Deaths in May 2006

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

May 2006

1

• Jay Presson Allen, 84, American screenwriter, stroke. [1]
• Ed Casey, 73, former Queensland Labor Party leader, stroke. [2]
• George F. Haines, 82, American Olympic swimming coach, complications from a stroke [3]
• Joseph S. Iseman, 89, lawyer, educator and former president of Bennington College, cardiac arrest [4]
• Betsy Jones-Moreland, 76, film and television actress, cancer. [5]
• Rob Lacey, 43, stage actor and award-winning Christian author, bladder cancer [6]
• Rauno Lehtinen, 74, Finnish composer [7]
• Johnny Paris, 65, American saxophonist (Johnny & the Hurricanes) [8]
• Bruce Peterson, 72, American test pilot and engineer, known for surviving the crash of the M2-F2 and inspiring the TV-series The Six Million Dollar Man. [9]
• Raúl Francisco Primatesta, 87, retired Cardinal Archbishop of Córdoba, Argentina [10]

2

• Joseph Lewis Clark, 57, convicted American murderer, executed in Ohio. [11]
• Boyd Coffie, 68, American baseball player and manager, cancer. [12]
• Luigi Griffanti, 89, Italian footballer, goalkeeper of ACF Fiorentina in the 1940s [13]
• Sam Mokuahi, Jr., also known as "Sammy Steamboat", 71, Hawaiian professional wrestler, complications from Alzheimer's disease [14]
• Louis Rukeyser, 73, business and economics expert, multiple myeloma. [15]
• Juan Ramón Salgado, 45, Honduran congressional deputy, gunshot wounds. [16]

3

• Karel Appel, 85, Dutch COBRA painter. [17]
• Rosita Fernandez, 88, Texan singer, member of the Tejano Music Hall of Fame. [18]
• Pramod Mahajan, 56, general secretary of India's Bharatiya Janata Party, gunshot wounds. [19]
• Howard Thomas Markey, 85, American federal judge and U.S. Air Force major general, first chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. [20]
• Earl Woods, 74, father and former coach of U.S. golfer Tiger Woods, prostate cancer [21]

4

• Alejandra Boero, 88, Argentine theater actress, director and teacher, pulmonary hypertension. [22] (Spanish)
• Jim Delsing, 80, American Major League Baseball player. [23]
• Arthur B. Metzner, 79, Canadian chemical engineer. [24]

5

• Naushad Ali, 86, Indian musician. [25]
• George Roche III, 70, former President of Hillsdale College, probable heart attack. [26]
• Atıf Yılmaz, 80, Turkish film director, screenwriter and producer, cancer [27] [28]

6

• Lillian Asplund, 99, last American survivor of the Titanic sinking, died in sleep. [29]
• Konstantin Beskov, 85, Soviet/Russian footballer and manager. [30]
• Shigeru Kayano, 79, Japanese Ainu activist [31]
• Grant McLennan, 48, lead singer of The Go-Betweens, suspected heart attack. [32]
• Flt Lt Sarah Mulvihill, 32, first British servicewoman to be killed in action in Iraq. [33]
• František Peřina, 95, Czechoslovak fighter pilot who served in the British Royal Air Force during World War II. [34]
• Pattabhi Rama Reddy, 87, Indian moviemaker, complications from a prolonged illness [35] [36]
• Lorne Saxberg, 48, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) broadcaster. [37]
• Sister Rose Thering, 85, Roman Catholic nun and professor at Seton Hall University. [38]

7

• Steve Bender, 59, record producer and member of Dschinghis Khan.
• Richard Carleton, 62, Australian television journalist (60 Minutes), heart attack. [39]
• Joan C. Edwards, 87, American philanthropist, liver cancer. [40]
• Stella Sigcau, 69, South African Public Works Minister, heart-related problems. [41]
• Jocelyn Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale, 95, United Kingdom minister and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. [42]
• Machiko Soga, 68, Japanese voice actress and actress and tokusatsu legend (Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, etc.), pancreatic cancer. [43]

8

• Lovana Jones, 68, Assistant Majority Leader in the Illinois House of Representatives, represented the 26th District since 1987, undisclosed causes. [44]
• John Kimbrough, 87, College Hall of Fame American football player with Texas A&M and state legislator, pneumonia. [45]
• George Lutz, 59, owner of the Amityville Horror house. [46] [47]
• Pule Patrick "Ace" Ntsoelengoe, 50, South African soccer player with the Minnesota Kicks and Kaizer Chiefs, unknown causes. [48]
• Barbara Schwartz, 58, American painter. [49]

9

• Adrian Bennett, 73, Australian politician, MHR for Division of Swan (1969–75). [50]
• Corey Engen, 90, captain of the U.S. Nordic skiing team at the 1948 Winter Olympics, complications of pneumonia. [51]
• Jerzy Ficowski, 81, Polish poet, writer and translator.[52]
• Pietro Garinei, 87, Italian playwright and lyricist of "Arrivederci Roma" and other songs. [53]
• Edouard Jaguer, French poet and art critic. [54]
• Tony Ward, 82, Australian actor and journalist, cancer. [55]

10

• Val Guest, 94, British film writer and director (The Quatermass Xperiment, Casino Royale) [56]
• John Hicks, 64, American jazz pianist/composer. [57]
• James Keogh, 89, former executive editor of Time and speechwriter for US President Richard Nixon. [58]
• Georgy Korniyenko, 81, Russian diplomat and deputy to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. [59]
• A.M. Rosenthal, 84, Executive Editor of the New York Times for 17 years, stroke. [60]
• Soraya, 37, Colombian-American songwriter, guitarist, arranger, record producer, and singer, breast cancer. [61]
• Aleksandr Zinovyev, 83, Russian logician, sociologist and writer, brain cancer. [62]

11

• Yossi Banai, 74, Israeli singer and actor [63]
• Byron Morrow, 95, American TV and film character actor. [64]
• Michael O'Leary, 70, former leader of the Irish Labour Party, drowned in a swimming pool. [65]
• Floyd Patterson, 71, former boxing heavyweight champion, Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer [66]
• Ferdinando Tacconi, 83, Italian comics artist. [67]
• Michael Taliferro, 45, actor and American football player, stroke. [68]
• Frankie Thomas, 85, American actor (Tom Corbett, Space Cadet), stroke. [69]

12

• Ted Berkman, 92, author, scriptwriter (Bedtime for Bonzo). [70]
• Hussein Maziq, 88, former prime minister & foreign minister of Libya [71]
• Gillespie V. "Sonny" Montgomery, 85, former U.S. representative from Mississippi [72]
• Arthur Porges, 90, science fiction and fantasy writer.

13

• Joan Diener, 76, American actress/soprano (Man of La Mancha), complications of cancer. [73]
• Rick Farley, 53, Australian National Farmers' Federation Chief Executive for eight years. [74]
• Ryan Francis, 19, freshman point guard for the University of Southern California basketball team, homicide. [75]
• Jaroslav Pelikan, 82, American historian of Christianity, winner of the Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences, lung cancer. [76] [77] [78]
• Östen Sjöstrand, 80, Swedish poet, translator and member of the Swedish Academy. [79][80]
• Peter Viereck, 89, American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. [81]
• Johnnie Wilder, Jr., 56, R&B musician, founder of Heatwave ("Boogie Nights", "Always and Forever") [82]

14

• Lew Anderson, 84, American bandleader, played Clarabell the Clown on The Howdy Doody Show, prostate cancer. [83] [84]
• James Botten, 67, South African international test cricketer, complications after colon operations. [85]
• Steve Cooper, 47, rock singer for Juggernaut and S.A. Slayer [86]
• Charles Gardner, former head of Royal Crown Cola, complications of diabetes
• William Ginsberg, 75, American professor of environmental law at Hofstra University and former New York City commissioner of parks and recreation. [87]
• Reza Hassanzadeh, 33, Iranian professional soccer player with Teraktor Sazi F.C., injuries from car accident. [88]
• Stanley Kunitz, 100, American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former US poet laureate. [89] [90]
• Jim Lemon, 78, Major League Baseball player, cancer. [91] [92]
• Paul Marco, approximately 81, American film actor (Plan 9 from Outer Space) [93] [94]
• Bruce Merrifield, 84, Nobel Prize-winning chemist [95] [96]
• Günther Nenning, 84, Austrian journalist, author and political activist [97]
• Eva Norvind, New York City-based Norwegian former actress, drowning accident [98]

15

• Joyce Ballantyne, 88, artist best known for creating the "Coppertone Girl" ad, heart attack. [99] [100]
• George Blackburn, 93, head football coach at University of Virginia (1965–70). [101]
• George Crile III, 61, CBS News producer, pancreatic cancer. [102] [103] [104]
• Eberhard Esche, 73, German actor. [105]
• Chic Hecht, 77, former Republican Senator for Nevada, prostate cancer. [106] [107]
• Judith Moore, 66, American author (Fat Girl - A True Story). [108]
• Cheikha Rimitti, 83, Algerian singer, heart attack. [109]
• Bill Strode, 69, Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, cancer. [110]

16

• Clare Boylan, 58, Irish author of 12 books including 7 novels, ovarian cancer. [111]
• Beryl Evans, 84, Australian politician, NSW MLC (1984–95). [112]
• Jorge Porcel, 69, Argentine actor and comedian, following gall bladder surgery. [113] [114]
• Dan Ross, 49, former NFL football player (Cincinnati Bengals), suspected heart attack [115]
• Takahiro Tamura, 77, Japanese movie and television actor, cerebral infarction [116] [117]

17

• Cy Feuer, 95, American Broadway producer and writer (Guys and Dolls). [118] [119]
• Dr. Stephen Fleet, 69, Former Registrary, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Master of Downing College, Cambridge. [120]
• Eric Forth, 61, British Conservative Member of Parliament and former government minister, bone cancer. [121]
• Captain Nichola Goddard, 26, Canadian Forces, first female Canadian soldier since WW II to be killed in combat. [122]
• Dan Q. Kennis, 86, American B movie producer. [123]
• John Marsden, 64, Australian lawyer and civil liberties activist, cancer. [124]
• Daniel Owino Misiani, 66, Benga musician from Kenya, car accident [125]
• Mieczysław Nowak, 69, Polish weightlifter, 1964 Olympic medalist [126]
• Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin, 63 prominent Turkish judge sitting in Turkey's highest court, shot dead. [127]
• Lawrence "Ramrod" Shurtliff, 61, longtime crew member for the Grateful Dead, lung cancer. [128]

18

• James Andrew "Andy" Capps, 37, former drummer (Built to Spill). [129]
• Jaan Eilart, 73, Estonian biogeographer. [130]
• Stephen Fleet, 69, British scientist. [131]
• Morris Glushien, 96, American lawyer, general counsel for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, argued the US Supreme Court case Staub v. the City of Baxley, Georgia. [132]
• Hans Horrevoets, 32, Dutch sailor, swept overboard while competing in Volvo Ocean Race. [133]
• Andrew Martinez, 33, the "Naked Guy" at the University of California, Berkeley, apparent suicide. [134]
• Vitor Negrete, 38, prominent Brazilian mountaineer, died after reaching the peak of Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen. [135]
• Michael O'Riordan, 88, chairman of the Communist Party of Ireland and International Brigades veteran. [136]
• Kiyan Prince, 15, youth team player with English football team Queens Park Rangers, stabbed to death. [137]
• Robert Reid, 81, American chemical engineer. [138]
• Gilbert Sorrentino, 77, American novelist. [139]
• Takahiro Tamura, 77, Japanese actor (Tora! Tora! Tora!). [140]

19

• Yitzhak Ben Aharon, 99, founder of the Israeli Labor Party. [141] [142]
• Edward Roy Becker, 73, former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. [143]
• Peter Bryant, 82, British television producer. [144]
• Freddie Garrity, 65, lead singer of Freddie and the Dreamers, 1960s pop band, heart disease [145]
• Alan Sapper, 75, British trade unionist. [146]

20

• JoAnna Lund, 61, cookbook author, cancer.[147]
• Les Olive, 78, Assistant Secretary of Manchester United at time of Munich air disaster, prostate cancer. [148]
• Rt. Rev. Andrew Radford, 62, Bishop of Taunton, brain tumour [149]
• Cherd Songsri, 75, Thai film director, cancer [150]
• Annis Stukus, 91, member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame for his contributions to the Canadian Football League and ice hockey. [151]
• Tommy Watt, 80, British jazz bandleader. [152]

21

• Katherine Dunham, 96, American dancer and choreographer. [153]
• Richard McIlkenny, 73, member of the Birmingham Six, cancer. [154]
• Sherman Skolnick, 75, Illinois anti-corruption activist, heart attack. [155]
• Billy Walker, 77, American country music performer and member of the Grand Ole Opry, traffic accident [156]

22

• Spencer Clark, 19, NASCAR Busch Series driver, road accident. [157]
• Heather Crowe, 61, Canadian anti-smoking activist, lung cancer. [158]
• Hamza El Din, 76, Nubian oud player. [159] [160] [161]
• Jack Fallon, 90, jazz double bassist [162]
• Lee Jong-wook, 61, Director-General of the World Health Organization, brain thrombus [163]
• Lilia Prado, 78, Mexican actress, multiple organ failure. [164]
• Philip Thorn, English researcher and statistician. [165]

23

• Philippe Amaury, 66, French media owner, cancer. [166]
• Clifford Antone, 56, Austin blues club owner, heart attack. [167] [168]
• Lloyd Bentsen, 85, American Vice-Presidential candidate, Senator, and Treasury Secretary under Clinton. [169] [170]
• James Carey, 71, American professor of journalism at Columbia University, author. [171] [172]
• Ian Copeland, 57, American music promoter and agent, older brother of Stewart Copeland of The Police, melanoma. [173] [174]
• Bracha Eden, 78, Israeli pianist, brain hemorrhage [175]
• Ángel Fernández, 80, Mexican sports broadcaster, renal failure. [176]
• Kazimierz Górski, 85, former coach of Poland national football team, cancer. [177]
• John Nevin, 79, former CEO of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, heart attack. [178] [179]
• Mary Margaret Smith, 112, Ohio's oldest person [180]
• Graham Stewart, 19, William Paterson University athlete, vehicular accident [181]
• Jim Trimble, 87, Philadelphia Eagles coach 1952-55, emphysema. [182]

24

• Eric Bedser, 87, cricketer for Surrey, and elder twin brother of Sir Alec Bedser. [183]
• Henry Bumstead, 91, Academy Awards-winning art director (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sting), prostate cancer. [184] [185] [186]
• Robert Giaimo, 86, Congressman for Connecticut 3rd District 1959-1981, lung ailments. [187]
• Fritz Klein, 73, Austrian-born psychiatrist and researcher. [188]
• Anderson Mazoka, 63, chief opposition leader in Zambia. [189]
• Bernard Ostry, 78, Canadian civil servant and philanthropist, cancer. [190]
• Claude Piéplu, 83. French actor, cancer [191]
• John Wheeldon, 76, former Australian Labor Party Senator and minister in the Whitlam government. [192]

25

• Sir Julian Bullard, 78, British diplomat [193]
• Elizabeth Connelly, 77, former member of the New York State Assembly representing Staten Island, cancer. [194]
• Desmond Dekker, 64, Jamaican ska musician, heart attack. [195]
• Lars Gyllensten, 84, Swedish author, physician, and member of the Swedish Academy. [196]
• Wilber Huston, 93, American scientist and retired NASA mission director. [197]
• Donald Rudolph, 85, US Army soldier awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II, Alzheimer's disease. [198]
• Mari Yonehara, 56, Japanese essayist, ovarian cancer. [199]
• Tobías Lasser, 95, Venezuelan botanist, founder of the Botanic Garden of Caracas, natural causes [200].

26

• Milicent Bagot, 99, British intelligence officer. [201]
• Horondino José da Silva, also known as "Dino Sete Cordas", 88, Brazilian virtuouso of the seven-string guitar. [202]
• Selvin González, 24, Salvadoran footballer. [203]
• Alan Kotok, 64, American early video game designer (Spacewar!), engineer for Digital Equipment. [204]
• Mahmoud al-Majzoub, also known as Abu Hamza, Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader, assassination by bombing. [205]
• Édouard Michelin, 42, CEO of Michelin, boating accident off the Île de Sein. [206] [207]
• Kevin O'Flanagan, 86, Irish former association football and rugby union international, and IOC member, heart problems. [208]
• Dr. Anita Roberts, 64, American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute, stomach cancer. [209]
• Ted Schroeder, 84, American tennis player, winner at Wimbledon (1949) and the U.S. Open (1942), cancer. [210]
• Raymond Triboulet, 99, member of the French Resistance during World War II, member of the French Parliament and government minister. [211] [212]

27

• Adeeb, 72, Pakistani actor [213]
• Harold Falls, 96, American ophthalmologist. [214]
• Paul Gleason, 67, American actor, mesothelioma. [215]
• Craig "Ironhead" Heyward, 39, NFL fullback, complications from a brain tumor. [216]
• General Romeo Lucas García, 81, former President of Guatemala, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [217]
• Thelma Leeds, 95, American actress, widow of Parkyakarkus
• Michael Riffaterre, 81, French-born professor at Columbia University and scholar of French literature. [218]
• Alex Toth, 77, American comic book artist and cartoonist (Space Ghost, Jonny Quest). [219]
• Bull Ramos, 71, Northwest US wrestler, shoulder infection [220]

28

• Edward Aldwell, 68, music theorist and pianist specializing in Bach, automotive accident. [221]
• James Archibald, 94, Maine judge for 50 years including service on the Maine Judicial Supreme Court between 1971 and his retirement in 1981. [222]
• Fermín Chávez, 82, Argentine historian, complications from renal failure. [223] (Spanish)
• Sue Fear, 43, Australian mountaineer, climbing accident. [224]
• Umberto Masetti, 80, motorcycle racer, the first Italian World Champion class 500cc in 1950 and 1952, pulmonary strokes [225]
• Masumi Okada, 70, Japanese actor, played Brother Michael in Shogun, throat cancer. [226]
• Tony Sardisco, 73, American footballer, former captain of the Boston Patriots, heart attack. [227]
• Doris Saunders, 64, first editor of Them Days magazine and inducted into the Order of Canada for her role in preserving Labrador's history. Alzheimer's disease. [228]
• Arthur Widmer, 91, motion picture special effects pioneer, winner of an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, cancer. [229]

29

• Neville Amadio, 93, flautist and soloist for Sydney Symphony for 50 years, series of small heart attacks.[230]
• Peter Borsari, 67, celebrity photographer, complications from elective knee surgery. [231]
• James Brolan, 42, CBS News sound technician, injuries sustained in car bombing in Iraq. [232]
• Paul Douglas, 48, veteran CBS News cameraman, injuries sustained in car bombing in Iraq. [233]
• Steve Mizerak, 61, champion billiards player [234]
• Omeljan Pritsak, 87, Harvard professor, scholar and authority on Ukraine [235]
• Johnny Servoz-Gavin, 64, French racing driver.[236]

30

• Slim Aarons, 89, American photographer, stroke. [237] [238]
• Hladnik Boštjan, 77, Slovenian film director. [239]
• Shohei Imamura, 79, Japanese film director (Black Rain), two-time winner of the Palme d'Or, liver cancer. [240] [241]
• Bill Kovacs, 56, computer animation pioneer and Academy Award winner, complications of a stroke. [242]
• David Lloyd, 68, New Zealand botanist, complications from mystery illness, possibly poison. [243]
• Robert Sterling, 88, star of 1950s television show Topper, natural causes. [244]

31

• Ryan Bennett, 35, former UFC announcer and founder of MMAweekly, died in a car crash. [245]
• Ronald Cranford, 65, neurologist and bioethicist who developed coma standards, complications of kidney cancer. [246]
• Raymond Davis Jr., 91, American chemist and a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002, Alzheimer's disease. [247] [248]
• Lula Mae Hardaway, 76, mother of singer Stevie Wonder, natural causes. [249]
• Miguel Berrocal, 73, Spanish sculptor and puzzle creator; prostate cancer. [250]