The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2006 .
February 2006
1
Roy Alon , 63, British film stuntman, heart attack. [1]
Dick Bass , 68, American pro football player and radio analyst. [2]
Dick Brooks , 63, American NASCAR race car driver and radio broadcaster, heart attack. [3]
Ronald B. Cameron , 78, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1963–1967). [4]
Robin Donkin , 75, British historian and geographer. [5]
Ernest Dudley , 97, British novelist, journalist, screenwriter, actor, radio broadcaster. [6]
Carlson Gracie, Sr. , 72, Brazilian martial artist, complications from kidney stones. [7]
Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr. , 86, American politician, governor of Arizona 1965-1967. [8]
Jean-Philippe Maitre , 56, former President of the Swiss National Council, brain tumor. [9]
John Woollam , 78, former British Conservative Member of Parliament. (Who's Who 2007)
2
Armando Castillo , 73, Guatemalan Olympic cyclist. [10]
Jill Chaifetz , 41, American lawyer and executive director of the nonprofit legal group Advocates for Children of New York, ovarian cancer. [11]
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury , 77, Bangladesh politician, former prime minister of Bangladesh. [12]
Chris Doty , 39, Canadian documentarian and playwright, suicide. [13]
Guglielmo Letteri , 80, Italian comic book artist. [14]
Pat Rupp , 63, goaltender for the 1964 and 1968 USA Olympic ice hockey teams, cancer . [15]
S. K. Ramachandra Rao , 78, Indian scholar. [16]
Athol Shephard , 85, Australian cricketer. [17]
Nicholas Swarbrick , 107, last remaining English merchant sailor of World War I. [18]
Sir Reginald Swartz , 94, Australian politician, Minister for Civil Aviation from 1966-1969. [19]
Chris Walton , 72, English cricketer. [20]
Stephen Worobetz , 91, Canadian politician, former lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan . [21]
3
Ustad Qawwal Bahauddin , 71 or 72, Indian-Pakistani Qawwali singer.
Walerian Borowczyk , 82, Polish-born surrealist filmmaker [22] , heart failure [23]
Jean Byron , 80, American actress, infection following hip replacement surgery. [24]
Ernie Clements , 83, British road racing cyclist. [25]
Kurt Emmerich , 76, German radio reporter.
Frank Goodman , 89, Broadway press agent. [26] , congestive heart failure.
Lou Jones , 74, American Olympic runner. [27]
Sonny King , 83, American comedian-singer, Jimmy Durante 's sidekick, cancer. [28]
Duma Kumalo , 48, one of the Sharpeville Six , human rights activist, film-maker and founding member of the Khulumani Support Group for victims of apartheid-related violence. [29]
Al Lewis , 82, American actor (Grandpa Munster on The Munsters ), Green Party political candidate, restaurateur, and radio host. [30]
Romano Mussolini , 78, Italian jazz musician and painter, son of Benito Mussolini . [31]
Denne Petitclerc , 76, American journalist, screenwriter, and friend of Ernest Hemingway . [32]
Johnny Vaught , 96, NCAA championship-winning University of Mississippi football coach. [33]
4
George T. Davis , 98, American criminal defense lawyer [34]
Friedrich Engel , 97, German, former Nazi SS officer. [35]
Betty Friedan , 85, American feminist and writer, congestive heart failure. [36] [37]
William Augustus Jones Jr. , 71, American Civil Rights pioneer. [38]
Barbara W. Leyden , 56, American palynologist and paleoecologist.
Joe McGuff , 79, American sportswriter and newspaper editor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease). [39]
Elena Carter Richardson , 55, Mexico-born principal dancer and teacher, cancer.
Myron Waldman , 97, American animator for Betty Boop and Superman cartoons, congestive heart failure. [40]
5
Roland S. Boreham Jr. , 81, American businessman, former CEO of Baldor Electric Co. [41]
Norma Candal , 75, Puerto Rican comedian, actress and drama teacher, head injury. [42]
Franklin Cover , 77, American TV and movie actor, pneumonia. [43]
Reuven Frank , 85, American TV journalism pioneer and former NBC News president, complications from pneumonia. [44]
Peter Philp , 85, British dramatist and antiques expert.
Jack Taylor , 60, one of the heaviest men in Britain, heart attack. [45]
Carl Vogel , 84, German art collector.
6
John Brightman, Baron Brightman , 94, UK lawyer and former Lord of Appeal.
Mario Condello , 53, Australian lawyer and gangland criminal.
Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez , 80, American comedian and actor, cancer. [46]
Stella Ross-Craig , 99, one of the most prodigious of British flora illustrators. [47]
Esther Sandoval , 78, Puerto Rican actress. [48]
Karin Struck , 58, German writer, cancer.
Kouji Totani , 57, Japanese voice actor, heart failure.
7
Glenn Lee Benner II , 43, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [49]
George Millay , 76, American businessman and founder of SeaWorld , lung cancer. [50]
Max Rosenn , 96, American judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1970–2006). [51]
Mitchell Rupe , 51, American convicted murderer ruled too heavy to be hanged, liver disease. [52]
Alan Shalleck , 76, American TV writer, director (Curious George animated films), murdered. [53]
8
Larry Black , 54, American track and field medalist at 1972 Summer Olympics , aneurysm. [54]
Elton Dean , 60, English jazz saxophonist, heart and liver related problems. [55]
Michael Gilbert , 93, British mystery author and lawyer. [56]
Ron Greenwood , 84, British football manager, England national team , West Ham United . [57]
Akira Ifukube , 91, Japanese film composer, best known for Godzilla film series. [58]
Mart Kenney , 95, "Canada's Big Band King," bandleader/musician, complications from a fall.[59]
Gigi Parrish , 92, later known as Katherine Weld, American actress. [60]
Kuljeet Randhawa , 30, Indian television actress, suicide. [61]
9
Phil Brown , 89, American actor, best known for playing "Uncle Owen" Lars in Star Wars . [62]
Ibolya Csák , 91, Hungarian athlete, 1936 Olympic gold medalist in women's high jump. [63]
Gilles Kahn , 59, French computer scientist. [64] (French)
Sir Freddie Laker , 83, British entrepreneur, founder of Laker Airways . [65]
Nadira , 75, Indian Bollywood actress. [66]
Laurie Z , American musician, lung cancer [67]
10
John Belluso , 36, American playwright, Engleman-Camurdrie syndrome . [68]
Jill Fraser , 59, British theatre director, cancer . [69]
Dick Harmon , 58, American golfer and golf instructor. [70]
Knut-Olaf Haustein , 71, German physician.
John Prentice , 79, Scottish football player and manager. [71]
Norman Shumway , 83, American surgeon performed first U.S. heart transplant, lung cancer. [72]
Peter Smith , 65, British trade union leader, oesophageal cancer.
Juan Soriano , 85, Mexican painter and sculptor. [73]
André Strappe , 77, French football player. [74]
James Yancey , aka J Dilla, 32, American hip hop record producer and MC, lupus nephritis. [75]
11
Peter Benchley , 65, American author best known for Jaws , pulmonary fibrosis. [76]
Peggy Cripps Appiah , 84, British-Ghanaian children's author. [77]
Ken Fletcher , 65, Australian tennis player, cancer. [78]
Jackie "Mr. TV" Pallo , 79, British professional wrestler, cancer. [79]
Harry Schein , 81, Austrian-born founder of Swedish Film Institute , author and columnist. [80]
Jockey Shabalala , 62, South African singer with Ladysmith Black Mambazo . [81]
Thomas A. Spragens , 88, figure in American higher education, former President of Centre College . [82]
Harry Vines , 67, American wheelchair basketball coach. [83]
12
Henri Guédon , 61, French percussionist. [84]
Geordie Hormel , 77, American musician and studio owner, heir to the Hormel Foods fortune. [85]
Juan Sánchez-Navarro y Peón , 92, Mexican entrepreneur and co-founder of National Action Party .
Ken Hart , 88, American composer, playwright, US veteran, lobbyist, journalist, World War II [86]
13
John Brooke-Little , 78, English author and officer of arms. [87]
Ilan Halimi , French Jew murdered by a gang from Banlieue . Possibly anti-Semitic murder. [88]
Andreas Katsulas , 59, American actor, lung cancer. [89]
Alan M. Levin , 79, American documentary filmmaker. [90]
Edna Lewis , 89, American author of cookbooks on Southern U.S. cuisine. [91]
Altynbek Sarsenbayev , 43, former Kazakhstan cabinet minister, assassinated. [92]
Sir Peter Strawson , 86, British philosopher. [93]
Joseph Ujlaki , 76, Hungarian-born French football player. [94]
Wang Xuan , 70, Chinese academic and IT expert. [95]
Bettie Wilson , 115, American supercentenarian who was Mississippi's oldest person, complications from congestive heart failure. [96]
14
Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik , 106, Lubavitch storyteller. [97]
Darry Cowl , 80, French actor and pianist, lung cancer. [98]
Shoshana Damari , 83, "Queen of Israeli song," pneumonia. [99]
Joel Dorius , 87, American professor of literature, bone marrow cancer. [100]
Michael G. Fitzgerald , 55, American film historian and author. [101]
Lynden David Hall , 31, British soul singer, Hodgkin's lymphoma. [102]
Benjamin Matthews , 72, American bass-baritone opera singer, co-founder of Opera Ebony . [103]
Tage Møller , 91, Danish Olympic cyclist. [104]
Don Paarlberg , 94, American agricultural economics adviser to three U.S. Presidents. [105]
Robert Taylor Sr. , 89, American businessman, miniature golf pioneer. [106]
Putte Wickman , 81, Swedish jazz orchestra leader and clarinetist, cancer. [107]
15
Barbara Guest , 85, American poet of the New York School [108]
Anna Marly , 88, Russian-born songwriter, France's "Troubadour of the Resistance." [109]
Andrei Petrov , 75, Russian composer. [110]
Robert E. Rich, Sr. , 92, American businessman, creator of first nondairy whipped topping. [111]
Sun Yun-suan , 93, former Premier of Republic of China , heart attack. [112]
Josip Vrhovec , 79, former foreign minister of Yugoslavia .
16
Paul Avrich , 74, American professor and historian of anarchism, Alzheimer's disease. [113]
Benno Besson , 83, Swiss stage director. [114]
Johnny Grunge , 39, American pro wrestler, sleep apnea complications. [115]
Sid Feller , 89, American music arranger, conductor and record producer. [116]
Susie Gibson , 115, American supercentenarian who was Alabama's oldest person, heart failure. [117]
Dennis Kirkland , 63, British television producer and director, after a short illness. [118]
Ernie Stautner , 80, Bavarian-born American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers ) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame , Alzheimer's disease. [119]
17
Ray Barretto , 76, American-born Latin jazz percussionist and bandleader, heart failure. [120]
Sybille Bedford , 94, German-born British novelist and memoirist. [121]
Paul Carr , 72, American TV and movie actor, lung cancer. [122]
Bill Cowsill , 58, American singer, lead of The Cowsills , emphysema and other ailments. [123]
Harold Hunter , 31, American pro skateboarder, in movie Kids , suspected drug overdose. [124]
Bob Lewis , 81, American race horse owner, congestive heart failure. [125]
Jorge Pinto Mendonça , 51, Brazilian football player, heart attack. [126]
Yevgeny Samoilov , 94, Russian actor [127]
18
Richard Bright , 68, American movie and television actor, pedestrian accident. [128]
Bill Hartley , 75, Australian political activist and trade unionist. [129]
Laurel Hester , 49, American gay rights activist, lung cancer. [130]
Charles Leonard , 92, American US Army Major General and Olympic sharpshooter [131]
Tom Sellers , 83, American newspaper reporter and 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner, heart attack. [132]
Ruth Taylor , 44, Canadian poet, alcohol poisoning. [133]
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Lou Gish , 35, British stage, film and television actress, cancer. [138]
Curt Gowdy , 86, American sports broadcaster, leukemia. [139] [140] [141]
Paul Marcinkus , 84, American Catholic archbishop, President of Vatican Bank and Pro-President of Vatican City State . [142]
Lucjan Wolanowski , 86, Polish journalist, writer and traveller. [143]
21
Gennadiy Aygi , 71, Russian author and poet who wrote in the Chuvash language . [144]
Theodore Draper , 93, American historian and political commentator. [145]
Mirko Marjanovic , 68, Serbian politician, Prime Minister of Serbia (1994–2000). [146]
Angelica Rozeanu , 84, Romanian-born table tennis world champion, cirrhosis. [147]
Stefan Terlezki , 78, British Conservative Member of Parliament 1983-1987.[148]
22
Atwar Bahjat , 30, Iraqi journalist for al-Arabiya , abducted and killed in Iraq. [149] [150]
Anthony Burger , 44, American gospel music pianist, collapsed during performance. [151]
Hilde Domin , 96, German poet and writer. [152]
Donelson Hoopes , 73, American curator [153]
Edward Nalbandian , 78, owner of Zachary All Clothing in Los Angeles, Alzheimer's disease. [154]
Flossie Page , 112, American supercentenarian, oldest person from Kansas. [155]
Sinnathamby Rajaratnam , 90, former Second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, heart failure. [156]
John Sullivan , 61, English cricketer. [157]
Bill Tung , 72, Hong Kong actor, horse racing commentator. [158]
Richard Wawro , 52, autistic savant internationally recognized artist, cancer. [159]
23
Giuseppe Amici , 67, former Captain Regent of San Marino
Frederick Busch , 64, American author, heart attack. [160]
Said Mohamed Djohar , 87, former President of Comoros . [161] [162]
Luna Leopold , 90, American ecologist and author [163]
Machteld Mellink , 88, Netherlands-born American archaeologist of sites in Anatolia [164]
Diane Shalet , 71, American actress and author [165]
Reverend Earl Stallings , 89, Baptist pastor praised by Martin Luther King in the Letter from Birmingham Jail [166]
Telmo Zarraonaindía , 85, Spanish football player, heart attack. [167] [168]
24
Octavia Butler , 58, science fiction author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, head injury. [169]
Harold Faragher , 88, English cricketer. [170]
Don Knotts , 81, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show , Three's Company ), complications from aspiration pneumonia and lung cancer. [171]
John Martin , 58, Canadian broadcaster, throat cancer. [172]
Andrew Sherratt , 59, British archaeologist at the University of Sheffield, heart failure. [173]
Denis Twitchett , 80, Gordon Wu Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University (1980–1994), creator of the 15 volume The Cambridge History of China , poor health. [174]
Dennis Weaver , 81, American actor (Gunsmoke , McCloud ), complications from cancer. [175]
25
Robin Coombs , 84, British immunologist, developed Coombs Antibody test [176]
Kenneth Deane , 45, Canadian police officer convicted in Ipperwash shooting, automobile accident. [177]
Thomas Koppel , 61, Danish musician and composer from the band Savage Rose . [178]
Darren McGavin , 83, American actor (Kolchak: The Night Stalker , A Christmas Story ), natural causes. [179]
Henry M. Morris , 87, American young earth creationist leader, complications of stroke. [180]
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin , 69, Poet Laureate of Ethiopia, kidney disease. [181]
Imette St. Guillen , 24, Hispanic John Jay College of Criminal Justice student, murdered.
Charlie Wayman , 83, English footballer, during the 1940s and 1950s, following a long illness [182]
26
Georgina Battiscombe , 100, British author & biographer [183]
Bill Cardoso , 68, American writer and editor, coined the term "gonzo ", heart failure. [184]
Noel Diprose , 83, Australian cricketer. [185]
Sir Hans Singer , 95, German-born British economist, helped create the World Food Program and the United Nations Development Program . [186]
27
Alice Baker , 107, last surviving British woman to serve in the First World War, member of the Royal Flying Corps [187]
Ferenc Bene , 61, Hungarian football player, fall. [188]
Otis Chandler , 78, former publisher of the Los Angeles Times , Lewy body disease .[189]
Fahd Faraj al-Juwair , 36, Saudi Arabian alleged head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula, killed in foiled bombing attempt. [190]
Milton Katims , 96, long-time conductor and leader of the Seattle Symphony . [191]
Tsakani Mhinga , 27, South African R&B singer, drug overdose. [192]
William Musto , 88, former mayor of Union City, New Jersey , convicted of racketeering [193]
Robert Lee Scott, Jr. , 97, retired United States Air Force brigadier general and fighter ace, author (God is My Co-Pilot ). [194]
Linda Smith , 48, British comedian, ovarian cancer. [195]
28
James Ronald "Bunkie" Blackburn , 69, NASCAR driver [196]
Owen Chamberlain , 85, particle physicist, co-discoverer of the antiproton , winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics , complications from Parkinson's Disease.[197]
Travis Claridge , 27, American football player with the Atlanta Falcons , Carolina Panthers and Hamilton Tiger-Cats , pneumonia. [198]
Hugh McCartney , 86, former Labour Party MP. [199]
Ron Cyrus , 70, American politician, lung cancer. [200]