Deaths in February 2006

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

February 2006

28

• James Ronald "Bunkie" Blackburn, 69, NASCAR driver [1]
• Owen Chamberlain, 85, particle physicist, co-discoverer of the antiproton, winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics. Complications from Parkinson's Disease.[2]
• Travis Claridge, 27, American football player with the Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers and Hamilton Tiger-Cats, pneumonia. [3]
• Hugh McCartney, 86, former Labour Party MP. [4]

27

• Alice Baker, 107, last surviving British woman to serve in the First World War, member of the Royal Flying Corps [5] [6]
• Ferenc Bene, 61, Hungarian football (soccer) player, fall.
• Otis Chandler, 78, former publisher of the Los Angeles Times, Lewy body disease. [7][8][9]
• Fahd Faraj al-Juwair, 36, Saudi Arabian alleged head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula, killed in foiled bombing attempt. [10]
• Milton Katims, 96, long-time conductor and leader of the Seattle Symphony
• Tsakani Mhinga, 27, South African R&B singer, drug overdose. [11]
• William Musto, 88, former mayor of Union City, New Jersey, convicted of racketeering [12]
• Robert Lee Scott, Jr., 97, retired United States Air Force brigadier general and fighter ace, author (God is My Co-Pilot). [13]
• Linda Smith, 48, British comedian, ovarian cancer. [14]

26

• Georgina Battiscombe, 100, author & biographer [15]
• Bill Cardoso, 68, American writer and editor, coined the term "gonzo", heart failure. [16]
• Sir Hans Singer, 95, German-born British economist, helped create the World Food Program and the United Nations Development Program. [17]

25

• Jeff Barnes, 50, professional wrestling announcer, died after falling off a cliff while hiking.
• Dr. Robin Coombs, 84, British immunologist, developed Coombs Antibody test[18]
• Kenneth Deane, 45, Canadian police officer convicted in Ipperwash shooting, automobile accident. [19]
• Thomas Koppel, 61, Danish musician and composer from the band Savage Rose. [20]
• Darren McGavin, 83, American actor (Kolchak: The Night Stalker, A Christmas Story), natural causes. [21] [22][23]
• Henry M. Morris, 87, American young earth creationist leader, complications of stroke. [24] [25]
• Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, 69, Poet Laureate of Ethiopia, kidney disease. [26][27]
• Imette St. Guillen 24, Hispanic John Jay College of Criminal Justice Student. Rape Murder
• Charlie Wayman, 83, English footballer, during the 1940s and 1950s, following a long illness [28]

24

• Octavia Butler, 58, science fiction author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, head injury. [29]
• Don Knotts, 81, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Three's Company), complications from aspiration pneumonia and Lung Cancer. [30] [31]
• John Martin, 58, Canadian broadcaster, throat cancer. [32]
• Andrew Sherratt, 59, British archaeologist at the University of Sheffield, heart failure. [33]
• Denis Twitchett, 80, Gordon Wu Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University 1980-94, creator of the 15 volume The Cambridge History of China, poor health. [34] [35]
• Dennis Weaver, 81, American actor (Gunsmoke, McCloud), complications from cancer. [36][37][38]

23

• Giuseppe Amici, 67, former Captain Regent of San Marino
• Frederick Busch, 64, American author, heart attack. [39]
• Luna Leopold, 90, American ecologist and author [40]
• Machteld Mellink, 88, Netherlands-born American archaeologist of sites in Anatolia [41]
• Dr. Robert W. Miller, 84, American epidemiologist with the US National Cancer Institute, studied Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings [42]
• Diane Shalet, 71, American actress and author [43]
• Reverend Earl Stallings, 89, Baptist pastor praised by Martin Luther King in the Letter from Birmingham Jail [44]
• Telmo Zarraonaindía, 85, Spanish football (soccer) player, heart attack. [45][46]

22

• Atwar Bahjat, 30, Iraqi journalist for al-Arabiya, abducted and killed in Iraq. [47][48]
• Anthony Burger, 44, American gospel music pianist, collapsed during performance. [49]
• Said Mohamed Djohar, 87, former President of Comoros. [50][51]
• Hilde Domin, 96, German poet and writer. [52]
• Donelson Hoopes, 73, American curator [53]
• Edward Nalbandian, 78, owner of Zachary All Clothing in Los Angeles, Alzheimer's disease. [54]
• Flossie Page, 112, American supercentenarian, oldest person from Kansas. [55]
• Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, 90, former Second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, heart failure. [56]
• Bill Tung, 72, Hong Kong actor, horse racing commentator. [57]
• Richard Wawro, 52, autistic savant internationally recognized artist, cancer. [58]

21

• Gennadiy Aygi, 71, Russian author and poet who wrote in the Chuvash language. [59]
• Theodore Draper, 93, American historian and political commentator. [60]
• Mirko Marjanovic, 68, prime minister of Serbia from 1994 to 2000. [61]
• Angelica Rozeanu, 84, Romanian-born table tennis world champion, cirrhosis. [62]
• Stefan Terlezki, 78, British Conservative Member of Parliament 1983-1987.[63]

20

• Lou Gish, 35, British stage, film and television actress, cancer. [64]
• Curt Gowdy, 86, American sports broadcaster, leukemia. [65][66][67]
• Paul Marcinkus, 84, American Catholic archbishop, President of Vatican Bank and Pro-President of Vatican City State. [68]
• Lucjan Wolanowski, 86, Polish journalist, writer and traveller. [69]

19

• Ken Keuffel, 82, American college football coach, prostate cancer. [70]
• Erna Lazarus, 102, American screenwriter. [71]

18

• Richard Bright, 68, American movie and television actor, pedestrian accident. [72]
• Bill Hartley, 75, Australian political activist and trade unionist. [73]
• Laurel Hester, 49, American gay rights activist, lung cancer. [74]
• Charles Leonard, 92, US Army Major General and Olympic sharpshooter [75]
• Tom Sellers, 83, American newspaper reporter and 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner, heart attack. [76]

17

• Ray Barretto, 76, American-born Latin jazz percussionist and bandleader, heart failure. [77][78]
• Sybille Bedford, 94, German-born British novelist and memoirist. [79]
• Paul Carr, 72, American TV and movie actor, lung cancer. [80]
• Bill Cowsill, 58, American singer, lead of The Cowsills, emphysema and other ailments. [81][82]
• Harold Hunter, 31, American pro skateboarder, in movie Kids, suspected drug overdose. [83]
• Bob Lewis, 81, American race horse owner, congestive heart failure. [84]
• Jorge Pinto Mendonça, 51, Brazilian football (soccer) player, heart attack. [85]
• Yevgeny Samoilov, 94, Russian actor [86]

16

• Paul Avrich, 74, American professor and historian of anarchism, Alzheimer's disease. [87]
• Benno Besson, 83, Swiss stage director. [88]
• Johnny Grunge, 39, American pro wrestler, sleep apnea complications. [89]
• Sid Feller, 89, American music arranger, conductor and record producer. [90]
• Susie Gibson, 115, American supercentenarian, heart failure. [91]
• Dennis Kirkland, 63, British television producer and director, after a short illness. [92]
• Ernie Stautner, 80, Bavarian-born American Pro Football Hall of Famer, Alzheimer's disease. [93]

15

• Barbara Guest, 85, American poet of the New York School [94]
• Anna Marly, 88, Russian-born songwriter, France's "Troubadour of the Resistance." [95]
• Andrei Petrov, 75, Russian composer. [96]
• Robert E. Rich, Sr., 92, American businessman, creator of first nondairy whipped topping. [97]
• Sun Yun-suan, 93, former Premier of Republic of China, myocardial infarction. [98]
• Josip Vrhovec, 79, former foreign minister of Yugoslavia.

14

• Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik, 106, Lubavitch storyteller. [99]
• Darry Cowl, 80, French actor and pianist, lung cancer. [100]
• Shoshana Damari, 83, "Queen of Israeli song," pneumonia. [101]
• Joel Dorius, 87, American professor of literature, bone marrow cancer. [102]
• Michael G. Fitzgerald, 55, American film historian and author. [103]
• Lynden David Hall, 31, British soul singer, Hodgkin's lymphoma. [104]]
• Benjamin Matthews, 72, bass-baritone opera singer, co-founder of Opera Ebony [105]
• Don Paarlberg, 94, American agricultural economics adviser to three U.S. Presidents. [106]
• Robert Taylor Sr., 89, American businessman, miniature golf pioneer. [107]
• Putte Wickman, 81, Swedish jazz orchestra leader and clarinetist, cancer. [108]

13

• John Brooke-Little, 78, English author and officer of arms. [109]
• Ilan Halimi, French Jew murdered by a gang from Banlieue. Possibly anti-Semitic murder.
• Andreas Katsulas, 59, American actor, lung cancer. [110]
• Alan M. Levin, 79, American documentary filmmaker. [111]
• Edna Lewis, 89, American author of cookbooks on Southern U.S. cuisine. [112]
• Altynbek Sarsenbayev, 43, former Kazakhstan cabinet minister, assassinated. [113][114]
• Sir Peter Strawson, 86, British philosopher. [115]
• Joseph Ujlaki, 76, Hungarian-born French football player. [116]
• Wang Xuan, 70, Chinese academic and IT expert. [117]
• Bettie Wilson, 115, American supercentenarian, complications from congestive heart failure. [118]

12

• Henri Guédon, 61, French percussionist. [119]
• Geordie Hormel, 77, American musician and studio owner, heir to the Hormel Foods fortune. [120]
• 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[121]

11

• Peter Benchley, 65, American author best known for Jaws, pulmonary fibrosis. [122] [123]
• Peggy Cripps Appiah, 84, British-Ghanaian children's author. [124]
• Ken Fletcher, 65, Australian tennis player, cancer. [125]
• Jackie "Mr. TV" Pallo, 79, British professional wrestler, cancer. [126]
• Harry Schein, 81, Austrian-born founder of Swedish Film Institute, author and columnist. [127]
• Jockey Shabalala, 62, South African singer with Ladysmith Black Mambazo. [128]
• Thomas A. Spragens, 88, figure in American higher education, former President of Centre College. [129][130]
• Harry Vines, 67, American wheelchair basketball coach

10

• John Belluso, 36, American playwright, Engleman-Camurdrie syndrome. [131]
• Jill Fraser, 59, British theatre director, cancer. [132] [133]
• Dick Harmon, 58, American golfer and golf instructor. [134]
• Knut-Olaf Haustein, 71, German physician.
• John Prentice, 79, Scottish football player and manager. [135]
• Norman Shumway, 83, American surgeon performed first U.S. heart transplant, lung cancer. [136]
• Peter Smith, 65, British trade union leader, oesophageal cancer
• Juan Soriano, 85, Mexican painter and sculptor. [137]
• André Strappe, 77, French football player. [138]
• James Yancey, aka J Dilla, 32, American hip hop record producer and MC, lupus nephritis. [139]

9

• Phil Brown, 89, American actor, best known for playing "Uncle Owen" Lars in Star Wars. [140]
• Ibolya Csák, 91, Hungarian athlete, 1936 Olympic gold medalist in women's high jump. [141]
• Sir Freddie Laker, 83, British entrepreneur, founder of Laker Airways. [142]
• Nadira, 75, Indian Bollywood actress. [143]
• Laurie Z, American musician, lung cancer [144]

8

• Larry Black, 54, American track and field medalist at 1972 Summer Olympics, aneurysm. [145]
• Elton Dean, 60, English jazz saxophonist, heart and liver related problems. [146]
• Michael Gilbert, 93, British mystery author and lawyer. [147]
• Ron Greenwood, 84, British football manager, England national team, West Ham United. [148]
• Akira Ifukube, 91, Japanese film composer, best known for Godzilla film series. [149]
• Mart Kenney, 95, "Canada's Big Band King," bandleader/musician, complications from a fall.[150]
• Gigi Parrish later known as Katherine Weld, 92, American actress [151]
• Kuljeet Randhawa, 30, Indian television actress, suicide. [152]

7

• Glenn Lee Benner II, 43, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [153]
• George Millay, 76, American businessman and founder of SeaWorld, lung cancer. [154]
• Max Rosenn, 96, American judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1970-2006. [155]
• Mitchell Rupe, 51, American convicted murderer ruled too heavy to be hanged, liver disease. [156]
• Alan Shalleck, 76, American TV writer, director (Curious George animated films), murdered. [157]

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. [158][159]
• Stella Ross-Craig, 99, one of the most prodigious of British flora illustrators. [160]
• Esther Sandoval, 78, Puerto Rican actress. [161]
• Karin Struck, 58, German writer, cancer.
• Kouji Totani, 57, Japanese voice actor, heart failure.

5

• Roland S. Boreham Jr., 81, American businessman, former CEO of Baldor Electric Co. [162]
• Norma Candal, 75, Puerto Rican comedienne, actress and drama teacher, head injury. [163]
• Franklin Cover, 77, American TV and movie actor, pneumonia. [164]
• Herbert Fischer, 91, German diplomat.
• Reuven Frank, 85, American TV journalism pioneer and former NBC News president, complications from pneumonia. [165]
• Peter Philp, 85, British dramatist and antiques expert.
• Jack Taylor, 60, one of the heaviest men in Britain, heart attack. [166]
• Carl Vogel, 84, German art collector.

4

• George T. Davis, 98, American criminal defense lawyer [167]
• Friedrich Engel, 97, German, former Nazi SS officer. [168]
• Betty Friedan, 85, American feminist and writer, congestive heart failure. [169][170]
• William Augustus Jones Jr., 71, American Civil Rights pioneer. [171]
• Barbara W. Leyden, 56, American palynologist and paleoecologist.
• Joe McGuff, 79, American sportswriter and newspaper editor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease). [172]
• Elena Carter Richardson, 55, Mexico-born principal dancer and teacher, cancer.
• Myron Waldman, 97, American animator for Betty Boop and Superman cartoons, congestive heart failure. [173]

3

• Ustad Qawwal Bahauddin, 71 or 72, Indian-Pakistani Qawwali singer.
• Walerian Borowczyk, 82, Polish-born surrealist filmmaker [174], heart failure [175]
• Jean Byron, 80, American actress, infection following hip replacement surgery. [176]
• Ernie Clements, 83, British road racing cyclist. [177]
• Kurt Emmerich, 76, German radio reporter.
• Frank Goodman, 89, Broadway press agent. [178], congestive heart failure
• Lou Jones, 74, American Olympic runner. [179]
• Sonny King, 83, American comedian-singer, Jimmy Durante's sidekick, cancer. [180]
• Duma Kumalo, 48, one of the Sharpeville Six, human rights activist, film-maker and founding member of the Khulumani Support Group for victims of apartheid-related violence. [181] [182]
• Al Lewis, 82, American actor (Grandpa Munster on The Munsters), Green Party political candidate, restaurateur, and radio host. [183]
• Romano Mussolini, 78, Italian jazz musician and painter, son of Benito Mussolini. [184]
• Denne Petitclerc, 76, journalist, screenwriter, and friend of Ernest Hemingway [185]
• Johnny Vaught, 96, NCAA championship-winning University of Mississippi football coach. [186]

2

• Jill Chaifetz, 41, American lawyer and executive director of the nonprofit legal group Advocates for Children of New York, ovarian cancer. [187]
• Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury, 77, former prime minister of Bangladesh. [188]
• Chris Doty, 39, Canadian documentarian and playwright, suicide. [189]
• Guglielmo Letteri, 80, Italian comic book artist. [190]
• Pat Rupp, 63, goaltender for the 1964 and 1968 USA Olympic ice hockey teams, cancer. [191]
• Nicholas Swarbrick, 107, last remaining English merchant sailor of World War I.
• Sir Reginald Swartz, 94, Australian politician, Minister for Civil Aviation from 1966-1969. [192]
• Chris Walton, 72, English cricketer. [193], [194]
• Stephen Worobetz, 91, Canadian politician, former lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan. [195]

1

• Roy Alon, 63, British film stuntman, heart attack. [196]
• Dick Bass, 68, American pro football player and radio analyst. [197]
• Dick Brooks, 63, American NASCAR race car driver and radio broadcaster, heart attack. [198]
• Robin Donkin, 75, British historian and geographer.[199]
• Ernest Dudley, 97, British novelist, journalist, screenwriter, actor, radio broadcaster. [200]
• Carlson Gracie, Sr., 72, Brazilian martial artist, complications from kidney stones. [201]
• Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr., 86, American politician, governor of Arizona 1965-1967. [202]
• Jean-Philippe Maitre, 56, former President of the Swiss National Council, brain tumor. [203]
• John Woollam, 78, former British Conservative Member of Parliament. (Who's Who 2007)