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

31

• 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]

30

• 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, [17]
• Uwe Leichsenring, 39, German NPD politician, injuries sustained in a car accident. [18] (German)
• Bob LeRose, 85, colorist and cover production artist for DC Comics. [19]
• Ron McKenna, 88, head trainer for the New York Mets 1970-1980, heart attack. [20]
• Naguib Mahfouz, 94, Egyptian winner of 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature, head injuries sustained in a fall in July. [21]
• Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm, 83, Scottish former Conservative MP and government minister. [22]
• Mel Sachs, 60, New York City trial lawyer. [23]
• Dennis Spellmann, 70, President of Lindenwood University. [24]
• Bill Stumpf, 70, American industrial designer who co-created the Aeron office chair. [25] [26]

29

• Kent Andersson, 64, Swedish motorcycle racer, winner of 1973 and 1974 125cc World Championships. [27]
• Stefan Blaho, 21, Slovak hockey player drafted by the New York Islanders, car accident. [28]
• John Cummins, 58, Victorian union official and last secretary of the Builders' Labourers Federation, cancer. [29]
• Dr. Robert Gorlin, 83, American oral pathologist. [30]
• Gerald Green, 84, American author (The Last Angry Man) and screenwriter (Holocaust). [31]
• Dorothy Harmsen, 91, co-creator of the Jolly Rancher, author and collector of American Western art, heart attack. [32] [33]
• Benjamin Rawitz-Castel, 60, Israeli pianist, murdered in Brussels. [34]
• Jumpin' Gene Simmons, 73, American rockabilly musician. [35]
• Wong Mew-Mee, 54, Malaysiaian Principle of SJK Bemban, Batu Gajah.

28

• Ed Benedict, 94, American animator and layout artist, designed Fred Flintstone.[36]
• Don Chipp, 81, Australian politician, founder of the Australian Democrats. [37] [38] [39]
• Mary Lee Robb Cline, 80, played Marjorie on The Great Gildersleeve, heart failure. [40]
• Heino Lipp, 84, Estonian champion decathlete, prevented from competing in the 1948 and 1952 Olympics due to Soviet repression. [41] (Estonian), [42] (PDF)
• Robert McDermott, 86, former dean of the United States Air Force Academy, chairman of USAA and owner of San Antonio Spurs, stroke. [43]
• David Nicholson, 67, British horse racing trainer, suspected heart attack. [44]
• Pip Pyle, 56, drummer with Gong and Hatfield and the North [45]
• William F. Quinn, 87, first Governor of Hawaii, pneumonia. [46] [47]
• Michael Richard, 58, photographer, cancer. [48]
• Benoît Sauvageau, 42, Bloc Québécois MP, traffic accident. [49]
• Dr. Melvin Schwartz, 73, American physicist, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics. [50] [51]
• Alfred Sherman, 86, British co-founder of the Conservative think tank the Centre for Policy Studies. [52]

27

• Maria Esther de Capovilla, 116, world's oldest person and the last person known to have been alive in the 1880s, pneumonia. [53] [54] [55]
• Jon Dough, 43, AVN Hall of Fame pornographic actor, suicide. [56]
• Ike Hildebrand, 79, Canadian ice hockey and lacrosse player. [57]
• Iain MacKintosh, 74, Scottish folk musician. [58]
• Vashti McCollum, 93, American plaintiff in McCollum v. Board of Education. [59]
• Luciano Mendes de Almeida, 75, Archbishop of Mariana, Brazil, cancer. [60]
• Hrishikesh Mukherjee, 83, Indian film director [61] [62]
• Jesse Pintado, 37, American guitarist with Terrorizer and Napalm Death, complications of diabetic coma. [63]
• Dr. A. James Rowan, 71, neurologist who studied epilepsy. [64]
• Patrick Smith, 58, board member of Habitat for Humanity International, one of 49 killed on Comair Flight 5191. [65]

26

• Rainer Barzel, 82, former President of the German Bundestag and Chairman of the CDU. [66]
• Nawab Akbar Bugti, 79, Balochistani rebel tribal leader, killed by Pakistani military forces. [67]
• John Ripley Forbes, 93, American naturalist and conservationist, founder of nature museums. [68]
• William Garnett, 89, American aerial photographer. [69]
• Yosef Hadar, 90, Israeli composer, cancer (in Hebrew)
• Evgeny Kucherevsky, 65, Ukrainian football coach of Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, car crash. [70]
• Father Marie-Dominique Philippe, O.P., 93, French Dominican priest & founder of the Community of St. John, stroke. [71]
• Vladimir Tretchikoff, 92, Russian artist. [72]
• Michael Vestey, 61, former BBC correspondent and radio critic on The Spectator magazine. [73]
• Sir Clyde Walcott, 80, West Indian cricketer. [74][75]

25

• John Blankenstein, 57, one of the first openly gay Dutch football referees, kidney disease. [76]
• Noor Hassanali, 88, former President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
• Morton Holbrook, Jr., 91, led reform of Kentucky court system. [77]
• Silva Kaputikyan, 87, Armenian poet. [78]
• Lena King Lee, 100, educator and attorney, one of the first African-American women elected to the Maryland General Assembly. [79] [80]
• Vijay Mehra, 68, Indian cricketer. [81]
• Cristian Nemescu, 27, Romanian film director, car accident. [82][83]
• Dr. Gail Shapiro, 59, American pediatric allergist. [84]
• Joseph Stefano, 84, screenwriter (Psycho), co-creator of The Outer Limits. [85] [86]
• Toroku Takagi, 102, Japanese composer. [87]
• Andrei Toncu, 28, Romanian sound designer, car accident. [88] [89] [90]
• Ross Warneke, 54, Australian television commentator and radio broadcaster, cancer. [91]
• John Wilson, 56, New York Times journalist and founding member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. [92]

24

• Herbert Hupka, 91, German journalist and politician. [93] (in German)
• Leonard Levy, 83, Canadian-born US constitutional historian and author, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for History. [94]
• Anthony Malara, 69, former president of CBS Television and former head of the New York State Broadcasters Association. [95]
• Viktor Pavlov, 65, Russian actor, heart attack. [96] (in Russian)
• Rocco Petrone, 80, American NASA engineer, director of Project Apollo and the Marshall Space Flight Center. [97]
• David Plowright, 75, TV executive and producer, former chairman of Granada Television. [98]
• Ralph Schoenstein, 73, American humorist and NPR commentator. [99]
• Léopold Simoneau, 90, Canadian lyric tenor. [100] [101]
• James Tenney, 72, experimental composer, cancer.[102]
• Gene Thompson, 89, baseball player with the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Giants. [103]
• John Weinzweig, 93, Canadian music composer. [104]

23

• Lauren Crowner, 25, news anchor/reporter at WCMH-TV in Columbus, OH, infection after auto accident. [105]
• Maynard Ferguson, 78, Canadian jazz trumpeter, kidney and liver failure. [106] [107][108]
• Colin Forbes, 82, English novelist.[109]
• Wasim Raja, 54, former Pakistan Test cricket player, heart attack while playing a match in Marlow, England. [110] [111]
• David Schnaufer, 53, Appalachian dulcimer player, lung cancer. [112]
• Andrew J. Sullivan, 74, Air Force Veteran. Served in Korea.
• Marie Tharp, 86, American oceanographic cartographer. [113]
• Ed Warren, 79, demonologist, after long illness. [114]
• Jay Young, 56, one of the original CNN news anchors, heart attack. [115]

22

• Wallace Brown, 76, Australian journalist, political correspondent in Canberra for (Brisbane's) The Courier-Mail 1961-1996. [116]
• Bruce Gary, 55, American rock musician, drummer with The Knack, lymphoma. [117] [118]
• Frank Lennon, 79, Canadian photographer who recorded Paul Henderson celebrating his winning goal in the Summit Series. [119]

21

• Máximo Carvajal, 70, Chilean comic book artist. [120]
• George Edwards, 87, American radio host for WQXR. [121]
• Ustad Bismillah Khan, 90, Indian shehnai musician and Bharat Ratna winner, heart attack. [122] [123] [124]
• Jon Lilletun, 60, Norwegian politician (KrF), Minister of Education 1997-2000, cancer. [125]
• Geff Noblet, 89, Australian Test cricketer 1949-1953. [126]
• William C. Norris, 95, American engineer and founder of Control Data Corporation. [127]
• Buck Page, 84, western musician and founder of the original Riders of the Purple Sage. [128]
• Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, 65, Dutch billionaire businessman, pancreatic cancer. [129]
• S. Yizhar, 89, Israeli author, heart disease. [130]

20

• Dr. George Astaphan, 60, Kittian doctor who provided steroids to, amongst others, Ben Johnson in the 1980s. [131]
• Claude Blanchard, 74, French-Canadian pop singer and actor, heart attack. [132]
• Renate Brausewetter, 100, German silent film actress. [133]
• Bryan Budd, 29, British soldier, posthumously awarded Victoria Cross. [134]
• Alexander Cushing, 92, American founder of the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, brought the 1960 Winter Olympics to the US. [135]
• Roger Donoghue, 75, American boxer. [136]
• Robert Hoffman, 59, American businessman and art collector, co-founder of National Lampoon. [137]
• James T. "Red" Hudson, 81, founder of Hudson Foods, lung cancer. [138]
• Jack Laughery, 71, American former CEO and chairman of the Hardee's restaurant chain, lung cancer. [139]
• Jacob Mincer, 84, Polish-born professor of economics at Columbia University. [140]
• Giuseppe Moccia, alias Pipolo, 75, Italian film director with Franco Castellano (Castellano & Pipolo), father of writer Federico Moccia. [141]
• Joe Rosenthal, 94, Pulitzer Prize winner for photographing United States Marines raising their flag on Iwo Jima, natural causes. [142]
• Neil Trezise, 75, Australian Labor politician, Victorian State Government Minister for Sport 1982-92, Australian Rules footballer 1949-59 for Geelong, heart attack. [143]
• Richard Arthur de Yarburgh-Bateson, 95, 6th Baron Deramore and writer of erotic fiction. [144]

19

• Marvin Barrett, 86, American journalist and author. [145]
• Joyce Blair, 73, British actress, sister of Lionel Blair, cancer [146]
• Clinton Bristow, Jr., 57, American lawyer and education official, president of Alcorn State University, heart failure. [147]
• James Lovett Dewar, 94, American banker, founder of Park Avenue Bank. [148]
• Joseph Hill, 57, Jamaican lead singer of roots reggae group Culture, liver failure. [149] [150]
• Omar Oscar Míguez, 78, Uruguayan footballer and 1950 FIFA World Cup winner. [151]
• Mervyn Wood, 89, Australian rower, three-time Olympic medal winner, New South Wales Police Commissioner. [152] [153]

18

• James Clark, Jr., 87, former president of the Maryland State Senate, cancer. [154]
• 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. [155]
• Grace Furukawa, 77, first Japanese-Canadian teacher in Ontario, natural causes. [156]
• Fernand Gignac, 72, French-Canadian singer and actor, hepatitis. [157]
• Dick Hickox, 68, guard for the University of Miami basketball team, 1959-60. [158]
• Ken Kearney, 82, dual international for Australia in rugby league and rugby union, heart attack. [159]
• Robert Mitchell, 77, American Broadway set designer. [160]
• Jeffrey Tennyson, 54, American artist and collector of hamburger memorabilia, author of Hamburger Heaven. [161]

17

• Tan Sri Kontek Kamariah Ahmad, 95, Malaysian educationist, politician, activist and pioneer in the Malaysian co-operative movement. [162] [163]
• Len Evans, 75, Australian wine writer and founder of the Australian Wine Bureau, heart attack. [164]
• Ken Goodall, 59, Irish international rugby union player 1967-1970. [165]
• Masumi Hayashi, 60, Japanese-American photographer, shooting. [166]
• John Hutton, 59, American furniture designer. [167]
• Dr. Vernon Ingram, 82, German-born molecular biologist at MIT, discovered the cause of sickle cell anemia. [168]
• Walter Jagiello, 76, "Li'l Wally", American polka musician and songwriter. [169]
• Shamsur Rahman, 76, Bangladeshi poet, kidney and liver failure. [170]
• Bernard Rapp, 61, French film director, writer and journalist, lung cancer. [171] [172]
• Werner Scharff, 90, German-born designer of the Lanz flannel granny nightgown, Parkinson's disease. [173]
• Sig Shore, 87, film producer (Superfly). [174]
• Evan Harris Walker, 70, physicist and consciousness theorist [175]
• Guy Weill, 92, Swiss-born collector of Asian art. [176]
• Yen Ngoc Do, 65, founder of Nguoi Viet Daily News, diabetes and kidney disease. [177] [178]

16

• Umberto Baldini, 84, Italian art restorer, director of the conservation studios at the Uffizi. [179]
• Alex Buzo, 62, Australian playwright (Norm and Ahmed, Rooted), cancer. [180]
• Herschel Green, 86, American World War II fighter ace. [181]
• Robert Kreem, 83, Estonian exile activist [182]
• Jon Nödtveidt, 31, Swedish lead guitarist and vocalist of melodic black metal band Dissection, convicted of felony murder, suicide. [183][184]
• Iris Ovshinsky, 79, co-founder of ECD Ovonics, wife of inventor Stanford Ovshinsky. [185]
• Velda Otsus, 92, Estonian actress [186] [187] [188] (all in Estonian)
• James A. Reed, 92, lawyer and banker, former assistant Secretary of the Treasury. [189]
• Alfredo Stroessner, 93, former dictator of Paraguay, complications from hernia surgery. [190]
• Roy Tobias, 78, American ballet dancer and teacher. [191]
• Alan Vint, 61, American actor, multiple organ failure following various illnesses [192][193]
• William Wasson, 82, American priest who founded orphanages, complications from a hip injury. [194]

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15

• Rick Bourke, 51, Australian rugby league player, cancer. [195]
• Dr. James W. Smith, Jr., 79, American surgeon, author, and collector of early arcade games. [196]
• Rudi Stern, 69, American multimedia artist. [197]
• Dame Te Atairangikaahu, 75, Māori Queen. [198]
• Doug White, 61, American news anchor, cancer. [199]
• Faas Wilkes, 82, Dutch international footballer. [200]

14

• Dr. Paul Beeson, 97, American infectious disease researcher, former chair of the department of medicine at Yale University. [201]
• 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. [202] [203] [204]
• Richard J. Farmer, 43, Emmy-award winning cameraman. [205]
• Adriaan de Groot, 91, Dutch chess master and psychologist. [206]
• Milton Kaye, 97, American pianist and arranger. [207]
• Lord Kilbracken, 85, British-born Irish peer, wartime Fleet Air Arm pilot and journalist. [208] [209]
• Bruno Kirby, 57, American character actor (The Godfather Part II, City Slickers), complications from leukemia. [210] [211]
• Luis Fernandez de la Reguera, 39, American film director, (Rockets Redglare!), motorcycle accident. [212]
• Lawrence Sacharow, 68, American Obie Award-winning Off-Broadway director. [213]
• Dr. James Wattenbarger, 84, American educator and University of Florida professor, designed Florida's community college system. [214]

13

• Joseph Carlino, 89, American Speaker of the New York State Assembly, 1959-1964. [215]
• 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. [216] [217]
• Al Hostak, 90, American National Boxing Association Middleweight champion in 1938 and 1939, stroke. [218] [219]
• Tony Jay, 73, British actor and voice artist, complications from tumor surgery. [220]
• Annely Juda, 91, German-born London art gallery owner. [221]
• Armin Meyer, 92, American ambassador to Lebanon, Iran and Japan, Parkinson's disease. [222] [223]
• Walter Nurnberg, 78, professional wrestler. [224]
• Payao Poontarat, 49, Thailand's first Olympic medal winner (bronze, 1976) and former World Boxing Council champion, ALS. [225] [226]
• Diane Shamash, 51, American founder of Minetta Brook, a non-profit art organization. [227]
• Nathan Sloane, 97, former owner of the Fox Cross Candy Company. [228]

12

• Victoria Gray Adams, 79, African-American civil rights activist, first woman to run for a US Senate seat in Mississippi, cancer. [229] [230]
• Ketheshwaran Loganathan, Tamil peace official, assassination. [231]
• Camille Loiseau, 114, French doyenne, oldest verified person in Western Europe. [232][233] (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. [234]
• Dr. Monroe Romansky, 95, American academic and physician, developed the Romansky Formula for penicillin administration, Alzheimer's disease. [235] [236]
• Karl von Stroheim, 78, professional wrestler, heart attack. [237]

11

• John L. Bull, 92, American ornithologist. [238]
• Alvin Cooperman, 83, American entertainment executive. [239]
• David Thomas Dawson, 48, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Montana. [240]
• Victor del Corral, 84, Cuban restaurateur, founder of New York City's