Deaths in January 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

January 2006

1

*Frank Cary, 85, American businessman, chairman of IBM (1973–1981), natural causes.
*Mapita Cortés, 66, Puerto Rican actress, cancer.
*Bryan Harvey, 49, American musician ''(House of Freaks)'', murdered.
*Dawn Lake, 78, Australian entertainer, widow of Bobby Limb.
* John Latham, 84, Zambian artist, natural causes.
*Paul Lindblad, 64, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics), Alzheimer's disease.
*Dragan Lukić, 77, Serbian writer, after long illness.
* Harry Magdoff, 92, American socialist and editor, natural causes.
*Charles O. Porter, 86, American politician, representative from Oregon (1957–1961), Alzheimer's disease.
*Gideon Rodan, 71, American biochemist, cancer.
*Hubert Schoemaker, 55, Dutch chemist, co-founder of Centocor, brain cancer.
*Charles Steen, 86, American geologist and businessman.

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

*Rod Dedeaux, 91, American college baseball coach, complications from a stroke.
* William H. G. FitzGerald, 96, American investor, philanthropist and diplomat, ambassador to Ireland, aortic aneurysm.
*Keizo Miura, 101, Japanese skier.
* Lord Merlyn-Rees, 85, Welsh-born politician, former British Home Secretary, following a number of falls.
*Ken Mosdell, 83, Canadian ice hockey player ( Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Blackhawks).
* Mark Roberts, 84, American actor ('' Gilda'', ''Dan August'', '' Black Arrow'').
* Simon Shanks, 34, American football player (Arizona Cardinals), shot.
*Rachel Squire, 51, British Labour Member of Parliament for Dunfermline and West Fife, stroke.
*Alex St. Clair, 64, American musician (Captain Beefheart).
*Vajramuni, 62, Indian actor.

6

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

7

*Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar, 58, Brazilian soldier, head of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti, suicide.
* Heinrich Harrer, 93, Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer and author.
* Alf McMichael, 78, Northern Irish footballer.
*Jim Zulevic, 40, American actor ('' The Specials''), heart attack.

8

*Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, 62, British politician and peer, former British Minister for Sport, stroke and cerebral hemorrhage.
*Elson Becerra, 27, Colombian football player, shot.
*Alex Elmsley, 76, English magician, heart attack.
* Georg Wilhelm, Prince of Hanover, 90, German aristocrat, educator and Olympian.
*James Robert Hightower, 90, American sinologist.
*Katherine Peden, 80, American politician.
* David Rosenbaum, 63, American journalist, '' The New York Times'' reporter, head injury during mugging.
*Gloria Root, 57, American model and businesswoman, cancer.
*Mimmo Rotella, 87, Italian artist, illness.
*Raatbek Sanatbayev, 36, Kyrgyz Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler and candidate for National Olympic Committee president, shot.
* José Luis Sánchez, 31, Argentine football (soccer) player, from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.

9

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

10

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

11

* Bernard Dafney, 37, American football player, heart attack.
* Eric Namesnik, 35, American Olympic swimmer, injuries from a car crash.
* Mark Spoon, 39, German DJ, prominent figure in trance music and member of ( Jam & Spoon), heart attack.
* Mabel Sine Wadsworth, 95, American birth control activist and women's health educator.

12

*William Matthew Byrne, Jr., 75, American federal judge, presiding judge in the trial of Daniel Ellsberg, pulmonary fibrosis.
* Brendan Cauldwell, 83, Irish actor, died in sleep.
* Eldon Dedini, 84, American cartoonist, esophageal cancer.
* Shaikh Faisal bin Hamad Al Khalifa, 14, Bahraini prince, injuries from a car crash.
*Günther Landgraf, 77, German physicist and former president of Technische Universität Dresden.
* Stewart Linder, 74, American Oscar-winning film editor.
* Anne Meacham, 80, American actress (''Suddenly, Last Summer'', '' Another World'', '' Lilith'').
*Meinrad Schütter, 95, Swiss composer.

13

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

14

*Henri Colpi, 84, Swiss film director and cinematographer.
* Jim Gary, 66, American sculptor, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage.
* Conrad Hendricks, 27, South African professional football player, car crash.
*Bubba Morton, 74, American baseball player and coach.
*Mark Philo, 21, English professional football player, injuries from a car crash.
*Bob Weinstock, 77, American record producer, founded independent jazz record label Prestige Records, complications of diabetes.
* Shelley Winters, 85, American actress (''The Diary of Anne Frank'', ''Lolita'', '' The Poseidon Adventure''), Oscar winner (1960, 1966), heart failure.

15

* Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 79, Kuwaiti Emir, brain hemorrhage.
*Glyn Berry, 59, Welsh-born Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan.
* Hilma Contreras, 95, Dominican writer.
*Edward N. Hall, 91, U.S. Air Force rocket expert, father of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile program.
* Gregory Kimble, 88, American psychologist.
* William Post, 66, American lottery winner.
*George Worth, 90, American Olympic fencer.

16

* Stanley Biber, 82, American physician and pioneer in sex reassignment surgery, complications of pneumonia.
*Rebiha Khebtani, 79, French Algerian politician, MP.
* Jan Mark, 62, British children's writer, meningitis.
*Richard P. McCormick, 89, American historian, professor at Rutgers University.
* Willie Smith, 66, American baseball player, heart attack.

17

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

18

* Leonardo Ribeiro de Almeida, 81, Portuguese politician.
*Norman McCabe, 94, American animator and director, famous for ''Tokio Jokio'' and ''The Ducktators'' shorts from his Termite Terrace tenure at Warner Bros.
* Thomas Murphy, 90, American former CEO of General Motors.
* Anton Rupert, 89, South African businessman, philanthropist and founding member of World Wide Fund for Nature, natural causes.
*Stjepan Steiner, 90, Croatian physician, doctor to Josip Broz Tito.
*Jan Twardowski, 90, Polish priest and poet.

19

* Gábor Agárdy, 83, Hungarian actor ('' The Round-Up'', '' Mattie the Goose-boy'').
* Gary Downie, South African psychotherapist and television production manager (''Doctor Who'', ''Star Cops''), cancer.
* Anthony Franciosa, 77, American actor, third husband of Shelley Winters, stroke.
* Tom Nugent, 92, American football coach, member of the College Football Hall of Fame, congestive heart failure.
* Wilson Pickett, 64, American soul singer, heart attack.
*Awn Alsharif Qasim, 73, Sudanese writer, educator and Islamic scholar.
* Geoff Rabone, 84, New Zealand cricketer.
*Franz Seitz, 84, German film director.

20

*Elmer Otto Friday, 81, American politician.
* Andrei Iordan, 71, Kyrgyz politician, former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan.
* David Maust, 51, American convicted serial killer, heart failure after a botched suicide attempt.
*Dave Lepard, 25, Swedish musician ( Crashdïet), suicide.
* Rose Nader, 99, Lebanese-born president of the Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest, heart failure.
*Pio Taofinu'u, 82, Samoan Roman Catholic cardinal.
* Leslie Wilson, 80, British Olympic cyclist.

21

*Michael Chan, Baron Chan, 65, British paediatrician, second peer of Chinese origin.
* John James Cowperthwaite, 90, British civil servant, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong (1961–1971).
*Robert Knudson, 80, American sound engineer ('' Cabaret'', '' The Exorcist'', ''E.T. the Extra Terrestrial''), Oscar winner (1973, 1974, 1983), supranuclear palsy.
* Ibrahim Rugova, 61, Kosovan politician, President of Kosovo, lung cancer.

22

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

23

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

24

*Zaki Badawi, 84, Egyptian Islamic scholar, Islamic religious leader in Britain.
* Schafik Handal, 75, Salvadoran politician, former presidential candidate and leader of El Salvador's main political opposition party, the FMLN, heart attack.
* Kiki Heck, 81, Dutch Olympic dive

* Peter Ladefoged, 80, American phonetician, stroke.
* Carlos (Café) Martínez, 40, Venezuelan corner infielder, former MLB player, complications from a long illness.
*Fayard Nicholas, 91, American dancer, elder of the renowned Nicholas Brothers, pneumonia and complications of a stroke.
* Chris Penn, 40, American actor ('' Footloose'', '' Reservoir Dogs'', '' The Funeral''), heart disease.
* Sir Nicholas Shackleton, 68, British geologist, leukaemia.

25

*Robin Coombs, 84, British immunologist, developed Coombs Antibody test
*Marion Dudley, 33, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
*Luther Green, 59, American NBA player, lung cancer.
* John F. Kerin, Australian professor, reproductive scientist and gynaecologist, farm accident.
*Anna Malle

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