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.

August 2006

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Kent Andersson, 64, Swedish motorcycle racer, winner of 1973 and 1974 125cc World Championships. [1]
Uwe Leichsenring, 39, German NPD politician, injuries sustained in a car accident. [2] (German)
Naguib Mahfouz, 94, Egyptian winner of 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature, head injuries sustained in a fall in July. [3]
Lord Hector Monro, 83, Scottish former Conservative MP and government minister. [4]

29

John Cummins, 58, Victorian union official and last secretary of the Builders' Labourers Federation, cancer. [5]
Mike Sears, 65, owned a chain of stores in Fairfax, VA, led an unsuccessful bid for US Senate in 1982, stroke. ^{[citation needed]}

24

Anthony Malara, 69, former president of CBS Television and former head of the New York State Broadcasters Association. [47]
Viktor Pavlov, 65, Russian actor, heart attack. [48] (in Russian)
David Plowright, 75, TV executive and producer, former chairman of Granada Television. [49]
Ralph Schoenstein, 73, American humorist and NPR commentator. [50]
Léopold Simoneau, 90, Canadian lyric tenor. [51] [52]
Gene Thompson, 89, baseball player with the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Giants. [53]
John Weinzweig, 93, Canadian music composer. [54]

23

Lauren Crowner, 25, news anchor/reporter at WCMH-TV in Columbus, OH, infection after auto accident. [55]
Maynard Ferguson, 78, Canadian jazz trumpeter, kidney and liver failure. [56] [57][58]
Wasim Raja, 54, former Pakistan Test cricket player, heart attack while playing a match in Marlow, England. [59] [60]
David Schnaufer, 53, Appalachian dulcimer player, lung cancer. [61]
Marie Tharp, 86, American oceanographic cartographer. [62]
Ed Warren, 79, demonologist, after long illness. [63]
Jay Young, 56, one of the original CNN news anchors, heart attack. [64]

22

Wallace Brown, 76, Australian journalist, political correspondent in Canberra for (Brisbane's) The Courier-Mail 1961-1996. [65]
Bruce Gary, 55, American rock musician, drummer with The Knack, lymphoma. [66] [67]
Frank Lennon, 79, Canadian photographer who recorded Paul Henderson celebrating his winning goal in the Summit Series. [68]

21

Máximo Carvajal, 70, Chilean comic book artist. [69]
Ustad Bismillah Khan, 90, Indian shehnai musician and Bharat Ratna winner, heart attack. [70] [71] [72]
Jon Lilletun, 60, Norwegian politician (KrF), Minister of Education 1997-2000, cancer. [73]
Geff Noblet, 89, Australian Test cricketer 1949-1953. [74]
William C. Norris, 95, American engineer and founder of Control Data Corporation. [75]
Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, 65, Dutch billionaire businessman, pancreatic cancer. [76]
S. Yizhar, 89, Israeli author, heart disease. [77]

20

Dr. George Astaphan, 60, Kittian doctor who provided steroids to, amongst others, Ben Johnson in the 1980s. [78]
Claude Blanchard, 74, French-Canadian pop singer and actor, heart attack. [79]
Renate Brausewetter, 100, German silent film actress. [80]
Alexander Cushing, 92, American founder of the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, brought the 1960 Winter Olympics to the US. [81]
Roger Donoghue, 75, American boxer. [82]
Robert Hoffman, 59, American businessman and art collector, co-founder of National Lampoon. [83]
James T. "Red" Hudson, 81, founder of Hudson Foods, lung cancer. [84]
Jack Laughery, 71, American former CEO and chairman of the Hardee's restaurant chain, lung cancer. [85]
Jacob Mincer, 84, Polish-born professor of economics at Columbia University. [86]
Giuseppe Moccia, alias Pipolo, 75, Italian film director with Franco Castellano (Castellano & Pipolo), father of writer Federico Moccia. [87]
Joe Rosenthal, 94, Pulitzer Prize winner for photographing United States Marines raising their flag on Iwo Jima, natural causes. [88]
Neil Trezise, 75, Australian Labor politician, Victorian State Government Minister for Sport 1982-92, Australian Rules footballer 1949-59 for Geelong, heart attack. [89]
Richard Arthur de Yarburgh-Bateson, 95, 6th Baron Deramore and writer of erotic fiction. [90]

19

Marvin Barrett, 86, American journalist and author. [91]
Joyce Blair, 73, British actress, sister of Lionel Blair, cancer [92]
Clinton Bristow, Jr., 57, American lawyer and education official, president of Alcorn State University, heart failure. [93]
James Lovett Dewar, 94, American banker, founder of Park Avenue Bank. [94]
Joseph Hill, 57, Jamaican lead singer of roots reggae group Culture, liver failure. [95] [96]
Omar Oscar Míguez, 78, Uruguayan footballer and 1950 FIFA World Cup winner. [97]
Mervyn Wood, 89, Australian rower, three-time Olympic medal winner, New South Wales Police Commissioner. [98] [99]

18

James Clark, Jr., 87, former president of the Maryland State Senate, cancer. [100]
Kathryn Frost, 57, retired U.S. Army Major General and one of its highest ranking women, wife of former U.S. Representative Martin Frost, breast cancer. [101]
Grace Furukawa, 77, first Japanese-Canadian teacher in Ontario, natural causes. [102]
Fernand Gignac, 72, French-Canadian singer and actor, hepatitis. [103]
Dick Hickox, 68, guard for the University of Miami basketball team, 1959-60. [104]
Ken Kearney, 82, dual international for Australia in rugby league and rugby union, heart attack. [105]
Jeffrey Tennyson, 54, American artist and collector of hamburger memorabilia, author of Hamburger Heaven. [106]

17

Yen Ngoc Do, 65, founder of Nguoi Viet Daily News, diabetes and kidney disease. [107] [108]
Len Evans, 75, Australian wine writer and founder of the Australian Wine Bureau, heart attack. [109]
Ken Goodall, 59, Irish international rugby union player 1967-1970. [110]
Masumi Hayashi, 60, Japanese-American photographer, shooting. [111]
John Hutton, 59, American furniture designer. [112]
Dr. Vernon Ingram, 82, German-born molecular biologist at MIT, discovered the cause of sickle cell anemia. [113]
Walter Jagiello, 76, "Li'l Wally", American polka musician and songwriter. [114]
Shamsur Rahman, 76, Bangladeshi poet, kidney and liver failure. [115]
Bernard Rapp, 61, French film director, writer and journalist, lung cancer. [116] [117]
Sig Shore, 87, film producer (Superfly). [118]
Evan Harris Walker, 70, physicist and consciousness theorist [119]

16

Umberto Baldini, 84, Italian art restorer, director of the conservation studios at the Uffizi. [120]
Alex Buzo, 62, Australian playwright (Norm and Ahmed, Rooted), cancer. [121]
Herschel Green, 86, American World War II fighter ace. [122]
Jon Nödtveidt, 31, Swedish lead guitarist and vocalist of death metal band Dissection, convicted murderer, suicide. [123][124]
James A. Reed, 92, lawyer and banker, former assistant Secretary of the Treasury. [125]
Alfredo Stroessner, 93, former dictator of Paraguay, complications from hernia surgery. [126]
Alan Vint, 61, American actor, multiple organ failure following various illnesses [127][128]
William Wasson, 82, priest. [129]

15

Rick Bourke, 51, Australian rugby league player, cancer. [130]
Dr. James W. Smith, Jr., 79, American surgeon, author, and collector of early arcade games. [131]
Rudi Stern, 69, American multimedia artist. [132]
Dame Te Atairangikaahu, 75, Māori Queen. [133]
Doug White, 61, American news anchor, cancer. [134]
Faas Wilkes, 82, Dutch international footballer. [135]

14

Dr. Paul Beeson, 97, American infectious disease researcher, former chair of the department of medicine at Yale University. [136]
Johnny Duncan, 67, country singer and songwriter ("She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed Anytime", "It Couldn't Have Been Any Better"), heart attack. [137] [138] [139]
Richard J. Farmer, 43, Emmy-award winning cameraman. [140]
Adriaan de Groot, 91, Dutch chess master and psychologist. [141]
Milton Kaye, 97, American pianist and arranger. [142]
Lord Kilbracken, 85, British-born Irish peer, wartime Fleet Air Arm pilot and journalist. [143] [144]
Bruno Kirby, 57, American character actor (The Godfather Part II, City Slickers), complications from leukemia. [145] [146]
Lawrence Sacharow, 68, American Obie Award-winning Off-Broadway director. [147]
Dr. James Wattenbarger, 84, American educator and University of Florida professor, designed Florida's community college system. [148]

13

Joseph Carlino, 89, American Speaker of the New York State Assembly, 1959-1964. [149]
Kermit L. Hall, 61, President of the University at Albany and member of the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, swimming accident. [150] [151]
Al Hostak, 90, American National Boxing Association Middleweight champion in 1938 and 1939, stroke. [152] [153]
Tony Jay, 73, British actor and voice artist, complications from tumor surgery. [154]
Annely Juda, 91, German-born London art gallery owner. [155]
Payao Poontarat, 49, Thailand's first Olympic medal winner (bronze, 1976) and former World Boxing Council champion, ALS. [156] [157]
Diane Shamash, 51, American founder of Minetta Brook, a non-profit art organization. [158]
Nathan Sloane, 97, former owner of the Fox Cross Candy Company. [159]

12

Victoria Gray Adams, 79, African-American civil rights activist, first woman to run for a US Senate seat in Mississippi, cancer. [160] [161]
Mazisi Kunene, 76, South African poet and academic. [162]
Ketheshwaran Loganathan, Tamil peace official, assassination. [163]
Camille Loiseau, 114, French doyenne, oldest verified person in Western Europe. [164][165] (French)
Raska Lukwiya, commander in the Lord's Resistance Army of Uganda and indictee of the International Criminal Court for war crimes, killed in battle. [166]
Dr. Monroe Romansky, 95, American academic and physician, developed the Romansky Formula for penicillin administration, Alzheimer's disease. [167] [168]
Karl von Stroheim, 78, professional wrestler, heart attack. [169]

11

John L. Bull, 92, American ornithologist. [170]
Alvin Cooperman, 83, American entertainment executive. [171]
David Thomas Dawson, 48, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Montana. [172]
Victor del Corral, 84, Cuban restauranteur, founder of New York City's Victor's Cafe. [173]
Mike Douglas, 81, American talk-show host and entertainer. [174]
Joel Harnett, 80, American civic watchdog and former candidate for Mayor of New York City. [175]
Alice Ilchman, 71, American economist, president of Sarah Lawrence College, 1981-1998. [176]
Leonard Marks, 90, American communications lawyer and former director of the United States Information Agency. [177]
Joe Rebman, 21, sprint car driver, racing accident in Mansfield, OH. [178]

10

George Dawkes, 86 legendary cricketer (Wicket keeper) for Derbyshire. [179]
Barbara George 63, R&B-singer [180]
Irving São Paulo, 41, Brazilian actor, multiple organ failure [181]
Yasuo Takei, 76, Japan's second-richest man and founder of Takefuji Corporation. [182] [183]

9

Anga Díaz, 45, Cuban conga player. [184] [185]
Melissa Hayden, 83, Canadian-born ballerina, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, pancreatic cancer. [186] [187]
Philip Empson High, 92, British science fiction author, natural causes. [188]
James Van Allen, 91, American space physicist, heart failure. [189] [190]

8

William B. Anderson, 82, journalist [191]
Gustavo Arcos, 79, Cuban dissident, pneumonia. [192] [193]
Marion Cajori, 56, documentary filmmaker. [194]
Darrell Ferguson, 28, convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection in Ohio. [195]
Duke Jordan, 84, American bebop jazz pianist. [196] [197]
Dino Restelli, 81, major league baseball player. [198]

7

Mary Anderson Bain, 94, New Deal director under FDR and former top aide to Congressman Sid Yates. [199]
Sue Bierman, 82, former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, car accident. [200]
Jim Crooker, 80, amateur who played in more Bob Hope Chrysler Classic tournaments than any other golfer, cancer. [201]
Lois January, 92, American actress, Alzheimer's disease. [202]
Robert McCullough, 64, African-American civil rights activist, leader of the Friendship Nine. [203]
Bob Miller, 76, NFL defensive tackle with the title-winning Detroit Lions, cancer. [204]
John Weinberg, 81, American banker, former head of Goldman Sachs, complications from a fall. [205]

6

Gintaras Beresnevičius, 45, a Lithuanian historian of religions specializing in Baltic mythology, writer, scholar, publicist. [206]
Dorothy Healey, 91, American communist leader, pneumonia. [207]
Rafik Kamalov, Kyrgyz Imam and alleged Islamic militant, injuries sustained from gunfire. [208]
Stella Moray, 83, British actress and performer. [209].
Jim Pomeroy, 53, first American to win a World Championship Motocross event, automobile accident. [210]
Moacir Santos, 80, Brazilian composer and arranger. [211][212]
Sir Robert Sparkes, 77, Australian grazier and businessman, former President of the Queensland National Party 1970-1990. [213]
Hirotaka Suzuoki, 56, Japanese anime voice actor, lung cancer. [214]
Monsignor Lawrence Wnuk, 98, Polish Catholic priest, Protonotary Apostolic, founder of the Polish Canadian Centre Association of Windsor, Ontario. [215]