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

31

• Ali Jaafar Ali, 39, Iraqi sports anchorman, shot dead by unknown gunmen in Baghdad. [1]
• Ryan Bennett, 35, former UFC announcer and founder of MMAweekly, died in a car crash. [2]
• Ronald Cranford, 65, neurologist and bioethicist who developed coma standards, complications of kidney cancer. [3]
• Raymond Davis Jr., 91, American chemist and a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002, Alzheimer's disease. [4] [5]
• Bobby Dykes, 77, veteran of 146 boxing matches who fought Kid Gavilan for the welterweight championship, Lou Gehrig's disease. [6]
• Lula Mae Hardaway, 76, mother of singer Stevie Wonder, natural causes. [7]
• Flora Gill Jacobs, 87, American founder of the Dolls' House and Toy Museum in Washington D.C, cancer. [8]
• Ken McIntyre, 63, college basketball player for St. John's, MVP of the 1965 National Invitation Tournament, cancer. [9] [10]
• Matteo Spinola, 76, Italian actor and press-agent cinema and television actress (Sophia Loren, Serena Grandi) from 1960s with Enrico Lucherini, cancer [11]
• Miguel Berrocal, 73, Spanish sculptor and puzzle creator; prostate cancer. [12]

30

• Slim Aarons, 89, American photographer, stroke. [13] [14]
• Hladnik Boštjan, 77, Slovenian film director. [15]
• Shohei Imamura, 79, Japanese film director (Black Rain), two-time winner of the Palme d'Or, liver cancer. [16] [17]
• Bill Kovacs, 56, computer animation pioneer and Academy Award winner, complications of a stroke. [18]
• David Lloyd, 68, New Zealand botanist, complications from mystery illness, possibly poison. [19]
• Taylor Major, Liberian politician and former Chairman of the Liberian Public Utilities Authority. [20]
• Hugh B. Patterson Jr., 91, publisher of the Arkansas Gazette. [21]
• Robert Sterling, 88, star of 1950s television show Topper, natural causes. [22]

29

• Neville Amadio, 93, flautist and soloist for Sydney Symphony for 50 years. Series of small heart attacks.[23]
• Peter Borsari, 67, celebrity photographer, complications from elective knee surgery. [24]
• Dave Brady, British folk singer ("Swan Arcade"), chest infection. [25]
• James Brolan, 42, CBS News sound technician, injuries sustained in car bombing in Iraq. [26]
• Paul Douglas, 48, veteran CBS News cameraman, injuries sustained in car bombing in Iraq. [27]
• Steve Mizerak, 61, champion billiards player [28]
• Omeljan Pritsak, 87, Harvard professor, scholar and authority on Ukraine
• Johnny Servoz-Gavin, 64, French racing driver.[29]
• Spencer Witty, 92, American clothier, one of the four Witty Brothers. [30]

28

• Edward Aldwell, 68, music theorist and pianist specializing in Bach, automotive accident. [31]
• James Archibald, 94, Maine judge for 50 years including service on the Maine Judicial Supreme Court between 1971 and his retirement in 1981. [32]
• Fermín Chávez, 82, Argentine historian, complications from renal failure. [33], [34], [35], [36]
• James Conway Sr., 78, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Mister Softee. [37]
• Sue Fear, 43, Australian mountaineer, climbing accident. [38]
• Umberto Masetti, 80, motorcycle racer, the first Italian World Champion class 500cc in 1950 and 1952, pulmonary strokes [39]
• Masumi Okada, 70, Japanese actor, played Brother Michael in Shogun, throat cancer. [40]
• Tony Sardisco, 73, American footballer, former captain of the Boston Patriots, heart attack. [41]
• Doris Saunders, 64, first editor of Them Days magazine and inducted into the Order of Canada for her role in preserving Labrador's history. Alzheimer's disease. [42]
• Jack Skead, 94, South African ornithologist and natural historian. [43]
• Arthur Widmer, 91, motion picture special effects pioneer, winner of an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, cancer. [44] [45]

27

• Adeeb, 72, Pakistani actor [46]
• Harold Falls, 96, American ophthalmologist. [47]
• Stephen Garner, 60,Chief Executive and President of Tompkins Trust Co. [48]
• Paul Gleason, 67, American actor, mesothelioma. [49]
• Craig "Ironhead" Heyward, 39, NFL fullback, complications from a brain tumor. [50]
• Leslie Hansen Kopp, 53, American dance and music archivist. [51]
• General Romeo Lucas García, 81, former President of Guatemala. Complications of Alzheimer's disease. [52]
• Thelma Leeds, 95, American actress, widow of Parkyakarkus
• James McClatchy, 85, Board Member of The McClatchy Company, infection after surgery. [53]
• Walter Meyerhof, 84, former head of Stanford University's physics department and son of Nobel Prize-winner Otto Meyerhof, complications of Parkinson's disease. [54]
• Michael Riffaterre, 81, French-born professor at Columbia University and scholar of French literature. [55]
• Alex Toth, 77, American comic book artist and cartoonist (Space Ghost, Jonny Quest). [56]
• Bull Ramos, 71, Northwest US wrestler, shoulder infection[57]

26

• Tamsin Causer, 32, British sky diver, quadruple world record holder, sky diving accident. [58]
• George Field, 101, American human rights activist, co-founder of Freedom House. [59]
• Horondino José da Silva, also known as "Dino Sete Cordas", 88, Brazilian virtuouso of the seven-string guitar. [60]
• General Johann-Adolf Graf von Kielmansegg, 99, German military officer [61]
• Alan Kotok, 64, American early video game designer (Spacewar!), engineer for Digital Equipment. [62]
• Mahmoud al-Majzoub, also known as Abu Hamza, Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader, assassination by bombing. [63]
• Vincent McAllister, 51, guitarist of Pentagram, 1971-1977. [64] [65]
• Edouard Michelin, 42, CEO of Michelin, boating accident off the Île de Sein. [66] [67]
• Kevin O'Flanagan, 86, Irish former association football and rugby union international, and IOC member, heart problems. [68]
• Dr. Anita Roberts, 64, American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute, stomach cancer. [69]
• Ted Schroeder, 84, American tennis player, winner at Wimbledon (1949) and the U.S. Open (1942), cancer. [70]
• Raymond Triboulet, 99, member of the French Resistance during World War II, member of the French Parliament and government minister. [71] [72]

25

• Joe Brodsky, 71, former Dallas Cowboys NFL assistant coach, cancer. [73]
• Sir Julian Bullard, 78, British diplomat [74]
• Art Espenet Carpenter, 86, master wood craftsman known for his Espenet pieces displayed at the Smithsonian Institution, heart attack. [75]
• Elizabeth Connelly, 77, former member of the New York State Assembly representing Staten Island, cancer. [76]
• Desmond Dekker, 64, Jamaican ska musician, heart attack. [77][78][79]
• Lars Gyllensten, 84, Swedish author, physician, and member of the Swedish Academy. [80]
• Wilber Huston, 93, American scientist and retired NASA mission director. [81]
• Anthony Li Du'an, 79, Catholic archbishop of Xi'an, liver cancer. [82]
• Aída Luz, 89, Argentine film actress, natural causes [83]
• Donald Rudolph, 85, US Army soldier awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II, Alzheimer's disease. [84] [85]
• Kemoko Sano, mid 70s, Guinean choreographer and founder of Les Merveilles de Guinée. [86]
• Mari Yonehara, 56, Japanese essayist, ovarian cancer. [87]
• Tobías Lasser, 95, Venezuelan botanist, founder of the Botanic Garden of Caracas, natural causes [88].

24

• Edgar Beckham, 72, former Connecticut Board of Education chairman and first Black Dean at Wesleyan University, complications of a stroke. [89]
• Eric Bedser, 87, cricketer for Surrey, and elder twin brother of Sir Alec Bedser. [90]
• Henry Bumstead, 91, Academy Awards-winning art director (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sting), prostate cancer. [91] [92] [93]
• Robert Giaimo, 86, Congressman for Connecticut 3rd District 1959-1981, lung ailments. [94]
• Nabil Hodhod, Palestinian security chief, killed by car bomb. [95]
• Dick Johnson, 69, veteran Maine radio broadcaster and news reporter, complications of a heart attack. [96]
• Salem Kadih, 22, Hamas member, shot dead. [97]
• Fritz Klein, 73, Austrian-born psychiatrist and researcher. [98]
• Carlos Maeso, 67, Uruguayan Minister of Labour (1979-1982) and of Foreign Affairs (1982-1985). [99]
• Anderson Mazoka, 63, chief opposition leader in Zambia. [100]
• Bernard Ostry, 78, Canadian civil servant and philanthropist, cancer. [101]
• Claude Piéplu, 83. French actor, cancer [102]
• John Wheeldon, 76, former Australian Labor Party Senator and minister in the Whitlam government. [103]

23

• Philippe Amaury, 66, French media owner
• Clifford Antone, 56, Austin blues club owner, heart attack. [104] [105]
• Lloyd Bentsen, 85, American Vice-Presidential candidate, Senator, and Treasury Secretary under Clinton. [106] [107]
• Salvatore Billa, 63, Italian actor. [108]
• James Carey, 71, American professor of journalism at Columbia University, author. [109] [110]
• Ian Copeland, 57, American music promoter and agent, older brother of Stewart Copeland of The Police, melanoma. [111] [112]
• Bracha Eden, 78, Israeli pianist, brain hemorrhage [113]
• Ángel Fernández, 80, Mexican sports broadcaster, renal failure. [114]
• Lucina Paquet Gabbard, 84, American academic, educator and author, lung cancer. [115]
• Kazimierz Górski, 85, former coach of Poland national football team, cancer. [116]
• Ruben Mettler, 82, American former CEO of TRW. [117]
• John Nevin, 79, former CEO of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, heart attack. [118] [119]
• Mary Margaret Smith, 112, Ohio's oldest person [120]
• Graham Stewart, 19, William Paterson University athlete, vehicular accident [121]
• Jim Trimble, 87, Philadelphia Eagles coach 1952-55, emphysema. [122]

22

• Tony Campbell, 58, Australian race caller and sports broadcaster, cancer. [123]
• Spencer Clark, 19, NASCAR Busch Series driver, road accident. [124]
• Heather Crowe, 61, Canadian anti-smoking activist, lung cancer. [125]
• Hamza El Din, 76, Nubian oud player. [126] [127] [128]
• Jack Fallon, 90, jazz double bassist [129]
• Lee Jong-wook, 61, Director-General of the World Health Organization, brain thrombus [130]
• Lilia Prado, 78, Mexican actress, multiple organ failure. [131]
• Philip Thorn, English researcher and statistician. [132]

21

• Onwin Borde, 51, percussionist. [133]
• Lewis Davis, 80, American architect, co-founder of Davis Brody Bond. [134]
• Katherine Dunham, 96, American dancer and choreographer. [135]
• Hans Fantel, 84, Austrian-born writer, home electronics columnist for the New York Times. [136]
• Richard McIlkenny, 73, member of the Birmingham Six, cancer. [137]
• Dr. Eduardo Bernabé Ordaz Ducungé, 84, Cuban doctor, participant in the 26th of July Movement, and member of Cuban National Assembly (1976-2003), kidney failure. [138] [139]
• Sherman Skolnick, 75, Illinois anti-corruption activist, heart attack. [140]
• Billy Walker, 77, American country music performer and member of the Grand Ole Opry, traffic accident [141]

20

• Cecil Dowell, 45, University of Mississippi basketball player 1980-1984 and Assistant Coach at Mississippi Valley State University, car accident. [142]
• Anthony Goodman, 74, Reuters United Nations correspondent for 20 years between 1980 and 2000, cancer and lung disease. [143]
• JoAnna Lund, 61, cookbook author, cancer.[144]
• Les Olive, 78, Assistant Secretary of Manchester United at time of Munich air disaster [145]
• P T R Palanivelrajan, 74, Minister in the Tamil Nadu Government and former speaker of the Assembly, heart attack. [146]
• Rt. Rev. Andrew Radford, 62, Bishop of Taunton, brain tumour, [147]
• Pat Seremet, 58, columnist for the Hartford Courant, brain aneurysm. [148]
• Cherd Songsri, 75, Thai film director, cancer [149]
• Annis Stukus, 91, member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame for his contributions to the Canadian Football League and ice hockey. [150]
• Sanaa Younes, 60, Egyptian actress, lung cancer [151]

19

• Yitzhak Ben Aharon, 99, founder of the Israeli Labor Party. [152] [153]
• Marji Bank, 82, American stage actress, complications from an illness [154]
• Edward Roy Becker, 73, former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. [155]
• Peter Bryant, 82, British television producer. [156]
• Alexandrina van Donkelaar-Vink, 111, oldest Dutch citizen [157]
• Freddie Garrity, 65, lead singer of Freddie and the Dreamers, 1960s pop band, heart disease [158]
• Robert Heinecken, 74, American artist and photographer. [159]

18

• James Andrew "Andy" Capps, 37, former drummer (Built to Spill). [160]
• Jaan Eilart, 73, Estonian biogeographer. [161]
• Morris Glushien, 96, American lawyer, general counsel for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, argued the US Supreme Court case Staub v. the City of Baxley, Georgia. [162]
• Hans Horrevoets, 32, Dutch sailor, swept overboard while competing in Volvo Ocean Race. [163]
• Alex Leibkind, 53, German Olympic judoka and general manager of the Rhein Fire, heart attack. [164]
• Andrew Martinez, 33, the "Naked Guy" at the University of California, Berkeley, apparent suicide. [165]
• Vitor Negrete, 38, prominent Brazilian mountaineer, died after reaching the peak of Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen. [166]
• Deane Oliver, 71, led Rutgers University to 14 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association championships. [167]
• Michael O'Riordan, 88, chairman of the Communist Party of Ireland and International Brigades veteran. [168]
• Kiyan Prince, 15, youth team player with English football team Queens Park Rangers, stabbed to death. [169]
• Kenneth Scott, 70, singer-songwriter elected to the Rockabilly Hall of Fame with The Strikes, complications from a stroke. [170]
• Gilbert Sorrentino, 77, American novelist. [171]
• George Sterling, 69, former member of the West Indies Cricket Board. [172]
• Takahiro Tamura, 77, Japanese actor (Tora! Tora! Tora!). [173]

17

• Eva-Maria Bauer, 82, German actress. [174]
• Cy Feuer, 95, American Broadway producer and writer (Guys and Dolls). [175] [176]
• Dr. Stephen Fleet, 69, Former Registrary, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Master of Downing College, Cambridge. [177]
• Eric Forth, 61, British Conservative Member of Parliament and former government minister, bone cancer. [178]
• Captain Nichola Goddard, 26, Canadian Forces, first female Canadian soldier since WW II to be killed in combat. [179]
• Dan Q. Kennis, 86, American B movie producer. [180]
• John Marsden, 64, Australian lawyer and civil liberties activist, cancer. [181]
• Elaine Minacs, 61, founder and executive chairman of Minacs Worldwide business services firm. [182][183]
• Daniel Owino Misiani, 66, Benga musician from Kenya, car accident [184]
• Mieczysław Nowak, 69, Polish weightlifter, 1964 Olympic medalist [185]
• Mustafa Yucel Ozbilgin, 63 prominent Turkish judge sitting in Turkey's highest court, shot dead. [186]
• Lawrence "Ramrod" Shurtliff, 61, longtime crew member for the Grateful Dead, lung cancer. [187]

16

• Clare Boylan, 58, Irish author of 12 books including 7 novels, ovarian cancer. [188]
• Frederick Ted Castle, 67, American novelist and art critic. [189]
• Klaus Dahlen, 68, German actor [190]
• Martin Dardis, 83, investigator who linked the Watergate burglars to the Committee to Re-elect the President, vascular condition. [191]
• Herbert Doan, 83, former CEO and president of Dow Chemical (1962-1971). [192] [193]
• Davie Morrison, 92, veteran Scottish athlete. [194]
• Jorge Porcel, 69, Argentine actor and comedian, following gall bladder surgery. [195] [196]
• Dan Ross, 49, former NFL football player (Cincinnati Bengals), suspected heart attack [197]
• Takahiro Tamura, 77, Japanese movie and television actor, cerebral infarction [198] [199]
• Prince Gideon Zulu, 72, member of Zulu royal family, South African politician, minister in Kwazulu-Natal legislature. [200]

15

• Joyce Ballantyne, 88, artist best known for creating the "Coppertone Girl" ad, heart attack. [201] [202]
• George Blackburn, 93, head football coach at University of Virginia (1965-70). [203]
• George Crile III, 61, CBS News producer, pancreatic cancer. [204] [205] [206]
• Eberhard Esche, 73, German actor. [207]
• Chic Hecht, 77, former Republican Senator for Nevada, prostate cancer. [208] [209]
• Judith Moore, 66, American author (Fat Girl - A True Story). [210]
• Abdullah Nur, 77, Saudi Arabian journalist and writer [211]
• Cheikha Rimitti, 83, Algerian singer, heart attack. [212]
• Bill Strode, 69, Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, cancer. [213]

14

• Lew Anderson, 84, American bandleader, played Clarabell the Clown on The Howdy Doody Show, prostate cancer. [214] [215]
• James Botten, 67, South African international test cricketer, complications after colon operations. [216]
• Steve Cooper, 47, rock singer for Juggernaut and S.A. Slayer [217]
• Charles Gardner, former head of Royal Crown Cola, complications of diabetes
• William Ginsberg, 75, American professor of environmental law at Hofstra University and former New York City commissioner of parks and recreation. [218]
• Reza Hassanzadeh, 33, Iranian professional soccer player with Teraktor Sazi F.C., injuries from car accident. [219]
• Robert Keith-Reid, 64, Fijian publisher, complications of heart bypass operation. [220]
• Stanley Kunitz, 100, American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former US poet laureate. [221] [222]
• Jim Lemon, 78, Major League Baseball player, cancer. [223] [224]
• Paul Marco, approximately 81, American film actor (Plan 9 from Outer Space) [225] [226]
• Giancarlo Matteotti, member of Italy's Constituent Assembly and Undersecretary for the Budget. [227]
• Bruce Merrifield, 84, Nobel Prize-winning chemist [228] [229]
• Günther Nenning, 84, Austrian journalist, author and political activist [230]
• Eva Norvind, New York City-based Norwegian former actress, drowning accident [231]
• Mary Ritts, 95, founder of the Ritts Family puppet act, Canberra entertainment, natural causes. [232]

13

• Helga Aumere, 83, Estonian musicologist. [233]
• Dr. Carolyn Shaw Bell, 85, American economist at Wellesley College. [234]
• Joan Diener, 76, American actress/soprano (Man of La Mancha), complications of cancer. [235]
• Rick Farley, 53, Australian National Farmers' Federation Chief Executive for eight years. [236]
• Ryan Francis, 19, freshman point guard for the USC basketball team, homicide. [237]
• Jaroslav Pelikan, 82, American historian of Christianity, winner of the Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences, lung cancer. [238] [239] [240]
• Grand Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Rosenbaum, 86, Grand Rabbi of Kretschnif-Siget Hassidic Jewish sect in Jerusalem, a scion of the Nadvorna dynasty. [241]
• Östen Sjöstrand, 80, Swedish poet, translator and member of the Swedish Academy. [242][243]
• Peter Viereck, 89, American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. [244]
• Johnnie Wilder, Jr., 56, R&B musician, founder of Heatwave ("Boogie Nights", "Always and Forever") [245]
• Jere Witter, 79, Southern California TV news reporter, complications of cancer. [246]

12

• Ted Berkman, 92, author, scriptwriter (Bedtime for Bonzo). [247]
• Richard Brickner, 72, American author. [248]
• Mony Dalmès, 91, French actress, [249]
• Hussein Maziq, 88, former prime minister & foreign minister of Libya [250]
• Gillespie V. "Sonny" Montgomery, 85, former U.S. representative from Mississippi [251]
• Breandán Ó Dúill, 70, Irish actor and broadcaster. [252]
• Arthur Porges, 90, science fiction and fantasy writer.
• Gustav Trampe, 74, German TV journalist. [253]

11

• Yossi Banai, 74, Israeli singer and actor [254]
• Bob Duff, 80, played 11 rugby union tests for the All Blacks including being captain for two tests against the Springboks in 1956. [255]
• Melvin Lebetkin, 77, American lawyer convicted in the New York City Parking Violations Bureau scandal of the 1980s. [256]
• Byron Morrow, 95, American tv and film character actor. [257]
• Michael O'Leary, 70, former leader of the Irish Labour Party, drowned in a swimming pool. [258]
• Floyd Patterson, 71, former boxing heavyweight champion, Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer [259]
• Ferdinando Tacconi, 83, Italian comics artist. [260]
• Michael Taliferro, 45, actor and American football player, stroke. [261]
• Frankie Thomas, 85, American actor (Tom Corbett, Space Cadet), stroke. [262] [263]

10

• Ryspek Akmatbayev, Kyrgyz member of Parliament, shot. [264]
• Val Guest, 94, British film writer and director (The Quatermass Xperiment, Casino Royale) [265]
• John Hicks, 64, American jazz pianist/composer. [266]
• James Keogh, 89, former executive editor of Time and speechwriter for US President Richard Nixon. [267]
• Georgy Korniyenko, 81, Russian diplomat and deputy to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. [268]
• Juan Mendez, 41, Puerto Rican writer, complications due to AIDS (heart attack) [269]
• A.M. Rosenthal, 84, Executive Editor of the New York Times for 17 years, stroke. [270]
• Sue Smith, 60s, first woman to host a current affairs program in Australia, mitochondrial myopathy. [271]
• Soraya, 37, Colombian-American songwriter, guitarist, arranger, record producer, and singer, breast cancer. [272]
• Volkmar Kurt Wentzel, 91, noted National Geographic photographer and archivist, heart attack. [273]
• Aleksandr Zinovyev, 83, Russian logician, sociologist and writer, brain cancer. [274]

9

• Frank Boos, 70, appraiser on the Public Broadcasting Se