Deaths in January 2006

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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2006.

31

• Owen Abrahams, 72, former Australian rules footballer. .
• John L. Behler, 62, curator of herpetology at the Bronx Zoo [1]
• Ruairi Brugha, 88, Irish Fianna Fáil politican, son of Cathal Brugha. [2]
• Henry S. Coleman, 79, dean at Columbia University. [3]
• Peter Hamilton, 90, American dancer. [4]
• Boris Kostelanetz, 94, tax lawyer [5]
• Denis McInerney, 80, antitrust lawyer. [6]
• Jason Sears, 38 American Punk rock singer (Rich Kids on LSD). [7]
• Moira Shearer, 80, British ballerina, actress, and newspaper columnist, married to Sir Ludovic Kennedy. [8] [9]

30

• Stew Albert, 66, 1960s anti-establishment activist, co-founder of the Yippies. [10]
• Paul Clinton, 53, CNN film critic, founder of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA). [11]
• Feng Xiliang, 86, Chinese journalist China Daily. [12]
• Seth Fisher, 33, comic book illustrator, fell from a seven-story building.[13] [14]
• Arnold Graffi, 95, German Researcher for oncology. [15]
• Coretta Scott King, 78, American civil rights leader, widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., ovarian cancer. [16][17][18][19][20] [21]
• Norton Kiritz, 70, founder and president of the Grantsmanship Center. [22]
• Otto Lang, 98, film producer and ski mogul. .
• Doris "Dodie" Londen, 75, first female chairman of Arizona state Republican Party. [23]
• Metropolitan Nikolaj of Presov, 79, leader of the Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church. [24]
• Thomas "Pig Champion" Roberts, 47, 450-lb. guitarist with American punk band Poison Idea. [25]
• Irving Rosenwater, 73, English statistician. [26]
• Wendy Wasserstein, 55, American playwright, lymphoma. [27][28]

29

• Paik Nam-june, 73, South Korean-born American artist, particularly noted for his video art. [29]
• George Psychoundakis, 85, Greek Resistance fighter during World War II. [30]

28

• Henry McGee, 76, British actor. [31]
• Herta Glaz, 95, mezzo-soprano and opera teacher [32]
• Rabbi Yits`haq Kadouri zekher tsadiq livrakha, 106?, renowned Sephardic Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist. [33]
• Helmut Schulz, 93, chemical engineer and inventor [34]

27

• Marvin Bieghler, 58, American convicted murderer, executed in Indiana. [35]
• Stoffer van der Bijl, 61, architect, designed the renovated Bourtange star fort, cardiac arrest during ice skating marathon.
• Maurice Colclough, 52, English Rugby Union player, brain tumour. [36]
• Tana Hoban, 88, photographer of children, author of over 110 children's books [37]
• Phyllis King, 100, British Wimbledon-winner. .
• Carol Lambrino, 86, elder son of King Carol II of Romania. [38]
• Christopher Lloyd, 84, gardening writer, stroke. [39]
• Gene McFadden, 56, singer and songwriter, cancer. [40]
• Johannes Rau, 75, President of Germany (Bundespräsident) from 1999 - 2004. [41]

26

• Dr John Dunwoody CBE, 76, former British Member of Parliament, effects of an accident. [42]
• Tom Hooper (sculptor), 79, Canadian sculptor. .
• Morris Silverman, 93, philanthropist, founder of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. [43]
• Dave Tatsuno, 92, documented the Topaz Japanese internment camp in his film Topaz [44]
• Khan Wali Khan, 89, prominent Pakistani opposition Leader and prominent Pashtun leader. .

25

• John S. Bainbridge, 90, founder of the Staffing of African Institutions of Legal Education and Research program [45]
• Dunbar W. Bostwick, 98, harness racing trainer. [46]
• Richard W. Couper, 83, former President of the New York Public Library. [47]
• Marion Dudley, 33, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas. [48]
• Endesha Ida Mae Holland, 61, African-American playwright (From the Mississippi Delta) [49]
• Luther Green, 59, former NBA player, lung cancer. .
• John F. Kerin, professor, reproductive scientist, gynaecologist, farm accident. .
• Anna Malle, 38, American adult film actress, car accident. [50]
• Jim Murray, 76, news photographer, photographed aftermath of the JFK assassination, cancer. [51]
• Herbert Schilder, 77, dental surgeon, improved root canal procedures [52]
• Sudharmono, 78, Vice President of Indonesia from 1988 - 1993.
• Allan Temko, 81, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. [53]

24

• Zaki Badawi, 84, Islamic religious leader in Britain.
• Jack Fiske, 88, boxing journalist, Hall of Fame. [54]
• William B. Graham, 94, CEO of health care company Baxter International. [55]
• Schafik Handal, 75, former Presidential candidate and leader of El Salvador's main political opposition party, the FMLN. [56]
• Peter Ladefoged, 80, phonetician.
• Carlos (Café) Martínez, 41, former MLB player.
• Fayard Nicholas, 91, American dancer, elder of the renowned Nicholas Brothers, pneumonia and complications of a stroke. [57] [58]
• Chris Penn, 40, American actor, brother of Sean Penn, cardiomyopathy combined with multiple medication intake. [59] [60]
• Sir Nicholas Shackleton, 68, British geologist, leukemia. [61]
• Henry Zapruder, 67, American tax lawyer who helped establish Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts programs, son of Abraham Zapruder. [62]

23

• Ernie Baron, 65, Filipino radio/TV host and meteorologist, myocardial infarction brought about by diabetes.
• Andrea Bronfman, 60, philanthropist and wife of Charles Bronfman, hit by car. [63]
• Savino Guglielmetti, 94, Italian gymnast, 1928 Olympic gold-medalist and oldest surviving Olympic champion.
• Abu Ahmed Hassouna, 44, Fatah party leader in the West Bank, assassinated by Fatah members. [64]
• Louanne Hogan, 86, big-band singer and singing double for 40's and 50's films.
• General Samuel W. Koster, 86, highest ranking United States Army officer charged in My Lai massacre, renal cancer [65]
• Olga Marie Mikalsen, 91, Norwegian singer.
• Emilie Muse, 98, daredevil [66]
• Joseph.M.Newman , 96 , American Film Director/Producer.This Island Earth.
• Bill Rice, 74, American artist. [67]
• E.M.(Michael)Smedley-Aston,93, Film Producer, 1950's
• Virginia Smith, 94, former Republican United States Representative from Nebraska (1975 - 1991).
• David Weber, 92, clarinetist. [68]
• Michael Wharton, 92, British humorist ("Peter Simple").

22

• Janette Carter, 82, last living member of the Carter Family country music group. [69]
• Alec Coxon, 90, Yorkshire and England cricketer. [70]
• Sherman Ferguson, 61, jazz drummer [71]
• Rick van der Linden, 59, keyboardist of symphonic rock group Ekseption, complications of a stroke.
• Joan Maynard, 77, preservationist. [72]
• Nellie Y. McKay, 67, African-American literary critic. [73]
• Albert Morse, 67, lawyer, art collection, publisher [74]
• William Rubin, 78, director of the department of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. [75]

21

• Michael Chan, Baron Chan, 65, British paediatrician and the second peer of Chinese origin.
• Ibrahim Rugova, 61, President of Kosovo, lung cancer.
• John James Cowperthwaite, 89, former Financial Secretary of Hong Kong.

20

• Andrei Iordan, 71, former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan.
• David Maust, 51, serial killer, heart failure after a botched suicide attempt. [76]
• Chris McKinstry, 38, an independent researcher in artificial intelligence, suicide.
• Johannes Mikkel, 98, Estonian art collector.
• Richard LaMont "Monte" Mitzelfelt, 36, New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge judge, heart failure.
• Rose Bouziane Nader, 99, President of the Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest, mother of US Presidential candidate Ralph Nader. [77]
• Pio Taofinu'u, 82, Samoan Roman Catholic cardinal.

19

• Jovanka Bach, 69, playwright-physician.
• Gary Downie, South African psychotherapist and television production manager (Doctor Who, Star Cops), cancer. [78]
• Anthony Franciosa, 77, American actor, third husband of Shelley Winters, stroke. [79]
• Tom Nugent, 92, football coach, member of the College Football Hall of Fame. [80]
• Wilson Pickett, 64, American soul singer, heart attack. [81]
• Awn Alsharif Qasim, 73, Sudanese writer, educator and Islamic scholar
• Geoff Rabone, 84, New Zealand cricketer.
• Franz Seitz, 85, German film director.
• Jos Staatsen, 62, mayor of Groningen (1985-1991), head of the Professional Football section of the Royal Netherlands Football Association (1993-1997).
• Fred van der Werff, 90, Dutch retail entrepreneur, founder of the eponymous supermarket chain (founded in 1931, sold and disbanded in 1982).
• Basil Worgul, 58, Columbia University biologist [82]

18

• Garth Jones, 88, AP newsman, pneumonia.
• Rose Ellison King, 63, comic strip author (Flo & Friends) [83]
• Norman McCabe, 94, animator and director, famous for Tokio Jokio and The Ducktators shorts from his Termite Terrace tenure at Warner Bros. [84]
• Thomas Murphy, 90, former CEO of General Motors. [85]
• Anton Rupert, 89, South African businessman, philanthropist and founding member of World Wildlife Fund, natural causes. [86]
• Jan Twardowski, 90, Polish priest and poet.

17

• Harold R. Collier, 90, former Republican United States Representative from Illinois from 1957-1975
• Wallace Mercer, 59, former chairman of Heart of Midlothian F.C., cancer. [87]
• Giles Worsley, 44, British architectural historian and journalist, nephew of the Duchess of Kent, cancer. [88]

16

• Stanley Biber, 82, American physician and pioneer in sex reassignment surgery, complications of pneumonia.
• Arthur T. von Mehren, 83, professor at Harvard Law School, expert in international law. [89]

15

• Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 79, Emir of Kuwait. [90][91]
• Glyn Berry, 59, Welsh-born Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan.
• Charles Byers, 83, associate dean, College of Music, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Hilma Contreras, 92, Dominican writer.
• Edward N. Hall, 91, U.S. Air Force rocket expert, father of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile program. [92][93]
• Inge Merkel, 83, Austrian writer

14

• Henri Colpi, 84, Swiss film director and cinematographer.
• Jacques Faizant, 87, French cartoonist (Le Figaro). [94]
• Jim Gary, 66, American sculptor. [95]
• David Ingle, 72, American neuroscientist and experimental psychologist, pneumonia.
• Richard Johnson, 75, Publisher of the Houston Chronicle. [96]
• Mullah Khaksar, former Taliban minister who sided with the United States, killed by gunmen. [97][98]
• Mark Philo, 21, English professional football player, injuries from a car crash. [99]
• Bob Weinstock, 77, founded independent jazz record label Prestige, complications of diabetes. [100]
• Shelley Winters, 85, American actress, heart failure. [101][102][103]

13

• Raúl Anguiano, 90, Mexican engraver and painter.
• Richard Dalitz, 80, Australian physicist, expert in exotic particles, studied quarks.
• Ron Jessie, 57, former NFL wide receiver. [104]
• Marc Potvin, 38, former NHL player, found dead in his hotel room in Michigan, suicide.
• Joan Root, 69, wildlife conservationist. [105]
• Rui Jose Soares ,43, brazilian writer

12

• William M. Byrne Jr., 75, presiding judge in the trial of Daniel Ellsberg. [106][107]
• Brendan Cauldwell, 83, Irish actor.
• Edwin S. Cohen, 91, American tax expert and lawyer. [108]
• Eldon Dedini, 84, cartoonist. [109]
• Robert Edwin Drake, 82, NSA intelligence analyst, congestive heart failure. [110]
• Shaikh Faisal bin Hamad Al Khalifa, 15, Bahraini prince, injuries from a car crash.
• Günther Landgraf, 77, German physicist and former President of Dresden University of Technology. [111]
• Stewart Linder, 74 American Oscar-winning film editor.
• Anne Meacham, 80, American stage (Suddenly, Last Summer) and television actress (Another World). [112]
• Meinrad Schütter, 95, Swiss composer. [113]

11

• Eric Namesnik, 35, American Olympic swimmer, injuries from a car crash.
• Mark Spoon, 39, German DJ and prominent figure in trance music, heart attack. [114]
• Alan Sytner, 70, founder of the Cavern Club, Liverpool. [115]

10

• Ira B. Black, 64, neuroscientist, founder of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey. [116]
• Dave Brown, 52, former National Football League player, heart attack. [117]
• Sergio Fedriani, 56, Italian artist. [118]
• Elliot Forbes, 88, Harvard University professor and Beethoven scholar. [119]
• Sidney Frank, 86, American businessman and philanthropist. [120]
• Alethea Hayter, 94, British writer. [121]
• Leon Lobel, 77, butcher, author and meat expert. [122]
• Dennis Marks, 73, animation writer-producer. [123]
• Joseph Waksberg, 90, survey researcher. [124]

9

• Andy Caldecott, 41, Australian Dakar Rally motorcycle rider, fatal neck injury sustained in an accident in Mauritania. [125]
• Patricia Hitt, 87, Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under President Nixon. [126]
• Selwyn Hughes, 77, British fundamentalist evangelical who founded Crusade for World Revival
• David S. Kruidenier, 84, former publisher of the Des Moines Register. [127]
• Mikk Mikiver, 68, Estonian stage director and actor.
• Frank Okamura, 94, bonsai master. [128]
• W. Cleon Skousen, 92, BYU professor and prominent Latter-day Saint author and lecturer.
• Jack Snow, 62, former National Football League player and radio announcer, complications from a staph infection. [129]
• Don Stewart, 70, actor (Michael Bauer on The Guiding Light). [130]

8

• Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, 62, former British Minister for Sport, stroke and cerebral hemorrhage.
• Elson Becerra, 27, Colombian football (soccer) player, shot. [131]
• Alex Elmsley, 76, English magician, heart attack.
• Johnny Fortune, 62, Surf guitarist, vocalist, session musician, diabetic-related heart failure.
• Georg Wilhelm, Prinz von Hannover, Herzog zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg, 90, educator and Olympian. [132]
• Stuart Quan, 43, movie stunt performer and karate instructor, cause unknown. [133]
• David Rosenbaum, 63, New York Times reporter, head injury during mugging. [134]
• Mimmo Rotella, 87, Italian artist. [135]
• José Luis "Garrafa" Sanchez, 31, Argentine football (soccer) player, from injuries sustained in a biking accident.

7

• James Bastien, 71, American classical pianist, composer, teacher, and author of a series of piano instruction books.
• Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar, 58, Head of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti, suicide. [136]
• Heinrich Harrer, 93, Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer and author. [137][138]
• Jorge Martinez Segueda, 90, Mexican enviromentalist pioneer.
• Marshall A. Robinson, 83, former president of the Russell Sage Foundation. [139]
• Richard Urwand, 91, chess master.
• Jim Zulevic, 40, American actor, heart attack.

6

• Allaire du Pont, 92, thoroughbred enthusiast, owner of Kelso. [140]
• Yoshiro Kato, 80, Japanese cartoonist (Mappira-kun). [141]
• Roshan Khan, 77, Pakistani squash player, father of Jahangir Khan complications from a heart attack and coma. [142]
• Alf McMichael, 78, footballer for Northern Ireland & Newcastle United.
• Józef Milik, 83, Polish Catholic priest and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar.
• Comandante Ramona, 47, Tzotzil Indian Zapatista rebel leader and women's rights advocate, kidney disease and tuberculosis. [143]
• Lou Rawls, 72, jazz and blues singer, lung and brain cancer. [144][145][146][147]
• Hugh Thompson, Jr., 62, Vietnam War helicopter pilot who helped stop the My Lai Massacre, removed from life support. [148][149]
• Stanley Roger Tupper, 84, former Republican United States Representative from Maine from 1961 - 1967.
• John Webster, 71, advertising writer responsible for commercials such as the Smash Martians, heart attack. [150]
• Gábor Zavadszky, 31, Hungarian footballer (soccer player), probably pulmonary embolism. [151]

5

• Ramona Bell, 47, wife of conspiracy broadcaster Art Bell, asthma attack. [152]
• Rod Dedeaux, 91, American college baseball coach, complications from a stroke. [153][154]
• Sophie Heathcote, 35, Australian actress and founder of skin care range Ki, aneurysm. [155]
• Keizo Miura, 101, Japanese mountaineer. [156]
• Lord Merlyn-Rees, 85, former British Home Secretary, following a number of falls.
• Simon Shanks, 34, linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals in 1995, murdered by home intruder.
• Rachel Squire, 51, British Labour Member of Parliament for Dunfermline and West Fife, stroke. [157]
• Vajramuni, 62, Indian actor.
• Alex St. Clair, 64, American musician, primarily with Captain Beefheart.

4

• John Bierman, 76, BBC reporter and popular historian. [158]
• Sultan Bilimkhanov, Deputy Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, injuries sustained in car crash. [159]
• Phyllis Gates, 80, American ex-wife of actor Rock Hudson, lung cancer.
• John Hahn-Petersen, 75, Danish actor, heart attack. [160], [161]
• William Haxby, 56, ocean cartographer. [162]
• Milton Himmelfarb, 87, Jewish-American essayist. [163]
• Fred K. Hoehler Jr., 87, founding director of the George Meany Center for Labor Studies of the AFL-CIO. [164]
• Stan Hunt, 76, American newspaper cartoonist. [165]
• Irving Layton, 93, Canadian poet, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [166]
• Maria de Lourdes Pereira dos Santos Van-Dúnem, 70, Angolan singer.
• Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 62, Ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, heart attack. [167]
• Gretl Schörg, 91, German actress of the 1940s and 1950s.
• Nel van Vliet, 79, Dutch swimmer, 1948 Olympic Champion 200 m breaststroke.

3

• Robertinho do Acordeon, 67, popular Brazilian country musician.
• Kasey Davis, 20, freshman kicker at Texas Christian University, shot. [168]
• Urbano Lazzaro, 81, Italian resistance fighter who captured Benito Mussolini. [169]
• Caceres Monteiro, 57, Portuguese journalist, cancer. [170]
• Steve Rogers, 51, Australian rugby league player and CEO of Cronulla, apparent suicide.
• Arturo Sergi, 79, American operatic tenor.
• Sir William Skate, 52, former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, stroke.
• Bruce Wilson, 64, Australian journalist, cancer. [171]

2

• Severino Bottero, 47, French Olympic slalom coach, auto accident.
• Raul Davila, 74, Puerto Rican TV actor and producer.
• Ofelia Fox, 82, owner the Tropicana Club in Havana, cancer. ([172])
• Carlos Helo, 77, distinguished Chilean comedian, heart attack.
• Philomena, 80, Indian actress.
• Osa Massen, 91, Danish actress, played femme-fatale in several 40's Hollywood movies [173]
• Francis Steinmetz, 91 Dutch author and Colditz Castle escapee
• Frank Wilkinson, 91, American civil liberties activist. [174]
• John Woodnutt, 81, British actor.
• Lidia Wysocka, 89 , Polish actress.

1

• Susan Bergman, 48, American author, sister of actress Anne Heche, brain cancer.
• Otis Carney, 83, American author and screenwriter.
• Frank Cary, 85, former chairman of IBM. [175][176]
• Mapita Cortés, 75, Mexican actress.
• Bryan Harvey, 49, former lead singer of House of Freaks, vocalist for Gutterball, murdered. [177]
• Dawn Lake, 78, Australian entertainer, widow of Bobby Limb.
• John Latham, 84, internationally exhibited artist.
• Paul Lindblad, 64, American baseball player, Alzheimer's disease.
• Dragan Lukić, 78, Serbian writer.
• Harry Magdoff, 92, prominent American socialist.
• Charles O. Porter, 86, former Democratic United States Representative from Oregon from 1957 - 1961, Alzheimer's disease. [178]
• Gideon Rodan, 71, biomedical researcher. [179]
• Hubert Schoemaker, 55, co-founder of biotech company Centocor. [180]