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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2006 .
June 2006 [ edit ]
Shokichi Iyanaga , 100, Japanese mathematician [1]
Rocío Jurado , 61, Spanish singer and actress, pancreatic cancer. [2]
Allan Prior , 84, British television scriptwriter (Z-Cars , Howards' Way , The Charmer ), father of folk singer Maddy Prior . [3]
Abdul Latif Sharif , 59, Egyptian, suspect in the femicides in Ciudad Juárez , Mexico, officially of natural causes, rumored poisoning.
William D. Winn , 59, professor of education at the University of Washington . [4]
Ronald Cass , 83, British film score composer.
Roy Farran , 85, British army officer. [5]
Bernard Loomis , 82, American toymaker responsible for Strawberry Shortcake and Star Wars action figures, heart disease. [6]
Leon Pownall , 63, Canadian actor, cancer.
Vince Welnick , 55, member of The Grateful Dead , suicide. [7]
Edward Yates , 87, director of American Bandstand (1952–1969). [8]
Vyacheslav Klykov , 66, Russian sculptor and nationalist politician.[9]
Leo Clarke , 82, Roman Catholic Bishop of Maitland –Newcastle , Australia, 1976-1995. [10]
Brian Duke , 79, tropical disease expert who helped to save millions from river blindness . [11]
Johnny Grande , 76, pianist, member of Bill Haley 's backing band, The Comets . Complications arising from cancer. [12]
George Kashdan , 78, American comic book writer and editor for DC Comics . [13]
Doug Serrurier , 85, former Grand Prix racing driver and constructor. [14]
Alec Bregonzi , 76, British actor. [15]
Bill Fleming , 92, American MLB pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs [16]
Ron Jones , 41, American Major League Baseball player, brain hemorrhage [17]
Richard Kapp , 69, American conductor and founder of the Philharmonia Virtuosi . [18]
John Kerr , 46, British footballer (Tranmere Rovers ). [19]
Anthony Marreco , 90, junior British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials and founding member of Amnesty International . [20]
Sir John Rowlands , 90, British air marshal and George Cross recipient. [21]
William M. Steger , 85, United States district court judge and Republican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1960. [22]
Ray Cale , 83, Dual international for Wales in rugby union and rugby league. [23]
Frederick Franck , 97, Dutch artist, author, and dentist. [24]
Elizabeth Fretwell , 85, Australian opera singer best known for her performances with the Sadler's Wells company. [25]
Eric Gregg , 55, American former Major League Baseball umpire, stroke. [26]
Jorge Melendez , unknown age, involved in professional wrestling, committed suicide
Edward L. Moyers , 77, American railroad executive. [27]
Robert Ross , 86, leader of the Muscular Dystrophy Association for 44 years and persuaded Jerry Lewis to undertake a yearly telethon to raise money for muscular dystrophy, complications of broken hip. [28]
Harley Rutledge , 80, American physicist and ufologist. [29]
Professor Leslie Alcock , 81, pioneer of Dark Age archaeology, led the team that excavated Cadbury Castle . [30]
Arnold Newman , 88, American photographer who pioneered "environmental portraiture". [31] [32] .
Billy Preston , 59, American musician ("You Are So Beautiful", "Nothing from Nothing") known for his work with the Beatles , malignant hypertension leading to kidney failure. [33]
Hilton Ruiz , 54, American jazz pianist, injuries from a fall. [34] [35]
Léon Weil , 109, French World War I veteran. [36]
Jason Moss , 31, Attorney and author of the book "The Last Victim " [37]
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi , 39, leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq , US military strike. [38]
Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman , spiritual adviser for Al-Qaeda in Iraq , US military strike. [39]
Terry McCann , 74, Olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling and helped found USA Wrestling , and retired Executive Director of Toastmasters International , cancer (see [40] ).
Ingo Preminger , 95, Hollywood talent agent and producer (M*A*S*H ), brother of Otto Preminger . [41] [42]
Louis B. Sohn , 92, Ukrainian-born scholar of international law, helped draft the UN Charter . [43]
John Tenta (aka Earthquake), 42, Canadian professional wrestler for the World Wrestling Federation , bladder cancer. [44]
Jake Copass , 86, American cowboy poet, leukemia. [45]
Robert Donner , 75, American character actor probably best known for playing Exidor on Mork and Mindy , aneurysm. [46]
Jack Jackson (nom de plume Jaxon), 65, American comic book artist and co-founder of Rip Off Press . [47]
Mykola Kolessa , 102, Ukrainian composer and conductor. [48]
Abouna Matta El Meskeen , 87, Spiritual Father of St. Macarius' Monastery in the Wilderness of Scetis, Egypt. [49]
John C. Roberts , 72, founder of Australian construction company Brookfield Multiplex . Complications of diabetes. [50]
Jamal Abu Samhadana , leader of PA / Hamas forces in Gaza Strip and PRC . Killed by Israeli air strike. [51]
Talcott Seelye , 84, former United States ambassador to Tunisia and Syria. [52]
Sir Peter Smithers , 92, British politician, MP for Winchester and Secretary General of the Council of Europe . [53]
Kinga Choszcz aka "Freespirit", Polish author (Led By Destiny: Hitchhiking Around the World ), cerebral malaria. [54]
Drafi Deutscher , 60, German singer.
Michael Forrestall , 73, Canadian senator, died following hospitalization for breathing problems. [55]
Patricia Janus , 74, American poet, heart attack brought on by liver cancer.
Enzo Siciliano , 72, Italian writer, diabetes mellitus. [56]
Vern Williams , 76, bluegrass mandolin player and singer. [57]
Qadi Abdul Karim Abdullah Al-Arashi , 72, former President of North Yemen . [58]
Hubertus Czernin , 50, Austrian journalist who helped return paintings looted by the Nazis, mastocytosis.[59]
Moe Drabowsky , 70, Polish-born American Major League Baseball player, multiple myeloma. [60]
German Goldenshteyn , 71, Bessarabian-born clarinetist and klezmer musician. [61]
Wulff-Dieter Heintz , 76, German astronomer at Swarthmore College . [62]
Kenneth Jack , 81, Australian artist. [63]
Charles Johnson , 96, Negro League baseballer for the Chicago American Giants , complications of prostate cancer. [64]
Peter Douglas Kennedy , 83, British folklorist. [65]
Philip Merrill , 72, publisher and diplomat, suicide. [66]
Ruddy Thomas , 54, Jamaican singer, heart attack. [67]
Michael Bartosh , 28, Mac OS X Server expert, injuries from a fall. [68]
James Cameron , 92, founder of America's Black Holocaust Museum , lymphoma. [69]
Neroli Fairhall , 61, New Zealand paraplegic archer and Olympic competitor. [70]
Rolande Falcinelli , 86, French organist and composer. [71]
Tim Hildebrandt , 67, American artist. Complications of diabetes. [72]
Hugh Latimer , 93, English actor and toy maker. [73]
Mike Quarry , 55, light heavyweight boxer who challenged Bob Foster for the title, pugilistic dementia . [74]
Bruce Shand , 89, father of Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall , and father-in-law of Charles, Prince of Wales , cancer. [75]
Daniel Steiner , 72, American president of the New England Conservatory , lung disease. [76]
Anna Lee Aldred , 85, American jockey and first woman in US to receive a jockey's licence, member of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame . [77]
Andrew William "Nicky" Barr , 90, Australian rugby union player and World War II fighter pilot [78]
Chakufwa Chihana , 67, veteran Malawi opposition figure who ran unsuccessfully for President losing to Bakili Muluzi , brain tumour. [79]
Kazuo Kuroki , 75, Japanese film director. [80]
György Ligeti , 83, Hungarian composer. [81]
José Leite Lopes , 87, Brazilian physicist. [82]
Evan Settle , 93, former University of Kentucky basketballer. [83]
Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet , 82, billionaire Canadian media mogul and art collector. Possible heart attack. [84]
Freddie Gorman , 77, US songwriter. [85]
Charles Haughey , 80, former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland , prostate cancer. [86]
Hiroyuki Iwaki , 73, Japanese conductor, congestive heart failure. [87]
Luis Jiménez , 65, American sculptor, crushed by a statue. [88]
Burke Riley , 92, American lawyer and politician, Alzheimer's disease. [89]
Dennis Shepherd , 79, South African Olympic boxer. [90]
Roland Boyes , 69, Former Labour politician and photographer, Alzheimer's disease. [98]
Barbara Epstein , 76, co-founder of the New York Review of Books , lung cancer. [99]
Arthur Malvin , 83, Emmy award winning composer and lyricist, after a long illness. [100]
Scott Manning , 48, builder and pilot of the world's smallest jet, crash landing. [101]
Daphne Osborne , 76, British botanist. [102]
Igor Śmiałowski , 88, Polish actor, [103]
Norma Becker , 76, American anti-war activist, former chair of the War Resisters League . [104]
Cláudio Besserman Vianna (Bussunda), 43, Brazilian comedian, member of Casseta & Planeta , heart attack [105]
Arthur Franz , 86, American character actor (Sands of Iwo Jima , Invaders from Mars ), emphysema and heart disease. [106] [107]
Mikhail Lapshin , 71, Russian politician, leader of the Agrarian Party and former president of the Altai Republic (2002–2006), cause unknown. [108]
Bill Lamb , 76, American public television executive, co-founder of WNET and former chief of KCET . [109]
Charles Older , 88, Los Angeles Superior Court judge who presided over the Charles Manson trial, complications of a fall. [110] [111]
Abdul-Khalim Saydullayev , 38 or 39, Chechen separatist rebel leader. [112]
Julian Slade , 76, English composer and lyricist of Salad Days , cancer. [113]
Bob Weaver , 77, Miami, Florida-based weatherman known as "Weaver the Weatherman" on WTVJ , cancer. [114]
Luke Belton , 87, Irish politician. [115]
Hubert Cornfield , 77, film director in Hollywood (“The Night of the Following Day ”, “Les Grandes Moyens” etc.).
Nathaniel Neiman Craley, Jr. , 78, former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives (1965–67) from Pennsylvania .
Jesus Fuertes , 68, Spanish painter and protégé of Pablo Picasso , heart attack. [116]
Chris and Cru Kahui , 3-months, New Zealand child homicide victims.
Gică Petrescu , 91, Romanian singer. [117]
Sir David Poole , 68, British judge. [118]
Donald Reilly , 72, American cartoonist (The New Yorker ), cancer. [119]
René Renou , 54, French vintner. [120]
Netta Rheinberg , 94, English cricketer. [121]
Vincent Sherman , 99, American film director (Mr. Skeffington , The Young Philadelphians ), natural causes. [122]
Richard Stahl , 74, American comedy actor, Parkinson's disease. [123]
Madeleine St John , 64, Australian novelist who wrote a book shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997, emphysema. [124]
Hugh Baird , 76, footballer for Leeds United , Aberdeen , Airdrieonians and Scotland . [125]
Duane Roland , 53, guitarist and a founder of rock band Molly Hatchet . [126]
Howard Shanet , 87, US conductor and composer. [127]
Melvin Watson , 98, American Baptist minister who trained Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders, complications from surgery [128]
Arthur Yap , 64, poet, artist, and lecturer, English Department, University of Singapore, cancer of the throat
Maurice Bevan , 85, British bass-baritone. [129]
Bill Daniel , 90, former Governor of Guam. [130]
Evelyn Dubrow , 95, US women and labor advocate awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999. [131]
Billy Johnson , 87, former New York Yankee and All-Star third baseman, cause not given. [132]
E. Pierce Marshall , 67, son of J. Howard Marshall and Anna Nicole Smith 's stepson and plaintiff in their inheritance feud, aggressive infection. [133]
Lamont Reese , 28, American convicted murderer, executed. [134]
William Shurcliff , 97, physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb . [135]
Claydes Charles Smith , 57, co-founder and lead guitarist of Kool and the Gang . [136]
Theo Bell , 52, National Football League receiver with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers , kidney disease and scleroderma. [137]
Vern Leroy Bullough , 77, medical historian known for his history of nursing, cancer. [138]
Monsignor Denis Faul , 73, former chaplain at the Maze Prison , outspoken critic of The Troubles and a key figure in attempts to end the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike in Northern Ireland, cancer. [139]
Jacques Lanzmann , 79, French author, editor and songwriter. [140]
Khamis al-Obeidi , 39, defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein , assassinated. [141]
David Walton , 43, member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee [142]
Jonathan Wordsworth , 73, scholar of Romanticism and chair of the Wordsworth Trust . [143]
Heinz Ansbacher , 101, German-born psychologist and expert in the work of Alfred Adler . [144]
Back Alley John , 51, Canadian musician. [145]
Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley , 90, British army general. [146]
Moose , 16, canine star of U.S. sit-com Frasier , played the character Eddie , "Skip" on film "My Dog Skip ". [147]
Chanel Petro Nixon , 16, student, murder victim in Brooklyn, New York .
Martin Adler , 47, Swedish journalist. Shot by unknown assailant in Mogadishu , Somalia. [148]
Harriet , 176, Galápagos tortoise believed to be the third oldest animal in the world and allegedly owned by Charles Darwin , heart failure. [149]
Grady Johnson , 66, former WWF wrestler known as "Crazy" Luke Graham; heart failure. [150]
Budhi Kunderan , 66, former India wicketkeeper/batsman, lung cancer. [151]
Basil O'Ferrall , 81, Irish Anglican priest, Dean of Jersey (1985–1993). [152]
Tom Pelly , 70, Australian rules footballer (North Melbourne ). [153]
Aaron Spelling , 83, American television producer (Charlie's Angels , Starsky and Hutch , Beverly Hills, 90210 ), complications of stroke. [154]
Denice Denton , 46, chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz , suicide. [155]
Tichaona Jokonya , 67, Information & Publicity Minister in Zimbabwe, cardiac arrest. [156]
Patsy Ramsey , 49, mother of JonBenét Ramsey , ovarian cancer. [157] , [158]
Lyle Stuart , 83, American journalist and publisher. [159]
Gerald Tomlinson , 73, mystery and baseball writer. [160]
Ric Weiland , 53, Microsoft pioneer, developed BASIC , COBOL and Microsoft Works , suicide. [161]
Elkan Allan , 83, created Ready Steady Go! and developed the first television listings for the UK in the Sunday Times . [162]
Eliyahu Asheri , 18, Israeli civilian kidnapped and murdered by militants in the West Bank city of Ramallah .
Charles Barrow , 84, former justice of the Texas Supreme Court . [163]
Richard DeVore , 73, Colorado sculptor, lung cancer. [164]
Harry Elliot , 101, former professional wrestling promoter, natural causes [165]
Kenneth Griffith , 84, Welsh actor and documentary maker, Parkinson's disease. [166]
Akbar Hossain , 65, Bangladeshi Minister for Shipping and hero of 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War , heart attack [167]
Dr. Irving Kaplansky , 89, American mathematician at the University of Chicago. [168]
Dibya Khaling , 56, lyricist and composer of Nepali music responsible for 1,000 songs, cardiac arrest. [169]
Arif Mardin , 74, Turkish-American Grammy Award winning music producer, pancreatic cancer. [170]
Sophie Maslow , 95, American choreographer. [171]
Gad Navon , 84, Former Chief Israeli Military Rabbi , cancer. [172]
Jaap Penraat , 88, Dutch architect and member of Dutch resistance in World War II. [173]
Seema Aissen Weatherwax , 100, Ukrainian photographer. [174]
Bear JJ1 (Bruno the Bear), the first wild bear in Germany in 170 years, shot to death. [175]
Johnny Jenkins , 67, American blues guitarist who influenced Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix , stroke. [176] [177]
Lieutenant General Parami Kulatunga , Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lankan Army, bomb blast. [178]
Frederick Mayer , 84, educational philosopher, creativity expert, author of "History of Educational Thought".
Eric Rofes , 51, American author and AIDS educator, heart attack. [179]
Stan Torgerson , 82, radio announcer for Ole Miss football and basketball games. [180]
Jeff Winkless , 65, Los Angeles voice actor, brain tumor
Eileen Barton , 76, American singer, actress, ovarian cancer [181]
Robert Carrier , 82, American celebrity chef.[182]
J. Robert Elliott , 96, US Federal District Judge who overturned the conviction of Lt. William Calley . [183]
Sir Gerard Mansfield , 84, British admiral. [184]
Ángel Maturino Reséndiz , 46, Mexican convicted serial killer, execution via lethal injection. [185]
Sedley Alley , 50, American convicted murderer and rapist, executed via lethal injection. [186]
Jim Baen , 62, science fiction editor and publisher. [187]
Vikram Dharma , 44/45, Indian film stunt director. [188]
Theodore Levitt , 81, German-born former editor of the Harvard Business Review and author of books on marketing, coined the term globalization . [189]
Mahmoud Mestiri , 77, former foreign minister of Tunisia [190]
George Page , 71, creator and narrator of the PBS series Nature . [191]
Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell , 87, English barrister, politician and author. [192]
Fernando Sanchez , 70, Belgian-born fashion designer. [193]
Mickey Sims , 51, former player with the Cleveland Browns , heart attack. [194]
George Unwin , 93, Battle of Britain flying ace. [195]
Lennie Weinrib , 71, American actor. [196]
Fabián Bielinsky , 47, Argentine film director, heart attack. [197]
Joseph Edamaruku , 71, Indian journalist, heart attack. [198]
Joyce Hatto , 77, classical pianist who plagiarized more than 100 albums, cancer.[199]
Stanley Moskowitz , 68, CIA liaison to Congress, heart attack. [200]
Wallace Potts , 59, film archivist for the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation, lymphoma. [201]
Lloyd Richards , 87, first black Broadway director, Tony Award winner, heart failure. [202]
Pierre Rinfret , 82, Canadian-born economist and Republican candidate for Governor of New York in 1990. [203]
Randy Walker , 52, Northwestern University football coach, apparent heart attack [204]
F. Mark Wyatt , 86, a CIA officer, who delivered bags of money to swing the 1948 Italy election. [205]
Robert Gernhardt , 68, German satirist [206]
Edward Hamilton , 89, highly decorated United States Army veteran during World War II, pneumonia. [207]
Dr. Harold Olmo , 96, American grape breeder and geneticist. [208]
Richard Streeton , 75, English journalist [209]
Ross Tompkins , 68, American The Tonight Show pianist. [210]