Deaths in June 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 2006

1

*Radu Bălescu, 73, Romanian scientist.
* Frederick S. Billig, 73, American aerospace engineer.
* Shokichi Iyanaga, 100, Japanese mathematician.
*Rocío Jurado, 61, Spanish singer and actress, pancreatic cancer.
*Allan Prior, 84, British television scriptwriter (''Z-Cars'', ''Howards' Way'', '' The Charmer''), father of folk singer Maddy Prior.
*Abdul Latif Sharif, 59, Egyptian chemist, suspect in the femicides in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, officially of natural causes, rumored poisoning.
* Jack Shelton, 82, Australian cricketer.
* William D. Winn, 59, American professor of education at the University of Washington.

2

* Ronald Cass, 83, British film score composer.
*Roy Farran, 85, British army officer.
*Bernard Loomis, 82, American toymaker responsible for Strawberry Shortcake and '' Star Wars'' action figures, heart disease.
* Leon Pownall, 63, Canadian actor, cancer.
*Vince Welnick, 55, American keyboardist, member of The Grateful Dead, suicide.
*Edward Yates, 87, American television director, director of '' American Bandstand'' (1952–1969).
*Vyacheslav Klykov, 66, Russian sculptor and nationalist politician.

3

* Leo Clarke, 82, Australian Roman Catholic Bishop of Maitland–Newcastle, Australia, 1976-1995.
*Brian Duke, 79, Ugandan-born tropical disease expert who helped to save millions from river blindness.
*Johnny Grande, 76, American pianist, member of Bill Haley's backing band, The Comets. Complications arising from cancer.
*George Kashdan, 78, American comic book writer and editor (''House of Mystery'', ''Aquaman'', '' Sgt. Rock'').
* Doug Serrurier, 85, South African former Grand Prix racing driver and constructor.

4

* Alec Bregonzi, 76, British actor.
* Bill Fleming, 92, American MLB pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs
* Ron Jones, 41, American Major League Baseball player, brain hemorrhage.
*Richard Kapp, 69, American conductor and founder of the Philharmonia Virtuosi.
* John Kerr, 46, British footballer (Tranmere Rovers).
*Fulvia Mammi, 79, Italian actress ('' Against the Law'').
*Anthony Marreco, 90, British barrister, junior Counsel at the Nuremberg Trials and founding member of Amnesty International.
* Sir John Rowlands, 90, British air marshal and George Cross recipient.
* William M. Steger, 85, United States district court judge and Republican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1960.

5

*Frederick Franck, 97, Dutch artist, author, and dentist.
*Elizabeth Fretwell, 85, Australian opera singer best known for her performances with the Sadler's Wells company.
*Eric Gregg, 55, American former Major League Baseball umpire, stroke.
* Edward L. Moyers, 77, American railroad executive.
* Robert Ross, 86, American leader of the Muscular Dystrophy Association for 44 years and persuaded Jerry Lewis to undertake a yearly telethon to raise money for muscular dystrophy, complications of broken hip.
*Harley Rutledge, 80, American physicist and ufologist.
*Huda Sultan, 80, Egyptian actress, cancer.

6

*Leslie Alcock, 81, British pioneer of Dark Age archaeology, led the team that excavated Cadbury Castle.
* María Teresa López Boegeholz, 78, Chilean oceanographer.
* Arnold Newman, 88, American photographer who pioneered "environmental portraiture".
* Billy Preston, 59, American musician ("You Are So Beautiful", "Nothing from Nothing") known for his work with the Beatles, malignant hypertension leading to kidney failure.
*Hilton Ruiz, 54, American jazz pianist, injuries from a fall.
* Léon Weil, 109, French World War I veteran.
* Jason Moss, 31, American attorney and author of the book " The Last Victim"

7

* Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, 39, Jordanian leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military strike.
* Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman, spiritual adviser for Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military strike.
* Roy Brain, 79, Australian cricketer.
* Terry McCann, 74, American wrestler, olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling and helped found USA Wrestling, and retired Executive Director of Toastmasters International, cancer.
*Ingo Preminger, 95, Austrian-born American Hollywood talent agent and producer (''M*A*S*H''), brother of Otto Preminger.
*Mickey Sims, 51, American football defensive tackle, former player with the Cleveland Browns, heart attack.
* Louis B. Sohn, 92, Ukrainian-born scholar of international law, helped draft the UN Charter.
*John Tenta (aka "Earthquake"), 42, Canadian professional wrestler for the World Wrestling Federation, bladder cancer.

8

* Jake Copass, 86, American cowboy poet, leukemia.
*Robert Donner, 75, American actor (''Mork & Mindy'', ''The Waltons'', ''High Plains Drifter''), aneurysm.
* Jack Jackson (''nom de plume'' Jaxon), 65, American comic book artist and co-founder of Rip Off Press.
*Mykola Kolessa, 102, Ukrainian composer and conductor.
*Abouna Matta El Meskeen, 87, Egyptian Coptic Orthodox monk, Spiritual Father of St. Macarius' Monastery in the Wilderness of Scetis, Egypt.
*John Roberts, 72, Australian businessman, founder of Australian construction company Multiplex, Complications of diabetes.
* Jamal Abu Samhadana, Palestinian leader of PA / Hamas forces in Gaza Strip and PRC. Killed by Israeli air strike.
* Talcott Seelye, 84, United States Foreign Service Officer and ambassador to Tunisia and Syria.
*Sir Peter Smithers, 92, British politician, MP for Winchester and Secretary General of the Council of Europe.

9

* Kinga Choszcz aka "Freespirit", Polish author (''Led By Destiny: Hitchhiking Around the World''), cerebral malaria.
*Drafi Deutscher, 60, German singer.
* Michael Forrestall, 73, Canadian senator, died following hospitalization for breathing problems.
* Patricia Janus, 74, American poet, heart attack brought on by liver cancer.
*Enzo Siciliano, 72, Italian writer, diabetes mellitus.
* Vern Williams, 76, American bluegrass mandolin player and singer.

10

* Qadi Abdul Karim Abdullah Al-Arashi, 72, Yemeni politician, former President of North Yemen.
*Hubertus Czernin, 50, Austrian journalist who helped return paintings looted by the Nazis, mastocytosis.
*Moe Drabowsky, 70, Polish-born American Major League Baseball player, multiple myeloma.
* German Goldenshteyn, 71, Bessarabian-born clarinetist and klezmer musician.
*Wulff-Dieter Heintz, 76, German astronomer at Swarthmore College.
*Kenneth Jack, 81, Australian artist.
* Charles Johnson, 96, American Negro league baseball player for the Chicago American Giants, complications of prostate cancer.
*Peter Douglas Kennedy, 83, British folklorist.
*Philip Merrill, 72, American publisher and diplomat, suicide.
*Ruddy Thomas, 54, Jamaican singer, heart attack.

11

* Michael Bartosh, 28, American Mac OS X Server expert, injuries from a fall.
* Ernest Arthur Bell, 79, British biochemist, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
* James Cameron, 92, American civil rights activist, founder of America's Black Holocaust Museum, lymphoma.
*Neroli Fairhall, 61, New Zealand paraplegic archer and Olympic competitor.
*Rolande Falcinelli, 86, French organist and composer.
*Tim Hildebrandt, 67, American artist, complications of diabetes.
*Hugh Latimer, 93, English actor and toy maker.
* Mike Quarry, 55, American light heavyweight boxer, who challenged Bob Foster for the title, pugilistic dementia.
*Bruce Shand, 89, British Army officer, father of Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall, and father-in-law of Charles, Prince of Wales, cancer.

12

*Anna Lee Aldred, 85, American jockey and first woman in US to receive a jockey's licence, member of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame.
* Andrew William "Nicky" Barr, 90, Australian rugby union player and World War II fighter pilot
*Chakufwa Chihana, 67, Malawian politician, opposition figure who ran unsuccessfully for President losing to Bakili Muluzi, brain tumour.
*György Ligeti, 83, Hungarian composer.
*José Leite Lopes, 87, Brazilian physicist.
*Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, 82, Canadian billionaire, media mogul and art collector. Possible heart attack.

13

*Freddie Gorman, 67, US songwriter.
*Charles Haughey, 80, Irish politician, Taoiseach (1979–1981, 1982, 1987–1992), prostate cancer.
*Hiroyuki Iwaki, 73, Japanese conductor, congestive heart failure.
* Luis Jiménez, 65, American sculptor, crushed by a statue.
*Burke Riley, 92, American lawyer and politician, Alzheimer's disease.
* Dennis Shepherd, 79, South African Olympic boxer.

14

*Monty Berman, 94, British B-movie producer.
*Surinder Kaur, 77, Indian Punjabi folk and classical singer known as the "nightingale of Punjab".
* Edward Craig Morris, 66, American archaeologist.
*Jean Roba, 75, Belgian comics writer
* James Davis Speed, 91, American politician.

15

* Betty Curtis, 70, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival in 1961 with Luciano Tajoli.
* Raymond Devos, 83, French humorist.
*Ján Langoš, 59, Slovak politician, head of the National Memory Institute of Slovakia.
* Carlos Tovar, 92, Peruvian football player.

16

*Roland Boyes, 69, British Labour politician and photographer, Alzheimer's disease.
*Barbara Epstein, 76, American literary editor, co-founder of the ''New York Review of Books'', lung cancer.
* Arthur Malvin, 83, American Emmy award-winning composer and lyricist, after a long illness.
* Scott Manning, 48, Canadian athlete, builder and pilot of the world's smallest jet, crash landing.
*Daphne Osborne, 76, British botanist.
*Igor Śmiałowski, 88, Polish actor.

17

* Norma Becker, 76, American anti-war activist, former chair of the War Resisters League.
* Cláudio Besserman Vianna (Bussunda), 43, Brazilian comedian, member of Casseta & Planeta, heart attack
* Arthur Franz, 86, American character actor ('' Sands of Iwo Jima'', '' Invaders from Mars''), emphysema and heart disease.
*Mikhail Lapshin, 71, Russian politician, leader of the Agrarian Party and former president of the Altai Republic (2002–2006), cause unknown.
*Charles Older, 88, American Los Angeles Superior Court judge who presided over the Charles Manson trial, complications of a fall.
* Abdul-Khalim Saydullayev, 38 or 39, Chechen separatist rebel leader.
*Hiroaki Shukuzawa, 55, Japanese rugby union coach, heart attack.
*Julian Slade, 76, English composer and lyricist of ''Salad Days'', cancer.
* Bob Weaver, 77, American TV Florida-based weatherman known as "Weaver the Weatherman" on WTVJ, cancer.

18

*Luke Belton, 87, Irish politician.
*Hubert Cornfield, 77, Turkish film director in Hollywood (''The Night of the Following Day'', ''Les Grandes Moyens'' etc.).
* Nathaniel Neiman Craley, Jr., 78, American politician, former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives (1965–67) from Pennsylvania.
* Jesus Fuertes, 68, Spanish painter and protégé of Pablo Picasso, heart attack.
* Chris and Cru Kahui, 3-months, New Zealand child homicide victims.
* Gică Petrescu, 91, Romanian singer.
* Sir David Poole, 68, British judge.
* Donald Reilly, 72, American cartoonist (''The New Yorker''), cancer.
* René Renou, 54, French vintner, president of INAO.
* Netta Rheinberg, 94, English cricketer.
*Vincent Sherman, 99, American film director ('' Mr. Skeffington'', ''The Young Philadelphians''), natural causes.
*Richard Stahl, 74, American actor ('' 9 to 5'', ''Ghosts of Mississippi'', ''Five Easy Pieces''), Parkinson's disease.
* Madeleine St John, 64, Australian novelist who wrote a book shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997, emphysema.

19

* Hugh Baird, 76, Scottish footballer for Leeds United, Aberdeen, Airdrieonians and Scotland.
* Duane Roland, 53, American guitarist and a founder of rock band Molly Hatchet.
* Howard Shanet, 87, US conductor and composer.
*Arthur Yap, 64, Singaporean poet, artist, and lecturer, English Department, University of Singapore, throat cancer.

20

*Maurice Bevan, 85, British bass-baritone.
* Bill Daniel, 90, American politician, former Governor of Guam.
* Evelyn Dubrow, 95, US women and labor advocate awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999.
* Billy Johnson, 87, American professional baseball player, former New York Yankee and All-Star third baseman, cause not given.
* E. Pierce Marshall, 67, American businessman, son of J. Howard Marshall and Anna Nicole Smith's stepson and plaintiff in their inheritance feud, aggressive infection.
*William Shurcliff, 97, American physicist, who helped develop the atomic bomb.
*Claydes Charles Smith, 57, American musician, co-founder and lead guitarist of Kool and the Gang.

21

*Theo Bell, 52, American National Football League header with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, kidney disease and scleroderma.
* Vern Leroy Bullough, 77, American medical historian, known for his history of nursing, cancer.
*Denis Faul, 73, Irish Roman Catholic priest, former chaplain at the Maze Prison, outspoken critic of The Troubles and a key figure in attempts to end the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike in Northern Ireland, cancer.
* Jacques Lanzmann, 79, French author, editor and songwriter.
* Khamis al-Obeidi, 39, Iraqi defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein, kidnapped and shot.
* David Walton, 43, British economist, member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee
*Jonathan Wordsworth, 73, English academic, scholar of Romanticism and chair of the Wordsworth Trust.

22

*Heinz Ansbacher, 101, German-born psychologist and expert in the work of Alfred Adler.
* Back Alley John, 51, Canadian musician.
*Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, 90, British army general.
*Moose, 15, American canine actor (''Frasier'', ''My Dog Skip'').
* Chanel Petro Nixon, 16, American student, murder victim in Brooklyn, New York.
* Sir Peter Russell, 92, British historian.
* Sir Michael Weir, 81, British diplomat, Ambassador to Egypt (1979–1985).

23

* Martin Adler, 47, Swedish journalist. Shot by unknown assailant in Mogadishu, Somalia.
* Harriet, 176, Galápagos tortoise believed to be the third oldest animal in the world and allegedly owned by Charles Darwin, heart failure.
*Grady Johnson, 66, American WWF wrestler, known as "Crazy" Luke Graham; heart failure.
* Budhi Kunderan, 66, Indian cricketer, wicketkeeper/batsman, lung cancer.
*Basil O'Ferrall, 81, Irish Anglican priest, Dean of Jersey (1985–1993).
* Tom Pelly, 70, Australian rules footballer (North Melbourne).
* Aaron Spelling, 83, American television producer ''( Charlie's Angels, Starsky and Hutch'', ''Beverly Hills, 90210''), complications of stroke.

24

*Denice Denton, 46, American professor, chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, suicide.
* Tichaona Jokonya, 67, Zimbabwean politician, Information & Publicity Minister, cardiac arrest.
*Patsy Ramsey, 49, American beauty pageant winner, mother of JonBenét Ramsey, ovarian cancer.
*Lyle Stuart, 83, American journalist and publisher.
*Gerald Tomlinson, 73, American mystery and baseball writer.
*Ric Weiland, 53, American Microsoft pioneer, developed BASIC, COBOL and Microsoft Works, suicide.

25

*Elkan Allan, 83, British television producer, created ''Ready Steady Go!'' and developed the first television listings for the UK in the '' Sunday Times''.
* Eliyahu Asheri, 18, Israeli civilian kidnapped and murdered by militants in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
* Charles Barrow, 84, American former justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
* Richard DeVore, 73, American ceramicist, lung cancer.
*Kenneth Griffith, 84, Welsh actor and documentary maker, Parkinson's disease.
* Akbar Hossain, 65, Bangladeshi Minister for Shipping and hero of 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, heart attack.
*Irving Kaplansky, 89, American mathematician at the University of Chicago.
* Dibya Khaling, 56, Nepali musician, composer and lyricist, responsible for 1,000 songs, cardiac arrest.
*Arif Mardin, 74, Turkish-American Grammy Award winning music producer, pancreatic cancer.
*Sophie Maslow, 95, American choreographer.
*Gad Navon, 84, Moroccan-born Former Chief Israeli Military Rabbinate, Military Rabbi, cancer.
*Jaap Penraat, 88, Dutch architect and member of Dutch resistance in World War II.
*Seema Aissen Weatherwax, 100, Ukrainian photographer.

26

*Bear JJ1 (Bruno the Bear), the first wild bear in Germany in 170 years, shot to death.
*Paulino Díaz, 71, Mexican sports shooter.
*Johnny Jenkins, 67, American blues guitarist who influenced Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix, stroke.
*Parami Kulatunga, Sri Lankan military officer, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lankan Army, bomb blast.
*Frederick Mayer, 84, German educational philosopher, creativity expert, author of "History of Educational Thought".
*Eric Rofes, 51, American author and AIDS educator, heart attack.
*Stan Torgerson, 82, American radio announcer for Ole Miss football and basketball games.
*Jeff Winkless, 65, American voice actor, brain tumor.

27

*Eileen Barton, 76, American singer, actress, ovarian cancer
*Robert Carrier (chef), Robert Carrier, 82, American celebrity chef.
*J. Robert Elliott, 96, US Federal District Judge who overturned the conviction of Lt. William Calley.
*Gerard Mansfield, Sir Gerard Mansfield, 84, British admiral.
*Marta Mata, 80, Spanish politician and pedagogue.
*Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, 45, Mexican convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.

28

*Jim Baen, 62, American science fiction editor and publisher.
*Vikram Dharma, 44/45, Indian film stunt director.
*Theodore Levitt, 81, German-born former editor of the ''Harvard Business Review'' and author of books on marketing, coined the term globalization.
*June Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury, 78, British paediatrician and life peer.
*Mahmoud Mestiri, 77, Tunisian diplomat and politician, former foreign minister.
*George Page (television presenter), George Page, 71, American television host, creator and narrator of the PBS series ''Nature (TV series), Nature''.
*Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, 87, English barrister, politician and author.
*Fernando Sánchez (designer), Fernando Sanchez, 70, Belgian-born fashion designer.
*George Unwin, 93, British pilot and RAF officer, Battle of Britain flying ace.
*Lennie Weinrib, 71, American voice actor (''H.R. Pufnstuf'', ''The New Adventures of Batman'', ''Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979 TV series), Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo'').

29

*Fabián Bielinsky, 47, Argentine film director, heart attack.
*Joseph Edamaruku, 71, Indian journalist, heart attack.
*Joyce Hatto, 77, English classical pianist, who plagiarized more than 100 albums, cancer.
*Ed Hugus, 82, American racing driver.
*Stanley Moskowitz, 68, American CIA liaison to Congress, heart attack.
*Wallace Potts, 59, American film archivist for the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation, lymphoma.
*Lloyd Richards, 87, Canadian-American theatre director, first black Broadway director, Tony Award winner, heart failure.
*Pierre Rinfret, 82, Canadian-born economist and Republican candidate for Governor of New York in 1990.
*Randy Walker (football coach), Randy Walker, 52, American Northwestern University football coach, apparent heart attack
*F. Mark Wyatt, 86, American CIA officer, who delivered bags of money to swing the 1948 Italy election.

30

*Robert Gernhardt, 68, German satirist.
*Edward S. Hamilton, 89, American Army officer, highly decorated Army veteran during World War II, pneumonia.
*Harold Olmo, 96, American grape breeder and geneticist.
*Richard Streeton, 75, English sports journalist
*Ross Tompkins, 68, American ''The Tonight Show'' pianist.

References

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