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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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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October 2006
1
- Frank Beyer, 74, German film director (Jacob the Liar).[1]
- Sir Laurence Brodie-Hall, 96, Australian mining executive.[2]
- Alan Caillou, 91, British actor and writer.[3]
- Pierre Gorman, 82, Australian librarian and academic.[4]
- Jack Kirkbride, 83, British cartoonist, father of actress Anne Kirkbride.[5]
- Anna Kunkel, 74, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[6]
- Renato Polselli, 84, Italian film director (The Vampire and the Ballerina, Black Magic Rites).[7]
- Rafael Quintero, 66, Cuban-born American CIA agent.[8]
- André Viger, 54, Canadian wheelchair marathoner and paralympian, cancer.[9]
- Yoshihiro Yonezawa, 53, Japanese manga critic, lung cancer.[10]
2
- Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista, 82, Cuban First Lady (1952–1959), second wife of President Fulgencio Batista.[11]
- Frances Bergen, 84, American actress, wife of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and mother of actress Candice Bergen.[12]
- Helen Chenoweth-Hage, 68, American Republican Representative for Idaho (1995–2001), car accident.[13]
- Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami, 68, Indian scientist, spiritual teacher and poet, heart attack.[14]
- Tamara Dobson, 59, American actress (Cleopatra Jones), complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis.[15]
- Paul Halmos, 90, Hungarian-born American mathematician.[16]
- Paul Richardson, 74, American Phillies longtime organist, prostate cancer.[17]
- Clyde Vollmer, 85, American Major League Baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[18]
3
- Lucilla Andrews, 86, British romantic novelist.[19]
- Sir John Cox, 77, British admiral who was Commander-in-Chief in the South Atlantic.[20]
- John Crank, 90, British mathematical physicist who helped solve the heat equation.[21]
- Gwen Meredith, 98, Australian writer of all 5795 episodes of the long-running radio serial Blue Hills, after heart trouble.[22]
- Peter Norman, 64, Australian athlete, silver medalist at the 1968 Summer Olympics, heart attack.[23]
4
- R. W. Apple, Jr., 71, American political journalist and food writer (The New York Times), thoracic cancer.[24]
- Tom Bell, 73, British actor (Wish You Were Here, Prime Suspect), after short illness.[25]
- Victor Dyrgall, 88, American Olympic runner.[26]
- František Fajtl, 94, Czech World War II fighter pilot, after long illness.[27]
- Norbert Franck, 88, Luxembourgish Olympic swimmer.[28]
- Walter Gibb, 87, British aviator and test pilot who twice held the world flight altitude record.[29]
- Ralph Griswold, 72, American creator of Snobol and Icon programming languages, cancer.[30]
- Vic Heyliger, 94, American ice hockey Hall of Fame player and coach.[31]
- Oskar Pastior, 78, Romanian-born German writer.[32]
- Riccardo Pazzaglia, 80, Italian actor, writer and film director.[33]
- Don Thompson, 73, British race walker and 1960 Olympic gold medal winner, aneurysm.[34]
- Katarina Tomasevski, 53, Croatian-born former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education.[35]
5
- Valerie Campbell-Harding, 74, Canadian textile art designer, heart attack.[36]
- Friedrich Karl Flick, 79, German-Austrian billionaire industrialist.[37]
- George King, 78, American college basketball coach (West Virginia Mountaineers, Purdue Boilermakers).[38]
- Speedy O. Long, 78, American Democratic Representative for Louisiana (1964–1972), cousin of Huey Long.[39]
- Jennifer Moss, 61, British actress, played Lucille Hewitt on Coronation Street.[40]
- Antonio Peña, 55, Mexican promoter of Lucha Libre AAA World Wide, heart attack.[41]
- Jackie Rae, 85, Canadian singer, songwriter and entertainer.[42]
- Dick Wagner, 78, American former president of the Cincinnati Reds and Houston Astros, injuries from a 1999 car crash.[43]
- Gilbert F. White, 94, American geographer.[44]
6
- Bertha Brouwer, 75, Dutch athlete, silver medalist in the 200m at the 1952 Olympics.[45]
- Charles Clark, 73, British publisher and lawyer.[46]
- Claude Luter, 83, French jazz clarinetist and bandleader.[47]
- Eduardo Mignogna, 66, Argentinian film director.[48]
- Buck O'Neil, 94, American baseball player and manager in the Negro leagues, heart failure and bone marrow cancer.[49]
- Timo Sarpaneva, 79, Finnish glassmaker.[50]
- Heinz Sielmann, 89, German zoologist.[51]
- Wilson Tucker, 91, American science fiction writer.[52]
7
- Charlie Bradberry, 24, American NASCAR driver, car accident.[53]
- Danifel Campilan, 25, Filipino news reporter (24 Oras), car accident.[54]
- Polly Craus, 83, American Olympic fencer.[55]
- Craig Dobbin, 71, Canadian founder of CHC Helicopter, after illness following lung transplant.[56]
- Julen Goikoetxea, 21, Spanish bicycle racer, suicide by jumping.[57]
- Anna Politkovskaya, 48, Russian journalist, shot.[58]
- Peter H. Rossi, 84, American sociologist.[59]
8
- Bob Cunningham, 79, Canadian football player.[60]
- Ira B. Harkey Jr., 88, American newspaper editor, winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.[61]
- Pavol Hnilica, 85, Slovak Catholic bishop.[62]
- Ivan Murrell, 63, American Major League Baseball player for the Astros and Padres.[63]
- Mark Porter, 32, New Zealand racing driver, race crash.[64]
9
- Sedat Alp, 93, Turkish archaeologist specializing in Hittitology.[65]
- Coccinelle, 75, French transsexual singer, stroke.[66]
- Reg Freeson, 80, British politician, Minister of State for Housing and Local Government (1974–1979).[67]
- Marek Grechuta, 60, Polish singer, composer and lyricist.[68] (Polish)
- Danièle Huillet, 70, French filmmaker, cancer.[69]
- Paul Hunter, 27, British snooker player, neuroendocrine tumours.[70]
- Mario Moya Palencia, 73, Mexican politician and diplomat (Interior Minister, 1969–1976), heart attack.[71]
- Glenn Myernick, 51, American assistant soccer coach of the men's national team, heart attack.[72]
- Raymond Noorda, 82, American computer executive, CEO of Novell (1982–1994).[73]
- Kanshi Ram, 72, Indian politician, heart attack.[74]
10
- Sheikh Akijuddin, 76–77, Bangladeshi entrepreneur.[75]
- Carlo Acutis, 15, beautified catholic teenager
- Jerry Belson, 68, American Emmy-winning television comedy writer (Tracey Ullman, Dick Van Dyke), prostate cancer.[76]
- Francis Berry, 91, British poet and literary critic.[77]
- P. C. Devassia, 100, Indian Sanskrit scholar and poet, won 1980 Sahitya Akademi Award (Kristubhagavatam).[78]
- Sir Derek Pattinson, 76, British Secretary-General of the General Synod of the Church of England (1972–1990)[79]
- Michael John Rogers, 74, British ornithologist.[80]
- Ian Scott, 72, Canadian Attorney General of Ontario (1985–1990).[81]
- Ravindra Varma, 81, Indian politician.[82]
11
- Henry Caldera, 69, Sri Lankan singer, cancer.[83]
- Sir Victor Goodhew, 86, British politician, Conservative MP for St Albans (1959–1983).[84]
- Cory Lidle, 34, American baseball pitcher (New York Yankees), victim of the 2006 New York City plane crash.[85]
- Benito Martínez, 126?, Cuban claimant to the title of world's oldest person.[86]
- Sir Robert Megarry, 96, British judge and Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court (1982–1985).[87]
- Eddie Pellagrini, 88, American baseball player and coach (Boston College).[88]
- Jimmy Peters, Sr., 84, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup winner (Montreal Canadiens, Detroit Red Wings).[89]
- Raad Mutar Saleh, Iraqi Mandaean leader, shot.[90]
- Jacques Sternberg, 83, French science fiction and fantastique author, lung cancer.[citation needed]
- John Turvey, 61, Canadian youth activist and Order of Canada recipient, mitochondrial myopathy.[91]
12
- Todd Bolender, 92, American dancer and choreographer, director of the Kansas City Ballet.[92]
- Johnny Callison, 67, American Major League Baseball player, three-time All-Star outfielder with the Phillies.[93]
- Samuel B. Casey, Jr., 79, American CEO of Pullman Company.[94]
- Hermann Eilts, 84, German-born American diplomat and US ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1965–1970).[95]
- Angelika Machinek, 49, German glider pilot, five times national champion and holder of nine world records, air crash.[96]
- Eugène Martin, 91, French racing driver.[97]
- Gerard Murphy, 57, Irish mathematician.[98]
- Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, Italian film director (The Battle of Algiers), heart failure.[99]
13
- Mason Andrews, 87, American physician and politician who delivered America's first test tube baby, Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia (1992–1994).[100]
- Deborah Blumer, 64, American member of the Massachusetts General Court, heart attack.[101]
- Petra Cabot, 99, American designer, created the Skotch Kooler, natural causes.[102]
- Bob Lassiter, 61, American talk radio personality.[103]
- Dino Monduzzi, 84, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Pontifical Household (1986–1998).[104]
- Hilda Terry, 92, American cartoonist, creator of comic strip Teena.[105]
- Sir Anthony Tippet, 78, British admiral.[106]
- Wang Guangmei, 85, Chinese wife of late Communist leader Liu Shaoqi.[107]
14
- Bernard Allen, 69, American member of the North Carolina General Assembly.[108]
- James Barr, 82, British Old Testament scholar.[109]
- Chun Wei Cheung, 34, Dutch rowing cox, silver medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, liver cancer.[110]
- Gino Empry, 81, Canadian entertainment publicist and manager[111]
- Freddy Fender, 69, American singer ("Before the Next Teardrop Falls"), lung cancer.[112]
- Nancy Lynn, American aerobatic pilot, plane crash.[113]
- Klaas Runia, 80, Dutch Reformed Church theologian.[114]
- Gerry Studds, 69, American first openly gay congressman, represented Massachusetts (1973–1997), pulmonary embolism.[115]
15
- Eddie Blay, 68, Ghanaian Olympic boxer.[116]
- Derek Bond, 86, British actor (Callan, Scott of the Antarctic).[117]
- William Bright, 78, American linguist and author, recorder of indigenous North American languages.[118]
- Michael Forrester, 89, British army general.[119]
- Robert Pfarr, 86, American Olympic cyclist.[120]
- George Stevens, 74, American politician and Baptist minister.[121]
- Michelle Urry, 66, Canadian cartoon editor for Playboy.[122]
- Varduhi Vardanyan, 30, Armenian singer, traffic collision.[123]
- Maurice F. Weisner, 88, American admiral.[124]
16
- Niall Andrews, 69, Irish politician, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South (1977–1987), MEP for Leinster (1984–2004), lung cancer.[125]
- Donna Cook, 78, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[126]
- Ross Davidson, 57, British former EastEnders actor, brain tumour.[127]
- Sid Davis, 90, American educational filmmaker, lung cancer.[128]
- Martin Flannery, 88, British politician, Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough (1974–1992).[129]
- Tommy Johnson, 71, American musician known for his work on the Jaws theme, complications of cancer and kidney failure.[130]
- John V. Murra, 90, Ukrainian-born American anthropologist and Inca scholar.[131]
- Valentín Paniagua, 70, Peruvian president (2000–2001), complications from heart surgery.[132]
- Lister Sinclair, 85, Canadian playwright and broadcaster, pulmonary embolism.[133]
- Ernie Steele, 88, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).[134]
- Ondina Valla, 90, Italian athlete, first Italian female 1936 Olympic champion (80m hurdles), natural causes.[135]
- Anatoly Voronin, 55, Russian business chief of ITAR TASS news agency, stabbed.[136]
17
- Daniel Emilfork, 82, French actor (The City of Lost Children).[137]
- Miriam Engelberg, 48, American graphic author (Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person), metastatic breast cancer.[138]
- Christopher Glenn, 68, American CBS News radio and television news anchor, liver cancer.[139]
- Megan Meier, 13, American cyberbullying victim, suicide by hanging.[140]
- Ursula Moray Williams, 95, British children's author.[141]
- Lieuwe Steiger, 82, Dutch goalkeeper for PSV Eindhoven (1942–1957, 1959) and The Netherlands (1953–1954).[142]
- Marcia Tucker, 66, American curator, founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art.[143]
18
- Don R. Christensen, 90, American animator and cartoonist.[144]
- Marc Hodler, 87, Swiss president of the International Ski Federation (1951–1998), International Olympic Committee whistleblower, stroke.[145]
- Stanislovas Jančiukas, 68, Lithuanian fashion designer.[146]
- Mario Francesco Pompedda, 77, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (1999–2004), brain hemorrhage.[147]
- Anna Russell, 94, British-born Canadian comedian and classical music satirist.[148]
- Laurie Taitt, 72, British sprint hurdler.[149]
- Alvin M. Weinberg, 91, American Manhattan Project scientist and former director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.[150]
19
- Ralph Harris, Baron Harris of High Cross, 81, British life peer, founder of the Institute of Economic Affairs, heart attack.[151]
- Michael Johnson, 29, American convicted murderer, suicide by exsanguination.[152]
- Phyllis Kirk, 79, American actress (House of Wax, The Thin Man), post cerebral aneurysm.[153]
- Srividya, 53, Indian actress, cancer.[154]
20
- Don Burroughs, 75, American football player (1955–1964), cancer.[155]
- Irene Galitzine, 90, Russian-born Italian fashion designer.[156]
- Maxi Herber, 86, German figure skater, gold medal winner at the 1936 Winter Olympics, Parkinson's disease.[157]
- Lawrence Kolb, 95, American psychiatrist, leader in community mental health movement.[158]
- Eric Newby, 86, British travel writer.[159]
- Jane Wyatt, 96, American actress (Father Knows Best, Star Trek), natural causes.[160]
21
- Peter Barkworth, 77, British actor, bronchopneumonia following a stroke.[161]
- Paul Biegel, 81, Dutch writer of children's literature.[162]
- Pye Chamberlayne, 68, American radio journalist, heart attack.[163]
- Daryl Duke, 77, Canadian film director (The Thorn Birds), pulmonary fibrosis.[164]
- Bryan Hipp, American guitarist (Diabolic, Cradle of Filth).[165]
- Howard Lawson, 92, British cricketer (Hampshire).[166]
- Bob Mann, 82, American football player (Detroit Lions).[167]
- Arthur Peacocke, 81, British scientist and theologian.[168]
- Milton Selzer, 87, American actor.[169]
- Paul Walters, 59, British BBC radio and TV producer.[170]
- Sandy West, 47, American drummer and vocalist (The Runaways), lung cancer.[171]
- Urien Wiliam, 76, British writer.[172]
22
- Choi Kyu-hah, 87, South Korean president (1979–1980).[173]
- Nelson de la Rosa, 38, Dominican actor, "World's Shortest Man" in the 1989 Guinness Book of Records.[174]
- Masayuki Fujio, 89, Japanese former minister of education.[175]
- Arthur Hill, 84, Canadian Tony Award-winning actor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Alzheimer's disease.[176]
- Mancs, 12, Hungarian rescue dog with the Miskolc Spider Special Rescue Team, pneumonia.[177]
- Richard Mayes, 83, British stage and television actor.[178]
- Michael Mayne, 77, British clergyman, Dean of Westminster Abbey (1986–1996), cancer of the jaw.[179]
23
- Leonid Hambro, 86, American concert pianist.[180]
- Jane Elizabeth Hodgson, 91, American doctor and abortion rights advocate.[181]
- Bruno Lauzi, 69, Italian singer and composer, Parkinson's disease.[182]
- Lebo Mathosa, 29, South African singer, car accident.[183]
- Egon Piechaczek, 74, Polish football player and coach.[184]
- Solosolo Samuelu Sao, 80, American Samoan politician.[185]
- Todd Skinner, 48, American free climber, climbing accident.[186]
- Rein Strikwerda, 76, Dutch doctor and knee injury specialist.[187]
24
- Jeffrey Lundgren, 56, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.[188]
- Enolia McMillan, 102, American civil rights activist, first female president of the NAACP, heart failure.[189]
- Benjamin Meed, 88, Polish-born American president and co-founder of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.[190]
- Jack Radtke, 93, American baseball player.[191]
- William Montgomery Watt, 97, British professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh.[192]
25
- Paul Ableman, 79, British playwright and novelist.[193]
- Richard Cleaver, 89, Australian politician, MHR for Swan (1955–1969).[194]
- Allerton Cushman, 99, American Olympic rower.
- Kintarō Ōki, 77, South Korean wrestler, heart attack.[195]
- Danny Rolling, 52, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.[196]
- Emilio Vedova, 87, Italian painter.[197]
26
- Gary Coull, 52, Canadian journalist, co-founder of CLSA, cancer.[198]
- Rogério Duprat, 74, Brazilian composer, cancer.[199]
- Tillman Franks, 86, American bassist, songwriter and country music manager, natural causes.[200]
- Ralph R. Harding, 77, American congressman from Idaho (1961–1965).[201]
- Pontus Hultén, 82, Swedish art collector and museum director.[202]
- John Kentish, 96, British operatic tenor.[203]
- Kojima Nobuo, 91, Japanese author, pneumonia.[204]
- Theodore Taylor, 85, American writer (The Cay), heart attack.[205]
27
- John Broadbent, 92, Australian Army officer and lawyer.[206]
- Jozsef Gregor, 66, Hungarian opera singer.[207]
- Thomas R. Jones, 93, American jurist and civil rights activist.[208]
- Ghulam Ishaq Khan, 91, Pakistani civil servant and bureaucrat, President of Pakistan (1988–1993), pneumonia.[209]
- Marlin McKeever, 66, American former football player, head injuries from a fall.[210]
- Joe Niekro, 61, American Major League Baseball pitcher, brain aneurysm.[211]
- Muhammad Qasim, 32, Pakistani field hockey goalkeeper, cancer.[212]
- Albrecht von Goertz, 92, German-born American car designer.[213]
- Bradley Roland Will, 36, American Indymedia reporter, shot whilst covering the 2006 Oaxaca protests.[214]
28
- Red Auerbach, 89, American coach of the Boston Celtics (1950–1966), heart attack.[215]
- Tina Aumont, 60, French actress, pulmonary embolism.[216]
- György Bence, 64, Hungarian philosopher.[217]
- Trevor Berbick, 52, Jamaican former heavyweight boxing champion, last boxer to face Muhammad Ali, homicide.[218]
- Brian Brolly, 70, British co-manager of Wings (1973–1978), managing director of RUG (1978–1988), co-founder of Classic FM, heart attack.[219]
- Henry Fok, 83, Hong Kong businessman, philanthropist and CCPPC official, lymphoma.[220]
- Richard Gilman, 83, American drama and literary critic, lung cancer.[221]
- Peter Gingold, 90, German anti-fascist.[222]
- Marijohn Wilkin, 86, American country songwriter, member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, heart failure.[223]
29
- Runer Jonsson, 90, Swedish journalist and author.[224]
- Nigel Kneale, 84, British scriptwriter (The Quatermass Experiment), stroke.[225]
- Muhammadu Maccido, 78, Nigerian Sultan of Sokoto, Muslim spiritual leader, plane crash.[226]
- Badamasi Maccido, 44-45, Nigerian politician, senator (since 2003), plane crash.[227]
- Silas Simmons, 111, American Negro league baseball player, oldest known professional baseball player.[228]
30
- Clifford Geertz, 80, American cultural anthropologist, complications following heart surgery.[229]
- Jens Christian Hauge, 91, Norwegian World War II resistance leader, first postwar defence minister, natural causes.[230]
- Junji Kinoshita, 92, Japanese playwright, pneumonia.[231]
- Ian Rilen, 59, Australian bass player (Rose Tattoo), bladder cancer.[232]
- Aud Schønemann, 83, Norwegian actress.[233]
- Mose Tolliver, 87, American folk artist, pneumonia.[234]
31
- Hank Berger, 55, American nightclub owner, asthma-related problems.[235]
- P. W. Botha, 90, South African politician, Prime Minister (1978–1984), State President (1984–1989), heart attack.[236]
- Nikki Catsouras, 18, American teenage car crash victim from Orange County, California whose accident photos were released onto internet, automobile accident.[237]
- Shane Drury, 27, American professional bull rider in the PRCA, Ewing's sarcoma.[238]
- William Franklyn, 81, British actor, prostate cancer.[239]
- Peter Fryer, 79, British journalist who reported on the Hungarian Revolution.[240]
- Michael James Genovese, 87, American alleged Mafia boss of Pittsburgh.[241]
- George B. Thomas, 92, American mathematician and author, natural causes.[242]
- Nicholas John Vine-Hall, 62, Australian genealogist, cancer.[243]
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