List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1906 in Australia .
Incumbents [ edit ] Alfred Deakin State premiers [ edit ] State governors [ edit ] Science and technology [ edit ] Arts and literature [ edit ] 19 January – Rachel Cleland , community worker (died 2002) 5 February – Alexander Spence , soldier (died 1983) 16 May – Ernie McCormick , cricketer (died 1991) 27 May – Raymond Ferrall , businessman, author and cricketer (died 2000) 17 July – Dunc Gray , Olympic cyclist (died 1996) 12 August – Harry Hopman , tennis player and coach (died 1985) 22 August – Lotus Thompson , silent film actress (died 1963) 31 August – Edwin Sherbon Hills , geologist (died 1986) 2 October – Thomas Hollway , Premier of Victoria (died 1971)[1] 21 November – Tom Clarke , VFL footballer for Essendon (died 1981) 30 November – Mabel Miller , lawyer and politician (died 1978) 3 December – Frank Packer , media proprietor and father of Kerry Packer (died 1974) 9 December – Douglas Nicholls , Aboriginal pastor and Governor of South Australia (died 1988) 22 December – Clive Turnbull , Tasmanian author and journalist (died 1975) 1 January – Sir Hugh Nelson , 11th Premier of Queensland (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1833 ) 4 January – Jessie Rooke , suffragette and temperance reformer (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1845 ) 14 January – Henry Yelverton , Western Australian politician (b. 1854 ) 6 February – James Bonwick , writer (born and died in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1817 ) 5 March – Hugh Ramsay , artist (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1877 ) 7 March – Frederick William Haddon , journalist (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1839 ) 14 March – George Coppin , Victorian politician, actor and entrepreneur (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1819 ) 21 March – Thomas Macdonald-Paterson , Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1844 ) 30 March – John Ferguson , Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1830 ) 10 April – Sir Adye Douglas , 15th Premier of Tasmania (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1815 ) 16 April – William Farrer , agronomist (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1845 ) 6 August – George Waterhouse , 6th Premier of South Australia and 7th Premier of New Zealand (born and died in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1824 ) 8 August – William Purkiss , Western Australian politician (b. 1844 ) 3 September – Sir Samuel Davenport , South Australian politician (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1818 ) 31 October – Charles Troedel , printer (born in Germany ) (b. 1836 ) 22 November – Henry Brand, 2nd Viscount Hampden , 19th Governor of New South Wales (born and died in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1841 ) See also [ edit ] References [ edit ]
1906 in Oceania
Sovereign states Associated states of New Zealand