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July 2006
- Michael Anderson, 86, British film director (nominated for the 1956 Oscar for Best Director for Around the World in Eighty Days). [[Citing sources citation needed]]
- Billy Firehawk, 40, former professional wrestler, diabetes [link]
- Sam Myers, 70, American blues musician, who won 9 W.C. Handy awards with his band the Rockets; throat cancer. [link] [link]
- Mickey Spillane, 88, American author, creator of Mike Hammer detective fiction. [link][link][link]
- Kevin Hughes, 53, former British Labour MP for Doncaster North, motor neurone disease [link].
- Bob Orton, Sr., 76, former professional wrestler, heart attack
- Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 57, American billionaire and Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas since 1996, myeloproliferative disorder. [link] [link]
- Ted Stone, 72, Evangelist known for his walks across America. [link]
- Robert H. Brooks, 69, chairman of Hooters of America, natural causes. [link]
- Rev. Joseph Boone, 83, United States civil rights activist, diabetes. [link]
- John Joseph Fitzpatrick, 87, Bishop of Brownsville for 20 years. [link]
- Dr. James Nicholas, 85, American orthopedic surgeon and physician for three NFL teams. [link]
- A.C. Krishna Rao, 93, founder of the Stree Seva Mandir a charity for destitute women in India. [link]
- William Downs, 39, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina. [link]
- Tom Frame, British comic book letterer, cancer. [link]
- Heinrich Heidersberger, 100, German photographer [link]
- William Lash III, 45, former assistant-secretary of the United States Department of Commerce and professor at George Mason University, suicide after killing his 12 year old son. [link]
- Christophe Mérieux, 39, head of research at BioMérieux and intended successor to Alain Mérieux as Chief Executive, heart attack. [link]
- Carrie Nye, 69, American actress, wife of Dick Cavett, lung cancer. [link]
- Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, 43, Polish International Grandmaster of chess, liver problems. [link]
- Maulana Hasan Turrabi, prominent Shia leader in Pakistan, died in bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan. [link]
- Red Buttons, 87, American comedian, vascular disease [link]
- Pamela Cooper, 95, refugee activist known for her work with the Palestinians. [link]
- Charles Dakin, 76, British classical composer, car crash. [link]
- Ángel Cardinal Suquía Goicoechea, 89, retired Metropolitan-Archbishop of Madrid [link]
- Jürgen Kießling, 65, FIFA World Cup 2006 official in Berlin, suicide. [link]
- John Rector, Jr, 86, former publisher of the Dallas Morning News, pneumonia. [link]
- Rocky Barton, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. [link]
- George Creel, Jr., 90, Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and newspaper columnist. [link]
- Hubert Lampo, 85, Belgian writer. [link]
- Kathy Augustine, 50, State Controller of Nevada who was first Nevada state official to be impeached in office, heart attack. [link]
- Vasant Chavan, 64, Indian politician and former Minister, cardiac arrest. [link]
- John Coletta, 74, former manager of Deep Purple and Whitesnake, due to unspecified illness. [link]
- Neil Coulbeck, Royal Bank of Scotland executive questioned over Enron collapse, unexplained. [link]
- Mary Day, 96, American ballet dancer and co-founder of the Washington School of Ballet. [link]
- Gerald Gidwitz, 99, American cosmetics executive, co-founder of Helene Curtis, congestive heart failure. [link] [link]
- Barnard Hughes, 90, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor. [link] [link]
- Bill Miller, 91, American pianist for Frank Sinatra, heart attack. [link] [link]
- Derrick O'Brien, 31, executed for the rape and murder of two teenage girls in Texas. [link]
- Wilhelm Schippers, 41, Dutch murderer, suicide in Bijlmerbajes prison [link]
- John Spencer, 71, British former world champion snooker player, stomach cancer [link] [link] [link]
- Wiarton Willie, 8, Canada's most well-known Groundhog Day prognosticator, following a long illness [link]
- Shamil Basayev, 41, Chechen rebel leader, terrorist, explosion. [link] [link] [link][link]
- Tommy Bruce, 68, British singer ("Ain't Misbehavin'"). [link]
- The Very Rev. Dr. Raymond Furnell, 71, Dean of York from 1994-2003, cancer [link]
- Anthony Holliday, 66, South African philosopher and journalist, cancer. [link]
- Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi, 89, Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist who published 50 books. [link]
- Ali Taziyev, Chechen militant.[link]
- Blanca Torres, 78, Mexican actress. [link]
- Fred Wander, 89, Austrian author and Holocaust survivor. [link]
- Dr. Fred Epstein, 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumors, melanoma. [link]
- Abdel Moneim Madbouly, 85, Egyptian comedian and playwright. Congestive heart failure. [link]
- Alan Senitt, 27, British political activist, stabbed to death. [link]
- Milan Williams, 58, keyboardist, founding member of R&B/funk band the Commodores, cancer. [link] [link]
- Michael Zinzun, 57, ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist; died in his sleep. [link]
- George Albee, 84, American psychologist and former head of the American Psychological Association, argued that social problems contributed to mental illness. [link] [link]
- June Allyson, 88, Hollywood actress, pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a long illness. [link]
- Eric Bedford, 78, former member of the Wran Government ministry 1976-1985 in New South Wales. [link]
- Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, 91, founder of Transfield Holdings Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, died after a fall. [link]
- Rolf Braun, 77, German Fastnacht and TV personality [link]
- David Bright, 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrest stemming from decompression sickness. [link] [link]
- Ana María Campoy, 80, Argentine actress, pneumonia [link].
- Peter Hawkins, 82, British actor and voice artist. [link]
- Catherine Leroy, 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam War in Life, cancer. [link] [link]
- Lajos Polgar, 89, accused of involvement in genocide in World War II as a member of the Hungarian Arrow Cross. [link]
- Raja Rao, 97, Indian novelist (Kanthapura). [link] [link]
- Jesse Simons, 88, American labor arbitrator. [link]
- Dorothy Uhnak, 76, American policewoman turned novelist. [link]
- Luis Barragan, 34, president of 1-800-Mattress, drowned. [link] [link]
- Syd Barrett, 60, founding member of Pink Floyd, complications related to diabetes. [link]
- Irene Buri-Nelson, 84, first female member of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame, car crash. [link]
- Reinhold Carlson, 100, former mayor of Des Moines, Iowa and Iowa State Senator. [link]
- Rudi Carrell, 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancer [link]
- John Warner Fitzgerald, 81, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. [link]
- Elias Hrawi, 79, former President of Lebanon (1989-98), cancer. [link]
- Shana Leaupepe, 21, New Mexico State University American football player, drive-by shooting. [link]
- Dolores Lescure, 89, former chair of the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation and former mayor of Staunton, Virginia. [link]
- Dina Kaminskaya, 85, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents. [link]
- Gilbert Mason, 77, Mississippi civil rights campaigner. [link]
- Dr. John Money, 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Parkinson's disease. [link] [link]
- Eric Schopler, 79, psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer. [link]
- Frank P. Zeidler, 93, Mayor of Milwaukee 1948-1960 and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city, died in his sleep. [link]
- Poul Andersen, 84, Danish-born publisher of Bien, the only weekly Danish newspaper in the US, Alzheimer's disease. [link]
- Juan de Ávalos, 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack [link].
- Teddy Craft, 22, U.S. college football player for Georgia Southern, motorcycle accident [link]
- Ralph Ginzburg, 76, U.S. publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma, [link]
- Al Hodge, 55, Cornish rock guitarist and songwriter, cancer. [link]
- John Manos, 83, US and Ohio judge for 43 years. [link]
- George Prugh, 86 United States Army General and military lawyer who organised Prisoner of War status for combatants in the Vietnam War, complications from Parkinson's disease. [link]
- Juan Pablo Rebella, 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide. [link], [link]
- Kasey Rogers, 79, American actress (Bewitched) and motocross racer, stroke. [link],[link],[link]
- ES Turner, 96, English historian and journalist[link]
- Tom Weir, 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster. [link] [link]
- Barbara Albright, 51, prolific U.S. author of food and knitting books, brain tumor. [link]
- Lucien Crump, Jr, 71, Philadelphia artist and art gallery owner, cancer. [link]
- Lou Dantzler, 69, founder of Challengers Boys & Girls Club in Los Angeles, stroke. [link]
- Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer. [link]
- Lewis Glucksman, 80, former head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers. [link]
- Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business. [link]
- Kevin Herlihy, 58, New Zealand softball pitcher played in two teams that won world titles and inaugural member of the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, heart attack. [link]
- Kenneth Lay, 64, former CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack. [link]
- Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader. [link]
- Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic who worked for Rolling Stone and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records. [link]
- Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress [link]
- Hugh Stubbins, Jr., 94, American architect of Manhattan's Citicorp Centre, pneumonia. [link] [link]
- Tongan Prince Tu'ipelehake, 56, and Princess Kaimana, 46, car crash in Menlo Park, California. [link][link][link]
- Zelda Foster, 71, American social worker and hospice pioneer. [link]
- John Hinde, 92, Australian film reviewer and journalist. [link]
- Bobby Joe Mason, 70, member of the Harlem Globetrotters for 15 years and member of the Bradley University team of the century, cardiac arrest. [link]
- Jack Sameth, 79, American television producer and director. [link]
- Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American world champion bridge player and author. Complications of Parkinson's Disease. [link]
- Hans Bierbrauer alias Oskar, 84, German caricaturist. [link]
- Francis Cammaerts, 90, led 30,000 French Resistance fighters while with the Special Operations Executive. [link]
- Dick Dickey, 79, former player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University. [link]
- Edgar Ewing, 93, Californian artist, coronary artery disease leading to cardiac arrest. [link]
- Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (As the World Turns), suicide by gunshot. [link] [link]
- Wilbert Hopper, 73, former president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada. [link]
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, cancer. [link] [link]
- Lars Korvald, 90, former Prime Minister of Norway. [link]
- Sir Carol Mather, 87, former British Conservative MP. [link]
- Nimrod Ping, 46, Brighton city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis C. [link]
- Jack Smith, 92, musician and former host of You Asked for It, leukemia. [link] [link]
- Lynn Stanley, 58, chairwoman of the Protect Marriage Arizona Coalition and activist against gay marriage, car accident. [link]
- Mpozi Tolbert, 34, award winning press photographer. [link]
- Joe Weaver, 71, leader of the Blue Note Orchestra and musician on early Tamla sessions, stroke. [link]
- L. Thomas Appleby, 82, American president of the United Nations Development Corporation and New York City housing commissioner. [link]
- Balázs Horváth, 64, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer [link]
- Herty Lewites, 65, Nicaraguan presidential candidate. [link]
- Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian [link][link]
- Tihomir Ognjanov, 79, former footballer for Yugoslavia, played in the 1950 World Cup [link]
- Roland Remmel, 88, American businessman and fundraiser for waterfowl charities, cancer. [link]
- Anatole Shub, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pnemonia and a stroke. [link]
- Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, American painter. [link]
- Umberto Abronzino, 85, member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator. [link]
- Michael Barton, 91, Surrey cricketer and president. [link]
- Edwin Broderick, 89, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, NY, USA, and director of Catholic Relief Services. [link]
- Jaye Michael Davis, 62, veteran U.S. radio deejay, motorcycle accident. [link]
- Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer. [link]
- Irving Green, 90, co-founder of Mercury Records. [link] [link]
- Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, former Prime Minister of Japan (1996-98). [link]
- Rabbi Louis Jacobs, 85, founder of the British Masorti movement. [link]
- Israel Kantor, 56, member of Tropicana All Stars, cancer. [link]
- Yousuf Khan, 70, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack. [link]
- Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker. [link]
- Michael Parman, 61, editor and publisher of The Press Democrat, pancreatic cancer. [link]
- Dr. Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author. [link]
- Samir Sarhan, 65, Egyptian writer, critic and organiser of the Cairo International Book Fair, heart failure. [link]
- Fred Trueman, 75, Yorkshire and England cricketer, lung cancer. [link]
- Robbie "Rocket" Watts, 47, Australian guitarist for the Cosmic Psychos. [link]
See Deaths in June 2006.
See Deaths in May 2006.
See Deaths in April 2006.
See Deaths in March 2006.
See Deaths in February 2006.
See Deaths in January 2006.External links and references
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- Billy Firehawk, 40, former professional wrestler, diabetes [link]
- Sam Myers, 70, American blues musician, who won 9 W.C. Handy awards with his band the Rockets; throat cancer. [link] [link]
- Mickey Spillane, 88, American author, creator of Mike Hammer detective fiction. [link][link][link]
- Kevin Hughes, 53, former British Labour MP for Doncaster North, motor neurone disease [link].
- Bob Orton, Sr., 76, former professional wrestler, heart attack
- Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 57, American billionaire and Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas since 1996, myeloproliferative disorder. [link] [link]
- Ted Stone, 72, Evangelist known for his walks across America. [link]
- Robert H. Brooks, 69, chairman of Hooters of America, natural causes. [link]
- Rev. Joseph Boone, 83, United States civil rights activist, diabetes. [link]
- John Joseph Fitzpatrick, 87, Bishop of Brownsville for 20 years. [link]
- Dr. James Nicholas, 85, American orthopedic surgeon and physician for three NFL teams. [link]
- A.C. Krishna Rao, 93, founder of the Stree Seva Mandir a charity for destitute women in India. [link]
- William Downs, 39, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina. [link]
- Tom Frame, British comic book letterer, cancer. [link]
- Heinrich Heidersberger, 100, German photographer [link]
- William Lash III, 45, former assistant-secretary of the United States Department of Commerce and professor at George Mason University, suicide after killing his 12 year old son. [link]
- Christophe Mérieux, 39, head of research at BioMérieux and intended successor to Alain Mérieux as Chief Executive, heart attack. [link]
- Carrie Nye, 69, American actress, wife of Dick Cavett, lung cancer. [link]
- Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, 43, Polish International Grandmaster of chess, liver problems. [link]
- Maulana Hasan Turrabi, prominent Shia leader in Pakistan, died in bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan. [link]
- Red Buttons, 87, American comedian, vascular disease [link]
- Pamela Cooper, 95, refugee activist known for her work with the Palestinians. [link]
- Charles Dakin, 76, British classical composer, car crash. [link]
- Ángel Cardinal Suquía Goicoechea, 89, retired Metropolitan-Archbishop of Madrid [link]
- Jürgen Kießling, 65, FIFA World Cup 2006 official in Berlin, suicide. [link]
- John Rector, Jr, 86, former publisher of the Dallas Morning News, pneumonia. [link]
- Rocky Barton, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. [link]
- George Creel, Jr., 90, Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and newspaper columnist. [link]
- Hubert Lampo, 85, Belgian writer. [link]
- Kathy Augustine, 50, State Controller of Nevada who was first Nevada state official to be impeached in office, heart attack. [link]
- Vasant Chavan, 64, Indian politician and former Minister, cardiac arrest. [link]
- John Coletta, 74, former manager of Deep Purple and Whitesnake, due to unspecified illness. [link]
- Neil Coulbeck, Royal Bank of Scotland executive questioned over Enron collapse, unexplained. [link]
- Mary Day, 96, American ballet dancer and co-founder of the Washington School of Ballet. [link]
- Gerald Gidwitz, 99, American cosmetics executive, co-founder of Helene Curtis, congestive heart failure. [link] [link]
- Barnard Hughes, 90, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor. [link] [link]
- Bill Miller, 91, American pianist for Frank Sinatra, heart attack. [link] [link]
- Derrick O'Brien, 31, executed for the rape and murder of two teenage girls in Texas. [link]
- Wilhelm Schippers, 41, Dutch murderer, suicide in Bijlmerbajes prison [link]
- John Spencer, 71, British former world champion snooker player, stomach cancer [link] [link] [link]
- Wiarton Willie, 8, Canada's most well-known Groundhog Day prognosticator, following a long illness [link]
- Shamil Basayev, 41, Chechen rebel leader, terrorist, explosion. [link] [link] [link][link]
- Tommy Bruce, 68, British singer ("Ain't Misbehavin'"). [link]
- The Very Rev. Dr. Raymond Furnell, 71, Dean of York from 1994-2003, cancer [link]
- Anthony Holliday, 66, South African philosopher and journalist, cancer. [link]
- Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi, 89, Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist who published 50 books. [link]
- Ali Taziyev, Chechen militant.[link]
- Blanca Torres, 78, Mexican actress. [link]
- Fred Wander, 89, Austrian author and Holocaust survivor. [link]
- Dr. Fred Epstein, 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumors, melanoma. [link]
- Abdel Moneim Madbouly, 85, Egyptian comedian and playwright. Congestive heart failure. [link]
- Alan Senitt, 27, British political activist, stabbed to death. [link]
- Milan Williams, 58, keyboardist, founding member of R&B/funk band the Commodores, cancer. [link] [link]
- Michael Zinzun, 57, ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist; died in his sleep. [link]
- George Albee, 84, American psychologist and former head of the American Psychological Association, argued that social problems contributed to mental illness. [link] [link]
- June Allyson, 88, Hollywood actress, pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a long illness. [link]
- Eric Bedford, 78, former member of the Wran Government ministry 1976-1985 in New South Wales. [link]
- Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, 91, founder of Transfield Holdings Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, died after a fall. [link]
- Rolf Braun, 77, German Fastnacht and TV personality [link]
- David Bright, 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrest stemming from decompression sickness. [link] [link]
- Ana María Campoy, 80, Argentine actress, pneumonia [link].
- Peter Hawkins, 82, British actor and voice artist. [link]
- Catherine Leroy, 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam War in Life, cancer. [link] [link]
- Lajos Polgar, 89, accused of involvement in genocide in World War II as a member of the Hungarian Arrow Cross. [link]
- Raja Rao, 97, Indian novelist (Kanthapura). [link] [link]
- Jesse Simons, 88, American labor arbitrator. [link]
- Dorothy Uhnak, 76, American policewoman turned novelist. [link]
- Luis Barragan, 34, president of 1-800-Mattress, drowned. [link] [link]
- Syd Barrett, 60, founding member of Pink Floyd, complications related to diabetes. [link]
- Irene Buri-Nelson, 84, first female member of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame, car crash. [link]
- Reinhold Carlson, 100, former mayor of Des Moines, Iowa and Iowa State Senator. [link]
- Rudi Carrell, 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancer [link]
- John Warner Fitzgerald, 81, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. [link]
- Elias Hrawi, 79, former President of Lebanon (1989-98), cancer. [link]
- Shana Leaupepe, 21, New Mexico State University American football player, drive-by shooting. [link]
- Dolores Lescure, 89, former chair of the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation and former mayor of Staunton, Virginia. [link]
- Dina Kaminskaya, 85, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents. [link]
- Gilbert Mason, 77, Mississippi civil rights campaigner. [link]
- Dr. John Money, 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Parkinson's disease. [link] [link]
- Eric Schopler, 79, psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer. [link]
- Frank P. Zeidler, 93, Mayor of Milwaukee 1948-1960 and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city, died in his sleep. [link]
- Poul Andersen, 84, Danish-born publisher of Bien, the only weekly Danish newspaper in the US, Alzheimer's disease. [link]
- Juan de Ávalos, 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack [link].
- Teddy Craft, 22, U.S. college football player for Georgia Southern, motorcycle accident [link]
- Ralph Ginzburg, 76, U.S. publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma, [link]
- Al Hodge, 55, Cornish rock guitarist and songwriter, cancer. [link]
- John Manos, 83, US and Ohio judge for 43 years. [link]
- George Prugh, 86 United States Army General and military lawyer who organised Prisoner of War status for combatants in the Vietnam War, complications from Parkinson's disease. [link]
- Juan Pablo Rebella, 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide. [link], [link]
- Kasey Rogers, 79, American actress (Bewitched) and motocross racer, stroke. [link],[link],[link]
- ES Turner, 96, English historian and journalist[link]
- Tom Weir, 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster. [link] [link]
- Barbara Albright, 51, prolific U.S. author of food and knitting books, brain tumor. [link]
- Lucien Crump, Jr, 71, Philadelphia artist and art gallery owner, cancer. [link]
- Lou Dantzler, 69, founder of Challengers Boys & Girls Club in Los Angeles, stroke. [link]
- Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer. [link]
- Lewis Glucksman, 80, former head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers. [link]
- Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business. [link]
- Kevin Herlihy, 58, New Zealand softball pitcher played in two teams that won world titles and inaugural member of the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, heart attack. [link]
- Kenneth Lay, 64, former CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack. [link]
- Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader. [link]
- Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic who worked for Rolling Stone and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records. [link]
- Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress [link]
- Hugh Stubbins, Jr., 94, American architect of Manhattan's Citicorp Centre, pneumonia. [link] [link]
- Tongan Prince Tu'ipelehake, 56, and Princess Kaimana, 46, car crash in Menlo Park, California. [link][link][link]
- Zelda Foster, 71, American social worker and hospice pioneer. [link]
- John Hinde, 92, Australian film reviewer and journalist. [link]
- Bobby Joe Mason, 70, member of the Harlem Globetrotters for 15 years and member of the Bradley University team of the century, cardiac arrest. [link]
- Jack Sameth, 79, American television producer and director. [link]
- Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American world champion bridge player and author. Complications of Parkinson's Disease. [link]
- Hans Bierbrauer alias Oskar, 84, German caricaturist. [link]
- Francis Cammaerts, 90, led 30,000 French Resistance fighters while with the Special Operations Executive. [link]
- Dick Dickey, 79, former player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University. [link]
- Edgar Ewing, 93, Californian artist, coronary artery disease leading to cardiac arrest. [link]
- Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (As the World Turns), suicide by gunshot. [link] [link]
- Wilbert Hopper, 73, former president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada. [link]
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, cancer. [link] [link]
- Lars Korvald, 90, former Prime Minister of Norway. [link]
- Sir Carol Mather, 87, former British Conservative MP. [link]
- Nimrod Ping, 46, Brighton city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis C. [link]
- Jack Smith, 92, musician and former host of You Asked for It, leukemia. [link] [link]
- Lynn Stanley, 58, chairwoman of the Protect Marriage Arizona Coalition and activist against gay marriage, car accident. [link]
- Mpozi Tolbert, 34, award winning press photographer. [link]
- Joe Weaver, 71, leader of the Blue Note Orchestra and musician on early Tamla sessions, stroke. [link]
- L. Thomas Appleby, 82, American president of the United Nations Development Corporation and New York City housing commissioner. [link]
- Balázs Horváth, 64, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer [link]
- Herty Lewites, 65, Nicaraguan presidential candidate. [link]
- Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian [link][link]
- Tihomir Ognjanov, 79, former footballer for Yugoslavia, played in the 1950 World Cup [link]
- Roland Remmel, 88, American businessman and fundraiser for waterfowl charities, cancer. [link]
- Anatole Shub, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pnemonia and a stroke. [link]
- Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, American painter. [link]
- Umberto Abronzino, 85, member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator. [link]
- Michael Barton, 91, Surrey cricketer and president. [link]
- Edwin Broderick, 89, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, NY, USA, and director of Catholic Relief Services. [link]
- Jaye Michael Davis, 62, veteran U.S. radio deejay, motorcycle accident. [link]
- Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer. [link]
- Irving Green, 90, co-founder of Mercury Records. [link] [link]
- Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, former Prime Minister of Japan (1996-98). [link]
- Rabbi Louis Jacobs, 85, founder of the British Masorti movement. [link]
- Israel Kantor, 56, member of Tropicana All Stars, cancer. [link]
- Yousuf Khan, 70, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack. [link]
- Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker. [link]
- Michael Parman, 61, editor and publisher of The Press Democrat, pancreatic cancer. [link]
- Dr. Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author. [link]
- Samir Sarhan, 65, Egyptian writer, critic and organiser of the Cairo International Book Fair, heart failure. [link]
- Fred Trueman, 75, Yorkshire and England cricketer, lung cancer. [link]
- Robbie "Rocket" Watts, 47, Australian guitarist for the Cosmic Psychos. [link]
See Deaths in June 2006.
See Deaths in May 2006.
See Deaths in April 2006.
See Deaths in March 2006.
See Deaths in February 2006.
See Deaths in January 2006.External links and references
- Obituaries on general news websites
- *[Recent AP Obituaries]
- *[The New York Times: Obituaries]
- *[Washington Post Obituaries]
- *[Topix.net Obituaries]
- *[Mail & Guardian (South Africa) Obituaries]
- *[The Guardian (UK) Obituaries]
- *[Daily Telegraph obituaries]
- *[The Independent Obituaries]
- *
- *Google News: e.g. [obituary]
- *Yahoo News: e.g. [obituaries]
- Newsgroup: [alt.obituaries]
- Specialised websites
- *[Find a Grave — Millions of (US) Cemetery Records]
- *[Find a Death — details on the circumstances behind the deaths of hundreds of celebrities]
- *[Dead People Server]
- *[Dead or Alive]
- *[Dead Rock Stars Club]
- *[Friends Reincarnated]
- *[Who's Alive and Who's Dead]
- *[Life in Legacy: Week in Review]
- *[The Blog of Death]
- *[MySpace Deaths]
- *[The Celebrity Death Toll Update]
- *[GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search]
- *[Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records]: US genealogy directory
- *[Operation Iraqi Freedom — US Combat Deaths]
- *[Obituary Central — index to obituary search engines arranged geographically]
- *[Obituary Links Page — state-by-state directory of obituary resources]
- *[Russian Obituary Links Page — The List of Death]
- *[Nekrolog] (Czech necrologies)
- *[Remembrance Online] Online Books of Remembrance and Condolence
- *[Written in Stone] Literary deaths and gravestones
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2005, Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994...
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- Kathy Augustine, 50, State Controller of Nevada who was first Nevada state official to be impeached in office, heart attack. [link]
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- Ali Taziyev, Chechen militant.[link]
- Blanca Torres, 78, Mexican actress. [link]
- Fred Wander, 89, Austrian author and Holocaust survivor. [link]
- Dr. Fred Epstein, 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumors, melanoma. [link]
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- Alan Senitt, 27, British political activist, stabbed to death. [link]
- Milan Williams, 58, keyboardist, founding member of R&B/funk band the Commodores, cancer. [link] [link]
- Michael Zinzun, 57, ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist; died in his sleep. [link]
- George Albee, 84, American psychologist and former head of the American Psychological Association, argued that social problems contributed to mental illness. [link] [link]
- June Allyson, 88, Hollywood actress, pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a long illness. [link]
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- Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, 91, founder of Transfield Holdings Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, died after a fall. [link]
- Rolf Braun, 77, German Fastnacht and TV personality [link]
- David Bright, 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrest stemming from decompression sickness. [link] [link]
- Ana María Campoy, 80, Argentine actress, pneumonia [link].
- Peter Hawkins, 82, British actor and voice artist. [link]
- Catherine Leroy, 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam War in Life, cancer. [link] [link]
- Lajos Polgar, 89, accused of involvement in genocide in World War II as a member of the Hungarian Arrow Cross. [link]
- Raja Rao, 97, Indian novelist (Kanthapura). [link] [link]
- Jesse Simons, 88, American labor arbitrator. [link]
- Dorothy Uhnak, 76, American policewoman turned novelist. [link]
- Luis Barragan, 34, president of 1-800-Mattress, drowned. [link] [link]
- Syd Barrett, 60, founding member of Pink Floyd, complications related to diabetes. [link]
- Irene Buri-Nelson, 84, first female member of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame, car crash. [link]
- Reinhold Carlson, 100, former mayor of Des Moines, Iowa and Iowa State Senator. [link]
- Rudi Carrell, 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancer [link]
- John Warner Fitzgerald, 81, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. [link]
- Elias Hrawi, 79, former President of Lebanon (1989-98), cancer. [link]
- Shana Leaupepe, 21, New Mexico State University American football player, drive-by shooting. [link]
- Dolores Lescure, 89, former chair of the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation and former mayor of Staunton, Virginia. [link]
- Dina Kaminskaya, 85, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents. [link]
- Gilbert Mason, 77, Mississippi civil rights campaigner. [link]
- Dr. John Money, 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Parkinson's disease. [link] [link]
- Eric Schopler, 79, psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer. [link]
- Frank P. Zeidler, 93, Mayor of Milwaukee 1948-1960 and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city, died in his sleep. [link]
- Poul Andersen, 84, Danish-born publisher of Bien, the only weekly Danish newspaper in the US, Alzheimer's disease. [link]
- Juan de Ávalos, 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack [link].
- Teddy Craft, 22, U.S. college football player for Georgia Southern, motorcycle accident [link]
- Ralph Ginzburg, 76, U.S. publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma, [link]
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- George Prugh, 86 United States Army General and military lawyer who organised Prisoner of War status for combatants in the Vietnam War, complications from Parkinson's disease. [link]
- Juan Pablo Rebella, 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide. [link], [link]
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- ES Turner, 96, English historian and journalist[link]
- Tom Weir, 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster. [link] [link]
- Barbara Albright, 51, prolific U.S. author of food and knitting books, brain tumor. [link]
- Lucien Crump, Jr, 71, Philadelphia artist and art gallery owner, cancer. [link]
- Lou Dantzler, 69, founder of Challengers Boys & Girls Club in Los Angeles, stroke. [link]
- Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer. [link]
- Lewis Glucksman, 80, former head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers. [link]
- Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business. [link]
- Kevin Herlihy, 58, New Zealand softball pitcher played in two teams that won world titles and inaugural member of the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, heart attack. [link]
- Kenneth Lay, 64, former CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack. [link]
- Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader. [link]
- Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic who worked for Rolling Stone and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records. [link]
- Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress [link]
- Hugh Stubbins, Jr., 94, American architect of Manhattan's Citicorp Centre, pneumonia. [link] [link]
- Tongan Prince Tu'ipelehake, 56, and Princess Kaimana, 46, car crash in Menlo Park, California. [link][link][link]
- Zelda Foster, 71, American social worker and hospice pioneer. [link]
- John Hinde, 92, Australian film reviewer and journalist. [link]
- Bobby Joe Mason, 70, member of the Harlem Globetrotters for 15 years and member of the Bradley University team of the century, cardiac arrest. [link]
- Jack Sameth, 79, American television producer and director. [link]
- Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American world champion bridge player and author. Complications of Parkinson's Disease. [link]
- Hans Bierbrauer alias Oskar, 84, German caricaturist. [link]
- Francis Cammaerts, 90, led 30,000 French Resistance fighters while with the Special Operations Executive. [link]
- Dick Dickey, 79, former player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University. [link]
- Edgar Ewing, 93, Californian artist, coronary artery disease leading to cardiac arrest. [link]
- Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (As the World Turns), suicide by gunshot. [link] [link]
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- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, cancer. [link] [link]
- Lars Korvald, 90, former Prime Minister of Norway. [link]
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- Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian [link][link]
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- Roland Remmel, 88, American businessman and fundraiser for waterfowl charities, cancer. [link]
- Anatole Shub, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pnemonia and a stroke. [link]
- Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, American painter. [link]
- Umberto Abronzino, 85, member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator. [link]
- Michael Barton, 91, Surrey cricketer and president. [link]
- Edwin Broderick, 89, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, NY, USA, and director of Catholic Relief Services. [link]
- Jaye Michael Davis, 62, veteran U.S. radio deejay, motorcycle accident. [link]
- Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer. [link]
- Irving Green, 90, co-founder of Mercury Records. [link] [link]
- Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, former Prime Minister of Japan (1996-98). [link]
- Rabbi Louis Jacobs, 85, founder of the British Masorti movement. [link]
- Israel Kantor, 56, member of Tropicana All Stars, cancer. [link]
- Yousuf Khan, 70, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack. [link]
- Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker. [link]
- Michael Parman, 61, editor and publisher of The Press Democrat, pancreatic cancer. [link]
- Dr. Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author. [link]
- Samir Sarhan, 65, Egyptian writer, critic and organiser of the Cairo International Book Fair, heart failure. [link]
- Fred Trueman, 75, Yorkshire and England cricketer, lung cancer. [link]
- Robbie "Rocket" Watts, 47, Australian guitarist for the Cosmic Psychos. [link]
See Deaths in June 2006.
See Deaths in May 2006.
See Deaths in April 2006.
See Deaths in March 2006.
See Deaths in February 2006.
See Deaths in January 2006.External links and references
- Obituaries on general news websites
- *[Recent AP Obituaries]
- *[The New York Times: Obituaries]
- *[Washington Post Obituaries]
- *[Topix.net Obituaries]
- *[Mail & Guardian (South Africa) Obituaries]
- *[The Guardian (UK) Obituaries]
- *[Daily Telegraph obituaries]
- *[The Independent Obituaries]
- *
- *Google News: e.g. [obituary]
- *Yahoo News: e.g. [obituaries]
- Newsgroup: [alt.obituaries]
- Specialised websites
- *[Find a Grave — Millions of (US) Cemetery Records]
- *[Find a Death — details on the circumstances behind the deaths of hundreds of celebrities]
- *[Dead People Server]
- *[Dead or Alive]
- *[Dead Rock Stars Club]
- *[Friends Reincarnated]
- *[Who's Alive and Who's Dead]
- *[Life in Legacy: Week in Review]
- *[The Blog of Death]
- *[MySpace Deaths]
- *[The Celebrity Death Toll Update]
- *[GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search]
- *[Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records]: US genealogy directory
- *[Operation Iraqi Freedom — US Combat Deaths]
- *[Obituary Central — index to obituary search engines arranged geographically]
- *[Obituary Links Page — state-by-state directory of obituary resources]
- *[Russian Obituary Links Page — The List of Death]
- *[Nekrolog] (Czech necrologies)
- *[Remembrance Online] Online Books of Remembrance and Condolence
- *[Written in Stone] Literary deaths and gravestones
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2005, Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994...
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.
- Red Buttons, 87, American comedian, vascular disease [link]
- Pamela Cooper, 95, refugee activist known for her work with the Palestinians. [link]
- Charles Dakin, 76, British classical composer, car crash. [link]
- Ángel Cardinal Suquía Goicoechea, 89, retired Metropolitan-Archbishop of Madrid [link]
- Jürgen Kießling, 65, FIFA World Cup 2006 official in Berlin, suicide. [link]
- John Rector, Jr, 86, former publisher of the Dallas Morning News, pneumonia. [link]
- Rocky Barton, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. [link]
- George Creel, Jr., 90, Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and newspaper columnist. [link]
- Hubert Lampo, 85, Belgian writer. [link]
- Kathy Augustine, 50, State Controller of Nevada who was first Nevada state official to be impeached in office, heart attack. [link]
- Vasant Chavan, 64, Indian politician and former Minister, cardiac arrest. [link]
- John Coletta, 74, former manager of Deep Purple and Whitesnake, due to unspecified illness. [link]
- Neil Coulbeck, Royal Bank of Scotland executive questioned over Enron collapse, unexplained. [link]
- Mary Day, 96, American ballet dancer and co-founder of the Washington School of Ballet. [link]
- Gerald Gidwitz, 99, American cosmetics executive, co-founder of Helene Curtis, congestive heart failure. [link] [link]
- Barnard Hughes, 90, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor. [link] [link]
- Bill Miller, 91, American pianist for Frank Sinatra, heart attack. [link] [link]
- Derrick O'Brien, 31, executed for the rape and murder of two teenage girls in Texas. [link]
- Wilhelm Schippers, 41, Dutch murderer, suicide in Bijlmerbajes prison [link]
- John Spencer, 71, British former world champion snooker player, stomach cancer [link] [link] [link]
- Wiarton Willie, 8, Canada's most well-known Groundhog Day prognosticator, following a long illness [link]
- Shamil Basayev, 41, Chechen rebel leader, terrorist, explosion. [link] [link] [link][link]
- Tommy Bruce, 68, British singer ("Ain't Misbehavin'"). [link]
- The Very Rev. Dr. Raymond Furnell, 71, Dean of York from 1994-2003, cancer [link]
- Anthony Holliday, 66, South African philosopher and journalist, cancer. [link]
- Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi, 89, Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist who published 50 books. [link]
- Ali Taziyev, Chechen militant.[link]
- Blanca Torres, 78, Mexican actress. [link]
- Fred Wander, 89, Austrian author and Holocaust survivor. [link]
- Dr. Fred Epstein, 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumors, melanoma. [link]
- Abdel Moneim Madbouly, 85, Egyptian comedian and playwright. Congestive heart failure. [link]
- Alan Senitt, 27, British political activist, stabbed to death. [link]
- Milan Williams, 58, keyboardist, founding member of R&B/funk band the Commodores, cancer. [link] [link]
- Michael Zinzun, 57, ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist; died in his sleep. [link]
- George Albee, 84, American psychologist and former head of the American Psychological Association, argued that social problems contributed to mental illness. [link] [link]
- June Allyson, 88, Hollywood actress, pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a long illness. [link]
- Eric Bedford, 78, former member of the Wran Government ministry 1976-1985 in New South Wales. [link]
- Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, 91, founder of Transfield Holdings Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, died after a fall. [link]
- Rolf Braun, 77, German Fastnacht and TV personality [link]
- David Bright, 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrest stemming from decompression sickness. [link] [link]
- Ana María Campoy, 80, Argentine actress, pneumonia [link].
- Peter Hawkins, 82, British actor and voice artist. [link]
- Catherine Leroy, 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam War in Life, cancer. [link] [link]
- Lajos Polgar, 89, accused of involvement in genocide in World War II as a member of the Hungarian Arrow Cross. [link]
- Raja Rao, 97, Indian novelist (Kanthapura). [link] [link]
- Jesse Simons, 88, American labor arbitrator. [link]
- Dorothy Uhnak, 76, American policewoman turned novelist. [link]
- Luis Barragan, 34, president of 1-800-Mattress, drowned. [link] [link]
- Syd Barrett, 60, founding member of Pink Floyd, complications related to diabetes. [link]
- Irene Buri-Nelson, 84, first female member of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame, car crash. [link]
- Reinhold Carlson, 100, former mayor of Des Moines, Iowa and Iowa State Senator. [link]
- Rudi Carrell, 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancer [link]
- John Warner Fitzgerald, 81, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. [link]
- Elias Hrawi, 79, former President of Lebanon (1989-98), cancer. [link]
- Shana Leaupepe, 21, New Mexico State University American football player, drive-by shooting. [link]
- Dolores Lescure, 89, former chair of the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation and former mayor of Staunton, Virginia. [link]
- Dina Kaminskaya, 85, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents. [link]
- Gilbert Mason, 77, Mississippi civil rights campaigner. [link]
- Dr. John Money, 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Parkinson's disease. [link] [link]
- Eric Schopler, 79, psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer. [link]
- Frank P. Zeidler, 93, Mayor of Milwaukee 1948-1960 and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city, died in his sleep. [link]
- Poul Andersen, 84, Danish-born publisher of Bien, the only weekly Danish newspaper in the US, Alzheimer's disease. [link]
- Juan de Ávalos, 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack [link].
- Teddy Craft, 22, U.S. college football player for Georgia Southern, motorcycle accident [link]
- Ralph Ginzburg, 76, U.S. publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma, [link]
- Al Hodge, 55, Cornish rock guitarist and songwriter, cancer. [link]
- John Manos, 83, US and Ohio judge for 43 years. [link]
- George Prugh, 86 United States Army General and military lawyer who organised Prisoner of War status for combatants in the Vietnam War, complications from Parkinson's disease. [link]
- Juan Pablo Rebella, 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide. [link], [link]
- Kasey Rogers, 79, American actress (Bewitched) and motocross racer, stroke. [link],[link],[link]
- ES Turner, 96, English historian and journalist[link]
- Tom Weir, 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster. [link] [link]
- Barbara Albright, 51, prolific U.S. author of food and knitting books, brain tumor. [link]
- Lucien Crump, Jr, 71, Philadelphia artist and art gallery owner, cancer. [link]
- Lou Dantzler, 69, founder of Challengers Boys & Girls Club in Los Angeles, stroke. [link]
- Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer. [link]
- Lewis Glucksman, 80, former head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers. [link]
- Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business. [link]
- Kevin Herlihy, 58, New Zealand softball pitcher played in two teams that won world titles and inaugural member of the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, heart attack. [link]
- Kenneth Lay, 64, former CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack. [link]
- Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader. [link]
- Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic who worked for Rolling Stone and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records. [link]
- Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress [link]
- Hugh Stubbins, Jr., 94, American architect of Manhattan's Citicorp Centre, pneumonia. [link] [link]
- Tongan Prince Tu'ipelehake, 56, and Princess Kaimana, 46, car crash in Menlo Park, California. [link][link][link]
- Zelda Foster, 71, American social worker and hospice pioneer. [link]
- John Hinde, 92, Australian film reviewer and journalist. [link]
- Bobby Joe Mason, 70, member of the Harlem Globetrotters for 15 years and member of the Bradley University team of the century, cardiac arrest. [link]
- Jack Sameth, 79, American television producer and director. [link]
- Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American world champion bridge player and author. Complications of Parkinson's Disease. [link]
- Hans Bierbrauer alias Oskar, 84, German caricaturist. [link]
- Francis Cammaerts, 90, led 30,000 French Resistance fighters while with the Special Operations Executive. [link]
- Dick Dickey, 79, former player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University. [link]
- Edgar Ewing, 93, Californian artist, coronary artery disease leading to cardiac arrest. [link]
- Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (As the World Turns), suicide by gunshot. [link] [link]
- Wilbert Hopper, 73, former president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada. [link]
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, cancer. [link] [link]
- Lars Korvald, 90, former Prime Minister of Norway. [link]
- Sir Carol Mather, 87, former British Conservative MP. [link]
- Nimrod Ping, 46, Brighton city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis C. [link]
- Jack Smith, 92, musician and former host of You Asked for It, leukemia. [link] [link]
- Lynn Stanley, 58, chairwoman of the Protect Marriage Arizona Coalition and activist against gay marriage, car accident. [link]
- Mpozi Tolbert, 34, award winning press photographer. [link]
- Joe Weaver, 71, leader of the Blue Note Orchestra and musician on early Tamla sessions, stroke. [link]
- L. Thomas Appleby, 82, American president of the United Nations Development Corporation and New York City housing commissioner. [link]
- Balázs Horváth, 64, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer [link]
- Herty Lewites, 65, Nicaraguan presidential candidate. [link]
- Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian [link][link]
- Tihomir Ognjanov, 79, former footballer for Yugoslavia, played in the 1950 World Cup [link]
- Roland Remmel, 88, American businessman and fundraiser for waterfowl charities, cancer. [link]
- Anatole Shub, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pnemonia and a stroke. [link]
- Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, American painter. [link]
- Umberto Abronzino, 85, member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator. [link]
- Michael Barton, 91, Surrey cricketer and president. [link]
- Edwin Broderick, 89, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, NY, USA, and director of Catholic Relief Services. [link]
- Jaye Michael Davis, 62, veteran U.S. radio deejay, motorcycle accident. [link]
- Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer. [link]
- Irving Green, 90, co-founder of Mercury Records. [link] [link]
- Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, former Prime Minister of Japan (1996-98). [link]
- Rabbi Louis Jacobs, 85, founder of the British Masorti movement. [link]
- Israel Kantor, 56, member of Tropicana All Stars, cancer. [link]
- Yousuf Khan, 70, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack. [link]
- Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker. [link]
- Michael Parman, 61, editor and publisher of The Press Democrat, pancreatic cancer. [link]
- Dr. Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author. [link]
- Samir Sarhan, 65, Egyptian writer, critic and organiser of the Cairo International Book Fair, heart failure. [link]
- Fred Trueman, 75, Yorkshire and England cricketer, lung cancer. [link]
- Robbie "Rocket" Watts, 47, Australian guitarist for the Cosmic Psychos. [link]
See Deaths in June 2006.
See Deaths in May 2006.
See Deaths in April 2006.
See Deaths in March 2006.
See Deaths in February 2006.
See Deaths in January 2006.External links and references
- Obituaries on general news websites
- *[Recent AP Obituaries]
- *[The New York Times: Obituaries]
- *[Washington Post Obituaries]
- *[Topix.net Obituaries]
- *[Mail & Guardian (South Africa) Obituaries]
- *[The Guardian (UK) Obituaries]
- *[Daily Telegraph obituaries]
- *[The Independent Obituaries]
- *
- *Google News: e.g. [obituary]
- *Yahoo News: e.g. [obituaries]
- Newsgroup: [alt.obituaries]
- Specialised websites
- *[Find a Grave — Millions of (US) Cemetery Records]
- *[Find a Death — details on the circumstances behind the deaths of hundreds of celebrities]
- *[Dead People Server]
- *[Dead or Alive]
- *[Dead Rock Stars Club]
- *[Friends Reincarnated]
- *[Who's Alive and Who's Dead]
- *[Life in Legacy: Week in Review]
- *[The Blog of Death]
- *[MySpace Deaths]
- *[The Celebrity Death Toll Update]
- *[GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search]
- *[Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records]: US genealogy directory
- *[Operation Iraqi Freedom — US Combat Deaths]
- *[Obituary Central — index to obituary search engines arranged geographically]
- *[Obituary Links Page — state-by-state directory of obituary resources]
- *[Russian Obituary Links Page — The List of Death]
- *[Nekrolog] (Czech necrologies)
- *[Remembrance Online] Online Books of Remembrance and Condolence
- *[Written in Stone] Literary deaths and gravestones
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2005, Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994...
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- Vasant Chavan, 64, Indian politician and former Minister, cardiac arrest. [link]
- John Coletta, 74, former manager of Deep Purple and Whitesnake, due to unspecified illness. [link]
- Neil Coulbeck, Royal Bank of Scotland executive questioned over Enron collapse, unexplained. [link]
- Mary Day, 96, American ballet dancer and co-founder of the Washington School of Ballet. [link]
- Gerald Gidwitz, 99, American cosmetics executive, co-founder of Helene Curtis, congestive heart failure. [link] [link]
- Barnard Hughes, 90, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor. [link] [link]
- Bill Miller, 91, American pianist for Frank Sinatra, heart attack. [link] [link]
- Derrick O'Brien, 31, executed for the rape and murder of two teenage girls in Texas. [link]
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- John Spencer, 71, British former world champion snooker player, stomach cancer [link] [link] [link]
- Wiarton Willie, 8, Canada's most well-known Groundhog Day prognosticator, following a long illness [link]
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- The Very Rev. Dr. Raymond Furnell, 71, Dean of York from 1994-2003, cancer [link]
- Anthony Holliday, 66, South African philosopher and journalist, cancer. [link]
- Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi, 89, Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist who published 50 books. [link]
- Ali Taziyev, Chechen militant.[link]
- Blanca Torres, 78, Mexican actress. [link]
- Fred Wander, 89, Austrian author and Holocaust survivor. [link]
- Dr. Fred Epstein, 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumors, melanoma. [link]
- Abdel Moneim Madbouly, 85, Egyptian comedian and playwright. Congestive heart failure. [link]
- Alan Senitt, 27, British political activist, stabbed to death. [link]
- Milan Williams, 58, keyboardist, founding member of R&B/funk band the Commodores, cancer. [link] [link]
- Michael Zinzun, 57, ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist; died in his sleep. [link]
- George Albee, 84, American psychologist and former head of the American Psychological Association, argued that social problems contributed to mental illness. [link] [link]
- June Allyson, 88, Hollywood actress, pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a long illness. [link]
- Eric Bedford, 78, former member of the Wran Government ministry 1976-1985 in New South Wales. [link]
- Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, 91, founder of Transfield Holdings Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, died after a fall. [link]
- Rolf Braun, 77, German Fastnacht and TV personality [link]
- David Bright, 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrest stemming from decompression sickness. [link] [link]
- Ana María Campoy, 80, Argentine actress, pneumonia [link].
- Peter Hawkins, 82, British actor and voice artist. [link]
- Catherine Leroy, 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam War in Life, cancer. [link] [link]
- Lajos Polgar, 89, accused of involvement in genocide in World War II as a member of the Hungarian Arrow Cross. [link]
- Raja Rao, 97, Indian novelist (Kanthapura). [link] [link]
- Jesse Simons, 88, American labor arbitrator. [link]
- Dorothy Uhnak, 76, American policewoman turned novelist. [link]
- Luis Barragan, 34, president of 1-800-Mattress, drowned. [link] [link]
- Syd Barrett, 60, founding member of Pink Floyd, complications related to diabetes. [link]
- Irene Buri-Nelson, 84, first female member of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame, car crash. [link]
- Reinhold Carlson, 100, former mayor of Des Moines, Iowa and Iowa State Senator. [link]
- Rudi Carrell, 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancer [link]
- John Warner Fitzgerald, 81, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. [link]
- Elias Hrawi, 79, former President of Lebanon (1989-98), cancer. [link]
- Shana Leaupepe, 21, New Mexico State University American football player, drive-by shooting. [link]
- Dolores Lescure, 89, former chair of the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation and former mayor of Staunton, Virginia. [link]
- Dina Kaminskaya, 85, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents. [link]
- Gilbert Mason, 77, Mississippi civil rights campaigner. [link]
- Dr. John Money, 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Parkinson's disease. [link] [link]
- Eric Schopler, 79, psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer. [link]
- Frank P. Zeidler, 93, Mayor of Milwaukee 1948-1960 and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city, died in his sleep. [link]
- Poul Andersen, 84, Danish-born publisher of Bien, the only weekly Danish newspaper in the US, Alzheimer's disease. [link]
- Juan de Ávalos, 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack [link].
- Teddy Craft, 22, U.S. college football player for Georgia Southern, motorcycle accident [link]
- Ralph Ginzburg, 76, U.S. publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma, [link]
- Al Hodge, 55, Cornish rock guitarist and songwriter, cancer. [link]
- John Manos, 83, US and Ohio judge for 43 years. [link]
- George Prugh, 86 United States Army General and military lawyer who organised Prisoner of War status for combatants in the Vietnam War, complications from Parkinson's disease. [link]
- Juan Pablo Rebella, 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide. [link], [link]
- Kasey Rogers, 79, American actress (Bewitched) and motocross racer, stroke. [link],[link],[link]
- ES Turner, 96, English historian and journalist[link]
- Tom Weir, 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster. [link] [link]
- Barbara Albright, 51, prolific U.S. author of food and knitting books, brain tumor. [link]
- Lucien Crump, Jr, 71, Philadelphia artist and art gallery owner, cancer. [link]
- Lou Dantzler, 69, founder of Challengers Boys & Girls Club in Los Angeles, stroke. [link]
- Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer. [link]
- Lewis Glucksman, 80, former head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers. [link]
- Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business. [link]
- Kevin Herlihy, 58, New Zealand softball pitcher played in two teams that won world titles and inaugural member of the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, heart attack. [link]
- Kenneth Lay, 64, former CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack. [link]
- Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader. [link]
- Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic who worked for Rolling Stone and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records. [link]
- Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress [link]
- Hugh Stubbins, Jr., 94, American architect of Manhattan's Citicorp Centre, pneumonia. [link] [link]
- Tongan Prince Tu'ipelehake, 56, and Princess Kaimana, 46, car crash in Menlo Park, California. [link][link][link]
- Zelda Foster, 71, American social worker and hospice pioneer. [link]
- John Hinde, 92, Australian film reviewer and journalist. [link]
- Bobby Joe Mason, 70, member of the Harlem Globetrotters for 15 years and member of the Bradley University team of the century, cardiac arrest. [link]
- Jack Sameth, 79, American television producer and director. [link]
- Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American world champion bridge player and author. Complications of Parkinson's Disease. [link]
- Hans Bierbrauer alias Oskar, 84, German caricaturist. [link]
- Francis Cammaerts, 90, led 30,000 French Resistance fighters while with the Special Operations Executive. [link]
- Dick Dickey, 79, former player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University. [link]
- Edgar Ewing, 93, Californian artist, coronary artery disease leading to cardiac arrest. [link]
- Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (As the World Turns), suicide by gunshot. [link] [link]
- Wilbert Hopper, 73, former president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada. [link]
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, cancer. [link] [link]
- Lars Korvald, 90, former Prime Minister of Norway. [link]
- Sir Carol Mather, 87, former British Conservative MP. [link]
- Nimrod Ping, 46, Brighton city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis C. [link]
- Jack Smith, 92, musician and former host of You Asked for It, leukemia. [link] [link]
- Lynn Stanley, 58, chairwoman of the Protect Marriage Arizona Coalition and activist against gay marriage, car accident. [link]
- Mpozi Tolbert, 34, award winning press photographer. [link]
- Joe Weaver, 71, leader of the Blue Note Orchestra and musician on early Tamla sessions, stroke. [link]
- L. Thomas Appleby, 82, American president of the United Nations Development Corporation and New York City housing commissioner. [link]
- Balázs Horváth, 64, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer [link]
- Herty Lewites, 65, Nicaraguan presidential candidate. [link]
- Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian [link][link]
- Tihomir Ognjanov, 79, former footballer for Yugoslavia, played in the 1950 World Cup [link]
- Roland Remmel, 88, American businessman and fundraiser for waterfowl charities, cancer. [link]
- Anatole Shub, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pnemonia and a stroke. [link]
- Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, American painter. [link]
- Umberto Abronzino, 85, member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator. [link]
- Michael Barton, 91, Surrey cricketer and president. [link]
- Edwin Broderick, 89, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, NY, USA, and director of Catholic Relief Services. [link]
- Jaye Michael Davis, 62, veteran U.S. radio deejay, motorcycle accident. [link]
- Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer. [link]
- Irving Green, 90, co-founder of Mercury Records. [link] [link]
- Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, former Prime Minister of Japan (1996-98). [link]
- Rabbi Louis Jacobs, 85, founder of the British Masorti movement. [link]
- Israel Kantor, 56, member of Tropicana All Stars, cancer. [link]
- Yousuf Khan, 70, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack. [link]
- Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker. [link]
- Michael Parman, 61, editor and publisher of The Press Democrat, pancreatic cancer. [link]
- Dr. Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author. [link]
- Samir Sarhan, 65, Egyptian writer, critic and organiser of the Cairo International Book Fair, heart failure. [link]
- Fred Trueman, 75, Yorkshire and England cricketer, lung cancer. [link]
- Robbie "Rocket" Watts, 47, Australian guitarist for the Cosmic Psychos. [link]
See Deaths in June 2006.
See Deaths in May 2006.
See Deaths in April 2006.
See Deaths in March 2006.
See Deaths in February 2006.
See Deaths in January 2006.External links and references
- Obituaries on general news websites
- *[Recent AP Obituaries]
- *[The New York Times: Obituaries]
- *[Washington Post Obituaries]
- *[Topix.net Obituaries]
- *[Mail & Guardian (South Africa) Obituaries]
- *[The Guardian (UK) Obituaries]
- *[Daily Telegraph obituaries]
- *[The Independent Obituaries]
- *
- *Google News: e.g. [obituary]
- *Yahoo News: e.g. [obituaries]
- Newsgroup: [alt.obituaries]
- Specialised websites
- *[Find a Grave — Millions of (US) Cemetery Records]
- *[Find a Death — details on the circumstances behind the deaths of hundreds of celebrities]
- *[Dead People Server]
- *[Dead or Alive]
- *[Dead Rock Stars Club]
- *[Friends Reincarnated]
- *[Who's Alive and Who's Dead]
- *[Life in Legacy: Week in Review]
- *[The Blog of Death]
- *[MySpace Deaths]
- *[The Celebrity Death Toll Update]
- *[GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search]
- *[Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records]: US genealogy directory
- *[Operation Iraqi Freedom — US Combat Deaths]
- *[Obituary Central — index to obituary search engines arranged geographically]
- *[Obituary Links Page — state-by-state directory of obituary resources]
- *[Russian Obituary Links Page — The List of Death]
- *[Nekrolog] (Czech necrologies)
- *[Remembrance Online] Online Books of Remembrance and Condolence
- *[Written in Stone] Literary deaths and gravestones
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2005, Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994...
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.
- Dr. Fred Epstein, 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumors, melanoma. [link]
- Abdel Moneim Madbouly, 85, Egyptian comedian and playwright. Congestive heart failure. [link]
- Alan Senitt, 27, British political activist, stabbed to death. [link]
- Milan Williams, 58, keyboardist, founding member of R&B/funk band the Commodores, cancer. [link] [link]
- Michael Zinzun, 57, ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist; died in his sleep. [link]
- George Albee, 84, American psychologist and former head of the American Psychological Association, argued that social problems contributed to mental illness. [link] [link]
- June Allyson, 88, Hollywood actress, pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a long illness. [link]
- Eric Bedford, 78, former member of the Wran Government ministry 1976-1985 in New South Wales. [link]
- Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, 91, founder of Transfield Holdings Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, died after a fall. [link]
- Rolf Braun, 77, German Fastnacht and TV personality [link]
- David Bright, 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrest stemming from decompression sickness. [link] [link]
- Ana María Campoy, 80, Argentine actress, pneumonia [link].
- Peter Hawkins, 82, British actor and voice artist. [link]
- Catherine Leroy, 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam War in Life, cancer. [link] [link]
- Lajos Polgar, 89, accused of involvement in genocide in World War II as a member of the Hungarian Arrow Cross. [link]
- Raja Rao, 97, Indian novelist (Kanthapura). [link] [link]
- Jesse Simons, 88, American labor arbitrator. [link]
- Dorothy Uhnak, 76, American policewoman turned novelist. [link]
- Luis Barragan, 34, president of 1-800-Mattress, drowned. [link] [link]
- Syd Barrett, 60, founding member of Pink Floyd, complications related to diabetes. [link]
- Irene Buri-Nelson, 84, first female member of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame, car crash. [link]
- Reinhold Carlson, 100, former mayor of Des Moines, Iowa and Iowa State Senator. [link]
- Rudi Carrell, 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancer [link]
- John Warner Fitzgerald, 81, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. [link]
- Elias Hrawi, 79, former President of Lebanon (1989-98), cancer. [link]
- Shana Leaupepe, 21, New Mexico State University American football player, drive-by shooting. [link]
- Dolores Lescure, 89, former chair of the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation and former mayor of Staunton, Virginia. [link]
- Dina Kaminskaya, 85, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents. [link]
- Gilbert Mason, 77, Mississippi civil rights campaigner. [link]
- Dr. John Money, 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Parkinson's disease. [link] [link]
- Eric Schopler, 79, psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer. [link]
- Frank P. Zeidler, 93, Mayor of Milwaukee 1948-1960 and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city, died in his sleep. [link]
- Poul Andersen, 84, Danish-born publisher of Bien, the only weekly Danish newspaper in the US, Alzheimer's disease. [link]
- Juan de Ávalos, 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack [link].
- Teddy Craft, 22, U.S. college football player for Georgia Southern, motorcycle accident [link]
- Ralph Ginzburg, 76, U.S. publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma, [link]
- Al Hodge, 55, Cornish rock guitarist and songwriter, cancer. [link]
- John Manos, 83, US and Ohio judge for 43 years. [link]
- George Prugh, 86 United States Army General and military lawyer who organised Prisoner of War status for combatants in the Vietnam War, complications from Parkinson's disease. [link]
- Juan Pablo Rebella, 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide. [link], [link]
- Kasey Rogers, 79, American actress (Bewitched) and motocross racer, stroke. [link],[link],[link]
- ES Turner, 96, English historian and journalist[link]
- Tom Weir, 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster. [link] [link]
- Barbara Albright, 51, prolific U.S. author of food and knitting books, brain tumor. [link]
- Lucien Crump, Jr, 71, Philadelphia artist and art gallery owner, cancer. [link]
- Lou Dantzler, 69, founder of Challengers Boys & Girls Club in Los Angeles, stroke. [link]
- Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer. [link]
- Lewis Glucksman, 80, former head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers. [link]
- Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business. [link]
- Kevin Herlihy, 58, New Zealand softball pitcher played in two teams that won world titles and inaugural member of the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, heart attack. [link]
- Kenneth Lay, 64, former CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack. [link]
- Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader. [link]
- Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic who worked for Rolling Stone and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records. [link]
- Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress [link]
- Hugh Stubbins, Jr., 94, American architect of Manhattan's Citicorp Centre, pneumonia. [link] [link]
- Tongan Prince Tu'ipelehake, 56, and Princess Kaimana, 46, car crash in Menlo Park, California. [link][link][link]
- Zelda Foster, 71, American social worker and hospice pioneer. [link]
- John Hinde, 92, Australian film reviewer and journalist. [link]
- Bobby Joe Mason, 70, member of the Harlem Globetrotters for 15 years and member of the Bradley University team of the century, cardiac arrest. [link]
- Jack Sameth, 79, American television producer and director. [link]
- Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American world champion bridge player and author. Complications of Parkinson's Disease. [link]
- Hans Bierbrauer alias Oskar, 84, German caricaturist. [link]
- Francis Cammaerts, 90, led 30,000 French Resistance fighters while with the Special Operations Executive. [link]
- Dick Dickey, 79, former player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University. [link]
- Edgar Ewing, 93, Californian artist, coronary artery disease leading to cardiac arrest. [link]
- Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (As the World Turns), suicide by gunshot. [link] [link]
- Wilbert Hopper, 73, former president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada. [link]
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, cancer. [link] [link]
- Lars Korvald, 90, former Prime Minister of Norway. [link]
- Sir Carol Mather, 87, former British Conservative MP. [link]
- Nimrod Ping, 46, Brighton city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis C. [link]
- Jack Smith, 92, musician and former host of You Asked for It, leukemia. [link] [link]
- Lynn Stanley, 58, chairwoman of the Protect Marriage Arizona Coalition and activist against gay marriage, car accident. [link]
- Mpozi Tolbert, 34, award winning press photographer. [link]
- Joe Weaver, 71, leader of the Blue Note Orchestra and musician on early Tamla sessions, stroke. [link]
- L. Thomas Appleby, 82, American president of the United Nations Development Corporation and New York City housing commissioner. [link]
- Balázs Horváth, 64, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer [link]
- Herty Lewites, 65, Nicaraguan presidential candidate. [link]
- Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian [link][link]
- Tihomir Ognjanov, 79, former footballer for Yugoslavia, played in the 1950 World Cup [link]
- Roland Remmel, 88, American businessman and fundraiser for waterfowl charities, cancer. [link]
- Anatole Shub, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pnemonia and a stroke. [link]
- Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, American painter. [link]
- Umberto Abronzino, 85, member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator. [link]
- Michael Barton, 91, Surrey cricketer and president. [link]
- Edwin Broderick, 89, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, NY, USA, and director of Catholic Relief Services. [link]
- Jaye Michael Davis, 62, veteran U.S. radio deejay, motorcycle accident. [link]
- Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer. [link]
- Irving Green, 90, co-founder of Mercury Records. [link] [link]
- Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, former Prime Minister of Japan (1996-98). [link]
- Rabbi Louis Jacobs, 85, founder of the British Masorti movement. [link]
- Israel Kantor, 56, member of Tropicana All Stars, cancer. [link]
- Yousuf Khan, 70, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack. [link]
- Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker. [link]
- Michael Parman, 61, editor and publisher of The Press Democrat, pancreatic cancer. [link]
- Dr. Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author. [link]
- Samir Sarhan, 65, Egyptian writer, critic and organiser of the Cairo International Book Fair, heart failure. [link]
- Fred Trueman, 75, Yorkshire and England cricketer, lung cancer. [link]
- Robbie "Rocket" Watts, 47, Australian guitarist for the Cosmic Psychos. [link]
See Deaths in June 2006.
See Deaths in May 2006.
See Deaths in April 2006.
See Deaths in March 2006.
See Deaths in February 2006.
See Deaths in January 2006.External links and references
- Obituaries on general news websites
- *[Recent AP Obituaries]
- *[The New York Times: Obituaries]
- *[Washington Post Obituaries]
- *[Topix.net Obituaries]
- *[Mail & Guardian (South Africa) Obituaries]
- *[The Guardian (UK) Obituaries]
- *[Daily Telegraph obituaries]
- *[The Independent Obituaries]
- *
- *Google News: e.g. [obituary]
- *Yahoo News: e.g. [obituaries]
- Newsgroup: [alt.obituaries]
- Specialised websites
- *[Find a Grave — Millions of (US) Cemetery Records]
- *[Find a Death — details on the circumstances behind the deaths of hundreds of celebrities]
- *[Dead People Server]
- *[Dead or Alive]
- *[Dead Rock Stars Club]
- *[Friends Reincarnated]
- *[Who's Alive and Who's Dead]
- *[Life in Legacy: Week in Review]
- *[The Blog of Death]
- *[MySpace Deaths]
- *[The Celebrity Death Toll Update]
- *[GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search]
- *[Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records]: US genealogy directory
- *[Operation Iraqi Freedom — US Combat Deaths]
- *[Obituary Central — index to obituary search engines arranged geographically]
- *[Obituary Links Page — state-by-state directory of obituary resources]
- *[Russian Obituary Links Page — The List of Death]
- *[Nekrolog] (Czech necrologies)
- *[Remembrance Online] Online Books of Remembrance and Condolence
- *[Written in Stone] Literary deaths and gravestones
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2005, Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994...
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.
- Luis Barragan, 34, president of 1-800-Mattress, drowned. [link] [link]
- Syd Barrett, 60, founding member of Pink Floyd, complications related to diabetes. [link]
- Irene Buri-Nelson, 84, first female member of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame, car crash. [link]
- Reinhold Carlson, 100, former mayor of Des Moines, Iowa and Iowa State Senator. [link]
- Rudi Carrell, 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancer [link]
- John Warner Fitzgerald, 81, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. [link]
- Elias Hrawi, 79, former President of Lebanon (1989-98), cancer. [link]
- Shana Leaupepe, 21, New Mexico State University American football player, drive-by shooting. [link]
- Dolores Lescure, 89, former chair of the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation and former mayor of Staunton, Virginia. [link]
- Dina Kaminskaya, 85, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents. [link]
- Gilbert Mason, 77, Mississippi civil rights campaigner. [link]
- Dr. John Money, 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Parkinson's disease. [link] [link]
- Eric Schopler, 79, psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer. [link]
- Frank P. Zeidler, 93, Mayor of Milwaukee 1948-1960 and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city, died in his sleep. [link]
- Poul Andersen, 84, Danish-born publisher of Bien, the only weekly Danish newspaper in the US, Alzheimer's disease. [link]
- Juan de Ávalos, 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack [link].
- Teddy Craft, 22, U.S. college football player for Georgia Southern, motorcycle accident [link]
- Ralph Ginzburg, 76, U.S. publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma, [link]
- Al Hodge, 55, Cornish rock guitarist and songwriter, cancer. [link]
- John Manos, 83, US and Ohio judge for 43 years. [link]
- George Prugh, 86 United States Army General and military lawyer who organised Prisoner of War status for combatants in the Vietnam War, complications from Parkinson's disease. [link]
- Juan Pablo Rebella, 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide. [link], [link]
- Kasey Rogers, 79, American actress (Bewitched) and motocross racer, stroke. [link],[link],[link]
- ES Turner, 96, English historian and journalist[link]
- Tom Weir, 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster. [link] [link]
- Barbara Albright, 51, prolific U.S. author of food and knitting books, brain tumor. [link]
- Lucien Crump, Jr, 71, Philadelphia artist and art gallery owner, cancer. [link]
- Lou Dantzler, 69, founder of Challengers Boys & Girls Club in Los Angeles, stroke. [link]
- Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer. [link]
- Lewis Glucksman, 80, former head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers. [link]
- Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business. [link]
- Kevin Herlihy, 58, New Zealand softball pitcher played in two teams that won world titles and inaugural member of the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, heart attack. [link]
- Kenneth Lay, 64, former CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack. [link]
- Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader. [link]
- Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic who worked for Rolling Stone and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records. [link]
- Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress [link]
- Hugh Stubbins, Jr., 94, American architect of Manhattan's Citicorp Centre, pneumonia. [link] [link]
- Tongan Prince Tu'ipelehake, 56, and Princess Kaimana, 46, car crash in Menlo Park, California. [link][link][link]
- Zelda Foster, 71, American social worker and hospice pioneer. [link]
- John Hinde, 92, Australian film reviewer and journalist. [link]
- Bobby Joe Mason, 70, member of the Harlem Globetrotters for 15 years and member of the Bradley University team of the century, cardiac arrest. [link]
- Jack Sameth, 79, American television producer and director. [link]
- Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American world champion bridge player and author. Complications of Parkinson's Disease. [link]
- Hans Bierbrauer alias Oskar, 84, German caricaturist. [link]
- Francis Cammaerts, 90, led 30,000 French Resistance fighters while with the Special Operations Executive. [link]
- Dick Dickey, 79, former player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University. [link]
- Edgar Ewing, 93, Californian artist, coronary artery disease leading to cardiac arrest. [link]
- Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (As the World Turns), suicide by gunshot. [link] [link]
- Wilbert Hopper, 73, former president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada. [link]
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, cancer. [link] [link]
- Lars Korvald, 90, former Prime Minister of Norway. [link]
- Sir Carol Mather, 87, former British Conservative MP. [link]
- Nimrod Ping, 46, Brighton city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis C. [link]
- Jack Smith, 92, musician and former host of You Asked for It, leukemia. [link] [link]
- Lynn Stanley, 58, chairwoman of the Protect Marriage Arizona Coalition and activist against gay marriage, car accident. [link]
- Mpozi Tolbert, 34, award winning press photographer. [link]
- Joe Weaver, 71, leader of the Blue Note Orchestra and musician on early Tamla sessions, stroke. [link]
- L. Thomas Appleby, 82, American president of the United Nations Development Corporation and New York City housing commissioner. [link]
- Balázs Horváth, 64, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer [link]
- Herty Lewites, 65, Nicaraguan presidential candidate. [link]
- Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian [link][link]
- Tihomir Ognjanov, 79, former footballer for Yugoslavia, played in the 1950 World Cup [link]
- Roland Remmel, 88, American businessman and fundraiser for waterfowl charities, cancer. [link]
- Anatole Shub, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pnemonia and a stroke. [link]
- Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, American painter. [link]
- Umberto Abronzino, 85, member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator. [link]
- Michael Barton, 91, Surrey cricketer and president. [link]
- Edwin Broderick, 89, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, NY, USA, and director of Catholic Relief Services. [link]
- Jaye Michael Davis, 62, veteran U.S. radio deejay, motorcycle accident. [link]
- Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer. [link]
- Irving Green, 90, co-founder of Mercury Records. [link] [link]
- Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, former Prime Minister of Japan (1996-98). [link]
- Rabbi Louis Jacobs, 85, founder of the British Masorti movement. [link]
- Israel Kantor, 56, member of Tropicana All Stars, cancer. [link]
- Yousuf Khan, 70, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack. [link]
- Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker. [link]
- Michael Parman, 61, editor and publisher of The Press Democrat, pancreatic cancer. [link]
- Dr. Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author. [link]
- Samir Sarhan, 65, Egyptian writer, critic and organiser of the Cairo International Book Fair, heart failure. [link]
- Fred Trueman, 75, Yorkshire and England cricketer, lung cancer. [link]
- Robbie "Rocket" Watts, 47, Australian guitarist for the Cosmic Psychos. [link]
See Deaths in June 2006.
See Deaths in May 2006.
See Deaths in April 2006.
See Deaths in March 2006.
See Deaths in February 2006.
See Deaths in January 2006.External links and references
- Obituaries on general news websites
- *[Recent AP Obituaries]
- *[The New York Times: Obituaries]
- *[Washington Post Obituaries]
- *[Topix.net Obituaries]
- *[Mail & Guardian (South Africa) Obituaries]
- *[The Guardian (UK) Obituaries]
- *[Daily Telegraph obituaries]
- *[The Independent Obituaries]
- *
- *Google News: e.g. [obituary]
- *Yahoo News: e.g. [obituaries]
- Newsgroup: [alt.obituaries]
- Specialised websites
- *[Find a Grave — Millions of (US) Cemetery Records]
- *[Find a Death — details on the circumstances behind the deaths of hundreds of celebrities]
- *[Dead People Server]
- *[Dead or Alive]
- *[Dead Rock Stars Club]
- *[Friends Reincarnated]
- *[Who's Alive and Who's Dead]
- *[Life in Legacy: Week in Review]
- *[The Blog of Death]
- *[MySpace Deaths]
- *[The Celebrity Death Toll Update]
- *[GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search]
- *[Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records]: US genealogy directory
- *[Operation Iraqi Freedom — US Combat Deaths]
- *[Obituary Central — index to obituary search engines arranged geographically]
- *[Obituary Links Page — state-by-state directory of obituary resources]
- *[Russian Obituary Links Page — The List of Death]
- *[Nekrolog] (Czech necrologies)
- *[Remembrance Online] Online Books of Remembrance and Condolence
- *[Written in Stone] Literary deaths and gravestones
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2005, Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994...
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- Barbara Albright, 51, prolific U.S. author of food and knitting books, brain tumor. [link]
- Lucien Crump, Jr, 71, Philadelphia artist and art gallery owner, cancer. [link]
- Lou Dantzler, 69, founder of Challengers Boys & Girls Club in Los Angeles, stroke. [link]
- Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer. [link]
- Lewis Glucksman, 80, former head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers. [link]
- Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business. [link]
- Kevin Herlihy, 58, New Zealand softball pitcher played in two teams that won world titles and inaugural member of the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, heart attack. [link]
- Kenneth Lay, 64, former CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack. [link]
- Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader. [link]
- Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic who worked for Rolling Stone and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records. [link]
- Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress [link]
- Hugh Stubbins, Jr., 94, American architect of Manhattan's Citicorp Centre, pneumonia. [link] [link]
- Tongan Prince Tu'ipelehake, 56, and Princess Kaimana, 46, car crash in Menlo Park, California. [link][link][link]
- Zelda Foster, 71, American social worker and hospice pioneer. [link]
- John Hinde, 92, Australian film reviewer and journalist. [link]
- Bobby Joe Mason, 70, member of the Harlem Globetrotters for 15 years and member of the Bradley University team of the century, cardiac arrest. [link]
- Jack Sameth, 79, American television producer and director. [link]
- Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American world champion bridge player and author. Complications of Parkinson's Disease. [link]
- Hans Bierbrauer alias Oskar, 84, German caricaturist. [link]
- Francis Cammaerts, 90, led 30,000 French Resistance fighters while with the Special Operations Executive. [link]
- Dick Dickey, 79, former player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University. [link]
- Edgar Ewing, 93, Californian artist, coronary artery disease leading to cardiac arrest. [link]
- Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (As the World Turns), suicide by gunshot. [link] [link]
- Wilbert Hopper, 73, former president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada. [link]
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, cancer. [link] [link]
- Lars Korvald, 90, former Prime Minister of Norway. [link]
- Sir Carol Mather, 87, former British Conservative MP. [link]
- Nimrod Ping, 46, Brighton city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis C. [link]
- Jack Smith, 92, musician and former host of You Asked for It, leukemia. [link] [link]
- Lynn Stanley, 58, chairwoman of the Protect Marriage Arizona Coalition and activist against gay marriage, car accident. [link]
- Mpozi Tolbert, 34, award winning press photographer. [link]
- Joe Weaver, 71, leader of the Blue Note Orchestra and musician on early Tamla sessions, stroke. [link]
- L. Thomas Appleby, 82, American president of the United Nations Development Corporation and New York City housing commissioner. [link]
- Balázs Horváth, 64, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer [link]
- Herty Lewites, 65, Nicaraguan presidential candidate. [link]
- Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian [link][link]
- Tihomir Ognjanov, 79, former footballer for Yugoslavia, played in the 1950 World Cup [link]
- Roland Remmel, 88, American businessman and fundraiser for waterfowl charities, cancer. [link]
- Anatole Shub, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pnemonia and a stroke. [link]
- Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, American painter. [link]
- Umberto Abronzino, 85, member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator. [link]
- Michael Barton, 91, Surrey cricketer and president. [link]
- Edwin Broderick, 89, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, NY, USA, and director of Catholic Relief Services. [link]
- Jaye Michael Davis, 62, veteran U.S. radio deejay, motorcycle accident. [link]
- Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer. [link]
- Irving Green, 90, co-founder of Mercury Records. [link] [link]
- Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, former Prime Minister of Japan (1996-98). [link]
- Rabbi Louis Jacobs, 85, founder of the British Masorti movement. [link]
- Israel Kantor, 56, member of Tropicana All Stars, cancer. [link]
- Yousuf Khan, 70, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack. [link]
- Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker. [link]
- Michael Parman, 61, editor and publisher of The Press Democrat, pancreatic cancer. [link]
- Dr. Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author. [link]
- Samir Sarhan, 65, Egyptian writer, critic and organiser of the Cairo International Book Fair, heart failure. [link]
- Fred Trueman, 75, Yorkshire and England cricketer, lung cancer. [link]
- Robbie "Rocket" Watts, 47, Australian guitarist for the Cosmic Psychos. [link]
See Deaths in June 2006.
See Deaths in May 2006.
See Deaths in April 2006.
See Deaths in March 2006.
See Deaths in February 2006.
See Deaths in January 2006.External links and references
- Obituaries on general news websites
- *[Recent AP Obituaries]
- *[The New York Times: Obituaries]
- *[Washington Post Obituaries]
- *[Topix.net Obituaries]
- *[Mail & Guardian (South Africa) Obituaries]
- *[The Guardian (UK) Obituaries]
- *[Daily Telegraph obituaries]
- *[The Independent Obituaries]
- *
- *Google News: e.g. [obituary]
- *Yahoo News: e.g. [obituaries]
- Newsgroup: [alt.obituaries]
- Specialised websites
- *[Find a Grave — Millions of (US) Cemetery Records]
- *[Find a Death — details on the circumstances behind the deaths of hundreds of celebrities]
- *[Dead People Server]
- *[Dead or Alive]
- *[Dead Rock Stars Club]
- *[Friends Reincarnated]
- *[Who's Alive and Who's Dead]
- *[Life in Legacy: Week in Review]
- *[The Blog of Death]
- *[MySpace Deaths]
- *[The Celebrity Death Toll Update]
- *[GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search]
- *[Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records]: US genealogy directory
- *[Operation Iraqi Freedom — US Combat Deaths]
- *[Obituary Central — index to obituary search engines arranged geographically]
- *[Obituary Links Page — state-by-state directory of obituary resources]
- *[Russian Obituary Links Page — The List of Death]
- *[Nekrolog] (Czech necrologies)
- *[Remembrance Online] Online Books of Remembrance and Condolence
- *[Written in Stone] Literary deaths and gravestones
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2005, Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994...
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.
- Hans Bierbrauer alias Oskar, 84, German caricaturist. [link]
- Francis Cammaerts, 90, led 30,000 French Resistance fighters while with the Special Operations Executive. [link]
- Dick Dickey, 79, former player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University. [link]
- Edgar Ewing, 93, Californian artist, coronary artery disease leading to cardiac arrest. [link]
- Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (As the World Turns), suicide by gunshot. [link] [link]
- Wilbert Hopper, 73, former president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada. [link]
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, cancer. [link] [link]
- Lars Korvald, 90, former Prime Minister of Norway. [link]
- Sir Carol Mather, 87, former British Conservative MP. [link]
- Nimrod Ping, 46, Brighton city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis C. [link]
- Jack Smith, 92, musician and former host of You Asked for It, leukemia. [link] [link]
- Lynn Stanley, 58, chairwoman of the Protect Marriage Arizona Coalition and activist against gay marriage, car accident. [link]
- Mpozi Tolbert, 34, award winning press photographer. [link]
- Joe Weaver, 71, leader of the Blue Note Orchestra and musician on early Tamla sessions, stroke. [link]
- L. Thomas Appleby, 82, American president of the United Nations Development Corporation and New York City housing commissioner. [link]
- Balázs Horváth, 64, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer [link]
- Herty Lewites, 65, Nicaraguan presidential candidate. [link]
- Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian [link][link]
- Tihomir Ognjanov, 79, former footballer for Yugoslavia, played in the 1950 World Cup [link]
- Roland Remmel, 88, American businessman and fundraiser for waterfowl charities, cancer. [link]
- Anatole Shub, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pnemonia and a stroke. [link]
- Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, American painter. [link]
- Umberto Abronzino, 85, member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator. [link]
- Michael Barton, 91, Surrey cricketer and president. [link]
- Edwin Broderick, 89, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, NY, USA, and director of Catholic Relief Services. [link]
- Jaye Michael Davis, 62, veteran U.S. radio deejay, motorcycle accident. [link]
- Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer. [link]
- Irving Green, 90, co-founder of Mercury Records. [link] [link]
- Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, former Prime Minister of Japan (1996-98). [link]
- Rabbi Louis Jacobs, 85, founder of the British Masorti movement. [link]
- Israel Kantor, 56, member of Tropicana All Stars, cancer. [link]
- Yousuf Khan, 70, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack. [link]
- Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker. [link]
- Michael Parman, 61, editor and publisher of The Press Democrat, pancreatic cancer. [link]
- Dr. Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author. [link]
- Samir Sarhan, 65, Egyptian writer, critic and organiser of the Cairo International Book Fair, heart failure. [link]
- Fred Trueman, 75, Yorkshire and England cricketer, lung cancer. [link]
- Robbie "Rocket" Watts, 47, Australian guitarist for the Cosmic Psychos. [link]
See Deaths in June 2006.
See Deaths in May 2006.
See Deaths in April 2006.
See Deaths in March 2006.
See Deaths in February 2006.
See Deaths in January 2006.External links and references
- Obituaries on general news websites
- *[Recent AP Obituaries]
- *[The New York Times: Obituaries]
- *[Washington Post Obituaries]
- *[Topix.net Obituaries]
- *[Mail & Guardian (South Africa) Obituaries]
- *[The Guardian (UK) Obituaries]
- *[Daily Telegraph obituaries]
- *[The Independent Obituaries]
- *
- *Google News: e.g. [obituary]
- *Yahoo News: e.g. [obituaries]
- Newsgroup: [alt.obituaries]
- Specialised websites
- *[Find a Grave — Millions of (US) Cemetery Records]
- *[Find a Death — details on the circumstances behind the deaths of hundreds of celebrities]
- *[Dead People Server]
- *[Dead or Alive]
- *[Dead Rock Stars Club]
- *[Friends Reincarnated]
- *[Who's Alive and Who's Dead]
- *[Life in Legacy: Week in Review]
- *[The Blog of Death]
- *[MySpace Deaths]
- *[The Celebrity Death Toll Update]
- *[GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search]
- *[Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records]: US genealogy directory
- *[Operation Iraqi Freedom — US Combat Deaths]
- *[Obituary Central — index to obituary search engines arranged geographically]
- *[Obituary Links Page — state-by-state directory of obituary resources]
- *[Russian Obituary Links Page — The List of Death]
- *[Nekrolog] (Czech necrologies)
- *[Remembrance Online] Online Books of Remembrance and Condolence
- *[Written in Stone] Literary deaths and gravestones
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2005, Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994...
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.
- Umberto Abronzino, 85, member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator. [link]
- Michael Barton, 91, Surrey cricketer and president. [link]
- Edwin Broderick, 89, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, NY, USA, and director of Catholic Relief Services. [link]
- Jaye Michael Davis, 62, veteran U.S. radio deejay, motorcycle accident. [link]
- Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer. [link]
- Irving Green, 90, co-founder of Mercury Records. [link] [link]
- Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, former Prime Minister of Japan (1996-98). [link]
- Rabbi Louis Jacobs, 85, founder of the British Masorti movement. [link]
- Israel Kantor, 56, member of Tropicana All Stars, cancer. [link]
- Yousuf Khan, 70, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack. [link]
- Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker. [link]
- Michael Parman, 61, editor and publisher of The Press Democrat, pancreatic cancer. [link]
- Dr. Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author. [link]
- Samir Sarhan, 65, Egyptian writer, critic and organiser of the Cairo International Book Fair, heart failure. [link]
- Fred Trueman, 75, Yorkshire and England cricketer, lung cancer. [link]
- Robbie "Rocket" Watts, 47, Australian guitarist for the Cosmic Psychos. [link]
See Deaths in June 2006.
See Deaths in May 2006.
See Deaths in April 2006.
See Deaths in March 2006.
See Deaths in February 2006.
See Deaths in January 2006.External links and references
- Obituaries on general news websites
- *[Recent AP Obituaries]
- *[The New York Times: Obituaries]
- *[Washington Post Obituaries]
- *[Topix.net Obituaries]
- *[Mail & Guardian (South Africa) Obituaries]
- *[The Guardian (UK) Obituaries]
- *[Daily Telegraph obituaries]
- *[The Independent Obituaries]
- *
- *Google News: e.g. [obituary]
- *Yahoo News: e.g. [obituaries]
- Newsgroup: [alt.obituaries]
- Specialised websites
- *[Find a Grave — Millions of (US) Cemetery Records]
- *[Find a Death — details on the circumstances behind the deaths of hundreds of celebrities]
- *[Dead People Server]
- *[Dead or Alive]
- *[Dead Rock Stars Club]
- *[Friends Reincarnated]
- *[Who's Alive and Who's Dead]
- *[Life in Legacy: Week in Review]
- *[The Blog of Death]
- *[MySpace Deaths]
- *[The Celebrity Death Toll Update]
- *[GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search]
- *[Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records]: US genealogy directory
- *[Operation Iraqi Freedom — US Combat Deaths]
- *[Obituary Central — index to obituary search engines arranged geographically]
- *[Obituary Links Page — state-by-state directory of obituary resources]
- *[Russian Obituary Links Page — The List of Death]
- *[Nekrolog] (Czech necrologies)
- *[Remembrance Online] Online Books of Remembrance and Condolence
- *[Written in Stone] Literary deaths and gravestones
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2005, Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994...
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.
See Deaths in April 2006.
See Deaths in March 2006.
See Deaths in February 2006.
See Deaths in January 2006.External links and references
- Obituaries on general news websites
- *[Recent AP Obituaries]
- *[The New York Times: Obituaries]
- *[Washington Post Obituaries]
- *[Topix.net Obituaries]
- *[Mail & Guardian (South Africa) Obituaries]
- *[The Guardian (UK) Obituaries]
- *[Daily Telegraph obituaries]
- *[The Independent Obituaries]
- *
- *Google News: e.g. [obituary]
- *Yahoo News: e.g. [obituaries]
- Newsgroup: [alt.obituaries]
- Specialised websites
- *[Find a Grave — Millions of (US) Cemetery Records]
- *[Find a Death — details on the circumstances behind the deaths of hundreds of celebrities]
- *[Dead People Server]
- *[Dead or Alive]
- *[Dead Rock Stars Club]
- *[Friends Reincarnated]
- *[Who's Alive and Who's Dead]
- *[Life in Legacy: Week in Review]
- *[The Blog of Death]
- *[MySpace Deaths]
- *[The Celebrity Death Toll Update]
- *[GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search]
- *[Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records]: US genealogy directory
- *[Operation Iraqi Freedom — US Combat Deaths]
- *[Obituary Central — index to obituary search engines arranged geographically]
- *[Obituary Links Page — state-by-state directory of obituary resources]
- *[Russian Obituary Links Page — The List of Death]
- *[Nekrolog] (Czech necrologies)
- *[Remembrance Online] Online Books of Remembrance and Condolence
- *[Written in Stone] Literary deaths and gravestones
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2005, Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994...
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.
See Deaths in February 2006.
See Deaths in January 2006.External links and references
- Obituaries on general news websites
- *[Recent AP Obituaries]
- *[The New York Times: Obituaries]
- *[Washington Post Obituaries]
- *[Topix.net Obituaries]
- *[Mail & Guardian (South Africa) Obituaries]
- *[The Guardian (UK) Obituaries]
- *[Daily Telegraph obituaries]
- *[The Independent Obituaries]
- *
- *Google News: e.g. [obituary]
- *Yahoo News: e.g. [obituaries]
- Newsgroup: [alt.obituaries]
- Specialised websites
- *[Find a Grave — Millions of (US) Cemetery Records]
- *[Find a Death — details on the circumstances behind the deaths of hundreds of celebrities]
- *[Dead People Server]
- *[Dead or Alive]
- *[Dead Rock Stars Club]
- *[Friends Reincarnated]
- *[Who's Alive and Who's Dead]
- *[Life in Legacy: Week in Review]
- *[The Blog of Death]
- *[MySpace Deaths]
- *[The Celebrity Death Toll Update]
- *[GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search]
- *[Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records]: US genealogy directory
- *[Operation Iraqi Freedom — US Combat Deaths]
- *[Obituary Central — index to obituary search engines arranged geographically]
- *[Obituary Links Page — state-by-state directory of obituary resources]
- *[Russian Obituary Links Page — The List of Death]
- *[Nekrolog] (Czech necrologies)
- *[Remembrance Online] Online Books of Remembrance and Condolence
- *[Written in Stone] Literary deaths and gravestones
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2005, Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994...
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.
External links and references
- Obituaries on general news websites
- *[Recent AP Obituaries]
- *[The New York Times: Obituaries]
- *[Washington Post Obituaries]
- *[Topix.net Obituaries]
- *[Mail & Guardian (South Africa) Obituaries]
- *[The Guardian (UK) Obituaries]
- *[Daily Telegraph obituaries]
- *[The Independent Obituaries]
- *
- *Google News: e.g. [obituary]
- *Yahoo News: e.g. [obituaries]
- Newsgroup: [alt.obituaries]
- Specialised websites
- *[Find a Grave — Millions of (US) Cemetery Records]
- *[Find a Death — details on the circumstances behind the deaths of hundreds of celebrities]
- *[Dead People Server]
- *[Dead or Alive]
- *[Dead Rock Stars Club]
- *[Friends Reincarnated]
- *[Who's Alive and Who's Dead]
- *[Life in Legacy: Week in Review]
- *[The Blog of Death]
- *[MySpace Deaths]
- *[The Celebrity Death Toll Update]
- *[GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search]
- *[Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records]: US genealogy directory
- *[Operation Iraqi Freedom — US Combat Deaths]
- *[Obituary Central — index to obituary search engines arranged geographically]
- *[Obituary Links Page — state-by-state directory of obituary resources]
- *[Russian Obituary Links Page — The List of Death]
- *[Nekrolog] (Czech necrologies)
- *[Remembrance Online] Online Books of Remembrance and Condolence
- *[Written in Stone] Literary deaths and gravestones
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2005, Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994...
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