Deaths in May 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 2006

1

Jay Presson Allen, 84, American screenwriter, stroke. Wilfrid Butt, 83, English biochemist and reproductive endocrinologist. Ed Casey, 73, Australian politician, former Queensland Labor Party leader, stroke. George Haines, 82, American Olympic swimming coach, complications from a stroke.1877 Betsy Jones-Moreland, 76, American actress, cancer. Rob Lacey, 43, British stage actor and award-winning Christian author, bladder cancer. Rauno Lehtinen, 74, Finnish composer. Bruce Peterson, 72, American test pilot and engineer, inspiration for The Six Million Dollar Man. Raúl Francisco Primatesta, 87, Argentine retired Cardinal Archbishop of Córdoba, Argentina.

2

Clive Burgess, 55, Welsh rugby union player.Clive Burgess Joseph Lewis Clark, 57, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. Boyd Coffie, 68, American baseball player and manager, cancer. Rosita Fernández, 88, American singer. Luigi Griffanti, 89, Italian footballer, goalkeeper of ACF Fiorentina in the 1940s. Louis Rukeyser, 73, American business and economics expert, multiple myeloma. Juan Ramón Salgado, 45, Honduran congressional deputy, gunshot wounds. Sammy Steamboat, 71, American professional wrestler, complications from Alzheimer's disease.

3

Karel Appel, 85, Dutch COBRA painter. Franco Lavoratori, 65, Italian water polo player, Olympic Champion (1960).Franco Lavoratori Pramod Mahajan, 56, Indian politician, general secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party, gunshot wounds. Howard Thomas Markey, 85, American federal judge and U.S. Air Force major general, first chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Earl Woods, 74, American lieutenant colonel and golfing coach (Tiger Woods), prostate cancer.

4

Alejandra Boero, 88, Argentine theater actress, director and teacher, pulmonary hypertension. Jim Delsing, 80, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns, New York Yankees), cancer. Arthur B. Metzner, 79, Canadian chemical engineer. Michael Taliferro, 45, American actor (Life, The Replacements) and football player (BC Lions), stroke.

5

Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga, 85, Romanian comparatist and essayist. Naushad, 86, Indian musician. George Roche III, 70, American former president of Hillsdale College, probable heart attack. Atıf Yılmaz, 80, Turkish film director, screenwriter and producer, cancer.

6

Lillian Asplund, 99, last American survivor of the sinking, died in sleep. Konstantin Beskov, 85, Soviet and Russian footballer and manager. Ruth Bachhuber Doyle, 89, American politician and educator. Shigeru Kayano, 79, Japanese Ainu activist. Grant McLennan, 48, Australian lead singer of The Go-Betweens, suspected heart attack. Sir Anthony Morton, 82, British admiral.Admiral Sir Anthony Morton, GBE, KCB František Peřina, 95, Czechoslovak fighter pilot who served in the British Royal Air Force during World War II. Tikkavarapu Pattabhirama Reddy, 87, Indian moviemaker, complications from a prolonged illness. Lorne Saxberg, 48, Canadian television journalist, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) broadcaster. Rose Thering, 85, American Roman Catholic nun and professor at Seton Hall University.

7

Steve Bender, 59, German singer and member of Dschinghis Khan, lung cancer. Duncan Inglis Cameron, 78, Scottish university administrator. Richard Carleton, 62, Australian television journalist (60 Minutes), heart attack. Joan C. Edwards, 87, American philanthropist, liver cancer. Stella Sigcau, 69, South African Public Works Minister, heart-related problems. Jack Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale, 95, United Kingdom minister and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. Machiko Soga, 68, Japanese actress (Super Sentai, Power Rangers, Metal Hero), pancreatic cancer.

8

Lovana Jones, 68, American Assistant Majority Leader in the Illinois House of Representatives, represented the 26th District since 1987, undisclosed causes. John Kimbrough, 87, American football player (College Hall of Fame with Texas A&M) and state legislator, pneumonia. Patrick Ntsoelengoe, 50, South African soccer player (Minnesota Kicks, Kaizer Chiefs). Barbara Schwartz, 58, American painter.

9

Adrian Bennett, 73, Australian politician, MHR for Division of Swan (1969–1975). Corey Engen, 90, Norwegian-born American Olympic skier (1948, complications from pneumonia. Jerzy Ficowski, 81, Polish poet, writer and translator. Pietro Garinei, 87, Italian playwright and lyricist. Édouard Jaguer, French poet and art critic. Tony Ward, 82, Australian actor and journalist, cancer.

10

Val Guest, 94, British screenwriter and film director (The Quatermass Xperiment, Casino Royale). Marie Hartley, 100, British author and illustrator. John Hicks, 64, American jazz pianist/composer. James Keogh, 89, American former executive editor of Time and speechwriter for US President Richard Nixon. Georgy Korniyenko, 81, Russian diplomat and deputy to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. A. M. Rosenthal, 84, Canadian-born Executive Editor of The New York Times for 17 years, stroke. Soraya, 37, Colombian-American songwriter, guitarist, arranger, record producer, and singer, breast cancer. Alexander Zinoviev, 83, Russian logician, sociologist and writer, brain cancer.

11

Yossi Banai, 74, Israeli singer and actor, cancer. Sir Frank Mills, 82, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Ghana and Bangladesh.Sir Frank Mills, KCVO, CMG Byron Morrow, 95, American TV and film character actor. Michael O'Leary, 70, Irish politician and barrister, former leader of the Irish Labour Party, drowned in a swimming pool. Floyd Patterson, 71, American former boxing heavyweight champion, Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer. Ferdinando Tacconi, 83, Italian comics artist. Frankie Thomas, 85, American actor (Tom Corbett, Space Cadet), stroke.

12

Ted Berkman, 92, American author, scriptwriter (Bedtime for Bonzo). Hussein Maziq, 88, Libyan politician, former prime minister & foreign minister of Libya. Sonny Montgomery, 85, American politician, former U.S. representative from Mississippi. Arthur Porges, 90, American science fiction and fantasy writer.

13

Joan Diener, 76, American actress (Man of La Mancha), complications from cancer. Rick Farley, 53, Australian National Farmers' Federation Chief Executive for eight years. Ryan Francis, 19, American college basketball player, freshman point guard for the University of Southern California basketball team, homicide. Fernando Inchauste, 75, Bolivian Olympian. Jaroslav Pelikan, 82, American historian of Christianity, winner of the Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences, lung cancer. Östen Sjöstrand, 80, Swedish poet, translator and member of the Swedish Academy. Peter Viereck, 89, American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Johnnie Wilder Jr., 56, American musician (Heatwave).

14

Lew Anderson, 84, American bandleader, played Clarabell the Clown on The Howdy Doody Show, prostate cancer. Jackie Botten, 67, South African international test cricketer, complications after colon operations. William Ginsberg, 75, American professor of environmental law at Hofstra University and former New York City commissioner of parks and recreation. Reza Hassanzadeh, 33, Iranian professional soccer player with Teraktor Sazi F.C., injuries from car accident. Stanley Kunitz, 100, American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former US poet laureate. Jim Lemon, 78, American baseball player (Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins), cancer. Paul Marco, 78, American actor (Plan 9 from Outer Space). Robert Bruce Merrifield, 84, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (1984). Günther Nenning, 84, Austrian journalist, author and political activist. Eva Norvind, Norwegian-born Mexican writer and actress, drowning accident.

15

Joyce Ballantyne, 88, American artist best known for creating the "Coppertone Girl" ad, heart attack. George Blackburn, 93, American football player, head football coach at University of Virginia (1965–1970). George Crile III, 61, American journalist, CBS News producer, pancreatic cancer. Eberhard Esche, 73, German actor. Chic Hecht, 77, American politician, former Republican Senator for Nevada, prostate cancer. Judith Moore, 66, American author. Cheikha Rimitti, 83, Algerian singer, heart attack. David Sharp, 34, British mountaineer. Bill Strode, 69, American Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer, cancer.

16

Clare Boylan, 58, Irish author and journalist, ovarian cancer. Beryl Evans, 84, Australian politician, NSW MLC (1984–1995). Anthony Murray, 47, New Zealand rugby league player. Jorge Porcel, 69, Argentine actor and comedian, complications following gall bladder surgery. Dan Ross, 49, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals), suspected heart attack. Takahiro Tamura, 77, Japanese movie and television actor, cerebral infarction.

17

Cy Feuer, 95, American theatre producer and playwright (Guys and Dolls). Eric Forth, 61, British Conservative Member of Parliament and former government minister, bone cancer. Nichola Goddard, 26, Canadian soldier, Canadian Forces, first female since WWII to be killed in combat. Dan Kennis, 86, American film producer. John Marsden, 64, Australian lawyer and civil liberties activist, cancer. Sir John Miller, 87, British equestrian and courtier, Crown Equerry to the Queen (1961–1987). Daniel Owino Misiani, 66, Tanzanian Benga musician, car accident. Mieczysław Nowak, 69, Polish weightlifter, 1964 Olympic medalist. Mustafa Yücel Özbilgin, 63, Turkish prominent judge sitting in Turkey's highest court, shot dead. Ramesh Parekh, 65, Indian poet. Laurence Shurtliff, 61, American music executive and roadie (Grateful Dead), lung cancer.

18

Jaan Eilart, 73, Estonian biogeographer. Stephen Fleet, 69, British researcher in mineral sciences and Former Registrary, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Master of Downing College, Cambridge. George M. Foster, 92, American anthropologist. Morris P. Glushien, 96, American lawyer, general counsel for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Hans Horrevoets, 32, Dutch sailor, swept overboard while competing in Volvo Ocean Race. Stan Jones, 91, British Olympic runner. Maksim Kahan, 88, Israeli Olympic shooter. Andrew Martinez, 33, American activist, the "Naked Guy" at the University of California, Berkeley, apparent suicide by asphyxiation. Vitor Negrete, 38, Brazilian mountaineer, died after reaching the peak of Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen. Michael O'Riordan, 88, Irish chairman of the Communist Party of Ireland and International Brigades veteran. Kiyan Prince, 15, British youth team player with English football team Queens Park Rangers, stabbed. Robert Reid, 81, American chemical engineer. Gilbert Sorrentino, 77, American novelist (Mulligan Stew).

19

Yitzhak Ben Aharon, 99, Israeli left-wing politician, founder of the Israeli Labor Party. Edward R. Becker, 73, American former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Peter Bryant, 82, British television producer (Doctor Who, Paul Temple) and actor (The Grove Family). Freddie Garrity, 69, English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers), heart disease. Alan Sapper, 75, British trade unionist.

20

JoAnna Lund, 61, American cookbook author, cancer. Bobby Jack Fowler, 66, American rapist and suspected murderer. Les Olive, 78, English Assistant Secretary of Manchester United at time of Munich air disaster, prostate cancer. Cherd Songsri, 74, Thai film director, cancer. Annis Stukus, 91, Canadian Hall of Fame football player and coach (Edmonton Eskimos). Tommy Watt, 80, British jazz bandleader.

21 Spencer Clark, 19, American racecar driver, traffic collision.