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Deaths in April 2006
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2006.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
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April 2006
1
- Gary Dineen, 62, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.[1]
- Annesley Kingsford, 93, Canadian rower and Olympian.[2]
- In Tam, 83, Cambodian politician.[3]
- Oscar Treadwell, 79, American jazz radio journalist and presenter.[4]
2
- Sir Anthony Beaumont-Dark, 73, British politician, former Conservative Member of Parliament.[5]
- Mohammed al-Maghout, 72, Syrian poet and playwright.[6]
- Bernard Seigal, 48, American musician and essayist with the stage name Buddy Blue, co-founder of the Beat Farmers, heart attack.[7]
- Nina von Stauffenberg, 92, German widow of Hitler's would-be assassin.[8]
3
- Tom Abercrombie, 75, American National Geographic photographer, complications from open-heart surgery.[9]
- Barry Bingham, Jr., 72, American television and radio executive, former editor and publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times.[10]
- Lou Carrol, 83, American traveling salesman, gave Checkers to Richard Nixon.[11]
- Doug Coombs, 48, American extreme skier, ski accident in the French Alps.[12]
- Ewan Fenton, 76, Scottish footballer.[13]
- Martin Gilks, 41, English musician, former drummer with The Wonder Stuff, motorcycle accident.[14][15]
- Marshall Goldberg, 88, American football player, former NFL running back of the Chicago Cardinals, complications due to a head injury.[16]
- Albert Harker, 95, American soccer player, last surviving member of the US 1934 FIFA World Cup soccer team.[17]
- Genzō Murakami, 96, Japanese novelist.[18]
- Walter Ristow, 97, American map librarian at the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress.[19]
- Sir Andrew Stark, 89, British diplomat, Ambassador to Denmark (1971–1976).[20]
- Ida Vos, 74, Dutch writer.[21]
4
- Mary Boyce, 85, British authority on Iran.[22]
- Toddie Byrne, 71, Irish politician.[23]
- Fred Christensen, 84, American fighter ace in World War II.[24]
- Eckhard Dagge, 58, former German WBC junior middleweight champion.[25]
- Sir Roy Denman, 81, British civil servant and diplomat.[26]
- Denis Donaldson, 55-56, British former head of Sinn Féin at Stormont, and British double-agent, found shot dead at his home.[27]
- Gary Gray, 69, American child actor of the 1940s, cancer.[28]
- John de Courcy Ireland, 94, Irish maritime historian and political activist.[29]
- John George Macleod, 90, Scottish physician.[30]
- Jürgen Thorwald, 90, German writer.[31]
- Vickery Turner, 61, British actress of the 60's.[32]
- Frederick B. Williams, 66, American minister of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem, New York City.[33]
5
- Alain de Boissieu, 91, French General and son-in-law of Charles De Gaulle.[34]
- J. B. Fuqua, 87, American entrepreneur and philanthropist.[35]
- George Savalla Gomes, 90, Brazilian entertainer who performed as "Carequinha" the clown.[36]
- Allan Kaprow, 78, American artist and art theorist, natural causes.[37]
- Armando Labra, 62, Mexican economist.[38]
- Pasquale Macchi, 82, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop, former private secretary to Pope Paul VI.[39]
- Abdul-Salam Ojeili, 88, Syrian novelist.[40]
- Gene Pitney, 66, American singer and songwriter, heart disease.[41][42]
6
- Augustyn Bloch, 76, Polish composer and organist.[43]
- Maggie Dixon, 28, American women's basketball coach at United States Military Academy, cardiac arrhythmia.[44]
- Francis L. Kellogg, 89, American diplomat.[45]
- Leslie Norris, 84, Welsh poet and professor at Brigham Young University.[46]
7
- Roger Arnaldez, 94, French professor of Islamic studies.[47]
- Bobbie Nudie, 92, American fashion designer, wife of Nudie Cohn.[48]
- Jim Clack, 58, American gridiron football player, heart attack.[49]
- Adamas Golodets, 72, Soviet football player and manager.[50]
- Théogène Ricard, 96, Canadian politician.[51]
8
- Henry Lewy, 79, German-American sound engineer and record producer.[52]
- Richard Pearlman, 68, American theatre and opera director, director of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists.[53]
- Gerard Reve, 82, Dutch author (The Evenings, The Fourth Man), Alzheimer's disease.[54][55]
- Valentine Telegdi, 84, Hungarian-American physicist.[56]
9
- Christian Compton, 76, American jurist, justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.[57]
- Frank Gibney, 81, American writer and journalist on Asia.[58]
- Billy Hitchcock, 89, American Major League Baseball infielder, coach, manager, and scout, natural causes.[59]
- Robin Orr, 96, Scottish classical composer and conductor.[60]
- Jimmy Outlaw, 93, American baseball third baseman/outfielder.[61]
- Georges Rawiri, 74, Gabonese politician, president of the Senate and former foreign minister.[62]
- Hermann Schild, 93, German cyclist, National Champion (1954).[63]
- Vilgot Sjöman, 81, Swedish film director (I Am Curious (Yellow)), complications from brain haemorrhage.[64]
- Natalia Troitskaya, 55, Russian operatic soprano.[65]
10
- Joe Faragalli, 76, Canadian Football League head coach with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Eskimos.[66]
- Jean Grosjean, 93, French poet, writer and translator.[67]
- Bishop Charles Henderson, 81, Irish retired Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, England, KC*HS, cancer.[68]
- Notable Kenyans killed in the 2006 Kenyan Air Force Harbin Y-12 crash:
- Bonaya Godana, 54, politician, MP for North Horr Constituency (since 1988), minister of foreign affairs (1998–2001).[69]
- William Waqo, Anglican prelate, assistant bishop of Kirinyaga.[70]
11
- Leonard Dommett, 77, Australian violinist and conductor.[71]
- Les Foote, 81, Australian Football Hall of Fame member.[72]
- Siobhán O'Hanlon, 43, Northern Irish Sinn Féin politician, cancer.[73]
- Winand Osiński, 92, Polish Olympic runner.[74]
- June Pointer, 52, American singer, former member of The Pointer Sisters, lung cancer.[75]
- Proof, 32, American rapper (D-12), homicide.[76]
- Shin Sang-ok, 80, Korean film producer, liver problems.[77]
- Sergey Tereshchenkov, 67, Soviet Olympic cyclist.[78]
- Angus Wells, 63, English fiction writer.[79]
12
- Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah, 41, Egyptian militant, killed by Pakistani forces.[80]
- Richard Bebb, 79, British actor.[81]
- William Sloane Coffin, 81, American minister and peace activist, congestive heart failure.[82]
- Andy Duncan, 83, American basketball player.[83]
- Paulina Kernberg, 71, Chilean-born American child psychiatrist, professor at Cornell University.[84]
- Kazuo Kuroki, 75, Japanese film director.[85]
- 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.[86]
- Puggy Pearson, 77, American poker player.[87]
- Albert E. Radford, 88, American botanist.[88]
- Rajkumar, 76, Indian actor, cardiac arrest.[89]
- William Woo, 69, first Asian-American to be editor of a major American daily newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, professor at Stanford University.[90]
13
- John Read, 85, British television producer and cinematographer.[91]
- Dame Muriel Spark, 88, British novelist, (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie).[92]
- Bruce Weber, 54, Australian rules football executive who was president of the Port Adelaide Football Club.
- Arthur Winston, 100, American Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee, famous for serving for 76 years and retiring at age 100.[93]
14
- Mahmut Bakalli, 70, Kosovo ethnic Albanian politician.[94]
- Henry Callow, Isle of Man jurist.[95]
- A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury, 78, Indian politician.[96]
- Tom Ferguson, 62, American medical doctor and author.[97]
- Miguel Reale, 95, Brazilian philosopher of law, heart attack.[98]
- Eberhardt Rechtin, 80, American electrical engineer and telecommunications expert.[99]
15
- Raúl Corrales, 81, Cuban photographer .[100]
- Lord Eliot (Jago Eliot), 40, English aristocrat, surfer and cyber artist, epilepsy.[101]
- Calum Kennedy, 77, Scottish traditional singer.[102]
- Pavel Koutecký, 49, Czech documentary film maker, accidental fall.[103]
- Louise Smith, 89, American NASCAR racer, first woman inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, known as "the first lady of racing," complications from cancer.[104]
- Vusumzi Make, 75, South African politician
16
- Francisco Adam, 22, Portuguese actor, traffic collision.[105]
- Lorraine Borg, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[106]
- Philippe Castelli, 80, Franch actor.[107]
- Richard Eckersley, 65, English graphic designer.[108]
- Morton Freedgood, 93, American author (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three) under the pseudonym of John Godey.[109]
- Brett Goldin, 27, South African actor, killed by a head shot together with friend, fashion designer Richard Bloom, 27.[110]
- Poopak Goldarreh, 34, Iranian actress, traffic collision.[111]
- Harold Horwood, 82, Canadian writer and former Newfoundland politician, cancer.[112]
- Stephen Marshall, 20, American double murderer, suicide by gunshot.[113]
- Daniel Schaefer, 70, American politician, former Republican United States Representative from Colorado served 1983–1999, cancer.[114]
- Jake Seamer, 92, English cricketer.[115]
- Silvia Caos, 72, Cuban-Mexican actress.[116]
17
- Jean Bernard, 98, French hematologist.[117]
- Scott Brazil, 50, American television producer and director (The Shield), Lou Gehrig's disease.[118]
- Peter Cadbury, 88, British entrepreneur and one of the founders of commercial TV broadcasting in the UK.[119]
- Elford Albin Cederberg, 88, American politician, former Republican United States Representative from Michigan from 1953 to 1978 and former mayor of Bay City, Michigan.[120]
- Henderson Forsythe, 88, American actor (As the World Turns).[121]
- Arthur Hertzberg, 84, Polish-born American rabbi and scholar of Judaism.[122]
- Vaishnavi, 22, Indian Bollywood actress, suicide by hanging.[123]
18
- Bindhyabasini Devi, 86, Indian folk singer.[124]
- Ken Jones, 84, Welsh rugby union player, Wales and British Lion rugby union player and silver medal Olympiad.[125]
- John Lyall, 66, British football manager with West Ham United F.C. and Ipswich Town F.C., heart attack.[126]
- Grady McWhiney, 77, American historian.[127]
- Dick Rockwell, 85, American cartoonist, assistant on Steve Canyon, nephew of Norman Rockwell.[128]
19
- John F. Cosgrove, 56, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives.[129]
- Scott Crossfield, 84, American X-15 test pilot, plane crash.[130]
- Bob Dove, 85, American NFL defensive lineman and member of the College Football Hall of Fame.[131]
- Andrés María Rubio Garcia, 81, Uruguayan Roman Catholic bishop.[132]
- June Knox-Mawer, 75, British writer and radio broadcaster.[133]
- Ellen Kuzwayo, 91, South African author, anti-apartheid activist, and member of Parliament, diabetes.[134]
- Sir Ian Morrow, 93, British accountant and businessman.[135]
20
- Kathleen Antonelli, 85, Irish computer programmer, one of the ENIAC original computer programmers, cancer.[136]
- Cy Bahakel, 87, American media magnate.[137]
- Stanley Hiller, Jr., 81, American helicopter designer.[138]
- Igor Kuljerić, 68, Croatian composer and conductor.[139]
- Miguel Zacarías Nogaim, 101, Mexican film director.[140]
- Anna Svidersky, 17, Russian teenager, murdered while working at McDonald's, stabbed.[141]
- Wolfgang Unzicker, 80, German chess grandmaster.[142]
- Robert Wegman, 87, American businessman, chairman and former CEO of Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., philanthropist.[143]
21
- Sir Richard Bayliss, 89, British physician, Physician to the Queen (1973-1981).[144]
- Jacob Kovco, 25, first Australian Defence Force service person killed in Iraq.[145]
- T. K. Ramakrishnan, 84, Indian politician.[146]
- Telê Santana, 74, Brazilian football coach, complications from an intestinal infection.[147]
22
- Henriette Avram, 86, American library systems analyst, developed MARC cataloging format.[148][149]
- Ed Davis, 89, American California State Senator and former Los Angeles police chief (1969–1978).[150]
- Enriqueta Harris, 95, English art historian.[151]
- Nobby Lawton, 65, English footballer, midfielder & former captain of Preston North End, cancer.[152]
- Jobie Nutarak, 58, Canadian politician, snowmobile accident.[153]
- Satyadeow Sawh, 50, Guyanese Minister of Fisheries, Crops and Livestock. Shot by masked gunmen.[154][155]
- Ronnie Sox, 67, American drag racing pioneer.[156]
- Alida Valli, 84, Italian actress (The Third Man).[157][158][159]
- Fausto Vitello, 59, Argentine-American businessman and magazine publisher, founding publisher of the skateboarding magazine Thrasher, heart attack.[160]
23
- Ghafar Baba, 81, Malaysian former Deputy Prime Minister.[161]
- Susan Browning, 65, American actress.[162]
- Harvey Bullock, 84, American television writer and producer (The Love Boat, Love, American Style).[163]
- Johnny Checketts, 94, New Zealand World War II flying ace.[164]
- Willie Finnigan, 93, Scottish footballer (Hibernian F.C.).[165]
- Boris Fraenkel, 85, French Trotskyist.[166]
- Barry Gibbs, 73, South Australian cricket official.[167][168]
- William Gottlieb, 89, American jazz photographer.[169][170]
- Jennifer Jayne, 74, British TV and film actress ("The Adventures of William Tell").[171]
- Florence Mars, 83, American civil rights activist, author of Witness in Philadelphia.[172][173]
- Ian Nelson, 50, English saxophone and clarinet musician, died in his sleep.[174]
- David Peckinpah, 54, American television producer and director (Silk Stalkings, Sliders, Beauty and the Beast), heart attack.[175]
- Phil Walden, 66, American founder of Capricorn Records, cancer.[176]
- Isaac Witkin, 69, South African-born American sculptor.[177]
24
- Erik Bergman, 94, Finnish composer.[178]
- Peter Ellis, 58, British television director.[179]
- Nasreen Pervin Huq, 47, Bangladeshi women's activist and Director of Action Aid, from getting hit by a car.[180]
- Brian Labone, 66, English footballer, Everton and England player, heart attack.[181]
- Bonnie Owens, 76, American country music singer.[182]
- Jimmy Sharman, 94, Australian boxing troupe impresario.[183]
- Dr. Rajkumar, 76, Legendary Indian Kannada Cinema Actor, heart attack.
- Sibby Sisti, 85, American MLB player with the Boston Braves.[184]
- Steve Stavro, 78, Canadian grocery store magnate and a former owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, heart attack.[185]
- Moshe Teitelbaum, 91, Hungarian-born Hasidic rebbe, of Satmar, one of the largest Hassidic Jewish groups in the world.[186]
25
- Ronald Girdwood, 89, Scottish physician.[187]
- Joseph S. Iseman, 89, American lawyer, educator and former president of Bennington College, cardiac arrest.[188]
- Jane Jacobs, 89, American-born Canadian urban activist and author (The Death and Life of Great American Cities), stroke.[189]
- John Kerr, 81, Irish ballad singer.
- Peter Law, 58, Welsh politician, independent MP and AM, brain tumor.[190]
- Tabe Slioor, 79, Finnish socialite.[191]
26
- Moshe Halberstam, 74, Israeli Rabbi, Dean of Tshakava Yeshivah and prominent member of the Edah Charedis Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem.[192]
- Daryl Mack, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[193]
- Yuval Ne'eman, 80, Israeli physicist, founder of the Israel Space Agency, science minister, and President of Tel Aviv University.[194]
- Russ Swan, 42, American former Major League Baseball pitcher (injuries due to a fall).[195]
27
- Wacław Latocha, 69, Polish Olympic cyclist.[196]
- Pat Marsden, 69, Canadian sportscaster, lung cancer.[197]
- Strini Moodley, 60, South African founding member of Black Consciousness Movement.[198]
- Kay Noble-Bell, 65, American wrestler.[199]
- Julia Thorne, 61, American author and first wife of John Kerry, bladder cancer.[200]
- Mel Tom, 64, American football player, heart failure.[201]
- Alexander Buel Trowbridge, 76, American politician and businessman, Secretary of Commerce under US President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1967 to 1968, former president of the National Association of Manufacturers.[202]
28
- Helen Armstrong, 63, American concert violinist.[203]
- Ángel O. Berríos, 69, Puerto Rican engineer, former mayor of Caguas, heart failure.[204]
- Steve Howe, 48, American former Major League Baseball pitcher, automobile accident.[205]
- Jan Koetsier, 94, Dutch composer and conductor.[206]
- Ben-Zion Orgad, 80, Israeli composer, cancer.[207]
- M. G. G. Pillai, 67, Malaysian journalist and political activist, heart complications.[208]
29
- Sid Barron, 88, Canadian cartoonist. Known for the biplane flying overhead trailing a banner that read "mild, isn't it.".[209]
- John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, American economist and author (The Affluent Society), natural causes.[210]
- Alberta Nelson, 68, American actress known for beach party films of 1960s.[211]
- Félix Siby, 64, Gabonese politician and former government minister.[212]
- John Trever, 90, American scholar who photographed the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem.[213]
- Alvin S. White, 87, American test pilot.[214]
30
- Jay Bernstein, 69, American Hollywood publicist.[215]
- Barry Driscoll, 79, British sculptor and painter, cancer.[216]
- Jean-François Revel, 82, French philosopher.[217]
- Corinne Rey-Bellet, 33, Swiss Alpine skier, shot dead.[218]
- William (Bill) Roberts, 105, British First World War veteran.[219]
- Moshe Shmuel Shapiro, 88, Belarusian-born rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Be'er Yaakov in Israel.[220]
- Paul Spiegel, 68, German chairman of the Central Council of German Jews, natural causes.[221]
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 81, Indonesian writer.[222]
- Beatriz Sheridan, 71, Mexican actress and director.[223]
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