Deaths in July 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 2006

1

• Umberto Abronzino, 85, Italian-born American member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator.
• Michael Barton, 91, English Surrey cricketer and president.
• Edwin Broderick, 89, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, New York, and director of Catholic Relief Services.
• Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer.
• Irving Green, 90, American record industry executive, co-founder of Mercury Records.
• Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan (1996–1998).
• Jabron Hashmi, 24, British soldier, first British Muslim to die in "War on Terror.".
• Louis Jacobs, 85, British rabbi and founder of Masorti movement.
• Yousuf Khan, 70, Indian footballer, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack.
• Robert Lepikson, 54, Estonian businessman and politician.
• Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker.
• Padmakar Pandit, 71, Indian cricket umpire.
• Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author.
• Fred Trueman, 75, English and Yorkshire cricketer, lung cancer.

2

• Cecilia Cole, 86, Gambian politician, old age.
• Maurice Fox-Strangways, 9th Earl of Ilchester, 86, British peer and engineer, member House of Lords and RAF group captain.
• Balázs Horváth, 64, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer.
• Herty Lewites, 65, Nicaraguan presidential candidate.
• Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian.
• Tihomir Ognjanov, 79, Serbian footballer for Yugoslavia, played in the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
• Joan Quennell, 82, British Conservative MP for Petersfield 1960–1974.
• Anatole Shub, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pneumonia and a stroke.
• Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, American painter.

3

• Mark Aubrey Tennyson, 5th Baron Tennyson, 86, British aristocrat, great-grandson of poet Lord Tennyson.
• Francis Cammaerts, 90, British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent, led 30,000 French Resistance fighters.
• Dick Dickey, 79, American basketball player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University.
• Gerhard Fischer, 84, Norwegian-born German diplomat.
• Joseph Goguen, 65, American computer scientist from UCSD.
• Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (As the World Turns), suicide by gunshot.
• Wilbert Hopper, 73, Canadian businessman, president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada.
• Gwyn Jones, 89, Welsh physicist and public servant.
• Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, breast cancer.
• Lars Korvald, 90, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway.
• Sir Carol Mather, 87, British Conservative MP.
• Nimrod Ping, 58, British politician, Brighton city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis C.
• Jack Smith, 92, American musician and host of You Asked for It, leukemia.
• Joe Weaver, 71, American musician, leader of the Blue Note Orchestra and musician on early Tamla sessions, stroke.

4

• John Hinde, 94, Australian film reviewer and journalist.
• Norbert Kerckhove, 73, Belgian cyclist.
• Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American world champion bridge player and author, complications of Parkinson's Disease.
• Jean-François d'Orgeix, 85, French equestrian, actor and Olympic medalist, traffic collision.

5

• Barbara Albright, 51, American author of food and knitting books, brain tumor.
• Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer.
• Lewis Glucksman, 80, American head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers.
• Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business.
• Kenneth Lay, 64, American businessman, CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack.
• Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader.
• Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic who worked for Rolling Stone and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records.
• Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress.
• Prince Sione ʻUluvalu Ngū Takeivūlai Tukuʻaho, 56, Tongan Tuʻi Pelehake, traffic collision.

6

• Juan de Ávalos, 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack.
• Ralph Ginzburg, 76, U.S. publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma.
• Al Hodge, 55, English Cornish rock guitarist and songwriter, cancer.
• John Manos, 83, U.S. and Ohio judge for 43 years.
• Juan Pablo Rebella, 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide by gunshot.
• Kasey Rogers, 80, American actress (Bewitched) and motocross racer, stroke.
• E. S. Turner, 96, English historian and journalist.
• Tom Weir, 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster.

7

• Luis Barragan, 34, American businessman and philanthropist, president of 1-800-Mattress, drowned.
• Syd Barrett, 60, English musician (Pink Floyd), diabetes.
• Rudi Carrell, 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancer.
• Dorothea Church, 83, African-American model, first successful black model in Paris.
• John Warner Fitzgerald, 81, American lawyer, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.
• Elias Hrawi, 79, Lebanese politician, President of Lebanon (1989–98), cancer.
• Dina Kaminskaya, 87, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents.
• Eugene Kurtz, 82, American composer.
• John Money, 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Parkinson's disease.
• Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, 53, Irish musician with the Bothy Band.
• Eric Schopler, 79, German-born American psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer.
• Frank P. Zeidler, 93, American politician, Mayor of Milwaukee (1948–1960) and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city.
• Govindappa Venkataswamy, 87, Indian ophthalmologist, founder of Aravind Eye Hospitals.

8

• George Albee, 84, American psychologist and former head of the American Psychological Association.
• June Allyson, 88, American actress, dancer and singer, pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis.
• Michael Barrett, 79, Irish politician.
• Eric Bedford, 78, Australian politician, member of the Wran Government ministry 1976–1985 in New South Wales.
• Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, 91, Australian industrialist and patron of the arts, founder of Transfield Holdings, Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, fall.
• David Bright, 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrest stemming from decompression sickness.
• Ana María Campoy, 80, Argentine actress, pneumonia.
• Sir Richard Gorham, 88, Bermudian businessman and politician.
• Peter Hawkins, 82, British actor and voice artist - voice of the Flower Pot Men, Captain Pugwash and the Daleks.
• Catherine Leroy, 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam War in Life, lung cancer.
• Raja Rao, 97, Indian novelist (Kanthapura).
• Jesse Simons, 88, American labor arbitrator, heart failure.
• Dorothy Uhnak, 76, American policewoman turned novelist.

9

• Chris Drake, 82, American actor.
• Fred Epstein, 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumors, melanoma.
• Abdel Moneim Madbouly, 84, Egyptian comedian and playwright, congestive heart failure.
• Ireneusz Paliński, 74, Polish weightlifter, Olympic champion (1960).
• Alan Senitt, 27, British political activist, stabbed.
• George Hopkins Williams II, 91, American aviation historian.
• Milan Williams, 58, American keyboardist, founding member of R&B/funk band the Commodores, cancer.
• Michael Zinzun, 57, American ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist.

10

• Shamil Basayev, 41, Chechen rebel leader and terrorist, explosion.
• Lennart Bladh, 86, Swedish politician, member of the Riksdag from 1974 to 1985.
• Tommy Bruce, 68, British singer ("Ain't Misbehavin'").
• Robert Fumerton, 93, Canadian night fighter ace top-scorer of World War II.
• Raymond Furnell, 71, British Dean of York from 1994 to 2003, cancer.
• Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi, 89, Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist who published 50 books.
• Ruth Schönthal, 82, German-born classical pianist and composer.
• Fred Wander, 89, Austrian author and Holocaust survivor.

11

• Kathy Augustine, 50, American politician, State Controller of Nevada who was first Nevada state official to be impeached in office, murdered.
• Phyllis Baker, 69, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
• John Coletta, 74, English music manager and music producer, former manager of Deep Purple and Whitesnake.
• Gerald Gidwitz, 99, American cosmetics executive, co-founder of Helene Curtis, congestive heart failure.
• Barnard Hughes, 90, American actor (Tron, Doc Hollywood, The Lost Boys), Tony winner (1978).
• Fortunato Libanori, 72, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
• Bill Miller, 91, American pianist for Frank Sinatra, heart attack.
• Derrick O'Brien, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Bronwyn Oliver, 47, Australian sculptor, suicide.
• John Spencer, 71, British former world champion snooker player, stomach cancer.
• Philippe Takla, 91, Lebanese politician, lawyer and diplomat, foreign minister of Lebanon.
• Wiarton Willie, 8, Canadian Groundhog Day prognosticator.

12

• Rocky Barton, 49, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Kurt Kreuger, 89, Swiss-German actor (Sahara, The Enemy Below), stroke.
• Hubert Lampo, 85, Belgian writer.
• Loredana Nusciak, 64, Italian actress (Django, Ten Thousand Dollars for a Massacre) and model.

13

• Red Buttons, 87, American comedian and actor (Sayonara, The Longest Day, Pete's Dragon), Oscar winner (1958), vascular disease.
• Pamela Cooper, 95, British refugee activist known for her work with the Palestinians.
• John Lyttelton, 11th Viscount Cobham, 63, British aristocrat.
• Ángel Suquía Goicoechea, 89, Spanish Metropolitan-Archbishop of Madrid.
• Tomasz Zaliwski, 75, Polish actor.

14

• Anthony Cave Brown, 77, English historian of espionage.
• Tom Frame, British comic book letterer, cancer.
• Heinrich Heidersberger, 100, German photographer.
• William Lash III, 45, American assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce and professor at George Mason University, suicide by gunshot.
• Carrie Nye, 69, American actress (Half a Sixpence, Guiding Light, Creepshow), lung cancer.
• Len Teeuws, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Chicago Cardinals).
• Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, 43, Polish International Grandmaster of chess, perforated intestine and bleeding.

15

• Robert H. Brooks, 69, American chairman of Hooters of America, natural causes.
• John Joseph Fitzpatrick, 87, Canadian Bishop of Brownsville for 20 years.
• Howdy Groskloss, 100, American professional baseball player, oldest major league baseball player.
• Kenneth Lochhead, 80, Canadian artist who was a member of the Regina Five, colorectal cancer.
• James Nicholas, 85, American orthopedic surgeon and physician for three NFL teams.
• István Pálfi, 39, Hungarian Member of the European Parliament.
• Rupert Pole, 87, American actor, forest ranger, and co-husband of bigamist Anaïs Nin.
• Francis Rose, 84, British botanist.
• Andrée Ruellan, 101, American painter.
• Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, 63, Iranian archaeologist, stomach cancer.
• Andrew Sudduth, 44, American rower who won an Olympic silver medal, pancreatic cancer.

16

• Walter Binaghi, 87, Argentine ICAO Council President.
• Keith DeVries, 69, American archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania, excavated Gordion.
• Kevin Hughes, 53, British Labour MP for Doncaster North, motor neurone disease.
• Bob Orton, Sr., 76, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Destiny Norton, 5, American child, murdered.
• Ossi Reichert, 80, German alpine skier, Olympic Champion 1956.
• Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 57, American billionaire and Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas since 1996, myeloproliferative disorder.
• Malachi Thompson, 56, American jazz trumpeter, lymphoma.

17

• Setsuro Ebashi, 83, Japanese physiologist.
• Galen Fiss, 75, American Cleveland Browns linebacker.
• Keith LeClair, 40, U.S. college baseball coach, Lou Gehrig's Disease.
• Barbara Liebrich, 83, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
• Robert Mardian, 82, American Republican party official, attorney for Richard Nixon, figure in the Watergate scandal, lung cancer.
• Sam Myers, 70, American blues musician, who won nine W.C. Handy Awards with his band the Rockets, throat cancer.
• Mickey Spillane, 88, American author, creator of Mike Hammer detective fiction, pancreatic cancer.
• Reg Turnbull, 98, Australian politician.

18

• Raul Cortez, 73, Brazilian actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Henry Hewes, 89, American Saturday Review theater critic and editor of Best Plays (1960–1964).
• Jimmy Leadbetter, 78, Scottish Ipswich Town footballer.
• David Maloney, 72, British television director and producer for Doctor Who and Blake's 7.
• Sir James Menter, 84, British physicist.
• V. P. Sathyan, 41, Indian football player, captain of the India national football team, suicide by train.

19

• Pat Davey, 93, Australian footballer (Richmond).
• Mohammad Yunus Khalis, 87, Afghan mujahideen leader.
• Sam Neely, 58, American singer-songwriter.
• Pascal Renwick, 51, French voice actor
• Jack Warden, 85, American actor (Heaven Can Wait, Shampoo, 12 Angry Men), Emmy winner (1972), heart and kidney failure.
• George Wetherill, 80, American astrophysicist, winner of the National Medal of Science.
• Tudi Wiggins, 70, Canada-born soap opera actor, cancer.

20

• Ugo Attardi, 83, Italian painter, sculptor and writer.
• Charles Bettelheim, 92, French Marxist economist and historian.
• Robert Cornthwaite, 89, American character actor (Thing From Another World).
• Paddy Dunne, 77, Irish politician, Lord Mayor of Dublin (1975–1976) and senator.
• Ted Grant, 93, South African-British Trotskyist politician.
• Brandon Hedrick, 27, American convicted murderer and rapist, execution by electric chair.
• Lim Kim San, 89, Singaporean politician, cabinet minister of Singapore.
• Frank Nabarro, 90, English-born South African physicist who was a pioneer of solid state physics.
• Harry Olivieri, 90, American restaurateur, co-inventor of the Philly cheesesteak and co-founder of Pat's King of Steaks cheesesteak emporium.
• Gérard Oury, 87, French actor, screenwriter and film director.

21

• Mako, 72, Japanese-American film, television and Broadway actor, esophageal cancer.
• Ta Mok, 80, Cambodian military chief, Khmer Rouge commander.
• J. Madison Wright Morris, 21, American child actress, heart attack.
• Alexander Petrenko, 30, Russian international basketballer, traffic collision.
• Gianmario Roveraro, 70, Italian banker and founder of Akros Finanziaria, murder.
• Bert Slater, 70, Scottish footballer.

22

• Heather Bratton, 19, American model, traffic collision.
• Donald Reid Cabral, 83, Dominican politician and lawyer, foreign minister of the Dominican Republic.
• José Antonio Delgado, 41, Venezuelan mountaineer, first Venezuelan to climb Mount Everest, while mountaineering.
• Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, 71, Italian-Brazilian actor, complications from kidney disease.
• Jessie Mae Hemphill, 82, American award-winning blues musician, complications of an infection.
• Thomas J. Manton, 73, American longtime Democratic leader of Queens, NY, former US Representative (1985–99), prostate cancer.
• Dika Newlin, 82, American musician and musicologist, scholar of Arnold Schoenberg.
• Charles Knox Robinson III, 74, American actor, from complications of Parkinson's disease.
• James E. West, 55, American politician, mayor of Spokane, Washington, colorectal cancer.
• Russell J. York, 84, American World War II veteran and hero of the battle for the Hurtgen Forest.

23

• Charles E. Brady, Jr., 54, American former astronaut.
• Jean-Paul Desbiens, 79, French-Canadian author of Les insolences du Frère Untel, heart attack.
• James Callan Graham, 91, American lawyer and politician.
• Vernon Grant, 71, American cartoonist.
• Besby Holmes, 88, US Air Force fighter pilot, participant in air action that killed Admiral Yamamoto.
• John Mack, 78, American oboist, complications from brain cancer.
• Frederick Mosteller, 89, American Harvard professor of statistics, founding chair of the department of statistics, sepsis.
• Terence Otway, 92, British soldier, commander of the assault on the Merville Battery on D-Day.

24

• Janka Bryl, 89, Belarusian writer.
• Heinrich Hollreiser, 93, German conductor.
• Bill Long, 88, Canadian ice hockey coach.
• Leon Morris, 92, Australian theologian.

25

• Carl Brashear, 75, American first black US Navy diver, portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the film Men of Honor, heart failure.
• Ezra Fleischer, 78, Romanian-born Israeli poet, winner of the Israel Prize, and professor at Hebrew University.
• Hani Mohsin Hanafi, 41, Malaysian actor and television game show host, heart attack.
• Aldo Notari, 74, Italian president of the International Baseball Federation.
• Dame Mildred Riddelsdell, 92, British civil servant.
• Bob Simpson, 61, British retired senior BBC correspondent.

26

• Floyd Dixon, 77, American R&B pianist, kidney failure.
• Vincent J. Fuller, 75, American lawyer who defended John Hinckley, Jr., lung cancer.
• Jessie Gilbert, 19, British chess player, youngest Women's World Amateur Championship winner, fall.
• Rolf Arthur Hansen, 86, Norwegian government minister.
• Roi Klein, Israeli IDF Major, won Medal of Courage.
• Darrell Martinie, 63, American astrologer known as "the Cosmic Muffin", cancer.
• Princess Tatiana von Metternich, 91, Russian-born German aristocrat, World War II diarist, and arts patron.

27

• Maryann Mahaffey, 81, American member of Detroit city council, leukemia.
• Sir Charles Mills, 91, British admiral.
• Carlos Roque, 70, Portuguese comic book artist.
• Alexandru Șafran, 95, Romanian and Swiss rabbi, Chief Rabbi of Romania who tried to stop the deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi regime during World War II.
• Elisabeth Volkmann, 70, German actress, German voice of Marge Simpson.
• Johnny Weissmuller Jr., 65, American actor, son of Johnny Weissmuller, liver cancer.
• Funsho Williams, 58, Nigerian politician, strangled.

28

• Patrick Allen, 79, British actor.
• Rut Brandt, 86, Norwegian resistance fighter, second wife of former German chancellor Willy Brandt.
• Nigel Cox, 55, New Zealand novelist, cancer.
• Abdallah Isaaq Deerow, 56, Somali politician, Constitution and Federalism Minister of Somalia, assassination by gunshot.
• Harold Enarson, 87, American academic, president of Ohio State University (1972–1981), fired football coach Woody Hayes, hydrocephalus.
• David Gemmell, 57, British fantasy novelist.
• Joel Hedgpeth, 94, American marine biologist and Californian environmental activist.
• Richard Mock, 61, American painter, sculptor, and editorial cartoonist.
• Sep Smith, 94, English Leicester City footballer, and oldest living England international player.
• Billy Walsh, 85, Irish Manchester City footballer & Grimsby Town manager, who played international football for both Ireland teams, the FAI XI and the IFA XI, and New Zealand.

29

• Hani Awijan, 29, Palestinian leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military wing, The Al-Quds brigades, in Nablus, West Bank, gunshot wounds.
• Guido Daccò, 63, Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula 3000, 24 Hours of Le Mans, & Champ Car.
• José López Rosario, 30, Puerto Rican drug dealer.
• Jean Baker Miller, 78, American psychiatrist.
• James Olin, 86, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1982–1992).
• Pierre Vidal-Naquet, 76, French historian and activist, cerebral haemorrhage.

30

• Duygu Asena, 60, Turkish writer and civil-rights advocate, brain tumour.
• Al Balding, 82, Canadian golfer, cancer.
• Murray Bookchin, 85, American author, heart failure.
• Philip D'Arcy Hart, 106, British medical researcher.
• Anthony Galla-Rini, 102, American concert accordionist, heart failure.
• Akbar Mohammadi, 37, Iranian student dissident, heart attack following a hunger strike and torture.
• Zdravko Rajkov, 78, Serbian football player and manager.

31

• Dugald Christie, 65, Canadian lawyer who fought for equitable access to legal services, traffic collision.
• Simón Echeverría, 34, Chilean record producer, pancreatic cancer.
• Paul Eells, 70, American sportscaster, voice of the Arkansas Razorbacks football and basketball for radio and television, traffic collision.
• Mario Faustinelli, 81, Italian comic book artist.
• Frederick Kilgour, 92, American librarian, founder of OCLC Online Computer Library Center.

External links

• List of July 2006 deaths at IMDb