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Deaths in July 2006

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

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  • Umberto Abronzino, 85, Italian-born American member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator.
  • Michael Barton, 91, English Surrey cricketer and president.
  • Edwin Broderick, 89, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, NY, USA, and director of Catholic Relief Services.
  • Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer.
  • Irving Green, 90, American record industry executive, co-founder of Mercury Records.
  • Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan (1996–1998).
  • Jabron Hashmi, 24, British soldier, first British Muslim to die in "War on Terror."
  • Rabbi Louis Jacobs, 85, British founder of Masorti movement.
  • Yousuf Khan, 70, Indian footballer, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack.
  • Robert Lepikson, 54, Estonian businessman and politician.
  • Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker.
  • Padmakar Pandit, 71, Indian cricket umpire.
  • Dr. Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author.
  • Fred Trueman, 75, English and Yorkshire cricketer, lung cancer.
  • Robbie "Rocket" Watts, 47, Australian guitarist for the Cosmic Psychos.

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  • Maurice Fox-Strangways, 9th Earl of Ilchester, 86, British peer and engineer, member House of Lords and RAF Group Captain.
  • Balázs Horváth, 64, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer
  • Herty Lewites, 65, Nicaraguan presidential candidate.
  • Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian
  • Tihomir Ognjanov, 79, Serbian footballer for Yugoslavia, played in the 1950 FIFA World Cup
  • Joan Quennell, 82, British Conservative MP for Petersfield 1960–1974.
  • Anatole Shub, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pneumonia and a stroke.
  • Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, American painter.

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  • Mark Aubrey Tennyson, 5th Baron Tennyson, 86, British aristocrat, great-grandson of poet Lord Tennyson.
  • Francis Cammaerts, 90, British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent, led 30,000 French Resistance fighters.
  • Dick Dickey, 79, American basketball player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University.
  • Joseph Goguen, 65, American computer scientist from UCSD.
  • Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (As the World Turns), suicide by gunshot.
  • Wilbert Hopper, 73, Canadian businessman, president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada.
  • Gwyn Jones, 89, Welsh physicist and public servant.
  • Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, breast cancer.
  • Lars Korvald, 90, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway.
  • Sir Carol Mather, 87, British Conservative MP.
  • Nimrod Ping, 58, British politician, Brighton city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis C.
  • Jack Smith, 92, American musician and host of You Asked for It, leukemia.
  • Joe Weaver, 71, American musician, leader of the Blue Note Orchestra and musician on early Tamla sessions, stroke.

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  • John Hinde, 94, Australian film reviewer and journalist.
  • Norbert Kerckhove, 73, Belgian cyclist.
  • Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American world champion bridge player and author, complications of Parkinson's Disease.

    • 5

  • Barbara Albright, 51, American author of food and knitting books, brain tumor.
  • Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer.
  • Lewis Glucksman, 80, American head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers.
  • Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business.
  • Kenneth Lay, 64, American businessman, CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack.
  • Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader.
  • Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic who worked for Rolling Stone and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records.
  • Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress.
  • Prince Sione ʻUluvalu Ngū Takeivūlai Tukuʻaho, 56, Tongan Tuʻi Pelehake, car crash in Menlo Park, California.
  • Princess Kaimana, 46, Tongan Princess, car crash in Menlo Park, California, along with Prince Tukuʻaho.

    • 6

  • Juan de Ávalos, 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack.
  • Ralph Ginzburg, 76, U.S. publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma,
  • Al Hodge, 55, English Cornish rock guitarist and songwriter, cancer.
  • John Manos, 83, U.S. and Ohio judge for 43 years.
  • Juan Pablo Rebella, 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide. (Spanish)
  • Kasey Rogers, 80, American actress (Bewitched) and motocross racer, stroke.
  • E.S. Turner, 96, English historian and journalist.
  • Tom Weir, 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster.

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  • Luis Barragan, 34, American businessman and philanthropist, president of 1-800-Mattress, drowned.
  • Syd Barrett, 60, English musician, founding member of Pink Floyd, diabetes.
  • Rudi Carrell, 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancer
  • Dorothea Church, 83, African-American model, first successful black model in Paris.
  • John Warner Fitzgerald, 81, American lawyer, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.
  • Elias Hrawi, 79, Lebanese politician, President of Lebanon (1989–98), cancer.
  • Dina Kaminskaya, 87, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents.
  • Eugene Kurtz, 82, American composer.
  • John Money, 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Parkinson's disease.
  • Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, 53, Irish musician with the Bothy Band.
  • Robert Payne, 62, American University of Iowa administrator, lung cancer,
  • Eric Schopler, 79, German-born American psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer.
  • Frank P. Zeidler, 93, American politician, Mayor of Milwaukee (1948–1960) and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city, died in his sleep.

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  • George Albee, 84, American psychologist and former head of the American Psychological Association, argued that social problems contributed to mental illness.
  • June Allyson, 88, American actress, dancer and singer, pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a long illness.
  • Michael Barrett, 79, Irish politician.
  • Eric Bedford, 78, Australian politician, member of the Wran Government ministry 1976-1985 in New South Wales.
  • Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, 91, Australian industrialist and patron of the arts, founder of Transfield Holdings, Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, died after a fall.
  • David Bright, 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrest stemming from decompression sickness.
  • Ana María Campoy, 80, Argentine actress, pneumonia.
  • Peter Hawkins, 82, British actor and voice artist - voice of the Flower Pot Men, Captain Pugwash and the Daleks.
  • Catherine Leroy, 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam War in Life, lung cancer.
  • Raja Rao, 97, Indian novelist (Kanthapura).
  • Jesse Simons, 88, American labor arbitrator, heart failure.
  • Dorothy Uhnak, 76, American policewoman turned novelist.

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  • Chris Drake, 82, American actor.
  • Fred Epstein, 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumors, melanoma.
  • Abdel Moneim Madbouly, 84, Egyptian comedian and playwright, congestive heart failure.
  • Alan Senitt, 27, British political activist, stabbed to death.
  • George Hopkins Williams II, 91, American aviation historian.
  • Milan Williams, 58, American keyboardist, founding member of R&B/funk band the Commodores, cancer.
  • Michael Zinzun, 57, American ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist, died in his sleep.

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  • Shamil Basayev, 41, Chechen rebel leader, terrorist, explosion.
  • Tommy Bruce, 68, British singer ("Ain't Misbehavin'").
  • Robert Fumerton, 93, Canadian night fighter ace top-scorer of World War II.
  • Raymond Furnell, 71, British Dean of York from 1994–2003, responsible for introducing charges to visitors at York Minster, cancer
  • Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi, 89, Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist who published 50 books.
  • Ali Taziyev, Chechen militant.
  • Fred Wander, 89, Austrian author and Holocaust survivor.

    • 11

  • Kathy Augustine, 50, American politician, State Controller of Nevada who was first Nevada state official to be impeached in office, death currently under investigation.
  • Phyllis Baker, 69, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League). [92]
  • John Coletta, 74, English music manager and music producer, former manager of Deep Purple and Whitesnake, due to unspecified illness.
  • Neil Coulbeck, 54, British Royal Bank of Scotland executive questioned over Enron collapse, unexplained.
  • Gerald Gidwitz, 99, American cosmetics executive, co-founder of Helene Curtis, congestive heart failure.
  • Barnard Hughes, 90, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor (Doc Hollywood, First Monday in October).
  • Fortunato Libanori, 72, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
  • Bill Miller, 91, American pianist for Frank Sinatra, heart attack.
  • Derrick O'Brien, 31, American executed for the rape and murder of two teenage girls in Texas.
  • Bronwyn Oliver, 47, Australian sculptor, suicide.
  • Ruth Schönthal, 82, German-born classical pianist and composer.
  • John Spencer, 71, British former world champion snooker player, stomach cancer.
  • Philippe Takla, 91, Lebanese politician, lawyer and diplomat, foreign minister of Lebanon.
  • Wiarton Willie, 8, Canadian Groundhog Day prognosticator, following a long illness

    • 12

  • Rocky Barton, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio.
  • Kurt Kreuger, 89, Swiss-German actor (Sahara, The Enemy Below), stroke.
  • Hubert Lampo, 85, Belgian writer.
  • Loredana Nusciak, 64, Italian actress (Django, Ten Thousand Dollars for a Massacre) and model.

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  • Red Buttons, 87, American comedian, vascular disease.
  • Pamela Cooper, 95, British refugee activist known for her work with the Palestinians.
  • Jürgen Kiessling, 65, German FIFA World Cup 2006 official in Berlin, suicide.
  • John Lyttelton, 11th Viscount Cobham, 63, British aristocrat.
  • Ángel Suquía Goicoechea, 89, Spanish Metropolitan-Archbishop of Madrid.
  • Tomasz Zaliwski, 75, Polish actor.

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  • Anthony Cave Brown, 77, English historian of espionage.
  • Tom Frame, British comic book letterer, cancer.
  • Heinrich Heidersberger, 100, German photographer
  • William Lash III, 45, American assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce and professor at George Mason University, suicide after killing his 12-year-old autistic son.
  • Christophe Mérieux, 39, French head of research at BioMérieux and intended successor to Alain Mérieux as Chief Executive, heart attack.
  • Carrie Nye, 69, American actress, lung cancer.
  • Len Teeuws, 79, American offensive and definsive lineman for the Los Angeles Rams and the Chicago Cardinals.
  • Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, 43, Polish International Grandmaster of chess, perforated intestine, and massive bleeding.

    • 15

  • Robert H. Brooks, 69, American chairman of Hooters of America, natural causes.
  • John Joseph Fitzpatrick, 87, Canadian Bishop of Brownsville for 20 years.
  • Howdy Groskloss, 100, American professional baseball player, oldest major league baseball player.
  • Kenneth Lochhead, 80, Canadian artist who was a member of the Regina Five, colorectal cancer.
  • Dr. James Nicholas, 85, American orthopedic surgeon and physician for three NFL teams.
  • István Pálfi, 39, Hungarian Member of the European Parliament, long illness.
  • Rupert Pole, 87, American actor, forest ranger, and co-husband of bigamist Anaïs Nin.
  • Francis Rose, 84, British botanist.
  • Andrée Ruellan, 101, American painter.
  • Andrew Sudduth, 44, American rower who won an Olympic silver medal, pancreatic cancer.

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  • Walter Binaghi, 87, Argentine ICAO Council President.
  • Dr. Keith DeVries, 69, American archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania, excavated Gordion.
  • Kevin Hughes, 53, British Labour MP for Doncaster North, motor neurone disease.
  • Bob Orton, Sr., 76, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
  • Destiny Norton, 5, American child, kidnapped and murdered
  • Ossi Reichert, 80, German alpine skier, Olympic Champion 1956.
  • Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 57, American billionaire and Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas since 1996, myeloproliferative disorder.
  • Malachi Thompson, 56, American jazz trumpeter, lymphoma.

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  • Galen Fiss, 75, American Cleveland Browns linebacker.
  • Keith LeClair, 40, U.S. college baseball coach, Lou Gehrig's Disease
  • Robert Mardian, 82, American Republican party official, attorney for Richard Nixon, figure in the Watergate scandal, lung cancer.
  • Sam Myers, 70, American blues musician, who won 9 W.C. Handy awards with his band the Rockets, throat cancer.
  • Mickey Spillane, 88, American author, creator of Mike Hammer detective fiction, pancreatic cancer.
  • Reg Turnbull, 98, Australian politician.

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  • Raul Cortez, 73, Brazilian actor, pancreatic cancer. (Portuguese)
  • Henry Hewes, 89, American Saturday Review theater critic and editor of Best Plays (1960–1964).
  • Jimmy Leadbetter, 78, Scottish Ipswich Town footballer.
  • David Maloney, 72, British television director and producer for Doctor Who and Blake's 7.
  • V.P. Sathyan, 41, Indian football player, captain of the Indian national football team, apparent suicide.
  • Michael T. Shelby, 48, American attorney, gunshot wound.

    • 19

  • Sam Neely, 58, American singer-songwriter, collapsed while mowing his lawn.
  • Jack Warden, 85, American actor Emmy Award-winning (Heaven Can Wait, While You Were Sleeping), heart and kidney failure.
  • George Wetherill, 80, American astrophysicist, winner of the National Medal of Science.
  • Tudi Wiggins, 70, Canada-born soap opera actor, cancer.

    • 20

  • Ugo Attardi, 83, Italian painter, sculptor and writer. (Italian)
  • Charles Bettelheim, 92, French Marxist economist and historian. (German)
  • Robert Cornthwaite, 89, American character actor (Thing From Another World).
  • Paddy Dunne, 77, Irish politician, Lord Mayor of Dublin (1975–1976) and senator.
  • Ted Grant, 93, South African-British Trotskyist politician.
  • Brandon Hedrick, 27, American convicted murderer and rapist, execution by electric chair in Virginia.
  • Lim Kim San, 89, Singaporean politician, cabinet minister of Singapore.
  • Frank Nabarro, 90, English-born South African physicist who was a pioneer of solid state physics.
  • Harry Olivieri, 90, American restaurateur, co-inventor of the Philly cheesesteak and co-founder of Pat's King of Steaks cheesesteak emporium.
  • Gérard Oury, 87, French actor, screenwriter and film director.

    • 21

  • Mako, 72, Japanese-American film, television, and Broadway actor; esophageal cancer.
  • Ta Mok, 80, Cambodian military chief, Khmer Rouge commander, known as "The Butcher."
  • J. Madison Wright Morris, 21, American child actress, heart attack.
  • Alexander Petrenko, 30, Russian international basketballer, car crash.
  • Gianmario Roveraro, 70, Italian banker and founder of Akros Finanziaria, missing since July 5, murder.
  • Bert Slater, 70, Scottish footballer.

    • 22

  • Heather Bratton, 19, American model, car accident.
  • Donald Reid Cabral, 83, Dominican politician and lawyer, foreign minister of the Dominican Republic.
  • José Antonio Delgado, 41, Venezuelan mountaineer, first Venezuelan to climb Mount Everest, found dead on Nanga Parbat in Pakistan.
  • Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, 71, Italian-Brazilian actor, complications from kidney disease.
  • Jessie Mae Hemphill, 82, American award winning blues musician, complications of an infection.
  • Thomas J. Manton, 73, American longtime Democratic leader of Queens, NY, former US Representative (1985–99), prostate cancer.
  • Dr. Dika Newlin, 82, American musician and musicologist, scholar of Arnold Schoenberg.
  • Charles Knox Robinson III, 74, American actor, from complications of Parkinson's disease, in Palm Springs, CA.
  • James E. West, 55, American politician, mayor of Spokane, Washington, colorectal cancer.
  • Russell J. York, 84, American World War II veteran and hero of the battle for the Hurtgen Forest on November 20, 1944.

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  • Charles E. Brady, Jr., 54, American former astronaut.
  • Jean-Paul Desbiens, 79, French-Canadian author of Les insolences du Frère Untel, heart attack.
  • James Callan Graham, 91, American lawyer and politician.
  • Vernon Grant, 71, American cartoonist.
  • Lt. Col. Besby Holmes, 88, US Air Force fighter pilot, participant in air action that killed Admiral Yamamoto.
  • John Mack, 78, American oboist, complications from brain cancer.
  • Frederick Mosteller, 89, American Harvard professor of statistics, founding chair of the department of statistics, sepsis.
  • Terence Otway, 92, British soldier, commander of the assault on the Merville Battery on D-Day.

    • 24

  • Janka Bryl, 89, Belarusian writer.
  • Heinrich Hollreiser, 93, German conductor.
  • Bill Long, 88, Canadian ice hockey coach.
  • Leon Morris, 92, Australian theologian.

    • 25

  • Carl Brashear, 75, American first black US Navy diver, portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the film Men of Honor, heart failure.
  • Ezra Fleischer, 78, Romanian-born Israeli poet, winner of the Israel Prize, and professor at Hebrew University.
  • Hani Mohsin Hanafi, 43, Malaysian actor and television game show host, heart attack.
  • Lydia, Duchess of Bedford, 88, British peer, second wife of John Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford.
  • Bill Meistrell, 77, American businessman, founder of the Body Glove wet suit company, Parkinson's disease.
  • Aldo Notari, 74, Italian president of the International Baseball Federation.
  • Bob Simpson, 61, British retired senior BBC correspondent.

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  • Emmeline Brice, 111, British supercentenarian, oldest Briton.
  • Floyd Dixon, 77, American R&B pianist, kidney failure.
  • Vincent J. Fuller, 75, American lawyer who defended John Hinckley, Jr., lung cancer.
  • Jessie Gilbert, 19, British chess player, youngest Women's World Amateur Championship winner, fall.
  • Rolf Arthur Hansen, 86, Norwegian government minister. (Norwegian)
  • Roi Klein, Israeli IDF Major, won Medal of Courage.
  • Darrell Martinie, 63, American astrologer known as "the Cosmic Muffin", cancer
  • Princess Tatiana von Metternich, 91, Russian-born German aristocrat, World War II diarist, and arts patron.

    • 27

  • Maryann Mahaffey, 81, American member of Detroit city council, leukemia.
  • Sir Charles Mills, 91, British admiral.
  • Carlos Roque, 70, Portuguese comic book artist.
  • Alexander Safran, 95, Romanian and Swiss rabbi, Chief Rabbi of Romania who tried to stop the deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi regime during World War II.
  • Elisabeth Volkmann, 70, German actress, German voice of Marge Simpson.
  • Johnny Weissmuller Jr., 65, American actor, son of Johnny Weissmuller, liver cancer.
  • Funsho Williams, 58, Nigerian politician, strangled.

    • 28

  • Patrick Allen, 79, British actor.
  • Rut Brandt, 86, Norwegian resistance fighter, second wife of former German chancellor Willy Brandt.
  • Nigel Cox, 55, New Zealand novelist, cancer.
  • Abdallah Isaaq Deerow, 56, Somali politician, Constitution and Federalism Minister of Somalia, assassination.
  • Harold Enarson, 87, American academic, president of The Ohio State University (1972–1981), fired football coach Woody Hayes, hydrocephalus.
  • David Gemmell, 57, British fantasy novelist.
  • Dr. Joel Hedgpeth, 94, American marine biologist and Californian environmental activist.
  • Richard Mock, 61, American painter, sculptor, and editorial cartoonist.
  • Sep Smith, 94, English Leicester City footballer, and oldest living England international player.
  • Billy Walsh, 85, Irish Manchester City footballer & Grimsby Town manager, who played international football for both Ireland teams, the FAI XI and the IFA XI, and New Zealand.

    • 29

  • Hani Awijan, 29, Palestinian leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military wing, The Al-Quds brigades, in Nablus, West Bank, killed by gunfire.
  • Guido Daccò, 63, Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula 3000, 24 Hours of Le Mans, & Champ Cars.
  • Jose Lopez Rosario, 30, Puerto Rican drug dealer
  • Jean Baker Miller, 78, American psychiatrist.
  • James Olin, 86, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1982–1992).
  • Pierre Vidal-Naquet, 76, French historian and activist, cerebral haemorrhage.

    • 30

  • Duygu Asena, 60, Turkish writer and civil-rights advocate, brain tumour.
  • Al Balding, 82, Canadian golfer, cancer.
  • Murray Bookchin, 85, American author, heart failure.
  • Dr. Philip D’Arcy Hart, 106, British medical researcher.
  • Anthony Galla-Rini, 102, American concert accordionist, heart failure.
  • Akbar Mohammadi, 37, Iranian student dissident, heart attack following a hunger strike and torture.

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  • Dugald Christie, 65, Canadian lawyer who fought for equitable access to legal services, bicycle accident.
  • Paul Eells, 70, American sportscaster, voice of the Arkansas Razorbacks football and basketball for radio and television, car accident.
  • Mario Faustinelli, 81, Italian comic book artist.
  • Frederick Kilgour, 92, American librarian, founder of OCLC Online Computer Library Center.

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