Deaths in 2006

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

7

Richard Carleton, 62, Australian television journalist (60 Minutes), suspected heart attack. [1] [2] [3]
Stella Sigcau, 69, South African Public Works Minister, heart related problems. [4]
Machiko Soga, 63, Japanese actress (Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers). [5]

6

Lillian Asplund, 99, last American survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking, died in sleep. [6]
Konstantin Beskov, 85, Soviet/Russian footballer and manager. [7]
Wing Commander John Coxen, from Royal Air Force Benson, most senior British Officer killed in Iraq [8]
Shigeru Kayano, 79, Japanese Ainu activist
Grant McLennan, 48, lead singer of the Go-Betweens [9]
Flt Lt Sarah Mulvihill, 32, first British servicewoman to be killed in action in Iraq. [10]
Lorne Saxberg, 48, CBC broadcaster. [11]

5

Naushad, 86, Indian musician. [12]

4

Karel Appel, 85, Dutch COBRA painter. [13]
Alejandra Boero, 88, Argentine theater actress, director and teacher, pulmonary hypertension. [14], [15]
Hossein Kasbian, 73, Iranian film actor
Paul Wadham, 63, Australian rules footballer ^{[citation needed]}

3

Rosita Fernandez, 88, Texan singer, member of the Tejano Music Hall of Fame. [16]
Pramod Mahajan, 56, general secretary of India's Bharatiya Janata Party, gunshot wounds. [17]
Earl Woods, 74, father and former coach of U.S. golfer Tiger Woods, prostate cancer. [18]

2

Joseph Lewis Clark, 57, convicted American murderer, executed in Ohio. [19] [20]
Luigi Griffanti, 89, Italian footballer, goalkeeper of ACF Fiorentina in the 1940s [21]
Howard Markey, 85, American federal judge, helped organize the United States Court of Appeals. [22]
Louis Rukeyser, 73, business and economics expert, multiple myeloma. [23]
Juan Ramón Salgado, Honduran congressional deputy, gunshot wounds. [24]

1

Jay Presson Allen, 84, American screenwriter, stroke. [25]
Ed Casey, 73, former Queensland Labor Party leader. [26]
George F. Haines, 82, American Olympic swimming coach. [27]
John Edward Hawkins, known as Big Hawk, 36, Houston-based rapper, shot to death. [28]
Rob Lacey, 43, stage actor and award-winning Christian author [29]
Rauno Lehtinen, 74, Finnish composer [30]
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. [31]
Johnny Paris, 65, American Saxophonist (Johnny & the Hurricanes) [32]
Raúl Francisco Cardinal Primatesta, 87, retired Archbishop of Córdoba, Argentina [33]