Deaths in January 2006

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

January 2006

1

• Frank Cary, 85, American businessman, chairman of IBM (1973–1981), natural causes.
• Mapita Cortés, 75, Mexican actress, cancer.
• Bryan Harvey, 49, American musician (House of Freaks, Gutterball), murdered.
• Dawn Lake, 78, Australian entertainer, widow of Bobby Limb.
• John Latham, 84, Zambian artist, natural causes.
• Paul Lindblad, 64, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics), Alzheimer's disease.
• Dragan Lukić, 77, Serbian writer, after long illness.
• Harry Magdoff, 92, American socialist and editor, natural causes.
• Charles O. Porter, 86, American politician, Representative from Oregon (1957–1961), Alzheimer's disease.
• Gideon Rodan, 71, American biochemist, cancer.
• Hubert Schoemaker, 55, Dutch chemist, co-founder of Centocor, brain cancer.
• Charles Steen, 81, American geologist and businessman.

2

• Frank Butler, 89, British sports journalist.
• Raul Davila, 74, Puerto Rican actor and television producer, heart attack.
• Ofelia Fox, 82, Cuban nightclub owner (Tropicana Club), cancer.
• Osa Massen, 91, Danish actress.
• Klemens Mielczarek, 85, Polish actor.
• Michael S. Smith, 59, American jazz drummer.
• Francis Steinmetz, 91 Dutch author and Colditz Castle escapee.
• Frank Wilkinson, 91, American civil liberties activist, natural causes.
• John Wojtowicz, 60, American bankrobber, cancer.
• John Woodnutt, 81, British actor.
• Lidia Wysocka, 89, Polish actress.

3

• Urbano Lazzaro, 81, Italian resistance fighter, capture of Benito Mussolini.
• Steve Rogers, 51, Australian rugby league player, apparent suicide.
• Sir William Skate, 52, Papua New Guinean politician, Prime Minister (1997–1999), stroke.
• Bruce Wilson, 64, Australian journalist, cancer.

4

• John Hahn-Petersen, 75, Danish actor, heart attack.
• Sophie Heathcote, 33, Australian actress.
• Milton Himmelfarb, 87, American essayist.
• Stan Hunt, 76, American cartoonist.
• Irving Layton, 93, Canadian poet, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 62, Ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, heart attack.
• Gretl Schörg, 91, German actress.
• Lourdes Van-Dúnem, 70, Angolan singer, typhoid fever.
• Nel van Vliet, 79, Dutch swimmer.

5

• Ramona Bell, 47, wife of broadcaster Art Bell, asthma attack.
• Rod Dedeaux, 91, American college baseball coach, complications from a stroke.
• Keizo Miura, 101, Japanese mountaineer.
• Lord Merlyn-Rees, 85, former British Home Secretary, following a number of falls.
• Ken Mosdell, 83, Former Montreal Canadiens Hockey player.
• Mark Roberts, 84, American actor.
• Simon Shanks, 34, American football player, linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals in 1995, murdered by home intruder.
• Rachel Squire, 51, British Labour Member of Parliament for Dunfermline and West Fife, stroke.
• Alex St. Clair, 64, American musician, primarily with Captain Beefheart.
• Vajramuni, 62, Indian actor.

6

• Allaire du Pont, 92, American thoroughbred enthusiast, owner of Kelso, natural causes.
• Roshan Khan, 76, Pakistani squash player, father of Jahangir Khan complications from a heart attack and coma.
• Józef Milik, 83, Polish Catholic priest and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar.
• Comandante Ramona, 47, Tzotzil Indian Zapatista rebel leader and women's rights advocate, kidney disease and tuberculosis.
• Lou Rawls, 72, American jazz and blues singer, lung and brain cancer.
• Hugh Thompson, Jr., 62, Vietnam War helicopter pilot who helped stop the My Lai Massacre, removed from life support.
• Stanley Roger Tupper, 84, former Republican United States Representative from Maine from 1961 - 1967.
• Gábor Zavadszky, 31, Hungarian footballer (soccer player), probably pulmonary embolism.

7

• Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar, 58, Head of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti, suicide.
• Heinrich Harrer, 93, Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer and author.
• Alf McMichael, 78, Northern Irish footballer.
• Jim Zulevic, 40, American actor, heart attack.

8

• Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, 62, former British Minister for Sport, stroke and cerebral hemorrhage.
• Elson Becerra, 27, Colombian football player, shot.
• Alex Elmsley, 76, English magician, heart attack.
• Georg Wilhelm, Prince of Hanover, 90, educator and Olympian.
• David Rosenbaum, 63, New York Times reporter, head injury during mugging.
• Mimmo Rotella, 87, Italian artist, illness.
• Raatbek Sanatbayev, 36, Kyrgyz Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler and candidate for National Olympic Committee president, shot
• José Luis Sánchez, 31, Argentine football (soccer) player, from injuries sustained in a biking accident.

9

• Andy Caldecott, 41, Australian Dakar Rally motorcycle rider, fatal neck injury sustained in an accident in Mauritania.
• Patricia Hitt, 87, Assistant United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Nixon, natural causes.
• Selwyn Hughes, 77, British fundamentalist evangelical who founded Crusade for World Revival
• Mikk Mikiver, 68, Estonian stage director and actor.
• W. Cleon Skousen, 92, BYU professor and prominent Latter-day Saint author and lecturer.
• Gordon Smith, 55, Canadian inventor (KISS rebreather).
• Jack Snow, 62, American NFL player and radio announcer, complications from a staph infection.
• Don Stewart, 70, American actor (The Guiding Light), lung cancer.

10

• Ira B. Black, 64, American neuroscientist, founder of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey, infection related to a tumor.
• Dave Brown, 52, American NFL player, heart attack.
• Elliot Forbes, 88, Harvard University professor and Beethoven scholar.
• Sidney Frank, 86, American businessman and philanthropist, heart failure.
• Alethea Hayter, 94, British writer.
• Dennis Marks, 73, American animation writer-producer.
• John Sinibaldi, 92, American Olympic cyclist.

11

• Eric Namesnik, 35, American Olympic swimmer, injuries from a car crash.
• Mark Spoon, 39, German DJ, prominent figure in trance music and member of (Jam & Spoon), heart attack.

12

• William Matthew Byrne, Jr., 75, presiding judge in the trial of Daniel Ellsberg, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Brendan Cauldwell, 83, Irish actor, died in sleep.
• Eldon Dedini, 84, American cartoonist, esophageal cancer.
• Shaikh Faisal bin Hamad Al Khalifa, 15, Bahraini prince, injuries from a car crash.
• Günther Landgraf, 77, German physicist and former President of Technische Universität Dresden.
• Stewart Linder, 74 American Oscar-winning film editor.
• Anne Meacham, 80, American stage (Suddenly, Last Summer) and television actress (Another World).
• Meinrad Schütter, 95, Swiss composer.

13

• Raúl Anguiano, 90, Mexican engraver and painter.
• Gordon Atkinson, 83, Canadian broadcaster and politician. (French)
• Richard Dalitz, 80, Australian physicist, expert in exotic particles, studied quarks.
• Frank Fixaris, 71, American sportscaster, house fire.
• Ron Jessie, 57, American NFL wide receiver, heart attack.
• Marc Potvin, 38, Canadian NHL player, found dead in his hotel room in Michigan, suicide.
• Joan Root, 69, American wildlife conservationist, shot to death.

14

• Henri Colpi, 84, Swiss film director and cinematographer.
• Jim Gary, 66, American sculptor, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage.
• Conrad Hendricks, 27, South African professional football player, car crash.
• Bubba Morton, 74, American baseball player and coach.
• Mark Philo, 21, English professional football player, injuries from a car crash.
• Bob Weinstock, 77, founded independent jazz record label Prestige Records, complications of diabetes.
• Shelley Winters, 85, American actress (Lolita, The Poseidon Adventure), heart failure.

15

• Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 79, Emir of Kuwait, brain hemorrhage.
• Glyn Berry, 59, Welsh-born Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan.
• Hilma Contreras, 95, Dominican writer.
• Edward N. Hall, 91, U.S. Air Force rocket expert, father of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile program.
• George Worth, 90, American Olympic fencer.

16

• Stanley Biber, 82, American physician and pioneer in sex reassignment surgery, complications of pneumonia.
• Richard P. McCormick, 89, professor at Rutgers University, expert on early American political history and New Jersey history, illness.

17

• Clarence Ray Allen, 76, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
• Harold R. Collier, 90, former Republican United States Representative from Illinois from 1957–1975.
• Wallace Mercer, 59, former chairman of Heart of Midlothian F.C., cancer.
• Giles Worsley, 44, British architectural historian and journalist, nephew of the Katharine, Duchess of Kent, cancer.

18

• Norman McCabe, 94, American animator and director, famous for Tokio Jokio and The Ducktators shorts from his Termite Terrace tenure at Warner Bros.
• Thomas Murphy, 90, former CEO of General Motors.
• Anton Rupert, 89, South African businessman, philanthropist and founding member of World Wide Fund for Nature, natural causes.
• Stjepan Steiner, 90, Croatian physician, doctor to Josip Broz Tito. (Croatian)
• Jan Twardowski, 90, Polish priest and poet.

19

• Gary Downie, South African psychotherapist and television production manager (Doctor Who, Star Cops), cancer.
• Anthony Franciosa, 77, American actor, third husband of Shelley Winters, stroke.
• Tom Nugent, 92, American football coach, member of the College Football Hall of Fame, congestive heart failure.
• Wilson Pickett, 64, American soul singer, heart attack.
• Awn Alsharif Qasim, 73, Sudanese writer, educator and Islamic scholar
• Geoff Rabone, 84, New Zealand cricketer.
• Franz Seitz, 85, German film director.

20

• Andrei Iordan, 71, former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan.
• David Maust, 51, American convicted serial killer, heart failure after a botched suicide attempt.
• Dave Lepard, 25, Swedish musician (Crashdïet), suicide.
• Rose Bouziane Nader, 99, President of the Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest, mother of US Presidential candidate Ralph Nader, congestive heart failure.
• Perrie Simpson, 43, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
• Pio Taofinu'u, 82, Samoan Roman Catholic cardinal.
• Leslie Wilson, 80, British Olympic cyclist.

21

• Michael Chan, Baron Chan, 65, British paediatrician, second peer of Chinese origin.
• John James Cowperthwaite, 90, British civil servant, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong (1961–1971).
• Robert Knudson, 80, American sound engineer, three-time Academy Award winner, supranuclear palsy.
• Ibrahim Rugova, 61, President of Kosovo, lung cancer.

22

• Janette Carter, 82, last living member of the Carter Family country music group.
• Alec Coxon, 90, Yorkshire and England cricketer.
• Sherman Ferguson, 61, American jazz drummer
• Aydın Güven Gürkan, 65, Turkih academic and politician (chairman of SHP)
• Nellie Y. McKay, 67, African-American literary critic, colon cancer.

23

• Ernie Baron, 65, Filipino radio/TV host and meteorologist, heart attack brought about by diabetes.
• Andrea Bronfman, 60, American philanthropist and wife of Charles Bronfman, hit by car.
• Savino Guglielmetti, 94, Italian gymnast, 1928 Olympic gold-medalist and oldest surviving Olympic champion.
• General Samuel W. Koster, 86, highest ranking United States Army officer charged in My Lai massacre, renal cancer
• Chris McKinstry, 38, an independent researcher in artificial intelligence, suicide.
• Joseph M. Newman, 96, American Film Director/Producer, This Island Earth.
• Bill Rice, 74, American artist.
• Virginia Smith, 94, former Republican United States Representative from Nebraska (1975–1991).
• Michael Wharton, 92, British humorist ("Peter Simple").

24

• Zaki Badawi, 84, Islamic religious leader in Britain.
• Schafik Handal, 75, former Presidential candidate and leader of El Salvador's main political opposition party, the FMLN, heart attack.
• Peter Ladefoged, 80, American phonetician, stroke.
• Carlos (Café) Martínez, 41, former MLB player, complications from a long illness.
• Fayard Nicholas, 91, American dancer, elder of the renowned Nicholas Brothers, pneumonia and complications of a stroke.
• Chris Penn, 40, American actor, brother of Sean Penn, cardiomyopathy combined with multiple medication intake.
• Sir Nicholas Shackleton, 68, British geologist, leukemia.

25

• Marion Dudley, 33, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
• Luther Green, 59, American NBA player, lung cancer.
• John F. Kerin, American professor, reproductive scientist, gynaecologist, farm accident. .
• Anna Malle, 38, American adult film actress, car accident.
• Herbert Schilder, 77, American dental surgeon, improved root canal procedures, Lewy body disease.
• Sudharmono, 78, Vice President of Indonesia from 1988–1993, pneumonia.
• Allan Temko, 81, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, brief illness.

26

• Len Carlson, 68, Canadian voice actor, heart attack during sleep
• John Dunwoody, 76, British Member of Parliament, effects of an accident.
• Morris Silverman, 93, American philanthropist, founder of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research.
• Dave Tatsuno, 92, documented the Topaz Japanese internment camp in his film Topaz
• Khan Wali Khan, 89, prominent Pakistani opposition Leader and prominent Pashtun leader, heart attack.

27

• Maurice Colclough, 52, English Rugby Union player, brain tumour.
• Tana Hoban, 88, photographer of children, author of over 110 children's books
• Phyllis King, 100, British Wimbledon-winner.
• Carol Lambrino, 86, elder son of King Carol II of Romania.
• Christopher Lloyd, 84, gardening writer, stroke.
• Gene McFadden, 56, singer and songwriter, cancer.
• Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon, 90, British solicitor and politician.
• Johannes Rau, 75, President of Germany (Bundespräsident) from 1999 - 2004.

28

• Peter Isola, 76, Gibraltarian politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Gibraltar (1956–1984).
• Yitzchak Kaduri, 106, renowned Japanese Sephardic Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist.
• Henry McGee, 76, British actor.

29

• Andrew Gonzalez, 65, Filipino linguist and educator, complications from diabetes.
• Paik Nam-june, 73, South Korean-born American artist, particularly noted for his video art, natural causes.
• George Psychoundakis, 85, Greek Resistance fighter during World War II.

30

• Stew Albert, 66, 1960s anti-establishment activist, co-founder of the Yippies, liver cancer.
• Paul Clinton, 53, CNN film critic, founder of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA).
• Seth Fisher, 33, American comic book illustrator, fall from a building.
• Arnold Graffi, 95, German Researcher for oncology, long illness.
• Coretta Scott King, 78, American civil rights leader, widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., ovarian cancer.
• Otto Lang, 98, film producer and ski mogul, heart disease.
• Irving Rosenwater, 73, English statistician.
• Wendy Wasserstein, 55, American playwright, lymphoma.

31

• Owen Abrahams, 72, Australian rules footballer, serious illness.
• Ruairi Brugha, 88, Irish Fianna Fáil politician, son of Cathal Brugha.
• Henry S. Coleman, 79, dean at Columbia University.
• Boris Kostelanetz, 94, tax lawyer.
• George Koval, 92, Soviet intelligence agent.
• Paul Regina, 49, American actor, liver cancer.
• Jason Sears, 38, American punk rock singer (Rich Kids on LSD), complications from drug abuse.
• Moira Shearer, 80, British ballerina, actress, and newspaper columnist, married to Sir Ludovic Kennedy, natural causes.