Deaths in August 2006

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

August 2006

1

• Vincent Dole, 93, American medical researcher, established that methadone could treat heroin addiction, ruptured aorta.
• Rufus Harley, 70, American jazz bagpipe player, prostate cancer.
• Arlene Raven, 62, feminist writer and art critic, kidney cancer.
• Jason Rhoades, 41, American installation artist, heart failure.
• George Styles, 78, British army officer, awarded the George Cross.
• Bob Thaves, 81, cartoonist, created and illustrated Frank and Ernest, respiratory failure.
• Johannes Willebrands, 96, Archbishop of Utrecht 1975–1983, oldest Cardinal in the Roman Catholic church.
• Iris Marion Young, 57, political philosopher and feminist, esophageal cancer.

2

• Holger Börner, 75, German politician, prime minister of Hesse (1976–1987), cancer.
• Fitz Eugene Dixon Jr., 82, former owner of the Philadelphia 76ers who signed Julius Erving, skin cancer.
• Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont, 92, French Resistance fighter, militant communist, and politician.
• Kim McLagan, 57, British model of the 1960s, wife of Ian McLagan of The Faces and former wife of Keith Moon, traffic accident.
• Luisel Ramos, 22, Uruguayan model, heart failure caused by anorexia nervosa.
• Ferenc Szusza, 82, record goalscorer for a single club in Hungarian football.
• Audrey Lindvall, 23, American model and sister of American supermodel Angela Lindvall, traffic accident.
• John Watters, 81, Australian cricketer.

3

• John Haase, 82, German-born American dentist turned author, emphysema.
• Arthur Lee, 61, American rock musician, leader of the psychedelic band Love, leukemia.
• Ken Richmond, 80, British actor and wrestler, 1952 Olympic bronze medal winner, gong striker in the credits for films by J. Arthur Rank Studios.
• Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 90, German born opera soprano, natural causes.
• Robert Eric Wone, 32, American general counsel to Radio Free Asia, stabbing, 2008 allegation of coverup.

4

• Elden Auker, 95, former American Major League Baseball pitcher, heart attack.
• Julio Galán, 46, Mexican neo-expressionist painter.
• John Locke, 62, former keyboardist of Spirit.
• Nandini Satpathy, 75, Chief Minister of Odisha, India 1972–1976, cerebral bleeding.
• Esther Snyder, 86, president of California-based In-N-Out Burger.

5

• Susan Butcher, 51, four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion, complications from a bone marrow transplant to combat acute myeloid leukemia.
• Aron Gurevich, 82, Russian medievalist.
• Hugo Schiltz, 78, Belgian politician.
• Daniel Schmid, 64, Swiss filmmaker and director (Il Bacio di Tosca), cancer.

6

• Gintaras Beresnevičius, 45, a Lithuanian historian of religions specializing in Baltic mythology, writer, scholar, publicist.
• Dorothy Healey, 91, American communist leader, pneumonia.
• Rafik Kamalov, Kyrgyz Imam and alleged Islamic militant, injuries sustained from gunfire.
• Stella Moray, 83, British actress and performer. .
• Jim Pomeroy, 53, first American to win a World Championship Motocross event, automobile accident.
• Milcho Rusev, 81-82, Bulgarian Olympic cyclist.
• Moacir Santos, 80, Brazilian composer and arranger.
• Sir Robert Sparkes, 77, Australian grazier and businessman, former President of the Queensland National Party (1970–1990).
• Hirotaka Suzuoki, 56, Japanese anime voice actor, lung cancer.
• Ian Walters, 76, British sculptor.
• Monsignor Lawrence Wnuk, 98, Polish Roman Catholic priest, Protonotary Apostolic, founder of the Polish Canadian Centre Association of Windsor, Ontario.

7

• Mary Anderson Bain, 94, New Deal director under U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and former top aide to Congressman Sid Yates.
• Jim Crooker, 80, amateur who played in more Bob Hope Chrysler Classic tournaments than any other golfer, cancer.
• John Gilbert, 84, Canadian politician.
• Lois January, 92, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Bob Miller, 76, NFL defensive tackle with the title-winning Detroit Lions, cancer.
• John Weinberg, 81, American banker, former head of Goldman Sachs, complications from a fall.

8

• William B. Anderson, 82, journalist
• Gustavo Arcos, 79, Cuban dissident, pneumonia.
• Darrell Ferguson, 28, convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection in Ohio.
• Duke Jordan, 84, American bebop jazz pianist.
• Dino Restelli, 81, Major League Baseball player.

9

• Anga Díaz, 45, Cuban conga player.
• Colin Dickinson, 74, New Zealand Olympic cyclist.
• Melissa Hayden, 83, Canadian-born ballerina, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, pancreatic cancer.
• Philip Empson High, 92, British science fiction author, natural causes.
• Said Abdullo Nuri, 59, leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, cancer.
• Rafael Ruiz, 89, Spanish Olympic field hockey player (1948). (Spanish)
• James Van Allen, 91, American space physicist, heart failure.

10

• George Dawkes, 86 English cricketer, specialising in wicket keeping, for Derbyshire.
• Barbara George, 63, R&B-singer, homicide
• Irving São Paulo, 41, Brazilian actor, multiple organ failure
• Yasuo Takei, 76, Japan's second-richest man and founder of Takefuji Corporation.

11

• Alvin Cooperman, 83, American entertainment executive.
• David Thomas Dawson, 48, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Montana.
• Mike Douglas, 81, American talk-show host and entertainer.
• Alice Ilchman, 71, American economist, president of Sarah Lawrence College, (1981–1998).
• Mazisi Kunene, 76, South African poet laureate.

12

• Victoria Gray Adams, 79, America civil rights activist, first woman to run for a US Senate seat in Mississippi, cancer.
• Camille Loiseau, 114, French doyenne, oldest verified person in Western Europe.
• Raska Lukwiya, Ugandan commander in the Lord's Resistance Army, indictee of the International Criminal Court for war crimes, killed in battle.
• Nicholas Webster, 94, American film and television director.

13

• William O. Baker, 95, American baseball player.
• Joseph Carlino, 89, American Speaker of the New York State Assembly (1959–1964).
• Jack Edwards, 88, British World War II soldier and prisoner of war rights campaigner.
• Kermit L. Hall, 61, American President of the University at Albany, member of the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, swimming accident.
• Al Hostak, 90, American National Boxing Association middleweight champion (1938–1939), stroke.
• Tony Jay, 73, British actor and voice artist, complications from tumor surgery.
• Jon Nödtveidt, 31, Swedish lead guitarist and vocalist (Dissection), convicted of felony murder, suicide.
• Payao Poontarat, 49, Thai boxer, first Thai Olympic medal winner (bronze, 1976), World Boxing Council champion, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

14

• William Ian Beardmore Beveridge, 98, Australian animal pathologist.
• Johnny Duncan, 67, American country singer and songwriter, heart attack.
• John Godley, 3rd Baron Kilbracken, 85, British-born Irish peer, wartime Fleet Air Arm pilot and journalist.
• Adriaan de Groot, 91, Dutch chess master and psychologist.
• Bruno Kirby, 57, American character actor (The Godfather Part II, City Slickers), complications from leukemia.
• Luis Fernandez de la Reguera, 39, American film director, motorcycle accident.

15

• Rick Bourke, 51, Australian rugby league player, cancer.
• Lynton K. Caldwell, 92, American political scientist.
• Dame Te Atairangikaahu, 75, New Zealand Māori queen.
• Doug White, 61, American news anchor, cancer.
• Faas Wilkes, 82, Dutch international footballer.

16

• Umberto Baldini, 84, Italian art restorer, director of the conservation studios at the Uffizi.
• Alex Buzo, 62, Australian playwright, cancer.
• Herschel Green, 86, American World War II fighter ace.
• Iris M. Ovshinsky, 79, American co-founder of ECD Ovonics, wife of inventor Stanford Ovshinsky.
• Alfredo Stroessner, 93, Paraguayan President (1954–1989), complications from hernia surgery.
• Alan Vint, 61, American actor, multiple organ failure.
• William Wasson, 82, American priest who founded orphanages, complications from a hip injury.

17

• Kontek Kamariah Ahmad, 95, Malaysian educationist, politician, activist and pioneer in the Malaysian co-operative movement.
• Len Evans, 75, Australian wine writer, founder of the Australian Wine Bureau, heart attack.
• Ken Goodall, 59, Irish rugby union player (1967–1970).
• Masumi Hayashi, 60, American photographer, shot.
• John Hutton, 59, American furniture designer, complications of prostate cancer surgery.
• Vernon Ingram, 82, German-born American molecular biologist (MIT), discovered cause of sickle cell anemia.
• Walter Jagiello, 76, American polka musician and songwriter.
• Christopher Polge, 80, English biologist.
• Shamsur Rahman, 76, Bangladeshi poet, kidney and liver failure.
• Bernard Rapp, 61, French film director, writer and journalist, lung cancer.
• Sig Shore, 87, American film producer (Super Fly).
• Evan Harris Walker, 70, American physicist and consciousness theorist
• Yen Ngoc Do, 65, Vietnamese-born American founder of Nguoi Viet Daily News, diabetes and kidney disease.

18

• George Astaphan, 60, Kittian doctor, provided steroids to Ben Johnson.
• James A. Clark, Jr., 87, American President of the Maryland State Senate (1979–1983), cancer.
• Kathryn Frost, 57, American Army major general, wife of Martin Frost, breast cancer.
• Fernand Gignac, 72, Canadian singer and actor, hepatitis.
• Ken Kearney, 82, Australian rugby league and rugby union international player, heart attack.

19

• Marvin Barrett, 86, American journalist and author.
• Joyce Blair, 73, British actress, sister of Lionel Blair, cancer.
• Clinton Bristow, Jr., 57, American lawyer and education official, president of Alcorn State University, heart failure.
• Joseph Hill, 57, Jamaican lead singer of roots reggae group Culture, liver failure.
• Óscar Míguez, 78, Uruguayan footballer, 1950 FIFA World Cup winner.
• Mervyn Wood, 89, Australian rower, three-time Olympic medal winner, New South Wales Police Commissioner.

20

• Claude Blanchard, 74, Canadian pop singer and actor, heart attack.
• Renate Brausewetter, 100, German silent film actress. (German)
• Bryan Budd, 29, British soldier, posthumously awarded Victoria Cross.
• Roger Donoghue, 75, American boxer.
• Robert Hoffman, 59, American businessman and art collector, co-founder of National Lampoon.
• Jack Laughery, 71, American CEO and chairman of the Hardee's restaurant chain, lung cancer.
• Vashti McCollum, 93, American humanist campaigner.
• Jacob Mincer, 84, Polish-born American professor of economics (Columbia University).
• Giuseppe Moccia, 75, Italian film director. (Italian)
• Joe Rosenthal, 94, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima), natural causes.
• Neil Trezise, 75, Australian Labor politician, Victorian Minister for Sport (1982–1992), Australian rules football player, heart attack.
• Richard de Yarburgh-Bateson, 6th Baron Deramore, 95, British architect and writer of erotic fiction.

21

• Máximo Carvajal, 70, Chilean comic book artist.
• Bismillah Khan, 90, Indian shehnai musician and Bharat Ratna winner, heart attack.
• Jon Lilletun, 60, Norwegian politician (KrF), Minister of Education (1997–2000), cancer.
• Geff Noblet, 89, Australian test cricketer (1949–1953).
• William Norris, 95, American engineer, founder of Control Data Corporation.
• Buck Page, 84, American western musician, founder of Riders of the Purple Sage.
• Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, 65, Dutch billionaire businessman, pancreatic cancer.
• S. Yizhar, 89, Israeli author, heart disease.

22

• Bruce Gary, 55, American drummer (The Knack), lymphoma.
• Frank Lennon, 79, Canadian photographer.
• Simeon Anthony Pereira, 78, Pakistani Archbishop Emeritus of Karachi.

23

• Maynard Ferguson, 78, Canadian jazz trumpet player, kidney and liver failure.
• John Lister, 90, British Anglican priest, Provost of Wakefield (1972–1982).
• Wasim Raja, 54, Pakistani test cricketer, heart attack.
• Raymond Harold Sawkins, 82, British novelist.
• David Schnaufer, 53, American Appalachian dulcimer player, lung cancer.
• Marie Tharp, 86, American oceanographic cartographer.
• Ed Warren, 79, American demonologist, after long illness.
• Jay Young, 56, American news anchor (CNN), heart attack.

24

• Earl Jolly Brown, 66, American actor (Live and Let Die).
• Herbert Hupka, 91, German journalist and politician. (German)
• Leonard Levy, 83, Canadian-born American constitutional historian and author, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for History.
• Cristian Nemescu, 27, Romanian film director, car accident.
• Viktor Pavlov, 65, Russian actor, heart attack. (Russian)
• Rocco Petrone, 80, American NASA engineer, director of Project Apollo and the Marshall Space Flight Center.
• David Plowright, 75, British television producer and executive, chairman of Granada Television (1987–1992).
• Ralph Schoenstein, 73, American humorist and NPR commentator.
• Léopold Simoneau, 90, Canadian lyric tenor.
• James Tenney, 72, American experimental music composer, cancer.
• Gene Thompson, 89, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, New York Giants).
• Andrei Toncu, 28, Romanian sound designer, car accident.
• John Weinzweig, 93, Canadian composer.

25

• John Blankenstein, 57, Dutch openly gay football referee, kidney disease.
• Noor Hassanali, 88, Trinidadian politician, President (1987–1997).
• Silva Kaputikyan, 87, Armenian poet.
• Vijay Mehra, 68, Indian cricketer.
• Joseph Stefano, 84, American screenwriter (Psycho), co-creator of The Outer Limits.
• Ross Warneke, 54, Australian television presenter and radio personality, cancer.

26

• Rainer Barzel, 82, German President of the Bundestag, Chairman of the CDU. (German)
• Akbar Bugti, 79, Pakistani Balochistan rebel tribal leader, shot.
• John Ripley Forbes, 93, American naturalist and conservationist, founder of nature museums.
• William Garnett, 89, American aerial photographer.
• Yevhen Kucherevskyi, 65, Ukrainian football coach (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), car crash.
• Marie-Dominique Philippe, 93, French Dominican priest, founder of the Community of St. John, stroke.
• Sir Alfred Sherman, 86, British journalist, writer and political analyst.
• Vladimir Tretchikoff, 92, Russian artist.
• Sir Clyde Walcott, 80, Barbadian cricketer.

27

• María Capovilla, 116, Ecuadorian supercentenarian, oldest person in the world, pneumonia.
• Tee Corinne, 62, American writer and artist.
• Jon Dough, 43, American pornographic actor and AVN Hall of Famer, suicide by hanging.
• Paul Gutty, 63, French cyclist.
• Ike Hildebrand, 79, Canadian ice hockey and lacrosse player.
• Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín, 79, Ecuadorean Archbishop of Guayaquil.
• Iain MacKintosh, 74, Scottish folk musician.
• Vashti McCollum, 93, American plaintiff (McCollum v. Board of Education).
• Luciano Mendes de Almeida, 75, Brazilian Archbishop of Mariana, cancer. (Portuguese)
• Hrishikesh Mukherjee, 83, Indian film director.
• David Nicholson, 67, British jockey and horse trainer.
• Jesse Pintado, 37, American guitarist (Terrorizer, Napalm Death), complications of diabetic coma.

28

• Ed Benedict, 94, American animator and layout artist, designed Fred Flintstone.
• Don Chipp, 81, Australian politician, founder of the Australian Democrats.
• Mary Lee Robb Cline, 80, American actress (The Great Gildersleeve), heart failure.
• Ludwig Hemauer, 89, Swiss Olympic shooter.
• Heino Lipp, 84, Estonian champion decathlete.
• Robert McDermott, 86, American dean of the USAF Academy, chairman of USAA and owner of San Antonio Spurs, stroke.
• Pip Pyle, 56, British drummer (Gong, Hatfield and the North).
• William F. Quinn, 87, American Governor of Hawaii (1957–1962), pneumonia.
• Michael Richard, 58, American photographer, cancer.
• Benoît Sauvageau, 42, Canadian Bloc Québécois MP, traffic accident.
• Melvin Schwartz, 73, American physicist, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Alfred Sherman, 86, British co-founder of the Centre for Policy Studies.

29

• Kent Andersson, 64, Swedish motorcycle racer, winner of 1973 and 1974 125cc World Championships.
• John Cummins, 58, Australian union official, secretary of the Builders' Labourers Federation, cancer.
• Robert J. Gorlin, 83, American oral pathologist.
• Gerald Green, 84, American author (The Last Angry Man) and screenwriter (Holocaust).
• Benjamin Rawitz-Castel, 60, Israeli pianist, battered.
• John Scandrett, 91, New Zealand cricketer.
• Jumpin' Gene Simmons, 73, American rockabilly musician.
• Bill Stewart, 63, British actor.

30

• Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, 80, New Zealand jurist.
• Glenn Ford, 90, Canadian-born American actor (Blackboard Jungle, Cimarron).
• Susan Lynn Hefle, 46, American food scientist, cancer.
• Margaret Hubble, 91, British radio broadcaster.
• George Johnson, 112, American supercentenarian, pneumonia.
• Emrys Jones, 86, British geographer.
• Igor Kio, 62, Russian illusionist.
• Bob LeRose, 85, American colorist and cover production artist for DC Comics.
• Naguib Mahfouz, 94, Egyptian winner of 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature, head injuries from a fall.
• Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm, 83, British MP and government minister.
• Bill Stumpf, 70, American industrial designer, co-created the Aeron office chair.

31

• Mohamed Abdelwahab, 23, Egyptian footballer, suspected heart attack.
• K. Sri Dhammananda, 87, Sri Lankan-born Malaysian bhikkhu, stroke. .
• Guy Gabaldon, 80, American World War II marine, heart attack.
• J. S. Holliday, 82, American historian, expert on California Gold Rush, pulmonary fibrosis.
• David Macpherson, 2nd Baron Strathcarron, 82, British hereditary peer and motoring expert.
• Mike Magill, 86, American racing driver.
• Charlie Wagner, 93, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).