Timeline October 1906

Events in October 1906 6

• 1839 – 1906 Paul Cézanne Post-Impressionism · France Paul Cézanne (January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906) was a French Post-Impressionist whose geometric approach to form and colour became the bridge between 19th-century Impressionism and 20th-century Cubism. Picasso called him the father of us all.
• 1906 – 1984 Janet Gaynor (1906-1984) American actress, winner of the first Academy Award for Best Actress.
• 1906 Janet Gaynor born in Philadelphia Janet Gaynor is born in Philadelphia.
• 1906 – 2001 Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906-2001) Died 20 December 2001, aged 95 Senghor was a poet and the first president of independent Senegal, governing from 1960 to 1980, when he voluntarily stepped down. A leading theorist of Négritude, he was the first African elected to the Académie française. His verse and essays shaped francophone African literature.
• 1906 – 2001 R. K. Narayan (1906-2001) Died 13 May 2001, aged 94 Narayan was one of the first Indian writers in English to reach a global readership, setting his gentle, ironic novels and stories in the fictional town of Malgudi. Works such as The Guide and Swami and Friends drew admirers including Graham Greene. He wrote steadily for more than sixty years.
• 1906 Santos-Dumont flies the 14-bis In front of witnesses Alberto Santos-Dumont flies a boxy canard biplane before a crowd and an official commission in the Bois de Boulogne, taking off under its own power with no catapult, rails or headwind. It wins the first aviation prizes ever awarded in Europe. The Wrights had flown three years earlier but had done so privately, and much of the world does not yet believe them, which is why Brazil still teaches Santos-Dumont as the father of flight.