Deaths in June 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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

 * Radu Bălescu, 73, Romanian scientist.
 * Frederick S. Billig, 73, American aerospace engineer.
 * Shokichi Iyanaga, 100, Japanese mathematician.
 * Rocío Jurado, 61, Spanish singer and actress, pancreatic cancer.
 * Allan Prior, 84, British television scriptwriter (Z-Cars, Howards' Way, The Charmer), father of folk singer Maddy Prior.
 * Abdul Latif Sharif, 59, Egyptian chemist, suspect in the femicides in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, officially of natural causes, rumored poisoning.
 * Jack Shelton, 82, Australian cricketer.
 * William D. Winn, 59, American professor of education at the University of Washington.

2

 * Ronald Cass, 83, British film score composer.
 * Roy Farran, 85, British army officer.
 * Bernard Loomis, 82, American toymaker responsible for Strawberry Shortcake and Star Wars action figures, heart disease.
 * Leon Pownall, 63, Canadian actor, cancer.
 * Vince Welnick, 55, American keyboardist, member of The Grateful Dead, suicide.
 * Edward Yates, 87, American television director, director of American Bandstand (1952–1969).
 * Vyacheslav Klykov, 66, Russian sculptor and nationalist politician.

3

 * Leo Clarke, 82, Australian Roman Catholic Bishop of Maitland–Newcastle, Australia, 1976-1995.
 * Brian Duke, 79, Ugandan-born tropical disease expert who helped to save millions from river blindness.
 * Johnny Grande, 76, American pianist, member of Bill Haley's backing band, The Comets. Complications arising from cancer.
 * George Kashdan, 78, American comic book writer and editor (House of Mystery, Aquaman, Sgt. Rock).
 * Doug Serrurier, 85, South African former Grand Prix racing driver and constructor.

4

 * Alec Bregonzi, 76, British actor.
 * Bill Fleming, 92, American MLB pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs
 * Ron Jones, 41, American Major League Baseball player, brain hemorrhage.
 * Richard Kapp, 69, American conductor and founder of the Philharmonia Virtuosi.
 * John Kerr, 46, British footballer (Tranmere Rovers).
 * Fulvia Mammi, 79, Italian actress (Against the Law).
 * Anthony Marreco, 90, British barrister, junior Counsel at the Nuremberg Trials and founding member of Amnesty International.
 * Sir John Rowlands, 90, British air marshal and George Cross recipient.
 * William M. Steger, 85, United States district court judge and Republican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1960.

5

 * Frederick Franck, 97, Dutch artist, author, and dentist.
 * Elizabeth Fretwell, 85, Australian opera singer best known for her performances with the Sadler's Wells company.
 * Eric Gregg, 55, American former Major League Baseball umpire, stroke.
 * Edward L. Moyers, 77, American railroad executive.
 * Robert Ross, 86, American leader of the Muscular Dystrophy Association for 44 years and persuaded Jerry Lewis to undertake a yearly telethon to raise money for muscular dystrophy, complications of broken hip.
 * Harley Rutledge, 80, American physicist and ufologist.
 * Huda Sultan, 80, Egyptian actress, cancer.

6

 * Leslie Alcock, 81, British pioneer of Dark Age archaeology, led the team that excavated Cadbury Castle.
 * María Teresa López Boegeholz, 78, Chilean oceanographer.
 * Arnold Newman, 88, American photographer who pioneered "environmental portraiture".
 * Billy Preston, 59, American musician ("You Are So Beautiful", "Nothing from Nothing") known for his work with the Beatles, malignant hypertension leading to kidney failure.
 * Hilton Ruiz, 54, American jazz pianist, injuries from a fall.
 * Léon Weil, 109, French World War I veteran.
 * Jason Moss, 31, American attorney and author of the book "The Last Victim"

7

 * Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, 39, Jordanian leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military strike.
 * Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman, spiritual adviser for Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military strike.
 * Roy Brain, 79, Australian cricketer.
 * Terry McCann, 74, American wrestler, olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling and helped found USA Wrestling, and retired Executive Director of Toastmasters International, cancer.
 * Ingo Preminger, 95, Austrian-born American Hollywood talent agent and producer (M*A*S*H), brother of Otto Preminger.
 * Mickey Sims, 51, American football defensive tackle, former player with the Cleveland Browns, heart attack.
 * Louis B. Sohn, 92, Ukrainian-born scholar of international law, helped draft the UN Charter.
 * John Tenta (aka "Earthquake"), 42, Canadian professional wrestler for the World Wrestling Federation, bladder cancer.

8

 * Jake Copass, 86, American cowboy poet, leukemia.
 * Robert Donner, 75, American actor (Mork & Mindy, The Waltons, High Plains Drifter), aneurysm.
 * Jack Jackson (nom de plume Jaxon), 65, American comic book artist and co-founder of Rip Off Press.
 * Mykola Kolessa, 102, Ukrainian composer and conductor.
 * Abouna Matta El Meskeen, 87, Egyptian Coptic Orthodox monk, Spiritual Father of St. Macarius' Monastery in the Wilderness of Scetis, Egypt.
 * John Roberts, 72, Australian businessman, founder of Australian construction company Multiplex, Complications of diabetes.
 * Jamal Abu Samhadana, Palestinian leader of PA / Hamas forces in Gaza Strip and PRC. Killed by Israeli air strike.
 * Talcott Seelye, 84, United States Foreign Service Officer and ambassador to Tunisia and Syria.
 * Sir Peter Smithers, 92, British politician, MP for Winchester and Secretary General of the Council of Europe.

9

 * Kinga Choszcz aka "Freespirit", Polish author (Led By Destiny: Hitchhiking Around the World), cerebral malaria.
 * Drafi Deutscher, 60, German singer.
 * Michael Forrestall, 73, Canadian senator, died following hospitalization for breathing problems.
 * Patricia Janus, 74, American poet, heart attack brought on by liver cancer.
 * Enzo Siciliano, 72, Italian writer, diabetes mellitus.
 * Vern Williams, 76, American bluegrass mandolin player and singer.

10

 * Qadi Abdul Karim Abdullah Al-Arashi, 72, Yemeni politician, former President of North Yemen.
 * Hubertus Czernin, 50, Austrian journalist who helped return paintings looted by the Nazis, mastocytosis.
 * Moe Drabowsky, 70, Polish-born American Major League Baseball player, multiple myeloma.
 * German Goldenshteyn, 71, Bessarabian-born clarinetist and klezmer musician.
 * Wulff-Dieter Heintz, 76, German astronomer at Swarthmore College.
 * Kenneth Jack, 81, Australian artist.
 * Charles Johnson, 96, American Negro league baseball player for the Chicago American Giants, complications of prostate cancer.
 * Peter Douglas Kennedy, 83, British folklorist.
 * Philip Merrill, 72, American publisher and diplomat, suicide.
 * Ruddy Thomas, 54, Jamaican singer, heart attack.

11

 * Michael Bartosh, 28, American Mac OS X Server expert, injuries from a fall.
 * Ernest Arthur Bell, 79, British biochemist, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
 * James Cameron, 92, American civil rights activist, founder of America's Black Holocaust Museum, lymphoma.
 * Neroli Fairhall, 61, New Zealand paraplegic archer and Olympic competitor.
 * Rolande Falcinelli, 86, French organist and composer.
 * Tim Hildebrandt, 67, American artist, complications of diabetes.
 * Hugh Latimer, 93, English actor and toy maker.
 * Mike Quarry, 55, American light heavyweight boxer, who challenged Bob Foster for the title, pugilistic dementia.
 * Bruce Shand, 89, British Army officer, father of Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall, and father-in-law of Charles, Prince of Wales, cancer.

12

 * Anna Lee Aldred, 85, American jockey and first woman in US to receive a jockey's licence, member of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame.
 * Andrew William "Nicky" Barr, 90, Australian rugby union player and World War II fighter pilot
 * Chakufwa Chihana, 67, Malawian politician, opposition figure who ran unsuccessfully for President losing to Bakili Muluzi, brain tumour.
 * György Ligeti, 83, Hungarian composer.
 * José Leite Lopes, 87, Brazilian physicist.
 * Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, 82, Canadian billionaire, media mogul and art collector. Possible heart attack.

13

 * Freddie Gorman, 67, US songwriter.
 * Charles Haughey, 80, Irish politician, Taoiseach (1979–1981, 1982, 1987–1992), prostate cancer.
 * Hiroyuki Iwaki, 73, Japanese conductor, congestive heart failure.
 * Luis Jiménez, 65, American sculptor, crushed by a statue.
 * Burke Riley, 92, American lawyer and politician, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Dennis Shepherd, 79, South African Olympic boxer.

14

 * Monty Berman, 94, British B-movie producer.
 * Surinder Kaur, 77, Indian Punjabi folk and classical singer known as the "nightingale of Punjab".
 * Edward Craig Morris, 66, American archaeologist.
 * Jean Roba, 75, Belgian comics writer
 * James Davis Speed, 91, American politician.

15

 * Betty Curtis, 70, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival in 1961 with Luciano Tajoli.
 * Raymond Devos, 83, French humorist.
 * Ján Langoš, 59, Slovak politician, head of the National Memory Institute of Slovakia.
 * Carlos Tovar, 92, Peruvian football player.

16

 * Roland Boyes, 69, British Labour politician and photographer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Barbara Epstein, 76, American literary editor, co-founder of the New York Review of Books, lung cancer.
 * Arthur Malvin, 83, American Emmy award-winning composer and lyricist, after a long illness.
 * Scott Manning, 48, Canadian athlete, builder and pilot of the world's smallest jet, crash landing.
 * Daphne Osborne, 76, British botanist.
 * Igor Śmiałowski, 88, Polish actor.

17

 * Norma Becker, 76, American anti-war activist, former chair of the War Resisters League.
 * Cláudio Besserman Vianna (Bussunda), 43, Brazilian comedian, member of Casseta & Planeta, heart attack
 * Arthur Franz, 86, American character actor (Sands of Iwo Jima, Invaders from Mars), emphysema and heart disease.
 * Mikhail Lapshin, 71, Russian politician, leader of the Agrarian Party and former president of the Altai Republic (2002–2006), cause unknown.
 * Charles Older, 88, American Los Angeles Superior Court judge who presided over the Charles Manson trial, complications of a fall.
 * Abdul-Khalim Saydullayev, 38 or 39, Chechen separatist rebel leader.
 * Hiroaki Shukuzawa, 55, Japanese rugby union coach, heart attack.
 * Julian Slade, 76, English composer and lyricist of Salad Days, cancer.
 * Bob Weaver, 77, American TV Florida-based weatherman known as "Weaver the Weatherman" on WTVJ, cancer.

18

 * Luke Belton, 87, Irish politician.
 * Hubert Cornfield, 77, Turkish film director in Hollywood (The Night of the Following Day, Les Grandes Moyens etc.).
 * Nathaniel Neiman Craley, Jr., 78, American politician, former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives (1965–67) from Pennsylvania.
 * Jesus Fuertes, 68, Spanish painter and protégé of Pablo Picasso, heart attack.
 * Chris and Cru Kahui, 3-months, New Zealand child homicide victims.
 * Gică Petrescu, 91, Romanian singer.
 * Sir David Poole, 68, British judge.
 * Donald Reilly, 72, American cartoonist (The New Yorker), cancer.
 * René Renou, 54, French vintner, president of INAO.
 * Netta Rheinberg, 94, English cricketer.
 * Vincent Sherman, 99, American film director (Mr. Skeffington, The Young Philadelphians), natural causes.
 * Richard Stahl, 74, American actor (9 to 5, Ghosts of Mississippi, Five Easy Pieces), Parkinson's disease.
 * Madeleine St John, 64, Australian novelist who wrote a book shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997, emphysema.

19

 * Hugh Baird, 76, Scottish footballer for Leeds United, Aberdeen, Airdrieonians and Scotland.
 * Duane Roland, 53, American guitarist and a founder of rock band Molly Hatchet.
 * Howard Shanet, 87, US conductor and composer.
 * Arthur Yap, 64, Singaporean poet, artist, and lecturer, English Department, University of Singapore, throat cancer.

20

 * Maurice Bevan, 85, British bass-baritone.
 * Bill Daniel, 90, American politician, former Governor of Guam.
 * Evelyn Dubrow, 95, US women and labor advocate awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999.
 * Billy Johnson, 87, American professional baseball player, former New York Yankee and All-Star third baseman, cause not given.
 * E. Pierce Marshall, 67, American businessman, son of J. Howard Marshall and Anna Nicole Smith's stepson and plaintiff in their inheritance feud, aggressive infection.
 * William Shurcliff, 97, American physicist, who helped develop the atomic bomb.
 * Claydes Charles Smith, 57, American musician, co-founder and lead guitarist of Kool and the Gang.

21

 * Theo Bell, 52, American National Football League header with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, kidney disease and scleroderma.
 * Vern Leroy Bullough, 77, American medical historian, known for his history of nursing, cancer.
 * Denis Faul, 73, Irish Roman Catholic priest, former chaplain at the Maze Prison, outspoken critic of The Troubles and a key figure in attempts to end the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike in Northern Ireland, cancer.
 * Jacques Lanzmann, 79, French author, editor and songwriter.
 * Khamis al-Obeidi, 39, Iraqi defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein, kidnapped and shot.
 * David Walton, 43, British economist, member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee
 * Jonathan Wordsworth, 73, English academic, scholar of Romanticism and chair of the Wordsworth Trust.

22

 * Heinz Ansbacher, 101, German-born psychologist and expert in the work of Alfred Adler.
 * Back Alley John, 51, Canadian musician.
 * Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, 90, British army general.
 * Moose, 15, American canine actor (Frasier, My Dog Skip).
 * Chanel Petro Nixon, 16, American student, murder victim in Brooklyn, New York.
 * Sir Peter Russell, 92, British historian.
 * Sir Michael Weir, 81, British diplomat, Ambassador to Egypt (1979–1985).

23

 * Martin Adler, 47, Swedish journalist. Shot by unknown assailant in Mogadishu, Somalia.
 * Harriet, 176, Galápagos tortoise believed to be the third oldest animal in the world and allegedly owned by Charles Darwin, heart failure.
 * Grady Johnson, 66, American WWF wrestler, known as "Crazy" Luke Graham; heart failure.
 * Budhi Kunderan, 66, Indian cricketer, wicketkeeper/batsman, lung cancer.
 * Basil O'Ferrall, 81, Irish Anglican priest, Dean of Jersey (1985–1993).
 * Tom Pelly, 70, Australian rules footballer (North Melbourne).
 * Aaron Spelling, 83, American television producer (Charlie's Angels, Starsky and Hutch, Beverly Hills, 90210), complications of stroke.

24

 * Denice Denton, 46, American professor, chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, suicide.
 * Tichaona Jokonya, 67, Zimbabwean politician, Information & Publicity Minister, cardiac arrest.
 * Patsy Ramsey, 49, American beauty pageant winner, mother of JonBenét Ramsey, ovarian cancer.
 * Lyle Stuart, 83, American journalist and publisher.
 * Gerald Tomlinson, 73, American mystery and baseball writer.
 * Ric Weiland, 53, American Microsoft pioneer, developed BASIC, COBOL and Microsoft Works, suicide.

25

 * Elkan Allan, 83, British television producer, created Ready Steady Go! and developed the first television listings for the UK in the Sunday Times.
 * Eliyahu Asheri, 18, Israeli civilian kidnapped and murdered by militants in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
 * Charles Barrow, 84, American former justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
 * Richard DeVore, 73, American ceramicist, lung cancer.
 * Kenneth Griffith, 84, Welsh actor and documentary maker, Parkinson's disease.
 * Akbar Hossain, 65, Bangladeshi Minister for Shipping and hero of 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, heart attack.
 * Irving Kaplansky, 89, American mathematician at the University of Chicago.
 * Dibya Khaling, 56, Nepali musician, composer and lyricist, responsible for 1,000 songs, cardiac arrest.
 * Arif Mardin, 74, Turkish-American Grammy Award winning music producer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Sophie Maslow, 95, American choreographer.
 * Gad Navon, 84, Moroccan-born Former Chief Israeli Military Rabbi, cancer.
 * Jaap Penraat, 88, Dutch architect and member of Dutch resistance in World War II.
 * Seema Aissen Weatherwax, 100, Ukrainian photographer.

26

 * Bear JJ1 (Bruno the Bear), the first wild bear in Germany in 170 years, shot to death.
 * Paulino Díaz, 71, Mexican sports shooter.
 * Johnny Jenkins, 67, American blues guitarist who influenced Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix, stroke.
 * Parami Kulatunga, Sri Lankan military officer, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lankan Army, bomb blast.
 * Frederick Mayer, 84, German educational philosopher, creativity expert, author of "History of Educational Thought".
 * Eric Rofes, 51, American author and AIDS educator, heart attack.
 * Stan Torgerson, 82, American radio announcer for Ole Miss football and basketball games.
 * Jeff Winkless, 65, American voice actor, brain tumor.

27

 * Eileen Barton, 76, American singer, actress, ovarian cancer
 * Robert Carrier, 82, American celebrity chef.
 * J. Robert Elliott, 96, US Federal District Judge who overturned the conviction of Lt. William Calley.
 * Sir Gerard Mansfield, 84, British admiral.
 * Marta Mata, 80, Spanish politician and pedagogue.
 * Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, 45, Mexican convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.

28

 * Jim Baen, 62, American science fiction editor and publisher.
 * Vikram Dharma, 44/45, Indian film stunt director.
 * Theodore Levitt, 81, German-born former editor of the Harvard Business Review and author of books on marketing, coined the term globalization.
 * June Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury, 78, British paediatrician and life peer.
 * Mahmoud Mestiri, 77, Tunisian diplomat and politician, former foreign minister.
 * George Page, 71, American television host, creator and narrator of the PBS series Nature.
 * Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, 87, English barrister, politician and author.
 * Fernando Sanchez, 70, Belgian-born fashion designer.
 * George Unwin, 93, British pilot and RAF officer, Battle of Britain flying ace.
 * Lennie Weinrib, 71, American voice actor (H.R. Pufnstuf, The New Adventures of Batman, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo).

29

 * Fabián Bielinsky, 47, Argentine film director, heart attack.
 * Joseph Edamaruku, 71, Indian journalist, heart attack.
 * Joyce Hatto, 77, English classical pianist, who plagiarized more than 100 albums, cancer.
 * Ed Hugus, 82, American racing driver.
 * Stanley Moskowitz, 68, American CIA liaison to Congress, heart attack.
 * Wallace Potts, 59, American film archivist for the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation, lymphoma.
 * Lloyd Richards, 87, Canadian-American theatre director, first black Broadway director, Tony Award winner, heart failure.
 * Pierre Rinfret, 82, Canadian-born economist and Republican candidate for Governor of New York in 1990.
 * Randy Walker, 52, American Northwestern University football coach, apparent heart attack
 * F. Mark Wyatt, 86, American CIA officer, who delivered bags of money to swing the 1948 Italy election.

30

 * Robert Gernhardt, 68, German satirist.
 * Edward S. Hamilton, 89, American Army officer, highly decorated Army veteran during World War II, pneumonia.
 * Harold Olmo, 96, American grape breeder and geneticist.
 * Richard Streeton, 75, English sports journalist
 * Ross Tompkins, 68, American The Tonight Show pianist.