1906 in Australia

Sport

• 26 January –
  Sheffield Shield
  .
• 26 April – 2 May – The
  1906 Intercalated Games are held in Athens, Greece
  – Australia wins three bronze medals.
• 22 September – Carlton wins the VFL grand final, beating Fitzroy 15.4 (94) to 6.9 (45).
• 6 November – Poseidon wins the Melbourne Cup.

Births

• 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)

Deaths

• 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
  )

• List of Australian films before 1910

References