Deaths in 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2006. Links to other years follow.

February 2006

25

Octavia Butler, 58, American author, MacArthur Foundation Fellow. [1]
Thomas Koppel, 61, Danish musician and composer from the band Savage Rose. [2]
Darren McGavin, 83, American TV and movie actor. [3][4]
Henry M. Morris, 87, American young earth creationist leader, complications of stroke.

24

Don Knotts, 81, American TV and movie actor, complications from lung cancer. [5][6]
Charles Leonard, Jr., 92, American Olympic pentathlon silver medalist, heart attack. [7]

23

Frederick Busch, 64, American author, heart attack. [8]
Telmo "Zarra" Zarraonandia Montoya, 85, Spanish football (soccer) player, heart attack. [9][10]

22

Atwar Bahjat, 30, Iraqi journalist for al-Arabiya, abducted and killed in Iraq. [11][12]
Anthony Burger, 44, American gospel music pianist, collapsed during performance. [13]
Said Mohamed Djohar, 87, former President of Comoros. [14][15]
Hilde Domin, 96, German poet and writer.
Edward Nalbandian, 78, American clothing store owner, Alzheimer's disease. [16]
Flossie Page, 112, American supercentenarian from Kansas. [17]
Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, 90, former Second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, heart failure.[18]
Romana, 50, Pakistani film, stage and television actress, lung and heart ailments. [19]

21

Gennadiy Aygi, 71, Russian author and poet who wrote in the Chuvash language.
Rev. Abraham Cardozo, 91, Dutch-born cantor of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York. [20]
Theodore Draper, 93, American historian and political commentator. [21]
Bruce Hart, 68, American lyricist for TV's Sesame Street, lung cancer. [22]
Don Herbert, 44, American firefighter who awoke from a 9-year coma in 2005, pneumonia. [23]
Mirko Marjanovic, 68, prime minister of Serbia from 1994 to 2000. [24]
Don Paarlberg, 94, American agricultural economics advisor to three U.S. presidents. [25]
Angelica Rozeanu, 84, Romanian-born table tennis world champion. [26]

20

Carroll Anderson, 86, American, Surf Ballroom manager, arranged fateful Buddy Holly flight. [27]
Lou Gish, 35, British stage, film and television actress, cancer. [28]
Curt Gowdy, 86, American sports broadcaster, leukemia. [29][30][31]
Paul Marcinkus, 84, controversial American Catholic archbishop, headed Vatican Bank. [32]
Eli J. Segal, 63, American, aide to US President Bill Clinton, mesothelioma. [33]

19

James E. Hinton, 69, American documentary photographer, prostate cancer. [34]
Ken Keuffel, 82, American college football coach, prostate cancer. [35]
Henry Michael, 92, American anthropologist and geographer. [36]
Thomas Malcolm Taylor, 63, American money manager, snowmobile accident. [37]

18

Richard Bright, 68, American movie and television actor, pedestrian accident. [38]
Bill Hartley, 75, Australian political activist and trade unionist. [39]
Laurel Hester, 49, American gay rights activist, lung cancer. [40]
Zita James, 102, leader of the 1920s London socialites known as Bright Young Things. [41]
Tom Sellers, 83, American newpaper reporter, 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner. [42]
James Shively, 63, American former POW in Vietnam and prosecutor. [43]
Mark "Chip" VanDeVelde, age unknown, American video game company executive. [44]

17

Ray Barretto, 76, American-born Latin jazz percussionist and bandleader, heart failure. [45][46]
Sybille Bedford, 94, German-British author and journalist. [47]
Paul Carr, 72, American TV and movie actor, lung cancer. [48]
Roy Chapman, 79, American race horse owner, complications from emphysema. [49]
Bill Cowsill, 58, American singer, lead of The Cowsills, emphysema and other ailments. [50][51]
Giovanni Gandini, 77, founder of the Italian comics magazine Linus. [52] [53]
Harold Hunter, 31, American pro skateboarder, in movie Kids, suspected drug overdose. [54]
Bob Lewis, 81, American race horse owner, congestive heart failure. [55]
Lloyd David Lindsey, 88, Brazilian chemist.
Raymond J. Mauer, 89, American advertising executive and scriptwriter (Duck and Cover). [56]
Jorge Pinto Mendonça, 51, Brazilian football (soccer) player, heart attack. [57]
Bernhard Werner, 89, German athlete.

16

Paul Avrich, 74, American professor and historian of anarchism, Alzheimer's disease. [58]
Benno Besson, 83, Swiss stage director. [59]
Michael Durham, aka Johnny Grunge, 39, American pro wrestler, sleep apnea complications. [60]
Sid Feller, 89, American music arranger, conductor and record producer. [61]
Robert E. Fischer, 88, New York State Supreme Court justice, Attica Prison riots investigator. [62]
Susie Gibson, 115, American supercentenarian, heart failure. [63]
Ernie Stautner, 80, Bavarian-born American Pro Football Hall of Famer, Alzheimer's disease. [64]

15

Xavier Barquet, 46, American film producer and actor. [65]
Anna Marly, 88, Russian-born songwriter, France's "Troubadour of the Resistance." [66]
Andrei Petrov, 75, Russian composer. [67]
Robert E. Rich, Sr., 92, American businessman, creator of first nondairy whipped topping. [68]
Sun Yun-suan, 93, former Premier of Republic of China, myocardial infarction. [69]
Josip Vrhovec, 79, former foreign minister of Yugoslavia.

14

Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik, 106, Lubavitch storyteller. [70]
Darry Cowl, 80, French actor and pianist, lung cancer. [71]
Shoshana Damari, 83, "Queen of Israeli song," pneumonia. [72]
Joel Dorius, 87, American professor of literature, bone marrow cancer. [73]
Michael G. Fitzgerald, 55, American film historian and author. [74]
Lynden David Hall, 31, British soul singer, Hodgkin's lymphoma. [75]
Hermann Lein, 86, resistance fighter against National Socialism.
Sir Peter Masefield, 91, British aviation executive, pilot and author. [76]
Don Paarlberg, 94, American agricultural economics adviser to three U.S. Presidents. [77]
Robert R. Taylor Sr., 89, American businessman, miniature golf pioneer. [78]
Putte Wickman, 81, Swedish jazz orchestra leader and clarinetist, cancer. [79]

13

John Brooke-Little, 78, English author and officer of arms. [80]
Brummet Echohawk, 83, Pawnee artist. [81]
Andreas Katsulas, 59, American actor, lung cancer. [82]
Alan M. Levin, 79, American documentary filmmaker. [83]
Edna Lewis, 89, American author of cookbooks on Southern U.S. cuisine. [84]
Lewis "Bud" McFadin, 77, American pro football player and coach. [85]
Altynbek Sarsenbayev, 43, former Kazakhstan cabinet minister, assassinated. [86][87]
Sir Peter Strawson, 86, British philosopher. [88]
Joseph Ujlaki, 76, Hungarian-born French football player. [89]
Wang Xuan, 70, Chinese academic and IT expert. [90]
Bettie Wilson, 115, American supercentenarian, complications from congestive heart failure. [91]

12

Lenny Dee, 83, American organist/composer (Plantation Boogie) and club owner. [92][93]
Geordie Hormel, 77, American musician and studio owner, heir to the Hormel Foods fortune. [94]
Juan Sánchez-Navarro y Peón, 92, Mexican entrepreneur and co-founder of National Action Party.

8

Larry Black, 54, American track and field medalist at 1972 Summer Olympics, aneurysm. [122]
Elton Dean, 60, English jazz saxophonist, heart and liver related problems. [123]
Michael Gilbert, 93, British mystery author and lawyer. [124]
Ron Greenwood, 84, British football manager, England national team, West Ham United. [125]
Michael "The Bounty" Hunter, 45, American professional boxer, gunshot wound. [126]
Akira Ifukube, 91, Japanese film composer, best known for Godzilla film series. [127]
Mart Kenney, 95, "Canada's Big Band King," bandleader/musician, complications from a fall.[128]
Kuljeet Randhawa, 30, Indian television actress, suicide. [129]

7

Glenn L. Benner, II, 43, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. [130]
George Millay, 76, American businessman and founder of SeaWorld, lung cancer. [131]
Max Rosenn, 96, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1970-2006. [132]
Mitchell Rupe, 51, American convicted murderer ruled too heavy to be hanged, liver disease. [133]
Alan Shalleck, 76, American TV writer, director (Curious George animated films), murdered. [134]

6

Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, 80, American comedian and actor, cancer. [135][136]
Maulana M. Abdul Mannan, 71, politician who collaborated with Pakistani forces during the liberation war of Bangladesh. [137]
Barry Martin, 44, African-American dancer and choreographer. [138]
Stella Ross-Craig, 99, one of the most prodigious of British flora illustrators. [139]
Esther Sandoval, 78, Puerto Rican actress. [140]
Karin Struck, 58, German writer, cancer.

5

Roland S. Boreham Jr., 81, American businessman, former CEO of Baldor Electric Co. [141]
Norma Candal, 75, Puerto Rican comedienne, actress and drama teacher, head injury. [142]
Franklin Cover, 77, American TV and movie actor, pneumonia. [143]
Ton van Dalen, 60, Dutch soccer agent, heart attack. [144]
Martin Feinstein, 84, first executive director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and general manager of the Washington National Opera. [145]
Herbert Fischer, 91, German diplomat.
Reuven Frank, 85, American TV journalism pioneer and former NBC News president, complications from pneumonia. [146]
Ulrich Klöti, 63, Swiss political scientist.
Jacob D. Robida, 18, American criminal suspect, self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Jack Taylor, 60, one of the heaviest men in Britain, heart attack. [147]
Carl Vogel, 84, German art collector.

4

George T. Davis, 98, American criminal defense lawyer [148]
Friedrich Engel, 97, German, former Nazi SS officer. [149]
Betty Friedan, 85, American feminist and writer, congestive heart failure. [150][151]
William Augustus Jones Jr., 71, American Civil Rights pioneer. [152]
Barbara W. Leyden, 56, American palynologist and paleoecologist.
Joe McGuff, 79, American sportswriter and newspaper editor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease). [153]
Elena Carter Richardson, 55, Mexico-born principal dancer and teacher, cancer.
Myron Waldman, 97, American animator for Betty Boop and Superman cartoons. [154]

3

Ustad Qawwal Bahauddin, 71 or 72, Indian-Pakistani Qawwali singer.
Walerian Borowczyk, 82, Polish film and television director. [155]
Jean Byron, 80, American actress, infection following hip replacement surgery. [156]
Kurt Emmerich, 76, German radio reporter.
Frank Goodman, 89, Broadway press agent. [157]
Lou Jones, 74, American Olympic runner. [158]
Sonny King, 83, American comedian-singer, Jimmy Durante's sidekick, cancer. [159]
Al Lewis, 82, American actor, best known for his role as Grandpa Munster on TV's The Munsters, also Green Party activist, political candidate, restauranteur and radio host. [160]
Romano Mussolini, 78, Italian jazz musician and painter, son of Benito Mussolini. [161]
Johnny Vaught, 96, NCAA championship-winning University of Mississippi football coach. [162]