Deaths in October 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2006. See Deaths in 2006 for other months.

October 2006

1

• Frank Beyer, 74, German film director (Jacob the Liar).
• Sir Laurence Brodie-Hall, 96, Australian mining executive.
• Alan Caillou, 91, British actor and writer.
• Pierre Gorman, 82, Australian librarian and academic.
• Jack Kirkbride, 83, British cartoonist, father of actress Anne Kirkbride.
• Rafael Quintero, 66, Cuban-born American CIA agent.
• André Viger, 54, Canadian wheelchair marathoner and paralympian, cancer.
• Yoshihiro Yonezawa, 53, Japanese manga critic, lung cancer.

2

• Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista, 82, Cuban First Lady (1952–1959), second wife of President Fulgencio Batista.
• Frances Bergen, 84, American actress, wife of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and mother of actress Candice Bergen.
• Helen Chenoweth-Hage, 68, American Republican Representative for Idaho (1995–2001), car accident.
• Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami, 69, Indian scientist, spiritual teacher and poet, heart attack.
• Tamara Dobson, 59, American actress (Cleopatra Jones), complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis.
• Paul Halmos, 90, Hungarian-born American mathematician.
• Paul Richardson, 74, American Phillies longtime organist, prostate cancer.
• Clyde Vollmer, 85, American Major League Baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).

3

• Lucilla Andrews, 86, British romantic novelist.
• Sir John Cox, 77, British admiral who was Commander-in-Chief in the South Atlantic
• John Crank, 90, British mathematical physicist who helped solve the heat equation.
• Gwen Meredith, 98, Australian writer of all 5795 episodes of the long-running radio serial Blue Hills, after heart trouble.
• Peter Norman, 64, Australian athlete, silver medalist at the 1968 Summer Olympics, heart attack.

4

• R. W. Apple, Jr., 71, American political journalist and food writer (The New York Times), thoracic cancer.
• Tom Bell, 73, British actor (Wish You Were Here, Prime Suspect), after short illness.
• František Fajtl, 94, Czech World War II fighter pilot, after long illness.
• Norbert Franck, 88, Luxembourgian Olympic swimmer.
• Walter Gibb, 87, British aviator and test pilot who held the world altitude record.
• Ralph Griswold, 72, American creator of Snobol and Icon programming languages, cancer.
• Vic Heyliger, 87, American ice hockey Hall of Fame player and coach.
• Oskar Pastior, 78, Romanian-born German writer.
• Riccardo Pazzaglia, 80, Italian actor, writer and film director. (Italian)
• Don Thompson, 73, British race walker and 1960 Olympic gold medal winner, aneurysm.
• Katarina Tomasevski, 53, Croatian-born former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education.

5

• Valerie Campbell-Harding, 74, Canadian textile art designer, heart attack. .
• Friedrich Karl Flick, 79, German-Austrian billionaire industrialist.
• George King, 78, American college basketball coach.
• Speedy O. Long, 78, American Democratic Representative for Louisiana (1964–1972), cousin of Huey Long.
• Jennifer Moss, 61, British actress, played Lucille Hewitt on Coronation Street.
• Antonio Peña, 53, Mexican promoter of Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, heart attack.
• Jackie Rae, 84, Canadian singer, songwriter and entertainer.
• Dick Wagner, 78, American former president of the Cincinnati Reds and Houston Astros, injuries from a 1999 car crash.
• Gilbert F. White, 94, American geographer.

6

• Bertha Brouwer, 75, Dutch athlete, silver medalist in the 200m at the 1952 Olympics. (Dutch)
• Charles Clark, 73, British publisher and lawyer.
• Claude Luter, 83, French jazz clarinetist and bandleader.
• Eduardo Mignogna, 66, Argentinian film director. (Spanish)
• Buck O'Neil, 94, American baseball player and manager in the Negro leagues, heart failure and bone marrow cancer.
• Timo Sarpaneva, 79, Finnish glassmaker.
• Heinz Sielmann, 89, German zoologist
• Wilson Tucker, 91, American science fiction writer.

7

• Charlie Bradberry, 24, American NASCAR driver, car accident.
• Danifel Campilan, 25, Filipino news reporter (24 Oras), car accident.
• Polly Craus, 83, American Olympic fencer.
• Craig Dobbin, 71, Canadian founder of CHC Helicopter, after illness following lung transplant.
• Julen Goikoetxea, 21, Spanish bicycle racer, suicide by jumping.
• Anna Politkovskaya, 48, Russian journalist, shot.
• Peter H. Rossi, 84, American sociologist.

8

• Ira B. Harkey Jr., 88, American newspaper editor, winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.
• Pavol Hnilica, 85, Slovak Catholic bishop. (Slovak)
• Ivan Murrell, 63, American Major League Baseball player for the Astros and Padres.
• Mark Porter, 31, New Zealand racing driver, race crash.

9

• Sedat Alp, 93, Turkish archaeologist specializing in Hittitology. (Turkish)
• Coccinelle, 75, French transsexual singer, stroke. (French)
• Reg Freeson, 80, British politician, Minister of State for Housing and Local Government (1974–1979).
• Marek Grechuta, 60, Polish singer, composer and lyricist. (Polish)
• Danièle Huillet, 70, French filmmaker, cancer.
• Paul Hunter, 27, British snooker player, neuroendocrine tumours.
• Mario Moya Palencia, 73, Mexican politician and diplomat (Interior Minister, 1969–1976), heart attack.
• Glenn Myernick, 51, American assistant soccer coach of the men's national team, heart attack.
• Raymond Noorda, 82, American computer executive, CEO of Novell (1982–1994).
• Kanshi Ram, 72, Indian politician, heart attack.

10

• Jerry Belson, 68, American Emmy-winning television comedy writer (Tracey Ullman, Dick Van Dyke), prostate cancer.
• Francis Berry, 91, British poet and literary critic.
• P. C. Devassia, 100, Indian Sanskrit scholar and poet, won 1980 Sahitya Akademi Award (Kristubhagavatam).
• Sir Derek Pattinson, 76, British Secretary-General of the General Synod of the Church of England (1972–1990)
• Michael John Rogers, 74, British ornithologist.
• Ian Scott, 72, Canadian Attorney General of Ontario (1985–1990).
• Lalit Suri, 59, Indian hotelier and parliamentarian, heart attack.

11

• Sir Victor Goodhew, 86, British politician, Conservative MP for St Albans (1959–1983).
• Cory Lidle, 34, American baseball pitcher (New York Yankees), victim of the 2006 New York City plane crash.
• Benito Martínez, 126?, Cuban claimant to the title of world's oldest person.
• Sir Robert Megarry, 96, British judge and Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court (1982–1985).
• Eddie Pellagrini, 88, American baseball player and coach (Boston College).
• Jimmy Peters, Sr., 84, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup winner (Montreal Canadiens, Detroit Red Wings).
• Raad Mutar Saleh, Iraqi Mandaean leader, shot.
• Jacques Sternberg, 83, French science fiction and fantastique author, lung cancer.
• John Turvey, 61, Canadian youth activist and Order of Canada recipient, mitochondrial myopathy.

12

• Todd Bolender, 92, American dancer and choreographer, director of the Kansas City Ballet.
• Johnny Callison, 67, American Major League Baseball player, three-time All-Star outfielder with the Phillies.
• Samuel B. Casey, Jr., 78, American CEO of Pullman Company.
• Hermann Eilts, 84, German-born American diplomat and US ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1965–1970).
• Eugène Martin, 91, French racing driver. (French)
• Gerard Murphy, 57, Irish mathematician.
• Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, Italian film director (The Battle of Algiers), heart failure.

13

• Mason Andrews, 87, American physician who delivered America's first test tube baby, Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia (1992–1994).
• Deborah Blumer, 64, American member of the Massachusetts General Court, heart attack.
• Petra Cabot, 99, American designer, created the Skotch Kooler, natural causes.
• Bob Lassiter, 61, American talk radio personality.
• Dino Monduzzi, 84, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Pontifical Household (1986–1998).
• Hilda Terry, 92, American cartoonist, creator of comic strip Teena.
• Wang Guangmei, 85, Chinese wife of late Communist leader Liu Shaoqi.

14

• Bernard Allen, 69, American member of the North Carolina General Assembly.
• James Barr, 82, British Old Testament scholar.
• Chun Wei Cheung, 34, Dutch rowing cox, silver medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, liver cancer.
• Freddy Fender, 69, American singer ("Before the Next Teardrop Falls"), lung cancer.
• Soni Pabla, 30, Indian Punjabi singer, heart attack.
• Klaas Runia, 80, Dutch Reformed Church theologian.
• Gerry Studds, 69, American first openly gay congressman, represented Massachusetts (1973–1997), pulmonary embolism.

15

• Derek Bond, 86, British actor (Callan, Scott of the Antarctic).
• William Bright, 78, American linguist and author, recorder of indigenous North American languages.
• Michael Forrester, 89, British army general.
• Robert Pfarr, 86, American Olympic cyclist.
• George Stevens, 74, American politician and Baptist minister.
• Michelle Urry, 66, Canadian cartoon editor for Playboy.

16

• Niall Andrews, 69, Irish politician, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South (1977–1987), MEP for Leinster (1984–2004), lung cancer.
• Ross Davidson, 57, British former EastEnders actor, brain tumour.
• Sid Davis, 90, American educational filmmaker, lung cancer.
• Martin Flannery, 88, British politician, Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough (1974–1992).
• Harold Gardner, 107, American World War I veteran, served one day prior to the armistice.
• Tommy Johnson, 71, American musician known for his work on the Jaws theme, complications of cancer and kidney failure.
• John V. Murra, 90, Ukrainian-born American anthropologist and Inca scholar.
• Valentín Paniagua, 70, Peruvian president (2000–2001), complications from heart surgery.
• Lister Sinclair, 85, Canadian playwright and broadcaster, pulmonary embolism.
• Ernie Steele, 88, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).
• Trebisonda Valla, 90, first Italian female 1936 Olympic champion (80m hurdles), natural causes.
• Anatoly Voronin, 55, Russian business chief of ITAR TASS news agency, stabbed.

17

• Daniel Emilfork, 82, French actor (The City of Lost Children).
• Miriam Engelberg, 48, American graphic author (Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person), metastatic breast cancer.
• Christopher Glenn, 68, American CBS News radio and television news anchor, liver cancer.
• Megan Meier, 13, American cyberbullying victim, suicide by hanging.
• Ursula Moray Williams, 95, British children's author.
• Lieuwe Steiger, 82, Dutch goalkeeper for PSV Eindhoven (1942–1957, 1959) and The Netherlands (1953–1954). (Dutch)
• Marcia Tucker, 66, American curator, founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art.

18

• Don R. Christensen, 90, American animator and cartoonist.
• Marc Hodler, 87, Swiss president of the International Ski Federation (1951–1998), International Olympic Committee whistleblower, stroke.
• Mario Francesco Pompedda, 77, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (1999–2004), brain hemorrhage.
• Anna Russell, 94, British-born Canadian comedian and classical music satirist.
• Laurie Taitt, 72, British sprint hurdler.
• Alvin M. Weinberg, 91, American Manhattan Project scientist and former director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

19

• Ralph Harris, Baron Harris of High Cross, 81, British life peer, founder of the Institute of Economic Affairs, heart attack.
• Michael Johnson, 29, American criminal, suicide prior to execution.
• Phyllis Kirk, 79, American actress (House of Wax, The Thin Man), post cerebral aneurysm.
• Srividya, 53, Indian actress, cancer.

20

• Don Burroughs, 75, American football player (1955–1964), cancer.
• Irene Galitzine, 90, Russian-born Italian fashion designer.
• Maxi Herber, 86, German figure skater, gold medal winner at the 1936 Winter Olympics, Parkinson's disease.
• Lawrence Kolb, 95, American psychiatrist, leader in community mental health movement.
• Eric Newby, 86, British travel writer.
• Jane Wyatt, 96, American actress (Father Knows Best, Star Trek), natural causes.

21

• Peter Barkworth, 77, British actor, bronchopneumonia following a stroke.
• Paul Biegel, 81, Dutch writer of children's literature. (Dutch)
• Pye Chamberlayne, 68, American radio journalist, heart attack.
• Daryl Duke, 77, Canadian film director (The Thorn Birds), pulmonary fibrosis.
• Bryan Hipp, American guitarist (Diabolic, Cradle of Filth).
• Howard Lawson, 92, British cricketer (Hampshire).
• Bob Mann, 82, American football player (Detroit Lions).
• Arthur Peacocke, 81, British scientist and theologian.
• Milton Selzer, 87, American actor.
• Paul Walters, 59, British BBC radio and TV producer.
• Sandy West, 47, American drummer and vocalist (The Runaways), lung cancer.
• Urien Wiliam, 76, British writer.

22

• Choi Kyu-hah, 87, South Korean president (1979–1980).
• Nelson de la Rosa, 38, Dominican actor, "World's Shortest Man" in the 1989 Guinness Book of Records.
• Masayuki Fujio, 89, Japanese former minister of education. (Japanese)
• Arthur Hill, 84, Canadian Tony Award-winning actor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Alzheimer's disease.
• Mancs, 12, Hungarian rescue dog with the Miskolc Spider Special Rescue Team, pneumonia.
• Richard Mayes, 83, British stage and television actor.
• Michael Mayne, 77, British clergyman, Dean of Westminster Abbey (1986–1996), cancer of the jaw.

23

• Leonid Hambro, 86, American concert pianist.
• Jane Elizabeth Hodgson, 91, American doctor and abortion rights advocate.
• Bruno Lauzi, 69, Italian singer and composer, Parkinson's disease. (Italian)
• Lebo Mathosa, 29, South African singer, car accident.
• Egon Piechaczek, 69, Polish football player and coach.
• Todd Skinner, 48, American free climber, climbing accident.
• Rein Strikwerda, 76, Dutch doctor and knee injury specialist.

24

• Daisy, 13, Yorkshire terrier companion of murdered German designer Rudolph Moshammer.
• Jeffrey Lundgren, 56, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
• Enolia McMillan, 102, American civil rights activist, first female president of the NAACP, heart failure.
• Benjamin Meed, 88, Polish-born American president and co-founder of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.
• Jack Radtke, 93, American baseball player.
• William Montgomery Watt, 97, British professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

25

• Paul Ableman, 79, British playwright and novelist.
• Richard Cleaver, 89, Australian politician, MHR for Swan (1955–1969).
• Kintaro Ohki, 77, South Korean wrestler, heart attack.
• Danny Rolling, 52, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.

26

• Gary Coull, 52, Canadian journalist, co-founder of CLSA, cancer.
• Rogério Duprat, 74, Brazilian composer, cancer. (Portuguese)
• Tillman Franks, 86, American bassist, songwriter and country music manager, natural causes.
• Ralph R. Harding, 77, American congressman from Idaho (1961–1965).
• Pontus Hultén, 82, Swedish art collector and museum director.
• John Kentish, 96, British operatic tenor.
• Kojima Nobuo, 91, Japanese author, pneumonia. (Japanese)
• Theodore Taylor, 85, American writer (The Cay), heart attack.

27

• John Broadbent, 92, Australian Army officer and lawyer.
• Jozsef Gregor, 66, Hungarian opera singer.
• Thomas R. Jones, 93, American jurist and civil rights activist.
• Ghulam Ishaq Khan, 91, President of Pakistan (1988–1993), pneumonia.
• Marlin McKeever, 66, American former football player, head injuries from a fall.
• Joe Niekro, 61, American Major League Baseball pitcher, brain aneurysm.
• Muhammad Qasim, 32, Pakistani field hockey goalkeeper, cancer.
• Albrecht von Goertz, 92, German-born American car designer.
• Bradley Roland Will, 36, American Indymedia reporter, shot whilst covering the 2006 Oaxaca protests.

28

• Red Auerbach, 89, American coach of the Boston Celtics (1950–1966), heart attack.
• Tina Aumont, 60, French actress, pulmonary embolism. (Italian)
• György Bence, 64, Hungarian philosopher. (Hungarian)
• Trevor Berbick, 51, Jamaican former heavyweight boxing champion, last boxer to face Muhammad Ali, homicide.
• Brian Brolly, 70, British co-manager of Wings (1973–1978), Managing Director of RUG (1978–1988), co-founder of Classic FM, heart attack.
• Henry Fok, 83, Hong Kong businessman, philanthropist and CCPPC official, lymphoma.
• Richard Gilman, 83, American drama and literary critic, lung cancer.
• Peter Gingold, 90, German anti-fascist. (German)
• Marijohn Wilkin, 86, American country songwriter, member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, heart failure.

29

• Nigel Kneale, 84, British scriptwriter (The Quatermass Experiment), stroke.
• Muhammadu Maccido, 78, Nigerian Sultan of Sokoto, Muslim spiritual leader, aeroplane crash.
• Silas Simmons, 111, American Negro league baseball player, oldest known professional baseball player.

30

• Clifford Geertz, 80, American cultural anthropologist, complications following heart surgery.
• Jens Christian Hauge, 91, Norwegian World War II resistance leader, first postwar defence minister, natural causes.
• Junji Kinoshita, 92, Japanese playwright, pneumonia.
• Ian Rilen, 58, Australian bass player (Rose Tattoo), bladder cancer.
• Aud Schønemann, 83, Norwegian actress. (Norwegian)
• Mose Tolliver, 82, American folk artist, pneumonia.

31

• Hank Berger, 55, American nightclub owner, asthma-related problems.
• P. W. Botha, 90, South African politician, Prime Minister (1978–1984), State President (1984–1989), heart attack.
• Nikki Catsouras, 18, teenage car crash victim from Orange County, California whose accident photos were released onto internet, automobile accident.
• Shane Drury, 27, American professional bull rider in the PRCA, Ewing's sarcoma.
• William Franklyn, 81, British actor, prostate cancer.
• Peter Fryer, 79, British journalist who reported on the Hungarian Revolution.
• Michael James Genovese, 87, American alleged Mafia boss of Pittsburgh.
• George B. Thomas, 92, American mathematician and author, natural causes.
• Nicholas John Vine-Hall, 62, Australian genealogist, cancer.