The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 2006 1 Umberto Abronzino, 85, Italian-born American member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator. Michael Barton, 91, English cricketer. Edwin Broderick, 89, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, New York, and director of Catholic Relief Services. Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer. Irving Green, 90, American record industry executive, co-founder of Mercury Records. Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan (1996–1998). Louis Jacobs, 85, British rabbi and founder of Masorti movement. Yousuf Khan, 68, Indian footballer, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack. Robert Lepikson, 54, Estonian businessman and politician. Roderick MacLeish, 80, American journalist, author and filmmaker. Padmakar Pandit, 71, Indian cricket umpire. Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author. Fred Trueman, 75, English and Yorkshire cricketer, lung cancer.
2 Cecilia Cole, 86, Gambian politician. Maurice Fox-Strangways, 9th Earl of Ilchester, 86, British peer and engineer, member House of Lords and RAF group captain. Balázs Horváth, 63, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer. Herty Lewites, 66, Nicaraguan presidential candidate. Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian. Tihomir Ognjanov, 79, Serbian footballer for Yugoslavia, played in the 1950 FIFA World Cup. Joan Quennell, 82, British Conservative MP for Petersfield 1960–1974. Anatole Shub, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications from pneumonia and a stroke. Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, American painter.
3 Mark Tennyson, 5th Baron Tennyson, 86, British aristocrat. Francis Cammaerts, 90, British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent, led 30,000 French Resistance fighters. Dick Dickey, 79, American basketball player (Boston Celtics). Gerhard Fischer, 84, Norwegian-born German diplomat.Gerhard Fischer Joseph Goguen, 65, American computer scientist. Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (As the World Turns, Manhunter, Regarding Henry), suicide by gunshot. Wilbert Hopper, 73, Canadian businessman, president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada. Gwyn Jones, 89, Welsh physicist and public servant. Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, breast cancer. Lars Korvald, 90, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway. Sir Carol Mather, 87, British Conservative MP. Nimrod Ping, 58, British politician, Brighton city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis C. Jack Smith, 92, American musician and game show host (You Asked for It), leukemia. Joe Weaver, 71, American musician, stroke.
4 John Hinde, 94, Australian film critic and journalist. Norbert Kerckhove, 73, Belgian cyclist. Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American bridge player and author, complications from Parkinson's disease. Jean-François d'Orgeix, 85, French equestrian and actor, Olympic medalist, traffic collision.
5 Barbara Albright, 51, American author, brain tumor. Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish Olympic canoeist, cancer. Lewis Glucksman, 80, American banker. Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born Canadian businessman. Kenneth Lay, 64, American businessman, CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack. Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader. Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic (Rolling Stone) Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress. ʻUluvalu, 55, Tongan Tuʻi Pelehake, traffic collision.
6 Juan de Ávalos, 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack. Ralph Ginzburg, 76, American publisher, multiple myeloma. Al Hodge, 55, English rock guitarist and songwriter, cancer. John Michael Manos, 83, American judge. Juan Pablo Rebella, 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide by gunshot. Kasey Rogers, 80, American actress (Bewitched, Strangers on a Train, Peyton Place) and motocross racer, stroke. E. S. Turner, 96, English historian and journalist. Tom Weir, 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster.
7 Luis Barragan, 34, American businessman and philanthropist, president of 1-800-Mattress, drowned. Syd Barrett, 60, English musician (Pink Floyd), diabetes. Reinhold O. Carlson, 100, American politician.Senator Reinhold O. Carlson Rudi Carrell, 71, Dutch-born German TV entertainer, lung cancer. Dorothea Church, 83, African-American model, first successful black model in Paris. John Warner Fitzgerald, 81, American lawyer, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Elias Hrawi, 79, Lebanese politician, President of Lebanon (1989–98), cancer. Dina Kaminskaya, 87, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents. Eugene Kurtz, 82, American composer. John Money, 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Parkinson's disease. Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, 53, Irish musician with the Bothy Band. Eric Schopler, 79, German-born American psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer. Govindappa Venkataswamy, 87, Indian ophthalmologist, founder of Aravind Eye Hospitals. Frank Zeidler, 93, American politician, Mayor of Milwaukee (1948–1960) and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city.
8 George Albee, 84, American psychologist. June Allyson, 88, American actress (Too Young to Kiss, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, Two Girls and a Sailor), pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis. Pjetër Arbnori, 71, Albanian politician, speaker of the Parliament of Albania (1992–1997). Michael Barrett, 79, Irish politician. Eric Bedford, 78, Australian politician, member of the Wran Government ministry 1976–1985 in New South Wales. Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, 91, Australian industrialist and patron of the arts, founder of Transfield Holdings, Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, fall. David Bright, 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrest stemming from decompression sickness. Ana María Campoy, 80, Argentine actress, pneumonia. Sabine Dünser, 29, Liechtenstein singer and lyricist (Erben der Schöpfung, Elis), cerebral hemorrhage.Elis-Sängerin Sabine Dünser ist verstorben (in German) Sir Richard Gorham, 88, Bermudian businessman and politician. Peter Hawkins, 82, British actor (Whirligig, Doctor Who, Flower Pot Men). Catherine Leroy, 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam War in Life, lung cancer. Raja Rao, 97, Indian novelist (Kanthapura). Jesse Simons, 88, American labor arbitrator, heart failure. Dorothy Uhnak, 76, American novelist.
9 Chris Drake, 82, American actor. Fred Epstein, 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumors, melanoma. Abdel Moneim Madbouly, 84, Egyptian comedian and playwright, congestive heart failure. Ireneusz Paliński, 74, Polish weightlifter, Olympic champion (1960).Paliński Ireneusz (1932-2006) Alan Senitt, 27, British political activist, stabbed. George Hopkins Williams II, 91, American aviation historian. Milan Williams, 58, American keyboardist, founding member of R&B/funk band the Commodores, cancer. Michael Zinzun, 57, American ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist.
10 Shamil Basayev, 41, Chechen rebel leader and terrorist, explosion. Lennart Bladh, 86, Swedish politician, member of the Riksdag from 1974 to 1985. Tommy Bruce, 68, British singer ("Ain't Misbehavin'"). Robert Fumerton, 93, Canadian night fighter ace top-scorer of World War II. Raymond Furnell, 71, British Dean of York from 1994 to 2003, cancer. Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi, 89, Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist who published 50 books. Ruth Schönthal, 82, German-born classical pianist and composer. Fred Wander, 89, Austrian author and Holocaust survivor. Notable people killed in the crash of Pakistan International Airlines Flight 688: Mohammed Naseer Khan, 64-65, Pakistani physicist and academic administrator, Vice-Chancellor of Bahauddin Zakariya University (since 2005) Muhammad Nawaz Bhatti, 57, Pakistani judge and lawyer
11 Kathy Augustine, 50, American politician, State Controller of Nevada who was first Nevada state official to be impeached in office, murdered. Phyllis Baker, 69, American baseball player (Battle Creek Belles, Muskegon Belles, South Bend Blue Sox). John Coletta, 74, English music manager (Deep Purple, Whitesnake) and producer. Gerald Gidwitz, 99, American cosmetics executive, co-founder of Helene Curtis, congestive heart failure. Barnard Hughes, 90, American actor (Tron, Doc Hollywood, The Lost Boys), Tony winner (1978). Fortunato Libanori, 72, Italian motorcycle road racer. Bill Miller, 91, American pianist, heart attack. Derrick O'Brien, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Bronwyn Oliver, 47, Australian sculptor, suicide. John Spencer, 70, British snooker player, stomach cancer. Philippe Takla, 91, Lebanese politician, lawyer and diplomat, foreign minister of Lebanon. Wiarton Willie, 8, Canadian Groundhog Day prognosticator.
12 Rocky Barton, 49, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Kurt Kreuger, 89, Swiss-German actor (Sahara, The Enemy Below), stroke. Hubert Lampo, 85, Belgian writer. Loredana Nusciak, 64, Italian actress (Django, Ten Thousand Dollars for a Massacre) and model.
13 Red Buttons, 87, American comedian and actor (Sayonara, The Longest Day, Pete's Dragon), Oscar winner (1958), vascular disease. Pamela Cooper, 95, British refugee activist known for her work with the Palestinians. John Lyttelton, 11th Viscount Cobham, 63, British aristocrat. Ángel Suquía Goicoechea, 89, Spanish Metropolitan-Archbishop of Madrid. Tomasz Zaliwski, 76, Polish actor.
14 Anthony Cave Brown, 77, English historian of espionage. Tom Frame, 74-75, British comic book letterer (Judge Dredd), cancer. Heinrich Heidersberger, 100, German photographer. William H. Lash, 45, American assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce and professor at George Mason University, suicide by gunshot. Carrie Nye, 69, American actress (Half a Sixpence, Guiding Light, Creepshow), lung cancer. Len Teeuws, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Chicago Cardinals). Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, 43, Polish International Grandmaster of chess, perforated intestine and bleeding.
15 John Joseph Fitzpatrick, 87, Canadian Bishop of Brownsville for 20 years. Howdy Groskloss, 100, American professional baseball player, oldest major league baseball player. Kenneth Lochhead, 80, Canadian artist who was a member of the Regina Five, colorectal cancer. James Nicholas, 85, American orthopedic surgeon and physician for three NFL teams. István Pálfi, 39, Hungarian Member of the European Parliament. Rupert Pole, 87, American actor, forest ranger, and co-husband of bigamist Anaïs Nin. Francis Rose, 84, British botanist. Andrée Ruellan, 101, American painter. Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, 63, Iranian archaeologist, stomach cancer.Dr. Ali Reza Shapur Shahbazi | 1942 - 2006 | Obituary Andrew Sudduth, 44, American rower who won an Olympic silver medal, pancreatic cancer.
16 Walter Binaghi, 87, Argentine ICAO Council President. Robert H. Brooks, 69, American chairman of Hooters of America, natural causes. Keith DeVries, 69, American archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania, excavated Gordion. Kevin Hughes, 53, British Labour MP for Doncaster North, motor neurone disease. Bob Orton, 76, American professional wrestler, heart attack. Destiny Norton, 5, American child, murdered. Gramoz Pashko, 51, Albanian economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1991), helicopter crash. Ossi Reichert, 80, German alpine skier, Olympic Champion 1956.