User:Rusted AutoParts/Deaths in January 2006

1

 * Frank Cary, 85, American businessman, chairman of IBM (1973–1981), natural causes.
 * Mapita Cortés, 75, Mexican actress, cancer.
 * Bryan Harvey, 49, American musician (House of Freaks, Gutterball), 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, 81, American geologist and businessman.

2

 * 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.
 * Milton Himmelfarb, 87, American essayist.
 * Stan Hunt, 76, American cartoonist.
 * Irving Layton, 93, Canadian poet, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
 * Maria de Lourdes Pereira dos Santos Van-Dúnem, 70, Angolan singer, typhoid fever.
 * Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 62, Ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, heart attack.
 * Gretl Schörg, 91, German actress. (German)
 * Nel van Vliet, 79, Dutch swimmer.

5

 * Ramona Bell, 47, wife of broadcaster Art Bell, asthma attack.
 * Rod Dedeaux, 91, American college baseball coach, complications from a stroke.
 * Keizo Miura, 101, Japanese mountaineer.
 * Lord Merlyn-Rees, 85, former British Home Secretary, following a number of falls.
 * Ken Mosdell, 83, Former Montreal Canadiens Hockey player
 * Simon Shanks, 34, linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals in 1995, murdered by home intruder.
 * Rachel Squire, 51, British Labour Member of Parliament for Dunfermline and West Fife, stroke.
 * Alex St. Clair, 64, American musician, primarily with Captain Beefheart.
 * Vajramuni, 62, Indian actor.

6

 * Allaire du Pont, 92, thoroughbred enthusiast, owner of Kelso, natural causes.
 * Roshan Khan, 76, Pakistani squash player, father of Jahangir Khan complications from a heart attack and coma.
 * Alf McMichael, 78, footballer for Northern Ireland & Newcastle United.
 * Józef Milik, 83, Polish Catholic priest and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar.
 * Comandante Ramona, 47, Tzotzil Indian Zapatista rebel leader and women's rights advocate, kidney disease and tuberculosis.
 * Lou Rawls, 72, jazz and blues singer, lung and brain cancer.
 * Hugh Thompson, Jr., 62, Vietnam War helicopter pilot who helped stop the My Lai Massacre, removed from life support.
 * Stanley Roger Tupper, 84, former Republican United States Representative from Maine from 1961 - 1967.
 * Gábor Zavadszky, 31, Hungarian footballer (soccer player), probably pulmonary embolism.

7

 * Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar, 58, Head of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti, suicide.
 * Heinrich Harrer, 93, Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer and author.
 * Jim Zulevic, 40, American actor, heart attack.

8

 * Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, 62, 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, educator and Olympian.
 * David Rosenbaum, 63, New York Times reporter, head injury during mugging.
 * 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 biking accident.

9

 * Andy Caldecott, 41, Australian Dakar Rally motorcycle rider, fatal neck injury sustained in an accident in Mauritania.
 * Patricia Hitt, 87, Assistant United States 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, BYU professor and prominent Latter-day Saint author and lecturer.
 * Gordon Smith, 55, Canadian inventor (KISS rebreather).
 * Jack Snow, 62, former NFL player and radio announcer, complications from a staph infection.
 * Don Stewart, 70, actor (Michael Bauer on The Guiding Light), lung cancer.

10

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

11

 * 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.

12

 * William Matthew Byrne, Jr., 75, presiding judge in the trial of Daniel Ellsberg, pulmonary fibrosis.
 * Brendan Cauldwell, 83, Irish actor, died in sleep.
 * Eldon Dedini, 84, cartoonist, esophageal cancer.
 * Shaikh Faisal bin Hamad Al Khalifa, 15, 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 stage (Suddenly, Last Summer) and television actress (Another World).
 * Meinrad Schütter, 95, Swiss composer.

13

 * Raúl Anguiano, 90, Mexican engraver and painter.
 * Gordon Atkinson, 83, Canadian broadcaster and politician. (French)
 * Richard Dalitz, 80, Australian physicist, expert in exotic particles, studied quarks.
 * Frank Fixaris, 71, American sportscaster, house fire.
 * Ron Jessie, 57, former NFL wide receiver, heart attack.
 * Marc Potvin, 38, former NHL player, found dead in his hotel room in Michigan, suicide.
 * Joan Root, 69, 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.
 * Mark Philo, 21, English professional football player, injuries from a car crash.
 * Bob Weinstock, 77, founded independent jazz record label Prestige Records, complications of diabetes.
 * Shelley Winters, 85, American actress (Lolita, The Poseidon Adventure), heart failure.

15

 * Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 79, Emir of Kuwait, 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.
 * George Worth, 90, American Olympic fencer.

16

 * Stanley Biber, 82, American physician and pioneer in sex reassignment surgery, complications of pneumonia.
 * Richard P. McCormick, 89, professor at Rutgers University, expert on early American political history and New Jersey history, illness.

17

 * Clarence Ray Allen, 76, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
 * Harold R. Collier, 90, former Republican United States Representative from Illinois from 1957–1975.
 * Wallace Mercer, 59, 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

 * Norman McCabe, 94, animator and director, famous for Tokio Jokio and The Ducktators shorts from his Termite Terrace tenure at Warner Bros.
 * Thomas Murphy, 90, former CEO of General Motors.
 * Anton Rupert, 89, South African businessman, philanthropist and founding member of World Wide Fund for Nature, natural causes.
 * Jan Twardowski, 90, Polish priest and poet.

19

 * 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, 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, 85, German film director.