page_title: 2006
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 2006 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: 30th anniversary M.L.K. march on Washington 1993
context_page_description: 2006 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2006th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 6th year of the 3rd millennium, the 6th year of the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2000s decade.
  2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification and the International Asperger's Year.
context_section_description: January 2 – Lidia Wysocka, Polish actress (b. 1916)
  January 3 – Bill Skate, 5th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1953)
  January 4
  Irving Layton, Romanian-Canadian poet (b. 1912)
  Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1943)
  January 6 – Lou Rawls, African-American singer, songwriter and actor (b. 1933)
  January 7 – Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer, explorer and author (b. 1912)
  January 14 – Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
  January 15 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, 13th Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
  January 19
  Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
  Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
  January 21 – Ibrahim Rugova, Kosovar writer, scholar and political leader (b. 1944)
  January 24 – Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
  January 25 – Sudharmono, 5th Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1927)
  January 27 – Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931)
  January 29 – Nam June Paik, South Korean-born American artist (b. 1932)
  January 30 – Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist (b. 1927)
caption: Coretta Scott King
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