Deaths in March 2006

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

March 2006

1

• Annette von Aretin, 85, German TV personality. (German)
• Joëlle Aubron, 46, French member of Action Directe, lung cancer.
• Harry Browne, 72, American libertarian writer and presidential candidate for the United States Libertarian Party, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Ronald Anthony Cross, 68, American science fiction writer.
• Mack Easley, 89, former Democratic lieutenant governor of New Mexico (1963 — 1966).
• Alexander Fol, 72, Bulgarian historian of ancient Greece, former Minister of Education.
• O. Milton Gossett, 80, American advertising executive, former CEO Saatchi & Saatchi Compton Worldwide
• Edith "Judy" Ingamells, 112, oldest Briton.
• Johnny Jackson, 54, former drummer for The Jackson 5, stabbing.
• Peter Osgood, 59, former English footballer, heart attack.
• Jenny Tamburi, 53, Italian actress 1970s B-movies and casting director TV-series.

2

• Madeleine Cosman, 68, American scholar of medieval Europe
• Leopold Gratz, 75, Austrian politician, former Mayor of Vienna.
• Marion Higgins, 112, California's oldest person.
• Phyllis Huffman, 61, award-winning casting director.
• Willie Kent, 70, blues bassist, cancer.
• Peter Snow, c. 70, New Zealand doctor who discovered "Tapanui flu" (chronic fatigue syndrome).
• Rachel Mellon Walton, 107, American philanthropist.
• Jack Wild, 53, British actor (Oliver!, H.R. Pufnstuf), oral cancer.

3

• Ivor Cutler, 83, humorist, author, singer, and poet.
• William Herskovic, 91, escapee from Auschwitz during World War II, cancer.
• Charlie Hodge, 71, guitarist and backup singer for Elvis Presley and Graceland resident, lung cancer.
• Richard VanderVeen, 83, former Democratic United States Representative from Michigan (1973 — 1977), prostate cancer.

4

• John Reynolds Gardiner, 61, American children's author, pancreatitis
• Roman Ogaza, 54, Polish football player.
• Edgar Valter, 76, Estonian children's book illustrator and cartoonist.

5

• Milan Babić, 50, former leader of the Republic of Serbian Krajina who pleaded guilty to war crimes, suicide.
• Richard Kuklinski, 70, American mafia hitman, natural causes.
• John Joseph Paul, 89, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of La Crosse (1983–1994).
• John Sandusky, 80, former NFL player and assistant coach, complications from internal bleeding.

6

• Anne Braden, 81, American civil rights activist.
• King Floyd, 61, American soul singer.
• Mubdar Hatim al-Dulaimi, 55, Major General in the Iraqi Army, shot by a sniper.
• Mortimo Planno, 85, Rastafarian philosopher.
• Kirby Puckett, 45, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, stroke complications.
• Dana Reeve, 45, activist, widow of Christopher Reeve, lung cancer.
• Simon Ungers, 49, New York-based German architect and artist.^[1]
• Ruth Weiss, 97, (also: Wèi Lùshī 魏璐诗) Austrian-Chinese journalist and member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

7

• Floyd Gass, 79, American college football coach (Oklahoma State University).
• Howard Jackson, 54, American martial artist, leukemia.
• John Junkin, 76, British actor, lung cancer.
• Ludwik Margules, 72, Mexican theatre director, cancer.
• John Joseph McFall, 88, former Democratic United States Representative from California (1956 — 1978).
• Gordon Parks, 93, photographer, film director (Shaft), cancer.
• Jesse "Guitar" Taylor, 55, blues guitarist.
• Ali Farka Touré, 66, Malian musician, cancer.

8

• Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes, 82, pioneering New Zealand cardiologist, complications during heart valve replacement.
• Dr. Joseph Burchenal, 93, American oncologist, worked on leukemia treatments
• Teresa Ciepły, 69, Polish athlete, 1964 Olympic track champion.
• Giordano Cottur, 91, Italian Giro d'Italia-Champion. , ,
• George Sassoon, 69, scientist, author and radio amateur, cancer.

9

• Hanka Bielicka, 90, Polish singer and actress.
• Dennis Brookes, 90, English cricketer.
• Péter Halász, 62, Hungarian theatre director, actor, and writer, liver cancer.
• Doug Hamilton, 43, general manager for the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team, heart attack aboard aircraft.
• Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie, 72, English cricketer and insurance executive, brain tumour.
• Anna Moffo, 73 or 75, American singer and operatic soprano, stroke following decade long battle with breast cancer.
• John Profumo, 91, British politician, complications following a stroke.
• Harry Seidler, 82, leading Australian architect of the Modernism movement.
• John Wilde, 86, American surrealist painter.

10

• Mary MacIsaac, 112, Saskatchewan's oldest person. ^{[citation needed]}
• Alberto Migré, 74, Argentine TV screenwriter and producer, heart attack.

11

• Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, 81, British soldier and military historian.
• Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, 75, NHL player with the Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers, stomach cancer.
• Pauline Gregg, 96, author, historian and biographer.
• Slobodan Milošević, 64, former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia standing trial for war crimes, heart attack.
• Jesús Rollán, 37, Spanish former water polo goalkeeper, suicide.
• Lindsay Shonteff, 70, British horror film director of the 1960s.
• Charles M. Tanner, age 85, founder of Covenant Players, declining health following massive stroke.

12

• Nick Barone, 79, American heavyweight and light heavyweight boxer
• Joseph Bova, 81, American actor (Once Upon a Mattress)
• Jurij Brězan, 89, Sorbian-German writer. ^{[citation needed]}
• István Gyulai, 62, Hungarian journalist, General Secretary of the IAAF.
• Jonatan Johansson, 26, Swedish snowboarder, accident during training.
• Victor Sokolov, 59, dissident ex-Soviet journalist, and Orthodox priest, lung cancer. ^{[citation needed]}

13

• Robert C. Baker, 84, American agricultural scientist, developed chicken products and processes.
• Roy Clarke, 80, footballer for Manchester City & Wales.
• Jimmy Johnstone, 61, Scottish football player, voted Celtic's best ever, motor neurone disease.
• Charles Newman (author), 67, American novelist and founding editor of TriQuarterly.
• Maureen Stapleton, 80, American actress (Plaza Suite, Cocoon), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. ^{[citation needed]}
• Peter Tomarken, 63, American game show host (Press Your Luck), plane crash.

14

• E.S. Anderson, 94, British microbiologist
• Ann Calvello, 76, roller derby player, liver cancer.
• Hamish Gray, Baron Gray of Contin, 78, former British Conservative government minister.
• Lennart Meri, 76, former President of Estonia.
• Art Michaluk, 82, former American Hockey League hockey player and World War II veteran.

15

• Ken Brewer, 64, Poet Laureate of Utah, pancreatic cancer.
• Humphrey, c. 17, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, 1989–1997.
• René Lasserre, 93, Paris restaurateur.
• George Mackey, 90, formerly Landon T. Clay Professor of mathematics, Harvard University.
• Charles Newman, 67, American novelist (White Jazz, The Promisekeeper: A Tephramancy) and editor (TriQuarterly)
• George Rallis, 87, former Prime Minister of Greece, 1980–81, heart failure.
• Mark Southern, 45, professor of linguistics, Middlebury College ^{[citation needed]}
• Red Storey, 88, former Canadian Football League player and NHL referee.

16

• Jonathan Delisle, 28, American Hockey League and National Hockey League hockey player, automobile accident.
• David Feintuch, 61, American science fiction author, following cardiac trouble.
• Paul Flaherty, 42, web indexing pioneer , heart attack
• James Hill, 95, legendary British soldier who commanded the Canadian paratroopers who dropped into France on D-Day, natural causes
• K. Leroy Irvis, 86, Speaker of Pennsylvania House of Representatives (first African-American Speaker in any U.S. state government), cancer.
• Moira Redmond, 77, English actress, heart attack.
• Jade Snow Wong, 84, Chinese author and ceramicist, natural causes.

17

• Yuan Baojing, 39 or 40, Chinese multi-millionaire, executed by lethal injection for ordering a contract killing. ^{[citation needed]}
• Oleg Cassini, 92, fashion designer.
• Narvin Kimball, 97, American banjo player, founding member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Gentlemen of Jazz.
• Ray Meyer, 92, former DePaul basketball coach and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, natural causes.
• G. William Miller, 81, United States Secretary of Treasury from 1979 - 1981 under Jimmy Carter, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
• Patrick Moody, 39, American convicted murderer, executed in North Carolina.
• Bob Papenbrook, 50, Los Angeles voice actor, lung complications.

18

• Michael Attwell, 63, British actor.
• Bill Beutel, 75, WABC-TV anchorman, Alzheimer's disease.
• Nelson Dantas, 78, Brazilian actor, lung cancer.
• Anatoliy Puzach, 65, former Soviet World Cup footballer & title-winning coach for Dynamo Kiev
• Sir Wallace Rae, 92, Queensland (Australia) politician

19

• Mohammad Ali, 78, Pakistani actor, cardiac arrest.
• Anselmo Colzani, 87, Italian operatic baritone.
• Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, 67, molecular and cell biologist, science journal editor, Burkitt's lymphoma.
• Leon Daniel, 74, American correspondent and editor for United Press International.
• Kevin Payne, 34, professional boxer, injuries sustained during fight.
• Channing Pollock, 79, magician, complications of cancer.
• Dr. Richard Root, 68, American epidemiologist, crocodile attack.
• John Wyatt, 81, British writer and ranger.

20

• Gene Scott, 68, American tennis player and publisher of Tennis Week.

21

• Lord Ackner, 85, British Lord of Appeal.
• Bob Delegall, 60, American actor and director, prostate cancer.
• Margaret Ewing, 60, Scottish nationalist politician, breast cancer.
• James O. Freedman, 70, former president of Dartmouth College and the University of Iowa, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
• Bernard Lacoste, 74, French clothing magnate of Lacoste, unspecified illness.
• Leslie MacMitchell, 85, American runner, James E. Sullivan Award winner

22

• Ria Beckers, 67, former political leader of the Dutch political parties Politieke Partij Radicalen and GroenLinks.
• James Chikerema, 80, Zimbabwean nationalist, co-founder of ZAPU and government co-minister in the internal settlement government of Rhodesia.
• Pierre Clostermann, 85, World War II French flying ace.
• Eugene Landy, 71, American psychologist, famous for treating Brian Wilson, lung cancer
• Britt Lomond, 80, American actor (Zorro), fencer, and World War II veteran.
• Gergely András Molnár, 108, the last Hungarian veteran of the First World War
• Brian Parkyn, 82, British Labour MP for Bedford 1966-70 .
• Stig Wennerström, 99, Swedish Air Force Colonel convicted of spying for the USSR.

23

• Adwaita, 255 (approximate age), tortoise claimant for world's oldest animal, reputedly a former pet of General Clive, liver failure.
• David B. Bleak, 74, Medal of Honor recipient in the Korean War.
• Sarah Caldwell, 82, longtime conductor of the Opera Company of Boston
• Desmond Doss, 87, Medal of Honor recipient and conscientious objector.
• Gerry "Tex" Ehman, 73, Canadian-born retired NHL player and executive, lung cancer.
• John W. Griffin, 78, perennial candidate in Ohio and member of the Ohio State Board of Education. ^{[citation needed]}
• Eloy de la Iglesia, 62, Spanish film director. .
• Pío Leyva, 88, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club), heart attack.
• Peter Shand Kydd, 80, English wallpaper heir and stepfather of Diana, Princess of Wales.
• Cindy Walker, 87, American country-western songwriter, (Dream Baby) for Roy Orbison et al.

24

• Jörg Bastuck, 36, German rally car co-driver, accident during the 2006 Rally Catalunya.
• John Glenn Beall, Jr., 78, former Republican United States Senator from Maryland from 1971–1977 and United States Representative from 1969 - 1971.
• Dr. Jaroslava Moserova, 76, Czech senator, ambassador, presidential candidate, doctor, and translator.
• Lynne Perrie, 74, English actress (Coronation Street, Kes), stroke.

25

• Bob Carlos Clarke, 55, Irish photographer, suicide.
• Rocío Dúrcal, 61, Spanish singer and actress, uterine cancer.
• Richard Fleischer, 89, American film director (Tora! Tora! Tora!, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Soylent Green)
• Danilo Lazović, 56, Serbian actor, heart attack.
• Buck Owens, 76, American country music star (Hee Haw), heart attack.
• Alfredo Silipigni, 72, longtime conductor of the New Jersey State Opera, complications of pneumonia

26

• Angelo d'Arrigo, 44, Italian aviator, air crash.
• Anil Biswas (politician), 61, Indian politician, cerebral hemorrhage .
• David Cunliffe-Lister, 2nd Earl of Swinton, 69, British peer, politician & magistrate.
• Paul Dana, 30, Indy Racing League driver, multiple trauma injuries sustained in accident.
• Manar Maged, 1, Egyptian girl born with two heads, brain infection .
• Nikki Sudden, 49, British musician, punk-blues icon, and co-founder of Swell Maps.

27

• Al Alquist, 97, former California state senator
• Wayne Boden, 58, Canadian serial killer and rapist, of natural causes after a lengthy illness
• Dan Curtis, 77, American television producer (Dark Shadows, The Winds of War).
• Ian Hamilton Finlay, 80, Scottish artist.
• Ken Kaess, 51, American advertising executive, CEO of DDB Worldwide, cancer
• Stanisław Lem, 84, Polish science fiction writer, heart failure.
• Ruari McLean, 88, British typographer
• Lyn Nofziger, 81, press secretary for Ronald Reagan
• Pawel Parniak, 116?, Polish supercentenarian, oldest person in Poland and WWI veteran.
• Ron Schipper, 77, College Football Hall of Fame Coach
• Bernard Siegan, 81, Ronald Reagan Federal Appellate Court nominee
• Dr. Rudolf Vrba, 82, Canadian pharmacologist, Auschwitz escapee and contributor to the Auschwitz Protocol, cancer.
• Peter Wells, 58, guitarist from Australian rock outfit Rose Tattoo, prostate cancer.
• Neil Williams, 43, international Test cricketer for England.

28

• Jerry Brudos, 67, imprisoned U.S. serial killer, natural causes
• Carlos Cat, 75, Uruguayan Minister of Labour (1990–1991) and of Transport (2000–2002).
• Pro Hart, 77, Australian outback painter, motor neurone disease
• Bansi Lal, 78, Haryana's four time chief minister, and defence minister of India during Indian Emergency (1975 - 77). ,
• Charles Schepens, 94, American ophthalmologist known as "the father of retinal surgery" and a Nazi resistance movement leader
• Caspar Weinberger, 88, U.S. Secretary of Defense 1981-1987 under Reagan; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1973-1975 under Nixon and Ford.

29

• Don Alias, 66, American jazz percussionist.
• Eric Budd, 84, English administrator, the General Secretary (1987–2000) and Vice-Chairman of the Cricket Society (2000–2001)
• Salvador Elizondo, 73, Mexican writer and member of the Mexican Academy of the Language, of cancer.
• Henry Farrell, 85, American author and screenwriter (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte).
• Penny Jay, 80, American country singer/songwriter ("Don't Let Me Cross Over", "Just Over the Line"), longtime companion of William Little guitarist (Even Keel) of California, USA.
• Gretchen Rau, 66, set decorator, winner of 2005 Academy Award for Best Art Direction for Memoirs of a Geisha from a brain tumor
• Bob Veith, 81, former Indianapolis 500 racing driver.

30

• Red Hickey, 89, NFL coach of the San Francisco 49ers, inventor of shotgun formation, natural causes.
• Philip Hyde, 84, American wildlife photographer
• Manohar Shyam Joshi, 73, Indian Hindi novelist and soap opera writer
• Harry Krantz, 86, Australian trade union official.
• John McGahern, 71, Irish novelist and playwright, cancer.
• Gloria Monty, 84, executive producer of the soap opera General Hospital, cancer.

31

• George L. Brown, 79, former Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, first black lieutenant governor in the US.
• Angela Devi, 30, Indian-American big-bust model and performer, suicide by asphyxiation.
• Jackie McLean, 73, jazz saxophonist.
• Candice Rialson, 54, actress, liver disease.

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