Deaths in April 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2006.

April 2006

1

• Archie D'Souza, former Professor of Islamic studies at the Propaganda Fides College, Rome and the Dean of studies at Christ the King Seminary (Pakistan)[1]
• In Tam, 89, former Cambodian politician. [2]

2

• Sir Anthony Beaumont-Dark, 73, former British Conservative Member of Parliament. [3].
• Mohammed al-Maghout, 72, Syrian poet and playwright. [4]
• Bernard Seigal, 48, American musician and essayist with the stage name Buddy Blue, co-founder of the Beat Farmers, heart attack. [5]
• Nina von Stauffenberg, 92, widow of Hitler's would-be assassin. [6]

3

• Tom Abercrombie, 75, National Geographic photographer, complications from open-heart surgery. [7]
• Barry Bingham, Jr., 72, former editor and publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times. [8]
• Lou Carrol, 83, American traveling salesman, gave Checkers to Richard Nixon. [9]
• Doug Coombs, 48, American extreme skier, ski accident in the French Alps. [10]
• Ewan Fenton, 76, Scottish footballer. [11]
• Martin Gilks, 41, former drummer with The Wonder Stuff, motorcycle accident. [12] [13]
• Marshall Goldberg, 88, former NFL running back of the Chicago Cardinals, complications due to a head injury. [14] [15]
• Albert Harker, 95, last surviving member of the US 1934 FIFA World Cup soccer team. [16]
• Antonia Morgan, 91, fled the U.S. with granddaughter in Elizabeth Morgan custody battle [17]
• Genzo Murakami, 96, Japanese novelist. [18]
• Walter Ristow, 97, American map librarian at the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress [19]
• Ida Vos, 74, Dutch writer. [20]

4

• Mary Boyce, 85, British authority on Iran. [21]
• Colonel Fred Christensen, 84, American fighter ace in World War II. [22]
• Eckhard Dagge, 58, German WBC junior middleweight boxer. [23]
• Denis Donaldson, 55/56, former head of Sinn Féin at Stormont, and British double-agent, found shot dead at his home. [24]
• Gary Gray, 69, American child actor of the 1940s,from cancer.[25]
• John de Courcy Ireland, 94, Irish maritime historian and political activist. [26]
• Jürgen Thorwald, 90, German writer. [27]
• Vickery Turner, 66, British actress of the 60's. [28]
• Canon Frederick B. Williams, 66, minister of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem, New York City [29]

5

• Alain de Boissieu, 91, French General and son-in-law of Charles De Gaulle [30]
• J.B. Fuqua, 87, American entrepreneur and philanthropist. [31]
• George Savalla Gomes, 90, Brazilian entertainer who performed as "Carequinha" the clown.[32]
• Allan Kaprow, 78, American artist and art theorist, natural causes. [33]
• Armando Labra, 62, Mexican economist. [34]
• Archbishop Pasquale Macchi, 82, former private secretary to Pope Paul VI. [35] [36]
• Abdul-Salam Ojeili, 88, Syrian novelist. [37]
• Gene Pitney, 66, American singer and songwriter, heart disease. [38] [39]

6

• Jim Clack, 58, NFL offensive guard, heart failure. [40]
• Maggie Dixon, 28, women's basketball coach at United States Military Academy, cardiac arrhythmia. [41]
• Francis L. Kellogg, 89, American diplomat [42]
• Leslie Norris, 84, Welsh poet and professor at Brigham Young University. [43]
• Lucie 'Anne' Pere-Pucheu, 112, French supercentenarian. [44]

7

• Denise Morgan, 41, lawyer & professor at New York Law School [45]
• Bobbie Nudie, 92, American fashion designer, wife of Nudie Cohn. [46]
• Théogène Ricard, 96, Canadian politician. [47]

8

• Richard Pearlman, 68, director of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists. [48]
• Gerard Reve, 82, Dutch author (The Evenings, The Fourth Man), Alzheimer's disease. [49] [50][51]

9

• Charles Doe, 79, founder of Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub, cancer. [52]
• Frank Gibney, 81, American writer and journalist on Asia. [53]
• Billy Hitchcock, 89, Major League Baseball infielder, coach, manager, and scout, natural causes. [54] [55]
• Robin Orr, 96, Scottish classical composer and conductor [56]
• Jimmy Outlaw, 93, baseball third baseman/outfielder who played for the Cincinnati Reds, Boston Bees and Detroit Tigers between 1937 and 1949 [57]
• Georges Rawiri, 74, Gabonese politician, president of the Senate and former foreign minister. [58]
• Vilgot Sjöman, 81, Swedish film director (I Am Curious (Yellow)), complications from brain haemorrhage. [59]
• Natalia Troitskaya, 55, Russian operatic soprano [60]

10

• Joe Faragalli, 76, Canadian Football League head coach with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Eskimos, unspecified illness. [61]
• Bonaya Godana, 54, Kenyan politician, plane crash. [62]
• Bishop Charles Henderson, KC*HS, 81, retired Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, England, cancer. [63]

11

• Leonard Dommett, 77, Australian violinist and conductor. [64]
• Les Foote, 81, Australian Football Hall of Fame member. [65]
• DeShaun Holton, 32, American rapper better known as Proof of D-12, homicide. [66]
• Siobhán O'Hanlon, 43, Sinn Féin politician, cancer. [67]
• June Pointer, 52, singer, former member of The Pointer Sisters, lung cancer. [68]
• Shin Sang-ok, 80, Korean film producer, liver problems.[69]

12

• Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah, 41, Egyptian militant, killed by Pakistani forces. [70]
• Richard Bebb, 79, British actor. [71]
• William Sloane Coffin, 81, American minister and peace activist, congestive heart failure. [72].
• Andy Duncan, 83, American basketball player. [73]
• Dr. Paulina Kernberg, 71, Chilean-born American child psychiatrist, professor at Cornell University. [74]
• Kazuo Kuroki, 75, Japanese film director.
• Shekhar Mehta, 60, Kenyan rally driver, five-time winner of the Safari Rally & president of the FIA's World Rally Championship commission, illness relating to complications from an old injury. [75]
• Puggy Pearson, 77, American poker player. [76]
• Albert E. Radford, 88, American botanist, senior author of Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas, a landmark flora for North Carolina and South Carolina, which is still the definitive guide, nearly forty years after its publication. [77]
• Rajkumar, 76, Indian actor, cardiac arrest. [78]
• William Woo, 69, first Asian-American to be editor of a major American daily newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, professor at Stanford University. [79]

13

• Dame Muriel Spark, 88, British novelist, best known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1962). [80]
• Bruce Weber, 54, Australian rules football executive who was president of the Port Adelaide Football Club
• Arthur Winston, 100, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee famous for serving for 76 years and retiring at age 100. [81]

14

• Mahmut Bakalli, 70, Kosovo ethnic Albanian politician. [82]
• Dr. Tom Ferguson, 62, American medical doctor and author. [83]
• Miguel Reale, 95, Brazilian philosopher of law, heart attack. [84]
• Dr. Eberhardt Rechtin, 80, American electrical engineer and telecommunications expert. [85]

15

• Raúl Corrales, 81, Cuban photographer [86]
• Lord Eliot (Jago Eliot), 40, English noble, epilepsy, [87], [88]
• Calum Kennedy, 77, Scottish traditional singer. [89]
• Pavel Koutecký, 49, Czech documentary film maker, accidental fall. [90]
• Louise Smith, 89, first woman inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, known as "the first lady of racing," complications from cancer. [91]

16

• Francisco Adam, 22, Portuguese actor, car accident. [92]
• Richard Eckersley, 65, graphic designer. [93]
• Morton Freedgood, 93, American author (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three) under the pseudonym of John Godey. [94]
• Brett Goldin, 27, South African actor, killed by a head shot together with friend, fashion designer Richard Bloom, 27. [95]
• Harold Horwood, 82, writer and former Newfoundland politician, cancer. [96]
• Stephen Marshall, 20, American double murderer, suicide. [97]
• Daniel Schaefer, 70, former Republican United States Representative from Colorado served 1983-1999, cancer. [98]
• Jake Seamer, 92, English cricketer. [99]

17

• Dr. Jean Bernard, 98, French hematologist. [100] [101]
• Scott Brazil, 50, American television producer and director (The Shield), Lou Gehrig's disease. [102] [103]
• Peter Cadbury, 88, British entrepreneur and one of the founders of commercial TV broadcasting in the UK. [104] [105]
• Elford Albin Cederberg, 88, former Republican United States Representative from Michigan from 1953-1978 and former mayor of Bay City, Michigan. [106]
• Henderson Forsythe, 88, American actor (As the World Turns). [107] [108]
• Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, 84, scholar of Judaism. [109]
• Vaishnavi, 20, Indian Bollywood actress, suicide. [110]

18

• Ken Jones, 84, Wales and British Lion rugby union player and silver medal Olympiad. [111]
• John Lyall, 66, former football manager with West Ham United F.C. and Ipswich Town F.C., heart attack. [112]
• Grady McWhiney, 77, American historian. [113]
• Dick Rockwell, 85, American cartoonist, assistant on Steve Canyon, nephew of Norman Rockwell. [114]

19

• Scott Crossfield, 84, American X-15 test pilot, plane crash. [115][116]
• Bob Dove, 85, American NFL defensive lineman and member of the College Football Hall of Fame. [117]
• Ellen Kuzwayo, 91, South African author, anti-apartheid activist, and member of Parliament, diabetes. [118] [119]

20

• Kathleen Antonelli, 85, one of the original computer programmers, cancer. [120]
• Cy Bahakel, 87, American media magnate. [121]
• Stanley Hiller, Jr., 81, American helicopter designer. [122]
• Miguel Zacarías Nogaim, 101, Mexican film director. [123]
• Anna Svidersky, 17, murdered while working at McDonalds, stabbed. [124]
• Wolfgang Unzicker, 80, German chess grandmaster. [125]
• Robert Wegman, 87, chairman and former CEO of Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., philanthropist. [126] [127]

21

• Willie Brown Jr., 61, executed in North Carolina for a 1983 murder. [128]
• Fred Burton, 43, Belgian comic book artist. [129] [130]
• Jacob Kovco, 25, first Australian Defence Force serviceperson killed in Iraq. [131]
• Telê Santana, 74, Brazilian football coach, complications from an intestinal infection. [132]

22

• Henriette Avram, 86, library systems analyst, developed MARC cataloging format. [133] [134]
• Ed Davis, 89, former Los Angeles police chief (1969-1978). [135]
• Nobby Lawton, 65, midfielder & former captain of Preston North End, cancer. [136]
• Jobie Nutarak, 58, Canadian politician, snowmoblie accident. [137]
• Satyadeow Sawh, 50, Guyanese Minister of Fisheries, Crops and Livestock. Shot by masked gunmen. [138] [139] [140]
• Ronnie Sox, 67, American drag racing pioneer. [141]
• Alida Valli, 84, Italian actress (The Third Man). [142] [143][144]
• Fausto Vitello, 59, founding publisher of the skateboarding magazine Thrasher, heart attack. [145] [146]

23

• Ghafar Baba, 81, Malaysian former Deputy Prime Minister. [147]
• Susan Browning, 65, American actress.
• Harvey Bullock, 84, American television writer and producer (The Love Boat, Love, American Style). [148] [149]
• Wing Commander Johnny Checketts, 94, New Zealand World War II flying ace [150]
• Willie Finnigan, 93, Scottish footballer (Hibernian F.C.) [151]
• Boris Fraenkel, 85, French Trotskyist [152]
• Barry Gibbs, 73, South Australian cricket official. [153] [154]
• William Gottlieb, 89, American jazz photographer. [155] [156] [157]
• Jennifer Jayne, 64, British TV and film actress ("The Adventures of William Tell")
• Florence Mars, 83, American civil rights activist, author of Witness in Philadelphia. [158] [159]
• Ian Nelson, 50, English saxophone and clarinet musician, died in his sleep. [160]
• David Peckinpah, 54, television producer and director, heart attack [161].
• Phil Walden, 66, American founder of Capricorn Records, cancer. [162]
• Isaac Witkin, 69, South African-born American sculptor. [163]
• Roger Watkins, 69, English, former editor-in-chief of Variety magazine, cancer.

24

• Erik Bergman, 94, Finnish composer [164]
• Peter Ellis, 58, British television director. [165]
• Nasreen Pervin Huq, 47, Bangladeshi women's activist and Director of Action Aid,from getting hit by a car. [166]
• Grace Nelsen Jones, 112, Virginia's oldest person. [167] [168]
• Brian Labone, 66, former Everton and England footballer, heart attack [169]
• Bonnie Owens, 76, country music singer. [170]
• Jimmy Sharman, 94, Australian boxing troupe impresario. [171]
• Sibby Sisti, 85, MLB player with the Boston Braves [172]
• Steve Stavro, 78, Canadian grocery store magnate and a former owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, heart attack. [173]
• Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar), 91, of Satmar, one of the largest Hassidic Jewish groups in the world. [174]

25

• Jane Jacobs, 89, American-born Canadian urban activist and author (The Death and Life of Great American Cities), stroke. [175]
• Peter Law, 58, Welsh politician, independent MP and AM, brain tumor. [176]
• Tabe Slioor, 79, Finnish socialite. [177]
• John Kerr, 81, Irish ballad singer.

26

• Rabbi Moshe Halberstam, 74, Jerusalemite Rabbi, Dean of Tshakava Yeshivah and prominent member of the Edah Charedis Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem. [178]
• Professor Yuval Ne'eman, 80, Israeli physicist, founder of the Israel Space Agency, and former science minister. [179] [180]
• Russ Swan, 42, former Major League Baseball pitcher (injuries due to a fall) [181]

27

• Pat Marsden, 69, Canadian sportscaster, lung cancer. [182]
• Roy Mogg, 77, English Methodist preacher and fraternalist, announced at the 74th National Convention of the Loyal Order of Moose
• Strini Moodley, 60, founding member of South African Black Consciousness Movement [183]
• Kay Noble-Bell, 65, American wrestler. [184]
• Julia Thorne, 61, American author and first wife of John Kerry, bladder cancer. [185]
• Mel Tom, 64, American football player, heart failure. [186]
• Alexander Buel Trowbridge, 76, Secretary of Commerce under US President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1967-1968, former president of the National Association of Manufacturers.[187]

28

• Helen Armstrong, 63, American concert violinist. [188]
• Angel O. Berrios, 69, former mayor of Caguas, Puerto Rico, heart failure [189]
• Steve Howe, 48, former Major League Baseball pitcher, automobile accident [190] [191]
• Ben-Zion Orgad, 80, Israeli composer, cancer [192] [193]
• MGG Pillai, 67, veteran Malaysian journalist and political activist, heart complications [194] [195]

29

• Sid Barron, 88, Canadian cartoonist. Known for the biplane flying overhead trailing a banner that read "mild, isn't it." [196][197]
• William L. Durkin, 89, U.S. Marine and businessman - best known for rescuing Howard Hughes in 1946 plane crash, heart attack [198]
• John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, American economist and author (The Affluent Society), natural causes. [199][200]
• Alberta Nelson, 68, American actress known for beach party films of 1960s. [201]
• Félix Siby, 64, Gabonese politician and former government minister. [202]
• John Trever, 90, American scholar who photographed the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem. [203] [204]
• Alvin S. White, 87, American test pilot [205]

30

• Jay Bernstein, 69, American Hollywood publicist. [206]
• Barry Driscoll, 79, British sculptor and painter, cancer. [207]
• Jean-François Revel, 82, French philosopher [208]
• Corinne Rey-Bellet, 33, Swiss Alpine skier, shot dead [209]
• William (Bill) Roberts, 105, British First World War veteran [210]
• Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro, 88, Rosh Yeshivah of Yeshivas Be'er Yaakov in Israel [211]
• Paul Spiegel, 68, Chairman of the Central Council of German Jews, natural causes. [212]
• Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 81, Indonesian writer [213]