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

30

• Dieter Froese, 68, East Prussian-born artist. [1]
• Robert Gernhardt, 68, German satirist [2]
• Edward Hamilton, 89, highly decorated United States Army veteran during World War II, pneumonia. [3]
• Dr. Harold Olmo, 96, American grape breeder and geneticist. [4]
• Albert Sherman, 88, publisher of the Newport Daily News, cancer. [5]
• Richard Streeton, 75, English journalist [6]
• Ross Tompkins, 68, American Tonight Show pianist. [7]

29

• Fabián Bielinsky, 47, Argentine film director, heart attack. [8]
• Tom Brown, 79, West Texas oilman who founded Brown & Roper. [9]
• Luis Crisci, 66, Uruguayan Minister of Labour (1982-1983). [10]
• Mercedes Quezada de Fox, 87, mother of Mexican President Vicente Fox Quezada, respiratory arrest. [11]
• William Fraser, 100, theology student at Aberdeen University and oldest student in Scotland, pneumonia. [12]
• Joyce Hatto, 77, classical pianist who plagiarized more than 100 albums, cancer.[13]
• Ed Hugus, 82, racing driver, possible winner of the Le Mans 24 Hour race in 1965. [14]
• Caroline Kearney, 22, Irish Triathlete, collision with a car while on a training cycle ride in Montpellier [15]
• Stanley Moskowitz, 68, Central Intelligence Agency liaison to Congress, heart attack. [16][17]
• Wallace Potts, 59, film archivist for the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation, lymphoma. [18]
• Glen Renfrew, 77, Australian-born former head of Reuters. [19] [20]
• Lloyd Richards, 87, first Black Broadway director, Tony Award winner, heart failure. [21]
• Heliodoro Rico, 84, American track and field administrator. [22]
• Pierre Rinfret, 82, Canadian-born economist and Republican candidate for Governor of New York in 1990. [23] [24]
• Lev Sandakhchiev, 70 Russian biochemist who helped to end the Soviet bioweapons program, heart disease. [25]
• Randy Walker, 52, Northwestern University football coach, apparent heart attack [26]
• F. Mark Wyatt, 86, a Central Intelligence Agency officer, who delivered bags of money to swing the 1948 Italy election. [27] [28] [29]

28

• Sedley Alley, 50, American convicted murderer and rapist, executed via lethal injection. [30]
• Jim Baen, 62, science fiction editor and publisher. [31]
• Theodore Black, 77, American executive, former CEO of Ingersoll Rand. [32]
• Walter Cox, 87, former president of Clemson University. [33]
• Boban Giankovic, 43, Serbian basketball player in Greece, heart attack. [34]
• Theodore Levitt, 81, German-born former editor of the Harvard Business Review and author of books on marketing, coined the term globalization. [35] [36]
• Vance Rudy Martin, 64, founder and former CEO of The Lending Tree, cancer. [37]
• Herman Merinoff, 77, American liquor distributor, co-chair of the Charmer-Sunbelt Group. [38]
• Mahmoud Mestiri, 77, former foreign minister of Tunisia [39]
• George Page, 71, creator and narrator of the PBS series Nature. [40]
• Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, 87, English barrister, politician and author. [41]
• Fernando Sanchez, 70, Belgian-born fashion designer. [42]
• Mickey Sims, 51, former player with the Cleveland Browns, heart attack. [43]
• Wing Commander George Unwin, 93, Battle of Britain ace. [44]
• Lennie Weinrib, 71, American actor. [45]
• Jean Henri Courcoul, 87, French Resistance fighter and WWII RAF heavy bomber pilot, heart attack.

27

• Eileen Barton, 76, American singer, actress, ovarian cancer [46]
• Robert Carrier, 82, American celebrity chef.[47]
• J. Robert Elliott, 96, US Federal District Judge who overturned the conviction of Lt. William Calley. [48]
• Michael Fanfalone, 57, aviation union leader, complications of Crohn's disease. [49]
• Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, 46, Mexican serial killer, execution via lethal injection. [50]
• Virginia Rosenbaum, 63, corporate research analyst and widow of David Rosenbaum, cancer. [51]
• Don Wright, 97, Canadian composer and lyricist. [52]

26

• Bob Allan, 54, former Chief Executive of the Glasgow Housing Association. [53]
• Bear JJ1 (Bruno the Bear), the first wild bear in Germany in 170 years, shot to death. [54]
• Al Brounstein, 86, Canadian-born American Napa Valley vintner, Parkinson's disease. [55]
• Joe Carter, 57. gospel singer who took his "A Song in the Night" show to five continents playing 300 shows in five continents. [56]
• Donald Halperin, 60, former New York state senator. [57]
• Johnny Jenkins, 67, American blues guitarist who who influenced Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix, stroke. [58] [59]
• Marlon Kalkai, 33, former professional wrestler best known as Tiger Kahn in Stampede Wrestling, heart failure
• Lieutenant General Parami Kulatunga, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lankan Army, bomb blast. [60]
• Frederick Mayer, 84, educational philosopher, creativity expert, author of "History of Educational Thought".
• Marion Mingins,53, the first female chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II, and pioneer of women's ministry in the Church of England.
• Eric Rofes, 51, American author and AIDS educator, heart attack. [61]
• Dr. Joseph Schildkraut, 72, American psychiatrist at Harvard University. [62]
• Abbye Stockton, 88, pioneering American woman weightlifter and bodybuilder, Alzheimer's disease. [63] [64]
• Stephen Tiger, 57, member of Native American band Tiger Tiger who performed with Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, recipient of a Native American Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award, head injury. [65]
• Stan Torgerson, 82, radio announcer for Ole Miss football and basketball games. [66]
• Jeff Winkless, 65, Los Angeles voice actor, brain tumor

25

• Elkan Allan, 83, created Ready Steady Go! and developed the first television listings for the UK in the Sunday Times. [67]
• Eliyahu Asheri, 18, Israeli civilian kidnapped and murdered by militants in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
• Charles Barrow, 84, former justice of the Texas Supreme Court. [68]
• B. D. Nag Chowdhury, 89, Indian nuclear scientist, cerebral haemorrhage. [69]
• George Whitaker Clarke, 100, Washington state politician. [70]
• Richard DeVore, 73, Colorado sculptor, lung cancer. [71]
• Harry Elliot, 101, former professional wrestling promoter, Natural Causes [72]
• Alexis Giannoulias, 69, founder of the Broadway Bank in Chicago and father of Alexi Giannoulias a Democrat politician, heart attack. [73]
• Kenneth Griffith, 84, Welsh actor and documentary maker, Parkinson's disease. [74]
• Akbar Hossain, 65, Bangladeshi Minister for Shipping and hero of 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, heart attack [75]
• Dr. Irving Kaplansky, 89, American mathematician at the University of Chicago. [76] [77]
• Dibya Khaling, 56, lyricist and composer of Nepali music responsible for 1,000 songs, cardiac arrest. [78]
• Arif Mardin, 74, Turkish-American Grammy Award winning music producer, pancreatic cancer. [79] [80]
• Sophie Maslow, 95, American choreographer. [81]
• Melvin Moss, 83, American anatomist and former dean of Columbia University's dental school. [82]
• Gad Navon, 84, Former Chief Israeli Military Rabbi, cancer. [83]
• Jaap Penraat, 88, Dutch architect and member of Dutch resistance in World War II. [84]
• Michael Ruane, 78, Massachusetts legislator 1975-2005, cancer. [85]
• Seema Aissen Weatherwax, 100, Ukrainian photographer
• Roberta Weston, 118?, claimed to be the world's oldest woman but no documentary proof of claim. [86]

24

• John Conger, 85, psychologist and former dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. [87]
• Denice Denton, 46, chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, suicide. [88]
• Ben Garry, 50, played NFL for the Baltimore Colts, car crash. [89]
• Jeffrey Harbers, 54, Microsoft executive who worked on developing many software programs including Microsoft Office, plane crash. [90]
• Tichaona Jokonya, 67, Information & Publicity Minister in Zimbabwe, cardiac arrest. [91]
• Ígor Medio, 34, and Carlos Redondo, 40, members of Felpeyu folk band, from Asturias, Spain, car accident. [92]
• John F. Oates, 71, Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and Classics at Duke University and one of America's leading papyrologists. [93]
• Patsy Ramsey, 49, mother of JonBenét Ramsey, ovarian cancer. [94], [95]
• Lyle Stuart, 83, American journalist and publisher. [96]
• Gerald Tomlinson, 73, mystery and baseball writer. [97]
• Tom Triplett, 71, Savannah, Georgia politician, former Georgia Representative. [98]
• Ric Weiland, 53, Microsoft pioneer, developed BASIC, COBOL and Microsoft Works, suicide. [99]
• David Owen, 38, Topeka Kansas homeless advocate, lobbyist, asphyxiated [100]

23

• Martin Adler, 47, Swedish journalist. Shot by unknown assailant in Mogadishu, Somalia. [101]
• John William Wentworth Butters, 80, Australian energy pioneer and son of Sir John Butters. [102]
• Harriet, 176, Galápagos tortoise believed to be the oldest animal in the world and allegedly owned by Charles Darwin, heart failure. [103]
• Grady Johnson, 66, former WWF wrestler known as "Crazy" Luke Graham; heart failure. [104]
• Budhi Kunderan, 66, former India wicketkeeper/batsman, lung cancer. [105]
• Aaron Spelling, 83, American television producer (Charlie's Angels, Starsky and Hutch, Beverly Hills 90210), complications of stroke. [106]

22

• Heinz Ansbacher, 101, German-born psychologist and expert in the work of Alfred Adler. [107]
• Anna Castelli Ferrieri, 87, Italian architect and designer. [108]
• Alfred Hopkins Jr, 80, Mayor of Annapolis 1989-1997. [109]
• Moose, 16, canine star of U.S. sit-com Frasier, played the character Eddie, "Skip" on film "My Dog Skip". [110]
• Pinuccia Nava, 86, Italian actress of the 1940s and 1950s on stage (the "Nava Sisters"), screen and TV (clown "Scaramacai"). [111]
• Chanel Petro Nixon, 16, Student, Murder victim in Brooklyn, New York.

21

• Theo Bell, 52, National Football League receiver with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, kidney disease and scleroderma. [112]
• Vern Leroy Bullough, 77, medical historian known for his history of nursing, cancer. [113]
• Monsignor Denis Faul, 73, former chaplain at the Maze Prison, outspoken critic of The Troubles and a key figure in attempts to end the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike in Northern Ireland, cancer. [114]
• Jacques Lanzmann, 79, French author, editor and songwriter. [115]
• Khamis al-Obeidi, 39, defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein, assassinated. [116]
• David Walton, 43, member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee [117]
• Jonathan Wordsworth, 73, scholar of Romanticism and chair of the Wordsworth Trust. [118]

20

• Ken Browne, 72, New Zealand steeplechase jockey and trainer. [119]
• Bill Daniel, 90, former Governor of Guam. [120]
• Evelyn Dubrow, 95, US women and labor advocate awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999. [121]
• Billy Johnson, 87, former New York Yankee and All-Star third baseman, cause not given. [122]
• E. Pierce Marshall, 67, son of J. Howard Marshall and Anna Nicole Smith's stepson and plaintiff in their inheritance feud, aggressive infection. [123]
• Jerome Martin (aka Redd Angel), 29, South African singer, car wreck. [124]
• Lamont Reese, 28, American convicted murderer, executed. [125]
• Charles H. Sawyer, 91, birth control researcher, Alzheimer's disease. [126]
• William Shurcliff, 97, physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb. [127]
• Claydes Charles Smith, 57, co-founder and lead guitarist of Kool and the Gang. [128]
• Vincent Usolor, former Nigerian Senator, died in his sleep. [129]

19

• Hugh Baird, 76, footballer for Leeds United, Aberdeen, Airdrieonians and Scotland. [130]
• Myldred Jones, 96, Californian social worker who founded youth shelter in Los Alamitos, California and helped to launch other youth services. [131]
• Priit Kolbre, 50, Estonian diplomat [132]
• Duane Roland, 53, guitarist and a founder of rock band Molly Hatchet. [133]
• Howard Shanet, 87, US conductor and composer. [134]
• István 'Joni' Szulovszky, 55, Hungarian musician, founding member of A.E. Bizottság. [135] [Hungarian]
• Melvin Watson, 98, American Baptist minister who trained Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders, complications from surgery [136]
• Arthur Yap (Singapore Poet and Artist),64, Lecturer, English Department, University of Singapore; cancer of the throat.

18

• Luke Belton, 87, Irish politician. [137]
• Des Colquhoun, 75, former editor-in-chief and columnist for the The Adelaide Advertiser, died in his sleep. [138]
• Nathaniel Neiman Craley, Jr., 78, former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives (1965-67) from Pennsylvania.
• Jesus Fuertes, 68, Spanish painter and protege of Pablo Picasso, heart attack. [139]
• Chris and Cru Kahui, 3-months, New Zealand child homicide victims.
• Gică Petrescu, 91, Romanian singer. [140]
• Donald Reilly, 72, American cartoonist (The New Yorker), cancer. [141] [142]
• René Renou, 54, French vintner. [143]
• Vincent Sherman, 99, American film director (Mr. Skeffington, The Young Philadelphians), natural causes. [144][145]
• Richard Stahl, 74, American comedy actor, Parkinson's disease. [146][147]
• Madeleine St John, 64, Australian novelist who wrote a book shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997, emphysema. [148]
• Arthur Wood, 93, executive at Sears, Roebuck & Company responsible for building Sears Tower, complications of pneumonia. [149]

17

• Norma Becker, 76, American anti-war activist, former chair of the War Resisters League. [150]
• Cláudio Besserman Vianna, (a.k.a. Bussunda), 43, Brazilian comedian, member of Casseta & Planeta, heart attack [151]
• Arthur Franz, 86, American character actor (Sands of Iwo Jima, Invaders from Mars). Emphysema and heart disease. [152][153]
• Mikhail Lapshin, 71, Russian politician, leader of the Agrarian Party and former president of the Altai Republic (2002-2006), cause unknown. [154]
• Bill Lamb, 76, American public television executive, co-founder of WNET and former chief of KCET. [155]
• Charles Older, 88, Los Angeles Superior Court judge who presided over the Charles Manson trial, complications of a fall. [156][157]
• Abdul-Khalim Saydullayev, 38 or 39, Chechen separatist rebel leader. [158]
• Julian Slade, 76, English composer and lyricist of "Salad Days", cancer. [159]
• Bob Weaver, 77, Miami, Florida-based weatherman known as "Weaver the Weatherman" on WTVJ, cancer. [160]
• William Yallup Sr, 79, Yakama Nation elder. [161]

16

• Jimmy Allison, 77, Scottish unionist and Scottish organiser for the Labour Party between 1977 and 1990. [162] [163]
• Irving Berk, 100, Romania-born American founder of Berk Trade and Business School. [164]
• Roland Boyes, 69, Former Labour politician and photographer. Alzheimer's disease. [165]
• Barbara Epstein, 76, co-founder of the New York Review of Books, lung cancer. [166]
• Robert Hatch, 75, American public relations executive for Children's Television Workshop and the Peace Corps. [167]
• Tsuyoshi Kakefuda, 77, cancer researcher, liver disease. [168]
• Arthur Malvin, 83, Emmy award winning composer and lyricist, after a long illness. [169]
• Robert W. Mann, 81, American mechanical engineer and designer. [170]
• Scott Manning, 48, builder and pilot of the world's smallest jet, crash landing. [171]
• Igor Śmiałowski, 88, Polish actor, [172]
• Judy Wolpe, 62, cabinet member in two states and wife of former U.S. representative Howard Wolpe, drowning. [173] [174]

15

• Betty Curtis, 70, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival in 1961 with Luciano Tajoli. [175]
• Rabi Das, 34, leader of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal, shot dead by suspected Maoists. [176]
• Raymond Devos, 83, French humorist. [177]
• Ján Langoš, 59, Slovak politician, head of the Nation's Memory Institute of Slovakia [178] (Slovak)
• Jabu Sithole, 34, Zulu weatherman on the South African Broadcasting Corporation, AIDS. [179]
• Grand Rabbi Israel Dan Taub, 78, Modzitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak, Israel. [180]

14

• Samuel Ackerman, 58, Chairman and CEO of Panacos Pharmaceuticals, heart attack. [181]
• Josiah Beeman, 70, former US ambassador to New Zealand and Western Samoa, campaign manager for Jerry Brown, kidney failure.
• Monty Berman, 94, British B-movie producer. [182]
• H. Monroe Browne, 89, former US ambassador to New Zealand. [183]
• Khurshid Zahan Hoque, 69, Bangladesh's Minister for Women and Children, cirrhosis of the liver. [184]
• Surinder Kaur, 77, Punjabi folk and classical singer known as the "nightingale of Punjab". [185]
• Craig Morris, 66, American pre-Columbian archaeologist at the American Museum of Natural History. [186]
• Jean Roba, 75, Belgian comics writer [187]
• Ndabezinhle Sigogo, Zimbabwean novelist and poet. [188]
• Irving Sunshine, 90, leader in forensic toxicology, multiple myeloma. [189]
• Klaas Verboom, 58, Canadian artist, liver cancer. [190]

13

• Roy Clarke, 79, convicted sex attacker who abused children over a 60 year period, natural causes.[191]
• Freddie Gorman, 77, US songwriter. [192]
• Patricia Guiver, 76, animal welfare advocate and mystery novelist, complications of heart surgery. [193]
• Charles Haughey, 80, former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, prostate cancer. [194]
• Hiroyuki Iwaki, 73, Japanese conductor, congestive heart failure. [195]
• Luis Jiménez, 65, American sculptor, crushed by a statue. [196]
• Burke Riley, 92, American lawyer and politician, Alzheimer's disease. [197]
• Dennis Shepherd, 79, South African Olympic boxer. [198]

12

• Anna Lee Aldred, 85, American jockey and first woman in US to receive a jockey's licence, member of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. [199] [200]
• Andrew William "Nicky" Barr, 90, Australian rugby union player and World War II fighter pilot [201]
• Chakufwa Chihana, 67, veteran Malawi opposition figure who ran unsuccessfully for President losing to Bakili Muluzi, brain tumour. [202]
• Michael Dornheim, 51, award-winning journalist with Aviation Week, car crash. [203]
• Michael Fajans, 58, American painter, motorcycle accident. [204] [205]
• Wes Hill, 76, Niagara River expert. [206]
• Clifford Hocking, 74, Australian entrepreneur [207]
• György Ligeti, 83, influential Hungarian composer. [208]
• José Leite Lopes, 87, Brazilian physicist. [209]
• Evan Settle, 93, former University of Kentucky basketballer. [210]
• Frank Streeter, 88, American philanthropist and book collector. [211]
• Mel Streeter, 75, architect and University of Oregon basketball player, amyloidosis. [212]
• Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, 82, billionaire Canadian media mogul and art collector. Possible heart attack. [213]
• Nijiro Tokuda, 111, oldest man in Japan [214]
• Paul Xanthos, 85, tennis coach at Pierce College for three decades winning 23 Conference titles, died in his sleep. [215]

11

• Michael Bartosh, 28, Mac OS X Server expert, injuries from a fall. [216]
• James Cameron, 92, founder of America's Black Holocaust Museum, lymphoma. [217]
• Pierre Clerdent, 97, Belgian politician (Liège), and holder of the Grand-Croix de la Légion d'honneur. [218]
• Neroli Fairhall, 61, New Zealand paraplegic archer and Olympic competitor. [219]
• Rolande Falcinelli, 86, French organist and composer.
• Tim Hildebrandt, 67, American artist. Complications of diabetes. [220]
• William Hundley, 80, American lawyer. [221]
• Hugh Latimer, 93, English actor and toy maker. [222]
• Mike Quarry, 55, light heavyweight boxer who challenged Bob Foster for the title, pugilistic dementia. [223]
• Major Bruce Shand, 89, father of Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall, and father-in-law of Charles, Prince of Wales, cancer. [224]
• Daniel Steiner, 72, American president of the New England Conservatory, lung disease. [225] [226]
• John Udeh, 50, prolific writer on development issues and former Federal Commissioner representing Enugu State 1999-2003. [227]
• George Washington, 76, American boxing trainer. [228]

10

• Qadi Abdul Karim Abdullah Al-Arashi, 72, former President of North Yemen. [229]
• Hubertus Czernin, 50, Austrian journalist who helped return painting