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EspañolDEATHS IN JUNE 2006
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Deaths in 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →
The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2006.
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★ Dieter Froese, 68, East Prussian-born artist. [1]
★ Robert Gernhardt, 68, German satirist [2]
★ Edward Hamilton, 89, highly decorated United States Army veteran during World War II, pneumonia. [3]
★ Dr. Harold Olmo, 96, American grape breeder and geneticist. [4]
★ Albert Sherman, 88, publisher of the ''Newport Daily News'', cancer. [5]
★ Richard Streeton, 75, English journalist [6]
★ Ross Tompkins, 68, American ''Tonight Show'' pianist. [7]
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★ Fabián Bielinsky, 47, Argentinean film director, heart attack. [8]
★ Tom Brown, 79, West Texas oilman who founded Brown & Roper. [9]
★ Luis Crisci, 66, Uruguayan Minister of Labour (1982-1983). [10]
★ Mercedes Quezada de Fox, 87, mother of Mexican President Vicente Fox Quezada, respiratory arrest. [11]
★ William Fraser, 100, theology student at Aberdeen University and oldest student in Scotland, pneumonia. [12]
★ Joyce Hatto, 77, classical pianist who recorded more than 100 albums, cancer.[13]
★ Ed Hugus, 82, racing driver, possible winner of the Le Mans 24 Hour race in 1965. [14]
★ Caroline Kearney, 22, Irish Triathlete, collision with a car while on a training cycle ride in Montpellier [15]
★ Stanley Moskowitz, 68, Central Intelligence Agency liaison to Congress, heart attack. [16][17]
★ Wallace Potts, 59, film archivist for the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation, lymphoma. [18]
★ Glen Renfrew, 77, Australian-born former head of Reuters. [19] [20]
★ Lloyd Richards, 87, first Black Broadway director, Tony Award winner, heart failure. [21]
★ Heliodoro Rico, 84, American track and field administrator. [22]
★ Pierre Rinfret, 82, Canadian-born economist and Republican candidate for Governor of New York in 1990. [23] [24]
★ Lev Sandakhchiev, 70 Russian biochemist who helped to end the Soviet bioweapons program, heart disease. [25]
★ Randy Walker, 52, Northwestern University football coach, apparent heart attack [26]
★ F. Mark Wyatt, 86, a Central Intelligence Agency officer, who delivered bags of money to swing the 1948 Italy election. [27][28][29]
★ Gwendolyn Harris Cherry 70,Humanitarian who served on the board of the Englewood Food Pantry in Chicago Il. Survived by 6 Children including 2 Ministers.
28
★ Sedley Alley, 50, American convicted murderer and rapist, executed via lethal injection. [30]
★ Jim Baen, 62, science fiction editor and publisher. [31]
★ Theodore Black, 77, American executive, former CEO of Ingersoll Rand. [32]
★ Walter Cox, 87, former president of Clemson University. [33]
★ Boban Giankovic, 43, Serbian basketball player in Greece, heart attack. [34]
★ Theodore Levitt, 81, German-born former editor of the ''Harvard Business Review'' and author of books on marketing, coined the term globalization. [35] [36]
★ Vance Rudy Martin, 64, founder and former CEO of The Lending Tree, cancer. [37]
★ Herman Merinoff, 77, American liquor distributor, co-chair of the Charmer-Sunbelt Group. [38]
★ Mahmoud Mestiri, 77, former foreign minister of Tunisia [39]
★ George Page, 71, creator and narrator of the PBS series ''Nature''. [40]
★ Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, 87, English barrister, politician and author. [41]
★ Fernando Sanchez, 70, Belgian-born fashion designer. [42]
★ Mickey Sims, 51, former player with the Cleveland Browns, heart attack. [43]
★ Wing Commander George Unwin, 93, Battle of Britain ace. [44]
★ Lennie Weinrib, 71, American actor. [45]
★ Jean Henri Courcoul, 87, French Resistance fighter and WWII RAF heavy bomber pilot, heart attack.
27
★ Eileen Barton, 76, American singer, actress, ovarian cancer [46]
★ Robert Carrier, 82, American celebrity chef.[47]
★ J. Robert Elliott, 96, US Federal District Judge who overturned the conviction of Lt. William Calley. [48]
★ Michael Fanfalone, 57, aviation union leader, complications of Crohn's disease. [49]
★ Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, 46, Mexican serial killer, execution via lethal injection. [50]
★ Virginia Rosenbaum, 63, corporate research analyst and widow of David Rosenbaum, cancer. [51]
★ Don Wright, 97, Canadian composer and lyricist. [52]
26
★ Bob Allan, 54, former Chief Executive of the Glasgow Housing Association. [53]
★ Bear JJ1 (Bruno the Bear), the first wild bear in Germany in 170 years, shot to death. [54]
★ Al Brounstein, 86, Canadian-born American Napa Valley vintner, Parkinson's disease. [55]
★ Joe Carter, 57. gospel singer who took his "A Song in the Night" show to five continents playing 300 shows in five continents. [56]
★ Donald Halperin, 60, former New York state senator. [57]
★ Johnny Jenkins, 67, American blues guitarist who who influenced Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix, stroke. [58] [59]
★ Marlon Kalkai, 33, former professional wrestler best known as Tiger Kahn in Stampede Wrestling, heart failure
★ Lieutenant General Parami Kulatunga, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lankan Army, bomb blast. [60]
★ Frederick Mayer, 84, educational philosopher, creativity expert, author of "History of Educational Thought".
★ Marion Mingins,53, the first female chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II, and pioneer of women's ministry in the Church of England.
★ Eric Rofes, 51, American author and AIDS educator, heart attack. [61]
★ Dr. Joseph Schildkraut, 72, American psychiatrist at Harvard University. [62]
★ Abbye Stockton, 88, pioneering American woman weightlifter and bodybuilder, Alzheimer's disease. [63] [64]
★ Stephen Tiger, 57, member of Native American band Tiger Tiger who performed with Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, recipient of a Native American Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award, head injury. [65]
★ Stan Torgerson, 82, radio announcer for Ole Miss football and basketball games. [66]
★ Jeff Winkless, 65, Los Angeles voice actor, brain tumor
25
★ Elkan Allan, 83, created Ready Steady Go! and developed the first television listings for the UK in the ''Sunday Times''. [67]
★ Eliyahu Asheri, 18, Israeli civilian kidnapped and murdered by militants in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
★ Charles Barrow, 84, former justice of the Texas Supreme Court. [68]
★ B. D. Nag Chowdhury, 89, Indian nuclear scientist, cerebral haemorrhage. [69]
★ George Whitaker Clarke, 100, Washington state politician. [70]
★ Richard DeVore, 73, Colorado sculptor, lung cancer. [71]
★ Harry Elliot, 101, former professional wrestling promoter, Natural Causes [72]
★ Alexis Giannoulias, 69, founder of the Broadway Bank in Chicago and father of Alexi Giannoulias a Democrat politician, heart attack. [73]
★ Kenneth Griffith, 84, Welsh actor and documentary maker, Parkinson's disease. [74]
★ Akbar Hossain, 65, Bangladeshi Minister for Shipping and hero of 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, heart attack [75]
★ Dr. Irving Kaplansky, 89, American mathematician at the University of Chicago. [76] [77]
★ Dibya Khaling, 56, lyricist and composer of Nepali music responsible for 1,000 songs, cardiac arrest. [78]
★ Arif Mardin, 74, Turkish-American Grammy Award winning music producer, pancreatic cancer. [79] [80]
★ Sophie Maslow, 95, American choreographer. [81]
★ Melvin Moss, 83, American anatomist and former dean of Columbia University's dental school. [82]
★ Gad Navon, 84, Former Chief Israeli Military Rabbi, cancer. [83]
★ Jaap Penraat, 88, Dutch architect and member of Dutch resistance in World War II. [84]
★ Michael Ruane, 78, Massachusetts legislator 1975-2005, cancer. [85]
★ Seema Aissen Weatherwax, 100, Ukrainian photographer
★ Roberta Weston, 118?, claimed to be the world's oldest woman but no documentary proof of claim. [86]
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★ John Conger, 85, psychologist and former dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. [87]
★ Denice Denton, 46, chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, suicide. [88]
★ Ben Garry, 50, played NFL for the Baltimore Colts, car crash. [89]
★ Jeffrey Harbers, 54, Microsoft executive who worked on developing many software programs including Microsoft Office, plane crash. [90]
★ Tichaona Jokonya, 67, Information & Publicity Minister in Zimbabwe, cardiac arrest. [91]
★ Ígor Medio, 34, and Carlos Redondo, 40, members of Felpeyu folk band, from Asturias, Spain, car accident. [92]
★ John F. Oates, 71, Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and Classics at Duke University and one of America's leading papyrologists. [93]
★ Patsy Ramsey, 49, mother of the late JonBenét Ramsey, ovarian cancer. [94], [95]
★ Lyle Stuart, 83, American journalist and publisher. [96]
★ Gerald Tomlinson, 73, mystery and baseball writer. [97]
★ Tom Triplett, 71, Savannah, Georgia politician, former Georgia Representative. [98]
★ Ric Weiland, 53, Microsoft pioneer, developed BASIC, COBOL and Microsoft Works, suicide. [99]
★ David Owen, 38, Topeka Kansas homeless advocate, lobbyist, asphyxiated [100]
23
★ Martin Adler, 47, Swedish journalist. Shot by unknown assailant in Mogadishu, Somalia. [101]
★ John William Wentworth Butters, 80, Australian energy pioneer and son of Sir John Butters. [102]
★ Harriet, 176, Galápagos tortoise believed to be the oldest animal in the world and allegedly owned by Charles Darwin, heart failure. [103]
★ Grady Johnson, 66, former WWF wrestler known as "Crazy" Luke Graham; heart failure. [104]
★ Budhi Kunderan, 66, former India wicketkeeper/batsman, lung cancer. [105]
★ Aaron Spelling, 83, American television producer ''(Charlie's Angels, Starsky and Hutch,'' ''Beverly Hills 90210''), complications of stroke. [106]
22
★ Heinz Ansbacher, 101, German-born psychologist and expert in the work of Alfred Adler. [107]
★ Anna Castelli Ferrieri, 87, Italian architect and designer. [108]
★ Alfred Hopkins Jr, 80, Mayor of Annapolis 1989-1997. [109]
★ Moose, 16, canine star of U.S. sit-com ''Frasier,'' played the character Eddie, "Skip" on film "My Dog Skip". [110]
★ Pinuccia Nava, 86, Italian actress of the 1940s and 1950s on stage (the "Nava Sisters"), screen and TV (clown "Scaramacai"). [111]
★ Chanel Petro Nixon, 16, Student, Murder victim in Brooklyn, New York.
21
★ Theo Bell, 52, National Football League receiver with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, kidney disease and scleroderma. [112]
★ Vern Leroy Bullough, 77, medical historian known for his history of nursing, cancer. [113]
★ Monsignor Denis Faul, 73, former chaplain at the Maze Prison, outspoken critic of The Troubles and a key figure in attempts to end the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike in Northern Ireland, cancer. [114]
★ Jacques Lanzmann, 79, French author, editor and songwriter. [115]
★ Khamis al-Obeidi, 39, defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein, assassinated. [116]
★ David Walton, 43, member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee [117]
★ Jonathan Wordsworth, 73, scholar of Romanticism and chair of the Wordsworth Trust. [118]
20
★ Ken Browne, 72, New Zealand steeplechase jockey and trainer. [119]
★ Bill Daniel, 90, former Governor of Guam. [120]
★ Evelyn Dubrow, 95, US women and labor advocate awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999. [121]
★ Billy Johnson, 87, former New York Yankee and All-Star third baseman, cause not given. [122]
★ E. Pierce Marshall, 67, son of J. Howard Marshall and Anna Nicole Smith's stepson and plaintiff in their inheritance feud, aggressive infection. [123]
★ Jerome Martin (aka Redd Angel), 29, South African singer, car wreck. [124]
★ Lamont Reese, 28, American convicted murderer, executed. [125]
★ Charles H. Sawyer, 91, birth control researcher, Alzheimer's disease. [126]
★ William Shurcliff, 97, physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb. [127]
★ Claydes Charles Smith, 57, co-founder and lead guitarist of Kool and the Gang. [128]
★ Vincent Usolor, former Nigerian Senator, died in his sleep. [129]
19
★ Hugh Baird, 76, footballer for Leeds United, Aberdeen, Airdrieonians and Scotland. [130]
★ Myldred Jones, 96, Californian social worker who founded youth shelter in Los Alamitos, California and helped to launch other youth services. [131]
★ Priit Kolbre, 50, Estonian diplomat [132]
★ Duane Roland, 53, guitarist and a founder of rock band Molly Hatchet. [133]
★ Howard Shanet, 87, US conductor and composer. [134]
★ István 'Joni' Szulovszky, 55, Hungarian musician, founding member of A.E. Bizottság. [135] [Hungarian]
★ Melvin Watson, 98, American Baptist minister who trained Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders, complications from surgery [136]
★ Arthur Yap (Singapore Poet and Artist),64, Lecturer, English Department, University of Singapore; cancer of the throat.
18
★ Luke Belton, 87, Irish politician. [137]
★ Des Colquhoun, 75, former editor-in-chief and columnist for the ''The Adelaide Advertiser'', died in his sleep. [138]
★ Nathaniel Neiman Craley, Jr., 78, former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives (1965-67) from Pennsylvania.
★ Jesus Fuertes, 68, Spanish painter and protege of Pablo Picasso, heart attack. [139]
★ Chris and Cru Kahui, 3-months, New Zealand child homicide victims.
★ Gică Petrescu, 91, Romanian singer. [140]
★ Donald Reilly, 72, American cartoonist (''The New Yorker''), cancer. [141] [142]
★ René Renou, 54, French vintner. [143]
★ Vincent Sherman, 99, American film director (''Mr. Skeffington'', ''The Young Philadelphians''), natural causes. [144][145]
★ Richard Stahl, 74, American comedy actor, Parkinson's disease. [146][147]
★ Madeleine St John, 64, Australian novelist who wrote a book shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997, emphysema. [148]
★ Arthur Wood, 93, executive at Sears, Roebuck & Company responsible for building Sears Tower, complications of pneumonia. [149]
17
★ Norma Becker, 76, American anti-war activist, former chair of the War Resisters League. [150]
★ Cláudio Besserman Vianna, (a.k.a. Bussunda), 43, Brazilian comedian, member of Casseta & Planeta, heart attack [151]
★ Arthur Franz, 86, American character actor (''Sands of Iwo Jima'', ''Invaders from Mars''). Emphysema and heart disease. [152][153]
★ Mikhail Lapshin, 71, Russian politician, leader of the Agrarian Party and former president of the Altai Republic (2002-2006), cause unknown. [154]
★ Bill Lamb, 76, American public television executive, co-founder of WNET and former chief of KCET. [155]
★ Charles Older, 88, Los Angeles Superior Court judge who presided over the Charles Manson trial, complications of a fall. [156][157]
★ Abdul-Khalim Saydullayev, 38 or 39, Chechen separatist rebel leader. [158]
★ Julian Slade, 76, English composer and lyricist of "Salad Days", cancer. [159]
★ Bob Weaver, 77, Miami, Florida-based weatherman known as "Weaver the Weatherman" on WTVJ, cancer. [160]
★ William Yallup Sr, 79, Yakama Nation elder. [161]
16
★ Jimmy Allison, 77, Scottish unionist and Scottish organiser for the Labour Party between 1977 and 1990. [162] [163]
★ Irving Berk, 100, Romania-born American founder of Berk Trade and Business School. [164]
★ Roland Boyes, 69, Former Labour politician and photographer. Alzheimer's disease. [165]
★ Barbara Epstein, 76, co-founder of the ''New York Review of Books'', lung cancer. [166]
★ Robert Hatch, 75, American public relations executive for Children's Television Workshop and the Peace Corps. [167]
★ Tsuyoshi Kakefuda, 77, cancer researcher, liver disease. [168]
★ Arthur Malvin, 83, Emmy award winning composer and lyricist, after a long illness. [169]
★ Robert W. Mann, 81, American mechanical engineer and designer. [170]
★ Scott Manning, 48, builder and pilot of the world's smallest jet, crash landing. [171]
★ Igor Śmiałowski, 88, Polish actor, [172]
★ Judy Wolpe, 62, cabinet member in two states and wife of former U.S. representative Howard Wolpe, drowning. [173] [174]
15
★ Betty Curtis, 70, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival in 1961 with Luciano Tajoli. [175]
★ Rabi Das, 34, leader of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal, shot dead by suspected Maoists. [176]
★ Raymond Devos, 83, French humorist. [177]
★ Ján Langoš, 59, Slovak politician, head of the Nation's Memory Institute of Slovakia [178] (Slovak)
★ Jabu Sithole, 34, Zulu weatherman on the South African Broadcasting Corporation, AIDS. [179]
★ Grand Rabbi Israel Dan Taub, 78, Modzitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak, Israel. [180]
14
★ Samuel Ackerman, 58, Chairman and CEO of Panacos Pharmaceuticals, heart attack. [181]
★ Josiah Beeman, 70, former US ambassador to New Zealand and Western Samoa, campaign manager for Jerry Brown, kidney failure.
★ Monty Berman, 94, British B-movie producer. [182]
★ H. Monroe Browne, 89, former US ambassador to New Zealand. [183]
★ Khurshid Zahan Hoque, 69, Bangladesh's Minister for Women and Children, cirrhosis of the liver. [184]
★ Surinder Kaur, 77, Punjabi folk and classical singer known as the "nightingale of Punjab". [185]
★ Craig Morris, 66, American pre-Columbian archaeologist at the American Museum of Natural History. [186]
★ Jean Roba, 75, Belgian comics writer [187]
★ Ndabezinhle Sigogo, Zimbabwean novelist and poet. [188]
★ Irving Sunshine, 90, leader in forensic toxicology, multiple myeloma. [189]
★ Klaas Verboom, 58, Canadian artist, liver cancer. [190]
13
★ Roy Clarke, 79, convicted sex attacker who abused children over a 60 year period, natural causes.[191]
★ Freddie Gorman, 77, US songwriter. [192]
★ Patricia Guiver, 76, animal welfare advocate and mystery novelist, complications of heart surgery. [193]
★ Charles Haughey, 80, former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, prostate cancer. [194]
★ Hiroyuki Iwaki, 73, Japanese conductor, congestive heart failure. [195]
★ Luis Jiménez, 65, American sculptor, crushed by a statue. [196]
★ Burke Riley, 92, American lawyer and politician, Alzheimer's disease. [197]
★ Dennis Shepherd, 79, South African Olympic boxer. [198]
12
★ Anna Lee Aldred, 85, American jockey and first woman in US to receive a jockey's licence, member of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. [199] [200]
★ Andrew William "Nicky" Barr, 90, Australian rugby union player and World War II fighter pilot [201]
★ Chakufwa Chihana, 67, veteran Malawi opposition figure who ran unsuccessfully for President losing to Bakili Muluzi, brain tumour. [202]
★ Michael Dornheim, 51, award-winning journalist with ''Aviation Week'', car crash. [203]
★ Michael Fajans, 58, American painter, motorcycle accident. [204] [205]
★ Wes Hill, 76, Niagara River expert. [206]
★ Clifford Hocking, 74, Australian entrepreneur [207]
★ György Ligeti, 83, influential Hungarian composer. [208]
★ José Leite Lopes, 87, Brazilian physicist. [209]
★ Evan Settle, 93, former University of Kentucky basketballer. [210]
★ Frank Streeter, 88, American philanthropist and book collector. [211]
★ Mel Streeter, 75, architect and University of Oregon basketball player, amyloidosis. [212]
★ Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, 82, billionaire Canadian media mogul and art collector. Possible heart attack. [213]
★ Nijiro Tokuda, 111, oldest man in Japan [214]
★ Paul Xanthos, 85, tennis coach at Pierce College for three decades winning 23 Conference titles, died in his sleep. [215]
11
★ Michael Bartosh, 28, Mac OS X Server expert, injuries from a fall. [216]
★ James Cameron, 92, founder of America's Black Holocaust Museum, lymphoma. [217]
★ Pierre Clerdent, 97, Belgian politician (Liège), and holder of the Grand-Croix de la Légion d'honneur. [218]
★ Neroli Fairhall, 61, New Zealand paraplegic archer and Olympic competitor. [219]
★ Rolande Falcinelli, 86, French organist and composer.
★ Tim Hildebrandt, 67, American artist. Complications of diabetes. [220]
★ William Hundley, 80, American lawyer. [221]
★ Hugh Latimer, 93, English actor and toy maker. [222]
★ Mike Quarry, 55, light heavyweight boxer who challenged Bob Foster for the title, pugilistic dementia. [223]
★ Major Bruce Shand, 89, father of Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall, and father-in-law of Charles, Prince of Wales, cancer. [224]
★ Daniel Steiner, 72, American president of the New England Conservatory, lung disease. [225] [226]
★ John Udeh, 50, prolific writer on development issues and former Federal Commissioner representing Enugu State 1999-2003. [227]
★ George Washington, 76, American boxing trainer. [228]
10
★ Qadi Abdul Karim Abdullah Al-Arashi, 72, former President of North Yemen. 2
★ Hubertus Czernin, 50, Austrian journalist who helped return paintings looted by the Nazis. Mastocytosis.[229] [230]
★ Moe Drabowsky, 70, Polish-born American Major League Baseball player, multiple myeloma. [231]
★ German Goldenshteyn, 71, Bessarabian-born clarinetist and klezmer musician. [232]
★ Wulff-Dieter Heintz, 76, German astronomer at Swarthmore College. [233]
★ Kenneth Jack, 81, Australian artist. [234]
★ Charles Johnson, 96, Negro League baseballer for the Chicago American Giants, complications of prostate cancer. [235]
★ Philip Merrill, 72, publisher and diplomat, suicide. [236]
★ Ruddy Thomas, 54, Jamaican singer, heart attack. [237]
9
★ Kinga Choszcz aka "Freespirit", Polish author (''Led By Destiny: Hitchhiking Around the World''), cerebral malaria. [238]
★ Drafi Deutscher, 60, German singer. ]
★ Michael Forrestall, 73, Canadian senator, died following hospitalization for breathing problems. [239]
★ Patricia Janus, 74, American poet, heart attack brought on by liver cancer.
★ Gloria Jones, 78, American socialite, widow of James Jones and mother of Kaylie Jones. [240]
★ Mary Lutz, 55, director of competitive riding for the physically challenged at the United States Equestrian Federation. [241]
★ Enzo Siciliano, 72, Italian writer, diabetes mellitus. [242]
★ Vern Williams, 76, Bluegrass mandolin player and singer. [243]
8
★ Thomas G. Arthur, 84, caterer who developed the Dodger Dog, heart attack. [244] [245]
★ Will Baxter, 99, first professor of accounting in the UK. [246]
★ Audrey Campbell, 76, actress best known for playing "Olga" in an infamous sexploitation film trilogy, undisclosed causes [247]
★ Jake Copass, 86, American cowboy poet, leukemia. [248]
★ Robert Donner, 75, American character actor probably best known for playing Exidor on ''Mork and Mindy'', aneurysm. [249]
★ Jack Jackson (''nom de plume'' Jaxon), 65, American comic book artist and co-founder of Rip Off Press. [250]
★ Mykola Kolessa, 102, Ukrainian composer and conductor. [251]
★ Abouna Matta El Meskeen, 87, Spiritual Father of St. Macarius' Monastery in the Wilderness of Scetis, Egypt. [252]
★ Mary Martin McLaughlin, 87, American scholar of the Middle Ages. [253]
★ John C. Roberts, 72, founder of Australian construction company Multiplex. Complications of diabetes. [254]
★ Jamal Abu Samhadana, leader of PA / Hamas forces in Gaza Strip and PRC. Killed by Israeli air strike. [255]
★ Talcott Seelye, 84, former United States ambassador to Tunisia and Syria. [256]
★ Sir Peter Smithers, 92, British politician, MP for Winchester and Secretary General of the Council of Europe. [257]
7
★ Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, 39, leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military strike. [258]
★ Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman, spiritual adviser for Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military strike. [259]
★ Betty Beale, 94, Washington, D.C. society columnist. [260]
★ Carl Dengler, 91, blind Rochester, New York bandleader and percussionist. [261]
★ Joseph Dorfman, 65, Russian-Israeli composer of new music and a Shostakovich scholar.[262]
★ Dr. Morton Kligerman, 88, American cancer researcher and professor of oncology and radiology. [263]
★ Terry McCann, 74, Olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling and helped found USA Wrestling, and retired Executive Director of Toastmasters International, cancer (see [264]).
★ Scott Palmer, 38, bassist for the reggae band John Brown's Body, cancer of the gall bladder. [265]
★ Ingo Preminger, 95, Hollywood talent agent and producer (''M
★ A
★ S
★ H''), brother of Otto Preminger. [266] [267]
★ Louis B. Sohn, 92, Lviv-born scholar of international law, helped draft the UN Charter. [268]
★ John Tenta (aka Earthquake), 42, Canadian professional wrestler for the World Wrestling Federation, bladder cancer. [269]
6
★ Professor Leslie Alcock, 81, pioneer of Dark Age archaeology, led the team that excavated Cadbury Castle. [270]
★ Scobey Hartley, 74, Alberta oilman, heart attack [271][272]
★ Frank Lanza, 74, Chairman and CEO of L-3 Communications following surgery. [273]
★ Arnold Newman, 88, American photographer who pioneered "environmental portraiture". [274] [275].
★ Reathel Odum, 97, White House personal secretary to Bess Truman. [276]
★ Billy Preston, 59, American musician ("You Are So Beautiful", "Nothing from Nothing") known for his work with the Beatles, malignant hypertension leading to kidney failure. [277]
★ Hilton Ruiz, 54, American jazz pianist, injuries from a fall. [278] [279]
★ Léon Weil, 109, French World War I veteran. [280]
5
★ Ray Cale, 83, Dual international for Wales in rugby union and rugby league. [281] [282]
★ Frederick Franck, 97, Dutch artist, author, and dentist. [283]
★ Eric Gregg, 55, American former Major League Baseball umpire, stroke. [284] [285][286]
★ Wayne Hage, 69, American cattle rancher who sued the US National Forest Service over grazing rights. [287]
★ Caleb Hammond, 90, American president of C. S. Hammond & Company mapmakers. [288]
★ Carlene Lewis, 51, American lawyer who sued Merck over the drug Vioxx. [289]
★ Henri Magne, 53, French rally co-driver (navigator) [290] [291]
★ Jorge Melendez, unknown age, involved in professional wrestling, committed suicide
★ Robert Ross, 86, leader of the Muscular Dystrophy Association for 44 years and persuaded Jerry Lewis to undertake a yearly telethon to raise money for muscular dystrophy, complications of broken hip. [292]
★ Elizabeth Fretwell, 85, Australian opera singer best known for her performances with the Sadler's Wells company. [293]
4
★ Alec Bregonzi, 76, British actor [294]
★ Bill Fleming, 92, former MLB pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs [295]
★ Peter Greenwell, 76, British composer and pianist known for his work with Noel Coward who later developed a tribute show described by Alan Jay Lerner as "the best Noel Coward since Noel Coward.[296]
★ Raul Indipwo, 72, Portuguese singer, member of Duo Ouro Negro band, born in Angola, cancer [297]
★ Ron Jones, 41, former Major League Baseball player, brain hemorrhage [298]
★ Richard Kapp, 69, American conductor and founder of the Philharmonia Virtuosi. [299]
★ Anthony Marreco, 90, junior British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials and founding member of Amnesty International. [300]
★ Eric Molobi, 58, South African anti-apartheid activist and businessman, lung cancer. [301]
★ William M. Steger, 85, United States district court judge and Republican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1960. [302]
★ Robert Taylor, 68, former New York Giants defensive end who played in the 1963 NFL championship game, complications following surgery for colon cancer. [303]
3
★ Dick Anderson, 73, scuba diver. [304]
★ Leo Clarke, 82, Roman Catholic Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia, 1976-1995. [305]
★ William Dimitr Jr., 76, Rhode Island Superior Court judge, cancer. [306]
★ Brian Duke, 79, tropical disease expert who helped to save millions from river blindness. [307]
★ Johnny Grande, 76, pianist, member of Bill Haley's backing band, The Comets. Complications arising from cancer. [308]
★ George Kashdan, 78, American comic book writer and editor for DC Comics. [309]
★ Janet Sandell, 70, South African social activist, ovarian cancer. [310]
★ Doug Serrurier, 85, former Grand Prix racing driver and constructor. [311]
★ Prudence Watson, Canadian lawyer, brain tumor. [312]
★ Ni Wen-ya, 105, former President of the Legislative Yuan. [313]
★ Robin Williams Jr., 91, American sociologist and former president of the American Sociological Association. [314]
2
★ Sol Cantor, 95, American discount store pioneer. [315]
★ Ronald Cass, 83, British film score composer.
★ Jennifer Eley, 44, prize-winning American classical concert pianist. [316]
★ Barbara Furrer Goodman, 74, American educator, former chair of the board of trustees of the Teachers College at Columbia University. [317]
★ Bernard Loomis, 82, American toymaker responsible for Strawberry Shortcake and ''Star Wars'' action figures, heart disease. [318]
★ Vivek Maitra, Indian politician, possible foul play. [319]
★ Leon Pownall, 63, Canadian actor, cancer. [320]
★ Frank Spencer, 87, FBI agent who investigated the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. [321]
★ Vince Welnick, 55, member of The Grateful Dead, suicide. [322]
★ Edward Yates, 87, director of ''American Bandstand'' (1952–1969). [323]
★ Vyacheslav Klykov, 66, Russian sculptor and nationalist politician.[324]
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★ Perry Bass, 91, Texas oilman and philanthropist. [325]
★ Dr. Charles Brush III, 83, American archaeologist and former president of the Explorer's Club. [326]
★ Arthur Espenet Carpenter, 86, American furniture craftsman. [327]
★ Shokichi Iyanaga, 100, influential Japanese mathematician [328]
★ Rocío Jurado, 61, Spanish singer and actress, pancreatic cancer. [329]
★ Allan Prior, 84, British television scriptwriter (''Z Cars'', ''Howard's Way'', ''The Charmer''), father of folk singer Maddy Prior. [330]
★ Calvin Pullins, ''Prince'', 74, US-wrestler
★ Abdul Latif Sharif. 59, Egyptian, suspect in the femicides in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, officially of natural causes, rumored poisoning.
★ Claude Terrail, 88, owner of the restaurant ''La Tour d'Argent''. [331]
★ William D. Winn, 59, professor of education at the University of Washington. [332]
Deaths in 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →
The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2006.
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★ Dieter Froese, 68, East Prussian-born artist. [1]
★ Robert Gernhardt, 68, German satirist [2]
★ Edward Hamilton, 89, highly decorated United States Army veteran during World War II, pneumonia. [3]
★ Dr. Harold Olmo, 96, American grape breeder and geneticist. [4]
★ Albert Sherman, 88, publisher of the ''Newport Daily News'', cancer. [5]
★ Richard Streeton, 75, English journalist [6]
★ Ross Tompkins, 68, American ''Tonight Show'' pianist. [7]
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★ Fabián Bielinsky, 47, Argentinean film director, heart attack. [8]
★ Tom Brown, 79, West Texas oilman who founded Brown & Roper. [9]
★ Luis Crisci, 66, Uruguayan Minister of Labour (1982-1983). [10]
★ Mercedes Quezada de Fox, 87, mother of Mexican President Vicente Fox Quezada, respiratory arrest. [11]
★ William Fraser, 100, theology student at Aberdeen University and oldest student in Scotland, pneumonia. [12]
★ Joyce Hatto, 77, classical pianist who recorded more than 100 albums, cancer.[13]
★ Ed Hugus, 82, racing driver, possible winner of the Le Mans 24 Hour race in 1965. [14]
★ Caroline Kearney, 22, Irish Triathlete, collision with a car while on a training cycle ride in Montpellier [15]
★ Stanley Moskowitz, 68, Central Intelligence Agency liaison to Congress, heart attack. [16][17]
★ Wallace Potts, 59, film archivist for the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation, lymphoma. [18]
★ Glen Renfrew, 77, Australian-born former head of Reuters. [19] [20]
★ Lloyd Richards, 87, first Black Broadway director, Tony Award winner, heart failure. [21]
★ Heliodoro Rico, 84, American track and field administrator. [22]
★ Pierre Rinfret, 82, Canadian-born economist and Republican candidate for Governor of New York in 1990. [23] [24]
★ Lev Sandakhchiev, 70 Russian biochemist who helped to end the Soviet bioweapons program, heart disease. [25]
★ Randy Walker, 52, Northwestern University football coach, apparent heart attack [26]
★ F. Mark Wyatt, 86, a Central Intelligence Agency officer, who delivered bags of money to swing the 1948 Italy election. [27][28][29]
★ Gwendolyn Harris Cherry 70,Humanitarian who served on the board of the Englewood Food Pantry in Chicago Il. Survived by 6 Children including 2 Ministers.
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★ Sedley Alley, 50, American convicted murderer and rapist, executed via lethal injection. [30]
★ Jim Baen, 62, science fiction editor and publisher. [31]
★ Theodore Black, 77, American executive, former CEO of Ingersoll Rand. [32]
★ Walter Cox, 87, former president of Clemson University. [33]
★ Boban Giankovic, 43, Serbian basketball player in Greece, heart attack. [34]
★ Theodore Levitt, 81, German-born former editor of the ''Harvard Business Review'' and author of books on marketing, coined the term globalization. [35] [36]
★ Vance Rudy Martin, 64, founder and former CEO of The Lending Tree, cancer. [37]
★ Herman Merinoff, 77, American liquor distributor, co-chair of the Charmer-Sunbelt Group. [38]
★ Mahmoud Mestiri, 77, former foreign minister of Tunisia [39]
★ George Page, 71, creator and narrator of the PBS series ''Nature''. [40]
★ Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, 87, English barrister, politician and author. [41]
★ Fernando Sanchez, 70, Belgian-born fashion designer. [42]
★ Mickey Sims, 51, former player with the Cleveland Browns, heart attack. [43]
★ Wing Commander George Unwin, 93, Battle of Britain ace. [44]
★ Lennie Weinrib, 71, American actor. [45]
★ Jean Henri Courcoul, 87, French Resistance fighter and WWII RAF heavy bomber pilot, heart attack.
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★ Eileen Barton, 76, American singer, actress, ovarian cancer [46]
★ Robert Carrier, 82, American celebrity chef.[47]
★ J. Robert Elliott, 96, US Federal District Judge who overturned the conviction of Lt. William Calley. [48]
★ Michael Fanfalone, 57, aviation union leader, complications of Crohn's disease. [49]
★ Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, 46, Mexican serial killer, execution via lethal injection. [50]
★ Virginia Rosenbaum, 63, corporate research analyst and widow of David Rosenbaum, cancer. [51]
★ Don Wright, 97, Canadian composer and lyricist. [52]
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★ Bob Allan, 54, former Chief Executive of the Glasgow Housing Association. [53]
★ Bear JJ1 (Bruno the Bear), the first wild bear in Germany in 170 years, shot to death. [54]
★ Al Brounstein, 86, Canadian-born American Napa Valley vintner, Parkinson's disease. [55]
★ Joe Carter, 57. gospel singer who took his "A Song in the Night" show to five continents playing 300 shows in five continents. [56]
★ Donald Halperin, 60, former New York state senator. [57]
★ Johnny Jenkins, 67, American blues guitarist who who influenced Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix, stroke. [58] [59]
★ Marlon Kalkai, 33, former professional wrestler best known as Tiger Kahn in Stampede Wrestling, heart failure
★ Lieutenant General Parami Kulatunga, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lankan Army, bomb blast. [60]
★ Frederick Mayer, 84, educational philosopher, creativity expert, author of "History of Educational Thought".
★ Marion Mingins,53, the first female chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II, and pioneer of women's ministry in the Church of England.
★ Eric Rofes, 51, American author and AIDS educator, heart attack. [61]
★ Dr. Joseph Schildkraut, 72, American psychiatrist at Harvard University. [62]
★ Abbye Stockton, 88, pioneering American woman weightlifter and bodybuilder, Alzheimer's disease. [63] [64]
★ Stephen Tiger, 57, member of Native American band Tiger Tiger who performed with Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, recipient of a Native American Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award, head injury. [65]
★ Stan Torgerson, 82, radio announcer for Ole Miss football and basketball games. [66]
★ Jeff Winkless, 65, Los Angeles voice actor, brain tumor
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★ Elkan Allan, 83, created Ready Steady Go! and developed the first television listings for the UK in the ''Sunday Times''. [67]
★ Eliyahu Asheri, 18, Israeli civilian kidnapped and murdered by militants in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
★ Charles Barrow, 84, former justice of the Texas Supreme Court. [68]
★ B. D. Nag Chowdhury, 89, Indian nuclear scientist, cerebral haemorrhage. [69]
★ George Whitaker Clarke, 100, Washington state politician. [70]
★ Richard DeVore, 73, Colorado sculptor, lung cancer. [71]
★ Harry Elliot, 101, former professional wrestling promoter, Natural Causes [72]
★ Alexis Giannoulias, 69, founder of the Broadway Bank in Chicago and father of Alexi Giannoulias a Democrat politician, heart attack. [73]
★ Kenneth Griffith, 84, Welsh actor and documentary maker, Parkinson's disease. [74]
★ Akbar Hossain, 65, Bangladeshi Minister for Shipping and hero of 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, heart attack [75]
★ Dr. Irving Kaplansky, 89, American mathematician at the University of Chicago. [76] [77]
★ Dibya Khaling, 56, lyricist and composer of Nepali music responsible for 1,000 songs, cardiac arrest. [78]
★ Arif Mardin, 74, Turkish-American Grammy Award winning music producer, pancreatic cancer. [79] [80]
★ Sophie Maslow, 95, American choreographer. [81]
★ Melvin Moss, 83, American anatomist and former dean of Columbia University's dental school. [82]
★ Gad Navon, 84, Former Chief Israeli Military Rabbi, cancer. [83]
★ Jaap Penraat, 88, Dutch architect and member of Dutch resistance in World War II. [84]
★ Michael Ruane, 78, Massachusetts legislator 1975-2005, cancer. [85]
★ Seema Aissen Weatherwax, 100, Ukrainian photographer
★ Roberta Weston, 118?, claimed to be the world's oldest woman but no documentary proof of claim. [86]
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★ John Conger, 85, psychologist and former dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. [87]
★ Denice Denton, 46, chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, suicide. [88]
★ Ben Garry, 50, played NFL for the Baltimore Colts, car crash. [89]
★ Jeffrey Harbers, 54, Microsoft executive who worked on developing many software programs including Microsoft Office, plane crash. [90]
★ Tichaona Jokonya, 67, Information & Publicity Minister in Zimbabwe, cardiac arrest. [91]
★ Ígor Medio, 34, and Carlos Redondo, 40, members of Felpeyu folk band, from Asturias, Spain, car accident. [92]
★ John F. Oates, 71, Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and Classics at Duke University and one of America's leading papyrologists. [93]
★ Patsy Ramsey, 49, mother of the late JonBenét Ramsey, ovarian cancer. [94], [95]
★ Lyle Stuart, 83, American journalist and publisher. [96]
★ Gerald Tomlinson, 73, mystery and baseball writer. [97]
★ Tom Triplett, 71, Savannah, Georgia politician, former Georgia Representative. [98]
★ Ric Weiland, 53, Microsoft pioneer, developed BASIC, COBOL and Microsoft Works, suicide. [99]
★ David Owen, 38, Topeka Kansas homeless advocate, lobbyist, asphyxiated [100]
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★ Martin Adler, 47, Swedish journalist. Shot by unknown assailant in Mogadishu, Somalia. [101]
★ John William Wentworth Butters, 80, Australian energy pioneer and son of Sir John Butters. [102]
★ Harriet, 176, Galápagos tortoise believed to be the oldest animal in the world and allegedly owned by Charles Darwin, heart failure. [103]
★ Grady Johnson, 66, former WWF wrestler known as "Crazy" Luke Graham; heart failure. [104]
★ Budhi Kunderan, 66, former India wicketkeeper/batsman, lung cancer. [105]
★ Aaron Spelling, 83, American television producer ''(Charlie's Angels, Starsky and Hutch,'' ''Beverly Hills 90210''), complications of stroke. [106]
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★ Heinz Ansbacher, 101, German-born psychologist and expert in the work of Alfred Adler. [107]
★ Anna Castelli Ferrieri, 87, Italian architect and designer. [108]
★ Alfred Hopkins Jr, 80, Mayor of Annapolis 1989-1997. [109]
★ Moose, 16, canine star of U.S. sit-com ''Frasier,'' played the character Eddie, "Skip" on film "My Dog Skip". [110]
★ Pinuccia Nava, 86, Italian actress of the 1940s and 1950s on stage (the "Nava Sisters"), screen and TV (clown "Scaramacai"). [111]
★ Chanel Petro Nixon, 16, Student, Murder victim in Brooklyn, New York.
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★ Theo Bell, 52, National Football League receiver with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, kidney disease and scleroderma. [112]
★ Vern Leroy Bullough, 77, medical historian known for his history of nursing, cancer. [113]
★ Monsignor Denis Faul, 73, former chaplain at the Maze Prison, outspoken critic of The Troubles and a key figure in attempts to end the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike in Northern Ireland, cancer. [114]
★ Jacques Lanzmann, 79, French author, editor and songwriter. [115]
★ Khamis al-Obeidi, 39, defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein, assassinated. [116]
★ David Walton, 43, member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee [117]
★ Jonathan Wordsworth, 73, scholar of Romanticism and chair of the Wordsworth Trust. [118]
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★ Ken Browne, 72, New Zealand steeplechase jockey and trainer. [119]
★ Bill Daniel, 90, former Governor of Guam. [120]
★ Evelyn Dubrow, 95, US women and labor advocate awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999. [121]
★ Billy Johnson, 87, former New York Yankee and All-Star third baseman, cause not given. [122]
★ E. Pierce Marshall, 67, son of J. Howard Marshall and Anna Nicole Smith's stepson and plaintiff in their inheritance feud, aggressive infection. [123]
★ Jerome Martin (aka Redd Angel), 29, South African singer, car wreck. [124]
★ Lamont Reese, 28, American convicted murderer, executed. [125]
★ Charles H. Sawyer, 91, birth control researcher, Alzheimer's disease. [126]
★ William Shurcliff, 97, physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb. [127]
★ Claydes Charles Smith, 57, co-founder and lead guitarist of Kool and the Gang. [128]
★ Vincent Usolor, former Nigerian Senator, died in his sleep. [129]
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★ Hugh Baird, 76, footballer for Leeds United, Aberdeen, Airdrieonians and Scotland. [130]
★ Myldred Jones, 96, Californian social worker who founded youth shelter in Los Alamitos, California and helped to launch other youth services. [131]
★ Priit Kolbre, 50, Estonian diplomat [132]
★ Duane Roland, 53, guitarist and a founder of rock band Molly Hatchet. [133]
★ Howard Shanet, 87, US conductor and composer. [134]
★ István 'Joni' Szulovszky, 55, Hungarian musician, founding member of A.E. Bizottság. [135] [Hungarian]
★ Melvin Watson, 98, American Baptist minister who trained Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders, complications from surgery [136]
★ Arthur Yap (Singapore Poet and Artist),64, Lecturer, English Department, University of Singapore; cancer of the throat.
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★ Luke Belton, 87, Irish politician. [137]
★ Des Colquhoun, 75, former editor-in-chief and columnist for the ''The Adelaide Advertiser'', died in his sleep. [138]
★ Nathaniel Neiman Craley, Jr., 78, former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives (1965-67) from Pennsylvania.
★ Jesus Fuertes, 68, Spanish painter and protege of Pablo Picasso, heart attack. [139]
★ Chris and Cru Kahui, 3-months, New Zealand child homicide victims.
★ Gică Petrescu, 91, Romanian singer. [140]
★ Donald Reilly, 72, American cartoonist (''The New Yorker''), cancer. [141] [142]
★ René Renou, 54, French vintner. [143]
★ Vincent Sherman, 99, American film director (''Mr. Skeffington'', ''The Young Philadelphians''), natural causes. [144][145]
★ Richard Stahl, 74, American comedy actor, Parkinson's disease. [146][147]
★ Madeleine St John, 64, Australian novelist who wrote a book shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997, emphysema. [148]
★ Arthur Wood, 93, executive at Sears, Roebuck & Company responsible for building Sears Tower, complications of pneumonia. [149]
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★ Norma Becker, 76, American anti-war activist, former chair of the War Resisters League. [150]
★ Cláudio Besserman Vianna, (a.k.a. Bussunda), 43, Brazilian comedian, member of Casseta & Planeta, heart attack [151]
★ Arthur Franz, 86, American character actor (''Sands of Iwo Jima'', ''Invaders from Mars''). Emphysema and heart disease. [152][153]
★ Mikhail Lapshin, 71, Russian politician, leader of the Agrarian Party and former president of the Altai Republic (2002-2006), cause unknown. [154]
★ Bill Lamb, 76, American public television executive, co-founder of WNET and former chief of KCET. [155]
★ Charles Older, 88, Los Angeles Superior Court judge who presided over the Charles Manson trial, complications of a fall. [156][157]
★ Abdul-Khalim Saydullayev, 38 or 39, Chechen separatist rebel leader. [158]
★ Julian Slade, 76, English composer and lyricist of "Salad Days", cancer. [159]
★ Bob Weaver, 77, Miami, Florida-based weatherman known as "Weaver the Weatherman" on WTVJ, cancer. [160]
★ William Yallup Sr, 79, Yakama Nation elder. [161]
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★ Jimmy Allison, 77, Scottish unionist and Scottish organiser for the Labour Party between 1977 and 1990. [162] [163]
★ Irving Berk, 100, Romania-born American founder of Berk Trade and Business School. [164]
★ Roland Boyes, 69, Former Labour politician and photographer. Alzheimer's disease. [165]
★ Barbara Epstein, 76, co-founder of the ''New York Review of Books'', lung cancer. [166]
★ Robert Hatch, 75, American public relations executive for Children's Television Workshop and the Peace Corps. [167]
★ Tsuyoshi Kakefuda, 77, cancer researcher, liver disease. [168]
★ Arthur Malvin, 83, Emmy award winning composer and lyricist, after a long illness. [169]
★ Robert W. Mann, 81, American mechanical engineer and designer. [170]
★ Scott Manning, 48, builder and pilot of the world's smallest jet, crash landing. [171]
★ Igor Śmiałowski, 88, Polish actor, [172]
★ Judy Wolpe, 62, cabinet member in two states and wife of former U.S. representative Howard Wolpe, drowning. [173] [174]
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★ Betty Curtis, 70, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival in 1961 with Luciano Tajoli. [175]
★ Rabi Das, 34, leader of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal, shot dead by suspected Maoists. [176]
★ Raymond Devos, 83, French humorist. [177]
★ Ján Langoš, 59, Slovak politician, head of the Nation's Memory Institute of Slovakia [178] (Slovak)
★ Jabu Sithole, 34, Zulu weatherman on the South African Broadcasting Corporation, AIDS. [179]
★ Grand Rabbi Israel Dan Taub, 78, Modzitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak, Israel. [180]
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★ Samuel Ackerman, 58, Chairman and CEO of Panacos Pharmaceuticals, heart attack. [181]
★ Josiah Beeman, 70, former US ambassador to New Zealand and Western Samoa, campaign manager for Jerry Brown, kidney failure.
★ Monty Berman, 94, British B-movie producer. [182]
★ H. Monroe Browne, 89, former US ambassador to New Zealand. [183]
★ Khurshid Zahan Hoque, 69, Bangladesh's Minister for Women and Children, cirrhosis of the liver. [184]
★ Surinder Kaur, 77, Punjabi folk and classical singer known as the "nightingale of Punjab". [185]
★ Craig Morris, 66, American pre-Columbian archaeologist at the American Museum of Natural History. [186]
★ Jean Roba, 75, Belgian comics writer [187]
★ Ndabezinhle Sigogo, Zimbabwean novelist and poet. [188]
★ Irving Sunshine, 90, leader in forensic toxicology, multiple myeloma. [189]
★ Klaas Verboom, 58, Canadian artist, liver cancer. [190]
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★ Roy Clarke, 79, convicted sex attacker who abused children over a 60 year period, natural causes.[191]
★ Freddie Gorman, 77, US songwriter. [192]
★ Patricia Guiver, 76, animal welfare advocate and mystery novelist, complications of heart surgery. [193]
★ Charles Haughey, 80, former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, prostate cancer. [194]
★ Hiroyuki Iwaki, 73, Japanese conductor, congestive heart failure. [195]
★ Luis Jiménez, 65, American sculptor, crushed by a statue. [196]
★ Burke Riley, 92, American lawyer and politician, Alzheimer's disease. [197]
★ Dennis Shepherd, 79, South African Olympic boxer. [198]
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★ Anna Lee Aldred, 85, American jockey and first woman in US to receive a jockey's licence, member of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. [199] [200]
★ Andrew William "Nicky" Barr, 90, Australian rugby union player and World War II fighter pilot [201]
★ Chakufwa Chihana, 67, veteran Malawi opposition figure who ran unsuccessfully for President losing to Bakili Muluzi, brain tumour. [202]
★ Michael Dornheim, 51, award-winning journalist with ''Aviation Week'', car crash. [203]
★ Michael Fajans, 58, American painter, motorcycle accident. [204] [205]
★ Wes Hill, 76, Niagara River expert. [206]
★ Clifford Hocking, 74, Australian entrepreneur [207]
★ György Ligeti, 83, influential Hungarian composer. [208]
★ José Leite Lopes, 87, Brazilian physicist. [209]
★ Evan Settle, 93, former University of Kentucky basketballer. [210]
★ Frank Streeter, 88, American philanthropist and book collector. [211]
★ Mel Streeter, 75, architect and University of Oregon basketball player, amyloidosis. [212]
★ Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, 82, billionaire Canadian media mogul and art collector. Possible heart attack. [213]
★ Nijiro Tokuda, 111, oldest man in Japan [214]
★ Paul Xanthos, 85, tennis coach at Pierce College for three decades winning 23 Conference titles, died in his sleep. [215]
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★ Michael Bartosh, 28, Mac OS X Server expert, injuries from a fall. [216]
★ James Cameron, 92, founder of America's Black Holocaust Museum, lymphoma. [217]
★ Pierre Clerdent, 97, Belgian politician (Liège), and holder of the Grand-Croix de la Légion d'honneur. [218]
★ Neroli Fairhall, 61, New Zealand paraplegic archer and Olympic competitor. [219]
★ Rolande Falcinelli, 86, French organist and composer.
★ Tim Hildebrandt, 67, American artist. Complications of diabetes. [220]
★ William Hundley, 80, American lawyer. [221]
★ Hugh Latimer, 93, English actor and toy maker. [222]
★ Mike Quarry, 55, light heavyweight boxer who challenged Bob Foster for the title, pugilistic dementia. [223]
★ Major Bruce Shand, 89, father of Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall, and father-in-law of Charles, Prince of Wales, cancer. [224]
★ Daniel Steiner, 72, American president of the New England Conservatory, lung disease. [225] [226]
★ John Udeh, 50, prolific writer on development issues and former Federal Commissioner representing Enugu State 1999-2003. [227]
★ George Washington, 76, American boxing trainer. [228]
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★ Qadi Abdul Karim Abdullah Al-Arashi, 72, former President of North Yemen. 2
★ Hubertus Czernin, 50, Austrian journalist who helped return paintings looted by the Nazis. Mastocytosis.[229] [230]
★ Moe Drabowsky, 70, Polish-born American Major League Baseball player, multiple myeloma. [231]
★ German Goldenshteyn, 71, Bessarabian-born clarinetist and klezmer musician. [232]
★ Wulff-Dieter Heintz, 76, German astronomer at Swarthmore College. [233]
★ Kenneth Jack, 81, Australian artist. [234]
★ Charles Johnson, 96, Negro League baseballer for the Chicago American Giants, complications of prostate cancer. [235]
★ Philip Merrill, 72, publisher and diplomat, suicide. [236]
★ Ruddy Thomas, 54, Jamaican singer, heart attack. [237]
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★ Kinga Choszcz aka "Freespirit", Polish author (''Led By Destiny: Hitchhiking Around the World''), cerebral malaria. [238]
★ Drafi Deutscher, 60, German singer. ]
★ Michael Forrestall, 73, Canadian senator, died following hospitalization for breathing problems. [239]
★ Patricia Janus, 74, American poet, heart attack brought on by liver cancer.
★ Gloria Jones, 78, American socialite, widow of James Jones and mother of Kaylie Jones. [240]
★ Mary Lutz, 55, director of competitive riding for the physically challenged at the United States Equestrian Federation. [241]
★ Enzo Siciliano, 72, Italian writer, diabetes mellitus. [242]
★ Vern Williams, 76, Bluegrass mandolin player and singer. [243]
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★ Thomas G. Arthur, 84, caterer who developed the Dodger Dog, heart attack. [244] [245]
★ Will Baxter, 99, first professor of accounting in the UK. [246]
★ Audrey Campbell, 76, actress best known for playing "Olga" in an infamous sexploitation film trilogy, undisclosed causes [247]
★ Jake Copass, 86, American cowboy poet, leukemia. [248]
★ Robert Donner, 75, American character actor probably best known for playing Exidor on ''Mork and Mindy'', aneurysm. [249]
★ Jack Jackson (''nom de plume'' Jaxon), 65, American comic book artist and co-founder of Rip Off Press. [250]
★ Mykola Kolessa, 102, Ukrainian composer and conductor. [251]
★ Abouna Matta El Meskeen, 87, Spiritual Father of St. Macarius' Monastery in the Wilderness of Scetis, Egypt. [252]
★ Mary Martin McLaughlin, 87, American scholar of the Middle Ages. [253]
★ John C. Roberts, 72, founder of Australian construction company Multiplex. Complications of diabetes. [254]
★ Jamal Abu Samhadana, leader of PA / Hamas forces in Gaza Strip and PRC. Killed by Israeli air strike. [255]
★ Talcott Seelye, 84, former United States ambassador to Tunisia and Syria. [256]
★ Sir Peter Smithers, 92, British politician, MP for Winchester and Secretary General of the Council of Europe. [257]
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★ Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, 39, leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military strike. [258]
★ Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman, spiritual adviser for Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military strike. [259]
★ Betty Beale, 94, Washington, D.C. society columnist. [260]
★ Carl Dengler, 91, blind Rochester, New York bandleader and percussionist. [261]
★ Joseph Dorfman, 65, Russian-Israeli composer of new music and a Shostakovich scholar.[262]
★ Dr. Morton Kligerman, 88, American cancer researcher and professor of oncology and radiology. [263]
★ Terry McCann, 74, Olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling and helped found USA Wrestling, and retired Executive Director of Toastmasters International, cancer (see [264]).
★ Scott Palmer, 38, bassist for the reggae band John Brown's Body, cancer of the gall bladder. [265]
★ Ingo Preminger, 95, Hollywood talent agent and producer (''M
★ A
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★ H''), brother of Otto Preminger. [266] [267]
★ Louis B. Sohn, 92, Lviv-born scholar of international law, helped draft the UN Charter. [268]
★ John Tenta (aka Earthquake), 42, Canadian professional wrestler for the World Wrestling Federation, bladder cancer. [269]
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★ Professor Leslie Alcock, 81, pioneer of Dark Age archaeology, led the team that excavated Cadbury Castle. [270]
★ Scobey Hartley, 74, Alberta oilman, heart attack [271][272]
★ Frank Lanza, 74, Chairman and CEO of L-3 Communications following surgery. [273]
★ Arnold Newman, 88, American photographer who pioneered "environmental portraiture". [274] [275].
★ Reathel Odum, 97, White House personal secretary to Bess Truman. [276]
★ Billy Preston, 59, American musician ("You Are So Beautiful", "Nothing from Nothing") known for his work with the Beatles, malignant hypertension leading to kidney failure. [277]
★ Hilton Ruiz, 54, American jazz pianist, injuries from a fall. [278] [279]
★ Léon Weil, 109, French World War I veteran. [280]
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★ Ray Cale, 83, Dual international for Wales in rugby union and rugby league. [281] [282]
★ Frederick Franck, 97, Dutch artist, author, and dentist. [283]
★ Eric Gregg, 55, American former Major League Baseball umpire, stroke. [284] [285][286]
★ Wayne Hage, 69, American cattle rancher who sued the US National Forest Service over grazing rights. [287]
★ Caleb Hammond, 90, American president of C. S. Hammond & Company mapmakers. [288]
★ Carlene Lewis, 51, American lawyer who sued Merck over the drug Vioxx. [289]
★ Henri Magne, 53, French rally co-driver (navigator) [290] [291]
★ Jorge Melendez, unknown age, involved in professional wrestling, committed suicide
★ Robert Ross, 86, leader of the Muscular Dystrophy Association for 44 years and persuaded Jerry Lewis to undertake a yearly telethon to raise money for muscular dystrophy, complications of broken hip. [292]
★ Elizabeth Fretwell, 85, Australian opera singer best known for her performances with the Sadler's Wells company. [293]
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★ Alec Bregonzi, 76, British actor [294]
★ Bill Fleming, 92, former MLB pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs [295]
★ Peter Greenwell, 76, British composer and pianist known for his work with Noel Coward who later developed a tribute show described by Alan Jay Lerner as "the best Noel Coward since Noel Coward.[296]
★ Raul Indipwo, 72, Portuguese singer, member of Duo Ouro Negro band, born in Angola, cancer [297]
★ Ron Jones, 41, former Major League Baseball player, brain hemorrhage [298]
★ Richard Kapp, 69, American conductor and founder of the Philharmonia Virtuosi. [299]
★ Anthony Marreco, 90, junior British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials and founding member of Amnesty International. [300]
★ Eric Molobi, 58, South African anti-apartheid activist and businessman, lung cancer. [301]
★ William M. Steger, 85, United States district court judge and Republican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1960. [302]
★ Robert Taylor, 68, former New York Giants defensive end who played in the 1963 NFL championship game, complications following surgery for colon cancer. [303]
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★ Dick Anderson, 73, scuba diver. [304]
★ Leo Clarke, 82, Roman Catholic Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia, 1976-1995. [305]
★ William Dimitr Jr., 76, Rhode Island Superior Court judge, cancer. [306]
★ Brian Duke, 79, tropical disease expert who helped to save millions from river blindness. [307]
★ Johnny Grande, 76, pianist, member of Bill Haley's backing band, The Comets. Complications arising from cancer. [308]
★ George Kashdan, 78, American comic book writer and editor for DC Comics. [309]
★ Janet Sandell, 70, South African social activist, ovarian cancer. [310]
★ Doug Serrurier, 85, former Grand Prix racing driver and constructor. [311]
★ Prudence Watson, Canadian lawyer, brain tumor. [312]
★ Ni Wen-ya, 105, former President of the Legislative Yuan. [313]
★ Robin Williams Jr., 91, American sociologist and former president of the American Sociological Association. [314]
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★ Sol Cantor, 95, American discount store pioneer. [315]
★ Ronald Cass, 83, British film score composer.
★ Jennifer Eley, 44, prize-winning American classical concert pianist. [316]
★ Barbara Furrer Goodman, 74, American educator, former chair of the board of trustees of the Teachers College at Columbia University. [317]
★ Bernard Loomis, 82, American toymaker responsible for Strawberry Shortcake and ''Star Wars'' action figures, heart disease. [318]
★ Vivek Maitra, Indian politician, possible foul play. [319]
★ Leon Pownall, 63, Canadian actor, cancer. [320]
★ Frank Spencer, 87, FBI agent who investigated the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. [321]
★ Vince Welnick, 55, member of The Grateful Dead, suicide. [322]
★ Edward Yates, 87, director of ''American Bandstand'' (1952–1969). [323]
★ Vyacheslav Klykov, 66, Russian sculptor and nationalist politician.[324]
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★ Perry Bass, 91, Texas oilman and philanthropist. [325]
★ Dr. Charles Brush III, 83, American archaeologist and former president of the Explorer's Club. [326]
★ Arthur Espenet Carpenter, 86, American furniture craftsman. [327]
★ Shokichi Iyanaga, 100, influential Japanese mathematician [328]
★ Rocío Jurado, 61, Spanish singer and actress, pancreatic cancer. [329]
★ Allan Prior, 84, British television scriptwriter (''Z Cars'', ''Howard's Way'', ''The Charmer''), father of folk singer Maddy Prior. [330]
★ Calvin Pullins, ''Prince'', 74, US-wrestler
★ Abdul Latif Sharif. 59, Egyptian, suspect in the femicides in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, officially of natural causes, rumored poisoning.
★ Claude Terrail, 88, owner of the restaurant ''La Tour d'Argent''. [331]
★ William D. Winn, 59, professor of education at the University of Washington. [332]
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