Deaths in January 2006

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

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Owen Abrahams, 72, former Australian rules footballer, serious illness. [1]
John L. Behler, 62, curator of herpetology at the Bronx Zoo [2]
Ruairi Brugha, 88, Irish Fianna Fáil politician, son of Cathal Brugha. [3]
Henry S. Coleman, 79, dean at Columbia University. [4]
Peter Hamilton, 90, American dancer, complications from Parkinson's disease. [5]
Boris Kostelanetz, 94, tax lawyer. [6]
George Koval, 92, Soviet intelligence agent.
Denis McInerney, 80, antitrust lawyer. [7]
Jason Sears, 38, American Punk rock singer (Rich Kids on LSD), drug overdose. [8]
Moira Shearer, 80, British ballerina, actress, and newspaper columnist, married to Sir Ludovic Kennedy, natural causes. [9] [10]

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Stew Albert, 66, 1960s anti-establishment activist, co-founder of the Yippies, liver cancer. [11]
Paul Clinton, 53, CNN film critic, founder of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA). [12]
Feng Xiliang, 86, Chinese journalist China Daily. [13]
Seth Fisher, 33, comic book illustrator, fell from a seven-story building.[14] [15]
Arnold Graffi, 95, German Researcher for oncology, long illness. [16]
Coretta Scott King, 78, American civil rights leader, widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., ovarian cancer. [17][18][19][20][21] [22]
Norton Kiritz, 70, founder and president of the Grantsmanship Center. [23]
Otto Lang, 98, film producer and ski mogul, heart disease. [24].
Doris "Dodie" Londen, 75, first female chairman of Arizona state Republican Party, long illness. [25]
Metropolitan Nikolaj of Presov, 79, leader of the Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church. [26]
Thomas "Pig Champion" Roberts, 47, 450-lb. guitarist with American punk band Poison Idea. [27]
Irving Rosenwater, 73, English statistician. [28]
Wendy Wasserstein, 55, American playwright, lymphoma. [29][30]

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Andrew Gonzalez, 65, Filipino linguist and educator, complications from diabetes. [31]
Emory Hale, 36, professional wrestler, complications from kidney failure [32].
Paik Nam-june, 73, South Korean-born American artist, particularly noted for his video art, natural causes. [33]
George Psychoundakis, 85, Greek Resistance fighter during World War II. [34]

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Hertha Glaz, 95, mezzo-soprano and opera teacher [35]
Rabbi Yits`haq Kadouri zekher tsadiq livrakha, 106?, renowned Sephardic Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist. [36]
Henry McGee, 76, British actor. [37]
Helmut Schulz, 93, chemical engineer and inventor [38]

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Marvin Bieghler, 58, American convicted murderer, executed in Indiana. [39]
Stoffer van der Bijl, 61, architect, designed the renovated Bourtange star fort, cardiac arrest during ice skating marathon.
Maurice Colclough, 52, English Rugby Union player, brain tumour. [40]
Tana Hoban, 88, photographer of children, author of over 110 children's books [41]
Phyllis King, 100, British Wimbledon-winner. [42][43]
Carol Lambrino, 86, elder son of King Carol II of Romania. [44]
Christopher Lloyd, 84, gardening writer, stroke. [45]
Gene McFadden, 56, singer and songwriter, cancer. [46]
Johannes Rau, 75, President of Germany (Bundespräsident) from 1999 - 2004. [47]

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Len Carlson, 68, Canadian voice actor, heart attack
Dr John Dunwoody CBE, 76, former British Member of Parliament, effects of an accident. [48]
Tom Hooper (sculptor), 79, Canadian sculptor.^{[citation needed]}.
Morris Silverman, 93, philanthropist, founder of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. [49]
Dave Tatsuno, 92, documented the Topaz Japanese internment camp in his film Topaz [50]
Khan Wali Khan, 89, prominent Pakistani opposition Leader and prominent Pashtun leader, heart attack.^{[citation needed]}.

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John S. Bainbridge, 90, founder of the Staffing of African Institutions of Legal Education and Research program [51]
Dunbar W. Bostwick, 98, harness racing trainer. [52]
Richard W. Couper, 83, former President of the New York Public Library, long illness. [53]
Marion Dudley, 33, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas. [54]
Endesha Ida Mae Holland, 61, Black playwright (From the Mississippi Delta) [55]
Luther Green, 59, former NBA player, lung cancer.^{[citation needed]}.
John F. Kerin, professor, reproductive scientist, gynaecologist, farm accident.^{[citation needed]}.
Anna Malle, 38, American adult film actress, car accident. [56]
Jim Murray, 76, news photographer, photographed aftermath of the JFK assassination, cancer. [57]
Herbert Schilder, 77, dental surgeon, improved root canal procedures, Lewy body disease. [58]
Sudharmono, 78, Vice President of Indonesia from 1988 - 1993, lung failure.^{[citation needed]}.
Allan Temko, 81, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, brief illness. [59]

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Zaki Badawi, 84, Islamic religious leader in Britain. [60]
Jack Fiske, 88, boxing journalist, Hall of Fame. [61]
William B. Graham, 94, CEO of health care company Baxter International, heart failure. [62]
Schafik Handal, 75, former Presidential candidate and leader of El Salvador's main political opposition party, the FMLN, heart attack. [63]
Peter Ladefoged, 80, phonetician, stroke.^{[citation needed]}
Carlos (Café) Martínez, 41, former MLB player, complications from a long illness.^{[citation needed]}
Fayard Nicholas, 91, American dancer, elder of the renowned Nicholas Brothers, pneumonia and complications of a stroke. [64] [65]
Chris Penn, 40, American actor, brother of Sean Penn, cardiomyopathy combined with multiple medication intake. [66] [67]
Sir Nicholas Shackleton, 68, British geologist, leukemia. [68]
Henry Zapruder, 67, American tax lawyer who helped establish Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts programs, son of Abraham Zapruder, brain cancer. [69]

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Ernie Baron, 65, Filipino radio/TV host and meteorologist, myocardial infarction brought about by diabetes.^{[citation needed]}
Andrea Bronfman, 60, philanthropist and wife of Charles Bronfman, hit by car. [70]
Savino Guglielmetti, 94, Italian gymnast, 1928 Olympic gold-medalist and oldest surviving Olympic champion. [71]
Abu Ahmed Hassouna, 44, Fatah party leader in the West Bank, assassinated by Fatah members. [72]
Louanne Hogan, 86, big-band singer and singing double for 40's and 50's films.
General Samuel W. Koster, 86, highest ranking United States Army officer charged in My Lai massacre, renal cancer [73]
Chris McKinstry, 38, an independent researcher in artificial intelligence, suicide.^{[citation needed]}
Olga Marie Mikalsen, 91, Norwegian singer. [74] (Norwegian)
Emilie Muse, 98, daredevil, complications from cancer. [75]
Joseph M. Newman, 96, American Film Director/Producer, This Island Earth. [76]
Bill Rice, 74, American artist. [77]
E.M. Smedley-Aston,93, Film Producer, 1950's.^{[citation needed]}
Virginia Smith, 94, former Republican United States Representative from Nebraska (1975 - 1991).
David Weber, 92, clarinetist. [78]
Michael Wharton, 92, British humorist ("Peter Simple").^{[citation needed]}

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Janette Carter, 82, last living member of the Carter Family country music group. [79]
Alec Coxon, 90, Yorkshire and England cricketer. [80]
Sherman Ferguson, 61, jazz drummer [81]
Rick van der Linden, 59, keyboardist of symphonic rock group Ekseption, complications of a stroke.^{[citation needed]}
Joan Maynard, 77, preservationist. [82]
Nellie Y. McKay, 67, African-American literary critic, colon cancer. [83]
Albert Morse, 67, lawyer, art collection, publisher, kidney disease. [84]
William Rubin, 78, director of the department of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. [85]

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Michael Chan, Baron Chan, 65, British paediatrician and the second peer of Chinese origin. [86]
John James Cowperthwaite, 90, former Financial Secretary of Hong Kong. [87]
Ibrahim Rugova, 61, President of Kosovo, lung cancer. [88]

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Andrei Iordan, 71, former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan.^{[citation needed]}
David Maust, 51, serial killer, heart failure after a botched suicide attempt. [89]
Dave Lepard, 25, frontman to Swedish hair metal band Crashdïet, committed suicide.
Johannes Mikkel, 98, Estonian art collector.^{[citation needed]}
Richard LaMont "Monte" Mitzelfelt, 36, New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge judge, heart failure.^{[citation needed]}
Rose Bouziane Nader, 99, President of the Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest, mother of US Presidential candidate Ralph Nader, congestive heart failure. [90]
Pio Taofinu'u, 82, Samoan Roman Catholic cardinal. [91]

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Jovanka Bach, 69, playwright-physician.^{[citation needed]}
Gary Downie, South African psychotherapist and television production manager (Doctor Who, Star Cops), cancer. [92]
Anthony Franciosa, 77, American actor, third husband of Shelley Winters, stroke. [93]
Tom Nugent, 92, football coach, member of the College Football Hall of Fame, congestive heart failure. [94]
Wilson Pickett, 64, American soul singer, heart attack. [95]
Awn Alsharif Qasim, 73, Sudanese writer, educator and Islamic scholar
Geoff Rabone, 84, New Zealand cricketer.^{[citation needed]}
Franz Seitz, 85, German film director.^{[citation needed]}
Jos Staatsen, 62, mayor of Groningen (1985-1991), head of the Professional Football section of the Royal Netherlands Football Association (1993-1997).
Fred van der Werff, 90, Dutch retail entrepreneur, founder of the eponymous supermarket chain (founded in 1931, sold and disbanded in 1982).
Basil Worgul, 58, Columbia University biologist [96]

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Garth Jones, 88, AP newsman, pneumonia.^{[citation needed]}
Rose Ellison King, 63, comic strip author (Flo & Friends) [97]
Norman McCabe, 94, animator and director, famous for Tokio Jokio and The Ducktators shorts from his Termite Terrace tenure at Warner Bros. [98]
Thomas Murphy, 90, former CEO of General Motors. [99]
Anton Rupert, 89, South African businessman, philanthropist and founding member of World Wide Fund for Nature, natural causes. [100]
Jan Twardowski, 90, Polish priest and poet. [101]

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Harold R. Collier, 90, former Republican United States Representative from Illinois from 1957-1975
Wallace Mercer, 59, former chairman of Heart of Midlothian F.C., cancer. [102]
Michael Siegel, 61, estranged son of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, complications from knee surgery. [103]
Giles Worsley, 44, British architectural historian and journalist, nephew of the Duchess of Kent, cancer. [104]

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Stanley Biber, 82, American physician and pioneer in sex reassignment surgery, complications of pneumonia.^{[citation needed]}
Richard P. McCormick, 89, professor at Rutgers University, expert on early American political history and New Jersey history, illness.[105]
Arthur T. von Mehren, 83, professor at Harvard Law School, expert in international law. [106]

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His Highness Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 79, Emir of Kuwait, brain hemorrhage. [107][108]
Glyn Berry, 59, Welsh-born Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan.^{[citation needed]}
Charles Byers, 83, associate dean, College of Music, University of Colorado, Boulder [109]
Hilma Contreras, 95, Dominican writer. [110]
Edward N. Hall, 91, U.S. Air Force rocket expert, father of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile program. [111][112]
Inge Merkel, 83, Austrian writer.^{[citation needed]}

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Henri Colpi, 84, Swiss film director and cinematographer.^{[citation needed]}
Jacques Faizant, 87, French cartoonist (Le Figaro). [113]
Jim Gary, 66, American sculptor, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage. [114]
Conrad Hendricks, 27, South African professional football player, car crash. [115]
David Ingle, 72, American neuroscientist and experimental psychologist, pneumonia.^{[citation needed]}
Richard Johnson, 75, Publisher of the Houston Chronicle. [116] [117]
Mullah Khaksar, former Taliban minister who sided with the United States, killed by gunmen. [118][119]
Mark Philo, 21, English professional football player, injuries from a car crash. [120]
Bob Weinstock, 77, founded independent jazz record label Prestige, complications of diabetes. [121]
Shelley Winters, 85, American actress, heart failure. [122][123][124]

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Raúl Anguiano, 90, Mexican engraver and painter. [125]
Richard Dalitz, 80, Australian physicist, expert in exotic particles, studied quarks.^{[citation needed]}
Ron Jessie, 57, former NFL wide receiver, heart attack. [126]
Marc Potvin, 38, former NHL player, found dead in his hotel room in Michigan, suicide.^{[citation needed]}
Joan Root, 69, wildlife conservationist, shot to death. [127]
Rui José Soares, 43, Brazilian writer.^{[citation needed]}

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William M. Byrne Jr., 75, presiding judge in the trial of Daniel Ellsberg, pulmonary fibrosis. [128][129]
Brendan Cauldwell, 83, Irish actor, died in sleep.
Edwin S. Cohen, 91, American tax expert and lawyer. [130]
Eldon Dedini, 84, cartoonist, esophageal cancer. [131]
Robert Edwin Drake, 82, NSA intelligence analyst, congestive heart failure. [132]
Shaikh Faisal bin Hamad Al Khalifa, 15, Bahraini prince, injuries from a car crash.
Günther Landgraf, 77, German physicist and former President of Technische Universität Dresden. [133]
Stewart Linder, 74 American Oscar-winning film editor.
Anne Meacham, 80, American stage (Suddenly, Last Summer) and television actress (Another World). [134]
Meinrad Schütter, 95, Swiss composer. [135]

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Eric Namesnik, 35, American Olympic swimmer, injuries from a car crash.^{[citation needed]}
Mark Spoon, 39, German DJ and prominent figure in trance music, heart attack. [136]
Alan Sytner, 70, founder of the Cavern Club, Liverpool. [137]

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Ira B. Black, 64, neuroscientist, founder of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey, infection related to a tumor. [138]
Dave Brown, 52, former National Football League player, heart attack. [139]
Sergio Fedriani, 56, Italian artist. [140]
Elliot Forbes, 88, Harvard University professor and Beethoven scholar. [141]
Sidney Frank, 86, American businessman and philanthropist, heart failure. [142]
Alethea Hayter, 94, British writer. [143]
Leon Lobel, 77, butcher, author and meat expert. [144]
Dennis Marks, 73, animation writer-producer. [145]
Joseph Waksberg, 90, survey researcher. [146]

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Andy Caldecott, 41, Australian Dakar Rally motorcycle rider, fatal neck injury sustained in an accident in Mauritania. [147]
Patricia Hitt, 87, Assistant United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Nixon, natural causes. [148]
Selwyn Hughes, 77, British fundamentalist evangelical who founded Crusade for World Revival
David S. Kruidenier, 84, former publisher of the Des Moines Register. [149]
Mikk Mikiver, 68, Estonian stage director and actor.
Frank Okamura, 94, bonsai master. [150]
W. Cleon Skousen, 92, BYU professor and prominent Latter-day Saint author and lecturer.
Jack Snow, 62, former National Football League player and radio announcer, complications from a staph infection. [151]
Don Stewart, 70, actor (Michael Bauer on The Guiding Light), lung cancer. [152]

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Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, 62, former British Minister for Sport, stroke and cerebral hemorrhage. [153]
Elson Becerra, 27, Colombian football (soccer) player, shot. [154]
Alex Elmsley, 76, English magician, heart attack.^{[citation needed]}
Johnny Fortune, 62, Surf guitarist, vocalist, session musician, diabetic-related heart failure.^{[citation needed]}
Georg Wilhelm, Prinz von Hannover, Herzog zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg, 90, educator and Olympian. [155]
Stuart Quan, 43, movie stunt performer and karate instructor, cause unknown. [156]
David Rosenbaum, 63, New York Times reporter, head injury during mugging. [157]
Mimmo Rotella, 87, Italian artist, illness. [158]
Raatbek Sanatbayev, 36, Kyrgyz Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler and candidate for National Olympic Committee president, shot [159]
José Luis "Garrafa" Sanchez, 31, Argentine football (soccer) player, from injuries sustained in a biking accident.