# Deaths in January 2006
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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 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.
* Raul Davila, 74, Puerto Rican actor and television producer, heart attack.
* Ofelia Fox, 82, Cuban nightclub owner (Tropicana Club), cancer.
* Osa Massen, 91, Danish actress.
* Klemens Mielczarek, 85, Polish actor.
* 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.

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* 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.
* 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).
* 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 Roger 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.
* Katherine Peden, 80, American politician.
* 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.
* José Luis 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.
* 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 NFL player and radio announcer, complications from a staph infection.
* Don Stewart, 70, American actor (The Guiding Light), lung cancer.

### 10

* Ira B. 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.
* Shaikh 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.
* Stewart Linder, 74, American Oscar-winning film editor.
* 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 NFL wide receiver, heart attack.
* Marc Potvin, 38, Canadian NHL player, found dead in his hotel room in Michigan, 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-Jaber 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.
* William Post, 66, American lottery winner.
* 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.
* Jan Mark, 62, British children's writer, meningitis.
* Richard P. McCormick, 89, American historian, professor at Rutgers University.
* Willie Smith, 66, American baseball player, 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 and director, famous for Tokio Jokio and The Ducktators shorts from his Termite Terrace tenure at Warner Bros.
* 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.
* Anthony Franciosa, 77, American actor, third husband of Shelley Winters, 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, 84, German film director.

### 20

* Elmer Otto Friday, 81, American politician.
* Andrei Iordan, 71, Kyrgyz politician, former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan.
* David 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.
* Pio Taofinu'u, 82, Samoan Roman Catholic cardinal.
* 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).
* Robert Knudson, 80, American sound engineer (Cabaret, The Exorcist, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), Oscar winner (1973, 1974, 1983), supranuclear palsy.
* Ibrahim Rugova, 61, Kosovan politician, President of Kosovo, lung cancer.

### 22

* Janette Carter, 82, American last living member of the Carter Family country music group.
* Alec Coxon, 90, English cricketer, Yorkshire and England player.
* Sherman Ferguson, 61, American jazz drummer.
* Aydın Güven Gürkan, 65, Turkish academic and politician (chairman of SHP).
* Nellie Y. McKay, 67, African-American literary critic, colon cancer.

### 23

* Ernie Baron, 65, Filipino radio/TV host and meteorologist, heart attack brought about by diabetes.
* Andrea Bronfman, 60, American philanthropist and wife of Charles Bronfman, hit by car.
* Savino Guglielmetti, 94, Italian gymnast, 1928 Olympic gold-medalist and oldest surviving Olympic champion.
* Samuel W. Koster, 86, United States Army officer, highest ranking United States Army officer charged in My Lai massacre, renal cancer.
* Chris McKinstry, 38, Canadian independent researcher in artificial intelligence, suicide by inert gas asphyxiation.
* Joseph M. Newman, 96, American film director/producer, This Island Earth.
* Bill Rice, 74, American artist.
* Virginia Smith, 94, American politician, former Republican United States Representative from Nebraska (1975–1991).
* Michael Wharton, 92, British humorist ("Peter Simple").

### 24

* Zaki Badawi, 84, Egyptian Islamic scholar, Islamic religious leader in Britain.
* Schafik Handal, 75, Salvadoran politician, former presidential candidate and leader of El Salvador's main political opposition party, the FMLN, heart attack.
* Kiki Heck, 81, Dutch Olympic diver.
* Peter Ladefoged, 80, American phonetician, stroke.
* Carlos (Café) Martínez, 40, Venezuelan corner infielder, former MLB player, complications from a long illness.
* Fayard Nicholas, 91, American dancer, elder of the renowned Nicholas Brothers, pneumonia and complications of a stroke.
* Chris Penn, 40, American actor (Footloose, Reservoir Dogs, The Funeral), heart disease.
* Sir Nicholas Shackleton, 68, British geologist, leukaemia.

### 25

* Robin Coombs, 84, British immunologist, developed Coombs Antibody test
* Marion Dudley, 33, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
* Luther Green, 59, American NBA player, lung cancer.
* John F. Kerin, Australian professor, reproductive scientist and gynaecologist, farm accident.
* Anna Malle, 38, American adult film actress, car accident.
* Herbert Schilder, 77, American dental surgeon, improved root canal procedures, Lewy body disease.
* Sudharmono, 78, Indonesian politician and lieutenant general, vice president of Indonesia from 1988 to 1993, pneumonia.
* Allan Temko, 81, American architectural critic and writer, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, brief illness.

### 26

* Len Carlson, 68, Canadian voice actor (The Raccoons, Rolie Polie Olie, Atomic Betty), heart attack.
* John Dunwoody, 76, British Member of Parliament, effects of an accident.
* Morris Silverman, 93, American philanthropist, founder of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research.
* Dave Tatsuno, 92, Japanese American businessman, documented the Topaz Japanese internment camp in his film Topaz.
* Khan Wali Khan, 89, Pakistani politician, prominent opposition Leader and prominent Pashtun leader, heart attack.

### 27

* Maurice Colclough, 52, English Rugby Union player, brain tumour.
* Tana Hoban, 88, American photographer of children, author of over 110 children's books.
* Phyllis King, 100, British Wimbledon winner.
* Carol Lambrino, 86, Romanian Prince, elder son of King Carol II of Romania.
* Christopher Lloyd, 84, British gardening writer, stroke.
* Gene McFadden, 56, American singer and songwriter, cancer.
* Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon, 90, British solicitor and politician.
* Johannes Rau, 75, German politician, President of Germany (Bundespräsident) from 1999 to 2004.

### 28

* Peter Isola, 76, Gibraltarian politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Gibraltar (1956–1984).
* Yitzchak Kaduri, 106, Iraqi-born renowned Sephardic Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist.
* Henry McGee, 76, British actor.
* Sauli Rytky, 87, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic medalist.

### 29

* Andrew Gonzalez, 65, Filipino linguist and educator, complications from diabetes.
* Lau Mulder, 78, Dutch field hockey player and Olympic medalist.
* Nam June Paik, 73, South Korean-born American artist, particularly noted for his video art, natural causes.
* George Psychoundakis, 85, Greek Resistance fighter during World War II.

### 30

* Stew Albert, 66, American 1960s anti-establishment activist, co-founder of the Yippies, liver cancer.
* Paul Clinton, 53, American CNN film critic, founder of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA).
* Seth Fisher, 33, American comic book artist (Green Lantern: Willworld), fall.
* Arnold Graffi, 95, German Researcher for oncology, long illness.
* Coretta Scott King, 78, American civil rights leader, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., ovarian cancer.
* Otto Lang, 98, Bosnian-born American film producer and ski mogul, heart disease.
* Irving Rosenwater, 73, English statistician and author.
* Wendy Wasserstein, 55, American playwright, lymphoma.

### 31

* Owen Abrahams, 72, Australian rules footballer, serious illness.
* Ruairi Brugha, 88, Irish Fianna Fáil politician, son of Cathal Brugha.
* Henry S. Coleman, 79, American educational administrator, dean at Columbia University.
* Boris Kostelanetz, 94, Russian-born American tax lawyer.
* George Koval, 92, Soviet intelligence agent.
* Paul Regina, 49, American actor (Brothers, Joe & Valerie, L.A. Law), liver cancer.
* Jason Sears, 38, American punk rock singer (Rich Kids on LSD), complications from drug abuse.
* Moira Shearer, 80, British ballerina, actress, and newspaper columnist, married to Sir Ludovic Kennedy, natural causes.