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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.
1
- Radu Bălescu, 73, Romanian scientist.[1]
- Frederick S. Billig, 73, American aerospace engineer.[2]
- Shokichi Iyanaga, 100, Japanese mathematician.[3]
- Rocío Jurado, 61, Spanish singer and actress, pancreatic cancer.[4]
- Allan Prior, 84, British television scriptwriter (Z-Cars, Howards' Way, The Charmer), father of folk singer Maddy Prior.[5]
- Abdul Latif Sharif, 59, Egyptian chemist, suspect in the femicides in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, officially of natural causes, rumored poisoning.
- Jack Shelton, 82, Australian cricketer.[6]
- William D. Winn, 59, American professor of education at the University of Washington.[7]
2
- Ronald Cass, 83, British film score composer.[8]
- Roy Farran, 85, British army officer.[9]
- Bernard Loomis, 82, American toymaker responsible for Strawberry Shortcake and Star Wars action figures, heart disease.[10]
- Leon Pownall, 63, Canadian actor, cancer.[11]
- Vince Welnick, 55, American keyboardist, member of The Grateful Dead, suicide by exsanguination.[12]
- Edward Yates, 87, American television director, director of American Bandstand (1952–1969).[13]
- Vyacheslav Klykov, 66, Russian sculptor and nationalist politician.[14]
3
- Leo Clarke, 82, Australian Roman Catholic Bishop of Maitland–Newcastle, Australia, 1976-1995.[15]
- Brian Duke, 79, Ugandan-born tropical disease expert who helped to save millions from river blindness.[16]
- Johnny Grande, 76, American pianist, member of Bill Haley's backing band, The Comets. Complications arising from cancer.[17]
- George Kashdan, 78, American comic book writer and editor (House of Mystery, Aquaman, Sgt. Rock).[18]
- Doug Serrurier, 85, South African former Grand Prix racing driver and constructor.[19]
4
- Alec Bregonzi, 76, British actor.[20]
- Bill Fleming, 92, American MLB pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs[21]
- Ron Jones, 41, American Major League Baseball player, brain hemorrhage.[22]
- Richard Kapp, 69, American conductor and founder of the Philharmonia Virtuosi.[23]
- John Kerr, 46, British footballer (Tranmere Rovers).[24]
- Fulvia Mammi, 79, Italian actress (Against the Law).[25]
- Anthony Marreco, 90, British barrister, junior Counsel at the Nuremberg Trials and founding member of Amnesty International.[26]
- Sir John Rowlands, 90, British air marshal and George Cross recipient.[27]
- William M. Steger, 85, United States district court judge and Republican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1960.[28]
5
- Frederick Franck, 97, Dutch artist, author, and dentist.[29]
- Elizabeth Fretwell, 85, Australian opera singer best known for her performances with the Sadler's Wells company.[30]
- Eric Gregg, 55, American former Major League Baseball umpire, stroke.[31]
- Edward L. Moyers, 77, American railroad executive.[32]
- Robert Ross, 86, American 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.[33]
- Harley Rutledge, 80, American physicist and ufologist.[34]
- Huda Sultan, 80, Egyptian actress, cancer.[35]
6
- Leslie Alcock, 81, British pioneer of Dark Age archaeology, led the team that excavated Cadbury Castle.[36]
- María Teresa López Boegeholz, 78, Chilean oceanographer.[37]
- Arnold Newman, 88, American photographer who pioneered "environmental portraiture".[38]
- 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.[39]
- Hilton Ruiz, 54, American jazz pianist, injuries from a fall.[40]
- Léon Weil, 109, French World War I veteran.[41]
- Jason Moss, 31, American attorney and author of the book "The Last Victim"[42]
7
- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, 39, Jordanian leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military strike.[43]
- Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman, spiritual adviser for Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military strike.[44]
- Roy Brain, 79, Australian cricketer.[45]
- Terry McCann, 74, American wrestler, olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling and helped found USA Wrestling, and retired Executive Director of Toastmasters International, cancer.[46]
- Ingo Preminger, 95, Austrian-born American Hollywood talent agent and producer (M*A*S*H), brother of Otto Preminger.[47][48]
- Mickey Sims, 51, American football defensive tackle, former player with the Cleveland Browns, heart attack.[49]
- Louis B. Sohn, 92, Ukrainian-born scholar of international law, helped draft the UN Charter.[50]
- John Tenta (aka "Earthquake"), 42, Canadian professional wrestler for the World Wrestling Federation, bladder cancer.[51]
8
- Jake Copass, 86, American cowboy poet, leukemia.[52]
- Robert Donner, 75, American actor (Mork & Mindy, The Waltons, High Plains Drifter), aneurysm.[53]
- Jack Jackson (nom de plume Jaxon), 65, American comic book artist and co-founder of Rip Off Press.[54]
- Mykola Kolessa, 102, Ukrainian composer and conductor.[55]
- Abouna Matta El Meskeen, 87, Egyptian Coptic Orthodox monk, Spiritual Father of St. Macarius' Monastery in the Wilderness of Scetis, Egypt.[56]
- John Roberts, 72, Australian businessman, founder of Australian construction company Multiplex, Complications of diabetes.[57]
- Jamal Abu Samhadana, Palestinian leader of PA / Hamas forces in Gaza Strip and PRC. Killed by Israeli air strike.[58]
- Talcott Seelye, 84, United States Foreign Service Officer and ambassador to Tunisia and Syria.[59]
- Sir Peter Smithers, 92, British politician, MP for Winchester and Secretary General of the Council of Europe.[60]
9
- Kinga Choszcz aka "Freespirit", Polish author (Led By Destiny: Hitchhiking Around the World), cerebral malaria.[61]
- Drafi Deutscher, 60, German singer.
- Michael Forrestall, 73, Canadian senator, died following hospitalization for breathing problems.[62]
- Patricia Janus, 74, American poet, heart attack brought on by liver cancer.
- Enzo Siciliano, 72, Italian writer, diabetes mellitus.[63]
- Vern Williams, 76, American bluegrass mandolin player and singer.[64]
10
- Qadi Abdul Karim Abdullah Al-Arashi, 72, Yemeni politician, former President of North Yemen.[65]
- Hubertus Czernin, 50, Austrian journalist who helped return paintings looted by the Nazis, mastocytosis.[66]
- Moe Drabowsky, 70, Polish-born American Major League Baseball player, multiple myeloma.[67]
- German Goldenshteyn, 71, Bessarabian-born clarinetist and klezmer musician.[68]
- Wulff-Dieter Heintz, 76, German astronomer at Swarthmore College.[69]
- Kenneth Jack, 81, Australian artist.[70]
- Charles Johnson, 96, American Negro league baseball player for the Chicago American Giants, complications of prostate cancer.[71]
- Peter Douglas Kennedy, 83, British folklorist.[72]
- Philip Merrill, 72, American publisher and diplomat, suicide by gunshot.[73]
- Ruddy Thomas, 54, Jamaican singer, heart attack.[74]
11
- Michael Bartosh, 28, American Mac OS X Server expert, injuries from a fall.[75]
- Ernest Arthur Bell, 79, British biochemist, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.[76]
- James Cameron, 92, American civil rights activist, founder of America's Black Holocaust Museum, lymphoma.[77]
- Neroli Fairhall, 61, New Zealand paraplegic archer and Olympic competitor.[78]
- Rolande Falcinelli, 86, French organist and composer.[79]
- Tim Hildebrandt, 67, American artist, complications of diabetes.[80]
- Hugh Latimer, 93, English actor and toy maker.[81]
- Mike Quarry, 55, American light heavyweight boxer, who challenged Bob Foster for the title, pugilistic dementia.[82]
- Bruce Shand, 89, British Army officer, father of Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall, and father-in-law of Charles, Prince of Wales, cancer.[83]
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.[84]
- Andrew William "Nicky" Barr, 90, Australian rugby union player and World War II fighter pilot [85]
- Chakufwa Chihana, 67, Malawian politician, opposition figure who ran unsuccessfully for President losing to Bakili Muluzi, brain tumour.[86]
- György Ligeti, 83, Hungarian composer.[87]
- José Leite Lopes, 87, Brazilian physicist.[88]
- Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, 82, Canadian billionaire, media mogul and art collector. Possible heart attack.[89]
13
- Freddie Gorman, 67, US songwriter.[90]
- Charles Haughey, 80, Irish politician, Taoiseach (1979–1981, 1982, 1987–1992), prostate cancer.[91]
- Hiroyuki Iwaki, 73, Japanese conductor, congestive heart failure.[92]
- Luis Jiménez, 65, American sculptor, crushed by a statue.[93]
- Burke Riley, 92, American lawyer and politician, Alzheimer's disease.[94]
- Dennis Shepherd, 79, South African Olympic boxer.[95]
14
- Monty Berman, 94, British B-movie producer.[96]
- Surinder Kaur, 77, Indian Punjabi folk and classical singer known as the "nightingale of Punjab".[97]
- Edward Craig Morris, 66, American archaeologist.[98]
- Jean Roba, 75, Belgian comics writer[99]
- James Davis Speed, 91, American politician.[100]
15
- Betty Curtis, 70, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival in 1961 with Luciano Tajoli.[101]
- Raymond Devos, 83, French humorist.[102]
- Ján Langoš, 59, Slovak politician, head of the National Memory Institute of Slovakia.[103]
- Carlos Tovar, 92, Peruvian football player.[104]
16
- Roland Boyes, 69, British Labour politician and photographer, Alzheimer's disease.[105]
- Barbara Epstein, 76, American literary editor, co-founder of the New York Review of Books, lung cancer.[106]
- Arthur Malvin, 83, American Emmy award-winning composer and lyricist, after a long illness.[107]
- Scott Manning, 48, Canadian athlete, builder and pilot of the world's smallest jet, crash landing.[108]
- Daphne Osborne, 76, British botanist.[109]
- Igor Śmiałowski, 88, Polish actor.[110]
17
- Norma Becker, 76, American anti-war activist, former chair of the War Resisters League.[111]
- Cláudio Besserman Vianna (Bussunda), 43, Brazilian comedian, member of Casseta & Planeta, heart attack[112]
- Arthur Franz, 86, American character actor (Sands of Iwo Jima, Invaders from Mars), emphysema and heart disease.[113][114]
- Mikhail Lapshin, 71, Russian politician, leader of the Agrarian Party and former president of the Altai Republic (2002–2006), cause unknown.[115]
- Charles Older, 88, American Los Angeles Superior Court judge who presided over the Charles Manson trial, complications of a fall.[116][117]
- Abdul-Khalim Saydullayev, 38 or 39, Chechen separatist rebel leader.[118]
- Hiroaki Shukuzawa, 55, Japanese rugby union coach, heart attack.[119]
- Julian Slade, 76, English composer and lyricist of Salad Days, cancer.[120]
- Bob Weaver, 77, American TV Florida-based weatherman known as "Weaver the Weatherman" on WTVJ, cancer.[121]
18
- Luke Belton, 87, Irish politician.[122]
- Hubert Cornfield, 77, Turkish film director in Hollywood (The Night of the Following Day, Les Grandes Moyens etc.).[123]
- Nathaniel Neiman Craley, Jr., 78, American politician, former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives (1965–67) from Pennsylvania.[124]
- Jesus Fuertes, 68, Spanish painter and protégé of Pablo Picasso, heart attack.[125]
- Chris and Cru Kahui, 3-months, New Zealand child homicide victims.[126]
- Gică Petrescu, 91, Romanian singer.[127]
- Sir David Poole, 68, British judge.[128]
- Donald Reilly, 72, American cartoonist (The New Yorker), cancer.[129]
- René Renou, 54, French vintner, president of INAO.[130]
- Netta Rheinberg, 94, English cricketer.[131]
- Vincent Sherman, 99, American film director (Mr. Skeffington, The Young Philadelphians), natural causes.[132]
- Richard Stahl, 74, American actor (9 to 5, Ghosts of Mississippi, Five Easy Pieces), Parkinson's disease.[133]
- Madeleine St John, 64, Australian novelist who wrote a book shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997, emphysema.[134]
19
- Hugh Baird, 76, Scottish footballer for Leeds United, Aberdeen, Airdrieonians and Scotland.[135]
- Duane Roland, 53, American guitarist and a founder of rock band Molly Hatchet.[136]
- Howard Shanet, 87, US conductor and composer.[137]
- Arthur Yap, 64, Singaporean poet, artist, and lecturer, English Department, University of Singapore, throat cancer.[138]
20
- Maurice Bevan, 85, British bass-baritone.[139]
- Bill Daniel, 90, American politician, former Governor of Guam.[140]
- Evelyn Dubrow, 95, US women and labor advocate awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999.[141]
- Billy Johnson, 87, American professional baseball player, former New York Yankee and All-Star third baseman, cause not given.[142]
- E. Pierce Marshall, 67, American businessman, son of J. Howard Marshall and Anna Nicole Smith's stepson and plaintiff in their inheritance feud, aggressive infection.[143]
- William Shurcliff, 97, American physicist, who helped develop the atomic bomb.[144]
- Claydes Charles Smith, 57, American musician, co-founder and lead guitarist of Kool and the Gang.[145]
21
- Theo Bell, 52, American National Football League header with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, kidney disease and scleroderma.[146]
- Vern Leroy Bullough, 77, American medical historian, known for his history of nursing, cancer.[147]
- Denis Faul, 73, Irish Roman Catholic priest, 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.[148]
- Jacques Lanzmann, 79, French author, editor and songwriter.[149]
- Khamis al-Obeidi, 39, Iraqi defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein, kidnapped and shot.[150]
- David Walton, 43, British economist, member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee[151]
- Jonathan Wordsworth, 73, English academic, scholar of Romanticism and chair of the Wordsworth Trust.[152]
22
- Heinz Ansbacher, 101, German-born psychologist and expert in the work of Alfred Adler.[153]
- Back Alley John, 51, Canadian musician.[154]
- Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, 90, British army general.[155]
- Moose, 15, American canine actor (Frasier, My Dog Skip).[156]
- Chanel Petro Nixon, 16, American student, murder victim in Brooklyn, New York.
- Sir Peter Russell, 92, British historian.
- Sir Michael Weir, 81, British diplomat, Ambassador to Egypt (1979–1985).[157]
23
- Martin Adler, 47, Swedish journalist. Shot by unknown assailant in Mogadishu, Somalia.[158]
- Harriet, 176, Galápagos tortoise believed to be the third oldest animal in the world and allegedly owned by Charles Darwin, heart failure.[159]
- Grady Johnson, 66, American WWF wrestler, known as "Crazy" Luke Graham; heart failure.[160]
- Budhi Kunderan, 66, Indian cricketer, wicketkeeper/batsman, lung cancer.[161]
- Basil O'Ferrall, 81, Irish Anglican priest, Dean of Jersey (1985–1993).[162]
- Tom Pelly, 70, Australian rules footballer (North Melbourne).[163]
- Aaron Spelling, 83, American television producer (Charlie's Angels, Starsky and Hutch, Beverly Hills, 90210), complications of stroke.[164]
24
- Denice Denton, 46, American professor, chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, suicide by jumping.[165]
- Tichaona Jokonya, 67, Zimbabwean politician, Information & Publicity Minister, cardiac arrest.[166]
- Patsy Ramsey, 49, American beauty pageant winner, mother of JonBenét Ramsey, ovarian cancer.[167]
- Lyle Stuart, 83, American journalist and publisher.[168]
- Gerald Tomlinson, 73, American mystery and baseball writer.[169]
- Ric Weiland, 53, American Microsoft pioneer, developed BASIC, COBOL and Microsoft Works, suicide by gunshot.[170]
25
- Elkan Allan, 83, British television producer, created Ready Steady Go! and developed the first television listings for the UK in the Sunday Times.[171]
- Eliyahu Asheri, 18, Israeli civilian kidnapped and murdered by militants in the West Bank city of Ramallah.[172]
- Charles Barrow, 84, American former justice of the Texas Supreme Court.[173]
- Richard DeVore, 73, American ceramicist, lung cancer.[174]
- Kenneth Griffith, 84, Welsh actor and documentary maker, Parkinson's disease.[175]
- Akbar Hossain, 65, Bangladeshi Minister for Shipping and hero of 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, heart attack.[176]
- Irving Kaplansky, 89, American mathematician at the University of Chicago.[177]
- Dibya Khaling, 56, Nepali musician, composer and lyricist, responsible for 1,000 songs, cardiac arrest.[178]
- Arif Mardin, 74, Turkish-American Grammy Award winning music producer, pancreatic cancer.[179]
- Sophie Maslow, 95, American choreographer.[180]
- Gad Navon, 84, Moroccan-born Former Chief Israeli Military Rabbi, cancer.[181]
- Jaap Penraat, 88, Dutch architect and member of Dutch resistance in World War II.[182]
- Seema Aissen Weatherwax, 100, Ukrainian photographer.[183]
26
- Bear JJ1 (Bruno the Bear), the first wild bear in Germany in 170 years, shot to death.[184]
- Paulino Díaz, 71, Mexican sports shooter.[185]
- Johnny Jenkins, 67, American blues guitarist who influenced Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix, stroke.[186][187]
- Parami Kulatunga, Sri Lankan military officer, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lankan Army, bomb blast.[188]
- Frederick Mayer, 84, German educational philosopher, creativity expert, author of "History of Educational Thought".
- Eric Rofes, 51, American author and AIDS educator, heart attack.[189]
- Stan Torgerson, 82, American radio announcer for Ole Miss football and basketball games.[190]
- Jeff Winkless, 65, American voice actor, brain tumor.
27
- Eileen Barton, 76, American singer, actress, ovarian cancer[191]
- Robert Carrier, 82, American celebrity chef.[192]
- J. Robert Elliott, 96, US Federal District Judge who overturned the conviction of Lt. William Calley.[193]
- Sir Gerard Mansfield, 84, British admiral.[194]
- Marta Mata, 80, Spanish politician and pedagogue.[195]
- Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, 45, Mexican convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.[196]
28
- Jim Baen, 62, American science fiction editor and publisher.[197]
- Vikram Dharma, 44/45, Indian film stunt director.[198]
- Theodore Levitt, 81, German-born former editor of the Harvard Business Review and author of books on marketing, coined the term globalization.[199]
- June Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury, 78, British paediatrician and life peer.[200]
- Mahmoud Mestiri, 77, Tunisian diplomat and politician, former foreign minister.[115]
- George Page, 71, American television host, creator and narrator of the PBS series Nature.[201]
- Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, 87, English barrister, politician and author.[202]
- Fernando Sanchez, 70, Belgian-born fashion designer.[203]
- George Unwin, 93, British pilot and RAF officer, Battle of Britain flying ace.[204]
- Lennie Weinrib, 71, American voice actor (H.R. Pufnstuf, The New Adventures of Batman, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo).[205]
29
- Fabián Bielinsky, 47, Argentine film director, heart attack.[206]
- Joseph Edamaruku, 71, Indian journalist, heart attack.[207]
- Joyce Hatto, 77, English classical pianist, who plagiarized more than 100 albums, cancer.[208]
- Ed Hugus, 82, American racing driver.[209]
- Stanley Moskowitz, 68, American CIA liaison to Congress, heart attack.[210]
- Wallace Potts, 59, American film archivist for the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation, lymphoma.[211]
- Lloyd Richards, 87, Canadian-American theatre director, first black Broadway director, Tony Award winner, heart failure.[212]
- Pierre Rinfret, 82, Canadian-born economist and Republican candidate for Governor of New York in 1990.[213]
- Randy Walker, 52, American Northwestern University football coach, apparent heart attack[214]
- F. Mark Wyatt, 86, American CIA officer, who delivered bags of money to swing the 1948 Italy election.[215]
30
- Robert Gernhardt, 68, German satirist.[216]
- Edward S. Hamilton, 89, American Army officer, highly decorated Army veteran during World War II, pneumonia.[217]
- Harold Olmo, 96, American grape breeder and geneticist.[218]
- Richard Streeton, 75, English sports journalist [219]
- Ross Tompkins, 68, American The Tonight Show pianist.[220]
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