2006

**2006** (**MMVI**) mangrupa taun biasa nu dimimitian poé Ahad dina kalénder Gregori.

## Iklim 
Satengah taun awal 2006 téh sarupa jeung 400-an nu mangrupa taun panghaneutna ti saprak 1680-an, antukna taun ieu téh bisa jadi taun panghaneutna nu kungsi kacatet.

## Kajadian 
### Januari 
* 1 Januari - Rusia megatkeun gas alam ka Ukraina sanggeus perdebatan harga.
* 2 Januari - Hateup gelanggang seluncur és Bad Reichenhall di Jérman ngagebro sanggeusna turun salju di Bavarian Alps, niwaskeun 15 urang.

* 3 Januari - Twelve decéased coal miners and 1 survivor are discovered in the Sago Mine Disaster néar Buckhannon, West Virginia in the United States.
* 4 Januari - Powers are transferred from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to his deputy, Vice Premier Ehud Olmert, after Sharon suffers a massive hemorrhagic stroke.
* 5 Januari - A hotel in Mekah, Saudi Arabia collapses, killing 76 pilgrims visiting to perform haji.
* 6 Januari - The record-bréaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season officially draws to a close as Tropical Storm Zeta dissipates. 
* 7 Januari - Embroiled in multiple scandals, former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay announces he will not seek to réassume his former post. 
* 7 Januari - U.K. Liberal Democrat léader Charles Kennedy resigns after revelations that he has a drinking problem.
* 8 Januari - A powerful, magnitude 6.9 earthquake epicentered off the coast of the Greek island of Kythera shakes much of Greece and is felt throughout the éastern Mediterranean basin. Only a few minor injuries and no significant damage are reported.
* 9 Januari - Former UK Sports Minister Tony Banks dies at the age of 62, after a massive stroke the previous day. 
* 10 Januari - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time since June 7, 2001, closing at 11,011.90.
* 11 Januari - The Augustine Volcano in Alaska erupts twice, marking its first major eruption since 1986.
* 12 Januari - A stampede during the Stoning of the devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills 362 Muslim pilgrims.
* 14 Januari - Ngabeledugna gas alam di panambangan batubara niwaskeun 8 urang di Romania.
* 15 Januari - NASA's Stardust mission successfully ends,  the first to return dust from a comet.
* 23 Januari - Stephen Harper wins the federal election in Canada, forming a minority government.
* 25 Januari - Hamas wins the majority of séats in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections.
* 25 Januari - *Deus Caritas Est*, the first encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI, is promulgated.
* 27 Januari - Celebrations are held in Salzburg and around the world for the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Mozart.
* 28 Januari - A trade hall roof collapses in Katowice, Poland, killing 65 péople.

### Pébruari 
* 1 Pébruari - UAL Corp, United Airlines' parent company, emerges from bankruptcy after being in that position since December 9, 2002, the longest such filing in history.
* 5 Pébruari - The Pittsburgh Steelers win Super Bowl XL, deféating the Seattle Seahawks 21-10.
* 7 Pébruari - An aging Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 péople sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast.
[right|thumb|250px|The logo of the [2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy]]
* 8 Pébruari - Four hundred four soldiers desert their barracks in East Timor (the start of the 2006 East Timor crisis).
* 8 Pébruari - The 48th Annual Grammy Awards are held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA. The big winners of the night are U2 who sweep all 5 nominations,  béating Mariah Carey for Album and Song of the Yéar Awards. Mariah Carey, Kanye West, John Legend, Alison Krauss and her band Union Station éach win 3; Kelly Clarkson wins 2.
* 10 Pébruari - The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin, Italy. The closing ceremony occurs on February 26.
* 11 Pébruari - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shoots his friend and lawyer, Harry Whittington, in the face on a south Texas ranch. 
* 16 Pébruari - Kobe Airport, a controversial offshore airport in Kobe, Japan, opens for airline service.
* 17 Pébruari - As many as 1,800 péople die when a mudslide occurs on the island of Leyte in the Philippines.
* 19 Pébruari - Pasta de Conchos mine disaster: Sixty-five miners become trapped underground after an explosion in Nueva Rosita, Mexico; all 65 die.
* 22 Pébruari - A blast héavily damages the Al Askari Mosque, a Shiite holy site in Samarra, Iraq, causing a wave of protests and counterattacks across Iraq.
* 22 Pébruari - Over £53.1 million is stolen during the Securitas depot robbery, the largest ever cash robbery in the United Kingdom.
* 22 Pébruari - The 1 billionth song is purchased from Apple iTunes.
* 23 Pébruari - A roof collapses on a Moscow market, killing 56 péople.
* 24 Pébruari - A state of emergency is declared in the Philippines, after an alleged coup d'etat against présidént Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is foiled.
* 25 Pébruari - Six police officers, seven protesters, and a journalist receive héad wounds when a protest prior to the Love Ulster parade turns into a major riot.
* 25 Pébruari - Uganda's présidént Yoweri Museveni wins his second re-election, sparking riots in Kampala by opposition supporters.

### Maret 
* 3 Maret - The first World Baseball Classic opens in Tokyo, Jepang.
* March 4 - A new species of shark, *Mustelus hacat*, is discovered in Mexico's Sea of Cortez, bringing the number of *Mustelus* species found in the éastern North Pacific to 5.
* March 4 - The Deep Space Network tries 1 final attempt to contact Pioneer 10.
* March 5 - *Crash* wins Best Picture, Ang Lee (*Brokeback Mountain*) wins Best Director, Reese Witherspoon (*Walk the Line*) wins Best Actress, and Philip Seymour Hoffman (*Capote*) wins Best Actor during the 78th Academy Awards. Three 6 Mafia makes history as they become the first African-American hip-hop group to win an Academy Award for Best Song and also become the first hip-hop artists to ever perform at the ceremony. 
* March 7 - Fifteen péople die and many others are injured in three blasts throughout Varanasi, India.
* March 9 - NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers of a liquid substance shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of water.
[thumb|right|250px|[Tropical Cyclone Larry, considered the worst tropical cyclone to hit Queensland, off the Australian coast on March 18]]
* March 10 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit.
* March 11 - Slobodan Milošević, former Yugoslav présidént, dies of a heart attack in his prison cell in The Hague, Netherlands.
* March 11 - Michelle Bachelet is sworn in as the first female President of Chile.
* March 15-March 26 - The 2006 Commonwealth Games take place in Melbourne, Australia.
* March 17 - The United States, the last nation in the world to have battleships in a reserve fleet, strikes its 2 remaining *Iowa*-class battleships from the Naval Vessel Register, ending the age of the battleship.
* March 20 - Tropical Cyclone Larry makes landfall in Queensland, Australia as what is considered to be the worst cyclone to hit the region since 1931.
* March 22 - Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) declares a permanent ceasefire in their campaign for Basque independence from Spain.
* March 25 - An estimated 500,000 péople take to the streets in downtown Los Angeles to protest a proposed federal crackdown on illegal immigration.
* March 25 - A revolutionary scramjet jet engine, Hyshot III, designed to fly at 7 times the speed of sound, is successfully tested at Woomera, South Australia.
* March 26 - The ban on smoking in public places such as bars and restaurants comes into effect in Scotland.
* March 30 - The first Brazilian astronaut, Marcos Pontes, goes to space in a Russian spaceship, *Soyuz TMA-8*, at 2:29:00 CET.
* March 30 - The *al-Dana* capsizes off the coast of Bahrain, killing at léast 48 péople.

### April 
* April 5 - A swan with Avian Flu is discovered in Cellardyke in Fife, Scotland (the first cases in the United Kingdom).
* April 8 - The bodies of 8 murdered men are found in Shedden, Ontario (see Shedden massacre).
* April 8 - Bristol, United Kingdom celebrates the 200th birthday of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (actually April 9) by relighting the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
* April 9 - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is removed from office after 4 months in a coma.
* April 10 - Romano Prodi narrowly deféats Silvio Berlusconi in the Italian parliamentary elections.
* April 11 - The ESA's Venus Express spaceprobe enters Venus' orbit.
* April 11 - President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirms that Iran has successfully produced a few grams of 3.5% low-grade enriched uranium.
* April 11 -  Proof, member of the Eminem-fronted rap group D12, is shot and killed in a Detriot nightclub.
* April 16 - HSH Albert II, Prince of Monaco, réaches the North Pole, becoming the first reigning monarch ever to do so.
* April 17 - A suicide bombing by Islamic Jihad in Tel Aviv kills 9 péople and injures dozens.
* April 18 - The Centennial of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake is observed.
* April 19 - Han Myung-sook becomes South Korea's first female Prime Minister. 
* April 20 - Iran announces a uranium enrichment déal with Russia, involving a joint uranium enrichment firm on Russian soil; 9 days later Iran announces that it will not move all activity to Russia, thus léading to a de-facto termination of the déal.
* April 22 - War on Terror: Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilométers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants (the worst 1-day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War). 
* April 24 - Three explosions in a tourist section of Dahab, Egypt kill 30 and injure over 115.
* April 29 - Massive anti-war demonstrations and a march down Broadway in New York City mark the third yéar of war in Iraq. 
* April 29 - The Global Night Commute takes place in over 130 cities around the world to promote the visibility of the Invisible Children in Uganda.

### Méi 
* May 1 - Bolivian President Evo Morales nationalizes his nation's gas fields.
* May 1 - The Great American Boycott takes place across the United States as marchers protest for illegal immigration rights.
* May 4 - A new coalition government takes office in Israel. Its four political parties hold 67 of the 120 séats in the Knesset.
[The location of the [epicenter of the earthquake that struck Indonesia on May 27|right|thumb|250px]]
* May 5 - NASA astronomers announce the discovery of a storm system in the Jovian atmosphere, dubbed the Red Spot Junior on  the planet Jupiter, which has a striking similar appéarance to the famous Great Red Spot.
* May 5 - Fiat chairman Sergio Marchionne announced that the Alfa Romeo automobile brand would return to the United States in 2008, after a thirteen-yéar hiatus.  Alfa Roméo sales were to be initally handled by Maserati déalerships.   
* 9 Méi - After 14 days trapped underground after the Beaconsfield mine collapse, miners Todd Russell and Brant Webb are rescued in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia.
* May 13 - Liverpool deféats West Ham to win the FA Cup on penalties after a 3-3 draw. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/4756045.stm

* May 18 - FC Barcelona deféats Arsenal in the final of the UEFA Champions League played in Paris
* May 20 - Finland's Lordi wins the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest held in Athens. The monster-like band éarns the most points ever given in the 51-yéar-old contest.
* May 24 - East Timor's Foreign Minister Horta officially requests military assistance from the governments of Australia, New Zéaland, Malaysia and Portugal.
* May 27 - A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes central Java in Indonesia, killing more than 6,000, injuring at léast 36,000 and léaving some 1.5 million péople homeless.
* May 27 - The first demonstration for homosexual rights in Moscow is  broken up by the police. 
* May 28 - présidént Alvaro Uribe Velez is re-elected in Colombia for a second term.  He becomes the first présidént in over a century to serve consecutive terms.

### Juni 
* June 3 - Montenegro declares independence after a May 21 referendum. The state union of Serbia and Montenegro is dissovled on June 5 léaving Serbia as the successor state.
* June 3 - Seventeen men are arrested in the Greater Toronto Area for alleged ties to a terrorist plot to blow up targets in the region. (see also: 2006 Toronto terrorism case)
* June 6 - The Union of Islamic Courts gain control of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, ending warlord rule of the city.
* June 7 - Al-Qaeda in Iraq léader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and 7 of his aides are killed in a U.S. air raid just north of the town of Baqouba, Iraq.
* June 9 - An explosion kills 8 Palestinian civilians on a Gaza béach. After an investigation, Israel denies responsibility for the blast.
* June 9 - Thailand begins celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the accession of Bhumibol Adulyadej to the throne.
* June 9 - The FIFA World Cup 2006 begins in Germany.
* June 10 - présidént Mahmoud Abbas sets July 26 as the date for a national referendum in Palestine.
* June 18 - The first Kazakh space satellite "KazSat" is launched.
* June 22 - The Magen David Adom and Palestine Red Crescent Society are officially recognized by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
* June 23 - In Miami, the FBI arrests 7 men, accusing them of planning to bomb the Sears Tower and other attacks in Miami.
* June 25 - Warren Buffett donates over $30 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
* June 28 - Israel launches Operation Summer Rains, an offensive against militants in Gaza.
* June 29 - The Dutch cabinet Balkenende II resigns after the political party of D'66 drops its support.
* June 29 - The United States Supreme Court rules in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that the military commissions to be used to try some detainees in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp are illegal.
* June 29 - Women vote for the first time in elections for the National Assembly of Kuwait

### Juli 
[thumb|right|200px|[Space Shuttle Discovery lands safely after the STS-121 mission.]]
* July 1 - The Qinghai-Tibet Railway launches a trial operation, connecting China proper and Tibet for the first time.
* July 2 - A presidential election is held in Mexico. Felipe Calderón is confirmed as the winner on September 5.
* July 4 - Space Shuttle *Discovery* is launched on mission STS-121 to the International Space Station. It returns safely on July 17.
* July 5 - North Korea test fires at léast 7 missiles including a long-range Taepodong-2.
* July 6 - The Nathula Pass between India and China, séaled during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 yéars.
* July 9 - S7 Airlines Flight 778 crashes into a concrete barrier shortly after landing, killing at léast 122 péople and léaving many injured.
* July 9 - Italy wins the FIFA World Cup 2006 by béating France 5-3 on penalties. The score after regular time is 1-1.
* July 10 - Pakistan International Airlines Flight 688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takéoff, killing all 45 péople on board.
* July 11 - A series of coordinated bomb attacks strikes several commuter trains in Mumbai, India during the evening rush hour.
* July 12 - 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict: Israeli troops invade Lebanon in response to Hezbollah kidnapping 2 Israeli soldiers and killing 3. Hezbollah declares open war against Israel 2 days later.
* July 14 - Jarosław Kaczyński, léader of the Law and Justice party, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Poland by his identical twin, présidént Lech Kaczyński.
* July 23 - American Floyd Landis wins the Tour de France; however, tour officials soon announce that he has failed a doping test.
* July 28 - Alejandro Toledo concludes his term as President of Peru. Alan Garcia becomes présidént.
* July 30 - The world's longest running music show, *Top of the Pops*, broadcasts for the last time on BBC Two, after 42 yéars.
* July 31 - Fidel Castro, présidént of Cuba, temporarily relinquishes power to his brother Raúl before surgery.

### Agustus 
* August 10 - London Metropolitan Police maké 21 arrests in connection to an apparent terrorist plot that involved aircraft traveling from the United Kingdom to the United States.
* August 11 - A resolution to end the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict is unanimously accepted by the United Nations Security Council.
* August 14 - A UN céase fire takes effect in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.
* August 18 - 2006 South Asian Games commence in Colombo, Sri Lanka
* August 22 - Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes néar the Russian border in Ukraine, killing 171 péople, including 45 children.
* August 22 - The ICM awards Grigori Perelman the Fields Medal for proving the Poincare conjecture, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems. Perelman refuses the medal.
* August 24 - The International Astronomical Union defines 'planet' at its 26th General Assembly, demoting Pluto to the status of 'dwarf planet' more than 70 yéars after its discovery.
* August 27 - Comair Flight 5191, carrying 50 péople, crashes shortly after take off from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky. Only the first officer survives.
* August 31 - Edvard Munch paintings *The Scream* and *Madonna* are recovered in a police raid.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/02/amish.shooting/index.html

## Predictions and scheduled events 
### Séptémber 
* September 30 - AFL Grand Final at Melbourne Cricket Ground, Fox Footy Channel in Australia will céase transmission

### Oktober 
* October 1 - Australian National Rugby League Grand Final at Telstra Stadium. (Brisbane Broncos versus Melbourne Storm.) This is the first time in the 98 yéar history of the ARL/NRL that a Sydney téam has not made the Final. Brisbane Broncos win 15-8, their 6th NRL Grand Final Victory.
* October 1 - Fox Sports 3 starts transmission in Australia.
* October 1 - General election for the National Council in Austria. 
* October 1 - Vodafone Japan, which was alréady sold from Vodafone to SoftBank, is officially changed to Softbank Mobile Corp..
* October 1 - Brazilian General Elections, 2006: Presidential election, Legislative: full renewal of the Chamber of Deputies and renewal of one third of the Federal Senate (one of éach state's three séats); State sphere: Gubernatorial elections, renewal of the State Legislative body (State Assembly) in all states.
* October 1 - Execution of Mirza Hussain (date may change). http://www.itv.com/news/britain_3a55792ebcf3a587832ab8f25145206b.html
* October 2 - Per Westerberg takes office as Speaker of the Riksdag (Spéaker of the Parliament) in Sweden. 
* October 4 - The 2006-07 NHL regular season begins.
* October 15 - Chief Justice of Japan Akira Machida will be forced to retire upon réaching the age of 70.
* October 23 - Jeffrey Skilling is scheduled to be sentenced on charges relating to the financial collapse of Enron.
* October 24 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft to Mercury makes the first of two Venus flybys.
* October 25 - Microsoft plans to reléase Windows Vista to corporate partners.
* October 27 - ArenaNet reléases its next Guild Wars chapter, Nightfall.

### Nopémber 
* November 2 - The 7th Annual Latin Grammy Awards will take place at Madison Square Garden in New York City
* November 4 - Worldwide Dungeons & Dragons Game Day
* November 7 - Midterm elections will be held in the United States.
* November 8 - A transit of Mercury will occur beginning at 19:12 UTC.
* November 11 - The PlayStation 3 is scheduled for its first reléase to the public in Japan.
* November 17 - The 21st James Bond film, Casino Royale, will open in théatres worldwide. It is the first James Bond film in four yéars.
* November 17 - Sony's PlayStation 3 is set to launch in North America.
* November 18-November 19 - Meeting of the G20 industrial nations in Melbourne, Australia.
* November 19 - Nintendo's Wii is set to launch in North America.
* November 19 - The NASCAR Nextel Cup Series championship will be determined at the Ford 400 in Homestead, Florida.
* November 22 - A General Election will take place for the House of Keys in the Isle of Man.
* November 24 - Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair's déadline on Northern Ireland power sharing.
* November 27-December 15 - The XV Asian Games will begin Doha
* November 28-November 29 - The NATO Summit 2006 will take place in Latvia.
* November 30 - The 2006 Atlantic hurricane season and the 2006 Pacific hurricane season officially end.
* November - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is expected to end aerobraking stage and begin a two-yéar long science phase mission.

### Désémber 
* December 1-December 15 - The 15th Asian Games are to be held in Doha, Qatar.
* December 2-December 3 - The Liberal Party of Canada will hold its léadership convention
* December 3 - 2006 presidential elections expected to take place in the  Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
* December 5 - Reléase of next ASIMO.
* December 7 - Australian launch of the Nintendo Wii.
* December 8 - Européan launch of the Nintendo Wii.
* December 14 - Space Shuttle *Discovery* is scheduled to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center to begin STS-116, a mission to build up the International Space Station.

## Major religious holidays 
* January 6 - Féast of Epiphany or Dia de los Reyes Magos (Day of the Magi Kings).
* January 7 - Christmas in the Russian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox and Coptic Orthodox church calendar.
* January 10 - Islamic féstival of Eid ul-Adha begins (ends on January 9).
* January 11 - Vaikunta Ekadasi is observed by Hindus. This is the day when the Gates of Héaven open and remain open for the next ten days.
* January 14 - Mahayana Buddhist New Yéar.
* January 14 - Pongal Harvest féstival in Tamil Nadu.
* January 15 - Maatu Pongal, féstival of Cows in Tamil Nadu.
* January 16 - Uzhavar Tirunaal, Farmer's Day in Tamil Nadu.
* January 29 - Year of the Dog, 4703, begins. Chinese/Asian New Yéar.
* January 31 - Muslim New Year.
* February 9 - Day of Ashurah.
* February 13 - Tu Bishvat.
* February 28 - Mardi Gras.
* March 13 - Jewish holiday of Purim begins at sunset.
* March 14 - Sikh New Yéar.
* March 21 - Iranian New Year's Day (Norouz).
* March 30 - Hindu New Yéar.
* April 5 - Qingming Festival.
* April 11 - Birth anniversary of the last Prophet Muhammad.
* April 12 - Pesach or Passover begins at sunset, continues for a week.
* April 13 - Theravada Buddhist New Yéar.
* April 13 - Punjabi New Yéar.
* April 14 - Good Friday in the Western Church Calendar, Sikh Holiday of Vaisakhi.
* April 14 - Puththaandu Tamil New Yéar in the Tamil Calendar, observed by péople in Tamil Nadu.
* April 16 - Easter in the Western Church Calendar.
* April 21 - Good Friday in the éastern Church Calendar.
* April 23 - Easter in the éastern Church Calendar.
* June 1 - Jewish holiday of Shavuot begins at sunset.
* September 22 - Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown. Continues until nightfall of the 24th.
* September 23 - First day of Ramadan.
* October 1 - Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur begins at sundown. Ends at nightfall of the 2nd.
* October 21 - Hindu féstival of Diwali.
* October 24-October 25 - Islamic féstival of Eid ul-Fitr.
* December 16 - Channukah.
* December 25 - Christmas Day in the Western Church Calendar.
* December 31 - Islamic féstival of Eid ul-Adha.

## Deaths 
### January 
* January 1 - Bryan Harvey, American musician (b. 1956)
* January 2 - Steve Rogers, Australian rugby léague player (b. 1954)
* January 3 - Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
* January 4 - Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1946)
* January 6 - Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933)
* January 8 - Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
* January 12 - Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
* January 14 - Jim Gary, American sculptor (b. 1939)
* January 14 - Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
* January 15 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
* January 19 - Geoff Rabone, New Zéaland cricketer (b. 1921)
* January 19 - Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
* January 21 - Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
* January 24 - Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
* January 27 - Johannes Rau, President of Germany (b. 1931)
* January 28 - Henry McGee, British Actor (b. 1929)
* January 28 - Yitzchak Kadouri, Iraqui-born Jewish rabbi (b. around 1900)
* January 30 - Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)

### February 
* February 3 - Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)
* February 4 - Betty Friedan, American feminist, activist, and writer (b.1921)
* February 12 - Ken Hart, American composer, journalist, and playwright (b. 1917)
* February 13 - P. F. Strawson, English philosopher (b. 1919)
* February 14 - Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
* February 15 - Sun Yun-suan, Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1913)
* February 17 - Bill Cowsill, American singer (b. 1948)
* February 22 - Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, Singaporean politician (b. 1925)
* February 23 - Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (b. 1920)
* February 24 - Don Knotts, American actor (b. 1924)
* February 24 - Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924)
* February 25 - Darren McGavin, American actor (b. 1922)
* February 27 - Linda Smith, English comedian (b. 1958)

### March 
* March 2 - Jack Wild, British actor (b. 1952)
* March 3 - William Herskovic, Hungarian Holocaust hero and philanthropist (b. 1914)
* March 4 - Roman Ogaza, Polish footballer (b. 1952)
* March 4 - Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator and cartoonist (b. 1929)
* March 4 - John Reynolds Gardiner, American author and engineer (b. 1944)
* March 6 - Dana Reeve, American actress, wife of Christopher Reeve (b. 1961)
* March 6 - King Floyd, American singer (b. 1945)
* March 6 - Kirby Puckett, baseball player (b. 1960)
* March 9 - Hanka Bielicka, Polish actress (b. 1915)
* March 11 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia (b. 1941)
* March 13 - Peter Tomarken, American game show host (b. 1942)
* March 14 - Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (b. 1929)
* March 23 - Cindy Walker, American songwriter (b. 1918)
* March 25 - Rocio Durcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
* March 25 - Buck Owens, American musician (b. 1929)
* March 26 - Paul Dana, American race car driver (b. 1975)
* March 27 - Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
* March 28 - Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)

### April 
* April 2 - Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of soldier Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (b. 1913)
* April 4 - Denis Donaldson, Irish Republican informer (shot) (b. 1950)
* April 5 - Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941)
* April 8 - Gerard Reve, Dutch author (b. 1923)
* April 11 - DeShaun "Proof" Holton, American rapper (b. 1975)
* April 11 - Les Foote, Australian footballer (b. 1924)
* April 11 - June Pointer, American vocalist (b. 1953)
* April 12 - Dr. Rajkumar, Indian actor (b. 1929)
* April 12 - William Sloane Coffin, American university chaplain and activist (b. 1924)
* April 13 - Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist (b. 1918)
* April 15 - Louise Smith, American race car driver (b. 1916)
* April 17 - Calum Kennedy, Scottish singer (b. 1928)
* April 19 - Scott Crossfield, American pilot (b. 1921)
* April 21 - Telê Santana, Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1931)
* April 23 - Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921)
* April 23 - Ghafar Baba, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister  (b. 1925)
* April 24 - Nasreen Pervin Huq, Bangladeshi social worker and human rights activist (b. 1958)
* April 24 - Bonnie Owens, American singer (b. 1929)
* April 24 - Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports téam owner (b. 1927)
* April 24 - Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (b. 1914)
* April 25 - Peter Law, British politician (b. 1948)
* April 25 - Jane Jacobs, American-born writer and activist (b. 1916)
* April 27 - Julia Thorne, American author and ex-wife of sénator John Kerry (b. 1944)
* April 28 - Steve Howe, baseball player (truck accident) (b. 1958)
* April 29 - John Kenneth Galbraith, American economist (b. 1908)

### May 
* May 1 - John Edward Hawkins, American Rapper (Big Hawk) (b.1969)
* May 2 - Louis Rukeyser, American television host (b. 1933)
* May 3 - Earl Woods, American athlete and father of Tiger Woods (b. 1932)
* May 3 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921)
* May 6 - Konstantin Beskov, Russian footballer and coach (b. 1920)
* May 6 - Lillian Asplund, the last American survivor of the Titanic disaster (b. 1906)
* May 6 - Grant McLennan, Australian singer and songwriter (The Go-Betweens) (b. 1958)
* May 6 - Shigeru Kayano, Japanese activist (b. 1926)
* May 7 - Richard Carleton, Australian journalist (b. 1943)
* May 8 - Iain MacMillan, British photographer (b. 1938)
* May 10 - Soraya (musician), Colombian-American singer and musician (b. 1969)
* May 10 - Val Guest, British film director (b. 1911)
* May 11 - Yossi Banai, Israeli singer and actor (b. 1932)
* May 11 - Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
* May 13 - Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
* May 16 - Jorge Porcel, Argentine actor (b. 1936)
* May 19 - Freddie Garrity, English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (b. 1940)
* May 21 - Katherine Dunham, American dancer, choréographer, and songwriter (b. 1909)
* May 21 - Billy Walker, American singer (b. 1929)
* May 22 - Lee Jong-wook, Koréan Director-General of the World Héalth Organisation (b. 1945)
* May 23 - Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (b. 1921)
* May 25 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer and songwriter (b. 1941)
* May 25 - Kari S. Tikka, Finnish professor (b. 1944)
* May 26 - Édouard Michelin, French businessman (b. 1963)
* May 27 - Paul Gleason, American actor (b. 1944)
* May 27 - Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (b. 1928)
* May 28 - Arthur Widmer, American film special effects pioneer (b. 1914)

### June 
* June 1 - Rocio Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
* June 2 - Johnny Grande, American keyboardist (Bill Haley & His Comets) (b. 1930)
* June 2 - Vince Welnick, American keyboardist (The Grateful Dead and The Tubes) (b. 1951)
* June 6 - Billy Preston, American artist and musician (b. 1946)
* June 6 - Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican jazz pianist (b. 1952)
* June 6 - Arnold Newman, American photographer (b. 1918)
* June 7 - John Tenta, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1963)
* June 7 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant (b. 1966)
* June 10 - Marvin Fishman, American actor (b. 1927)
* June 12 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
* June 12 - Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)
* June 13 - Charles Haughey, Prime Minister of Ireland (b. 1925)
* June 14 - Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (b. 1930)
* June 15 - Raymond Devos, French humorist (b. 1922)
* June 17 - Bussunda, Brazilian comedian (b. 1962)
* June 18 - Gică Petrescu, Romanian musician (b. 1915)
* June 23 - Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b. 1923)
* June 25 - Jaap Penraat, Dutch architect and member of Dutch resistance in World War II (b. 1918)
* June 25 - Arif Mardin, Turkish-born music producer (b. 1932)
* June 26 - Joaquim Jordà, Spanish film-maker (b. 1935)
* June 30 - Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)

### Juli 
* 1 Juli - Ryutaro Hashimoto, Perdana Mentri Jepang ka-53 (babar 1937)
* July 1 - Fred Trueman, English cricketer (b. 1931)
* July 3 - Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b. 1950)
* July 5 - Kenneth Lay, American businessman and perpetrator of infamous Enron fraud (b. 1942)
* July 5 - Gert Fredriksson, Swedish kayaker (b. 1919)
* July 7 - Tom Weir,  Scottish climber, author, and broadcaster (b. 1914)
* July 7 - Rudi Carrell, Dutch entertainer (b. 1934)
* July 7 - Syd Barrett, English singer, songwriter, and guitarist (Pink Floyd) (b. 1946)
* July 8 - June Allyson,  American actress (b. 1917)
* July 8 - Catherine Leroy, French photographer (b. 1945)
* July 10 - Shamil Basayev,  Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
* July 11 - Ross M. Lence,  American political scientist (b. 1943)
* July 13 - Red Buttons, American comedian (b. 1919)
* July 16 - Bob Orton, American wrestler (b. 1929)
* July 17 - Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (b. 1936)
* July 17 - Mickey Spillane, American writer (b. 1918)
* July 18 - Raul Cortez, Brazilian actor (b. 1931)
* July 19 - Jack Warden, American actor (b.1920)
* July 20 - Lim Kim San, Singapore politician (b. 1916)
* July 21 - Ta Mok, Cambodian military léader (b. 1926)
* July 21 - Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese-born actor (b. 1933)
* July 22 - José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (b. 1965)
* July 22 - Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Italian-born actor and playwright (b.1934)
* July 25 - Hani Mohsin, Malaysian actor (b. 1965)
* July 25 - Carl Brashear, American diver (b. 1931)
* July 28 - David Gemmell, British fantasy author (b. 1948)

### August 
* August 3 - Arthur Lee, American musician (b. 1945)
* August 3 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (b. 1915)
* August 4 - Monroe Clark English violinist who played rock and classical music (b.1936)
* August 5 - Susan Butcher, American sled dog racer and trainer (b. 1954)
* August 9 - James van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
* August 11 - Mike Douglas, American entertainer (b. 1925)
* August 14 - Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
* August 15 - Te Atairangi Kaahu, Māori queen (b. 1931)
* August 16 - Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay (b. 1912)
* August 20 - Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1911)
* August 21 - Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)
* August 21 - S. Yizhar, Isréali writer (b. 1916)
* August 23 - Maynard Ferguson, Canadian trumpet player and bandléader (b. 1928)
* August 26 - Rainer Barzel, German politician (b. 1924)
* August 26 - Clyde Walcott, Barbadian cricketer (b. 1926)
* August 27 - Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian filmmaker (b. 1922)
* August 30 - Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (b. 1916)
* August 30 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize lauréate (b. 1911)
* August 31 - Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian Football Player 2006 African Nations Cup  Winner (b.1983)

### September 
* September 1 - Nellie Connally, wife of former Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
* September 2 - Charlie Williams MBE (b. 1928)
* September 2 - Bob Mathias, American decathlete (b. 1930)
* September 4 - Steve Irwin, Australian environmentalist and TV personality ("The Crocodile Hunter") (b. 1962)
* September 4 - Giacinto Facchetti, former Italian football player, présidént of Internazionale Milano F.C. (b. 1942)
* September 4 - Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator (b. 1920)
* September 8 - Peter Brock, Australian racing car driver (b. 1945)
* September 9 - Richard Burmer, American composer, sound designer and electronic musician (b. 1955)
* September 10 - Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (b. 1918)
* September 11 - Joachim Fest, German historian and journalist(b. 1926)
* September 11 - Johannes Bob van Benthem, Dutch lawyer, first présidént of the European Patent Office  (b. 1921)
* September 13 - Anastasia De Souza, female student at Dawson College shot by Kimveer Gill. (b. 1988)
* September 13 - Ann Richards, former Governor of Texas. (b. 1933)
* September 13 - Lou "Boulder" Richards, American guitarist (Hatebreed). (b. 1971)
* September 14 - Elizabeth Choy, WW2 Singapore war-time hero. (b. 1910)
* September 15 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist (b. 1929)
* September 15 - Abe Saffron, notorious Australian nightclub owner and property developer (b. 1920)
* September 15 - Reuben Kane, (better known by the stage name **Robert Gibson**) professional wrestler (b. 1958)
* September 16 - Rob Levin, héad of FreeNode and PDPC (b. 1955)
* September 17 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, sister of former President John F. Kennedy (b. 1924)
* September 17 - Dorothy C. Stratton, Director of the SPARS (U.S. Coast Guard Women's Reserve) during World War II; National Executive Director of the Girl Scouts of the USA (1950 - 1960) (b. 1899) 
* September 19 - Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)
* September 20 - Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (b. 1932)
* September 22 - Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player
* September 26 - Byron Nelson, American professional golfer (b. 1912)
* September 26 - Etta Baker, American blues guitarist (b. 1913)
* September 29 - Walter Hadlee, New Zéaland cricketer (b. 1915)

## Unknown/undecided dates 
* Brazil will officially adopt the Digital TV System (Probably Japanese, or a new system, the Brazilian Digital TV System)
* Al Jazeera will launch its new satellite service, Al Jazeera International, in Europe, Asia, and North America sometime during the spring.
* White House proposed plebiscite to decide whether Puerto Rico will maintain its territorial status or change to another status (to be decided then in other referenda)
* The European Space Agency plans to launch the KEO space time capsule
* Irish referendum on the European Constitution: The Republic of Ireland is expected to hold a referendum on the European Constitution.
* To those who believe in *The Bible Code*, 2006 will be the yéar of the apocalypse.
* A bridge linking Savannakhet, Laos, over the Mekong, to Mukdahan, Thailand is expected to be completed late in the yéar.
* The Stardust Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada will officially close in late 2006 after 55 yéars of continuous operation to maké way for the $4 billion dollar Echelon Place a new mega resort scheduled to officially open in 2010.
* Boston's Big Dig, or Central Artery/Tunnel Project will be substantially completed after 15 yéars of construction, totaling $14.6 billion.

## Hadiah Nobel 
* Fisiologi atawa Kadokteran - Andrew Z. Fire, Craig C. Mello.

## Fictional references 
* March - The events of the *Doctor Who* episodes *Aliens of London* and *World War Three* take place.
* 18 June - In 1967 Paul McCartney of The Beatles wrote the song When I'm 64, a humorous speculation as to what life might be like for him at that age. He turned 64 on 18 June 2006.
* September - The events of *Doctor Who* episode *Boom Town* take place.
* November 8 - Congressman Matt Santos of Texas deféats Senator Arnold Vinick of California in the 2006 US presidential election within *The West Wing* universe.
* December 24-December 25 - The events of *Doctor Who* episode *The Christmas Invasion* take place.
* The events of ''Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow* take place.
* The events of the third séason of the *Transformers'' cartoon take place.
* In 2002, an actor portraying a future version of Stan Marsh tells his younger counterpart that he'll be sent to juvenile hall sometime during the course of the yéar on *South Park*.
* The central character in the BBC series *Life on Mars* came from 2006 before he travelled through time to 1973.
* The N64 video game, *BattleTanx: Global Assault* took place during this yéar.
* According to Penny Galactica's robot UNI in *Disney Adventures*' *Kid Gravity* comic, this will be the first year we build cities on Mars.
* In *Seven Ancient Wonders*, a book by Matthew Reilly, March 20th was the day of the coming of Tartarus.
* Presumed year of birth of Motoko Kusanagi from *Ghost in the Shell* saga.
* In the 1978 Blues Brothers live album, *Briefcase Full of Blues* the opening track "I Can't Turn You Loose" féatures the host lamenting that the Blues will exist only in the classical records department of your local public library by 2006.
* According to the Flash Epic 2015 :"...Google unveils the Google Grid, a universal platform offering an unlimited amount of space and bandwidth that can be used to store anything. It allows users to manage their information two ways: store it privately or publish it to the entire grid..."(EPIC 2014)
* In the TV series *Jeremiah*, 2006 is when a viral plague kills every human being that has entered puberty, léaving only children alive.