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Deaths in February 2006

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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2006.

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  • Roy Alon, 63, British film stuntman, heart attack.
  • Dick Bass, 68, American pro football player and radio analyst.
  • Dick Brooks, 63, American NASCAR race car driver and radio broadcaster, heart attack.
  • Ronald B. Cameron, 78, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1963–1967).
  • Robin Donkin, 78, British historian and geographer.
  • Ernest Dudley, 97, British novelist, journalist, screenwriter, actor, radio broadcaster.
  • Carlson Gracie, Sr., 72, Brazilian martial artist, complications from kidney stones.
  • Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr., 86, American politician, governor of Arizona 1965-1967.
  • Jean-Philippe Maitre, 56, Swiss politician, former President of the Swiss National Council, brain tumor.
  • John Woollam, 78, British politician, former Conservative Member of Parliament. (Who's Who 2007)

    • 2

  • Armando Castillo, 73, Guatemalan Olympic cyclist.
  • Jill Chaifetz, 41, American lawyer and executive director of the nonprofit legal group Advocates for Children of New York, ovarian cancer.
  • Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury, 77, Bangladesh politician, former prime minister of Bangladesh.
  • Chris Doty, 39, Canadian documentarian and playwright, suicide.
  • Guglielmo Letteri, 80, Italian comic book artist.
  • Pat Rupp, 63, American ice hockey player, goaltender for the 1964 and 1968 Olympic ice hockey teams, cancer.
  • S. K. Ramachandra Rao, 78, Indian scholar.
  • Athol Shephard, 85, Australian cricketer.
  • Nicholas Swarbrick, 107, English merchant sailor, last remaining of World War I.
  • Sir Reginald Swartz, 94, Australian politician, Minister for Civil Aviation from 1966-1969.
  • Chris Walton, 72, English cricketer.
  • Stephen Worobetz, 91, Canadian politician, former lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan.

    • 3

  • Ustad Qawwal Bahauddin, 72, Indian-Pakistani Qawwali singer.
  • Walerian Borowczyk, 82, Polish-born surrealist filmmaker, heart failure
  • Jean Byron, 80, American actress, infection following hip replacement surgery.
  • Ernie Clements, 83, British road racing cyclist.
  • Kurt Emmerich, 76, German radio reporter.
  • Frank Goodman, 89, American Broadway press agent., congestive heart failure.
  • Lou Jones, 74, American Olympic runner.
  • Sonny King, 83, American comedian-singer, Jimmy Durante's sidekick, cancer.
  • Duma Kumalo, 48, South African human rights activist, one of the Sharpeville Six, film-maker and founding member of the Khulumani Support Group for victims of apartheid-related violence.
  • Al Lewis, 82, American actor (Grandpa Munster on The Munsters), Green Party political candidate, restaurateur, and radio host.
  • Romano Mussolini, 78, Italian jazz musician and painter, son of Benito Mussolini.
  • Denne Petitclerc, 76, American journalist, screenwriter, and friend of Ernest Hemingway.
  • Johnny Vaught, 96, American college football player, coach, and college athletics administrator, NCAA championship-winning University of Mississippi football coach.

    • 4

  • Friedrich Engel, 97, German Nazi SS officer.
  • Betty Friedan, 85, American feminist and writer, congestive heart failure.
  • William Augustus Jones Jr., 71, American Civil Rights pioneer.
  • Barbara W. Leyden, 56, American palynologist and paleoecologist.
  • Joe McGuff, 79, American sportswriter and newspaper editor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease).
  • Elena Carter Richardson, 57, Mexican-born principal dancer and teacher, cancer.
  • Myron Waldman, 97, American animator for Betty Boop and Superman cartoons, congestive heart failure.

    • 5

  • Roland S. Boreham Jr., 81, American businessman, former CEO of Baldor Electric Co.
  • Norma Candal, 75, Puerto Rican comedian, actress and drama teacher, head injury.
  • Franklin Cover, 77, American TV and movie actor, pneumonia.
  • Reuven Frank, 85, American TV journalism pioneer and former NBC News president, complications from pneumonia.
  • Peter Philp, 85, British dramatist and antiques expert.
  • Jack Taylor, 60, British fat man, one of the heaviest men in Britain, heart attack.
  • 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.
  • Stella Ross-Craig, 99, English illustrator, one of the most prodigious of flora illustrators.
  • Esther Sandoval, 78, Puerto Rican actress.
  • 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.
  • George Millay, 76, American businessman and founder of SeaWorld, lung cancer.
  • Max Rosenn, 96, American judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1970–2006).
  • Mitchell Rupe, 51, American convicted murderer ruled too heavy to be hanged, liver disease.
  • Alan Shalleck, 76, American TV writer, director (Curious George animated films), murdered.

    • 8

  • Larry Black, 54, American track and field medalist at 1972 Summer Olympics, aneurysm.
  • Elton Dean, 60, English jazz saxophonist, heart and liver related problems.
  • Michael Gilbert, 93, British mystery author and lawyer.
  • Ron Greenwood, 84, British football manager, England national team, West Ham United.
  • Akira Ifukube, 91, Japanese film composer, best known for Godzilla film series.
  • Mart Kenney, 95, Canadian jazz musician and bandleader, "Canada's Big Band King," complications from a fall.
  • Gigi Parrish, 92, American actress, later known as Katherine Weld.
  • Kuljeet Randhawa, 30, Indian television actress, suicide.

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  • Phil Brown, 89, American actor, best known for playing "Uncle Owen" Lars in Star Wars.
  • Ibolya Csák, 91, Hungarian athlete, 1936 Olympic gold medalist in women's high jump.
  • Gilles Kahn, 59, French computer scientist. (French)
  • Sir Freddie Laker, 83, British entrepreneur, founder of Laker Airways.
  • Nadira, 75, Indian Bollywood actress.
  • Laurie Z, American musician, lung cancer

    • 10

  • John Belluso, 36, American playwright, Engleman-Camurdrie syndrome.
  • Jill Fraser, 59, British theatre director, cancer.
  • Dick Harmon, 58, American golfer and golf instructor.
  • Knut-Olaf Haustein, 71, German physician.
  • John Prentice, 79, Scottish football player and manager.
  • Norman Shumway, 83, American surgeon performed first U.S. heart transplant, lung cancer.
  • Peter Smith, 65, British trade union leader, oesophageal cancer.
  • Juan Soriano, 85, Mexican painter and sculptor.
  • André Strappe, 77, French football player.
  • James Yancey aka J Dilla, 32, American hip hop record producer and MC, lupus nephritis.

    • 11

  • Peter Benchley, 65, American author best known for Jaws, pulmonary fibrosis.
  • Peggy Cripps Appiah, 84, British-Ghanaian children's author.
  • Ken Fletcher, 65, Australian tennis player, cancer.
  • Jackie "Mr. TV" Pallo, 79, British professional wrestler, cancer.
  • Harry Schein, 81, Austrian-born founder of Swedish Film Institute, author and columnist.
  • Jockey Shabalala, 62, South African singer with Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
  • Thomas A. Spragens, 88, American educator, former President of Centre College.
  • Harry Vines, 67, American wheelchair basketball coach.

    • 12

  • Henri Guédon, 61, French percussionist.
  • Geordie Hormel, 77, American musician and studio owner, heir to the Hormel Foods fortune.
  • 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

    • 13

  • John Brooke-Little, 78, English author and officer of arms.
  • Ilan Halimi, French Jew murdered by a gang from Banlieue. Possibly anti-Semitic murder.
  • Andreas Katsulas, 59, American actor, lung cancer.
  • Alan M. Levin, 79, American documentary filmmaker.
  • Edna Lewis, 89, American author of cookbooks on Southern U.S. cuisine.
  • Altynbek Sarsenbayev, 43, Kazakh politician, former cabinet minister, assassinated.
  • Sir Peter Strawson, 86, British philosopher.
  • Joseph Ujlaki, 76, Hungarian-born French football player.
  • Wang Xuan, 70, Chinese academic and IT expert.
  • Bettie Wilson, 115, American supercentenarian who was Mississippi's oldest person, complications from congestive heart failure.

    • 14

  • Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik, 106, Russian-born Lubavitch storyteller.
  • Darry Cowl, 80, French actor and pianist, lung cancer.
  • Shoshana Damari, 83, Yemeni-born Israeli singer, "Queen of Israeli song," pneumonia.
  • Joel Dorius, 87, American professor of literature, bone marrow cancer.
  • Michael G. Fitzgerald, 55, American film historian and author.
  • Lynden David Hall, 31, British soul singer, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
  • Benjamin Matthews, 72, American bass-baritone opera singer, co-founder of Opera Ebony.
  • Tage Møller, 91, Danish Olympic cyclist.
  • Don Paarlberg, 94, American agricultural economics adviser to three U.S. Presidents.
  • Robert Taylor Sr., 89, American businessman, miniature golf pioneer.
  • Putte Wickman, 81, Swedish jazz orchestra leader and clarinetist, cancer.

    • 15

  • Barbara Guest, 85, American poet of the New York School
  • Anna Marly, 88, Russian-born songwriter, France's "Troubadour of the Resistance."
  • Andrei Petrov, 75, Russian composer.
  • Robert E. Rich, Sr., 92, American businessman, creator of first nondairy whipped topping.
  • Sun Yun-suan, 93, Chinese engineer and politician, former Premier of Republic of China, heart attack.
  • Josip Vrhovec, 79, Croatian Yugoslav communist politician, former foreign minister of Yugoslavia.

    • 16

  • Paul Avrich, 74, American professor and historian of anarchism, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Benno Besson, 83, Swiss stage director.
  • Johnny Grunge, 39, American pro wrestler, sleep apnea complications.
  • Sid Feller, 89, American music arranger, conductor and record producer.
  • Susie Gibson, 115, American supercentenarian who was Alabama's oldest person, heart failure.
  • Dennis Kirkland, 63, British television producer and director, after a short illness.
  • Ernie Stautner, 80, German-born American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Alzheimer's disease.

    • 17

  • Ray Barretto, 76, American-born Latin jazz percussionist and bandleader, heart failure.
  • Sybille Bedford, 94, German-born British novelist and memoirist.
  • Paul Carr, 72, American TV and movie actor, lung cancer.
  • Bill Cowsill, 58, American singer, lead of The Cowsills, emphysema and other ailments.
  • Harold Hunter, 31, American pro skateboarder, in movie Kids, suspected drug overdose.
  • Bob Lewis, 81, American race horse owner, congestive heart failure.
  • Jorge Pinto Mendonça, 51, Brazilian football player, heart attack.
  • Yevgeny Samoilov, 94, Russian actor

    • 18

  • Richard Bright, 68, American movie and television actor, pedestrian accident.
  • Bill Hartley, 75, Australian political activist and trade unionist.
  • Laurel Hester, 49, American gay rights activist, lung cancer.
  • Charles Leonard, 92, American US Army Major General and Olympic sharpshooter
  • Tom Sellers, 83, American newspaper reporter and 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner, heart attack.
  • Ruth Taylor, 44, Canadian poet, alcohol poisoning.
  • Saulius Mykolaitis, 40, Lithuanian director, actor, and singer-songwriter.

    • 19

  • Angelo Brignole, 81, Italian cyclist.
  • Ken Keuffel, 82, American college football coach, prostate cancer.
  • Erna Lazarus, 102, American screenwriter.
  • Edward H. McNamara, 79, American county official.

    • 20

  • Lou Gish, 35, British stage, film and television actress, cancer.
  • Curt Gowdy, 86, American sports broadcaster, leukemia.[68]
  • Paul Marcinkus, 84, American Catholic archbishop, President of Vatican Bank and Pro-President of Vatican City State.
  • Lucjan Wolanowski, 86, Polish journalist, writer and traveller.

    • 21

  • Gennadiy Aygi, 71, Russian author and poet who wrote in the Chuvash language.
  • Theodore Draper, 93, American historian and political commentator.
  • Mirko Marjanovic, 68, Serbian politician, Prime Minister of Serbia (1994–2000).
  • Angelica Rozeanu, 84, Romanian-born table tennis world champion, cirrhosis.
  • Stefan Terlezki, 78, British Conservative Member of Parliament 1983-1987.

    • 22

  • Atwar Bahjat, 30, Iraqi journalist for al-Arabiya, abducted and killed in Iraq.
  • Anthony Burger, 44, American gospel music pianist, collapsed during performance.
  • Hilde Domin, 96, German poet and writer.
  • Donelson Hoopes, 73, American curator
  • Edward Nalbandian, 78, American businessman, owner of Zachary All Clothing in Los Angeles, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Flossie Page, 112, American supercentenarian, oldest person from Kansas.
  • Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, 90, Singaporean politician, former Second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, heart failure.
  • John Sullivan, 61, English cricketer.
  • Bill Tung, 72, Hong Kong actor, horse racing commentator.
  • Richard Wawro, 52, Scottish autistic savant internationally recognized artist, cancer.

    • 23

  • Giuseppe Amici, 67, Sammarinese politician, former Captain Regent of San Marino
  • Frederick Busch, 64, American author, heart attack.
  • Said Mohamed Djohar, 87, Comorian politician, former President of Comoros.[69]
  • Luna Leopold, 90, American ecologist and author
  • Machteld Mellink, 88, Netherlands-born American archaeologist of sites in Anatolia
  • Diane Shalet, 71, American actress and author
  • Reverend Earl Stallings, 89, American Baptist minister and activist, praised by Martin Luther King in the Letter from Birmingham Jail
  • Telmo Zarraonaindía, 85, Spanish football player, heart attack.[70]

    • 24

  • Octavia Butler, 58, American science fiction author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, head injury.
  • Harold Faragher, 88, English cricketer.
  • Don Knotts, 81, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Three's Company), complications from aspiration pneumonia and lung cancer.
  • John Martin, 58, Canadian broadcaster, throat cancer.
  • Andrew Sherratt, 59, British archaeologist at the University of Sheffield, heart failure.
  • Denis Twitchett, 80, British Sinologist and scholar, Gordon Wu Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University (1980–1994), creator of the 15 volume The Cambridge History of China, poor health.
  • Dennis Weaver, 81, American actor (Gunsmoke, McCloud), complications from cancer.

    • 25

  • Kenneth Deane, 45, Canadian police officer convicted in Ipperwash shooting, automobile accident.
  • Thomas Koppel, 61, Danish musician and composer from the band Savage Rose.
  • Darren McGavin, 83, American actor (Kolchak: The Night Stalker, A Christmas Story), natural causes.
  • Henry M. Morris, 87, American young earth creationist leader, complications of stroke.
  • Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, 69, Ethiopian Poet Laureate, kidney disease.
  • Imette St. Guillen, 24, American Hispanic John Jay College of Criminal Justice student, murdered.
  • Charlie Wayman, 83, English footballer, during the 1940s and 1950s, following a long illness

    • 26

  • Georgina Battiscombe, 100, British author & biographer
  • Bill Cardoso, 68, American writer and editor, coined the term "gonzo", heart failure.
  • Noel Diprose, 83, Australian cricketer.
  • Sir Hans Singer, 95, German-born British economist, helped create the World Food Program and the United Nations Development Program.

    • 27

  • Alice Baker, 107, British World War I service veteran, last surviving British woman to serve in the First World War, member of the Royal Flying Corps
  • Ferenc Bene, 61, Hungarian football player, fall.
  • Otis Chandler, 78, American former publisher of the Los Angeles Times, Lewy body disease.
  • Fahd Faraj al-Juwair, 36, Saudi Arabian alleged head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula, killed in foiled bombing attempt.
  • Milton Katims, 96, American violist and conductor, long-time conductor and leader of the Seattle Symphony.
  • Tsakani Mhinga, 27, South African R&B singer, drug overdose.
  • William Musto, 88, American politician, former mayor of Union City, New Jersey, convicted of racketeering
  • Robert Lee Scott, Jr., 97, American general officer, retired United States Air Force brigadier general and fighter ace, author (God is My Co-Pilot).
  • Linda Smith, 48, British comedian, ovarian cancer.

    • 28

  • James Ronald "Bunkie" Blackburn, 69, American NASCAR driver
  • Owen Chamberlain, 85, American particle physicist, co-discoverer of the antiproton, winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics, complications from Parkinson's Disease.
  • Travis Claridge, 27, American football player with the Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers and Hamilton Tiger-Cats, pneumonia.
  • Hugh McCartney, 86, Scottish politician, former Labour Party MP.
  • Ron Cyrus, 70, American politician, lung cancer.
  • Peter Snow, c. 70, New Zealand doctor who discovered "Tapanui flu" (chronic fatigue syndrome).

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    Deaths in February 2006 Wikipedia
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