Deaths in May 2006
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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.
May 2006
1
- Jay Presson Allen, 84, American screenwriter, stroke.[1]
- Wilfrid Butt, 83, English biochemist and reproductive endocrinologist.[2]
- Ed Casey, 73, Australian politician, former Queensland Labor Party leader, stroke.[3]
- George F. Haines, 82, American Olympic swimming coach, complications from a stroke.[4]
- Betsy Jones-Moreland, 76, American film and television actress, cancer.[5]
- Rob Lacey, 43, British stage actor and award-winning Christian author, bladder cancer.[6]
- Rauno Lehtinen, 74, Finnish composer.[7]
- Johnny Paris, 65, American saxophonist (Johnny & the Hurricanes).[8]
- Bruce Peterson, 72, American test pilot and engineer, known for surviving the crash of the M2-F2 and inspiring the TV-series The Six Million Dollar Man.[9]
- Raúl Francisco Primatesta, 87, Argentine retired Cardinal Archbishop of Córdoba, Argentina.[10] Slim Aarons Gets ripped off the paper photo
2
- Clive Burgess, 55, Welsh rugby union player.[11]
- Joseph Lewis Clark, 57, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio.[12]
- Boyd Coffie, 68, American baseball player and manager, cancer.[13]
- Luigi Griffanti, 89, Italian footballer, goalkeeper of ACF Fiorentina in the 1940s.[14]
- Sam Mokuahi, Jr. aka "Sammy Steamboat", 71, American Hawaiian professional wrestler, complications from Alzheimer's disease.[15]
- Louis Rukeyser, 73, American business and economics expert, multiple myeloma.[16]
- Juan Ramón Salgado, 45, Honduran congressional deputy, gunshot wounds.[17]
3
- Karel Appel, 85, Dutch COBRA painter.[18]
- Rosita Fernandez, 88, American singer.[19]
- Franco Lavoratori, 65, Italian water polo player, Olympic Champion (1960).[20]
- Pramod Mahajan, 56, Indian politician, general secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party, gunshot wounds.[21]
- Howard Thomas Markey, 85, American federal judge and U.S. Air Force major general, first chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.[22]
- Earl Woods, 74, American US Army infantry officer, father and former coach of U.S. golfer Tiger Woods, prostate cancer.[23]
4
- Alejandra Boero, 88, Argentine theater actress, director and teacher, pulmonary hypertension.[24]
- Jim Delsing, 80, American Major League Baseball player, cancer.[25]
- Arthur B. Metzner, 79, Canadian chemical engineer.[26]
- Michael Taliferro, 45, American actor and football player, stroke.[27]
5
- Naushad Ali, 86, Indian musician.[28]
- Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga, 85, Romanian comparatist and essayist.[29]
- George Roche III, 70, American former President of Hillsdale College, probable heart attack.[30]
- Atıf Yılmaz, 80, Turkish film director, screenwriter and producer, cancer.[31]
6
- Lillian Asplund, 99, last American survivor of the Titanic sinking, died in sleep.[32]
- Konstantin Beskov, 85, Soviet and Russian footballer and manager.[33]
- Ruth Bachhuber Doyle, 89, American politician and educator.[34]
- Shigeru Kayano, 79, Japanese Ainu activist.[35]
- Grant McLennan, 48, Australian lead singer of The Go-Betweens, suspected heart attack.[36]
- Sir Anthony Morton, 82, British admiral.[37]
- Flight Lieutenant Sarah-Jayne Mulvihill, 32, first British servicewoman to be killed in action in Iraq.[38]
- František Peřina, 95, Czechoslovak fighter pilot who served in the British Royal Air Force during World War II.[39]
- Pattabhi Rama Reddy, 87, Indian moviemaker, complications from a prolonged illness.[40]
- Lorne Saxberg, 48, Canadian television journalist, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) broadcaster.[41]
- Sister Rose Thering, 85, American Roman Catholic nun and professor at Seton Hall University.[42]
7
- Steve Bender, 59, German record producer and member of Dschinghis Khan.[43]
- Duncan Inglis Cameron, 78, Scottish university administrator.[44]
- Richard Carleton, 62, Australian television journalist (60 Minutes), heart attack.[45]
- Joan C. Edwards, 87, American philanthropist, liver cancer.[46]
- Stella Sigcau, 69, South African Public Works Minister, heart-related problems.[47]
- Jocelyn Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale, 95, United Kingdom minister and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.[48]
- Machiko Soga, 68, Japanese voice actress and actress and tokusatsu legend (Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, etc.), pancreatic cancer.[49]
8
- Lovana Jones, 68, American Assistant Majority Leader in the Illinois House of Representatives, represented the 26th District since 1987, undisclosed causes.[50]
- John Kimbrough, 87, American football player (College Hall of Fame with Texas A&M) and state legislator, pneumonia.[51]
- George Lutz, 59, American owner of the Amityville Horror house.[52][53]
- Patrick Pule "Ace" Ntsoelengoe, 50, South African soccer player with the Minnesota Kicks and Kaizer Chiefs, unknown causes.[54]
- Barbara Schwartz, 58, American painter.[55]
9
- Adrian Bennett, 73, Australian politician, MHR for Division of Swan (1969–1975).[56]
- Corey Engen, 90, Norwegian-born captain of the U.S. Nordic skiing team at the 1948 Winter Olympics, complications of pneumonia.[57]
- Jerzy Ficowski, 81, Polish poet, writer and translator.[58]
- Pietro Garinei, 87, Italian playwright and lyricist of "Arrivederci Roma" and other songs.[59]
- Edouard Jaguer, French poet and art critic.[60]
- Tony Ward, 82, Australian actor and journalist, cancer.[61]
10
- Val Guest, 94, British film writer and director (The Quatermass Xperiment, Casino Royale).[62]
- Marie Hartley, 100, British author and illustrator.[63]
- John Hicks, 64, American jazz pianist/composer.[64]
- James Keogh, 89, American former executive editor of Time and speechwriter for US President Richard Nixon.[65]
- Georgy Korniyenko, 81, Russian diplomat and deputy to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.[66]
- A.M. Rosenthal, 84, Canadian-born Executive Editor of The New York Times for 17 years, stroke.[67]
- Soraya, 37, Colombian-American songwriter, guitarist, arranger, record producer, and singer, breast cancer.[68]
- Aleksandr Zinovyev, 83, Russian logician, sociologist and writer, brain cancer.[69]
11
- Yossi Banai, 74, Israeli singer and actor, cancer.[70]
- Sir Frank Mills, 82, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Ghana and Bangladesh.[71]
- Byron Morrow, 95, American TV and film character actor.[72]
- Michael O'Leary, 70, Irish politician and barrister, former leader of the Irish Labour Party, drowned in a swimming pool.[73]
- Floyd Patterson, 71, American former boxing heavyweight champion, Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer.[74]
- Ferdinando Tacconi, 83, Italian comics artist.[75]
- Frankie Thomas, 85, American actor (Tom Corbett, Space Cadet), stroke.[76]
12
- Ted Berkman, 92, American author, scriptwriter (Bedtime for Bonzo).[77]
- Hussein Maziq, 88, Libyan politician, former prime minister & foreign minister of Libya.[78]
- Gillespie V. "Sonny" Montgomery, 85, American politician, former U.S. representative from Mississippi.[79]
- Arthur Porges, 90, American science fiction and fantasy writer.[80]
13
- Joan Diener, 76, American actress/soprano (Man of La Mancha), complications of cancer.[81]
- Rick Farley, 53, Australian National Farmers' Federation Chief Executive for eight years.[82]
- Ryan Francis, 19, American college basketball player, freshman point guard for the University of Southern California basketball team, homicide.[83]
- Fernando Inchauste, 75, Bolivian Olympian.[84]
- Jaroslav Pelikan, 82, American historian of Christianity, winner of the Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences, lung cancer.[85]
- Östen Sjöstrand, 80, Swedish poet, translator and member of the Swedish Academy.[86]
- Peter Viereck, 89, American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.[87]
- Johnnie Wilder, Jr., 56, American musician (Heatwave).[88]
14
- Lew Anderson, 84, American bandleader, played Clarabell the Clown on The Howdy Doody Show, prostate cancer.[89]
- James Botten, 67, South African international test cricketer, complications after colon operations.[90]
- William Ginsberg, 75, American professor of environmental law at Hofstra University and former New York City commissioner of parks and recreation.[91]
- Reza Hassanzadeh, 33, Iranian professional soccer player with Teraktor Sazi F.C., injuries from car accident.[92]
- Stanley Kunitz, 100, American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former US poet laureate.[93]
- Jim Lemon, 78, American Major League Baseball player, cancer.[94]
- Paul Marco, 78, American film actor (Plan 9 from Outer Space).[95]
- Bruce Merrifield, 84, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist.[96]
- Günther Nenning, 84, Austrian journalist, author and political activist.[97]
- Eva Norvind, Norwegian-born Mexican writer and actress, drowning accident.[98]
15
- Joyce Ballantyne, 88, American artist best known for creating the "Coppertone Girl" ad, heart attack.[99]
- George Blackburn, 93, American football player, head football coach at University of Virginia (1965–1970).[100]
- George Crile III, 61, American journalist, CBS News producer, pancreatic cancer.[101]
- Eberhard Esche, 73, German actor.[102]
- Chic Hecht, 77, American politician, former Republican Senator for Nevada, prostate cancer.[103]
- Judith Moore, 66, American author.[104]
- Cheikha Rimitti, 83, Algerian singer, heart attack.[105]
- David Sharp, 34, British mountaineer.[106]
- Bill Strode, 69, American Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer, cancer.[107]
16
- Clare Boylan, 58, Irish author of 12 books including 7 novels, ovarian cancer.[108]
- Beryl Evans, 84, Australian politician, NSW MLC (1984–1995).[109]
- Anthony Murray, 47, New Zealand rugby league player.[110]
- Jorge Porcel, 69, Argentine actor and comedian, following gall bladder surgery.[111]
- Dan Ross, 49, American former NFL football player (Cincinnati Bengals), suspected heart attack.[112]
- Takahiro Tamura, 77, Japanese movie and television actor, cerebral infarction.[113]
17
- Cy Feuer, 95, American Broadway producer and writer (Guys and Dolls).[114]
- Eric Forth, 61, British Conservative Member of Parliament and former government minister, bone cancer.[115]
- Nichola Goddard, 26, Canadian soldier, Canadian Forces, first female since WWII to be killed in combat.[116]
- Dan Q. Kennis, 86, American B movie producer.[117]
- John Marsden, 64, Australian lawyer and civil liberties activist, cancer.[118]
- Sir John Miller, 87, British equestrian and courtier, Crown Equerry to the Queen (1961–1987).[119]
- Daniel Owino Misiani, 66, Tanzanian Benga musician, car accident.[120]
- Mieczysław Nowak, 69, Polish weightlifter, 1964 Olympic medalist.[121]
- Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin, 63, Turkish prominent judge sitting in Turkey's highest court, shot dead.[122]
- Ramesh Parekh, 65, Indian poet.[123]
- Lawrence "Ramrod" Shurtliff, 61, American music executive, longtime crew member of the Grateful Dead, lung cancer.[124]
18
- Jaan Eilart, 73, Estonian biogeographer.[125]
- Stephen Fleet, 69, British researcher in mineral sciences and Former Registrary, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Master of Downing College, Cambridge.[126]
- George M. Foster, 92, American anthropologist.[127]
- Morris Glushien, 96, American lawyer, general counsel for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.[128]
- Hans Horrevoets, 32, Dutch sailor, swept overboard while competing in Volvo Ocean Race.[129]
- Stan Jones, 91, British Olympic runner.[130]
- Maksim Kahan, 88, Israeli Olympic shooter.[131]
- Andrew Martinez, 33, American activist, the "Naked Guy" at the University of California, Berkeley, apparent suicide by asphyxiation.[132]
- Vitor Negrete, 38, Brazilian mountaineer, died after reaching the peak of Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen.[133]
- Michael O'Riordan, 88, Irish chairman of the Communist Party of Ireland and International Brigades veteran.[134]
- Kiyan Prince, 15, British youth team player with English football team Queens Park Rangers, stabbed.[135]
- Robert Reid, 81, American chemical engineer.[136]
- Gilbert Sorrentino, 77, American novelist.[137]
19
- Yitzhak Ben Aharon, 99, Israeli left-wing politician, founder of the Israeli Labor Party.[138]
- Edward R. Becker, 73, American former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.[139]
- Peter Bryant, 82, British television producer.[140]
- Freddie Garrity, 69, English lead singer of Freddie and the Dreamers, 1960s pop band, heart disease.[141]
- Alan Sapper, 75, British trade unionist.[142]
20
- JoAnna Lund, 61, American cookbook author, cancer.[143]
- Bobby Jack Fowler, 66, American rapist and suspected murderer.
- Les Olive, 78, English Assistant Secretary of Manchester United at time of Munich air disaster, prostate cancer.[144]
- Andy Radford, 62, British Anglican bishop, Bishop of Taunton, brain tumour.[145]
- Cherd Songsri, 74, Thai film director, cancer.[146]
- Annis Stukus, 91, Canadian football player and ice hockey general manager, member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame for his contributions to the Canadian Football League and ice hockey.[147]
- Tommy Watt, 80, British jazz bandleader.[148]
21
- Katherine Dunham, 96, American dancer and choreographer.[149]
- Sherman Skolnick, 75, American Illinois anti-corruption activist, heart attack.[150]
- Inger Louise Valle, 84, Norwegian politician, Minister of Justice (1973–1979).[151]
- Billy Walker, 77, American country music performer and member of the Grand Ole Opry, traffic accident.[152]
22
- Spencer Clark, 19, American NASCAR Busch Series driver, road accident.[153]
- Heather Crowe, 61, Canadian anti-smoking activist, lung cancer.[154]
- Hamza El Din, 76, Nubian Egyptian oud player.[155]
- Jack Fallon, 90, Canadian-born British jazz double bassist.[156]
- Lee Jong-wook, 61, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization, brain thrombus.[157]
- Lilia Prado, 78, Mexican actress, multiple organ failure.[158]
23
- Philippe Amaury, 66, French media owner, cancer.[159]
- Clifford Antone, 56, American Austin blues club owner, heart attack.[160]
- Lloyd Bentsen, 85, American vice-presidential candidate, Senator, and Treasury Secretary under Clinton.[161]
- James W. Carey, 71, American professor of journalism at Columbia University, author.[162]
- Ray Cale, 83, Welsh rugby player, dual international for Wales in rugby union and rugby league.[163]
- Ian Copeland, 57, American music promoter and agent, older brother of Stewart Copeland of The Police, melanoma.[164]
- Bracha Eden, 78, Israeli pianist, brain hemorrhage.[165]
- Kazimierz Górski, 85, Polish former coach of Poland national football team, cancer.[166]
- Jim Trimble, 87, American Philadelphia Eagles coach 1952–55, emphysema.[167]
24
- Eric Bedser, 87, English cricketer for Surrey, and elder twin brother of Sir Alec Bedser.[168]
- Henry Bumstead, 91, American art director (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sting, Vertigo), Oscar winner (1963, 1974), prostate cancer.[169][170]
- Robert Giaimo, 86, American Congressman for Connecticut 3rd District (1959−1981), lung ailments.[171]
- Fritz Klein, 73, Austrian-born psychiatrist and researcher.[172]
- Anderson Mazoka, 63, Zambian politician, chief opposition leader in Zambia.[173]
- Bernard Ostry, 78, Canadian chair and CEO of TVOntario, civil servant and philanthropist, cancer.[174]
- Claude Piéplu, 83, French actor, cancer.[175]
- John Wheeldon, 76, Australian federal politician, former Australian Labor Party Senator and minister in the Whitlam government.[176]
25
- Sir Julian Bullard, 78, British diplomat.[177]
- Elizabeth Connelly, 77, American politician, former member of the New York State Assembly representing Staten Island, cancer.[178]
- Desmond Dekker, 64, Jamaican ska musician, heart attack.[179]
- Lars Gyllensten, 84, Swedish author, physician, and member of the Swedish Academy.[180]
- Wilber Huston, 93, American scientist and retired NASA mission director.[181]
- Donald Rudolph, 85, US Army soldier awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II, Alzheimer's disease.[182]
- Mari Yonehara, 56, Japanese essayist, ovarian cancer.[183]
- Tobías Lasser, 95, Venezuelan botanist, founder of the Botanic Garden of Caracas, natural causes.[184]
26
- Milicent Bagot, 99, British intelligence officer.[185]
- Horondino José da Silva aka "Dino Sete Cordas", 88, Brazilian virtuoso of the seven-string guitar.[186]
- Selvin González, 24, Salvadoran footballer.[187]
- Tuomo Kerola, 48, Finnish Olympic swimmer.[188]
- Alan Kotok, 64, American early video game designer (Spacewar!), engineer for Digital Equipment.[189]
- Carl Kuntze, 83, Dutch Olympic rower[190]
- Mahmoud al-Majzoub aka Abu Hamza, 41, Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader, assassination by bombing.[191]
- Édouard Michelin, 42, French CEO of Michelin, boating accident off the Île de Sein.[192]
- Kevin O'Flanagan, 86, Irish former association football and rugby union international, and IOC member, heart problems.[193]
- Anita Roberts, 64, American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute, stomach cancer.[194]
- Ted Schroeder, 84, American tennis player, winner at Wimbledon (1949) and the U.S. Open (1942), cancer.[195]
- Raymond Triboulet, 99, French member of the French Resistance during World War II, member of the French Parliament and government minister.[196]
27
- Adeeb, 72, Pakistani actor.[197]
- Harold Falls, 96, American ophthalmologist.[198]
- Paul Gleason, 67, American actor (The Breakfast Club, Die Hard, Trading Places), mesothelioma.[199]
- Craig "Ironhead" Heyward, 39, American NFL fullback, complications from a brain tumor.[200]
- Romeo Lucas García, 81, Guatemalan politician, former President of Guatemala, complications of Alzheimer's disease.[201]
- Thelma Leeds, 95, American actress, widow of Parkyakarkus.[202]
- Jim Mello, 85, American football player.[203]
- Michael Riffaterre, 81, French-born professor at Columbia University and scholar of French literature.[204]
- Alex Toth, 77, American comic book artist and cartoonist (Space Ghost, Birdman and the Galaxy Trio).[205]
- Apache Bull Ramos, 68, American professional wrestler, shoulder infection.[206]
28
- Edward Aldwell, 68, American music theorist and pianist specializing in Bach, automotive accident.[207]
- James Archibald, 94, American judge.[208]
- Rupert Blöch, 76, Austrian Olympic sprinter.[209]
- Lewis Carter, 81, Australian cricketer.[210]
- Fermín Chávez, 82, Argentine historian, complications from renal failure.[211]
- Sue Fear, 43, Australian mountaineer, climbing accident.[212]
- Umberto Masetti, 80, Italian motorcycle racer, the first Italian World Champion class 500cc in 1950 and 1952, pulmonary strokes.[213]
- Masumi Okada, 70, Japanese actor, played Brother Michael in Shogun, throat cancer.[214]
- Tony Sardisco, 73, American footballer, former captain of the Boston Patriots, heart attack.[215]
- Doris Saunders, 64, Canadian magazine editor, Order of Canada inductee, Alzheimer's disease.[216]
- Arthur Widmer, 91, American motion picture special effects pioneer, winner of an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, cancer.[217]
29
- Neville Amadio, 93, Australian flautist and soloist for Sydney Symphony for 50 years, series of small heart attacks.[218]
- Poul Andersen, 84, Danish-born publisher of Bien, the only weekly Danish newspaper in the US, Alzheimer's disease.[219]
- Clarence Bailey, 43, American football player.[220]
- Peter Borsari, 67, American-Swiss celebrity photographer, complications from elective knee surgery.[221]
- James Brolan, 42, British CBS News sound technician, injuries sustained in car bombing in Iraq.[222]
- Paul Douglas, 48, British veteran CBS News cameraman, injuries sustained in car bombing in Iraq.[222]
- Wyn Griffiths, 86, Welsh professional football player (Cardiff City F.C., Newport County A.F.C.), complications from a fall.[223]
- Steve Mizerak, 61, American champion billiards player.[224]
- Omeljan Pritsak, 87, Austrian-born American Harvard professor, scholar and authority on Ukraine.[225]
- Johnny Servoz-Gavin, 64, French racing driver.[226]
30
- Slim Aarons, 89, American photographer, stroke.[227]
- Marius van Amelsvoort, 75, Dutch politician, State Secretary for Finance.[228]
- Hladnik Boštjan, 77, Slovenian film director.[229]
- Shohei Imamura, 79, Japanese film director (Black Rain), two-time winner of the Palme d'Or, liver cancer.[230]
- Bill Kovacs, 56, American computer animation pioneer and Academy Award winner, complications of a stroke.[231]
- David Lloyd, 68, New Zealand botanist, complications from mystery illness, possibly poison.[232]
- Robert Sterling, 88, American film and television actor, star of 1950s television show Topper, natural causes.[233]
31
- Miguel Berrocal, 73, Spanish sculptor and puzzle creator, prostate cancer.[234]
- Ronald Cranford, 65, American neurologist and bioethicist who developed coma standards, complications of kidney cancer.[235]
- Raymond Davis Jr., 91, American chemist and a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002, Alzheimer's disease.[236]
- Lula Mae Hardaway, 76, American songwriter, mother of singer Stevie Wonder, natural causes.[237]
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