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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 deceased died, not the date the death was announced. Please keep names under each date in alphabetical order. 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 substantiates their notability.

May 2006

19

Yitzhak Ben Aharon,99 founder of the Israeli Labor Party. [1]
Conrad Burns, 71, Republican Senator for Montana

18

Michael O'Riordan, 88, chairman of the Communist Party of Ireland and International Brigades veteran. [2]
Kiyan Prince, 15, youth team player with English football team Queens Park Rangers, stabbed to death. [3]
Takahiro Tamura, 77, Japanese actor. ^{[citation needed]}

17

Eva-Maria Bauer, 82, German actress. [4]
Cy Feuer, 95, American Broadway producer and writer (Guys and Dolls). [5] [6]
Eric Forth, 61, British Conservative Member of Parliament and former government minister, cancer. [7]
John Marsden, 64, Australian lawyer and civil liberties activist, cancer. [8]
Elaine Minacs, 61, founder and executive chairman of Minacs Worldwide business services firm. [9][10]
Mieczysław Nowak, 69, Polish weightlifter, 1964 Olympic medalist [11]
Mustafa Yucel Ozbilgin, prominent Turkish judge sitting in Turkey's highest court, shot dead. [12]
Lawrence 'Ramrod' Shurtliff, 61, longtime crew member for the Grateful Dead, lung cancer. [13]

16

Clare Boylan, 58, Irish author of 12 books including 7 novels, cancer. [14]
Klaus Dahlen, 68, German actor [15]
Martin Dardis, 83, investigator who linked the Watergate burglars to the Committee to Re-elect the President, vascular condition. [16]
Herbert Doan, 83, former CEO and President of Dow Chemical 1962-1971. [17]
Eva Norvind, 62, Mexican actress ^{[citation needed]}
Jorge Porcel, 69, Argentine actor and comedian, following gall bladder surgery. [18]
Dan Ross, 49, former NFL football player (Cincinnati Bengals), suspected heart attack [19]
Prince Gideon Zulu, 72, member of Zulu royal family, South African politician, minister in Kwazulu-Natal legislature. [20]

15

Joyce Ballantyne Brand, 88, artist best known for creating the "Coppertone Girl" ad, heart attack. [21] [22]
George Blackburn, 93, head football coach at University of Virginia (1965-70). [23]
George Crile III, 61, CBS News producer, pancreatic cancer. [24] [25] [26]
Eberhard Esche, 73, German actor. [27]
Chic Hecht, 77, former Republican Senator for Nevada, prostate cancer. [28] [29]
Abdullah Nur, 77, Saudi Arabian journalist and writer [30]
Cheikha Rimitti, 84, Algerian singer, heart attack
Bill Strode, 69, Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, cancer. [31]

14

Lew Anderson, 84, American bandleader, played Clarabell the Clown on The Howdy Doody Show, prostate cancer. [32] [33]
Jackie Botten, 67, South African international test cricketer. complications after colon operations. [34]
Steve Cooper, 47, rock singer for Juggernaut and S.A. Slayer [35]
Charles Gardner, 79, former mayor of Charleston, South Carolina and former head of Royal Crown Cola, complications of diabetes. [36]
William Ginsberg, 75, American professor of environmental law at Hofstra University and former New York City commissioner of parks and recreation. [37]
Reza Hassanzadeh, 33, Iranian professional soccer player with Tractor Sazi, injuries from car accident. [38]
Robert Keith-Reid, 64, Fijian publisher, complications of heart bypass operation. [39]
Stanley Kunitz, 100, American poet. [40] [41]
Jim Lemon, 78, Major League Baseball player, cancer. [42] [43]
Paul Marco, American actor (Plan 9 from Outer Space) [44] [45]
Giancarlo Matteotti, member of Italy's Constituent Assembly and Undersecretary for the Budget. [46]
Günther Nenning, 84, Austrian journalist, author and political activist [47]

13

Peter Anthony, 83, Welsh boxing trainer, cancer. [48]
Joan Diener, 76, American actress/soprano (Man of La Mancha), complications of cancer. [49]
Rick Farley, 53, Australian National Farmers' Federation Chief Executive for eight years. [50]
Ryan Francis, 19, freshman point guard for the USC basketball team, shot. [51]
Jaroslav Pelikan, 82, American historian of Christianity, winner of the Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences, lung cancer. [52] [53] [54]
Grand Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Rosenbaum, 86, Grand Rabbi of Kretschnif-Siget Hassidic Jewish sect in Jerusalem, a scion of the Nadvorna dynasty. [55]
Peter Viereck, 89, American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. [56]
Johnnie Wilder, Jr., 56, R&B musician, founder of Heatwave ("Boogie Nights", "Always and Forever") [57]
Jere Witter, 79, Southern California TV news reporter, complications of cancer. [58]

12

Ted Berkman, 92, author, scriptwriter, (Bedtime for Bonzo)
Mony Dalmès, 91, French actress, [59]
Hussein Maziq, 88, former prime minister & foreign minister of Libya [60]
Gillespie V. "Sonny" Montgomery, 85, former U.S. representative from Mississippi [61]
Breandán Ó Dúill, 70, Irish actor and broadcaster. [62]
Ferdinando Tacconi, 83, Italian comics artist. [63]
Gustav Trampe, 74, German TV journalist. [64]

11

Yossi Banai, 74, Israeli singer and actor [65]
Bob Duff, 80, played 11 rugby tests for the All Blacks including being captain for two tests against the Springboks in 1956. [66]
Michael O'Leary, 70, former leader of the Irish Labour Party, drowned in a swimming pool. [67]
Floyd Patterson, 71, former boxing heavyweight champion, Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer [68]
Michael Taliferro, 45, actor and American football player, stroke. [69]
Frankie Thomas, 85, American actor (Tom Corbett, Space Cadet), stroke. [70] [71]

10

Val Guest, 94, British film writer and director (The Quatermass Experiment, Casino Royale) [72]
John Hicks, 64, American jazz pianist. [73]
James Keogh, 89, former executive editor of Time and speechwriter for US President Richard Nixon. [74]
Georgy Korniyenko, 81, Russian diplomat and deputy to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. [75]
Angel Lopez, 44, Puerto Rican, designed Deborah Carthy-Deu's dress when she won the Miss Universe contest, heart attack.[76]
A.M. Rosenthal, 84, Executive Editor of the New York Times for 17 years, stroke. [77]
Sue Smith, 60s, first woman to host a current affairs program in Australia, mitochondrial myopathy. [78]
Soraya, 37, Colombian-American songwriter, guitarist, arranger, record producer, and singer, breast cancer. [79]
Volkmar Kurt Wentzel, 91, noted National Geographic photographer and archivist, heart attack. [80]
Aleksandr Zinovyev, 83, Russian logician, sociologist and writer, brain cancer. [81]

9

Frank Boos, 70, appraiser on the Public Broadcasting Service version of Antiques Roadshow, complications of vascular disease. [82]
Corey Engen, 90, Captain of the U.S. Nordic skiing team at the 1948 Winter Olympics, complications of pneumonia. [83]
Pietro Garinei, 87, Italian playwright and lyricist of "Arrivederci Roma" and other songs. [84]
Ruth Gay, 86, American author of books on Jewish life. [85]
Harold Robinson, first black scholarship American football player for the Kansas State Wildcats and in the Big Seven. [86]
Bob Rogers, former Texas A&M basketball coach. [87]
Robert Schwartz, 88, American stockbroker and founder of Economists for Peace and Security. [88]
Tony Ward, 82, Australian actor and journalist, cancer. [89]

8

Scott Geoffrion, 40, Former NHRA ProStock World Championship runner-up, apparent heart attack. [90]
Lovana Jones, 68, Assistant Majority Leader in the Illinois House of Representatives, represented the 26th District since 1987. [91]
John Kimbrough, 87, College Hall of Fame American football player with Texas A&M and state legislator, pneumonia. [92]
George Lutz, 59, owner of the Amityville Horror house. [93] [94]
Pule Patrick "Ace" Ntsoelengoe, 50, South African soccer player with the Minnesota Kicks and Kaizer Chiefs, unknown causes. [95]
Barbara Schwartz, 58, American painter. [96]

7

Richard Carleton, 62, Australian television journalist (60 Minutes), heart attack. [97] [98]
Lawrence Lader, 86, American author and abortion rights activist. [99]
Stella Sigcau, 69, South African Public Works Minister, heart-related problems. [100]
Jocelyn Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale, 95, United Kingdom minister and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. [101]
Machiko Soga, 68, Japanese actress (Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers) [102]

6

Joe Amsler, 65, kidnapper of Frank Sinatra, Jr. in 1963, liver failure. [103]
Lillian Asplund, 99, last American survivor of the Titanic sinking, died in sleep. [104]
Konstantin Beskov, 85, Soviet/Russian footballer and manager. [105]
Wing Commander John Coxen, 46, Royal Air Force, most senior British Officer killed in Iraq to date [106]
Shigeru Kayano, 79, Japanese Ainu activist [107]
Chen Li, 77, former editor of the China Daily [108]
Grant McLennan, 48, lead singer of The Go-Betweens, suspected heart attack. [109]
Flt Lt Sarah Mulvihill, 32, first British servicewoman to be killed in action in Iraq. [110]
Erdal Oz, 71, Turkish publisher. [111]
František Peřina, 95, Czechoslovak fighter pilot who served in the British Royal Air Force during WWII. [112]
Herbert Raditschnig, 71, German cameraman and film documentarian [113]
Lorne Saxberg, 48, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) broadcaster. [114]
Sister Rose Thering, 85, Roman Catholic nun and professor at Seton Hall University. [115]

5

Naushad Ali, 86, Indian musician. [116]
George Frem, 72, former Lebanese cabinet minister, philanthropist, industrialist[117]
George Roche III, 70, former President of Hillsdale College, probable heart attack. [118]
Atif Yilmaz, 80, Turkish film director. [119]

1

Jay Presson Allen, 84, American screenwriter, stroke. [138]
Ed Casey, 73, former Queensland Labor Party leader. [139]
George F. Haines, 82, American Olympic swimming coach, complications from a stroke [140]
John Edward Hawkins, known as Big Hawk, 36, Houston-based rapper, shot to death. [141]
Joseph S. Iseman, 89, lawyer, educator and former president of Bennington College, cardiac arrest [142]
Betsy Jones-Moreland, 76, film and television actress, cancer.
Rob Lacey, 43, stage actor and award-winning Christian author, bladder cancer [143]
Rauno Lehtinen, 74, Finnish composer [144]
Bruce Peterson, 72, American test pilot and engineer, known for surviving the crash of the M2-F2 and inspiring the TV-series The Six Million Dollar Man. [145]
Johnny Paris, 65, American saxophonist (Johnny & the Hurricanes) [146]
Raúl Francisco Cardinal Primatesta, 87, retired Archbishop of Córdoba, Argentina [147]

April 2006

See Deaths in April 2006.

March 2006

See Deaths in March 2006.

February 2006

See Deaths in February 2006.

January 2006

See Deaths in January 2006.

External links and references

Obituaries on general news websites
Newsgroup: alt.obituaries
Specialised websites
- Find a Grave — Millions of (US) Cemetery Records
- Find a Death — details on the circumstances behind the deaths of hundreds of celebrities
- Dead People Server
- Dead or Alive
- 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
- Daily Telegraph obituaries

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...

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