Deaths in August 2006

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

August 2006

31

• Mohamed Abdelwahab, 23, Egyptian footballer, suspected heart attack. [1]
• K. Sri Dhammananda, 87, Sri Lankan-born Malaysian bhikkhu, stroke. [2].
• Guy Gabaldon, 80, American World War II marine, heart attack. [3]
• J. S. Holliday, 82, American historian, expert on California Gold Rush, pulmonary fibrosis. [4]
• David Macpherson, 2nd Baron Strathcarron, 82, British hereditary peer and motoring expert. [5]
• Mike Magill, 86, American racing driver. [6]
• Charlie Wagner, 93, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox). [7]

30

• Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, 80, New Zealand jurist. [8]
• Glenn Ford, 90, Canadian-born American actor (Blackboard Jungle, Cimarron). [9]
• Susan Lynn Hefle, 46, American food scientist, cancer.[10]
• George Johnson, 112, American supercentenarian, pneumonia. [11]
• Emrys Jones, 86, British geographer. [12]
• Igor Kio, 62, Russian illusionist. [13]
• Bob LeRose, 85, American colorist and cover production artist for DC Comics. [14]
• Naguib Mahfouz, 94, Egyptian winner of 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature, head injuries from a fall. [15]
• Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm, 83, British MP and government minister. [16]
• Bill Stumpf, 70, American industrial designer, co-created the Aeron office chair. [17]

29

• Kent Andersson, 64, Swedish motorcycle racer, winner of 1973 and 1974 125cc World Championships. [18]
• John Cummins, 58, Australian union official, secretary of the Builders' Labourers Federation, cancer. [19]
• Robert J. Gorlin, 83, American oral pathologist. [20]
• Gerald Green, 84, American author (The Last Angry Man) and screenwriter (Holocaust). [21]
• Benjamin Rawitz-Castel, 60, Israeli pianist, battered. [22]
• Jumpin' Gene Simmons, 73, American rockabilly musician. [23]

28

• Ed Benedict, 94, American animator and layout artist, designed Fred Flintstone. [24]
• Don Chipp, 81, Australian politician, founder of the Australian Democrats. [25]
• Mary Lee Robb Cline, 80, American actress (The Great Gildersleeve), heart failure. [26]
• Heino Lipp, 84, Estonian champion decathlete. [27]
• Robert McDermott, 86, American dean of the USAF Academy, chairman of USAA and owner of San Antonio Spurs, stroke. [28]
• Pip Pyle, 56, British drummer (Gong, Hatfield and the North). [29]
• William F. Quinn, 87, American Governor of Hawaii (1957–1962), pneumonia. [30]
• Michael Richard, 58, American photographer, cancer. [31]
• Benoît Sauvageau, 42, Canadian Bloc Québécois member of parliament, traffic accident. [32]
• Melvin Schwartz, 73, American physicist, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics. [33]
• Alfred Sherman, 86, British co-founder of the Centre for Policy Studies. [34]

27

• María Capovilla, 116, Ecuadorian oldest person in the world, pneumonia. [35]
• Tee Corinne, 62, American writer and artist. [36]
• Jon Dough, 43, American pornographic actor and AVN Hall of Famer, suicide by hanging. [37]
• Ike Hildebrand, 79, Canadian ice hockey and lacrosse player. [38]
• Iain MacKintosh, 74, Scottish folk musician. [39]
• Vashti McCollum, 93, American plaintiff (McCollum v. Board of Education). [40]
• Luciano Mendes de Almeida, 75, Brazilian Archbishop of Mariana, cancer. [41] (Portuguese)
• Hrishikesh Mukherjee, 83, Indian film director. [42]
• David Nicholson, 67, British jockey and horse trainer. [43]
• Jesse Pintado, 37, American guitarist (Terrorizer, Napalm Death), complications of diabetic coma. [44]

26

• Rainer Barzel, 82, German President of the Bundestag, Chairman of the CDU. [45] (German)
• Akbar Bugti, 79, Pakistani Balochistan rebel tribal leader, shot. [46]
• John Ripley Forbes, 93, American naturalist and conservationist, founder of nature museums. [47]
• William Garnett, 89, American aerial photographer. [48]
• Yevhen Kucherevskyi, 65, Ukrainian football coach (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), car crash. [49]
• Marie-Dominique Philippe, 93, French Dominican priest, founder of the Community of St. John, stroke. [50]
• Sir Alfred Sherman, 86, British journalist, writer and political analyst. [51]
• Vladimir Tretchikoff, 92, Russian artist. [52]
• Sir Clyde Walcott, 80, Barbadian cricketer. [53]

25

• John Blankenstein, 57, Dutch openly gay football referee, kidney disease. [54]
• Noor Hassanali, 88, Trinidadian politician, President (1987–1997). [55]
• Silva Kaputikyan, 87, Armenian poet. [56]
• Vijay Mehra, 68, Indian cricketer. [57]
• Joseph Stefano, 84, American screenwriter (Psycho), co-creator of The Outer Limits. [58]
• Ross Warneke, 54, Australian television presenter and radio personality, cancer. [59]

24

• Herbert Hupka, 91, German journalist and politician. [60] (German)
• Leonard Levy, 83, Canadian-born American constitutional historian and author, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for History. [61]
• Cristian Nemescu, 27, Romanian film director, car accident. [62]
• Viktor Pavlov, 65, Russian actor, heart attack. [63] (Russian)
• Rocco Petrone, 80, American NASA engineer, director of Project Apollo and the Marshall Space Flight Center. [64]
• David Plowright, 75, British television producer and executive, chairman of Granada Television (1987–1992). [65]
• Ralph Schoenstein, 73, American humorist and NPR commentator. [66]
• Léopold Simoneau, 90, Canadian lyric tenor. [67]
• James Tenney, 72, American experimental music composer, cancer.[68]
• Gene Thompson, 89, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, New York Giants). [69]
• Andrei Toncu, 28, Romanian sound designer, car accident. [70]
• John Weinzweig, 93, Canadian composer. [71]

23

• Maynard Ferguson, 78, Canadian jazz trumpet player, kidney and liver failure. [72]
• Wasim Raja, 54, Pakistani Test cricketer, heart attack. [73]
• Raymond Harold Sawkins, 82, British novelist. [74]
• David Schnaufer, 53, American Appalachian dulcimer player, lung cancer. [75]
• Marie Tharp, 86, American oceanographic cartographer. [76]
• Ed Warren, 79, American demonologist, after long illness. [77]
• Jay Young, 56, American news anchor (CNN), heart attack. [78]

22

• Bruce Gary, 55, American drummer (The Knack), lymphoma. [79]
• Frank Lennon, 79, Canadian photographer. [80]
• Simeon Anthony Pereira, 78, Pakistani Archbishop Emeritus of Karachi. [81]

21

• Máximo Carvajal, 70, Chilean comic book artist. [82]
• Bismillah Khan, 90, Indian shehnai musician and Bharat Ratna winner, heart attack. [83]
• Jon Lilletun, 60, Norwegian politician (KrF), Minister of Education (1997–2000), cancer. [84]
• Geff Noblet, 89, Australian Test cricketer (1949–1953). [85]
• William Norris, 95, American engineer, founder of Control Data Corporation. [86]
• Buck Page, 84, American western musician, founder of Riders of the Purple Sage. [87]
• Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, 65, Dutch billionaire businessman, pancreatic cancer. [88]
• S. Yizhar, 89, Israeli author, heart disease. [89]

20

• Claude Blanchard, 74, Canadian pop singer and actor, heart attack. [90]
• Renate Brausewetter, 100, German silent film actress. [91] (German)
• Bryan Budd, 29, British soldier, posthumously awarded Victoria Cross. [92]
• Roger Donoghue, 75, American boxer. [93]
• Robert Hoffman, 59, American businessman and art collector, co-founder of National Lampoon. [94]
• Jack Laughery, 71, American CEO and chairman of the Hardee's restaurant chain, lung cancer. [95]
• Jacob Mincer, 84, Polish-born American professor of economics (Columbia University). [96]
• Giuseppe Moccia, 75, Italian film director. [97] (Italian)
• Joe Rosenthal, 94, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima), natural causes. [98]
• Neil Trezise, 75, Australian Labor politician, Victorian Minister for Sport (1982–1992), Australian rules football player, heart attack. [99]
• Richard de Yarburgh-Bateson, 6th Baron Deramore, 95, British architect and writer of erotic fiction. [100]

19

• Marvin Barrett, 86, American journalist and author. [101]
• Joyce Blair, 73, British actress, sister of Lionel Blair, cancer. [102]
• Clinton Bristow, Jr., 57, American lawyer and education official, president of Alcorn State University, heart failure. [103]
• Joseph Hill, 57, Jamaican lead singer of roots reggae group Culture, liver failure. [104]
• Óscar Míguez, 78, Uruguayan footballer, 1950 FIFA World Cup winner. [105]
• Mervyn Wood, 89, Australian rower, three-time Olympic medal winner, New South Wales Police Commissioner. [106]

18

• George Astaphan, 60, Kittian doctor, provided steroids to Ben Johnson. [107]
• James A. Clark, Jr., 87, American President of the Maryland State Senate (1979–1983), cancer. [108]
• Kathryn Frost, 57, American Army major general, wife of Martin Frost, breast cancer. [109]
• Fernand Gignac, 72, Canadian singer and actor, hepatitis. [110]
• Ken Kearney, 82, Australian rugby league and rugby union international player, heart attack. [111]

17

• Kontek Kamariah Ahmad, 95, Malaysian educationist, politician, activist and pioneer in the Malaysian co-operative movement. [112]
• Len Evans, 75, Australian wine writer, founder of the Australian Wine Bureau, heart attack. [113]
• Ken Goodall, 59, Irish rugby union player (1967–1970). [114]
• Masumi Hayashi, 60, American photographer, shot. [115]
• Vernon Ingram, 82, German-born American molecular biologist (MIT), discovered cause of sickle cell anemia. [116]
• Walter Jagiello, 76, American polka musician and songwriter. [117]
• Shamsur Rahman, 76, Bangladeshi poet, kidney and liver failure. [118]
• Bernard Rapp, 61, French film director, writer and journalist, lung cancer. [119]
• Sig Shore, 87, American film producer (Superfly). [120]
• Evan Harris Walker, 70, American physicist and consciousness theorist [121]
• Yen Ngoc Do, 65, Vietnamese-born American founder of Nguoi Viet Daily News, diabetes and kidney disease. [122]

16

• Umberto Baldini, 84, Italian art restorer, director of the conservation studios at the Uffizi. [123]
• Alex Buzo, 62, Australian playwright, cancer. [124]
• Herschel Green, 86, American World War II fighter ace. [125]
• Iris M. Ovshinsky, 79, American co-founder of ECD Ovonics, wife of inventor Stanford Ovshinsky. [126]
• Alfredo Stroessner, 93, Paraguayan President (1954–1989), complications from hernia surgery. [127]
• Alan Vint, 61, American actor, multiple organ failure. [128]
• William Wasson, 82, American priest who founded orphanages, complications from a hip injury. [129]

15

• Rick Bourke, 51, Australian rugby league player, cancer. [130]
• Dame Te Atairangikaahu, 75, New Zealand Māori queen. [131]
• Doug White, 61, American news anchor, cancer. [132]
• Faas Wilkes, 82, Dutch international footballer. [133]

14

• Johnny Duncan, 67, American country singer and songwriter, heart attack. [134]
• John Godley, 3rd Baron Kilbracken, 85, British-born Irish peer, wartime Fleet Air Arm pilot and journalist. [135]
• Adriaan de Groot, 91, Dutch chess master and psychologist. [136]
• Bruno Kirby, 57, American character actor (The Godfather Part II, City Slickers), complications from leukemia. [137]
• Luis Fernandez de la Reguera, 39, American film director, motorcycle accident. [138]

13

• Joseph Carlino, 89, American Speaker of the New York State Assembly (1959–1964). [139]
• Kermit L. Hall, 61, American President of the University at Albany, member of the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, swimming accident. [140]
• Al Hostak, 90, American National Boxing Association Middleweight champion (1938–1939), stroke. [141]
• Tony Jay, 73, British actor and voice artist, complications from tumor surgery. [142]
• Jon Nödtveidt, 31, Swedish lead guitarist and vocalist (Dissection), convicted of felony murder, suicide. [143]
• Payao Poontarat, 49, Thai boxer, first Thai Olympic medal winner (bronze, 1976), World Boxing Council champion, ALS. [144]

12

• Victoria Gray Adams, 79, American civil rights activist, first woman to run for a US Senate seat in Mississippi, cancer. [145]
• Camille Loiseau, 114, French doyenne, oldest verified person in Western Europe. [146]
• Raska Lukwiya, Ugandan commander in the Lord's Resistance Army, indictee of the International Criminal Court for war crimes, killed in battle. [147]

11

• Alvin Cooperman, 83, American entertainment executive. [148]
• David Thomas Dawson, 48, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Montana. [149]
• Mike Douglas, 81, American talk-show host and entertainer. [150]
• Alice Ilchman, 71, American economist, president of Sarah Lawrence College, 1981-1998. [151]
• Mazisi Kunene, 76, South African poet laureate. [152] [153]

10

• George Dawkes, 86 English cricketer, specialising in wicket keeping, for Derbyshire. [154]
• Barbara George 63, R&B-singer, homicide
• Irving São Paulo, 41, Brazilian actor, multiple organ failure [155]
• Yasuo Takei, 76, Japan's second-richest man and founder of Takefuji Corporation. [156] [157]

9

• Anga Díaz, 45, Cuban conga player. [158] [159]
• Melissa Hayden, 83, Canadian-born ballerina, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, pancreatic cancer. [160] [161]
• Philip Empson High, 92, British science fiction author, natural causes. [162]
• Said Abdullo Nuri, 59, leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, cancer.[163]
• Rafael Ruiz, 89, Spanish Olympic field hockey player (1948). [164] (Spanish)
• James Van Allen, 91, American space physicist, heart failure. [165] [166]

8

• William B. Anderson, 82, journalist [167]
• Gustavo Arcos, 79, Cuban dissident, pneumonia. [168] [169]
• Marion Cajori, 56, documentary filmmaker. [170]
• Darrell Ferguson, 28, convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection in Ohio. [171]
• Duke Jordan, 84, American bebop jazz pianist. [172] [173]
• Dino Restelli, 81, major league baseball player. [174]

7

• Mary Anderson Bain, 94, New Deal director under U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and former top aide to Congressman Sid Yates. [175]
• Sue Bierman, 82, former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, car accident. [176]
• Jim Crooker, 80, amateur who played in more Bob Hope Chrysler Classic tournaments than any other golfer, cancer. [177]
• Lois January, 92, American actress, Alzheimer's disease. [178]
• Robert McCullough, 64, African-American civil rights activist, leader of the Friendship Nine. [179]
• Bob Miller, 76, NFL defensive tackle with the title-winning Detroit Lions, cancer. [180]
• John Weinberg, 81, American banker, former head of Goldman Sachs, complications from a fall. [181]

6

• Gintaras Beresnevičius, 45, a Lithuanian historian of religions specializing in Baltic mythology, writer, scholar, publicist. [182]
• Dorothy Healey, 91, American communist leader, pneumonia. [183]
• Rafik Kamalov, Kyrgyz Imam and alleged Islamic militant, injuries sustained from gunfire. [184]
• Stella Moray, 83, British actress and performer. [185].
• Jim Pomeroy, 53, first American to win a World Championship Motocross event, automobile accident. [186]
• Moacir Santos, 80, Brazilian composer and arranger. [187][188]
• Sir Robert Sparkes, 77, Australian grazier and businessman, former President of the Queensland National Party 1970-1990. [189]
• Hirotaka Suzuoki, 56, Japanese anime voice actor, lung cancer.
• Ian Walters, 76, British sculptor. [190]
• Monsignor Lawrence Wnuk, 98, Polish Roman Catholic priest, Protonotary Apostolic, founder of the Polish Canadian Centre Association of Windsor, Ontario. [191]

5

• Susan Butcher, 51, four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion, complications from a bone marrow transplant to combat acute myeloid leukemia. [192][193]
• Steve Crosno, 66, longtime El Paso radio DJ whose career spanned nearly 50 years, kidney failure. [194]
• Richard L. Fisher, 65, New York City developer and philanthropist, cancer. [195]
• Aron Gurevich, 82, Russian medievalist.
• William Massee, 87, American wine writer. [196]
• Hugo Schiltz, 78, Belgian politician. [197]
• Daniel Schmid, 64, Swiss filmmaker and director (Il Bacio di Tosca), cancer. [198] [199]
• Ed Thrasher, 74, American album cover designer. [200]
• Rosaline Yeoh (née Chan Yee Hing), 54, former Hong Kong actress and wife of Malaysian tycoon Tan Sri Francis Yeoh, cancer. [201][202]

4

• Elden Auker, 95, former American Major League Baseball pitcher, heart attack. [203] [204]
• Julio Galán, 46, Mexican neo-expressionist painter. [205]
• John Locke, 62, former keyboardist of Spirit. [206]
• Dr. James F. X. O'Rourke, 86, American eye surgeon, former mayor of Yonkers, New York, and former professional football player. [207]
• Nandini Satpathy, 75, Chief Minister of Orissa, India 1972-1976, cerebral bleeding. [208]
• Monroe Clark, 70, American Singer, Actor, Performer of the Violin, Piano, Keytar and Viola.
• Esther Snyder, 86, president of California-based In-N-Out Burger. [209]

3

• Helmut Bein, 74, German rally driver, Opel Motorsport manager and Formula 3 official [210] [211]
• Richard T. Greene Sr., 93, Black banker, former director of the Carver Federal Savings Bank. [212]
• Dr. John Haase, 82, German-born American dentist turned author (Me and the Arch Kook Petulia), emphysema. [213] [214]
• Arthur Lee, 61, American rock musician, leader of the psychedelic band Love, leukemia. [215] [216]
• Ken Richmond, 80, British actor and wrestler, 1952 Olympic bronze medal winner, gong striker in the credits for films by J. Arthur Rank Studios. [217] [218]
• Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 90, German born opera soprano, natural causes. [219]
• Robert Eric Wone, 32, American general counsel to Radio Free Asia, stabbing, 2008 allegation of coverup. [220], [221]
• Dr N.S. Sridharan, 59, artificial intelligence expert and humanitarian, malaria. [222]

2

• Holger Börner, 75, German politician, prime minister of Hesse 1976-1987, cancer. [223]
• Fitz Eugene Dixon, Jr., 82, former owner of the Philadelphia 76ers who signed Julius Erving, skin cancer. [224]
• Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont, 92, French Resistance fighter, militant communist, and politician. [225]
• David Levy, 79, New York State Supreme Court justice. [226]
• Kim McLagan, 57, British model of the 1960s, wife of Ian McLagan of The Faces and former wife of Keith Moon, traffic accident. [227]
• Luisel Ramos, 22, Uruguayan model, heart failure caused by anorexia nervosa
• Harold Ronk, 85, American singing ringmaster for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. [228]
• Ferenc Szusza, 82, record goalscorer for a single club in Hungarian football. [229]
• Audrey Lindvall, 23, American model and sister of American supermodel Angela Lindvall, traffic accident.

1

• Gay Delanghe, 65, American choreographer, ovarian cancer. [230]
• Dr. Vincent Dole, 93, American medical researcher, established that methadone could treat heroin addiction, ruptured aorta. [231] [232]
• Rufus Harley, 70, American jazz bagpipe player, prostate cancer. [233]
• Gabriel Kaspereit, French politician.
• Masao Nishimura, 73, Japanese banker, CEO of the Industrial Bank of Japan and founder and CEO of Mizuho Holdings, Inc.. [234]
• Rev. Bernard Pagano, 81, American Catholic priest charged with and later cleared of armed robbery, stroke. [235]
• Arlene Raven, 62, feminist writer and art critic, kidney cancer. [236]
• Jason Rhoades, 41, American installation artist, heart failure. [237][238]
• Bob Thaves, 81, cartoonist, created and illustrated Frank and Ernest, respiratory failure [239]
• Johannes Willebrands, 96, Archbishop of Utrecht 1975-1983, oldest Cardinal in the Roman Catholic church. [240] [241] (English) [242] (Dutch)
• Iris Marion Young, 57, political philosopher and feminist, esophageal cancer. [243]

See also

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