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

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Carlos Alberto Ferreira Braga ("Braguinha"), 99, Brazilian songwriter, multiple organ failure.
Uri Dan, 71, Israeli author and political confidant, cancer.
Charlie Drake, 81, British comedian, actor and singer (My Boomerang Won't Come Back), stroke-related illness.
Kenneth Sivertsen, 45, Norwegian folk singer, comedian and poet, brain trauma. (Norwegian)
Frank Stanton, 98, American CBS President (1946-1971), died in sleep.

23

Wilma Dykeman, 86, American author & journalist, complications after hip fracture.
Carter Gilmore, 80, African-American civil rights activist and politician, cancer.
Norman "Dutch" Mason, 68, Canadian blues musician, complications from diabetes.
Bo Mya, 79, Myanmar rebel leader, complications of heart disease and diabetes.
Robert Stafford, 93, American Governor of Vermont (1959-1961) and U.S. Senator, natural causes.
Ralph Stebbins, 43, American Mega Millions lottery winner of $208 million, heart attack.

22

Peter Bath, 79, British founder of Palmair and owner of Bath Travel, illness.
Sam Chapman, 90, American athlete, Alzheimer's
Ervin Lázár, 70, Hungarian Kossuth Prize winner, writer and storyteller, lung failure. (Hungarian)
Dennis Linde, 63, American songwriter (Burning Love), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Graham May, 54, New Zealand Commonwealth Games gold medal weightlifter, heart condition.
Elena Mukhina, 46, Soviet gymnast, complications of quadriplegia.
Thomas Shoyama, 90, Canadian politician and academic instrumental in establishing Medicare, congestive heart failure and Parkinson's disease.
Galina Ustvolskaya, 87, Russian composer, natural causes.

21

Scobie Breasley, 92, Australian jockey, stroke.
Dee Johnson, 54, ex-wife of Gary E. Johnson the Governor of New Mexico (1995-2003), natural causes.
Ricardo da Costa Oliveira, 30, Brazilian-born Macedonian football player, heart attack.
Saparmurat Niyazov, 66, President of Turkmenistan, cardiac arrest.
Ramon Obusan, 68, National Artist of the Philippines for Dance, cardiac arrest.
Philippa Pearce, 86, British children's author, stroke.
Karl Strauss, 94, German-born brewmaster for Pabst and Karl Strauss Brewing Company, natural causes.
Nelly Vágó, 69, Hungarian costume designer, ovarian cancer. (Hungarian)
Sydney Wooderson, 92, British athlete, kidney failure.

20

Yukio Aoshima, 74, Japanese comedian and Governor of Tokyo (1995-1999), myelodysplastic syndrome.
Anne Rogers Clark, 77, American Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show judge, kidney failure associated with colon cancer.
Tsepo Letlaka, 80, South African PAC activist and cabinet minister, illness.
Ma Ji, 72, Chinese xiangsheng actor, heart attack.
Tadayuki Nakashima, 35, Japanese comedian and member of comedic duo Cunning, pneumonia and complications from leukemia.
Piergiorgio Welby, 60, Italian poet and euthanasia advocate, removal of life support.
Neville Willoughby, 69, Jamaican radio broadcaster, car accident.

19

Jack Burnley, 95, American comic book artist and illustrator, natural causes.
Banglan Khan, Pakistani tribal leader, land mine explosion.
Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani, Taliban commander, airstrike.
Danuta Rinn, 70, Polish singer, cancer. (Polish)

18

Sheik Abdul-Ameer al-Jamri, 67, Bahraini Shiite cleric, heart failure and kidney failure.
Joseph Barbera, 95, American cartoonist and co-founder of Hanna-Barbera Productions, natural causes.
Ruth Bernhard, 101, American photographer, natural causes.
Denis Carter, Baron Carter, 74, British Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords (1997-2002), cancer.
Mike Dickin, 63, British talkSPORT radio presenter, car accident.
Scott Mateer, 46, American Grammy-nominated songwriter and DJ, complications of diabetes and high blood pressure.
Mavor Moore, 87, Canadian writer, actor, radio & TV producer and founder of theatrical institutions, illness.
Daniel Pinkham, 83, American composer, natural causes.
Bertie Reed, 63, South African solo yachtsman, liver cancer.

17

Kyoko Kishida, 76, Japanese actress, respiratory failure caused by brain tumour.
Esko Nikkari, 68, Finnish actor, cancer. (Finnish)
Denis Peyton, 63, British saxophone player for The Dave Clark Five, cancer.
Larry Sherry, 71, pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, MVP of the 1959 World Series, cancer.

16

Luis Bersamin, 62, Philippine congressman representing the province of Abra, shot.
Don Jardine, 66, Canadian professional wrestler, heart attack and leukemia.
Chicho Jesurun, 59, Dutch baseballer and baseball coach from the Netherlands Antilles, heart attack. (Dutch)
Goce Nikolovski, 59, Macedonian singer, suicide.
Taliep Petersen, South African theatre impresario, shot.
Pnina Salzman, 84, Israeli pianist known as the "First Lady of Piano", natural causes.
Cecil Travis, 93, American baseball player, natural causes.
Yehoshua Yogel, 91, leading Zionist rabbi, illness.
Larry Zox, 69, American artist, cancer.

15

Al Beye, 24, Senegal-born basketball player with Montana State University, car accident.
Federico Crescentini, 24, San Marino football player, drowned.
Alessio Ferramosca, 17, Italian football player for Juventus F.C. youth team, drowned.
Frank Johnson, 63, British journalist, editor of The Spectator (1995–1999), cancer.
Tom McManamon, 39, Irish musician with Shane MacGowan and The Popes, liver failure.
Riccardo Neri, 17, Italian football player for Juventus F.C. youth team, drowned.
Clay Regazzoni, 67, Swiss Formula One racing driver (1970–1980), car accident.
Allan Stone, 74, American art dealer, died in sleep.

14

Anton Balasingham, 69, Sri Lankan senior negotiator for LTTE, cancer.
John Bridge, 91, recipient of the George Cross and George Medal, natural causes.
Hallie D'Amore, 64, makeup artist for Forrest Gump, suicide.
Ahmet Ertegun, 83, Turkish-born co-founder of Atlantic Records, head injury from a fall at a Rolling Stones concert.
Mike Evans, 57, American actor best known as Lionel Jefferson on the television series The Jeffersons, throat cancer.
Kate Fleming, 41, American actress and audiobook producer and narrator, drowning.
Joshua Freeman, 42, American real estate developer and part owner of the NHL Washington Capitals, helicopter accident.
John Hamilton, 84, British politician and Leader of Liverpool City Council (1983–1986), lung disease.
Robert Long, 63, Dutch singer, cancer. (Dutch)
Flint Schulhofer, 80, American horse trainer of two Belmont Stakes winners, cancer.
Sivuca, 76, Brazilian accordionist and composer, cancer.
Iraj Zand, 54, Iranian painter and sculptor, cancer.

13

Henry Beachell, 100, American agriculturalist and recipient of the 1996 World Food Prize, complications from health problems.
Richard Carlson, 45, American author (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff), heart attack.
Loyola de Palacio, 56, Spanish Vice-President of the European Commission, cancer.
Ángel Nieves Díaz, 55, Puerto Rican murderer, capital punishment by lethal injection.
Lamar Hunt, 74, American owner of Kansas City Chiefs who coined the term Super Bowl, complications from prostate cancer.
Bernard Kleiman, 78, American general counsel to the United Steelworkers of America, heart attack.
Charles Peter McColough, 84, Canadian CEO of Xerox Corporation, cardiac arrest.
Catherine Pollard, 88, first female Scout leader for the Boy Scouts of America, cancer.
James Williamson (Homesick James), 96, African-American blues musician, natural causes.

12

Paul Arizin, 78, American Basketball Hall of Famer (Philadelphia Warriors), in his sleep.
Peter Boyle, 71, American actor (Young Frankenstein, Everybody Loves Raymond), multiple myeloma.
Kenny Davern, 71, American jazz clarinetist, heart attack.
Cor van der Hart, 78, Dutch footballer, natural causes.
Oscar Klein, 76, Austrian-born jazz trumpeter, heart attack.
Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy, 68, Tamil militant leader in Sri Lankan civil war, illness.
Ellis Rubin, 81, Miami attorney and author, cancer.
Raymond P. Shafer, 89, Governor of Pennsylvania (1967-1971), complications from congestive heart failure.
Alan Shugart, 76, American pioneer of the disk drive and co-founder of Seagate Technology, complications from heart surgery.
Charles Stourton, 26th Baron Mowbray, 83, member of the reformed House of Lords and Conservative Whip, pneumonia.

11

Elizabeth Bolden, 116, oldest verified person in the world at the time of her death, old age.
Bob Bronzan, 87, American football coach (San Jose State University, Philadelphia Eagles), congestive heart failure and kidney failure.
Kenneth Cummins, 106, British veteran of the First World War, natural causes.
Tom Gregory, 79, American television news anchor and announcer, heart disease.
Homer Ledford, 79, bluegrass music legend, guitar and dulcimer luthier, stroke.
Lo Tak Shing, 71, Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, stroke.
J. A. Riggs, Jr., 73, American executive vice president of the New York Times, heart attack.
Walter Ward, 66, lead singer of The Olympics, unspecified illness.

10

Samuel Benedict Goldberg, 106, last World War I veteran in Rhode Island, old age.
Dr. Mario Llerena, 93, Cuban intellectual, author and former Castro supporter turned critic, natural causes.
John Mohawk, 61, Seneca historian and Director of the University at Buffalo Indigenous Studies Program, cancer.
Cardinal Salvatore Pappalardo, 88, Archbishop of Palermo (1970–1996), natural causes.
Augusto Pinochet, 91, ex-president of Chile, complications from heart attack.

9

Alberto D'Aguanno, 42, Italian Mediaset TV sport journalist, complications from illness. (Italian)
Georgia Gibbs, 87, American singer ("Kiss of Fire") known for her work on Your Hit Parade, leukemia.
Ralph Gomberg, 85, former principal oboist at the Boston Symphony, primary lateral sclerosis.
Johnny Hutch, 93, British acrobat and comedian (The Benny Hill Show), natural causes.
Fred Marsden, 66, British drummer for Gerry & the Pacemakers, cancer.
Martin Nodell, 91, American comic book and advertising artist, creator of the Golden Age Green Lantern, natural causes.
Francesco Rosetta, 84, Italian football player, cancer. (Italian)
Tremayne Rodd (3rd Baron Rennell), 71, Scottish rugby player.

8

Angelo Cali, 91, American co-founder of the Cali Realty Corporation, now part of the Mack-Cali Realty Corporation, natural causes.
Sir Colin Figures, 81, head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (1982–1985), natural causes.
Ernie Fladell, 81, founder of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, complications following a heart attack.
Raúl Marciel Pérez, activist for indigenous peoples of Mexico, shot.
Martha Tilton, 91, American jazz and swing singer with Benny Goodman, natural causes.
José Uribe, 47, Dominican baseball shortstop, mostly with the San Francisco Giants (1984–93), car accident.

7

Lyuben Berov, 81, Bulgarian prime minister (1992–94), cancer.
Kevin Berry, 61, Australian gold medal winner in the 200m butterfly at the 1964 Summer Olympics, brain tumour.
Desmond Briscoe, 81, British, sound engineer and founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, natural causes.

Moses Hardy, 113, oldest known man in the United States and last African-American veteran of World War I, natural causes.
J. B. Hunt, Sr., 79, American trucking executive and founder of J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc., head injuries from a fall.
Kim Hyung-chil, 47, South Korean equestrian at the 2006 Asian Games, crushed by falling horse. .
Jeane Kirkpatrick, 80, former American U.N. ambassador, congestive heart failure.
Jay McShann, 90, African-American blues/swing pianist, bandleader and singer. natural causes.
Ben Ruffin, 64, Chair of the UNC Board of Governors, political advisor; heart attack.

6

Khan Akhmedov, 70, Prime Minister of Turkmenistan (1989-1992), heart attack.
Darren "Wiz" Brown, 44, British musician and lead singer of Mega City Four, stroke.
Russell Buchanan, 106, United States World War I veteran, stroke.
Dr. Samuel Devons, 92, British physicist and historian of science at Columbia University, congestive heart failure.
Andy Dill, 39, American gay porn actor and movie producer, meningitis.
Jeffery Ede, 88, British Keeper of Public records, natural causes.
Andra Franklin, 47, American former NFL player with the Miami Dolphins, congestive heart failure.
Leon Mandelbaum, 86, American founder of Mandee and Annie Sez clothing chains, natural causes.
Mavis Pugh, 92, British actress (You Rang M'Lord?), natural causes.
Robert Rosenblum, 79, American art historian, curator, and author, colon cancer.
William Salcer, 82, Czechoslovakian-born inventor and Holocaust survivor, leukemia.

5

Peter Blake, 86, German-born American architect, author, editor, and curator, complications from a respiratory infection.
David Bronstein, 82, Ukrainian-born chess grandmaster and writer, champion of USSR, natural causes.
Eric Cox, 83, Australian rugby league player, referee and administrator, pneumonia and stroke.
Michael Gilden, 44, American actor (NCIS, Return of the Jedi), apparent suicide.
Michael A. Guido, 52, six-term mayor of Dearborn, Michigan and president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, cancer.
Gernot Jurtin, 51, Austrian football player, cancer.
Yvonne Scarlett-Golden, 80, first black female mayor of Daytona Beach, Florida, cancer.
Van Smith, 61, American costume and makeup designer, heart attack.
Shahdan Zahari, 33, Malaysian striker for Pahang FA (1993–1996), complications from paralysis.

4

Sir Peter Gadsden, 77, Lord Mayor of London 1979-80, sudden death.
Joseph Ki-Zerbo, 84, Burkinabé politician, natural causes.
James Kim, 35, American CNET editor, exposure and hypothermia.
Wolfram Kistner, 83, South African theologian and anti-apartheid activist, natural causes.
Ronnie Lippin, 59, American publicist and manager, worked with Eric Clapton, Brian Wilson, and Prince, breast cancer.
Arthur Shimkin, 84, American Grammy Award-winning producer of children's records, bladder cancer.
Len Sutton, 81, American Indianapolis 500 racing driver, cancer.
Ruth Webb, 88, American talent agent, cancer.

3

Eleanor Thomas Elliott, 80, American advocate for women's rights and chair of the board of Barnard College, car accident.
Craig Hinton, 42, British science fiction author, heart attack.
Henry Pearson, 92, American op art painter, natural causes.
Logan Whitehurst, 29, American singer/songwriter (The Velvet Teen), brain cancer.

2

Bob Berry, 80, English test cricket player, natural causes.
Kari Edwards, 52, American poet, artist and gender activist, heart failure.
Kurt Lipstein, 97, German-born British academic, Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Cambridge, natural causes.
Dave Mount, 59, British drummer for 1970s glam rock band Mud, suicide.
Herbie Nayokpuk, 77, Alaskan Native Iditarod dog-sled racer, complications from stroke.
George Tindall, 85, American historian and author, complications of diabetes.
Mariska Veres, 59, Dutch singer of Shocking Blue, hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970 with "Venus", cancer. (Dutch)
Richard Vernon, 53, American operatic bass with the Metropolitan Opera, sudden death.
Kurt Wasserfallen, 59, Swiss politician, member of the Swiss National Council, cancer. , (German)
Dwayne Wilcox, 66, American drag racer during the 1950s and 1960s, renal failure brought on by diabetes.

1

Robert N. Anthony, 90, American Harvard Business School professor, author and United States Department of Defense comptroller, cancer.
Claude Jade, 58, French actress (Baisers Volés, L'Amour en Fuite, Topaz), metastatic eye cancer.
Dr. Herbert Gursky, 76, American astrophysicist for the Naval Research Laboratory, stomach cancer.
Sid Raymond, 97, American character actor and voice of Baby Huey, complications of a stroke.
Ali Khan Samsudin, 48, "Snake King" of Malaysia, venomous snakebite.
Edi Sudrajat, 68, Indonesian defense minister (1993-1998), respiratory failure.
Rosie Lee Tompkins, 70, African-American quiltmaker, cancer.

November 2006

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October 2006

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September 2006

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August 2006

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July 2006

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June 2006

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May 2006

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April 2006

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March 2006

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February 2006

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January 2006

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