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Who was born in 1906

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Aristotle Onassis

Aristotle Onassis

19061975

Greek shipping magnate who built the world's largest privately-owned shipping fleet and became one of the richest men of his era

Albert Hofmann

Albert Hofmann

19062008

Swiss chemist known for synthesizing LSD and isolating psilocybin, profoundly influencing pharmacology and our understanding of consciousness

February

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Puyi Puyi

Puyi Puyi

19061967

Last Emperor of China and Manchukuo who later became a writer, archivist, and gardener

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

19061945

German Lutheran pastor, theologian, and anti-Nazi dissident known for his influential writings and leadership in the Confessing Church

March

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Shin'ichirō Tomonaga

Shin'ichirō Tomonaga

19061979

Japanese theoretical physicist who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics

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Adolf Eichmann

19061962

German-Austrian SS officer and major organizer of the Holocaust who coordinated mass deportations to Nazi extermination camps

April

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Kurt Gödel

Kurt Gödel

19061978

Austrian-American logician and mathematician whose seminal work significantly influenced 20th-century scientific and philosophical thought

King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

19061975

King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975, who also served as Crown Prince and Prime Minister, known for his leadership in national modernization

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

19061989

Irish writer, novelist, playwright, and poet who won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature for his transformative contributions to modern theatre

May

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Roberto Rossellini

Roberto Rossellini

19061977

Italian film director who pioneered neorealist cinema with influential films like Rome, Open City and Paisan

June

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Maria Goeppert Mayer

Maria Goeppert Mayer

19061972

German-born American theoretical physicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure

Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder

19062002

Austrian-born American filmmaker and screenwriter who earned seven Academy Awards and shaped classical Hollywood cinema

Ernst Chain

Ernst Chain

19061979

Jewish-German-born British biochemist who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize for the discovery and development of penicillin

Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker

19061975

American-born French dancer, singer, actress, military officer, and civil rights advocate, renowned as the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture

July

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Vladimir Prelog

Vladimir Prelog

19061998

Bosnian-Swiss Nobel laureate in Chemistry known for his pioneering research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions

September

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Max Delbrück

Max Delbrück

19061981

German-American biophysicist and Nobel laureate who, with the Phage Group, unraveled the genetic structure and replication mechanism of viruses

October

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Sayyid Qutb

Sayyid Qutb

19061966

Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary known for his influential writings and leadership within the Muslim Brotherhood

Léopold Sédar Senghor

Léopold Sédar Senghor

19062001

First president of Senegal, renowned poet, cultural theorist, and French resistance fighter

November

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Luchino Visconti

Luchino Visconti

19061976

Italian director, screenwriter, and theatre innovator, known for pioneering neorealism and later creating grand cinematic epics exploring European history and societal decay

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Ernst Ruska

19061988

German physicist who designed the first electron microscope and won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in electron optics