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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2006 .
April 2006 [ edit ]
Sir Anthony Beaumont-Dark , 73, former British Conservative Member of Parliament. [3] .
Mohammed al-Maghout , 72, Syrian poet and playwright. [4]
Bernard Seigal , 48, American musician and essayist with the stage name Buddy Blue , co-founder of the Beat Farmers , heart attack. [5]
Nina von Stauffenberg , 92, widow of Hitler's would-be assassin. [6]
Tom Abercrombie , 75, National Geographic photographer, complications from open-heart surgery. [7]
Barry Bingham, Jr. , 72, former editor and publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times . [8]
Lou Carrol , 83, American traveling salesman, gave Checkers to Richard Nixon . [9]
Doug Coombs , 48, American extreme skier, ski accident in the French Alps. [10]
Ewan Fenton , 76, Scottish footballer. [11]
Martin Gilks , 41, former drummer with The Wonder Stuff , motorcycle accident. [12] [13]
Marshall Goldberg , 88, former NFL running back of the Chicago Cardinals , complications due to a head injury. [14] [15]
Albert Harker , 95, last surviving member of the US 1934 FIFA World Cup soccer team. [16]
Antonia Morgan , 91, fled the U.S. with granddaughter in Elizabeth Morgan custody battle [17]
Genzo Murakami , 96, Japanese novelist. [18]
Walter Ristow , 97, American map librarian at the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress [19]
Ida Vos , 74, Dutch writer. [20]
Mary Boyce , 85, British authority on Iran. [21]
Colonel Fred Christensen , 84, American fighter ace in World War II. [22]
Eckhard Dagge , 58, German WBC junior middleweight boxer. [23]
Denis Donaldson , 55/56, former head of Sinn Féin at Stormont , and British double-agent, found shot dead at his home. [24]
Gary Gray , 69, American child actor of the 1940s, cancer.[25]
John de Courcy Ireland , 94, Irish maritime historian and political activist. [26]
John George Macleod , 90, Scottish physician. [27]
Jürgen Thorwald , 90, German writer. [28]
Vickery Turner , 66, British actress of the 60's. [29]
Canon Frederick B. Williams , 66, minister of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem , New York City [30]
Alain de Boissieu , 91, French General and son-in-law of Charles De Gaulle [31]
J.B. Fuqua , 87, American entrepreneur and philanthropist. [32]
George Savalla Gomes , 90, Brazilian entertainer who performed as "Carequinha" the clown.[33]
Allan Kaprow , 78, American artist and art theorist, natural causes. [34]
Armando Labra , 62, Mexican economist. [35]
Archbishop Pasquale Macchi , 82, former private secretary to Pope Paul VI . [36] [37]
Abdul-Salam Ojeili , 88, Syrian novelist. [38]
Gene Pitney , 66, American singer and songwriter, heart disease. [39] [40]
Jim Clack , 58, NFL offensive guard, heart failure. [41]
Maggie Dixon , 28, women's basketball coach at United States Military Academy , cardiac arrhythmia. [42]
Francis L. Kellogg , 89, American diplomat [43]
Leslie Norris , 84, Welsh poet and professor at Brigham Young University . [44]
Lucie 'Anne' Pere-Pucheu , 112, French supercentenarian. [45]
Christian Compton , 76, American jurist, justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia . [53]
Charles Doe , 79, founder of Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub, cancer. [54]
Frank Gibney , 81, American writer and journalist on Asia. [55]
Billy Hitchcock , 89, Major League Baseball infielder, coach, manager, and scout, natural causes. [56]
Robin Orr , 96, Scottish classical composer and conductor [57]
Jimmy Outlaw , 93, baseball third baseman/outfielder who played for the Cincinnati Reds, Boston Bees and Detroit Tigers between 1937 and 1949 [58]
Georges Rawiri , 74, Gabonese politician, president of the Senate and former foreign minister. [59]
Hermann Schild , 93, German cyclist, National Champion (1954) [60]
Vilgot Sjöman , 81, Swedish film director (I Am Curious (Yellow) ), complications from brain haemorrhage. [61]
Natalia Troitskaya , 55, Russian operatic soprano [62]
Joe Faragalli , 76, Canadian Football League head coach with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Eskimos , unspecified illness. [63]
Bonaya Godana , 54, Kenyan politician, plane crash. [64]
Bishop Charles Henderson , KC*HS , 81, retired Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark , England, cancer. [65]
Leonard Dommett , 77, Australian violinist and conductor. [66]
Les Foote , 81, Australian Football Hall of Fame member. [67]
DeShaun Holton , 32, American rapper better known as Proof of D-12 , homicide. [68]
Siobhán O'Hanlon , 43, Sinn Féin politician, cancer. [69]
June Pointer , 52, singer, former member of The Pointer Sisters , lung cancer. [70]
Shin Sang-ok , 80, Korean film producer, liver problems.[71]
Sergey Tereshchenkov , 67, Soviet Olympic cyclist. [72]
Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah , 41, Egyptian militant, killed by Pakistani forces. [73]
Richard Bebb , 79, British actor. [74]
William Sloane Coffin , 81, American minister and peace activist, congestive heart failure. [75] .
Andy Duncan , 83, American basketball player. [76]
Dr. Paulina Kernberg , 71, Chilean-born American child psychiatrist, professor at Cornell University . [77]
Kazuo Kuroki , 75, Japanese film director. [78]
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. [79]
Puggy Pearson , 77, American poker player. [80]
Albert E. Radford , 88, American botanist, senior author of Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas , a landmark flora for North Carolina and South Carolina, which is still the definitive guide, nearly forty years after its publication. [81]
Rajkumar , 76, Indian actor, cardiac arrest. [82]
William Woo , 69, first Asian-American to be editor of a major American daily newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch , professor at Stanford University . [83]
Raúl Corrales , 81, Cuban photographer [91]
Lord Eliot (Jago Eliot) , 40, English noble, epilepsy, [92]
Calum Kennedy , 77, Scottish traditional singer. [93]
Pavel Koutecký , 49, Czech documentary film maker, accidental fall. [94]
Louise Smith , 89, first woman inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame , known as "the first lady of racing," complications from cancer. [95]
Francisco Adam , 22, Portuguese actor, car accident. [96]
Richard Eckersley , 65, graphic designer. [97]
Morton Freedgood , 93, American author (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three ) under the pseudonym of John Godey. [98]
Brett Goldin , 27, South African actor, killed by a head shot together with friend, fashion designer Richard Bloom, 27. [99]
Harold Horwood , 82, writer and former Newfoundland politician, cancer. [100]
Stephen Marshall , 20, American double murderer, suicide. [101]
Daniel Schaefer , 70, former Republican United States Representative from Colorado served 1983-1999, cancer. [102]
Jake Seamer , 92, English cricketer. [103]
Dr. Jean Bernard , 98, French hematologist. [104]
Scott Brazil , 50, American television producer and director (The Shield ), Lou Gehrig's disease. [105]
Peter Cadbury , 88, British entrepreneur and one of the founders of commercial TV broadcasting in the UK. [106]
Elford Albin Cederberg , 88, former Republican United States Representative from Michigan from 1953-1978 and former mayor of Bay City, Michigan . [107]
Henderson Forsythe , 88, American actor (As the World Turns ). [108]
Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg , 84, scholar of Judaism. [109]
Vaishnavi , 20, Indian Bollywood actress, suicide. [110]
Ken Jones , 84, Wales and British Lion rugby union player and silver medal Olympiad. [111]
John Lyall , 66, former football manager with West Ham United F.C. and Ipswich Town F.C. , heart attack. [112]
Grady McWhiney , 77, American historian. [113]
Dick Rockwell , 85, American cartoonist, assistant on Steve Canyon , nephew of Norman Rockwell . [114]
John F. Cosgrove , 56, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives . [115]
Scott Crossfield , 84, American X-15 test pilot, plane crash. [116]
Bob Dove , 85, American NFL defensive lineman and member of the College Football Hall of Fame . [117]
Ellen Kuzwayo , 91, South African author, anti-apartheid activist, and member of Parliament, diabetes. [118]
Kathleen Antonelli , 85, one of the original computer programmers, cancer. [119]
Cy Bahakel , 87, American media magnate. [120]
Stanley Hiller , Jr., 81, American helicopter designer. [121]
Miguel Zacarías Nogaim , 101, Mexican film director. [122]
Anna Svidersky , 17, murdered while working at McDonalds , stabbed. [123]
Wolfgang Unzicker , 80, German chess grandmaster. [124]
Robert Wegman , 87, chairman and former CEO of Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. , philanthropist. [125] [126]
Sir Richard Bayliss , 89, British physician, Physician to the Queen (1973-1981). [127]
Willie Brown Jr. , 61, executed in North Carolina for a 1983 murder. [128]
Fred Burton , 43, Belgian comic book artist. [129]
Jacob Kovco , 25, first Australian Defence Force serviceperson killed in Iraq. [130]
Telê Santana , 74, Brazilian football coach, complications from an intestinal infection. [131]
Henriette Avram , 86, library systems analyst, developed MARC cataloging format. [132] [133]
Ed Davis , 89, former Los Angeles police chief (1969-1978). [134]
Nobby Lawton , 65, midfielder & former captain of Preston North End , cancer. [135]
Jobie Nutarak , 58, Canadian politician, snowmoblie accident. [136]
Satyadeow Sawh , 50, Guyanese Minister of Fisheries, Crops and Livestock. Shot by masked gunmen. [137] [138] [139]
Ronnie Sox , 67, American drag racing pioneer. [140]
Alida Valli , 84, Italian actress (The Third Man ). [141] [142] [143]
Fausto Vitello , 59, founding publisher of the skateboarding magazine Thrasher , heart attack. [144] [145]
Ghafar Baba , 81, Malaysian former Deputy Prime Minister. [146]
Susan Browning , 65, American actress.
Harvey Bullock , 84, American television writer and producer (The Love Boat , Love, American Style ). [147] [148]
Wing Commander Johnny Checketts , 94, New Zealand World War II flying ace [149]
Willie Finnigan , 93, Scottish footballer (Hibernian F.C. ) [150]
Boris Fraenkel , 85, French Trotskyist [151]
Barry Gibbs , 73, South Australian cricket official. [152] [153]
William Gottlieb , 89, American jazz photographer. [154] [155] [156]
Jennifer Jayne , 64, British TV and film actress ("The Adventures of William Tell ")
Florence Mars , 83, American civil rights activist, author of Witness in Philadelphia . [157] [158]
Ian Nelson , 50, English saxophone and clarinet musician, died in his sleep. [159]
David Peckinpah , 54, television producer and director, heart attack [160] .
Phil Walden , 66, American founder of Capricorn Records , cancer. [161]
Isaac Witkin , 69, South African-born American sculptor. [162]
Roger Watkins , 69, English, former editor-in-chief of Variety magazine, cancer.
Erik Bergman , 94, Finnish composer [163]
Peter Ellis , 58, British television director. [164]
Nasreen Pervin Huq , 47, Bangladeshi women's activist and Director of Action Aid,from getting hit by a car. [165]
Grace Nelsen Jones , 112, Virginia's oldest person. [166] [167]
Brian Labone , 66, former Everton and England footballer, heart attack [168]
Bonnie Owens , 76, country music singer. [169]
Jimmy Sharman , 94, Australian boxing troupe impresario. [170]
Sibby Sisti , 85, MLB player with the Boston Braves [171]
Steve Stavro , 78, Canadian grocery store magnate and a former owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs , heart attack. [172]
Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar) , 91, of Satmar , one of the largest Hassidic Jewish groups in the world. [173]
Jane Jacobs , 89, American-born Canadian urban activist and author (The Death and Life of Great American Cities ), stroke. [174]
Peter Law , 58, Welsh politician, independent MP and AM , brain tumor. [175]
Tabe Slioor , 79, Finnish socialite. [176]
John Kerr , 81, Irish ballad singer.
Wacław Latocha , 69, Polish Olympic cyclist. [181]
Pat Marsden , 69, Canadian sportscaster, lung cancer. [182]
Roy Mogg , 77, English Methodist preacher and fraternalist, announced at the 74th National Convention of the Loyal Order of Moose .
Strini Moodley , 60, founding member of South African Black Consciousness Movement [183]
Kay Noble-Bell , 65, American wrestler. [184]
Julia Thorne , 61, American author and first wife of John Kerry , bladder cancer. [185]
Mel Tom , 64, American football player, heart failure. [186]
Alexander Buel Trowbridge , 76, Secretary of Commerce under US President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1967-1968, former president of the National Association of Manufacturers .[187]
Helen Armstrong , 63, American concert violinist. [188]
Angel O. Berrios , 69, former mayor of Caguas, Puerto Rico, heart failure [189]
Steve Howe , 48, former Major League Baseball pitcher, automobile accident [190] [191]
Ben-Zion Orgad , 80, Israeli composer, cancer [192] [193]
MGG Pillai , 67, veteran Malaysian journalist and political activist, heart complications [194] [195]
Sid Barron , 88, Canadian cartoonist. Known for the biplane flying overhead trailing a banner that read "mild, isn't it." [196]
William L. Durkin , 89, U.S. Marine and businessman - best known for rescuing Howard Hughes in 1946 plane crash, heart attack [197]
John Kenneth Galbraith , 97, American economist and author (The Affluent Society ), natural causes. [198]
Alberta Nelson , 68, American actress known for beach party films of 1960s. [199]
Félix Siby , 64, Gabonese politician and former government minister. [200]
John Trever , 90, American scholar who photographed the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem. [201]
Alvin S. White , 87, American test pilot [202]
Jay Bernstein , 69, American Hollywood publicist. [203]
Barry Driscoll , 79, British sculptor and painter, cancer. [204]
Jean-François Revel , 82, French philosopher [205]
Corinne Rey-Bellet , 33, Swiss Alpine skier, shot dead [206]
William (Bill) Roberts , 105, British First World War veteran [207]
Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro , 88, Rosh Yeshivah of Yeshivas Be'er Yaakov in Israel [208]
Paul Spiegel , 68, Chairman of the Central Council of German Jews, natural causes. [209]
Pramoedya Ananta Toer , 81, Indonesian writer [210]