About the day » Monday July 2, 1906Calender converter

• Adam Louwen, Rozenburg († 1952)
• Adriana Hendrika van IJzendoorn, Tiel († 1918)
• Adrianus Antonius Hendrickx, Teteringen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1993)
• Andries Oosting, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aartje Davelaar, Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Agatha Hendrica Le Duc, Amsterdam († 1944)
• Adrianus Christiaan Stupers, 's-hertogenbosch († 1994)
• Anna Elisa Hubertina Hendericks, Venlo († 1906)
• Albertus Johannes Schmidt, Utrecht († 1984)
• Alida Johanna van 't Hoff, Velsen

• Domitile Lauzon (74), Notre-Dame de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Catharina Cornelia Elling (79), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Casimirus SYMOENS (48), Sint-Maria-Oudenhove,9660,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Aafke Jogchums van der Schaaf (78), Witmarsum
• Doede Jacobs Kamstra (73), Wommels, Hennaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Mechtildis Cortenraad (66)
• Dieka ter Braak (2), Zeldam (Delden, Ambt)
• Cornelis van Kampen (1), Bloemendaal
• Dirk Pieter de Vries (0), Zaandam
• Audie M. Ratchford (1), Searcy County, Arkansas

• 1902 » Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch-French pianist († 1987)
• 1902 » K. Kanapathypillai, Sri Lankan author and academic († 1968)
• 1903 » Alec Douglas-Home, English cricketer and politician, 66th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1995)
• 1903 » Olav V of Norway († 1991)
• 1904 » René Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman, created the polo shirt († 1996)
• 1906 » Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2005)
• 1906 » Károly Kárpáti, Hungarian Jewish wrestler († 1996)
• 1906 » Séra Martin, French middle-distance runner († 1993)
• 1908 » Thurgood Marshall, American lawyer and jurist, 32nd Solicitor General of the United States († 1993)
• 1911 » Reg Parnell, English race car driver and manager († 1964)

• 1857 » Carlo Pisacane, Italian soldier and philosopher (b. 1818)
• 1903 » Ed Delahanty, American baseball player (b. 1867)
• 1912 » Tom Richardson, English cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1914 » Joseph Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1836)
• 1915 » Porfirio Díaz, Mexican general and politician, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1830)
• 1920 » William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
• 1926 » Émile Coué, French psychologist and pharmacist (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Gladys Brockwell, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1932 » Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
• 1950 » Thomas William Burgess, English swimmer and water polo player (b. 1872)

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.
• July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
• 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 12 » The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
• 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 15 » The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
• December 24 » Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.

The temperature on July 2, 1906 was between 7.4 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.