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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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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March 2006
1
- Annette von Aretin, 85, German TV personality.[1]
- Joëlle Aubron, 46, French member of Action Directe, lung cancer.[2]
- Harry Browne, 72, American libertarian writer and presidential candidate for the United States Libertarian Party, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[3]
- Ronald Anthony Cross, 68, American science fiction writer.[4]
- Mack Easley, 89, American politician and judge in New Mexico, former Democratic lieutenant governor of New Mexico (1963—1966).[5]
- Alexander Fol, 72, Bulgarian historian of ancient Greece, former Minister of Education.[6]
- O. Milton Gossett, 80, American advertising executive, former CEO Saatchi & Saatchi Compton Worldwide.[7]
- Johnny Jackson, 54, American singer and musician, former drummer of The Jackson 5, stabbing.[8]
- Josef Muskita, 81, Indonesian Olympic sailor
- Peter Osgood, 59, English footballer, heart attack.[9]
- Jenny Tamburi, 53, Italian actress in 1970s B-movies and casting director of TV-series.[10]
2
- Madeleine Cosman, 68, American scholar of medieval Europe.[11]
- Leopold Gratz, 75, Austrian politician, former mayor of Vienna.[12]
- Phyllis Huffman, 61, American casting director (Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven, Mystic River).[13]
- Willie Kent, 70, American blues bassist, cancer.[14]
- Rachel Mellon Walton, 107, American philanthropist.[15]
- Jack Wild, 53, British actor (Oliver!, H. R. Pufnstuf, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), oral cancer.[16]
3
- Ivor Cutler, 83, Scottish humorist, author, singer, and poet.[17]
- William Herskovic, 91, Hungarian escapee from Auschwitz during World War II, cancer.[18]
- Charlie Hodge, 71, American guitarist and backup singer for Elvis Presley and Graceland resident, lung cancer.[19]
- Floyd Gass, 79, American college football coach (Oklahoma State University).[20]
- Paul Smith, 77, American actor.[21]
- Richard Vander Veen, 83, American politician, former Democratic United States Representative from Michigan (1973–1977), prostate cancer.[22]
4
- Ivano Corghi, 83, Italian football goalkeeper and manager.[23]
- John Reynolds Gardiner, 61, American children's author (Stone Fox), pancreatitis.[24]
- Roman Ogaza, 54, Polish footballer.[25]
- Edgar Valter, 76, Estonian children's book illustrator and cartoonist.[26]
5
- Milan Babić, 50, Croatian politician, former leader of the Republic of Serbian Krajina who pleaded guilty to war crimes, suicide by hanging.[27]
- Richard Kuklinski, 70, American mafia hitman, natural causes.[28]
- John Joseph Paul, 89, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of La Crosse (1983–1994).[29]
- John Sandusky, 80, American former NFL player and assistant coach, complications from internal bleeding.[30]
- Bill Wolski, 61, American football player, melanoma.[31]
6
- Anne Braden, 81, American civil rights activist.[32]
- Gunnar Halvorsen, 60, Norwegian politician.[33]
- King Floyd, 61, American soul singer.[34]
- Mubdar Hatim al-Dulaimi, 55, Iraqi general, Major General in the Iraqi Army, shot by a sniper.[35]
- Mortimo Planno, 85, Cuban Rastafarian philosopher.[36]
- Kirby Puckett, 45, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, stroke complications.[37]
- Dana Reeve, 44, American activist, widow of Christopher Reeve, lung cancer.[38]
- Simon Ungers, 49, German-born New York-based architect and artist.[39]
- Ruth Weiss, 97, Austrian-Chinese journalist and member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[40]
7
- Howard Jackson, 54, American martial artist, leukemia.[41]
- John Junkin, 76, British actor (A Hard Day's Night), lung cancer.[42]
- Ludwik Margules, 72, Mexican theatre director, cancer.[43]
- John Joseph McFall, 88, American politician, former Democratic United States Representative from California (1956–1978).[44]
- Gordon Parks, 93, American photographer, film director (Shaft), cancer.[45]
- Ali Farka Touré, 66, Malian musician, cancer.[46]
8
- Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes, 82, New Zealand pioneering heart surgeon, complications during heart valve replacement.[47]
- Joseph Burchenal, 93, American oncologist, worked on leukemia treatments.[48]
- Teresa Ciepły, 69, Polish athlete, 1964 Olympic track champion.[49]
- Giordano Cottur, 91, Italian Giro d'Italia champion.[50]
- Ronald Faulds, 83, Australian Olympic diver
- George Sassoon, 69, British scientist, author and radio amateur, cancer.[51]
9
- Hanka Bielicka, 90, Polish singer and actress.[52]
- Dennis Brookes, 90, English cricketer.[53]
- Erik Elmsäter, 86, Swedish athlete, first Swede to compete in both Summer and Winter Olympics.[54]
- Tom Fox (Quaker), 54, U.S. peacemaker taken hostage in Iraq [55]
- Péter Halász, 62, Hungarian theatre director, actor, and writer, liver cancer.[56]
- Doug Hamilton, 43, American general manager for the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team, heart attack aboard aircraft.[57]
- Steve Henderson, 61-62, American role-playing game designer.[58]
- Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie, 72, English cricketer and insurance executive, brain tumour.[59]
- Anna Moffo, 73, American singer and operatic soprano, stroke following decade long battle with breast cancer.[60]
- John Profumo, 91, British politician, complications following a stroke.[61]
- Harry Seidler, 82, Austrian-born Australian architect, leading exponent of Modernism's methodology.[62]
- Laura Stoica, 38, Romanian pop rock singer, traffic collision.[63]
- John Wilde, 86, American surrealist painter.[64]
10
- Rick Huckabay, 60, American basketball coach.[65]
- Alberto Migré, 74, Argentine TV screenwriter and producer, heart attack.[66]
- Ronald H. Nash, 69, American philosopher.[67]
- Jan Wiktor Wiśniewski, 83, Polish football player.[68]
11
- Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, 81, British soldier and military historian.[69]
- Bernie Geoffrion, 75, Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach (Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers), stomach cancer.[70]
- Pauline Gregg, 96, British author, historian and biographer.[71]
- Slobodan Milošević, 64, Yugoslav and Serbian politician, former president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia standing trial for war crimes, heart attack.[72]
- Jesús Rollán, 37, Spanish former water polo goalkeeper, suicide by jumping.[73]
- Lindsay Shonteff, 70, British horror film director of the 1960s.[74]
- Charles M. Tanner, 85, American screenwriter, playwright and founder of Covenant Players, declining health following massive stroke.[75]
12
- Nick Barone, 79, American heavyweight and light heavyweight boxer.[76]
- Joseph Bova, 81, American actor (Once Upon a Mattress).[77]
- Jurij Brězan, 89, Sorbian-German writer.[78]
- István Gyulai, 62, Hungarian journalist, General Secretary of the International Association of Athletics Federations.[79]
- Jonatan Johansson, 26, Swedish snowboarder, accident during training.[80]
- Adi Lev, 52, Israeli actress and voice actress, cancer.[81]
- Victor Sokolov, 59, Russian-American former dissident Soviet journalist and Orthodox priest, lung cancer.[82]
13
- Robert C. Baker, 84, American agricultural scientist, developed chicken products and processes.[83]
- Roy Clarke, 80, Welsh footballer for Manchester City & Wales.[84]
- Jimmy Johnstone, 61, Scottish football player, voted Celtic's best ever, motor neurone disease.[85]
- Paul Pineau, 82, French cyclist.[86]
- Maureen Stapleton, 80, American actress (Reds, Plaza Suite, Cocoon), Oscar winner (1982), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.[87]
- Peter Tomarken, 63, American game show host (Press Your Luck), plane crash.[88]
14
- Ephraim Anderson, 94, British microbiologist.[89]
- Ann Calvello, 76, American roller derby player, liver cancer.[90]
- Hamish Gray, Baron Gray of Contin, 78, Scottish politician and life peer, former British Conservative government minister.[91]
- Lennart Meri, 76, Estonian politician, writer, film director and statesman, former President of Estonia.[92]
- Art Michaluk, 82, American Hockey League hockey player and World War II veteran.[93]
15
- Ken Brewer, 64, American Poet Laureate of Utah, pancreatic cancer.[94]
- Humphrey, c. 17, British Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, (1989–1997).[95]
- George Mackey, 90, American mathematician, formerly Landon T. Clay Professor of mathematics, Harvard University.[96]
- Charles Newman, 67, American novelist (White Jazz, The Promisekeeper: A Tephramancy) and editor (TriQuarterly).[97]
- Georgios Rallis, 87, Greek conservative politician, former Prime Minister of Greece (1980–1981), heart failure.[98]
- Mark Southern, 45, British professor of linguistics, Middlebury College.[99]
- Red Storey, 88, former Canadian Football League player and NHL referee.[100]
16
- Jonathan Delisle, 28, American Hockey League and National Hockey League hockey player, automobile accident.[101]
- David Feintuch, 61, American science fiction author, following cardiac trouble.[102]
- Paul Flaherty, 42, American computer scientist, web indexing pioneer, heart attack.[103]
- James "Speedy" Hill, 95, British Army officer, commander of the 3rd Parachute Brigade 1943–1945, natural causes.[104]
- K. Leroy Irvis, 86, American politician, Speaker of Pennsylvania House of Representatives (first African-American Speaker in any U.S. state government), cancer.[105]
- Moira Redmond, 77, English actress, heart attack.[106]
- Jade Snow Wong, 84, Chinese author and ceramicist, natural causes.[107]
17
- Yuan Baojing, 40, Chinese multi-millionaire, executed by lethal injection for ordering a contract killing.[108]
- Oleg Cassini, 92, American fashion designer.[109]
- Narvin Kimball, 97, American banjo player, founding member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Gentlemen of Jazz.[110]
- Ray Meyer, 92, American men's collegiate basketball coach, former DePaul basketball coach and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, natural causes.[111]
- G. William Miller, 81, United States Secretary of Treasury from 1979 - 1981 under Jimmy Carter, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.[112]
18
- Michael Attwell, 63, British actor.[113]
- Bill Beutel, 75, American television reporter, journalist and WABC-TV anchorman, Alzheimer's disease.[114]
- Betty Jane Cornett, 73, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[115]
- Nelson Dantas, 78, Brazilian actor, lung cancer.[116]
- Anatoliy Puzach, 64, former Soviet World Cup footballer and title-winning coach of Dynamo Kiev.[117]
- Sir Wallace Rae, 92, Australian Queensland politician.[118]
19
- Mohammad Ali, 78, Pakistani actor, cardiac arrest.[119]
- Golap Borbora, 80, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Assam.[120]
- Anselmo Colzani, 87, Italian operatic baritone.[121]
- Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, 67, American molecular and cell biologist, science journal editor, Burkitt's lymphoma.[122]
- Leon Daniel, 74, American correspondent and editor for United Press International.[123]
- Channing Pollock, 79, American magician, complications of cancer.[124]
- Richard Root, 68, American epidemiologist, crocodile attack.[125]
- John Wyatt, 81, British writer and ranger.[126]
20
- Bernard Gosselin, 71, Canadian film director.[127]
- Gene Scott, 68, American tennis player and publisher of Tennis Week.[128]
- Chris Tame, 56, British political activist, bone cancer.[129]
- P. R. Wallace, 90, Canadian theoretical physicist.[130]
21
- Desmond Ackner, Baron Ackner, 85, British jurist, Lord of Appeal.[131]
- Bob Delegall, 60, American actor and director, prostate cancer.[132]
- Margaret Ewing, 60, Scottish nationalist politician, breast cancer.[133]
- James O. Freedman, 70, American educator and academic administrator, former president of Dartmouth College and the University of Iowa, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[134]
- Bernard Lacoste, 74, French clothing magnate of Lacoste, unspecified illness.[135]
- Leslie MacMitchell, 85, American runner, James E. Sullivan Award winner.[136]
- Richard Usborne, 95, British author and journalist.[137]
22
- Ria Beckers, 67, Dutch politician, former political leader of the Dutch political parties Politieke Partij Radicalen and GroenLinks.[138]
- James Chikerema, 80, Zimbabwean nationalist, co-founder of ZAPU and government co-minister in the internal settlement government of Rhodesia.[139]
- Pierre Clostermann, 85, French World War II flying ace.[140]
- Eugene Landy, 71, American psychologist, famous for treating Brian Wilson, lung cancer.[141]
- Britt Lomond, 80, American actor (Zorro), fencer, and World War II veteran.[142]
- Gergely András Molnár, 108, Hungarian World War I veteran, one of the last Hungarian World War I veterans.[143]
- Brian Parkyn, 82, British Labour MP for Bedford (1966–1970).[144]
- Stig Wennerström, 99, Swedish Air Force Colonel convicted of spying for the USSR.[145][146]
- Sir Henry Yellowlees, 86, British Chief Medical Officer (1973–1984).[147]
23
- Adwaita, 255 (approximate age), tortoise claimant for world's oldest animal, reputedly a former pet of General Clive, liver failure.[148]
- David B. Bleak, 74, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient in the Korean War.[149]
- Sarah Caldwell, 82, American opera conductor, impresario, and stage director, longtime conductor of the Opera Company of Boston.[150]
- Desmond Doss, 87, United States Army corporal, Medal of Honor recipient and conscientious objector.[151]
- Gerry "Tex" Ehman, 73, Canadian-born retired NHL player and executive, lung cancer.[152]
- Harold P. Eubank, 81, American physicist.[153]
- Eloy de la Iglesia, 62, Spanish film director.[154]
- Pío Leyva, 88, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club), heart attack.[155]
- Peter Shand Kydd, 80, English wallpaper heir and stepfather of Diana, Princess of Wales.[156]
- Cindy Walker, 87, American country-western songwriter, (Dream Baby) for Roy Orbison et al.[157]
24
- Jörg Bastuck, 36, German rally car co-driver, accident during the 2006 Rally Catalunya.[158]
- John Glenn Beall, Jr., 78, American politician, former Republican Senator from Maryland (1971–1977) and United States Representative (1969–1971).[159]
- Jaroslava Moserová, 76, Czech senator, ambassador, presidential candidate, doctor, and translator.[160]
- Lynne Perrie, 74, English actress (Coronation Street, Queenie's Castle, Kes), stroke.[161]
- Norman Pounds, 94, English geographer and historian[162]
- Carl J. Seiberlich, 84, American naval aviator.[163]
25
- Bob Carlos Clarke, 55, Irish photographer, suicide by train.[164]
- Gary du Plessis, 31, Zimbabwean cricketer (Mashonaland, Mashonaland A).[165]
- Rocío Dúrcal, 61, Spanish singer and actress, uterine cancer.[166]
- Richard Fleischer, 89, American film director (Tora! Tora! Tora!, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Soylent Green).[167]
- Danilo Lazović, 56, Serbian actor, heart attack.[168]
- Buck Owens, 76, American country music star (Hee Haw), heart attack.[169]
- Alfredo Silipigni, 74, American longtime conductor of the New Jersey State Opera, complications of pneumonia.[170]
26
- Angelo d'Arrigo, 44, Italian aviator, air crash.[171]
- Anil Biswas, 61, Indian politician, cerebral hemorrhage.[172]
- David Cunliffe-Lister, 2nd Earl of Swinton, 69, British peer, politician & magistrate.[173]
- Paul Dana, 30, American Indy Racing League driver, multiple trauma injuries sustained in accident.[174]
- Manar Maged, 2, Egyptian girl born with two heads, brain infection.[175]
- Nikki Sudden, 49, British musician, punk-blues icon, and co-founder of Swell Maps.[176]
27
- Al Alquist, 97, American politician, former California state senator.[177]
- Wayne Boden, 58, Canadian serial killer and rapist, of natural causes after a lengthy illness.[178]
- Dan Curtis, 77, American television producer (Dark Shadows, The Winds of War).[179]
- Ian Hamilton Finlay, 80, Scottish artist.[180]
- Ken Kaess, 51, American advertising executive, CEO of DDB Worldwide, cancer.[181]
- Stanisław Lem, 84, Polish science fiction writer, heart failure.[182]
- Ruari McLean, 88, British typographer.[183]
- Lyn Nofziger, 81, American journalist, conservative Republican political consultant and press secretary for Ronald Reagan.[184]
- Ron Schipper, 77, American football coach and college athletics administrator, College Football Hall of Fame Coach.[185]
- Bernard Siegan, 81, American law professor.[186]
- Rudolf Vrba, 82, Canadian pharmacologist, Auschwitz escapee and contributor to the Auschwitz Protocol, cancer.[187]
- Peter Wells, 58, Australian guitarist from rock outfit Rose Tattoo, prostate cancer.[188]
- Neil Williams, 43, English international Test cricketer.[189]
28
- Wanderley Magalhães Azevedo, 39, Brazilian cyclist.[190]
- Jerry Brudos, 67, American serial killer and necrophiliac, natural causes.[191]
- Carlos Cat, 75, Uruguayan Minister of Labour (1990–1991) and of Transport (2000–2002).[192]
- Pro Hart, 77, Australian outback painter, motor neurone disease.[193]
- Bansi Lal, 78, Indian Haryana's four time chief minister, and defence minister of India during Indian Emergency (1975–77).[194][195]
- Charles Schepens, 94, American ophthalmologist known as "the father of retinal surgery" and a Nazi resistance movement leader.[196]
- Caspar Weinberger, 88, U.S. Secretary of Defense 1981-1987 under Reagan, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1973-1975 under Nixon and Ford.[197]
29
- Don Alias, 66, American jazz percussionist.[198]
- Eric Budd, 84, English administrator, the General Secretary (1987–2000) and Vice-Chairman of The Cricket Society (2000–2001).[199]
- Salvador Elizondo, 73, Mexican writer and member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, of cancer.[200]
- Henry Farrell, 85, American author and screenwriter (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte).[201]
- Penny Jay, 80, American country singer/songwriter ("Don't Let Me Cross Over", "Just Over the Line"), longtime companion of William Little guitarist (Even Keel) of California, USA.[202]
- Gretchen Rau, 66, American set decorator (Memoirs of a Geisha, The Last Samurai, Crocodile Dundee), Oscar winner (2006), brain tumor.[203]
- Bob Veith, 81, American racecar driver, former Indianapolis 500 racing driver.[204]
30
- Red Hickey, 89, American football player and coach, NFL coach of the San Francisco 49ers, inventor of shotgun formation, natural causes.[205]
- Philip Hyde, 84, American wildlife photographer.[206]
- Manohar Shyam Joshi, 73, Indian Hindi novelist and soap opera writer.[207]
- Harry Krantz, 86, Australian trade union official.[208]
- John McGahern, 71, Irish novelist and playwright, cancer.[209]
- Gloria Monty, 84, American television producer, executive producer of the soap opera General Hospital, cancer.[210]
- Pauli Tavisalo, 78, Finnish Olympic sprinter.[211]
31
- George L. Brown, 79, American politician, former Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, first black lieutenant governor in the US.[212]
- Olive McKean, 90, American swimmer, swimming coach and Olympic medalist.[213]
- Jackie McLean, 74, American jazz saxophonist.[214]
- Gerhard Potma, 38, Dutch sailor and Olympian.[215]
- Candice Rialson, 54, American actress, liver disease.[216]
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