Deaths in 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2006. Links to other years follow.

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November 2006

29

• Allen Carr, 72, English anti-smoking campaigner, lung cancer. [1]
• Hanumant Singh, 67, Indian test cricketer and ICC match referee, organ failure due to dengue and hepatitis B. [2]
• Leon Niemczyk, 82, Polish actor. [3] (Polish)

28

• Max Merkel, 87, Austrian football player and coach. [4] (German)
• Lyubov Polishchuk, 57, Russian actress, spinal disease. [5] [6] (Russian)
• Enrico Katuzzi, 60, Italian football coach, hearth attack

[7] (Bulgarian)

27

• Don Butterfield, 83, tuba player with musicians including Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Sinatra, stroke-related illness. [8]
• Bebe Moore Campbell, 56, African-American author (What You Owe Me) and mental health advocate, brain cancer. [9][10][11]
• Casey Coleman, 55, Cleveland sports broadcaster who won 4 Emmy Awards, pancreatic cancer. [12]
• George Doig, 93, Australian football player. [13]
• Alan "Fluff" Freeman, 79, former BBC Radio DJ, natural causes. [14]
• Győző Határ, 92, Hungarian poet and writer. [15] (Hungarian)
• Larry Henderson, 89, first regular broadcaster on CBC's The National, natural causes. [16]
• Annie Knight, 111, believed to be the oldest person in Great Britain. [17]
• Paul Ernst Ruppel, 93, German composer of Christian music [18] (German)
• Jece Valadão, 76, Brazilian actor, complications from heart attack. [19] (Portuguese)

26

• Babak Bayat, 60, Iranian composer, liver failure. [20]
• Mário Cesariny, 83, Portuguese painter and writer, cancer. [21] [22]
• Dave Cockrum, 63, American comic book artist (X-men, Legion of Super-Heroes), complications from diabetes. [23]
• Robert "H-Bomb" Ferguson, 77, American blues singer, complications of emphysema and cardiopulmonary disease. [24]
• Isaac Gálvez, 31, Spanish cyclist, cycling accident. [25]
• Stephen Heywood, 37, subject of the film So Much So Fast, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [26]
• Abu Khavs, Jordanian-born Chechen al-Qaida leader in North Caucasus, shoot-out with police. [27]
• Giorgio Panto, 65, Italian regional television station owner and separatist politician, helicopter crash, presumed drowned. [28] (Italian)
• Graham Roope, 60, Surrey and England cricketer, heart attack. [29]
• Armin Russenberger, 80, Swiss cyclist. [30] (German)
• Tony Silvester, 65, Panama-born soul singer with The Main Ingredient. [31]
• Raúl Velasco, 73, Mexican television show host (Siempre en Domingo), natural causes. [32] [33]

25

• Luciano Bottaro, 75, Italian comic book artist (Pepito). [34] (Italian)
• Leo Chiosso, 86, Italian songwriter for Fred Buscaglione, Mina, Giorgio Gaber and many others. [35] (Italian)
• Valentín Elizalde, 27, Mexican banda singer, shot. [36]
• David Hermance, 59, American Toyota engineer responsible for the Prius, plane crash. [37]
• Gianluca Lerici (aka "Professor Bad Trip"), 43, Italian artist and designer. [38] (Italian)
• Emilio Vedova, 87, Italian painter. [39]
• Jack Werber, 92, Polish-born Holocaust survivor, American manufacturer of coonskin caps during the 1950s craze, heart attack. [40]

24

• William Diehl, 81, American author (Primal Fear, Sharky's Machine), aortic aneurysm. [41]
• Phyllis Fraser, 90, American actress, writer, and publisher, complications from fall. [42]
• Robert Kupperman, 71, American terrorism expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, complications from Parkinson's disease. [43]
• Juice Leskinen, 56, Finnish singer-songwriter, renal insufficiency, cirrhosis, and diabetes. [44]
• Frank L. Madla, 69, former Texas State Senator, house fire. [45]
• Robert McFerrin, 85, first African-American to sing at the New York Metropolitan Opera and father of Bobby McFerrin, heart attack. [46] [47]
• Maximo Soliven, 77, publisher of The Philippine Star, cardiac arrest. [48]
• Zdeněk Veselovský, 78, Czech zoologist, heart disease or heart attack. (in Czech)

23

• Jesús Blancornelas, 70, Mexican journalist, founding editor of Zeta magazine, stomach cancer. [49]
• Gerald M. Boyd, 56, African-American former managing editor of The New York Times, lung cancer. [50] [51]
• Nick Clarke, 58, BBC Radio 4 presenter and journalist, cancer. [52]
• Richard Clements, 78, British journalist, Editor of Tribune (1961–1982). [53]
• Betty Comden, 89, lyricist known for writing musicals with Adolph Green including Singin' in the Rain, heart failure. [54]
• Jack Ferrante, 90, American end for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles. [55]
• Alexander Litvinenko, 43, former Russian spy and critic of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, poisoning. [56]
• Philippe Noiret, 76, French actor (Il Postino, Cinema Paradiso), cancer. [57]
• Anita O'Day, 87, American jazz singer, pneumonia. [58]
• Willie Pep, 84, American Hall of Fame featherweight boxer, Alzheimer's disease. [59] [60]
• Chris Sandy, 27, former Harlem Globetrotter, car accident. [61]
• Boe Tucker, 79, father and manager of country music singer Tanya Tucker, lung cancer. [62]

22

• Dr. Jerry Bails, 73, popular culture and comic book historian, heart attack. [63]
• John Allan Cameron, 67, pioneer of Celtic music in Canada, bone cancer. [64]
• Muriel Castanis, 80, American sculptor, lung failure. [65]
• Pat Dobson, 64, American Major League Baseball pitcher, leukemia. [66] [67] [68]
• John Peyton, Baron Peyton of Yeovil, 87, UK Minister of Transport (1970–1974) and MP for Yeovil (1951–1983). [69]

21

• Svein Erik Bakke, 59, Norwegian entrepreneur. [70] [71] (Norwegian)
• Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa, 80, Romanian priest, dissident during the rule of Nicolae Ceauşescu, pancreatic cancer. [72]
• Thomas Courtney Fleming, 98, African-American civil rights leader and co-founder of the Sun-Reporter, congestive heart failure. [73]
• Pierre Gemayel, 34, Lebanese Minister of Industry, shot. [74] [75]
• Hassan Gouled Aptidon, 90, first President of Djibouti, natural causes. [76]
• Robert Lockwood Jr., 91, Mississippi Delta blues guitarist and singer, respiratory failure. [77]
• Dr. Bernard Rimland, 78, American autism researcher, prostate cancer. [78] [79]
• Eliezer Waldenberg, 89, Israeli Haredi rabbi. [80]

20

• Robert Altman, 81, American film director (MASH, Nashville, Short Cuts), complications from leukemia. [81]
• Zoia Ceauşescu, 56, daughter of Nicolae Ceauşescu, lung cancer. [82]
• Paul Vincent Dudley, 79, Retired Roman Catholic Bishop of Sioux Falls, lung disease. [83]
• William R. P. George, 94, Welsh archdruid, bard, novelist, nephew of WWI British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. [84]
• Walid Hassan, 47, Iraqi television personality and comedian, shot. [85]
• Hong Xuezhi, 94, Chinese general, unspecified illness. [86] [87]
• Dr. David Kritchevsky, 86, Ukrainian-born biochemist and nutrition expert. [88]
• Saúl Ubaldini, 69, Argentinian labor leader and parliamentarian for the Peronist party, lung cancer. [89]
• Andre Waters, 44, former American football player, most recently Fort Valley State University assistant football coach, suicide. [90] [91]

19

• Zygmunt Bielawski, 69, Polish actor. [92]
• Dirk Dirksen, 69, punk rock promoter at San Francisco's North Beach nightclub Mabuhay Gardens, in his sleep. [93]
• Sir Edward Ford, 96, Assistant Private Secretary to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II (1946–1967). [94]
• Francis Girod, 62, French film director and screenwriter, heart attack. [95]
• Smith Hempstone Jr., 77, former ambassador to Kenya, complications from diabetes. [96]
• Tan Sri Mohd Khir Johari, 83, former Malaysian Education Minister and one of the country's founding fathers, heart attack. [97]
• Craig Neilsen, 65, CEO and Chairman of Ameristar Casinos, natural causes. [98]
• Ernest Pusey, 111, Florida's oldest person and last Floridian WWI veteran. [99]
• Francisco Quirós Hermosillo, Mexican general, cancer. [100]
• Julio Ramos, 71, Argentinian journalist, director of Ámbito Financiero, leukemia. [101]
• Jeremy Slate, 80, American actor (Hell's Angels '69, One Life to Live), esophageal cancer. [102] [103]

18

• Movladi Baisarov, 40, former head of one of Chechnya's security forces, shot. [104]
• Roger Bolton, 59, General Secretary of BECTU, a British trade union, cancer. [105]
• Lars Chemnitz, 81, Danish former member of the Parliament of Greenland and chairman of Landsrådet. [106]
• Lee Dong-won, 80, foreign minister of South Korea 1964-1966. [107]
• Maurice Graham (aka "Steam King Maury"), 89, known as "King of the Hobos", author of Tales of the Iron Road: My Life as a Hobo, stroke. [108] [109]
• Keith Rowlands, 70, President of Welsh Rugby Union. [110]

17

• Ruth Brown, 78, American blues singer, complications following a heart attack and stroke. [111] [112]
• Marcus Cassel, 23, American football player and former UCLA cornerback, car accident. [113] [114]
• Bishop Joseph D'Silva, 76, Indian Archbishop of Bellary, India, cancer. [115]
• Bishop Manuel Moreno, 75, Bishop of the Catholic diocese of Tucson, Arizona (USA), appointed by John Paul II. [116]
• Tony Pithey, 73, South African cricketer, pancreatic cancer. [117]
• Ferenc Puskás, 79, Hungarian former footballer and coach, pneumonia. [118] [119]
• Flo Sandon's, 82, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival in 1953. [120] (Italian)
• Bo Schembechler, 77, former University of Michigan football head coach, heart problems. [121] [122] [123]
• Mário Sottomayor Cardia, 65, Portuguese former minister of Education, cancer. [124] (Portugese)
• Ramez Tebet, 70, Brazilian politician and lawyer, cancer. [125] (Portugese)

16

• Curtis Cate, 82, American biographer, melanoma. [126]
• Frank Durkan, 76, Irish-American lawyer known for his work for members of the Irish Republican Army in the US, lung infection. [127]
• Milton Friedman, 94, American monetarist and free-market economist, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize, heart failure. [128] [129]
• Gary Graver, 68, cinematographer and filmmaker, collaborator with Orson Welles (F for Fake, The Other Side of the Wind), cancer. [130] [131]
• Geoffrey Griffin, 67, South African cricketer, heart attack. [132]
• Yuri Levada, 76, Russian sociologist and pollster, heart attack. [133]
• Paris Theodore, 63, American firearms inventor and manufacturer, multiple sclerosis. [134]
• John Veale, 84, English classical composer, cancer. [135]

15

• George G. Blackburn MC, 90, Canadian author of Guns of Normandy, member of the Order of Canada, cancer. [136]
• John M. Blackburn, 93, Songwriter ("Moonlight in Vermont", "Need You", "Susquehanna"), natural causes [137]
• Mac E. Hadley, 76, Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona, one of the researchers who discovered Melanotan, homicide. [138]
• Ken Ishikawa, 58, Japanese mangaka, co-creator of Getter Robo anime series, heart failure. [139]
• Paul Rigby, 82, Australian cartoonist, heart attack. [140] [141]
• René Sterne, 54 , Belgian comic book artist (Adler). [142]
• Owen Truelove, 69, RAF Air Commodore, glider crash. [143]
• David K. Wyatt, 69, American historian of Thailand, emphysema and congestive heart failure. [144]

14

• Lieutenant General Sipho Binda, 54, second most senior officer in the South African National Defence Force, heart failure. [145]
• Michele Maxian, 55, Legal Aid Society lawyer who battled New York City courts to arraign suspects within 24 hours, ovarian cancer. [146]
• Ana Carolina Reston, 21, Brazilian model, complications of anorexia nervosa. [147]

13

• Tiger Conway, 74, former professional wrestler, stroke. [148]
• Desert Orchid, 27, British National Hunt racehorse, winner of the King George VI Chase on four occasions. [149]
• Konrad Fuchs, 109, German man believed to be oldest living Catholic priest, WWI combat veteran. [150]
• John Hallam, 65, Northern Irish actor. [151]
• Robert McCurry, 83, Chrysler marketer who introduced cash rebates for U.S. car buyers, prostate cancer. [152]
• G. Gordon Strong, 92, Canadian-American publisher, president of several newspaper chains, pneumonia. [153]

12

• Kip Bahadun, 65, former executive secretary of UMNO, aortic aneurysm. [154]
• Alphonse Halimi, 74, French boxer, former World bantamweight champion. [155]
• Harvey Manning, 81, American conservationist and author. [156]
• Mario Merola, 72, Italian singer and actor. [157]
• General Jacob E. Smart, 97, US Air Force general and NASA executive, former deputy C-in-C of the US European Command. [158]
• Joseph Ungaro, 76, American journalism editor and executive whose question led to Richard Nixon's "I am not a crook" response. [159] [160]
• H. Donald Wilson, 82, founder of LexisNexis, heart attack [161]

11

• Belinda Emmett, 32, Australian actress (Home and Away), metastatic breast cancer. [162]
• S. Lane Faison, Jr., 98, American art historian who oversaw the return of artworks from the Nazis. [163] [164]
• Dr. Albert B. Friedman, 86, American scholar of medieval literature and collector of ballads. [165]
• Basil ("Joe") Jagger, 93, father of Rolling Stones' vocalist Mick Jagger, pneumonia [166]
• Jabu Khanyile, 49, South African musician who played at the Johannesburg Live 8 concert, prostate cancer. [167]
• Anthony Lapham, 70, American lawyer, former general counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency. [168]
• Noella Leclair, 61, Canada's first artificial heart recipient. [169]
• Rev. Harry Lehotsky, 49, Canadian anti-poverty advocate and newspaper columnist, pancreatic cancer. [170]
• Ruth Morgenthau, 75, Austrian-born expert on international development, former adviser to Jimmy Carter. [171]
• Ronnie Stevens, 81, British comedic actor, causes undisclosed. [172]
• Français "Rusty" Tullis, 70, mother of "Rocky" Dennis and portrayed by Cher in Mask, injuries from a motorcycle accident. [173] [174]

10

• Anicée Alvina, 53, French actress.[175]
• Benny Andrews, 75, American artist, cancer. [176]
• Diana Coupland, 74, English actress (Bless This House), complications following heart surgery. [177]
• Gabriel Donoso, 46, Chilean polo player, injuries sustained after falling from a horse during a match. [178]
• Maurice Floquet, 111, France's oldest man on record and combat-wounded WWI veteran. [179]
• Doug Friedline, 49, American campaign manager for Jesse Ventura and other third party candidates, heart attack. [180]
• Willy Knupp, 70, German motorsport journalist, cancer. [181] (German)
• Gerald Levert, 40, American R&B singer and son of The O'Jays lead singer Eddie Levert, heart attack. [182] [183]
• Chubby Oates, 63, Cockney comedian, heart attack. [184]
• P. Kannan, 83, Indian building contractor and architect (Saibaba Colony, Coimbatore), heart disease.
• Jack Palance, 87, Oscar-winning American actor (Shane, City Slickers), natural causes. [185] [186]
• Nicholas Proffitt, 63, American journalist and author, war correspondent for Newsweek, kidney cancer. [187]
• Nadarajah Raviraj, 44, Tamil National Alliance Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, shot. [188]
• Igor Sergeyev, 68, ex-Defense Minister of Russia, the only Marshal of the Russian Federation, cancer. [189]
• Hara Taira, 63, Japanese manga artist, author, and regular contestant on Quiz Derby, liver failure. [190]
• Jack Williamson, 98, American science fiction author. [191]

9

• Isadore Barmash, 84, American business journalist and author. [192]
• Ed Bradley, 65, American CBS News journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, leukemia. [193]
• Garton del Savio, 92, American baseball player [194]
• Marian Marsh (a.k.a. Marilyn Morgan, Marian Henderson), 93, 1930s American film star (Hell's Angels, Svengali). [195]
• Stanley Meltzoff, 89, American diver and painter of undersea life. [196]
• Sam Stephenson, 72, Irish architect, designed the Central Bank and Wood Quay. [197]
• David Thaw, 78, opera singer. [198] (German)
• Walter Williams, 85, legislator in Washington state 1961-1971, complications from Parkinson's disease. [199]
• Ellen Willis, 64, American journalist, professor, feminist activist and critic, lung cancer. [200]
• Markus Wolf, 83, former head of East Germany's secret intelligence service, natural causes. [201]

8

• G. Robert Crowningshield, 87, American creator of diamond grading system [202]
• Dr. Rhodes Fairbridge, 92, Australian geologist at Columbia University, supervising editor of The Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences. [203]
• Sir James Hunt, 63, British judge in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, brain tumour. [204]
• Samuel “Eewie” Kambule, 41, South African former football player for Bafana Bafana. [205]
• Basil Poledouris, 61, American film composer (Conan the Barbarian, Robocop, Starship Troopers), cancer. [206]
• Philip Rauch, 95, American businessman and philanthropist, president of Ideal Corporation, chair of Parker-Hannifin Corporation. [207]
• Annette Rogers, 93, American athlete, 4 x 100 metres relay gold medalist at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics. [208]
• Peter Wensberg, 77, American former senior vice president for marketing for Polaroid, popularized the instant camera. [209]

7

• Paul Baltes, 67, German developmental psychologist. [210]
• John Coburn, 81, Australian artist, winner of the 1960 and 1977 Blake Prizes for Religious Art. [211]
• Guy Degrenne, 81, French industrialist. [212] (French)
• Nate Gooden, 68, American former vice-president of the United Auto Workers. [213]
• Buddy Kerr, 84, American baseball shortstop for the New York Giants, natural causes. [214] [215]
• Jackie Parker, 74, former All-American and a Canadian football player, head coach and general manager, throat cancer. [216]
• Bryan Pata, 22, American football player for the University of Miami Hurricanes, gunshot (homicide). [217]
• Johnny Sain, 89, American Major League Baseball pitcher. [218] [219]
• Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 82, French journalist and politician, author of The American Challenge. [220] [221]
• N.N. Sippy, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer, cardiac arrest. [222]
• Robert Strudler, 64, American businessman, chair of the Lennar Corporation. [223] [224]
• Brian Thomson, 87, British chairman of D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd (1974–2005). [225]
• Polly Umrigar, 80, former Indian cricket team captain, lymphoma. [226]

6

• Miguel Aceves Mejía, 90, Mexican singer and actor known as "the king of the falsetto", bronchitis. [227]
• Francisco Fernández Ochoa, 56, Spanish retired alpine skier, gold medallist in the 1972 Winter Olympic Games, cancer. [228]
• Federico Lopez, 44, represented Puerto Rico in two Olympic Games and three world basketball championships, heart attack. [229]
• J.T. Rutherford, 85, Democrat United States Representative for Texas (1955–1963), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [230]

5

• Samuel Bowers, 82, former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard, convicted of ordering the murder of civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer, cardiac arrest. [231]
• Chuck DeShane, 87, former quarterback with the Detroit Lions. [232]
• Chen Ding-nan, 63, former Justice Minister of Taiwan, lung cancer. [233]
• Bülent Ecevit, 81, former Prime Minister of Turkey, complications following a stroke. [234]
• George Esser, 85, set up the North Carolina Fund to fight poverty in the state in the 1960s at the request of its Governor Terry Sanford. [235]
• Oscar González, 82, Uruguayan Grand Prix driver. [236] (Spanish)
• Frank Marsden, 83, British Labour politician and Member of Parliament 1971-74. [237]
• Pietro Rava, 90, Italian former football player, last surviving member of the 1938 World Cup-winning team, Alzheimer's disease. [238]
• Hamilton Richardson, 73, American tennis player, US Open doubles winner, diabetes complications. [239]
• Bobby Shearer, 74, Scottish former footballer who played for Hamilton Academical and Rangers. [240]

4

• Nelson S. Bond, 97, American writer. [241]
• William Lee Brent, 75, Black Panther who hijacked a plane to Cuba; pneumonia. [242]
• Lionel Bryer, 78, South African dentist who founded the Aberdeen International Youth Festival [243]
• Frank Arthur Calder, 91, aboriginal Canadian politician. [244]
• Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 98, co-author of Cheaper by the Dozen, natural causes. [245]
• Gerhard Goebel, 72, former German Catholic bishop of Tromsø [246]
• John McManners, 89, English historian, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford University (1972-84). [247]
• Sergi López Segú, 39, footballer for FC Barcelona and Gerard López's brother, suicide by throwing himself under a train. [248]
• Deron Thorp, 33, former NFL Europa player, [249]

3

• Belden Bly, 92, served in Massachusetts legislature for 32 years. [250]
• Frank Dunham, Jr., 64, US federal public defender, head lawyer for Zacarias Moussaoui, brain cancer. [251]
• Sir Allen Fairhall, 97, member of the Australian House of Representatives (1949-69), Minister for Defence (1966-69). [252]
• Dr. Fereydoun Hoveyda, 82, Syrian-born former Iranian ambassador to the United Nations. [253]
• Paul Mauriat, 81, French musician (L'Amour Est Bleu). [254]
• Sputnik Monroe, 77, American professional wrestler, respiratory illness. [255]
• Malachi Ritscher, 52, American anti-war protester, self-immolation. [256] [257]
• Marie Rudisill, 95, "Fruitcake Lady" on The Tonight Show, aunt of Truman Capote, natural causes. [258]
• Stanley Rothenberg, 76, American lawyer and former president of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., complications after surgery for a popliteal aneurism. [259]
• Arnie Sachs, 78, photojournalist, bone cancer. [260]
• Alberto Spencer, 68, footballer for Peñarol and Ecuador, all-time highest scorer in Copa Libertadores de América, intestinal infection following heart surgery. [261]

2

• Rafael Donato, 69, Filipino President of DLSU-Manila (1991-1994), President of De La Salle Lipa (1995-2003), drowning. [262]
• Adrien Douady, 71, French mathematician. [263]
• Wally Foreman, 58, Australian Broadcasting Corporation sports broadcaster, heart attack. [264]
• Red Hayworth, 91, American baseball player. [265]
• Carroll Knicely, 77, Kentucky commerce secretary for three governors and publisher. [266]
• Les Mansfield, 90, played rugby union for Wales and won the Distinguished Flying Cross during World War II. [267]
• Leonard Schrader, 62, American screenwriter (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters), brother of Paul Schrader, heart failure. [268]
• Milly Vitale, 74, Italian actress. [269]

1

• Bettye Ackerman, 82, American actress (Dr. Maggie Graham in Ben Casey), stroke. [270] [271]
• Jason DiEmilio, 36, American guitarist (Azusa Plane), overdose. [272]
• Daniel Garcia, 80, Mexican professional wrestler and film star better known as Huracan Ramirez, heart attack. [273]
• Buddy Killen, 73, American record producer and founder of Dial Records, pancreatic cancer. [274]
• Florence Klotz, 86, American Tony-winning costume designer, heart failure. [275] [276]
• Donka Paprikova, 91, Bulgarian philanthropist. [277]
• Johnny Schofield, 75, footballer for Birmingham City and former manager of Atherstone Town F.C.. [278]
• Adrienne Shelly, 40, American actress (Trust, The Unbelievable Truth), screenwriter, and director, strangulation. [279] [280]
• William Styron, 81, American writer (Darkness Visible, Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice), pneumonia. [281]
• Hilda van Stockum, 98, Dutch Newberry Medal-winning author of children's books, stroke. [282]
• Silvio Varviso, 82, Swiss conductor of the Vlaamse Opera, illness. [283]

October 2006

See Deaths in October 2006.

September 2006

See Deaths in September 2006.

August 2006

See Deaths in August 2006.

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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