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 deceased 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.

April 2006

16

• Francisco Adam, 22, Portuguese actor.[1]

15

• Pavel Koutecký, 49, Czech documentarian. [2]

14

• Mahmut Bakalli, 70, Kosovo ethnic Albanian politician
• Miguel Reale, 95, Brazilian philosopher of law. [3]

13

• Ed Corbett, 74, American actor. [4]
• Peter Karches, 54, American executive at Morgan Stanley. [5]
• Michael Shir, 83, Israeli writer, founder of children's magazine Ezbeoni. [6]
• Dame Muriel Spark, British novelist, 88, best known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1962). [7]
• Arthur Winston, 100, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee famous for serving for 72 years and retiring at age 100. [8]

12

• Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah, 41, Egyptian militant, killed by Pakistani forces. [9]
• William Sloane Coffin, 81, American minister and peace activist, congestive heart failure. [10].
• Dr. Paulina Kernberg, Chilean-born American child psychiatrist, professor at Cornell University. [11]
• Kazuo Kuroki, 75, Japanese film director [12]
• Christiane Maybach, 74, German actress [13]
• 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. [14]
• Puggy Pearson, 77, American poker player. [15]
• Rajkumar, 76, Indian actor, cardiac arrest. [16]
• William Woo, 69, first Asian-American to be editor of a major American daily newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, professor at Stanford University. [17]

11

• Les Foote, 81, Australian Football Hall of Fame member. [18]
• DeShaun Holton, 30, American rapper better known as Proof of D-12, homicide. [19] [20] [21]
• Siobhán O'Hanlon, 43, Sinn Fein politician, cancer. [22]
• June Pointer, 52, singer, former member of The Pointer Sisters, cancer. [23]
• Shin Sang-ok, 80, Korean Film producer, liver problems.[24]
• Naoki Tominaga, 92, Japanese sculptor [25]
• Logan Young Jr., 65, central figure in the University of Alabama recruiting scandal. [26]

10

• Joe Faragalli, 76, CFL head coach with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Eskimos, unspecified illness. [27]
• Bonaya Godana, 54, Kenyan politician, plane crash. [28]
• Mirugi Kariuki, 53, Kenyan politician and lawyer, plane crash. [29]
• Kleitos Kyrou, 85, Greek poet, unspecified respiratory illness. [30]

9

• Charles Doe, 79, Founder of Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub, cancer. [31]
• Frank Gibney, 81, American writer and journalist on Asia. [32]
• Billy Hitchcock, 89, Major League Baseball infielder, coach, manager, and scout, natural causes. [33] [34]
• Robin Orr, 96, Scottish classical composer and conductor [35]
• Georges Rawiri, 74, Gabonese politician, president of the Senate and former foreign minister. [36]
• Vilgot Sjöman, 81, Swedish film director (I Am Curious (Yellow)), complications from brain haemorrhage. [37]
• Natalia Troitskaya, 55, Russian operatic soprano [38]

8

• Elizabeth Maguire, 47, American editor, vice president and publisher of Basic Books. [39]
• Richard Pearlman, 68, director of the Chicago Lyric Opera Center for American Artists. [40]
• Gerard Reve, 82, Dutch author (The Evenings, The Fourth Man), Alzheimer's disease. [41] [42][43]

7

• John Blackburn, ?, comics artist and writer. [44]
• Christian, The Dowager Lady Hesketh, 76, British historian. [45]
• Bobbie Nudie, 92, American fashion designer, wife of Nudie Cohn. [46]
• Frederick Pough, 99, American mineralogist and author of A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals (1953). [47]

6

• Jim Clack, 58, NFL offensive guard, heart failure. [48]
• Maggie Dixon, 28, women's basketball coach at United States Military Academy, cardiac arrhythmia. [49]
• Francis L. Kellogg, 89, American diplomat [50]
• Leslie Norris, 84, Welsh poet and professor at Brigham Young University. [51]
• Lucie 'Anne' Pere-Pucheu, 112, French supercentenarian
• Stefanos Strategos, 83, Greek actor, lung problems [52]

5

• Alain de Boissieu, 92, French General and son-in-law of Charles De Gaulle [53]
• J.B. Fuqua, 87, American entrepreneur and philanthropist. [54]
• George Savalla Gomes, 90, Brazilian entertainer who performed as "Carequinha" the clown.[55]
• Allan Kaprow, 78, American artist and art theorist, natural causes. [56]
• Armando Labra, 62, Mexican economist. [57]
• Archbishop Pasquale Macchi, 82, former private secretary to Pope Paul VI. [58] [59]
• Abdul-Salam Ojeili, 88, Syrian novelist. [60]
• Ellinor Piipuu, 92, Estonian ceramist. [61]
• Gene Pitney, 66, American singer and songwriter, heart disease. [62] [63]
• Marcelo Real, 48, Argentine sportscaster. [64]

4

• Colonel Fred Christensen, 84, American fighter ace in World War II. [65]
• Eckhard Dagge, 58, German WBC junior middleweight boxer. [66]
• Denis Donaldson, 55, former head of Sinn Féin at Stormont, and British double-agent, found shot dead at his home. [67]
• Gary Gray, 69, American child actor of the 1940s.[68]
• Jürgen Thorwald, 90, German writer. [69]
• Canon Frederick B. Williams, 66, minister of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem, New York City [70]

3

• Tom Abercrombie, 75, National Geographic photographer. [71]
• Barry Bingham Jr., 72, former editor and publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times. [72]
• Doug Coombs, 48, American extreme skier, ski accident in the French Alps. [73]
• Martin Gilks, 41, former drummer with The Wonder Stuff, motorcycle accident. [74] [75]
• Marshall Goldberg, 88, former NFL running back of the Chicago Cardinals, complications due to a head injury. [76] [77]
• Peter Hadhazy, 62, longtime NFL official, former general manager of the Cleveland Browns. [78] [79]
• Albert Harker, 95, last surviving member of the US 1934 FIFA World Cup soccer team. [80]
• Frédérique Huydts, 38, Dutch actress. [81]
• Gwin Kolb, 86, American professor at the University of Chicago and scholar of Samuel Johnson. [82]
• Genzo Murakami, 96, Japanese novelist. [83]
• Walter Ristow, 97, American map librarian at the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress [84]
• Ida Vos, 74, Dutch writer. [85]

2

• Sir Anthony Beaumont-Dark, 73, former British Conservative Member of Parliament. [86].
• William 'John' Jordan, 85, businessman, aviator & motor racing team boss. [87]
• Mohammed al-Maghout, 72, Syrian poet and playwright. [88]
• Victor Quiñonez, 46, International Wrestling Association (IWA) Promoter and Owner. [89], [90]
• Bernard Seigal, 48, American musician and essayist with the stage name Buddy Blue, co-founder of the Beat Farmers. [91]
• Nina von Stauffenberg, 92, widow of Hitler's would-be assassin. [92]

1

• Ryusuke Matsumoto, 49, Japanese comedian. [93]
• In Tam (83), former Cambodian politician

March 2006

See Deaths in March 2006.

February 2006

See Deaths in February 2006.

January 2006

See Deaths in January 2006.

External links and references

• Obituaries on general news websites
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• Specialised websites
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  • Dead People Server
  • Dead or Alive
  • Who's Alive and Who's Dead
  • Life in Legacy: Week in Review
  • The Blog of Death
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  • GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search
  • Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records: US genealogy directory
  • Operation Iraqi Freedom — US Combat Deaths
  • Obituary Central — index to obituary search engines arranged geographically
  • Obituary Links Page — state-by-state directory of obituary resources
  • Russian Obituary Links Page — The List of Death
  • Nekrolog (Czech necrologies)
  • Remembrance Online Online Books of Remembrance and Condolence

For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2005, Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994... )