Deaths in April 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2006.

April 2006

1

• Archie D'Souza, former Professor of Islamic studies at the Propaganda Fides College, Rome and the Dean of studies at Christ the King Seminary (Pakistan)
• In Tam, 89, former Cambodian politician.

2

• Sir Anthony Beaumont-Dark, 73, former British Conservative Member of Parliament. .
• Mohammed al-Maghout, 72, Syrian poet and playwright.
• Bernard Seigal, 48, American musician and essayist with the stage name Buddy Blue, co-founder of the Beat Farmers, heart attack.
• Nina von Stauffenberg, 92, widow of Hitler's would-be assassin.

3

• Tom Abercrombie, 75, National Geographic photographer, complications from open-heart surgery.
• Barry Bingham, Jr., 72, former editor and publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times.
• Lou Carrol, 83, American traveling salesman, gave Checkers to Richard Nixon.
• Doug Coombs, 48, American extreme skier, ski accident in the French Alps.
• Ewan Fenton, 76, Scottish footballer.
• Martin Gilks, 41, former drummer with The Wonder Stuff, motorcycle accident.
• Marshall Goldberg, 88, former NFL running back of the Chicago Cardinals, complications due to a head injury.
• Albert Harker, 95, last surviving member of the US 1934 FIFA World Cup soccer team.
• Antonia Morgan, 91, fled the U.S. with granddaughter in Elizabeth Morgan custody battle
• Genzo Murakami, 96, Japanese novelist.
• Walter Ristow, 97, American map librarian at the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress
• Ida Vos, 74, Dutch writer.

4

• Mary Boyce, 85, British authority on Iran.
• Colonel Fred Christensen, 84, American fighter ace in World War II.
• Eckhard Dagge, 58, German WBC junior middleweight boxer.
• Denis Donaldson, 55/56, former head of Sinn Féin at Stormont, and British double-agent, found shot dead at his home.
• Gary Gray, 69, American child actor of the 1940s, cancer.
• John de Courcy Ireland, 94, Irish maritime historian and political activist.
• John George Macleod, 90, Scottish physician.
• Jürgen Thorwald, 90, German writer.
• Vickery Turner, 66, British actress of the 60's.
• Canon Frederick B. Williams, 66, minister of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem, New York City

5

• Alain de Boissieu, 91, French General and son-in-law of Charles De Gaulle
• J.B. Fuqua, 87, American entrepreneur and philanthropist.
• George Savalla Gomes, 90, Brazilian entertainer who performed as "Carequinha" the clown.
• Allan Kaprow, 78, American artist and art theorist, natural causes.
• Armando Labra, 62, Mexican economist.
• Archbishop Pasquale Macchi, 82, former private secretary to Pope Paul VI.
• Abdul-Salam Ojeili, 88, Syrian novelist.
• Gene Pitney, 66, American singer and songwriter, heart disease.

6

• Jim Clack, 58, NFL offensive guard, heart failure.
• Maggie Dixon, 28, women's basketball coach at United States Military Academy, cardiac arrhythmia.
• Francis L. Kellogg, 89, American diplomat
• Leslie Norris, 84, Welsh poet and professor at Brigham Young University.
• Lucie 'Anne' Pere-Pucheu, 112, French supercentenarian.

7

• Denise Morgan, 41, lawyer & professor at New York Law School
• Bobbie Nudie, 92, American fashion designer, wife of Nudie Cohn.
• Théogène Ricard, 96, Canadian politician.

8

• Richard Pearlman, 68, director of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists.
• Gerard Reve, 82, Dutch author (The Evenings, The Fourth Man), Alzheimer's disease.

9

• Christian Compton, 76, American jurist, justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.
• Charles Doe, 79, founder of Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub, cancer.
• Frank Gibney, 81, American writer and journalist on Asia.
• Billy Hitchcock, 89, Major League Baseball infielder, coach, manager, and scout, natural causes.
• Robin Orr, 96, Scottish classical composer and conductor
• Jimmy Outlaw, 93, baseball third baseman/outfielder who played for the Cincinnati Reds, Boston Bees and Detroit Tigers between 1937 and 1949
• Georges Rawiri, 74, Gabonese politician, president of the Senate and former foreign minister.
• Hermann Schild, 93, German cyclist, National Champion (1954)
• Vilgot Sjöman, 81, Swedish film director (I Am Curious (Yellow)), complications from brain haemorrhage.
• Natalia Troitskaya, 55, Russian operatic soprano

10

• Joe Faragalli, 76, Canadian Football League head coach with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Eskimos, unspecified illness.
• Bonaya Godana, 54, Kenyan politician, plane crash.
• Bishop Charles Henderson, KC*HS, 81, retired Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, England, cancer.

11

• Leonard Dommett, 77, Australian violinist and conductor.
• Les Foote, 81, Australian Football Hall of Fame member.
• DeShaun Holton, 32, American rapper better known as Proof of D-12, homicide.
• Siobhán O'Hanlon, 43, Sinn Féin politician, cancer.
• June Pointer, 52, singer, former member of The Pointer Sisters, lung cancer.
• Shin Sang-ok, 80, Korean film producer, liver problems.
• Sergey Tereshchenkov, 67, Soviet Olympic cyclist.
• Angus Wells, 63, English fiction writer.

12

• Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah, 41, Egyptian militant, killed by Pakistani forces.
• Richard Bebb, 79, British actor.
• William Sloane Coffin, 81, American minister and peace activist, congestive heart failure. .
• Andy Duncan, 83, American basketball player.
• Dr. Paulina Kernberg, 71, Chilean-born American child psychiatrist, professor at Cornell University.
• Kazuo Kuroki, 75, Japanese film director.
• Shekhar Mehta, 60, Kenyan rally driver, five-time winner of the Safari Rally & president of the FIA's World Rally Championship commission, illness relating to complications from an old injury.
• Puggy Pearson, 77, American poker player.
• Albert E. Radford, 88, American botanist, senior author of Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas, a landmark flora for North Carolina and South Carolina, which is still the definitive guide, nearly forty years after its publication.
• Rajkumar, 76, Indian actor, cardiac arrest.
• William Woo, 69, first Asian-American to be editor of a major American daily newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, professor at Stanford University.

13

• John Read, 85, British television producer and cinematographer.
• Dame Muriel Spark, 88, British novelist, (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie).
• Bruce Weber, 54, Australian rules football executive who was president of the Port Adelaide Football Club.
• Arthur Winston, 100, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee famous for serving for 76 years and retiring at age 100.

14

• Mahmut Bakalli, 70, Kosovo ethnic Albanian politician.
• Dr. Tom Ferguson, 62, American medical doctor and author.
• Miguel Reale, 95, Brazilian philosopher of law, heart attack.
• Dr. Eberhardt Rechtin, 80, American electrical engineer and telecommunications expert.

15

• Raúl Corrales, 81, Cuban photographer
• Lord Eliot (Jago Eliot), 40, English noble, epilepsy,
• Calum Kennedy, 77, Scottish traditional singer.
• Pavel Koutecký, 49, Czech documentary film maker, accidental fall.
• Louise Smith, 89, first woman inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, known as "the first lady of racing," complications from cancer.

16

• Francisco Adam, 22, Portuguese actor, car accident.
• Richard Eckersley, 65, graphic designer.
• Morton Freedgood, 93, American author (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three) under the pseudonym of John Godey.
• Brett Goldin, 27, South African actor, killed by a head shot together with friend, fashion designer Richard Bloom, 27.
• Harold Horwood, 82, writer and former Newfoundland politician, cancer.
• Stephen Marshall, 20, American double murderer, suicide.
• Daniel Schaefer, 70, former Republican United States Representative from Colorado served 1983-1999, cancer.
• Jake Seamer, 92, English cricketer.

17

• Dr. Jean Bernard, 98, French hematologist.
• Scott Brazil, 50, American television producer and director (The Shield), Lou Gehrig's disease.
• Peter Cadbury, 88, British entrepreneur and one of the founders of commercial TV broadcasting in the UK.
• Elford Albin Cederberg, 88, former Republican United States Representative from Michigan from 1953-1978 and former mayor of Bay City, Michigan.
• Henderson Forsythe, 88, American actor (As the World Turns).
• Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, 84, scholar of Judaism.
• Vaishnavi, 20, Indian Bollywood actress, suicide.

18

• Ken Jones, 84, Wales and British Lion rugby union player and silver medal Olympiad.
• John Lyall, 66, British football manager with West Ham United F.C. and Ipswich Town F.C., heart attack.
• Grady McWhiney, 77, American historian.
• Dick Rockwell, 85, American cartoonist, assistant on Steve Canyon, nephew of Norman Rockwell.

19

• John F. Cosgrove, 56, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives.
• Scott Crossfield, 84, American X-15 test pilot, plane crash.
• Bob Dove, 85, American NFL defensive lineman and member of the College Football Hall of Fame.
• Ellen Kuzwayo, 91, South African author, anti-apartheid activist, and member of Parliament, diabetes.

20

• Kathleen Antonelli, 85, one of the original computer programmers, cancer.
• Cy Bahakel, 87, American media magnate.
• Stanley Hiller, Jr., 81, American helicopter designer.
• Miguel Zacarías Nogaim, 101, Mexican film director.
• Anna Svidersky, 17, murdered while working at McDonalds, stabbed.
• Wolfgang Unzicker, 80, German chess grandmaster.
• Robert Wegman, 87, chairman and former CEO of Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., philanthropist.

21

• Sir Richard Bayliss, 89, British physician, Physician to the Queen (1973-1981).
• Jacob Kovco, 25, first Australian Defence Force serviceperson killed in Iraq.
• Telê Santana, 74, Brazilian football coach, complications from an intestinal infection.

22

• Henriette Avram, 86, library systems analyst, developed MARC cataloging format.
• Ed Davis, 89, former Los Angeles police chief (1969–1978).
• Nobby Lawton, 65, midfielder & former captain of Preston North End, cancer.
• Jobie Nutarak, 58, Canadian politician, snowmoblie accident.
• Satyadeow Sawh, 50, Guyanese Minister of Fisheries, Crops and Livestock. Shot by masked gunmen.
• Ronnie Sox, 67, American drag racing pioneer.
• Alida Valli, 84, Italian actress (The Third Man).
• Fausto Vitello, 59, founding publisher of the skateboarding magazine Thrasher, heart attack.

23

• Ghafar Baba, 81, Malaysian former Deputy Prime Minister.
• Susan Browning, 65, American actress.
• Harvey Bullock, 84, American television writer and producer (The Love Boat, Love, American Style).
• Wing Commander Johnny Checketts, 94, New Zealand World War II flying ace
• Willie Finnigan, 93, Scottish footballer (Hibernian F.C.)
• Boris Fraenkel, 85, French Trotskyist
• Barry Gibbs, 73, South Australian cricket official.
• William Gottlieb, 89, American jazz photographer.
• Jennifer Jayne, 64, British TV and film actress ("The Adventures of William Tell")
• Florence Mars, 83, American civil rights activist, author of Witness in Philadelphia.
• Ian Nelson, 50, English saxophone and clarinet musician, died in his sleep.
• David Peckinpah, 54, television producer and director, heart attack .
• Phil Walden, 66, American founder of Capricorn Records, cancer.
• Isaac Witkin, 69, South African-born American sculptor.
• Roger Watkins, 69, English, former editor-in-chief of Variety magazine, cancer.

24

• Erik Bergman, 94, Finnish composer
• Peter Ellis, 58, British television director.
• Nasreen Pervin Huq, 47, Bangladeshi women's activist and Director of Action Aid,from getting hit by a car.
• Grace Nelsen Jones, 112, Virginia's oldest person.
• Brian Labone, 66, former Everton and England footballer, heart attack
• Bonnie Owens, 76, country music singer.
• Jimmy Sharman, 94, Australian boxing troupe impresario.
• Sibby Sisti, 85, MLB player with the Boston Braves
• Steve Stavro, 78, Canadian grocery store magnate and a former owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, heart attack.
• Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar), 91, of Satmar, one of the largest Hassidic Jewish groups in the world.

25

• Jane Jacobs, 89, American-born Canadian urban activist and author (The Death and Life of Great American Cities), stroke.
• Peter Law, 58, Welsh politician, independent MP and AM, brain tumor.
• Tabe Slioor, 79, Finnish socialite.
• John Kerr, 81, Irish ballad singer.

26

• Rabbi Moshe Halberstam, 74, Jerusalemite Rabbi, Dean of Tshakava Yeshivah and prominent member of the Edah Charedis Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem.
• Professor Yuval Ne'eman, 80, Israeli physicist, founder of the Israel Space Agency, and former science minister.
• Russ Swan, 42, former Major League Baseball pitcher (injuries due to a fall)

27

• Wacław Latocha, 69, Polish Olympic cyclist.
• Pat Marsden, 69, Canadian sportscaster, lung cancer.
• Roy Mogg, 77, English Methodist preacher and fraternalist, announced at the 74th National Convention of the Loyal Order of Moose.
• Strini Moodley, 60, founding member of South African Black Consciousness Movement
• Kay Noble-Bell, 65, American wrestler.
• Julia Thorne, 61, American author and first wife of John Kerry, bladder cancer.
• Mel Tom, 64, American football player, heart failure.
• Alexander Buel Trowbridge, 76, Secretary of Commerce under US President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1967-1968, former president of the National Association of Manufacturers.

28

• Helen Armstrong, 63, American concert violinist.
• Angel O. Berrios, 69, former mayor of Caguas, Puerto Rico, heart failure
• Steve Howe, 48, former Major League Baseball pitcher, automobile accident
• Ben-Zion Orgad, 80, Israeli composer, cancer
• MGG Pillai, 67, veteran Malaysian journalist and political activist, heart complications

29

• Sid Barron, 88, Canadian cartoonist. Known for the biplane flying overhead trailing a banner that read "mild, isn't it."
• William L. Durkin, 89, U.S. Marine and businessman - best known for rescuing Howard Hughes in 1946 plane crash, heart attack
• John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, American economist and author (The Affluent Society), natural causes.
• Alberta Nelson, 68, American actress known for beach party films of 1960s.
• Félix Siby, 64, Gabonese politician and former government minister.
• John Trever, 90, American scholar who photographed the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem.
• Alvin S. White, 87, American test pilot

30

• Jay Bernstein, 69, American Hollywood publicist.
• Barry Driscoll, 79, British sculptor and painter, cancer.
• Jean-François Revel, 82, French philosopher
• Corinne Rey-Bellet, 33, Swiss Alpine skier, shot dead
• William (Bill) Roberts, 105, British First World War veteran
• Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro, 88, Rosh Yeshivah of Yeshivas Be'er Yaakov in Israel
• Paul Spiegel, 68, Chairman of the Central Council of German Jews, natural causes.
• Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 81, Indonesian writer