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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2006 .
March 2006 [ edit ]
Annette von Aretin , 85, German TV personality. [1] (German)
Joëlle Aubron , 46, French member of Action Directe , lung cancer. [2]
Harry Browne , 72, American libertarian writer and presidential candidate for the United States Libertarian Party , amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [3]
Ronald Anthony Cross , 68, American science fiction writer. [4]
Mack Easley , 89, former Democratic lieutenant governor of New Mexico (1963 — 1966). [5]
Alexander Fol , 72, Bulgarian historian of ancient Greece, former Minister of Education. [6]
O. Milton Gossett , 80, American advertising executive, former CEO Saatchi & Saatchi Compton Worldwide [7]
Edith "Judy" Ingamells , 112, British supercentenarian , oldest Briton. [8]
Johnny Jackson , 54, former drummer for The Jackson 5 , stabbing. [9]
Peter Osgood , 59, former English footballer, heart attack. [10]
Jenny Tamburi , 53, Italian actress 1970s B-movies and casting director TV-series. [11]
Madeleine Cosman , 68, American scholar of medieval Europe [12]
Leopold Gratz , 75, Austrian politician, former Mayor of Vienna. [13]
Marion Higgins , 112, California's oldest person. [14]
Phyllis Huffman , 61, award-winning casting director. [15]
Willie Kent , 70, blues bassist, cancer. [16]
Peter Snow , c. 70, New Zealand doctor who discovered "Tapanui flu" (chronic fatigue syndrome). [17]
Rachel Mellon Walton , 107, American philanthropist. [18]
Jack Wild , 53, British actor (Oliver! , H. R. Pufnstuf ), oral cancer. [19]
Ivor Cutler , 83, humorist, author, singer, and poet. [20]
William Herskovic , 91, escapee from Auschwitz during World War II, cancer. [21]
Charlie Hodge , 71, guitarist and backup singer for Elvis Presley and Graceland resident, lung cancer. [22]
Richard Vander Veen , 83, former Democratic United States Representative from Michigan (1973 — 1977), prostate cancer. [23]
Milan Babić , 50, former leader of the Republic of Serbian Krajina who pleaded guilty to war crimes, suicide. [27]
Richard Kuklinski , 70, American mafia hitman, natural causes. [28]
John Joseph Paul , 89, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of La Crosse (1983–1994). [29]
John Sandusky , 80, former NFL player and assistant coach, complications from internal bleeding. [30]
Anne Braden , 81, American civil rights activist. [31]
King Floyd , 61, American soul singer. [32]
Mubdar Hatim al-Dulaimi , 55, Major General in the Iraqi Army , shot by a sniper. [33]
Mortimo Planno , 85, Rastafarian philosopher. [34]
Kirby Puckett , 45, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins ) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame , stroke complications. [35]
Dana Reeve , 45, activist, widow of Christopher Reeve , lung cancer. [36]
Simon Ungers , 49, New York-based German architect and artist.[ 1]
Ruth Weiss , 97, (also: Wèi Lùshī 魏璐诗) Austrian-Chinese journalist and member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference . [37]
Floyd Gass , 79, American college football coach (Oklahoma State University ). [38]
Howard Jackson , 54, American martial artist, leukemia. [39]
John Junkin , 76, British actor, lung cancer. [40]
Ludwik Margules , 72, Mexican theatre director, cancer. [41]
John Joseph McFall , 88, former Democratic United States Representative from California (1956 — 1978). [42]
Gordon Parks , 93, photographer, film director (Shaft ), cancer. [43]
Jesse "Guitar" Taylor , 55, blues guitarist. [44]
Ali Farka Touré , 66, Malian musician, cancer. [45]
Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes , 82, pioneering New Zealand cardiologist, complications during heart valve replacement. [46]
Dr. Joseph Burchenal , 93, American oncologist, worked on leukemia treatments [47]
Teresa Ciepły , 69, Polish athlete, 1964 Olympic track champion.
Giordano Cottur , 91, Italian Giro d'Italia -Champion. [48] , [49] , [50]
George Sassoon , 69, scientist, author and radio amateur, cancer. [51]
Hanka Bielicka , 90, Polish singer and actress. [52]
Dennis Brookes , 90, English cricketer. [53]
Péter Halász , 62, Hungarian theatre director, actor, and writer, liver cancer. [54]
Doug Hamilton , 43, general manager for the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team, heart attack aboard aircraft. [55]
Steve Henderson , American role-playing game designer.[ 2]
Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie , 72, English cricketer and insurance executive, brain tumour. [56]
Anna Moffo , 73 or 75, American singer and operatic soprano, stroke following decade long battle with breast cancer. [57]
John Profumo , 91, British politician, complications following a stroke. [58]
Harry Seidler , 82, leading Australian architect of the Modernism movement. [59]
John Wilde , 86, American surrealist painter. [60]
Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley , 81, British soldier and military historian. [62]
Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion , 75, NHL player with the Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers , stomach cancer. [63]
Pauline Gregg , 96, author, historian and biographer. [64]
Slobodan Milošević , 64, former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia standing trial for war crimes, heart attack. [65]
Jesús Rollán , 37, Spanish former water polo goalkeeper, suicide. [66]
Lindsay Shonteff , 70, British horror film director of the 1960s. [67]
Charles M. Tanner , age 85, founder of Covenant Players , declining health following massive stroke. [68]
Nick Barone , 79, American heavyweight and light heavyweight boxer [69]
Joseph Bova , 81, American actor (Once Upon a Mattress ) [70]
Jurij Brězan , 89, Sorbian-German writer.[citation needed ]
István Gyulai , 62, Hungarian journalist, General Secretary of the IAAF . [71]
Jonatan Johansson , 26, Swedish snowboarder, accident during training. [72]
Victor Sokolov , 59, dissident ex-Soviet journalist, and Orthodox priest, lung cancer.[citation needed ]
Robert C. Baker , 84, American agricultural scientist, developed chicken products and processes. [73]
Roy Clarke , 80, footballer for Manchester City & Wales . [74]
Jimmy Johnstone , 61, Scottish football player, voted Celtic 's best ever, motor neurone disease. [75]
Charles Newman (author) , 67, American novelist and founding editor of TriQuarterly . [76]
Paul Pineau , 82, French cyclist. [77]
Maureen Stapleton , 80, American actress (Plaza Suite , Cocoon ), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.[citation needed ]
Peter Tomarken , 63, American game show host (Press Your Luck ), plane crash. [78]
E. S. Anderson , 94, British microbiologist [79]
Ann Calvello , 76, roller derby player, liver cancer. [80]
Hamish Gray, Baron Gray of Contin , 78, former British Conservative government minister. [81]
Lennart Meri , 76, former President of Estonia. [82]
Art Michaluk , 82, former American Hockey League hockey player and World War II veteran. [83]
Ken Brewer , 64, Poet Laureate of Utah, pancreatic cancer. [84]
Humphrey , c. 17, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office , 1989–1997. [85]
René Lasserre , 93, Paris restaurateur. [86]
George Mackey , 90, formerly Landon T. Clay Professor of mathematics, Harvard University. [87]
Charles Newman , 67, American novelist (White Jazz , The Promisekeeper: A Tephramancy ) and editor (TriQuarterly ) [88]
Georgios Rallis , 87, former Prime Minister of Greece, 1980–81, heart failure. [89]
Mark Southern , 45, professor of linguistics, Middlebury College [citation needed ]
Red Storey , 88, former Canadian Football League player and NHL referee. [90]
Jonathan Delisle , 28, American Hockey League and National Hockey League hockey player, automobile accident. [91]
David Feintuch , 61, American science fiction author, following cardiac trouble. [92]
Paul Flaherty , 42, web indexing pioneer [93] , heart attack [94]
James Hill , 95, legendary British soldier who commanded the Canadian paratroopers who dropped into France on D-Day, natural causes
K. Leroy Irvis , 86, Speaker of Pennsylvania House of Representatives (first African-American Speaker in any U.S. state government), cancer. [95]
Moira Redmond , 77, English actress, heart attack. [96]
Jade Snow Wong , 84, Chinese author and ceramicist, natural causes.[97]
Yuan Baojing , 39 or 40, Chinese multi-millionaire, executed by lethal injection for ordering a contract killing . [98]
Oleg Cassini , 92, American fashion designer. [99]
Narvin Kimball , 97, American banjo player, founding member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Gentlemen of Jazz. [100]
Ray Meyer , 92, former DePaul basketball coach and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, natural causes. [101]
G. William Miller , 81, United States Secretary of Treasury from 1979 - 1981 under Jimmy Carter , idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. [102]
Patrick Moody , 39, American convicted murderer, executed in North Carolina. [103]
Bob Papenbrook , 50, Los Angeles voice actor, lung complications. [104]
Michael Attwell , 63, British actor. [105]
Bill Beutel , 75, WABC-TV anchorman, Alzheimer's disease. [106]
Nelson Dantas , 78, Brazilian actor, lung cancer. [107]
Anatoliy Puzach , 65, former Soviet World Cup footballer & title-winning coach for Dynamo Kiev [108]
Sir Wallace Rae , 92, Queensland (Australia) politician [109]
Mohammad Ali , 78, Pakistani actor, cardiac arrest. [110]
Anselmo Colzani , 87, Italian operatic baritone. [111]
Nicholas R. Cozzarelli , 67, molecular and cell biologist, science journal editor, Burkitt's lymphoma . [112]
Leon Daniel , 74, American correspondent and editor for United Press International . [113]
Channing Pollock , 79, magician, complications of cancer.[114]
Dr. Richard Root , 68, American epidemiologist, crocodile attack. [115]
John Wyatt , 81, British writer and ranger. [116]
Desmond Ackner, Baron Ackner , 85, British jurist, Lord of Appeal. [118]
Bob Delegall , 60, American actor and director, prostate cancer. [119]
Margaret Ewing , 60, Scottish nationalist politician, breast cancer. [120]
James O. Freedman , 70, former president of Dartmouth College and the University of Iowa , non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [121]
Bernard Lacoste , 74, French clothing magnate of Lacoste , unspecified illness. [122]
Leslie MacMitchell , 85, American runner, James E. Sullivan Award winner. [123]
Richard Usborne , 95, British author and journalist. [124]
Ria Beckers , 67, former political leader of the Dutch political parties Politieke Partij Radicalen and GroenLinks . [125]
James Chikerema , 80, Zimbabwean nationalist, co-founder of ZAPU and government co-minister in the internal settlement government of Rhodesia. [126]
Pierre Clostermann , 85, World War II French flying ace. [127]
Eugene Landy , 71, American psychologist, famous for treating Brian Wilson , lung cancer [128]
Britt Lomond , 80, American actor (Zorro ), fencer, and World War II veteran.
Gergely András Molnár , 108, the last Hungarian veteran of the First World War [129]
Brian Parkyn , 82, British Labour MP for Bedford 1966-70 [130] .
Stig Wennerström , 99, Swedish Air Force Colonel convicted of spying for the USSR. [131] [132]
Adwaita , 255 (approximate age), tortoise claimant for world's oldest animal, reputedly a former pet of General Clive , liver failure. [133]
David B. Bleak , 74, Medal of Honor recipient in the Korean War. [134]
Sarah Caldwell , 82, longtime conductor of the Opera Company of Boston [135]
Desmond Doss , 87, Medal of Honor recipient and conscientious objector. [136]
Gerry "Tex" Ehman , 73, Canadian-born retired NHL player and executive, lung cancer. [137]
John W. Griffin , 78, perennial candidate in Ohio and member of the Ohio State Board of Education .[citation needed ]
Eloy de la Iglesia , 62, Spanish film director. [138] .
Pío Leyva , 88, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club ), heart attack. [139]
Peter Shand Kydd , 80, English wallpaper heir and stepfather of Diana, Princess of Wales . [140]
Cindy Walker , 87, American country-western songwriter, (Dream Baby ) for Roy Orbison et al. [141]
Jörg Bastuck , 36, German rally car co-driver, accident during the 2006 Rally Catalunya . [142]
John Glenn Beall, Jr. , 78, former Republican United States Senator from Maryland from 1971–1977 and United States Representative from 1969 - 1971. [143]
Dr. Jaroslava Moserová , 76, Czech senator, ambassador, presidential candidate, doctor, and translator. [144]
Lynne Perrie , 74, English actress (Coronation Street , Kes ), stroke. [145]
Bob Carlos Clarke , 55, Irish photographer, suicide. [146]
Rocío Dúrcal , 61, Spanish singer and actress, uterine cancer. [147]
Richard Fleischer , 89, American film director (Tora! Tora! Tora! , 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea , Soylent Green ) [148]
Danilo Lazović , 56, Serbian actor, heart attack. [149]
Buck Owens , 76, American country music star (Hee Haw ), heart attack. [150]
Alfredo Silipigni , 72, longtime conductor of the New Jersey State Opera , complications of pneumonia [151]
Angelo d'Arrigo , 44, Italian aviator, air crash. [152]
Anil Biswas (politician) , 61, Indian politician, cerebral hemorrhage [153] .
David Cunliffe-Lister, 2nd Earl of Swinton , 69, British peer, politician & magistrate. [154]
Paul Dana , 30, Indy Racing League driver, multiple trauma injuries sustained in accident. [155]
Manar Maged , 1, Egyptian girl born with two heads, brain infection [156] .
Nikki Sudden , 49, British musician, punk-blues icon, and co-founder of Swell Maps . [157]
Al Alquist , 97, former California state senator [158]
Wayne Boden , 58, Canadian serial killer and rapist, of natural causes after a lengthy illness [159]
Dan Curtis , 77, American television producer (Dark Shadows , The Winds of War ). [160]
Ian Hamilton Finlay , 80, Scottish artist. [161]
Ken Kaess , 51, American advertising executive, CEO of DDB Worldwide , cancer [162]
Stanisław Lem , 84, Polish science fiction writer, heart failure. [163]
Ruari McLean , 88, British typographer [164]
Lyn Nofziger , 81, press secretary for Ronald Reagan [165]
Paweł Parniak , 116?, Polish supercentenarian, oldest person in Poland and WWI veteran.
Ron Schipper , 77, College Football Hall of Fame Coach [166]
Bernard Siegan , 81, Ronald Reagan Federal Appellate Court nominee [167]
Dr. Rudolf Vrba , 82, Canadian pharmacologist, Auschwitz escapee and contributor to the Auschwitz Protocol , cancer. [168]
Peter Wells , 58, guitarist from Australian rock outfit Rose Tattoo , prostate cancer. [169]
Neil Williams , 43, international Test cricketer for England. [170]
Wanderley Magalhães Azevedo , 39, Brazilian cyclist. [171]
Jerry Brudos , 67, imprisoned U.S. serial killer, natural causes [172]
Carlos Cat , 75, Uruguayan Minister of Labour (1990–1991) and of Transport (2000–2002). [173]
Pro Hart , 77, Australian outback painter, motor neurone disease [174]
Bansi Lal , 78, Haryana's four time chief minister, and defence minister of India during Indian Emergency (1975–77) . [175] , [176]
Charles Schepens , 94, American ophthalmologist known as "the father of retinal surgery" and a Nazi resistance movement leader [177]
Caspar Weinberger , 88, U.S. Secretary of Defense 1981-1987 under Reagan ; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1973-1975 under Nixon and Ford .[178]
Don Alias , 66, American jazz percussionist. [179]
Eric Budd , 84, English administrator, the General Secretary (1987–2000) and Vice-Chairman of the Cricket Society (2000–2001) [180]
Salvador Elizondo , 73, Mexican writer and member of the Mexican Academy of the Language , of cancer. [181]
Henry Farrell , 85, American author and screenwriter (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? , Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte ). [182]
Penny Jay , 80, American country singer/songwriter ("Don't Let Me Cross Over ", "Just Over the Line"), longtime companion of William Little guitarist (Even Keel) of California, USA. [183]
Gretchen Rau , 66, set decorator, winner of 2005 Academy Award for Best Art Direction for Memoirs of a Geisha from a brain tumor
Bob Veith , 81, former Indianapolis 500 racing driver. [184]
Red Hickey , 89, NFL coach of the San Francisco 49ers , inventor of shotgun formation , natural causes. [185]
Philip Hyde , 84, American wildlife photographer [186]
Manohar Shyam Joshi , 73, Indian Hindi novelist and soap opera writer [187]
Harry Krantz , 86, Australian trade union official. [188]
John McGahern , 71, Irish novelist and playwright, cancer. [189]
Gloria Monty , 84, executive producer of the soap opera General Hospital , cancer. [190]
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