About the day » Thursday February 1, 1906Calender converter

• * Pieter Pieterse Buitelaar, Rijswijk († 1987)
• Adriana Maria van CAMPEN, Zelhem, Nederland, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Christina van der Staal, Vlissingen († 2002)
• Albertje Luth, Ter Wisch, Sellingen, Groningen, Netherlands († 1988)
• (l.l.) van Oost, Gent (B) († 1906)
• Aleida Johanna Maria Dicker, Hengelo(O)
• Adriana Chistina van der Staal, Vlissingen († 2002)
• Adrienne Maria VAN GYSEL, Kallo († 1981)
• van der Knijff, Alkemade, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Westerdijk, Oudeschip (Uithuizermeeden)

• (J)Annetje TAAL (66), Maassluis, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Taal (66), Vrijenban, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje Jacobsd Zwart (37), EaZ
• Anna Cornelia van Aperen (71), Bergen op Zoom
• Antje Idzes Zijlstra (1), Sneek
• Adrianus van den Arend (81), Monster, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertje Poppinga (41), Surhuizum, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• adriana stofberg (71), 's heeraartsberg en ambacht
• (l.l.) van Oost (0), Gent (B)
• Adriana Stofberg (71), 's Heraartsberg en Bergambacht

• 1902 » Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright († 1967)
• 1902 » Therese Brandl, German concentration camp guard († 1947)
• 1904 » S.J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter († 1979)
• 1905 » Emilio G. Segrè, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1989)
• 1906 » Adetokunbo Ademola, Nigerian lawyer and jurist, 2nd Chief Justice of Nigeria († 1993)
• 1907 » Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian pianist and composer († 1993)
• 1907 » Günter Eich, German author and songwriter († 1972)
• 1908 » George Pal, Hungarian-American animator and producer († 1980)
• 1908 » Louis Rasminsky, Canadian economist and banker († 1998)
• 1909 » George Beverly Shea, Canadian-American singer-songwriter († 2013)

• 1893 » George Henry Sanderson, American lawyer and politician, 22nd Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824)
• 1897 » Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (b. 1826)
• 1903 » Sir George Stokes, Anglo-Irish physicist, mathematician, and politician (b. 1819)
• 1907 » Léon Serpollet, French businessman (b. 1858)
• 1908 » Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863)
• 1922 » William Desmond Taylor, American actor and director (b. 1872)
• 1924 » Maurice Prendergast, American painter (b. 1858)
• 1928 » Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
• 1936 » Georgios Kondylis, Greek general and politician, 128th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)
• 1940 » Philip Francis Nowlan, American author, created Buck Rogers (b. 1888)

• 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 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 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
• October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.
• November 24 » A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.
• December 31 » Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.

The average temperature on February 1, 1906 was 3.7 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.