The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 2006
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Claude Jade
Claude Marcelle Jorré, better known as Claude Jade (; 8 October 1948 – 1 December 2006), was a French actress. She starred as Christine in François Truffaut's three films '' Stolen Kisses'' (1968), '' Bed and Board'' (1970) and '' Love on th ...
Herbert Gursky
Herbert Gursky (May 27, 1930, Bronx, New York – December 1, 2006) was the Superintendent of the Naval Research Laboratory's Space Science Division and Chief Scientist of the E.O. Hulburt Center for Space Research.
Biography
Gursky's resear ...
, 76, American astrophysicist for the
Naval Research Laboratory
The United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps. It was founded in 1923 and conducts basic scientific research, applied research, technological ...
, stomach cancer.
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Geoffrey Colin Guy
Geoffrey Colin Guy CMG, CVO, OBE (4 November 1921 – 1 December 2006) was the last Commissioner and the first Administrator of the Turks and Caicos from 1958 to 1959 and 1959 to 1965 respectively. Mr. Guy was succeeded by John Anthony Golding ...
, 86, British airman and colonial governor.
*
Sid Raymond
Sid Raymond (born Raymond Silverstein, January 21, 1909 – December 1, 2006) was an American comedian and character actor.
Early years
Born Raymond Silverstein in Manhattan, Raymond dropped out of New York University and became the recreation ...
, 97, American character actor and voice of Baby Huey, complications of a stroke.
* Ali Khan Samsudin, 48, Malaysian "snake king", venomous snakebite.
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* Bob Berry, 80, British test cricket player, natural causes.
*
Corinne Clark
Corinne Clark (September 23, 1923 – December 2, 2006) was an infield/outfield utility and right-handed hitter who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She was dubbed ''Corky''.All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
* kari edwards, 52, American poet, artist and gender activist, heart failure.
* Kurt Lipstein, 97, German-born legal scholar.
*
Mariska Veres
Maria Elizabeth Ender, better known as Mariska Veres () (1 October 1947 – 2 December 2006), was a Dutch singer who was best known as the lead singer of the rock group Shocking Blue. Described as being similar to a young Cher, she was known fo ...
, 59, Dutch singer for
Shocking Blue
Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band formed in 1967 in The Hague. It was part of the music movement in the Netherlands that was generally known by the name Nederbeat. The band had a number of hits throughout the counterculture movement during ...
(''
Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is sometimes called Earth's "sister" or "twin" planet as it is almost as large and has a similar composition. As an interior planet to Earth, Venus (like Mercury) appears in Earth's sky never f ...
''), cancer.
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Craig Hinton
Craig Paul Alexander Hinton (7 May 1964 – 3 December 2006) was a British writer best known for his work on various spin-offs from the BBC Television series '' Doctor Who''.
He also wrote articles for various science fiction magazines, a ...
, 42, British science fiction author, heart attack.
* Billy Klaus, 77, American baseball shortstop and third baseman.
*
Ferenc Machos
Ferenc Machos (30 June 1932 - 3 December 2006) was a Hungarian football forward who played for Hungary in the 1954 FIFA World Cup.Logan Whitehurst
Logan Anthony Whitehurst (November 15, 1977 – December 3, 2006), was an American musician. His career began as the drummer for the band Little Tin Frog from 1995 until 2000, although he is best known as a founding member of Californian indie r ...
, 29, American singer and songwriter ( The Velvet Teen), brain cancer.
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* Sir Peter Gadsden, 77, British Lord Mayor of London (1979–1980).
*
Joseph Ki-Zerbo
Joseph Ki-Zerbo (June 21, 1922 – December 4, 2006, Burkina Faso) was a Burkinabé historian, politician and writer. He is recognized as one of Africa's foremost thinkers.
From 1972 to 1978 he was professor of African History at the University o ...
, 84, Burkinabé politician, natural causes.
*
James Kim
James Kim (August 9, 1971December 4, 2006) was an American television personality and technology analyst for the former TechTV international cable television network, reviewing products for shows including ''The Screen Savers'', ''Call for Help' ...
, 35, American CNET editor, exposure and hypothermia.
*
Rodney Needham
Rodney Needham (15 May 1923 – 4 December 2006 in Oxford) was an English social anthropologist.
Born Rodney Phillip Needham Green, he changed his name in 1947; the following year he married Maud Claudia (Ruth) Brysz. The couple would collabora ...
, 83, British social anthropologist.
*
Len Sutton
Len Sutton (August 9, 1925 – December 3, 2006) was an American racecar driver. He is best known for finishing second at the 1962 Indianapolis 500.
, 81, American
Indianapolis 500
The Indianapolis 500, formally known as the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, and commonly called the Indy 500, is an annual automobile race held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) in Speedway, Indiana, United States, an enclave suburb of Indi ...
racing driver, cancer.
* Adam Williams, 82, American actor (''
North by Northwest
''North by Northwest'' is a 1959 American spy thriller film, produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. The screenplay was by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture ...
'', ''
The Big Heat
''The Big Heat'' is a 1953 American film noir crime film directed by Fritz Lang starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Jocelyn Brando about a cop who takes on the crime syndicate that controls his city. William P. McGivern's serial in ''The ...
'', ''
Fear Strikes Out
"Fear Strikes Out" is a 1957 American biographical sports drama film depicting the life and career of American baseball player Jimmy Piersall. It is based on Piersall's 1955 memoir ''Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story'', co-written with Al ...
''), lymphoma.
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David Bronstein
David Ionovich Bronstein (russian: Дави́д Ио́нович Бронште́йн; February 19, 1924 – December 5, 2006) was a Soviet and Ukrainian chess player. Awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1950, he narro ...
, 82, Ukrainian chess grandmaster and writer, champion of USSR, natural causes.
*
Eric Cox
Eric Holsbury Cox OAM (1923 – 4 December 2006) was an Australian rugby league coach, referee and administrator.
Career
Cox was born in Burwood, New South Wales in 1923. He joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1940, serving on HMAS ''Kanimbla ...
, 83, Australian rugby league player, referee and administrator, pneumonia and stroke.
* Michael Gilden, 44, American actor ('' NCIS'', ''
Return of the Jedi
''Return of the Jedi'' (also known as ''Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi'' is a 1983 American epic space opera film directed by Richard Marquand. The screenplay is by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas from a story by Lucas, who ...
'', ''
Pulp Fiction
''Pulp Fiction'' is a 1994 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, who conceived it with Roger Avary.See, e.g., King (2002), pp. 185–7; ; Starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Vin ...
Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure who transformed ... anti- ...
'', ''
A Chorus Line
''A Chorus Line'' is a 1975 musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, and a book by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante.
Set on the bare stage of a Broadway theater, the musical is centered on seventeen Broadway dancers ...
'', ''
Blade Runner
''Blade Runner'' is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, and written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos, it is an adaptation of Philip K. Dick' ...
'').
*
Gernot Jurtin
Gernot Jurtin (9 October 1955 – 5 December 2006) was an Austrian football player, and a legend amongst Sturm Graz fans.
Club career
Jurtin joined Sturm Graz in the summer of 1974 under coach Karl Schlechta and immediately forced his way i ...
, 51, Austrian football player, cancer.
*
Timothy Moxon
Timothy Napier Moxon (2 June 1924 – 5 December 2006) was an English-born actor, pilot and restaurateur who is probably best known for playing John Strangways, the character who uttered the first dialogue in the first James Bond film '' Dr. No'', ...
, 82, British actor and entrepreneur.
* Van Smith, 61, American costume and makeup designer (''
Pink Flamingos
''Pink Flamingos'' is a 1972 American film directed, written, produced, narrated, filmed, and edited by John Waters. It is part of what Waters has labelled the "Trash Trilogy", which also includes '' Female Trouble'' (1974) and '' Desperate Liv ...
'', ''
Hairspray
Hairspray may refer to:
* Hair spray, a personal grooming product that keeps hair protected from humidity and wind
* ''Hairspray'' (1988 film), a film by John Waters
** ''Hairspray'' (1988 soundtrack), the film's soundtrack album
** ''Hairspray ...
'', ''
Cry-Baby
''Cry-Baby'' is a 1990 American teen musical romantic comedy film written and directed by John Waters. It was the only film of Waters's over which studios were in a bidding war, coming off the heels of the successful '' Hairspray''. The film s ...
''), heart attack.
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* Han Ahmedow, 70, Turkmen Prime Minister (1989–1992), heart attack.
* Darren Brown, 44, British musician and lead singer (
Mega City Four
Mega City Four were an English indie rock band formed in Farnborough, Hampshire, who obtained popularity throughout the late 1980s and 1990s.
Mega City Four consisted of guitarist and vocalist Wiz, his brother and rhythm guitarist Danny Brown, ...
), stroke.
* Russell Buchanan, 106, American World War I veteran, stroke.
* Hugo Cores, 69, Uruguayan historian, labor leader and politician, Deputy (1990–1994), stroke.
* Samuel Devons, 92, British physicist and science historian at
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
, heart failure.
* Andra Franklin, 47, American football player (
Miami Dolphins
The Miami Dolphins are a professional American football team based in the Miami metropolitan area. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member team of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team p ...
Robert Rosenblum
Robert Rosenblum (July 24, 1927 – December 6, 2006) was an American art historian and curator known for his influential and often irreverent scholarship on European and American art of the mid-eighteenth to 20th centuries.
Biography
Rosenblum wa ...
, 79, American art historian, curator, and author, colon cancer.
* William Salcer, 82, Czechoslovakian-born American inventor and Holocaust survivor, leukemia.
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Lyuben Berov
Lyuben Berov ( ) (6 October 1925 – 7 December 2006) was a Bulgarian economist. He served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria in the 83rd Government of Bulgaria from 30 December 1992 to 17 October 1994.
Berov was born in Sofia, studied economics, a ...
, 81, Bulgarian prime minister (1992–1994), cancer.
*
Kevin Berry
Kevin John Berry, OAM, (10 April 1945 – 7 December 2006) was an Australian butterfly swimmer of the 1960s who won the gold medal in the 200-metre butterfly at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He set twelve world records in his career. ...
, 61, Australian gold medal winner in the 200m butterfly at the 1964 Summer Olympics, brain tumour.
* Desmond Briscoe, 81, British sound engineer and founder of the
BBC Radiophonic Workshop
The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was one of the sound effects units of the BBC, created in 1958 to produce incidental sounds and new music for radio and, later, television. The unit is known for its experimental and pioneering work in electroni ...
, natural causes.
* Moses Hardy, 112, American supercentenarian, oldest known American man, last African American World War I veteran, natural causes.
* Johnnie Bryan Hunt, 79, American trucking executive, founder of J.B. Hunt Transport Services, head injuries from a fall.
* Kim Hyung-chil, 47, South Korean equestrian at the
2006 Asian Games
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number.
In mathematics
Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...
, crushed by falling horse.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick
Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick (née Jordan; November 19, 1926December 7, 2006) was an American diplomat and political scientist who played a major role in the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration. An ardent anticommunist, she was a lo ...
, 80, American United Nations ambassador (1981–1985), heart failure.
* Chris Nelson, 46, American photographer, heart attack.
*
Jay McShann
James Columbus "Jay" McShann (January 12, 1916 – December 7, 2006) was an American jazz pianist, vocalist, composer, and bandleader. He led bands in Kansas City, Missouri, that included Charlie Parker, Bernard Anderson, Walter Brown, and B ...
, 90, American blues and swing pianist, bandleader and singer, natural causes.
Martha Tilton
Martha Tilton (November 14, 1915 – December 8, 2006) was an American popular singer during America's swing era and traditional pop period. She is best known for her 1939 recording of " And the Angels Sing" with Benny Goodman.
Tilton was born ...
, 91, American jazz and swing singer with Benny Goodman, natural causes.
* Philip Tower, 89, British army general.
*
José Uribe
José Altagracia González Uribe (January 21, 1959 – December 8, 2006) was a Dominican Major League Baseball shortstop from until . Most of his ten-year career was spent with the San Francisco Giants. He played for the Giants in the 1989 W ...
, 47, Dominican baseball shortstop (1984–1993), car accident.
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Koula Agagiotou
Koula Agagiotou ( el, Κούλα Αγαγιώτου; 1915 – 25 October 2006) was a Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch o ...
, 91, Greek actress (''
To Retire To Retire (Το Ρετιρέ; English: The Penthouse) was a very popular Greek sitcom that aired from 1990 to 1992 on the Greek channel Mega. It was written and directed by Yiannis Dalianidis.
Characters
The main character is Katerina Sofianou, pl ...
''), natural causes.
*
Peter Derow
Peter Sidney Derow (11 April 1944 – 9 December 2006) was Hody Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Wadham College, Oxford and University Lecturer in Ancient History from 1977 to 2006. As a scholar he was most noted for his work on Hellenist ...
, 62, American classical scholar, heart attack.
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Georgia Gibbs
Georgia Gibbs (born Frieda Lipschitz; August 17, 1918December 9, 2006) was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs achieved acclaim and notoriety in the mid-1950s interp ...
, 87, American singer (" Kiss of Fire") known for her work on ''
Your Hit Parade
''Your Hit Parade'' was an American radio and television music program that was broadcast from 1935 to 1953 on radio, and seen from 1950 to 1959 on television. It was sponsored by American Tobacco's Lucky Strike cigarettes. During its 24-year ru ...
'', leukemia.
* Ralph Gomberg, 85, American principal oboist at the
Boston Symphony
The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the second-oldest of the five major American symphony orchestras commonly referred to as the " Big Five". Founded by Henry Lee Higginson in 1881, ...
, primary lateral sclerosis.
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Andrei Lomakin
Andrei Vyacheslavovich Lomakin (russian: Андрей Вячеславович Ломакин, April 3, 1964 – December 9, 2006) was a professional ice hockey player who played parts of four seasons in the NHL with the Philadelphia Flyers and F ...
, 42, Russian ice hockey player, gold medallist at 1988 Winter Olympics, long illness (cancer).
*
Martin Nodell
Martin Nodell (November 15, 1915 – December 9, 2006) was an American cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern. Some of his work appeared under the pen name Mart Dellon.
Biography E ...
, 91, American comic book and advertising artist, creator of the
Golden Age
The term Golden Age comes from Greek mythology, particularly the '' Works and Days'' of Hesiod, and is part of the description of temporal decline of the state of peoples through five Ages, Gold being the first and the one during which the G ...
Green Lantern
Green Lantern is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. They fight evil with the aid of rings that grant them a variety of extraordinary powers, all of which come from imagination, fearlessness, ...
* Mario Llerena, 93, Cuban intellectual, author and former
Castro
Castro is a Romance language word that originally derived from Latin ''castrum'', a pre-Roman military camp or fortification (cf: Greek: ''kastron''; Proto-Celtic:''*Kassrik;'' br, kaer, *kastro). The English-language equivalent is '' chester''.
...
supporter turned critic, natural causes.
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Salvatore Pappalardo
Salvatore Pappalardo (23 September 1918 – 10 December 2006) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Palermo for over 25 years, from 1970 to 1996. He was the first senior clergyman from Sicily to speak out ag ...
, 88, Italian Archbishop of Palermo (1970–1996), natural causes.
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Augusto Pinochet
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (, , , ; 25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean general who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, first as the leader of the Military Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981, being declared President of ...
, 91, Chilean president (1973–1990), complications from heart attack.
* David Wood, 43, American environmental campaigner.
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Elizabeth Bolden
Elizabeth Bolden (née Jones; August 15, 1890 – December 11, 2006) was an American supercentenarian who, at the time of her death at age 116 years, 118 days, was recognized by Guinness World Records as the then- world's oldest living person.< ...
, 116, American oldest verified person in the world (2006), natural causes.
* Kenneth Cummins, 106, British veteran of the First World War, natural causes.
* Tom Gregory, 79, American television news anchor and announcer, heart disease.
* Homer Ledford, 79, American bluegrass musician, guitar and
dulcimer
The word dulcimer refers to two families of musical string instruments.
Hammered dulcimers
The word ''dulcimer'' originally referred to a trapezoidal zither similar to a psaltery whose many strings are struck by handheld "hammers". Variants of ...
luthier,
Lou Gehrig's disease
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that results in the progressive loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles. ALS is the most com ...
and stroke.
*
Lo Tak-shing
Lo may refer to any of the following:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Lo!'', the third published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort
* L.O., a fictional character in the Playhouse Disney show Happy Monster Band
* ''Lo'' (film), a 2009 indep ...
, 71, Hong Kong politician, heart attack.
* Colin Mair, 86, British rector of
Kelvinside Academy
Kelvinside Academy is an independent day school in Glasgow, Scotland, founded in 1878. It has a capacity of over 600 pupils and spans two years of Nursery, six years of Junior School (primary school), a transition year of Senior Preparatory, and ...
The Olympics
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a vari ...
Young Frankenstein
''Young Frankenstein'' is a 1974 American comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks. The screenplay was co-written by Brooks and Gene Wilder. Wilder also starred in the lead role as the title character, a descendant of the infamous Dr. Victor ...
'', ''
Everybody Loves Raymond
''Everybody Loves Raymond'' is an American sitcom television series created by Philip Rosenthal that aired on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005, with a total of 210 episodes spanning nine seasons. It was produced by Where's Lunch an ...
'', ''
Taxi Driver
''Taxi Driver'' is a 1976 American film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, and starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris, and Albert Brooks. Set in a decaying ...
Kenny Davern
John Kenneth Davern (January 7, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American jazz clarinetist.
Biography
He was born in Huntington, Long Island, to a family of mixed Jewish and Irish-Catholic ancestry. His mother's family originally came from ...
, 71, American jazz clarinetist, heart attack.
*
Cor van der Hart
Cor van der Hart (25 January 1928 – 12 December 2006) was a Dutch footballer. He is known as one of the best defenders of the Netherlands national team in history, who was physically strong, who read the game very well and who had a qualit ...
, 78, Dutch footballer, natural causes.
* Oscar Klein, 76, Austrian-born jazz trumpeter, heart attack.
*
Antoine Raab
Anton "Antoine" Raab (16 July 1913 – 12 December 2006) was a German football player and manager. Raab spent most of his career in France after having escaped Nazi Germany, being prosecuted and incarcerated for refusing to give the Nazi salute ...
, 93, German association footballer and anti-fascist, natural causes.
*
Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy (November 3, 1938 – December 12, 2006) was one of the founder member of the Eelam Revolutionary Organization of Students a Tamil militant group from Sri Lanka and a noted Marxist-Leninist political leader.
Biography a ...
, 68, Sri Lankan
Tamil militant
Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups rose to prominence in the 1970s to fight the state of Sri Lanka in order to create an independent Tamil Eelam in the north of Sri Lanka. They rose in response to the perception among minority Sri Lankan Tamils th ...
civil war leader, long illness.
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Ellis Rubin
Ellis S. Rubin (June 20, 1925 – December 12, 2006) was an American attorney who gained national fame for handling a variety of highly publicized cases in a legal career that spanned 53 years. He was famous for his innovative defenses and his ...
Alan Shugart
Alan Field Shugart (September 27, 1930 – December 12, 2006) was an American engineer, entrepreneur and business executive whose career defined the modern computer disk drive industry.
Personal history
Born in Los Angeles, he graduated fro ...
, 76, American
disk drive
Disk storage (also sometimes called drive storage) is a general category of storage mechanisms where data is recorded by various electronic, magnetic, optical, or mechanical changes to a surface layer of one or more rotating disks. A disk drive is ...
pioneer, co-founder of Seagate Technology, complications from heart surgery.
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Charles Stourton, 26th Baron Mowbray
Charles Edward Stourton, 23rd Baron Stourton, 27th Baron Segrave, 26th Baron Mowbray (11 March 1923 – 12 December 2006) was an English peer. He sat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords and was a Conservative whip in government an ...
, 83, British Conservative whip in the House of Lords, pneumonia.
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Henry Beachell
Henry Monroe "Hank" Beachell (September 21, 1906 – December 13, 2006) was an American plant breeder. His research led to the development of hybrid rice cultivars that saved millions of people around the world from starvation.
Born in Wave ...
, 100, American agriculturalist and recipient of the 1996
World Food Prize
The World Food Prize is an international award recognizing the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food in the world. Conceived by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nor ...
.
*
Eileen Caddy
Eileen Caddy MBE (26 August 1917 – 13 December 2006) was a spiritual teacher and new age author, best known as one of the founders of the Findhorn Foundation community at the Findhorn Ecovillage, near the village of Findhorn, Moray Firth, in n ...
, 89, British co-founder of the
Findhorn Foundation
The Findhorn Foundation is a Scottish charitable trust registered in 1972, formed by the spiritual community at the Findhorn Ecovillage, one of the largest intentional communities in Britain.''The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Org ...
, natural causes.
* Richard Carlson, 45, American author (''Don't Sweat the Small Stuff''), heart attack.
*
Loyola de Palacio
Ignacia de Loyola de Palacio y del Valle Lersundi (16 September 1950 – 13 December 2006) was a Spanish politician. She was among the first women to rise to political prominence in Spain during the early years of reconstituted democracy. She ...
, 56, Spanish Vice-President of the
European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body ...
Ángel Nieves Díaz
Ángel Nieves Díaz (August 31, 1951 – December 13, 2006) was a Puerto Rican convict and a suspected serial killer who was executed by lethal injection by Florida.
, 55, Puerto Rican murderer, lethal injection.
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Homesick James
Homesick James (April 30, 1910December 13, 2006 was an American blues musician known for his mastery of the slide guitar. He worked with his cousin, Elmore James, and with Sonny Boy Williamson II.
Early years
Homesick James was born in Somervil ...
, 96, American blues musician, natural causes.
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Lamar Hunt
Lamar Hunt (August 2, 1932 – December 13, 2006) was an American businessman most notable for his promotion of American football, soccer, and tennis in the United States.
He was the principal founder of the American Football League (AFL) and ...
, 74, American owner of Kansas City Chiefs, coiner of term " Super Bowl", complications of prostate cancer.
* Bernard Kleiman, 78, American general counsel to the
United Steelworkers of America
The United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, commonly known as the United Steelworkers (USW), is a general trade union with members across North America. Headquar ...
, heart attack.
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Charles Peter McColough
Charles Peter Philip Paul McColough (August 1, 1922 – December 13, 2006) was the chief executive officer and chair of the Xerox Corporation who, during his tenure at Xerox, founded the PARC (company). He retired in the late 1980s, after serving ...
, 84, Canadian CEO of
Xerox Corporation
Xerox Holdings Corporation (; also known simply as Xerox) is an American corporation that sells print and digital document products and services in more than 160 countries. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut (having moved from Sta ...
, cardiac arrest.
* Mario Ravagnan, 75, Italian Olympic fencer.
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Anton Balasingham
Anton Balasingham Stanislaus ( ta, ஆண்டன் பாலசிங்கம் சிடானிசுலாசு, translit=Āṇṭaṉ Pālaciṅkam Ciṭāṉisulās; 4 March 1938 – 14 December 2006) was a Sri Lankan Tamil journal ...
, 69, Sri Lankan LTTE senior negotiator, cholangiocarcinoma.
* John Bridge, 91, British recipient of the George Cross and George Medal, natural causes.
* Camille Darsières, 74, French politician deputy for
Martinique's 3rd constituency
The 3rd constituency of Martinique is a French legislative constituency in the Martinique ''département''. It consists of the commune of Fort-de-France, the capital of Martinique. In every election of the Fifth Republic, with the exception ...
(1993–2002).
*
Ahmet Ertegün
Ahmet Ertegun (, Turkish spelling: Ahmet Ertegün; ; – December 14, 2006) was a Turkish-American businessman, songwriter, record executive and philanthropist.
Ertegun was the co-founder and president of Atlantic Records. He discovered and ch ...
The Jeffersons
''The Jeffersons'' is an American sitcom television series that was broadcast on CBS from January 18, 1975, to July 2, 1985, lasting 11 seasons and a total of 253 episodes. ''The Jeffersons'' is one of the longest-running sitcoms in history, ...
''), throat cancer.
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Kate Fleming
Kathryn Ann Fleming (October 6, 1965 – December 14, 2006) was an American actress, artist, singer, and award-winning audiobook narrator and producer. She was the owner and executive producer at Cedar House Audio, an audio production company ...
, 41, American actress, audio book producer and narrator, drowned.
* John Hamilton, 84, British politician, leader of Liverpool City Council (1983–1986), lung disease.
* Robert Long, 63, Dutch singer, cancer.
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Sivuca
Severino Dias de Oliveira (May 26, 1930 – December 14, 2006), known professionally as Sivuca, was a Brazilian accordionist, guitarist and singer. In addition to his home state of Paraíba, Brazil, and cities Recife and Rio de Janeiro, he worke ...
, 76, Brazilian accordionist and composer, cancer.
The Spectator
''The Spectator'' is a weekly British magazine on politics, culture, and current affairs. It was first published in July 1828, making it the oldest surviving weekly magazine in the world.
It is owned by Frederick Barclay, who also owns ''The ...
'' (1995–1999), cancer.
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Clay Regazzoni
Gianclaudio Giuseppe "Clay" Regazzoni (5 September 1939 – 15 December 2006) was a Swiss racing driver. He competed in Formula One races from 1970 to 1980, winning five Grands Prix. His first win was the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in his debu ...
, 67, Swiss Formula One racing driver (1970–1980), car accident.
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Mary Stolz
Mary Stolz (born Mary Slattery, March 24, 1920 – December 15, 2006) was an American writer of fiction for children and young adults. She received the 1953 Child Study Association of America's Children's Book Award for ''In a Mirror,'' Newbe ...
, 86, American young adult novelist (''Belling the Tiger'', ''The Noonday Friends''), natural causes.
* Matt Zunic, 87, American basketball player and coach.
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Don Jardine
Donald Delbert Jardine (March 24, 1940 – December 16, 2006) was a Canadian professional wrestler best known for his masked gimmick as The Spoiler. Jardine was a major star in various wrestling promotions. He worked in the World Wrestling Federa ...
, 66, Canadian professional wrestler, heart attack and leukemia.
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Chicho Jesurun
Arthur Benjamin "Chicho" Jesurun (10 July 1947 – 16 December 2006) was a Netherlands-Antillian baseball player, coach, manager, and scout.
Biography
During his playing career, Jesurun played for several teams. He started in Curaçao with the ...
Goce Nikolovski
Goce Nikolovski ( Macedonian: Гоце Николовски; 1947 – 16 December 2006) was a famous Macedonian singer, known for his hit "Biser Balkanski" ("Pearl of the Balkans").
Nikolovski was born in Skopje, Yugoslavia (present-day Nor ...
, 59, Macedonian singer, suicide.
*
Taliep Petersen
Taliep Petersen (15 April 1950 – 16 December 2006) was a South African singer, composer and director of a number of popular musicals. He worked most notably with David Kramer, with whom he won an Olivier Award.
Career
One of "South Africa' ...
, South African theatre impresario, shot.
* John Rae, 75, British educator and writer, headmaster of
Westminster School
(God Gives the Increase)
, established = Earliest records date from the 14th century, refounded in 1560
, type = Public school Independent day and boarding school
, religion = Church of England
, head_label = Hea ...
Larry Zox
Larry is a masculine given name in English, derived from Lawrence or Laurence. It can be a shortened form of those names.
Larry may refer to the following:
People Arts and entertainment
* Larry D. Alexander, American artist/writer
*Larry Boone ...
, 69, American artist, cancer.
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Timmie Rogers
Timmie Rogers (born Timothy Louis Ancrum July 4, 1915 – December 17, 2006) was an American comedian, singer-songwriter, bandleader and actor who appeared on many national TV shows in the 1960s and 1970s. Rogers was one of the first Black comed ...
, 91, American comedian, singer-songwriter, bandleader and actor.
*
Joe Gill
Joseph P. Gill (July 13, 1919 – December 17, 2006)_Goodman.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Martin/nowiki> Goodman">/nowiki>Martin/nowiki> Goodman – who wnedMarvel later – into comics, and did the first omicsin my brother's office". Gill is reporte ...
, 87, American comic book writer (''
Captain Atom
Captain Atom is a superhero appearing in American comic books, first in the 1960s by Charlton Comics before being acquired in the 1980s by DC Comics. Captain Atom has existed in three basic incarnations.
Publication history
Captain Atom was crea ...
'', ''
Peacemaker
Peacemaker or The Peacemaker (in various forms) may refer to:
Individuals and groups
* UN Peacemaker, a project of the UN to support international peacemakers and mediators
* Peace makers, a list of contemporary individuals and organizations inv ...
'').
*
Kyōko Kishida
was a Japanese actress, voice actress, and writer of children's books.
Career
Kishida became an actress in 1950, and starred in a Yukio Mishima production of the 1960 film ''Salome''. Her film and television drama credits number in the hundreds. ...
, 76, Japanese actress, respiratory failure caused by brain tumor.
*
Esko Nikkari
Esko Nikkari (23 November 1938 – 17 December 2006) was a prolific Finnish actor who made more than 70 appearances on film and television. He was born in Lapua, and made his screen debut in 1974 in the movie ''Karvat''.
Nikkari was a workhorse ...
, 68, Finnish actor, pneumonia.
*
Larry Sherry
Lawrence Sherry (July 25, 1935 – December 17, 2006) was an American professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed relief pitcher from 1958 to 1968, most prominently as a member of the Los Angeles ...
, 71, American baseball player (
Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Established in 1883 in the city of Brooklyn ...
), MVP of the 1959
World Series
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, contested since 1903 between the champion teams of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL). The winner of the World ...
, cancer.
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Abdul Amir al-Jamri
Sheikh Abdul Amir al-Jamri ( ; ar, شيخ عبدالأمير الجمري; 1 March 1938 – 18December 2006) was one of the most prominent Shia clerics and opposition leaders in Bahrain. He was also a writer and a poet.
Born in the village of ...
, 67, Bahraini Shiite Muslim cleric, heart failure and kidney failure.
* Joseph Barbera, 95, American cartoonist, co-founder of
Hanna-Barbera Productions
Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ( ) was an American animation studio and production company which was active from 1957 to 2001. It was founded on July 7, 1957, by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera following the decision of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to c ...
, natural causes.
*
Ruth Bernhard
Ruth Bernhard (October 14, 1905 – December 18, 2006) was a German-born American photographer.
Early life and education
Bernhard was born in Berlin to Lucian Bernhard and Gertrude Hoffmann. Lucian Bernhard was known for his poster and typeface ...
Mike Dickin
Robert Michael Dickin (28 September 1943 – 18 December 2006), was an English radio DJ, best known as the late-night host on the radio station talkSPORT.
Early life
Dickin was born in 1943 in Reading, Berkshire.
Career
Dickin started ...
, 63, British talkSPORT radio presenter, car accident.
*
Mavor Moore
James Mavor Moore (March 8, 1919 – December 18, 2006) was a Canadian writer, producer, actor, public servant, critic, and educator. He notably appeared as Nero Wolfe in the CBC radio production in 1982.
Life and work
Moore was born in Tor ...
, 87, Canadian writer, actor, radio and television producer, illness.
* Mollie Orshansky, 91, American statistician and economist, cardiac arrest.
*
Daniel Pinkham
Daniel Rogers Pinkham Jr. (June 5, 1923 – December 18, 2006) was an American composer, organist, and harpsichordist.
Early life and education
Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, into a prominent family engaged in the manufacture of patent medicines ( ...
Oonah McFee
Oonah McFee, née Browne (September 11, 1916 – December 19, 2006) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, who won the Books in Canada First Novel Award for her 1977 novel ''Sandbars''."And the winner is..." ''The Globe and Mail'', Ap ...
Summer Interlude
''Summer Interlude'' ( sv, Sommarlek), originally titled ''Illicit Interlude'' in the United States, is a 1951 Swedish drama film co-written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The film opened to highly positive reviews from critics.
Plot
Marie (Ni ...
Elisabeth Rivers-Bulkeley
Elisabeth Charlotte Marie Rivers-Bulkeley (30 April 1924 – 19 December 2006) was a stockbroker. Born in Austria, she lived most of her life in the United Kingdom. She was one of the first ten women to become a member of the London Stock Exc ...
, 82, Austrian-born British first female member of the
London Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange (LSE) is a stock exchange in the City of London, England, United Kingdom. , the total market value of all companies trading on LSE was £3.9 trillion. Its current premises are situated in Paternoster Square close to St P ...
Yukio Aoshima
was a Japanese politician who served as Governor of Tokyo from 1995 to 1999. He is also well known as a TV actor, novelist, film director, screenwriter and songwriter.
Early life and artistic career
Yukio was born in Nihonbashi ward of Tok ...
, 74, Japanese comedian, Governor of Tokyo (1995–1999), myelodysplastic syndrome.
*
John Bishop
John Marcus Bishop (born 30 November 1966) is an English comedian, presenter, actor and former footballer.
Bishop formerly played football as a midfielder for Winsford United F.C., Crewe Alexandra F.C., Runcorn F.C., Rhyl F.C.,
Witton Al ...
, 77, American screenwriter and playwright.
* Elkan Blout, 87, American biochemist (Harvard University and the
Polaroid Corporation
Polaroid is an American company best known for its instant film and cameras. The company was founded in 1937 by Edwin H. Land, to exploit the use of its Polaroid polarizing polymer. Land ran the company until 1981. Its peak employment was 21,0 ...
), pneumonia.
*
Anne Rogers Clark
Anne Rogers Clark (born January 6, 1929, Flushing, New York – died December 20, 2006, Wilmington, Delaware) was an American dog breeder and trainer and one of the few people licensed to judge all 165 breeds and varieties recognized by the A ...
, 77, American dog show judge (
Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is an all-breed conformation show, traditionally held annually at New York City's Madison Square Garden.
The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is one of a handful of benched shows in the United States. Dogs ...
), kidney failure associated with colon cancer.
* Ma Ji, 72, Chinese
xiangsheng
Xiangsheng (), also known as crosstalk or comic dialogue, is a traditional performing art in Chinese comedy, and one of the most popular elements in Chinese culture. It is typically performed as a dialogue between two performers, or rarely as ...
actor, heart attack.
*
Mick Mulligan
Peter Sidney "Mick" Mulligan (24 January 1928 – 20 December 2006) was an English jazz trumpeter and bandleader, best known for his presence on the trad jazz scene.
Biography
He was born in Harrow, Middlesex, England. Mulligan began playing ...
, 78, British jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
* Tadayuki Nakashima, 35, Japanese comedian, member of duo ''
Cunning
Cunning may refer to:
* Cunning (owarai), a Japanese comedy group
* Cunning folk, a type of folk magic user
* Cunning (surname), a list of people with Cunning as a surname
See also
* Cunningham
*
*
* Sneak (disambiguation)
Sneak or Sneaky m ...
'', pneumonia and complications from leukemia.
* Piergiorgio Welby, 60, Italian poet and euthanasia advocate, removal of life support.
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Scobie Breasley
Arthur Edward "Scobie" Breasley (7 May 1914 – 21 December 2006) was an Australian jockey. He won the Caulfield Cup in Melbourne five times: 1942-45 consecutively on Tranquil Star, Skipton, Counsel and St Fairy; then on Peshawar in 1952. ...
, 92, Australian jockey, stroke.
* Rogério Oliveira da Costa, 30, Brazilian-born Macedonian football player, heart attack.
*
Lois Hall
Lois Grace Hall (August 22, 1926 – December 21, 2006) was an American actress.
Early years
Hall was born on August 22, 1926, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, the daughter of Lois Grace (née Lambert), a teacher, and Ralph Stewart Hall, a business ...
, 80, American actress, heart attack and stroke.
* Jerzy Janikowski, 54, Polish Olympic fencer.
*
Pierre Louki
Pierre Louki, born Pierre Varenne on 25 July 1920 in Brienon-sur-Armançon in Yonne, died 21 December 2006, was a French actor and singer/songwriter.
Louki was the son of Georges Varenne, a teacher in the Yonne who was killed in Auschwitz. He lea ...
, 86, French actor and singer-songwriter.
* Saparmurat Niyazov, 66, Turkmen Communist party secretary (1985–1991), president (1990–2006), cardiac arrest.
*
Philippa Pearce
Ann Philippa Pearce OBE (22 January 1920 – 21 December 2006) was an English author of children's books. Best known of them is the time-slip novel ''Tom's Midnight Garden'', which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, as ...
, 86, British children's author, stroke.
* Karl Strauss, 94, German-born brewer for Pabst and
Karl Strauss Brewing Company
Karl Strauss Brewing Company is a San Diego, California-based craft brewery with eleven brewpub locations across Southern California and an onsite tasting room at their main brewery in the Pacific Beach neighborhood of San Diego. Besides being av ...
, natural causes.
*
Sydney Wooderson
Sydney Charles Wooderson MBE (30 August 1914 – 21 December 2006), dubbed "The Mighty Atom", was an English athlete whose peak career was in the 1930s and 1940s.
He set the world mile record of 4:06.4 at London’s Motspur Park on 28 August 19 ...
, 92, British lawyer and track athlete, world record holder for mile run (1937–1942), kidney failure.
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* Richard Boston, 67, British journalist and author, illness.
*
Sam Chapman
Samuel Blake Chapman (April 11, 1916 – December 22, 2006) was an American two-sport athletic star who played as a center fielder in Major League Baseball, spending nearly his entire career with the Philadelphia Athletics (1938–1941, 1945–1 ...
Kossuth Prize
The Kossuth Prize ( hu, Kossuth-díj) is a state-sponsored award in Hungary, named after the Hungarian politician and revolutionist Lajos Kossuth. The Prize was established in 1948 (on occasion of the centenary of the March 15th revolution, the ...
winner, lung failure.
*
Dennis Linde
Dennis Linde (pronounced LIN-dy, March 18, 1943December 22, 2006) was an American music songwriter based in Nashville who has had over 250 of his songs recorded. He is best known for writing the 1972 Elvis Presley hit, "Burning Love". Rarely w ...
, 63, American songwriter ("
Burning Love
"Burning Love" is a 1972 song by Elvis Presley written by Dennis Linde, originally released by Arthur Alexander earlier in 1972. Elvis Presley had a major hit with the song, becoming his biggest hit single in the United States since "Suspicious M ...
", "
Goodbye Earl
"Goodbye Earl", written by Dennis Linde, is a country music song. Initially recorded by the band Sons of the Desert for an unreleased album in the late 1990s, the song gained fame when it was recorded by Dixie Chicks on their fifth studio album, '' ...
"), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
* Michael Morrison, 60, American pornographic actor.
*
Elena Mukhina
Elena Vyacheslavovna Mukhina (russian: Елена Вячеславовна Мухина; first name sometimes rendered "Yelena", last name sometimes rendered "Muchina"; 1 June 196022 December 2006) was a Soviet gymnast who won the all-around t ...
, 46, Russian gymnast, complications of quadriplegia.
* Terence O'Brien, 85, British diplomat, ambassador to Nepal, Burma and Indonesia.
*
Phillip Pine
Phillip Pine (July 16, 1920 – December 22, 2006) was an American film and television actor, writer, film director, and producer. Despite incorrect biographical information repeated on many entertainment sites, he was not related to Robert P ...
, 86, American actor.
*
Thomas Shoyama
Thomas Kunito Shoyama (September 24, 1916 – December 22, 2006) was a prominent Canadian public servant who was instrumental in designing social services in Canada, especially Medicare.
Early life
Shoyama was born in Kamloops, British Columbia, ...
, 90, Canadian politician, heart failure and Parkinson's disease.
*
Galina Ustvolskaya
Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya (russian: Гали́на Ива́новна Уство́льская , 17 June 1919 – 22 December 2006), was a Russian composer of classical music.
Early years
Born in Petrograd, Ustvolskaya studied from 1937 to 1 ...
Charlie Drake
Charles Edward Springall (19 June 1925 – 23 December 2006), known professionally as Charlie Drake, was an English comedian, actor, writer and singer.
With his small stature (5' 1"/155 cm tall), curly red hair and liking for slapstick, h ...
, 81, British comedian, actor and singer (''My Boomerang Won't Come Back''), stroke-related illness.
*
Wilma Dykeman
Wilma Dykeman Stokely (May 20, 1920 – December 22, 2006) was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction whose works chronicled the people and land of Appalachia.
Biography
Dykeman grew up in the Beaverdam community of Buncombe County, Nor ...
, 86, American author and journalist, complications after hip fracture.
* Dutch Mason, 68, Canadian blues musician, complications from diabetes.
*
Bo Mya
Bo Mya ( my, ဘိုမြ ; born Htee Moo Kee; 20 January 1927 – 24 December 2006) was a Karen leader born in Papun District, which is in present-day Karen State, Myanmar. He was a long-standing chairman of the Karen National Union (KNU) ...
, 79, Burmese rebel leader, complications of heart disease and diabetes.
*
Rosina Raisbeck
Phyllis Rosina Raisbeck MBE (28 July 191623 December 2006) was an Australian opera and concert mezzo-soprano singer. Her fine voice was basically a dramatic mezzo, with a warm middle register supporting strong top notes.
Early life
Rosina Raisb ...
, 90, Australian soprano singer.
*
Robert Stafford
Robert Theodore Stafford (August 8, 1913 – December 23, 2006) was an American politician from Vermont. In his lengthy political career, he served as the 71st governor of Vermont, a United States representative, and a U.S. Senator. A Republi ...
, 93, American politician, governor of Vermont (1959–1961) and senator (1971–1989), natural causes.
* Timothy J. Tobias, 54, American composer and musician.
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* Gino D'Antonio, 79, Italian comics writer and artist.
* Braguinha, 99, Brazilian composer, multiple organ failure.
*
Mirko Sandić
Mirko Sandić ( sr-cyrl, Мирко Сандић; 9 May 1942 – 24 December 2006) was a Serbian water polo player who led Yugoslav teams to a gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He also compete ...
, 64, Serbian Olympic water polo player.
* Kenneth Sivertsen, 45, Norwegian folk singer, comedian and poet, brain trauma.
* Frank Stanton, 98, American president of
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ...
(1946–1971).
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* James Brown, 73, American soul singer and bandleader, heart failure related to pneumonia.
* John Butcher, 60, British Conservative MP (1979–1997), heart attack.
*
Sir Bob Cotton
Sir Robert Carrington Cotton, (29 November 191525 December 2006) was an Australian politician and diplomat. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served as a Senator for New South Wales from 1966 to 1978. He held ministerial office as Mi ...
, 91, Australian politician and ambassador to the United States (1982–1985, 1991–1994).
* Sven Lindberg, 88, Swedish actor.
*
Ingerid Vardund
Ingerid Vardund (24 April 1927 – 25 December 2006) was a Norwegian actress. She was known to the Norwegian audience primarily for her roles in the films '' Jentespranget'' (1973) and the sit-com ' (1980). For her role in ''Jentespranget'', ...
, 79, Norwegian actress.
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* Robert Boehm, 92, American lawyer and chairman of the
President
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
(1974–1977),
Vice President
A vice president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vice president is on ...
(1973–1974), arteriosclerotic cerebrovascular disease and diffuse arteriosclerosis.
* Ivar Formo, 55, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic Games champion, drowning.
*
John Heath-Stubbs
John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs (9 July 1918 – 26 December 2006) was an English poet and translator. He is known for verse influenced by classical myths, and for a long Arthurian poem, ''Artorius'' (1972).
Biography and works
Heath-Stub ...
, 88, British poet and translator, lung cancer.
*
Martin David Kruskal
Martin David Kruskal (; September 28, 1925 – December 26, 2006) was an American mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, ranging from plasma physics to general relativity and ...
, 81, American mathematician (
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...
), stroke.
* Fernand Nault, 85, Canadian ballet dancer and artistic director, Parkinson's disease.
* George Snell, 99, Canadian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Toronto (1966–1972).
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* Richard Dean, 50, American model, photographer and television host (''Cover Shot''), pancreatic cancer.
*
Pierre Delanoë
Pierre Delanoë (16 December 1918 – 27 December 2006), born Pierre Charles Marcel Napoléon Leroyer in Paris, France, was a French lyricist who wrote thousands of songs for dozens of singers, including Dalida, Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Pet ...
, 88, French lyricist, cardiac arrest.
*
Scotty Glacken
Edward Scott Glacken (July 28, 1944 – December 27, 2006) was an American football quarterback and coach. He played college football at Duke University. In 1963, Glacken threw for a school-record 12 touchdown passes. Glacken finished his Duke c ...
, 62, American
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...
football coach (1970–1992).
* Itche Goldberg, 102, Polish-born American writer and Yiddish language preservationist.
*
Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley
Marmaduke James Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley (29 August 1923 – 27 December 2006), known as Duke Hussey, was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC from 1986 to 1996, serving two terms in that role.
Education and career
The so ...
Tommy Sandlin
Tommy Sandlin (31 March 194427 December 2006) was a Swedish professional ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It bel ...
, 62, Swedish ice hockey coach.
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* Gracie Cole, 82, British trumpeter and bandleader.
*
Nicola Granieri
Nicola Granieri (3 July 1942 – 28 December 2006) was an Italian fencer. He competed at the 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics in both épée and foil individual and team events with the best achievement of 7th place. He won a gol ...
, 64, Italian Olympic fencer.
* Jamal Karimi-Rad, 50, Iranian Minister of Justice, car accident.
* Mandy Mitchell-Innes, 92, British oldest living test cricketer for
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
, natural causes.
* Jack Myers, 93, American biologist and science contributing editor (''
Highlights for Children
''Highlights for Children'', often referred to simply as ''Highlights'', is an American children's magazine. It began publication in June 1946, started by Garry Cleveland Myers and his wife Caroline Clark Myers in Honesdale, Pennsylvania (the pr ...
''), bladder cancer.
*
Jared Nathan
Jared Nathan (August 10, 1985 – December 28, 2006) was an American actor from Nashua, New Hampshire, United States. He starred in the first season of the revival of the PBS Kids television show ''Zoom (1999 TV series), Zoom''. He left the show ...
, 21, American actor (''
ZOOM
Zoom may refer to:
Technology Computing
* Zoom (software), videoconferencing application
* Page zooming, the ability to magnify or shrink a portion of a page on a computer display
* Zooming user interface, a graphical interface allowing for image ...
Aroldo Tieri
Aroldo Tieri (28 August 1917 – 28 December 2006) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1939 and 1969.
Life and career
Born in Corigliano Calabro, son of the journalist and playwright Vincenzo Tieri, Aroldo Tier ...
, 89, Italian actor.
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* Harald Bredesen, 88, American Lutheran pastor and advocate of
speaking in tongues
Speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, is a practice in which people utter words or speech-like sounds, often thought by believers to be languages unknown to the speaker. One definition used by linguists is the fluid vocalizing of sp ...
, injuries following a fall.
*
Bud Delp
Grover Greer "Bud" Delp (September 7, 1932 – December 29, 2006) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer best remembered for his conditioning of Hall of Fame colt, Spectacular Bid, who according to Delp was "The greatest hor ...
, 74, American racehorse trainer inducted into the
Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame
The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred horse racing, Thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and Horse trainer, trainers. In 1955, the museum ...
, cancer.
* Johnny Gibson, 101, American 400 meter hurdles world record holder (1927–1928).
* Charles Addo Odametey, 69, Ghanaian football player.
* Red Wolf, 18, American world champion bucking bull.
*
Charlie Tyra
Charles E. Tyra ( ; August 16, 1935 – December 29, 2006) was an American basketball player who is best known as the first Louisville Cardinal All-American. He played five seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the New York Kn ...
, 71, American basketball player, heart failure.
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*
Frank Campanella
Frank Campanella (March 12, 1919 – December 30, 2006) was an American actor. He appeared in numerous television series, as well as a few films and Broadway productions.
Early life and career
Campanella was born in New York City, the son of P ...
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutio ...
, 69, Iraqi President (1979–2003), execution by hanging.
*
Antony Lambton
Antony Claud Frederick Lambton, (10 July 1922 – 30 December 2006), briefly 6th Earl of Durham, styled before 1970 as Viscount Lambton, and widely known as Lord Lambton, was a Conservative Member of Parliament and a cousin of Sir Alec Douglas ...
, 84, British Conservative government minister.
* Donald Murray, 82, American columnist.
* Azumi Muto, 20, Japanese model and actress, homicide.
* Michel Plasse, 58, Canadian ice hockey player, cardiac arrest.
* Gerald Washington, 57, American mayor-elect of Westlake, Louisiana, suicide by gunshot.
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* Marv Breeding, 72, American Major League Baseball player (
Orioles
Oriole or Orioles may refer to:
Animals
* Old World oriole, colorful passerine birds in the family Oriolidae
* New World oriole, a group of birds in the family Icteridae
Music
* The Orioles, an R&B and doo-wop group of the late 1940s and earl ...
,
Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Established in 1883 in the city of Brooklyn ...
).
* John Denison, 95, British music administrator.
* James Harder, 80, American civil engineer.
*
Ya'akov Hodorov
Ya'akov "Yankele" Hodorov (Hebrew: יעקב חודורוב) (16 June 1927 – 31 December 2006) was an Israeli football goalkeeper in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. He is one Israel's best goalkeepers of all time and the leading goalkeeper of his ...
, 79, Israeli football goalkeeper, stroke.
*
Seymour Martin Lipset
Seymour Martin Lipset ( ; March 18, 1922 – December 31, 2006) was an American sociologist and political scientist (President of the American Political Science Association). His major work was in the fields of political sociology, trade union o ...
, 84, American sociologist, stroke.
*
Liese Prokop
Liesel "Liese" Prokop-Sykora (27 March 1941 – 31 December 2006) was an Austrian athlete who competed mainly in the pentathlon and, later in her life, a politician.
Biography
Born as Liese Sykora in Tulln District, Lower Austria, o ...
, 65, Austrian athlete and Minister of the Interior (2004–2006), aortic dissection.
*
Joe Walton
Joseph Frank Walton (December 15, 1935 – August 15, 2021) was an American football player and coach who retired after 20 years as the head coach and creator of the football program at Robert Morris University. Walton played eight seasons in t ...