Deaths in October 2006

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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2006. See Deaths in 2006 for other months.

October 2006

31

• P. W. Botha, 90, South African politician, Prime Minister (1978–1984), State President (1984–1989), heart attack. [1]
• Nikki Catsouras, 18, Teenage car crash victim from Orange County, California whose accident photos were released onto internet, automobile accident. [2]
• Shane Drury, 27, American professional bull rider in the PRCA, Ewing's sarcoma. [3]
• William Franklyn, 81, British actor, prostate cancer. [4]
• Peter Fryer, 79, British journalist who reported on the Hungarian Revolution. [5]
• Michael James Genovese, 87, American alleged Mafia boss of Pittsburgh. [6]
• George B. Thomas, 92, American mathematician and author, natural causes. [7]
• Nicholas John Vine-Hall, 62, Australian genealogist, cancer. [8]

30

• Clifford Geertz, 80, American cultural anthropologist, complications following heart surgery. [9]
• Jens Christian Hauge, 91, Norwegian World War II resistance leader, first postwar defence minister, natural causes. [10]
• Junji Kinoshita, 92, Japanese playwright, pneumonia. [11]
• Ian Rilen, 58, Australian bass player (Rose Tattoo), bladder cancer. [12]
• Aud Schønemann, 83, Norwegian actress. [13] (Norwegian)
• Mose Tolliver, 82, American folk artist, pneumonia. [14]

29

• Nigel Kneale, 84, British scriptwriter (The Quatermass Experiment), stroke. [15]
• Mohammadu Maccido, 78, Nigerian Sultan of Sokoto, Muslim spiritual leader, aeroplane crash. [16]
• Silas Simmons, 111, American Negro league baseball player, oldest known professional baseball player. [17]

28

• Red Auerbach, 89, American coach of the Boston Celtics (1950–1966), heart attack. [18]
• Tina Aumont, 60, French actress, pulmonary embolism. [19] (Italian)
• György Bence, 64, Hungarian philosopher. [20] (Hungarian)
• Trevor Berbick, 51, Jamaican former heavyweight boxing champion, last boxer to face Muhammad Ali, homicide. [21]
• Brian Brolly, 70, British co-manager of Wings (1973–1978), MD of RUG (1978–1988), co-founder of Classic FM, heart attack. [22]
• Henry Fok, 83, Hong Kong businessman, philanthropist and CCPPC official, lymphoma. [23]
• Richard Gilman, 83, American drama and literary critic, lung cancer. [24]
• Peter Gingold, 90, German anti-fascist. [25] (German)
• Marijohn Wilkin, 86, American country songwriter, member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, heart failure. [26]

27

• John Broadbent, 92, Australian Army officer and lawyer. [27]
• Jozsef Gregor, 66, Hungarian opera singer. [28]
• Ghulam Ishaq Khan, 91, Pakistani President (1988–1993), pneumonia. [29]
• Marlin McKeever, 66, American former football player, head injuries from a fall. [30]
• Joe Niekro, 61, American Major League Baseball pitcher, brain aneurysm. [31]
• Muhammad Qasim, 32, Pakistani field hockey goalkeeper, cancer. [32]
• Albrecht von Goertz, 92, German-born American car designer. [33]
• Bradley Roland Will, 36, American Indymedia reporter, shot whilst covering a Mexican teachers' strike. [34]

26

• Gary Coull, 52, Canadian journalist, co-founder of CLSA, cancer. [35]
• Rogério Duprat, 74, Brazilian composer, cancer. [36] (Portuguese)
• Tillman Franks, 86, American bassist, songwriter and country music manager, natural causes. [37]
• Ralph R. Harding, 77, American congressman from Idaho (1961–1965). [38]
• Pontus Hultén, 82, Swedish art collector and museum director. [39] (Swedish)
• John Kentish, 96, British operatic tenor. [40]
• Kojima Nobuo, 91, Japanese author, pneumonia. [41] (Japanese)
• Theodore Taylor, 85, American writer (The Cay), heart attack. [42]

25

• Paul Ableman, 79, British playwright and novelist. [43]
• Richard Cleaver, 89, Australian politician, MHR for Swan (1955–1969). [44]
• Kintaro Ohki, 77, South Korean wrestler, heart attack. [45]
• Danny Rolling, 52, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [46]

24

• Daisy, 13, Yorkshire terrier companion of murdered German designer Rudolph Moshammer. [47]
• Jeffrey Lundgren, 56, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [48]
• Enolia McMillan, 102, American civil rights activist, first female president of the NAACP, heart failure. [49]
• Benjamin Meed, 88, Polish-born American president and co-founder of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. [50]
• Jack Radtke, 93, American baseball player. [51]
• William Montgomery Watt, 97, British professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. [52]

23

• Leonid Hambro, 86, American concert pianist. [53]
• Jane Elizabeth Hodgson, 91, American doctor and abortion rights advocate. [54]
• Bruno Lauzi, 69, Italian singer and composer, Parkinson's disease. [55] (Italian)
• Lebo Mathosa, 29, South African singer, car accident. [56]
• Egon Piechaczek, 69, Polish football player and coach. [57]
• Todd Skinner, 48, American free climber, climbing accident. [58]
• Rein Strikwerda, 76, Dutch doctor and knee injury specialist. [59]

22

• Choi Kyu-hah, 87, South Korean president (1979–1980). [60]
• Nelson de la Rosa, 38, Dominican actor, "World's Shortest Man" in the 1989 Guinness Book of Records. [61]
• Masayuki Fujio, 89, Japanese former minister of education. [62] (Japanese)
• Arthur Hill, 84, Canadian Tony Award-winning actor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Alzheimer's disease. [63]
• Mancs, 12, Hungarian rescue dog with the Miskolc Spider Special Rescue Team, pneumonia. [64]
• Richard Mayes, 83, British stage and television actor. [65]
• Michael Mayne, 77, British clergyman, Dean of Westminster Abbey (1986–1996), cancer of the jaw. [66]

21

• Peter Barkworth, 77, British actor, bronchopneumonia following a stroke. [67]
• Paul Biegel, 81, Dutch writer of children's literature. [68] (Dutch)
• Pye Chamberlayne, 68, American radio journalist, heart attack. [69]
• Daryl Duke, 77, Canadian film director (The Thorn Birds), pulmonary fibrosis. [70]
• Bryan Hipp, American guitarist (Diabolic, Cradle of Filth). [71]
• Howard Lawson, 92, British cricketer (Hampshire). [72]
• Bob Mann, 82, American football player (Detroit Lions). [73]
• Arthur Peacocke, 81, British scientist and theologian. [74]
• Milton Selzer, 87, American actor. [75]
• Paul Walters, 59, British BBC radio and TV producer. [76]
• Sandy West, 47, American drummer and vocalist (The Runaways), lung cancer. [77]
• Urien Wiliam, 76, British writer. [78]

20

• Don Burroughs, 75, American football player (1955–1964), cancer. [79]
• Irene Galitzine, 90, Russian-born Italian fashion designer. [80]
• Maxi Herber, 86, German figure skater, gold medal winner at the 1936 Winter Olympics, Parkinson's disease. [81]
• Lawrence Kolb, 95, American psychiatrist, leader in community mental health movement. [82]
• Eric Newby, 86, British travel writer. [83]
• Jane Wyatt, 96, American actress (Father Knows Best, Star Trek), natural causes. [84]

19

• Ralph Harris, Baron Harris of High Cross, 81, British life peer, founder of the Institute of Economic Affairs, heart attack. [85]
• Phyllis Kirk, 79, American actress (House of Wax, The Thin Man), post cerebral aneurysm. [86]
• Srividya, 53, Indian actress, cancer. [87]

18

• Don R. Christensen, 90, American animator and cartoonist. [88]
• Oberia Coffin, 122?, American woman who may have been world's oldest person. [89]
• Marc Hodler, 87, Swiss president of the International Ski Federation (1951–1998), IOC whistleblower, stroke. [90]
• Mario Francesco Pompedda, 77, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (1999–2004), brain hemorrhage. [91]
• Anna Russell, 94, British-born Canadian comedian and classical music satirist. [92]
• Alvin M. Weinberg, 91, American Manhattan Project scientist and former director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. [93]

17

• Daniel Emilfork, 82, French actor (The City of Lost Children). [94]
• Miriam Engelberg, 48, American graphic author (Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person), metastatic breast cancer. [95]
• Christopher Glenn, 68, American CBS News radio and television news anchor, liver cancer. [96]
• Megan Meier, 13, American suicide victim, suicide by hanging. [97]
• Ursula Moray Williams, 95, British children's author. [98]
• Lieuwe Steiger, 82, Dutch goalkeeper for PSV Eindhoven (1942–1957, 1959) and The Netherlands (1953–1954). [99] (Dutch)
• Marcia Tucker, 66, American curator, founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. [100]

16

• Niall Andrews, 69, Irish politician, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South (1977–1987), MEP for Leinster (1984–2004), lung cancer. [101]
• Ross Davidson, 57, British former EastEnders actor, brain tumour. [102]
• Sid Davis, 90, American educational filmmaker, lung cancer. [103]
• Martin Flannery, 88, British politician, Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough (1974–1992). [104]
• Harold Gardner, 107, American World War I veteran, served one day prior to the armistice. [105]
• Tommy Johnson, 71, American musician known for his work on the Jaws theme, complications of cancer and kidney failure. [106]
• John V. Murra, 90, Ukrainian-born American anthropologist and Inca scholar. [107]
• Valentín Paniagua, 70, Peruvian president (2000–2001), complications from heart surgery. [108]
• Lister Sinclair, 85, Canadian playwright and broadcaster, pulmonary embolism. [109]
• Ernie Steele, 88, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles). [110]
• Trebisonda Valla, 90, first Italian female Olympic champion (80m hurdles, 1936), natural causes. [111]
• Anatoly Voronin, 55, Russian business chief of ITAR TASS news agency, stabbed. [112]

15

• Derek Bond, 86, British actor (Callan, Scott of the Antarctic). [113]
• William Bright, 78, American linguist and author, recorder of indigenous North American languages. [114]
• Michelle Urry, 66, Canadian cartoon editor for Playboy. [115]

14

• James Barr, 82, British Old Testament scholar. [116]
• Chun Wei Cheung, 34, Dutch rowing cox, silver medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, liver cancer. [117]
• Freddy Fender, 69, American singer ("Before the Next Teardrop Falls"), lung cancer. [118]
• Soni Pabla, 30, Indian Punjabi singer, heart attack. [119]
• Klaas Runia, 80, Dutch Reformed Church theologian. [120]
• Gerry Studds, 69, American first openly gay congressman, represented Massachusetts (1973–1997), pulmonary embolism. [121]

13

• Bernard Allen, 69, American member of the North Carolina General Assembly. [122]
• Mason Andrews, 87, American physician who delivered America's first test tube baby, Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia (1992–1994). [123]
• Deborah Blumer, 64, American member of the Massachusetts General Court, heart attack. [124]
• Petra Cabot, 99, American designer, created the Skotch Kooler, natural causes. [125]
• Bob Lassiter, 61, American talk radio personality. [126]
• Dino Monduzzi, 84, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Pontifical Household (1986–1998). [127]
• Hilda Terry, 92, American cartoonist, creator of comic strip Teena. [128]
• Wang Guangmei, 85, Chinese wife of late Communist leader Liu Shaoqi. [129]

12

• Todd Bolender, 92, American dancer and choreographer, director of the Kansas City Ballet. [130]
• Johnny Callison, 67, American Major League Baseball player, three-time All-Star outfielder with the Phillies. [131]
• Samuel B. Casey, Jr., 78, American CEO of Pullman Company. [132]
• Hermann Eilts, 84, German-born American diplomat and US ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1965–1970). [133]
• Eugène Martin, 91, French racing driver. [134] (French)
• Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, Italian film director (The Battle of Algiers), heart failure. [135]

11

• Sir Victor Goodhew, 86, British politician, Conservative MP for St Albans (1959–1983). [136]
• Cory Lidle, 34, American baseball pitcher (New York Yankees), plane crash. [137]
• Benito Martínez, 126?, Cuban claimant to the title of world's oldest person. [138]
• Sir Robert Megarry, 96, British judge and Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court (1982–1985). [139]
• Eddie Pellagrini, 88, American baseball player and coach (Boston College). [140]
• Jimmy Peters, Sr., 84, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup winner (Montreal Canadiens, Detroit Red Wings). [141]
• Raad Mutar Saleh, Iraqi Mandaean leader, shot. [142]
• Jacques Sternberg, 83, French science fiction and fantastique author, lung cancer. [143] (French)
• John Turvey, 61, Canadian youth activist and Order of Canada recipient, mitochondrial myopathy. [144]

10

• Jerry Belson, 68, American Emmy-winning television comedy writer (Tracey Ullman, Dick Van Dyke), prostate cancer. [145]
• Francis Berry, 91, British poet and literary critic. [146]
• Ian Scott, 72, Canadian Attorney General of Ontario (1985–1990). [147]
• Lalit Suri, 59, Indian hotelier and parliamentarian, heart attack. [148]

9

• Sedat Alp, 93, Turkish archaeologist specializing in Hittitology. [149] (Turkish)
• Coccinelle, 75, French transsexual singer, stroke. [150] (French)
• Reg Freeson, 80, British politician, Minister of State for Housing and Local Government (1974–1979). [151]
• Marek Grechuta, 60, Polish singer, composer and lyricist. [152] (Polish)
• Danièle Huillet, 70, French filmmaker, cancer. [153]
• Paul Hunter, 27, British snooker player, neuroendocrine tumours. [154]
• Mario Moya Palencia, 73, Mexican politician and diplomat (Interior Minister, 1969–1976), heart attack. [155]
• Glenn Myernick, 51, American assistant soccer coach of the men's national team, heart attack. [156]
• Raymond Noorda, 82, American computer executive, CEO of Novell (1982–1994). [157]
• Kanshi Ram, 72, Indian politician, heart attack. [158]

8

• Ira B. Harkey Jr., 88, American newspaper editor, winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. [159]
• Pavol Hnilica, 85, Slovak Catholic bishop. [160] (Slovak)
• Ivan Murrell, 63, American Major League Baseball player for the Astros and Padres. [161]
• Mark Porter, 31, New Zealand racing driver, race crash. [162]

7

• Charlie Bradberry, 24, American NASCAR driver, car accident. [163]
• Danifel Campilan, 25, Filipino news reporter (24 Oras), car accident. [164]
• Polly Craus, 83, American Olympic fencer. [165]
• Craig Dobbin, 71, Canadian founder of CHC Helicopter, after illness following lung transplant. [166]
• Julen Goikoetxea, 21, Spanish bicycle racer, suicide by jumping. [167]
• Anna Politkovskaya, 48, Russian journalist, shot. [168]

6

• Bertha Brouwer, 75, Dutch athlete, silver medalist in the 200m at the 1952 Olympics. [169] (Dutch)
• Charles Clark, 73, British publisher and lawyer. [170]
• Claude Luter, 83, French jazz clarinetist and bandleader. [171]
• Eduardo Mignogna, 66, Argentinian film director. [172] (Spanish)
• Buck O'Neil, 94, American baseball player and manager in the Negro leagues, heart failure and bone marrow cancer. [173]
• Timo Sarpaneva, 79, Finnish glassmaker. [174]
• Heinz Sielmann, 89, German zoologist [175]
• Wilson Tucker, 91, American science fiction writer. [176]

5

• Friedrich Karl Flick, 79, German-Austrian billionaire industrialist. [177]
• George King, 78, American college basketball coach. [178]
• Speedy O. Long, 78, American Democratic Representative for Louisiana (1964–1972), cousin of Huey Long. [179]
• Jennifer Moss, 61, British actress, played Lucille Hewitt on Coronation Street. [180]
• Antonio Peña, 53, Mexican promoter of Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, heart attack. [181]
• Jackie Rae, 84, Canadian singer, songwriter and entertainer. [182]
• Dick Wagner, 78, American former president of the Cincinnati Reds and Houston Astros, injuries from a 1999 car crash. [183]
• Gilbert F. White, 94, American geographer. [184]

4

• R. W. Apple, Jr., 71, American political journalist and food writer (The New York Times), thoracic cancer. [185]
• Tom Bell, 73, British actor (Wish You Were Here, Prime Suspect), after short illness. [186]
• František Fajtl, 94, Czech World War II fighter pilot, after long illness. [187]
• Walter Gibb, 87, British aviator and test pilot who held the world altitude record. [188]
• Ralph Griswold, 72, American creator of Snobol and Icon programming languages, cancer. [189]
• Vic Heyliger, 87, American ice hockey Hall of Fame player and coach. [190]
• Oskar Pastior, 78, Romanian-born German writer. [191]
• Riccardo Pazzaglia, 80, Italian actor, writer and film director. [192] (Italian)
• Don Thompson, 73, British race walker and 1960 Olympic gold medal winner, aneurysm. [193]
• Katarina Tomasevski, 53, Croatian-born former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education. [194]

3

• Lucilla Andrews, 86, British romantic novelist. [195]
• Sir John Cox, 77, British admiral who was Commander-in-Chief in the South Atlantic [196]
• John Crank, 90, British mathematical physicist who helped solve the heat equation. [197]
• Gwen Meredith, 98, Australian writer of all 5795 episodes of the long-running radio serial Blue Hills, after heart trouble. [198]
• Peter Norman, 64, Australian athlete, silver medalist at the 1968 Summer Olympics, heart attack. [199]

2

• Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista, 82, Cuban First Lady (1952–1959), second wife of President Fulgencio Batista. [200]
• Frances Bergen, 84, American actress, wife of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and mother of actress Candice Bergen. [201]
• Helen Chenoweth-Hage, 68, American Republican Representative for Idaho (1995–2001), car accident. [202]
• Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami, 69, Indian scientist, spiritual teacher and poet, heart attack. [203]
• Tamara Dobson, 59, American actress (Cleopatra Jones), complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis. [204]
• Paul Halmos, 90, Hungarian-born American mathematician. [205]
• Paul Richardson, 74, American Phillies longtime organist, prostate cancer. [206]
• Clyde Vollmer, 85, American Major League Baseball player (Cincinnati Reds). [207]

1

• Frank Beyer, 74, German film director (Jacob the Liar). [208]
• Alan Caillou, 91, British actor and writer. [209]
• Jack Kirkbride, 83, British cartoonist, father of actress Anne Kirkbride. [210]
• Rafael Quintero, 66, Cuban-born American CIA agent. [211]
• André Viger, 54, Canadian wheelchair marathoner and paralympian, cancer. [212]
• Yoshihiro Yonezawa, 53, Japanese manga critic, lung cancer. [213]