Deaths in October 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 2006

1

*Frank Beyer, 74, German film director (''Jacob the Liar'').
* Sir Laurence Brodie-Hall, 96, Australian mining executive.
* Alan Caillou, 91, British actor and writer.
*Pierre Gorman, 82, Australian librarian and academic.
*Jack Kirkbride, 83, British cartoonist, father of actress Anne Kirkbride.
*Anna Kunkel, 74, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
*Renato Polselli, 84, Italian film director ('' The Vampire and the Ballerina'', ''Black Magic Rites'').
*Rafael Quintero, 66, Cuban-born American CIA agent.
*André Viger, 54, Canadian wheelchair marathoner and paralympian, cancer.
*Yoshihiro Yonezawa, 53, Japanese manga critic, lung cancer.

2

*Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista, 82, Cuban First Lady (1952–1959), second wife of President Fulgencio Batista.
* Frances Bergen, 84, American actress, wife of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and mother of actress Candice Bergen.
*Helen Chenoweth-Hage, 68, American Republican Representative for Idaho (1995–2001), car accident.
*Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami, 69, Indian scientist, spiritual teacher and poet, heart attack.
* Tamara Dobson, 59, American actress ('' Cleopatra Jones''), complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis.
* Paul Halmos, 90, Hungarian-born American mathematician.
* Paul Richardson, 74, American Phillies longtime organist, prostate cancer.
*Clyde Vollmer, 85, American Major League Baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).

3

*Lucilla Andrews, 86, British romantic novelist.
* Sir John Cox, 77, British admiral who was Commander-in-Chief in the South Atlantic.
*John Crank, 90, British mathematical physicist who helped solve the heat equation.
*Gwen Meredith, 98, Australian writer of all 5795 episodes of the long-running radio serial '' Blue Hills'', after heart trouble.
*Peter Norman, 64, Australian athlete, silver medalist at the 1968 Summer Olympics, heart attack.

4

*R. W. Apple, Jr., 71, American political journalist and food writer ('' The New York Times''), thoracic cancer.
* Tom Bell, 73, British actor (''Wish You Were Here'', '' Prime Suspect''), after short illness.
*Victor Dyrgall, 88, American Olympic runner.
*František Fajtl, 94, Czech World War II fighter pilot, after long illness.
* Norbert Franck, 88, Luxembourgian Olympic swimmer.
*Walter Gibb, 87, British aviator and test pilot who twice held the world flight altitude record.
* Ralph Griswold, 72, American creator of Snobol and Icon programming languages, cancer.
*Vic Heyliger, 87, American ice hockey Hall of Fame player and coach.
* Oskar Pastior, 78, Romanian-born German writer.
*Riccardo Pazzaglia, 80, Italian actor, writer and film director.
* Don Thompson, 73, British race walker and 1960 Olympic gold medal winner, aneurysm.
*Katarina Tomasevski, 53, Croatian-born former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education.

5

*Valerie Campbell-Harding, 74, Canadian textile art designer, heart attack.
*Friedrich Karl Flick, 79, German-Austrian billionaire industrialist.
*George King, 78, American college basketball coach ( West Virginia Mountaineers, Purdue Boilermakers).
*Speedy O. Long, 78, American Democratic Representative for Louisiana (1964–1972), cousin of Huey Long.
* Jennifer Moss, 61, British actress, played Lucille Hewitt on ''Coronation Street''.
* Antonio Peña, 53, Mexican promoter of Lucha Libre AAA World Wide, heart attack.
*Jackie Rae, 84, Canadian singer, songwriter and entertainer.
* Dick Wagner, 78, American former president of the Cincinnati Reds and Houston Astros, injuries from a 1999 car crash.
*Gilbert F. White, 94, American geographer.

6

*Bertha Brouwer, 75, Dutch athlete, silver medalist in the 200m at the 1952 Olympics.
* Charles Clark, 73, British publisher and lawyer.
*Claude Luter, 83, French jazz clarinetist and bandleader.
*Eduardo Mignogna, 66, Argentinian film director.
*Buck O'Neil, 94, American baseball player and manager in the Negro leagues, heart failure and bone marrow cancer.
*Timo Sarpaneva, 79, Finnish glassmaker.
*Heinz Sielmann, 89, German zoologist.
* Wilson Tucker, 91, American science fiction writer.

7

*Charlie Bradberry, 24, American NASCAR driver, car accident.
* Danifel Campilan, 25, Filipino news reporter (''24 Oras''), car accident.
* Polly Craus, 83, American Olympic fencer.
*Craig Dobbin, 71, Canadian founder of CHC Helicopter, after illness following lung transplant.
* Julen Goikoetxea, 21, Spanish bicycle racer, suicide by jumping.
* Anna Politkovskaya, 48, Russian journalist, shot.
*Peter H. Rossi, 84, American sociologist.

8

* Bob Cunningham, 79, Canadian football player.
* Ira B. Harkey Jr., 88, American newspaper editor, winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.
*Pavol Hnilica, 85, Slovak Catholic bishop.
*Ivan Murrell, 63, American Major League Baseball player for the Astros and Padres.
* Mark Porter, 32, New Zealand racing driver, race crash.

9

*Sedat Alp, 93, Turkish archaeologist specializing in Hittitology.
*Coccinelle, 75, French transsexual singer, stroke.
*Reg Freeson, 80, British politician, Minister of State for Housing and Local Government (1974–1979).
*Marek Grechuta, 60, Polish singer, composer and lyricist. (Polish)
* Danièle Huillet, 70, French filmmaker, cancer.
* Paul Hunter, 27, British snooker player, neuroendocrine tumours.
*Mario Moya Palencia, 73, Mexican politician and diplomat (Interior Minister, 1969–1976), heart attack.
* Glenn Myernick, 51, American assistant soccer coach of the men's national team, heart attack.
*Raymond Noorda, 82, American computer executive, CEO of Novell (1982–1994).
*Kanshi Ram, 72, Indian politician, heart attack.

10

*Sheikh Akijuddin, 76–77, Bangladeshi entrepreneur.
*Carlo Acutis, 15, beautified catholic teenager
* Jerry Belson, 68, American Emmy-winning television comedy writer ('' Tracey Ullman'', ''Dick Van Dyke''), prostate cancer.
*Francis Berry, 91, British poet and literary critic.
*P. C. Devassia, 100, Indian Sanskrit scholar and poet, won 1980 Sahitya Akademi Award (''Kristubhagavatam'').
*Sir Derek Pattinson, 76, British Secretary-General of the General Synod of the Church of England (1972–1990)
* Michael John Rogers, 74, British ornithologist.
* Ian Scott, 72, Canadian Attorney General of Ontario (1985–1990).
*Ravindra Varma, 81, Indian politician.

11

* Henry Caldera, 69, Sri Lankan singer, cancer.
* Sir Victor Goodhew, 86, British politician, Conservative MP for St Albans (1959–1983).
* Cory Lidle, 34, American baseball pitcher ( New York Yankees), victim of the 2006 New York City plane crash.
*Benito Martínez, 126?, Cuban claimant to the title of world's oldest person.
* Sir Robert Megarry, 96, British judge and Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court (1982–1985).
* Eddie Pellagrini, 88, American baseball player and coach (Boston College).
*Jimmy Peters, Sr., 84, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup winner ( Montreal Canadiens, Detroit Red Wings).
* Raad Mutar Saleh, Iraqi Mandaean leader, shot.
* Jacques Sternberg, 83, French science fiction and fantastique author, lung cancer.
* John Turvey, 61, Canadian youth activist and Order of Canada recipient, mitochondrial myopathy.

12

*Todd Bolender, 92, American dancer and choreographer, director of the Kansas City Ballet.
*Johnny Callison, 67, American Major League Baseball player, three-time All-Star outfielder with the Phillies.
* Samuel B. Casey, Jr., 78, American CEO of Pullman Company.
* Hermann Eilts, 84, German-born American diplomat and US ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1965–1970).
* Angelika Machinek, 49, German glider pilot, five times national champion and holder of nine world records, air crash.
*Eugène Martin, 91, French racing driver.
* Gerard Murphy, 57, Irish mathematician.
* Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, Italian film director ('' The Battle of Algiers''), heart failure.

13

*Mason Andrews, 87, American physician and politician who delivered America's first test tube baby, Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia (1992–1994).
*Deborah Blumer, 64, American member of the Massachusetts General Court, heart attack.
*Petra Cabot, 99, American designer, created the Skotch Kooler, natural causes.
*Bob Lassiter, 61, American talk radio personality.
* Dino Monduzzi, 84, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Pontifical Household (1986–1998).
* Hilda Terry, 92, American cartoonist, creator of comic strip ''Teena''.
* Sir Anthony Tippet, 78, British admiral.
*Wang Guangmei, 85, Chinese wife of late Communist leader Liu Shaoqi.

14

* Bernard Allen, 69, American member of the North Carolina General Assembly.
* James Barr, 82, British Old Testament scholar.
*Chun Wei Cheung, 34, Dutch rowing cox, silver medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, liver cancer.
*Gino Empry, 81, Canadian entertainment publicist and manager
* Freddy Fender, 69, American singer ("Before the Next Teardrop Falls"), lung cancer.
*Klaas Runia, 80, Dutch Reformed Church theologian.
* Gerry Studds, 69, American first openly gay congressman, represented Massachusetts (1973–1997), pulmonary embolism.

15

* Eddie Blay, 68, Ghanaian Olympic boxer.
* Derek Bond, 86, British actor ('' Callan'', ''Scott of the Antarctic'').
* William Bright, 78, American linguist and author, recorder of indigenous North American languages.
* Michael Forrester, 89, British army general.
*Robert Pfarr, 86, American Olympic cyclist.
* George Stevens, 74, American politician and Baptist minister.
*Michelle Urry, 66, Canadian cartoon editor for '' Playboy''.
* Varduhi Vardanyan, 30, Armenian singer, traffic collision.
*Maurice F. Weisner, 88, American admiral.

16

*Niall Andrews, 69, Irish politician, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South (1977–1987), MEP for Leinster (1984–2004), lung cancer.
* Donna Cook, 78, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
* Ross Davidson, 57, British former ''EastEnders'' actor, brain tumour.
* Sid Davis, 90, American educational filmmaker, lung cancer.
*Martin Flannery, 88, British politician, Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough (1974–1992).
* Tommy Johnson, 71, American musician known for his work on the ''Jaws'' theme, complications of cancer and kidney failure.
* John V. Murra, 90, Ukrainian-born American anthropologist and Inca scholar.
* Valentín Paniagua, 70, Peruvian president (2000–2001), complications from heart surgery.
* Lister Sinclair, 85, Canadian playwright and broadcaster, pulmonary embolism.
*Ernie Steele, 88, American football player ( Philadelphia Eagles).
*Ondina Valla, 90, Italian athlete, first Italian female 1936 Olympic champion (80m hurdles), natural causes.
* Anatoly Voronin, 55, Russian business chief of ITAR TASS news agency, stabbed.

17

*Daniel Emilfork, 82, French actor (''The City of Lost Children'').
*Miriam Engelberg, 48, American graphic author (''Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person''), metastatic breast cancer.
* Christopher Glenn, 68, American CBS News radio and television news anchor, liver cancer.
*Megan Meier, 13, American cyberbullying victim, suicide by hanging.
*Ursula Moray Williams, 95, British children's author.
*Lieuwe Steiger, 82, Dutch goalkeeper for PSV Eindhoven (1942–1957, 1959) and The Netherlands (1953–1954).
*Marcia Tucker, 66, American curator, founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art.

18

* Don R. Christensen, 90, American animator and cartoonist.
* Marc Hodler, 87, Swiss president of the International Ski Federation (1951–1998), International Olympic Committee whistleblower, stroke.
* Stanislovas Jančiukas, 68, Lithuanian fashion designer.
* Mario Francesco Pompedda, 77, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (1999–2004), brain hemorrhage.
* Anna Russell, 94, British-born Canadian comedian and classical music satirist.
*Laurie Taitt, 72, British sprint hurdler.
*Alvin M. Weinberg, 91, American Manhattan Project scientist and former director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

19

* Ralph Harris, Baron Harris of High Cross, 81, British life peer, founder of the Institute of Economic Affairs, heart attack.
* Michael Johnson, 29, American convicted murderer, suicide by exsanguination.
*Phyllis Kirk, 79, American actress ('' House of Wax'', '' The Thin Man''), post cerebral aneurysm.
* Srividya, 53, Indian actress, cancer.

20

*Don Burroughs, 75, American football player (1955–1964), cancer.
* Irene Galitzine, 90, Russian-born Italian fashion designer.
* Maxi Herber, 86, German figure skater, gold medal winner at the 1936 Winter Olympics, Parkinson's disease.
*Lawrence Kolb, 95, American psychiatrist, leader in community mental health movement.
* Eric Newby, 86, British travel writer.
*Jane Wyatt, 96, American actress ''( Father Knows Best, Star Trek)'', natural causes.

21

* Peter Barkworth, 77, British actor, bronchopneumonia following a stroke.
* Paul Biegel, 81, Dutch writer of children's literature.
*Pye Chamberlayne, 68, American radio journalist, heart attack.
* Daryl Duke, 77, Canadian film director ''(The Thorn Birds)'', pulmonary fibrosis.
*Bryan Hipp, American guitarist (Diabolic, Cradle of Filth).
* Howard Lawson, 92, British cricketer ( Hampshire).
* Bob Mann, 82, American football player (Detroit Lions).
*Arthur Peacocke, 81, British scientist and theologian.
* Milton Selzer, 87, American actor.
*Paul Walters, 59, British BBC radio and TV producer.
* Sandy West, 47, American drummer and vocalist ( The Runaways), lung cancer.
*Urien Wiliam, 76, British writer.

22

* Choi Kyu-hah, 87, South Korean president (1979–1980).
*Nelson de la Rosa, 38, Dominican actor, "World's Shortest Man" in the 1989 Guinness Book of Records.
* Masayuki Fujio, 89, Japanese former minister of education.
* Arthur Hill, 84, Canadian Tony Award-winning actor ('' Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?''), Alzheimer's disease.
* Mancs, 12, Hungarian rescue dog with the Miskolc Spider Special Rescue Team, pneumonia.
*Richard Mayes, 83, British stage and television actor.
* Michael Mayne, 77, British clergyman, Dean of Westminster Abbey (1986–1996), cancer of the jaw.

23

* Leonid Hambro, 86, American concert pianist.
*Jane Elizabeth Hodgson, 91, American doctor and abortion rights advocate.
*Bruno Lauzi, 69, Italian singer and composer, Parkinson's disease.
*Lebo Mathosa, 29, South African singer, car accident.
*Egon Piechaczek, 69, Polish football player and coach.
*Todd Skinner, 48, American free climber, climbing accident.
*Rein Strikwerda, 76, Dutch doctor and knee injury specialist.

24

*Jeffrey Lundgren, 56, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
*Enolia McMillan, 102, American civil rights activist, first female president of the NAACP, heart failure.
*Benjamin Meed, 88, Polish-born American president and co-founder of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.
*Jack Radtke, 93, American baseball player.
* William Montgomery Watt, 97, British professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

25

* Paul Ableman, 79, British playwright and novelist.
* Richard Cleaver, 89, Australian politician, MHR for Swan (1955–1969).
* Allerton Cushman, 99, American Olympic rowe

* Kintarō Ōki, 77, South Korean wrestler, heart attack.
* Danny Rolling, 52, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
* Emilio Vedova, 87, Italian painter.

26

* Gary Coull, 52, Canadian journalist, co-founder of CLSA, cancer.
* Rogério Duprat, 74, Brazilian composer, cancer.
*Tillman Franks, 86, American bassist, songwriter and country music manager, natural causes.
*Ralph R. Harding, 77, American congressman from Idaho (1961–1965).
* Pontus Hultén, 82, Swedish art collector and museum director.
* John Kentish, 96, British operatic tenor.
*Kojima Nobuo, 91, Japanese author, pneumonia.
* Theodore Taylor, 85, American writer (''The Cay''), heart attack.

27

*John Broadbent, 92, Australian Army officer and lawyer.
*Jozsef Gregor, 66, Hungarian opera singer.
* Thomas R. Jones, 93, American jurist and civil rights activist.
* Ghulam Ishaq Khan, 91, Pakistani civil servant and bureaucrat, President of Pakistan

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