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

29

• Mike Sears, 65, owned a chain of stores in Fairfax, VA, stroke.

28

• Don Chipp, 81, Australian politician, founder of the Australian Democrats [1][2][3]
• Heino Lipp, 84, Estonian champion decathlete. [4] (Estonian)
• Robert McDermott, 86, former dean of the United States Air Force Academy, chairman of USAA and owner of San Antonio Spurs, stroke. [5]
• David Nicholson, 67, British horse racing trainer, suspected heart attack. [6]
• William F. Quinn, 87, first Governor of Hawaii, pneumonia. [7]
• Benoît Sauvageau, 42, Bloc Québécois MP, traffic accident. [8]
• Melvin Schwartz, 73, won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics. [9]
• Alfred Sherman, 86, British co-founder of the Conservative think tank the Centre for Policy Studies. [10]

27

• Maria Esther de Capovilla, 116, world's oldest person and the last person known to have been alive in the 1880s, pneumonia. [11] [12] [13]
• Jon Dough, 43, AVN Hall of Fame pornographic actor, suicide. [14]
• Vashti McCollum, 93, American plaintiff in McCollum v. Board of Education. [15]
• Luciano Mendes de Almeida, 75, Archbishop of Mariana, Brazil, cancer. [16]
• Hrishikesh Mukherjee, 83, Indian film director [17] [18]
• Jesse Pintado, 37, American guitarist with Terrorizer and Napalm Death, complications of diabetic coma. [19]

26

• Rainer Barzel, 82, former President of the German Bundestag and Chairman of the CDU. [20]
• Nawab Akbar Bugti, 79, Balochistani nationalist leader, killed by Pakistani military forces. [21]
• Yosef Hadar, 90, Israeli composer, cancer (in Hebrew)
• Evgeny Kucherevsky, 65, Ukrainian football coach of Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, car crash. [22]
• Father Marie-Dominique Philippe, O.P., 93, French Dominican priest & founder of the Community of St. John, stroke. [23]
• Vladimir Tretchikoff, 92, Russian artist. [24]
• Sir Clyde Walcott, 80, West Indian cricketer. [25][26]

25

• John Blankenstein, 57, one of the first openly gay Dutch football referees, kidney disease. [27]
• Noor Hassanali, 88, former President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. [28]
• Silva Kaputikyan, 87, Armenian poet. [29]
• Vijay Mehra, 68, Indian cricketer [30]
• Cristian Nemescu, 27, Romanian film director, car accident. [31][32]
• Toroku Takagi, 102, Japanese composer. [33]
• James Tenney, 72, American composer.[34]
• Andrei Toncu, 28, Romanian sound designer, car accident. [35][36] [37]
• Ross Warneke, 54, Australian television commentator and radio broadcaster, cancer [38]
• John Wilson, 56, New York Times journalist and founding member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. [39]

24

• Anthony Malara, 69, former president of CBS Television and former head of the New York State Broadcasters Association. [40]
• Viktor Pavlov, 65, Russian actor, heart attack. [41](in Russian)
• David Plowright, 75, TV executive and producer. [42]
• Ralph Schoenstein, 73, American humorist and NPR commentator. [43]
• Léopold Simoneau, 90, Canadian lyric tenor. [44] [45]
• Gene Thompson, 89, baseball player with the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Giants. [46]
• John Weinzweig, 93, Canadian music composer [47]

23

• Lauren Crowner, 25, news anchor/reporter at WCMH-TV in Columbus, OH, infection after auto accident. [48]
• Maynard Ferguson, 78, Canadian jazz trumpeter, kidney and liver failure. [49] [50][51]
• Wasim Raja, 54, former Pakistan Test cricket player, heart attack while playing a match in Marlow, England. [52] [53]
• David Schnaufer, 53, Appalachian dulcimer player, lung cancer. [54]
• Marie Tharp, 86, American oceanographic cartographer. [55]
• Ed Warren, 79, demonologist, after long illness [56]
• Jay Young, 56, one of the original CNN news anchors, heart attack. [57]

22

• Wallace Brown, 76, Australian journalist, political correspondent in Canberra for (Brisbane's) The Courier-Mail 1961-1996. [58]
• Bruce Gary, 55, drummer with The Knack, best known for My Sharona, lymphoma [59]
• Frank Lennon, 79, Canadian photographer who recorded Paul Henderson celebrating his winning goal in the Summit Series. [60]

21

• Máximo Carvajal, 70, Chilean comic book artist. [61]
• Ustad Bismillah Khan, 90, Indian shehnai musician and Bharat Ratna winner, heart attack. [62] [63] [64]
• Jon Lilletun, 60, Norwegian politician (KrF), Minister of Education 1997-2000, cancer. [65]
• Geff Noblet, 89, Australian Test cricketer 1949-1953. [66]
• William C. Norris, 95, American engineer and founder of Control Data Corporation. [67]
• Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, 65, Dutch billionaire businessman, pancreatic cancer. [68]
• S. Yizhar, 89, Israeli author, heart disease. [69]

20

• Dr. George Astaphan, 60, Kittian doctor who provided steroids to, amongst others, Ben Johnson in the 1980s. [70]
• Claude Blanchard, 74, French-Canadian pop singer and actor, heart attack. [71]
• Renate Brausewetter, 100, German silent film actress. [72]
• Alexander Cushing, 92, American founder of the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, brought the 1960 Winter Olympics to the US. [73]
• Roger Donoghue, 75, American boxer. [74]
• Robert Hoffman, 59, American businessman and art collector, co-founder of National Lampoon. [75]
• James T. "Red" Hudson, 81, founder of Hudson Foods, lung cancer. [76]
• Jack Laughery, 71, American former CEO and chairman of the Hardee's restaurant chain, lung cancer. [77]
• Jacob Mincer, 84, Polish-born professor of economics at Columbia University. [78]
• Giuseppe Moccia, alias Pipolo, 75, Italian film director with Franco Castellano (Castellano & Pipolo), father of writer Federico Moccia. [79]
• Joe Rosenthal, 94, Pulitzer Prize winner for photographing United States Marines raising their flag on Iwo Jima, natural causes. [80]
• Neil Trezise, 75, Australian Labor politician, Victorian State Government Minister for Sport 1982-92, Australian Rules footballer 1949-59 for Geelong, heart attack. [81]
• Richard Arthur de Yarburgh-Bateson, 95, 6th Baron Deramore and writer of erotic fiction. [82]

19

• Marvin Barrett, 86, American journalist and author. [83]
• Joyce Blair, 73, British actress, sister of Lionel Blair, cancer [84]
• Clinton Bristow, Jr., 57, American lawyer and education official, president of Alcorn State University, heart failure. [85]
• James Lovett Dewar, 94, American banker, founder of Park Avenue Bank. [86]
• Joseph Hill, 57, Jamaican lead singer of roots reggae group Culture, liver failure. [87] [88]
• Omar Oscar Míguez, 78, Uruguayan footballer and 1950 FIFA World Cup winner. [89]
• Mervyn Wood, 89, Australian rower, three-time Olympic medal winner, New South Wales Police Commissioner. [90] [91]

18

• James Clark, Jr., 87, former president of the Maryland State Senate, cancer. [92]
• 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. [93]
• Grace Furukawa, 77, first Japanese-Canadian teacher in Ontario, natural causes. [94]
• Fernand Gignac, 72, French-Canadian singer and actor, hepatitis. [95]
• Dick Hickox, 68, guard for the University of Miami basketball team, 1959-60. [96]
• Ken Kearney, 82, dual international for Australia in rugby league and rugby union, heart attack. [97]
• Jeffrey Tennyson, 54, American artist and collector of hamburger memorabilia, author of Hamburger Heaven. [98]

17

• Yen Ngoc Do, 65, founder of Nguoi Viet Daily News, diabetes and kidney disease. [99] [100]
• Len Evans, 75, Australian wine writer and founder of the Australian Wine Bureau, heart attack. [101]
• Ken Goodall, 59, Irish international rugby union player 1967-1970. [102]
• Masumi Hayashi, 60, Japanese-American photographer, shooting. [103]
• John Hutton, 59, American furniture designer. [104]
• Dr. Vernon Ingram, 82, German-born molecular biologist at MIT, discovered the cause of sickle cell anemia. [105]
• Walter Jagiello, 76, "Li'l Wally", American polka musician and songwriter. [106]
• Shamsur Rahman, 76, Bangladeshi poet, kidney and liver failure. [107]
• Bernard Rapp, 61, French film director, writer and journalist, lung cancer. [108] [109]
• Sig Shore, 87, film producer (Superfly). [110]
• Evan Harris Walker, 70, physicist and consciousness theorist [111]

16

• Umberto Baldini, 84, Italian art restorer, director of the conservation studios at the Uffizi. [112]
• Alex Buzo, 62, Australian playwright (Norm and Ahmed, Rooted), cancer. [113]
• Herschel Green, 86, American World War II fighter ace. [114]
• Jon Nödtveidt, 31, Swedish lead guitarist and vocalist of death metal band Dissection, convicted murderer, suicide. [115][116]
• James A. Reed, 92, lawyer and banker, former assistant Secretary of the Treasury. [117]
• Alfredo Stroessner, 93, former dictator of Paraguay, complications from hernia surgery. [118]
• Alan Vint, 61, American actor, multiple organ failure following various illnesses [119][120]
• William Wasson, 82, priest. [121]

15

• Rick Bourke, 51, Australian rugby league player, cancer. [122]
• Dr. James W. Smith, Jr., 79, American surgeon, author, and collector of early arcade games. [123]
• Rudi Stern, 69, American multimedia artist. [124]
• Dame Te Atairangikaahu, 75, Māori Queen. [125]
• Doug White, 61, American news anchor, cancer. [126]
• Faas Wilkes, 82, Dutch international footballer. [127]

14

• Dr. Paul Beeson, 97, American infectious disease researcher, former chair of the department of medicine at Yale University. [128]
• 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. [129] [130] [131]
• Richard J. Farmer, 43, Emmy-award winning cameraman. [132]
• Adriaan de Groot, 91, Dutch chess master and psychologist. [133]
• Milton Kaye, 97, American pianist and arranger. [134]
• Lord Kilbracken, 85, British-born Irish peer, wartime Fleet Air Arm pilot and journalist. [135] [136]
• Bruno Kirby, 57, American character actor (The Godfather Part II, City Slickers), complications from leukemia. [137] [138]
• Lawrence Sacharow, 68, American Obie Award-winning Off-Broadway director. [139]
• Dr. James Wattenbarger, 84, American educator and University of Florida professor, designed Florida's community college system. [140]

13

• Joseph Carlino, 89, American Speaker of the New York State Assembly, 1959-1964. [141]
• Kermit L. Hall, 61, President of the University at Albany and member of the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, swimming accident. [142] [143]
• Al Hostak, 90, American National Boxing Association Middleweight champion in 1938 and 1939, stroke. [144] [145]
• Tony Jay, 73, British actor and voice artist, complications from tumor surgery. [146]
• Payao Poontarat, 49, Thailand's first Olympic medal winner (bronze, 1976) and former World Boxing Council champion, ALS. [147] [148]
• Diane Shamash, 51, American founder of Minetta Brook, a non-profit art organization. [149]
• Nathan Sloane, 97, former owner of the Fox Cross Candy Company. [150]

12

• Victoria Gray Adams, 79, African-American civil rights activist, first woman to run for a US Senate seat in Mississippi, cancer. [151] [152]
• Mazisi Kunene, 76, South African poet and academic. [153]
• Ketheshwaran Loganathan, Tamil peace official, assassination. [154]
• Camille Loiseau, 114, French doyenne, oldest verified person in Western Europe. [155][156] (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. [157]
• Dr. Monroe Romansky, 95, American academic and physician, developed the Romansky Formula for penicillin administration, Alzheimer's disease. [158] [159]
• Karl von Stroheim, 78, professional wrestler, heart attack. [160]

11

• John L. Bull, 92, American ornithologist. [161]
• Alvin Cooperman, 83, American entertainment executive. [162]
• David Thomas Dawson, 48, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Montana. [163]
• Victor del Corral, 84, Cuban restauranteur, founder of New York City's Victor's Cafe. [164]
• Mike Douglas, 81, American talk-show host and entertainer. [165]
• Joel Harnett, 80, American civic watchdog and former candidate for Mayor of New York City. [166]
• Alice Ilchman, 71, American economist, president of Sarah Lawrence College, 1981-1998. [167]
• Leonard Marks, 90, American communications lawyer and former director of the United States Information Agency. [168]
• Joe Rebman, 21, sprint car driver, racing accident in Mansfield, OH. [169]

10

• George Dawkes, 86 legendary cricketer (Wicket keeper) for Derbyshire. [170]
• Barbara George 63, R&B-singer [171]
• Irving São Paulo, 41, Brazilian actor, multiple organ failure [172]
• Yasuo Takei, 76, Japan's second-richest man and founder of Takefuji Corporation. [173] [174]

9

• Anga Díaz, 45, Cuban conga player. [175] [176]
• Melissa Hayden, 83, Canadian-born ballerina, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, pancreatic cancer. [177] [178]
• Philip Empson High, 92, British science fiction author, natural causes. [179]
• James Van Allen, 91, American space physicist, heart failure. [180] [181]

8

• William B. Anderson, 82, journalist [182]
• Gustavo Arcos, 79, Cuban dissident, pneumonia. [183] [184]
• Marion Cajori, 56, documentary filmmaker. [185]
• Darrell Ferguson, 28, convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection in Ohio. [186]
• Duke Jordan, 84, American bebop jazz pianist. [187] [188]
• Dino Restelli, 81, major league baseball player. [189]

7

• Mary Anderson Bain, 94, New Deal director under FDR and former top aide to Congressman Sid Yates. [190]
• Sue Bierman, 82, former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, car accident. [191]
• Jim Crooker, 80, amateur who played in more Bob Hope Chrysler Classic tournaments than any other golfer, cancer. [192]
• Lois January, 92, American actress, Alzheimer's disease. [193]
• Robert McCullough, 64, African-American civil rights activist, leader of the Friendship Nine. [194]
• Bob Miller, 76, NFL defensive tackle with the title-winning Detroit Lions, cancer. [195]
• John Weinberg, 81, American banker, former head of Goldman Sachs, complications from a fall. [196]

6

• Gintaras Beresnevičius, 45, a Lithuanian historian of religions specializing in Baltic mythology, writer, scholar, publicist. [197]
• Dorothy Healey, 91, American communist leader, pneumonia. [198]
• Rafik Kamalov, Kyrgyz Imam and alleged Islamic militant, injuries sustained from gunfire. [199]
• Stella Moray, 83, British actress and performer. [200].
• Jim Pomeroy, 53, first American to win a World Championship Motocross event, automobile accident. [201]
• Moacir Santos, 80, Brazilian composer and arranger. [202][203]
• Sir Robert Sparkes, 77, Australian grazier and businessman, former President of the Queensland National Party 1970-1990. [204]
• Hirotaka Suzuoki, 56, Japanese anime voice actor, lung cancer. [205]
• Monsignor Lawrence Wnuk, 98, Polish Catholic priest, Protonotary Apostolic, founder of the Polish Canadian Centre Association of Windsor, Ontario. [206]

5

• Susan Butcher, 51, four-time Iditarod champion, complications from a bone marrow transplant to combat acute myeloid leukemia. [207][208]
• Steve Crosno, 66, longtime El Paso radio DJ whose career spanned nearly 50 years, kidney failure. [209]
• Richard L. Fisher, 65, New York City developer and philanthropist, cancer. [210]
• William Massee, 87, American wine writer. [211]
• Hugo Schiltz, 78, Belgian politician. [212]
• Daniel Schmid, 64, Swiss filmmaker and director (Il Bacio di Tosca), cancer. [213] [214]
• Ed Thrasher, 74, American album cover designer. [215]
• Rosaline Yeoh (née Chan Yee Hing), 54, former Hong Kong actress and wife of Malaysian tycoon Tan Sri Francis Yeoh, cancer. [216][217]

4

• Elden Auker, 95, former American Major League Baseball pitcher, heart attack. [218] [219]
• Julio Galán, 46, Mexican neo-expressionist painter. [220]
• John Locke, 62, former keyboardist of Spirit. [221]
• Dr. James F. X. O'Rourke, 86, American eye surgeon, former mayor of Yonkers, New York, and former professional football player. [222]
• Nandini Satpathy, 75, Chief Minister of Orissa, India 1972-1976, cerebral bleeding. [223]
• Esther Snyder, 86, president of California-based In-N-Out Burger. [224]

3

• Helmut Bein, 74, German rally driver, Opel Motorsport manager and Formula 3 official [225] [226]
• Richard T. Greene Sr., 93, African-American banker, former director of the Carver Federal Savings Bank. [227]
• Dr. John Haase, 82, German-born American dentist turned author (Me and the Arch Kook Petulia), emphysema. [228] [229]
• Arthur Lee, 61, American rock musician, leader of the psychedelic band Love, leukemia. [230] [231]
• Ken Richmond, 80, British actor and wrestler, 1952 Olympic bronze medal winner, gong striker in the credits for films by J. Arthur Rank Studios. [232] [233]
• Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 90, German born opera soprano, natural causes. [234]
• Robert Eric Wone, 32, American general counsel to Radio Free Asia, stabbing. [235]

2

• Holger Börner, 75, German politician, prime minister of Hesse 1976-1987, cancer. [236]
• Fitz Eugene Dixon, Jr., 82, former owner of the Philadelphia 76ers who signed Julius Erving, skin cancer. [237]
• David Levy, 79, New York State Supreme Court justice. [238]
• Kim McLagan, 57, British model of the 1960s, wife of Ian McLagan of The Faces and former wife of Keith Moon, traffic accident. [239]
• Harold Ronk, 85, American singing ringmaster for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. [240]
• Ferenc Szusza, 82, record goalscorer for a single club in Hungarian football. [241]

1

• Gay Delanghe, 65, American choreographer. [242]
• Dr. Vincent Dole, 93, American medical researcher, established that methadone could treat heroin addiction, ruptured aorta. [243] [244]
• Rufus Harley, 70, American jazz bagpipe player, prostate cancer. [245]
• Masao Nishimura, 73, Japanese banker, CEO of the Industrial Bank of Japan and founder and CEO of Mizuho Holdings, Inc.. [246]
• Rev. Bernard Pagano, 81, American Catholic priest charged and cleared of armed robbery, stroke. [247]
• Arlene Raven, 62, feminist writer and art critic, kidney cancer. [248]
• Jason Rhoades, 41, American installation artist, heart failure. [249][250]
• Bob Thaves, 81, cartoonist, created and illustrated Frank and Ernest, respiratory failure [251]
• Johannes Cardinal Willebrands, 96, Archbishop of Utrecht 1975-1983, oldest Cardinal in the Roman Catholic church. [252] [253] (English) [254] (Dutch)
• Iris Marion Young, 57, political philosopher and feminist, esophageal cancer. [255]

July 2006

See Deaths in July 2006.

June 2006

See Deaths in June 2006.

May 2006

See Deaths in May 2006.

April 2006

See Deaths in April 2006.

March 2006

See Deaths in March 2006.

February 2006

See Deaths in February 2006.

January 2006

See Deaths in January 2006.

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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...