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

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October 2006

26

Kojima Nobuo, 91, Japanese author, pneumonia.

25

Gerrard Haworth, 95, founder of office furniture company Haworth.
Daniel Rolling, 52, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
Robert Rosenberg, 54, Israeli author, cancer.
Gregory Summers, 48, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.

24

Rafael Ramírez Heredia, 67, Mexican writer, lung cancer
Ray Johnson, 72, former CFL and Western Mustangs player and coach.
Jeffrey Lundgren, 56, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio.
Enolia McMillan, 102, American civil rights activist, first female president of the NAACP, natural causes.

23

Bruno Lauzi, 69, Italian singer and composer, Parkinson's disease. (Italian)
Charles Horton, 81, founder of Physicians for Peace, cancer.
Lebo Mathosa, 29, South African singer, car accident.
Mary Murray, 81, Massachusetts Republican representative between 1976 and 2000, cancer.
Todd Skinner, 48, pioneering free climber, climbing accident.
Rein Strikwerda, 76, Dutch doctor and knee injury specialist.

22

Nelson de la Rosa, 38, Dominican actor, "World's Shortest Man" in the 1989 Guinness Book of Records, heart attack.
Masayuki Fujio, 89, former Japanese Minister of Education.
Choe Gyuha, 87, former South Korean president.
Michael Mayne, 77, English clergyman, Dean of Westminster Abbey (1986-1996).
Eric Newby, 86, English travel writer.

16

Niall Andrews, 69, Irish politician, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South (1977-1987), MEP for Leinster (1984-2004), lung cancer.
Ross Davidson, 57, former EastEnders actor, brain tumor.
Richard Duvall, 44, British co-founder of Egg Banking plc and Zopa, cancer.
Martin Flannery, 88, British politician, Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough (1974-1992).
Harold Gardner, 107, WWI veteran, served a single day prior to the November 11 armistice.
Tommy Johnson, 71, session musician best known for his work on the Jaws theme, complications of cancer and kidney failure.
Dr. John Murra, 90, Ukranian-born American anthropologist and Inca scholar.
Valentín Paniagua, 70, former president of Peru, complications from heart surgery.
Lister Sinclair, 85, Canadian playwright and broadcaster.
Ernie Steele, 88, played in two NFL championship games for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Sigmund Strochlitz, 89, Polish Holocaust survivor and co-founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Trebisonda "Ondina" Valla, 90, first Italian female Olympic champion, 80m hurdles, 1936, natural causes.

15

Derek Bond, 86, British actor (Callan, Scott of the Antarctic).
William Bright, 78, American linguist and author, recorder of indigenous North American languages.
Michelle Urry, 66, Canadian cartoons editor for Playboy.

14

Marja Bakker, 59, Dutch-born organizer of the Boston Marathon, only female president of the Boston Athletic Association Running Club.
James Barr, 82, Scottish Hebrew Bible scholar.
Chun Wei Cheung, 34, Dutch rowing cox and silver medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, liver cancer. (Dutch)
Gino Empry, 83, Canadian entertainment publicist and promoter.
Freddy Fender, 69, Mexican-American singer ("Before the Next Teardrop Falls"), lung cancer.
Thomas Hlongwane, former South African football (soccer) player, cancer.
Herbert Leonard, 84, American TV and movie producer (Route 66, Naked City, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin).
Soni Pabla, 26, Punjabi singer, collapsed on stage during concert of a suspected heart attack
Klaas Runia, 80, Dutch Reformed theologian.
Gerry Studds, 69, first openly homosexual U.S. Congressman, Democratic Representative for Massachusetts (1973-1997), pulmonary embolism.

13

Bernard Allen, 69, North Carolina General Assembly member.
Mason Andrews, 87, delivered first test tube baby in the United States; former mayor of Norfolk, Virginia.
Deborah Blumer, 64, Massachusetts State Representative, heart attack.
Mayme Clayton, 83, black history archivist, pancreatic cancer.
Pál Kállai, 73, Hungarian jockey.
Dino Cardinal Monduzzi, 84, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Pontifical Household from 1986-1998.
Dr. S. Peter Rosen, 73, British-American physicist.
Hilda Terry, 92, American cartoonist, creator of comic strip Teena.
Wang Guangmei, 85, wife of late Chinese Communist leader Liu Shaoqi.

12

Todd Bolender, 92, American dancer and choreographer, director of the Kansas City Ballet.
Johnny Callison, 67, American Major League Baseball player, three-time All-Star outfielder with the Phillies.
Hermann Eilts, 84, German-born American diplomat and US ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1965-70).
Dr. Saul Farber, 88, American dean of the New York University Medical School, complications from circulatory problems.
Richard Hunter, 60, Ngarrindjeri elder and South Australian citizen of the year.
Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, Italian film director (The Battle of Algiers).

11

Sir Victor Goodhew, 86, British politician, Conservative MP for St Albans (1959-1983).
Klaus Hiendl, 62, German businessman, injuries from a car crash.
Howard Kerzner, 42, South African resort developer, CEO of Kerzner International Ltd., helicopter crash.
Cory Lidle, 34, American baseball pitcher with the New York Yankees, plane crash.
Benito Martínez, 126?, claimant to the title of world's oldest person.
Sir Robert Megarry, 96, British Judge and Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court (1982-1985).
Jimmy Peters, 84, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens and the Detroit Redwings.
Eddie Pellagrini, 88, American baseball player and coach at Boston College.
Sheikh Raad Mutar Saleh, Mandaean leader in Iraq, assassination.
Norman Salsitz, 86, Polish-born resistance fighter, Holocaust survivor, and author.
Jacques Sternberg, 83, French science fiction and fantastique author, lung cancer. (French)
John Turvey, 61, Canadian youth activist and Order of Canada recipient, mitochondrial myopathy.

10

Norsehah Abu Bakar, 44, Malaysian singer, lung cancer.
Jerry Belson, 68, Emmy-winning American television comedy writer (The Tracey Ullman Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show), prostate cancer.
Francis Berry, 91, English poet and literary critic.
Harold Farb, 83, developer who expanded Houston by more than 30,000 apartments over the course of his career, heart attack. .
Josie Orr, 85, former first lady of Indiana as wife of Gov. Robert D. Orr.
Robert Richenburg, 89, abstract expressionist painter.
Ian Scott, 72, former Attorney-General of Ontario.
Edgar Summerlin, 78, American tenor saxophonist and composer of jazz church music.
Lalit Suri, 59, Indian hotelier and parliamentarian, heart attack.

9

Sedat Alp, 93, first archaeologist in Turkey to specialize in Hittitology. (Turkish)
Haris Charalambous, 21, University of Toledo basketball player.
Jacqueline-Charlotte Dufresnoy (known as Coccinelle), 75, French transsexual singer, stroke. (French)
Reg Freeson, 80, British politician, Minister of State for Housing and Local Government (1974-1979).
Jeff Getty, 49, AIDS activist and first recipient of a cross-species bone marrow transplant, heart failure.
Marek Grechuta, 60, Polish singer, composer and lyricist. (Polish)
Danièle Huillet, 70, French filmmaker, cancer.
Paul Hunter, 27, English snooker player, neuroendocrine tumours.
Dr Nelson Leonard, 90, American bioorganic chemist and chloroquine researcher.
Sheldon Meyer, 80, American historian and editor at Oxford University Press.
Mario Moya Palencia, 73, Mexican politician and diplomat (Interior Minister, 1969-1976), heart attack.
Glenn Myernick, 51, assistant coach of the United States men's national soccer team, heart attack.
Raymond Noorda, 82, American computer executive, former CEO of Novell.
Kanshi Ram, 72, Indian politician, heart attack.
Morris Tarshis, 87, American lawyer, former director of the New York City Bureau of Franchises.

8

Eve Adamson, 68, American theater director, founder of the Jean Cocteau Repertory, daughter of lyricist Harold Adamson.
Ira Harkey, 88, American newspaper editor, winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for anti-segregation editorials in the Chronicle Star.
Pavol Hnilica, 85, Slovak Catholic bishop. (Slovak)
Jack Kirkbride, 83, British cartoonist for the Oldham Chronicle and father of actress Anne Kirkbride.
Yaakov Maltz, 83, former Supreme Court of Israel Justice and State Comptroller, heart attack. (Hebrew)
Ivan Murrell, 63, Major League Baseball player for the Astros and Padres
Mark Porter, 31, New Zealand racing driver, injuries received at the Mount Panorama Circuit.

7

Winifred Bennett, 71, American amateur historian, suggested DNA testing to establish a relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings.
Charlie Bradberry, 24, NASCAR driver, non-racing automobile accident.
Danifel Campilan, 25, Filipino news reporter with 24 Oras, road accident.
Craig Dobbin, 71, Canadian founder of CHC Helicopter, after illness following lung transplant.
Karen Fischer, 30, German journalist, shot dead in Afghanistan.
Julen Goikoetxea, 21, Spanish cyclist, suicide.
Joseph Lynch, 93, Royal Navy sailor who won the George Cross.
Anna Politkovskaya, 48, Russian journalist, shot dead in Moscow.
Peter Rossi, 84, American sociologist who studied homelessness.
Christian Struwe, 38, German journalist, shot dead in Afghanistan.

6

Puck Brouwer, 75, Dutch athlete, silver medalist in the 200m at the 1952 Olympics. (Dutch)
Claude Luter, 83, French jazz clarinetist and bandleader.
Eduardo Mignogna, 66, Argentinian film director. (Spanish)
Buck O'Neil, 94, American baseball player and manager in the Negro leagues.
Timo Sarpaneva, 79, Finnish glassmaker.
Heinz Sielmann, 89, German zoologist
Wilson Tucker, 91, American science fiction writer.

5

Al Antczak, 84, longtime editor of The Tidings, the newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, pneumonia.
Robert Dentith, 29, British radio presenter of "The Unsigned Show" on Kerrang! Radio.
Friedrich Karl Flick, 79, German-Austrian billionaire.
George King, 78, college basketball coach.
Lieutenant General Liao Hansheng, 95, former Deputy Defence Minister of China.
Speedy O. Long, 78, Democratic Representative for Louisiana (1964-1972), cousin of Huey Long.
Jennifer Moss, 61, British actress who played Lucille Hewitt on Coronation Street.
Antonio Peña, 53, promoter of Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, heart attack.
Jackie Rae, 84, Canadian singer, songwriter and entertainer.
Don Thompson, 73, British race walker and 1960 Olympic gold medal winner, aneurysm.
Dick Wagner, 78, American former President of the Cincinnati Reds and Houston Astros, injuries from a 1999 car crash.
Gilbert F. White, 94, American geographer.

4

Nigel Angus, 62, Scottish race horse trainer.
R. W. Apple, Jr., 71, American political journalist and food writer for The New York Times, thoracic cancer.
Tom Bell, 73, British actor (Wish You Were Here, Prime Suspect), after short illness.
Gary Comer, 78, founder of the clothing chain Lands' End, and philanthropist, prostate cancer.
General František Fajtl, 94, Czech WWII fighter pilot, after long illness.
Ralph Griswold, 72, creator of Snobol and Icon programming languages, cancer.
Vic Heyliger, 87, Hall of Fame ice hockey coach of the US national team and at three colleges.
Gene Janson, 72, Chicago-based character actor, heart attack on stage during a performance.
Oskar Pastior, 78, Romanian-born German writer.
Riccardo Pazzaglia, 80, Italian actor, writer and film director. (Italian)
Katarina Tomasevski, 53, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education.

3

Lucilla Andrews, 86, British romantic novelist.
Vice-Admiral Sir John Cox, 77, British admiral who was Commander-in-Chief in the South Atlantic
Gwen Meredith, 98, Australian writer of all 5,795 episodes of the long-running radio serial Blue Hills, after heart trouble.
Peter Norman, 64, Australian athlete and Olympic silver medalist, heart attack.
Danial Shapiro, 48, American dancer and choreographer.