Deaths in 2006
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The following is a list of notable deaths in 2006. Links to other years follow.
Please place names under the date the person/animal died, not the date the death was announced. Please keep names under each date in alphabetical order by last name. Review Wikipedia notability guidelines before adding a listing. If the deceased does not have a Wikipedia article, consider adding a link to a source about the deceased which describes his or her eminence.
- Sir Malcolm Arnold, 84, composer, first UK citizen to win an Academy Award for film music, complications from a chest infection.[1]
- Etta Baker, 93, Piedmont blues guitarist. [2]
- Sir Charles Cutler, 88, former Deputy Premier of New South Wales, Australia, cancer.[3]
- Aladár Pege, 66, Hungarian jazz musician, dubbed "the Paganini of double bass". [4]
- Enrique Gorriarán Merlo, 64, Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla leader, cardiac arrest due to an abdominal aortic aneurysm. [5]
- Tommy Olivencia, 64, Puerto Rican salsa singer and bandleader.[6]
- Boz Burrell, 60, English bassist and vocalist (Bad Company/King Crimson), heart attack. [7][8][9][10]
- Charles Larson, 86, American television writer and Emmy Award-nominated and producer (The F.B.I.) [11]
- Henri Jayer, 84, French winemaker. [12] [13]
- Armin Jordan, 74, Swiss conductor. [14]
- Sven Nykvist, 83, Swedish cinematographer and two-time Oscar winner. [15]
- Ivan Shabunin, 70, first governor of Volgograd Oblast, natural causes. [16]
- Don Walser, 72, Texas country singer and yodeler, complications from diabetes. [17]
- Frank "Muddy" Waters, 83, American college football coach at Michigan State University [18]
- Dean Wooldridge, 93, physicist and co-founder of TRW. [19]
- Pham Xuan An, 78, journalist, and spy for Hanoi during Vietnam war, emphysema. [20]
- Danny "Chuck Rio" Flores, 77, saxophonist and vocalist on the Champs' 1958 hit "Tequila", pneumonia. [21][22]
- Joe Glazer, 88, American singer-songwriter known as "Labor's Troubador". [23]
- Martha Holmes, 83, former Life photographer, natural causes. [24]
- Sir Hugh Kawharu, 79, New Zealand academic and Māori leader. [25]
- Vico Magistretti, 86, Italian architect and designer. [26]
- Evelyn Ortner, 82, American brownstone preservationist. [27]
- Roy Schuiten, 55, Dutch cyclist. [28]
- Lt Col. Seán Clancy, 105, Ireland's oldest War of Independence veteran. [29]
- Edward J. King, 81, former Democratic Governor of Massachusetts (1979-1983). [30]
- Philip H. Melanson, 61, academic, expert on assassinations, cancer. [31]
- Nilton Pereira Mendes, 30, Brazilian football player with FC Shakhtyor Karagandy, heart attack during training. [32]
- Leo Navratil, 85, Austrian psychiatrist [33]
- Syd Thrift, 77, former general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles. [34] [35]
- Jack Banta, 81, former baseball pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers. [36]
- George Heslop, 66, English football player. [37]
- Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 82, sister of President John F. Kennedy and ex-wife of actor Peter Lawford, pneumonia. [38] [39]
- Alexei Loktev, 64, Soviet and Russian actor, car accident.[40]
- Sr. Leonella Sgorbati, 65, Italian nun, gunshot wounds. [41]
- Dorothy C. Stratton, 107, first director of SPARS. [42]
- Sten Andersson, 83, former Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister for Social Affairs, and Secretary of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, heart attack. [43]
- Margaret Phipps Boegner, 99, American heiress and founder of Old Westbury Gardens. [44]
- Floyd Curry, 81, four-time Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens. [45]
- Zsuzsi Kormoczy, 82, Hungarian tennis player and coach, won the 1958 French Championships. [46]
- Rob Levin, 51, founder of Freenode, head injuries resulting from bicycle accident. [47]
- Esther Martinez, 94, Tewa storyteller and linguist, car crash. [48]
- Foad AlMohandess, 82, Egyptian comedy actor, heart failure. [49]
- Raymond Baxter, 84, British television presenter (Tomorrow's World). [50]
- Oriana Fallaci, 77, Italian journalist and writer, breast cancer. [51]
- Col. Guy Francois, participated in failed coups in Haiti in 1989 and 2001. [52]
- Ricky Gibson, 53, former professional wrestler [53]
- Charles L. Grant, 64, horror and science fiction author and editor, heart attack [54].
- Douglas Henderson, 71, Scottish politician [55]
- Jang Keum-song, 29, niece of Kim Jong-il, suicide by overdose. [56]
- Donald Kimball, 62, American defrocked Catholic priest, convicted in sex abuse scandal [57]
- Nitun Kundu, 70, Bangladeshi artist and sculptor [58]
- Evelyn LaBruce, 69, American mezzo-soprano opera singer. [59]
- Ivan Luini, 46, Italian furniture executive and founder of Kartell U.S., plane crash. [60]
- Dr. David Lykken, 78, American professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota. [61]
- Abe Saffron, 86, Sydney nightclub owner and property developer known as "Mr Sin". [62]
- Pablo Santos, 19, Mexican actor (Greetings from Tucson), plane crash. [63]
- Sergio Savarese, 48, Italian furniture designer and founder of Dialogica, plane crash. [64]
- Norman Brooks, 78, Canadian singer, purveyor of Al Jolson songs, emphysema. [65]
- Elizabeth Choy, 95, war heroine and Singapore's first female legislator, pancreatic cancer. [66]
- Mickey Hargitay, 80, Hungarian former Mr Universe and actor, ex-husband of Jayne Mansfield, father of Mariska Hargitay. [67]
- Admiral J. William Kime, 72, former commandant of the US Coast Guard. [68]
- Andrey Kozlov, 41, First Deputy Chairman of Russia's Central Bank, shot. [69]
- Peter Ling, 80, British TV writer and creator of Crossroads. [70]
- Paulo Marques, 58, Brazilian journalist and broadcaster, brain cancer.[citation needed]
- Johnny Palmer, 88, American golfer, seven time PGA Tour winner. [71]
- Silviu Brucan, 90, former Romanian ambassador to the United States and an opponent of Nicolae Ceausescu. [72]
- Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, 97, former Conservative minister and wartime SOE officer. [73]
- Christopher Essex, 61, Australian fashion designer, cancer. [74]
- Kimveer Gill, 25, gunman of Dawson College shooting, suicide. [75]
- Collie Nicholson, 85, American sports information director at Grambling State University. [76]
- Ann Richards, 73, former Governor of Texas, esophageal cancer. [77]
- Lou "Boulder" Richards, 35, former guitarist for metalcore band Hatebreed, presumed suicide. [78] [79]
- Peter Tevis, 69, musician, Parkinson's Disease.[80]
- Maria da Conceição Luanda, 42, Angolan journalist. [81]
- Glenda Dawson, 65, Texas State Representative from the 29th District. [82].
- Marc François, 46, French actor and stage director, suicide. [83] [84] (French)
- Raymond Mikesell, 93, economist at the Bretton Woods Conference. [85]
- Edna Staebler, 100, Canadian cookbook and non-fiction author, stroke. [86]
- William Auld, 81, Scottish poet, author and supporter of Esperanto. [87]
- Peter Clentzos, 97, olympic competitor for Greece in pole vault. [88]
- Peter Coppin, 86, leader of the first strike by Australian aboriginal pastoral workers. [89]
- Pat Corley, 76, American actor (Phil the barkeep on Murphy Brown), congestive heart failure. [90] [91]
- Solange Fernex, French ecologist and green politician. [92] (French Wikipedia)
- Joachim Fest, 79, German historian and journalist. [93]
- Tyron Garner, 39, plaintiff in Lawrence v. Texas, meningitis. [94] [95][96]
- Joseph Hayes, 88, American author (The Desperate Hours). [97]
- Kwan Hoi-shan, 81, Hong Kong character actor, natural causes.[98]
- Dr. Michael Mamakos, 80, American microvascular surgeon, part of the team that reattached a child's leg in 1978. [99]
- Johannes Bob van Benthem, 85, Dutch lawyer, first president of the European Patent Office. [100]
- Patty Berg, 88, American golf pioneer, founder of the LPGA, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [101]
- Ira Brilliant, 84, American real estate developer, chemist, and founder of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies. [102]
- Col. Ubiratan Guimarães, 63, Brazilian politician, gunshot wound. [103]
- Rin Inumaru, 48, Japanese cartoonist (Ojarumaru), suicide. [104]
- Melanie Lomax, 56, civil rights lawyer and former president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, car accident. [105]
- Ted Risenhoover, 71, Democrat Representative for Oklahoma (1975-1979). [106]
- Bennie Smith, 72, blues guitarist, heart attack. [107]
- Daniel Smith, 20, son of model Anna Nicole Smith, cause unknown. [108]
- Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, 88, King of Tonga, after illness. [109]
- Gábor Vargas, 45, Swedish aerobatics aircraft pilot, midair collison above Marsamxett Harbour, Valletta. [110] [111]
- James Wilson, 68, Associated Press Chicago bureau chief covered Wounded Knee Incident, cancer. [112]
- Gérard Brach, 79, French screenwriter (The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Name of the Rose), cancer. [113]
- Clair Burgener, 84, California Representative, from 1973-1983, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [114]
- Richard Dyer, 68, New Zealand actor and singer, heart attack while performing in HMS Pinafore. [115]
- Navigator Dzinkambani, Malawian football player, eye cancer. [116]
- Matt Gadsby, 27, Hinckley United footballer, collapsed on pitch during game and died soon after. [117]
- Lucjan Kydryński, 77, Polish journalist, presenter and TV personality, natural causes. [118]
- Emilie Mondor, 25, Canadian Olympic distance runner, car accident. [119]
- Elisabeth Ogilvie, 89, American author. [120]
- Herbert Rudley, 95, American actor. [121]
- Keshavram Kashiram Shastri, 101, Gujarati founder of VHP, natural causes. [122]
- Eddy Sperry, musician. [citation needed]
- Arkady Volsky, 74, Russian founder of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. [123]
- William B. Ziff, Jr., 76, publishing magnate, prostate cancer. [124] [125]
- Hilda Bernstein, 91, British-born South African author and anti-apartheid activist, heart failure. [126] [127]
- Peter Brock, 61, Australian touring car racer, injuries sustained in a crash during a rally in Western Australia. [128]
- Bernard Green, 47, former New Zealand rugby league international, mining accident at the Roa Coal Mine. [129]
- Thomas Judge, 71, former Governor of Montana, pulmonary fibrosis. [130]
- Frank Middlemass, 87, English character actor (As Time Goes By). [131]
- Dr. Estelle Ramey, 89, American endocrinologist, physiologist and feminist. [132]
- Erk Russell, 80, college American football coach for the University of Georgia and Georgia Southern University, stroke. [133]
- Richard Blinder, 71, American architect (Rubin Museum of Art, Ford Center for the Performing Arts). [134]
- Clem Coetzee, 67, Zimbabwean conservationist, heart attack. [135]
- James deAnda, 81, American lawyer and federal judge, part of the legal team in Hernandez v. Texas, prostate cancer. [136]
- Joan Donaldson, 60, founding head of the CBC Newsworld TV Network, complications from prior injuries. [137]
- James Hawthorne, 74, former controller of the BBC in Northern Ireland. [138]
- Peter Hyndman, 64, former British Columbia minister, cancer. [139]
- Robert Earl Jones, 96, American actor, father of James Earl Jones. [140]
- Lewis Portelli, 76, Maltese veteran sports journalist. [141]
- Warren Bolster, 59, American surf and skate photographer, suicide. [142] [143]
- Steen Bostrup, 67, former Danish television news host. [144] (Danish)
- Sir John Drummond, 71, former controller of BBC Radio 3 and The Proms. [145]
- Peter Greenough, 89, American financial columnist for the Boston Globe, husband of Beverly Sills, after illness. [146] [147]
- Don Lunn, 72, Australian breakfast radio DJ. [148]
- Gordon Manning, 89, US television news executive at NBC and CBS, heart attack. [149]
- Sir Michael Marshall, 76, English politician, former MP for Arundel and President of the Chichester Festival Theatre. [150]
- Agha Shahi, 86, former Pakistani diplomat and foreign minister, after illness. [151]
- Mohammed Taha, around 50, Sudanese newspaper editor, murdered. [152], [153]
- Anne Gregg, 66, former presenter of the BBC programme Holiday, cancer. [154] [155]
- Hilary Mason, 89, British TV character actress [156]
- John McLusky, 83, British comic strip artist (James Bond). [157]
- J. Bazzel Mull, 91, American Christian preacher and gospel music promoter. [158]
- Apostolos Souglakos, 56, Greek wrestler and actor, stroke. [159] (Greek)
- Rémy Belvaux, 38, Belgian writer, producer and director of the cult film Man Bites Dog, probable suicide. [160]
- Ingrid Bjoner, 78, Norwegian soprano. [161]
- John Conte, 90, American actor, founded TV station KMIR, natural causes. [162] [163]
- Giacinto Facchetti, 64, Italian former footballer, cancer. [164]
- James Fee, 56, American photographer, liver cancer. [165]
- Tamás Fejér, 86, Hungarian film director. [166]
- Mark Anthony Graham, 33, Canadian Olympian and soldier, killed by friendly fire while serving in Afghanistan. [167]
- Steve Irwin, 44, Australian naturalist, "The Crocodile Hunter", acute heart trauma caused by a stingray barb. [168] [169][170]
- Norman Kelley, 95, American tenor, Alzheimer's disease. [171]
- Moses Khumalo, 26, South African jazz saxophonist who won best newcomer at the South African Music Awards of 2002, suicide. [172]
- Mlondi Mdluli, 25, Alabama A&M football (soccer) player, car crash in his native Swaziland. [173]
- Giulia Sani-Casagli, 112, Italy's oldest person since Dec 28 2005; 9th-oldest in world [174] (Italian)
- Colin Thiele, 85, Australian children's author, heart failure. [175]
- Astrid Varnay, 88, Hungarian-Swedish-American soprano. [176] [177]
- Françoise Claustre, 69, French ethnologist and archaeologist. [178] [179] (French)
- Eva Knardahl, 79, Norwegian classical pianist. [180]
- Julia Levien, 94, American dancer and teacher. [181]
- Jaime Osorio Gómez, 59, Colombian film producer, actor (Maria Full of Grace), heart attack. [182]
- Anna Ringier, 110, Switzerland's oldest person. [183] (German)
- Tom Suzuki, 76, American graphic designer. [184]
- Annemarie Wendl, 91, German actress, heart failure. [185] (German)
- Bob Mathias, 75, decathlete, winner of two Olympic gold medals, and former United States Representative, cancer. [186]
- Janet Mikhaiili, 70, Iranian book illustrator, cerebral apoplexy. [187]
- Deforrest Most, 89, helped to establish Muscle Beach in Los Angeles, heart failure. [188]
- Willi Ninja, 45, American dancer and choreographer, AIDS. [189] [190]
- Clermont Pépin, 80, Canadian composer in Montréal, liver cancer. [191]
- Silverio Pérez, 91, Mexican bullfighter, renal illness. [192]
- Lionel Pickering, 74, former chairman of Derby County Football Club and noted businessman, cancer. [193]
- Dewey Redman, 75, American jazz saxophonist, father of Joshua Redman, liver failure. [194] [195]
- Sandile Sayedwa, 39, South African sports administrator, car accident. [196]
- Monty Stickles, 68, former tight-end for the San Francisco 49ers, heart failure after illness. [197]
- Charlie Williams, 77, British comedian and former footballer with Doncaster Rovers, Parkinson's disease. [198] [199]
- Anthony Poon, 61, Singaporean abstract artist, lung cancer.
- Charles Aug, 68, American real estate executive. [200]
- Tommy Chesbro, 66, wrestler and wrestling coach with Oklahoma State University, heart attack. [201] [202]
- Nellie Connally, 87, widow of Texas Governor and Treasury Secretary John Connally, shared the automobile with John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated. [203]
- György Faludy, 95, Hungarian poet, writer and translator. [204]
- Rashid Maidin, 89, leader of the Communist Party of Malaya. [205]
- Ronald Mansbridge, 100, British-born publisher, founded first US branch of Cambridge University Press. [206]
- Bill McNutt, 81, former president of international fruitcake business the Collin Street Bakery, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. [207]
- Warren Mitofsky, 72, American pollster, creator of the exit poll, heart failure. [208] [209]
- Bob O'Connor, 61, Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, brain cancer. [210]
- Travis I. Payze, 60, Australian rules footballer, prostate cancer. [211]
- Jawn Sandifer, 92, American civil rights lawyer, successfully argued Henderson v. United States. [212]
- Sir Kyffin Williams, 88, Welsh artist, lung and prostate cancer. [213]
See Deaths in July 2006.
See Deaths in June 2006.
See Deaths in May 2006.
See Deaths in April 2006.
See Deaths in March 2006.
External links and references
- Obituaries on general news websites
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- Specialised websites
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- Find a Death — details on the circumstances behind the deaths of hundreds of celebrities
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- Friends Reincarnated
- Who's Alive and Who's Dead
- Life in Legacy: Week in Review
- The Blog of Death
- MySpace Deaths
- The Celebrity Death Toll Update
- GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search
- Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records: US genealogy directory
- Operation Iraqi Freedom — US Combat Deaths
- Obituary Central — index to obituary search engines arranged geographically
- Obituary Links Page — state-by-state directory of obituary resources
- Russian Obituary Links Page — The List of Death
- Nekrolog (Czech necrologies)
- Remembrance Online Online Books of Remembrance and Condolence
- Written in Stone Literary deaths and gravestones
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2005, Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, ...