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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2006 .
August 2006 [ edit ]
Vincent Dole , 93, American medical researcher, established that methadone could treat heroin addiction, ruptured aorta. [1]
Rufus Harley , 70, American jazz bagpipe player, prostate cancer. [2]
Arlene Raven , 62, feminist writer and art critic, kidney cancer. [3]
Jason Rhoades , 41, American installation artist, heart failure. [4]
George Styles , 78, British army officer, awarded the George Cross . [5]
Bob Thaves , 81, cartoonist, created and illustrated Frank and Ernest , respiratory failure. [6]
Johannes Willebrands , 96, Archbishop of Utrecht 1975-1983, oldest Cardinal in the Roman Catholic church. [7]
Iris Marion Young , 57, political philosopher and feminist, esophageal cancer. [8]
Holger Börner , 75, German politician, prime minister of Hesse 1976-1987, cancer. [9]
Fitz Eugene Dixon, Jr. , 82, former owner of the Philadelphia 76ers who signed Julius Erving , skin cancer. [10]
Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont , 92, French Resistance fighter, militant communist, and politician. [11]
Kim McLagan , 57, British model of the 1960s, wife of Ian McLagan of The Faces and former wife of Keith Moon , traffic accident. [12] [dead link ]
Luisel Ramos , 22, Uruguayan model, heart failure caused by anorexia nervosa. [13]
Ferenc Szusza , 82, record goalscorer for a single club in Hungarian football. [14]
Audrey Lindvall , 23, American model and sister of American supermodel Angela Lindvall , traffic accident. [15]
John Haase , 82, German-born American dentist turned author, emphysema. [16]
Arthur Lee , 61, American rock musician, leader of the psychedelic band Love , leukemia. [17]
Ken Richmond , 80, British actor and wrestler, 1952 Olympic bronze medal winner, gong striker in the credits for films by J. Arthur Rank Studios. [18]
Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , 90, German born opera soprano, natural causes. [19]
Robert Eric Wone , 32, American general counsel to Radio Free Asia , stabbing, 2008 allegation of coverup. [20]
Elden Auker , 95, former American Major League Baseball pitcher, heart attack. [21]
Julio Galán , 46, Mexican neo-expressionist painter. [22]
John Locke , 62, former keyboardist of Spirit . [23]
Nandini Satpathy , 75, Chief Minister of Odisha , India 1972-1976, cerebral bleeding. [24] [dead link ]
Esther Snyder , 86, president of California-based In-N-Out Burger . [25]
Susan Butcher , 51, four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion, complications from a bone marrow transplant to combat acute myeloid leukemia. [26]
Aron Gurevich , 82, Russian medievalist.
Hugo Schiltz , 78, Belgian politician. [27]
Daniel Schmid , 64, Swiss filmmaker and director (Il Bacio di Tosca ), cancer . [28]
Gintaras Beresnevičius , 45, a Lithuanian historian of religions specializing in Baltic mythology, writer, scholar, publicist. [29]
Dorothy Healey , 91, American communist leader, pneumonia. [30] [dead link ]
Rafik Kamalov , Kyrgyz Imam and alleged Islamic militant, injuries sustained from gunfire. [31]
Stella Moray , 83, British actress and performer. [32] .
Jim Pomeroy , 53, first American to win a World Championship Motocross event, automobile accident. [33] [dead link ]
Milcho Rusev , 81-82, Bulgarian Olympic cyclist. [34]
Moacir Santos , 80, Brazilian composer and arranger. [35] [36]
Sir Robert Sparkes , 77, Australian grazier and businessman, former President of the Queensland National Party 1970-1990. [37] [dead link ]
Hirotaka Suzuoki , 56, Japanese anime voice actor, lung cancer.
Ian Walters , 76, British sculptor. [38]
Monsignor Lawrence Wnuk , 98, Polish Roman Catholic priest, Protonotary Apostolic , founder of the Polish Canadian Centre Association of Windsor, Ontario . [39] [dead link ]
Mary Anderson Bain , 94, New Deal director under U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and former top aide to Congressman Sid Yates . [40]
Jim Crooker , 80, amateur who played in more Bob Hope Chrysler Classic tournaments than any other golfer, cancer. [41]
John Gilbert , 84, Canadian politician. [42]
Lois January , 92, American actress, Alzheimer's disease. [43]
Bob Miller , 76, NFL defensive tackle with the title-winning Detroit Lions , cancer. [44]
John Weinberg , 81, American banker, former head of Goldman Sachs , complications from a fall. [45]
William B. Anderson , 82, journalist [46] [dead link ]
Gustavo Arcos , 79, Cuban dissident, pneumonia. [47] [48] [dead link ]
Darrell Ferguson , 28, convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection in Ohio. [49] [dead link ]
Duke Jordan , 84, American bebop jazz pianist. [50] [51] [dead link ]
Dino Restelli , 81, Major League Baseball player. [52]
Anga Díaz , 45, Cuban conga player. [53] [54]
Colin Dickinson , 74, New Zealand Olympic cyclist. [55]
Melissa Hayden , 83, Canadian-born ballerina, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet , pancreatic cancer. [56] [57] [dead link ]
Philip Empson High , 92, British science fiction author, natural causes. [58]
Said Abdullo Nuri , 59, leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan , cancer.[59]
Rafael Ruiz , 89, Spanish Olympic field hockey player (1948 ). [60] (Spanish)
James Van Allen , 91, American space physicist, heart failure. [61] [dead link ] [62]
George Dawkes , 86 English cricketer, specialising in wicket keeping, for Derbyshire . [63]
Barbara George , 63, R&B-singer, homicide
Irving São Paulo , 41, Brazilian actor, multiple organ failure [64]
Yasuo Takei , 76, Japan's second-richest man and founder of Takefuji Corporation. [65] [66]
Alvin Cooperman , 83, American entertainment executive. [67]
David Thomas Dawson , 48, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Montana. [68]
Mike Douglas , 81, American talk-show host and entertainer. [69]
Alice Ilchman , 71, American economist, president of Sarah Lawrence College , 1981-1998. [70]
Mazisi Kunene , 76, South African poet laureate. [71]
Victoria Gray Adams , 79, America civil rights activist, first woman to run for a US Senate seat in Mississippi, cancer. [72]
Camille Loiseau , 114, French doyenne, oldest verified person in Western Europe. [73]
Raska Lukwiya , Ugandan commander in the Lord's Resistance Army , indictee of the International Criminal Court for war crimes, killed in battle. [74]
William O. Baker , 95, American baseball player.[75]
Joseph Carlino , 89, American Speaker of the New York State Assembly (1959–1964). [76]
Jack Edwards , 88, British WWII soldier and prisoner of war rights campaigner. [77]
Kermit L. Hall , 61, American President of the University at Albany , member of the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board , swimming accident. [78]
Al Hostak , 90, American National Boxing Association middleweight champion (1938–1939), stroke. [79]
Tony Jay , 73, British actor and voice artist, complications from tumor surgery. [80]
Jon Nödtveidt , 31, Swedish lead guitarist and vocalist (Dissection ), convicted of felony murder, suicide. [81]
Payao Poontarat , 49, Thai boxer, first Thai Olympic medal winner (bronze, 1976), World Boxing Council champion, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [82]
Johnny Duncan , 67, American country singer and songwriter, heart attack. [83]
John Godley, 3rd Baron Kilbracken , 85, British-born Irish peer, wartime Fleet Air Arm pilot and journalist. [84]
Adriaan de Groot , 91, Dutch chess master and psychologist. [85]
Bruno Kirby , 57, American character actor (The Godfather Part II , City Slickers ), complications from leukemia. [86]
Luis Fernandez de la Reguera , 39, American film director, motorcycle accident. [87]
Rick Bourke , 51, Australian rugby league player, cancer. [88]
Lynton K. Caldwell , 92, American political scientist. [89]
Dame Te Atairangikaahu , 75, New Zealand Māori queen . [90]
Doug White , 61, American news anchor, cancer. [91] [dead link ]
Faas Wilkes , 82, Dutch international footballer. [92]
Umberto Baldini , 84, Italian art restorer, director of the conservation studios at the Uffizi . [93]
Alex Buzo , 62, Australian playwright, cancer. [94]
Herschel Green , 86, American World War II fighter ace. [95] [dead link ]
Iris M. Ovshinsky , 79, American co-founder of ECD Ovonics , wife of inventor Stanford Ovshinsky . [96]
Alfredo Stroessner , 93, Paraguayan President (1954–1989), complications from hernia surgery. [97]
Alan Vint , 61, American actor, multiple organ failure. [98]
William Wasson , 82, American priest who founded orphanages, complications from a hip injury. [99]
Kontek Kamariah Ahmad , 95, Malaysian educationist, politician, activist and pioneer in the Malaysian co-operative movement. [100]
Len Evans , 75, Australian wine writer, founder of the Australian Wine Bureau, heart attack. [101]
Ken Goodall , 59, Irish rugby union player (1967–1970). [102]
Masumi Hayashi , 60, American photographer, shot. [103]
John Hutton , 59, American furniture designer, complications of prostate cancer surgery. [104]
Vernon Ingram , 82, German-born American molecular biologist (MIT ), discovered cause of sickle cell anemia . [105]
Walter Jagiello , 76, 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]
Sig Shore , 87, American film producer (Super Fly ). [109] [dead link ]
Evan Harris Walker , 70, American physicist and consciousness theorist [110]
Yen Ngoc Do , 65, Vietnamese-born American founder of Nguoi Viet Daily News , diabetes and kidney disease. [111] [dead link ]
George Astaphan , 60, Kittian doctor, provided steroids to Ben Johnson . [112]
James A. Clark, Jr. , 87, American President of the Maryland State Senate (1979–1983), cancer. [113]
Kathryn Frost , 57, American Army major general, wife of Martin Frost , breast cancer. [114]
Fernand Gignac , 72, Canadian singer and actor, hepatitis. [115]
Ken Kearney , 82, Australian rugby league and rugby union international player, heart attack. [116]
Marvin Barrett , 86, American journalist and author. [117]
Joyce Blair , 73, British actress, sister of Lionel Blair , cancer. [118]
Clinton Bristow, Jr. , 57, American lawyer and education official, president of Alcorn State University , heart failure. [119] [dead link ]
Joseph Hill , 57, Jamaican lead singer of roots reggae group Culture , liver failure. [120]
Óscar Míguez , 78, Uruguayan footballer, 1950 FIFA World Cup winner. [121]
Mervyn Wood , 89, Australian rower, three-time Olympic medal winner, New South Wales Police Commissioner. [122]
Claude Blanchard , 74, Canadian pop singer and actor, heart attack. [123]
Renate Brausewetter , 100, German silent film actress. [124] [dead link ] (German)
Bryan Budd , 29, British soldier, posthumously awarded Victoria Cross . [125]
Roger Donoghue , 75, American boxer. [126]
Robert Hoffman , 59, American businessman and art collector, co-founder of National Lampoon . [127]
Jack Laughery , 71, American CEO and chairman of the Hardee's restaurant chain, lung cancer. [128]
Vashti McCollum , 93, American humanist campaigner. [129]
Jacob Mincer , 84, Polish-born American professor of economics (Columbia University ). [130]
Giuseppe Moccia , 75, Italian film director. [131] [dead link ] (Italian)
Joe Rosenthal , 94, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima ), natural causes. [132] [dead link ]
Neil Trezise , 75, Australian Labor politician, Victorian Minister for Sport (1982–1992), Australian rules football player, heart attack. [133] [dead link ]
Richard de Yarburgh-Bateson, 6th Baron Deramore , 95, British architect and writer of erotic fiction. [134]
Máximo Carvajal , 70, Chilean comic book artist. [135]
Bismillah Khan , 90, Indian shehnai musician and Bharat Ratna winner, heart attack. [136]
Jon Lilletun , 60, Norwegian politician (KrF ), Minister of Education (1997–2000), cancer. [137]
Geff Noblet , 89, Australian test cricketer (1949–1953). [138] [dead link ]
William Norris , 95, American engineer, founder of Control Data Corporation . [139]
Buck Page , 84, American western musician, founder of Riders of the Purple Sage . [140] [dead link ]
Paul Fentener van Vlissingen , 65, Dutch billionaire businessman, pancreatic cancer. [141]
S. Yizhar , 89, Israeli author, [heart disease. [142]
Maynard Ferguson , 78, Canadian jazz trumpet player, kidney and liver failure. [146]
John Lister , 90, British Anglican priest, Provost of Wakefield (1972–1982). [147]
Wasim Raja , 54, Pakistani test cricketer, heart attack. [148]
Raymond Harold Sawkins , 82, British novelist. [149]
David Schnaufer , 53, American Appalachian dulcimer player, lung cancer. [150]
Marie Tharp , 86, American oceanographic cartographer. [151]
Ed Warren , 79, American demonologist , after long illness. [152]
Jay Young , 56, American news anchor (CNN ), heart attack. [153]
Herbert Hupka , 91, German journalist and politician. [154] (German)
Leonard Levy , 83, Canadian-born American constitutional historian and author, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for History . [155]
Cristian Nemescu , 27, Romanian film director, car accident. [156]
Viktor Pavlov , 65, Russian actor, heart attack. [157] (Russian)
Rocco Petrone , 80, American NASA engineer, director of Project Apollo and the Marshall Space Flight Center . [158]
David Plowright , 75, British television producer and executive, chairman of Granada Television (1987–1992). [159]
Ralph Schoenstein , 73, American humorist and NPR commentator. [160]
Léopold Simoneau , 90, Canadian lyric tenor. [161]
James Tenney , 72, American experimental music composer, cancer.[162]
Gene Thompson , 89, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds , New York Giants ). [163] [dead link ]
Andrei Toncu , 28, Romanian sound designer, car accident. [164]
John Weinzweig , 93, Canadian composer. [165] [dead link ]
John Blankenstein , 57, Dutch openly gay football referee, kidney disease. [166]
Noor Hassanali , 88, Trinidadian politician, President (1987–1997). [167]
Silva Kaputikyan , 87, Armenian poet. [168]
Vijay Mehra , 68, Indian cricketer. [169]
Joseph Stefano , 84, American screenwriter (Psycho ), co-creator of The Outer Limits . [170]
Ross Warneke , 54, Australian television presenter and radio personality, cancer. [171]
Rainer Barzel , 82, German President of the Bundestag , Chairman of the CDU . [172] (German)
Akbar Bugti , 79, Pakistani Balochistan rebel tribal leader, shot. [173]
John Ripley Forbes , 93, American naturalist and conservationist, founder of nature museums. [174]
William Garnett , 89, American aerial photographer. [175]
Yevhen Kucherevskyi , 65, Ukrainian football coach (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk ), car crash. [176]
Marie-Dominique Philippe , 93, French Dominican priest, founder of the Community of St. John , stroke. [177]
Sir Alfred Sherman , 86, British journalist, writer and political analyst. [178]
Vladimir Tretchikoff , 92, Russian artist. [179]
Sir Clyde Walcott , 80, Barbadian cricketer. [180]
María Capovilla , 116, Ecuadorian supercentenarian, oldest person in the world, pneumonia. [181]
Tee Corinne , 62, American writer and artist. [182]
Jon Dough , 43, American pornographic actor and AVN Hall of Famer , suicide by hanging. [183] [dead link ]
Paul Gutty , 63, French cyclist. [184]
Ike Hildebrand , 79, Canadian ice hockey and lacrosse player. [185]
Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín , 79, Ecuadorean Archbishop of Guayaquil . [186]
Iain MacKintosh , 74, Scottish folk musician. [187]
Vashti McCollum , 93, American plaintiff (McCollum v. Board of Education ). [188]
Luciano Mendes de Almeida , 75, Brazilian Archbishop of Mariana , cancer. [189] (Portuguese)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee , 83, Indian film director. [190]
David Nicholson , 67, British jockey and horse trainer. [191]
Jesse Pintado , 37, American guitarist (Terrorizer , Napalm Death ), complications of diabetic coma. [192]
Ed Benedict , 94, American animator and layout artist, designed Fred Flintstone . [193]
Don Chipp , 81, Australian politician, founder of the Australian Democrats . [194]
Mary Lee Robb Cline , 80, American actress (The Great Gildersleeve ), heart failure. [195] [dead link ]
Ludwig Hemauer , 89, Swiss Olympic shooter. [196]
Heino Lipp , 84, Estonian champion decathlete. [197] [dead link ]
Robert McDermott , 86, American dean of the USAF Academy , chairman of USAA and owner of San Antonio Spurs , stroke . [198]
Pip Pyle , 56, British drummer (Gong , Hatfield and the North ). [199]
William F. Quinn , 87, American Governor of Hawaii (1957–1962), pneumonia. [200]
Michael Richard , 58, American photographer, cancer. [201] [dead link ]
Benoît Sauvageau , 42, Canadian Bloc Québécois MP, traffic accident. [202]
Melvin Schwartz , 73, American physicist, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics . [203]
Alfred Sherman , 86, British co-founder of the Centre for Policy Studies . [204]
Kent Andersson , 64, Swedish motorcycle racer, winner of 1973 and 1974 125cc World Championships . [205]
John Cummins , 58, Australian union official, secretary of the Builders' Labourers Federation , cancer. [206]
Robert J. Gorlin , 83, American oral pathologist. [207]
Gerald Green , 84, American author (The Last Angry Man ) and screenwriter (Holocaust ). [208]
Benjamin Rawitz-Castel , 60, Israeli pianist, battered . [209]
Jumpin' Gene Simmons , 73, American rockabilly musician. [210]
Bill Stewart , 63, British actor. [211]
Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon , 80, New Zealand jurist. [212]
Glenn Ford , 90, Canadian-born American actor (Blackboard Jungle , Cimarron ). [213]
Susan Lynn Hefle , 46, American food scientist, cancer.[214]
Margaret Hubble , 91, British radio broadcaster. [215]
George Johnson , 112, American supercentenarian, pneumonia. [216]
Emrys Jones , 86, British geographer. [217]
Igor Kio , 62, Russian illusionist. [218]
Bob LeRose , 85, American colorist and cover production artist for DC Comics . [219]
Naguib Mahfouz , 94, Egyptian winner of 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature , head injuries from a fall. [220]
Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm , 83, British MP and government minister. [221]
Bill Stumpf , 70, American industrial designer, co-created the Aeron office chair . [222]
Mohamed Abdelwahab , 23, Egyptian footballer, suspected heart attack. [223]
K. Sri Dhammananda , 87, Sri Lankan-born Malaysian bhikkhu , stroke. [224] .
Guy Gabaldon , 80, American World War II marine, heart attack. [225]
J. S. Holliday , 82, American historian, expert on California Gold Rush , pulmonary fibrosis. [226]
David Macpherson, 2nd Baron Strathcarron , 82, British hereditary peer and motoring expert. [227]
Mike Magill , 86, American racing driver. [228]
Charlie Wagner , 93, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox ). [229]