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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2006 . See Deaths in 2006 for other months.
October 2006 [ edit ]
Frank Beyer , 74, German film director (Jacob the Liar ). [1]
Alan Caillou , 91, British actor and writer. [2]
Pierre Gorman , 82, Australian librarian and academic. [3]
Jack Kirkbride , 83, British cartoonist, father of actress Anne Kirkbride . [4]
Rafael Quintero , 66, Cuban-born American CIA agent. [5]
André Viger , 54, Canadian wheelchair marathoner and paralympian, cancer. [6]
Yoshihiro Yonezawa , 53, Japanese manga critic, lung cancer. [7]
Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista , 82, Cuban First Lady (1952–1959), second wife of President Fulgencio Batista . [8]
Frances Bergen , 84, American actress, wife of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and mother of actress Candice Bergen . [9]
Helen Chenoweth-Hage , 68, American Republican Representative for Idaho (1995–2001), car accident. [10]
Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami , 69, Indian scientist, spiritual teacher and poet, heart attack. [11]
Tamara Dobson , 59, American actress (Cleopatra Jones ), complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis. [12]
Paul Halmos , 90, Hungarian-born American mathematician. [13]
Paul Richardson , 74, American Phillies longtime organist, prostate cancer. [14]
Clyde Vollmer , 85, American Major League Baseball player (Cincinnati Reds ). [15]
Lucilla Andrews , 86, British romantic novelist. [16]
Sir John Cox , 77, British admiral who was Commander-in-Chief in the South Atlantic [17]
John Crank , 90, British mathematical physicist who helped solve the heat equation . [18]
Gwen Meredith , 98, Australian writer of all 5795 episodes of the long-running radio serial Blue Hills , after heart trouble. [19]
Peter Norman , 64, Australian athlete, silver medalist at the 1968 Summer Olympics , heart attack. [20]
R. W. Apple, Jr. , 71, American political journalist and food writer (The New York Times ), thoracic cancer. [21]
Tom Bell , 73, British actor (Wish You Were Here , Prime Suspect ), after short illness. [22]
František Fajtl , 94, Czech World War II fighter pilot, after long illness. [23]
Walter Gibb , 87, British aviator and test pilot who held the world altitude record. [24]
Ralph Griswold , 72, American creator of Snobol and Icon programming languages, cancer. [25]
Vic Heyliger , 87, American ice hockey Hall of Fame player and coach. [26]
Oskar Pastior , 78, Romanian-born German writer. [27]
Riccardo Pazzaglia , 80, Italian actor, writer and film director. [28] (Italian)
Don Thompson , 73, British race walker and 1960 Olympic gold medal winner , aneurysm. [29]
Katarina Tomasevski , 53, Croatian-born former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education. [30]
Valerie Campbell-Harding , 74, Canadian textile art designer, heart attack. [31] .
Friedrich Karl Flick , 79, German-Austrian billionaire industrialist. [32]
George King , 78, American college basketball coach. [33]
Speedy O. Long , 78, American Democratic Representative for Louisiana (1964–1972), cousin of Huey Long . [34]
Jennifer Moss , 61, British actress, played Lucille Hewitt on Coronation Street . [35]
Antonio Peña , 53, Mexican promoter of Asistencia Asesoría y Administración , heart attack. [36]
Jackie Rae , 84, Canadian singer, songwriter and entertainer. [37]
Dick Wagner , 78, American former president of the Cincinnati Reds and Houston Astros , injuries from a 1999 car crash. [38]
Gilbert F. White , 94, American geographer. [39]
Bertha Brouwer , 75, Dutch athlete, silver medalist in the 200m at the 1952 Olympics . [40] (Dutch)
Charles Clark , 73, British publisher and lawyer. [41]
Claude Luter , 83, French jazz clarinetist and bandleader. [42]
Eduardo Mignogna , 66, Argentinian film director. [43] (Spanish)
Buck O'Neil , 94, American baseball player and manager in the Negro leagues , heart failure and bone marrow cancer. [44]
Timo Sarpaneva , 79, Finnish glassmaker. [45]
Heinz Sielmann , 89, German zoologist [46]
Wilson Tucker , 91, American science fiction writer. [47]
Charlie Bradberry , 24, American NASCAR driver, car accident. [48]
Danifel Campilan , 25, Filipino news reporter (24 Oras ), car accident. [49]
Polly Craus , 83, American Olympic fencer. [50]
Craig Dobbin , 71, Canadian founder of CHC Helicopter , after illness following lung transplant. [51]
Julen Goikoetxea , 21, Spanish bicycle racer, suicide by jumping. [52]
Anna Politkovskaya , 48, Russian journalist, shot. [53]
Peter H. Rossi , 84, American sociologist. [54]
Ira B. Harkey Jr. , 88, American newspaper editor, winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing . [55]
Pavol Hnilica , 85, Slovak Catholic bishop. [56] (Slovak)
Ivan Murrell , 63, American Major League Baseball player for the Astros and Padres . [57]
Mark Porter , 31, New Zealand racing driver, race crash. [58]
Sedat Alp , 93, Turkish archaeologist specializing in Hittitology . [59] (Turkish)
Coccinelle , 75, French transsexual singer, stroke. [60] (French)
Reg Freeson , 80, British politician, Minister of State for Housing and Local Government (1974–1979). [61]
Marek Grechuta , 60, Polish singer, composer and lyricist. [62] (Polish)
Danièle Huillet , 70, French filmmaker, cancer. [63]
Paul Hunter , 27, British snooker player, neuroendocrine tumours. [64]
Mario Moya Palencia , 73, Mexican politician and diplomat (Interior Minister, 1969–1976), heart attack. [65]
Glenn Myernick , 51, American assistant soccer coach of the men's national team , heart attack. [66]
Raymond Noorda , 82, American computer executive, CEO of Novell (1982–1994). [67]
Kanshi Ram , 72, Indian politician, heart attack. [68]
Jerry Belson , 68, American Emmy-winning television comedy writer (Tracey Ullman , Dick Van Dyke ), prostate cancer. [69]
Francis Berry , 91, British poet and literary critic. [70]
P. C. Devassia , 100, Indian Sanskrit scholar and poet, won 1980 Sahitya Akademi Award (Kristubhagavatam ). [71]
Michael John Rogers , 74, British ornithologist. Archived 16 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
Ian Scott , 72, Canadian Attorney General of Ontario (1985–1990). [72]
Lalit Suri , 59, Indian hotelier and parliamentarian, heart attack. [73]
Sir Victor Goodhew , 86, British politician, Conservative MP for St Albans (1959–1983). [74]
Cory Lidle , 34, American baseball pitcher (New York Yankees ), victim of the 2006 New York City plane crash . [75]
Benito Martínez , 126?, Cuban claimant to the title of world's oldest person. [76]
Sir Robert Megarry , 96, British judge and Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court (1982–1985). [77]
Eddie Pellagrini , 88, American baseball player and coach (Boston College ). [78]
Jimmy Peters, Sr. , 84, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup winner (Montreal Canadiens , Detroit Red Wings ). [79]
Raad Mutar Saleh , Iraqi Mandaean leader, shot. [80]
Jacques Sternberg , 83, French science fiction and fantastique author, lung cancer. [81]
John Turvey , 61, Canadian youth activist and Order of Canada recipient, mitochondrial myopathy. [82]
Todd Bolender , 92, American dancer and choreographer, director of the Kansas City Ballet. [83]
Johnny Callison , 67, American Major League Baseball player, three-time All-Star outfielder with the Phillies . [84]
Samuel B. Casey, Jr. , 78, American CEO of Pullman Company . [85]
Hermann Eilts , 84, German-born American diplomat and US ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1965–1970). [86]
Eugène Martin , 91, French racing driver. [87] (French)
Gerard Murphy , 57, Irish mathematician. [88]
Gillo Pontecorvo , 86, Italian film director (The Battle of Algiers ), heart failure. [89]
Mason Andrews , 87, American physician who delivered America's first test tube baby , Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia (1992–1994). [90]
Deborah Blumer , 64, American member of the Massachusetts General Court , heart attack. [91]
Petra Cabot , 99, American designer, created the Skotch Kooler, natural causes. [92]
Bob Lassiter , 61, American talk radio personality. [93]
Dino Monduzzi , 84, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Pontifical Household (1986–1998). [94]
Hilda Terry , 92, American cartoonist, creator of comic strip Teena . [95]
Wang Guangmei , 85, Chinese wife of late Communist leader Liu Shaoqi . [96]
Bernard Allen , 69, American member of the North Carolina General Assembly . [97]
James Barr , 82, British Old Testament scholar. [98]
Chun Wei Cheung , 34, Dutch rowing cox, silver medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics , liver cancer. [99]
Freddy Fender , 69, American singer ("Before the Next Teardrop Falls "), lung cancer. [100]
Soni Pabla , 30, Indian Punjabi singer, heart attack. [101]
Klaas Runia , 80, Dutch Reformed Church theologian. [102]
Gerry Studds , 69, American first openly gay congressman, represented Massachusetts (1973–1997), pulmonary embolism. [103]
Derek Bond , 86, British actor (Callan , Scott of the Antarctic ). [104]
William Bright , 78, American linguist and author, recorder of indigenous North American languages . [105]
Michael Forrester , 89, British army general. [106]
Robert Pfarr , 86, American Olympic cyclist. [107]
George Stevens , 74, American politician and Baptist minister. [108]
Michelle Urry , 66, Canadian cartoon editor for Playboy . [109]
Niall Andrews , 69, Irish politician, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South (1977–1987), MEP for Leinster (1984–2004), lung cancer. [110]
Ross Davidson , 57, British former EastEnders actor, brain tumour. [111]
Sid Davis , 90, American educational filmmaker, lung cancer. [112]
Martin Flannery , 88, British politician, Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough (1974–1992). [113]
Harold Gardner , 107, American World War I veteran, served one day prior to the armistice . [114]
Tommy Johnson , 71, American musician known for his work on the Jaws theme, complications of cancer and kidney failure. [115]
John V. Murra , 90, Ukrainian-born American anthropologist and Inca scholar. [116]
Valentín Paniagua , 70, Peruvian president (2000–2001), complications from heart surgery. [117]
Lister Sinclair , 85, Canadian playwright and broadcaster, pulmonary embolism. [118]
Ernie Steele , 88, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles ). [119]
Trebisonda Valla , 90, first Italian female 1936 Olympic champion (80m hurdles), natural causes. [120]
Anatoly Voronin , 55, Russian business chief of ITAR TASS news agency, stabbed. [121]
Daniel Emilfork , 82, French actor (The City of Lost Children ). [122]
Miriam Engelberg , 48, American graphic author (Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person ), metastatic breast cancer. [123]
Christopher Glenn , 68, American CBS News radio and television news anchor, liver cancer. [124]
Megan Meier , 13, American suicide victim, suicide by hanging. [125]
Ursula Moray Williams , 95, British children's author. [126]
Lieuwe Steiger , 82, Dutch goalkeeper for PSV Eindhoven (1942–1957, 1959) and The Netherlands (1953–1954). [127] (Dutch)
Marcia Tucker , 66, American curator, founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art . [128]
Don R. Christensen , 90, American animator and cartoonist. [129]
Marc Hodler , 87, Swiss president of the International Ski Federation (1951–1998), International Olympic Committee whistleblower, stroke. [130]
Mario Francesco Pompedda , 77, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (1999–2004), brain hemorrhage. [131]
Anna Russell , 94, British-born Canadian comedian and classical music satirist. [132]
Laurie Taitt , 72, British sprint hurdler. [133]
Alvin M. Weinberg , 91, American Manhattan Project scientist and former director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory . [134]
Ralph Harris, Baron Harris of High Cross , 81, British life peer, founder of the Institute of Economic Affairs , heart attack. [135]
Michael Johnson , 29, American criminal, suicide prior to execution. [136]
Phyllis Kirk , 79, American actress (House of Wax , The Thin Man ), post cerebral aneurysm. [137]
Srividya , 53, Indian actress, cancer. [138]
Don Burroughs , 75, American football player (1955–1964), cancer. [139]
Irene Galitzine , 90, Russian-born Italian fashion designer. [140]
Maxi Herber , 86, German figure skater, gold medal winner at the 1936 Winter Olympics , Parkinson's disease. [141]
Lawrence Kolb , 95, American psychiatrist, leader in community mental health movement. [142]
Eric Newby , 86, British travel writer. [143]
Jane Wyatt , 96, American actress (Father Knows Best , Star Trek ) , natural causes. [144]
Peter Barkworth , 77, British actor, bronchopneumonia following a stroke. [145]
Paul Biegel , 81, Dutch writer of children's literature. [146] (Dutch)
Pye Chamberlayne , 68, American radio journalist, heart attack. [147]
Daryl Duke , 77, Canadian film director (The Thorn Birds ) , pulmonary fibrosis. [148]
Bryan Hipp , American guitarist (Diabolic , Cradle of Filth ). [149]
Howard Lawson , 92, British cricketer (Hampshire ). [150]
Bob Mann , 82, American football player (Detroit Lions ). [151]
Arthur Peacocke , 81, British scientist and theologian. [152]
Milton Selzer , 87, American actor. [153]
Paul Walters , 59, British BBC radio and TV producer. [154]
Sandy West , 47, American drummer and vocalist (The Runaways ), lung cancer. [155]
Urien Wiliam , 76, British writer. [156]
Choi Kyu-hah , 87, South Korean president (1979–1980). [157]
Nelson de la Rosa , 38, Dominican actor, "World's Shortest Man" in the 1989 Guinness Book of Records. [158]
Masayuki Fujio , 89, Japanese former minister of education. [159] (Japanese)
Arthur Hill , 84, Canadian Tony Award -winning actor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ), Alzheimer's disease. [160]
Mancs , 12, Hungarian rescue dog with the Miskolc Spider Special Rescue Team, pneumonia. [161]
Richard Mayes , 83, British stage and television actor. [162]
Michael Mayne , 77, British clergyman, Dean of Westminster Abbey (1986–1996), cancer of the jaw. [163]
Leonid Hambro , 86, American concert pianist. [164]
Jane Elizabeth Hodgson , 91, American doctor and abortion rights advocate. [165]
Bruno Lauzi , 69, Italian singer and composer, Parkinson's disease. [166] (Italian)
Lebo Mathosa , 29, South African singer, car accident. [167]
Egon Piechaczek , 69, Polish football player and coach. [168]
Todd Skinner , 48, American free climber, climbing accident. [169]
Rein Strikwerda , 76, Dutch doctor and knee injury specialist. [170]
Daisy , 13, Yorkshire terrier companion of murdered German designer Rudolph Moshammer . [171]
Jeffrey Lundgren , 56, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [172]
Enolia McMillan , 102, American civil rights activist, first female president of the NAACP , heart failure. [173]
Benjamin Meed , 88, Polish-born American president and co-founder of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. [174]
Jack Radtke , 93, American baseball player. [175]
William Montgomery Watt , 97, British professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh . [176]
Paul Ableman , 79, British playwright and novelist. [177]
Richard Cleaver , 89, Australian politician, MHR for Swan (1955–1969). [178]
Kintaro Ohki , 77, South Korean wrestler, heart attack. [179]
Danny Rolling , 52, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [180]
Gary Coull , 52, Canadian journalist, co-founder of CLSA , cancer. [181]
Rogério Duprat , 74, Brazilian composer, cancer. [182] (Portuguese)
Tillman Franks , 86, American bassist, songwriter and country music manager, natural causes. [183]
Ralph R. Harding , 77, American congressman from Idaho (1961–1965). [184]
Pontus Hultén , 82, Swedish art collector and museum director. [185]
John Kentish , 96, British operatic tenor. [186]
Kojima Nobuo , 91, Japanese author, pneumonia. [187] (Japanese)
Theodore Taylor , 85, American writer (The Cay ), heart attack. [188]
John Broadbent , 92, Australian Army officer and lawyer. [189]
Jozsef Gregor , 66, Hungarian opera singer. [190]
Thomas R. Jones , 93, American jurist and civil rights activist. [191]
Ghulam Ishaq Khan , 91, President of Pakistan (1988–1993), pneumonia. [192]
Marlin McKeever , 66, American former football player, head injuries from a fall. [193]
Joe Niekro , 61, American Major League Baseball pitcher, brain aneurysm. [194]
Muhammad Qasim , 32, Pakistani field hockey goalkeeper, cancer. [195]
Albrecht von Goertz , 92, German-born American car designer. [196]
Bradley Roland Will , 36, American Indymedia reporter, shot whilst covering the 2006 Oaxaca protests . [197]
Red Auerbach , 89, American coach of the Boston Celtics (1950–1966), heart attack. [198]
Tina Aumont , 60, French actress, pulmonary embolism. [199] (Italian)
György Bence , 64, Hungarian philosopher. [200] (Hungarian)
Trevor Berbick , 51, Jamaican former heavyweight boxing champion, last boxer to face Muhammad Ali , homicide. [201]
Brian Brolly , 70, British co-manager of Wings (1973–1978), Managing Director of RUG (1978–1988), co-founder of Classic FM , heart attack. [202]
Henry Fok , 83, Hong Kong businessman, philanthropist and CCPPC official, lymphoma. [203]
Richard Gilman , 83, American drama and literary critic, lung cancer. [204]
Peter Gingold , 90, German anti-fascist. [205] (German)
Marijohn Wilkin , 86, American country songwriter, member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame , heart failure. [206]
Nigel Kneale , 84, British scriptwriter (The Quatermass Experiment ), stroke. [207]
Muhammadu Maccido , 78, Nigerian Sultan of Sokoto , Muslim spiritual leader, aeroplane crash . [208]
Silas Simmons , 111, American Negro league baseball player, oldest known professional baseball player. [209]
Clifford Geertz , 80, American cultural anthropologist, complications following heart surgery. [210]
Jens Christian Hauge , 91, Norwegian World War II resistance leader, first postwar defence minister, natural causes. [211]
Junji Kinoshita , 92, Japanese playwright, pneumonia. [212]
Ian Rilen , 58, Australian bass player (Rose Tattoo ), bladder cancer. [213]
Aud Schønemann , 83, Norwegian actress. [214] (Norwegian)
Mose Tolliver , 82, American folk artist, pneumonia. [215]
Hank Berger , 55, American nightclub owner, asthma -related problems.[216]
P. W. Botha , 90, South African politician, Prime Minister (1978–1984), State President (1984–1989), heart attack. [217]
Nikki Catsouras , 18, teenage car crash victim from Orange County , California whose accident photos were released onto internet, automobile accident. [218]
Shane Drury , 27, American professional bull rider in the PRCA , Ewing's sarcoma. [219]
William Franklyn , 81, British actor, prostate cancer. [220]
Peter Fryer , 79, British journalist who reported on the Hungarian Revolution . [221]
Michael James Genovese , 87, American alleged Mafia boss of Pittsburgh. [222]
George B. Thomas , 92, American mathematician and author, natural causes. [223]
Nicholas John Vine-Hall , 62, Australian genealogist, cancer. [224]