page_title: 2006
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 2006 / Deaths / August
caption_attribution_description: James van Allen at the Smithsonian National Air &amp; Space Museum in Washington D.C., USA.
context_page_description: 2006 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
  In the Chinese calendar, 2006 was the Year of the Dog. Chinese New Year is January 29.
context_section_description: August 3 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (b. 1915)
  August 3 – Arthur Lee, American musician (b. 1945)
  August 6 – Hirotaka Suzuoki, Japanese Seiyu (b. 1950)
  August 9 – James van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
  August 11 – Mike Douglas, American entertainer (b. 1925)
  August 13 – Tony Jay, English-born actor (b. 1933)
  August 13 – Payao Poontarat, Thai boxer (b. 1957)
  August 15 – Te Atairangi Kaahu, Maori queen (b. 1931)
  August 15 – Faas Wilkes, former Dutch football player(b. 1923)
  August 16 – Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (b. 1912)
  August 20 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1911)
  August 21 – Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)
  August 21 – S. Yizhar, Israeli writer (b. 1916)
  August 23 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian musician and bandleader (b. 1928)
  August 23 – Wolfgang Priklopil, Austrian kidnapper of Natascha Kampusch (b. 1962)
  August 26 – Rainer Barzel, German politician (b. 1924)
  August 26 – Clyde Walcott, Barbadian cricketer (b. 1926)
  August 27 – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian movie maker (b. 1922)
  August 30 – Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (b. 1916)
  August 30 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
  August 30 – Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926)
caption: James van Allen
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