Deaths in January 2006

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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2006.

Days of the month

31

• Owen Abrahams, 72, former Australian rules footballer, serious illness. [1]
• Ruairi Brugha, 88, Irish Fianna Fáil politician, son of Cathal Brugha. [2]
• Henry S. Coleman, 79, dean at Columbia University. [3]
• Boris Kostelanetz, 94, tax lawyer. [4]
• George Koval, 92, Soviet intelligence agent.
• Jason Sears, 38, American punk rock singer (Rich Kids on LSD), complications from drug abuse. [5]
• Moira Shearer, 80, British ballerina, actress, and newspaper columnist, married to Sir Ludovic Kennedy, natural causes. [6]

30

• Stew Albert, 66, 1960s anti-establishment activist, co-founder of the Yippies, liver cancer. [7]
• Paul Clinton, 53, CNN film critic, founder of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA). [8]
• Seth Fisher, 33, comic book illustrator, fall from a building. [9]
• Arnold Graffi, 95, German Researcher for oncology, long illness. [10]
• Coretta Scott King, 78, American civil rights leader, widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., ovarian cancer. [11]
• Otto Lang, 98, film producer and ski mogul, heart disease. [12]
• Irving Rosenwater, 73, English statistician. [13]
• Wendy Wasserstein, 55, American playwright, lymphoma. [14]

29

• Andrew Gonzalez, 65, Filipino linguist and educator, complications from diabetes. [15]
• Emory Hale, 36, professional wrestler, complications from kidney failure [16].
• Paik Nam-june, 73, South Korean-born American artist, particularly noted for his video art, natural causes. [17]
• George Psychoundakis, 85, Greek Resistance fighter during World War II. [18]

28

• Yitzchak Kaduri, 106, renowned Sephardic Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist. [19]
• Henry McGee, 76, British actor. [20]

27

• Maurice Colclough, 52, English Rugby Union player, brain tumour. [21]
• Tana Hoban, 88, photographer of children, author of over 110 children's books [22]
• Phyllis King, 100, British Wimbledon-winner. [23][24]
• Carol Lambrino, 86, elder son of King Carol II of Romania. [25]
• Christopher Lloyd, 84, gardening writer, stroke. [26]
• Gene McFadden, 56, singer and songwriter, cancer. [27]
• Johannes Rau, 75, President of Germany (Bundespräsident) from 1999 - 2004. [28]

26

• Len Carlson, 68, Canadian voice actor, heart attack during sleep^{[citation needed]}
• Dr John Dunwoody CBE, 76, former British Member of Parliament, effects of an accident. [29]
• Morris Silverman, 93, philanthropist, founder of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. [30]
• Dave Tatsuno, 92, documented the Topaz Japanese internment camp in his film Topaz [31]
• Khan Wali Khan, 89, prominent Pakistani opposition Leader and prominent Pashtun leader, heart attack. [32]

25

• Marion Dudley, 33, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas. [33]
• Luther Green, 59, former NBA player, lung cancer. [34]
• John F. Kerin, professor, reproductive scientist, gynaecologist, farm accident.^{[citation needed]}.
• Anna Malle, 38, American adult film actress, car accident. [35]
• Herbert Schilder, 77, dental surgeon, improved root canal procedures, Lewy body disease. [36]
• Sudharmono, 78, Vice President of Indonesia from 1988–1993, pneumonia. [37]
• Allan Temko, 81, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, brief illness. [38]

24

• Zaki Badawi, 84, Islamic religious leader in Britain. [39]
• Schafik Handal, 75, former Presidential candidate and leader of El Salvador's main political opposition party, the FMLN, heart attack. [40]
• Peter Ladefoged, 80, phonetician, stroke.^{[citation needed]}
• Carlos (Café) Martínez, 41, former MLB player, complications from a long illness.^{[citation needed]}
• Fayard Nicholas, 91, American dancer, elder of the renowned Nicholas Brothers, pneumonia and complications of a stroke. [41] [42]
• Chris Penn, 40, American actor, brother of Sean Penn, cardiomyopathy combined with multiple medication intake. [43] [44]
• Sir Nicholas Shackleton, 68, British geologist, leukemia. [45]

23

• Ernie Baron, 65, Filipino radio/TV host and meteorologist, myocardial infarction brought about by diabetes.^{[citation needed]}
• Andrea Bronfman, 60, philanthropist and wife of Charles Bronfman, hit by car. [46]
• Savino Guglielmetti, 94, Italian gymnast, 1928 Olympic gold-medalist and oldest surviving Olympic champion. [47]
• General Samuel W. Koster, 86, highest ranking United States Army officer charged in My Lai massacre, renal cancer [48]
• Chris McKinstry, 38, an independent researcher in artificial intelligence, suicide.^{[citation needed]}
• Joseph M. Newman, 96, American Film Director/Producer, This Island Earth. [49]
• Bill Rice, 74, American artist. [50]
• Virginia Smith, 94, former Republican United States Representative from Nebraska (1975–1991).
• Michael Wharton, 92, British humorist ("Peter Simple").^{[citation needed]}

22

• Janette Carter, 82, last living member of the Carter Family country music group. [51]
• Alec Coxon, 90, Yorkshire and England cricketer. [52]
• Sherman Ferguson, 61, jazz drummer [53]
• Nellie Y. McKay, 67, African-American literary critic, colon cancer. [54]

21

• Michael Chan, Baron Chan, 65, British paediatrician, second peer of Chinese origin. [55]
• John James Cowperthwaite, 90, British civil servant, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong (1961–1971). [56]
• Robert Knudson, 80, American sound engineer, three-time Academy Award winner, supranuclear palsy. [57]
• Ibrahim Rugova, 61, President of Kosovo, lung cancer. [58]

20

• Andrei Iordan, 71, former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan.^{[citation needed]}
• David Maust, 51, convicted serial killer, heart failure after a botched suicide attempt. [59]
• Dave Lepard, 25, Swedish musician (Crashdïet), suicide.
• Rose Bouziane Nader, 99, President of the Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest, mother of US Presidential candidate Ralph Nader, congestive heart failure. [60]
• Perrie Simpson, 43, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
• Pio Taofinu'u, 82, Samoan Roman Catholic cardinal. [61]

19

• Gary Downie, South African psychotherapist and television production manager (Doctor Who, Star Cops), cancer. [62]
• Anthony Franciosa, 77, American actor, third husband of Shelley Winters, stroke. [63]
• Tom Nugent, 92, football coach, member of the College Football Hall of Fame, congestive heart failure. [64]
• Wilson Pickett, 64, American soul singer, heart attack. [65]
• Awn Alsharif Qasim, 73, Sudanese writer, educator and Islamic scholar
• Geoff Rabone, 84, New Zealand cricketer.^{[citation needed]}
• Franz Seitz, 85, German film director.^{[citation needed]}

18

• Norman McCabe, 94, animator and director, famous for Tokio Jokio and The Ducktators shorts from his Termite Terrace tenure at Warner Bros.
• Thomas Murphy, 90, former CEO of General Motors. [66]
• Anton Rupert, 89, South African businessman, philanthropist and founding member of World Wide Fund for Nature, natural causes. [67]
• Jan Twardowski, 90, Polish priest and poet. [68]

17

• Clarence Ray Allen, 76, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [69]
• Harold R. Collier, 90, former Republican United States Representative from Illinois from 1957–1975
• Wallace Mercer, 59, former chairman of Heart of Midlothian F.C., cancer. [70]
• Giles Worsley, 44, British architectural historian and journalist, nephew of the Katharine, Duchess of Kent, cancer. [71]

16

• Stanley Biber, 82, American physician and pioneer in sex reassignment surgery, complications of pneumonia.^{[citation needed]}
• Richard P. McCormick, 89, professor at Rutgers University, expert on early American political history and New Jersey history, illness.[72]

15

• Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 79, Emir of Kuwait, brain hemorrhage. [73][74]
• Glyn Berry, 59, Welsh-born Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan.^{[citation needed]}
• Hilma Contreras, 95, Dominican writer. [75]
• Edward N. Hall, 91, U.S. Air Force rocket expert, father of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile program. [76][77]
• George Worth, 90, American Olympic fencer. [78]

14

• Henri Colpi, 84, Swiss film director and cinematographer.^{[citation needed]}
• Jim Gary, 66, American sculptor, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage. [79]
• Conrad Hendricks, 27, South African professional football player, car crash. [80]
• Mark Philo, 21, English professional football player, injuries from a car crash. [81]
• Bob Weinstock, 77, founded independent jazz record label Prestige Records, complications of diabetes. [82]
• Shelley Winters, 85, American actress (Lolita, The Poseidon Adventure), heart failure. [83][84][85]

13

• Raúl Anguiano, 90, Mexican engraver and painter. [86]
• Richard Dalitz, 80, Australian physicist, expert in exotic particles, studied quarks.^{[citation needed]}
• Frank Fixaris, 71, American sportscaster, house fire. [87]
• Ron Jessie, 57, former NFL wide receiver, heart attack. [88]
• Marc Potvin, 38, former NHL player, found dead in his hotel room in Michigan, suicide.^{[citation needed]}
• Joan Root, 69, wildlife conservationist, shot to death. [89]

12

• William Matthew Byrne, Jr., 75, presiding judge in the trial of Daniel Ellsberg, pulmonary fibrosis. [90][91]
• Brendan Cauldwell, 83, Irish actor, died in sleep.
• Eldon Dedini, 84, cartoonist, esophageal cancer. [92]
• Shaikh Faisal bin Hamad Al Khalifa, 15, Bahraini prince, injuries from a car crash.
• Günther Landgraf, 77, German physicist and former President of Technische Universität Dresden. [93]
• Stewart Linder, 74 American Oscar-winning film editor.
• Anne Meacham, 80, American stage (Suddenly, Last Summer) and television actress (Another World). [94]
• Meinrad Schütter, 95, Swiss composer. [95]

11

• Eric Namesnik, 35, American Olympic swimmer, injuries from a car crash.^{[citation needed]}
• Mark Spoon, 39, German DJ and prominent figure in trance music, heart attack. [96]

10

• Ira B. Black, 64, neuroscientist, founder of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey, infection related to a tumor. [97]
• Dave Brown, 52, former National Football League player, heart attack. [98]
• Elliot Forbes, 88, Harvard University professor and Beethoven scholar. [99]
• Sidney Frank, 86, American businessman and philanthropist, heart failure. [100]
• Alethea Hayter, 94, British writer. [101]
• Dennis Marks, 73, animation writer-producer. [102]

9

• Andy Caldecott, 41, Australian Dakar Rally motorcycle rider, fatal neck injury sustained in an accident in Mauritania. [103]
• Patricia Hitt, 87, Assistant United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Nixon, natural causes. [104]
• Selwyn Hughes, 77, British fundamentalist evangelical who founded Crusade for World Revival
• Mikk Mikiver, 68, Estonian stage director and actor.
• W. Cleon Skousen, 92, BYU professor and prominent Latter-day Saint author and lecturer.
• Jack Snow, 62, former National Football League player and radio announcer, complications from a staph infection. [105]
• Don Stewart, 70, actor (Michael Bauer on The Guiding Light), lung cancer. [106]

8

• Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, 62, former British Minister for Sport, stroke and cerebral hemorrhage. [107]
• Elson Becerra, 27, Colombian football (soccer) player, shot. [108]
• Alex Elmsley, 76, English magician, heart attack.^{[citation needed]}
• Georg Wilhelm, Prince of Hanover, 90, educator and Olympian. [109]
• David Rosenbaum, 63, New York Times reporter, head injury during mugging. [110]
• Mimmo Rotella, 87, Italian artist, illness. [111]
• Raatbek Sanatbayev, 36, Kyrgyz Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler and candidate for National Olympic Committee president, shot [112]
• José Luis Sánchez, 31, Argentine football (soccer) player, from injuries sustained in a biking accident.

7

• Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar, 58, Head of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti, suicide. [113]
• Heinrich Harrer, 93, Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer and author. [114][115]
• Jim Zulevic, 40, American actor, heart attack. [116]

6

• Allaire du Pont, 92, thoroughbred enthusiast, owner of Kelso, natural causes. [117]
• Roshan Khan, 76, Pakistani squash player, father of Jahangir Khan complications from a heart attack and coma. [118]
• Alf McMichael, 78, footballer for Northern Ireland & Newcastle United.
• Józef Milik, 83, Polish Catholic priest and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar.
• Comandante Ramona, 47, Tzotzil Indian Zapatista rebel leader and women's rights advocate, kidney disease and tuberculosis. [119]
• Lou Rawls, 72, jazz and blues singer, lung and brain cancer. [120][121][122][123]
• Hugh Thompson, Jr., 62, Vietnam War helicopter pilot who helped stop the My Lai Massacre, removed from life support. [124][125]
• Stanley Roger Tupper, 84, former Republican United States Representative from Maine from 1961 - 1967.
• Gábor Zavadszky, 31, Hungarian footballer (soccer player), probably pulmonary embolism. [126]

5

• Ramona Bell, 47, wife of broadcaster Art Bell, asthma attack. [127]
• Rod Dedeaux, 91, American college baseball coach, complications from a stroke. [128][129]
• Sophie Heathcote, 35, Australian actress and founder of skin care range Ki^{[disambiguation needed ]}, aneurysm. [130]
• Keizo Miura, 101, Japanese mountaineer. [131]
• Lord Merlyn-Rees, 85, former British Home Secretary, following a number of falls.
• Ken Mosdell, 83 Former Montreal Canadiens Hockey player
• Simon Shanks, 34, linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals in 1995, murdered by home intruder. [132]
• Rachel Squire, 51, British Labour Member of Parliament for Dunfermline and West Fife, stroke. [133]
• Alex St. Clair, 64, American musician, primarily with Captain Beefheart.^{[citation needed]}
• Vajramuni, 62, Indian actor.^{[citation needed]}

4

• John Hahn-Petersen, 75, Danish actor, heart attack. [134]
• Milton Himmelfarb, 87, American essayist. [135]
• Stan Hunt, 76, American cartoonist. [136]
• Irving Layton, 93, Canadian poet, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [137]
• Maria de Lourdes Pereira dos Santos Van-Dúnem, 70, Angolan singer, typhoid fever. [138]
• Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 62, Ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, heart attack. [139]
• Gretl Schörg, 91, German actress. [140] (German)
• Nel van Vliet, 79, Dutch swimmer. [141]

3

• Urbano Lazzaro, 81, Italian resistance fighter, capture of Benito Mussolini. [142]
• Steve Rogers, 51, Australian rugby league player, apparent suicide. [143]
• Sir William Skate, 52, Papua New Guinean politician, Prime Minister (1997–1999), stroke. [144]
• Bruce Wilson, 64, Australian journalist, cancer. [145]

2

• Raul Davila, 74, Puerto Rican actor and television producer, heart attack. [146]
• Ofelia Fox, 82, Cuban nightclub owner (Tropicana Club), cancer. [147]
• Osa Massen, 91, Danish actress. [148]
• Michael S. Smith, 59, American jazz drummer. [149]
• Francis Steinmetz, 91 Dutch author and Colditz Castle escapee. [150]
• Frank Wilkinson, 91, American civil liberties activist, natural causes. [151]
• John Wojtowicz, 60, American bankrobber, cancer. [152]
• John Woodnutt, 81, British actor. [153]
• Lidia Wysocka, 89 , Polish actress. [154]

1

• Frank Cary, 85, American businessman, chairman of IBM (1973–1981), natural causes. [155]
• Mapita Cortés, 75, Mexican actress, cancer. [156]
• Bryan Harvey, 49, American musician (House of Freaks, Gutterball), murdered. [157]
• Dawn Lake, 78, Australian entertainer, widow of Bobby Limb. [158]
• John Latham, 84, Zambian artist, natural causes. [159]
• Paul Lindblad, 64, American baseball player, Alzheimer's disease. [160]
• Dragan Lukić, 77, Serbian writer, after long illness. [161]
• Harry Magdoff, 92, American socialist and editor, natural causes. [162]
• Charles O. Porter, 86, American politician, Representative from Oregon (1957–1961), Alzheimer's disease. [163]
• Gideon Rodan, 71, American biochemist, cancer. [164]
• Hubert Schoemaker, 55, Dutch chemist, co-founder of Centocor, brain cancer. [165]
• Charles Steen, 81, American geologist and businessman. [166]

See also

Deaths in 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →