Deaths in April 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

April 2006

1

Gary Dineen, 62, Canadian ice hockey player and coach. Annesley Kingsford, 93, Canadian rower and Olympian. In Tam, 83, Cambodian politician. Oscar Treadwell, 79, American jazz radio journalist and presenter.

2

Sir Anthony Beaumont-Dark, 73, British politician, former Conservative Member of Parliament. Bernard Seigal, 48, American musician and essayist with the stage name Buddy Blue, co-founder of the Beat Farmers, heart attack. Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, 92, German widow of Hitler's would-be assassin.

3

Tom Abercrombie, 75, American National Geographic photographer, complications from open-heart surgery. Barry Bingham Jr., 72, American television and radio executive, former editor and publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times. Lou Carrol, 83, American traveling salesman, gave Checkers to Richard Nixon. Doug Coombs, 48, American extreme skier, ski accident in the French Alps. Ewan Fenton, 76, Scottish footballer. Martin Gilks, 41, English musician, former drummer with The Wonder Stuff, motorcycle accident. Marshall Goldberg, 88, American football player, former NFL running back of the Chicago Cardinals, complications due to a head injury. Al Harker, 95, American soccer player, last surviving member of the US 1934 FIFA World Cup soccer team. Muhammad al-Maghut, 71, Syrian poet and playwright. Genzō Murakami, 96, Japanese novelist. Walter W. Ristow, 97, American map librarian at the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress. Sir Andrew Stark, 89, British diplomat, Ambassador to Denmark (1971–1976). Ida Vos, 74, Dutch writer.

4

Mary Boyce, 85, British authority on Iran. Toddie Byrne, 71, Irish politician. Fred J. Christensen, 84, American fighter ace in World War II. Eckhard Dagge, 58, former German WBC junior middleweight champion. Sir Roy Denman, 81, British civil servant and diplomat. Denis Donaldson, 55-56, British former head of Sinn Féin at Stormont, and British double-agent, found shot dead at his home. Gary Gray, 69, American child actor of the 1940s, cancer. John de Courcy Ireland, 94, Irish maritime historian and political activist. John George Macleod, 90, Scottish physician. Jürgen Thorwald, 90, German writer. Vickery Turner, 61, British actress of the 60's. Frederick B. Williams, 66, American minister of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem, New York City.

5

Alain de Boissieu, 91, French General and son-in-law of Charles De Gaulle. Carequinha, 90, Brazilian entertainer who performed as "Carequinha" the clown. J. B. Fuqua, 87, American entrepreneur and philanthropist. Allan Kaprow, 78, American artist and art theorist, natural causes. Armando Labra, 62, Mexican economist. Pasquale Macchi, 82, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop, former private secretary to Pope Paul VI. Abdul Salam al-Ujayli, 88, Syrian novelist. Gene Pitney, 66, American singer ("Town Without Pity", "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance", "Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa") and songwriter, heart disease.

6

Augustyn Bloch, 76, Polish composer and organist. Maggie Dixon, 28, American women's basketball coach at United States Military Academy, cardiac arrhythmia. Francis L. Kellogg, 89, American diplomat. Leslie Norris, 84, Welsh poet and professor at Brigham Young University.

7

Roger Arnaldez, 94, French professor of Islamic studies. Bobbie Nudie, 92, American fashion designer. Jim Clack, 58, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Giants), heart attack. Adamas Golodets, 72, Soviet football player and manager. Théogène Ricard, 96, Canadian politician.

8

Henry Lewy, 79, German-American sound engineer and record producer. Richard Pearlman, 68, American theatre and opera director, director of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists. Gerard Reve, 82, Dutch author (The Evenings, The Fourth Man), Alzheimer's disease. Valentine Telegdi, 84, Hungarian-American physicist.

9

Christian Compton, 76, American jurist, justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Frank Gibney, 81, American writer and journalist on Asia. Billy Hitchcock, 89, American baseball, coach and manager (Detroit Tigers). Robin Orr, 96, Scottish classical composer and conductor. Jimmy Outlaw, 93, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers). Georges Rawiri, 74, Gabonese politician, president of the Senate and former foreign minister. Hermann Schild, 93, German cyclist, National Champion (1954). Vilgot Sjöman, 81, Swedish film director (I Am Curious (Yellow)), complications from brain haemorrhage. Natalia Troitskaya, 55, Russian operatic soprano.

10

Joe Faragalli, 76, Canadian Football League head coach with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Eskimos. Jean Grosjean, 93, French poet, writer and translator. Bishop Charles Henderson, 81, Irish retired Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, England, KC*HS, cancer. Notable Kenyans killed in the 2006 Kenyan Air Force Harbin Y-12 crash: Bonaya Godana, 54, politician, MP for North Horr Constituency (since 1988), minister of foreign affairs (1998–2001). William Waqo, Anglican prelate, assistant bishop of Kirinyaga.Kenya: Twice Unlucky As Bishop Dies in Crash

11

Leonard Dommett, 77, Australian violinist and conductor. Les Foote, 81, Australian Football Hall of Fame member. Siobhán O'Hanlon, 43, Northern Irish Sinn Féin politician, cancer. Winand Osiński, 92, Polish Olympic runner. June Pointer, 52, American singer (The Pointer Sisters), lung cancer. Proof, 32, American rapper (D-12), shot. Shin Sang-ok, 80, Korean film producer, liver problems. Sergey Tereshchenkov, 67, Soviet Olympic cyclist. Angus Wells, 63, English fiction writer.

12

Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah, 41, Egyptian militant, killed by Pakistani forces. Richard Bebb, 79, British actor. William Sloane Coffin, 81, American minister and peace activist, congestive heart failure. Andy Duncan, 83, American basketball player. Paulina Kernberg, 71, Chilean-born American child psychiatrist, professor at Cornell University. Kazuo Kuroki, 75, Japanese film director. Shekhar Mehta, 60, Kenyan rally driver, five-time winner of the Safari Rally & president of the FIA's World Rally Championship commission, illness relating to complications from an old injury. Puggy Pearson, 77, American poker player. Albert Ernest Radford, 88, American botanist. Rajkumar, 76, Indian actor, cardiac arrest. William Woo, 69, first Asian-American to be editor of a major American daily newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, professor at Stanford University.

13

John Read, 85, British television producer and cinematographer. Dame Muriel Spark, 88, British novelist (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Mandelbaum Gate, The Driver's Seat). Bruce Weber, 54, Australian rules football executive who was president of the Port Adelaide Football Club. Arthur Winston, 100, American Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee, famous for serving for 76 years and retiring at age 100.

14

Mahmut Bakalli, 70, Kosovo ethnic Albanian politician. Henry Callow, Isle of Man jurist.Death of His Honour Henry Callow, CBE A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury, 78, Indian politician. Tom Ferguson, 62, American medical doctor and author. Miguel Reale, 95, Brazilian philosopher of law, heart attack. Eberhardt Rechtin, 80, American electrical engineer and telecommunications expert.

15

Raúl Corrales Forno, 81, Cuban photographer . Jago Eliot, 40, English aristocrat, surfer and cyber artist, epilepsy. Calum Kennedy, 77, Scottish traditional singer. Pavel Koutecký, 49, Czech documentary film maker, accidental fall. Louise Smith, 89, American NASCAR racer, first woman inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, known as "the first lady of racing," complications from cancer. Vusumzi Make, 75, South African politician

16

Francisco Adam, 22, Portuguese actor, traffic collision. Lorraine Borg, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL) Philippe Castelli, 80, Franch actor.Philippe Castelli (1925–2006) Richard Eckersley, 65, English graphic designer. Morton Freedgood, 93, American author (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three) under the pseudonym of John Godey. Brett Goldin, 27, South African actor, shot. Poopak Goldarreh, 34, Iranian actress, traffic collision. (in Persian) Harold Horwood, 82, Canadian writer and former Newfoundland politician, cancer. Stephen Marshall, 20, American double murderer, suicide by gunshot. Daniel Schaefer, 70, American politician, former Republican United States Representative from Colorado served 1983–1999, cancer. Jake Seamer, 92, English cricketer. Silvia Caos, 72, Cuban-Mexican actress.

17

Jean Bernard, 98, French hematologist. Scott Brazil, 50, American television producer and director (The Shield, Hill Street Blues, Nash Bridges), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Peter Cadbury, 88, British entrepreneur and one of the founders of commercial TV broadcasting in the UK. Al Cederberg, 88, American politician, former Republican United States Representative from Michigan from 1953 to 1978 and former mayor of Bay City, Michigan. Henderson Forsythe, 88, American actor (As the World Turns). Arthur Hertzberg, 84, Polish-born American rabbi and scholar of Judaism. Vaishnavi, 22, Indian Bollywood actress, suicide by hanging.

18

Bindhyabasini Devi, 86, Indian folk singer. Ken Jones, 84, Welsh rugby union player, Wales and British Lion rugby union player and silver medal Olympiad. John Lyall, 66, British football manager with West Ham United F.C. and Ipswich Town F.C., heart attack. Grady McWhiney, 77, American historian. Dick Rockwell, 85, American cartoonist, assistant on Steve Canyon, nephew of Norman Rockwell.

19 John Cosgrove, 56, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives. Scott Crossfield, 84, American X-15 test pilot, plane crash. Bob Dove, 85, American Hall of Fame football player (Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Lions). June Knox-Mawer, 75, British writer and radio broadcaster.June Knox-Mawer Ellen Kuzwayo, 91, South African author, anti-apartheid activist, and member of Parliament, diabetes. Sir Ian Morrow, 93, British accountant and businessman.

20 Kathleen Antonelli, 85, Irish computer programmer, one of the ENIAC original computer programmers, cancer. Cy Bahakel, 87, American media magnate. Stanley Hiller, 81, American helicopter designer. Igor Kuljerić, 68, Croatian composer and conductor. Anna Svidersky, 17, Russian teenager, murdered while working at McDonald's, stabbed. Wolfgang Unzicker, 80, German chess grandmaster. Robert Wegman, 87, American businessman, chairman and former CEO of Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., philanthropist. Miguel Zacarías, 101, Mexican film director.

21 Sir Richard Bayliss, 89, British physician, Physician to the Queen (1973-1981). Jacob Kovco, 25, first Australian Defence Force service person killed in Iraq. T. K. Ramakrishnan, 84, Indian politician. Telê Santana, 74, Brazilian football coach, complications from an intestinal infection.

22 Henriette Avram, 86, American library systems analyst, developed MARC cataloging format. Ed Davis, 89, American California State Senator and former Los Angeles police chief (1969–1978). Enriqueta Harris, 95, English art historian. Nobby Lawton, 65, English footballer, midfielder & former captain of Preston North End, cancer. Jobie Nutarak, 58, Canadian politician, snowmobile accident. Satyadeow Sawh, 50, Guyanese Minister of Fisheries, Crops and Livestock. Shot by masked gunmen. Ronnie Sox, 67, American drag racing pioneer. Alida Valli, 84, Italian actress (The Third Man).