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 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.
- Tongan Prince Tu'ipelehake and Princess Kaimana, ages not known, car crash in San Francisco. [1]
- Teddy Craft, 22, college football player for Georgia Southern, injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident [2]
- Ralph Ginzburg, 76, publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma, [3]
- Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoer and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer. [4]
- Kevin Herlihy, 58, New Zealand softball pitcher played in two teams that won world titles and inaugural member of the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, heart attack. [5]
- Kenneth Lay, 64, former CEO of Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack. [6]
- Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader. [7]
- John Hinde, 92, Australian film reviewer and journalist. [8]
- Bobby Joe Mason, 70, member of the Harlem Globetrotters for 15 years and member of the Bradley University team of the century, cardiac arrest. [9]
- Hans Bierbrauer alias Oskar, 84, German caricaturist. [10]
- Dick Dickey, 79, former player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University. [11]
- Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (As the World Turns). [12] Suicide[13]
- Wilbert Hopper, 73, former president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada. [14]
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, cancer. [15] [16]
- Lars Korvald, 90, former Prime Minister of Norway. [17]
- Sir Carol Mather, 87, former British Conservative MP. [18]
- Nimrod Ping, 46, Brighton city councillor [19]
- Ethel Robison, 112, Missouri's oldest person, 23rd oldest in world at time of death.
- Lynn Stanley, 58, chairwoman of the Protect Marriage Arizona Coalition and activist against gay marriage, car accident. [20]
- Mpozi Tolbert, 34, award winning press photographer. [21]
- L. Thomas Appleby, 82, American president of the United Nations Development Corporation and New York City housing commissioner. [22]
- Balázs Horváth, 64, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer [23]
- Herty Lewites, 65, Nicaraguan presidential candidate. [24]
- Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian [25][26]
- Roland Remmel, 88, American businessman and fundraiser for waterfowl charities, cancer. [27]
- Richard Streeton, 75, English journalist [28]
- Umberto Abronzino, 85, member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator. [29]
- Edwin Broderick, 89, former Roman Catholic Bishop for Albany, NY, USA, and director of Catholic Relief Services. [30]
- Jaye Michael Davis, 62, veteran U.S. radio deejay, motorcycle accident. [31]
- Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer. [32]
- Irving Green, 90, co-founder of Mercury Records. [33] [34]
- Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, former Prime Minister of Japan (1996-98). [35]
- Israel Kantor, 56, member of Tropicana All Stars, cancer. [36]
- Yousuf Khan, 70, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack. [37]
- Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker. [38]
- Michael Parman, 61, editor and publisher of The Press Democrat, pancreatic cancer. [39]
- Dr. Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author. [40]
- Samir Sarhan, Egyptian writer, critic and organiser of the Cairo International Book Fair, heart failure. [41]
- Fred Trueman, 75, Yorkshire and England cricketer, lung cancer. [42]
- Robbie "Rocket" Watts, 47, Australian guitarist for the Cosmic Psychos. [43]
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
- 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
- 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
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...