Deaths in 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2006. Links to other years follow.

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November 2006

20

Edilson Buba, 34, Brazilian Big Brother contestant, cancer. [1] (Portuguese)
Legendary R&B singer Ruth Brown passed away in a Las Vegas hospital following a heart attack and stroke. She was 78.

19

Tan Sri Mohd Khir Johari, 83, former Malaysian Education Minister and one of Malaysia's founding fathers, heart attack. [2]
Jeremy Slate, 80, American actor (Hell's Angels '69, One Life to Live), esophageal cancer. [3]

18

Movladi Baisarov, former head of one of Chechnya's shadow security forces, shot dead in Moscow while resisting arrest. [4]
Lars Chemnitz, Danish former member of the Parliament of Greenland and chairman of Landsrådet. [5] (Danish)
Keith Rowlands, 70, President of Welsh Rugby Union. [6]

17

Ruth Brown, 78, American blues singer, complications following a heart attack and stroke. [7]
Mário Sottomayor Cardia, 65, Portuguese former minister of Education, cancer. [8] (Portuguese)
Marcus Cassel, 23, American football player and former UCLA cornerback, car accident. [9] [10]
Bishop Joseph D'Silva, 76, Indian Archbishop of Bellary, India, cancer. [11]
Bishop Manuel Moreno, 75, Bishop of the Catholic diocese of Tucson, Arizona (USA), appointed by John Paul II. [12]
Tony Pithey, 73, South African cricketer, pancreatic cancer. [13]
Ferenc Puskás, 79, Hungarian former footballer and coach, pneumonia. [14]
Flo Sandon's, 82, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival in 1953. [15] (Italian)
Bo Schembechler, 77, former University of Michigan football head coach, heart problems. [16] [17]
Ramez Tebet, 70, Brazilian politician and lawyer, cancer. [18] (Portuguese)

16

Frank Durkan, 76, lawyer known for his work for members of the Irish Republican Army in the US, complications of a lung infection. [19]
Milton Friedman, 94, American monetarist and free-market economist, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize, heart failure. [20] [21]
Geoffrey Griffin, 67, South African cricketer. [22]
Doug Harrington, 40, American musician, guitarist for heavy metal band Defiance, cancer. [23]
Yuri Levada, 76, Russian sociologist, heart attack. [24]
Paris Theodore, 63, American firearms inventor and manufacturer, multiple sclerosis

15

George G. Blackburn MC, 89, Canadian author of Guns of Normandy, member of the Order of Canada, natural causes. [25]
John Blackburn, 93, lyricist (Moonlight in Vermont, Need You, Susquehanna), natural causes. ^{[citation needed]}
Mac E. Hadley, 76, Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona, one of the researchers who discovered Melanotan, homicide. [26]
Ken Ishikawa, 58, Japanese mangaka, co-creator of Getter Robo anime series.[27]
Paul Rigby, 82, Australian cartoonist, heart attack. [28]
René Sterne, 54 , Belgian comic book artist (Adler). [29]
David K. Wyatt, 69, American historian of Thailand. [30]

14

Lieutenant General Sipho Binda, 54, second most senior officer in the South African National Defence Force, following an operation after a car crash. [31]
Ana Carolina Reston, 21, Brazilian model, complications of anorexia nervosa. [32]

13

Tiger Conway, 74, former professional wrestler, stroke. [33]
Desert Orchid, 27, British National Hunt racehorse, winner of the King George VI Chase on four occasions. [34]
Konrad Fuchs, 109, German man believed to be oldest living Catholic priest, WWI combat veteran. [35]
John Hallam, 65, Northern Irish actor. [36]
Robert McCurry, 83, Chrysler marketer who introduced cash rebates for U.S. car buyers, prostate cancer. [37]

12

Kip Bahadun, 65, former executive secretary of UMNO, aortic aneurysm. [38]
Alphonse Halimi, 74, French boxer, former World bantamweight champion. [39]
Harvey Manning, 81, American conservationist and author. [40]
Mario Merola, 72, Italian singer and actor. [41]
General Jacob E. Smart, 97, US Air Force general and NASA executive, former deputy C-in-C of the US European Command. [42]
Joseph Ungaro, 76, American journalism editor and executive whose question led to Richard Nixon's "I am not a crook" response. [43] [44]

11

Belinda Emmett, 32, Australian actress (Home and Away), metastatic breast cancer. [45]
S. Lane Faison, Jr., 98, American art historian who oversaw the return of artworks from the Nazis. [46] [47]
Basil ("Joe") Jagger, 93, father of Rolling Stones' vocalist Mick Jagger, pneumonia [48]
Jabu Khanyile, 49, South African musician who played at the Johannesburg Live 8 concert, prostate cancer. [49]
Anthony Lapham, 70, American lawyer, former general counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency. [50]
Noella Leclair, 61, Canada's first artificial heart recipient. [51]
Rev. Harry Lehotsky, 49, Canadian anti-poverty advocate and newspaper columnist, pancreatic cancer. [52]
Ruth Morgenthau, 75, Austrian-born expert on international development, former adviser to Jimmy Carter. [53]
Ronnie Stevens, 81, British comedic actor, causes undisclosed. [54]
Français "Rusty" Tullis, 70, mother of "Rocky" Dennis and portrayed by Cher in Mask, injuries from a motorcycle accident. [55] [56]

10

Benny Andrews, 75, American artist, cancer. [57]
Diana Coupland, 74, English actress (Bless This House), complications following heart surgery. [58]
Gabriel Donoso, 46, Chilean polo player, injuries sustained after falling from a horse during a match. [59]
Maurice Floquet, 111, France's oldest man on record and combat-wounded WWI veteran. [60]
Doug Friedline, 49, American campaign manager for Jesse Ventura and other third party candidates, heart attack. [61]
Willy Knupp, 70, German motorsport journalist, cancer. [62] (German)
Gerald Levert, 40, American R&B singer and son of The O'Jays lead singer Eddie Levert, heart attack. [63] [64]
Chubby Oates, 63, Cockney comedian, heart attack. [65]
Jack Palance, 87, Oscar-winning American actor (Shane, City Slickers), natural causes. [66] [67]
Nicholas Proffitt, 63, American journalist and author, war correspondent for Newsweek, kidney cancer. [68]
Nadarajah Raviraj, 44, Tamil National Alliance Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, shot dead. [69]
Igor Sergeyev, 68, ex-Defense Minister of Russia, the only Marshal of the Russian Federation, cancer. [70]
Jack Williamson, 98, American science fiction author. [71]

9

Isadore Barmash, 84, American business journalist and author. [72]
Ed Bradley, 65, American CBS News journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, leukemia. [73]
Garton del Savio, 92, American baseball player [74]
Marian Marsh (a.k.a. Marilyn Morgan, Marian Henderson), 93, 1930s American film star (Hell's Angels, Svengali). [75]
Stanley Meltzoff, 89, American diver and painter of undersea life. [76]
Sam Stephenson, 72, Irish architect, designed the Central Bank and Wood Quay. [77]
David Thaw, 78, opera singer. [78] (German)
Walter Williams, 85, legislator in Washington state 1961-1971, complications from Parkinson's disease. [79]
Ellen Willis, 64, American journalist, professor, feminist activist and critic, lung cancer. [80]
Markus Wolf, 83, former head of East Germany's secret intelligence service, natural causes. [81]

8

G. Robert Crowningshield, 87, American creator of diamond grading system [82]
Sir James Hunt, 63, British judge in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, brain tumour. [83]
Samuel “Eewie” Kambule, 41, South African former football player for Bafana Bafana. [84]
Basil Poledouris, 61, American film composer (Conan the Barbarian, Robocop, Starship Troopers), cancer. [85]
Philip Rauch, 95, American businessman and philanthropist, president of Ideal Corporation, chair of Parker-Hannifin Corporation. [86]
Annette Rogers, 93, American athlete, 4 x 100 metres relay gold medalist at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics. [87]

7

Paul Baltes, 67, German developmental psychologist. [88]
John Coburn, 81, Australian artist, winner of the 1960 and 1977 Blake Prizes for Religious Art. [89]
Guy Degrenne, 81, French industrialist. [90] (French)
Nate Gooden, 68, American former vice-president of the United Auto Workers. [91]
Buddy Kerr, 84, American baseball shortstop for the New York Giants, natural causes. [92] [93]
Neil McMillan, 80, Canadian geologist, first to propose oil exploration off the Grand Banks, discoverer of Axel Heiberg Island's fossil forests. ^{[citation needed]}
Jackie Parker, 74, former All-American and a Canadian football player, head coach and general manager, throat cancer. [94]
Bryan Pata, 22, American football player for the University of Miami Hurricanes, gunshot (homicide). [95]
Johnny Sain, 89, American Major League Baseball pitcher. [96] [97]
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 82, French journalist and politician, author of The American Challenge. [98] [99]
N.N. Sippy, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer, cardiac arrest. [100]
Robert Strudler, 64, American businessman, chair of the Lennar Corporation. [101] [102]
Brian Thomson, 87, British chairman of D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd (1974–2005). [103]
Polly Umrigar, 80, former Indian cricket team captain, lymphoma. [104]