Deaths in March 2006

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

March 2006

1

• Laura Allen Williams Edwards, 48, Garland, Texas Massage Therapist.
• Annette von Aretin, 85, German TV personality.
• Joëlle Aubron, 46, French member of Action Directe, lung cancer. [1]
• Harry Browne, 72, American libertarian writer and presidential candidate for the United States Libertarian Party, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [2]
• Mack Easley, 89, former Democratic lieutenant governor of New Mexico (1963 — 1966). [3]
• Alexander Fol, 72, Bulgarian historian of ancient Greece, former Minister of Education. [4]
• Joseph H. Gardner, 78, American real estate developer. [5]
• O. Milton Gossett, 80, American advertising executive, former CEO Saatchi & Saatchi Compton Worldwide [6]
• Edith "Judy" Ingamells, 112, oldest Briton. [7]
• Johnny Jackson, 54, former drummer for The Jackson 5, stabbing. [8]
• Anna De Lisle Wells, 23, top amateur jockey, suicide by hanging. [9]
• Peter Osgood, 59, former English footballer, heart attack. [10]
• John Parkinson, 99, President of the Belfast Titanic Society, former Harland and Wolff shipyard worker, witnessed departure of the RMS Titanic as a child. [11]
• Pierre Pasquini, 85, former French Minister of Veterans and War Victims. [12]
• Jan Raniecki, 70, chairman of Polonia Warszawa. [13]
• Gilbert Steiner, 81, Brookings Institute scholar. [14]
• Jenny Tamburi, 53, Italian actress 1970s B-movies and casting director TV-series. [15]

2

• Madeleine Cosman, 68, American scholar of medieval Europe [16]
• Robert Dryfoos, 63, former New York City Councilman. [17]
• Leopold Gratz, 75, Austrian politician, former Mayor of Vienna. [18]
• Bill Hays, 67, British director of stage and television. [19]
• Valter Heuer, 77, Estonian chess champion and chess historian. [20]
• Marion Higgins (supercentenarian), 112, California's oldest person. [21]
• Phyllis Huffman, 61, award-winning casting director. [22]
• Willie Kent, 70, blues bassist, cancer. [23]
• Tommaso Onofri, 1, kidnapped toddler, murdered [24].
• Harold Ostroff, 82, builder of nonprofit cooperative housing complexes in New York City. [25]
• Sylvia Schofield, 89, British newspaper columnist, novelist, WWII spy
• Garrett Scott, 37, American documentary filmmaker (Occupation: Dreamland), cardiac arrest. [26] [27]
• Peter Snow, ?, New Zealand doctor who discovered "Tapanui flu" (chronic fatigue syndrome). [28]
• Rachel Mellon Walton, 107, American philanthropist. [29]
• Jack Wild, 53, British actor (Oliver!, H.R. Pufnstuf), oral cancer. [30]

3

• Ivor Cutler, 83, humorist, author, singer, and poet. [31]
• William Herskovic, 91, escapee from Auschwitz during World War II, cancer. [32]
• Charlie Hodge, 71, guitarist and backup singer for Elvis Presley and Graceland resident, lung cancer. [33]
• Lily Lambert McCarthy, 91, an American millionairess and collector of Nelsonia, decorated by the British for her war work, and also a generous benefactress of museums and libraries in England and the United States. [34] [35]
• Richard VanderVeen, 83, former Democratic United States Representative from Michigan (1973 — 1977), prostate cancer. [36]

4

• Caleb Foote, 88, Boalt School of Law Professor, pacifist activist [37]
• John Reynolds Gardiner, 61, American children's author, pancreatitis [38]
• Roman Ogaza, 54, Polish football player. [39]
• David Rose, 95, American courtroom artist. [40]
• Edgar Valter, 76, Estonian children's book illustrator and cartoonist. [41]

5

• Milan Babić, 50, former leader of the Republic of Serbian Krajina who pleaded guilty to war crimes, suicide. [42]
• Reba Hancock, 72, sister of Johnny Cash. [43]
• Richard Kuklinski, 70, American mafia hitman, natural causes. [44]
• Josh Rehm, 27, American Grand-Am racing driver, car accident. [45]
• John Sandusky, 80, former NFL player and assistant coach, complications from internal bleeding. [46]
• Rodney Strong, 78, American ballet dancer and vintner. [47]

6

• Anne Braden, 81, American civil rights activist. [48]
• Lily Dumont, 94, Classical concert pianist [49]
• King Floyd, 61, American Soul singer. [50]
• Mubdar Hatim al-Dulaimi, 55, Major General in the Iraqi Army, shot by a sniper. [51]
• Margaret Muse, 91, American stage and film actress. [52]
• Mortimo Planno, 85, Rastafarian philosopher. [53]
• Kirby Puckett, 45, Hall of Fame MLB player for the Minnesota Twins, stroke complications. [54]
• Dana Reeve, 45, activist, widow of Christopher Reeve, lung cancer. [55]
• Hans-Dieter Söling, 76, German biochemist. [56]
• Simon Ungers, 49, New York-based German architect and artist.
• Ruth Weiss, 97, (also: Wèi Lùshī 魏璐诗) Austrian-Chinese journalist and member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. [57]
• Abou Yacoubou, 54, Director of Political Affairs of the Economic Community of West African States. [58]
• Francis Zimbeaux, 93, French-born American landscape artist. [59]

7

• Floyd Gass, 79, American college football coach (Oklahoma State University). [60]
• Howard Jackson, 54, American martial artist, leukemia. [61]
• John Junkin, 76, British actor, lung cancer. [62]
• Norman Leonard, 92, American lawyer for left-wing causes [63]
• Ludwik Margules, 72, Mexican theatre director, cancer. [64]
• John Joseph McFall, 88, former Democratic United States Representative from California (1956 — 1978). [65]
• Gordon Parks, 93, photographer, film director (Shaft), cancer. [66]
• Jesse "Guitar" Taylor, 55, blues guitarist. [67]
• Ali Farka Touré, 66, Malian musician, cancer. [68]

8

• Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes, 82, pioneering New Zealand cardiologist, complications during heart valve replacement. [69]
• Dr. Lawrence Brass, 49, Yale University neurologist [70]
• Dr. Joseph Burchenal, 93, American oncologist, worked on leukemia treatments [71]
• Teresa Ciepły, 69, Polish athlete, 1964 Olympic track champion.
• Giordano Cottur, 91, Italian Giro d'Italia-Champion. [72], [73], [74]
• John T. Kramer, 68, American legal scholar. [75]
• George Sassoon, 69, scientist, author and radio amateur, cancer. [76]

9

• Dominic Baranello, 83, Democratic leader in New York State. [77]
• Hanka Bielicka, 90, Polish singer and actress.
• Dennis Brookes, 90, English cricketer. [78]
• Péter Halász, 62, Hungarian theatre director, actor, and writer, liver cancer. [79] [80]
• Doug Hamilton, 43, general manager for the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team, heart attack aboard aircraft. [81]
• Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie, 72, English cricketer and insurance executive, brain tumor. [82]
• Anna Moffo, 73 or 75, American singer and operatic soprano, stroke following decade long battle with breast cancer [83]
• Nena O'Neill, 82, American writer, co-author of Open Marriage: A New Life Style for Couples (1972) [84]
• John Profumo, 91, British politician, complications following a stroke. [85]
• Harry Seidler, 82, leading Australian architect of the Modernism movement. [86]
• John Wilde, 86, American surrealist painter [87]

10

• Lara Heymann, 18, German professional martial artist and freerunner.
• Craig Huebing, 77, American actor (General Hospital) [88]
• Mary MacIsaac, 112, Saskatchewan's oldest person.
• Alberto Migré, 74, Argentine TV screenwriter and producer, heart attack. [89]
• Hans Oberndorfer, 80, German astronomer and author, cancer.

11

• Jean Cuq, 78, French general. Former chief of Staff of the FINUL.
• John Falotico, 82, NYPD detective who arrested David Berkowitz. [90]
• General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, 81, British soldier and military historian. [91]
• Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, 75, NHL player with the Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers, stomach cancer. [92]
• Pauline Gregg, 96, author, historian and biographer.
• Kim Hyung-gon, 48, Korean comedian, heart attack. [93]
• Slobodan Milošević, 64, former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia standing trial for war crimes, heart attack. [94] [95]
• Glenn Olds, 85, president of Kent State University (1971–1977) [96]
• Andrall Pearson, 80, former president of PepsiCo. [97]
• Jesús Rollán, 37, Spanish former water polo goalkeeper, suicide. [98]
• Lindsay Shonteff, 70, British horror film director of the 1960s. [99]
• Charles M. Tanner, age 85, founder of Covenant Players, declining health following massive stroke. [100]

12

• Nick Barone, 79, American heavyweight and light heavyweight boxer [101]
• Joseph Bova, 81, American actor (Once Upon a Mattress) [102]
• Jurij Brězan, 89, Sorbian-German writer.
• Massimo Della Pergola, 93, Italian journalist who founded Sisal, Totocalcio, and Totip. [103]
• István Gyulai, 62, Hungarian journalist, General Secretary of the IAAF. [104]
• Jonatan Johansson, 26, Swedish snowboarder, accident during training. [105]
• Victor Sokolov, 59, dissident ex-Soviet journalist, and Orthodox priest, lung cancer.

13

• Robert C. Baker, 84, American agricultural scientist, developed chicken products and processes. [106]
• Roy Clarke, 80, footballer for Manchester City & Wales. [107]
• Jimmy Johnstone, 61, Scottish football player, voted Celtic's best ever, motor neurone disease. [108]
• Tara Rose McAvoy, 18, reigning Miss Deaf Texas, killed by train while walking on tracks. [109] [110]
• Charles Newman (author), 67, American novelist and founding editor of TriQuarterly. [111]
• Dr. James Schwartz, 73, Columbia University neurobiologist .[112]
• Maureen Stapleton, 80, American actress, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Oscar Stiegler, 102, expert on repair, inspection and construction of naval vessels. [113]
• Peter Tomarken, 63, American game show host (Press Your Luck), plane crash. [114]

14

• E.S. Anderson, 94, British microbiologist [115]
• Ann Calvello, 76, roller derby player, liver cancer. [116]
• Hamish Gray, Baron Gray of Contin, 78, former British Conservative government minister. [117]
• Lennart Meri, 76, former President of Estonia. [118]
• Art Michaluk, 82, former AHL hockey player and World War II veteran. [119]
• Herb Tobman, 81, former president of the Stardust Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip [120]

15

• Ken Brewer, 64, Poet Laureate of Utah, pancreatic cancer. [121]
• Estelle Busch, 91, American actress, helped establish equity-waiver theatres. [122]
• Humphrey (exact date unknown), c. 17, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, 1989 - 1997. [123]
• René Lasserre, 93, Paris restaurateur. [124]
• George Mackey, 90, formerly Landon T. Clay Professor of mathematics, Harvard University. [125]
• Charles Newman, 67, American novelist (White Jazz, The Promisekeeper: A Tephramancy) and editor (TriQuarterly) [126]
• George Rallis, 87, former Prime Minister of Greece, 1980–81, heart failure. [127]
• Mark Southern, 45, professor of linguistics, Middlebury College
• Red Storey, 88, former CFL player and NHL referee. [128]

16

• Jonathan Delisle, 28, AHL and NHL hockey player, automobile accident. [129]
• David Feintuch, 61, American science fiction author, following cardiac trouble. [130]
• Paul Flaherty, 42, web indexing pioneer [131], heart attack [132]
• James Hill, 95, legendary British soldier who commanded the Canadian paratroopers who dropped into France on D-Day, natural causes
• K. Leroy Irvis, 86, Speaker of Pennsylvania House of Representatives (first African-American Speaker in any U.S. state government), cancer. [133]
• Coen Ooft, 85, Surinam politician and jurist.
• Archbishop Romeo Panciroli, 82, Italian Catholic Archbishop, former Director of the Vatican Press Office. [134] [135]
• Stephen Procuniar, 60, American artist [136]
• Moira Redmond, 77, English actress, heart attack. [137]
• Jade Snow Wong, 84, Chinese author and ceramicist, natural causes.[138]

17

• Yuan Baojing, 39 or 40, Chinese multi-millionaire, executed by lethal injection for ordering a contract killing.
• Lumumba Carson, 49, American hip-hop emcee (as Professor X of X-Clan) and political activist-leader of the Blackwatch movement, spinal meningitis. [139] [140]
• Oleg Cassini, 92, fashion designer. [141] [142]
• Narvin Kimball, 97, American banjo player, founding member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Gentlemen of Jazz. [143]
• Ray Meyer, 92, former DePaul basketball coach and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, natural causes. [144]
• G. William Miller, 81, United States Secretary of Treasury from 1979 - 1981 under Jimmy Carter, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. [145]
• Patrick Moody, 39, American convicted murderer, executed in North Carolina. [146]
• Marc Moret, 82, Swiss pharmaceutical executive, honorary chairman of Novartis. [147] [148] de:Marc Moret
• Eric Ottens, 23, College basketball player for Evansville, automobile accident. [149]
• Bob Papenbrook, 50, Los Angeles voice actor, lung complications. [150]

18

• Michael Attwell, 63, British actor. [151]
• Bill Beutel, 75, WABC-TV anchorman, Alzheimer's disease. [152]
• Nelson Dantas, 78, Brazilian actor, lung cancer. [153]
• Fernando Gil, 69, Portuguese philosopher and college professor, unknown illness. [154]
• Anatoliy Puzach, 65, former Soviet World Cup footballer & title-winning coach for Dynamo Kiev[155]
• Sir Wallace Rae, 92, Queensland (Australia) politician [156]
• Stella Snead, 96, British surrealist painter [157]
• Drexel Sprecher, 92, American prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. [158]
• Belle Zeck, 87, American lawyer, US Treasury Lawyer 1942-1948, Nuremberg prosecutor [159]

19

• Dick Addis, 74, former South Bend, Indiana news weatherman and longtime WNDU-TV personality, natural causes [160]
• Mohammad Ali, 78, Pakistani actor, cardiac arrest. [161]
• Anselmo Colzani, 87, Italian operatic baritone [162]
• Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, 67, molecular and cell biologist, science journal editor, Burkitt's lymphoma. [163] [164] [165]
• Leon Daniel, 74, American correspondent and editor for United Press International [166]
• Kevin Payne, 34, professional boxer, injuries sustained during fight. [167]
• Channing Pollock, 79, magician, complications of cancer.[168]
• Dr. Richard Root, 68, American epidemiologist, crocodile attack. [169]

20

• Bhrigu Kumar Phukan, 49, India politician [170]
• Gene Scott, 68, American tennis player and publisher of Tennis Week. [171]

21

• Lord Ackner, 85, British Lord of Appeal. [172]
• Bob Delegall, 60, American actor and director, prostate cancer. [173]
• Margaret Ewing, 60, Scottish nationalist politician, breast cancer. [174]
• James O. Freedman, 70, former president of Dartmouth College and the University of Iowa, non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [175]
• Bert Isaac, 83, Welsh painter.
• Philip B. Kundhardt Jr., 78, Life Magazine managing editor, documentary producer, writer [176]
• Doris Jones, 92, African-American ballet dancer, co-founder of the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet. [177]
• Bernard Lacoste, 74, French clothing magnate of Lacoste, unspecified illness. [178]
• Leslie MacMitchell, 85, American runner, James E. Sullivan Award winner [179]

22

• Ria Beckers, 67, former political leader of the Dutch political parties Politieke Partij Radicalen and GroenLinks. [180]
• James Chikerema, 80, Zimbabwean nationalist, co-founder of ZAPU and government co-minister in the internal settlement government of Rhodesia. [181]
• Pierre Clostermann, 85, World War II French Flying Ace. [182]
• DJ Swing, 39, MOBO award winning British DJ. [183]
• Matt Kennedy, 101, Coney Island booster [184]
• Eugene Landy, 71, American psychologist, famous for treating Brian Wilson, lung cancer [185]
• Britt Lomond, 80, American actor (Zorro), fencer, and World War II veteran.
• Giuseppe Longoni, 63, Italian footballer, neuronic cerebral illness. [186]
• Gergely András Molnár, 108, the last Hungarian veteran of the First World War [187]
• Brian Parkyn, 82, British Labour MP for Bedford 1966-70 [188].
• Robert Salazar, Jr., 27, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas. [189]
• Stig Wennerström, 99, Swedish Air Force Colonel convicted of spying for the USSR. [190] [191]

23

• Adwaita, 255 (approximate age), tortoise claimant for world's oldest animal, reputedly a former pet of General Clive, liver failure. [192]
• David B. Bleak, 74, Medal of Honor recipient in the Korean War. [193]
• Sarah Caldwell, 82, longtime conductor of the Opera Company of Boston [194]
• René-Philippe Dawant, 64, Belgian journalist, heart attack. [195]
• Desmond Doss, 87, Medal of Honor recipient and conscientious objector. [196]
• Gerry "Tex" Ehman, 73, Canadian-born retired NHL player and executive, lung cancer. [197]
• Edythe Gaines, 83, executive director of the New York City Board of Education's Office of Educational Planning and Support [198]
• John W. Griffin, 78, perennial candidate in Ohio and member of the Ohio State Board of Education.
• Eloy de la Iglesia, 62, Spanish film director. [199].
• Pío Leyva, 88, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club), heart attack. [200]
• Rolf Myller, 79, German born architect and writer of children's and puzzle books. [201]
• Peter Shand Kydd, 80, English wallpaper heir and stepfather of Diana, Princess of Wales. [202]
• Cindy Walker, 87, American country-western songwriter, (Dream Baby) for Roy Orbison et al. [203]

24

• Jörg Bastuck, 36, German rally car co-driver, accident during the 2006 Rally Catalunya. [204]
• John Glenn Beall, Jr., 78, former Republican United States Senator from Maryland from 1971–1977 and United States Representative from 1969 - 1971. [205]
• Dr. Jaroslava Moserova, 76, Czech senator, ambassador, presidential candidate, doctor, and translator. [206]
• Lynne Perrie, 74, English actress (Coronation Street, Kes), stroke. [207]
• Norman Pounds, 94, British historian and author.
• Carl Seiberlich, 82, retired Rear Admiral of US Navy [208]
• Lin Yud, 49, child trafficker executed by gunshot in Fujian, China. [209]

25

• Erma Ora James Byrd, 88, Wife of US Senator Robert Byrd. [210]
• Bob Carlos Clarke, 55, Irish photographer, suicide.[211][212]
• Rocío Dúrcal, 61, Spanish singer and actress, uterine cancer. [213]
• Richard Fleischer, 89, American film director (Tora! Tora! Tora!, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Soylent Green) [214] [215]
• Stephen Charles Gleason, 59, Iowa public health director and health care advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton [216]
• Danilo Lazović, 56, Serbian actor, heart attack. [217]
• Doris Muscatine, 80, travel and food author and writer, complications from a fall [218]
• Buck Owens, 76, American country music star, heart attack. [219]
• Alfredo Silipigni, 72, longtime conductor of the New Jersey State Opera, complications of pneumonia [220]
• Mansfield Sprague, 95, Eisenhower administration official.
• Tom Toelle, 74, German TV director.

26

• Angelo d'Arrigo, 44, Italian aviator, air crash. [221]
• Dr. William A. Barnes, 94, American surgeon, co-inventor of the Barnes-Redo button, a feeding tube device. [222]
• Anil Biswas (politician), 61, Indian politician, cerebral hemorrhage [223].
• David Cunliffe-Lister, 2nd Earl of Swinton, 69, British peer, politician & magistrate. [224]
• Paul Dana, 30, IRL Indy car driver, multiple trauma injuries sustained in accident. [225]
• Alain Danet, 74, head of Paris' Olympic Games bid, IOC honorary member and ex field hockey player. [226]
• Ayako Koshino, 92, Japanese fashion designer, mother of Michiko Koshino [227]
• Manar Maged, 1, Egyptian girl born with two heads, brain infection [228].
• Ariclê Perez, 62, Brazilian actress. [229]
• Prince Abdul Rahman Al-Sudairy, 89, uncle of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, former governor of Al-Jouf [230]
• Nikki Sudden, 49, British musician, punk-blues icon, and co-founder of Swell Maps. [231]

27

• Al Alquist, 97, former California state senator [232] [233]
• Wayne Boden, 58, Canadian serial killer and rapist, of natural causes after a lengthy illness [234]
• Dan Curtis, 77, American television producer (Dark Shadows, The Winds of War). [235]
• Ian Hamilton Finlay, 80, Scottish artist. [236]
• Ken Kaess, 51, American advertising executive, CEO of DDB Worldwide, cancer [237]
• Stanisław Lem, 84, Polish science fiction writer, heart failure. [238] [239]
• Ruari McLean, 88, British typographer [240]
• Lyn Nofziger, 81, press secretary for Ronald Reagan [241]
• Pawel Parniak, 116?, Polish supercentenarian, oldest person in Poland and WWI veteran.
• Ron Schipper, 77, College Football Hall of Fame Coach [242], [243]
• Bernard Siegan, 81, Ronald Reagan Federal Appellate Court nominee [244]
• Dr. Rudolf Vrba, 82, Canadian pharmacologist, Auschwitz escapee and contributor to the Auschwitz Protocol, cancer. [245]
• Peter Wells, 58, guitarist from Australian rock outfit Rose Tattoo, prostate cancer. [246]
• Neil Williams, 43, international Test cricketer for England.[247]

28

• Jerry Brudos, 67, imprisoned U.S. serial killer, natural causes [248]
• Carlos Cat, 75, Uruguayan Minister of Labour (1990–1991) and of Transport (2000–2002). [249]
• Pro Hart, 77, Australian outback painter, motor neurone disease [250]
• Bansi Lal, 78, Haryana's four time chief minister, and defence minister of India during Indian Emergency (1975 - 77). [251], [252]
• Charles Schepens, 94, American ophthalmologist known as "the father of retinal surgery" and a Nazi resistance movement leader [253]
• Caspar Weinberger, 88, U.S. Secretary of Defense 1981-1987 under Reagan; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1973-1975 under Nixon and Ford.[254]

29

• Don Alias, 66, American jazz percussionist. [255]
• Eric Budd, 84, English administrator, the General Secretary (1987–2000) and Vice-Chairman of the Cricket Society (2000–2001) [256]
• Salvador Elizondo, 73, Mexican writer and member of the Mexican Academy of the Language, of cancer. [257]
• Henry Farrell, 85, American author and screenwriter (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte). [258]
• Penny Jay, 80, American country singer/songwriter ("Don't Let Me Cross Over", "Just Over the Line"), long time companion of William Little guitarist (Even Keel) of California, USA. [259]
• Gretchen Rau, 66, set decorator, winner of 2005 Academy Award for Best Art Direction for Memoirs of a Geisha from a brain tumor [260]
• Jacqueline Roumeguere, 78, South African-born French anthropologist. [261]
• Bob Veith, 81, former Indianapolis 500 racing driver. [262]

30

• Red Hickey, 89, NFL coach of the San Francisco 49ers, inventor of shotgun formation, natural causes. [263]
• Philip Hyde, 84, American wildlife photographer [264]
• Manohar Shyam Joshi, 73, Indian Hindi novelist and soap opera writer [265]
• John McGahern, 71, Irish novelist and playwright, cancer. [266]
• Gloria Monty, 84, executive producer of the soap opera General Hospital, cancer. [267]
• Kathleen Pflueger, 90, American collector of porcelain. [268]

31

• George L. Brown, 79, former Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, first Black lieutenant governor in the US [269] [270]
• Angela Devi, 30, Indian-American big-bust model and performer, suicide by asphyxiation [271] [272]
• Olive McKean, 90, Silver medalist at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in swimming, swimming coach to Don Schollander and others. [273]
• Jackie McLean, 73, jazz saxophonist [274]
• Candice Rialson, 54, actress, liver disease. [275]