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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2006.
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- Mohamed Abdelwahab, 23, Egyptian international footballer, suspected heart attack. [1]
- K. Sri Dhammananda, 87, Sri Lankan/Malaysian bhikkhu, stroke. [2].
- Guy Gabaldon, 80, World War II US Marine, the "Pied Piper of Saipan", heart attack. [3] [4]
- J. S. Holliday, 82, American historian and expert on California Gold Rush, pulmonary fibrosis. [5]
- Mike Magill, 86, American racing driver. [6]
- "Broadway" Charlie Wagner, 93, former pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. [7] [8]
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- Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, 80, New Zealand jurist. [9]
- Glenn Ford, 90, Canadian-American actor (Blackboard Jungle, Cimarron). [10] [11]
- Bob Gallagher, 83, chairman of Arthur J. Gallagher insurance brokerage. [12]
- Burt Goldblatt, 82, American jazz album cover designer. [13]
- Susan L. Hefle, 46, American food scientist, cancer.[14]
- George Johnson, 112, purported grandson of US president Andrew Johnson, possibly the last Californian World War I veteran, pneumonia. [15]
- Dr. Olga Jonasson, 72, American transplant surgeon. [16]
- Igor Kio, 62, Russian illusionist,
- Uwe Leichsenring, 39, German NPD politician, injuries sustained in a car accident. [17] (German)
- Bob LeRose, 85, colorist and cover production artist for DC Comics. [18]
- Ron McKenna, 88, head trainer for the New York Mets 1970-1980, heart attack. [19]
- Naguib Mahfouz, 94, Egyptian winner of 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature, head injuries sustained in a fall in July. [20]
- Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm, 83, Scottish former Conservative MP and government minister. [21]
- Mel Sachs, 60, New York City trial lawyer. [22]
- Dennis Spellmann, 70, President of Lindenwood University. [23]
- Bill Stumpf, 70, American industrial designer who co-created the Aeron office chair. [24] [25]
29
- Kent Andersson, 64, Swedish motorcycle racer, winner of 1973 and 1974 125cc World Championships. [26]
- Stefan Blaho, 21, Slovak hockey player drafted by the New York Islanders, car accident. [27]
- John Cummins, 58, Victorian union official and last secretary of the Builders' Labourers Federation, cancer. [28]
- Dr. Robert Gorlin, 83, American oral pathologist. [29]
- Gerald Green, 84, American author (The Last Angry Man) and screenwriter (Holocaust). [30]
- Dorothy Harmsen, 91, co-creator of the Jolly Rancher, author and collector of American Western art, heart attack. [31] [32]
- Benjamin Rawitz-Castel, 60, Israeli pianist, murdered in Brussels. [33]
- Jumpin' Gene Simmons, 73, American rockabilly musician. [34]
- Wong Mew-Mee, 54, Malaysiaian Principle of SJK Bemban, Batu Gajah.
28
- Ed Benedict, 94, American animator and layout artist, designed Fred Flintstone.[35]
- Don Chipp, 81, Australian politician, founder of the Australian Democrats. [36] [37] [38]
- Mary Lee Robb Cline, 80, played Marjorie on The Great Gildersleeve, heart failure. [39]
- Heino Lipp, 84, Estonian champion decathlete, prevented from competing in the 1948 and 1952 Olympics due to Soviet repression. [40] (Estonian), [41] (PDF)
- Robert McDermott, 86, former dean of the United States Air Force Academy, chairman of USAA and owner of San Antonio Spurs, stroke. [42]
- David Nicholson, 67, British horse racing trainer, suspected heart attack. [43]
- Pip Pyle, 56, drummer with Gong and Hatfield and the North [44]
- William F. Quinn, 87, first Governor of Hawaii, pneumonia. [45] [46]
- Michael Richard, 58, photographer, cancer. [47]
- Benoît Sauvageau, 42, Bloc Québécois MP, traffic accident. [48]
- Dr. Melvin Schwartz, 73, American physicist, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics. [49] [50]
- Alfred Sherman, 86, British co-founder of the Conservative think tank the Centre for Policy Studies. [51]
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- Maria Esther de Capovilla, 116, world's oldest person and the last person known to have been alive in the 1880s, pneumonia. [52] [53] [54]
- Jon Dough, 43, AVN Hall of Fame pornographic actor, suicide. [55]
- Ike Hildebrand, 79, Canadian ice hockey and lacrosse player. [56]
- Iain MacKintosh, 74, Scottish folk musician. [57]
- Vashti McCollum, 93, American plaintiff in McCollum v. Board of Education. [58]
- Luciano Mendes de Almeida, 75, Archbishop of Mariana, Brazil, cancer. [59]
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee, 83, Indian film director [60] [61]
- Jesse Pintado, 37, American guitarist with Terrorizer and Napalm Death, complications of diabetic coma. [62]
- Dr. A. James Rowan, 71, neurologist who studied epilepsy. [63]
- Patrick Smith, 58, board member of Habitat for Humanity International, one of 49 killed on Comair Flight 5191. [64]
26
- Rainer Barzel, 82, former President of the German Bundestag and Chairman of the CDU. [65]
- Nawab Akbar Bugti, 79, Balochistani rebel tribal leader, killed by Pakistani military forces. [66]
- John Ripley Forbes, 93, American naturalist and conservationist, founder of nature museums. [67]
- William Garnett, 89, American aerial photographer. [68]
- Yosef Hadar, 90, Israeli composer, cancer (in Hebrew)
- Evgeny Kucherevsky, 65, Ukrainian football coach of Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, car crash. [69]
- Father Marie-Dominique Philippe, O.P., 93, French Dominican priest & founder of the Community of St. John, stroke. [70]
- Vladimir Tretchikoff, 92, Russian artist. [71]
- Michael Vestey, 61, former BBC correspondent and radio critic on The Spectator magazine. [72]
- Sir Clyde Walcott, 80, West Indian cricketer. [73][74]
25
- John Blankenstein, 57, one of the first openly gay Dutch football referees, kidney disease. [75]
- Noor Hassanali, 88, former President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
- Morton Holbrook, Jr., 91, led reform of Kentucky court system. [76]
- Silva Kaputikyan, 87, Armenian poet. [77]
- Lena King Lee, 100, educator and attorney, one of the first African-American women elected to the Maryland General Assembly. [78] [79]
- Vijay Mehra, 68, Indian cricketer. [80]
- Cristian Nemescu, 27, Romanian film director, car accident. [81][82]
- Dr. Gail Shapiro, 59, American pediatric allergist. [83]
- Joseph Stefano, 84, screenwriter (Psycho), co-creator of The Outer Limits. [84] [85]
- Toroku Takagi, 102, Japanese composer. [86]
- Andrei Toncu, 28, Romanian sound designer, car accident. [87] [88] [89]
- Ross Warneke, 54, Australian television commentator and radio broadcaster, cancer. [90]
- John Wilson, 56, New York Times journalist and founding member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. [91]
24
- Herbert Hupka, 91, German journalist and politician. [92] (in German)
- Leonard Levy, 83, Canadian-born US constitutional historian and author, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for History. [93]
- Anthony Malara, 69, former president of CBS Television and former head of the New York State Broadcasters Association. [94]
- Viktor Pavlov, 65, Russian actor, heart attack. [95] (in Russian)
- Rocco Petrone, 80, American NASA engineer, director of Project Apollo and the Marshall Space Flight Center. [96]
- David Plowright, 75, TV executive and producer, former chairman of Granada Television. [97]
- Ralph Schoenstein, 73, American humorist and NPR commentator. [98]
- Léopold Simoneau, 90, Canadian lyric tenor. [99] [100]
- James Tenney, 72, experimental composer, cancer.[101]
- Gene Thompson, 89, baseball player with the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Giants. [102]
- John Weinzweig, 93, Canadian music composer. [103]
23
- Lauren Crowner, 25, news anchor/reporter at WCMH-TV in Columbus, OH, infection after auto accident. [104]
- Maynard Ferguson, 78, Canadian jazz trumpeter, kidney and liver failure. [105] [106][107]
- Colin Forbes, 82, English novelist.[108]
- Wasim Raja, 54, former Pakistan Test cricket player, heart attack while playing a match in Marlow, England. [109] [110]
- David Schnaufer, 53, Appalachian dulcimer player, lung cancer. [111]
- Andrew J. Sullivan, 74, Air Force Veteran. Served in Korea.
- Marie Tharp, 86, American oceanographic cartographer. [112]
- Ed Warren, 79, demonologist, after long illness. [113]
- Jay Young, 56, one of the original CNN news anchors, heart attack. [114]
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- Máximo Carvajal, 70, Chilean comic book artist. [119]
- George Edwards, 87, American radio host for WQXR. [120]
- Ustad Bismillah Khan, 90, Indian shehnai musician and Bharat Ratna winner, heart attack. [121] [122] [123]
- Jon Lilletun, 60, Norwegian politician (KrF), Minister of Education 1997-2000, cancer. [124]
- Geff Noblet, 89, Australian Test cricketer 1949-1953. [125]
- William C. Norris, 95, American engineer and founder of Control Data Corporation. [126]
- Buck Page, 84, western musician and founder of the original Riders of the Purple Sage. [127]
- Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, 65, Dutch billionaire businessman, pancreatic cancer. [128]
- S. Yizhar, 89, Israeli author, heart disease. [129]
20
- Dr. George Astaphan, 60, Kittian doctor who provided steroids to, amongst others, Ben Johnson in the 1980s. [130]
- Claude Blanchard, 74, French-Canadian pop singer and actor, heart attack. [131]
- Renate Brausewetter, 100, German silent film actress. [132]
- Bryan Budd, 29, British soldier, posthumously awarded Victoria Cross. [133]
- Alexander Cushing, 92, American founder of the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, brought the 1960 Winter Olympics to the US. [134]
- Roger Donoghue, 75, American boxer. [135]
- Robert Hoffman, 59, American businessman and art collector, co-founder of National Lampoon. [136]
- James T. "Red" Hudson, 81, founder of Hudson Foods, lung cancer. [137]
- Jack Laughery, 71, American former CEO and chairman of the Hardee's restaurant chain, lung cancer. [138]
- Jacob Mincer, 84, Polish-born professor of economics at Columbia University. [139]
- Giuseppe Moccia, alias Pipolo, 75, Italian film director with Franco Castellano (Castellano & Pipolo), father of writer Federico Moccia. [140]
- Joe Rosenthal, 94, Pulitzer Prize winner for photographing United States Marines raising their flag on Iwo Jima, natural causes. [141]
- Neil Trezise, 75, Australian Labor politician, Victorian State Government Minister for Sport 1982-92, Australian Rules footballer 1949-59 for Geelong, heart attack. [142]
- Richard Arthur de Yarburgh-Bateson, 95, 6th Baron Deramore and writer of erotic fiction. [143]
19
- Marvin Barrett, 86, American journalist and author. [144]
- Joyce Blair, 73, British actress, sister of Lionel Blair, cancer [145]
- Clinton Bristow, Jr., 57, American lawyer and education official, president of Alcorn State University, heart failure. [146]
- James Lovett Dewar, 94, American banker, founder of Park Avenue Bank. [147]
- Joseph Hill, 57, Jamaican lead singer of roots reggae group Culture, liver failure. [148] [149]
- Omar Oscar Míguez, 78, Uruguayan footballer and 1950 FIFA World Cup winner. [150]
- Mervyn Wood, 89, Australian rower, three-time Olympic medal winner, New South Wales Police Commissioner. [151] [152]
18
- James Clark, Jr., 87, former president of the Maryland State Senate, cancer. [153]
- Kathryn Frost, 57, retired U.S. Army Major General and one of its highest ranking women, wife of former U.S. Representative Martin Frost, breast cancer. [154]
- Grace Furukawa, 77, first Japanese-Canadian teacher in Ontario, natural causes. [155]
- Fernand Gignac, 72, French-Canadian singer and actor, hepatitis. [156]
- Dick Hickox, 68, guard for the University of Miami basketball team, 1959-60. [157]
- Ken Kearney, 82, dual international for Australia in rugby league and rugby union, heart attack. [158]
- Robert Mitchell, 77, American Broadway set designer. [159]
- Jeffrey Tennyson, 54, American artist and collector of hamburger memorabilia, author of Hamburger Heaven. [160]
17
- Tan Sri Kontek Kamariah Ahmad, 95, Malaysian educationist, politician, activist and pioneer in the Malaysian co-operative movement. [161] [162]
- Len Evans, 75, Australian wine writer and founder of the Australian Wine Bureau, heart attack. [163]
- Ken Goodall, 59, Irish international rugby union player 1967-1970. [164]
- Masumi Hayashi, 60, Japanese-American photographer, shooting. [165]
- John Hutton, 59, American furniture designer. [166]
- Dr. Vernon Ingram, 82, German-born molecular biologist at MIT, discovered the cause of sickle cell anemia. [167]
- Walter Jagiello, 76, "Li'l Wally", American polka musician and songwriter. [168]
- Shamsur Rahman, 76, Bangladeshi poet, kidney and liver failure. [169]
- Bernard Rapp, 61, French film director, writer and journalist, lung cancer. [170] [171]
- Werner Scharff, 90, German-born designer of the Lanz flannel granny nightgown, Parkinson's disease. [172]
- Sig Shore, 87, film producer (Superfly). [173]
- Evan Harris Walker, 70, physicist and consciousness theorist [174]
- Guy Weill, 92, Swiss-born collector of Asian art. [175]
- Yen Ngoc Do, 65, founder of Nguoi Viet Daily News, diabetes and kidney disease. [176] [177]
16
- Umberto Baldini, 84, Italian art restorer, director of the conservation studios at the Uffizi. [178]
- Alex Buzo, 62, Australian playwright (Norm and Ahmed, Rooted), cancer. [179]
- Herschel Green, 86, American World War II fighter ace. [180]
- Robert Kreem, 83, Estonian exile activist [181]
- Jon Nödtveidt, 31, Swedish lead guitarist and vocalist of melodic black metal band Dissection, convicted of felony murder, suicide. [182][183]
- Iris Ovshinsky, 79, co-founder of ECD Ovonics, wife of inventor Stanford Ovshinsky. [184]
- Velda Otsus, 92, Estonian actress [185] [186] [187] (all in Estonian)
- James A. Reed, 92, lawyer and banker, former assistant Secretary of the Treasury. [188]
- Alfredo Stroessner, 93, former dictator of Paraguay, complications from hernia surgery. [189]
- Roy Tobias, 78, American ballet dancer and teacher. [190]
- Alan Vint, 61, American actor, multiple organ failure following various illnesses [191][192]
- William Wasson, 82, American priest who founded orphanages, complications from a hip injury. [193]
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15
- Rick Bourke, 51, Australian rugby league player, cancer. [194]
- Dr. James W. Smith, Jr., 79, American surgeon, author, and collector of early arcade games. [195]
- Rudi Stern, 69, American multimedia artist. [196]
- Dame Te Atairangikaahu, 75, Māori Queen. [197]
- Doug White, 61, American news anchor, cancer. [198]
- Faas Wilkes, 82, Dutch international footballer. [199]
14
- Dr. Paul Beeson, 97, American infectious disease researcher, former chair of the department of medicine at Yale University. [200]
- Johnny Duncan, 67, country singer and songwriter ("She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed Anytime", "It Couldn't Have Been Any Better"), heart attack. [201] [202] [203]
- Richard J. Farmer, 43, Emmy-award winning cameraman. [204]
- Adriaan de Groot, 91, Dutch chess master and psychologist. [205]
- Milton Kaye, 97, American pianist and arranger. [206]
- Lord Kilbracken, 85, British-born Irish peer, wartime Fleet Air Arm pilot and journalist. [207] [208]
- Bruno Kirby, 57, American character actor (The Godfather Part II, City Slickers), complications from leukemia. [209] [210]
- Luis Fernandez de la Reguera, 39, American film director, (Rockets Redglare!), motorcycle accident. [211]
- Lawrence Sacharow, 68, American Obie Award-winning Off-Broadway director. [212]
- Dr. James Wattenbarger, 84, American educator and University of Florida professor, designed Florida's community college system. [213]
13
- Joseph Carlino, 89, American Speaker of the New York State Assembly, 1959-1964. [214]
- Heather Clarke, 39, Wife of Golfer Darren Clarke
- Kermit L. Hall, 61, President of the University at Albany and member of the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, swimming accident. [215] [216]
- Al Hostak, 90, American National Boxing Association Middleweight champion in 1938 and 1939, stroke. [217] [218]
- Tony Jay, 73, British actor and voice artist, complications from tumor surgery. [219]
- Annely Juda, 91, German-born London art gallery owner. [220]
- Armin Meyer, 92, American ambassador to Lebanon, Iran and Japan, Parkinson's disease. [221] [222]
- Walter Nurnberg, 78, professional wrestler. [223]
- Payao Poontarat, 49, Thailand's first Olympic medal winner (bronze, 1976) and former World Boxing Council champion, ALS. [224] [225]
- Diane Shamash, 51, American founder of Minetta Brook, a non-profit art organization. [226]
- Nathan Sloane, 97, former owner of the Fox Cross Candy Company. [227]
12
- Victoria Gray Adams, 79, African-American civil rights activist, first woman to run for a US Senate seat in Mississippi, cancer. [228] [229]
- Ketheshwaran Loganathan, Tamil peace official, assassination. [230]
- Camille Loiseau, 114, French doyenne, oldest verified person in Western Europe. [231][232] (French)
- Raska Lukwiya, commander in the Lord's Resistance Army of Uganda and indictee of the International Criminal Court for war crimes, killed in battle. [233]
- Dr. Monroe Romansky, 95, American academic and physician, developed the Romansky Formula for penicillin administration, Alzheimer's disease. [234] [235]
- Karl von Stroheim, 78, professional wrestler, heart attack. [236]
11
- John L. Bull, 92, American ornithologist. [237]
- Alvin Cooperman, 83, American entertainment executive. [238]
- David Thomas Dawson, 48, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Montana. [239]
- Victor del Corral, 84, Cuban restaurateur, founder of New York City's Victor's Cafe. [240]
- Mike Douglas, 81, American talk-show host and entertainer. [241]
- Joel Harnett, 80, American civic watchdog and former candidate for Mayor of New York City. [242]
- Alice Ilchman, 71, American economist, president of Sarah Lawrence College, 1981-1998. [243]
- Buffie Johnson, 94, American painter. [244]
- Mazisi Kunene, 76, South African poet laureate. [245] [246]
- Leonard Marks, 90, American communications lawyer and former director of the United States Information Agency. [247]
- Joe Rebman, 21, sprint car driver, racing accident in Mansfield, OH. [248]
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- Anga Díaz, 45, Cuban conga player. [253] [254]
- Melissa Hayden, 83, Canadian-born ballerina, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, pancreatic cancer. [255] [256]
- Philip Empson High, 92, British science fiction author, natural causes. [257]
- Said Abdullo Nuri, 59, leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, cancer.[258]
- James Van Allen, 91, American space physicist, heart failure. [259] [260]
8
- William B. Anderson, 82, journalist [261]
- Gustavo Arcos, 79, Cuban dissident, pneumonia. [262] [263]
- Marion Cajori, 56, documentary filmmaker. [264]
- Darrell Ferguson, 28, convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection in Ohio. [265]
- Duke Jordan, 84, American bebop jazz pianist. [266] [267]
- Dino Restelli, 81, major league baseball player. [268]
7
- Mary Anderson Bain, 94, New Deal director under U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and former top aide to Congressman Sid Yates. [269]
- Sue Bierman, 82, former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, car accident. [270]
- Jim Crooker, 80, amateur who played in more Bob Hope Chrysler Classic tournaments than any other golfer, cancer. [271]
- Lois January, 92, American actress, Alzheimer's disease. [272]
- Robert McCullough, 64, African-American civil rights activist, leader of the Friendship Nine.
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