Deaths in January 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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

 * Frank Cary, 85, American businessman, chairman of IBM (1973–1981), natural causes.
 * Mapita Cortés, 66, Puerto Rican actress, cancer.
 * Bryan Harvey, 49, American musician (House of Freaks), murdered.
 * Dawn Lake, 78, Australian entertainer, widow of Bobby Limb.
 * John Latham, 84, Zambian artist, natural causes.
 * Paul Lindblad, 64, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Dragan Lukić, 77, Serbian writer, after long illness.
 * Harry Magdoff, 92, American socialist and editor, natural causes.
 * Charles O. Porter, 86, American politician, representative from Oregon (1957–1961), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Gideon Rodan, 71, American biochemist, cancer.
 * Hubert Schoemaker, 55, Dutch chemist, co-founder of Centocor, brain cancer.
 * Charles Steen, 86, American geologist and businessman.

2

 * Frank Butler, 89, British sports journalist.
 * Raul Davila, 74, Puerto Rican actor and television producer, heart attack.
 * Ofelia Fox, 82, Cuban nightclub owner (Tropicana Club), cancer.
 * Osa Massen, 91, Danish actress.
 * Klemens Mielczarek, 85, Polish actor.
 * Michael S. Smith, 59, American jazz drummer.
 * Francis Steinmetz, 91, Dutch author and Colditz Castle escapee.
 * Frank Wilkinson, 91, American civil liberties activist, natural causes.
 * John Wojtowicz, 60, American bankrobber, cancer.
 * John Woodnutt, 81, British actor.
 * Lidia Wysocka, 89, Polish actress.

3

 * Urbano Lazzaro, 81, Italian resistance fighter, capture of Benito Mussolini.
 * Steve Rogers, 51, Australian rugby league player, apparent suicide.
 * Sir William Skate, 52, Papua New Guinean politician, prime minister (1997–1999), stroke.
 * Bruce Wilson, 64, Australian journalist, cancer.

4

 * John Hahn-Petersen, 75, Danish actor, heart attack.
 * Sophie Heathcote, 33, Australian actress (A Country Practice).
 * Milton Himmelfarb, 87, American essayist.
 * Stan Hunt, 76, American cartoonist.
 * Irving Layton, 93, Canadian poet, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
 * Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 62, Emirati emir, Ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, heart attack.
 * Gretl Schörg, 91, Austrian actress.
 * Lourdes Van-Dúnem, 70, Angolan singer, typhoid fever.
 * Nel van Vliet, 79, Dutch swimmer.

5

 * Rod Dedeaux, 91, American college baseball coach, complications from a stroke.
 * William H. G. FitzGerald, 96, American investor, philanthropist and diplomat, ambassador to Ireland, aortic aneurysm.
 * Keizo Miura, 101, Japanese skier.
 * Lord Merlyn-Rees, 85, Welsh-born politician, former British Home Secretary, following a number of falls.
 * Ken Mosdell, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Blackhawks).
 * Mark Roberts, 84, American actor (Gilda, Dan August, Black Arrow).
 * Simon Shanks, 34, American football player (Arizona Cardinals), shot.
 * Rachel Squire, 51, British Labour Member of Parliament for Dunfermline and West Fife, stroke.
 * Alex St. Clair, 64, American musician (Captain Beefheart).
 * Vajramuni, 62, Indian actor.

6

 * Allaire du Pont, 92, American thoroughbred enthusiast, owner of Kelso, natural causes.
 * Roshan Khan, 76, Pakistani squash player, complications from a heart attack and coma.
 * Józef Milik, 83, Polish Catholic priest and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar.
 * Comandanta Ramona, 47, Mexican Tzotzil Zapatista rebel leader and women's rights advocate, kidney disease and tuberculosis.
 * Lou Rawls, 72, American jazz and blues singer, lung and brain cancer.
 * Hugh Thompson, Jr., 62, Vietnamese War helicopter pilot who helped stop the My Lai Massacre, removed from life support.
 * Stanley Roger Tupper, 84, American politician, former Republican United States Representative from Maine from 1961 to 1967.
 * Gábor Zavadszky, 31, Hungarian footballer (soccer player), probably pulmonary embolism.

7

 * Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar, 58, Brazilian soldier, head of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti, suicide.
 * Heinrich Harrer, 93, Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer and author.
 * Alf McMichael, 78, Northern Irish footballer.
 * Jim Zulevic, 40, American actor (The Specials), heart attack.

8

 * Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, 62, British politician and peer, former British Minister for Sport, stroke and cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Elson Becerra, 27, Colombian football player, shot.
 * Alex Elmsley, 76, English magician, heart attack.
 * Georg Wilhelm, Prince of Hanover, 90, German aristocrat, educator and Olympian.
 * James Robert Hightower, 90, American sinologist.
 * Katherine Peden, 80, American politician.
 * David Rosenbaum, 63, American journalist, The New York Times reporter, head injury during mugging.
 * Gloria Root, 57, American model and businesswoman, cancer.
 * Mimmo Rotella, 87, Italian artist, illness.
 * Raatbek Sanatbayev, 36, Kyrgyz Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler and candidate for National Olympic Committee president, shot.
 * José Luis Sánchez, 31, Argentine football (soccer) player, from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.

9

 * Andy Caldecott, 41, Australian Dakar Rally motorcycle rider, fatal neck injury sustained in an accident in Mauritania.
 * Patricia Hitt, 87, American Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Nixon, natural causes.
 * Selwyn Hughes, 77, British fundamentalist evangelical who founded Crusade for World Revival.
 * Mikk Mikiver, 68, Estonian stage director and actor.
 * W. Cleon Skousen, 92, American conservative author, BYU professor and prominent Latter-day Saint author and lecturer.
 * Gordon Smith, 55, Canadian inventor.
 * Jack Snow, 62, American NFL player and radio announcer, complications from a staph infection.
 * Don Stewart, 70, American actor (The Guiding Light), lung cancer.

10

 * Ira B. Black, 64, American neuroscientist, founder of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey, infection related to a tumor.
 * Dave Brown, 52, American NFL player, heart attack.
 * Elliot Forbes, 88, American conductor, musicologist, Harvard University professor and Beethoven scholar.
 * Sidney Frank, 86, American businessman and philanthropist, heart failure.
 * Alethea Hayter, 94, British writer.
 * Dennis Marks, 73, American animation writer-producer.
 * John Sinibaldi, 92, American Olympic cyclist.

11

 * Bernard Dafney, 37, American football player, heart attack.
 * Eric Namesnik, 35, American Olympic swimmer, injuries from a car crash.
 * Mark Spoon, 39, German DJ, prominent figure in trance music and member of (Jam & Spoon), heart attack.
 * Mabel Sine Wadsworth, 95, American birth control activist and women's health educator.

12

 * William Matthew Byrne, Jr., 75, American federal judge, presiding judge in the trial of Daniel Ellsberg, pulmonary fibrosis.
 * Brendan Cauldwell, 83, Irish actor, died in sleep.
 * Eldon Dedini, 84, American cartoonist, esophageal cancer.
 * Shaikh Faisal bin Hamad Al Khalifa, 14, Bahraini prince, injuries from a car crash.
 * Günther Landgraf, 77, German physicist and former president of Technische Universität Dresden.
 * Stewart Linder, 74, American Oscar-winning film editor.
 * Anne Meacham, 80, American actress (Suddenly, Last Summer, Another World, Lilith).
 * Meinrad Schütter, 95, Swiss composer.

13

 * Raúl Anguiano, 90, Mexican engraver and painter.
 * Gordon Atkinson, 83, Canadian broadcaster and politician.
 * Richard Dalitz, 80, Australian physicist, expert in exotic particles, studied quarks.
 * Frank Fixaris, 71, American sportscaster, house fire.
 * Ron Jessie, 57, American NFL wide receiver, heart attack.
 * Marc Potvin, 38, Canadian NHL player, found dead in his hotel room in Michigan, suicide.
 * Joan Root, 69, American wildlife conservationist, shot to death.

14

 * Henri Colpi, 84, Swiss film director and cinematographer.
 * Jim Gary, 66, American sculptor, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Conrad Hendricks, 27, South African professional football player, car crash.
 * Bubba Morton, 74, American baseball player and coach.
 * Mark Philo, 21, English professional football player, injuries from a car crash.
 * Bob Weinstock, 77, American record producer, founded independent jazz record label Prestige Records, complications of diabetes.
 * Shelley Winters, 85, American actress (The Diary of Anne Frank, Lolita, The Poseidon Adventure), Oscar winner (1960, 1966), heart failure.

15

 * Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 79, Kuwaiti Emir, brain hemorrhage.
 * Glyn Berry, 59, Welsh-born Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan.
 * Hilma Contreras, 95, Dominican writer.
 * Edward N. Hall, 91, U.S. Air Force rocket expert, father of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile program.
 * Gregory Kimble, 88, American psychologist.
 * William Post, 66, American lottery winner.
 * George Worth, 90, American Olympic fencer.

16

 * Stanley Biber, 82, American physician and pioneer in sex reassignment surgery, complications of pneumonia.
 * Rebiha Khebtani, 79, French Algerian politician, MP.
 * Jan Mark, 62, British children's writer, meningitis.
 * Richard P. McCormick, 89, American historian, professor at Rutgers University.
 * Willie Smith, 66, American baseball player, heart attack.

17

 * Clarence Ray Allen, 76, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
 * Harold R. Collier, 90, American politician, former Republican United States Representative from Illinois from 1957 to 1975.
 * Wallace Mercer, 59, British businessman, former chairman of Heart of Midlothian F.C., cancer.
 * Giles Worsley, 44, British architectural historian and journalist, nephew of the Katharine, Duchess of Kent, cancer.

18

 * Leonardo Ribeiro de Almeida, 81, Portuguese politician.
 * Norman McCabe, 94, American animator and director, famous for Tokio Jokio and The Ducktators shorts from his Termite Terrace tenure at Warner Bros.
 * Thomas Murphy, 90, American former CEO of General Motors.
 * Anton Rupert, 89, South African businessman, philanthropist and founding member of World Wide Fund for Nature, natural causes.
 * Stjepan Steiner, 90, Croatian physician, doctor to Josip Broz Tito.
 * Jan Twardowski, 90, Polish priest and poet.

19

 * Gábor Agárdy, 83, Hungarian actor (The Round-Up, Mattie the Goose-boy).
 * Gary Downie, South African psychotherapist and television production manager (Doctor Who, Star Cops), cancer.
 * Anthony Franciosa, 77, American actor, third husband of Shelley Winters, stroke.
 * Tom Nugent, 92, American football coach, member of the College Football Hall of Fame, congestive heart failure.
 * Wilson Pickett, 64, American soul singer, heart attack.
 * Awn Alsharif Qasim, 73, Sudanese writer, educator and Islamic scholar.
 * Geoff Rabone, 84, New Zealand cricketer.
 * Franz Seitz, 84, German film director.

20

 * Elmer Otto Friday, 81, American politician.
 * Andrei Iordan, 71, Kyrgyz politician, former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan.
 * David Maust, 51, American convicted serial killer, heart failure after a botched suicide attempt.
 * Dave Lepard, 25, Swedish musician (Crashdïet), suicide.
 * Rose Nader, 99, Lebanese-born president of the Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest, heart failure.
 * Pio Taofinu'u, 82, Samoan Roman Catholic cardinal.
 * Leslie Wilson, 80, British Olympic cyclist.

21

 * Michael Chan, Baron Chan, 65, British paediatrician, second peer of Chinese origin.
 * John James Cowperthwaite, 90, British civil servant, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong (1961–1971).
 * Robert Knudson, 80, American sound engineer (Cabaret, The Exorcist, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), Oscar winner (1973, 1974, 1983), supranuclear palsy.
 * Ibrahim Rugova, 61, Kosovan politician, President of Kosovo, lung cancer.

22

 * Janette Carter, 82, American last living member of the Carter Family country music group.
 * Alec Coxon, 90, English cricketer, Yorkshire and England player.
 * Sherman Ferguson, 61, American jazz drummer.
 * Aydın Güven Gürkan, 65, Turkish academic and politician (chairman of SHP).
 * Nellie Y. McKay, 67, African-American literary critic, colon cancer.

23

 * Ernie Baron, 65, Filipino radio/TV host and meteorologist, heart attack brought about by diabetes.
 * Andrea Bronfman, 60, American philanthropist and wife of Charles Bronfman, hit by car.
 * Savino Guglielmetti, 94, Italian gymnast, 1928 Olympic gold-medalist and oldest surviving Olympic champion.
 * Samuel W. Koster, 86, United States Army officer, highest ranking United States Army officer charged in My Lai massacre, renal cancer.
 * Chris McKinstry, 38, Canadian independent researcher in artificial intelligence, suicide.
 * Joseph M. Newman, 96, American film director/producer, This Island Earth.
 * Bill Rice, 74, American artist.
 * Virginia Smith, 94, American politician, former Republican United States Representative from Nebraska (1975–1991).
 * Michael Wharton, 92, British humorist ("Peter Simple").

24

 * Zaki Badawi, 84, Egyptian Islamic scholar, Islamic religious leader in Britain.
 * Schafik Handal, 75, Salvadoran politician, former presidential candidate and leader of El Salvador's main political opposition party, the FMLN, heart attack.
 * Kiki Heck, 81, Dutch Olympic diver
 * Peter Ladefoged, 80, American phonetician, stroke.
 * Carlos (Café) Martínez, 40, Venezuelan corner infielder, former MLB player, complications from a long illness.
 * Fayard Nicholas, 91, American dancer, elder of the renowned Nicholas Brothers, pneumonia and complications of a stroke.
 * Chris Penn, 40, American actor (Footloose, Reservoir Dogs, The Funeral), heart disease.
 * Sir Nicholas Shackleton, 68, British geologist, leukaemia.

25

 * Robin Coombs, 84, British immunologist, developed Coombs Antibody test
 * Marion Dudley, 33, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
 * Luther Green, 59, American NBA player, lung cancer.
 * John F. Kerin, Australian professor, reproductive scientist and gynaecologist, farm accident.
 * Anna Malle, 38, American adult film actress, car accident.
 * Herbert Schilder, 77, American dental surgeon, improved root canal procedures, Lewy body disease.
 * Sudharmono, 78, Indonesian politician and lieutenant general, vice president of Indonesia from 1988 to 1993, pneumonia.
 * Allan Temko, 81, American architectural critic and writer, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, brief illness.

26

 * Len Carlson, 68, Canadian voice actor (The Raccoons, Rolie Polie Olie, Atomic Betty), heart attack.
 * John Dunwoody, 76, British Member of Parliament, effects of an accident.
 * Morris Silverman, 93, American philanthropist, founder of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research.
 * Dave Tatsuno, 92, Japanese American businessman, documented the Topaz Japanese internment camp in his film Topaz.
 * Khan Wali Khan, 89, Pakistani politician, prominent opposition Leader and prominent Pashtun leader, heart attack.

27

 * Maurice Colclough, 52, English Rugby Union player, brain tumour.
 * Tana Hoban, 88, American photographer of children, author of over 110 children's books.
 * Phyllis King, 100, British Wimbledon winner.
 * Carol Lambrino, 86, Romanian Prince, elder son of King Carol II of Romania.
 * Christopher Lloyd, 84, British gardening writer, stroke.
 * Gene McFadden, 56, American singer and songwriter, cancer.
 * Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon, 90, British solicitor and politician.
 * Johannes Rau, 75, German politician, President of Germany (Bundespräsident) from 1999 to 2004.

28

 * Peter Isola, 76, Gibraltarian politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Gibraltar (1956–1984).
 * Yitzchak Kaduri, 106, Iraqi-born renowned Sephardic Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist.
 * Henry McGee, 76, British actor.
 * Sauli Rytky, 87, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic medalist.

29

 * Andrew Gonzalez, 65, Filipino linguist and educator, complications from diabetes.
 * Lau Mulder, 78, Dutch field hockey player and Olympic medalist.
 * Nam June Paik, 73, South Korean-born American artist, particularly noted for his video art, natural causes.
 * George Psychoundakis, 85, Greek Resistance fighter during World War II.

30

 * Stew Albert, 66, American 1960s anti-establishment activist, co-founder of the Yippies, liver cancer.
 * Paul Clinton, 53, American CNN film critic, founder of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA).
 * Seth Fisher, 33, American comic book artist (Green Lantern: Willworld), fall.
 * Arnold Graffi, 95, German Researcher for oncology, long illness.
 * Coretta Scott King, 78, American civil rights leader, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., ovarian cancer.
 * Otto Lang, 98, Bosnian-born American film producer and ski mogul, heart disease.
 * Irving Rosenwater, 73, English statistician and author.
 * Wendy Wasserstein, 55, American playwright, lymphoma.

31

 * Owen Abrahams, 72, Australian rules footballer, serious illness.
 * Ruairi Brugha, 88, Irish Fianna Fáil politician, son of Cathal Brugha.
 * Henry S. Coleman, 79, American educational administrator, dean at Columbia University.
 * Boris Kostelanetz, 94, Russian-born American tax lawyer.
 * George Koval, 92, Soviet intelligence agent.
 * Paul Regina, 49, American actor (Brothers, Joe & Valerie, L.A. Law), liver cancer.
 * Jason Sears, 38, American punk rock singer (Rich Kids on LSD), complications from drug abuse.
 * Moira Shearer, 80, British ballerina, actress, and newspaper columnist, married to Sir Ludovic Kennedy, natural causes.