Deaths in February 2006

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

February 2006

1

• Roy Alon, 63, British film stuntman, heart attack.
• Dick Bass, 68, American pro football player and radio analyst.
• Dick Brooks, 63, American NASCAR race car driver and radio broadcaster, heart attack.
• Ronald B. Cameron, 78, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1963–1967).
• Robin Donkin, 75, British historian and geographer.
• Ernest Dudley, 97, British novelist, journalist, screenwriter, actor, radio broadcaster.
• Carlson Gracie, Sr., 72, Brazilian martial artist, complications from kidney stones.
• Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr., 86, American politician, governor of Arizona 1965-1967.
• Jean-Philippe Maitre, 56, former President of the Swiss National Council, brain tumor.
• John Woollam, 78, former British Conservative Member of Parliament. (Who's Who 2007)

2

• Armando Castillo, 73, Guatemalan Olympic cyclist.
• Jill Chaifetz, 41, American lawyer and executive director of the nonprofit legal group Advocates for Children of New York, ovarian cancer.
• Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury, 77, Bangladesh politician, former prime minister of Bangladesh.
• Chris Doty, 39, Canadian documentarian and playwright, suicide.
• Guglielmo Letteri, 80, Italian comic book artist.
• Pat Rupp, 63, goaltender for the 1964 and 1968 USA Olympic ice hockey teams, cancer.
• S. K. Ramachandra Rao, 78, Indian scholar.
• Athol Shephard, 85, Australian cricketer.
• Nicholas Swarbrick, 107, last remaining English merchant sailor of World War I.
• Sir Reginald Swartz, 94, Australian politician, Minister for Civil Aviation from 1966-1969.
• Chris Walton, 72, English cricketer.
• Stephen Worobetz, 91, Canadian politician, former lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan.

3

• Ustad Qawwal Bahauddin, 71 or 72, Indian-Pakistani Qawwali singer.
• Walerian Borowczyk, 82, Polish-born surrealist filmmaker , heart failure
• Jean Byron, 80, American actress, infection following hip replacement surgery.
• Ernie Clements, 83, British road racing cyclist.
• Kurt Emmerich, 76, German radio reporter.
• Frank Goodman, 89, Broadway press agent. , congestive heart failure.
• Lou Jones, 74, American Olympic runner.
• Sonny King, 83, American comedian-singer, Jimmy Durante's sidekick, cancer.
• Duma Kumalo, 48, one of the Sharpeville Six, human rights activist, film-maker and founding member of the Khulumani Support Group for victims of apartheid-related violence.
• Al Lewis, 82, American actor (Grandpa Munster on The Munsters), Green Party political candidate, restaurateur, and radio host.
• Romano Mussolini, 78, Italian jazz musician and painter, son of Benito Mussolini.
• Denne Petitclerc, 76, American journalist, screenwriter, and friend of Ernest Hemingway.
• Johnny Vaught, 96, NCAA championship-winning University of Mississippi football coach.

4

• George T. Davis, 98, American criminal defense lawyer
• Friedrich Engel, 97, German, former Nazi SS officer.
• Betty Friedan, 85, American feminist and writer, congestive heart failure.
• William Augustus Jones Jr., 71, American Civil Rights pioneer.
• Barbara W. Leyden, 56, American palynologist and paleoecologist.
• Joe McGuff, 79, American sportswriter and newspaper editor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease).
• Elena Carter Richardson, 55, Mexico-born principal dancer and teacher, cancer.
• Myron Waldman, 97, American animator for Betty Boop and Superman cartoons, congestive heart failure.

5

• Roland S. Boreham Jr., 81, American businessman, former CEO of Baldor Electric Co.
• Norma Candal, 75, Puerto Rican comedian, actress and drama teacher, head injury.
• Franklin Cover, 77, American TV and movie actor, pneumonia.
• Reuven Frank, 85, American TV journalism pioneer and former NBC News president, complications from pneumonia.
• Peter Philp, 85, British dramatist and antiques expert.
• Jack Taylor, 60, one of the heaviest men in Britain, heart attack.
• Carl Vogel, 84, German art collector.

6

• John Brightman, Baron Brightman, 94, UK lawyer and former Lord of Appeal.
• Mario Condello, 53, Australian lawyer and gangland criminal.
• Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, 80, American comedian and actor, cancer.
• Stella Ross-Craig, 99, one of the most prodigious of British flora illustrators.
• Esther Sandoval, 78, Puerto Rican actress.
• Karin Struck, 58, German writer, cancer.
• Kouji Totani, 57, Japanese voice actor, heart failure.

7

• Glenn Lee Benner II, 43, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
• George Millay, 76, American businessman and founder of SeaWorld, lung cancer.
• Max Rosenn, 96, American judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1970–2006).
• Mitchell Rupe, 51, American convicted murderer ruled too heavy to be hanged, liver disease.
• Alan Shalleck, 76, American TV writer, director (Curious George animated films), murdered.

8

• Larry Black, 54, American track and field medalist at 1972 Summer Olympics, aneurysm.
• Elton Dean, 60, English jazz saxophonist, heart and liver related problems.
• Michael Gilbert, 93, British mystery author and lawyer.
• Ron Greenwood, 84, British football manager, England national team, West Ham United.
• Akira Ifukube, 91, Japanese film composer, best known for Godzilla film series.
• Mart Kenney, 95, "Canada's Big Band King," bandleader/musician, complications from a fall.
• Gigi Parrish, 92, later known as Katherine Weld, American actress.
• Kuljeet Randhawa, 30, Indian television actress, suicide.

9

• Phil Brown, 89, American actor, best known for playing "Uncle Owen" Lars in Star Wars.
• Ibolya Csák, 91, Hungarian athlete, 1936 Olympic gold medalist in women's high jump.
• Gilles Kahn, 59, French computer scientist. (French)
• Sir Freddie Laker, 83, British entrepreneur, founder of Laker Airways.
• Nadira, 75, Indian Bollywood actress.
• Laurie Z, American musician, lung cancer

10

• John Belluso, 36, American playwright, Engleman-Camurdrie syndrome.
• Jill Fraser, 59, British theatre director, cancer.
• Dick Harmon, 58, American golfer and golf instructor.
• Knut-Olaf Haustein, 71, German physician.
• John Prentice, 79, Scottish football player and manager.
• Norman Shumway, 83, American surgeon performed first U.S. heart transplant, lung cancer.
• Peter Smith, 65, British trade union leader, oesophageal cancer.
• Juan Soriano, 85, Mexican painter and sculptor.
• André Strappe, 77, French football player.
• James Yancey, aka J Dilla, 32, American hip hop record producer and MC, lupus nephritis.

11

• Peter Benchley, 65, American author best known for Jaws, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Peggy Cripps Appiah, 84, British-Ghanaian children's author.
• Ken Fletcher, 65, Australian tennis player, cancer.
• Jackie "Mr. TV" Pallo, 79, British professional wrestler, cancer.
• Harry Schein, 81, Austrian-born founder of Swedish Film Institute, author and columnist.
• Jockey Shabalala, 62, South African singer with Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
• Thomas A. Spragens, 88, figure in American higher education, former President of Centre College.
• Harry Vines, 67, American wheelchair basketball coach.

12

• Henri Guédon, 61, French percussionist.
• Geordie Hormel, 77, American musician and studio owner, heir to the Hormel Foods fortune.
• Juan Sánchez-Navarro y Peón, 92, Mexican entrepreneur and co-founder of National Action Party.
• Ken Hart, 88, American composer, playwright, US veteran, lobbyist, journalist, World War II

13

• John Brooke-Little, 78, English author and officer of arms.
• Ilan Halimi, French Jew murdered by a gang from Banlieue. Possibly anti-Semitic murder.
• Andreas Katsulas, 59, American actor, lung cancer.
• Alan M. Levin, 79, American documentary filmmaker.
• Edna Lewis, 89, American author of cookbooks on Southern U.S. cuisine.
• Altynbek Sarsenbayev, 43, former Kazakhstan cabinet minister, assassinated.
• Sir Peter Strawson, 86, British philosopher.
• Joseph Ujlaki, 76, Hungarian-born French football player.
• Wang Xuan, 70, Chinese academic and IT expert.
• Bettie Wilson, 115, American supercentenarian who was Mississippi's oldest person, complications from congestive heart failure.

14

• Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik, 106, Lubavitch storyteller.
• Darry Cowl, 80, French actor and pianist, lung cancer.
• Shoshana Damari, 83, "Queen of Israeli song," pneumonia.
• Joel Dorius, 87, American professor of literature, bone marrow cancer.
• Michael G. Fitzgerald, 55, American film historian and author.
• Lynden David Hall, 31, British soul singer, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Benjamin Matthews, 72, American bass-baritone opera singer, co-founder of Opera Ebony.
• Tage Møller, 91, Danish Olympic cyclist.
• Don Paarlberg, 94, American agricultural economics adviser to three U.S. Presidents.
• Robert Taylor Sr., 89, American businessman, miniature golf pioneer.
• Putte Wickman, 81, Swedish jazz orchestra leader and clarinetist, cancer.

15

• Barbara Guest, 85, American poet of the New York School
• Anna Marly, 88, Russian-born songwriter, France's "Troubadour of the Resistance."
• Andrei Petrov, 75, Russian composer.
• Robert E. Rich, Sr., 92, American businessman, creator of first nondairy whipped topping.
• Sun Yun-suan, 93, former Premier of Republic of China, heart attack.
• Josip Vrhovec, 79, former foreign minister of Yugoslavia.

16

• Paul Avrich, 74, American professor and historian of anarchism, Alzheimer's disease.
• Benno Besson, 83, Swiss stage director.
• Johnny Grunge, 39, American pro wrestler, sleep apnea complications.
• Sid Feller, 89, American music arranger, conductor and record producer.
• Susie Gibson, 115, American supercentenarian who was Alabama's oldest person, heart failure.
• Dennis Kirkland, 63, British television producer and director, after a short illness.
• Ernie Stautner, 80, Bavarian-born American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Alzheimer's disease.

17

• Ray Barretto, 76, American-born Latin jazz percussionist and bandleader, heart failure.
• Sybille Bedford, 94, German-born British novelist and memoirist.
• Paul Carr, 72, American TV and movie actor, lung cancer.
• Bill Cowsill, 58, American singer, lead of The Cowsills, emphysema and other ailments.
• Harold Hunter, 31, American pro skateboarder, in movie Kids, suspected drug overdose.
• Bob Lewis, 81, American race horse owner, congestive heart failure.
• Jorge Pinto Mendonça, 51, Brazilian football player, heart attack.
• Yevgeny Samoilov, 94, Russian actor

18

• Richard Bright, 68, American movie and television actor, pedestrian accident.
• Bill Hartley, 75, Australian political activist and trade unionist.
• Laurel Hester, 49, American gay rights activist, lung cancer.
• Charles Leonard, 92, American US Army Major General and Olympic sharpshooter
• Tom Sellers, 83, American newspaper reporter and 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner, heart attack.
• Ruth Taylor, 44, Canadian poet, alcohol poisoning.
• Saulius Mykolaitis, 40, Lithuanian director, actor, and singer-songwriter.

19

• Angelo Brignole, 81, Italian cyclist.
• Ken Keuffel, 82, American college football coach, prostate cancer.
• Erna Lazarus, 102, American screenwriter.
• Edward H. McNamara, 79, American county official.

20

• Lou Gish, 35, British stage, film and television actress, cancer.
• Curt Gowdy, 86, American sports broadcaster, leukemia.
• Paul Marcinkus, 84, American Catholic archbishop, President of Vatican Bank and Pro-President of Vatican City State.
• Lucjan Wolanowski, 86, Polish journalist, writer and traveller.

21

• Gennadiy Aygi, 71, Russian author and poet who wrote in the Chuvash language.
• Theodore Draper, 93, American historian and political commentator.
• Mirko Marjanovic, 68, Serbian politician, Prime Minister of Serbia (1994–2000).
• Angelica Rozeanu, 84, Romanian-born table tennis world champion, cirrhosis.
• Stefan Terlezki, 78, British Conservative Member of Parliament 1983-1987.

22

• Atwar Bahjat, 30, Iraqi journalist for al-Arabiya, abducted and killed in Iraq.
• Anthony Burger, 44, American gospel music pianist, collapsed during performance.
• Hilde Domin, 96, German poet and writer.
• Donelson Hoopes, 73, American curator
• Edward Nalbandian, 78, owner of Zachary All Clothing in Los Angeles, Alzheimer's disease.
• Flossie Page, 112, American supercentenarian, oldest person from Kansas.
• Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, 90, former Second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, heart failure.
• John Sullivan, 61, English cricketer.
• Bill Tung, 72, Hong Kong actor, horse racing commentator.
• Richard Wawro, 52, autistic savant internationally recognized artist, cancer.

23

• Giuseppe Amici, 67, former Captain Regent of San Marino
• Frederick Busch, 64, American author, heart attack.
• Said Mohamed Djohar, 87, former President of Comoros.
• Luna Leopold, 90, American ecologist and author
• Machteld Mellink, 88, Netherlands-born American archaeologist of sites in Anatolia
• Diane Shalet, 71, American actress and author
• Reverend Earl Stallings, 89, Baptist pastor praised by Martin Luther King in the Letter from Birmingham Jail
• Telmo Zarraonaindía, 85, Spanish football player, heart attack.

24

• Octavia Butler, 58, science fiction author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, head injury.
• Harold Faragher, 88, English cricketer.
• Don Knotts, 81, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Three's Company), complications from aspiration pneumonia and lung cancer.
• John Martin, 58, Canadian broadcaster, throat cancer.
• Andrew Sherratt, 59, British archaeologist at the University of Sheffield, heart failure.
• Denis Twitchett, 80, Gordon Wu Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University (1980–1994), creator of the 15 volume The Cambridge History of China, poor health.
• Dennis Weaver, 81, American actor (Gunsmoke, McCloud), complications from cancer.

25

• Robin Coombs, 84, British immunologist, developed Coombs Antibody test
• Kenneth Deane, 45, Canadian police officer convicted in Ipperwash shooting, automobile accident.
• Thomas Koppel, 61, Danish musician and composer from the band Savage Rose.
• Darren McGavin, 83, American actor (Kolchak: The Night Stalker, A Christmas Story), natural causes.
• Henry M. Morris, 87, American young earth creationist leader, complications of stroke.
• Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, 69, Poet Laureate of Ethiopia, kidney disease.
• Imette St. Guillen, 24, Hispanic John Jay College of Criminal Justice student, murdered.
• Charlie Wayman, 83, English footballer, during the 1940s and 1950s, following a long illness

26

• Georgina Battiscombe, 100, British author & biographer
• Bill Cardoso, 68, American writer and editor, coined the term "gonzo", heart failure.
• Noel Diprose, 83, Australian cricketer.
• Sir Hans Singer, 95, German-born British economist, helped create the World Food Program and the United Nations Development Program.

27

• Alice Baker, 107, last surviving British woman to serve in the First World War, member of the Royal Flying Corps
• Ferenc Bene, 61, Hungarian football player, fall.
• Otis Chandler, 78, former publisher of the Los Angeles Times, Lewy body disease.
• Fahd Faraj al-Juwair, 36, Saudi Arabian alleged head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula, killed in foiled bombing attempt.
• Milton Katims, 96, long-time conductor and leader of the Seattle Symphony.
• Tsakani Mhinga, 27, South African R&B singer, drug overdose.
• William Musto, 88, former mayor of Union City, New Jersey, convicted of racketeering
• Robert Lee Scott, Jr., 97, retired United States Air Force brigadier general and fighter ace, author (God is My Co-Pilot).
• Linda Smith, 48, British comedian, ovarian cancer.

28

• James Ronald "Bunkie" Blackburn, 69, NASCAR driver
• Owen Chamberlain, 85, particle physicist, co-discoverer of the antiproton, winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics, complications from Parkinson's Disease.
• Travis Claridge, 27, American football player with the Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers and Hamilton Tiger-Cats, pneumonia.
• Hugh McCartney, 86, former Labour Party MP.
• Ron Cyrus, 70, American politician, lung cancer.