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Deaths in October 2006

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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2006. See Deaths in 2006 for other months.

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  • Frank Beyer, 74, German film director (Jacob the Liar).
  • Sir Laurence Brodie-Hall, 96, Australian mining executive.
  • Alan Caillou, 91, British actor and writer.
  • Pierre Gorman, 82, Australian librarian and academic.
  • Jack Kirkbride, 83, British cartoonist, father of actress Anne Kirkbride.
  • Rafael Quintero, 66, Cuban-born American CIA agent.
  • André Viger, 54, Canadian wheelchair marathoner and paralympian, cancer.
  • Yoshihiro Yonezawa, 53, Japanese manga critic, lung cancer.
  • 2

  • Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista, 82, Cuban First Lady (1952–1959), second wife of President Fulgencio Batista.
  • Frances Bergen, 84, American actress, wife of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and mother of actress Candice Bergen.
  • Helen Chenoweth-Hage, 68, American Republican Representative for Idaho (1995–2001), car accident.
  • Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami, 69, Indian scientist, spiritual teacher and poet, heart attack.
  • Tamara Dobson, 59, American actress (Cleopatra Jones), complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis.
  • Paul Halmos, 90, Hungarian-born American mathematician.
  • Paul Richardson, 74, American Phillies longtime organist, prostate cancer.
  • Clyde Vollmer, 85, American Major League Baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
  • 3

  • Lucilla Andrews, 86, British romantic novelist.
  • Sir John Cox, 77, British admiral who was Commander-in-Chief in the South Atlantic
  • John Crank, 90, British mathematical physicist who helped solve the heat equation.
  • Gwen Meredith, 98, Australian writer of all 5795 episodes of the long-running radio serial Blue Hills, after heart trouble.
  • Peter Norman, 64, Australian athlete, silver medalist at the 1968 Summer Olympics, heart attack.
  • 4

  • R. W. Apple, Jr., 71, American political journalist and food writer (The New York Times), thoracic cancer.
  • Tom Bell, 73, British actor (Wish You Were Here, Prime Suspect), after short illness.
  • František Fajtl, 94, Czech World War II fighter pilot, after long illness.
  • Norbert Franck, 88, Luxembourgian Olympic swimmer.
  • Walter Gibb, 87, British aviator and test pilot who held the world altitude record.
  • Ralph Griswold, 72, American creator of Snobol and Icon programming languages, cancer.
  • Vic Heyliger, 87, American ice hockey Hall of Fame player and coach.
  • Oskar Pastior, 78, Romanian-born German writer.
  • Riccardo Pazzaglia, 80, Italian actor, writer and film director. (Italian)
  • Don Thompson, 73, British race walker and 1960 Olympic gold medal winner, aneurysm.
  • Katarina Tomasevski, 53, Croatian-born former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education.
  • 5

  • Valerie Campbell-Harding, 74, Canadian textile art designer, heart attack.
  • Friedrich Karl Flick, 79, German-Austrian billionaire industrialist.
  • George King, 78, American college basketball coach.
  • Speedy O. Long, 78, American Democratic Representative for Louisiana (1964–1972), cousin of Huey Long.
  • Jennifer Moss, 61, British actress, played Lucille Hewitt on Coronation Street.
  • Antonio Peña, 53, Mexican promoter of Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, heart attack.
  • Jackie Rae, 84, Canadian singer, songwriter and entertainer.
  • Dick Wagner, 78, American former president of the Cincinnati Reds and Houston Astros, injuries from a 1999 car crash.
  • Gilbert F. White, 94, American geographer.
  • 6

  • Bertha Brouwer, 75, Dutch athlete, silver medalist in the 200m at the 1952 Olympics. (Dutch)
  • Charles Clark, 73, British publisher and lawyer.
  • Claude Luter, 83, French jazz clarinetist and bandleader.
  • Eduardo Mignogna, 66, Argentinian film director. (Spanish)
  • Buck O'Neil, 94, American baseball player and manager in the Negro leagues, heart failure and bone marrow cancer.
  • Timo Sarpaneva, 79, Finnish glassmaker.
  • Heinz Sielmann, 89, German zoologist
  • Wilson Tucker, 91, American science fiction writer.
  • 7

  • Charlie Bradberry, 24, American NASCAR driver, car accident.
  • Danifel Campilan, 25, Filipino news reporter (24 Oras), car accident.
  • Polly Craus, 83, American Olympic fencer.
  • Craig Dobbin, 71, Canadian founder of CHC Helicopter, after illness following lung transplant.
  • Julen Goikoetxea, 21, Spanish bicycle racer, suicide by jumping.
  • Anna Politkovskaya, 48, Russian journalist, shot.
  • Peter H. Rossi, 84, American sociologist.
  • 8

  • Ira B. Harkey Jr., 88, American newspaper editor, winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.
  • Pavol Hnilica, 85, Slovak Catholic bishop. (Slovak)
  • Ivan Murrell, 63, American Major League Baseball player for the Astros and Padres.
  • Mark Porter, 31, New Zealand racing driver, race crash.
  • 9

  • Sedat Alp, 93, Turkish archaeologist specializing in Hittitology. (Turkish)
  • Coccinelle, 75, French transsexual singer, stroke. (French)
  • Reg Freeson, 80, British politician, Minister of State for Housing and Local Government (1974–1979).
  • Marek Grechuta, 60, Polish singer, composer and lyricist. (Polish)
  • Danièle Huillet, 70, French filmmaker, cancer.
  • Paul Hunter, 27, British snooker player, neuroendocrine tumours.
  • Mario Moya Palencia, 73, Mexican politician and diplomat (Interior Minister, 1969–1976), heart attack.
  • Glenn Myernick, 51, American assistant soccer coach of the men's national team, heart attack.
  • Raymond Noorda, 82, American computer executive, CEO of Novell (1982–1994).
  • Kanshi Ram, 72, Indian politician, heart attack.
  • 10

  • Jerry Belson, 68, American Emmy-winning television comedy writer (Tracey Ullman, Dick Van Dyke), prostate cancer.
  • Francis Berry, 91, British poet and literary critic.
  • P. C. Devassia, 100, Indian Sanskrit scholar and poet, won 1980 Sahitya Akademi Award (Kristubhagavatam).
  • Sir Derek Pattinson, 76, British Secretary-General of the General Synod of the Church of England (1972–1990)
  • Michael John Rogers, 74, British ornithologist.
  • Ian Scott, 72, Canadian Attorney General of Ontario (1985–1990).
  • Lalit Suri, 59, Indian hotelier and parliamentarian, heart attack.
  • 11

  • Henry Caldera, 69, Sri Lankan singer, cancer.
  • Sir Victor Goodhew, 86, British politician, Conservative MP for St Albans (1959–1983).
  • Cory Lidle, 34, American baseball pitcher (New York Yankees), victim of the 2006 New York City plane crash.
  • Benito Martínez, 126?, Cuban claimant to the title of world's oldest person.
  • Sir Robert Megarry, 96, British judge and Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court (1982–1985).
  • Eddie Pellagrini, 88, American baseball player and coach (Boston College).
  • Jimmy Peters, Sr., 84, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup winner (Montreal Canadiens, Detroit Red Wings).
  • Raad Mutar Saleh, Iraqi Mandaean leader, shot.
  • Jacques Sternberg, 83, French science fiction and fantastique author, lung cancer.
  • John Turvey, 61, Canadian youth activist and Order of Canada recipient, mitochondrial myopathy.
  • 12

  • Todd Bolender, 92, American dancer and choreographer, director of the Kansas City Ballet.
  • Johnny Callison, 67, American Major League Baseball player, three-time All-Star outfielder with the Phillies.
  • Samuel B. Casey, Jr., 78, American CEO of Pullman Company.
  • Hermann Eilts, 84, German-born American diplomat and US ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1965–1970).
  • Eugène Martin, 91, French racing driver. (French)
  • Gerard Murphy, 57, Irish mathematician.
  • Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, Italian film director (The Battle of Algiers), heart failure.
  • 13

  • Mason Andrews, 87, American physician who delivered America's first test tube baby, Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia (1992–1994).
  • Deborah Blumer, 64, American member of the Massachusetts General Court, heart attack.
  • Petra Cabot, 99, American designer, created the Skotch Kooler, natural causes.
  • Bob Lassiter, 61, American talk radio personality.
  • Dino Monduzzi, 84, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Pontifical Household (1986–1998).
  • Hilda Terry, 92, American cartoonist, creator of comic strip Teena.
  • Wang Guangmei, 85, Chinese wife of late Communist leader Liu Shaoqi.
  • 14

  • Bernard Allen, 69, American member of the North Carolina General Assembly.
  • James Barr, 82, British Old Testament scholar.
  • Chun Wei Cheung, 34, Dutch rowing cox, silver medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, liver cancer.
  • Freddy Fender, 69, American singer ("Before the Next Teardrop Falls"), lung cancer.
  • Soni Pabla, 30, Indian Punjabi singer, heart attack.
  • Klaas Runia, 80, Dutch Reformed Church theologian.
  • Gerry Studds, 69, American first openly gay congressman, represented Massachusetts (1973–1997), pulmonary embolism.
  • 15

  • Derek Bond, 86, British actor (Callan, Scott of the Antarctic).
  • William Bright, 78, American linguist and author, recorder of indigenous North American languages.
  • Michael Forrester, 89, British army general.
  • Robert Pfarr, 86, American Olympic cyclist.
  • George Stevens, 74, American politician and Baptist minister.
  • Michelle Urry, 66, Canadian cartoon editor for Playboy.
  • Maurice F. Weisner, 88, American admiral.
  • 16

  • Niall Andrews, 69, Irish politician, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South (1977–1987), MEP for Leinster (1984–2004), lung cancer.
  • Ross Davidson, 57, British former EastEnders actor, brain tumour.
  • Sid Davis, 90, American educational filmmaker, lung cancer.
  • Martin Flannery, 88, British politician, Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough (1974–1992).
  • Harold Gardner, 107, American World War I veteran, served one day prior to the armistice.
  • Tommy Johnson, 71, American musician known for his work on the Jaws theme, complications of cancer and kidney failure.
  • John V. Murra, 90, Ukrainian-born American anthropologist and Inca scholar.
  • Valentín Paniagua, 70, Peruvian president (2000–2001), complications from heart surgery.
  • Lister Sinclair, 85, Canadian playwright and broadcaster, pulmonary embolism.
  • Ernie Steele, 88, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).
  • Trebisonda Valla, 90, Italian athlete, first Italian female 1936 Olympic champion (80m hurdles), natural causes.
  • Anatoly Voronin, 55, Russian business chief of ITAR TASS news agency, stabbed.
  • 17

  • Daniel Emilfork, 82, French actor (The City of Lost Children).
  • Miriam Engelberg, 48, American graphic author (Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person), metastatic breast cancer.
  • Christopher Glenn, 68, American CBS News radio and television news anchor, liver cancer.
  • Megan Meier, 13, American cyberbullying victim, suicide by hanging.
  • Ursula Moray Williams, 95, British children's author.
  • Lieuwe Steiger, 82, Dutch goalkeeper for PSV Eindhoven (1942–1957, 1959) and The Netherlands (1953–1954). (Dutch)
  • Marcia Tucker, 66, American curator, founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
  • 18

  • Don R. Christensen, 90, American animator and cartoonist.
  • Marc Hodler, 87, Swiss president of the International Ski Federation (1951–1998), International Olympic Committee whistleblower, stroke.
  • Mario Francesco Pompedda, 77, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (1999–2004), brain hemorrhage.
  • Anna Russell, 94, British-born Canadian comedian and classical music satirist.
  • Laurie Taitt, 72, British sprint hurdler.
  • Alvin M. Weinberg, 91, American Manhattan Project scientist and former director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
  • 19

  • Ralph Harris, Baron Harris of High Cross, 81, British life peer, founder of the Institute of Economic Affairs, heart attack.
  • Michael Johnson, 29, American criminal, suicide prior to execution.
  • Phyllis Kirk, 79, American actress (House of Wax, The Thin Man), post cerebral aneurysm.
  • Srividya, 53, Indian actress, cancer.
  • 20

  • Don Burroughs, 75, American football player (1955–1964), cancer.
  • Irene Galitzine, 90, Russian-born Italian fashion designer.
  • Maxi Herber, 86, German figure skater, gold medal winner at the 1936 Winter Olympics, Parkinson's disease.
  • Lawrence Kolb, 95, American psychiatrist, leader in community mental health movement.
  • Eric Newby, 86, British travel writer.
  • Jane Wyatt, 96, American actress (Father Knows Best, Star Trek), natural causes.
  • 21

  • Peter Barkworth, 77, British actor, bronchopneumonia following a stroke.
  • Paul Biegel, 81, Dutch writer of children's literature. (Dutch)
  • Pye Chamberlayne, 68, American radio journalist, heart attack.
  • Daryl Duke, 77, Canadian film director (The Thorn Birds), pulmonary fibrosis.
  • Bryan Hipp, American guitarist (Diabolic, Cradle of Filth).
  • Howard Lawson, 92, British cricketer (Hampshire).
  • Bob Mann, 82, American football player (Detroit Lions).
  • Arthur Peacocke, 81, British scientist and theologian.
  • Milton Selzer, 87, American actor.
  • Paul Walters, 59, British BBC radio and TV producer.
  • Sandy West, 47, American drummer and vocalist (The Runaways), lung cancer.
  • Urien Wiliam, 76, British writer.
  • 22

  • Choi Kyu-hah, 87, South Korean president (1979–1980).
  • Nelson de la Rosa, 38, Dominican actor, "World's Shortest Man" in the 1989 Guinness Book of Records.
  • Masayuki Fujio, 89, Japanese former minister of education. (Japanese)
  • Arthur Hill, 84, Canadian Tony Award-winning actor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Alzheimer's disease.
  • Mancs, 12, Hungarian rescue dog with the Miskolc Spider Special Rescue Team, pneumonia.
  • Richard Mayes, 83, British stage and television actor.
  • Michael Mayne, 77, British clergyman, Dean of Westminster Abbey (1986–1996), cancer of the jaw.
  • 23

  • Leonid Hambro, 86, American concert pianist.
  • Jane Elizabeth Hodgson, 91, American doctor and abortion rights advocate.
  • Bruno Lauzi, 69, Italian singer and composer, Parkinson's disease. (Italian)
  • Lebo Mathosa, 29, South African singer, car accident.
  • Egon Piechaczek, 69, Polish football player and coach.
  • Todd Skinner, 48, American free climber, climbing accident.
  • Rein Strikwerda, 76, Dutch doctor and knee injury specialist.
  • 24

  • Daisy, 13, German-born Yorkshire terrier companion of murdered German designer Rudolph Moshammer.
  • Jeffrey Lundgren, 56, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
  • Enolia McMillan, 102, American civil rights activist, first female president of the NAACP, heart failure.
  • Benjamin Meed, 88, Polish-born American president and co-founder of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.
  • Jack Radtke, 93, American baseball player.
  • William Montgomery Watt, 97, British professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
  • 25

  • Paul Ableman, 79, British playwright and novelist.
  • Richard Cleaver, 89, Australian politician, MHR for Swan (1955–1969).
  • Kintaro Ohki, 77, South Korean wrestler, heart attack.
  • Danny Rolling, 52, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
  • Emilio Vedova, 87, Italian painter.
  • 26

  • Gary Coull, 52, Canadian journalist, co-founder of CLSA, cancer.
  • Rogério Duprat, 74, Brazilian composer, cancer. (Portuguese)
  • Tillman Franks, 86, American bassist, songwriter and country music manager, natural causes.
  • Ralph R. Harding, 77, American congressman from Idaho (1961–1965).
  • Pontus Hultén, 82, Swedish art collector and museum director.
  • John Kentish, 96, British operatic tenor.
  • Kojima Nobuo, 91, Japanese author, pneumonia. (Japanese)
  • Theodore Taylor, 85, American writer (The Cay), heart attack.
  • 27

  • John Broadbent, 92, Australian Army officer and lawyer.
  • Jozsef Gregor, 66, Hungarian opera singer.
  • Thomas R. Jones, 93, American jurist and civil rights activist.
  • Ghulam Ishaq Khan, 91, Pakistani civil servant and bureaucrat, President of Pakistan (1988–1993), pneumonia.
  • Marlin McKeever, 66, American former football player, head injuries from a fall.
  • Joe Niekro, 61, American Major League Baseball pitcher, brain aneurysm.
  • Muhammad Qasim, 32, Pakistani field hockey goalkeeper, cancer.
  • Albrecht von Goertz, 92, German-born American car designer.
  • Bradley Roland Will, 36, American Indymedia reporter, shot whilst covering the 2006 Oaxaca protests.
  • 28

  • Red Auerbach, 89, American coach of the Boston Celtics (1950–1966), heart attack.
  • Tina Aumont, 60, French actress, pulmonary embolism. (Italian)
  • György Bence, 64, Hungarian philosopher. (Hungarian)
  • Trevor Berbick, 51, Jamaican former heavyweight boxing champion, last boxer to face Muhammad Ali, homicide.
  • Brian Brolly, 70, British co-manager of Wings (1973–1978), Managing Director of RUG (1978–1988), co-founder of Classic FM, heart attack.
  • Henry Fok, 83, Hong Kong businessman, philanthropist and CCPPC official, lymphoma.
  • Richard Gilman, 83, American drama and literary critic, lung cancer.
  • Peter Gingold, 90, German anti-fascist. (German)
  • Marijohn Wilkin, 86, American country songwriter, member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, heart failure.
  • 29

  • Nigel Kneale, 84, British scriptwriter (The Quatermass Experiment), stroke.
  • Muhammadu Maccido, 78, Nigerian Sultan of Sokoto, Muslim spiritual leader, aeroplane crash.
  • Silas Simmons, 111, American Negro league baseball player, oldest known professional baseball player.
  • 30

  • Clifford Geertz, 80, American cultural anthropologist, complications following heart surgery.
  • Jens Christian Hauge, 91, Norwegian World War II resistance leader, first postwar defence minister, natural causes.
  • Junji Kinoshita, 92, Japanese playwright, pneumonia.
  • Ian Rilen, 58, Australian bass player (Rose Tattoo), bladder cancer.
  • Aud Schønemann, 83, Norwegian actress. (Norwegian)
  • Mose Tolliver, 87, American folk artist, pneumonia.
  • 31

  • Hank Berger, 55, American nightclub owner, asthma-related problems.
  • P. W. Botha, 90, South African politician, Prime Minister (1978–1984), State President (1984–1989), heart attack.
  • Nikki Catsouras, 18, American teenage car crash victim from Orange County, California whose accident photos were released onto internet, automobile accident.
  • Shane Drury, 27, American professional bull rider in the PRCA, Ewing's sarcoma.
  • William Franklyn, 81, British actor, prostate cancer.
  • Peter Fryer, 79, British journalist who reported on the Hungarian Revolution.
  • Michael James Genovese, 87, American alleged Mafia boss of Pittsburgh.
  • George B. Thomas, 92, American mathematician and author, natural causes.
  • Nicholas John Vine-Hall, 62, Australian genealogist, cancer.
  • References

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