Famous Deaths for Year 2006

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Results 1 - 150 of 612

Jan 1st - Harry Magdoff, American magazine editor (b. 1913)
Jan 1st - Hugh McLaughlin, Irish publisher and inventor (b. 1918)
Jan 1st - Dawn Lake, Australian TV comedienne (b. 1927)
Jan 1st - Bryan Harvey, American musician (House of Freaks) (b. 1956)
Jan 2nd - Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (b. 1913)
Jan 3rd - Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
Jan 3rd - Steve Rogers, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1954)
Jan 4th - Irving Layton, Canadian poet (b. 1912)
Jan 4th - Robert Howard White, Mayor of Papatoetoe, New Zealand (b. 1914)
Jan 4th - Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai (b. 1946)
Jan 5th - Lord Merlyn-Rees, British politician (b. 1920)
Jan 6th - Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933)
Jan 6th - Hugh Thompson, Jr., decorated Vietnam War helicopter pilot (b. 1943)
Jan 7th - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
Jan 8th - Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
Jan 9th - Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
Jan 9th - Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (b. 1937)
Jan 11th - Markus Löffel (Mark Spoon), German DJ (b. 1966)
Jan 11th - Nixzmary Brown, American child abuse victim (b. 1998)
Jan 13th - Frank Fixaris, American sportscaster (b. 1934)
Jan 13th - Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
Jan 14th - Shelly Winters, actress (A Place in the Sun, A Patch of Blue & Poseidon Aventure)
Jan 14th - Henri Colpi, French film editor and director (b. 1921)
Jan 14th - Jim Gary, American sculptor (b. 1939)
Jan 14th - Mark Philo, English footballer (b. 1984)
Jan 15th - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
Jan 16th - Stanley Biber, American physician, pioneer of transgender surgery, (b. 1923)
Jan 17th - Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (b. 1930)
Jan 17th - Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (b. 1925)
Jan 18th - Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)
Jan 19th - Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
Jan 19th - Aoun Al-Sharif Qasim, Sudanese writer and Islamic scholar (b. 1933)
Jan 19th - Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1921)
Jan 19th - Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
Jan 21st - Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
Jan 21st - Bedanand Jha, Nepalese politician
Jan 23rd - Chris McKinstry, Canadian scientist (b. 1967)
Jan 24th - Fayard Nicholas, American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers (b. 1914)
Jan 24th - Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician
Jan 24th - Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
Jan 25th - Anna Malle, adult film star (b. 1967)
Jan 26th - Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Pakistani opposition leader and Pashtun nationalist (b. 1917)
Jan 26th - Len Carlson, Canadian actor (b. 1937)
Jan 26th - Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (b. 1920)
Jan 27th - Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931)
Jan 27th - Gene McFadden, American singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
Jan 27th - Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (disappeared) (b. 1965)
Jan 28th - Yitzchak Kaduri, rabbi (b. around 1900)
Jan 28th - Henry McGee, English comedian (b. 1929)
Jan 30th - Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
Jan 31st - Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (The Red Shoes) and ballerina (b. 1926)
Feb 1st - Dick Bass, American football player (b. 1937)
Feb 1st - Bryce Harland, New Zealand diplomat (b. 1931)
Feb 3rd - Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)
Feb 4th - Betty Friedan, American feminist (b. 1921)
Feb 4th - Myron Waldman, American animator (b. 1908)
Feb 5th - Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress and comedian (b. 1930)
Feb 5th - Franklin Cover, American actor (b. 1928)
Feb 7th - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (b. 1914)
Feb 8th - Elton Dean, English musician (Soft Machine) (b. 1945)
Feb 8th - Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
Feb 9th - Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)
Feb 9th - Nadira, Indian actress (b. 1932)
Feb 10th - J Dilla, American rapper/producer (b. 1974)
Feb 10th - Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (b. 1947)
Feb 11th - Jockey Shabalala, South African singer (b. 1943)
Feb 11th - Peter Benchley, American author (b. 1940)
Feb 11th - Jackie Pallo, wrestler (b. 1926)
Feb 13th - Andreas Katsulas, Greek-American actor (b. 1946)
Feb 13th - Peter Frederick Strawson, British philosopher (b. 1919)
Feb 14th - Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
Feb 14th - Lynden David Hall, British singer (b. 1974)
Feb 14th - Darry Cowl, French musician and actor (b. 1925)
Feb 16th - Johnny Grunge, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
Feb 16th - Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (b. 1925)
Feb 17th - Ray Barretto, Puerto Rican musician (b. 1929)
Feb 17th - Bill Cowsill, American singer (The Cowsills) (b. 1948)
Feb 18th - Richard Bright, American actor (b. 1937)
Feb 20th - Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (b. 1919)
Feb 20th - Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (b. 1920)
Feb 22nd - Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (b. 1961)
Feb 23rd - Benno Besson, Swiss actor and film director (b. 1922)
Feb 23rd - Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (b. 1921)
Feb 24th - Octavia Butler, American author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow (b. 1947)
Feb 24th - Don Knotts, American actor (b. 1924)
Feb 24th - John Martin, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1947)
Feb 24th - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (b. 1925)
Feb 24th - Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924)
Feb 25th - Darren McGavin, American actor (b. 1922)
Feb 25th - Charlie Wayman, English footballer (b. 1922)
Feb 27th - Otis Chandler, American newspaper publisher (b. 1927)
Feb 27th - Robert Lee Scott, Jr., U.S. General, Flying Tiger, and author (b. 1908)
Feb 27th - Linda Smith, British comedian (b. 1958)
Feb 28th - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)
Mar 1st - Harry Browne, American politician and author (b. 1933)
Mar 1st - Johnny Jackson, American musician (b. 1951)
Mar 1st - Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
Mar 2nd - Milton Katims, American violist and conductor (b. 1909)
Mar 2nd - Jack Wild, British actor (b. 1952)
Mar 3rd - Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (b. 1923)
Mar 3rd - William Herskovic, Holocaust hero and philanthropist (b. 1914)
Mar 4th - John Reynolds Gardiner, American engineer (b. 1944)
Mar 4th - Dave Rose, American artist (b. 1910)
Mar 4th - Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator/cartoonist (b. 1929)
Mar 4th - Roman Ogaza, Polish footballer (b. 1952)
Mar 5th - Richard Kuklinski, American Mafia hit man (b. 1935)
Mar 6th - Anne Braden, American civil rights activist (b. 1924)
Mar 6th - King Floyd, American musician (b. 1945)
Mar 6th - Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (b. 1960)
Mar 6th - Dana Reeve, American actress, wife of Christopher Reeve (b. 1961)
Mar 7th - Ali Farka Touré, Malian musician (b. 1939)
Mar 7th - Gordon Parks, photographer (b. 1912)
Mar 7th - John Junkin, British performer (b. 1930)
Mar 8th - Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand heart surgeon (b. 1924)
Mar 9th - John Profumo, British cabinet minister (b. 1915)
Mar 9th - Geir Ivarsøy, Norwegian programmer, co-founder of Opera Software ASA (b. 1957)
Mar 10th - Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)
Mar 11th - Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
Mar 11th - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (b. 1941)
Mar 12th - Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident journalist and priest (b. 1947)
Mar 13th - Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
Mar 13th - Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget (b. 1921)
Mar 13th - Peter Tomarken, American game show host (Press Your Luck) (b. 1942)
Mar 13th - Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
Mar 14th - Ann Calvello, Roller Derby Queen (b. 1929)
Mar 14th - Lennart Meri, former president of Estonia (b. 1929)
Mar 15th - George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
Mar 15th - Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee (b. 1918)
Mar 16th - David Feintuch, American sci-fi author (b. 1944)
Mar 17th - Bob Blue, American singer/songwriter (b. 1948)
Mar 17th - Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (b. 1913)
Mar 17th - Ray Meyer, American basketball coach (b. 1913)
Mar 17th - Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (b. 1955)
Mar 18th - Bill Beutel, American journalist (b. 1930)
Mar 18th - Michael Attwell, British actor (b. 1943)
Mar 18th - Dan Gibson, musician (b. 1922)
Mar 22nd - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (b. 1921)
Mar 22nd - Kurt von Trojan, Australian science fiction author (b. 1937)
Mar 23rd - David B. Bleak, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
Mar 23rd - Desmond Doss, American soldier and first conscientious objector Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1919)
Mar 23rd - Cindy Walker, American singer, songwriter and dancer (b. 1918)
Mar 24th - Lynne Perrie, English actress (b. 1931)
Mar 25th - Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
Mar 25th - Richard Fleischer, American film director (b. 1916)
Mar 25th - Buck Owens, American singer and television personality (b. 1929)
Mar 26th - Anil Biswas, Indian politician (b. 1944)
Mar 26th - Paul Dana, American race car driver (b. 1975)
Mar 26th - Nikki Sudden, British singer/songwriter (b. 1956)
Mar 27th - Dan Curtis, American television producer and director (b. 1928)
Mar 27th - Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b. 1925)


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