Deaths in October 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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 Beyer, 74, German film director (Jacob the Liar).
 * Sir Laurence Brodie-Hall, 96, Australian mining executive.
 * Alan Caillou, 91, British actor and writer.
 * Pierre Gorman, 82, Australian librarian and academic.
 * Jack Kirkbride, 83, British cartoonist, father of actress Anne Kirkbride.
 * Anna Kunkel, 74, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
 * Renato Polselli, 84, Italian film director (The Vampire and the Ballerina, Black Magic Rites).
 * Rafael Quintero, 66, Cuban-born American CIA agent.
 * André Viger, 54, Canadian wheelchair marathoner and paralympian, cancer.
 * Yoshihiro Yonezawa, 53, Japanese manga critic, lung cancer.

2

 * Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista, 82, Cuban First Lady (1952–1959), second wife of President Fulgencio Batista.
 * Frances Bergen, 84, American actress, wife of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and mother of actress Candice Bergen.
 * Helen Chenoweth-Hage, 68, American Republican Representative for Idaho (1995–2001), car accident.
 * Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami, 69, Indian scientist, spiritual teacher and poet, heart attack.
 * Tamara Dobson, 59, American actress (Cleopatra Jones), complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis.
 * Paul Halmos, 90, Hungarian-born American mathematician.
 * Paul Richardson, 74, American Phillies longtime organist, prostate cancer.
 * Clyde Vollmer, 85, American Major League Baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).

3

 * Lucilla Andrews, 86, British romantic novelist.
 * Sir John Cox, 77, British admiral who was Commander-in-Chief in the South Atlantic.
 * John Crank, 90, British mathematical physicist who helped solve the heat equation.
 * Gwen Meredith, 98, Australian writer of all 5795 episodes of the long-running radio serial Blue Hills, after heart trouble.
 * Peter Norman, 64, Australian athlete, silver medalist at the 1968 Summer Olympics, heart attack.

4

 * R. W. Apple, Jr., 71, American political journalist and food writer (The New York Times), thoracic cancer.
 * Tom Bell, 73, British actor (Wish You Were Here, Prime Suspect), after short illness.
 * Victor Dyrgall, 88, American Olympic runner.
 * František Fajtl, 94, Czech World War II fighter pilot, after long illness.
 * Norbert Franck, 88, Luxembourgian Olympic swimmer.
 * Walter Gibb, 87, British aviator and test pilot who twice held the world flight altitude record.
 * Ralph Griswold, 72, American creator of Snobol and Icon programming languages, cancer.
 * Vic Heyliger, 87, American ice hockey Hall of Fame player and coach.
 * Oskar Pastior, 78, Romanian-born German writer.
 * Riccardo Pazzaglia, 80, Italian actor, writer and film director.
 * Don Thompson, 73, British race walker and 1960 Olympic gold medal winner, aneurysm.
 * Katarina Tomasevski, 53, Croatian-born former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education.

5

 * Valerie Campbell-Harding, 74, Canadian textile art designer, heart attack.
 * Friedrich Karl Flick, 79, German-Austrian billionaire industrialist.
 * George King, 78, American college basketball coach (West Virginia Mountaineers, Purdue Boilermakers).
 * Speedy O. Long, 78, American Democratic Representative for Louisiana (1964–1972), cousin of Huey Long.
 * Jennifer Moss, 61, British actress, played Lucille Hewitt on Coronation Street.
 * Antonio Peña, 53, Mexican promoter of Lucha Libre AAA World Wide, heart attack.
 * Jackie Rae, 84, Canadian singer, songwriter and entertainer.
 * Dick Wagner, 78, American former president of the Cincinnati Reds and Houston Astros, injuries from a 1999 car crash.
 * Gilbert F. White, 94, American geographer.

6

 * Bertha Brouwer, 75, Dutch athlete, silver medalist in the 200m at the 1952 Olympics.
 * Charles Clark, 73, British publisher and lawyer.
 * Claude Luter, 83, French jazz clarinetist and bandleader.
 * Eduardo Mignogna, 66, Argentinian film director.
 * Buck O'Neil, 94, American baseball player and manager in the Negro leagues, heart failure and bone marrow cancer.
 * Timo Sarpaneva, 79, Finnish glassmaker.
 * Heinz Sielmann, 89, German zoologist.
 * Wilson Tucker, 91, American science fiction writer.

7

 * Charlie Bradberry, 24, American NASCAR driver, car accident.
 * Danifel Campilan, 25, Filipino news reporter (24 Oras), car accident.
 * Polly Craus, 83, American Olympic fencer.
 * Craig Dobbin, 71, Canadian founder of CHC Helicopter, after illness following lung transplant.
 * Julen Goikoetxea, 21, Spanish bicycle racer, suicide by jumping.
 * Anna Politkovskaya, 48, Russian journalist, shot.
 * Peter H. Rossi, 84, American sociologist.

8

 * Bob Cunningham, 79, Canadian football player.
 * Ira B. Harkey Jr., 88, American newspaper editor, winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.
 * Pavol Hnilica, 85, Slovak Catholic bishop.
 * Ivan Murrell, 63, American Major League Baseball player for the Astros and Padres.
 * Mark Porter, 32, New Zealand racing driver, race crash.

9

 * Sedat Alp, 93, Turkish archaeologist specializing in Hittitology.
 * Coccinelle, 75, French transsexual singer, stroke.
 * Reg Freeson, 80, British politician, Minister of State for Housing and Local Government (1974–1979).
 * Marek Grechuta, 60, Polish singer, composer and lyricist. (Polish)
 * Danièle Huillet, 70, French filmmaker, cancer.
 * Paul Hunter, 27, British snooker player, neuroendocrine tumours.
 * Mario Moya Palencia, 73, Mexican politician and diplomat (Interior Minister, 1969–1976), heart attack.
 * Glenn Myernick, 51, American assistant soccer coach of the men's national team, heart attack.
 * Raymond Noorda, 82, American computer executive, CEO of Novell (1982–1994).
 * Kanshi Ram, 72, Indian politician, heart attack.

10

 * Sheikh Akijuddin, 76–77, Bangladeshi entrepreneur.
 * Carlo Acutis,15, beautified catholic teenager
 * Jerry Belson, 68, American Emmy-winning television comedy writer (Tracey Ullman, Dick Van Dyke), prostate cancer.
 * Francis Berry, 91, British poet and literary critic.
 * P. C. Devassia, 100, Indian Sanskrit scholar and poet, won 1980 Sahitya Akademi Award (Kristubhagavatam).
 * Sir Derek Pattinson, 76, British Secretary-General of the General Synod of the Church of England (1972–1990)
 * Michael John Rogers, 74, British ornithologist.
 * Ian Scott, 72, Canadian Attorney General of Ontario (1985–1990).
 * Ravindra Varma, 81, Indian politician.

11

 * Henry Caldera, 69, Sri Lankan singer, cancer.
 * Sir Victor Goodhew, 86, British politician, Conservative MP for St Albans (1959–1983).
 * Cory Lidle, 34, American baseball pitcher (New York Yankees), victim of the 2006 New York City plane crash.
 * Benito Martínez, 126?, Cuban claimant to the title of world's oldest person.
 * Sir Robert Megarry, 96, British judge and Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court (1982–1985).
 * Eddie Pellagrini, 88, American baseball player and coach (Boston College).
 * Jimmy Peters, Sr., 84, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup winner (Montreal Canadiens, Detroit Red Wings).
 * Raad Mutar Saleh, Iraqi Mandaean leader, shot.
 * Jacques Sternberg, 83, French science fiction and fantastique author, lung cancer.
 * John Turvey, 61, Canadian youth activist and Order of Canada recipient, mitochondrial myopathy.

12

 * Todd Bolender, 92, American dancer and choreographer, director of the Kansas City Ballet.
 * Johnny Callison, 67, American Major League Baseball player, three-time All-Star outfielder with the Phillies.
 * Samuel B. Casey, Jr., 78, American CEO of Pullman Company.
 * Hermann Eilts, 84, German-born American diplomat and US ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1965–1970).
 * Angelika Machinek, 49, German glider pilot, five times national champion and holder of nine world records, air crash.
 * Eugène Martin, 91, French racing driver.
 * Gerard Murphy, 57, Irish mathematician.
 * Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, Italian film director (The Battle of Algiers), heart failure.

13

 * Mason Andrews, 87, American physician and politician who delivered America's first test tube baby, Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia (1992–1994).
 * Deborah Blumer, 64, American member of the Massachusetts General Court, heart attack.
 * Petra Cabot, 99, American designer, created the Skotch Kooler, natural causes.
 * Bob Lassiter, 61, American talk radio personality.
 * Dino Monduzzi, 84, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Pontifical Household (1986–1998).
 * Hilda Terry, 92, American cartoonist, creator of comic strip Teena.
 * Sir Anthony Tippet, 78, British admiral.
 * Wang Guangmei, 85, Chinese wife of late Communist leader Liu Shaoqi.

14

 * Bernard Allen, 69, American member of the North Carolina General Assembly.
 * James Barr, 82, British Old Testament scholar.
 * Chun Wei Cheung, 34, Dutch rowing cox, silver medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, liver cancer.
 * Gino Empry, 81, Canadian entertainment publicist and manager
 * Freddy Fender, 69, American singer ("Before the Next Teardrop Falls"), lung cancer.
 * Klaas Runia, 80, Dutch Reformed Church theologian.
 * Gerry Studds, 69, American first openly gay congressman, represented Massachusetts (1973–1997), pulmonary embolism.

15

 * Eddie Blay, 68, Ghanaian Olympic boxer.
 * Derek Bond, 86, British actor (Callan, Scott of the Antarctic).
 * William Bright, 78, American linguist and author, recorder of indigenous North American languages.
 * Michael Forrester, 89, British army general.
 * Robert Pfarr, 86, American Olympic cyclist.
 * George Stevens, 74, American politician and Baptist minister.
 * Michelle Urry, 66, Canadian cartoon editor for Playboy.
 * Varduhi Vardanyan, 30, Armenian singer, traffic collision.
 * Maurice F. Weisner, 88, American admiral.

16

 * Niall Andrews, 69, Irish politician, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South (1977–1987), MEP for Leinster (1984–2004), lung cancer.
 * Donna Cook, 78, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
 * Ross Davidson, 57, British former EastEnders actor, brain tumour.
 * Sid Davis, 90, American educational filmmaker, lung cancer.
 * Martin Flannery, 88, British politician, Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough (1974–1992).
 * Tommy Johnson, 71, American musician known for his work on the Jaws theme, complications of cancer and kidney failure.
 * John V. Murra, 90, Ukrainian-born American anthropologist and Inca scholar.
 * Valentín Paniagua, 70, Peruvian president (2000–2001), complications from heart surgery.
 * Lister Sinclair, 85, Canadian playwright and broadcaster, pulmonary embolism.
 * Ernie Steele, 88, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).
 * Ondina Valla, 90, Italian athlete, first Italian female 1936 Olympic champion (80m hurdles), natural causes.
 * Anatoly Voronin, 55, Russian business chief of ITAR TASS news agency, stabbed.

17

 * Daniel Emilfork, 82, French actor (The City of Lost Children).
 * Miriam Engelberg, 48, American graphic author (Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person), metastatic breast cancer.
 * Christopher Glenn, 68, American CBS News radio and television news anchor, liver cancer.
 * Megan Meier, 13, American cyberbullying victim, suicide by hanging.
 * Ursula Moray Williams, 95, British children's author.
 * Lieuwe Steiger, 82, Dutch goalkeeper for PSV Eindhoven (1942–1957, 1959) and The Netherlands (1953–1954).
 * Marcia Tucker, 66, American curator, founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art.

18

 * Don R. Christensen, 90, American animator and cartoonist.
 * Marc Hodler, 87, Swiss president of the International Ski Federation (1951–1998), International Olympic Committee whistleblower, stroke.
 * Stanislovas Jančiukas, 68, Lithuanian fashion designer.
 * Mario Francesco Pompedda, 77, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (1999–2004), brain hemorrhage.
 * Anna Russell, 94, British-born Canadian comedian and classical music satirist.
 * Laurie Taitt, 72, British sprint hurdler.
 * Alvin M. Weinberg, 91, American Manhattan Project scientist and former director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

19

 * Ralph Harris, Baron Harris of High Cross, 81, British life peer, founder of the Institute of Economic Affairs, heart attack.
 * Michael Johnson, 29, American criminal, suicide prior to execution.
 * Phyllis Kirk, 79, American actress (House of Wax, The Thin Man), post cerebral aneurysm.
 * Srividya, 53, Indian actress, cancer.

20

 * Don Burroughs, 75, American football player (1955–1964), cancer.
 * Irene Galitzine, 90, Russian-born Italian fashion designer.
 * Maxi Herber, 86, German figure skater, gold medal winner at the 1936 Winter Olympics, Parkinson's disease.
 * Lawrence Kolb, 95, American psychiatrist, leader in community mental health movement.
 * Eric Newby, 86, British travel writer.
 * Jane Wyatt, 96, American actress (Father Knows Best, Star Trek), natural causes.

21

 * Peter Barkworth, 77, British actor, bronchopneumonia following a stroke.
 * Paul Biegel, 81, Dutch writer of children's literature.
 * Pye Chamberlayne, 68, American radio journalist, heart attack.
 * Daryl Duke, 77, Canadian film director (The Thorn Birds), pulmonary fibrosis.
 * Bryan Hipp, American guitarist (Diabolic, Cradle of Filth).
 * Howard Lawson, 92, British cricketer (Hampshire).
 * Bob Mann, 82, American football player (Detroit Lions).
 * Arthur Peacocke, 81, British scientist and theologian.
 * Milton Selzer, 87, American actor.
 * Paul Walters, 59, British BBC radio and TV producer.
 * Sandy West, 47, American drummer and vocalist (The Runaways), lung cancer.
 * Urien Wiliam, 76, British writer.

22

 * Choi Kyu-hah, 87, South Korean president (1979–1980).
 * Nelson de la Rosa, 38, Dominican actor, "World's Shortest Man" in the 1989 Guinness Book of Records.
 * Masayuki Fujio, 89, Japanese former minister of education.
 * Arthur Hill, 84, Canadian Tony Award-winning actor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Mancs, 12, Hungarian rescue dog with the Miskolc Spider Special Rescue Team, pneumonia.
 * Richard Mayes, 83, British stage and television actor.
 * Michael Mayne, 77, British clergyman, Dean of Westminster Abbey (1986–1996), cancer of the jaw.

23

 * Leonid Hambro, 86, American concert pianist.
 * Jane Elizabeth Hodgson, 91, American doctor and abortion rights advocate.
 * Bruno Lauzi, 69, Italian singer and composer, Parkinson's disease.
 * Lebo Mathosa, 29, South African singer, car accident.
 * Egon Piechaczek, 69, Polish football player and coach.
 * Todd Skinner, 48, American free climber, climbing accident.
 * Rein Strikwerda, 76, Dutch doctor and knee injury specialist.

24

 * Jeffrey Lundgren, 56, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
 * Enolia McMillan, 102, American civil rights activist, first female president of the NAACP, heart failure.
 * Benjamin Meed, 88, Polish-born American president and co-founder of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.
 * Jack Radtke, 93, American baseball player.
 * William Montgomery Watt, 97, British professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

25

 * Paul Ableman, 79, British playwright and novelist.
 * Richard Cleaver, 89, Australian politician, MHR for Swan (1955–1969).
 * Allerton Cushman, 99, American Olympic rower.
 * Kintarō Ōki, 77, South Korean wrestler, heart attack.
 * Danny Rolling, 52, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
 * Emilio Vedova, 87, Italian painter.

26

 * Gary Coull, 52, Canadian journalist, co-founder of CLSA, cancer.
 * Rogério Duprat, 74, Brazilian composer, cancer.
 * Tillman Franks, 86, American bassist, songwriter and country music manager, natural causes.
 * Ralph R. Harding, 77, American congressman from Idaho (1961–1965).
 * Pontus Hultén, 82, Swedish art collector and museum director.
 * John Kentish, 96, British operatic tenor.
 * Kojima Nobuo, 91, Japanese author, pneumonia.
 * Theodore Taylor, 85, American writer (The Cay), heart attack.

27

 * John Broadbent, 92, Australian Army officer and lawyer.
 * Jozsef Gregor, 66, Hungarian opera singer.
 * Thomas R. Jones, 93, American jurist and civil rights activist.
 * Ghulam Ishaq Khan, 91, Pakistani civil servant and bureaucrat, President of Pakistan (1988–1993), pneumonia.
 * Marlin McKeever, 66, American former football player, head injuries from a fall.
 * Joe Niekro, 61, American Major League Baseball pitcher, brain aneurysm.
 * Muhammad Qasim, 32, Pakistani field hockey goalkeeper, cancer.
 * Albrecht von Goertz, 92, German-born American car designer.
 * Bradley Roland Will, 36, American Indymedia reporter, shot whilst covering the 2006 Oaxaca protests.

28

 * Red Auerbach, 89, American coach of the Boston Celtics (1950–1966), heart attack.
 * Tina Aumont, 60, French actress, pulmonary embolism.
 * György Bence, 64, Hungarian philosopher.
 * Trevor Berbick, 51, Jamaican former heavyweight boxing champion, last boxer to face Muhammad Ali, homicide.
 * Brian Brolly, 70, British co-manager of Wings (1973–1978), managing director of RUG (1978–1988), co-founder of Classic FM, heart attack.
 * Henry Fok, 83, Hong Kong businessman, philanthropist and CCPPC official, lymphoma.
 * Richard Gilman, 83, American drama and literary critic, lung cancer.
 * Peter Gingold, 90, German anti-fascist.
 * Marijohn Wilkin, 86, American country songwriter, member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, heart failure.

29

 * Runer Jonsson, 90, Swedish journalist and author.
 * Nigel Kneale, 84, British scriptwriter (The Quatermass Experiment), stroke.
 * Muhammadu Maccido, 78, Nigerian Sultan of Sokoto, Muslim spiritual leader, aeroplane crash.
 * Silas Simmons, 111, American Negro league baseball player, oldest known professional baseball player.

30

 * Clifford Geertz, 80, American cultural anthropologist, complications following heart surgery.
 * Jens Christian Hauge, 91, Norwegian World War II resistance leader, first postwar defence minister, natural causes.
 * Junji Kinoshita, 92, Japanese playwright, pneumonia.
 * Ian Rilen, 58, Australian bass player (Rose Tattoo), bladder cancer.
 * Aud Schønemann, 83, Norwegian actress.
 * Mose Tolliver, 87, American folk artist, pneumonia.

31

 * Hank Berger, 55, American nightclub owner, asthma-related problems.
 * P. W. Botha, 90, South African politician, Prime Minister (1978–1984), State President (1984–1989), heart attack.
 * Nikki Catsouras, 18, American teenage car crash victim from Orange County, California whose accident photos were released onto internet, automobile accident.
 * Shane Drury, 27, American professional bull rider in the PRCA, Ewing's sarcoma.
 * William Franklyn, 81, British actor, prostate cancer.
 * Peter Fryer, 79, British journalist who reported on the Hungarian Revolution.
 * Michael James Genovese, 87, American alleged Mafia boss of Pittsburgh.
 * George B. Thomas, 92, American mathematician and author, natural causes.
 * Nicholas John Vine-Hall, 62, Australian genealogist, cancer.