About the day » Sunday December 2, 1906Calender converter

• Alida Langenberg, 's-Gravenzande, Nederland († 1906)
• * Willem Palsgraaf, Gouderak († 1959)
• Alberdina WIERING, Een (Norg) Drenthe Netherlands († 1929)
• Aaltje Buikema, Ulrum, NL-GR († 1985)
• Albertha Elisabeth Neerings, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1931)
• Aaltje Buikema, Vierhuizen (gem. De Marne)
• Agnes Marie Schmetz, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1971)
• Alain de la Celle, Le Coteau, 42071, France († 1922)
• Alfred J Stern, San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten († 1968)
• Adrianus Raaijmakers, Brouwhuis,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1977)

• Aukje Aljes van Tuinen (80), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Bernardus Smeltink (71), Herwen en Aerdt, Gelderland, Nederland
• Senkeldam (0), Nijverdal, gemeente Hellendoorn
• Catharina Couwenbergh (91), Bergen op Zoom
• Berend Leheux (85), Leeuwarden
• Woodhouse, Saint Catherine, Jamaica
• Aaltje Uhlenberg (72), De Ham
• Aaltje Bijleveld (45), Hengelo
• Adrianus Johannes Kuijpers (0), Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ate van der Meulen (40), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1900 » Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista, First Lady of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 († 1993)
• 1900 » Herta Hammerbacher, German landscape architect and professor († 1985)
• 1901 » Raimundo Orsi, Argentinian-Italian footballer († 1986)
• 1906 » Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer († 1977)
• 1909 » Arvo Askola, Finnish runner († 1975)
• 1909 » Joseph P. Lash, American activist and author († 1987)
• 1909 » Walenty Kłyszejko, Estonian–Polish basketball player and coach († 1987)
• 1910 » Russell Lynes, American photographer, historian, and author († 1991)
• 1910 » Taisto Mäki, Finnish runner († 1979)
• 1912 » George Emmett, English cricketer and coach († 1976)

• 1881 » Jenny von Westphalen, German author (b. 1814)
• 1885 » Allen Wright, Principal chief of the Choctaw Nation (1866-1870); proposed the name "Oklahoma", from Choctaw words okra and umma, meaning "Territory of the Red People." (b. 1826)
• 1888 » Namık Kemal, Turkish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1840)
• 1892 » Jay Gould, American businessman and financier (b. 1836)
• 1899 » Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general and politician, 1st Governor of Bulacan (b. 1875)
• 1918 » Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1924 » Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian linguist and philologist (b. 1879)
• 1927 » Paul Heinrich von Groth, German scientist who systematically classified minerals and founded the journal Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie (b. 1843)
• 1931 » Vincent d'Indy, French composer and educator (b. 1851)
• 1936 » John Ringling, American businessman, co-founded Ringling Brothers Circus (b. 1866)

• 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 18 » An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
• July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
• September 1 » The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
• September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
• September 13 » The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
• September 25 » Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.

The temperature on December 2, 1906 was between 1.5 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.