Deaths in January 2006
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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2006.
January 2006[edit]
1[edit]
- Frank Cary, 85, American businessman, chairman of IBM (1973–1981), natural causes. [1]
- Mapita Cortés, 75, Mexican actress, cancer. [2]
- Bryan Harvey, 49, American musician (House of Freaks, Gutterball), murdered. [3]
- Dawn Lake, 78, Australian entertainer, widow of Bobby Limb. [4]
- John Latham, 84, Zambian artist, natural causes. [5]
- Paul Lindblad, 64, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics), Alzheimer's disease. [6]
- Dragan Lukić, 77, Serbian writer, after long illness. [7]
- Harry Magdoff, 92, American socialist and editor, natural causes. [8]
- Charles O. Porter, 86, American politician, Representative from Oregon (1957–1961), Alzheimer's disease. [9]
- Gideon Rodan, 71, American biochemist, cancer. [10]
- Hubert Schoemaker, 55, Dutch chemist, co-founder of Centocor, brain cancer. [11]
- Charles Steen, 81, American geologist and businessman. [12]
2[edit]
- Frank Butler, 89, British sports journalist. [13]
- Raul Davila, 74, Puerto Rican actor and television producer, heart attack. [14]
- Ofelia Fox, 82, Cuban nightclub owner (Tropicana Club), cancer. [15]
- Osa Massen, 91, Danish actress. [16]
- Klemens Mielczarek, 85, Polish actor. [17]
- Michael S. Smith, 59, American jazz drummer. [18]
- Francis Steinmetz, 91 Dutch author and Colditz Castle escapee. [19]
- Frank Wilkinson, 91, American civil liberties activist, natural causes. [20]
- John Wojtowicz, 60, American bankrobber, cancer. [21]
- John Woodnutt, 81, British actor. [22]
- Lidia Wysocka, 89, Polish actress. [23]
3[edit]
- Urbano Lazzaro, 81, Italian resistance fighter, capture of Benito Mussolini. [24]
- Steve Rogers, 51, Australian rugby league player, apparent suicide. [25]
- Sir William Skate, 52, Papua New Guinean politician, Prime Minister (1997–1999), stroke. [26]
- Bruce Wilson, 64, Australian journalist, cancer. [27]
4[edit]
- John Hahn-Petersen, 75, Danish actor, heart attack. [28]
- Sophie Heathcote, 33, Australian actress. [29]
- Milton Himmelfarb, 87, American essayist. [30]
- Stan Hunt, 76, American cartoonist. [31]
- Irving Layton, 93, Canadian poet, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [32]
- Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 62, Ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, heart attack. [33]
- Gretl Schörg, 91, German actress. [34]
- Lourdes Van-Dúnem, 70, Angolan singer, typhoid fever. [35]
- Nel van Vliet, 79, Dutch swimmer. [36]
5[edit]
- Ramona Bell, 47, wife of broadcaster Art Bell, asthma attack. [37]
- Rod Dedeaux, 91, American college baseball coach, complications from a stroke. [38]
- Keizo Miura, 101, Japanese mountaineer. [39]
- Lord Merlyn-Rees, 85, former British Home Secretary, following a number of falls. [40]
- Ken Mosdell, 83, Former Montreal Canadiens Hockey player. [41]
- Mark Roberts, 84, American actor. [42]
- Simon Shanks, 34, American football player, linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals in 1995, murdered by home intruder. [43]
- Rachel Squire, 51, British Labour Member of Parliament for Dunfermline and West Fife, stroke. [44]
- Alex St. Clair, 64, American musician, primarily with Captain Beefheart. [45]
- Vajramuni, 62, Indian actor. [46]
6[edit]
- Allaire du Pont, 92, American thoroughbred enthusiast, owner of Kelso, natural causes. [47]
- Roshan Khan, 76, Pakistani squash player, father of Jahangir Khan complications from a heart attack and coma. [48]
- Józef Milik, 83, Polish Catholic priest and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar.
- Comandante Ramona, 47, Tzotzil Indian Zapatista rebel leader and women's rights advocate, kidney disease and tuberculosis. [49]
- Lou Rawls, 72, American jazz and blues singer, lung and brain cancer. [50][51][52][53]
- Hugh Thompson, Jr., 62, Vietnam War helicopter pilot who helped stop the My Lai Massacre, removed from life support. [54][55]
- Stanley Roger Tupper, 84, former Republican United States Representative from Maine from 1961 - 1967.
- Gábor Zavadszky, 31, Hungarian footballer (soccer player), probably pulmonary embolism. [56]
7[edit]
- Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar, 58, Head of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti, suicide. [57]
- Heinrich Harrer, 93, Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer and author. [58][59]
- Alf McMichael, 78, Northern Irish footballer. [60]
- Jim Zulevic, 40, American actor, heart attack. [61]
8[edit]
- Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, 62, former British Minister for Sport, stroke and cerebral hemorrhage. [62]
- Elson Becerra, 27, Colombian football player, shot. [63]
- Alex Elmsley, 76, English magician, heart attack. [64]
- Georg Wilhelm, Prince of Hanover, 90, educator and Olympian. [65]
- David Rosenbaum, 63, New York Times reporter, head injury during mugging. [66]
- Mimmo Rotella, 87, Italian artist, illness. [67]
- Raatbek Sanatbayev, 36, Kyrgyz Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler and candidate for National Olympic Committee president, shot [68]
- José Luis Sánchez, 31, Argentine football (soccer) player, from injuries sustained in a biking accident.
9[edit]
- Andy Caldecott, 41, Australian Dakar Rally motorcycle rider, fatal neck injury sustained in an accident in Mauritania. [69]
- Patricia Hitt, 87, Assistant United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Nixon, natural causes. [70]
- Selwyn Hughes, 77, British fundamentalist evangelical who founded Crusade for World Revival
- Mikk Mikiver, 68, Estonian stage director and actor.
- W. Cleon Skousen, 92, BYU professor and prominent Latter-day Saint author and lecturer.
- Gordon Smith, 55, Canadian inventor (KISS rebreather). [71]
- Jack Snow, 62, American NFL player and radio announcer, complications from a staph infection. [72]
- Don Stewart, 70, American actor (The Guiding Light), lung cancer. [73]
10[edit]
- Ira B. Black, 64, American neuroscientist, founder of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey, infection related to a tumor. [74]
- Dave Brown, 52, American NFL player, heart attack. [75]
- Elliot Forbes, 88, Harvard University professor and Beethoven scholar. [76]
- Sidney Frank, 86, American businessman and philanthropist, heart failure. [77]
- Alethea Hayter, 94, British writer. [78]
- Dennis Marks, 73, American animation writer-producer. [79]
- John Sinibaldi, 92, American Olympic cyclist. [80]
11[edit]
- Eric Namesnik, 35, American Olympic swimmer, injuries from a car crash.[citation needed]
- Mark Spoon, 39, German DJ, prominent figure in trance music and member of (Jam & Spoon), heart attack. [81]
12[edit]
- William Matthew Byrne, Jr., 75, presiding judge in the trial of Daniel Ellsberg, pulmonary fibrosis. [82][83]
- Brendan Cauldwell, 83, Irish actor, died in sleep.
- Eldon Dedini, 84, American cartoonist, esophageal cancer. [84]
- Shaikh Faisal bin Hamad Al Khalifa, 15, Bahraini prince, injuries from a car crash. [85]
- Günther Landgraf, 77, German physicist and former President of Technische Universität Dresden. [86]
- Stewart Linder, 74 American Oscar-winning film editor.
- Anne Meacham, 80, American stage (Suddenly, Last Summer) and television actress (Another World). [87]
- Meinrad Schütter, 95, Swiss composer. [88]
13[edit]
- Raúl Anguiano, 90, Mexican engraver and painter. [89]
- Gordon Atkinson, 83, Canadian broadcaster and politician. [90] (French)
- Richard Dalitz, 80, Australian physicist, expert in exotic particles, studied quarks. [91]
- Frank Fixaris, 71, American sportscaster, house fire. [92]
- Ron Jessie, 57, American NFL wide receiver, heart attack. [93]
- Marc Potvin, 38, Canadian NHL player, found dead in his hotel room in Michigan, suicide.[citation needed]
- Joan Root, 69, American wildlife conservationist, shot to death. [94]
14[edit]
- Henri Colpi, 84, Swiss film director and cinematographer. [95]
- Jim Gary, 66, American sculptor, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage. [96]
- Conrad Hendricks, 27, South African professional football player, car crash. [97]
- Bubba Morton, 74, American baseball player and coach. [98]
- Mark Philo, 21, English professional football player, injuries from a car crash. [99]
- Bob Weinstock, 77, founded independent jazz record label Prestige Records, complications of diabetes. [100]
- Shelley Winters, 85, American actress (Lolita, The Poseidon Adventure), heart failure. [101]
15[edit]
- Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 79, Emir of Kuwait, brain hemorrhage. [102]
- Glyn Berry, 59, Welsh-born Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan. [103]
- Hilma Contreras, 95, Dominican writer. [104]
- Edward N. Hall, 91, U.S. Air Force rocket expert, father of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile program. [105]
- George Worth, 90, American Olympic fencer. [106]
16[edit]
- Stanley Biber, 82, American physician and pioneer in sex reassignment surgery, complications of pneumonia.[citation needed]
- Richard P. McCormick, 89, professor at Rutgers University, expert on early American political history and New Jersey history, illness.[107]
17[edit]
- Clarence Ray Allen, 76, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [108]
- Harold R. Collier, 90, former Republican United States Representative from Illinois from 1957–1975. [109]
- Wallace Mercer, 59, former chairman of Heart of Midlothian F.C., cancer. [110]
- Giles Worsley, 44, British architectural historian and journalist, nephew of the Katharine, Duchess of Kent, cancer. [111]
18[edit]
- Norman McCabe, 94, American animator and director, famous for Tokio Jokio and The Ducktators shorts from his Termite Terrace tenure at Warner Bros.
- Thomas Murphy, 90, former CEO of General Motors. [112]
- Anton Rupert, 89, South African businessman, philanthropist and founding member of World Wide Fund for Nature, natural causes. [113]
- Stjepan Steiner, 90, Croatian physician, doctor to Josip Broz Tito. [114] (Croatian)
- Jan Twardowski, 90, Polish priest and poet. [115]
19[edit]
- Gary Downie, South African psychotherapist and television production manager (Doctor Who, Star Cops), cancer. [116]
- Anthony Franciosa, 77, American actor, third husband of Shelley Winters, stroke. [117]
- Tom Nugent, 92, American football coach, member of the College Football Hall of Fame, congestive heart failure. [118]
- Wilson Pickett, 64, American soul singer, heart attack. [119]
- Awn Alsharif Qasim, 73, Sudanese writer, educator and Islamic scholar
- Geoff Rabone, 84, New Zealand cricketer.[citation needed]
- Franz Seitz, 85, German film director.[citation needed]
20[edit]
- Andrei Iordan, 71, former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan.[citation needed]
- David Maust, 51, American convicted serial killer, heart failure after a botched suicide attempt. [120]
- Dave Lepard, 25, Swedish musician (Crashdïet), suicide.
- Rose Bouziane Nader, 99, President of the Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest, mother of US Presidential candidate Ralph Nader, congestive heart failure. [121]
- Perrie Simpson, 43, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
- Pio Taofinu'u, 82, Samoan Roman Catholic cardinal. [122]
- Leslie Wilson, 80, British Olympic cyclist. [123]
21[edit]
- Michael Chan, Baron Chan, 65, British paediatrician, second peer of Chinese origin. [124]
- John James Cowperthwaite, 90, British civil servant, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong (1961–1971). [125]
- Robert Knudson, 80, American sound engineer, three-time Academy Award winner, supranuclear palsy. [126]
- Ibrahim Rugova, 61, President of Kosovo, lung cancer. [127]
22[edit]
- Janette Carter, 82, last living member of the Carter Family country music group. [128]
- Alec Coxon, 90, Yorkshire and England cricketer. [129]
- Sherman Ferguson, 61, American jazz drummer [130]
- Aydın Güven Gürkan, 65, Turkih academic and politician (chairman of SHP)[citation needed]
- Nellie Y. McKay, 67, African-American literary critic, colon cancer. [131]
23[edit]
- Ernie Baron, 65, Filipino radio/TV host and meteorologist, heart attack brought about by diabetes.[citation needed]
- Andrea Bronfman, 60, American philanthropist and wife of Charles Bronfman, hit by car. [132]
- Savino Guglielmetti, 94, Italian gymnast, 1928 Olympic gold-medalist and oldest surviving Olympic champion. [133]
- General Samuel W. Koster, 86, highest ranking United States Army officer charged in My Lai massacre, renal cancer [134]
- Chris McKinstry, 38, an independent researcher in artificial intelligence, suicide.[citation needed]
- Joseph M. Newman, 96, American Film Director/Producer, This Island Earth. [135]
- Bill Rice, 74, American artist. [136]
- Virginia Smith, 94, former Republican United States Representative from Nebraska (1975–1991).
- Michael Wharton, 92, British humorist ("Peter Simple").[citation needed]
24[edit]
- Zaki Badawi, 84, Islamic religious leader in Britain. [137]
- Schafik Handal, 75, former Presidential candidate and leader of El Salvador's main political opposition party, the FMLN, heart attack. [138]
- Peter Ladefoged, 80, American phonetician, stroke.[citation needed]
- Carlos (Café) Martínez, 41, former MLB player, complications from a long illness.[citation needed]
- Fayard Nicholas, 91, American dancer, elder of the renowned Nicholas Brothers, pneumonia and complications of a stroke. [139] [140]
- Chris Penn, 40, American actor, brother of Sean Penn, cardiomyopathy combined with multiple medication intake. [141] [142]
- Sir Nicholas Shackleton, 68, British geologist, leukemia. [143]
25[edit]
- Marion Dudley, 33, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas. [144]
- Luther Green, 59, American NBA player, lung cancer. [145]
- John F. Kerin, American professor, reproductive scientist, gynaecologist, farm accident.[citation needed].
- Anna Malle, 38, American adult film actress, car accident. [146]
- Herbert Schilder, 77, American dental surgeon, improved root canal procedures, Lewy body disease. [147]
- Sudharmono, 78, Vice President of Indonesia from 1988–1993, pneumonia. [148]
- Allan Temko, 81, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, brief illness. [149]
26[edit]
- Len Carlson, 68, Canadian voice actor, heart attack during sleep[citation needed]
- John Dunwoody, 76, British Member of Parliament, effects of an accident. [150]
- Morris Silverman, 93, American philanthropist, founder of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. [151]
- Dave Tatsuno, 92, documented the Topaz Japanese internment camp in his film Topaz [152]
- Khan Wali Khan, 89, prominent Pakistani opposition Leader and prominent Pashtun leader, heart attack. [153]
27[edit]
- Maurice Colclough, 52, English Rugby Union player, brain tumour. [154]
- Tana Hoban, 88, photographer of children, author of over 110 children's books [155]
- Phyllis King, 100, British Wimbledon-winner. [156]
- Carol Lambrino, 86, elder son of King Carol II of Romania. [157]
- Christopher Lloyd, 84, gardening writer, stroke. [158]
- Gene McFadden, 56, singer and songwriter, cancer. [159]
- Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon, 90, British solicitor and politician. [160]
- Johannes Rau, 75, President of Germany (Bundespräsident) from 1999 - 2004. [161]
28[edit]
- Peter Isola, 76, Gibraltarian politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Gibraltar (1956–1984). [162]
- Yitzchak Kaduri, 106, renowned Japanese Sephardic Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist. [163]
- Henry McGee, 76, British actor. [164]
29[edit]
- Andrew Gonzalez, 65, Filipino linguist and educator, complications from diabetes. [165]
- Paik Nam-june, 73, South Korean-born American artist, particularly noted for his video art, natural causes. [166]
- George Psychoundakis, 85, Greek Resistance fighter during World War II. [167]
30[edit]
- Stew Albert, 66, 1960s anti-establishment activist, co-founder of the Yippies, liver cancer. [168]
- Paul Clinton, 53, CNN film critic, founder of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA). [169]
- Seth Fisher, 33, American comic book illustrator, fall from a building. [170]
- Arnold Graffi, 95, German Researcher for oncology, long illness. [171]
- Coretta Scott King, 78, American civil rights leader, widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., ovarian cancer. [172]
- Otto Lang, 98, film producer and ski mogul, heart disease. [173]
- Irving Rosenwater, 73, English statistician. [174]
- Wendy Wasserstein, 55, American playwright, lymphoma. [175]
31[edit]
- Owen Abrahams, 72, Australian rules footballer, serious illness. [176]
- Ruairi Brugha, 88, Irish Fianna Fáil politician, son of Cathal Brugha. [177]
- Henry S. Coleman, 79, dean at Columbia University. [178]
- Boris Kostelanetz, 94, tax lawyer. [179]
- George Koval, 92, Soviet intelligence agent.[180]
- Paul Regina, 49, American actor, liver cancer. [181]
- Jason Sears, 38, American punk rock singer (Rich Kids on LSD), complications from drug abuse. [182]
- Moira Shearer, 80, British ballerina, actress, and newspaper columnist, married to Sir Ludovic Kennedy, natural causes. [183]