Deaths in July 2006
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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2006.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
July 2006
1
- Umberto Abronzino, 85, Italian-born American member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator.[1]
- Michael Barton, 91, English Surrey cricketer and president.[2]
- Edwin Broderick, 89, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, New York, and director of Catholic Relief Services.[3]
- Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer.[4]
- Irving Green, 90, American record industry executive, co-founder of Mercury Records.[5]
- Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan (1996–1998).[6]
- Jabron Hashmi, 24, British soldier, first British Muslim to die in "War on Terror.".[7]
- Louis Jacobs, 85, British rabbi and founder of Masorti movement.[8]
- Yousuf Khan, 70, Indian footballer, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack.[9]
- Robert Lepikson, 54, Estonian businessman and politician.[10]
- Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker.[11]
- Padmakar Pandit, 71, Indian cricket umpire.[12]
- Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author.[13]
- Fred Trueman, 75, English and Yorkshire cricketer, lung cancer.[14]
2
- Cecilia Cole, 86, Gambian politician, old age.[15]
- Maurice Fox-Strangways, 9th Earl of Ilchester, 86, British peer and engineer, member House of Lords and RAF group captain.[16]
- Balázs Horváth, 64, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer.[17]
- Herty Lewites, 65, Nicaraguan presidential candidate.[18]
- Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian.[19][20]
- Tihomir Ognjanov, 79, Serbian footballer for Yugoslavia, played in the 1950 FIFA World Cup.[21]
- Joan Quennell, 82, British Conservative MP for Petersfield 1960–1974.[22]
- Anatole Shub, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pneumonia and a stroke.[23]
- Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, American painter.[24]
3
- Mark Aubrey Tennyson, 5th Baron Tennyson, 86, British aristocrat, great-grandson of poet Lord Tennyson.[25]
- Francis Cammaerts, 90, British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent, led 30,000 French Resistance fighters.[26]
- Dick Dickey, 79, American basketball player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University.[27]
- Gerhard Fischer, 84, Norwegian-born German diplomat.[28]
- Joseph Goguen, 65, American computer scientist from UCSD.[29]
- Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (As the World Turns), suicide by gunshot.[30]
- Wilbert Hopper, 73, Canadian businessman, president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada.[31]
- Gwyn Jones, 89, Welsh physicist and public servant.[32]
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, breast cancer.[33]
- Lars Korvald, 90, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway.[34]
- Sir Carol Mather, 87, British Conservative MP.[35]
- Nimrod Ping, 58, British politician, Brighton city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis C.[36]
- Jack Smith, 92, American musician and host of You Asked for It, leukemia.[37]
- Joe Weaver, 71, American musician, leader of the Blue Note Orchestra and musician on early Tamla sessions, stroke.[38]
4
- John Hinde, 94, Australian film reviewer and journalist.[39]
- Norbert Kerckhove, 73, Belgian cyclist.[40]
- Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American world champion bridge player and author, complications of Parkinson's Disease.[41]
- Jean-François d'Orgeix, 85, French equestrian, actor and Olympic medalist, traffic collision.[42]
5
- Barbara Albright, 51, American author of food and knitting books, brain tumor.[43]
- Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer.[44]
- Lewis Glucksman, 80, American head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers.[45]
- Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business.[46]
- Kenneth Lay, 64, American businessman, CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack.[47]
- Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader.[48]
- Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic who worked for Rolling Stone and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records.[49]
- Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress.[50]
- Prince Sione ʻUluvalu Ngū Takeivūlai Tukuʻaho, 56, Tongan Tuʻi Pelehake, traffic collision.[51]
6
- Juan de Ávalos, 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack.[52]
- Ralph Ginzburg, 76, U.S. publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma.[53]
- Al Hodge, 55, English Cornish rock guitarist and songwriter, cancer.[54]
- John Manos, 83, U.S. and Ohio judge for 43 years.[55]
- Juan Pablo Rebella, 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide by gunshot.[56]
- Kasey Rogers, 80, American actress (Bewitched) and motocross racer, stroke.[57]
- E. S. Turner, 96, English historian and journalist.[58]
- Tom Weir, 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster.[59]
7
- Luis Barragan, 34, American businessman and philanthropist, president of 1-800-Mattress, drowned.[60]
- Syd Barrett, 60, English musician (Pink Floyd), diabetes.[61]
- Rudi Carrell, 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancer.[62]
- Dorothea Church, 83, African-American model, first successful black model in Paris.[63]
- John Warner Fitzgerald, 81, American lawyer, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.[64]
- Elias Hrawi, 79, Lebanese politician, President of Lebanon (1989–98), cancer.[65]
- Dina Kaminskaya, 87, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents.[66]
- Eugene Kurtz, 82, American composer.[67]
- John Money, 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Parkinson's disease.[68]
- Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, 53, Irish musician with the Bothy Band.[69]
- Eric Schopler, 79, German-born American psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer.[70]
- Frank P. Zeidler, 93, American politician, Mayor of Milwaukee (1948–1960) and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city.[71]
- Govindappa Venkataswamy, 87, Indian ophthalmologist, founder of Aravind Eye Hospitals.
8
- George Albee, 84, American psychologist and former head of the American Psychological Association.[72]
- June Allyson, 88, American actress, dancer and singer, pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis.[73]
- Michael Barrett, 79, Irish politician.[74]
- Eric Bedford, 78, Australian politician, member of the Wran Government ministry 1976–1985 in New South Wales.[75]
- Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, 91, Australian industrialist and patron of the arts, founder of Transfield Holdings, Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, fall.[76]
- David Bright, 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrest stemming from decompression sickness.[77]
- Ana María Campoy, 80, Argentine actress, pneumonia.[78]
- Sabine Dünser, 29, Liechtenstein singer and lyricist (Erben der Schöpfung, Elis), cerebral hemorrhage.[79]
- Sir Richard Gorham, 88, Bermudian businessman and politician.[80]
- Peter Hawkins, 82, British actor and voice artist - voice of the Flower Pot Men, Captain Pugwash and the Daleks.[81]
- Catherine Leroy, 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam War in Life, lung cancer.[82]
- Raja Rao, 97, Indian novelist (Kanthapura).[83]
- Jesse Simons, 88, American labor arbitrator, heart failure.[84]
- Dorothy Uhnak, 76, American policewoman turned novelist.[85]
9
- Chris Drake, 82, American actor.[86]
- Fred Epstein, 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumors, melanoma.[87]
- Abdel Moneim Madbouly, 84, Egyptian comedian and playwright, congestive heart failure.[88]
- Ireneusz Paliński, 74, Polish weightlifter, Olympic champion (1960).[89]
- Alan Senitt, 27, British political activist, stabbed.[90]
- George Hopkins Williams II, 91, American aviation historian.[91]
- Milan Williams, 58, American keyboardist, founding member of R&B/funk band the Commodores, cancer.[92]
- Michael Zinzun, 57, American ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist.[93]
10
- Shamil Basayev, 41, Chechen rebel leader and terrorist, explosion.[94]
- Lennart Bladh, 86, Swedish politician, member of the Riksdag from 1974 to 1985.[95]
- Tommy Bruce, 68, British singer ("Ain't Misbehavin'").[96]
- Robert Fumerton, 93, Canadian night fighter ace top-scorer of World War II.[97]
- Raymond Furnell, 71, British Dean of York from 1994 to 2003, cancer.[98]
- Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi, 89, Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist who published 50 books.[99]
- Ruth Schönthal, 82, German-born classical pianist and composer.[100][101][102]
- Fred Wander, 89, Austrian author and Holocaust survivor.[103]
- Notable people killed in the crash of Pakistan International Airlines Flight 688:[104][105]
- Mohammed Naseer Khan, 64-65, Pakistani physicist and academic administrator, Vice-Chancellor of Bahauddin Zakariya University (since 2005)
- Muhammad Nawaz Bhatti, 57, Pakistani judge and lawyer
11
- Kathy Augustine, 50, American politician, State Controller of Nevada who was first Nevada state official to be impeached in office, murdered.[106][107]
- Phyllis Baker, 69, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).[108]
- John Coletta, 74, English music manager and music producer, former manager of Deep Purple and Whitesnake.[109]
- Gerald Gidwitz, 99, American cosmetics executive, co-founder of Helene Curtis, congestive heart failure.[110][111]
- Barnard Hughes, 90, American actor (Tron, Doc Hollywood, The Lost Boys), Tony winner (1978).[112][113]
- Fortunato Libanori, 72, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.[114]
- Bill Miller, 91, American pianist for Frank Sinatra, heart attack.[115][116]
- Derrick O'Brien, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[117]
- Bronwyn Oliver, 47, Australian sculptor, suicide.[118]
- John Spencer, 71, British former world champion snooker player, stomach cancer.[119][120]
- Philippe Takla, 91, Lebanese politician, lawyer and diplomat, foreign minister of Lebanon.[121][122]
- Wiarton Willie, 8, Canadian Groundhog Day prognosticator.[123]
12
- Rocky Barton, 49, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[124]
- Kurt Kreuger, 89, Swiss-German actor (Sahara, The Enemy Below), stroke.[125][126][127]
- Hubert Lampo, 85, Belgian writer.[128]
- Loredana Nusciak, 64, Italian actress (Django, Ten Thousand Dollars for a Massacre) and model.[129]
13
- Red Buttons, 87, American comedian and actor (Sayonara, The Longest Day, Pete's Dragon), Oscar winner (1958), vascular disease.[130]
- Pamela Cooper, 95, British refugee activist known for her work with the Palestinians.[131]
- John Lyttelton, 11th Viscount Cobham, 63, British aristocrat.[132]
- Ángel Suquía Goicoechea, 89, Spanish Metropolitan-Archbishop of Madrid.[133]
- Tomasz Zaliwski, 75, Polish actor.[134]
14
- Anthony Cave Brown, 77, English historian of espionage.[135]
- Tom Frame, British comic book letterer, cancer.[136]
- Heinrich Heidersberger, 100, German photographer.[137]
- William Lash III, 45, American assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce and professor at George Mason University, suicide by gunshot.[138]
- Carrie Nye, 69, American actress (Half a Sixpence, Guiding Light, Creepshow), lung cancer.[139][140]
- Len Teeuws, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Chicago Cardinals).[141]
- Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, 43, Polish International Grandmaster of chess, perforated intestine and bleeding.[142][143]
15
- Robert H. Brooks, 69, American chairman of Hooters of America, natural causes.[144]
- John Joseph Fitzpatrick, 87, Canadian Bishop of Brownsville for 20 years.[145]
- Howdy Groskloss, 100, American professional baseball player, oldest major league baseball player.[146]
- Kenneth Lochhead, 80, Canadian artist who was a member of the Regina Five, colorectal cancer.[147]
- James Nicholas, 85, American orthopedic surgeon and physician for three NFL teams.[148]
- István Pálfi, 39, Hungarian Member of the European Parliament.[149]
- Rupert Pole, 87, American actor, forest ranger, and co-husband of bigamist Anaïs Nin.[150]
- Francis Rose, 84, British botanist.[151]
- Andrée Ruellan, 101, American painter.[152]
- Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, 63, Iranian archaeologist, stomach cancer.[153]
- Andrew Sudduth, 44, American rower who won an Olympic silver medal, pancreatic cancer.[154]
16
- Walter Binaghi, 87, Argentine ICAO Council President.[155]
- Keith DeVries, 69, American archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania, excavated Gordion.[156]
- Kevin Hughes, 53, British Labour MP for Doncaster North, motor neurone disease.[157]
- Bob Orton, Sr., 76, American professional wrestler, heart attack.[158]
- Destiny Norton, 5, American child, murdered.[159]
- Ossi Reichert, 80, German alpine skier, Olympic Champion 1956.[160]
- Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 57, American billionaire and Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas since 1996, myeloproliferative disorder.[161][162]
- Malachi Thompson, 56, American jazz trumpeter, lymphoma.[163]
17
- Setsuro Ebashi, 83, Japanese physiologist.[164]
- Galen Fiss, 75, American Cleveland Browns linebacker.[165]
- Keith LeClair, 40, U.S. college baseball coach, Lou Gehrig's Disease.[166]
- Barbara Liebrich, 83, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[167]
- Robert Mardian, 82, American Republican party official, attorney for Richard Nixon, figure in the Watergate scandal, lung cancer.[168]
- Sam Myers, 70, American blues musician, who won nine W.C. Handy Awards with his band the Rockets, throat cancer.[169]
- Mickey Spillane, 88, American author, creator of Mike Hammer detective fiction, pancreatic cancer.[170]
- Reg Turnbull, 98, Australian politician.[171]
18
- Raul Cortez, 73, Brazilian actor, pancreatic cancer.[172]
- Henry Hewes, 89, American Saturday Review theater critic and editor of Best Plays (1960–1964).[173]
- Jimmy Leadbetter, 78, Scottish Ipswich Town footballer.[174]
- David Maloney, 72, British television director and producer for Doctor Who and Blake's 7.[175]
- Sir James Menter, 84, British physicist.[176]
- V. P. Sathyan, 41, Indian football player, captain of the India national football team, suicide by train.[177]
19
- Pat Davey, 93, Australian footballer (Richmond).[178]
- Mohammad Yunus Khalis, 87, Afghan mujahideen leader.[179]
- Sam Neely, 58, American singer-songwriter.[180]
- Pascal Renwick, 51, French voice actor
- Jack Warden, 85, American actor (Heaven Can Wait, Shampoo, 12 Angry Men), Emmy winner (1972), heart and kidney failure.[181]
- George Wetherill, 80, American astrophysicist, winner of the National Medal of Science.[182]
- Tudi Wiggins, 70, Canada-born soap opera actor, cancer.[183]
20
- Ugo Attardi, 83, Italian painter, sculptor and writer.[184]
- Charles Bettelheim, 92, French Marxist economist and historian.[185]
- Robert Cornthwaite, 89, American character actor (Thing From Another World).[186]
- Paddy Dunne, 77, Irish politician, Lord Mayor of Dublin (1975–1976) and senator.[187]
- Ted Grant, 93, South African-British Trotskyist politician.[188]
- Brandon Hedrick, 27, American convicted murderer and rapist, execution by electric chair.[189]
- Lim Kim San, 89, Singaporean politician, cabinet minister of Singapore.[190]
- Frank Nabarro, 90, English-born South African physicist who was a pioneer of solid state physics.[191]
- Harry Olivieri, 90, American restaurateur, co-inventor of the Philly cheesesteak and co-founder of Pat's King of Steaks cheesesteak emporium.[192]
- Gérard Oury, 87, French actor, screenwriter and film director.[193]
21
- Mako, 72, Japanese-American film, television and Broadway actor, esophageal cancer.[194]
- Ta Mok, 80, Cambodian military chief, Khmer Rouge commander.[195]
- J. Madison Wright Morris, 21, American child actress, heart attack.[196]
- Alexander Petrenko, 30, Russian international basketballer, traffic collision.[197]
- Gianmario Roveraro, 70, Italian banker and founder of Akros Finanziaria, murder.[198]
- Bert Slater, 70, Scottish footballer.[199]
22
- Heather Bratton, 19, American model, traffic collision.[200]
- Donald Reid Cabral, 83, Dominican politician and lawyer, foreign minister of the Dominican Republic.[122]
- José Antonio Delgado, 41, Venezuelan mountaineer, first Venezuelan to climb Mount Everest, while mountaineering.[201]
- Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, 71, Italian-Brazilian actor, complications from kidney disease.[202]
- Jessie Mae Hemphill, 82, American award-winning blues musician, complications of an infection.[203]
- Thomas J. Manton, 73, American longtime Democratic leader of Queens, NY, former US Representative (1985–99), prostate cancer.[204]
- Dika Newlin, 82, American musician and musicologist, scholar of Arnold Schoenberg.[205]
- Charles Knox Robinson III, 74, American actor, from complications of Parkinson's disease.
- James E. West, 55, American politician, mayor of Spokane, Washington, colorectal cancer.[206]
- Russell J. York, 84, American World War II veteran and hero of the battle for the Hurtgen Forest.[207]
23
- Charles E. Brady, Jr., 54, American former astronaut.[208]
- Jean-Paul Desbiens, 79, French-Canadian author of Les insolences du Frère Untel, heart attack.[209]
- James Callan Graham, 91, American lawyer and politician.[210]
- Vernon Grant, 71, American cartoonist.[211]
- Besby Holmes, 88, US Air Force fighter pilot, participant in air action that killed Admiral Yamamoto.[212][213]
- John Mack, 78, American oboist, complications from brain cancer.[214]
- Frederick Mosteller, 89, American Harvard professor of statistics, founding chair of the department of statistics, sepsis.[215]
- Terence Otway, 92, British soldier, commander of the assault on the Merville Battery on D-Day.[216]
24
- Janka Bryl, 89, Belarusian writer.[217]
- Heinrich Hollreiser, 93, German conductor.[218]
- Bill Long, 88, Canadian ice hockey coach.[219]
- Leon Morris, 92, Australian theologian.[220]
25
- Carl Brashear, 75, American first black US Navy diver, portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the film Men of Honor, heart failure.[221]
- Ezra Fleischer, 78, Romanian-born Israeli poet, winner of the Israel Prize, and professor at Hebrew University.[222]
- Hani Mohsin Hanafi, 41, Malaysian actor and television game show host, heart attack.[223]
- Aldo Notari, 74, Italian president of the International Baseball Federation.[224]
- Dame Mildred Riddelsdell, 92, British civil servant.[225]
- Bob Simpson, 61, British retired senior BBC correspondent.[226]
26
- Floyd Dixon, 77, American R&B pianist, kidney failure.[227]
- Vincent J. Fuller, 75, American lawyer who defended John Hinckley, Jr., lung cancer.[228]
- Jessie Gilbert, 19, British chess player, youngest Women's World Amateur Championship winner, fall.[229]
- Rolf Arthur Hansen, 86, Norwegian government minister.[230]
- Roi Klein, Israeli IDF Major, won Medal of Courage.[231]
- Darrell Martinie, 63, American astrologer known as "the Cosmic Muffin", cancer.[232]
- Princess Tatiana von Metternich, 91, Russian-born German aristocrat, World War II diarist, and arts patron.[233]
27
- Maryann Mahaffey, 81, American member of Detroit city council, leukemia.[234]
- Sir Charles Mills, 91, British admiral.[235]
- Carlos Roque, 70, Portuguese comic book artist.[236]
- Alexandru Șafran, 95, Romanian and Swiss rabbi, Chief Rabbi of Romania who tried to stop the deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi regime during World War II.[237][238]
- Elisabeth Volkmann, 70, German actress, German voice of Marge Simpson.[239]
- Johnny Weissmuller Jr., 65, American actor, son of Johnny Weissmuller, liver cancer.[240]
- Funsho Williams, 58, Nigerian politician, strangled.[241]
28
- Patrick Allen, 79, British actor.[242]
- Rut Brandt, 86, Norwegian resistance fighter, second wife of former German chancellor Willy Brandt.[243]
- Nigel Cox, 55, New Zealand novelist, cancer.[244]
- Abdallah Isaaq Deerow, 56, Somali politician, Constitution and Federalism Minister of Somalia, assassination by gunshot.[245]
- Harold Enarson, 87, American academic, president of Ohio State University (1972–1981), fired football coach Woody Hayes, hydrocephalus.[246]
- David Gemmell, 57, British fantasy novelist.[247][248]
- Joel Hedgpeth, 94, American marine biologist and Californian environmental activist.[249]
- Richard Mock, 61, American painter, sculptor, and editorial cartoonist.[250]
- Sep Smith, 94, English Leicester City footballer, and oldest living England international player.[251]
- Billy Walsh, 85, Irish Manchester City footballer & Grimsby Town manager, who played international football for both Ireland teams, the FAI XI and the IFA XI, and New Zealand.[252]
29
- Hani Awijan, 29, Palestinian leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military wing, The Al-Quds brigades, in Nablus, West Bank, gunshot wounds.[253]
- Guido Daccò, 63, Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula 3000, 24 Hours of Le Mans, & Champ Car.[254]
- José López Rosario, 30, Puerto Rican drug dealer.[255]
- Jean Baker Miller, 78, American psychiatrist.[256]
- James Olin, 86, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1982–1992).[257]
- Pierre Vidal-Naquet, 76, French historian and activist, cerebral haemorrhage.[258]
30
- Duygu Asena, 60, Turkish writer and civil-rights advocate, brain tumour.[259]
- Al Balding, 82, Canadian golfer, cancer.[260]
- Murray Bookchin, 85, American author, heart failure.[261]
- Philip D'Arcy Hart, 106, British medical researcher.[262]
- Anthony Galla-Rini, 102, American concert accordionist, heart failure.[263]
- Akbar Mohammadi, 37, Iranian student dissident, heart attack following a hunger strike and torture.[264]
- Zdravko Rajkov, 78, Serbian football player and manager.[265]
31
- Dugald Christie, 65, Canadian lawyer who fought for equitable access to legal services, traffic collision.[266]
- Simón Echeverría, 34, Chilean record producer, pancreatic cancer.[267]
- Paul Eells, 70, American sportscaster, voice of the Arkansas Razorbacks football and basketball for radio and television, traffic collision.[268]
- Mario Faustinelli, 81, Italian comic book artist.[269]
- Frederick Kilgour, 92, American librarian, founder of OCLC Online Computer Library Center.[270][271]
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