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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 and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2000s decade.

2006 is designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification[1] and the International Asperger's Year.

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Births

Deaths

Deaths
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

Shelley Winters
Coretta Scott King

February

Betty Friedan
Don Knotts

March

Slobodan Milošević
Lennart Meri

April

John Kenneth Galbraith

May

Floyd Patterson

June

Billy Preston

July

Ryutaro Hashimoto
June Allyson

August

James Van Allen
Alfredo Stroessner

September

Bob Mathias
Steve Irwin
Edward Albert

October

P. W. Botha

November

Jack Palance
Ferenc Puskás
Robert Altman

December

James Brown
Gerald Ford
Saddam Hussein

Nobel Prizes

New English words and terms

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