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.

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.
 * Mohammed al-Maghout, 72, Syrian poet and playwright.
 * Bernard Seigal, 48, American musician and essayist with the stage name Buddy Blue, co-founder of the Beat Farmers, heart attack.
 * Nina 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.
 * Albert Harker, 95, American soccer player, last surviving member of the US 1934 FIFA World Cup soccer team.
 * Genzō Murakami, 96, Japanese novelist.
 * Walter 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 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.
 * J. B. Fuqua, 87, American entrepreneur and philanthropist.
 * George Savalla Gomes, 90, Brazilian entertainer who performed as "Carequinha" the clown.
 * 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 Ojeili, 88, Syrian novelist.
 * Gene Pitney, 66, American singer 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, wife of Nudie Cohn.
 * Jim Clack, 58, American gridiron football player, 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 Major League Baseball infielder, coach, manager, and scout, natural causes.
 * Robin Orr, 96, Scottish classical composer and conductor.
 * Jimmy Outlaw, 93, American baseball third baseman/outfielder.
 * 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.
 * Bonaya Godana, 54, Kenyan politician, plane crash.
 * Jean Grosjean, 93, French poet, writer and translator.
 * Bishop Charles Henderson, 81, Irish retired Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, England, KC*HS, cancer.

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, former member of The Pointer Sisters, lung cancer.
 * Proof, 32, American rapper (D-12), homicide.
 * 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 E. 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).
 * 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.
 * 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, 81, Cuban photographer.
 * Lord Eliot (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.
 * 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, killed by a head shot together with friend, fashion designer Richard Bloom, 27.
 * Poopak Goldarreh, 34, Iranian actress, traffic collision.
 * Harold Horwood, 82, Canadian writer and former Newfoundland politician, cancer.
 * Stephen Marshall, 20, American double murderer, suicide.
 * 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), Lou Gehrig's disease.
 * Peter Cadbury, 88, British entrepreneur and one of the founders of commercial TV broadcasting in the UK.
 * Elford Albin 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, 20, Indian Bollywood actress, suicide.

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 F. 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 NFL defensive lineman and member of the College Football Hall of Fame.
 * Andrés María Rubio Garcia, 81, Uruguayan Roman Catholic bishop.
 * June Knox-Mawer, 75, British writer and radio broadcaster.
 * 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, Jr., 81, American helicopter designer.
 * Igor Kuljerić, 68, Croatian composer and conductor.
 * Miguel Zacarías Nogaim, 101, Mexican film director.
 * 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.

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).
 * Fausto Vitello, 59, Argentine-American businessman and magazine publisher, founding publisher of the skateboarding magazine Thrasher, heart attack.

23

 * Ghafar Baba, 81, Malaysian former Deputy Prime Minister.
 * Susan Browning, 65, American actress.
 * Harvey Bullock, 84, American television writer and producer (The Love Boat, Love, American Style).
 * Johnny Checketts, 94, New Zealand World War II flying ace.
 * Willie Finnigan, 93, Scottish footballer (Hibernian F.C.).
 * Boris Fraenkel, 85, French Trotskyist.
 * Barry Gibbs, 73, South Australian cricket official.
 * William Gottlieb, 89, American jazz photographer.
 * Jennifer Jayne, 74, British TV and film actress ("The Adventures of William Tell").
 * Florence Mars, 83, American civil rights activist, author of Witness in Philadelphia.
 * Ian Nelson, 50, English saxophone and clarinet musician, died in his sleep.
 * David Peckinpah, 54, American television producer and director (Silk Stalkings, Sliders, Beauty and the Beast), heart attack.
 * Phil Walden, 66, American founder of Capricorn Records, cancer.
 * Isaac Witkin, 69, South African-born American sculptor.

24

 * Erik Bergman, 94, Finnish composer.
 * Peter Ellis, 58, British television director.
 * Nasreen Pervin Huq, 47, Bangladeshi women's activist and Director of Action Aid, from getting hit by a car.
 * Brian Labone, 66, English footballer, Everton and England player, heart attack.
 * Bonnie Owens, 76, American country music singer.
 * Jimmy Sharman, 94, Australian boxing troupe impresario.
 * Dr. Rajkumar, 76, Legendary Indian Kannada Cinema Actor, heart attack.
 * Sibby Sisti, 85, American MLB player with the Boston Braves.
 * Steve Stavro, 78, Canadian grocery store magnate and a former owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, heart attack.
 * Moshe Teitelbaum, 91, Hungarian-born Hasidic rebbe, of Satmar, one of the largest Hassidic Jewish groups in the world.

25

 * Ronald Girdwood, 89, Scottish physician.
 * Joseph S. Iseman, 89, American lawyer, educator and former president of Bennington College, cardiac arrest.
 * Jane Jacobs, 89, American-born Canadian urban activist and author (The Death and Life of Great American Cities), stroke.
 * John Kerr, 81, Irish ballad singer.
 * Peter Law, 58, Welsh politician, independent MP and AM, brain tumor.
 * Tabe Slioor, 79, Finnish socialite.

26

 * Moshe Halberstam, 74, Israeli Rabbi, Dean of Tshakava Yeshivah and prominent member of the Edah Charedis Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem.
 * Daryl Mack, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Yuval Ne'eman, 80, Israeli physicist, founder of the Israel Space Agency, science minister, and President of Tel Aviv University.
 * Russ Swan, 42, American former Major League Baseball pitcher (injuries due to a fall).

27

 * Wacław Latocha, 69, Polish Olympic cyclist.
 * Pat Marsden, 69, Canadian sportscaster, lung cancer.
 * Strini Moodley, 60, South African founding member of Black Consciousness Movement.
 * Kay Noble-Bell, 65, American wrestler.
 * Julia Thorne, 61, American author and first wife of John Kerry, bladder cancer.
 * Mel Tom, 64, American football player, heart failure.
 * Alexander Buel Trowbridge, 76, American politician and businessman, Secretary of Commerce under US President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1967 to 1968, former president of the National Association of Manufacturers.

28

 * Helen Armstrong, 63, American concert violinist.
 * Ángel O. Berríos, 69, Puerto Rican engineer, former mayor of Caguas, heart failure.
 * Steve Howe, 48, American former Major League Baseball pitcher, automobile accident.
 * Jan Koetsier, 94, Dutch composer and conductor.
 * Ben-Zion Orgad, 80, Israeli composer, cancer.
 * M. G. G. Pillai, 67, Malaysian journalist and political activist, heart complications.

29

 * Sid Barron, 88, Canadian cartoonist. Known for the biplane flying overhead trailing a banner that read "mild, isn't it.".
 * John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, American economist and author (The Affluent Society), natural causes.
 * Alberta Nelson, 68, American actress known for beach party films of 1960s.
 * Félix Siby, 64, Gabonese politician and former government minister.
 * John Trever, 90, American scholar who photographed the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem.
 * Alvin S. White, 87, American test pilot.

30

 * Jay Bernstein, 69, American Hollywood publicist.
 * Barry Driscoll, 79, British sculptor and painter, cancer.
 * Jean-François Revel, 82, French philosopher.
 * Corinne Rey-Bellet, 33, Swiss Alpine skier, shot dead.
 * William (Bill) Roberts, 105, British First World War veteran.
 * Moshe Shmuel Shapiro, 88, Belarusian-born rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Be'er Yaakov in Israel.
 * Paul Spiegel, 68, German chairman of the Central Council of German Jews, natural causes.
 * Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 81, Indonesian writer.
 * Beatriz Sheridan, 71, Mexican actress and director.