# Deaths in April 2006
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

## April 2006
### 1

* Gary Dineen, 62, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
* Annesley Kingsford, 93, Canadian rower and Olympian.
* In Tam, 83, Cambodian politician.
* Oscar Treadwell, 79, American jazz radio journalist and presenter.

### 2

* Sir Anthony Beaumont-Dark, 73, British politician, former Conservative Member of Parliament.
* Mohammed al-Maghout, 72, Syrian poet and playwright.
* Bernard Seigal, 48, American musician and essayist with the stage name Buddy Blue, co-founder of the Beat Farmers, heart attack.
* Nina von Stauffenberg, 92, German widow of Hitler's would-be assassin.

### 3

* Tom Abercrombie, 75, American National Geographic photographer, complications from open-heart surgery.
* Barry Bingham, Jr., 72, American television and radio executive, former editor and publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times.
* Lou Carrol, 83, American traveling salesman, gave Checkers to Richard Nixon.
* Doug Coombs, 48, American extreme skier, ski accident in the French Alps.
* Ewan Fenton, 76, Scottish footballer.
* Martin Gilks, 41, English musician, former drummer with The Wonder Stuff, motorcycle accident.
* Marshall Goldberg, 88, American football player, former NFL running back of the Chicago Cardinals, complications due to a head injury.
* Albert Harker, 95, American soccer player, last surviving member of the US 1934 FIFA World Cup soccer team.
* Genzō Murakami, 96, Japanese novelist.
* Walter Ristow, 97, American map librarian at the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress.
* Sir Andrew Stark, 89, British diplomat, Ambassador to Denmark (1971–1976).
* Ida Vos, 74, Dutch writer.

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* Mary Boyce, 85, British authority on Iran.
* Toddie Byrne, 71, Irish politician.
* Fred Christensen, 84, American fighter ace in World War II.
* Eckhard Dagge, 58, former German WBC junior middleweight champion.
* Sir Roy Denman, 81, British civil servant and diplomat.
* Denis Donaldson, 55-56, British former head of Sinn Féin at Stormont, and British double-agent, found shot dead at his home.
* Gary Gray, 69, American child actor of the 1940s, cancer.
* John de Courcy Ireland, 94, Irish maritime historian and political activist.
* John George Macleod, 90, Scottish physician.
* Jürgen Thorwald, 90, German writer.
* Vickery Turner, 61, British actress of the 60's.
* Frederick B. Williams, 66, American minister of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem, New York City.

### 5

* Alain de Boissieu, 91, French General and son-in-law of Charles De Gaulle.
* J. B. Fuqua, 87, American entrepreneur and philanthropist.
* George Savalla Gomes, 90, Brazilian entertainer who performed as "Carequinha" the clown.
* Allan Kaprow, 78, American artist and art theorist, natural causes.
* Armando Labra, 62, Mexican economist.
* Pasquale Macchi, 82, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop, former private secretary to Pope Paul VI.
* Abdul-Salam Ojeili, 88, Syrian novelist.
* Gene Pitney, 66, American singer and songwriter, heart disease.

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* Augustyn Bloch, 76, Polish composer and organist.
* Maggie Dixon, 28, American women's basketball coach at United States Military Academy, cardiac arrhythmia.
* Francis L. Kellogg, 89, American diplomat.
* Leslie Norris, 84, Welsh poet and professor at Brigham Young University.

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* Roger Arnaldez, 94, French professor of Islamic studies.
* Bobbie Nudie, 92, American fashion designer, wife of Nudie Cohn.
* Jim Clack, 58, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
* Adamas Golodets, 72, Soviet football player and manager.
* Théogène Ricard, 96, Canadian politician.

### 8

* Henry Lewy, 79, German-American sound engineer and record producer.
* Richard Pearlman, 68, American theatre and opera director, director of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists.
* Gerard Reve, 82, Dutch author (The Evenings, The Fourth Man), Alzheimer's disease.
* Valentine Telegdi, 84, Hungarian-American physicist.

### 9

* Christian Compton, 76, American jurist, justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.
* Frank Gibney, 81, American writer and journalist on Asia.
* Billy Hitchcock, 89, American Major League Baseball infielder, coach, manager, and scout, natural causes.
* Robin Orr, 96, Scottish classical composer and conductor.
* Jimmy Outlaw, 93, American baseball third baseman/outfielder.
* Georges Rawiri, 74, Gabonese politician, president of the Senate and former foreign minister.
* Hermann Schild, 93, German cyclist, National Champion (1954).
* Vilgot Sjöman, 81, Swedish film director (I Am Curious (Yellow)), complications from brain haemorrhage.
* Natalia Troitskaya, 55, Russian operatic soprano.

### 10

* Joe Faragalli, 76, Canadian Football League head coach with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Eskimos.
* Bonaya Godana, 54, Kenyan politician, plane crash.
* Jean Grosjean, 93, French poet, writer and translator.
* Bishop Charles Henderson, 81, Irish retired Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, England, KC*HS, cancer.

### 11

* Leonard Dommett, 77, Australian violinist and conductor.
* Les Foote, 81, Australian Football Hall of Fame member.
* Siobhán O'Hanlon, 43, Northern Irish Sinn Féin politician, cancer.
* Winand Osiński, 92, Polish Olympic runner.
* June Pointer, 52, American singer, former member of The Pointer Sisters, lung cancer.
* Proof, 32, American rapper (D-12), homicide.
* Shin Sang-ok, 80, Korean film producer, liver problems.
* Sergey Tereshchenkov, 67, Soviet Olympic cyclist.
* Angus Wells, 63, English fiction writer.

### 12

* Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah, 41, Egyptian militant, killed by Pakistani forces.
* Richard Bebb, 79, British actor.
* William Sloane Coffin, 81, American minister and peace activist, congestive heart failure.
* Andy Duncan, 83, American basketball player.
* Paulina Kernberg, 71, Chilean-born American child psychiatrist, professor at Cornell University.
* Kazuo Kuroki, 75, Japanese film director.
* Shekhar Mehta, 60, Kenyan rally driver, five-time winner of the Safari Rally & president of the FIA's World Rally Championship commission, illness relating to complications from an old injury.
* Puggy Pearson, 77, American poker player.
* Albert E. Radford, 88, American botanist.
* Rajkumar, 76, Indian actor, cardiac arrest.
* William Woo, 69, first Asian-American to be editor of a major American daily newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, professor at Stanford University.

### 13

* John Read, 85, British television producer and cinematographer.
* Dame Muriel Spark, 88, British novelist, (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie).
* Bruce Weber, 54, Australian rules football executive who was president of the Port Adelaide Football Club.
* Arthur Winston, 100, American Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee, famous for serving for 76 years and retiring at age 100.

### 14

* Mahmut Bakalli, 70, Kosovo ethnic Albanian politician.
* Henry Callow, Isle of Man jurist.
* A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury, 78, Indian politician.
* Tom Ferguson, 62, American medical doctor and author.
* Miguel Reale, 95, Brazilian philosopher of law, heart attack.
* Eberhardt Rechtin, 80, American electrical engineer and telecommunications expert.

### 15

* Raúl Corrales, 81, Cuban photographer .
* Lord Eliot (Jago Eliot), 40, English aristocrat, surfer and cyber artist, epilepsy.
* Calum Kennedy, 77, Scottish traditional singer.
* Pavel Koutecký, 49, Czech documentary film maker, accidental fall.
* Louise Smith, 89, American NASCAR racer, first woman inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, known as "the first lady of racing," complications from cancer.
* Vusumzi Make, 75, South African politician

### 16

* Francisco Adam, 22, Portuguese actor, traffic collision.
* Lorraine Borg, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
* Philippe Castelli, 80, Franch actor.
* Richard Eckersley, 65, English graphic designer.
* Morton Freedgood, 93, American author (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three) under the pseudonym of John Godey.
* Brett Goldin, 27, South African actor, killed by a head shot together with friend, fashion designer Richard Bloom, 27.
* Poopak Goldarreh, 34, Iranian actress, traffic collision.
* Harold Horwood, 82, Canadian writer and former Newfoundland politician, cancer.
* Stephen Marshall, 20, American double murderer, suicide by gunshot.
* Daniel Schaefer, 70, American politician, former Republican United States Representative from Colorado served 1983–1999, cancer.
* Jake Seamer, 92, English cricketer.
* Silvia Caos, 72, Cuban-Mexican actress.

### 17

* Jean Bernard, 98, French hematologist.
* Scott Brazil, 50, American television producer and director (The Shield), Lou Gehrig's disease.
* Peter Cadbury, 88, British entrepreneur and one of the founders of commercial TV broadcasting in the UK.
* Elford Albin Cederberg, 88, American politician, former Republican United States Representative from Michigan from 1953 to 1978 and former mayor of Bay City, Michigan.
* Henderson Forsythe, 88, American actor (As the World Turns).
* Arthur Hertzberg, 84, Polish-born American rabbi and scholar of Judaism.
* Vaishnavi, 22, Indian Bollywood actress, suicide by hanging.

### 18

* Bindhyabasini Devi, 86, Indian folk singer.
* Ken Jones, 84, Welsh rugby union player, Wales and British Lion rugby union player and silver medal Olympiad.
* John Lyall, 66, British football manager with West Ham United F.C. and Ipswich Town F.C., heart attack.
* Grady McWhiney, 77, American historian.
* Dick Rockwell, 85, American cartoonist, assistant on Steve Canyon, nephew of Norman Rockwell.

### 19

* John F. Cosgrove, 56, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives.
* Scott Crossfield, 84, American X-15 test pilot, plane crash.
* Bob Dove, 85, American NFL defensive lineman and member of the College Football Hall of Fame.
* Andrés María Rubio Garcia, 81, Uruguayan Roman Catholic bishop.
* June Knox-Mawer, 75, British writer and radio broadcaster.
* Ellen Kuzwayo, 91, South African author, anti-apartheid activist, and member of Parliament, diabetes.
* Sir Ian Morrow, 93, British accountant and businessman.

### 20

* Kathleen Antonelli, 85, Irish computer programmer, one of the ENIAC original computer programmers, cancer.
* Cy Bahakel, 87, American media magnate.
* Stanley Hiller, Jr., 81, American helicopter designer.
* Igor Kuljerić, 68, Croatian composer and conductor.
* Miguel Zacarías Nogaim, 101, Mexican film director.
* Anna Svidersky, 17, Russian teenager, murdered while working at McDonald's, stabbed.
* Wolfgang Unzicker, 80, German chess grandmaster.
* Robert Wegman, 87, American businessman, chairman and former CEO of Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., philanthropist.

### 21

* Sir Richard Bayliss, 89, British physician, Physician to the Queen (1973-1981).
* Jacob Kovco, 25, first Australian Defence Force service person killed in Iraq.
* T. K. Ramakrishnan, 84, Indian politician.
* Telê Santana, 74, Brazilian football coach, complications from an intestinal infection.

### 22

* Henriette Avram, 86, American library systems analyst, developed MARC cataloging format.
* Ed Davis, 89, American California State Senator and former Los Angeles police chief (1969–1978).
* Enriqueta Harris, 95, English art historian.
* Nobby Lawton, 65, English footballer, midfielder & former captain of Preston North End, cancer.
* Jobie Nutarak, 58, Canadian politician, snowmobile accident.
* Satyadeow Sawh, 50, Guyanese Minister of Fisheries, Crops and Livestock. Shot by masked gunmen.
* Ronnie Sox, 67, American drag racing pioneer.
* Alida Valli, 84, Italian actress (The Third Man).
* Fausto Vitello, 59, Argentine-American businessman and magazine publisher, founding publisher of the skateboarding magazine Thrasher, heart attack.

### 23

* Ghafar Baba, 81, Malaysian former Deputy Prime Minister.
* Susan Browning, 65, American actress.
* Harvey Bullock, 84, American television writer and producer (The Love Boat, Love, American Style).
* Johnny Checketts, 94, New Zealand World War II flying ace.
* Willie Finnigan, 93, Scottish footballer (Hibernian F.C.).
* Boris Fraenkel, 85, French Trotskyist.
* Barry Gibbs, 73, South Australian cricket official.
* William Gottlieb, 89, American jazz photographer.
* Jennifer Jayne, 74, British TV and film actress ("The Adventures of William Tell").
* Florence Mars, 83, American civil rights activist, author of Witness in Philadelphia.
* Ian Nelson, 50, English saxophone and clarinet musician, died in his sleep.
* David Peckinpah, 54, American television producer and director (Silk Stalkings, Sliders, Beauty and the Beast), heart attack.
* Phil Walden, 66, American founder of Capricorn Records, cancer.
* Isaac Witkin, 69, South African-born American sculptor.

### 24

* Erik Bergman, 94, Finnish composer.
* Peter Ellis, 58, British television director.
* Nasreen Pervin Huq, 47, Bangladeshi women's activist and Director of Action Aid, from getting hit by a car.
* Brian Labone, 66, English footballer, Everton and England player, heart attack.
* Bonnie Owens, 76, American country music singer.
* Jimmy Sharman, 94, Australian boxing troupe impresario.
* Dr. Rajkumar, 76, Legendary Indian Kannada Cinema Actor, heart attack.
* Sibby Sisti, 85, American MLB player with the Boston Braves.
* Steve Stavro, 78, Canadian grocery store magnate and a former owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, heart attack.
* Moshe Teitelbaum, 91, Hungarian-born Hasidic rebbe, of Satmar, one of the largest Hassidic Jewish groups in the world.

### 25

* Ronald Girdwood, 89, Scottish physician.
* Joseph S. Iseman, 89, American lawyer, educator and former president of Bennington College, cardiac arrest.
* Jane Jacobs, 89, American-born Canadian urban activist and author (The Death and Life of Great American Cities), stroke.
* John Kerr, 81, Irish ballad singer.
* Peter Law, 58, Welsh politician, independent MP and AM, brain tumor.
* Tabe Slioor, 79, Finnish socialite.

### 26

* Moshe Halberstam, 74, Israeli Rabbi, Dean of Tshakava Yeshivah and prominent member of the Edah Charedis Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem.
* Daryl Mack, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Yuval Ne'eman, 80, Israeli physicist, founder of the Israel Space Agency, science minister, and President of Tel Aviv University.
* Russ Swan, 42, American former Major League Baseball pitcher (injuries due to a fall).

### 27

* Wacław Latocha, 69, Polish Olympic cyclist.
* Pat Marsden, 69, Canadian sportscaster, lung cancer.
* Strini Moodley, 60, South African founding member of Black Consciousness Movement.
* Kay Noble-Bell, 65, American wrestler.
* Julia Thorne, 61, American author and first wife of John Kerry, bladder cancer.
* Mel Tom, 64, American football player, heart failure.
* Alexander Buel Trowbridge, 76, American politician and businessman, Secretary of Commerce under US President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1967 to 1968, former president of the National Association of Manufacturers.

### 28

* Helen Armstrong, 63, American concert violinist.
* Ángel O. Berríos, 69, Puerto Rican engineer, former mayor of Caguas, heart failure.
* Steve Howe, 48, American former Major League Baseball pitcher, automobile accident.
* Jan Koetsier, 94, Dutch composer and conductor.
* Ben-Zion Orgad, 80, Israeli composer, cancer.
* M. G. G. Pillai, 67, Malaysian journalist and political activist, heart complications.

### 29

* Sid Barron, 88, Canadian cartoonist. Known for the biplane flying overhead trailing a banner that read "mild, isn't it.".
* John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, American economist and author (The Affluent Society), natural causes.
* Alberta Nelson, 68, American actress known for beach party films of 1960s.
* Félix Siby, 64, Gabonese politician and former government minister.
* John Trever, 90, American scholar who photographed the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem.
* Alvin S. White, 87, American test pilot.

### 30

* Jay Bernstein, 69, American Hollywood publicist.
* Barry Driscoll, 79, British sculptor and painter, cancer.
* Jean-François Revel, 82, French philosopher.
* Corinne Rey-Bellet, 33, Swiss Alpine skier, shot dead.
* William (Bill) Roberts, 105, British First World War veteran.
* Moshe Shmuel Shapiro, 88, Belarusian-born rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Be'er Yaakov in Israel.
* Paul Spiegel, 68, German chairman of the Central Council of German Jews, natural causes.
* Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 81, Indonesian writer.
* Beatriz Sheridan, 71, Mexican actress and director.