About the day » Wednesday August 8, 1906Calender converter

• Ann Virginia Brady
• Albert Teters, Amersfoort
• Anna Brandon, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• (Stillborn) WALSTRA, Den Helder Noord-Holland Netherlands († 1906)
• Adriana Aleida Molenbrugge, Drunen, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1978)
• Abram Blokzijl, Rotterdam († 1998)
• Aagje Harte, Rotterdam
• Jan Hartman, Hoogeveen
• Anna BRANDON, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1942)
• Anna Cornelia Klerk, Haarlemmermeer

• Adrianus Willem den Ouden (33), Nijmegen
• Aaltjen Huiskes (75), Westerveld, Havelte, DR, Nederland
• Adrianus Froon (0), Utrecht
• Anthonius Teeuwen (78), Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Teeuwen (78), Haarlemmermeer
• Aaltje ELTEREN, van (62), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus Willem den Ouden (33), Nijmegen
• Berendina Theodora Jenneker (39), Grave,Gemeente Grave, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Achille Odile Develter (1), Menen, West Flanders, Belgium
• Albertus Hermanus Wilhelmus Geurds (0), Druten

• 1902 » Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1904 » Achille Varzi, Italian racing driver († 1948)
• 1905 » André Jolivet, French composer († 1974)
• 1907 » Benny Carter, American saxophonist, trumpet player, and composer († 2003)
• 1908 » Arthur Goldberg, American jurist and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations († 1990)
• 1909 » Bill Voce, England cricketer and coach († 1984)
• 1909 » Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English cricketer and politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand († 1977)
• 1909 » Jack Renshaw, Australian politician, 31st Premier of New South Wales († 1987)
• 1910 » Jimmy Murphy, Welsh-English footballer and manager († 1989)
• 1910 » Sylvia Sidney, American actress († 1999)

• 1887 » Alexander William Doniphan, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1808)
• 1897 » Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic (b. 1818)
• 1898 » Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
• 1902 » James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
• 1902 » John Henry Twachtman, American painter and academic (b. 1853)
• 1909 » Mary MacKillop, Australian nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (b. 1842)
• 1911 » William P. Frye, American lawyer and politician (b. 1830)
• 1920 » Eduard Birnbaum, Polish-born German cantor (b. 1855)
• 1921 » Juhani Aho, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1861)
• 1928 » Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician (b. 1871)

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.
• March 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
• June 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
• July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
• 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 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).
• December 10 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.

The temperature on August 8, 1906 was between 11.0 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.