Famous People Who Died in 2006 (Part 3)

Deaths 401 - 600 of 737

• Aug 8 Irving "Duke" Jordan, American jazz pianist (Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Sonny Stitt), dies at 84
• Aug 9 James van Allen, American physicist (discovered Van Allen radiation belts), dies at 91

• Aug 9 Philip E. High, sci-fi author (b. 1914)
• Aug 11 Mike Douglas, American talk show host (The Mike Douglas Show), dies at 86
• Aug 13 Tony Jay, British-American actor, voice artist, and singer (Frollo- The Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 73
• Aug 13 Payao Poontarat, Thai Olympic boxer (b. 1957)
• Aug 14 Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
• Aug 15 Te Atairangikaahu, Māori Queen for 40 years, dies at 75
• Aug 15 Rick Bourke, Australian rugby league player
• Aug 15 Doug White, American news anchor
• Aug 15 Faas Wilkes, Dutch soccer star (Xerxes, Fortuna, Inter Milan), dies at 82
• 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 16 Alfredo Stroessner, 42nd President of Paraguay (1954-89), dies at 93
• Aug 18 Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934)


• Aug 18 Jamie Astaphan, Caribbean-born physician (b. 1946)
• 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 Bryan Budd, British soldier (Afghanistan), dies at 29
• Aug 20 Richard Arthur de Yarburgh-Bateson, 6th Lord Deramore, British architect, dies at 95
• Aug 21 Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (b. 1941)
• Aug 21 Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)
• Aug 22 Bruce Gary, American rock drummer (The Knack) (b. 1951)
• 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 24 Léopold Simoneau, French-Canadian tenor, dies at 90
• Aug 24 Cristian Nemescu, Romanian film director (b.1979)
• Aug 24 James Carl Tenney, American composer, dies at 72
• 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 26 Josef Hadar, Israeli violinist and composer (Evening of Roses), dies at 79
• Aug 27 Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director (b. 1922)
• Aug 27 Maria Capovilla, oldest woman alive from 2004-2006 (b. 1889)
• Aug 27 Jesse Pintado, Mexican-American guitarist (Napalm Death) (b. 1969)


• 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 and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926)
• Aug 31 Tom Delaney, British racing driver (b. 1911)
• Aug 31 Derrick Wayne Frazier, American convicted murderer (b. 1977)
• Aug 31 Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (b. 1983)
• Sep 1 Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
• Sep 1 Bob O'Connor, American politician (58th Mayor of Pittsburgh), dies at 61
• Sep 1 Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
• 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 Willi Ninja, dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
• 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 2 Charlie Williams MBE, English soccer defender (Doncaster Rovers 151 games) and comedian, dies from Parkinson's disease at 78
• 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 Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator (b. 1920)

• Sep 4 Astrid Varnay, Swedish soprano (Met Opera 1941-56), dies at 88
• Sep 4 Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer, 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 Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
• Sep 8 Peter Brock, Australian racecar driver (b. 1945)
• Sep 8 Frank Middlemass, British actor (Heart Beat, As Time Goes By, Oliver Twist), dies at 87
• Sep 8 Erk Russell, American football coach (b. 1923)
• Sep 8 Jean Villain, Swiss writer, dies at 78
• Sep 9 Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)
• Sep 9 Richard Burmer, American composer and musician, dies at 50
• Sep 9 William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
• Sep 9 Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979)
• Sep 10 Patty Berg, American golfer (15 major titles, US Open 1946), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 88
• Sep 10 Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (1965-2006), dies at 88
• Sep 11 William Auld, Scottish poet, writer and supporter of Esperanto (b. 1924)
• Sep 11 Pat Corley, American actor (b. 1930)

• Sep 11 Johannes Bob van Benthem, Dutch lawyer (b. 1921)
• Sep 13 Ann Richards, 46th Governor of Texas (b. 1933)
• Sep 14 Miklós "Mickey" Hargitay, Hungarian-American actor, bodybuilder and the 1955 Mr. Universe, dies from multiple myeloma at 80
• Sep 14 Esme Melville, Australian actress (b. 1918)
• Sep 15 Raymond Baxter, British television presenter (b. 1922)
• Sep 15 Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer, dies at 77
• Sep 15 Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (b. 1987)
• Sep 16 Rob Levin, creator of Freenode (b. 1955)
• Sep 16 Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey right wing (Stanley Cup 1953, 56-58; Montreal Canadiens), dies at 81
• Sep 17 Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)
• Sep 17 Alvin Wayne "Al" Casey, American rock and session guitarist (Duane Eddy: The Wrecking Crew) dies at 69
• Sep 18 Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1925)
• Sep 19 Elizabeth Allen, American actress (b. 1929)
• Sep 19 Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)
• Sep 19 Chuck Rio, American singer and saxophonist (The Champs) (b. 1929)


• Sep 19 Hugh Kawharu, New Zealander Ngāti Whātua Māori chief (b. 1927)
• Sep 19 Martha Holmes, American photographer (b. 1923)
• Sep 20 Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor, dies at 74
• Sep 20 John W. Peterson, American songwriter (b. 1921)
• Sep 20 Sven Nykvist, Swedish cinematographer (Cries and Whispers), dies at 83
• Sep 21 Raymond "Boz" Burrell, British rock musician (King Crimson, Bad Company), dies of a heart attack at 60
• Sep 22 Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
• Sep 22 Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player (b. 1950)
• Sep 23 Sir Malcolm Arnold, British trumpeter, and classical and film score composer (The Bridge On The River Kwai), dies at 84
• Sep 23 Etta Baker, American blues guitarist, dies at 93
• 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 Tokyo Rose [Iva Toguri D'Aquino], American-born Japanese propagandist (WWII), dies at 90
• Sep 26 Philip Randle, British biochemist (Randle cycle), dies at 80
• Sep 28 Viktor Kalabis, Czech composer (Two Worlds), dies at 83
• Sep 29 Michael A. Monsoor, United States Navy SEAL (posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor), killed in Iraq at 25
• Sep 29 Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (b. 1976)
• 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 Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricket batsman (11 Tests; father of Richard & Dayle), dies from a stroke at 91
• Oct 1 Jerald Tanner, American religious activist (b. 1938)
• Oct 1 André Viger, French Canadian wheelchair marathoner (3 Paralympics gold medals), dies from cancer at 54
• Oct 2 Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
• Oct 2 Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1947)
• Oct 2 Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician (b. 1916)
• Oct 2 Milly Vitale, Italian actress (7 Little Foys, War & Peace, Juggler), dies at 73
• 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 Tom Bell, English actor on stage, television and film (b. 1933)
• Oct 4 Oskar Pastior, Romanian-born German writer, dies at 78
• Oct 5 Jennifer Moss, English Actress (b. 1945)
• Oct 5 Antonio Peña, Mexican founder of lucha libre promotion AAA (b. 1953)
• Oct 6 Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (b. 1930)
• Oct 6 Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (b. 1940)

• Oct 6 Wilson Tucker, American writer (b. 1914)
• Oct 6 Alex L. Shigo, American Biologist and Plant Pathologist, dies at 76
• Oct 6 Valentin Muratov, Russian gymnast (4 gold, 1 silver medals 1952, 1956 Olympics), dies at 78
• Oct 7 Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and human rights activist, dies at 48
• 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 (b. 1924)
• Oct 10 Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
• Oct 10 Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
• Oct 11 Cory Lidle, American baseball pitcher (b. 1972)
• Oct 11 Howard Kerzner, Chief Executive Officer of Kerzner International (b. 1964)
• Oct 11 Benito Martínez, Haitan born Cuban who claimed to be the oldest living person at 126 (b. 1880)
• Oct 12 Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (b. 1919)
• Oct 13 Wang Guangmei, Chinese first lady (b. 1921)
• Oct 14 Jared Anderson, American bassist (b. 1975)
• Oct 14 Freddy Fender, American musician ("Before the Next Teardrop Falls"), dies at 69
• Oct 14 Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (b. 1919)
• Oct 14 Nancy Lynn, American aviator (b. 1956)
• Oct 14 Gerry Studds, American politician (b. 1937)
• Oct 15 Derek Bond, British actor (Nicholas Nickelby, Armchair Theatre), dies at 86
• Oct 16 Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Ex President of Peru (b. 1936)
• Oct 16 Ross Davidson, British actor (b. 1949)


• Oct 16 Tommy Johnson, American tubist (b. 1935)
• Oct 16 Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
• Oct 17 Daniel Emilfork, French actor (b. 1924)
• Oct 17 Christopher Glenn, American newscaster (b. 1938)
• Oct 18 Mario Francesco Cardinal Pompedda (b. 1929)
• Oct 18 Anna Russell, English music satirist and composer, dies at 94
• Oct 19 James Glennon, American cinematographer, dies at 64
• Oct 19 Phyllis Kirk [Kirkegaard], American actress (Thin Man, Red Button's Show), dies at 79

• Oct 20 Frank Vicari, American jazz, session, and touring saxophonist (Maynard Ferguson; Woody Herman; Tom Waits; Saturday Night Live), dies at 75
• Oct 21 Rene Gerber, Swiss composer, dies at 98
• Oct 22 Choi Kyu-hah, President of South Korea, dies at 87
• Oct 22 Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (Owen Marshall, Glitter), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 84
• Oct 22 Richard Mayes, British actor (Doctor Who, Emmerdale), dies of a stroke at 83
• Oct 23 Lebo Mathosa, South African entertainer (b. 1977)
• Oct 24 Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
• Oct 24 William Montgomery Watt, Islamic studies scholar, orientalist and historian (b. 1909)
• Oct 26 Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and museum director (b. 1924)
• Oct 27 Joe Niekro, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1979; NL wins leader 1979; Houston Astros; World Series 1987; NY Yankees), dies from a brain aneurysm at 61
• Oct 27 Brad Will, American anarchist and independent journalist (b. 1970)
• Oct 27 Marlin McKeever, American NFL linebacker (Pro Bowl 1966; LA Rams), dies from injuries suffered in a fall at 66

• Oct 28 Trevor Berbick, Jamaican professional boxer, dies at 52
• Oct 28 Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter (One Day at a Time), dies of heart disease at 86
• Oct 29 Mohammadu Maccido, 18th Sultan of Sokoto (b. 1928)
• Oct 30 Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)
• Oct 30 Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (symbolic anthropology), dies at 80

• Nov 1 William Styron, American novelist (Confess of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice), dies at 81
• Nov 1 Adrienne Shelly, American actress and director (The Unbelievable Truth), murdered at 40


• Nov 1 Bettye Ackerman, American actress (Maggie Graham-Ben Casey), dies at 82
• Nov 3 Paul Mauriat, French easy listening orchestra leader, composer, and arranger ("Love Is Blue"), dies at 81
• Nov 3 Marie Rudisill, American author and "Fruitcake Lady" (b. 1911)
• Nov 3 Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian soccer forward (11 caps; 5 caps Uruguay; most goals in Copa Libertadores [54] 1960-72), dies of heart failure at 68
• Nov 4 Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American author (Cheaper by the Dozen), dies at 98
• Nov 4 Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1915)
• Nov 4 Torolf Elster, Norwegian journalist and writer (Frihet och demokrati), dies at 95
• Nov 5 Bülent Ecevit, four term Turkish Prime Minister (between 1974 and 2002), dies at 81
• Nov 5 LaMar Clark, American boxer (record most consecutive knockouts 44, including unsanctioned bouts), dies at 71
• Nov 6 Federico (Fico) López, Puerto Rican basketball player, dies of a heart attack at 44
• Nov 6 Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (slalom Olympic Gold 1972), dies of cancer at 56
• Nov 7 Bryan Pata, American football defensive tackle (University of Miami) (murdered) (b. 1981)
• Nov 7 Johnny Sain, American baseball pitcher, dies at 89
• Nov 7 Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)
• Nov 7 Jackie Parker, American College and Canadian Football Hall of Fame utility (Mississippi State University; Grey Cup 1954-56; Edmonton Eskimos), dies from throat cancer at 74
• Nov 7 (George) "Sonny" Cohn, American jazz trumpeter (Red Saunders, 1945-60; Duke Ellington, 1960-84), dies at 81
• Nov 8 Basil Poledouris, American film score composer, dies of cancer at 61
• Nov 8 Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist, dies at 65
• Nov 8 Lyudmila Buldakova, Russian volleyball player (Olympic gold 1972), dies at 68

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