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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2006. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: * Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.


August 2006


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Vincent Dole Vincent Dole (18 May 1913, in Chicago – 1 August 2006) was an American doctor, who, along with his wife, Marie Nyswander (died 1986), developed the use of methadone to treat heroin addiction. Dole and Nyswander, in establishing methadone mainte ...
, 93, American medical researcher, established that methadone could treat heroin addiction, ruptured aorta. *
Rufus Harley Rufus is a masculine given name, a surname, an Ancient Roman cognomen and a nickname (from Latin ''rufus'', "red"). Notable people with the name include: Given name Politicians * Rufus Ada George (born 1940), Nigerian politician * Rufus A ...
, 70, American jazz bagpipe player, prostate cancer. *
Arlene Raven Arlene Raven (Arlene Rubin: July 12, 1944, Baltimore, Maryland – August 1, 2006, Brooklyn, New York) was a feminist art historian, author, critic, educator, and curator. Raven was a co-founder of numerous feminist art organizations in Los ...
, 62, American feminist writer and art critic, kidney cancer. *
Jason Rhoades Jason Fayette Rhoades (July 9, 1965 – August 1, 2006) was an American installation artist. Better known in Europe, where he exhibited regularly for the last twelve years of his life, Rhoades was celebrated for his combination dinner party/ ...
, 41, American installation artist, heart failure. * George Styles, 78, British army officer, awarded the
George Cross The George Cross (GC) is the highest award bestowed by the British government for non-operational gallantry or gallantry not in the presence of an enemy. In the British honours system, the George Cross, since its introduction in 1940, has been ...
. * Bob Thaves, 81, American cartoonist ('' Frank and Ernest''), respiratory failure. * Johannes Willebrands, 96, Dutch Archbishop of Utrecht 1975–1983, oldest Cardinal in the Roman Catholic church. *
Iris Marion Young Iris Marion Young (2 January 1949 – 1 August 2006) was an American political theorist and socialist feminist who focused on the nature of justice and social difference. She served as Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago an ...
, 57, American political philosopher and feminist, esophageal cancer.


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Holger Börner Holger Börner (7 February 1931, in Kassel – 2 August 2006, in Kassel) was a German politician of the SPD. He was the 4th Minister President of Hesse from 1976 until 1987. In this position, he served as the 38th President of the Bundesrat ...
, 75, German politician, prime minister of Hesse (1976–1987), cancer. * Fitz Eugene Dixon Jr., 82, American former owner of the
Philadelphia 76ers The Philadelphia 76ers, colloquially known as the Sixers, are an American professional basketball team based in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The 76ers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eas ...
who signed Julius Erving, skin cancer. *
Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont (14 May 1914 – 2 August 2006) was a militant communist who took part in the French Resistance during the Second World War, and a French politician. Along with General Leclerc and Henri Rol-Tanguy, he accepted the surr ...
, 92, French Resistance fighter, militant communist, and politician. *
Audrey Lindvall Audrey Kathryn Lindvall (August 11, 1982 – August 2, 2006) was an American model. She was the sister of supermodel Angela Lindvall, and the former face of Coach and Ann Taylor. Biography Born in Lee's Summit, Missouri, to Randall (a phar ...
, 23, American model and sister of American supermodel
Angela Lindvall Angela Lindvall (born January 14, 1979) is an American model and actress. She was first discovered by an IMG scout when she was 14 years old, and was immediately signed with IMG New York. She took a brief break from modeling but returned when sh ...
, traffic accident. *
Kim McLagan Kim McLagan (born Maryse Elizabeth Patricia Kerrigan; 30 December 1948 – 2 August 2006) was a British model during the 1960s. She was married to The Who's Keith Moon from 1966 to 1975, and to the Small Faces and Faces' Ian McLagan from 1 ...
, 57, British model of the 1960s, wife of Ian McLagan of The Faces and former wife of
Keith Moon Keith John Moon (23 August 19467 September 1978) was an English drummer for the rock band the Who. He was noted for his unique style of playing and his eccentric, often self-destructive behaviour and addiction to drugs and alcohol. Moon grew ...
, traffic accident. *
Gary Pajcic Gary Pajcic (; October 2, 1947 – August 2, 2006), was a high school and college athlete, lawyer, and philanthropist in his hometown of Jacksonville, Florida. He earned his undergraduate degree from FSU in 1969 and his law degree from FSU in 19 ...
, 58, American athlete and lawyer. *
Luisel Ramos Luisel Ramos (April 12, 1984 – August 2, 2006) was a Uruguayan model. Biography Ramos was born in La Unión, a middle-class neighborhood in Montevideo, the daughter of former footballer Luis Ramos, who played for the Uruguay national tea ...
, 22, Uruguayan model, heart failure caused by anorexia nervosa. * Ferenc Szusza, 82, Hungarian football player, record goalscorer for a single club in Hungarian football. * John Watters, 81, Australian cricketer.


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* John Haase, 82, German-born American dentist turned author, emphysema. * Arthur Lee, 61, American rock musician, leader of the psychedelic band Love, leukemia. *
Ken Richmond Kenneth Alan "Ken" Richmond (10 July 1926 – 3 August 2006) was an English heavyweight wrestler. Richmond was born in London. His father abandoned the family when Richmond was 3. Before he got into freestyle wrestling, he was a whal ...
, 80, British actor and wrestler, 1952 Olympic bronze medal winner, gong striker in the credits for films by
J. Arthur Rank Joseph Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank (22 December 1888 – 29 March 1972) was a British industrialist who was head and founder of the Rank Organisation. Family business Rank was born on 22 or 23 December 1888 at Kingston upon Hull in England into ...
Studios. * Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 90, German-born opera soprano, natural causes.


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* Elden Auker, 95, American Major League Baseball pitcher, heart attack. *
Julio Galán Julio Galán (1958 or 1959 – August 4, 2006) was a Mexican artist and architect. Galán was one of Latin America's neo-expressionist painters of the end of the last century and the beginning of this one.. His paintings and collages are full ...
, 46, Mexican neo-expressionist painter, brain hemorrhage. *
John Locke John Locke (; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism ...
, 62, American keyboardist of Spirit, cancer. * Nandini Satpathy, 75, Indian politician and author, Chief Minister of Odisha, India 1972–1976, cerebral bleeding. * Esther Snyder, 86, American businesswoman, president of California-based In-N-Out Burger.


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* Susan Butcher, 51, American dog musher, four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion, complications from a bone marrow transplant to combat acute myeloid leukemia. * Aron Gurevich, 82, Russian medievalist. *
Terry McRae Terence Michael McRae (11 January 1941 – 5 August 2006) was an Australian politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Labor Party and member for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Playford from 1970 to 1989. Early life McRae w ...
, 65, Australian politician,
Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly The Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly is the presiding officer of the South Australian House of Assembly, the lower house of the Parliament of South Australia. The other presiding officer is the President of the South Australian Le ...
. *
Hugo Schiltz Hugo Schiltz (27 October 1927 – 5 August 2006) was a Belgian lawyer and politician. He was Belgian MP from 1965 to 1988 and senator from 1992 to 1995. He was also twice minister, from 1981 to 1985 in the first Flemish Government and between 1 ...
, 78, Belgian politician. * Daniel Schmid, 64, Swiss filmmaker and director ('' Il Bacio di Tosca''), cancer. * Ed Thrasher, 74, American art director.


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Esther Victoria Abraham Esther Victoria Abraham (30 December 1916 – 6 August 2006), better known by her stage name Pramila, was an Indian model, actress and first woman film producer in the Hindi film industry. She is also well known for winning the first Miss India ...
, 89, Indian model, actress and film producer. *
Ángel de Andrés Ángel de Andrés Miquel was a Spanish theatre actor and director. Background In 1938, after the Spanish Civil War broke out, the young Andrés worked as an amateur street actor and then as a "galán cómico" in the Salvador Videgain theatre ...
, 88, Spanish theatre actor and director, heart attack. *Salvino Azzopardi, 75, Maltese Jesuit priest and philosopher. * Gintaras Beresnevičius, 45, Lithuanian historian of religions specializing in Baltic mythology, writer, scholar, publicist. * Dorothy Healey, 91, American communist leader, pneumonia. *
Prince Christoph of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Christoph Victorio Egon Humberto Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (8 November 1956 – 6 August 2006) was a European socialite and member of the extended Agnelli family. Known as ''Kiko'', he was born at Clinique de Mont Choisi in Lausanne, Switzerl ...
, 49, European socialite, massive organ failure after being imprisoned. * Rafik Kamalov, Kyrgyz Imam and alleged Islamic militant, injuries sustained from gunfire. *
Stella Moray Stella Moray (29 July 1923 – 6 August 2006) was an English character actress who appeared on stage, film and television in dramas, comedies and soap operas. She seldom headlined on stage but was a stalwart stand-in and understudy, and when sh ...
, 83, British actress and performer. * Jim Pomeroy, 53, American professional motocross racer, first American to win a World Championship Motocross event, automobile accident. * Milcho Rusev, 81-82, Bulgarian Olympic cyclist. * Moacir Santos, 80, Brazilian composer and arranger. * Sir Robert Sparkes, 77, Australian grazier and businessman, former President of the Queensland National Party (1970–1990). * Hirotaka Suzuoki, 56, Japanese anime voice actor, lung cancer. *
Ian Walters Ian Homer Walters (9 April 1930 – 6 August 2006) was an English sculptor. Biography Born in Solihull, Walters was educated at Yardley Grammar school and under William Bloye at the Birmingham School of Art. After National Service in the Royal ...
, 76, British sculptor. *
Lawrence Wnuk Lawrence (Wawrzyniec) Anthony Wnuk, (August 6, 1908 in Witrogoszcz, German Empire (now Poland) – August 6, 2006 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and Protonotary Apostolic. He grew up in a Catholic and patriotic ...
, 98, Polish Roman Catholic priest,
Protonotary Apostolic In the Roman Catholic Church, protonotary apostolic (PA; Latin: ''protonotarius apostolicus'') is the title for a member of the highest non-episcopal college of prelates in the Roman Curia or, outside Rome, an honorary prelate on whom the pop ...
, founder of the Polish Canadian Centre Association of Windsor, Ontario.


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Mary Anderson Bain Mary Anderson Bain (September 19, 1911 – August 7, 2006) was a New Deal politician best known for her 33 years of service as Chief of Staff for Representative Sidney R. Yates, of Illinois. Bain was born in DeKalb, where she was involved in ...
, 94, American politician,
New Deal The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939. Major federal programs agencies included the Civilian Cons ...
director under U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and former top aide to Congressman
Sid Yates Sidney Richard Yates (August 27, 1909 – October 5, 2000) was an American politician from the state of Illinois. A native of Chicago, he graduated from Lake View High School in 1928. He received bachelor's (1931) and law (1933) degrees from ...
. * Jim Crooker, 80, American amateur golfer, amateur who played in more Bob Hope Chrysler Classic tournaments than any other golfer, cancer. * John Gilbert, 84, Canadian politician. * Lois January, 92, American actress, Alzheimer's disease. * Bob Miller, 76, American football player, NFL defensive tackle with the title-winning
Detroit Lions The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit. The Lions compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) North Division. The team play their home games at Ford ...
, cancer. *
John Weinberg John Livingston Weinberg (January 25, 1925 – August 7, 2006) was an American banker and businessperson, running Goldman Sachs from 1976 to 1990. Early life Weinberg was the son of Sidney Weinberg, a banker at Goldman Sachs, and was born an ...
, 81, American banker, former head of
Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs () is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, H ...
, complications from a fall.


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* Gustavo Arcos, 79, Cuban dissident, pneumonia. *
Slavko Brankov Slavko Brankov ( sr-Cyrl, Славко Бранков; 19 May 1951 – 8 August 2006) was a Croatian film, theatre and television actor of Serb descent. Career He graduated at the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art in 1976. In 1971, he started hi ...
, 55, Croatian actor. * Duke Jordan, 84, American bebop jazz pianist. *
Dino Restelli Dino Paolo Restelli (September 23, 1924 – August 8, 2006) nicknamed "Dingo", was an American professional baseball player in 1944 and from 1946–1955 who appeared in Major League Baseball as an outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates in and . He ...
, 81, American Major League Baseball player. *
Chandra Prasad Saikia Chandra Prasad Saikia (1927–2006) was a writer from Assam, India. He was the president of the Asam Sahitya Sabha held at Hajo and Jorhat district, Assam in 1999 and 2000, respectively. Saikia was born on 8 July 1927 in Jalukgaon, Jhanji in S ...
, 79, Indian writer. * Antonieta Zevallos de Prialé, 87, Peruvian politician,
deputy Deputy or depute may refer to: * Steward (office) * Khalifa, an Arabic title that can signify "deputy" * Deputy (legislator), a legislator in many countries and regions, including: ** A member of a Chamber of Deputies, for example in Italy, Spai ...
(1980–1985).


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* Gianfranco Bellini, 82, Italian actor and voice actor. * George Chapman, 85, Englist faith healer. * Colin Dickinson, 74, New Zealand Olympic cyclist. *
Anga Díaz Anga (Sanskrit: ) was an ancient Indo-Aryan peoples, Indo-Aryan tribe of eastern South Asia whose existence is attested during the Iron Age in India, Iron Age. The members of the Aṅga tribe were called the Āṅgeyas. Counted among the "six ...
, 45, Cuban conga player, heart attack. *
Jenny Gröllmann Jenny Gröllmann (5 February 1947 – 9 August 2006) was a German actress, best known for her work on films ''I Was Nineteen'' (1968), '' Peas at 5:30'' (2004) and her recurring role on the show ''Polizeiruf 110''. She won an Ernst Zinna Prize o ...
, 59, German actress (''
I Was Nineteen ''I Was Nineteen'' (german: Ich war neunzehn) is a 1968 East German film produced by Konrad Wolf for the DEFA studio. The film tells the story of a young German, Gregor Hecker (Jaecki Schwarz), who fled the Nazis with his parents to Moscow and ...
'', '' Peas at 5:30''), breast cancer. * Melissa Hayden, 83, Canadian-born ballerina, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, pancreatic cancer. * Philip Empson High, 92, British science fiction author, natural causes. * Said Abdullo Nuri, 59, Tajik leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, cancer. * Rafael Ruiz, 89, Spanish Olympic field hockey player (
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). * James Van Allen, 91, American space physicist, heart failure.


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* George Dawkes, 86, English cricketer, specialising in wicket keeping, for Derbyshire. * Barbara George, 63, American R&B singer, lung infection. *
Irving São Paulo José Irving Santana São Paulo (October 26, 1964 – August 10, 2006) was a Brazilian actor. Born in Feira de Santana, Bahia, Irving São Paulo was the son of Brazilian director Olney São Paulo. He had been active in both television and fil ...
, 41, Brazilian actor, multiple organ failure. *
Yasuo Takei Yasuo Takei (武井保雄, ''Takei Yasuo'') (January 4, 1930 – August 10, 2006) was the founder and former chairman of Takefuji (武富士), Japan's number one consumer finance group. On 17 November 2004 he was given a three-year suspende ...
, 76, Japanese second-richest man of Japan and founder of
Takefuji is a Japanese consumer finance company, or ''sarakin''. On September 28, 2010 it filed a petition for commencement of a corporate re-organisation under the Japanese Corporate Reorganisation Act. Services The Group's principal activity is the pro ...
Corporation.


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Alvin Cooperman Alvin Cooperman (July 24, 1923 – August 11, 2006) was a television producer and entertainment executive. Biography Born in Brooklyn, Cooperman began his work as an office boy at the age of 16 for the The Shubert Organization, Shubert Organiz ...
, 83, American entertainment executive. *
David Thomas Dawson David Thomas Dawson (October 20, 1957 – August 11, 2006) was an American convicted murderer who was executed at Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, Montana. Dawson was executed for the April 1986 murders of the Rodstein family in Billings, Monta ...
, 48, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. *
Mike Douglas Michael Delaney Dowd Jr. (August 11, 1920 – August 11, 2006),Cook County Birth Certificates, file number 6053268, borAugust 11, 1920Social Security Death Index, Michael D. Dowd Jr., Birth: 11 Aug 1920, death: 11 Aug 2006 residing in North ...
, 86, American talk-show host and entertainer. * Alice Ilchman, 71, American economist, president of
Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York. The college models its approach to education after the Supervision system, Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials. Sara ...
, (1981–1998). *
Mazisi Kunene Mazisi (Raymond) Kunene (12 May 1930 – 11 August 2006) was a South African poet best known for his translation of the epic Zulu poem '' Emperor Shaka the Great''. While in exile from South Africa's apartheid regime, Kunene was an active suppo ...
, 76, South African poet laureate. * Yevgeny Sinyayev, 58, Soviet Olympic sprinter.


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* Victoria Gray Adams, 79, American civil rights activist, first woman to run for a US Senate seat in Mississippi, cancer. * Noel Everett, 70, New Zealand Olympic sailo

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Raska Lukwiya Raska Lukwiya (died August 12, 2006) was the third highest-ranking leader of the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group founded in northern Uganda. Believed to be a native of Uganda's northern Gulu District, Lukwiya served successively as Brigade Genera ...
, Ugandan commander in the Lord's Resistance Army, indictee of the International Criminal Court for war crimes, killed in battle. *
Keren Tendler Keren Tendler ( he, קרן טנדלר; September 26, 1979 - August 12, 2006) was Israel's first female helicopter flight mechanic soon after a court allowed women to serve in combat positions. She was the first female Israeli soldier to die on ...
, 26, Israeli soldier and airborne mechanic, helicopter crash. * Nicholas Webster, 94, American film and television director.


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* Bill Baker, 95, American baseball player. * Joseph Carlino, 89, American Speaker of the New York State Assembly (1959–1964). * Jack Edwards, 88, British World War II soldier and prisoner of war rights campaigner. *
Kermit L. Hall Kermit Lance Hall (August 31, 1944 – August 13, 2006) was a noted legal historian and university president. He served from 1994 to 1998 on the Assassination Records Review Board to review and release to the public documents related to the Assas ...
, 61, American President of the
University at Albany The State University of New York at Albany, commonly referred to as the University at Albany, UAlbany or SUNY Albany, is a public research university with campuses in Albany, Rensselaer, and Guilderland, New York. Founded in 1844, it is one ...
, member of the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, swimming accident. *
Al Hostak Albert (Al) Paul Hostak (January 7, 1916 – August 13, 2006), nicknamed "the Savage Slav," was an American middleweight boxer who fought from 1932-1949. Hostak twice held the National Boxing Association Middleweight title between 1938 and 1940. H ...
, 90, American National Boxing Association middleweight champion (1938–1939), stroke. * Tony Jay, 73, British voice actor ('' The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', '' ReBoot'', ''
Mighty Ducks ''The Mighty Ducks'' is an American media franchise. It features a trilogy of live-action films released in the 1990s by Walt Disney Pictures, an animated television series, a live-action sequel television series, and a real-world hockey team ...
''), complications from tumor surgery. * Jon Nödtveidt, 31, Swedish lead guitarist and vocalist (
Dissection Dissection (from Latin ' "to cut to pieces"; also called anatomization) is the dismembering of the body of a deceased animal or plant to study its anatomical structure. Autopsy is used in pathology and forensic medicine to determine the cause o ...
), convicted of felony murder, suicide by gunshot. *
Payao Poontarat Payao Poontarat ( th, พเยาว์ พูนธรัตน์; ; October 18, 1956 – August 13, 2006) was a Thai boxer who, at the age of 18, won the bronze medal in the men's Light flyweight (-48 kg) category at the 1976 Summer ...
, 49, Thai boxer, first Thai Olympic medal winner (bronze, 1976), World Boxing Council champion, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.


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* William Ian Beardmore Beveridge, 98, Australian animal pathologist. * Johnny Duncan, 67, American country singer and songwriter, heart attack. * John Godley, 3rd Baron Kilbracken, 85, British-born Irish peer, wartime Fleet Air Arm pilot and journalist. * Adriaan de Groot, 91, Dutch chess master and psychologist. * Bruno Kirby, 57, American actor ('' The Godfather Part II'', '' City Slickers'', ''
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''), complications from leukemia. * Luis Fernandez de la Reguera, 39, American film director, motorcycle accident.


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Rick Bourke Richard (Rick) Bourke (16 November 1953 – 15 August 2006) was an Australian rugby league footballer. He played for Cronulla-Sutherland and South Sydney in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition. Playing career A Sharkie ...
, 51, Australian rugby league player, cancer. * William Branson, 68, American economist. *
Lynton K. Caldwell Lynton Keith Caldwell (November 21, 1913 – August 15, 2006) was an American political scientist and a principal architect of the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act, the first act of its kind in the world. He was educated at the University o ...
, 92, American political scientist. *
Dame Te Atairangikaahu Dame Te Atairangikaahu (23 July 1931 – 15 August 2006) was the Māori queen for 40 years, the longest reign of any Māori monarch. Her full name and title was Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu. Her title Te Arikinui (meaning ''Paramount C ...
, 75, New Zealand Māori queen. * Doug White, 61, American news anchor, cancer. *
Faas Wilkes Servaas "Faas" Wilkes (, 13 October 1923 – 15 August 2006) was a Dutch football forward, who earned a total of 38 caps for the Dutch national team, in which he scored 35 goals (average 0.92 goals per game). However, for a prolonged period of ...
, 82, Dutch international footballer.


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Umberto Baldini Umberto Baldini (November 9, 1921 – August 16, 2006) was an art historian and specialist in the theory of art restoration. He earned a degree in art history with professor Mario Salmi, entered into service as inspector of the Soprintendenza of ...
, 84, Italian art restorer, director of the conservation studios at the Uffizi. *
Alex Buzo Alexander John Buzo (23 July 194416 August 2006) was an Australian playwright and author who wrote 88 works. His literary works recorded Australian culture through wit, humour and extensive use of colloquial Australian English. Biography Ear ...
, 62, Australian playwright, cancer. *
Herschel Green Herschel Harper "Herky" Green (July 3, 1920 – August 16, 2006) was a World War II flying ace in the United States Army Air Forces. Green was the leading ace of the Fifteenth Air Force, shooting down 18 enemy aircraft and destroying 10 more on the ...
, 86, American World War II fighter ace. *
Iris M. Ovshinsky Iris M. Ovshinsky (July 13, 1927 – August 16, 2006) was an American businesswoman and scientist, and the co-founder of Energy Conversion Devices with her husband Stanford R. Ovshinsky, serving as its Vice President from its founding in 19 ...
, 79, American co-founder of ECD Ovonics, wife of inventor
Stanford Ovshinsky Stanford Robert Ovshinsky (November 24, 1922 – October 17, 2012) was an American engineer, scientist and inventor who over a span of fifty years was granted well over 400 patents, mostly in the areas of energy and information.Avery Cohn, "A ...
. * Alfredo Stroessner, 93, Paraguayan President (1954–1989), complications from hernia surgery. * Alan Vint, 61, American actor, multiple organ failure. *
William Wasson Father William B. Wasson (December 21, 1923 - August 16, 2006) was an United States of America, American Catholic priest. He was born in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, but moved to Mexico where he trained as a priest. In 1954, he founded Nuestro ...
, 82, American priest who founded orphanages, complications from a hip injury.


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* Kontek Kamariah Ahmad, 95, Malaysian educationist, politician, activist and pioneer in the Malaysian co-operative movement. * Len Evans, 75, Australian wine writer, founder of the Australian Wine Bureau, heart attack. * Ken Goodall, 59, Irish rugby union player (1967–1970). * Masumi Hayashi, 60, American photographer, shot. * John Hutton, 59, American furniture designer, complications of prostate cancer surgery. * Vernon Ingram, 82, German-born American molecular biologist ( MIT), discovered cause of sickle cell anemia. * Walter Jagiello, 76, American polka musician and songwriter. * Christopher Polge, 80, English biologist. * Shamsur Rahman, 76, Bangladeshi poet, kidney and liver failure. * Bernard Rapp, 61, French film director, writer and journalist, lung cancer. *
Sig Shore Sig Shore (May 13, 1919 – August 17, 2006) was an American film director and producer. His 1972 film '' Super Fly'' is considered one of the first blaxploitation films. Biography Shore was born in Harlem, New York and grew up in The Bronx. ...
, 87, American film producer ('' Super Fly''). *
Evan Harris Walker Evan Harris Walker (1935 – August 17, 2006), was an American physicist and parapsychologist.
, 70, American physicist and consciousness theorist. *
Yen Ngoc Do Đỗ Ngọc Yến, known in America as Yen Ngoc Do (May 25, 1941 — August 17, 2006) was a Vietnamese American newspaper publisher; the founder of ''Nguoi Viet Daily News'', the oldest and largest Vietnamese daily publication; and a founding fath ...
, 65, Vietnamese-born American founder of ''
Nguoi Viet Daily News ''Nguoi Viet Daily News'' ( vi, Nhật báo Người Việt, lit=Vietnamese People's Daily) is the first, oldest, and largest daily newspaper published in Vietnamese outside of Vietnam. The name of their newspaper ''người Việt'' symbolizes V ...
'', diabetes and kidney disease.


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* George Astaphan, 60, Kittitian doctor, provided steroids to Ben Johnson. *
James A. Clark, Jr. James Clark Jr. (December 19, 1918 – August 18, 2006) was the president of the Maryland State Senate from 1979 to 1983. Biography Clark was born at Keewaydin Farm, Ellicott City, Maryland. His father, James Clark Sr. (1885–1955), was a ...
, 87, American President of the
Maryland State Senate The Maryland Senate, sometimes referred to as the Maryland State Senate, is the upper house of the General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland. Composed of 47 senators elected from an equal number of constituent single- ...
(1979–1983), cancer. * Samuel Flippen, 36, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. *
Kathryn Frost Major General Kathryn George Frost (November 7, 1948 – August 18, 2006) was the commander of the United States Army and Air Force Exchange Service from August 2002 to April 2005. At the time of her retirement, she was the highest-ranking woman in ...
, 57, American Army major general, wife of Martin Frost, breast cancer. * Fernand Gignac, 72, Canadian singer and actor, hepatitis. *
Ken Kearney Kenneth Howard "Killer" Kearney (3 May 192418 August 2006) was an Australian rugby footballer – a List of dual-code rugby internationals, dual-code international player – and a rugby league coach. He represented the Australia national rugby ...
, 82, Australian rugby league and rugby union international player, heart attack.


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* Marvin Barrett, 86, American journalist and author. * Joyce Blair, 73, British actress, sister of Lionel Blair, cancer. *
Clinton Bristow, Jr. Clinton Bristow Jr. (1949 – August 19, 2006) was an American lawyer, academic official, and who served as the president of the Chicago Board of Education and as the sixteenth president of Alcorn State University. Early life and education Bri ...
, 57, American lawyer and education official, president of
Alcorn State University Alcorn State University (Alcorn State, ASU or Alcorn) is a public historically black land-grant university adjacent to Lorman, Mississippi. It was founded in 1871 and was the first black land grant college established in the United States. O ...
, heart failure. * Joseph Hill, 57, Jamaican lead singer of roots reggae group Culture, liver failure. *
Óscar Míguez Óscar Omar Miguez Antón (5 December 1927 – 19 August 2006) was a Uruguayan footballer who played as a forward. He was part of the Uruguay team in the 1950 and 1954 World Cups, where he played as a striker, and is Uruguay's all-time record ...
, 78, Uruguayan footballer,
1950 FIFA World Cup The 1950 FIFA World Cup was the fourth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams and held in Brazil from 24 June to 16 July 1950. The planned 1942 and 1946 World Cups were ...
winner. *
Mervyn Wood Mervyn Thomas Wood, (30 April 1917 – 19 August 2006) was an Australian rower and police officer. He was an eight-time Australian national sculling champion, four-time Olympian and three-time Olympic medalist. He later rose to become the Commi ...
, 89, Australian rower, three-time Olympic medal winner, New South Wales Police Commissioner.


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Claude Blanchard Claude Blanchard (May 19, 1932 – August 20, 2006) was a Québécois pop singer and actor. Partial filmography *'' Gina'' (1975) - Bob Sauvageau *''Mustang'' (1975) - *'' Fantastica'' (1980) - Hector *''Jesus of Montreal'' (1989) - Policeman ...
, 74, Canadian pop singer and actor, heart attack. *
Renate Brausewetter Renate Brausewetter (1 October 1905 – 20 August 2006) was a Spain, Spanish-born Germany, German silent film actress. She was the younger sister of German actor Hans Brausewetter. Brausewetter was born in Málaga, Spain, moving to Berlin, G ...
, 100, German silent film actress. *
Bryan Budd Corporal Bryan James Budd, (16 July 1977 – 20 August 2006) was a British Army soldier and a Northern Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Comm ...
, 29, British soldier, posthumously awarded Victoria Cross. *
Roger Donoghue Roger Donoghue (November 20, 1930 – August 20, 2006) was a prizefighter who taught Marlon Brando how to box for his role in the 1954 movie ''On the Waterfront''. Donoghue was born in Yonkers, New York. His father, an Irish immigrant, was a ta ...
, 75, American boxer. * Robert Hoffman, 59, American businessman and art collector, co-founder of '' National Lampoon''. *
Jack Laughery Jack Laughery (February 25, 1935 in Guthrie Center, Iowa – August 20, 2006 in Jackson, Wyoming) was an American restaurant investor and consultant, the former CEO and chairman of the Hardee's restaurant chain. In 1961 Jack Laughery left his succe ...
, 71, American CEO and chairman of the
Hardee's Hardee's Restaurants LLC is an American fast-food restaurant chain operated by CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc. ("CKE") with locations primarily in the Southern and Midwestern United States. The company has evolved through several corporate owne ...
restaurant chain, lung cancer. *
Vashti McCollum Vashti Cromwell McCollum (November 6, 1912 – August 20, 2006) was the plaintiff in the landmark 1948 Supreme Court case McCollum v. Board of Education, which struck down religious education in public schools. The defendant in the case was ...
, 93, American humanist campaigner. *
Jacob Mincer Jacob Mincer (July 15, 1922 – August 20, 2006), was a father of modern labor economics. He was Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Economics and Social Relations at Columbia University for most of his active life. Biography Born in Tomaszów ...
, 84, Polish-born American professor of economics ( Columbia University). * Giuseppe Moccia, 73, Italian film director. *
Joe Rosenthal Joseph John Rosenthal (October 9, 1911 – August 20, 2006) was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II photograph '' Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima'', taken during the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima. H ...
, 94, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer ('' Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima''), natural causes. *
Neil Trezise Neil Benjamin "Nipper" Trezise (8 February 1931 – 20 August 2006) was an Australian rules footballer who represented in the Victorian Football League and later a politician who represented the Labor Party in the Victorian Legislative Assem ...
, 75, Australian Labor politician, Victorian Minister for Sport (1982–1992), Australian rules football player, heart attack. * Richard de Yarburgh-Bateson, 6th Baron Deramore, 95, British architect and writer of erotic fiction.


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Máximo Carvajal Máximo Gorky Carvajal Belmar (October 6, 1935 – August 21, 2006) was a Chilean comic book artist. Carvajal was born in Valparaíso, Chile. He studied fine arts in Viña del Mar, later moving to Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as ...
, 70, Chilean comic book artist. * Bismillah Khan, 90, Indian shehnai musician and Bharat Ratna winner, heart attack. *
Jon Lilletun Jon Lilletun (23 October 1945 – 21 August 2006) was a Norwegian politician active in the Christian Democratic Party. Background Lilletun was born in Western Vossestrand, now a part of the municipality of Voss. His father owned a farm and ...
, 60, Norwegian politician ( KrF), Minister of Education (1997–2000), cancer. * Geff Noblet, 89, Australian test cricketer (1949–1953). * William Norris, 95, American engineer, founder of
Control Data Corporation Control Data Corporation (CDC) was a mainframe and supercomputer firm. CDC was one of the nine major United States computer companies through most of the 1960s; the others were IBM, Burroughs Corporation, DEC, NCR, General Electric, Honeywel ...
. *
Buck Page Buck Page (June 18, 1922 — August 21, 2006) founded the first western band known as Riders of the Purple Sage. Page, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, began performing on local radio at age 11. He played string bass and rhythm guitar for a we ...
, 84, American western musician, founder of
Riders of the Purple Sage ''Riders of the Purple Sage'' is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by scholars to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called ...
. *
Paul Fentener van Vlissingen Paul Fentener van Vlissingen (21 March 1941 in Utrecht – 21 August 2006 in Langbroek) was a Dutch businessman and philanthropist. Ranked as the richest man in Scotland in 2005, he contributed to the development of game reserves in Africa and b ...
, 65, Dutch billionaire businessman, pancreatic cancer. *
S. Yizhar Yizhar Smilansky (, 27 September 1916 – 21 August 2006), known by his pen name S. Yizhar (), was an Israeli writer and politician. Widely regarded as one of the preeminent figures in Israeli literature, he was awarded the Israel Prize in 1959 ...
, 89, Israeli author, heart disease.


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Bruce Gary Bruce Gary (April 7, 1951 – August 22, 2006) was an American musician who was best known as the drummer for the music group the Knack. He was nominated for two Grammy Awards as a stage performer, producer, and recording artist. Born in Bu ...
, 55, American drummer ( The Knack), lymphoma. * Frank Lennon, 79, Canadian photographer. *
Magnús Helgi Magnússon Magnús Helgi Magnússon (30 September 1922 – 22 August 2006) was an Icelandic politician and former minister for social affairs from September 1978 to February 1980. External links Non auto-biography of Magnús Helgi Magnússon on the pa ...
, 83, Icelandic politician,
Minister of Social Affairs A Ministry of Social Affairs or Department of Social Affairs is the common name for a government department found in states where the government is divided into ministries or departments. While there is some variation in the responsibilities of s ...
. *
Simeon Anthony Pereira Simeon Anthony Pereira (19 October 1927, Sukkur, British India - 22 August 2006, Karachi) was a former archbishop of Karachi. Life Pereira was educated at St Patrick's High School, Karachi. He received his religious training at the Papal Semin ...
, 78, Pakistani Archbishop Emeritus of Karachi.


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Maynard Ferguson Walter Maynard Ferguson CM (May 4, 1928 – August 23, 2006) was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader. He came to prominence in Stan Kenton's orchestra before forming his own big band in 1957. He was noted for his bands, which often served ...
, 78, Canadian jazz trumpet player, kidney and liver failure. * Sven Grönblom, 92, Finnish Olympic sailo

* John Lister (priest), John Lister, 90, British Anglican priest,
Provost of Wakefield The Dean of Wakefield is the head (''primus inter pares'' – first among equals) and chair of the chapter of canons, the ruling body of Wakefield Cathedral. The dean and chapter are based at the ''Cathedral Church of All Saints Wakefield''. Bef ...
(1972–1982). * Nigel Malim, 87, British admiral. * Ayyappa Paniker, 75, Indian poet and academic. * Wasim Raja, 54, Pakistani test cricketer, heart attack. *
Raymond Harold Sawkins Raymond Harold Sawkins (14 July 1923 – 23 August 2006) was a British novelist, who mainly published under the pseudonym Colin Forbes, but also as Richard Raine, Jay Bernard and Harold English. He published only three of his first books under hi ...
, 82, British novelist. *
David Schnaufer David Schnaufer (September 28, 1952 – August 23, 2006) was an American folk musician. He is widely credited with restoring the popularity of the Appalachian dulcimer. Schnaufer was born in Hearne, Texas, and grew up in La Marque, Texas. Schnaufer ...
, 53, American Appalachian dulcimer player, lung cancer. * Marie Tharp, 86, American oceanographic cartographer. * Ed Warren, 79, American demonologist, after long illness. *
Jacques Wildberger Jacques Wildberger (3 January 1922 – 23 August 2006) was a Swiss composer. Life and career Born in Basel, Wildberger became a member of the Swiss Party of Labour (PdA) in 1944 and composed battle songs for the Basel workers' cabaret ''Scheinw ...
, 84, Swiss composer.


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Herbert Hupka Herbert Hupka (August 15, 1915 – August 24, 2006) was a German journalist, politician (SPD and later the CDU), and advocate for the Germans expelled from neighbouring countries after the Second World War. Early life Hupka was born in a ...
, 91, German journalist and politician. *
Leonard Levy Leonard Williams Levy (April 9, 1923 – August 24, 2006) was an American historian, the Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Professor of Humanities and chairman of the Graduate Faculty of History at Claremont Graduate School, California, who speciali ...
, 83, Canadian-born American constitutional historian and author, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for History. *
Cristian Nemescu Cristian Nemescu (; 31 March 1979 – 24 August 2006) was a Romanian film director. Nemescu was born in Bucharest. He graduated from the Academy for Theater and Film in 2003. During his final year in the academy he made a short film, ''Story Fr ...
, 27, Romanian film director, car accident. *
Viktor Pavlov Viktor Pavlovich Pavlov (russian: Ви́ктор Па́влович Па́влов; October 5, 1940 – August 24, 2006) was a Russian stage and film actor. Pavlov worked in some of the most popular theatres of Moscow: 1963–1965 - Sovremenn ...
, 65, Russian actor, heart attack. *
Rocco Petrone Rocco Anthony Petrone (March 31, 1926 – August 24, 2006) was an American mechanical engineer, U.S. Army officer and NASA official. He served as director of launch operations at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) from 1966 to 1969, as Apollo ...
, 80, American NASA engineer, director of Project Apollo and the
Marshall Space Flight Center The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), located in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama (Huntsville postal address), is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center. As the largest NASA center, MSFC's first ...
. *
David Plowright David Ernest Plowright (11 December 1930 – 24 August 2006) was a British television executive and producer. Life Plowright was educated at Scunthorpe Grammar School. He began his career in journalism as a reporter on the ''Scunthorpe Star ...
, 75, British television producer and executive, chairman of
Granada Television ITV Granada, formerly known as Granada Television, is the ITV franchisee for the North West of England and Isle of Man. From 1956 to 1968 it broadcast to both the north west and Yorkshire but only on weekdays as ABC Weekend Television was it ...
(1987–1992). * Ralph Schoenstein, 73, American humorist and NPR commentator. * Léopold Simoneau, 90, Canadian lyric tenor. * James Tenney, 72, American experimental music composer, cancer. *
Gene Thompson Eugene Earl Thompson (June 7, 1917 – August 24, 2006), nicknamed "Junior", was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds and New York Giants. Born in Latham, Illinois, Thompson made his profe ...
, 89, American baseball player (
Cincinnati Reds The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) National League Central, Central division and were a charter member of ...
,
New York Giants The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. ...
). *
Andrei Toncu Andrei "Otto" Toncu (April 8, 1978 – August 25, 2006) was a Romanian sound designer. Biography Andrei Toncu was born in Bucharest. He graduated from Bucharest University for Theater and Film (Film and TV Department, Multimedia, Sound and ...
, 28, Romanian sound designer, car accident. * John Weinzweig, 93, Canadian composer.


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* John Blankenstein, 57, Dutch openly gay football referee, kidney disease. * Noor Hassanali, 88, Trinidadian politician, President (1987–1997). *
Silva Kaputikyan Silva Kaputikyan ( hy, ) (20 January 1919 – 25 August 2006) was an Armenian poet and political activist. One of the best-known Armenian writers of the twentieth century, she is recognized as "the leading poetess of Armenia" and "the grand lad ...
, 87, Armenian poet. * Vijay Mehra, 68, Indian cricketer. *
Joseph Stefano Joseph William Stefano (May 5, 1922 – August 25, 2006) was an American screenwriter, known for adapting Robert Bloch's novel as the script for Alfred Hitchcock's film '' Psycho'', and for being the producer and co-writer of the original ''The ...
, 84, American screenwriter ('' Psycho'') and television writer (''
The Outer Limits ''The Outer Limits'' or ''Outer Limits'' may refer to: Television * ''The Outer Limits'' (1963 TV series), a black-and-white science fiction series that aired from 1963 to 1965 * ''The Outer Limits'' (1995 TV series), a revival of the older series ...
''). * Ross Warneke, 54, Australian television presenter and radio personality, cancer.


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Rainer Barzel Rainer Candidus Barzel (20 June 1924 – 26 August 2006) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the 8th President of the Bundestag from 1983 to 1984. Barzel had been the leader of his parliamentary group ...
, 82, German President of the Bundestag, Chairman of the CDU. * Earl Jolly Brown, 66, American actor ''( Live and Let Die)''. * Akbar Bugti, 79, Pakistani Balochistan rebel tribal leader, shot. * Sir Robin Fearn, 71, British diplomat, ambassador to Cuba and Spain. *
John Ripley Forbes John Ripley Forbes (August 25, 1913 – August 26, 2006) was an American naturalist and conservationist who helped found hundreds of nature museums for children in over 200 communities and thirty states. His museums were noted for their interact ...
, 93, American naturalist and conservationist, founder of nature museums. * William Garnett, 89, American aerial photographer. * Yevhen Kucherevskyi, 65, Ukrainian football coach (
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Football Club Dnipro ( uk, Футбо́льний Клуб «Дніпро́», ) was a Ukrainian football club based in Dnipro. The club was owned by the Privat Group that also owns BC Dnipro and Budivelnyk Kyiv. In 2018 FC Dnipro was forced in ...
), car crash. * Marie-Dominique Philippe, 93, French Dominican priest, founder of the
Community of St. John The Saint John Family (mostly known as the Community of Saint John) is a religious order composed of three French Catholic congregations: the Brothers of Saint John, the Apostolic Sisters of Saint John, and the Contemplative sisters of Saint John. T ...
, stroke. * Sir Alfred Sherman, 86, British journalist, writer and political analyst. *
Vladimir Tretchikoff Vladimir Grigoryevich Tretchikoff (Владимир Григорьевич Третчиков, , Petropavlovsk, Russian Empire, now Petropavl in Kazakhstan – 26 August 2006, Cape Town, South Africa) was an artist whose painting ''Chinese Girl' ...
, 92, Russian artist. * Sir Clyde Walcott, 80, Barbadian cricketer.


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* María Capovilla, 116, Ecuadorian supercentenarian, oldest person in the world, pneumonia. * Tee Corinne, 62, American writer and artist, liver cancer. * Jon Dough, 43, American pornographic actor and AVN Hall of Famer, suicide by hanging. * Paul Gutty, 63, French cyclist. * Ike Hildebrand, 79, Canadian ice hockey and lacrosse player. * Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín, 79, Ecuadorian Archbishop of Guayaquil. *
Luciano Mendes de Almeida Luciano Pedro Mendes de Almeida (5 October 1930 – 27 August 2006) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate and professed member from the Jesuits who served as the Archbishop of Mariana from 1988 until his death. He was a noted pastor passionate ...
, 75, Brazilian Archbishop of
Mariana Mariana may refer to: Literature * ''Mariana'' (Dickens novel), a 1940 novel by Monica Dickens * ''Mariana'' (poem), a poem by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson * ''Mariana'' (Vaz novel), a 1997 novel by Katherine Vaz Music *"Mariana", a so ...
, cancer. * Hrishikesh Mukherjee, 83, Indian film director. * David Nicholson, 67, British jockey and horse trainer. *
Jerrold M. North Jerrold Martin North (December 8, 1931 - August 27, 2006) was a US Army officer and a diplomat, who served as United States Ambassador to Djibouti. Biography North briefly attended the University of Illinois before entering West Point, Class of ...
74, American diplomat. *
Jesse Pintado Jesus "Jesse" Ernesto Pintado Andrade (July 12, 1969 – August 27, 2006) was a Mexican-American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for the British grindcore band Napalm Death. He started in the grindcore band Terrorizer where he record ...
, 37, American guitarist ( Terrorizer,
Napalm Death Napalm Death are an English grindcore band formed in 1981 in Meriden, West Midlands. None of the band's original members has been in the group since 1986. But since ''Utopia Banished'' (1992), the lineup of bassist Shane Embury, guitarist Mitch ...
), complications of diabetic coma.


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* Ed Benedict, 94, American animator ('' The Ruff and Reddy Show'', '' The Flintstones'', '' Johnny Bravo''). *
Sankho Chaudhuri Sankho Chaudhuri (25 February 1916 – 28 August 2006) was an Indian sculptor, a noted figure in the art scene of India. (Although named Naranarain in due family tradition, he was more widely known by his pet-name Sankho). Ram Kinker Baij was h ...
, 90, Indian sculptor. *
Don Chipp Donald Leslie Chipp, AO (21 August 192528 August 2006) was an Australian politician who was the inaugural leader of the Australian Democrats, leading the party from 1977 to 1986. He began his career as a member of the Liberal Party, winning el ...
, 81, Australian politician, founder of the Australian Democrats. * Mary Lee Robb Cline, 80, American actress ('' The Great Gildersleeve''), heart failure. *
Ludwig Hemauer Ludwig Hemauer (3 August 1917 – 28 August 2006) was a Swiss sports shooter. He competed in the 50 metre pistol event at the 1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an intern ...
, 89, Swiss Olympic shooter. *
Heino Lipp Heino Lipp (June 21, 1922 – August 28, 2006) was an Estonian athlete, who was one of the greatest decathlete in the decade of the 1940s, but he was never able to compete in the Olympic Games, because citizens of the Soviet Union were never allo ...
, 84, Estonian champion decathlete. *
Robert McDermott Robert McDermott may refer to: *Bobby McDermott (1914–1963), American basketball player * Robert A. McDermott, American philosopher, professor of philosophy and religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies *Robert F. McDermott Briga ...
, 86, American dean of the USAF Academy, chairman of USAA and owner of San Antonio Spurs,
stroke A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and hemorrhagic, due to bleeding. Both cause parts of the brain to stop functionin ...
. * Pip Pyle, 56, British drummer ( Gong, Hatfield and the North). * William F. Quinn, 87, American Governor of Hawaii (1957–1962), pneumonia. * Michael Richard, 58, American photographer, cancer. *
Benoît Sauvageau Benoît Sauvageau (November 22, 1963 – August 28, 2006) was a Canadian politician, who served as a Bloc Québécois member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 until his death in 2006. Born in Charlemagne, Quebec, he received a Bachel ...
, 42, Canadian
Bloc Québécois The Bloc Québécois (BQ; , "Québécois people, Quebecer Voting bloc, Bloc") is a list of federal political parties in Canada, federal political party in Canada devoted to Quebec nationalism and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty movement, Que ...
MP, traffic accident. * Melvin Schwartz, 73, American physicist, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics. *
Alfred Sherman Sir Alfred Sherman (10 November 1919 – 26 August 2006) was an English writer, journalist, and political analyst. Described by a long-time associate as "a brilliant polymath, a consummate homo politicus, and one of the last true witnesses to th ...
, 86, British co-founder of the Centre for Policy Studies.


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* Kent Andersson, 64, Swedish motorcycle racer, winner of 1973 and 1974 125cc World Championships. * John Cummins, 58, Australian union official, secretary of the
Builders' Labourers Federation The Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) was an Australian trade union that existed from 1911 until 1972, and from 1976 until 1986, when it was permanently deregistered in various Australian states by the federal Hawke Labor government and some ...
, cancer. *
Robert J. Gorlin Robert James Gorlin (January 11, 1923 – August 29, 2006) was an American oral pathologist, human geneticist and academic at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry. Biography Robert Gorlin was born on January 11, 1923, in Hudson, New ...
, 83, American oral pathologist. * Gerald Green, 84, American author (''
The Last Angry Man ''The Last Angry Man'' is a 1959 drama film that tells the story of a television producer who profiles the life of a physician. It stars Paul Muni (in his last film appearance), David Wayne, Betsy Palmer, Billy Dee Williams (in his film debut), a ...
'') and screenwriter ('' Holocaust''). * Benjamin Rawitz-Castel, 60, Israeli pianist, murdered. * John Scandrett, 91, New Zealand cricketer. *
Jumpin' Gene Simmons Morris Eugene Simmons (July 10, 1937 – August 29, 2006), better known as Jumpin' Gene Simmons, was an American singer and songwriter best known for his 1964 novelty single "Haunted House". Biography Gene Simmons was born in Itawamba County, Mis ...
, 73, American rockabilly musician. * Bill Stewart, 63, British actor.


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Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon Robin Brunskill Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon (9 May 1926 – 30 August 2006) was a New Zealand judge and later a British Law Lord and member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He is widely considered one of New Zealand's most ...
, 80, New Zealand jurist. * Glenn Ford, 90, Canadian-born American actor (''
Blackboard Jungle ''Blackboard Jungle'' is a 1955 American social drama film about an English teacher in an interracial inner-city school, based on the 1954 novel ''The Blackboard Jungle'' by Evan Hunter and adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks. I ...
'', '' 3:10 to Yuma'', ''
Superman Superman is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, and debuted in the comic book ''Action Comics'' #1 (cover-dated June 1938 and publi ...
''). * Susan Lynn Hefle, 46, American food scientist, cancer. * Margaret Hubble, 91, British radio broadcaster. * Emrys Jones, 86, British geographer. *
Igor Kio Igor Emilievich Kio (né Igor Emilievich Hirschfeld-Renard) (13 March 1944 – 30 August 2006) was a Russian illusionist with the Russian State Circus (Росгосцирк). Born Igor Emilievich Hirschfeld-Renard, He was the son of the legendary m ...
, 62, Russian illusionist. *
Bob LeRose Robert K. LeRose (; June 3, 1921 – August 30, 2006)Robert K. Lerose
(as spelled here ...
, 85, American comic book artist (''
Batman Batman is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, and debuted in Detective Comics 27, the 27th issue of the comic book ''Detective Comics'' on ...
'', ''
Superman Superman is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, and debuted in the comic book ''Action Comics'' #1 (cover-dated June 1938 and publi ...
'', '' Jonah Hex''). * Naguib Mahfouz, 94, Egyptian winner of 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature, head injuries from a fall. *
Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm Hector Seymour Peter Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm, AE, PC (4 October 1922 – 30 August 2006), was a Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Dumfriesshire for over 32 years, from 1964 to 1997, and ...
, 83, British MP and government minister. *
Bill Stumpf William Eugene Stumpf (March 1, 1936 – August 30, 2006) was an American furniture designer who helped design the Aeron, Embody and Ergon chairs for Herman Miller. It was at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where Stumpf, working with s ...
, 70, American industrial designer, co-created the Aeron office chair.


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Mohamed Abdelwahab Mohamed Abdelwahab ( ar, محمد عبد الوهاب, 1 October 1983 – 31 August 2006) was an Egyptian footballer. He played in the defensive left back position. He was an important part of the Egyptian squad that went on to win the 2006 Af ...
, 22, Egyptian footballer, suspected heart attack. * K. Sri Dhammananda, 87, Sri Lankan-born Malaysian bhikkhu, stroke. * Guy Gabaldon, 80, American World War II marine, heart attack. * J. S. Holliday, 82, American historian, expert on
California Gold Rush The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California fro ...
, pulmonary fibrosis. *
David Macpherson, 2nd Baron Strathcarron David William Anthony Blyth Macpherson, 2nd Baron Strathcarron (23 January 1924 – 31 August 2006), was best known as the "motorcycling peer". He inherited the Barony on his father's death in 1937, but lost his automatic right to a seat in the ...
, 82, British hereditary peer and motoring expert. * Mike Magill, 86, American racing driver. *
Charlie Wagner Charles Thomas Wagner (December 3, 1912 – August 31, 2006) was an American right-handed pitcher and coach in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Boston Red Sox (1938–42, 1946). Nicknamed "Broadway," he went on to a 50- ...
, 93, American baseball player ( Boston Red Sox).


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