Famous People Who Died in 2006 (Part 3)

Deaths 401 - 600 of 797

• Jul 16 Artie Malvin, American vocalist (Glenn Miller; Jimmy Dorsey), arranger and music director (Julie LaRosa; Pat Boone; Carol Burnett), dies at 83
• Jul 16 Bob Orton, Sr., American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
• Jul 16 Ossi Reichert, German alpine skier (Olympic gold women's giant slalom 1956; silver slalom 1952), dies at 80

• Jul 16 Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas (b. 1948)
• Jul 17 (Frank) "Mickey" Spillane, American mystery writer (I, The Jury), dies of pancreatic cancer at 88
• Jul 17 Sam Myers, American blues singer, harmonica player, drummer, and songwriter ("Sleeping in the Ground"), dies at 70
• Jul 19 Jack Warden [John Lebzelter Jr], American character actor (Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait, Brian's Song), dies of heart and kidney failure at 85
• Jul 20 Gérard Oury [Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum] French actor and filmmaker, dies at 87
• Jul 20 Robert Cornthwaite, American actor (Thing, War of the Worlds, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?), dies of natural causes at 89
• Jul 20 Ted Grant, British Trotskyist (b. 1913)
• Jul 21 Mako, Japanese-American actor (The Sand Pebbles), dies at 72
• Jul 21 Ta Mok, "The Khmer Rouge Butcher", war criminal in Democratic Kampuchea (b. 1926)
• Jul 22 Dika Newlin, American composer, Schoenberg expert and punk rocker, dies at 82
• Jul 22 James E. West, mayor of Spokane, Washington (b. 1950)
• Jul 22 José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (b. 1965)
• Jul 22 Thomas J. Manton, American politician (Rep-D-NY, 1985-99), dies at 73

• Jul 23 Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1927)
• Jul 25 Carl Brashear, first African-American U.S Navy Master Diver (b. 1931)
• Jul 27 Maryann Mahaffey, American politician (b. 1925)
• Jul 28 David Gemmell, British writer (b. 1948)
• Jul 28 Patrick Allen, British actor (Roman Holiday, Dial "M" for Murder), dies at 79
• Jul 29 Jim Olin, American politician (Rep-D-VA, 1983-93), dies at 86
• Jul 30 Al Balding, Canadian golfer (first Canadian to win PGA Tour event in US, 4-time winner), dies of cancer at 82
• Jul 30 Anthony Galla-Rini, American concert accordionist,and arranger, dies at 102
• Jul 30 Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
• Jul 31 Paul Eells, American sportscaster ("Voice of the Razorbacks"), dies at 70
• Aug 1 Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (Frank and Ernest), dies at 81
• Aug 1 Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)
• Aug 1 Jason Rhoades, American installation artist know for his Perfect World installation, dies of heart failure at 41
• Aug 3 Arthur Lee, American psychedelic rock musician (Love; National Recording Company), dies of leukemia at 61
• Aug 3 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Austro-British soprano (Der Rosenkavalier), dies at 90

• Aug 4 John Locke, American rock keyboardist (Spirit -"I Got A Line On You"), dies of cancer at 62
• Aug 5 Ed Thrasher, American Grammy Award-winning art director (Warner Brothers Records, 1964-79), and photographer (album art for Frank Sinatra; Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead), dies of cancer at 74
• Aug 5 Hugo Schiltz, Flemish lawyer and politician, dies at 78
• Aug 5 Susan Butcher, American dog musher and 4 x winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, dies of graft-versus-host disease while fighting acute myelogenous leukemia at 51
• Aug 7 Mary Anderson Bain, American New Deal politician (b. 1911)
• Aug 8 Irving "Duke" Jordan, American jazz pianist (Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Sonny Stitt), dies at 84
• Aug 8 Michael Hurd, British composer and musicologist known for his choral music (Jonah-Man Jazz), dies at 77
• Aug 9 James van Allen, American physicist (discovered Van Allen radiation belts), dies at 91
• Aug 9 Philip E. High, English sci-fi author, dies at 92

• Aug 13 Payao Poontarat, Thai Olympic boxer (b. 1957)
• Aug 13 Tony Jay, British-American stage, screen, and voice actor (Twins; The Hunchback of Notre Dame - "Frollo"), dies at 73
• Aug 14 Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
• Aug 15 Doug White, American news anchor, dies of cancer at 61
• Aug 15 Faas Wilkes, Dutch soccer star (Xerxes, Fortuna, Inter Milan), dies at 82
• Aug 15 Rick Bourke, Australian rugby league player (Cronulla), dies of cancer at 52
• Aug 15 Te Atairangikaahu, New Zealand Māori Queen for 40 years, dies at 75
• Aug 16 Alex Buzo, Australian playwright and author (b. 1944)

• Aug 16 Herschel Green, American pilot (b. 1920)
• Aug 16 Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician (Dissection), dies at 31
• Aug 18 Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934)
• Aug 18 Jamie Astaphan, Caribbean-born physician (b. 1946)
• Aug 20 Bryan Budd, British soldier (Afghanistan), dies at 29
• Aug 20 Claude Blanchard, French Canadian singer, comedian and actor, dies at 74
• Aug 20 Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (Pulitzer Prize-Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima), dies at 94
• Aug 20 Richard Arthur de Yarburgh-Bateson, 6th Lord Deramore, British architect, dies at 95
• Aug 21 Bismillah Khan [Qamaruddin Khan], Hindustani classical shehnai (a reeded woodwind instrument) player, dies of a heart attack at 90
• Aug 21 Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman, philanthropist, and conservationist, dies of pancreatic cancer at 65
• Aug 22 Bruce Gary, American rock drummer (The Knack - "My Sharona"'), dies of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma at 55

• Aug 23 Jacques Wildberger, Swiss composer (In My End is My Beginning), dies at 84
• Aug 23 Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader, dies at 78
• Aug 23 Wasim Raja, Pakistani cricket all-rounder (57 Tests, 4 x 100, HS 125, 51 wickets; Lahore, Durham CCC), dies from a heart attack at 54
• Aug 24 Cristian Nemescu, Romanian film director (b.1979)
• Aug 24 James Carl Tenney, American composer, dies at 72
• Aug 24 Léopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor, dies at 90
• Aug 25 Vijay Mehra, Indian cricket batsman (8 Tests, 2 x 50; Delhi, Eastern Punjab, Railways), dies at 68
• Aug 26 Josef Hadar, Israeli violinist and composer (Evening of Roses), dies at 79
• Aug 26 Rainer Barzel, German politician CDU-CSU) and minister, dies at 82
• Aug 26 Sir Clyde Walcott, West Indian cricket batsman (44 Tests @ 56.68; 15 x 100s) and administrator (ICC chairman 1997-2000), dies at 80
• Aug 27 Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director (b. 1922)
• Aug 27 Jesse Pintado, Mexican-American guitarist (Napalm Death), dies of liver failure at 37
• Aug 27 Maria Capovilla, oldest woman alive from 2004-2006 (b. 1889)
• Aug 28 Benoît Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (b. 1963)
• Aug 28 Melvin Schwartz, American Physicist and Nobel Laureate (neutrinos - subatomic particles with no electric charge and virtually no mass), dies at 73
• Aug 30 Glenn Ford, Canadian-American actor (Cade's County, Big Heat, Midway), dies at 90
• Aug 30 Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian novelist (Palace Walk, Sugar Street) and first Arabic writer to win a Nobel Prize (1988), dies at 94
• Aug 30 Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist (President of Court of Appeal, 1986-96), and member of the British House of Lords, dies at 80
• Aug 31 Derrick Wayne Frazier, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas at 29
• Aug 31 Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian soccer left back (19 caps; African Cup of Nations 2006; Al Ahly SC, Aluminium Nag Hammâdi), dies from a heart defect at 22
• Aug 31 Tom Delaney, British racing driver (oldest licensed racing driver in the world), dies at 95
• Sep 1 Bob O'Connor, American politician (Mayor of Pittsburgh, 2006), dies of brain cancer at 61
• Sep 1 Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
• Sep 1 Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
• Sep 1 Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)
• Sep 2 Bob Mathias, American decathlete (Olympic gold 1948, 52) and congressman, dies of cancer at 75
• Sep 2 Charlie Williams, English soccer defender (Doncaster Rovers 151 games) and comedian, dies from Parkinson's disease at 78
• Sep 2 Gerhard Amanshauser, Austrian writer (Schloß mit späten Gästen), dies at 78
• Sep 2 Willi Ninja [William Leake], American dancer and choreographer (Paris Is Burning), dies of AIDS-related heart failure at 45
• Sep 2 [Jean-Josephat] Clermont Pépin, Canadian pianist and composer (Implosion Symphony), dies of liver cancer at 80
• Sep 2 [Walter] Dewey Redman, American jazz saxophonist, dies of liver failure at 75
• Sep 3 Annemarie Wendl, German actress (Lindenstraße, Der Seitensprung), dies at 91
• Sep 3 Ian Hamer, British jazz trumpeter and session musician (Beatles - "Got To Get You Into My Life"; Top of the Pops studio band), dies at 73
• Sep 4 Astrid Varnay, Swedish soprano (Met Opera 1941-56), dies at 88
• Sep 4 Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator (b. 1920)
• Sep 4 Giacinto Facchetti, Italian soccer left-back (94 caps; Inter Milan 476 games), dies at 64
• Sep 4 John Conte, American actor (The Man with the Golden Arm, Lost in a Harem, Mantovani), dies of natural causes at 90

• Sep 7 Julien Schoenaerts, Flemish actor (Daens/Medea), dies at 81
• Sep 7 Robert Earl Jones, American actor (The Sting, Witness, Sleepaway Camp), dies of natural causes at 96
• Sep 8 Erk Russell, American football, basketball, baseball and track coach, dies at 80
• Sep 8 Frank Middlemass, British actor (Heart Beat, As Time Goes By, Oliver Twist), dies at 87
• Sep 8 Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
• Sep 8 Jean Villain, Swiss writer, dies at 78
• Sep 8 Peter Brock, Australian auto racer (3 x Australian Touring Car C'ship; 9 x Bathurst 500/1000; 9 x Sandown Endurance), dies in a rally crash at 61
• Sep 9 Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (The Name of the Rose), dies at 79
• Sep 9 Richard Burmer, American composer and musician, dies at 50
• Sep 9 William B. Ziff Jr., American magazine publishing executive, (Modern Bride; Popular Electronics, PC Magazine), dies of cancer at 76

• Sep 10 Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (1965-2006), dies at 88

• Sep 11 Johannes Bob van Benthem, Dutch lawyer (b. 1921)
• Sep 11 Pat Corley, American actor (Murphy Brown), dies at 76
• Sep 11 William Auld, Scottish poet, writer and supporter of Esperanto, dies at 81
• Sep 13 Ann Richards, American politician (46th Governor of Texas 1991-95), dies at 73
• Sep 14 Esme Melville, Australian actress (b. 1918)
• Sep 14 Miklós "Mickey" Hargitay, Hungarian-American actor, bodybuilder and the 1955 Mr. Universe, dies from multiple myeloma at 80
• Sep 15 Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer, dies at 77
• Sep 15 Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (b. 1987)
• Sep 15 Raymond Baxter, British television presenter (b. 1922)
• Sep 16 Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey right wing (Stanley Cup 1953, 56-58; Montreal Canadiens), dies at 81
• Sep 16 Rob Levin, creator of Freenode (b. 1955)
• Sep 17 Alvin Wayne "Al" Casey, American rock and session guitarist (Duane Eddy: The Wrecking Crew), dies at 69
• Sep 17 Dorothy Stratton, American coast guard officer (1st woman officer in US Coast Guard, SPARS), dies at 108
• Sep 17 Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)
• Sep 18 Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1925)
• Sep 19 Chuck Rio [Daniel Flores], American rock singer, saxophonist, and songwriter (The Champs - "Tequila"), dies of pneumonia at 77
• Sep 19 Elizabeth Allen [Gillease], American stage and screen actress (Donovan's Reef; Bracken's World; The Paul Lynde Show), dies of kidney disease at 77
• Sep 19 Hugh Kawharu, New Zealander Ngāti Whātua Māori chief (b. 1927)
• Sep 19 Martha Holmes, American photographer (b. 1923)
• Sep 19 Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)
• Sep 20 Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor, dies at 74
• Sep 20 John W. Peterson, American hymn writer ("It Took a Miracle"), publisher and editor (Singspiration), dies of prostate cancer at 84
• Sep 20 Sven Nykvist, Swedish cinematographer (Cries and Whispers), dies at 83
• Sep 21 Raymond "Boz" Burrell, British rock bassist and singer (King Crimson, 1971-72; Bad Company, 1973-82), dies of a heart attack at 60
• Sep 22 Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player (b. 1950)
• Sep 22 Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
• Sep 22 Ewald Krolis, Suriname Dutch percussionist and kaseko singer (Caribbean Combo - Mi Kanto Ma Mi De Ete (Fallen But Not Defeated), dies at 59
• Sep 23 Etta Baker, American blues guitarist, dies at 93
• Sep 23 Sir Malcolm Arnold, British trumpeter, and classical and film score composer (The Bridge On The River Kwai), dies at 84
• Sep 24 Henry "Mule" Townsend, American blues singer, guitarist, and piano player, dies at 96
• Sep 24 Thomas Stewart, American bass-baritone (La Roche Capriccio), dies at 78
• Sep 25 Jeff Cooper, American firearms expert (b. 1920)
• Sep 25 John M. Ford, American sci-fi author and poet, dies at 49

• Sep 26 Philip Randle, British biochemist (Randle cycle), dies at 80
• Sep 26 Tokyo Rose [Iva Toguri D'Aquino], American-born Japanese propagandist (WWII), dies at 90
• Sep 28 Viktor Kalabis, Czech composer (Two Worlds), dies at 83
• Sep 29 Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer, dies of heart failure at 30
• Sep 29 Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926)
• Sep 29 Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)
• Sep 29 Michael A. Monsoor, United States Navy SEAL (posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor), killed in Iraq at 25
• Sep 29 Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricket batsman (11 Tests, 1 x 100, 2 x 50; Canterbury; father of Richard, Dayle & Barry), dies from a stroke at 91
• Oct 1 André Viger, French Canadian wheelchair marathoner (3 Paralympics gold medals), dies from cancer at 54
• Oct 1 Jerald Tanner, American religious activist (b. 1938)
• Oct 2 Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
• Oct 2 Milly Vitale, Italian actress (7 Little Foys, War & Peace, Juggler), dies at 73
• Oct 2 Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician (b. 1916)
• Oct 2 Tamara Dobson, American actress (Amazons; Cleopatra Jones), dies of complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis, at 59
• Oct 3 Alberto Ramento, Filipina bishop (b. 1937)
• Oct 3 John Crank, British mathematician (b. 1913)
• Oct 3 Peter Norman, Australian track star (b. 1942)
• Oct 4 Oskar Pastior, Romanian-born German writer, dies at 78
• Oct 4 Tom Bell, English actor on stage, television and film (b. 1933)
• Oct 5 Antonio Peña, Mexican founder of lucha libre promotion AAA (b. 1953)
• Oct 5 Friedrich K Flick, German industrialist, dies at 79
• Oct 5 Jennifer Moss, English Actress (b. 1945)
• Oct 6 Alex Shigo, American Biologist and plant pathologist known for his study of tree decay and contributions to modern arboricultural practices, dies at 76

• Oct 6 Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (b. 1940)
• Oct 6 Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (b. 1930)
• Oct 6 Valentin Muratov, Russian gymnast (4 gold, 1 silver medals 1952, 1956 Olympics), dies at 78
• Oct 6 Wilson Tucker, American sci-fi writer, dies at 91
• Oct 7 Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and human rights activist, dies at 48
• Oct 9 Danièle Huillet, French film director, with Jean-Marie Straub (Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach; Sicilia!), dies of cancer at 70 [1]
• Oct 9 Kanshi Ram, Indian Dalit leader and politician (President of the Bahujan Samaj Party, 1984- 2003; Member of Parliament, 1991- 2004), dies of a heart attack at 72
• Oct 9 Paul Hunter, English snooker player (Masters 2001, 02, 04), dies from neuroendocrine tumours at 27
• Oct 9 Raymond Noorda, American co-founder and long time CEO of Novell, dies at 82
• Oct 10 Francis Berry, British poet and academic (Shakespearean scholar), dies at 91
• Oct 10 Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
• Oct 10 Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
• Oct 11 Benito Martínez, Haitan born Cuban who claimed to be the oldest living person at 126 (b. 1880)
• Oct 11 Cory Lidle, American baseball pitcher (b. 1972)
• Oct 11 Howard Kerzner, Chief Executive Officer of Kerzner International (b. 1964)
• Oct 12 Carlo Acutis, English-born Italian Catholic website designer and the 1st millennial saint, dies at 15 [1]
• Oct 12 Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (b. 1919)
• Oct 13 Bob Lassiter 'Mad Dog', American radio personality, dies at 61
• Oct 13 Wang Guangmei, Chinese first lady (b. 1921)
• Oct 14 Freddy Fender [Baldemar Huerta], American rock, country and Tejano singer ("Wasted Days And Wasted Nights"; "Before The Next Teardrop Falls"; Texas Tornados - "A Man Can Cry"), dies of lung cancer at 69
• Oct 14 Gerry Studds, American politician (Rep-D-MA, 1973-97), first openly gay member of US Congress, dies at 69
• Oct 14 Jared Anderson, American heavy metal bassist and vocalist (Morbid Angel; Hate Eternal), dies at 31
• Oct 14 Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (b. 1919)
• Oct 14 Nancy Lynn, American aviator (b. 1956)
• Oct 15 Derek Bond, British actor (Nicholas Nickelby, Armchair Theatre), dies at 86
• Oct 15 Pete Graves [Alexander Walton], American pop and R&B vocalist (The Moonglows - "Blue Velvet"), dies at 70
• Oct 16 Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
• Oct 16 Ross Davidson, British actor (b. 1949)

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