Deaths in 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2006. Links to other years follow.

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July 2006

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18

V.P. Sathyan, 41, former captain of the Indian national football team, an apparent suicide. [1]
Raul Cortez, 73, Brazilian actor, stomach cancer [2]
Jimmy Leadbetter, 78, former Ipswich Town footballer [3]

17

Rev Amos Bailey, 88 writer of a syndicated column "Our Daily Bread", thyroid cancer. [4]
Billy Firehawk, 40, former professional wrestler, diabetes [5]
Keith LeClair, 40, U.S. college baseball coach, Lou Gehrig's Disease [6]
Mike MacDonald, pioneering Canadian aboriginal video artist. [7]
Sam Myers, 70, American blues musician, who won 9 W.C. Handy awards with his band the Rockets; throat cancer. [8] [9]
Mickey Spillane, 88, American author, creator of Mike Hammer detective fiction. [10][11][12]

16

Kevin Hughes, 53, former British Labour MP for Doncaster North, motor neurone disease [13].
Bob Orton, Sr., 76, former professional wrestler, heart attack. [14]
Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 57, American billionaire and Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas since 1996, myeloproliferative disorder. [15] [16]
Harold Scott, 70, award-winning actor and playwright. [17]
Ted Stone, 72, Evangelist known for his walks across America. [18]
Malachi Thompson, 56, jazz trumpeter, cancer. [19]
Winston Wilson, 63, founder of Winston Daniels Ltd of Napa Valley, wine importer, esophageal cancer. [20]

15

Robert H. Brooks, 69, chairman of Hooters of America, natural causes. [21]
Rev. Joseph Boone, 83, United States civil rights activist, diabetes. [22]
John Joseph Fitzpatrick, 87, Bishop of Brownsville for 20 years. [23]
Dr. James Nicholas, 85, American orthopedic surgeon and physician for three NFL teams. [24]
István Pálfi, 39, Hungarian Member of the European Parliament, long illness.
A.C. Krishna Rao, 93, founder of the Stree Seva Mandir a charity for destitute women in India. [25]

14

Ted Bilkey, 72, former Chief Operating Officer for DP World the world's third largest ports company. [26]
William Downs, 39, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina. [27]
Tom Frame, British comic book letterer, cancer. [28]
Heinrich Heidersberger, 100, German photographer [29]
William Lash III, 45, former assistant-secretary of the United States Department of Commerce and professor at George Mason University, suicide after killing his 12 year old son. [30]
Christophe Mérieux, 39, head of research at BioMérieux and intended successor to Alain Mérieux as Chief Executive, heart attack. [31]
Carrie Nye, 69, American actress, wife of Dick Cavett, lung cancer. [32]
Len Teeuws, 79, former offensive and definsive lineman for the Los Angeles Rams and the Chicago Cardinals. [33]
Maulana Hasan Turrabi, prominent Shia leader in Pakistan, died in bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan. [34]
Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, 43, Polish International Grandmaster of chess, liver problems. [35]

13

Dorothy Clark Blackmun, 95, widow of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Harry Blackmun [36]
Red Buttons, 87, American comedian, vascular disease [37]
Pamela Cooper, 95, refugee activist known for her work with the Palestinians. [38]
Charles Dakin, 76, British classical composer, car crash. [39]
Ángel Cardinal Suquía Goicoechea, 89, retired Metropolitan-Archbishop of Madrid [40]
Jürgen Kießling, 65, FIFA World Cup 2006 official in Berlin, suicide. [41]
John Rector, Jr, 86, former publisher of the Dallas Morning News, pneumonia. [42]
Jonathan Solomon, 74, Gwich'in tribal leader. [43]

12

Rocky Barton, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. [44]
George Creel, Jr., 90, Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and newspaper columnist. [45]
Kurt Kreuger, 89, Swiss-German actor who played a Nazi in a number of movies in the 1940s and 1950s, stroke. [46]
Hubert Lampo, 85, Belgian writer. [47]
Charles H. G. Rees, 84, American media executive, former president of Whitney Communications. [48]

11

Kathy Augustine, 50, State Controller of Nevada who was first Nevada state official to be impeached in office, heart attack. [49]
Vasant Chavan, 64, Indian politician and former Minister, cardiac arrest. [50]
John Coletta, 74, former manager of Deep Purple and Whitesnake, due to unspecified illness. [51]
Neil Coulbeck, Royal Bank of Scotland executive questioned over Enron collapse, unexplained. [52]
Mary Day, 96, American ballet dancer and co-founder of the Washington School of Ballet. [53]
Gerald Gidwitz, 99, American cosmetics executive, co-founder of Helene Curtis, congestive heart failure. [54] [55]
Barnard Hughes, 90, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor. [56] [57]
Bill Miller, 91, American pianist for Frank Sinatra, heart attack. [58] [59]
Derrick O'Brien, 31, executed for the rape and murder of two teenage girls in Texas. [60]
Wilhelm Schippers, 41, Dutch murderer, suicide in Bijlmerbajes prison [61]
Ruth Schonthal, 82, classical pianist and composer [62]
John Spencer, 71, British former world champion snooker player, stomach cancer [63] [64] [65]
Wiarton Willie, 8, Canada's most well-known Groundhog Day prognosticator, following a long illness [66]

10

Shamil Basayev, 41, Chechen rebel leader, terrorist, explosion. [67] [68] [69][70]
Tommy Bruce, 68, British singer ("Ain't Misbehavin'"). [71]
The Very Rev. Dr. Raymond Furnell, 71, Dean of York from 1994-2003, cancer [72]
Anthony Holliday, 66, South African philosopher and journalist, cancer. [73]
Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi, 89, Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist who published 50 books. [74]
Ali Taziyev, Chechen militant.[75]
Blanca Torres, 78, Mexican actress. [76]
Fred Wander, 89, Austrian author and Holocaust survivor. [77]

9

Dr. Fred Epstein, 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumors, melanoma. [78]
Abdel Moneim Madbouly, 85, Egyptian comedian and playwright. Congestive heart failure. [79]
Alan Senitt, 27, British political activist, stabbed to death. [80]
Milan Williams, 58, keyboardist, founding member of R&B/funk band the Commodores, cancer. [81] [82]
Michael Zinzun, 57, ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist; died in his sleep. [83]

8

George Albee, 84, American psychologist and former head of the American Psychological Association, argued that social problems contributed to mental illness. [84] [85]
June Allyson, 88, Hollywood actress, pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a long illness. [86]
Eric Bedford, 78, former member of the Wran Government ministry 1976-1985 in New South Wales. [87]
Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, 91, founder of Transfield Holdings Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, died after a fall. [88]
Rolf Braun, 77, German Fastnacht and TV personality [89]
David Bright, 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrest stemming from decompression sickness. [90] [91]
Ana María Campoy, 80, Argentine actress, pneumonia [92].
Peter Hawkins, 82, British actor and voice artist - voice of the Flowerpot Men, Captain Pugwash and the Daleks. [93]
Catherine Leroy, 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam War in Life, cancer. [94] [95]
Lajos Polgar, 89, accused of involvement in genocide in World War II as a member of the Hungarian Arrow Cross. [96]
Raja Rao, 97, Indian novelist (Kanthapura). [97] [98]
Jesse Simons, 88, American labor arbitrator. [99]
Dorothy Uhnak, 76, American policewoman turned novelist. [100]

7

Luis Barragan, 34, president of 1-800-Mattress, drowned. [101] [102]
Syd Barrett, 60, founding member of Pink Floyd, complications related to diabetes. [103]
Irene Buri-Nelson, 84, first female member of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame, car crash. [104]
Reinhold Carlson, 100, former mayor of Des Moines, Iowa and Iowa State Senator. [105]
Rudi Carrell, 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancer [106]
John Warner Fitzgerald, 81, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. [107]
Elias Hrawi, 79, former President of Lebanon (1989-98), cancer. [108]
Shana Leaupepe, 21, New Mexico State University American football player, drive-by shooting. [109]
Dolores Lescure, 89, former chair of the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation and former mayor of Staunton, Virginia. [110]
Dina Kaminskaya, 85, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents. [111]
Gilbert Mason, 77, Mississippi civil rights campaigner. [112]
Dr. John Money, 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Parkinson's disease. [113] [114]
Eric Schopler, 79, psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer. [115]
Frank P. Zeidler, 93, Mayor of Milwaukee 1948-1960 and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city, died in his sleep. [116]

6

Poul Andersen, 84, Danish-born publisher of Bien, the only weekly Danish newspaper in the US, Alzheimer's disease. [117]
Juan de Ávalos, 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack [118].
Teddy Craft, 22, U.S. college football player for Georgia Southern, motorcycle accident [119]
Ralph Ginzburg, 76, U.S. publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma, [120]
Al Hodge, 55, Cornish rock guitarist and songwriter, cancer. [121]
John Manos, 83, US and Ohio judge for 43 years. [122]
George Prugh, 86 United States Army General and military lawyer who organised Prisoner of War status for combatants in the Vietnam War, complications from Parkinson's disease. [123]
Juan Pablo Rebella, 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide. [124], [125]
Kasey Rogers, 79, American actress (Bewitched) and motocross racer, stroke. [126],[127],[128]
ES Turner, 96, English historian and journalist [129]
Tom Weir, 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster. [130] [131]

5

Barbara Albright, 51, prolific U.S. author of food and knitting books, brain tumor. [132]
Lucien Crump, Jr, 71, Philadelphia artist and art gallery owner, cancer. [133]
Lou Dantzler, 69, founder of Challengers Boys & Girls Club in Los Angeles, stroke. [134]
Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer. [135]
Lewis Glucksman, 80, former head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers. [136]
Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business. [137]
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. [138]
Kenneth Lay, 64, former CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack. [139]
Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader. [140]
Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic who worked for Rolling Stone and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records. [141]
Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress [142]
Hugh Stubbins, Jr., 94, American architect of Manhattan's Citicorp Centre, pneumonia. [143] [144]
Tongan Prince Tu'ipelehake, 56, and Princess Kaimana, 46, car crash in Menlo Park, California. [145][146][147]

4

Zelda Foster, 71, American social worker and hospice pioneer. [148]
John Hinde, 92, Australian film reviewer and journalist. [149]
Bobby Joe Mason, 70, member of the Harlem Globetrotters for 15 years and member of the Bradley University team of the century, cardiac arrest. [150]
Jack Sameth, 79, American television producer and director. [151]
Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American world champion bridge player and author. Complications of Parkinson's Disease. [152]