Deaths in June 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 2006

1

Radu Bălescu, 73, Romanian scientist. Frederick S. Billig, 73, American aerospace engineer.Dr. Frederick S. Billig Shokichi Iyanaga, 100, Japanese mathematician. Rocío Jurado, 61, Spanish singer and actress, pancreatic cancer. Allan Prior, 84, British television writer (Z-Cars, Howards' Way, The Charmer), father of folk singer Maddy Prior. Abdul Latif Sharif, 59, Egyptian chemist, suspect in the femicides in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, officially of natural causes, rumored poisoning. Jack Shelton, 82, Australian cricketer. William Winn, 59, American educational psychologist.

2 Ronald Cass, 83, British film composer and screenwriter (The Young Ones, Summer Holiday). Roy Farran, 85, British army officer. Vyacheslav Klykov, 66, Russian sculptor and nationalist politician. Bernard Loomis, 82, American toymaker responsible for Strawberry Shortcake and Star Wars action figures, heart disease. Leon Pownall, 63, Canadian actor, cancer. Vince Welnick, 55, American keyboardist (Grateful Dead), suicide by exsanguination. Edward Yates, 87, American television director (American Bandstand).

3

Leo Clarke, 82, Australian Roman Catholic Bishop of Maitland–Newcastle, Australia, 1976-1995. Brian Duke, 79, Ugandan-born tropical disease expert who helped to save millions from river blindness. Johnny Grande, 76, American pianist, member of Bill Haley's backing band, The Comets. Complications arising from cancer. George Kashdan, 78, American comic book writer and editor (House of Mystery, Aquaman, Sgt. Rock). Doug Serrurier, 85, South African former Grand Prix racing driver and constructor.

4 Alec Bregonzi, 76, British actor. Bill Fleming, 92, American MLB pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and Chicago CubsSociety for American Baseball Research Ron Jones, 41, American Major League Baseball player, brain hemorrhage. Richard Kapp, 69, American conductor and founder of the Philharmonia Virtuosi. John Kerr, 46, British footballer (Tranmere Rovers). Fulvia Mammi, 79, Italian actress (Against the Law). Anthony Marreco, 90, British barrister, junior Counsel at the Nuremberg Trials and founding member of Amnesty International. Sir John Rowlands, 90, British air marshal and George Cross recipient. William M. Steger, 85, United States district court judge and Republican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1960.

5

Frederick Franck, 97, Dutch artist, author, and dentist. Elizabeth Fretwell, 85, Australian opera singer best known for her performances with the Sadler's Wells company. Eric Gregg, 55, American former Major League Baseball umpire, stroke. Edward L. Moyers, 77, American railroad executive. Robert Ross, 86, American leader of the Muscular Dystrophy Association for 44 years and persuaded Jerry Lewis to undertake a yearly telethon to raise money for muscular dystrophy, complications of broken hip. Harley Rutledge, 80, American physicist and ufologist. Huda Sultan, 80, Egyptian actress, cancer.Leading Egyptian actress dies

6

Leslie Alcock, 81, British pioneer of Dark Age archaeology, led the team that excavated Cadbury Castle. María Teresa López Boegeholz, 78, Chilean oceanographer. Arnold Newman, 88, American photographer who pioneered "environmental portraiture". Billy Preston, 59, American musician ("You Are So Beautiful", "Nothing from Nothing"), kidney failure. Hilton Ruiz, 54, American jazz pianist, injuries from a fall. Léon Weil, 109, French World War I veteran. Jason Moss, 31, American attorney and author (The Last Victim)/

7

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, 39, Jordanian leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military strike. Abu Abdul Rahman, spiritual adviser for Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military strike. Roy Brain, 79, Australian cricketer. Terrence McCann, 74, American wrestler, Olympic gold medalist, cancer. Ingo Preminger, 95, Austrian-born American talent agent (Dalton Trumbo) and film producer (M*A*S*H, The Salzburg Connection). Mickey Sims, 51, American football player (Cleveland Browns), heart attack. Louis B. Sohn, 92, Ukrainian-born scholar of international law, helped draft the UN Charter. John Tenta, 42, Canadian professional wrestler (WWF), bladder cancer.

8

Jake Copass, 86, American cowboy poet, leukemia. Robert Donner, 75, American actor (Mork & Mindy, The Waltons, High Plains Drifter), aneurysm. Jaxon, 65, American comic book artist, co-founder of Rip Off Press. Mykola Kolessa, 102, Ukrainian composer and conductor. Matta El Meskeen, 87, Egyptian Coptic Orthodox monk, Spiritual Father of St. Macarius' Monastery in the Wilderness of Scetis, Egypt. John Roberts, 72, Australian businessman, founder of Australian construction company Multiplex, Complications of diabetes. Jamal Abu Samhadana, Palestinian leader of PA / Hamas forces in Gaza Strip and PRC. Killed by Israeli air strike. Talcott Williams Seelye, 84, American diplomat. Sir Peter Smithers, 92, British politician, MP for Winchester and Secretary General of the Council of Europe.

9

Kinga Choszcz, 33, Polish author, cerebral malaria. Drafi Deutscher, 60, German singer. Michael Forrestall, 73, Canadian politician. Patricia Janus, 74, American poet, heart attack. Enzo Siciliano, 72, Italian writer, diabetes. Vern Williams, 76, American bluegrass mandolin player and singer.

10 Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi, 72, Yemeni politician, former President of North Yemen. Hubertus Czernin, 50, Austrian journalist who helped return paintings looted by the Nazis, mastocytosis. Moe Drabowsky, 70, Polish-born American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Athletics, Baltimore Orioles), multiple myeloma. German Goldenshteyn, 71, Bessarabian-born clarinetist and klezmer musician. Wulff-Dieter Heintz, 76, German astronomer at Swarthmore College. Kenneth Jack, 81, Australian artist. Charles Johnson, 96, American Negro league baseball (Chicago American Giants), complications from prostate cancer. Peter Kennedy, 83, British folklorist. Philip Merrill, 72, American publisher and diplomat, suicide by gunshot. Ruddy Thomas, 54, Jamaican singer, heart attack.

11 Michael Bartosh, 28, American Mac OS X Server expert, injuries from a fall. Ernest Arthur Bell, 79, British biochemist, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. James Cameron, 92, American civil rights activist, founder of America's Black Holocaust Museum, lymphoma. Neroli Fairhall, 61, New Zealand paraplegic archer and Olympic competitor. Rolande Falcinelli, 86, French organist and composer. Tim Hildebrandt, 67, American artist, complications from diabetes. Hugh Latimer, 93, English actor and toy maker. Mike Quarry, 55, American boxer, dementia. Bruce Shand, 89, British Army officer, cancer.

12

Anna Lee Aldred, 85, American jockey and first woman in US to receive a jockey's licence, member of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. Andrew William "Nicky" Barr, 90, Australian rugby union player and World War II fighter pilot Chakufwa Chihana, 67, Malawian politician, opposition figure who ran unsuccessfully for President losing to Bakili Muluzi, brain tumour. György Ligeti, 83, Hungarian composer. José Leite Lopes, 87, Brazilian physicist. Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, 82, Canadian billionaire, media mogul and art collector. Possible heart attack.

13

Freddie Gorman, 67, US songwriter. Charles Haughey, 80, Irish politician, Taoiseach (1979–1981, 1982, 1987–1992), prostate cancer. Hiroyuki Iwaki, 73, Japanese conductor, congestive heart failure. Luis Jiménez, 65, American sculptor, crushed by a statue. Burke Riley, 92, American lawyer and politician, Alzheimer's disease. Dennis Shepherd, 79, South African Olympic boxer.

14

Monty Berman, 94, British B-movie producer. Surinder Kaur, 77, Indian Punjabi folk and classical singer known as the "nightingale of Punjab". Edward Craig Morris, 66, American archaeologist. Jean Roba, 75, Belgian comics writer James Davis Speed, 91, American politician.

15

Betty Curtis, 70, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival in 1961 with Luciano Tajoli. Raymond Devos, 83, French humorist. Ján Langoš, 59, Slovak politician, head of the National Memory Institute of Slovakia. Carlos Tovar, 92, Peruvian football player.

16 Roland Boyes, 69, British Labour politician and photographer, Alzheimer's disease. Barbara Epstein, 76, American literary editor, co-founder of the New York Review of Books, lung cancer. Artie Malvin, 83, American composer and lyricist. Scott Manning, 48, Canadian athlete, builder and pilot of the world's smallest jet, crash landing. Daphne Osborne, 76, British botanist. Igor Śmiałowski, 88, Polish actor.

17

Norma Becker, 76, American anti-war activist, former chair of the War Resisters League. Cláudio Besserman Vianna (Bussunda), 43, Brazilian comedian, member of Casseta & Planeta, heart attack Arthur Franz, 86, American character actor (Sands of Iwo Jima, Invaders from Mars), emphysema and heart disease. Mikhail Lapshin, 71, Russian politician, leader of the Agrarian Party and former president of the Altai Republic (2002–2006), cause unknown. Charles Older, 88, American Los Angeles Superior Court judge who presided over the Charles Manson trial, complications of a fall. Abdul-Khalim Saydullayev, 38 or 39, Chechen separatist rebel leader. Hiroaki Shukuzawa, 55, Japanese rugby union coach, heart attack. Julian Slade, 76, English composer and lyricist of Salad Days, cancer. Bob Weaver, 77, American TV Florida-based weatherman known as "Weaver the Weatherman" on WTVJ, cancer.

18 Luke Belton, 87, Irish politician. Hubert Cornfield, 77, Turkish film director (The Night of the Following Day). Nathaniel Neiman Craley Jr., 78, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1965–67) from Pennsylvania. Jesus Fuertes, 68, Spanish painter, heart attack. Chris and Cru Kahui, 3-months, New Zealand child homicide victims. Gică Petrescu, 91, Romanian singer. Sir David Poole, 68, British judge. Donald Reilly, 72, American cartoonist (The New Yorker), cancer. René Renou, 54, French vintner, president of INAO. Netta Rheinberg, 94, English cricketer. Vincent Sherman, 99, American film director (Mr. Skeffington, The Young Philadelphians), natural causes. Richard Stahl, 74, American actor (9 to 5, Ghosts of Mississippi, Five Easy Pieces), Parkinson's disease. Madeleine St John, 64, Australian novelist, emphysema.

19

Hugh Baird, 76, Scottish footballer)Leeds United, Aberdeen, Airdrieonians). Priit Kolbre, 50, Estonian diplomat, ambassador to Finland (since 2005). Duane Roland, 53, American guitarist and a founder of rock band Molly Hatchet. Howard Shanet, 87, US conductor and composer. Arthur Yap, 64, Singaporean poet, artist, and lecturer, English Department, University of Singapore, throat cancer.

20

Maurice Bevan, 85, British bass-baritone. Bill Daniel, 90, American politician, Governor of Guam. Evelyn Dubrow, 95, American labor advocate awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999. Billy Johnson, 87, American baseball player (New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals). E. Pierce Marshall, 67, American businessman, son of J. Howard Marshall and Anna Nicole Smith's stepson and plaintiff in their inheritance feud, aggressive infection. William Shurcliff, 97, American physicist, who helped develop the atomic bomb. Claydes Charles Smith, 57, American guitarist (Kool and the Gang).

21

Theo Bell, 52, American National Football League header with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, kidney disease and scleroderma. Vern Leroy Bullough, 77, American medical historian, known for his history of nursing, cancer.