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 T. Cary, 85, American businessman, chairman of IBM (1973–1981). Mapita Cortés, 66, Puerto Rican actress, cancer. Bryan Harvey, 49, American musician (House of Freaks), blunt-force trauma. Dawn Lake, 78, Australian entertainer. John Latham, 84, Zambian artist. Paul Lindblad, 64, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics), Alzheimer's disease. Dragan Lukić, 77, Serbian writer. Harry Magdoff, 92, American socialist and editor. 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. Raúl Dávila, 74, Puerto Rican actor (All My Children) and television producer, heart attack. Ofelia Fox, 82, Cuban nightclub owner (Tropicana Club), cancer. Osa Massen, 91, Danish actress. Klemens Mielczarek, 85, Polish actor. Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, 92, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice.Muñoz-Palma, Cecilia Arreglado Dick Smith, 88, American diver and diving coach, pneumonia.Dick Smith, Hall of Fame Diving Coach, Dies at 88 Michael S. Smith, 59, American jazz drummer. Francis Steinmetz, 91, Dutch author and Colditz Castle escapee. Frank Wilkinson, 91, American civil liberties activist. John Wojtowicz, 60, American bank robber, cancer. John Woodnutt, 81, British actor. Lidia Wysocka, 89, Polish actress.

3 Urbano Lazzaro, 81, Italian resistance fighter, captured 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 (1971–1979, 1990–2006), 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.Philanthropist William H.G. FitzGerald Keizo Miura, 101, Japanese skier. Lord Merlyn-Rees, 85, Welsh-born politician, home secretary (1976–1979), 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).Scott, Robert Ellis Simon Shanks, 34, American football player (Arizona Cardinals), shot. Rachel Squire, 51, British MP (1992–2006), stroke. Alex St. Clair, 64, American musician (Captain Beefheart). Vajramuni, 62, Indian actor.

6 Allaire du Pont, 92, American Thoroughbred racehorse owner (Kelso). 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, American Army officer, helped stop the My Lai Massacre, removed from life support. Stanley R. Tupper, 84, American politician, representative from Maine from (1961–1967). Gábor Zavadszky, 31, Hungarian footballer, pulmonary embolism.

7

Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar, 58, Brazilian soldier, head of MINUSTAH (since 2005), suicide by gunshot. Heinrich Harrer, 93, Austrian mountaineer, 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, minister for sport (1997–1999), stroke and cerebral hemorrhage. Elson Becerra, 27, Colombian footballer, 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.James Robert Hightower Katherine Peden, 80, American politician.Former Kentucky Station Owner Barbara Peden Dies David Rosenbaum, 63, American journalist (The New York Times), head injury during mugging. Gloria Root, 57, American model and businesswoman, cancer. Mimmo Rotella, 87, Italian artist. Raatbek Sanatbayev, 36, Kyrgyz Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler, shot. Garrafa Sánchez, 31, Argentine footballer, injuries sustained in a traffic collision.

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. Ahmad Kazemi, 47, Iranian brigadier general, commander of the IRGC Ground Forces (since 2005), plane crash. 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 football player (Los Angeles Rams) and radio announcer, complications from a staph infection. Donald Bruce Stewart, 70, American actor (Guiding Light, American Ninja, Rover Dangerfield), lung cancer.

10

Ira 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. 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. Stu Linder, 74, American film editor (Grand Prix, Rain Man, Good Morning, Vietnam), Oscar winner (1967). 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 football player (Los Angeles Rams, Detroit Lions, Buffalo Bills), heart attack. Marc Potvin, 38, Canadian hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings, Hartford Whalers), suicide by hanging. Joan Root, 69, American wildlife conservationist, shot.

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-Sabah, 79, Kuwaiti Emir, brain hemorrhage. Glyn Berry, 59, Welsh-born Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan. Hilma Contreras, 92, 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.Gregory Adams Kimble William Post, 66, American lottery winner.William 'Bud' Post 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.Rebiha Khebtani Jan Mark, 62, British children's writer, meningitis. Richard P. McCormick, 89, American historian, professor at Rutgers University. Willie Smith, 66, American baseball player (Los Angeles/California Angels, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians), 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 (Looney Tunes, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, My Little Pony). 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.Obituaries in the Performing Arts Anthony Franciosa, 77, American actor (A Hatful of Rain, Career, City Hall), 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 Jr., 84, German film director. Pio Taofinuʻu, 82, Samoan Roman Catholic cardinal.

20

Elmer Otto Friday, 81, American politician. Andrei Iordan, 71, Kyrgyz politician, former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan. David Edward 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. 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).