Deaths in August 2006

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.

1

 * Vincent Dole, 93, American medical researcher, established that methadone could treat heroin addiction, 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 1975–1983, oldest Cardinal in the Roman Catholic church.
 * 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 former owner of the Philadelphia 76ers who signed Julius Erving, skin cancer.
 * Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont, 92, French Resistance fighter, militant communist, and politician.
 * Audrey Lindvall, 23, American model and sister of American supermodel Angela Lindvall, traffic accident.
 * Kim McLagan, 57, British model of the 1960s, wife of Ian McLagan of The Faces and former wife of Keith Moon, traffic accident.
 * 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.

3

 * John Haase, 82, German-born American dentist turned author, emphysema.
 * Arthur Lee, 61, American rock musician, leader of the psychedelic band Love, leukemia.
 * Ken Richmond, 80, British actor and wrestler, 1952 Olympic bronze medal winner, gong striker in the credits for films by J. Arthur Rank Studios.
 * Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 90, German-born opera soprano, natural causes.

4

 * Elden Auker, 95, American Major League Baseball pitcher, heart attack.
 * Julio Galán, 46, Mexican neo-expressionist painter, brain hemorrhage.
 * John Locke, 62, American keyboardist of Spirit, cancer.
 * Nandini Satpathy, 75, Indian politician and author, Chief Minister of Odisha, India 1972–1976, cerebral bleeding.
 * Esther Snyder, 86, American businesswoman, president of California-based In-N-Out Burger.

5

 * 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.

6

 * Esther Victoria Abraham, 89, Indian model, actress and film producer.
 * Ángel de Andrés, 88, Spanish theatre actor and director, heart attack.
 * Salvino Azzopardi, 75, Maltese Jesuit priest and philosopher.
 * 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, first American to win a World Championship Motocross event, automobile accident.
 * 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 anime voice actor, 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 Sid Yates.
 * Jim Crooker, 80, American amateur golfer, amateur who played in more Bob Hope Chrysler Classic tournaments than any other golfer, cancer.
 * John Gilbert, 84, Canadian politician.
 * Lois January, 92, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Bob Miller, 76, American football player, NFL defensive tackle with the title-winning Detroit Lions, cancer.
 * John Weinberg, 81, American banker, former head of Goldman Sachs, complications from a fall.

8

 * Gustavo Arcos, 79, Cuban dissident, pneumonia.
 * Slavko Brankov, 55, Croatian actor.
 * Duke Jordan, 84, American bebop jazz pianist.
 * Dino Restelli, 81, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Chandra Prasad Saikia, 79, Indian writer.
 * Antonieta Zevallos de Prialé, 87, Peruvian politician, deputy (1980–1985).

9

 * Gianfranco Bellini, 82, Italian actor and voice actor.
 * George Chapman, 85, Englist faith healer.
 * Colin Dickinson, 74, New Zealand Olympic cyclist.
 * Anga Díaz, 45, Cuban conga player, heart attack.
 * Jenny Gröllmann, 59, German actress (I Was Nineteen, Peas at 5:30), breast cancer.
 * Melissa Hayden, 83, Canadian-born ballerina, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, pancreatic cancer.
 * Philip Empson High, 92, British science fiction author, natural causes.
 * Said Abdullo 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.

10

 * 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 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 airborne mechanic, helicopter crash.
 * Nicholas Webster, 94, American film and television director.

13

 * Bill Baker, 95, American baseball player.
 * Joseph Carlino, 89, American 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, Mighty Ducks), complications from tumor surgery.
 * Jon Nödtveidt, 31, Swedish lead guitarist and vocalist (Dissection), convicted of felony murder, suicide.
 * Payao Poontarat, 49, Thai boxer, first Thai Olympic medal winner (bronze, 1976), World Boxing Council champion, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

14

 * 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.

15

 * Rick Bourke, 51, Australian rugby league player, cancer.
 * William Branson, 68, American economist.
 * 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 co-founder of ECD Ovonics, wife of inventor Stanford Ovshinsky.
 * Alfredo Stroessner, 93, Paraguayan President (1954–1989), complications from hernia surgery.
 * Alan Vint, 61, American actor, multiple organ failure.
 * William Wasson, 82, American priest who founded orphanages, complications from a hip injury.

17

 * Kontek Kamariah Ahmad, 95, Malaysian educationist, politician, activist and pioneer in the Malaysian co-operative movement.
 * Len Evans, 75, Australian wine writer, founder of the Australian Wine Bureau, heart attack.
 * Ken Goodall, 59, Irish rugby union player (1967–1970).
 * 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 (MIT), 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 founder of 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 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, wife of Martin Frost, 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, sister of Lionel Blair, cancer.
 * Clinton Bristow, Jr., 57, American lawyer and education official, president of Alcorn State University, heart failure.
 * Joseph Hill, 57, Jamaican lead singer of roots reggae group Culture, liver failure.
 * Óscar Míguez, 78, Uruguayan footballer, 1950 FIFA World Cup winner.
 * Mervyn Wood, 89, Australian rower, three-time Olympic medal winner, New South Wales Police Commissioner.

20

 * 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.

21

 * Máximo Carvajal, 70, Chilean comic book artist.
 * Bismillah Khan, 90, Indian shehnai musician and Bharat Ratna winner, heart attack.
 * Jon Lilletun, 60, Norwegian politician (KrF), Minister of Education (1997–2000), cancer.
 * Geff Noblet, 89, Australian test cricketer (1949–1953).
 * William Norris, 95, American engineer, founder of Control Data Corporation.
 * Buck Page, 84, American western musician, founder of Riders of the Purple Sage.
 * Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, 65, Dutch billionaire businessman, pancreatic cancer.
 * S. Yizhar, 89, Israeli author, heart disease.

22

 * Bruce Gary, 55, American drummer (The Knack), lymphoma.
 * Frank Lennon, 79, Canadian photographer.
 * Magnús Helgi Magnússon, 83, Icelandic politician, Minister of Social Affairs.
 * Simeon Anthony Pereira, 78, Pakistani Archbishop Emeritus of Karachi.

23

 * Maynard Ferguson, 78, Canadian jazz trumpet player, kidney and liver failure.
 * Sven Grönblom, 92, Finnish Olympic sailor
 * John Lister, 90, British Anglican priest, Provost of Wakefield (1972–1982).
 * Nigel Malim, 87, British admiral.
 * Ayyappa Paniker, 75, Indian poet and academic.
 * Wasim Raja, 54, Pakistani test cricketer, heart attack.
 * Raymond Harold Sawkins, 82, British novelist.
 * David Schnaufer, 53, American Appalachian dulcimer player, lung cancer.
 * Marie Tharp, 86, American oceanographic cartographer.
 * Ed Warren, 79, American demonologist, after long illness.
 * Jacques Wildberger, 84, Swiss composer.

24

 * Herbert Hupka, 91, German journalist and politician.
 * Leonard Levy, 83, Canadian-born American constitutional historian and author, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for History.
 * Cristian Nemescu, 27, Romanian film director, car accident.
 * Viktor Pavlov, 65, Russian actor, heart attack.
 * Rocco Petrone, 80, American NASA engineer, director of Project Apollo and the Marshall Space Flight Center.
 * David Plowright, 75, British television producer and executive, chairman of Granada Television (1987–1992).
 * Ralph Schoenstein, 73, American humorist and NPR commentator.
 * Léopold Simoneau, 90, Canadian lyric tenor.
 * James Tenney, 72, American experimental music composer, cancer.
 * Gene Thompson, 89, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, New York Giants).
 * Andrei Toncu, 28, Romanian sound designer, car accident.
 * John Weinzweig, 93, Canadian composer.

25

 * John Blankenstein, 57, Dutch openly gay football referee, kidney disease.
 * Noor Hassanali, 88, Trinidadian politician, President (1987–1997).
 * Silva Kaputikyan, 87, Armenian poet.
 * Vijay Mehra, 68, Indian cricketer.
 * Joseph Stefano, 84, American screenwriter (Psycho) and television writer (The Outer Limits).
 * Ross Warneke, 54, Australian television presenter and radio personality, cancer.

26

 * Rainer Barzel, 82, German President of the Bundestag, Chairman of the CDU.
 * Earl Jolly Brown, 66, American actor (Live and Let Die).
 * Akbar Bugti, 79, Pakistani Balochistan rebel tribal leader, shot.
 * Sir Robin Fearn, 71, British diplomat, ambassador to Cuba and Spain.
 * John Ripley Forbes, 93, American naturalist and conservationist, founder of nature museums.
 * William Garnett, 89, American aerial photographer.
 * Yevhen Kucherevskyi, 65, Ukrainian football coach (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), car crash.
 * Marie-Dominique Philippe, 93, French Dominican priest, founder of the Community of St. John, stroke.
 * Sir Alfred Sherman, 86, British journalist, writer and political analyst.
 * Vladimir Tretchikoff, 92, Russian artist.
 * Sir Clyde Walcott, 80, Barbadian cricketer.

27

 * María Capovilla, 116, Ecuadorian supercentenarian, oldest person in the world, pneumonia.
 * Tee Corinne, 62, American writer and artist, liver cancer.
 * Jon Dough, 43, American pornographic actor and AVN Hall of Famer, suicide by hanging.
 * Paul Gutty, 63, French cyclist.
 * Ike Hildebrand, 79, Canadian ice hockey and lacrosse player.
 * Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín, 79, Ecuadorian Archbishop of Guayaquil.
 * Luciano Mendes de Almeida, 75, Brazilian Archbishop of Mariana, cancer.
 * Hrishikesh Mukherjee, 83, Indian film director.
 * David Nicholson, 67, British jockey and horse trainer.
 * Jerrold M. North 74, American diplomat.
 * Jesse Pintado, 37, American guitarist (Terrorizer, Napalm Death), complications of diabetic coma.

28

 * Ed Benedict, 94, American animator (The Ruff and Reddy Show, The Flintstones, Johnny Bravo).
 * Sankho Chaudhuri, 90, Indian sculptor.
 * Don Chipp, 81, Australian politician, founder of the Australian Democrats.
 * Mary Lee Robb Cline, 80, American actress (The Great Gildersleeve), heart failure.
 * Ludwig Hemauer, 89, Swiss Olympic shooter.
 * Heino Lipp, 84, Estonian champion decathlete.
 * Robert McDermott, 86, American dean of the USAF Academy, chairman of USAA and owner of San Antonio Spurs, stroke.
 * Pip Pyle, 56, British drummer (Gong, Hatfield and the North).
 * William F. Quinn, 87, American Governor of Hawaii (1957–1962), pneumonia.
 * Michael Richard, 58, American photographer, cancer.
 * Benoît Sauvageau, 42, Canadian Bloc Québécois MP, traffic accident.
 * Melvin Schwartz, 73, American physicist, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics.
 * Alfred Sherman, 86, British co-founder of the Centre for Policy Studies.

29

 * Kent Andersson, 64, Swedish motorcycle racer, winner of 1973 and 1974 125cc World Championships.
 * John Cummins, 58, Australian union official, secretary of the Builders' Labourers Federation, cancer.
 * Robert J. Gorlin, 83, American oral pathologist.
 * Gerald Green, 84, American author (The Last Angry Man) and screenwriter (Holocaust).
 * Benjamin Rawitz-Castel, 60, Israeli pianist, murdered.
 * John Scandrett, 91, New Zealand cricketer.
 * Jumpin' Gene Simmons, 73, American rockabilly musician.
 * Bill Stewart, 63, British actor.

30

 * Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, 80, New Zealand jurist.
 * Glenn Ford, 90, Canadian-born American actor (Blackboard Jungle, 3:10 to Yuma, Superman).
 * Susan Lynn Hefle, 46, American food scientist, cancer.
 * Margaret Hubble, 91, British radio broadcaster.
 * Emrys Jones, 86, British geographer.
 * Igor Kio, 62, Russian illusionist.
 * Bob LeRose, 85, American comic book artist (Batman, Superman, Jonah Hex).
 * Naguib Mahfouz, 94, Egyptian winner of 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature, head injuries from a fall.
 * Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm, 83, British MP and government minister.
 * Bill Stumpf, 70, American industrial designer, co-created the Aeron office chair.

31

 * Mohamed Abdelwahab, 22, Egyptian footballer, suspected heart attack.
 * K. Sri Dhammananda, 87, Sri Lankan-born Malaysian bhikkhu, stroke.
 * Guy Gabaldon, 80, American World War II marine, heart attack.
 * J. S. Holliday, 82, American historian, expert on California Gold Rush, pulmonary fibrosis.
 * David Macpherson, 2nd Baron Strathcarron, 82, British hereditary peer and motoring expert.
 * Mike Magill, 86, American racing driver.
 * Charlie Wagner, 93, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).