About the day » Saturday December 15, 1906Calender converter

• Aleida Brake, te, Aalten, NL
• van den Hoven, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna van de Belt, Soest, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna van de Belt, Soest († 1947)
• Amandus Leonardus Dingemans, Stabroek († 1984)
• Antonie Heunen, Geleen,, Limburg, Nederland († 1984)
• Antje Maarsen, Wormer
• Adriana Maatje van der Valk, Zierikzee
• Adriana Maatje van der Valk, Zierikzee († 1987)
• Apolonia Goetzee, Rotterdam

• Anna Gijsberta Wijnberger (11), Ede, Nederland
• Aart Nieukoop (64), Eethen
• Adriaan Wisse (0), Vrouwepolder
• Adriana Jozina Kense (30), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Scholten (81), Rekken (Berkelland)
• Annigje Steenbergen (53)
• Anna Verkerke (44), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Adrianus Roovers (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus de Boer (61), Appelscha
• Aart Hendrik de Wild (0), Putten, Nederland

• 1902 » Robert F. Bradford, American lawyer and politician, 57th Governor of Massachusetts († 1983)
• 1903 » Tamanishiki San'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 32nd Yokozuna († 1938)
• 1907 » Gordon Douglas, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1993)
• 1907 » Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect, designed the United Nations Headquarters and the Cathedral of Brasília († 2012)
• 1908 » Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk, scholar, and author († 2005)
• 1909 » Eliza Atkins Gleason, African American librarian († 2009)
• 1909 » Sattar Bahlulzade, Azerbaijani-Russian painter († 1974)
• 1910 » John Hammond, American record producer and critic († 1987)
• 1911 » Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist and illustrator († 1991)
• 1911 » Stan Kenton, American pianist and composer († 1979)

• 1855 » Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician and academic (b. 1803)
• 1878 » Alfred Bird, English chemist and businessman, invented baking powder (b. 1811)
• 1890 » Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota tribal chief (b. 1831)
• 1943 » Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1904)
• 1944 » Glenn Miller, American bandleader and composer (b. 1904)
• 1947 » Arthur Machen, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1863)
• 1947 » Crawford Vaughan, Australian politician, 27th Premier of South Australia (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of India (b. 1875)
• 1958 » Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1962 » Charles Laughton, English-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1899)

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.
• February 10 » HMSDreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
• May 22 » The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
• August 13 » The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)
• September 18 » The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
• September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
• December 24 » Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

The temperature on December 15, 1906 was between -1.8 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.