2006

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	1970s 1980s 1990s – 2000s – 2010s 2020s 2030s
Years:	2003 2004 2005 – 2006 – 2007 2008 2009

2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2006th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 6th year of the 3rd millennium, the 6th year of the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2000s decade.

In the Chinese calendar, 2006 was the Year of the Dog. Chinese New Year is January 29.

Events

January

Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Shelley Winters

Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

Johannes Rau

Coretta Scott King

January 1 – Charles Steen, American geologist, The "Uranium King" (b. 1919)
January 2 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (b. 1913)
January 3 – Steve Rogers, Australian rugby player (b. 1954)
January 3 – Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
January 4 – Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1946)
January 4 – Robert Howard White, Mayor of Papatoetoe, New Zealand (b. 1914)
January 6 – Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933)
January 7 – Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer, explorer and writer (b. 1912)
January 8 – Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, British politician (b. 1943)
January 9 – Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
January 14 – Jim Gary, American sculptor (b. 1939)
January 14 – Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
January 15 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
January 19 – Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
January 19 – Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1921)
January 21 – Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
January 21 – Bedanand Jha, Nepalese politician
January 24 – Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
January 27 – Johannes Rau, President of Germany (b. 1931)
January 28 – Yitzchak Kadouri, Iraqi-born rabbi (b. 1900)
January 30 – Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)

February

Betty Friedan

February 1 – Dick Brooks, American auto racer (b. 1942)
February 1 – Bryce Harland, New Zealand diplomat (b. 1931)
February 3 – Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)
February 4 – Betty Friedan, American feminist, activist, and writer (b.1921)
February 8 – Ron Greenwood, English football manager (b. 1921)
February 8 – Akira Ifukube, Japanese classical music/movie composer (b. 1914)
February 9 – Sir Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)
February 10 – J Dilla, American music producer (b. 1974)
February 12 – Ken Hart, American composer, journalist, and playwright (b. 1917)
February 13 – Andreas Katsulas, American actor (b. 1946)
February 13 – P. F. Strawson, English philosopher (b. 1919)
February 14 – Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
February 15 – Sun Yun-suan, Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1913)
February 16 – Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (b. 1925)
February 18 – Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa, 5th Prime Minister of Sudan (b. 1919)
February 20 – Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveler (b. 1920)
February 22 – Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (b. 1961)
February 22 – Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, Singapore politician (b. 1925)
February 23 – Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (b. 1920)
February 23 – Zarra, Spanish footballer (b. 1921)
February 24 – Don Knotts, American actor (b. 1924)
February 24 – Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924)
February 25 – Darren McGavin, American actor (b. 1922)
February 25 – Florian ZaBach, American musician and TV personality (b. 1931)
February 27 – Linda Smith, English comedian (b. 1958)
February 28 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist (b. 1921)

March

Slobodan Milošević

March 1 – Harry Browne, American Libertarian Presidential candidate (b. 1933)
March 1 – Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
March 1 – Peter Snow, New Zealand doctor (b. 1935)
March 2 – Jack Wild, English actor (b. 1952)
March 3 – William Herskovic, Hungarian Holocaust hero and philanthropist (b. 1914)
March 4 – Dave Rose, American artist (b. 1910)
March 4 – Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator and cartoonist (b. 1929)
March 4 – John Reynolds Gardiner, American writer and engineer (b. 1944)
March 6 – Dana Reeve, American actress, wife of Christopher Reeve (b. 1961)
March 6 – Kirby Puckett, U.S. baseball player (b. 1960)
March 6 – King Floyd, American singer (b. 1945)
March 8 – Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand heart surgeon (b. 1924)
March 9 – Hanka Bielicka, Polish actress (b. 1915)
March 9 – John Profumo, British politician (b. 1915)
March 11 – Bernie Geoffrion, Canadian hockey player (b. 1931)
March 11 – Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia (b. 1941)
March 13 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
March 13 – Peter Tomarken, American game show host (b. 1942)
March 14 – Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (b. 1929)
March 15 – George Mackey, American mathematician (b. 1916)
March 22 – Lawrence Stephen, Nauruan politician (b. 1939)
March 23 – Cindy Walker, American songwriter (b. 1918)
March 24 – Lynne Perrie, English actress (b. 1931)
March 25 – Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
March 25 – Buck Owens, American musician (b. 1929)
March 26 – Paul Dana, American race car driver (b. 1975)
March 27 – Stanislaw Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
March 28 – Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)

April

John Kenneth Galbraith

April 2 – Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of soldier Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (b. 1913)
April 4 – Denis Donaldson, Irish Republican informer (b. 1950)
April 5 – Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941)
April 6 – Francis L. Kellogg, U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (b. 1917)
April 8 – Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1923)
April 11 – Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
April 11 – Les Foote, Australian footballer (b. 1924)
April 11 – June Pointer, American singer (b. 1953)
April 12 – Rajkumar, Indian actor (b. 1929)
April 12 – William Sloane Coffin, American university chaplain and activist (b. 1924)
April 13 – Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist (b. 1918)
April 15 – Louise Smith, American race car driver (b. 1916)
April 17 – Calum Kennedy, Scottish singer (b. 1928)
April 18 – John Lyall, British football player and manager (b. 1940)
April 19 – Scott Crossfield, American pilot (b. 1921)
April 21 – Telê Santana, Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1931)
April 23 – Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921)
April 23 – Johnny Checketts, New Zealand flying ace (b. 1912)
April 24 – Nasreen Huq, Bangladeshi social worker and human rights activist (b. 1958)
April 24 – Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940)
April 24 – Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1927)
April 24 – Moshe Teitelbaum, Hungarian-born Hassidic rabbi (b. 1914)
April 25 – Jane Jacobs, American-born writer and activist (b. 1916)
April 25 – Peter Law, British politician (b. 1948)
April 28 – Steve Howe, American Baseball Player (b. 1958)
April 29 – John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908)
April 30 – Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress and director (b. 1934)

May

Karel Appel

May 2 – Louis Rukeyser, American television host (b. 1933)
May 3 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921)
May 3 – Pramod Mahajan, Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and strategist (b. 1949)
May 3 – Earl Woods, American athlete and father of Tiger Woods (b. 1932)
May 6 – Konstantin Beskov, Russian footballer (b. 1920)
May 6 – Lillian Asplund, last American survivor of the Titanic disaster (b. 1906)
May 6 – Shigeru Kayano, Japanese activist (b. 1926)
May 7 – Richard Carleton, Australian journalist (b. 1943)
May 7 – Steve Bender, German musician (Dschinghis Khan) (b. 1946)
May 8 – Iain Macmillan, British photographer (b. 1938)
May 10 – Val Guest, British movie director (b. 1911)
May 11 – Yossi Banai, Israeli singer and actor (b. 1932)
May 11 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
May 12 – Hussein Maziq, Former Libyan prime minister (b. 1918).
May 13 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
May 13 – Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American R&B singer (b. 1949)
May 16 – Jorge Porcel, Argentine actor (b. 1936)
May 19 – Freddie Garrity, English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (b. 1940)
May 21 – Katherine Dunham, American dancer, choreographer, and songwriter (b. 1909)
May 22 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b. 1945)
May 23 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (b. 1921)
May 24 – Anderson Mazoka, Zambian politician (b. 1943)
May 24 – Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician (b. 1930)
May 25 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer and songwriter (b. 1941)
May 25 – Tobías Lasser, Venezuelan botanist (b. 1911)
May 25 – Kari S. Tikka, Finnish professor (b. 1944)
May 26 – Édouard Michelin, French businessman (b. 1963)
May 27 – Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (b. 1928)
May 29 – Masumi Okada, Japanese actor (b. 1935)
May 30 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese movie director (b. 1926)
May 30 – David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)

June

Billy Preston

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

Charles Haughey

June 1 – Rocio Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
June 6 – Arnold Newman, American photographer (b. 1918)
June 6 – Billy Preston, American artist and musician (b. 1946)
June 6 – Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican jazz pianist (b. 1952)
June 7 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant (b. 1966)
June 7 – John Tenta, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1963)
June 11 – Neroli Fairhall, New Zealand archer (b. 1944)
June 12 – Chakufwa Chihana, Malawi politician (b. 1939)
June 12 – György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
June 12 – Kenneth Thomson, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)
June 13 – Charles Haughey, Prime Minister of Ireland (b. 1925)
June 13 – Hiroyuki Iwaki, Japanese conductor and percussionist (b. 1932)
June 14 – Jean Roba, Belgian comics writer (b. 1930)
June 15 – Raymond Devos, French humorist (b. 1922)
June 18 – Gica Petrescu, Romanian musician (b. 1915)
June 23 – Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b. 1923)
June 25 – Arif Mardin, Turkish-born music producer (b. 1932)
June 25 – Jaap Penraat, Dutch architect and resistance fighter (b. 1918)
June 30 – Mohamed Haneef, Maldivian Politician and former vice-president of Islamic Democratic Party of Maldives (b. 1946)
June 30 – Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)

July

Ryutaro Hashimoto

June Allyson

July 1 – Ryutaro Hashimoto, 53rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
July 1 – Fred Trueman, English cricketer (b. 1931)
July 3 – Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
July 5 – Gert Fredriksson, Swedish kayaker (b. 1919)
July 5 – Kenneth Lay, American businessman (b. 1942)
July 6 – Kasey Rogers, American actress, writer, and biker (b. 1925)
July 7 – Tom Weir, Scottish climber, writer, and broadcaster (b. 1914)
July 7 – Rudi Carrell, Dutch entertainer (b. 1934)
July 7 – Syd Barrett, English singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1946)
July 7 – John Money, Sexologist (b. 1921)
July 8 – June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)
July 8 – Catherine Leroy, French photographer (b. 1945)
July 10 – Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
July 11 – Ross M. Lence, American political scientist (b. 1943)
July 11 – John Spencer, British snooker player (b. 1935)
July 13 – Red Buttons, American actor and comedian (b. 1919)
July 16 – Bob Orton, American wrestler (b. 1929)
July 17 – Mickey Spillane, American writer (b. 1918)
July 18 – Raul Cortez, Brazilian actor (b. 1931)
July 19 – Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
July 20 – Lim Kim San, Singapore politician (b. 1916)
July 20 – Ted Grant, British politician (b. 1913)
July 21 – Ta Mok, Cambodian military leader (b. 1926)
July 21 – Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese-born actor (b. 1933)
July 22 – José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (b. 1965)
July 22 – Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Italian-born Brazilian actor and playwright (b.1934)
July 25 – Hani Mohsin, Malaysian actor (b. 1965)
July 28 – David Gemmell, British writer (b. 1948)
July 30 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)

August

Glenn Ford

August 3 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (b. 1915)
August 3 – Arthur Lee, American musician (b. 1945)
August 6 – Hirotaka Suzuoki, Japanese Seiyu (b. 1950)
August 9 – James van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
August 11 – Mike Douglas, American entertainer (b. 1925)
August 13 – Tony Jay, English-born actor (b. 1933)
August 13 – Payao Poontarat, Thai boxer (b. 1957)
August 15 – Te Atairangi Kaahu, Maori queen (b. 1931)
August 15 – Faas Wilkes, former Dutch football player(b. 1923)
August 16 – Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (b. 1912)
August 20 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1911)
August 21 – Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)
August 21 – S. Yizhar, Israeli writer (b. 1916)
August 23 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian musician and bandleader (b. 1928)
August 23 – Wolfgang Priklopil, Austrian kidnapper of Natascha Kampusch (b. 1962)
August 26 – Rainer Barzel, German politician (b. 1924)
August 26 – Clyde Walcott, Barbadian cricketer (b. 1926)
August 27 – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian movie maker (b. 1922)
August 30 – Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (b. 1916)
August 30 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
August 30 – Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926)

September

Steve Irwin

September 1 – György Faludy, Hungarian poet (b. 1910)
September 2 – Charlie Williams, British comedian (b. 1927)
September 2 – Bob Mathias, American athlete (b. 1930)
September 2 – Willi Ninja, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
September 4 – Steve Irwin, Australian environmentalist and television personality (b. 1962)
September 4 – Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (b. 1942)
September 4 – Colin Thiele, Australian writer and educator (b. 1920)
September 8 – Hilda Bernstein, English-born writer, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
September 9 – Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (b. 1955)
September 9 – William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
September 10 – Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (b. 1918)
September 11 – Joachim Fest, German historian and journalist (b. 1926)
September 11 – Johannes Bob van Benthem, Dutch lawyer (b. 1921)
September 14 – Elizabeth Choy, Singaporean World War II hero (b. 1910)
September 14 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)
September 15 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist (b. 1929)
September 15 – Abe Saffron, Australian nightclub owner and property developer (b. 1920)
September 16 – Rob Levin, American computer programmer (b. 1955)
September 17 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite, sister of John F. Kennedy (b. 1924)
September 17 – Dorothy C. Stratton, Director of the United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve (b. 1899)
September 19 – Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)
September 19 – Hugh Kawharu, New Zealand academic and Māori chief (b. 1927)
September 20 – Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (b. 1932)
September 20 – John W. Peterson, American composer (b. 1921)
September 23 – Malcolm Arnold, English composer (b. 1921)
September 23 – Aladár Pege, Hungarian musician (b. 1939)
September 24 – Tetsuro Tamba, Japanese actor (b. 1922)
September 26 – Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)
September 26 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American propagandist for Japan in World War II (b. 1916)
September 29 – Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)

October

Jane Wyatt

Red Auerbach

P. W. Botha

October 6 – Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911)
October 6 – Wilson Tucker, American writer (b. 1914)
October 7 – Anna Politkovskaya, American-born Russian journalist (b. 1958)
October 8 – Mark Porter, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1975)
October 9 – Paul Hunter, British snooker player (b. 1978)
October 10 – Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
October 11 – Cory Lidle, American baseball player (b. 1972)
October 13 – Mason Andrews, delivered America's first test tube baby; former mayor of Norfolk, Virginia (b. 1919)
October 14 – Freddy Fender, American singer (b. 1937)
October 16 – Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
October 16 – Valentín Paniagua, President of Peru (b. 1936)
October 18 – Anna Russell, British-born comedian and music satirist (b. 1911)
October 20 – Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910)
October 24 – Enolia McMillan, American first female president of the NAACP (b. 1904)
October 25 – Danny Rolling, American murderer (b. 1954) (executed)
October 28 – Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and official (b. 1917)
October 28 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955)
October 30 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
October 31 – P. W. Botha, former State President of South Africa (b. 1916)

November

Bülent Ecevit

Jack Palance

Ferenc Puskás

November 1 – Adrienne Shelly, American actress & director (b. 1966)
November 1 – William Styron, American writer (b. 1925)
November 2 – Adrien Douady, French mathematician (b. 1935)
November 2 – Wally Foreman, Australian sports commentator (b. 1948)
November 3 – Paul Mauriat, French musician (b. 1925)
November 3 – Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1937)
November 4 – Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1915)
November 4 – Sergi López Segú, Spanish footballer (b. 1967)
November 5 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician, poet, writer and journalist (b. 1925)
November 5 – Samuel Bowers, American Ku Klux Klansman and convicted killer (b. 1924)
November 8 – Basil Poledouris, American composer (b. 1945)
November 9 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
November 10 – Gerald Levert, American singer (b. 1966)
November 10 – Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
November 15 – Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (b. 1985)
November 16 – Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
November 17 – Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
November 17 – Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
November 17 – Ruth Brown, American singer (b. 1928)
November 20 – Robert Altman, American movie director (b. 1925)
November 20 – Andre Waters, American football player (b. 1962)
November 21 – Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese politician (b. 1972)
November 22 – John Allan Cameron, Canadian musician (b. 1938)
November 23 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian-born spy (b. 1962)
November 23 – Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
November 23 – Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
November 23 – Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922)
November 24 – Walter Booker, American jazz bassist (b. 1933)
November 24 – Juice Leskinen, Finnish singer and songwriter (b. 1950)
November 25 – Leo Chiosso, Italian poet (b. 1920)
November 25 – Valentin Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979)
November 25 – Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner, American actress, journalist and publisher (b. 1916)
November 26 – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (b. 1943)
November 27 – Alan Freeman, Australian-born broadcaster and disc jockey (b. 1927)
November 28 – Bernard Orchard, British biblical scholar (b. 1912)

December

December 3 – Craig Hinton, British novelist (b. 1964)
December 4 – Ross A. McGinnis, American soldier, posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor (b. 1987)
December 5 – David Bronstein, Soviet Union chess grandmaster (b. 1924)
December 6 – John Feeney, New Zealand documentary movie director (b. 1922)
December 7 – Jeane Kirkpatrick, American political theorist and U.N. ambassador (b. 1926)
December 7 – J. B. Hunt, American trucking magnate (b. 1927)
December 8 – Jose Uribe, Dominican Major League Baseball player (b. 1959)
December 10 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator (b. 1915)
December 12 – Paul Arizin, American basketball player (b. 1928)
December 12 – Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935)
December 12 – Raymond P. Shafer, American politician (b. 1917)
December 13 – Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (b. 1932)
December 13 – "Homesick" James Williamson, American blues musician (b. 1910)
December 13 – Federico Crescentini, Sanmarinese football player (b. 1982)
December 14 – Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish record executive (b. 1923)
December 14 – Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949)
December 15 – Clay Regazzoni, Swiss race car driver (b. 1939)
December 16 – Don Jardine, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1940)
December 18 – Joseph Barbera, American animator (b. 1911)
December 20 – Yukio Aoshima, Japanese politician, novelist and TV-actor (b. 1932)
December 20 – Ma Ji, Chinese actor (b. 1934)
December 21 – Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940)
December 22 – Elena Mukhina, Russian gymnast (b. 1960)
December 23 – Robert Stafford, American politician (b. 1913)
December 23 – Dutch Mason, Canadian blues musician (b. 1938)
December 23 – Marilyn Waltz, American actress, model, and Playboy Playmate (b. 1931)
December 24 – Braguinha, Brazilian songwriter (b. 1907)
December 24 – Charlie Drake, English comedian (b. 1925)
December 24 – Frank Stanton, American television executive (b. 1908)
December 24 – Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian musician, composer, poet and comedian (b. 1961)
December 25 – James Brown, American singer (b. 1933)
December 26 – Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913)
December 29 – Charles Addo Odametey, Ghanaian football player (b. 1937)
December 30 – Saddam Hussein, 5th President of Iraq (b. 1937)
December 30 – Antony Lambton, Viscount Lambton, British politician (b. 1922)

Major religious holidays

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January 6 – Feast of Epiphany or Día de los Reyes Magos (Day of the Magi Kings) or La Fête des Rois (Feast of the Kings).
January 7 – Christmas in the Russian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Ukrainian Catholic and other Eastern Christian church calendars.
January 10 – Islamic festival of Eid ul-Adha begins (ends on January 12).
January 11 – Vaikunta Ekadashi is observed by Hindus.
January 14 – Mahayana Buddhist New Year.
January 14 – Pongal Harvest Festival in Tamil Nadu.
January 15 – Maatu Pongal, Festival of Cows in Tamil Nadu.
January 16 – Uzhavar Tirunaal, Farmer's Day in Tamil Nadu.
January 29 – Lunar New Year
January 31 – Muslim New Year.
February 1 – Imbolc Cross-quarter day (Celebrated on February 2 in some places).
February 9 – Day of Ashurah.
February 13 – Tu Bishvat.
February 28 – Mardi Gras.
March 13 – Jewish holiday of Purim begins at sunset.
March 14 – Sikh New Year.
March 21 – Iranian New Year's Day (Norouz).
March 30 – Hindu New Year.
April 5 – Qingming Festival.
April 11 – Birth anniversary of Muhammad.
April 12 – Pesach or Passover begins at sunset, continues for a week.
April 13 – Theravada Buddhist New Year.
April 13 – Punjabi New Year.
April 14 – Good Friday in the Western Church Calendar, Sikh Holiday of Vaisakhi.
April 14 – Puththaandu Tamil New Year in the Tamil Calendar, observed by people in Tamil Nadu.
April 16 – Easter in the Western Church Calendar.
April 21 – Good Friday in the Eastern Church Calendar.
April 23 – Easter in the Eastern Church Calendar.
May 1 – Beltane Cross-quarter day.
June 1 – Jewish holiday of Shavuot begins at sunset.
August 1 – Lammas Cross-quarter day.
August 2 – Jewish fast of Tisha B'Av begins at sundown; it extends until the night of August 3.
September 22 – Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown. Continues until nightfall of the 24th.
September 23 – First day of Ramadan.
October 1 – Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur begins at sundown. Ends at nightfall of the 2nd.
October 21 – Hindu festival of Diwali.
October 23 – Islamic festival of Eid ul-Fitr.
October 31 – Samhain Cross-quarter day.
December 15 – Hanukkah.
December 21 – Wiccans celebrate the festival of Yule.
December 25 – Christmas in the Western Church Calendar.
December 31 – Islamic festival of Eid ul-Adha begins (ends on January 2, 2007).

Births

for more information, see Category:2006 births.

2 February - Preston Oliver III, American child actor from Las Vegas.
27 February - Josephina Evie, English musician (d. 2021)
1 March - Sawyer Sharbino, American child vlogger, from Metropolitan Dallas.
- Baby P, British murder victim (d. 2007)
8 March - Dylan Hockley, American child student, from Newton, Connecticut
April 5 - Remus Covaci, Romanian bass player (Timpuri Grele)
April 10 - Sofia Pablo, Philippine actress
May 3 - Mutya Orqulia, Philippine actress
6 May - Jack Pinto Jr., American child student and footballer, from Danbury, Connecticut
30 June - Jesse Lewis, American child student, from Newton, Connecticut
6 September - Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese prince
9 September - Andra Maria Leon, Romanian drummer (Timpuri Grele)
12 September - Benjamin Wheeler, American child student, from Newton, Connecticut
5 October - Jacob Tremblay, Canadian child actor, from Vancouver, Canada
20 November - Noah Pozner, American child student, from Newton, Connecticut