Deaths in February 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.

February 2006

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Roy Alon, 63, British stuntman (Die Another Day, Willow, 101 Dalmatians), heart attack. Dick Bass, 68, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and radio analyst. Dick Brooks, 63, American NASCAR race car driver and radio broadcaster, heart attack. Ronald B. Cameron, 78, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1963–1967). Robin Donkin, 78, British historian and geographer. Ernest Dudley, 97, British novelist, journalist, screenwriter, actor, radio broadcaster. Sam Goddard Jr., 86, American politician, Governor of Arizona 1965–1967. Carlson Gracie, 72, Brazilian martial artist, complications from kidney stones. Bryce Harland, 74, New Zealand diplomat, Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1982–1985), High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (1985–1991). Jean-Philippe Maitre, 56, Swiss politician, former President of the Swiss National Council, brain tumor. John Woollam, 78, British politician, former Conservative Member of Parliament.Who's Who, 2007.

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Armando Castillo, 73, Guatemalan Olympic cyclist. Jill Chaifetz, 41, American lawyer and executive director of the nonprofit legal group Advocates for Children of New York, ovarian cancer. Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury, 77, Bangladeshi politician, former prime minister of Bangladesh. Chris Doty, 39, Canadian documentarian and playwright, suicide by hanging. Guglielmo Letteri, 80, Italian comic book artist. Pat Rupp, 63, American ice hockey player, goaltender for the 1964 and 1968 Olympic ice hockey teams, cancer. S. K. Ramachandra Rao, 78, Indian scholar. Athol Shephard, 85, Australian cricketer. Nicholas Swarbrick, 107, English sailor, one of the last two surviving World War I Merchant Navy veterans. Sir Reginald Swartz, 94, Australian politician, Minister for Civil Aviation from 1966 to 1969. Chris Walton, 72, English cricketer. Stephen Worobetz, 91, Canadian politician, former lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan.

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Ustad Qawwal Bahauddin, 72, Indian-Pakistani Qawwali singer. Walerian Borowczyk, 82, Polish-born surrealist filmmaker, heart failure. Jean Byron, 80, American actress (The Patty Duke Show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Johnny Concho), infection following hip replacement surgery. Ernie Clements, 83, British road racing cyclist. Frank Ellis, 100, British radiologist. Frank Goodman, 89, American Broadway press agent, congestive heart failure. Lou Jones, 74, American Olympic runner. Sonny King, 83, American comedian-singer, Jimmy Durante's sidekick, cancer. Duma Kumalo, 48, South African human rights activist, one of the Sharpeville Six, film-maker and founding member of the Khulumani Support Group for victims of apartheid-related violence. Al Lewis, 82, American actor (The Munsters, Car 54, Where Are You?, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?). Romano Mussolini, 78, Italian jazz musician and painter. Denne Bart Petitclerc, 76, American journalist, screenwriter, and friend of Ernest Hemingway. Johnny Vaught, 96, American college football player, coach, and college athletics administrator, NCAA championship-winning University of Mississippi football coach.

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Jenő Dalnoki, 73, Hungarian Olympic football player and manager (1952 gold medal, 1960 bronze medal).Jenő Dalnoki, Sports-Reference / Olympic Sports. Retrieved 2019-03-03. Friedrich Engel, 97, German Nazi SS officer. Betty Friedan, 85, American feminist and writer, congestive heart failure. William Augustus Jones Jr., 71, American Civil Rights pioneer. Barbara W. Leyden, 56, American palynologist and paleoecologist. Joe McGuff, 79, American sportswriter and newspaper editor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease). Elena Carter Richardson, 57, Mexican-born principal dancer and teacher, cancer. Jack Taylor, 60, once heaviest man in UK. Myron Waldman, 97, American animator (Betty Boop, Superman), congestive heart failure.

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Norma Candal, 75, Puerto Rican comedian, actress and drama teacher, head injury.Puerto Rico Past and Present Franklin Cover, 77, American actor (The Jeffersons, Wall Street, The Stepford Wives), pneumonia. Reuven Frank, 85, American TV journalism pioneer and former NBC News president, complications from pneumonia. Stuart Mason, 57, English footballer.Stuart Mason 1948-2006 Ray Owen, 65, English rugby league player and administrator.Ex-Vikings chief dies Peter Philp, 85, British dramatist and antiques expert. Sir Alberto Rodrigues, 94, Hong Kong physician and politician.

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John Brightman, Baron Brightman, 94, UK lawyer and former Lord of Appeal. Mario Condello, 53, Australian lawyer and gangland criminal, shot. Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, 80, American comedian and actor (Rio Bravo, The High and the Mighty, Dreamer), cancer. Stella Ross-Craig, 99, English illustrator, one of the most prodigious of flora illustrators. Esther Sandoval, 78, Puerto Rican actress. Karin Struck, 58, German writer, cancer. Kōji Totani, 57, Japanese voice actor (Fist of the North Star, Metal Gear, Dragon Ball Z), heart failure.

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Glenn Lee Benner II, 43, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. Dürrüşehvar Sultan, 92, Ottoman princess.Hadice Hayriye Ayşe Dürrüşehvar Sultan Sándor Garay, 86, Hungarian Olympic athlete. George Millay, 76, American businessman and founder of SeaWorld, lung cancer. Max Rosenn, 96, American judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1970–2006). Mitchell Rupe, 51, American convicted murderer ruled too heavy to be hanged, liver disease. Alan Shalleck, 76, American television writer and director (Curious George), murdered.

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Larry Black, 54, American track and field medalist at 1972 Summer Olympics, aneurysm. Elton Dean, 60, English jazz saxophonist, heart and liver related problems. Michael Gilbert, 93, British mystery author and lawyer. Ron Greenwood, 84, British football manager, England national team, West Ham United. Akira Ifukube, 91, Japanese film composer (Godzilla). Mart Kenney, 95, Canadian jazz musician and bandleader, "Canada's Big Band King," complications from a fall. Gigi Parrish, 93, American actress, later known as Katherine Weld. Kuljeet Randhawa, 30, Indian actress, suicide by hanging.

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Phil Brown, 89, American actor (Star Wars, Calling Dr. Gillespie, Oppenheimer). Ibolya Csák, 91, Hungarian athlete, 1936 Olympic gold medalist in women's high jump. Gilles Kahn, 59, French computer scientist. Sir Freddie Laker, 83, British entrepreneur, founder of Laker Airways. Nadira, 75, Indian Bollywood actress. Laurie Z, 48, American musician, lung cancer.

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John Belluso, 36, American playwright, Engleman-Camurdrie syndrome. Fernando Brobró, 71, Brazilian Olympic basketball player.Fernando Brobra Jill Fraser, 59, British theatre director, cancer. Dick Harmon, 58, American golfer and golf instructor. Knut-Olaf Haustein, 71, German physician. J Dilla 32, American hip hop record producer and MC, lupus nephritis. John Prentice, 79, Scottish football player and manager. Norman Shumway, 83, American surgeon, performed first U.S. heart transplant, lung cancer. Peter Smith, 65, British trade union leader, oesophageal cancer. Juan Soriano, 85, Mexican painter and sculptor. André Strappe, 77, French football player.

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Wendy Barnes, 89, British overseas radio broadcaster. Peter Benchley, 65, American author and screenwriter (Jaws, The Deep), pulmonary fibrosis. Peggy Cripps Appiah, 84, British-Ghanaian children's author. Ken Fletcher, 65, Australian tennis player, cancer. Jackie Pallo, 79, British professional wrestler, cancer. Altynbek Sarsenbayev, 43, Kazakh politician, former cabinet minister, assassinated. Harry Schein, 81, Austrian-born founder of Swedish Film Institute, author and columnist. Thomas A. Spragens, 88, American administrator, former president of Centre College. Harry Vines, 67, American wheelchair basketball coach.

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Lenny Dee, 83, American virtuoso organist. Henri Guédon, 61, French percussionist. Pamela O'Malley, 76, Irish-Spanish activist and educationalist and radical, stroke. Juan Sánchez-Navarro y Peón, 92, Mexican entrepreneur and co-founder of National Action Party.

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John Brooke-Little, 78, English author and officer of arms. Ilan Halimi, French Jew kidnapped and murdered by a gang from a banlieue. Possibly anti-Semitic murder. Jaakko Honko, 83, Finnish economist. Andreas Katsulas, 59, American actor (Babylon 5, The Fugitive, Star Trek: The Next Generation), lung cancer. Alan M. Levin, 79, American documentary filmmaker. Edna Lewis, 89, American author of cookbooks on Southern U.S. cuisine. Sir Peter Strawson, 86, British philosopher. Joseph Ujlaki, 76, Hungarian-born French football player. Wang Xuan, 70, Chinese academic and IT expert.

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Ramon Bagatsing, 89, Filipino politician, Mayor of Manila, cardiac arrest.Ex-Manila Mayor Ramon Bagatsing dies Yehuda Chitrik, 106, Russian-born rabbi and Lubavitch storyteller. Darry Cowl, 80, French actor and pianist, lung cancer. Shoshana Damari, 83, Yemeni-born Israeli singer, "Queen of Israeli song," pneumonia. Michael G. Fitzgerald, 55, American film historian and author. Lynden David Hall, 31, British soul singer, Hodgkin's lymphoma. Tage Møller, 91, Danish Olympic cyclist. Don Paarlberg, 94, American agricultural economics adviser to three U.S. Presidents. Michael Posner, 74, British economist.Michael Posner Putte Wickman, 81, Swedish jazz orchestra leader and clarinetist, cancer.

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Barbara Guest, 85, American poet of the New York School. Anna Marly, 88, Russian-born songwriter, France's "Troubadour of the Resistance.". Andrei Petrov, 75, Russian composer. Robert E. Rich Sr., 92, American businessman, creator of first non dairy whipped topping. Sun Yun-suan, 93, Chinese engineer and politician, former Premier of Republic of China, heart attack. Josip Vrhovec, 79, Croatian Yugoslav communist politician, former foreign minister of Yugoslavia. Lim Hock Soon, 41, murder victim who was shot to death in Singapore by former acquaintance and gangster Tan Chor Jin

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Paul Avrich, 74, American professor and historian of anarchism, Alzheimer's disease. Benno Besson, 83, Swiss stage director. Johnny Grunge, 40, American pro wrestler, sleep apnea complications. Sid Feller, 89, American music arranger, conductor and record producer. Dennis Kirkland, 63, British television producer and director, after a short illness. Ernie Stautner, 80, German-born American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Alzheimer's disease.

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Ray Barretto, 76, American-born Latin jazz percussionist and bandleader, heart failure. Sybille Bedford, 94, German-born British novelist and memoirist. Paul Carr, 72, American actor (Akira, Raise the Titanic, Star Trek), lung cancer. Bill Cowsill, 58, American singer, lead of The Cowsills, emphysema and other ailments. Gertrude Ganote, 86, American baseball player (AAGPBL). Harold Hunter, 31, American pro skateboarder, in movie Kids, suspected drug overdose. Bob Lewis, 81, American race horse owner, congestive heart failure. Jorge Mendonça, 51, Brazilian football player, heart attack. Yevgeny Samoylov, 94, Russian actor.

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Richard Bright, 68, American actor (The Godfather, Marathon Man, Once Upon a Time in America), traffic collision. Bill Hartley, 75, Australian political activist and trade unionist. Laurel Hester, 49, American gay rights activist, lung cancer. Charles Leonard, 92, American US Army Major General and Olympic sharpshooter. Saulius Mykolaitis, 40, Lithuanian director, actor, and singer-songwriter. Tom Sellers, 83, American newspaper reporter and 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner, heart attack. Ruth Taylor, 44, Canadian poet, alcohol poisoning.

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