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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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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January 2006
1
- Frank Cary, 85, American businessman, chairman of IBM (1973–1981).[1]
- Mapita Cortés, 66, Puerto Rican actress, cancer.[2]
- Bryan Harvey, 49, American musician (House of Freaks), blunt-force trauma.[3]
- Dawn Lake, 78, Australian entertainer.[4]
- John Latham, 84, Zambian artist.[5]
- Paul Lindblad, 64, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics), Alzheimer's disease.[6]
- Dragan Lukić, 77, Serbian writer.[7]
- Harry Magdoff, 92, American socialist and editor.[8]
- Charles O. Porter, 86, American politician, representative from Oregon (1957–1961), Alzheimer's disease.[9]
- Gideon Rodan, 71, American biochemist, cancer.[10]
- Hubert Schoemaker, 55, Dutch chemist, co-founder of Centocor, brain cancer.[11]
- Charles Steen, 86, American geologist and businessman.[12]
- Zakaria bin Muhammad Amin, 92, Indonesian ulama, politician, and writer, diabetes.[13]
2
- Frank Butler, 89, British sports journalist.[14]
- Raul Davila, 74, Puerto Rican actor and television producer, heart attack.[15]
- Ofelia Fox, 82, Cuban nightclub owner (Tropicana Club), cancer.[16]
- Osa Massen, 91, Danish actress.[17]
- Klemens Mielczarek, 85, Polish actor.[18]
- Michael S. Smith, 59, American jazz drummer.[19]
- Francis Steinmetz, 91, Dutch author and Colditz Castle escapee.[20]
- Frank Wilkinson, 91, American civil liberties activist.[21]
- John Wojtowicz, 60, American bank robber, cancer.[22]
- John Woodnutt, 81, British actor.[23]
- Lidia Wysocka, 89, Polish actress.[24]
3
- Urbano Lazzaro, 81, Italian resistance fighter, captured Benito Mussolini.[25]
- Steve Rogers, 51, Australian rugby league player, apparent suicide.[26]
- Sir William Skate, 52, Papua New Guinean politician, prime minister (1997–1999), stroke.[27]
- Bruce Wilson, 64, Australian journalist, cancer.[28]
4
- John Hahn-Petersen, 75, Danish actor, heart attack.[29]
- Sophie Heathcote, 33, Australian actress (A Country Practice).[30]
- Milton Himmelfarb, 87, American essayist.[31]
- Stan Hunt, 76, American cartoonist.[32]
- Irving Layton, 93, Canadian poet, complications from Alzheimer's disease.[33]
- Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 62, Emirati emir, ruler of Dubai and prime minister (1971–1979, 1990–2006), heart attack.[34]
- Gretl Schörg, 91, Austrian actress.[35]
- Lourdes Van-Dúnem, 70, Angolan singer, typhoid fever.[36]
- Nel van Vliet, 79, Dutch swimmer.[37]
5
- Rod Dedeaux, 91, American college baseball coach, complications from a stroke.[38]
- William H. G. FitzGerald, 96, American investor, philanthropist and diplomat, ambassador to Ireland, aortic aneurysm.[39]
- Keizo Miura, 101, Japanese skier.[40]
- Lord Merlyn-Rees, 85, Welsh-born politician, home secretary (1976–1979), following a number of falls.[41]
- Ken Mosdell, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Blackhawks).[42]
- Mark Roberts, 84, American actor (Gilda, Dan August, Black Arrow).[43]
- Simon Shanks, 34, American football player (Arizona Cardinals), shot.[44]
- Rachel Squire, 51, British MP (1992–2006), stroke.[45]
- Alex St. Clair, 64, American musician (Captain Beefheart).[46]
- Vajramuni, 62, Indian actor.[47]
6
- Allaire du Pont, 92, American Thoroughbred racehorse owner (Kelso).[48]
- Roshan Khan, 76, Pakistani squash player, complications from a heart attack and coma.[49]
- Józef Milik, 83, Polish Catholic priest and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar.[50]
- Comandanta Ramona, 47, Mexican Tzotzil Zapatista rebel leader and women's rights advocate, kidney disease and tuberculosis.[51]
- Lou Rawls, 72, American jazz and blues singer, lung and brain cancer.[52]
- Hugh Thompson, Jr., 62, American Army officer, helped stop the My Lai Massacre, removed from life support.[53][54]
- Stanley Roger Tupper, 84, American politician, representative from Maine from (1961–1967).[55]
- Gábor Zavadszky, 31, Hungarian footballer, pulmonary embolism.[56]
7
- Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar, 58, Brazilian soldier, head of MINUSTAH (since 2005), suicide by gunshot.[57]
- Heinrich Harrer, 93, Austrian mountaineer, geographer and author.[58][59]
- Alf McMichael, 78, Northern Irish footballer.[60]
- Jim Zulevic, 40, American actor (The Specials), heart attack.[61]
8
- Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, 62, British politician and peer, minister for sport (1997–1999), stroke and cerebral hemorrhage.[62]
- Elson Becerra, 27, Colombian footballer, shot.[63]
- Alex Elmsley, 76, English magician, heart attack.[64]
- Georg Wilhelm, Prince of Hanover, 90, German aristocrat, educator and Olympian.[65]
- James Robert Hightower, 90, American Sinologist.[66]
- Katherine Peden, 80, American politician.[67]
- David Rosenbaum, 63, American journalist (The New York Times), head injury during mugging.[68]
- Gloria Root, 57, American model and businesswoman, cancer.[69]
- Mimmo Rotella, 87, Italian artist.[70]
- Raatbek Sanatbayev, 36, Kyrgyz Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler, shot.[71]
- José Luis Sánchez, 31, Argentine footballer, injuries sustained in a traffic collision.[72]
9
- Andy Caldecott, 41, Australian Dakar Rally motorcycle rider, fatal neck injury sustained in an accident in Mauritania.[73]
- Patricia Hitt, 87, American Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Nixon, natural causes.[74]
- Selwyn Hughes, 77, British fundamentalist evangelical who founded Crusade for World Revival.[75]
- Ahmad Kazemi, 47, Iranian brigadier general, commander of the IRCG Ground Forces (since 2005), plane crash.[76]
- Mikk Mikiver, 68, Estonian stage director and actor.
- W. Cleon Skousen, 92, American conservative author, BYU professor and prominent Latter-day Saint author and lecturer.[77]
- Gordon Smith, 55, Canadian inventor.[78]
- Jack Snow, 62, American NFL player and radio announcer, complications from a staph infection.[79]
- Don Stewart, 70, American actor (The Guiding Light), lung cancer.[80]
10
- Ira B. Black, 64, American neuroscientist, founder of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey, infection related to a tumor.[81]
- Dave Brown, 52, American NFL player, heart attack.[82]
- Elliot Forbes, 88, American conductor, musicologist, Harvard University professor and Beethoven scholar.[83]
- Sidney Frank, 86, American businessman and philanthropist, heart failure.[84]
- Alethea Hayter, 94, British writer.[85]
- Dennis Marks, 73, American animation writer-producer.[86]
- John Sinibaldi, 92, American Olympic cyclist.[87]
11
- Bernard Dafney, 37, American football player, heart attack.[88]
- Eric Namesnik, 35, American Olympic swimmer, injuries from a car crash.[89]
- Mark Spoon, 39, German DJ, prominent figure in trance music and member of (Jam & Spoon), heart attack.[90]
- Mabel Sine Wadsworth, 95, American birth control activist and women's health educator.[91]
12
- William Matthew Byrne, Jr., 75, American federal judge, presiding judge in the trial of Daniel Ellsberg, pulmonary fibrosis.[92][93]
- Brendan Cauldwell, 83, Irish actor, died in sleep.[94]
- Eldon Dedini, 84, American cartoonist, esophageal cancer.[95]
- Shaikh Faisal bin Hamad Al Khalifa, 14, Bahraini prince, injuries from a car crash.[96]
- Günther Landgraf, 77, German physicist and former president of Technische Universität Dresden.[97]
- Stewart Linder, 74, American Oscar-winning film editor.[98]
- Anne Meacham, 80, American actress (Suddenly, Last Summer, Another World, Lilith).[99]
- Meinrad Schütter, 95, Swiss composer.[100]
13
- Raúl Anguiano, 90, Mexican engraver and painter.[101]
- Gordon Atkinson, 83, Canadian broadcaster and politician.[102]
- Richard Dalitz, 80, Australian physicist, expert in exotic particles, studied quarks.[103]
- Frank Fixaris, 71, American sportscaster, house fire.[104]
- Ron Jessie, 57, American NFL wide receiver, heart attack.[105]
- Marc Potvin, 38, Canadian NHL player, found dead in his hotel room in Michigan, suicide by hanging.[106]
- Joan Root, 69, American wildlife conservationist, shot.[107]
14
- Henri Colpi, 84, Swiss film director and cinematographer.[108]
- Jim Gary, 66, American sculptor, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage.[109]
- Conrad Hendricks, 27, South African professional football player, car crash.[110]
- Bubba Morton, 74, American baseball player and coach.[111]
- Mark Philo, 21, English professional football player, injuries from a car crash.[112]
- Bob Weinstock, 77, American record producer, founded independent jazz record label Prestige Records, complications of diabetes.[113]
- Shelley Winters, 85, American actress (The Diary of Anne Frank, Lolita, The Poseidon Adventure), Oscar winner (1960, 1966), heart failure.[114]
15
- Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 79, Kuwaiti Emir, brain hemorrhage.[115]
- Glyn Berry, 59, Welsh-born Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan.[116]
- Hilma Contreras, 92, Dominican writer.[117]
- Edward N. Hall, 91, U.S. Air Force rocket expert, father of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile program.[118]
- Gregory Kimble, 88, American psychologist.[119]
- William Post, 66, American lottery winner.[120]
- George Worth, 90, American Olympic fencer.[121]
16
- Stanley Biber, 82, American physician and pioneer in sex reassignment surgery, complications of pneumonia.[122]
- Rebiha Khebtani, 79, French Algerian politician, MP.[123]
- Jan Mark, 62, British children's writer, meningitis.[124]
- Richard P. McCormick, 89, American historian, professor at Rutgers University.[125]
- Willie Smith, 66, American baseball player, heart attack.[126]
17
- Clarence Ray Allen, 76, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.[127]
- Harold R. Collier, 90, American politician, former Republican United States Representative from Illinois from 1957 to 1975.[128]
- Wallace Mercer, 59, British businessman, former chairman of Heart of Midlothian F.C., cancer.[129]
- Giles Worsley, 44, British architectural historian and journalist, nephew of the Katharine, Duchess of Kent, cancer.[130]
18
- Leonardo Ribeiro de Almeida, 81, Portuguese politician.[131]
- Norman McCabe, 94, American animator and director, famous for Tokio Jokio and The Ducktators shorts from his Termite Terrace tenure at Warner Bros.[132]
- Thomas Murphy, 90, American former CEO of General Motors.[133]
- Anton Rupert, 89, South African businessman, philanthropist and founding member of World Wide Fund for Nature, natural causes.[134]
- Stjepan Steiner, 90, Croatian physician, doctor to Josip Broz Tito.[135]
- Jan Twardowski, 90, Polish priest and poet.[136]
19
- Gábor Agárdy, 83, Hungarian actor (The Round-Up, Mattie the Goose-boy).
- Gary Downie, South African psychotherapist and television production manager (Doctor Who, Star Cops), cancer.[137]
- Anthony Franciosa, 77, American actor, third husband of Shelley Winters, stroke.[138]
- Tom Nugent, 92, American football coach, member of the College Football Hall of Fame, congestive heart failure.[139]
- Wilson Pickett, 64, American soul singer, heart attack.[140]
- Awn Alsharif Qasim, 73, Sudanese writer, educator and Islamic scholar.
- Geoff Rabone, 84, New Zealand cricketer.[141]
- Franz Seitz, 84, German film director.[142]
20
- Elmer Otto Friday, 81, American politician.[143]
- Andrei Iordan, 71, Kyrgyz politician, former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan.[144]
- David Maust, 51, American convicted serial killer, heart failure after a botched suicide attempt.[145]
- Dave Lepard, 25, Swedish musician (Crashdïet), suicide.[146]
- Rose Nader, 99, Lebanese-born president of the Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest, heart failure.[147]
- Pio Taofinu'u, 82, Samoan Roman Catholic cardinal.[148]
- Leslie Wilson, 80, British Olympic cyclist.[149]
21
- Michael Chan, Baron Chan, 65, British paediatrician, second peer of Chinese origin.[150]
- John James Cowperthwaite, 90, British civil servant, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong (1961–1971).[151]
- Robert Knudson, 80, American sound engineer (Cabaret, The Exorcist, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), Oscar winner (1973, 1974, 1983), supranuclear palsy.[152]
- Ibrahim Rugova, 61, Kosovan politician, President of Kosovo, lung cancer.[153]
22
- Janette Carter, 82, American last living member of the Carter Family country music group.[154]
- Alec Coxon, 90, English cricketer, Yorkshire and England player.[155]
- Sherman Ferguson, 61, American jazz drummer.[156]
- Aydın Güven Gürkan, 65, Turkish academic and politician (chairman of SHP).[157]
- Nellie Y. McKay, 67, African-American literary critic, colon cancer.[158]
23
- Ernie Baron, 65, Filipino radio/TV host and meteorologist, heart attack brought about by diabetes.[159]
- Andrea Bronfman, 60, American philanthropist and wife of Charles Bronfman, hit by car.[160]
- Savino Guglielmetti, 94, Italian gymnast, 1928 Olympic gold-medalist and oldest surviving Olympic champion.[161]
- Samuel W. Koster, 86, United States Army officer, highest ranking United States Army officer charged in My Lai massacre, renal cancer.[162]
- Chris McKinstry, 38, Canadian independent researcher in artificial intelligence, suicide by inert gas asphyxiation.[163]
- Joseph M. Newman, 96, American film director/producer, This Island Earth.
- Bill Rice, 74, American artist.[164]
- Virginia Smith, 94, American politician, former Republican United States Representative from Nebraska (1975–1991).[165]
- Michael Wharton, 92, British humorist ("Peter Simple").[166]
24
- Zaki Badawi, 84, Egyptian Islamic scholar, Islamic religious leader in Britain.[167]
- Schafik Handal, 75, Salvadoran politician, former presidential candidate and leader of El Salvador's main political opposition party, the FMLN, heart attack.[168]
- Kiki Heck, 81, Dutch Olympic diver.[169]
- Peter Ladefoged, 80, American phonetician, stroke.[170]
- Carlos (Café) Martínez, 40, Venezuelan corner infielder, former MLB player, complications from a long illness.[171]
- Fayard Nicholas, 91, American dancer, elder of the renowned Nicholas Brothers, pneumonia and complications of a stroke.[172]
- Chris Penn, 40, American actor (Footloose, Reservoir Dogs, The Funeral), heart disease.[173][174]
- Sir Nicholas Shackleton, 68, British geologist, leukaemia.[175]
25
- Robin Coombs, 84, British immunologist, developed Coombs Antibody test[176]
- Marion Dudley, 33, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.[177]
- Luther Green, 59, American NBA player, lung cancer.[178]
- John F. Kerin, Australian professor, reproductive scientist and gynaecologist, farm accident.[179]
- Anna Malle, 38, American adult film actress, car accident.[180]
- Herbert Schilder, 77, American dental surgeon, improved root canal procedures, Lewy body disease.[181]
- Sudharmono, 78, Indonesian politician and lieutenant general, vice president of Indonesia from 1988 to 1993, pneumonia.[182]
- Allan Temko, 81, American architectural critic and writer, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, brief illness.[183]
26
- Len Carlson, 68, Canadian voice actor (The Raccoons, Rolie Polie Olie, Atomic Betty), heart attack.[184]
- John Dunwoody, 76, British Member of Parliament, effects of an accident.[185]
- Morris Silverman, 93, American philanthropist, founder of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research.[186]
- Dave Tatsuno, 92, Japanese American businessman, documented the Topaz Japanese internment camp in his film Topaz.[187]
- Khan Wali Khan, 89, Pakistani politician, prominent opposition Leader and prominent Pashtun leader, heart attack.[188]
27
- Maurice Colclough, 52, English Rugby Union player, brain tumour.[189]
- Tana Hoban, 88, American photographer of children, author of over 110 children's books.[190]
- Phyllis King, 100, British Wimbledon winner.[191]
- Carol Lambrino, 86, Romanian Prince, elder son of King Carol II of Romania.[192]
- Christopher Lloyd, 84, British gardening writer, stroke.[193]
- Gene McFadden, 56, American singer and songwriter, cancer.[194]
- Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon, 90, British solicitor and politician.[195]
- Johannes Rau, 75, German politician, President of Germany (Bundespräsident) from 1999 to 2004.[196]
28
- Peter Isola, 76, Gibraltarian politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Gibraltar (1956–1984).[197]
- Yitzchak Kaduri, 106, Iraqi-born renowned Sephardic Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist.[198]
- Henry McGee, 76, British actor.[199]
- Sauli Rytky, 87, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic medalist.[200]
29
- Andrew Gonzalez, 65, Filipino linguist and educator, complications from diabetes.[201]
- Lau Mulder, 78, Dutch field hockey player and Olympic medalist.[202]
- Nam June Paik, 73, South Korean-born American artist, particularly noted for his video art, natural causes.[203]
- George Psychoundakis, 85, Greek Resistance fighter during World War II.[204]
30
- Stew Albert, 66, American 1960s anti-establishment activist, co-founder of the Yippies, liver cancer.[205]
- Paul Clinton, 53, American CNN film critic, founder of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA).[206]
- Seth Fisher, 33, American comic book artist (Green Lantern: Willworld), fall.[207]
- Arnold Graffi, 95, German Researcher for oncology, long illness.[208]
- Coretta Scott King, 78, American civil rights leader, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., ovarian cancer.[209]
- Otto Lang, 98, Bosnian-born American film producer and ski mogul, heart disease.[210]
- Irving Rosenwater, 73, English statistician and author.[211]
- Wendy Wasserstein, 55, American playwright, lymphoma.[212]
31
- Owen Abrahams, 72, Australian rules footballer, serious illness.[213]
- Ruairi Brugha, 88, Irish Fianna Fáil politician, son of Cathal Brugha.[214]
- Henry S. Coleman, 79, American educational administrator, dean at Columbia University.[215]
- Boris Kostelanetz, 94, Russian-born American tax lawyer.[216]
- George Koval, 92, Soviet intelligence agent.[217]
- Paul Regina, 49, American actor (Brothers, Joe & Valerie, L.A. Law), liver cancer.[218]
- Jason Sears, 38, American punk rock singer (Rich Kids on LSD), complications from drug abuse.[219]
- Moira Shearer, 80, British ballerina, actress, and newspaper columnist, married to Sir Ludovic Kennedy, natural causes.[220]
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