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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2006 .
February 2006 [ edit ]
Roy Alon , 63, British film stuntman, heart attack. [1]
Dick Bass , 68, American pro football player and radio analyst. [2]
Dick Brooks , 63, American NASCAR race car driver and radio broadcaster, heart attack. [3]
Ronald B. Cameron , 78, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1963–1967). [4]
Robin Donkin , 75, British historian and geographer.[5]
Ernest Dudley , 97, British novelist, journalist, screenwriter, actor, radio broadcaster.
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Carlson Gracie, Sr. , 72, Brazilian martial artist, complications from kidney stones. [7]
Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr. , 86, American politician, governor of Arizona 1965-1967. [8]
Jean-Philippe Maitre , 56, former President of the Swiss National Council, brain tumor. [9]
John Woollam , 78, former British Conservative Member of Parliament. (Who's Who 2007)
Armando Castillo , 73, Guatemalan Olympic cyclist. [10]
Jill Chaifetz , 41, American lawyer and executive director of the nonprofit legal group Advocates for Children of New York, ovarian cancer. [11]
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury , 77, Bangladesh politician, former prime minister of Bangladesh. [12]
Chris Doty , 39, Canadian documentarian and playwright, suicide. [13]
Guglielmo Letteri , 80, Italian comic book artist. [14]
Pat Rupp , 63, goaltender for the 1964 and 1968 USA Olympic ice hockey teams, cancer . [15]
S. K. Ramachandra Rao , 78, Indian scholar. [16]
Nicholas Swarbrick , 107, last remaining English merchant sailor of World War I. [17]
Sir Reginald Swartz , 94, Australian politician, Minister for Civil Aviation from 1966-1969. [18]
Chris Walton , 72, English cricketer. [19]
Stephen Worobetz , 91, Canadian politician, former lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan . [20]
Ustad Qawwal Bahauddin , 71 or 72, Indian-Pakistani Qawwali singer.
Walerian Borowczyk , 82, Polish-born surrealist filmmaker [21] , heart failure [22]
Jean Byron , 80, American actress, infection following hip replacement surgery. [23]
Ernie Clements , 83, British road racing cyclist. [24]
Kurt Emmerich , 76, German radio reporter.
Frank Goodman , 89, Broadway press agent. [25] , congestive heart failure.
Lou Jones , 74, American Olympic runner. [26]
Sonny King , 83, American comedian-singer, Jimmy Durante 's sidekick, cancer. [27]
Duma Kumalo , 48, one of the Sharpeville Six , human rights activist, film-maker and founding member of the Khulumani Support Group for victims of apartheid-related violence. [28]
Al Lewis , 82, American actor (Grandpa Munster on The Munsters ), Green Party political candidate, restaurateur, and radio host. [29]
Romano Mussolini , 78, Italian jazz musician and painter, son of Benito Mussolini . [30]
Denne Petitclerc , 76, American journalist, screenwriter, and friend of Ernest Hemingway . [31]
Johnny Vaught , 96, NCAA championship-winning University of Mississippi football coach. [32]
George T. Davis , 98, American criminal defense lawyer [33]
Friedrich Engel , 97, German, former Nazi SS officer. [34]
Betty Friedan , 85, American feminist and writer, congestive heart failure. [35] [36]
William Augustus Jones Jr. , 71, American Civil Rights pioneer. [37]
Barbara W. Leyden , 56, American palynologist and paleoecologist.
Joe McGuff , 79, American sportswriter and newspaper editor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease). [38]
Elena Carter Richardson , 55, Mexico-born principal dancer and teacher, cancer.
Myron Waldman , 97, American animator for Betty Boop and Superman cartoons, congestive heart failure. [39]
Roland S. Boreham Jr. , 81, American businessman, former CEO of Baldor Electric Co. [40]
Norma Candal , 75, Puerto Rican comedienne, actress and drama teacher, head injury. [41]
Franklin Cover , 77, American TV and movie actor, pneumonia. [42]
Herbert Fischer , 91, German diplomat.
Reuven Frank , 85, American TV journalism pioneer and former NBC News president, complications from pneumonia. [43]
Peter Philp , 85, British dramatist and antiques expert.
Jack Taylor , 60, one of the heaviest men in Britain, heart attack. [44]
Carl Vogel , 84, German art collector.
John Brightman, Baron Brightman , 94, UK lawyer and former Lord of Appeal.
Mario Condello , 53, Australian lawyer and gangland criminal.
Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez , 80, American comedian and actor, cancer. [45]
Stella Ross-Craig , 99, one of the most prodigious of British flora illustrators. [46]
Esther Sandoval , 78, Puerto Rican actress. [47]
Karin Struck , 58, German writer, cancer.
Kouji Totani , 57, Japanese voice actor, heart failure.
Glenn Lee Benner II , 43, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [48]
George Millay , 76, American businessman and founder of SeaWorld , lung cancer. [49]
Max Rosenn , 96, American judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1970-2006. [50]
Mitchell Rupe , 51, American convicted murderer ruled too heavy to be hanged, liver disease. [51]
Alan Shalleck , 76, American TV writer, director (Curious George animated films), murdered. [52]
Larry Black , 54, American track and field medalist at 1972 Summer Olympics , aneurysm. [53]
Elton Dean , 60, English jazz saxophonist, heart and liver related problems. [54]
Michael Gilbert , 93, British mystery author and lawyer. [55]
Ron Greenwood , 84, British football manager, England national team , West Ham United . [56]
Akira Ifukube , 91, Japanese film composer, best known for Godzilla film series. [57]
Mart Kenney , 95, "Canada's Big Band King," bandleader/musician, complications from a fall.[58]
Gigi Parrish , 92, later known as Katherine Weld, American actress. [59]
Kuljeet Randhawa , 30, Indian television actress, suicide. [60]
Phil Brown , 89, American actor, best known for playing "Uncle Owen" Lars in Star Wars . [61]
Ibolya Csák , 91, Hungarian athlete, 1936 Olympic gold medalist in women's high jump. [62]
Gilles Kahn , 59, French computer scientist. [63] (French)
Sir Freddie Laker , 83, British entrepreneur, founder of Laker Airways . [64]
Nadira , 75, Indian Bollywood actress. [65]
Laurie Z , American musician, lung cancer [66]
John Belluso , 36, American playwright, Engleman-Camurdrie syndrome . [67]
Jill Fraser , 59, British theatre director, cancer . [68]
Dick Harmon , 58, American golfer and golf instructor. [69]
Knut-Olaf Haustein , 71, German physician.
John Prentice , 79, Scottish football player and manager. [70]
Norman Shumway , 83, American surgeon performed first U.S. heart transplant, lung cancer. [71]
Peter Smith , 65, British trade union leader, oesophageal cancer.
Juan Soriano , 85, Mexican painter and sculptor. [72]
André Strappe , 77, French football player. [73]
James Yancey , aka J Dilla, 32, American hip hop record producer and MC, lupus nephritis. [74]
Peter Benchley , 65, American author best known for Jaws , pulmonary fibrosis. [75]
Peggy Cripps Appiah , 84, British-Ghanaian children's author. [76]
Ken Fletcher , 65, Australian tennis player, cancer. [77]
Jackie "Mr. TV" Pallo , 79, British professional wrestler, cancer. [78]
Harry Schein , 81, Austrian-born founder of Swedish Film Institute , author and columnist. [79]
Jockey Shabalala , 62, South African singer with Ladysmith Black Mambazo . [80]
Thomas A. Spragens , 88, figure in American higher education, former President of Centre College . [81]
Harry Vines , 67, American wheelchair basketball coach. [82]
Henri Guédon , 61, French percussionist. [83]
Geordie Hormel , 77, American musician and studio owner, heir to the Hormel Foods fortune. [84]
Juan Sánchez-Navarro y Peón , 92, Mexican entrepreneur and co-founder of National Action Party .
Ken Hart , 88, American composer, playwright, US veteran, lobbyist, journalist, World War II [85]
John Brooke-Little , 78, English author and officer of arms. [86]
Ilan Halimi , French Jew murdered by a gang from Banlieue . Possibly anti-Semitic murder. [87]
Andreas Katsulas , 59, American actor, lung cancer. [88]
Alan M. Levin , 79, American documentary filmmaker. [89]
Edna Lewis , 89, American author of cookbooks on Southern U.S. cuisine. [90]
Altynbek Sarsenbayev , 43, former Kazakhstan cabinet minister, assassinated. [91]
Sir Peter Strawson , 86, British philosopher. [92]
Joseph Ujlaki , 76, Hungarian-born French football player. [93]
Wang Xuan , 70, Chinese academic and IT expert. [94]
Bettie Wilson , 115, American supercentenarian who was Mississippi's oldest person, complications from congestive heart failure. [95]
Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik , 106, Lubavitch storyteller. [96]
Darry Cowl , 80, French actor and pianist, lung cancer. [97]
Shoshana Damari , 83, "Queen of Israeli song," pneumonia. [98]
Joel Dorius , 87, American professor of literature, bone marrow cancer. [99]
Michael G. Fitzgerald , 55, American film historian and author. [100]
Lynden David Hall , 31, British soul singer, Hodgkin's lymphoma. [101]
Benjamin Matthews , 72, American bass-baritone opera singer, co-founder of Opera Ebony . [102]
Tage Møller , 91, Danish Olympic cyclist. [103]
Don Paarlberg , 94, American agricultural economics adviser to three U.S. Presidents. [104]
Robert Taylor Sr. , 89, American businessman, miniature golf pioneer. [105]
Putte Wickman , 81, Swedish jazz orchestra leader and clarinetist, cancer. [106]
Barbara Guest , 85, American poet of the New York School [107]
Anna Marly , 88, Russian-born songwriter, France's "Troubadour of the Resistance." [108]
Andrei Petrov , 75, Russian composer. [109]
Robert E. Rich, Sr. , 92, American businessman, creator of first nondairy whipped topping. [110]
Sun Yun-suan , 93, former Premier of Republic of China , heart attack. [111]
Josip Vrhovec , 79, former foreign minister of Yugoslavia .
Paul Avrich , 74, American professor and historian of anarchism, Alzheimer's disease. [112]
Benno Besson , 83, Swiss stage director. [113]
Johnny Grunge , 39, American pro wrestler, sleep apnea complications. [114]
Sid Feller , 89, American music arranger, conductor and record producer. [115]
Susie Gibson , 115, American supercentenarian who was Alabama's oldest person, heart failure. [116]
Dennis Kirkland , 63, British television producer and director, after a short illness. [117]
Ernie Stautner , 80, Bavarian-born American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers ) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame , Alzheimer's disease. [118]
Ray Barretto , 76, American-born Latin jazz percussionist and bandleader, heart failure. [119]
Sybille Bedford , 94, German-born British novelist and memoirist. [120]
Paul Carr , 72, American TV and movie actor, lung cancer. [121]
Bill Cowsill , 58, American singer, lead of The Cowsills , emphysema and other ailments. [122]
Harold Hunter , 31, American pro skateboarder, in movie Kids , suspected drug overdose. [123]
Bob Lewis , 81, American race horse owner, congestive heart failure. [124]
Jorge Pinto Mendonça , 51, Brazilian football player, heart attack. [125]
Yevgeny Samoilov , 94, Russian actor [126]
Richard Bright , 68, American movie and television actor, pedestrian accident. [127]
Bill Hartley , 75, Australian political activist and trade unionist. [128]
Laurel Hester , 49, American gay rights activist, lung cancer. [129]
Charles Leonard , 92, American US Army Major General and Olympic sharpshooter [130]
Tom Sellers , 83, American newspaper reporter and 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner, heart attack. [131]
Ruth Taylor , 44, Canadian poet, alcohol poisoning. [132]
Lou Gish , 35, British stage, film and television actress, cancer. [137]
Curt Gowdy , 86, American sports broadcaster, leukemia. [138] [139] [140]
Paul Marcinkus , 84, American Catholic archbishop, President of Vatican Bank and Pro-President of Vatican City State . [141]
Lucjan Wolanowski , 86, Polish journalist, writer and traveller. [142]
Gennadiy Aygi , 71, Russian author and poet who wrote in the Chuvash language . [143]
Theodore Draper , 93, American historian and political commentator. [144]
Mirko Marjanovic , 68, Serbian politician, prime minister of Serbia from 1994 to 2000. [145]
Angelica Rozeanu , 84, Romanian-born table tennis world champion, cirrhosis. [146]
Stefan Terlezki , 78, British Conservative Member of Parliament 1983-1987.[147]
Atwar Bahjat , 30, Iraqi journalist for al-Arabiya , abducted and killed in Iraq. [148] [149]
Anthony Burger , 44, American gospel music pianist, collapsed during performance. [150]
Hilde Domin , 96, German poet and writer. [151]
Donelson Hoopes , 73, American curator [152]
Edward Nalbandian , 78, owner of Zachary All Clothing in Los Angeles, Alzheimer's disease. [153]
Flossie Page , 112, American supercentenarian, oldest person from Kansas. [154]
Sinnathamby Rajaratnam , 90, former Second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, heart failure. [155]
John Sullivan , 61, English cricketer. [156]
Bill Tung , 72, Hong Kong actor, horse racing commentator. [157]
Richard Wawro , 52, autistic savant internationally recognized artist, cancer. [158]
Giuseppe Amici , 67, former Captain Regent of San Marino
Frederick Busch , 64, American author, heart attack. [159]
Said Mohamed Djohar , 87, former President of Comoros . [160] [161]
Luna Leopold , 90, American ecologist and author [162]
Machteld Mellink , 88, Netherlands-born American archaeologist of sites in Anatolia [163]
Dr. Robert W. Miller , 84, American epidemiologist with the US National Cancer Institute , studied Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings [164]
Diane Shalet , 71, American actress and author [165]
Reverend Earl Stallings , 89, Baptist pastor praised by Martin Luther King in the Letter from Birmingham Jail [166]
Telmo Zarraonaindía , 85, Spanish football player, heart attack. [167] [168]
Octavia Butler , 58, science fiction author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, head injury. [169]
Harold Faragher , 88, English cricketer. [170]
Don Knotts , 81, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show , Three's Company ), complications from aspiration pneumonia and lung cancer. [171]
John Martin , 58, Canadian broadcaster, throat cancer. [172]
Andrew Sherratt , 59, British archaeologist at the University of Sheffield, heart failure. [173]
Denis Twitchett , 80, Gordon Wu Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University 1980-94, creator of the 15 volume The Cambridge History of China , poor health. [174]
Dennis Weaver , 81, American actor (Gunsmoke , McCloud ), complications from cancer. [175]
Jeff Barnes , 50, American professional wrestling announcer, died after falling off a cliff while hiking.
Dr. Robin Coombs , 84, British immunologist, developed Coombs Antibody test [176]
Kenneth Deane , 45, Canadian police officer convicted in Ipperwash shooting, automobile accident. [177]
Thomas Koppel , 61, Danish musician and composer from the band Savage Rose . [178]
Darren McGavin , 83, American actor (Kolchak: The Night Stalker , A Christmas Story ), natural causes. [179]
Henry M. Morris , 87, American young earth creationist leader, complications of stroke. [180]
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin , 69, Poet Laureate of Ethiopia, kidney disease. [181]
Imette St. Guillen , 24, Hispanic John Jay College of Criminal Justice student, murdered.
Charlie Wayman , 83, English footballer, during the 1940s and 1950s, following a long illness [182]
Alice Baker , 107, last surviving British woman to serve in the First World War, member of the Royal Flying Corps [186]
Ferenc Bene , 61, Hungarian football player, fall. [187]
Otis Chandler , 78, former publisher of the Los Angeles Times , Lewy body disease .[188]
Fahd Faraj al-Juwair , 36, Saudi Arabian alleged head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula, killed in foiled bombing attempt. [189]
Milton Katims , 96, long-time conductor and leader of the Seattle Symphony . [190]
Tsakani Mhinga , 27, South African R&B singer, drug overdose. [191]
William Musto , 88, former mayor of Union City, New Jersey , convicted of racketeering [192]
Robert Lee Scott, Jr. , 97, retired United States Air Force brigadier general and fighter ace, author (God is My Co-Pilot ). [193]
Linda Smith , 48, British comedian, ovarian cancer. [194]
James Ronald "Bunkie" Blackburn , 69, NASCAR driver [195]
Owen Chamberlain , 85, particle physicist, co-discoverer of the antiproton , winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics , complications from Parkinson's Disease.[196]
Travis Claridge , 27, American football player with the Atlanta Falcons , Carolina Panthers and Hamilton Tiger-Cats , pneumonia. [197]
Hugh McCartney , 86, former Labour Party MP. [198]
Ron Cyrus , 70, American politician, lung cancer. [199]