The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 2006
1
- Claude Jade, 58, French actress (Baisers Volés, L'Amour en Fuite, Topaz), metastatic eye cancer.[1]
- Herbert Gursky, 76, American astrophysicist for the Naval Research Laboratory, stomach cancer.[2]
- Geoffrey Colin Guy, 86, British airman and colonial governor.[3]
- Sid Raymond, 97, American character actor and voice of Baby Huey, complications of a stroke.[4]
- Ali Khan Samsudin, 48, Malaysian "snake king", venomous snakebite.[5]
2
- Bob Berry, 80, British test cricket player, natural causes.[6]
- Corinne Clark, 83, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).[7]
- kari edwards, 52, American poet, artist and gender activist, heart failure.[8]
- Kurt Lipstein, 97, German-born legal scholar.[9]
- Mariska Veres, 59, Dutch singer for Shocking Blue (Venus), cancer.[10]
3
- Craig Hinton, 42, British science fiction author, heart attack.[11]
- Billy Klaus, 77, American baseball shortstop and third baseman.[12]
- Ferenc Machos, 74, Hungarian soccer player.[13]
- Logan Whitehurst, 29, American singer and songwriter (The Velvet Teen), brain cancer.[14]
4
- Sir Peter Gadsden, 77, British Lord Mayor of London (1979–1980).[15]
- Joseph Ki-Zerbo, 84, Burkinabé politician, natural causes.[16]
- James Kim, 35, American CNET editor, exposure and hypothermia.[17]
- Rodney Needham, 83, British social anthropologist.[18]
- Len Sutton, 81, American Indianapolis 500 racing driver, cancer.[19]
- Adam Williams, 82, American actor (North by Northwest, The Big Heat, Fear Strikes Out), lymphoma.[20]
5
- David Bronstein, 82, Ukrainian chess grandmaster and writer, champion of USSR, natural causes.[21]
- Eric Cox, 83, Australian rugby league player, referee and administrator, pneumonia and stroke.[22]
- Michael Gilden, 44, American actor (NCIS, Return of the Jedi, Pulp Fiction), apparent suicide.[23]
- Gerry Humphreys, 75, Welsh sound engineer (Gandhi, A Chorus Line, Blade Runner).[24]
- Gernot Jurtin, 51, Austrian football player, cancer.[25][26]
- Timothy Moxon, 82, British actor and entrepreneur.[27]
- Van Smith, 61, American costume and makeup designer (Pink Flamingos, Hairspray, Cry-Baby), heart attack.[28]
6
- Han Ahmedow, 70, Turkmen Prime Minister (1989–1992), heart attack.[29]
- Darren Brown, 44, British musician and lead singer (Mega City Four), stroke.[30]
- Russell Buchanan, 106, American World War I veteran, stroke.[31]
- Hugo Cores, 69, Uruguayan historian, labor leader and politician, Deputy (1990–1994), stroke.[32]
- Samuel Devons, 92, British physicist and science historian at Columbia University, heart failure.[33]
- Andra Franklin, 47, American football player (Miami Dolphins), heart failure.[34]
- Mavis Pugh, 92, British actress (You Rang, M'Lord?), natural causes.[35]
- Robert Rosenblum, 79, American art historian, curator, and author, colon cancer.[36]
- William Salcer, 82, Czechoslovakian-born American inventor and Holocaust survivor, leukemia.[37]
7
- Lyuben Berov, 81, Bulgarian prime minister (1992–1994), cancer.[38]
- Kevin Berry, 61, Australian gold medal winner in the 200m butterfly at the 1964 Summer Olympics, brain tumour.[39]
- Desmond Briscoe, 81, British sound engineer and founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, natural causes.[40]
- Moses Hardy, 112, American supercentenarian, oldest known American man, last African American World War I veteran, natural causes.[41]
- Johnnie Bryan Hunt, 79, American trucking executive, founder of J.B. Hunt Transport Services, head injuries from a fall.[42]
- Kim Hyung-chil, 47, South Korean equestrian at the 2006 Asian Games, crushed by falling horse.[43]
- Jeane Kirkpatrick, 80, American United Nations ambassador (1981–1985), heart failure.[44]
- Chris Nelson, 46, American photographer, heart attack.[45]
- Jay McShann, 90, American blues and swing pianist, bandleader and singer, natural causes.[46]
8
- William H. Briare, 76, American politician, Mayor of Las Vegas (1975–1987).[47]
- Sir Colin Figures, 81, British head of the Secret Intelligence Service (1982–1985), natural causes.[48]
- Martha Tilton, 91, American jazz and swing singer with Benny Goodman, natural causes.[49]
- Philip Tower, 89, British army general.[50]
- José Uribe, 47, Dominican baseball shortstop (1984–1993), car accident.[51]
9
- Koula Agagiotou, 91, Greek actress (To Retire), natural causes.[52]
- Peter Derow, 62, American classical scholar, heart attack.[53]
- Georgia Gibbs, 87, American singer ("Kiss of Fire") known for her work on Your Hit Parade, leukemia.[54]
- Ralph Gomberg, 85, American principal oboist at the Boston Symphony, primary lateral sclerosis.[55]
- Andrei Lomakin, 42, Russian ice hockey player, gold medallist at 1988 Winter Olympics, long illness (cancer).[56][57]
- Martin Nodell, 91, American comic book and advertising artist, creator of the Golden Age Green Lantern, natural causes.[58]
- Tremayne Rodd, 3rd Baron Rennell, 71, British rugby union player for Scotland, cancer.[59]
10
- Mario Llerena, 93, Cuban intellectual, author and former Castro supporter turned critic, natural causes.[60]
- Salvatore Pappalardo, 88, Italian Archbishop of Palermo (1970–1996), natural causes.[61]
- Augusto Pinochet, 91, Chilean president (1973–1990), complications from heart attack.[62]
- David Wood, 43, American environmental campaigner.[63]
11
- Elizabeth Bolden, 116, American oldest verified person in the world (2006), natural causes.[64]
- Kenneth Cummins, 106, British veteran of the First World War, natural causes.[65]
- Tom Gregory, 79, American television news anchor and announcer, heart disease.[66]
- Homer Ledford, 79, American bluegrass musician, guitar and dulcimer luthier, Lou Gehrig's disease and stroke.[67][68]
- Lo Tak-shing, 71, Hong Kong politician, heart attack.[69]
- Colin Mair, 86, British rector of Kelvinside Academy.[70]
- Walter Ward, 66, American lead singer of The Olympics, unspecified illness.[71]
12
- Paul Arizin, 78, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors).[72]
- Peter Boyle, 71, American actor (Young Frankenstein, Everybody Loves Raymond, Taxi Driver), Emmy winner (1996), multiple myeloma.[73]
- Kenny Davern, 71, American jazz clarinetist, heart attack.[74]
- Cor van der Hart, 78, Dutch footballer, natural causes.[75]
- Oscar Klein, 76, Austrian-born jazz trumpeter, heart attack.[76]
- Antoine Raab, 93, German association footballer and anti-fascist, natural causes.[77]
- Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy, 68, Sri Lankan Tamil militant civil war leader, long illness.[78]
- Ellis Rubin, 81, American attorney and author, cancer.[79]
- Raymond P. Shafer, 89, American Governor of Pennsylvania (1967–1971), complications from heart failure.[80]
- Alan Shugart, 76, American disk drive pioneer, co-founder of Seagate Technology, complications from heart surgery.[81]
- Charles Stourton, 26th Baron Mowbray, 83, British Conservative whip in the House of Lords, pneumonia.[82]
13
- Henry Beachell, 100, American agriculturalist and recipient of the 1996 World Food Prize.[83]
- Eileen Caddy, 89, British co-founder of the Findhorn Foundation, natural causes.[84]
- Richard Carlson, 45, American author (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff), heart attack.[85]
- Loyola de Palacio, 56, Spanish Vice-President of the European Commission, cancer.[86]
- Alf Delany, 95, Irish Olympic sailor [1]
- Ángel Nieves Díaz, 55, Puerto Rican murderer, lethal injection.[87]
- Homesick James, 96, American blues musician, natural causes.[88]
- Lamar Hunt, 74, American owner of Kansas City Chiefs, coiner of term "Super Bowl", complications of prostate cancer.[89]
- Bernard Kleiman, 78, American general counsel to the United Steelworkers of America, heart attack.[90]
- Charles Peter McColough, 84, Canadian CEO of Xerox Corporation, cardiac arrest.[91]
- Mario Ravagnan, 75, Italian Olympic fencer.[92]
14
- Anton Balasingham, 69, Sri Lankan LTTE senior negotiator, cholangiocarcinoma.[93]
- John Bridge, 91, British recipient of the George Cross and George Medal, natural causes.[94]
- Camille Darsières, 74, French politician deputy for Martinique's 3rd constituency (1993–2002).[95]
- Ahmet Ertegün, 83, American businessman, co-founder of Atlantic Records, head injury from a fall at a Rolling Stones concert.[96]
- Mike Evans, 57, American actor (The Jeffersons), throat cancer.[97]
- Kate Fleming, 41, American actress, audio book producer and narrator, drowned.[98]
- John Hamilton, 84, British politician, leader of Liverpool City Council (1983–1986), lung disease.[99]
- Robert Long, 63, Dutch singer, cancer.[100]
- Sivuca, 76, Brazilian accordionist and composer, cancer.[101][102]
15
- Federico Crescentini, 24, San Marino footballer, drowned.[103]
- Mimi Jennewein, 85-86, American painter.[104]
- Frank Johnson, 63, British journalist, editor of The Spectator (1995–1999), cancer.[105]
- Clay Regazzoni, 67, Swiss Formula One racing driver (1970–1980), car accident.[106]
- Mary Stolz, 86, American young adult novelist (Belling the Tiger, The Noonday Friends), natural causes.[107]
- Matt Zunic, 87, American basketball player and coach.[108]
16
- Don Jardine, 66, Canadian professional wrestler, heart attack and leukemia.[109]
- Chicho Jesurun, 59, Dutch baseball player and coach from the Netherlands Antilles, heart attack.[110]
- Oginohana Masaaki, 71, Japanese sumo wrestler.[111]
- Goce Nikolovski, 59, Macedonian singer, suicide.[112]
- Taliep Petersen, South African theatre impresario, shot.[113]
- John Rae, 75, British educator and writer, headmaster of Westminster School (1970–1986).[114]
- Pnina Salzman, 84, Israeli pianist, natural causes.[115]
- Cecil Travis, 93, American baseball player (Washington Senators), natural causes.[116]
- Larry Zox, 69, American artist, cancer.[117]
17
- Timmie Rogers, 91, American comedian, singer-songwriter, bandleader and actor.
- Joe Gill, 87, American comic book writer (Captain Atom, Peacemaker).[118]
- Kyōko Kishida, 76, Japanese actress, respiratory failure caused by brain tumor.[119]
- Esko Nikkari, 68, Finnish actor, pneumonia.[120]
- Larry Sherry, 71, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers), MVP of the 1959 World Series, cancer.[121]
18
- Abdul Amir al-Jamri, 67, Bahraini Shiite Muslim cleric, heart failure and kidney failure.[122]
- Joseph Barbera, 95, American cartoonist, co-founder of Hanna-Barbera Productions, natural causes.[123]
- Ruth Bernhard, 101, American photographer, natural causes.[124]
- W. Craig Broadwater, 56, American judge, cancer.[125]
- Denis Carter, Baron Carter, 74, British politician, Chief Whip in the House of Lords (1997–2002), cancer.[126]
- Mike Dickin, 63, British talkSPORT radio presenter, car accident.[127]
- Mavor Moore, 87, Canadian writer, actor, radio and television producer, illness.[128]
- Mollie Orshansky, 91, American statistician and economist, cardiac arrest.[129]
- Daniel Pinkham, 83, American composer, natural causes.[130]
19
- Len Ablett, 90, Australian rules football player.[131]
- Jack Burnley, 95, American comic book artist (Superman, Batman, Starman).[132]
- Oonah McFee, 90, Canadian writer.[133]
- Maj-Britt Nilsson, 82, Swedish actress (Summer Interlude, Secrets of Women).[134]
- Akhtar Mohammad Osmani, Afghan Taliban commander, airstrike.[135]
- Elisabeth Rivers-Bulkeley, 82, Austrian-born British first female member of the London Stock Exchange.[136]
- Roy Ward, 83, Australian politician.[137]
20
- Yukio Aoshima, 74, Japanese comedian, Governor of Tokyo (1995–1999), myelodysplastic syndrome.[138]
- John Bishop, 77, American screenwriter and playwright.[139]
- Elkan Blout, 87, American biochemist (Harvard University and the Polaroid Corporation), pneumonia.[140]
- Anne Rogers Clark, 77, American dog show judge (Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show), kidney failure associated with colon cancer.[141]
- Ma Ji, 72, Chinese xiangsheng actor, heart attack.[142]
- Mick Mulligan, 78, British jazz trumpeter and bandleader.[143]
- Tadayuki Nakashima, 35, Japanese comedian, member of duo Cunning, pneumonia and complications from leukemia.[144]
- Piergiorgio Welby, 60, Italian poet and euthanasia advocate, removal of life support.[145]
21
- Scobie Breasley, 92, Australian jockey, stroke.[146]
- Rogério Oliveira da Costa, 30, Brazilian-born Macedonian football player, heart attack.[147]
- Lois Hall, 80, American actress, heart attack and stroke.[148]
- Jerzy Janikowski, 54, Polish Olympic fencer.[149]
- Pierre Louki, 86, French actor and singer-songwriter.[150]
- Saparmurat Niyazov, 66, Turkmen Communist party secretary (1985–1991), president (1990–2006), cardiac arrest.[151]
- Philippa Pearce, 86, British children's author, stroke.[152]
- Karl Strauss, 94, German-born brewer for Pabst and Karl Strauss Brewing Company, natural causes.[153]
- Sydney Wooderson, 92, British lawyer and track athlete, world record holder for mile run (1937–1942), kidney failure.[154]
22
- Richard Boston, 67, British journalist and author, illness.[155]
- Sam Chapman, 90, American athlete, Alzheimer's disease.[156]
- Ervin Lázár, 70, Hungarian writer, Kossuth Prize winner, lung failure.[157]
- Dennis Linde, 63, American songwriter ("Burning Love", "Goodbye Earl"), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.[158]
- Michael Morrison, 60, American pornographic actor.[159]
- Elena Mukhina, 46, Russian gymnast, complications of quadriplegia.[160]
- Terence O'Brien, 85, British diplomat, ambassador to Nepal, Burma and Indonesia.[161]
- Phillip Pine, 86, American actor.[162]
- Thomas Shoyama, 90, Canadian politician, heart failure and Parkinson's disease.[163]
- Galina Ustvolskaya, 87, Russian composer, natural causes.[164]
23
- Sol Carter, 98, American baseball player.[165]
- Charlie Drake, 81, British comedian, actor and singer (My Boomerang Won't Come Back), stroke-related illness.[166]
- Wilma Dykeman, 86, American author and journalist, complications after hip fracture.[167]
- Dutch Mason, 68, Canadian blues musician, complications from diabetes.[168]
- Bo Mya, 79, Burmese rebel leader, complications of heart disease and diabetes.[169]
- Rosina Raisbeck, 90, Australian soprano singer.[170]
- Robert Stafford, 93, American politician, governor of Vermont (1959–1961) and senator (1971–1989), natural causes.[171]
- Timothy J. Tobias, 54, American composer and musician.[172]
24
- Gino D'Antonio, 79, Italian comics writer and artist.[173]
- Braguinha, 99, Brazilian composer, multiple organ failure.[174]
- Mirko Sandić, 64, Serbian Olympic water polo player.[175]
- Kenneth Sivertsen, 45, Norwegian folk singer, comedian and poet, brain trauma.[176]
- Frank Stanton, 98, American president of CBS (1946–1971).[177]
25
- James Brown, 73, American soul singer and bandleader, heart failure related to pneumonia.[178]
- John Butcher, 60, British Conservative MP (1979–1997), heart attack.[179]
- Sir Bob Cotton, 91, Australian politician and ambassador to the United States (1982–1985, 1991–1994).[180]
- Sven Lindberg, 88, Swedish actor.[181]
- Ingerid Vardund, 79, Norwegian actress.[182]
26
- Robert Boehm, 92, American lawyer and chairman of the Center for Constitutional Rights.[183]
- Sir Harold Bollers, 91, Guyanese jurist, Chief Justice.[184]
- Chris Brown, 45, American baseball player, complications from burns.[185]
- Gerald Ford, 93, American politician, President (1974–1977), Vice President (1973–1974), arteriosclerotic cerebrovascular disease and diffuse arteriosclerosis.[186]
- Ivar Formo, 55, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic Games champion, drowning.[187]
- John Heath-Stubbs, 88, British poet and translator, lung cancer.[188]
- Martin David Kruskal, 81, American mathematician (Princeton University), stroke.[189]
- Fernand Nault, 85, Canadian ballet dancer and artistic director, Parkinson's disease.[190]
- George Snell, 99, Canadian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Toronto (1966–1972).[191]
27
- Richard Dean, 50, American model, photographer and television host (Cover Shot), pancreatic cancer.[192]
- Pierre Delanoë, 88, French lyricist, cardiac arrest.[193]
- Scotty Glacken, 62, American Georgetown University football coach (1970–1992).[194]
- Itche Goldberg, 102, Polish-born American writer and Yiddish language preservationist.[195]
- Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley, 83, British media executive, chair of BBC Board of Governors (1986–1996).[196]
- Tommy Sandlin, 62, Swedish ice hockey coach.[197]
28
- Gracie Cole, 82, British trumpeter and bandleader.[198]
- Nicola Granieri, 64, Italian Olympic fencer.[199]
- Jamal Karimi-Rad, 50, Iranian Minister of Justice, car accident.[200]
- Mandy Mitchell-Innes, 92, British oldest living test cricketer for England, natural causes.[201]
- Jack Myers, 93, American biologist and science contributing editor (Highlights for Children), bladder cancer.[202]
- Jared Nathan, 21, American actor (ZOOM), car accident.[203]
- Gershon Shaked, 77, Israeli author and professor of Hebrew Literature.[204]
- Aroldo Tieri, 89, Italian actor.[205]
29
- Harald Bredesen, 88, American Lutheran pastor and advocate of speaking in tongues, injuries following a fall.[206]
- Bud Delp, 74, American racehorse trainer inducted into the Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame, cancer.[207]
- Johnny Gibson, 101, American 400 meter hurdles world record holder (1927–1928).[208]
- Charles Addo Odametey, 69, Ghanaian football player.[209]
- Red Wolf, 18, American world champion bucking bull.[210]
- Charlie Tyra, 71, American basketball player, heart failure.[211]
30
- Frank Campanella, 87, American character actor.[212]
- Mitzi Cunliffe, 88, American sculptor.[213]
- Elizabeth Greenhill (bookbinder), 99, English bookbinder[214]
- Saddam Hussein, 69, Iraqi President (1979–2003), execution by hanging.[215]
- Antony Lambton, 84, British Conservative government minister.[216]
- Donald Murray, 82, American columnist.[217]
- Azumi Muto, 20, Japanese model and actress, homicide.[218]
- Michel Plasse, 58, Canadian ice hockey player, cardiac arrest.[219]
- Gerald Washington, 57, American mayor-elect of Westlake, Louisiana, suicide by gunshot.[220]
31
- Marv Breeding, 72, American Major League Baseball player (Orioles, Dodgers).[221]
- John Denison, 95, British music administrator.[222]
- James Harder, 80, American civil engineer.[223]
- Ya'akov Hodorov, 79, Israeli football goalkeeper, stroke.[224]
- Seymour Martin Lipset, 84, American sociologist, stroke.[225]
- Liese Prokop, 65, Austrian athlete and Minister of the Interior (2004–2006), aortic dissection.[226]
- Joe Walton, 81, English football player (Preston North End).[227]
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