Deaths in April 2006

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

April 2006

30

• Jay Bernstein, 69, American Hollywood publicist. [1]
• Barry Driscoll, 79, British sculptor and painter, cancer. [2]
• Bobby Fetzer, 50, an heir of the Fetzer Vineyards family, river rafting accident. [3]
• Boris Koytchou, 86, Russian-born contract bridge player. [4]
• Harold "Bunny" Levitt, 96, American basketball player, member of the Harlem Globetrotters. [5]
• George Mgrdichian, 71, American oud player. [6]
• Heinz Poll, 80, German-born choreographer and co-founder of the Ohio Ballet. [7]
• Jean-François Revel, 82, French philosopher [8]
• Corinne Rey-Bellet, 33, Swiss Alpine skier, shot dead [9]
• William (Bill) Roberts, 105, British First World War veteran [10]
• Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro, 88, Rosh Yeshivah of Yeshivas Be'er Yaakov in Israel [11]
• Paul Spiegel, 68, Chairman of the Central Council of German Jews, natural causes. [12] [13]
• Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 81, Indonesian writer [14]

29

• Sid Barron, 88, Canadian cartoonist. Known for the biplane flying overhead trailing a banner that read "mild, isn't it." [15][16]
• William L. Durkin, 89, U.S. Marine and businessman - best known for rescuing Howard Hughes in 1946 plane crash, heart attack [17]
• Jiri Frel, 82, Czech-born antiquities curator for the J. Paul Getty Museum. [18]
• Reuben Falber, 91, former Assistant General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain. [19]
• John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, American economist and author (The Affluent Society), natural causes. [20][21]
• Dr. Lawrence F. Grey, MD, 51, Urologist and leading pioneer specializing in Vasectomy Reversal Surgery. (aka "the Vas Doctor), suicide. [22]
• Leighton Kerner, 79, American classical music critic for The Village Voice. [23]
• Bishop James Mote, 84, American Bishop of the breakaway Anglican Catholic Church. [24]
• Alberta Nelson, 68, American actress known for beach blanket movies of 1960s. [25]
• Félix Siby, 64, Gabonese politician and former government minister. [26]
• John Trever, 90, American scholar who photographed the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem. [27] [28]
• Alvin S. White, 87, American test pilot [29]

28

• Helen Armstrong, 63, American concert violinist. [30]
• Angel O. Berrios, 69, former mayor of Caguas, Puerto Rico, heart failure [31]
• Steve Howe, 48, former Major League pitcher, automobile accident [32] [33]
• Ben-Zion Orgad, 80, Israeli composer, cancer [34] [35]
• MGG Pillai, 67, veteran Malaysian journalist and political activist, heart complications [36] [37]
• Harvey Ratner, 79, former owner of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves. [38]
• Burt Todd, 81, American entrepreneur. [39]

27

• Elma "Pem" Gardner Farnsworth, 98, Philo Farnsworth's widow [40]
• Bogdan Hancu, 28, killed by roadside bomb in Iraq, first Romanian soldier to die in Iraq [41]
• Pat Marsden, 69, Canadian sportscaster, lung cancer. [42]
• Roy Mogg, 77, English Methodist preacher and fraternalist, announced at the 74th National Convention of the Loyal Order of Moose
• Strini Moodley, 60, founding member of South African Black Consciousness Movement [43]
• Kay Noble-Bell, 65, American wrestler. [44]
• Julia Thorne, 61, American author and first wife of John Kerry, bladder cancer. [45]
• Mel Tom, 64, American football player, heart failure. [46]
• Alexander Buel Trowbridge, 76, Secretary of Commerce under US President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1967-1968, former president of the National Association of Manufacturers.[47]

26

• Rabbi Moshe Halberstam, 74, Jerusalemite Rabbi, Dean of Tshakava Yeshivah and prominent member of the Edah Charedis Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem. [48]
• Helen Hobbs Jordan, 99, American music teacher whose students included Tony Bennett, Melissa Manchester, Bette Midler, and Paul Simon. [49]
• Daniel McKenna, 54, former guitarist for the band Toby Beau, apparent suicide [50]
• Peter Millard, 34, American programmer and engineer, assisted with development of Jabber/XMPP and wrote and maintained Exodus. [51]
• Voldemar Miller, 95, Estonian historian, archivist, book researcher and author of several books for children. [52]
• Professor Yuval Ne'eman, 80, Israeli physicist, founder of the Israel Space Agency, and former science minister. [53] [54]
• Russ Swan, 42, former Major League Baseball pitcher (injuries due to a fall) [55]

25

• Jokin Gorostidi, 62, Spanish leftwing nationalist leader. [56]
• Joseph Iseman, 89, American lawyer. [57]
• Jane Jacobs, 89, American-born Canadian urban activist and author (The Death and Life of Great American Cities), stroke. [58]
• Peter Law, 58, Welsh politician, independent MP and AM, brain tumor. [59]
• Tabe Slioor, 79, Finnish socialite. [60]
• Colonel James Swindal, 88, American pilot of Air Force One during the John F. Kennedy assassination. [61]
• John Kerr, 81, Irish ballad singer.

24

• Erik Bergman, 94, Finnish composer [62]
• Nasreen Pervin Huq, 47, Bangladeshi women's activist and Director of Action Aid,from getting hit by a car. [63]
• Grace Nelsen Jones, 112, Virginia's oldest person. [64] [65]
• Brian Labone, 66, former Everton and England footballer, heart attack [66]
• Bonnie Owens, 76, country music singer. [67]
• Jimmy Sharman, 94, Australian boxing troupe impresario. [68]
• Sibby Sisti, 85, MLB player with the Boston Braves [69]
• Steve Stavro, 78, Canadian grocery store magnate and a former owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, heart attack. [70]
• Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar), 91, of Satmar, one of the largest Hassidic Jewish groups in the world. [71]

23

• Ghafar Baba, 81, Malaysian former Deputy Prime Minister. [72]
• Susan Browning, 65, American actress.
• Harvey Bullock, 84, American television writer and producer (The Love Boat, Love, American Style). [73] [74]
• Wing Commander Johnny Checketts, 94, New Zealand World War II Flying ace [75]
• Willie Finnigan, 93, Scottish footballer (Hibernian F.C.) [76]
• Boris Fraenkel, 85, French Trotskyist [77]
• Barry Gibbs, 73, South Australian cricket official. [78] [79]
• William Gottlieb, 89, American jazz photographer. [80] [81] [82]
• John Dunster, 83, British radiation expert [83]
• Jennifer Jayne, 64, British TV and film actress ("William Tell (tv series)")
• George Lenchner, 88, American mathematics educator. [84]
• Florence Mars, 83, American civil rights activist, author of Witness in Philadelphia. [85] [86]
• Ian Nelson, 50, English saxophone and clarinet musician, died in his sleep. [87]
• David Peckinpah, 54, television producer and director, heart attack [88].
• Phil Walden, 66, American founder of Capricorn Records, cancer. [89]
• Isaac Witkin, 69, South African-born American sculptor. [90]
• Roger Watkins, 69, English, former editor-in-chief of Variety magazine, cancer.

22

• Henriette Avram, 86, library systems analyst, developed MARC cataloging format. [91] [92]
• Alexis Bespaloff, 71, Romanian-born wine columnist for New York magazine. [93]
• Ed Davis, 89, former Los Angeles police chief (1969-1978). [94]
• Kay Finegan, 95, American 1940s big band singer. [95]
• Bill Kirschner, 97, American inventor of the first commercially successful fiberglass skis, founder of the K2 Corporation, member of the United States National Ski Hall of Fame. [96]
• Titos Kontopoulos, 45, Greek journalist, cancer. [97]
• Nobby Lawton, 65, midfielder & former captain of Preston North End, cancer. [98]
• Jobie Nutarak, 58, Canadian politician. Shot during hunting trip. [99]
• Satyadeow Sawh, 50, Guyanese Minister of Fisheries, Crops and Livestock. Shot by masked gunmen. [100] [101] [102]
• Ronnie Sox, 67, American drag racing pioneer. [103]
• Alida Valli, 84, Italian actress (The Third Man). [104] [105][106]
• Fausto Vitello, 59, founding publisher of the skateboarding magazine Thrasher, heart attack. [107] [108]

21

• Sir Richard Bayliss, 89, formerly Queen Elizabeth II's physician, former head of the Medical Household and leading thyroidologist. [109]
• William Boggs, 19, boxer, homicide [110]
• Willie Brown Jr., 61, executed in North Carolina for a 1983 murder. [111]
• Fred Burton, 43, Belgian comic book artist. [112] [113]
• Robert Carleson, 75, official in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan US Presidential administrations. [114]
• Marianna Christos, 58, American operatic soprano [115]
• Jacob Kovco, 25, first Australian Defence Force serviceperson killed in Iraq. [116]
• Telê Santana, 74, Brazilian football coach, complications from an intestinal infection. [117]

20

• Kathleen Antonelli, 85, one of the original computer programmers, cancer. [118]
• Cong Fei, 36, Chinese singer and philanthropist, stomach cancer.
• Cy Bahakel, 87, American media magnate. [119]
• Dennis Duggan, 78, newspaper columnist [120]
• Stanley Hiller, Jr., 81, American helicopter designer. [121]
• Sylvia de Leur, 72, Dutch actress, ALS. [122]
• Ron Mather, 68, Scottish basketball coach. [123]
• Miguel Zacarías Nogaim, 101, Mexican film director. [124]
• Anna Svidersky, 17, murdered while working at McDonalds, stabbed. [125]
• Wolfgang Unzicker, 80, German chess grandmaster. [126]
• Robert Wegman, 87, chairman and former CEO of Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., philanthropist. [127] [128]
• Elaine Young, 71, American celebrity real estate broker. [129]

19

• Oscar Acosta, 49, manager of the Gulf Coast Yankees, automobile accident. [130]
• Scott Crossfield, 84, American X-15 test pilot, plane crash. [131][132]
• Bob Dove, 85, American NFL defensive lineman and member of the College Football Hall of Fame. [133]
• Ellen Kuzwayo, 91, South African author, anti-apartheid activist, and member of Parliament, diabetes. [134] [135]
• Zola Levitt, 67, Christian broadcaster, messianic Jewish preacher, lung cancer. [136]
• Humberto Trejo, 38, New York Yankees field coordinator for the Dominican Republic, automobile accident. [137]

18

• John Lyall, 66, former football manager with West Ham United F.C. and Ipswich Town F.C., heart attack. [138] [139]
• Marcia Martin, 82, American children's author. [140]
• Grady McWhiney, 77, American historian. [141]
• Dick Rockwell, 85, American cartoonist, assistant on Steve Canyon, nephew of Norman Rockwell. [142]
• Ken Jones, 84, Wales and British Lion rugby union player and silver medal Olympiad. [143]

17

• Dr. Jean Bernard, 98, French hematologist. [144] [145]
• Scott Brazil, 50, American television producer and director (The Shield), Lou Gehrig's disease. [146] [147]
• Peter Cadbury, 88, British entrepreneur and one of the founders of commercial TV broadcasting in the UK. [148] [149]
• Elford Albin Cederberg, 88, former Republican United States Representative from Michigan from 1953-1978 and former mayor of Bay City, Michigan. [150]
• Alice Fiske, 88, opened her estate Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island to archeological research. [151]
• Henderson Forsythe, 88, American actor (As the World Turns). [152] [153]
• Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, 84, scholar of Judaism. [154]
• Warren Platner, 86, American modernist architect and designer. [155]
• Rudolf Slánský, Jr., 71, former Czech ambassador to Russia, son of Rudolf Slánský. [156]
• Rev. Seymour St. John, 94, headmaster of the Choate School for 26 years. [157]
• Vaishnavi, 20, Indian Bollywood actress, suicide. [158]

16

• Francisco Adam, 22, Portuguese actor, car accident. [159]
• Richard Eckersley, 65, graphic designer. [160]
• Morton Freedgood, 93, American author (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three) under the pseudonym of John Godey. [161] [162]
• Brett Goldin, 27, South African actor, killed by a head shot together with friend, fashion designer Richard Bloom, 27. [163]
• Dimitri Hadzi, 85, American sculptor and professor at Harvard University. [164]
• Harold Horwood, 82, writer and former Newfoundland politician, cancer. [165]
• Daniel Schaefer, 70, former Republican United States Representative from Colorado served 1983-1999, cancer. [166]

15

• Raúl Corrales, 81, Cuban photographer [167]
• Lord Eliot (Jago Eliot), 40, English noble, epilepsy, [168], [169]
• Calum Kennedy, 77, Scottish traditional singer. [170]
• Pavel Koutecký, 49, Czech documentary film maker, accidental fall. [171]
• Anthony James Ryan, 84, American photographer, producer, writer, actor and production manager. [172]
• Louise Smith, 89, first woman inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, known as "the first lady of racing," complications from cancer. [173]

14

• Mahmut Bakalli, 70, Kosovo ethnic Albanian politician. [174]
• Edward Broida, 72, American art collector. [175]
• Dr. Tom Ferguson, 62, American medical doctor and author. [176]
• Raúl Quijano, 82, former foreign minister of Argentina [177]
• Miguel Reale, 95, Brazilian philosopher of law, heart attack. [178]
• Dr. Eberhardt Rechtin, 80, American electrical engineer and telecommunications expert. [179]
• Dr. Lynn Smaha, 63, American cardiologist and former president of the American Heart Association, heart attack. [180]

13

• Sir Michael Cobham, 79, chairman of aerospace company Cobham plc, son of founder Sir Alan Cobham. [181] [182]
• Ed Corbett, 74, American actor.
• Peter Karches, 54, American executive at Morgan Stanley, lymphocytic leukemia. [183]
• Ronald B. Rogers, 80, American concert singer and actor. [184]
• Michael Shir, 83, Israeli writer, founder of children's magazine Ezbeoni. [185]
• Dame Muriel Spark, 88, British novelist, best known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1962). [186]
• Keo Viphakone, 89, Laos Secretary of State for Social Welfare and Commissioner of Rural Affairs, Ramon Magsaysay Award recipient. [187]
• Bruce Weber, 54, Australian rules football executive who was president of the Port Adelaide Football Club
• Arthur Winston, 100, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee famous for serving for 76 years and retiring at age 100. [188]

12

• Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah, 41, Egyptian militant, killed by Pakistani forces. [189]
• William Sloane Coffin, 81, American minister and peace activist, congestive heart failure. [190].
• Dr. Paulina Kernberg, 71, Chilean-born American child psychiatrist, professor at Cornell University. [191]
• Kazuo Kuroki, 75, Japanese film director
• Christiane Maybach, 74, German actress
• Shekhar Mehta, 60, Kenyan rally driver, five-time winner of the Safari Rally & president of the FIA's World Rally Championship commission, illness relating to complications from an old injury. [192]
• Howard Newman, 85, American executive and investor. [193]
• Puggy Pearson, 77, American poker player. [194]
• Albert E. Radford, 88, American botanist, senior author of Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas, a landmark flora for North Carolina and South Carolina, which is still the definitive guide, nearly forty years after its publication. [195]
• Rajkumar, 76, Indian actor, cardiac arrest. [196]
• William Woo, 69, first Asian-American to be editor of a major American daily newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, professor at Stanford University. [197]

11

• Leonard Dommett, 77, Australian violinist and conductor
• Les Foote, 81, Australian Football Hall of Fame member. [198]
• DeShaun Holton, 32, American rapper better known as Proof of D-12, homicide. [199] [200] [201]
• Siobhán O'Hanlon, 43, Sinn Féin politician, cancer. [202]
• June Pointer, 52, singer, former member of The Pointer Sisters, lung cancer. [203]
• Shin Sang-ok, 80, Korean Film producer, liver problems.[204]
• Naoki Tominaga, 92, Japanese sculptor [205]
• Logan Young Jr., 65, central figure in the University of Alabama recruiting scandal. [206]

10

• Joe Faragalli, 76, CFL head coach with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Eskimos, unspecified illness. [207]
• Bonaya Godana, 54, Kenyan politician, plane crash. [208]
• Bishop Charles Henderson KC*HS, 81, retired Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, England, cancer. [209]
• Mirugi Kariuki, 53, Kenyan politician and lawyer, plane crash. [210]
• Kleitos Kyrou, 85, Greek poet, unspecified respiratory illness. [211]

9

• Charles Doe, 79, founder of Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub, cancer. [212]
• Frank Gibney, 81, American writer and journalist on Asia. [213]
• Billy Hitchcock, 89, Major League Baseball infielder, coach, manager, and scout, natural causes. [214] [215]
• George Minden, 85, Romanian president of the CIA-financed International Literary Center. [216]
• Robin Orr, 96, Scottish classical composer and conductor [217]
• Jimmy Outlaw, 93, baseball third baseman/outfielder who played for the Cincinnati Reds, Boston Bees and Detroit Tigers between 1937 and 1949 [218]
• Georges Rawiri, 74, Gabonese politician, president of the Senate and former foreign minister. [219]
• Vilgot Sjöman, 81, Swedish film director (I Am Curious (Yellow)), complications from brain haemorrhage. [220]
• Natalia Troitskaya, 55, Russian operatic soprano [221]

8

• Dr. Phillip Harrity, 42, Pathologist at William Beaumont Hospital and Alumnus of the Roeper School, cancer. [222]
• Elizabeth Maguire, 47, American editor, vice president and publisher of Basic Books. [223]
• Richard Pearlman, 68, director of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists. [224]
• Gerard Reve, 82, Dutch author (The Evenings, The Fourth Man), Alzheimer's disease. [225] [226][227]

7

• John Blackburn, 82, comics artist and writer. [228]
• Christian, The Dowager Lady Hesketh, 76, British historian. [229]
• Denise Morgan, 41, lawyer & professor at New York Law School [230]
• Bobbie Nudie, 92, American fashion designer, wife of Nudie Cohn. [231]
• Frederick Pough, 99, American mineralogist and author of A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals (1953). [232]

6

• Jim Clack, 58, NFL offensive guard, heart failure. [233]
• Maggie Dixon, 28, women's basketball coach at United States Military Academy, cardiac arrhythmia. [234]
• Amanda Duff, 92, American actress [235]
• Francis L. Kellogg, 89, American diplomat [236]
• Leslie Norris, 84, Welsh poet and professor at Brigham Young University. [237]
• Lucie 'Anne' Pere-Pucheu, 112, French supercentenarian. [238]
• Stefanos Strategos, 83, Greek actor, lung problems [239]

5

• Alain de Boissieu, 92, French General and son-in-law of Charles De Gaulle [240]
• J.B. Fuqua, 87, American entrepreneur and philanthropist. [241]
• George Savalla Gomes, 90, Brazilian entertainer who performed as "Carequinha" the clown.[242]
• Allan Kaprow, 78, American artist and art theorist, natural causes. [243]
• Ray Krzoska, 87, American men's basketball coach at UW-Milwaukee Star star athlete, natural causes. [244]

[245]

• Armando Labra, 62, Mexican economist. [246]
• Archbishop Pasquale Macchi, 82, former private secretary to Pope Paul VI. [247] [248]
• Abdul-Salam Ojeili, 88, Syrian novelist. [249]
• Ellinor Piipuu, 92, Estonian ceramist. [250]
• Gene Pitney, 66, American singer and songwriter, heart disease. [251] [252]
• Marcelo Real, 48, Argentine sportscaster. [253]

4

• Mary Boyce, 85, British authority on Iran. [254]
• Colonel Fred Christensen, 84, American fighter ace in World War II. [255]
• Eckhard Dagge, 58, German WBC junior middleweight boxer. [256]
• Denis Donaldson, 55/56, former head of Sinn Féin at Stormont, and British double-agent, found shot dead at his home. [257]
• Gary Gray, 69, American child actor of the 1940s,from cancer.[258]
• John de Courcy Ireland, 94, Irish maritime historian and political activist. [259]
• Jürgen Thorwald, 90, German writer. [260]
• Vickery Turner, 66, British actress of the 60's. [261]
• Charles Wilcox GC, won the George Cross for helping rescue a man trapped high on a building in Birmingham [262]
• Canon Frederick B. Williams, 66, minister of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem, New York City [263]
• Tommy Wilson, 72, ex-Reading F.C. & Exeter City F.C. player, and notable figure in Bridgwater, Somerset. [264]

3

• Tom Abercrombie, 75, National Geographic photographer, complications from open-heart surgery. [265]
• William E. Bennett, 63, professor of political science at Campbellsville University in Campbellsville, KY, lung cancer.
• Barry Bingham, Jr., 72, former editor and publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times. [266]
• Lou Carrol, 83, American traveling salesman, gave Checkers to Richard Nixon. [267]
• Doug Coombs, 48, American extreme skier, ski accident in the French Alps. [268]
• Martin Gilks, 41, former drummer with The Wonder Stuff, motorcycle accident. [269] [270]
• Marshall Goldberg, 88, former NFL running back of the Chicago Cardinals, complications due to a head injury. [271] [272]
• Peter Hadhazy, 62, longtime NFL official, former general manager of the Cleveland Browns. [273] [274]
• Albert Harker, 95, last surviving member of the US 1934 FIFA World Cup soccer team. [275]
• Frédérique Huydts, 38, Dutch actress, colon cancer. [276]
• Gwin Kolb, 86, American professor at the University of Chicago and scholar of Samuel Johnson. [277]
• Antonia Morgan 91, fled the U.S. with granddaughter in Elizabeth Morgan custody battle [278]
• Genzo Murakami, 96, Japanese novelist. [279]
• Walter Ristow, 97, American map librarian at the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress [280]
• Ida Vos, 74, Dutch writer. [281]

2

• Sir Anthony Beaumont-Dark, 73, former British Conservative Member of Parliament. [282].
• William 'John' Jordan, 85, businessman, aviator & motor racing team boss. [283]
• Mohammed al-Maghout, 72, Syrian poet and playwright. [284]
• Victor Quiñonez, 46, International Wrestling Association (IWA) Promoter and Owner. [285],^{[citation needed]}
• Bernard Seigal, 48, American musician and essayist with the stage name Buddy Blue, co-founder of the Beat Farmers, heart attack. [286]
• Nina von Stauffenberg, 92, widow of Hitler's would-be assassin. [287]

1

• Anthony Ameruso, 68, former New York City transportation commissioner. [288]
• Daniel Patrick "Gary" Dineen, Canadian hockey player and Olympian [289]
• Archie D'Souza, Former Professor of Islamic studies at the Propaganda Fides College, Rome and the Dean of studies at Christ the King Seminary (Pakistan)[290]
• Ryusuke Matsumoto, 49, Japanese comedian. [291]
• In Tam, 89, former Cambodian politician. [292]