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 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.

July 2006

27

Jessie Gilbert, 19, Women's chess prodigy fell to her death.
Maryann Mahaffey, 81, Former Member of Detroit city council, leukemia. [1]
Elisabeth Volkmann, 64, German actress, German voice of Marge Simpson, found dead. (Source: ARD teletext)
Funsho Williams, Nigerian politician, strangled. [2]

26

Louise Bennett, 86, Jamaican comedienne, poet. [3]
Floyd Dixon, 77, R&B pianist, kidney failure. [4]
Timotheos III Papoutsakis, Archbishop of Crete, 91. ^{[citation needed]}

25

Carl Brashear, 75, first black United States Navy diver, subject of the film Men of Honor, heart failure. [5]
Hani Mohsin Hanafi, 43, Malaysian actor and television game show host, heart attack [6][7]
Chen Jinlang 45, Singaporean pop singer in Hokkien dialect, colorectal cancer. [8]
Bob Simpson, retired senior BBC correspondent. [9]

24

Janka Bryl, 88, Belarusian writer. [10][11]
Heinrich Hollreiser, 93, German conductor. [12]
Maha Kanapathipillai, pro-Government Tamil politician in Sri Lanka, presumed shot dead by Tamil Tigers [13][14]
Bill Long, 88, Canadian ice hockey coach [15]
Leon Morris, 92, Australian theologian. [16]

23

Jean-Paul Desbiens, 79, French-Canadian author of Les insolences du Frère Untel, heart attack [17]
John Mack, 78, American oboist, complications from brain cancer.[18]
Frederick Mosteller, 89, Harvard professor of statistics, founded statistic studies at Harvard, sepsis. [19]
Terence Otway, 92, British soldier, commander of the assault on the Merville Battery on D-Day [20]
Ewa Sałacka, 49, Polish actress, allergic reaction after being stung by a wasp [21]

22

Donald Reid Cabral, 83, former foreign minister of the Dominican Republic. [22]
José Antonio Delgado, 41, first Venezuelan to climb Mount Everest, found dead on Nanga Parbat in Pakistan. [23]
Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, 71, Italian-Brazilian actor, complications from kidney disease [24]
Jessie Mae Hemphill, 70, award winning blues musician, complications of an infection. [25]
Thomas J. Manton, 73, longtime Democratic leader of Queens, NY, former US Representative (1985-99). [26][27]
H. Freeman Matthews Jr., 78, Colombian-born American Foreign Service officer. [28]
James E. West, 55, former mayor of Spokane, Washington, colorectal cancer [29]

21

Walter Allner, 97, German-born art director of Fortune. [30]
Ric Campman, 64, artist and co-founder of the River Gallery School died of cancer. [31][32]
Mako, 72, Japanese-American film, television, and Broadway actor; cancer [33]
John Mazmanian, 80, drag racing pioneer.
Bob McCausland, 90, cartoonist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. [34]
Ta Mok, 80, former Khmer Rouge commander, known as "The Butcher." [35]
Alexander Petrenko, 30, Russian international basketballer, car crash. [36]
Gianmario Roveraro, 70, Italian banker and founder of Akros Finanziaria, missing since July 5, murder. [37] [38]
J. Madison Wright Morris, 21, former child actress [39]

20

Charles Bettelheim, 92, French Marxist economist and historian [40] Template:De icon
Philipp von Bismarck, 91, German politician of the CDU party. [41] Template:De icon
Kevin Brophy, 21, Australian basketball player at the University of Georgia, automobile accident. [42] [43]
Madonna Castillo, 31, former Secretary-General of the Anakpawis party in the Philippines, shot. [44]
Chung In-yung, 86, founder of Halla Engineering & Construction in South Korea. [45]
Robert Cornthwaite, 89, American character actor (Thing From Another World). [46]
Ted Grant, 93, South African-British Trotskyist politician [47]
Brandon Hedrick, 27, convicted murderer and rapist, execution by electric chair in Virginia [48]
Tom Larson, 77, former Federal Highway Administrator and Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transport. [49]
Lim Kim San, 89, former cabinet minister of Singapore. [50]
Harry Olivieri, 90, co-inventor of the Philly cheesesteak and co-founder of Pat's King of Steaks cheesesteak emporium. [51]
Gérard Oury, 87, French actor, screenwriter and film director. [52] [53] [54]
Theo Sijthoff, 69, Dutch former cyclist and fashion designer [55]
Romeo Tan Togonon, 55, editorial cartoonist for the Manila Times. [56]

19

Rev Robert Baumiller, 75, associate dean of health at Xavier University. [57]
Mauriceo Brown, 31, executed in Texas for 1996 robbery murder. [58]
Sam Neely, 58, singer-songwriter, collapsed while mowing his lawn.[59]
Maulvi Yunis Khalis, 87, mujahideen leader in Afghanistan who met with Ronald Reagan in 1988. [60]
Dave Walter, 63, Montana historian, heart attack. [61]
Jack Warden, 85, Emmy Award-winning American actor, heart and kidney failure. [62]
George Wetherill, 80, American astrophysicist, winner of the National Medal of Science. [63]
Tudi Wiggins, 70, Canada-born soap opera actor, cancer. [64]

18

Raul Cortez, 73, Brazilian actor, stomach cancer. [65]
Henry Hewes, 89, former Saturday Review theater critic and editor of Best Plays (1960-1964). [66] [67]
Jimmy Leadbetter, 78, former Ipswich Town footballer. [68][69]
David Maloney, British television director and producer for Doctor Who and Blakes 7 [70]
V.P. Sathyan, 41, former captain of the Indian national football team, apparent suicide. [71][72]

17

Rev Amos Bailey, 88, writer of the syndicated column "Our Daily Bread", thyroid cancer. [73]
Billy Firehawk, 40, former professional wrestler, diabetes [74]
Galen Fiss, 75, former Cleveland Browns linebacker. [75]; [76]
Keith LeClair, 40, U.S. college baseball coach, Lou Gehrig's Disease [77]
Mike MacDonald, 65, pioneering Canadian aboriginal video artist. [78]
Robert Mardian, 82, attorney for Richard Nixon, figure in the Watergate scandal. [79]
Sam Myers, 70, American blues musician, who won 9 W.C. Handy awards with his band the Rockets; throat cancer. [80] [81]
David Skramstad, 74, twice mayor of Olympia, Washington and mystery writer, heart failure. [82]
Mickey Spillane, 88, American author, creator of Mike Hammer detective fiction. [83][84][85]

16

Peter Chew, 82, author and journalist specialising in horse racing, heart attack. [86]
Martin Gallent, 75, American former vice chairman of the New York City Planning Commission. [87]
Kevin Hughes, 53, former British Labour MP for Doncaster North, motor neurone disease [88] [89].
Bob Orton, Sr., 76, former professional wrestler, heart attack. [90]
Ossi Reichert, 80, German alpine skier, Olympic Champion 1956
Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 57, American billionaire and Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas since 1996, myeloproliferative disorder. [91] [92]
Harold Scott, 70, award-winning actor and playwright. [93]
Malachi Thompson, 56, American jazz trumpeter, cancer. [94] [95]
Winston Wilson, 63, co-founder of Winston Daniels Ltd of Napa Valley, wine importer, esophageal cancer. [96]

15

Robert H. Brooks, 69, chairman of Hooters of America, natural causes. [97]
Rev. Joseph Boone, 83, United States civil rights activist, diabetes. [98]
John Feild, 83, pioneer of affirmative action as executive director of the President's Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity in the administration of John F. Kennedy, heart attack. [99]
John Joseph Fitzpatrick, 87, Bishop of Brownsville for 20 years. [100]
Howdy Groskloss, 100, was the oldest living former major league baseball player. [101]
Kenneth Lochhead, 80, Canadian artist who was a member of the Regina Five, colorectal cancer. [102]
Dr. James Nicholas, 85, American orthopedic surgeon and physician for three NFL teams. [103]
István Pálfi, 39, Hungarian Member of the European Parliament, long illness.
Rupert Pole, 87, American actor, forest ranger, and former co-husband of bigamous Anais Nin.[104]
A.C. Krishna Rao, 93, founder of the Stree Seva Mandir charity for destitute women in India. [105]
Andrew Sudduth, 44, American rower who won an Olympic silver medal, pancreatic cancer. [106] [107]

14

Ted Bilkey, 72, former Chief Operating Officer for DP World. [108] [109]
William Downs, 39, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina. [110]
Tom Frame, British comic book letterer, cancer. [111]
Heinrich Heidersberger, 100, German photographer [112]
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 autistic son. [113]
Christophe Mérieux, 39, head of research at BioMérieux and intended successor to Alain Mérieux as Chief Executive, heart attack. [114]
Carrie Nye, 69, American actress; lung cancer. [115][116]
June Ormond, 94, produced country music and religious films, complications of a stroke. [117]
Martha Peterson, 90, American president of Barnard College (1967-75). [118]
Senne Rouffaer, 80, Flemish actor. [119]
Len Teeuws, 79, former offensive and definsive lineman for the Los Angeles Rams and the Chicago Cardinals. [120]
Maulana Hasan Turrabi, prominent Shia leader in Pakistan, died in bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan. [121]
Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, 43, Polish International Grandmaster of chess, liver problems. [122] [123]

13

Red Buttons, 87, American comedian, vascular disease [124][125][126]
Pamela Cooper, 95, refugee activist known for her work with the Palestinians. [127]
Charles Dakin, 76, British classical composer, car crash. [128]
Ángel Cardinal Suquía Goicoechea, 89, retired Metropolitan-Archbishop of Madrid [129]
Jürgen Kießling, 65, FIFA World Cup 2006 official in Berlin, suicide. [130]
John Rector, Jr, 86, former publisher of the Dallas Morning News, pneumonia. [131]
Mark Ryder, 85, American dancer. [132]
Jonathan Solomon, 74, Gwich'in tribal leader. [133]
Cora T. Walker, 84, African-American lawyer, co-founder and senior partner of Walker & Bailey. [134]

12

Rocky Barton, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. [135]
George Creel, Jr., 90, Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and newspaper columnist. [136]
Kurt Kreuger, 89, Swiss-German actor who played a Nazi in a number of movies in the 1940s and 1950s, stroke. [137] [138]
Hubert Lampo, 85, Belgian writer. [139]
Charles H. G. Rees, 84, American media executive, former president of Whitney Communications. [140]

11

Kathy Augustine, 50, State Controller of Nevada who was first Nevada state official to be impeached in office, heart attack. [141]
Vasant Chavan, 64, Indian politician and former Minister, cardiac arrest. [142]
John Coletta, 74, former manager of Deep Purple and Whitesnake, due to unspecified illness. [143]
Neil Coulbeck, Royal Bank of Scotland executive questioned over Enron collapse, unexplained. [144]
Mary Day, 96, American ballet dancer and co-founder of the Washington School of Ballet. [145]
Gerald Gidwitz, 99, American cosmetics executive, co-founder of Helene Curtis, congestive heart failure. [146] [147]
Barnard Hughes, 90, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor. [148] [149]
Bill Miller, 91, American pianist for Frank Sinatra, heart attack. [150] [151]
Derrick O'Brien, 31, executed for the rape and murder of two teenage girls in Texas. [152]
Bronwyn Oliver, 47, Australian sculptor, suicide. [153]
William Pryce, 73, United States ambassador to Honduras from 1993 to 1996, pancreatic cancer. [154]
Wilhelm Schippers, 41, Dutch murderer, suicide in Bijlmerbajes prison [155]
Ruth Schonthal, 82, German-born classical pianist and composer [156] [157] [158]
John Spencer, 71, British former world champion snooker player, stomach cancer [159] [160] [161]
Philippe Takla, 91, former foreign minister of Lebanon. [162][163]
Wiarton Willie, 8, Canada's most well-known Groundhog Day prognosticator, following a long illness [164]

10

Shamil Basayev, 41, Chechen rebel leader, terrorist, explosion. [165] [166] [167][168]
Tommy Bruce, 68, British singer ("Ain't Misbehavin'"). [169]
The Very Rev. Dr. Raymond Furnell, 71, Dean of York from 1994-2003, responsible for introducing charges to visitors at York Minster, cancer [170][171]
Anthony Holliday, 66, South African philosopher and journalist, cancer. [172]
Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi, 89, Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist who published 50 books. [173]
Ruth Schonthal, 82, American composer. Complications from heart attack. cf July 11 [174]
Ali Taziyev, Chechen militant.[175]
Blanca Torres, 78, Mexican actress. [176]
Fred Wander, 89, Austrian author and Holocaust survivor. [177]

9

Dr. Fred Epstein, 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumors, melanoma. [178]
Abdel Moneim Madbouly, 85, Egyptian comedian and playwright. Congestive heart failure. [179]
Professor John Raeburn, 93, agricultural economist responsible for planning the "Dig for Victory" campaign in the United Kingdom during World War II. [180]
Alan Senitt, 27, British political activist, stabbed to death. [181]
Milan Williams, 58, keyboardist, founding member of R&B/funk band the Commodores, cancer. [182] [183]
Michael Zinzun, 57, ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist; died in his sleep. [184]

8

George Albee, 84, American psychologist and former head of the American Psychological Association, argued that social problems contributed to mental illness. [185] [186]
June Allyson, 88, Hollywood actress, pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a long illness. [187]
Eric Bedford, 78, former member of the Wran Government ministry 1976-1985 in New South Wales. [188]
Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, 91, founder of Transfield Holdings Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, died after a fall. [189]
Rolf Braun, 77, German Fastnacht and TV personality [190]
David Bright, 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrest stemming from decompression sickness. [191] [192]
Ana María Campoy, 80, Argentine actress, pneumonia [193].
Peter Hawkins, 82, British actor and voice artist - voice of the Flowerpot Men, Captain Pugwash and the Daleks. [194]
Catherine Leroy, 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam War in Life, cancer. [195] [196]
Micheal O Domhnail, 54, Celtic musician with The Bothy Band. [197]
Lajos Polgar, 89, accused of involvement in genocide in World War II as a member of the Hungarian Arrow Cross. [198]
Raja Rao, 97, Indian novelist (Kanthapura). [199] [200]
Jesse Simons, 88, American labor arbitrator. [201]
Dorothy Uhnak, 76, American policewoman turned novelist. [202]

7

Luis Barragan, 34, president of 1-800-Mattress, drowned. [203] [204]
Syd Barrett, 60, founding member of Pink Floyd, complications related to diabetes. [205]
Irene Buri-Nelson, 84, first female member of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame, car crash. [206]
Reinhold Carlson, 100, former mayor of Des Moines, Iowa and Iowa State Senator. [207]
Rudi Carrell, 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancer [208]
Dorothea Church, 83, African-American model, first successful black model in Paris. [209]
John Warner Fitzgerald, 81, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. [210]
Elias Hrawi, 79, former President of Lebanon (1989-98), cancer. [211]
Shana Leaupepe, 21, New Mexico State University American football player, drive-by shooting. [212]
Dolores Lescure, 89, former chair of the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation and former mayor of Staunton, Virginia. [213]
Dina Kaminskaya, 85, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents. [214]
Gilbert Mason, 77, Mississippi civil rights campaigner. [215]
Dr. John Money, 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Parkinson's disease. [216] [217]
Eric Schopler, 79, psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer. [218]
Frank P. Zeidler, 93, Mayor of Milwaukee 1948-1960 and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city, died in his sleep. [219]

6

Poul Andersen, 84, Danish-born publisher of Bien, the only weekly Danish newspaper in the US, Alzheimer's disease. [220]
Juan de Ávalos, 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack [221].
Teddy Craft, 22, U.S. college football player for Georgia Southern, motorcycle accident [222]
Ralph Ginzburg, 76, U.S. publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma, [223]
Al Hodge, 55, Cornish rock guitarist and songwriter, cancer. [224]
John Manos, 83, US and Ohio judge for 43 years. [225]
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. [226]
Juan Pablo Rebella, 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide. [227], [228]
Kasey Rogers, 79, American actress (Bewitched) and motocross racer, stroke. [229],[230],[231]
E.S. Turner, 96, English historian and journalist [232]
Tom Weir, 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster. [233] [234]

5

Barbara Albright, 51, prolific U.S. author of food and knitting books, brain tumor. [235]
Lucien Crump, 71, Philadelphia artist and art gallery owner, cancer. [236]
Lou Dantzler, 69, founder of Challengers Boys & Girls Club in Los Angeles, stroke. [237]
Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer. [238]
Lewis Glucksman, 80, former head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers. [239]
Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business. [240]
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. [241]
Kenneth Lay, 64, former CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack. [242]
Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader. [243]
Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic who worked for Rolling Stone and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records. [244]
Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress [245]
Hugh Stubbins, Jr., 94, American architect of Manhattan's Citicorp Centre, pneumonia. [246] [247]
Tongan prince Sione ʻUluvalu Ngū Takeivūlai Tukuʻaho, 56, and princess Kaimana, 46, car crash in Menlo Park, California. [248][249][250]

4

Zelda Foster, 71, American social worker and hospice pioneer. [251]
John Hinde, 92, Australian film reviewer and journalist. [252]
Bobby Joe Mason, 70, member of the Harlem Globetrotters for 15 years and member of the Bradley University team of the century, cardiac arrest. [253]
Jack Sameth, 79, American television producer and director. [254]
Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American world champion bridge player and author. Complications of Parkinson's Disease. [255]