Deaths in July 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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

 * Umberto Abronzino, 85, Italian-born American member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator.
 * Michael Barton, 91, English Surrey cricketer and president.
 * Edwin Broderick, 89, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, New York, and director of Catholic Relief Services.
 * Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer.
 * Irving Green, 90, American record industry executive, co-founder of Mercury Records.
 * Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan (1996–1998).
 * Jabron Hashmi, 24, British soldier, first British Muslim to die in "War on Terror.".
 * Louis Jacobs, 85, British rabbi and founder of Masorti movement.
 * Yousuf Khan, 70, Indian footballer, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack.
 * Robert Lepikson, 54, Estonian businessman and politician.
 * Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker.
 * Padmakar Pandit, 71, Indian cricket umpire.
 * Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author.
 * Fred Trueman, 75, English and Yorkshire cricketer, lung cancer.

2

 * Cecilia Cole, 86, Gambian politician, old age.
 * Maurice Fox-Strangways, 9th Earl of Ilchester, 86, British peer and engineer, member House of Lords and RAF group captain.
 * Balázs Horváth, 64, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer.
 * Herty Lewites, 65, Nicaraguan presidential candidate.
 * Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian.
 * Tihomir Ognjanov, 79, Serbian footballer for Yugoslavia, played in the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
 * Joan Quennell, 82, British Conservative MP for Petersfield 1960–1974.
 * Anatole Shub, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pneumonia and a stroke.
 * Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, American painter.

3

 * Mark Aubrey Tennyson, 5th Baron Tennyson, 86, British aristocrat, great-grandson of poet Lord Tennyson.
 * Francis Cammaerts, 90, British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent, led 30,000 French Resistance fighters.
 * Dick Dickey, 79, American basketball player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University.
 * Gerhard Fischer, 84, Norwegian-born German diplomat.
 * Joseph Goguen, 65, American computer scientist from UCSD.
 * Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (As the World Turns), suicide by gunshot.
 * Wilbert Hopper, 73, Canadian businessman, president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada.
 * Gwyn Jones, 89, Welsh physicist and public servant.
 * Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, breast cancer.
 * Lars Korvald, 90, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway.
 * Sir Carol Mather, 87, British Conservative MP.
 * Nimrod Ping, 58, British politician, Brighton city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis C.
 * Jack Smith, 92, American musician and host of You Asked for It, leukemia.
 * Joe Weaver, 71, American musician, leader of the Blue Note Orchestra and musician on early Tamla sessions, stroke.

4

 * John Hinde, 94, Australian film reviewer and journalist.
 * Norbert Kerckhove, 73, Belgian cyclist.
 * Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American world champion bridge player and author, complications of Parkinson's Disease.
 * Jean-François d'Orgeix, 85, French equestrian, actor and Olympic medalist, traffic collision.

5

 * Barbara Albright, 51, American author of food and knitting books, brain tumor.
 * Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer.
 * Lewis Glucksman, 80, American head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers.
 * Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business.
 * Kenneth Lay, 64, American businessman, CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack.
 * Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader.
 * Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic who worked for Rolling Stone and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records.
 * Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress.
 * Prince Sione ʻUluvalu Ngū Takeivūlai Tukuʻaho, 56, Tongan Tuʻi Pelehake, traffic collision.

6

 * Juan de Ávalos, 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack.
 * Ralph Ginzburg, 76, U.S. publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma.
 * Al Hodge, 55, English Cornish rock guitarist and songwriter, cancer.
 * John Manos, 83, U.S. and Ohio judge for 43 years.
 * Juan Pablo Rebella, 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide.
 * Kasey Rogers, 80, American actress (Bewitched) and motocross racer, stroke.
 * E. S. Turner, 96, English historian and journalist.
 * Tom Weir, 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster.

7

 * Luis Barragan, 34, American businessman and philanthropist, president of 1-800-Mattress, drowned.
 * Syd Barrett, 60, English musician (Pink Floyd), diabetes.
 * Rudi Carrell, 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancer.
 * Dorothea Church, 83, African-American model, first successful black model in Paris.
 * John Warner Fitzgerald, 81, American lawyer, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.
 * Elias Hrawi, 79, Lebanese politician, President of Lebanon (1989–98), cancer.
 * Dina Kaminskaya, 87, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents.
 * Eugene Kurtz, 82, American composer.
 * John Money, 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Parkinson's disease.
 * Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, 53, Irish musician with the Bothy Band.
 * Eric Schopler, 79, German-born American psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer.
 * Frank P. Zeidler, 93, American politician, Mayor of Milwaukee (1948–1960) and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city.
 * Govindappa Venkataswamy, 87, Indian ophthalmologist, founder of Aravind Eye Hospitals.

8

 * George Albee, 84, American psychologist and former head of the American Psychological Association.
 * June Allyson, 88, American actress, dancer and singer, pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis.
 * Michael Barrett, 79, Irish politician.
 * Eric Bedford, 78, Australian politician, member of the Wran Government ministry 1976–1985 in New South Wales.
 * Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, 91, Australian industrialist and patron of the arts, founder of Transfield Holdings, Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, fall.
 * David Bright, 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrest stemming from decompression sickness.
 * Ana María Campoy, 80, Argentine actress, pneumonia.
 * Sir Richard Gorham, 88, Bermudian businessman and politician.
 * Peter Hawkins, 82, British actor and voice artist - voice of the Flower Pot Men, Captain Pugwash and the Daleks.
 * Catherine Leroy, 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam War in Life, lung cancer.
 * Raja Rao, 97, Indian novelist (Kanthapura).
 * Jesse Simons, 88, American labor arbitrator, heart failure.
 * Dorothy Uhnak, 76, American policewoman turned novelist.

9

 * Chris Drake, 82, American actor.
 * Fred Epstein, 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumors, melanoma.
 * Abdel Moneim Madbouly, 84, Egyptian comedian and playwright, congestive heart failure.
 * Ireneusz Paliński, 74, Polish weightlifter, Olympic champion (1960).
 * Alan Senitt, 27, British political activist, stabbed.
 * George Hopkins Williams II, 91, American aviation historian.
 * Milan Williams, 58, American keyboardist, founding member of R&B/funk band the Commodores, cancer.
 * Michael Zinzun, 57, American ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist.

10

 * Shamil Basayev, 41, Chechen rebel leader and terrorist, explosion.
 * Lennart Bladh, 86, Swedish politician, member of the Riksdag from 1974 to 1985.
 * Tommy Bruce, 68, British singer ("Ain't Misbehavin'").
 * Robert Fumerton, 93, Canadian night fighter ace top-scorer of World War II.
 * Raymond Furnell, 71, British Dean of York from 1994 to 2003, cancer.
 * Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi, 89, Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist who published 50 books.
 * Ruth Schönthal, 82, German-born classical pianist and composer.
 * Fred Wander, 89, Austrian author and Holocaust survivor.

11

 * Kathy Augustine, 50, American politician, State Controller of Nevada who was first Nevada state official to be impeached in office, murdered.
 * Phyllis Baker, 69, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
 * John Coletta, 74, English music manager and music producer, former manager of Deep Purple and Whitesnake.
 * Gerald Gidwitz, 99, American cosmetics executive, co-founder of Helene Curtis, congestive heart failure.
 * Barnard Hughes, 90, American actor (Tron, Doc Hollywood, The Lost Boys), Tony winner (1978).
 * Fortunato Libanori, 72, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
 * Bill Miller, 91, American pianist for Frank Sinatra, heart attack.
 * Derrick O'Brien, 31, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Bronwyn Oliver, 47, Australian sculptor, suicide.
 * John Spencer, 71, British former world champion snooker player, stomach cancer.
 * Philippe Takla, 91, Lebanese politician, lawyer and diplomat, foreign minister of Lebanon.
 * Wiarton Willie, 8, Canadian Groundhog Day prognosticator.

12

 * Rocky Barton, 49, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Kurt Kreuger, 89, Swiss-German actor (Sahara, The Enemy Below), stroke.
 * Hubert Lampo, 85, Belgian writer.
 * Loredana Nusciak, 64, Italian actress (Django, Ten Thousand Dollars for a Massacre) and model.

13

 * Red Buttons, 87, American comedian and actor (Sayonara, The Longest Day, Pete's Dragon), Oscar winner (1958), vascular disease.
 * Pamela Cooper, 95, British refugee activist known for her work with the Palestinians.
 * John Lyttelton, 11th Viscount Cobham, 63, British aristocrat.
 * Ángel Suquía Goicoechea, 89, Spanish Metropolitan-Archbishop of Madrid.
 * Tomasz Zaliwski, 75, Polish actor.

14

 * Anthony Cave Brown, 77, English historian of espionage.
 * Tom Frame, British comic book letterer, cancer.
 * Heinrich Heidersberger, 100, German photographer.
 * William Lash III, 45, American assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce and professor at George Mason University, suicide by gunshot.
 * Carrie Nye, 69, American actress (Half a Sixpence, Guiding Light, Creepshow), lung cancer.
 * Len Teeuws, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Chicago Cardinals).
 * Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, 43, Polish International Grandmaster of chess, perforated intestine and bleeding.

15

 * Robert H. Brooks, 69, American chairman of Hooters of America, natural causes.
 * John Joseph Fitzpatrick, 87, Canadian Bishop of Brownsville for 20 years.
 * Howdy Groskloss, 100, American professional baseball player, oldest major league baseball player.
 * Kenneth Lochhead, 80, Canadian artist who was a member of the Regina Five, colorectal cancer.
 * James Nicholas, 85, American orthopedic surgeon and physician for three NFL teams.
 * István Pálfi, 39, Hungarian Member of the European Parliament.
 * Rupert Pole, 87, American actor, forest ranger, and co-husband of bigamist Anaïs Nin.
 * Francis Rose, 84, British botanist.
 * Andrée Ruellan, 101, American painter.
 * Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, 63, Iranian archaeologist, stomach cancer.
 * Andrew Sudduth, 44, American rower who won an Olympic silver medal, pancreatic cancer.

16

 * Walter Binaghi, 87, Argentine ICAO Council President.
 * Keith DeVries, 69, American archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania, excavated Gordion.
 * Kevin Hughes, 53, British Labour MP for Doncaster North, motor neurone disease.
 * Bob Orton, Sr., 76, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
 * Destiny Norton, 5, American child, murdered.
 * Ossi Reichert, 80, German alpine skier, Olympic Champion 1956.
 * Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 57, American billionaire and Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas since 1996, myeloproliferative disorder.
 * Malachi Thompson, 56, American jazz trumpeter, lymphoma.

17

 * Setsuro Ebashi, 83, Japanese physiologist.
 * Galen Fiss, 75, American Cleveland Browns linebacker.
 * Keith LeClair, 40, U.S. college baseball coach, Lou Gehrig's Disease.
 * Barbara Liebrich, 83, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
 * Robert Mardian, 82, American Republican party official, attorney for Richard Nixon, figure in the Watergate scandal, lung cancer.
 * Sam Myers, 70, American blues musician, who won nine W.C. Handy Awards with his band the Rockets, throat cancer.
 * Mickey Spillane, 88, American author, creator of Mike Hammer detective fiction, pancreatic cancer.
 * Reg Turnbull, 98, Australian politician.

18

 * Raul Cortez, 73, Brazilian actor, pancreatic cancer.
 * Henry Hewes, 89, American Saturday Review theater critic and editor of Best Plays (1960–1964).
 * Jimmy Leadbetter, 78, Scottish Ipswich Town footballer.
 * David Maloney, 72, British television director and producer for Doctor Who and Blake's 7.
 * Sir James Menter, 84, British physicist.
 * V. P. Sathyan, 41, Indian football player, captain of the India national football team, suicide.

19

 * Pat Davey, 93, Australian footballer (Richmond).
 * Mohammad Yunus Khalis, 87, Afghan mujahideen leader.
 * Sam Neely, 58, American singer-songwriter.
 * Pascal Renwick, 51, French voice actor
 * Jack Warden, 85, American actor (Heaven Can Wait, Shampoo, 12 Angry Men), Emmy winner (1972), heart and kidney failure.
 * George Wetherill, 80, American astrophysicist, winner of the National Medal of Science.
 * Tudi Wiggins, 70, Canada-born soap opera actor, cancer.

20

 * Ugo Attardi, 83, Italian painter, sculptor and writer.
 * Charles Bettelheim, 92, French Marxist economist and historian.
 * Robert Cornthwaite, 89, American character actor (Thing From Another World).
 * Paddy Dunne, 77, Irish politician, Lord Mayor of Dublin (1975–1976) and senator.
 * Ted Grant, 93, South African-British Trotskyist politician.
 * Brandon Hedrick, 27, American convicted murderer and rapist, execution by electric chair.
 * Lim Kim San, 89, Singaporean politician, cabinet minister of Singapore.
 * Frank Nabarro, 90, English-born South African physicist who was a pioneer of solid state physics.
 * Harry Olivieri, 90, American restaurateur, co-inventor of the Philly cheesesteak and co-founder of Pat's King of Steaks cheesesteak emporium.
 * Gérard Oury, 87, French actor, screenwriter and film director.

21

 * Mako, 72, Japanese-American film, television and Broadway actor, esophageal cancer.
 * Ta Mok, 80, Cambodian military chief, Khmer Rouge commander.
 * J. Madison Wright Morris, 21, American child actress, heart attack.
 * Alexander Petrenko, 30, Russian international basketballer, traffic collision.
 * Gianmario Roveraro, 70, Italian banker and founder of Akros Finanziaria, murder.
 * Bert Slater, 70, Scottish footballer.

22

 * Heather Bratton, 19, American model, traffic collision.
 * Donald Reid Cabral, 83, Dominican politician and lawyer, foreign minister of the Dominican Republic.
 * José Antonio Delgado, 41, Venezuelan mountaineer, first Venezuelan to climb Mount Everest, while mountaineering.
 * Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, 71, Italian-Brazilian actor, complications from kidney disease.
 * Jessie Mae Hemphill, 82, American award-winning blues musician, complications of an infection.
 * Thomas J. Manton, 73, American longtime Democratic leader of Queens, NY, former US Representative (1985–99), prostate cancer.
 * Dika Newlin, 82, American musician and musicologist, scholar of Arnold Schoenberg.
 * Charles Knox Robinson III, 74, American actor, from complications of Parkinson's disease.
 * James E. West, 55, American politician, mayor of Spokane, Washington, colorectal cancer.
 * Russell J. York, 84, American World War II veteran and hero of the battle for the Hurtgen Forest.

23

 * Charles E. Brady, Jr., 54, American former astronaut.
 * Jean-Paul Desbiens, 79, French-Canadian author of Les insolences du Frère Untel, heart attack.
 * James Callan Graham, 91, American lawyer and politician.
 * Vernon Grant, 71, American cartoonist.
 * Besby Holmes, 88, US Air Force fighter pilot, participant in air action that killed Admiral Yamamoto.
 * John Mack, 78, American oboist, complications from brain cancer.
 * Frederick Mosteller, 89, American Harvard professor of statistics, founding chair of the department of statistics, sepsis.
 * Terence Otway, 92, British soldier, commander of the assault on the Merville Battery on D-Day.

24

 * Janka Bryl, 89, Belarusian writer.
 * Heinrich Hollreiser, 93, German conductor.
 * Bill Long, 88, Canadian ice hockey coach.
 * Leon Morris, 92, Australian theologian.

25

 * Carl Brashear, 75, American first black US Navy diver, portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the film Men of Honor, heart failure.
 * Ezra Fleischer, 78, Romanian-born Israeli poet, winner of the Israel Prize, and professor at Hebrew University.
 * Hani Mohsin Hanafi, 41, Malaysian actor and television game show host, heart attack.
 * Aldo Notari, 74, Italian president of the International Baseball Federation.
 * Dame Mildred Riddelsdell, 92, British civil servant.
 * Bob Simpson, 61, British retired senior BBC correspondent.

26

 * Floyd Dixon, 77, American R&B pianist, kidney failure.
 * Vincent J. Fuller, 75, American lawyer who defended John Hinckley, Jr., lung cancer.
 * Jessie Gilbert, 19, British chess player, youngest Women's World Amateur Championship winner, fall.
 * Rolf Arthur Hansen, 86, Norwegian government minister.
 * Roi Klein, Israeli IDF Major, won Medal of Courage.
 * Darrell Martinie, 63, American astrologer known as "the Cosmic Muffin", cancer.
 * Princess Tatiana von Metternich, 91, Russian-born German aristocrat, World War II diarist, and arts patron.

27

 * Maryann Mahaffey, 81, American member of Detroit city council, leukemia.
 * Sir Charles Mills, 91, British admiral.
 * Carlos Roque, 70, Portuguese comic book artist.
 * Alexandru Șafran, 95, Romanian and Swiss rabbi, Chief Rabbi of Romania who tried to stop the deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi regime during World War II.
 * Elisabeth Volkmann, 70, German actress, German voice of Marge Simpson.
 * Johnny Weissmuller Jr., 65, American actor, son of Johnny Weissmuller, liver cancer.
 * Funsho Williams, 58, Nigerian politician, strangled.

28

 * Patrick Allen, 79, British actor.
 * Rut Brandt, 86, Norwegian resistance fighter, second wife of former German chancellor Willy Brandt.
 * Nigel Cox, 55, New Zealand novelist, cancer.
 * Abdallah Isaaq Deerow, 56, Somali politician, Constitution and Federalism Minister of Somalia, assassination by gunshot.
 * Harold Enarson, 87, American academic, president of Ohio State University (1972–1981), fired football coach Woody Hayes, hydrocephalus.
 * David Gemmell, 57, British fantasy novelist.
 * Joel Hedgpeth, 94, American marine biologist and Californian environmental activist.
 * Richard Mock, 61, American painter, sculptor, and editorial cartoonist.
 * Sep Smith, 94, English Leicester City footballer, and oldest living England international player.
 * Billy Walsh, 85, Irish Manchester City footballer & Grimsby Town manager, who played international football for both Ireland teams, the FAI XI and the IFA XI, and New Zealand.

29

 * Hani Awijan, 29, Palestinian leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military wing, The Al-Quds brigades, in Nablus, West Bank, gunshot wounds.
 * Guido Daccò, 63, Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula 3000, 24 Hours of Le Mans, & Champ Car.
 * José López Rosario, 30, Puerto Rican drug dealer.
 * Jean Baker Miller, 78, American psychiatrist.
 * James Olin, 86, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1982–1992).
 * Pierre Vidal-Naquet, 76, French historian and activist, cerebral haemorrhage.

30

 * Duygu Asena, 60, Turkish writer and civil-rights advocate, brain tumour.
 * Al Balding, 82, Canadian golfer, cancer.
 * Murray Bookchin, 85, American author, heart failure.
 * Philip D'Arcy Hart, 106, British medical researcher.
 * Anthony Galla-Rini, 102, American concert accordionist, heart failure.
 * Akbar Mohammadi, 37, Iranian student dissident, heart attack following a hunger strike and torture.
 * Zdravko Rajkov, 78, Serbian football player and manager.

31

 * Dugald Christie, 65, Canadian lawyer who fought for equitable access to legal services, traffic collision.
 * Simón Echeverría, 34, Chilean record producer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Paul Eells, 70, American sportscaster, voice of the Arkansas Razorbacks football and basketball for radio and television, traffic collision.
 * Mario Faustinelli, 81, Italian comic book artist.
 * Frederick Kilgour, 92, American librarian, founder of OCLC Online Computer Library Center.