Deaths in 2006

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

Please place names under the date the person died, not the date the death was announced. Please keep names under each date in alphabetical order. Review Wikipedia notability guidelines before adding a listing. If a person does not have a Wikipedia article, consider adding a link to a source about the person which substantiates their notability.

March 2006

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19

Mohammad Ali, 78, Pakistani actor, cardiac arrest. [1]
Kevin Payne, 34, professional boxer, injuries sustained during fight. [2]

15

Ken Brewer, 64, Poet Laureate of Utah [11]
René Lasserre, 93, Paris restaurateur [12]
George Mackey, 90, formerly Landon T. Clay Professor of mathematics, Harvard University.
George Rallis, 87, former Prime Minister of Greece, 1980-81, heart failure.
Red Storey, 88, former CFL player and NHL referee.

14

Ann Calvello, 76, roller derby player, liver cancer. [13]
Hamish Gray, Baron Gray of Contin, 78, former British Conservative government minister. [14]
Lennart Meri, 76, former President of Estonia. [15]
Art Michaluk, 82, former AHL hockey player and World War II veteran. [16]
Herb Tobman, 81, former president of the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas [17]

13

Robert C. Baker, 84, American agricultural scientist, developed chicken products and processes [18]
Roy Clarke, 80, footballer for Manchester City & Wales. [19]
Jimmy Johnstone, 61, Scottish football player, voted Celtic's best ever, motor neurone disease. [20]
Tara Rose McAvoy, 18, reigning Miss Deaf Texas, killed by train while walking on tracks. [21]
Maureen Stapleton, 80, American actress, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Peter Tomarken, 63, American game show host (Press Your Luck), plane crash. [22]

12

Nick Barone, 79, American heavyweight and light heavyweight boxer [23]
Jurij Brězan, 89, Sorbian-German writer.
Massimo Della Pergola, 93, Italian journalist who founded Sisal, Totocalcio, and Totip. [24]
István Gyulai, 62, Hungarian journalist, General Secretary of the IAAF. [25]
Jonatan Johansson, 26, Swedish snowboarder, accident during training. [26]
Victor Sokolov, 59, dissident ex-Soviet journalist, and Orthodox priest, lung cancer.

11

John Falotico, 82, NYPD detective who arrested David Berkowitz. [27]
General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, 81, British soldier and military historian. [28]
Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, 75, NHL player with the Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers, stomach cancer. [29]
Kim Hyung-gon, 48, Korean comedian, heart attack. [30]
Slobodan Milošević, 64, former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia standing trial for war crimes, heart attack. [31] [32]
Glenn Olds, 85, president of Kent State University (1971-1977) [33]
Andrall Pearson, 80, former president of PepsiCo. [34]
Jesús Miguel Rollán, 37, Spanish former water polo goalkeeper, suicide. [35]
Charles M. Tanner, ?, founder of Covenant Players [36]

10

Craig Huebing, 77, American actor (General Hospital) [37]
Mary MacIsaac, 112, Saskatchewan's oldest person.
Alberto Migré, 74, Argentine TV screenwriter and producer, heart attack. [38]

9

Dominic Baranello, 83, Democratic leader in New York State. [39]
Hanka Bielicka, 90, Polish singer and actress.
Dennis Brookes, 90, English cricketer.
Péter Halász, 62, Hungarian theatre director, actor, and writer, liver cancer. [40] [41]
Doug Hamilton, 43, general manager for the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team, heart attack aboard aircraft. [42]
Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie, 72, English cricketer and insurance executive, brain tumor.
Anna Moffo, 73 or 75, American singer and operatic soprano, stroke following decade long battle with breast cancer [43]
John Profumo, 91, British politician, complications following a stroke.
Harry Seidler, 82, leading Australian architect of the Modernism movement. [44]
John Wilde, 86, American surrealist painter [45]

8

Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes, 82, pioneering New Zealand cardiologist, complications during heart valve replacement. [46]
Dr. Lawrence Brass, 49, Yale University neurologist [47]
Joseph Burchenal, 93, American oncologist, worked on leukemia treatments [48]
Teresa Ciepły, 69, Polish athlete, 1964 Olympic track champion.
Giordano Cottur, 91, Italian Giro d'Italia-Champion. [49], [50], [51]
John T. Kramer, 68, American legal scholar. [52]
George Sassoon, 69, scientist and author

7

Howard Jackson, 54, American martial artist. [53]
John Junkin, 76, British actor, lung cancer. [54]
Ludwik Margules, 72, Mexican theatre director, cancer. [55]
John Joseph McFall, 88, former Democratic United States Representative from California (1956 — 1978). [56]
Gordon Parks, 93, photographer, film director (Shaft), cancer. [57]
Jesse "Guitar" Taylor, 55, blues guitarist. [58]
Ali Farka Touré, 66, Malian musician, cancer. [59]

6

Anne Braden, 81, American civil rights activist. [60]
King Floyd, 61, American Soul singer. [61]
Mubdar Hatim al-Dulaimi, 55, Major General in the Iraqi Army, shot by a sniper. [62]
Margaret Muse, 91, American stage and film actress. [63]
Mortimo Planno, 85, Rastafarian philosopher. [64]
Kirby Puckett, 45, Hall of Fame MLB player for the Minnesota Twins, stroke complications. [65]
Dana Reeve, 44, activist, widow of Christopher Reeve, lung cancer. [66]
Hans-Dieter Söling, 76, German biochemist. [67]
Simon Ungers, 49, New York-based German architect and artist. [68]
Ruth Weiss, 97, (also: Wèi Lùshī 魏璐诗) Austrian-Chinese journalist and member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. [69]
Abou Yacoubou, 54, Director of Political Affairs of the Economic Community of West African States. [70]
Francis Zimbeaux, 93, French-born American landscape artist. [71]

5

Milan Babić, 50, former leader of the Republic of Serbian Krajina who pleaded guilty to war crimes, suicide. [72]
Reba Hancock, 72, sister of Johnny Cash. [73]
Richard Kuklinski, 70, American mafia hitman, natural causes. [74]
Josh Rehm, 27, American Grand-Am racing driver, car accident. [75]
John Sandusky, 80, former NFL player and assistant coach, complications from internal bleeding. [76]
Rodney Strong, 78, American ballet dancer and vintner. [77]

4

John Reynolds Gardiner, 61, American children's author, pancreatitis [78]
Roman Ogaza, 54, Polish football player. [79]
David Rose, 95, American courtroom artist. [80]
Edgar Valter, 76, Estonian children's book illustrator and cartoonist. [81]

3

François Bette, 56 Belgian actress ^{[citation needed]}
Ivor Cutler, 83, humorist, author, singer, and poet. [82]
William Herskovic, 91, escapee from Auschwitz during World War Two, cancer. [83]
Charlie Hodge, 71, guitarist and backup singer for Elvis Presley and Graceland resident, lung cancer. [84]
Richard VanderVeen, 83, former Democratic United States Representative from Michigan (1973 — 1977), prostate cancer. [85]

2

Madeleine Cosman, 68, American scholar of medieval Europe [86]
Robert Dryfoos, 63, former New York City Councilman. [87]
Leopold Gratz, 75, Austrian politician, former Mayor of Vienna. [88]
Bill Hays, 67, British director of stage and television. [89]
Valter Heuer, 77, Estonian chess champion and chess historian. [90]
Marion Higgins, 112, California's oldest person. [91]
Phyllis Huffman, 61, award-winning casting director. [92]
Willie Kent, 70, blues bassist, cancer. [93]
Harold Ostroff, 82, builder of nonprofit cooperative housing complexes in New York City. [94]
Garrett Scott, 37, American documentary filmmaker (Occupation: Dreamland), cardiac arrest. [95] [96]
Peter Snow, ?, New Zealand doctor who discovered "Tapanui flu" (chronic fatigue syndrome).
Rachel Mellon Walton, 107, American philanthropist. [97]
Jack Wild, 53, British actor (Oliver!, H.R. Pufnstuf), oral cancer. [98]

1

Annette von Aretin, 85, German TV personality.
Joëlle Aubron, 46, French member of Action Directe, lung cancer. [99]
Harry Browne, 72, American libertarian writer and presidential candidate for the United States Libertarian Party, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [100]
Mack Easley, 89, former Democratic lieutenant governor of New Mexico (1963 — 1966). [101]
Alexander Fol, 72, Bulgarian historian of ancient Greece, former Minister of Education. [102]
Joseph H. Gardner, 78, American real estate developer. [103]
O. Milton Gossett, 80, American advertising executive, former CEO Saatchi & Saatchi Compton Worldwide [104]
Adolf Hitler, 118, Austrian/Austria Politician.
Edith "Judy" Ingamells, 112, oldest British person. [105]
Johnny Jackson, 54, former drummer for The Jackson 5, stabbing. [106]
Anna De Lisle Wells, 23, top amateur jockey, suicide by hanging. [107]
Peter Osgood, 59, former English footballer, heart attack. [108]
John Parkinson, 99, President of Belfast Titanic Society, former Harland and Wolff shipyard worker, witnessed departure of the RMS Titanic as a child. [109]
Pierre Pasquini, 85, former French Minister of Veterans and War Victims. [110]
Jan Raniecki, 70, chairman of Polonia Warszawa. [111]
Gilbert Steiner, 81, Brookings Institute scholar. [112]
Jenny Tamburi, 53, Italian actress 1970s B-movies and casting director TV-series. [113]

Date unknown

Humphrey, c. 17, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office 1990-1997.

February 2006

See Deaths in February 2006.

January 2006

See Deaths in January 2006.

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For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2005, Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994...