2006 in Italy

Events during the year 2006 in Italy.

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See also:	History of Italy Timeline of Italian history List of years in Italy

Incumbents

• President:

• Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (until 15 May)
• Giorgio Napolitano (from 15 May)

• Prime Minister:

• Silvio Berlusconi (until 17 May)
• Romano Prodi (from 17 May)

Events

• 10–26 February – The Olympic Winter Games are held in Turin.
• 10–19 March – The Paralympic Winter Games are held in Turin.
• 2 May – Murder of Tommaso Onofri
• 9 July – Italy wins the FIFA World Cup by defeating France, 5–3, following a penalty shootout in the final game at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany.^[1]
• 13 August – Air Algérie Flight 2208 accident
• 17 October – 2006 Rome Metro crash
• 27 October – Murder of Riccardo Rasman
• 11 December – Erba Massacre

Full date unknown

• Drug Target Insights academic journal is founded.^[2]

Births

• 14 March – Simone Pafundi, footballer
• 25 May – Lorenzo Galossi, swimmer
• 6 June – Angela Andreoli, artistic gymnast
• 25 August – Andrea Kimi Antonelli, racing driver
• 9 October – Matteo Santoro, diver
• 2 November – Manila Esposito, footballer
• 7 November – Giulia Dragoni, footballer
• 15 November – Lara Colturi, alpine skier

Deaths

Jenny Tamburi

Ondina Valla

Milly Vitale

• 1 March – Jenny Tamburi, actress and television hostess (b. 1952).^[3]
• 5 April – Pasquale Macchi, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1923).^[4]
• 22 April – Alida Valli, actress (b. 1921).^[5]
• 11 May – Ferdinando Tacconi, comics artist (b. 1922).^[6]
• 9 June – Enzo Siciliano, writer (b. 1934).^[7]
• 15 June – Betty Curtis, singer (b. 1936)
• 12 July – Loredana Nusciak, actress and model (b. 1942).^[8]
• 20 July – Ugo Attardi, painter, sculptor and writer (b. 1923).^[9]
• 31 July – Mario Faustinelli, comic book artist (b. 1924).^[10]
• 20 August – Giuseppe Moccia, film director (b. 1933)
• 15 September – Sergio Savarese, furniture designer (b. 1958).^[11]
• 17 September – Leonella Sgorbati, nun (b. 1940).^[12]
• 12 October – Carlo Acutis, English-born Italian Catholic computer programmer (b. 1991)^[13]
• 16 October – Ondina Valla, hurdler (b. 1916).^[14]
• 25 October – Emilio Vedova, painter (b. 1919).^[15]
• 2 November – Milly Vitale, actress (b. 1933).^[16]
• 25 November – Luciano Bottaro, comic book creator (b. 1931).^[17]
• 26 November –

• Leo Chiosso, songwriter (b. 1920).^[18]
• Giorgio Panto, television station owner and politician, (b. 1941).^[19]

• 28 November – Primo Volpi, 90, Italian cyclist (b. 1916).^[20]
• 13 December – Mario Ravagnan, fencer (b. 1930).^[21]
• 28 December –

• Nicola Granieri, fencer (b. 1942).^[22]
• Aroldo Tieri, actor (b. 1917).^[23]

See also

• 2006 in Italian television