The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
August 2006
1 Vincent Dole, 93, American medical researcher, ruptured aorta. Rufus Harley, 70, American jazz bagpipe player, prostate cancer. Arlene Raven, 62, American feminist writer and art critic, kidney cancer. Jason Rhoades, 41, American installation artist, heart failure. George Styles, 78, British army officer, awarded the George Cross. Bob Thaves, 81, American cartoonist (Frank and Ernest), respiratory failure. Johannes Willebrands, 96, Dutch Archbishop of Utrecht. Iris Marion Young, 57, American political philosopher and feminist, esophageal cancer.
2 Holger Börner, 75, German politician, prime minister of Hesse (1976–1987), cancer. Fitz Eugene Dixon Jr., 82, American basketball team owner (Philadelphia 76ers), skin cancer. Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont, 92, French Resistance fighter, militant communist, and politician. Audrey Lindvall, 23, American model, traffic collision. Kim McLagan, 57, British model, traffic collision. Gary Pajcic, 58, American athlete and lawyer. Luisel Ramos, 22, Uruguayan model, heart failure caused by anorexia nervosa. Ferenc Szusza, 82, Hungarian football player, record goalscorer for a single club in Hungarian football. John Watters, 81, Australian cricketer. Robert Eric Wone, 32, American lawyer.
3 John Haase, 82, German-born American dentist and author, emphysema. Arthur Lee, 61, American rock musician (Love), leukemia. Kenneth Richmond, 80, British actor and wrestler, 1952 Olympic bronze medal medalist. Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 90, German-born British opera soprano.
4 Elden Auker, 95, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox), heart attack. Julio Galán, 46, Mexican neo-expressionist painter, brain hemorrhage. John Locke, 62, American keyboardist (Spirit), cancer. Nandini Satpathy, 75, Indian politician and author, Chief Minister of Odisha, cerebral bleeding. Esther Snyder, 86, American businesswoman, co-founder of In-N-Out Burger.
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Susan Butcher, 51, American dog musher, four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion, complications from a bone marrow transplant to combat acute myeloid leukemia. Aron Gurevich, 82, Russian medievalist. Terry McRae, 65, Australian politician, Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly. Hugo Schiltz, 78, Belgian politician. Daniel Schmid, 64, Swiss filmmaker and director (Il Bacio di Tosca), cancer. Ed Thrasher, 74, American art director.Ed Thrasher, 74, Album Designer, Dies
6 Esther Victoria Abraham, 89, Indian model, actress and film producer. Ángel de Andrés, 88, Spanish theatre actor and director, heart attack. Gintaras Beresnevičius, 45, Lithuanian historian of religions specializing in Baltic mythology, writer, scholar, publicist. Dorothy Healey, 91, American communist leader, pneumonia. Prince Christoph of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 49, European socialite, massive organ failure after being imprisoned. Rafik Kamalov, Kyrgyz Imam and alleged Islamic militant, injuries sustained from gunfire. Stella Moray, 83, British actress and performer. Jim Pomeroy, 53, American professional motocross racer, traffic collision. Milcho Rusev, 81-82, Bulgarian Olympic cyclist. Moacir Santos, 80, Brazilian composer and arranger. Sir Robert Sparkes, 77, Australian grazier and businessman, former President of the Queensland National Party (1970–1990). Hirotaka Suzuoki, 56, Japanese voice actor (Mobile Suit Gundam, Dragon Ball, Captain Tsubasa), lung cancer. Ian Walters, 76, British sculptor. Lawrence Wnuk, 98, Polish Roman Catholic priest, Protonotary Apostolic, founder of the Polish Canadian Centre Association of Windsor, Ontario.
7 Mary Anderson Bain, 94, American politician, New Deal director under U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and former top aide to Congressman Sidney Yates. Jim Crooker, 80, American amateur golfer, cancer. John Gilbert, 84, Canadian politician. Lois January, 92, American actress (The Pace That Kills, Rogue of the Range, Arizona Bad Man), complications from Alzheimer's disease. Bob Miller, 76, American football player (Detroit Lions), cancer. John L. Weinberg, 81, American banker, former head of Goldman Sachs, complications from a fall.
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Gustavo Arcos, 79, Cuban dissident, pneumonia. Slavko Brankov, 55, Croatian actor.Umro Slavko Brankov Duke Jordan, 84, American bebop jazz pianist. Dino Restelli, 81, American Major League Baseball player. Chandra Prasad Saikia, 79, Indian writer.Chandra Prasad Saikia dead Antonieta Zevallos de Prialé, 87, Peruvian politician, deputy (1980–1985).
9 Gianfranco Bellini, 82, Italian actor and voice actor. George Chapman, 85, English faith healer. Colin Dickinson, 74, New Zealand Olympic cyclist. Miguel "Angá" Díaz, 45, Cuban conga player, heart attack. Jenny Gröllmann, 59, German actress (I Was Nineteen, Peas at 5:30), breast cancer."Ich muss das zu Ende bringen - meinetwegen bis zum Tod" (in German) Melissa Hayden, 83, Canadian-born American ballerina, pancreatic cancer. Philip E. High, 92, British science fiction author, natural causes. Sayid Abdulloh Nuri, 59, Tajik leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, cancer. Rafael Ruiz, 89, Spanish Olympic field hockey player (1948). James Van Allen, 91, American space physicist, heart failure.
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George Dawkes, 86, English cricketer, specialising in wicket keeping, for Derbyshire. Barbara George, 63, American R&B singer, lung infection. Irving São Paulo, 41, Brazilian actor, multiple organ failure. Yasuo Takei, 76, Japanese second-richest man of Japan and founder of Takefuji Corporation.
11 Alvin Cooperman, 83, American entertainment executive. David Thomas Dawson, 48, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Mike Douglas, 86, American talk-show host and entertainer. Alice Stone Ilchman, 71, American economist, president of Sarah Lawrence College, (1981–1998). Mazisi Kunene, 76, South African poet laureate. Yevgeny Sinyayev, 58, Soviet Olympic sprinter.
12 Victoria Gray Adams, 79, American civil rights activist, first woman to run for a US Senate seat in Mississippi, cancer. Noel Everett, 70, New Zealand Olympic sailor. Raska Lukwiya, Ugandan commander in the Lord's Resistance Army, indictee of the International Criminal Court for war crimes, killed in battle. Keren Tendler, 26, Israeli soldier and helicopter mechanic, shot down. Nicholas Webster, 94, American film director (Santa Claus Conquers the Martians).
13 Bill Baker, 95, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals). Joseph F. Carlino, 89, American politician, Speaker of the New York State Assembly (1959–1964). Jack Edwards, 88, British World War II soldier and prisoner of war rights campaigner. Kermit L. Hall, 61, American President of the University at Albany, member of the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, swimming accident. Al Hostak, 90, American National Boxing Association middleweight champion (1938–1939), stroke. Tony Jay, 73, British voice actor (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, ReBoot, Time Bandits), complications from tumor surgery. Jon Nödtveidt, 31, Swedish lead guitarist and vocalist (Dissection), convicted of felony murder, suicide by gunshot. Payao Poontarat, 49, Thai boxer, first Thai Olympic medal winner (bronze, 1976), World Boxing Council champion, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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William Ian Beardmore Beveridge, 98, Australian animal pathologist. Johnny Duncan, 67, American country singer and songwriter, heart attack. John Godley, 3rd Baron Kilbracken, 85, British-born Irish peer, wartime Fleet Air Arm pilot and journalist. Adriaan de Groot, 91, Dutch chess master and psychologist. Bruno Kirby, 57, American actor (The Godfather Part II, City Slickers, This Is Spinal Tap), complications from leukemia. Luis Fernandez de la Reguera, 39, American film director, motorcycle accident.
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Rick Bourke, 51, Australian rugby league player, cancer. William Branson, 68, American economist.International economist William Branson dies Lynton K. Caldwell, 92, American political scientist. Dame Te Atairangikaahu, 75, New Zealand Māori queen. Doug White, 61, American news anchor, cancer. Faas Wilkes, 82, Dutch international footballer.
16 Umberto Baldini, 84, Italian art restorer, director of the conservation studios at the Uffizi. Alex Buzo, 62, Australian playwright, cancer. Herschel Green, 86, American World War II fighter ace. Iris M. Ovshinsky, 79, American businesswoman, co-founder of ECD Ovonics. Alfredo Stroessner, 93, Paraguayan President (1954–1989), complications from hernia surgery. Alan Vint, 61, American actor (Badlands, The Panic in Needle Park, Earthquake), multiple organ failure. William Wasson, 82, American priest who founded orphanages, complications from a hip injury.
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Kontik Kamariah Ahmad, 95, Malaysian educationist, politician, activist and pioneer in the Malaysian co-operative movement. Len Evans, 75, Australian wine writer, heart attack. Ken Goodall, 59, Irish rugby union player. Masumi Hayashi, 60, American photographer, shot. John Hutton, 59, American furniture designer, complications of prostate cancer surgery. Vernon Ingram, 82, German-born American molecular biologist, discovered cause of sickle cell anemia. Walter Jagiello, 76, American polka musician and songwriter. Christopher Polge, 80, English biologist. Shamsur Rahman, 76, Bangladeshi poet, kidney and liver failure. Bernard Rapp, 61, French film director, writer and journalist, lung cancer. Sig Shore, 87, American film producer (Super Fly). Evan Harris Walker, 70, American physicist and consciousness theorist. Yen Ngoc Do, 65, Vietnamese-born American newspaper publisher (Nguoi Viet Daily News), diabetes and kidney disease.
18 George Astaphan, 60, Kittitian doctor, provided steroids to Ben Johnson. James A. Clark Jr., 87, American politician, President of the Maryland State Senate (1979–1983), cancer. Samuel Flippen, 36, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Kathryn Frost, 57, American Army major general, breast cancer. Fernand Gignac, 72, Canadian singer and actor, hepatitis. Ken Kearney, 82, Australian rugby league and rugby union international player, heart attack.
19 Marvin Barrett, 86, American journalist and author. Joyce Blair, 73, British actress, cancer. Clinton Bristow Jr., 57, American lawyer and education official, president of Alcorn State University, heart failure. Joseph Hill, 57, Jamaican singer (Culture), liver failure. Óscar Míguez, 78, Uruguayan footballer. Mervyn Wood, 89, Australian rower, three-time Olympic medal winner.
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Claude Blanchard, 74, Canadian pop singer and actor, heart attack. Renate Brausewetter, 100, German silent film actress. Bryan Budd, 29, British soldier, posthumously awarded Victoria Cross. Roger Donoghue, 75, American boxer. Robert Hoffman, 59, American businessman and art collector, co-founder of National Lampoon. Jack Laughery, 71, American CEO and chairman of the Hardee's restaurant chain, lung cancer. Vashti McCollum, 93, American humanist campaigner. Jacob Mincer, 84, Polish-born American professor of economics (Columbia University). Giuseppe Moccia, 73, Italian film director. Joe Rosenthal, 94, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima), natural causes. Neil Trezise, 75, Australian Labor politician, Victorian Minister for Sport (1982–1992), Australian rules football player, heart attack. Richard de Yarburgh-Bateson, 6th Baron Deramore, 95, British architect and writer of erotic fiction.
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Máximo Carvajal, 70, Chilean comic book artist. Bismillah Khan, 90, Indian shehnai musician and Bharat Ratna winner, heart attack.