 9, 1906 was between 7.9 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.