The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
October 2006 1 Frank Beyer, 74, German film director (Jacob the Liar). Sir Laurence Brodie-Hall, 96, Australian mining executive. Alan Caillou, 91, British actor and writer. Pierre Gorman, 82, Australian librarian and academic. Jack Kirkbride, 83, British cartoonist. Anna Kunkel, 74, American baseball player (South Bend Blue Sox). Renato Polselli, 84, Italian film director (The Vampire and the Ballerina, Black Magic Rites).15:15 - E' morto Renato Polselli (in Italian) Rafael Quintero, 66, Cuban-born American CIA agent. André Viger, 54, Canadian wheelchair marathoner and paralympian, cancer. Yoshihiro Yonezawa, 53, Japanese manga critic, lung cancer.
2 Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista, 82, Cuban First Lady (1952–1959), second wife of President Fulgencio Batista. Frances Bergen, 84, American actress, wife of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and mother of actress Candice Bergen. Helen Chenoweth-Hage, 68, American Republican Representative for Idaho (1995–2001), car accident. Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami, 68, Indian scientist, spiritual teacher and poet, heart attack. Tamara Dobson, 59, American actress (Cleopatra Jones), complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis. Paul Halmos, 90, Hungarian-born American mathematician. Paul Richardson, 74, American organist (Philadelphia Phillies), prostate cancer. Clyde Vollmer, 85, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox).
3 Lucilla Andrews, 86, British romantic novelist. Sir John Cox, 77, British admiral. John Crank, 90, British mathematical physicist. Gwen Meredith, 98, Australian writer (Blue Hills). Peter Norman, 64, Australian athlete, silver medalist at the 1968 Summer Olympics, heart attack.
4 R. W. Apple Jr., 71, American political journalist and food writer (The New York Times), thoracic cancer. Tom Bell, 73, British actor (Wish You Were Here, Prime Suspect), after short illness. Victor Dyrgall, 88, American Olympic runner. František Fajtl, 94, Czech World War II fighter pilot, after long illness. Norbert Franck, 88, Luxembourgish Olympic swimmer. Walter Gibb, 87, British aviator and test pilot who twice held the world flight altitude record. Ralph Griswold, 72, American creator of Snobol and Icon programming languages, cancer. Vic Heyliger, 94, American ice hockey Hall of Fame player and coach. Oskar Pastior, 78, Romanian-born German writer. Riccardo Pazzaglia, 80, Italian actor, writer and film director. Don Thompson, 73, British race walker and 1960 Olympic gold medal winner, aneurysm. Katarina Tomasevski, 53, Croatian former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education.
5 Valerie Campbell-Harding, 74, Canadian textile art designer, heart attack. Friedrich Karl Flick, 79, German-Austrian billionaire industrialist. George King, 78, American college basketball coach (West Virginia Mountaineers, Purdue Boilermakers). Speedy Long, 78, American politician, Representative for Louisiana (1964–1972). Jennifer Moss, 61, British actress (Coronation Street). Antonio Peña, 55, Mexican promoter of Lucha Libre AAA World Wide, heart attack. Jackie Rae, 85, Canadian singer, songwriter and entertainer. Dick Wagner, 78, American baseball executive, president of the Cincinnati Reds and Houston Astros. Gilbert F. White, 94, American geographer.
6 Bertha Brouwer, 75, Dutch athlete, silver medalist in the 200m at the 1952 Olympics. Charles Clark, 73, British publisher and lawyer. Claude Luter, 83, French jazz clarinetist and bandleader. Eduardo Mignogna, 66, Argentinian film director. Buck O'Neil, 94, American baseball player and manager in the Negro leagues, heart failure and bone marrow cancer. Timo Sarpaneva, 79, Finnish glassmaker. Heinz Sielmann, 89, German zoologist. Wilson Tucker, 91, American science fiction writer.
7 Charlie Bradberry, 24, American NASCAR driver, car accident. Dan Campilan, 25, Filipino news reporter (24 Oras), traffic collision. Polly Craus, 83, American Olympic fencer. Craig Dobbin, 71, Canadian founder of CHC Helicopter, after illness following lung transplant. Julen Goikoetxea, 21, Spanish bicycle racer, suicide by jumping. Anna Politkovskaya, 48, Russian journalist, shot. Peter H. Rossi, 84, American sociologist.
8 Bob Cunningham, 79, Canadian football player.Bob Cunningham Ira B. Harkey Jr., 88, American newspaper editor, winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. Pavol Hnilica, 85, Slovak Catholic bishop. Ivan Murrell, 63, Panamanian-born American baseball player (Houston Colt .45's/Astros, San Diego Padres, Atlanta Braves). Mark Porter, 32, New Zealand racing driver, race crash.
9 Sedat Alp, 93, Turkish archaeologist specializing in Hittitology. Coccinelle, 75, French transsexual singer, stroke. Reg Freeson, 80, British politician, Minister of State for Housing and Local Government (1974–1979). Marek Grechuta, 60, Polish singer, composer and lyricist. (Polish) Danièle Huillet, 70, French filmmaker, cancer. Paul Hunter, 27, British snooker player, neuroendocrine tumours. Mario Moya Palencia, 73, Mexican politician and diplomat (Interior Minister, 1969–1976), heart attack. Glenn Myernick, 51, American assistant soccer coach of the men's national team, heart attack. Ray Noorda, 82, American computer executive, CEO of Novell (1982–1994). Kanshi Ram, 72, Indian politician, heart attack.
10 Sheikh Akijuddin, 76–77, Bangladeshi entrepreneur.Tycoon Akij dies at 77 Jerry Belson, 68, American television writer (The Tracey Ullman Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show) and screenwriter (Fun with Dick and Jane), prostate cancer. Francis Berry, 91, British poet and literary critic. P. C. Devassia, 100, Indian Sanskrit scholar and poet, won 1980 Sahitya Akademi Award (Kristubhagavatam). Sir Derek Pattinson, 76, British Secretary-General of the General Synod of the Church of England (1972–1990) Michael John Rogers, 74, British ornithologist. Ian Scott, 72, Canadian Attorney General of Ontario (1985–1990). Ravindra Varma, 81, Indian politician. Monique Viner, 80, British judge.
11 Henry Caldera, 69, Sri Lankan singer, cancer. Sir Victor Goodhew, 86, British politician, Conservative MP for St Albans (1959–1983). Howard Kerzner, 42, South African businessman, helicopter crash.Butch Kerzner dies in helicopter crash Cory Lidle, 34, American baseball player (New York Yankees), victim of the 2006 New York City plane crash. Benito Martínez, 126, Cuban claimant to the title of world's oldest person. Sir Robert Megarry, 96, British judge and Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court (1982–1985). Eddie Pellagrini, 88, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates) and coach (Boston College). Jimmy Peters Sr., 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins). Raad Mutar Saleh, Iraqi Mandaean leader, shot. Jacques Sternberg, 83, French science fiction and fantastique author, lung cancer. John Turvey, 61, Canadian youth activist and Order of Canada recipient, mitochondrial myopathy.
12 Carlo Acutis, 15, English-born Italian Catholic computer programmer. Todd Bolender, 92, American dancer and choreographer, director of the Kansas City Ballet. Johnny Callison, 67, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees). Samuel B. Casey Jr., 79, American businessman, CEO of Pullman Company. Hermann Eilts, 84, German-born American diplomat and US ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1965–1970). Angelika Machinek, 49, German glider pilot, five times national champion and holder of nine world records, air crash. Eugène Martin, 91, French racing driver. Gerard Murphy, 57, Irish mathematician. Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, Italian film director (The Battle of Algiers), heart failure.
13 Mason Andrews, 87, American physician and politician who delivered America's first test tube baby, Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia (1992–1994). Deborah Blumer, 64, American member of the Massachusetts General Court, heart attack. Petra Cabot, 99, American designer, created the Skotch Kooler, natural causes. Bob Lassiter, 61, American talk radio personality. Dino Monduzzi, 84, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Pontifical Household (1986–1998). Hilda Terry, 92, American cartoonist, creator of comic strip Teena. Sir Anthony Tippet, 78, British admiral. Wang Guangmei, 85, Chinese wife of late Communist leader Liu Shaoqi.
14 Bernard Allen, 69, American member of the North Carolina General Assembly. James Barr, 82, British Old Testament scholar. Chun Wei Cheung, 34, Dutch rowing cox, silver medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, liver cancer. Gino Empry, 81, Canadian entertainment publicist and manager"Toronto impresario Gino Empry dies". CBC News, October 15, 2006. Freddy Fender, 69, American singer ("Before the Next Teardrop Falls"), lung cancer. Nancy Lynn, American aerobatic pilot, plane crash. Klaas Runia, 80, Dutch Reformed Church theologian. Gerry Studds, 69, American first openly gay congressman, represented Massachusetts (1973–1997), pulmonary embolism.
15 Eddie Blay, 68, Ghanaian Olympic boxer.Eddie Blay passes away Derek Bond, 86, British actor (Callan, Scott of the Antarctic, When Eight Bells Toll). William Bright, 78, American linguist and author, recorder of indigenous North American languages. Michael Forrester, 89, British army general. Robert Pfarr, 86, American Olympic cyclist. George Stevens, 74, American politician and Baptist minister. Michelle Urry, 66, Canadian cartoon editor for Playboy. Varduhi Vardanyan, 30, Armenian singer, traffic collision.Վարդուհի Վարդանյան (in Armenian) Maurice F. Weisner, 88, American admiral.
16 Niall Andrews, 69, Irish politician, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South (1977–1987), MEP for Leinster (1984–2004), lung cancer. Donna Cook, 78, American baseball player (Muskegon Lassies, Fort Wayne Daisies, Battle Creek Belles) Ross Davidson, 57, British actor (EastEnders, Take the High Road, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life), brain tumor. Sid Davis, 90, American educational filmmaker, lung cancer. Martin Flannery, 88, British politician, Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough (1974–1992). Tommy Johnson, 71, American tuba player, complications from cancer and kidney failure. John Victor Murra, 90, Ukrainian-born American anthropologist and Inca scholar. Valentín Paniagua, 70, Peruvian president (2000–2001), complications from heart surgery. Lister Sinclair, 85, Canadian playwright and broadcaster, pulmonary embolism. Ernie Steele, 88, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles). Ondina Valla, 90, Italian athlete, first Italian female 1936 Olympic champion (80m hurdles), natural causes. Anatoly Voronin, 55, Russian business chief of ITAR TASS news agency, stabbed.
17 Daniel Emilfork, 82, French actor (The City of Lost Children). Miriam Engelberg, 48, American author, metastatic breast cancer. Christopher Glenn, 68, American news anchor (CBS), liver cancer. Megan Meier, 13, American cyberbullying victim, suicide by hanging. Ursula Moray Williams, 95, British children's author. Lieuwe Steiger, 82, Dutch goalkeeper for PSV Eindhoven (1942–1957, 1959) and The Netherlands (1953–1954). Marcia Tucker, 66, American curator, founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
18 Don R. Christensen, 90, American animator and cartoonist. Marc Hodler, 87, Swiss president of the International Ski Federation (1951–1998), International Olympic Committee whistleblower, stroke. Stanislovas Jančiukas, 68, Lithuanian fashion designer. Mario Francesco Pompedda, 77, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (1999–2004), brain hemorrhage. Anna Russell, 94, British-born Canadian comedian and classical music satirist. Laurie Taitt, 72, British sprint hurdler.