Deaths in 2006

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

January 2006

20

Pio Taofinu'u, 82, Samoan cardinal

19

Gary Downie, South African psychotherapist and television production manager (Doctor Who, Star Cops), cancer. [1]
Anthony Franciosa, 77, American actor, ex-husband of Shelley Winters, heart attack.[2]
Wilson Pickett, 64, American soul singer, heart attack.[3]
Jos Staatsen, 62, mayor of Groningen (1985-1991), head of the Professional Football section of the Royal Netherlands Football Association (1993-1997)
Fred van der Werff, 90, Dutch retail entrepreneur, founder of the eponymous supermarket chain (founded in 1931, sold and disbanded in 1982)

18

Norman McCabe, animator and director, famous for Tokio Jokio and The Ducktators shorts from his Termite Terrace tenure at Warner Bros. [4]
Thomas Murphy, 90, former CEO of General Motors [5]
Anton Rupert, 89, South African businessman, philanthropist and founding member of World Wildlife Fund, natural causes. [6]
Jan Twardowski, 90, Polish priest and poet

17

Clarence Ray Allen, 76, American convicted murderer, executed in California. [7]
Wallace Mercer, 59, former chairman of Heart of Midlothian F.C., cancer. [8]
Giles Worsley, 44, British architectural historian and journalist, cancer. [9]

16

Stanley Biber, 82, American physician and pioneer in sex reassignment surgery, complications of pneumonia.

15

Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 79, Emir of Kuwait [10][11]
Glyn Berry, 59, Welsh-born Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan
Hilma Contreras, 92, Dominican writer.
Edward N. Hall, 91, U.S. Air Force rocket expert, father of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile program [12][13]

14

Jacques Faizant, 87, French cartoonist (Le Figaro) [14]
Jim Gary, 66, American sculptor [15]
David Ingle, 72, American neuroscientist and experimental psychologist, pneumonia
Richard Johnson, 75, Publisher of the Houston Chronicle [16]
Mullah Khaksar, former Taliban minister who sided with the United States, killed by gunmen [17][18]
Mark Philo, 21, English professional football player, injuries from a car crash. [19]
Bob Weinstock, 77, founded independent jazz record label Prestige, complications of diabetes. [20]
Shelley Winters, 85, American actress, heart failure. [21][22][23]

13

Raúl Anguiano, 90, Mexican engraver and painter.
Ron Jessie, 57, former NFL wide receiver. [24]
Marc Potvin, 38, former NHL player, found dead in his hotel room in Michigan, unknown reason.
Joan Root, 69, wildlife conservationist [25]

12

William M. Byrne Jr., 75, presiding judge in the trial of Daniel Ellsberg [26][27]
Brendan Cauldwell, 83, Irish actor
Edwin S. Cohen, 91, American tax expert and lawyer [28]
Eldon Dedini, 84, cartoonist [29]
Robert Edwin Drake, 82, NSA intelligence analyst, congestive heart failure [30]
Shaikh Faisal bin Hamad Al Khalifa, 15, Bahraini prince, injuries from a car crash
Günther Landgraf, 77, German physicist and former President of Dresden University of Technology [31]
Anne Meacham, 80, American stage (Suddenly, Last Summer) and television actress (Another World) [32]
Meinrad Schütter, 95, Swiss composer [33]

11

Eric Namesnik, 35, American Olympic swimmer, injuries from a car crash.
Lucian Pulvermacher, 87, aka Antipope Pius XIII of the true Catholic Church, Natural Causes
Mark Spoon, 39, German DJ and prominent figure in trance music; heart attack.[34]
Alan Sytner, 70, founder of the Cavern Club, Liverpool. [35]

10

Ira B. Black, 64, neuroscientist, founder of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey [36]
Dave Brown, 52, former National Football League player, heart attack. [37]
Sergio Fedriani, 56?, Italian artist [38]
Elliot Forbes, 88, Harvard University professor and Beethoven scholar [39]
Sidney Frank, 86, American businessman and philanthropist [40]
Alethea Hayter, 94, British writer [41]
Leon Lobel, 77, butcher, author and meat expert [42]
Dennis Marks, 73, animation writer-producer [43]
Joseph Waksberg, 90, survey researcher [44]

9

Andy Caldecott, 41, Australian Dakar Rally motorcycle rider, fatal neck injury sustained in an accident in Mauritania [45]
Patricia Hitt, 87, Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under President Nixon [46]
David S. Kruidenier, 84, former publisher of the Des Moines Register [47]
Mikk Mikiver, 68, Estonian stage director and actor
Frank Okamura, 94, bonsai master [48]
W. Cleon Skousen, 92, BYU professor and prominent Latter-day Saint author and lecturer
Jack Snow, 62, former National Football League player and radio announcer, complications from a staph infection. [49]

8

Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, 62, former British Minister for Sport, stroke and cerebral hemorrhage.
Elson Becerra, 27, Colombian football (soccer) player, shot.[50]
Alex Elmsley, 76, English magician, heart attack.
Georg Wilhelm, Prinz von Hannover, Herzog zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg, 90, educator and Olympian. [51]
Stuart Quan, 43, movie stunt performer and karate instructor, cause unknown. [52]
David Rosenbaum, 63, New York Times reporter, head injury during mugging [53]
Mimmo Rotella, 87, Italian artist [54]
José Luis "Garrafa" Sanchez, 31, Argentine football (soccer) player, from injuries sustained in a biking accident.

7

Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar, 58, Head of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti, suicide [55]
Heinrich Harrer, 93, Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer and author [56][57]
Marshall A. Robinson, 83, former president of the Russell Sage Foundation [58]
Jim Zulevic, 40, American actor, heart attack.

6

Allaire du Pont, 92, thoroughbred enthusiast, owner of Kelso [59]
Yoshiro Kato, 80?, Japanese cartoonist (Mappira-kun) [60]
Roshan Khan, 77, Pakistani squash player, father of Jahangir Khan complications from a heart attack and coma [61]
Alf McMichael, 77, footballer for Northern Ireland & Newcastle United
Comandante Ramona, 47, Tzotzil Indian Zapatista rebel leader and women's rights advocate, kidney disease and tuberculosis [62]
Lou Rawls, 72, jazz and blues singer, lung and brain cancer. [63][64][65][66]
Hugh Thompson, Jr., 62, Vietnam War helicopter pilot who helped stop the My Lai Massacre, removed from life support.[67][68]
Stanley Roger Tupper, 84, former Republican US Congressman from Maine from 1961-1967
John Webster, 71, advertising writer responsible for commercials such as the Smash Martians, heart attack. [69]
Gábor Zavadszky, 31, Hungarian footballer (soccer player), probably pulmonary embolism. [70]

5

Ramona Bell, 47, wife of conspiracy broadcaster Art Bell, asthma attack [71]
Rod Dedeaux, 91, U.S. college baseball coach, complications from a stroke [72][73]
Sophie Heathcote, 33, Australian actress and founder of skin care range Ki, aneurysm [74]
Keizo Miura, 101, Japanese mountaineer [75]
Lord Merlyn-Rees, 85, former British Home Secretary, following a number of falls
Simon Shanks, 34, linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals in 1995, murdered by home intruder
Rachel Squire, 51, British Labour Member of Parliament for Dunfermline and West Fife, stroke [76]
Vajramuni, 62, Indian actor

4

John Bierman, 76, BBC reporter and popular historian [77]
Sultan Bilimkhanov, Deputy Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, injuries sustained in car crash [78]
Phyllis Gates, 80, American ex-wife of actor Rock Hudson, lung cancer
John Hahn-Petersen, 75, Danish actor, heart attack (see [79], [80])
William Haxby, 56, ocean cartographer [81]
Milton Himmelfarb, 87, Jewish-American essayist [82]
Fred K. Hoehler Jr., 87, founding director of the George Meany Center for Labor Studies of the AFL-CIO [83]
Stan Hunt, 76, American newspaper cartoonist [84]
Jeune (race horse), 16, winner of the 1994 Melbourne Cup
Irving Layton, Canadian poet, 93, complications from Alzheimer's disease [85]
Maria de Lourdes Pereira dos Santos Van-Dúnem, Angolan singer, 70,
Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 62, Ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, heart attack [86]
Gretl Schörg, 91, German actress of the 1940s and 1950s
Nel van Vliet, 79, Dutch swimmer, 1948 Olympic Champion 200m breaststroke

3

Robertinho do Acordeon, 67, popular Brazilian country musician
Kasey Davis, 20, freshman kicker at Texas Christian University, shot [87]
Urbano Lazzaro, 81, Italian resistance fighter who captured Benito Mussolini [88]
Caceres Monteiro, 57, Portuguese journalist, cancer [89]
Steve Rogers, 51, Australian rugby league player and CEO of Cronulla, apparent suicide.
Arturo Sergi, 79, American operatic tenor
Sir William Skate, 52, former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, stroke
Bruce Wilson, 64, Australian journalist, cancer [90]

2

Severino Bottero, 47, French olympic slalom coach, auto accident
Raul Davila, 74, Puerto Rican TV actor and producer
Ofelia Fox, 82, ran the Tropicana Club in Havana, cancer ([[91]])
Carlos Helo, 76/77 (to be confirmed), distinguished Chilean comedian, heart attack.
Philomena, 80, Indian actress
Frank Wilkinson, 91, American civil liberties activist. [92]
Lidia Wysocka, Polish actress

1

Susan Bergman, 48, American author, brain cancer, sister of actress Anne Heche
Otis Carney, 83, American author and screenwriter
Frank Cary, 85, former chairman of IBM. [93][94]
Mapita Cortés, 75, Mexican actress
Bryan Harvey, 49, former lead singer of House of Freaks, murdered. [95]
Dawn Lake, 78, Australian entertainer, widow of Bobby Limb
John Latham, 84, internationally exhibited artist
Paul Lindblad, 64, American baseball player, Alzheimer's
Harry Magdoff, 92, prominent American socialist.
Charles Porter, 86, ex-US Congressman from Oregon from 1957-1961 [96]
Hubert Schoemaker, 55, co-founder of biotech company Centocor [97]

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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...