Deaths in August 2006

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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2006.

Days of the month

31

• Mohamed Abdelwahab, 23, Egyptian footballer, suspected heart attack. [1]
• K. Sri Dhammananda, 87, Sri Lankan-born Malaysian bhikkhu, stroke. [2].
• Guy Gabaldon, 80, American World War II Marine ("Pied Piper of Saipan)", heart attack. [3]
• J. S. Holliday, 82, American historian, expert on California Gold Rush, pulmonary fibrosis. [4]
• Mike Magill, 86, American racing driver. [5]
• Charlie Wagner, 93, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox). [6]

30

• Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, 80, New Zealand jurist. [7]
• Glenn Ford, 90, Canadian-born American actor (Blackboard Jungle, Cimarron). [8]
• Susan Lynn Hefle, 46, American food scientist, cancer.[9]
• George Johnson, 112, American supercentenarian, pneumonia. [10]
• Igor Kio, 62, Russian illusionist. [11]
• Bob LeRose, 85, American colorist and cover production artist for DC Comics. [12]
• Naguib Mahfouz, 94, Egyptian winner of 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature, head injuries from a fall. [13]
• Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm, 83, British MP and government minister. [14]
• Bill Stumpf, 70, American industrial designer, co-created the Aeron office chair. [15]

29

• Kent Andersson, 64, Swedish motorcycle racer, winner of 1973 and 1974 125cc World Championships. [16]
• John Cummins, 58, Australian union official, secretary of the Builders' Labourers Federation, cancer. [17]
• Robert J. Gorlin, 83, American oral pathologist. [18]
• Gerald Green, 84, American author (The Last Angry Man) and screenwriter (Holocaust). [19]
• Benjamin Rawitz-Castel, 60, Israeli pianist, battered. [20]
• Jumpin' Gene Simmons, 73, American rockabilly musician. [21]

28

• Ed Benedict, 94, American animator and layout artist, designed Fred Flintstone. [22]
• Don Chipp, 81, Australian politician, founder of the Australian Democrats. [23]
• Mary Lee Robb Cline, 80, American actress (The Great Gildersleeve), heart failure. [24]
• Heino Lipp, 84, Estonian champion decathlete. [25]
• Robert McDermott, 86, American dean of the USAF Academy, chairman of USAA and owner of San Antonio Spurs, stroke. [26]
• Pip Pyle, 56, British drummer (Gong, Hatfield and the North). [27]
• William F. Quinn, 87, American Governor of Hawaii (1957–1962), pneumonia. [28]
• Michael Richard, 58, American photographer, cancer. [29]
• Benoît Sauvageau, 42, Canadian Bloc Québécois member of parliament, traffic accident. [30]
• Melvin Schwartz, 73, American physicist, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics. [31]
• Alfred Sherman, 86, British co-founder of the Centre for Policy Studies. [32]

27

• Maria Esther de Capovilla, 116, world's oldest person and the last person known to have been alive in the 1880s, pneumonia. [33] [34] [35]
• Tee Corinne, 62, American writer and artist.
• Jon Dough, 43, AVN Hall of Fame pornographic actor, suicide. [36]
• Ike Hildebrand, 79, Canadian ice hockey and lacrosse player. [37]
• Iain MacKintosh, 74, Scottish folk musician. [38]
• Vashti McCollum, 93, American plaintiff in McCollum v. Board of Education. [39]
• Luciano Mendes de Almeida, 75, Archbishop of Mariana, Brazil, cancer. [40]
• Hrishikesh Mukherjee, 83, Indian film director [41] [42]
• Jesse Pintado, 37, American guitarist with Terrorizer and Napalm Death, complications of diabetic coma. [43]
• Dr. A. James Rowan, 71, neurologist who studied epilepsy. [44]
• Patrick Smith, 58, board member of Habitat for Humanity International, one of 49 killed on Comair Flight 5191. [45]

26

• Rainer Barzel, 82, former President of the German Bundestag and Chairman of the CDU. [46]
• Nawab Akbar Bugti, 79, Balochistani rebel tribal leader, killed by Pakistani military forces. [47]
• John Ripley Forbes, 93, American naturalist and conservationist, founder of nature museums. [48]
• William Garnett, 89, American aerial photographer. [49]
• Yosef Hadar, 90, Israeli composer, cancer (in Hebrew)
• Evgeny Kucherevsky, 65, Ukrainian football coach of Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, car crash. [50]
• Father Marie-Dominique Philippe, O.P., 93, French Dominican priest & founder of the Community of St. John, stroke. [51]
• Vladimir Tretchikoff, 92, Russian artist. [52]
• Michael Vestey, 61, former BBC correspondent and radio critic on The Spectator magazine. [53]
• Sir Clyde Walcott, 80, West Indian cricketer. [54][55]

25

• John Blankenstein, 57, one of the first openly gay Dutch football referees, kidney disease. [56]
• Noor Hassanali, 88, former President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
• Morton Holbrook, Jr., 91, led reform of Kentucky court system. [57]
• Silva Kaputikyan, 87, Armenian poet. [58]
• Lena King Lee, 100, educator and attorney, one of the first African-American women elected to the Maryland General Assembly. [59] [60]
• Vijay Mehra, 68, Indian cricketer. [61]
• Cristian Nemescu, 27, Romanian film director, car accident. [62][63]
• Dr. Gail Shapiro, 59, American pediatric allergist. [64]
• Joseph Stefano, 84, screenwriter (Psycho), co-creator of The Outer Limits. [65] [66]
• Toroku Takagi, 102, Japanese composer. [67]
• Andrei Toncu, 28, Romanian sound designer, car accident. [68] [69] [70]
• Ross Warneke, 54, Australian television commentator and radio broadcaster, cancer. [71]
• John Wilson, 56, New York Times journalist and founding member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. [72]

24

• Herbert Hupka, 91, German journalist and politician. [73] (in German)
• Leonard Levy, 83, Canadian-born US constitutional historian and author, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for History. [74]
• Anthony Malara, 69, former president of CBS Television and former head of the New York State Broadcasters Association. [75]
• Viktor Pavlov, 65, Russian actor, heart attack. [76] (in Russian)
• Rocco Petrone, 80, American NASA engineer, director of Project Apollo and the Marshall Space Flight Center. [77]
• David Plowright, 75, TV executive and producer, former chairman of Granada Television. [78]
• Ralph Schoenstein, 73, American humorist and NPR commentator. [79]
• Léopold Simoneau, 90, Canadian lyric tenor. [80] [81]
• James Tenney, 72, experimental composer, cancer.[82]
• Gene Thompson, 89, baseball player with the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Giants. [83]
• John Weinzweig, 93, Canadian music composer. [84]

23

• Lauren Crowner, 25, news anchor/reporter at WCMH-TV in Columbus, OH, infection after auto accident. [85]
• Maynard Ferguson, 78, Canadian jazz trumpeter, kidney and liver failure. [86] [87][88]
• Colin Forbes, 82, English novelist.[89]
• Wasim Raja, 54, former Pakistan Test cricket player, heart attack while playing a match in Marlow, England. [90] [91]
• David Schnaufer, 53, Appalachian dulcimer player, lung cancer. [92]
• Andrew J. Sullivan, 74, Air Force Veteran. Served in Korea.
• Marie Tharp, 86, American oceanographic cartographer. [93]
• Ed Warren, 79, demonologist, after long illness. [94]
• Jay Young, 56, one of the original CNN news anchors, heart attack. [95]

22

• Wallace Brown, 76, Australian journalist, political correspondent in Canberra for (Brisbane's) The Courier-Mail 1961-1996. [96]
• Bruce Gary, 55, American rock musician, drummer with The Knack, lymphoma. [97] [98]
• Frank Lennon, 79, Canadian photographer who recorded Paul Henderson celebrating his winning goal in the Summit Series. [99]

21

• Máximo Carvajal, 70, Chilean comic book artist. [100]
• George Edwards, 87, American radio host for WQXR. [101]
• Ustad Bismillah Khan, 90, Indian shehnai musician and Bharat Ratna winner, heart attack. [102] [103] [104]
• Jon Lilletun, 60, Norwegian politician (KrF), Minister of Education 1997-2000, cancer. [105]
• Geff Noblet, 89, Australian Test cricketer 1949-1953. [106]
• William C. Norris, 95, American engineer and founder of Control Data Corporation. [107]
• Buck Page, 84, western musician and founder of the original Riders of the Purple Sage. [108]
• Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, 65, Dutch billionaire businessman, pancreatic cancer. [109]
• S. Yizhar, 89, Israeli author, heart disease. [110]

20

• Dr. George Astaphan, 60, Kittian doctor who provided steroids to, amongst others, Ben Johnson in the 1980s. [111]
• Claude Blanchard, 74, French-Canadian pop singer and actor, heart attack. [112]
• Renate Brausewetter, 100, German silent film actress. [113]
• Bryan Budd, 29, British soldier, posthumously awarded Victoria Cross. [114]
• Alexander Cushing, 92, American founder of the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, brought the 1960 Winter Olympics to the US. [115]
• Roger Donoghue, 75, American boxer. [116]
• Robert Hoffman, 59, American businessman and art collector, co-founder of National Lampoon. [117]
• James T. "Red" Hudson, 81, founder of Hudson Foods, lung cancer. [118]
• Jack Laughery, 71, American former CEO and chairman of the Hardee's restaurant chain, lung cancer. [119]
• Jacob Mincer, 84, Polish-born professor of economics at Columbia University. [120]
• Giuseppe Moccia, alias Pipolo, 75, Italian film director with Franco Castellano (Castellano & Pipolo), father of writer Federico Moccia. [121]
• Joe Rosenthal, 94, Pulitzer Prize winner for photographing United States Marines raising their flag on Iwo Jima, natural causes. [122]
• Neil Trezise, 75, Australian Labor politician, Victorian State Government Minister for Sport 1982-92, Australian Rules footballer 1949-59 for Geelong, heart attack. [123]
• Richard Arthur de Yarburgh-Bateson, 95, 6th Baron Deramore and writer of erotic fiction. [124]

19

• Marvin Barrett, 86, American journalist and author. [125]
• Joyce Blair, 73, British actress, sister of Lionel Blair, cancer [126]
• Clinton Bristow, Jr., 57, American lawyer and education official, president of Alcorn State University, heart failure. [127]
• James Lovett Dewar, 94, American banker, founder of Park Avenue Bank. [128]
• Joseph Hill, 57, Jamaican lead singer of roots reggae group Culture, liver failure. [129] [130]
• Omar Oscar Míguez, 78, Uruguayan footballer and 1950 FIFA World Cup winner. [131]
• Mervyn Wood, 89, Australian rower, three-time Olympic medal winner, New South Wales Police Commissioner. [132] [133]

18

• James Clark, Jr., 87, former president of the Maryland State Senate, cancer. [134]
• Kathryn Frost, 57, retired U.S. Army Major General and one of its highest ranking women, wife of former U.S. Representative Martin Frost, breast cancer. [135]
• Grace Furukawa, 77, first Japanese-Canadian teacher in Ontario, natural causes. [136]
• Fernand Gignac, 72, French-Canadian singer and actor, hepatitis. [137]
• Dick Hickox, 68, guard for the University of Miami basketball team, 1959-60. [138]
• Ken Kearney, 82, dual international for Australia in rugby league and rugby union, heart attack. [139]
• Robert Mitchell, 77, American Broadway set designer. [140]
• Jeffrey Tennyson, 54, American artist and collector of hamburger memorabilia, author of Hamburger Heaven. [141]

17

• Tan Sri Kontek Kamariah Ahmad, 95, Malaysian educationist, politician, activist and pioneer in the Malaysian co-operative movement. [142] [143]
• Len Evans, 75, Australian wine writer and founder of the Australian Wine Bureau, heart attack. [144]
• Ken Goodall, 59, Irish international rugby union player 1967-1970. [145]
• Masumi Hayashi, 60, Japanese-American photographer, shooting. [146]
• John Hutton, 59, American furniture designer. [147]
• Dr. Vernon Ingram, 82, German-born molecular biologist at MIT, discovered the cause of sickle cell anemia. [148]
• Walter Jagiello, 76, "Li'l Wally", American polka musician and songwriter. [149]
• Shamsur Rahman, 76, Bangladeshi poet, kidney and liver failure. [150]
• Bernard Rapp, 61, French film director, writer and journalist, lung cancer. [151] [152]
• Werner Scharff, 90, German-born designer of the Lanz flannel granny nightgown, Parkinson's disease. [153]
• Sig Shore, 87, film producer (Superfly). [154]
• Evan Harris Walker, 70, physicist and consciousness theorist [155]
• Guy Weill, 92, Swiss-born collector of Asian art. [156]
• Yen Ngoc Do, 65, founder of Nguoi Viet Daily News, diabetes and kidney disease. [157] [158]

16

• Umberto Baldini, 84, Italian art restorer, director of the conservation studios at the Uffizi. [159]
• Alex Buzo, 62, Australian playwright (Norm and Ahmed, Rooted), cancer. [160]
• Herschel Green, 86, American World War II fighter ace. [161]
• Robert Kreem, 83, Estonian exile activist [162]
• Jon Nödtveidt, 31, Swedish lead guitarist and vocalist of melodic black metal band Dissection, convicted of felony murder, suicide. [163][164]
• Iris Ovshinsky, 79, co-founder of ECD Ovonics, wife of inventor Stanford Ovshinsky. [165]
• Velda Otsus, 92, Estonian actress [166] [167] [168] (all in Estonian)
• James A. Reed, 92, lawyer and banker, former assistant Secretary of the Treasury. [169]
• Alfredo Stroessner, 93, former dictator of Paraguay, complications from hernia surgery. [170]
• Roy Tobias, 78, American ballet dancer and teacher. [171]
• Alan Vint, 61, American actor, multiple organ failure following various illnesses [172][173]
• William Wasson, 82, American priest who founded orphanages, complications from a hip injury. [174]

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15

• Rick Bourke, 51, Australian rugby league player, cancer. [175]
• Dr. James W. Smith, Jr., 79, American surgeon, author, and collector of early arcade games. [176]
• Rudi Stern, 69, American multimedia artist. [177]
• Dame Te Atairangikaahu, 75, Māori Queen. [178]
• Doug White, 61, American news anchor, cancer. [179]
• Faas Wilkes, 82, Dutch international footballer. [180]

14

• Dr. Paul Beeson, 97, American infectious disease researcher, former chair of the department of medicine at Yale University. [181]
• Johnny Duncan, 67, country singer and songwriter ("She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed Anytime", "It Couldn't Have Been Any Better"), heart attack. [182] [183] [184]
• Richard J. Farmer, 43, Emmy-award winning cameraman. [185]
• Adriaan de Groot, 91, Dutch chess master and psychologist. [186]
• Milton Kaye, 97, American pianist and arranger. [187]
• Lord Kilbracken, 85, British-born Irish peer, wartime Fleet Air Arm pilot and journalist. [188] [189]
• Bruno Kirby, 57, American character actor (The Godfather Part II, City Slickers), complications from leukemia. [190] [191]
• Luis Fernandez de la Reguera, 39, American film director, (Rockets Redglare!), motorcycle accident. [192]
• Lawrence Sacharow, 68, American Obie Award-winning Off-Broadway director. [193]
• Dr. James Wattenbarger, 84, American educator and University of Florida professor, designed Florida's community college system. [194]

13

• Joseph Carlino, 89, American Speaker of the New York State Assembly, 1959-1964. [195]
• Heather Clarke, 39, Wife of Golfer Darren Clarke
• Kermit L. Hall, 61, President of the University at Albany and member of the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, swimming accident. [196] [197]
• Al Hostak, 90, American National Boxing Association Middleweight champion in 1938 and 1939, stroke. [198] [199]
• Tony Jay, 73, British actor and voice artist, complications from tumor surgery. [200]
• Annely Juda, 91, German-born London art gallery owner. [201]
• Armin Meyer, 92, American ambassador to Lebanon, Iran and Japan, Parkinson's disease. [202] [203]
• Walter Nurnberg, 78, professional wrestler. [204]
• Payao Poontarat, 49, Thailand's first Olympic medal winner (bronze, 1976) and former World Boxing Council champion, ALS. [205] [206]
• Diane Shamash, 51, American founder of Minetta Brook, a non-profit art organization. [207]
• Nathan Sloane, 97, former owner of the Fox Cross Candy Company. [208]

12

• Victoria Gray Adams, 79, African-American civil rights activist, first woman to run for a US Senate seat in Mississippi, cancer. [209] [210]
• Ketheshwaran Loganathan, Tamil peace official, assassination. [211]
• Camille Loiseau, 114, French doyenne, oldest verified person in Western Europe. [212][213] (French)
• Raska Lukwiya, commander in the Lord's Resistance Army of Uganda and indictee of the International Criminal Court for war crimes, killed in battle. [214]
• Dr. Monroe Romansky, 95, American academic and physician, developed the Romansky Formula for penicillin administration, Alzheimer's disease. [215] [216]
• Karl von Stroheim, 78, professional wrestler, heart attack. [217]

11

• John L. Bull, 92, American ornithologist. [218]
• Alvin Cooperman, 83, American entertainment executive. [219]
• David Thomas Dawson, 48, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Montana. [220]
• Victor del Corral, 84, Cuban restaurateur, founder of New York City's Victor's Cafe. [221]
• Mike Douglas, 81, American talk-show host and entertainer. [222]
• Joel Harnett, 80, American civic watchdog and former candidate for Mayor of New York City. [223]
• Alice Ilchman, 71, American economist, president of Sarah Lawrence College, 1981-1998. [224]
• Buffie Johnson, 94, American painter. [225]
• Mazisi Kunene, 76, South African poet laureate. [226] [227]
• Leonard Marks, 90, American communications lawyer and former director of the United States Information Agency. [228]
• Joe Rebman, 21, sprint car driver, racing accident in Mansfield, OH. [229]

10

• George Dawkes, 86 English cricketer, specialising in wicket keeping, for Derbyshire. [230]
• Barbara George 63, R&B-singer, homicide
• Irving São Paulo, 41, Brazilian actor, multiple organ failure [231]
• Yasuo Takei, 76, Japan's second-richest man and founder of Takefuji Corporation. [232] [233]

9

• Anga Díaz, 45, Cuban conga player. [234] [235]
• Melissa Hayden, 83, Canadian-born ballerina, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, pancreatic cancer. [236] [237]
• Philip Empson High, 92, British science fiction author, natural causes. [238]
• Said Abdullo Nuri, 59, leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, cancer.[239]
• Rafael Ruiz, 89, Spanish Olympic field hockey player (1948). [240] (Spanish)
• James Van Allen, 91, American space physicist, heart failure. [241] [242]

8

• William B. Anderson, 82, journalist [243]
• Gustavo Arcos, 79, Cuban dissident, pneumonia. [244] [245]
• Marion Cajori, 56, documentary filmmaker. [246]
• Darrell Ferguson, 28, convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection in Ohio. [247]
• Duke Jordan, 84, American bebop jazz pianist. [248] [249]
• Dino Restelli, 81, major league baseball player. [250]

7

• Mary Anderson Bain, 94, New Deal director under U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and former top aide to Congressman Sid Yates. [251]
• Sue Bierman, 82, former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, car accident. [252]
• Jim Crooker, 80, amateur who played in more Bob Hope Chrysler Classic tournaments than any other golfer, cancer. [253]
• Lois January, 92, American actress, Alzheimer's disease. [254]
• Robert McCullough, 64, African-American civil rights activist, leader of the Friendship Nine. [255]
• Bob Miller, 76, NFL defensive tackle with the title-winning Detroit Lions, cancer. [256]
• John Weinberg, 81, American banker, former head of Goldman Sachs, complications from a fall. [257]

6

• Gintaras Beresnevičius, 45, a Lithuanian historian of religions specializing in Baltic mythology, writer, scholar, publicist. [258]
• Dorothy Healey, 91, American communist leader, pneumonia. [259]
• Rafik Kamalov, Kyrgyz Imam and alleged Islamic militant, injuries sustained from gunfire. [260]
• Stella Moray, 83, British actress and performer. [261].
• Jim Pomeroy, 53, first American to win a World Championship Motocross event, automobile accident. [262]
• Moacir Santos, 80, Brazilian composer and arranger. [263][264]
• Sir Robert Sparkes, 77, Australian grazier and businessman, former President of the Queensland National Party 1970-1990. [265]
• Hirotaka Suzuoki, 56, Japanese anime voice actor, lung cancer. [266]
• Monsignor Lawrence Wnuk, 98, Polish Roman Catholic priest, Protonotary Apostolic, founder of the Polish Canadian Centre Association of Windsor, Ontario. [267]

5

• Susan Butcher, 51, four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion, complications from a bone marrow transplant to combat acute myeloid leukemia. [268][269]
• Steve Crosno, 66, longtime El Paso radio DJ whose career spanned nearly 50 years, kidney failure. [270]
• Richard L. Fisher, 65, New York City developer and philanthropist, cancer. [271]
• Aron Gurevich, 82, Russian medievalist.
• William Massee, 87, American wine writer. [272]
• Hugo Schiltz, 78, Belgian politician. [273]
• Daniel Schmid, 64, Swiss filmmaker and director (Il Bacio di Tosca), cancer. [274] [275]
• Ed Thrasher, 74, American album cover designer. [276]
• Rosaline Yeoh (née Chan Yee Hing), 54, former Hong Kong actress and wife of Malaysian tycoon Tan Sri Francis Yeoh, cancer. [277][278]

4

• Elden Auker, 95, former American Major League Baseball pitcher, heart attack. [279] [280]
• Julio Galán, 46, Mexican neo-expressionist painter. [281]
• John Locke, 62, former keyboardist of Spirit. [282]
• Dr. James F. X. O'Rourke, 86, American eye surgeon, former mayor of Yonkers, New York, and former professional football player. [283]
• Nandini Satpathy, 75, Chief Minister of Orissa, India 1972-1976, cerebral bleeding. [284]
• Monroe Clark, 70, American Singer, Actor, Performer of the Violin, Piano, Keytar and Viola.^{[citation needed]}
• Esther Snyder, 86, president of California-based In-N-Out Burger. [285]

3

• Helmut Bein, 74, German rally driver, Opel Motorsport manager and Formula 3 official [286] [287]
• Richard T. Greene Sr., 93, Black banker, former director of the Carver Federal Savings Bank. [288]
• Dr. John Haase, 82, German-born American dentist turned author (Me and the Arch Kook Petulia), emphysema. [289] [290]
• Arthur Lee, 61, American rock musician, leader of the psychedelic band Love, leukemia. [291] [292]
• Ken Richmond, 80, British actor and wrestler, 1952 Olympic bronze medal winner, gong striker in the credits for films by J. Arthur Rank Studios. [293] [294]
• Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 90, German born opera soprano, natural causes. [295]
• Robert Eric Wone, 32, American general counsel to Radio Free Asia, stabbing, 2008 allegation of coverup. [296], [297]
• Dr N.S. Sridharan, 59, artificial intelligence expert and humanitarian, malaria. [298]

2

• Holger Börner, 75, German politician, prime minister of Hesse 1976-1987, cancer. [299]
• Fitz Eugene Dixon, Jr., 82, former owner of the Philadelphia 76ers who signed Julius Erving, skin cancer. [300]
• Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont, 92, French Resistance fighter, militant communist, and politician. [301]
• David Levy, 79, New York State Supreme Court justice. [302]
• Kim McLagan, 57, British model of the 1960s, wife of Ian McLagan of The Faces and former wife of Keith Moon, traffic accident. [303]
• Luisel Ramos, 22, Uruguayan model, heart failure caused by anorexia nervosa
• Harold Ronk, 85, American singing ringmaster for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. [304]
• Ferenc Szusza, 82, record goalscorer for a single club in Hungarian football. [305]
• Audrey Lindvall, 23, American model and sister of American supermodel Angela Lindvall, traffic accident.^{[citation needed]}

1

• Gay Delanghe, 65, American choreographer, ovarian cancer. [306]
• Dr. Vincent Dole, 93, American medical researcher, established that methadone could treat heroin addiction, ruptured aorta. [307] [308]
• Rufus Harley, 70, American jazz bagpipe player, prostate cancer. [309]
• Gabriel Kaspereit, French politician.^{[citation needed]}
• Masao Nishimura, 73, Japanese banker, CEO of the Industrial Bank of Japan and founder and CEO of Mizuho Holdings, Inc.. [310]
• Rev. Bernard Pagano, 81, American Catholic priest charged with and later cleared of armed robbery, stroke. [311]
• Arlene Raven, 62, feminist writer and art critic, kidney cancer. [312]
• Jason Rhoades, 41, American installation artist, heart failure. [313][314]
• Bob Thaves, 81, cartoonist, created and illustrated Frank and Ernest, respiratory failure [315]
• Johannes Cardinal Willebrands, 96, Archbishop of Utrecht 1975-1983, oldest Cardinal in the Roman Catholic church. [316] [317] (English) [318] (Dutch)
• Iris Marion Young, 57, political philosopher and feminist, esophageal cancer. [319]

See also

Deaths in 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →