Английская Википедия:Deaths in February 2006

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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.

February 2006

1

• Roy Alon, 63, British film stuntman (James Bond), heart attack.
• Dick Bass, 68, American pro football player and radio analyst.
• Dick Brooks, 63, American NASCAR race car driver and radio broadcaster, heart attack.
• Ronald B. Cameron, 78, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1963–1967).
• Robin Donkin, 78, British historian and geographer.
• Ernest Dudley, 97, British novelist, journalist, screenwriter, actor, radio broadcaster.
• Carlson Gracie, Sr., 72, Brazilian martial artist, complications from kidney stones.
• Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr., 86, American politician, Governor of Arizona 1965–1967.
• Bryce Harland, 74, New Zealand diplomat, Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1982–1985), High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (1985–1991).
• Jean-Philippe Maitre, 56, Swiss politician, former President of the Swiss National Council, brain tumor.
• John Woollam, 78, British politician, former Conservative Member of Parliament.

2

• Armando Castillo, 73, Guatemalan Olympic cyclist.
• Jill Chaifetz, 41, American lawyer and executive director of the nonprofit legal group Advocates for Children of New York, ovarian cancer.
• Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury, 77, Bangladeshi politician, former prime minister of Bangladesh.
• Chris Doty, 39, Canadian documentarian and playwright, suicide.
• Guglielmo Letteri, 80, Italian comic book artist.
• Pat Rupp, 63, American ice hockey player, goaltender for the 1964 and 1968 Olympic ice hockey teams, cancer.
• S. K. Ramachandra Rao, 78, Indian scholar.
• Athol Shephard, 85, Australian cricketer.
• Nicholas Swarbrick, 107, English sailor, one of the last two surviving World War I Merchant Navy veterans.
• Sir Reginald Swartz, 94, Australian politician, Minister for Civil Aviation from 1966 to 1969.
• Chris Walton, 72, English cricketer.
• Stephen Worobetz, 91, Canadian politician, former lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan.

3

• Ustad Qawwal Bahauddin, 72, Indian-Pakistani Qawwali singer.
• Walerian Borowczyk, 82, Polish-born surrealist filmmaker, heart failure.
• Jean Byron, 80, American actress (The Patty Duke Show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Johnny Concho), infection following hip replacement surgery.
• Ernie Clements, 83, British road racing cyclist.
• Frank Ellis, 100, British radiologist.
• Frank Goodman, 89, American Broadway press agent, congestive heart failure.
• Lou Jones, 74, American Olympic runner.
• Sonny King, 83, American comedian-singer, Jimmy Durante's sidekick, cancer.
• Duma Kumalo, 48, South African human rights activist, one of the Sharpeville Six, film-maker and founding member of the Khulumani Support Group for victims of apartheid-related violence.
• Al Lewis, 82, American actor (The Munsters, Car 54, Where Are You?).
• Romano Mussolini, 78, Italian jazz musician and painter.
• Denne Petitclerc, 76, American journalist, screenwriter, and friend of Ernest Hemingway.
• Johnny Vaught, 96, American college football player, coach, and college athletics administrator, NCAA championship-winning University of Mississippi football coach.

4

• Jack Taylor (heavyweight man), once heaviest man in UK.
• Jenő Dalnoki, 73, Hungarian Olympic football player and manager (1952 gold medal, 1960 bronze medal).
• Friedrich Engel, 97, German Nazi SS officer.
• Betty Friedan, 85, American feminist and writer, congestive heart failure.
• William Augustus Jones Jr., 71, American Civil Rights pioneer.
• Barbara W. Leyden, 56, American palynologist and paleoecologist.
• Joe McGuff, 79, American sportswriter and newspaper editor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease).
• Elena Carter Richardson, 57, Mexican-born principal dancer and teacher, cancer.
• Myron Waldman, 97, American animator for Betty Boop and Superman cartoons, congestive heart failure.

5

• Norma Candal, 75, Puerto Rican comedian, actress and drama teacher, head injury.
• Franklin Cover, 77, American actor (The Jeffersons, Wall Street, The Stepford Wives), pneumonia.
• Reuven Frank, 85, American TV journalism pioneer and former NBC News president, complications from pneumonia.
• Stuart Mason, 57, English footballer.
• Ray Owen, 65, English rugby league player and administrator.
• Peter Philp, 85, British dramatist and antiques expert.
• Sir Alberto Rodrigues, 94, Hong Kong physician and politician.
• Jack Taylor, 60, one of the heaviest men in Britain, heart attack.

6

• John Brightman, Baron Brightman, 94, UK lawyer and former Lord of Appeal.
• Mario Condello, 53, Australian lawyer and gangland criminal, shot.
• Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, 80, American comedian and actor, cancer.
• Stella Ross-Craig, 99, English illustrator, one of the most prodigious of flora illustrators.
• Esther Sandoval, 78, Puerto Rican actress.
• Karin Struck, 58, German writer, cancer.
• Kouji Totani, 57, Japanese voice actor (Fist of the North Star, Metal Gear, Dragon Ball Z), heart failure.

7

• Glenn Lee Benner II, 43, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
• Sándor Garay, 86, Hungarian Olympic athlete.
• George Millay, 76, American businessman and founder of SeaWorld, lung cancer.
• Max Rosenn, 96, American judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1970–2006).
• Mitchell Rupe, 51, American convicted murderer ruled too heavy to be hanged, liver disease.
• Alan Shalleck, 76, American TV writer, director (Curious George animated films), murdered.

8

• Larry Black, 54, American track and field medalist at 1972 Summer Olympics, aneurysm.
• Elton Dean, 60, English jazz saxophonist, heart and liver related problems.
• Michael Gilbert, 93, British mystery author and lawyer.
• Ron Greenwood, 84, British football manager, England national team, West Ham United.
• Akira Ifukube, 91, Japanese film composer, best known for Godzilla film series.
• Mart Kenney, 95, Canadian jazz musician and bandleader, "Canada's Big Band King," complications from a fall.
• Gigi Parrish, 92, American actress, later known as Katherine Weld.
• Kuljeet Randhawa, 30, Indian television actress, suicide.

9

• Phil Brown, 89, American actor (Star Wars).
• Ibolya Csák, 91, Hungarian athlete, 1936 Olympic gold medalist in women's high jump.
• Gilles Kahn, 59, French computer scientist.
• Sir Freddie Laker, 83, British entrepreneur, founder of Laker Airways.
• Nadira, 75, Indian Bollywood actress.
• Laurie Z, 48, American musician, lung cancer.

10

• John Belluso, 36, American playwright, Engleman-Camurdrie syndrome.
• Fernando Pereira de Freitas, 71, Brazilian Olympic basketball player.
• Jill Fraser, 59, British theatre director, cancer.
• Dick Harmon, 58, American golfer and golf instructor.
• Knut-Olaf Haustein, 71, German physician.
• John Prentice, 79, Scottish football player and manager.
• Norman Shumway, 83, American surgeon, performed first U.S. heart transplant, lung cancer.
• Peter Smith, 65, British trade union leader, oesophageal cancer.
• Juan Soriano, 85, Mexican painter and sculptor.
• André Strappe, 77, French football player.
• James Yancey aka J Dilla, 32, American hip hop record producer and MC, lupus nephritis.

11

• Peter Benchley, 65, American author and screenwriter (Jaws, The Deep), pulmonary fibrosis.
• Peggy Cripps Appiah, 84, British-Ghanaian children's author.
• Ken Fletcher, 65, Australian tennis player, cancer.
• Jackie "Mr. TV" Pallo, 79, British professional wrestler, cancer.
• Harry Schein, 81, Austrian-born founder of Swedish Film Institute, author and columnist.
• Jockey Shabalala, 62, South African singer with Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
• Thomas A. Spragens, 88, American administrator, former president of Centre College.
• Harry Vines, 67, American wheelchair basketball coach.

12

• Lenny Dee, 83, American virtuoso organist.
• Henri Guédon, 61, French percussionist.
• Pamela O'Malley, 76, Irish-Spanish activist and educationalist and radical, stroke.
• Juan Sánchez-Navarro y Peón, 92, Mexican entrepreneur and co-founder of National Action Party.

13

• John Brooke-Little, 78, English author and officer of arms.
• Ilan Halimi, French Jew kidnapped and murdered by a gang from a banlieue. Possibly anti-Semitic murder.
• Jaakko Honko, 83, Finnish economist.
• Andreas Katsulas, 59, American actor (Babylon 5, The Fugitive, Star Trek: The Next Generation), lung cancer.
• Alan M. Levin, 79, American documentary filmmaker.
• Edna Lewis, 89, American author of cookbooks on Southern U.S. cuisine.
• Altynbek Sarsenbayev, 43, Kazakh politician, former cabinet minister, assassinated.
• Sir Peter Strawson, 86, British philosopher.
• Joseph Ujlaki, 76, Hungarian-born French football player.
• Wang Xuan, 70, Chinese academic and IT expert.

14

• Ramon Bagatsing, 89, Filipino politician, Mayor of Manila, cardiac arrest.
• Yehuda Chitrik, 106, Russian-born rabbi and Lubavitch storyteller.
• Darry Cowl, 80, French actor and pianist, lung cancer.
• Shoshana Damari, 83, Yemeni-born Israeli singer, "Queen of Israeli song," pneumonia.
• Michael G. Fitzgerald, 55, American film historian and author.
• Lynden David Hall, 31, British soul singer, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Benjamin Matthews, 72, American bass-baritone opera singer, co-founder of Opera Ebony.
• Tage Møller, 91, Danish Olympic cyclist.
• Don Paarlberg, 94, American agricultural economics adviser to three U.S. Presidents.
• Michael Posner, 74, British economist.
• Putte Wickman, 81, Swedish jazz orchestra leader and clarinetist, cancer.

15

• Barbara Guest, 85, American poet of the New York School.
• Anna Marly, 88, Russian-born songwriter, France's "Troubadour of the Resistance.".
• Andrei Petrov, 75, Russian composer.
• Robert E. Rich, Sr., 92, American businessman, creator of first non dairy whipped topping.
• Sun Yun-suan, 93, Chinese engineer and politician, former Premier of Republic of China, heart attack.
• Josip Vrhovec, 79, Croatian Yugoslav communist politician, former foreign minister of Yugoslavia.
• Lim Hock Soon, 41, murder victim who was shot to death in Singapore by former acquaintance and gangster Tan Chor Jin

16

• Paul Avrich, 74, American professor and historian of anarchism, Alzheimer's disease.
• Benno Besson, 83, Swiss stage director.
• Johnny Grunge, 39, American pro wrestler, sleep apnea complications.
• Sid Feller, 89, American music arranger, conductor and record producer.
• Dennis Kirkland, 63, British television producer and director, after a short illness.
• Ernie Stautner, 80, German-born American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Alzheimer's disease.

17

• Ray Barretto, 76, American-born Latin jazz percussionist and bandleader, heart failure.
• Sybille Bedford, 94, German-born British novelist and memoirist.
• Paul Carr, 72, American actor (Akira, Raise the Titanic, Star Trek), lung cancer.
• Bill Cowsill, 58, American singer, lead of The Cowsills, emphysema and other ailments.
• Gertrude Ganote, 86, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
• Harold Hunter, 31, American pro skateboarder, in movie Kids, suspected drug overdose.
• Bob Lewis, 81, American race horse owner, congestive heart failure.
• Jorge Pinto Mendonça, 51, Brazilian football player, heart attack.
• Yevgeny Samoilov, 94, Russian actor.

18

• Richard Bright, 68, American actor (The Godfather, Marathon Man, Once Upon a Time in America), traffic collision.
• Bill Hartley, 75, Australian political activist and trade unionist.
• Laurel Hester, 49, American gay rights activist, lung cancer.
• Charles Leonard, 92, American US Army Major General and Olympic sharpshooter.
• Tom Sellers, 83, American newspaper reporter and 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner, heart attack.
• Ruth Taylor, 44, Canadian poet, alcohol poisoning.
• Saulius Mykolaitis, 40, Lithuanian director, actor, and singer-songwriter.

19

• Angelo Brignole, 81, Italian cyclist.
• Ken Keuffel, 82, American college football coach, prostate cancer.
• Erna Lazarus, 102, American screenwriter.
• Edward H. McNamara, 79, American county official.

20

• Lou Gish, 35, British stage, film and television actress, cancer.
• Curt Gowdy, 86, American sports broadcaster, leukemia.
• Paul Marcinkus, 84, American Catholic archbishop, President of Vatican Bank and Pro-President of Vatican City State.
• Lucjan Wolanowski, 86, Polish journalist, writer and traveller.

21

• Gennadiy Aygi, 71, Russian author and poet who wrote in the Chuvash language.
• Theodore Draper, 93, American historian and political commentator.
• Mirko Marjanović, 68, Serbian politician, Prime Minister of Serbia (1994–2000).
• Angelica Rozeanu, 84, Romanian-born table tennis world champion, cirrhosis.
• Stefan Terlezki, 78, British Conservative Member of Parliament 1983–1987.

22

• Bill Bagnall, 80, American magazine publisher and editor (Motorcyclist).
• Atwar Bahjat, 30, Iraqi journalist for al-Arabiya, abducted and killed in Iraq.
• Anthony Burger, 44, American gospel music pianist, collapsed during performance.
• Hilde Domin, 96, German poet and writer.
• Donelson Hoopes, 73, American curator.
• Edward Nalbandian, 78, American businessman, owner of Zachary All Clothing in Los Angeles, Alzheimer's disease.
• S. Rajaratnam, 90, Singaporean politician, first Senior Minister of Singapore, heart failure.
• John Sullivan, 61, English cricketer.
• Bill Tung, 72, Hong Kong actor, horse racing commentator.
• Richard Wawro, 52, Scottish autistic savant internationally recognized artist, cancer.

23

• Giuseppe Amici, 67, Sammarinese politician, former Captain Regent of San Marino.
• Frederick Busch, 64, American author, heart attack.
• Said Mohamed Djohar, 87, Comorian politician, former President of Comoros.
• Muhammad Shamsul Huq, 93, Bangladeshi academic and former Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Luna Leopold, 90, American ecologist and author.
• Machteld Mellink, 88, Netherlands-born American archaeologist of sites in Anatolia.
• Diane Shalet, 71, American actress and author.
• Earl Stallings, 89, American Baptist minister and activist, praised by Martin Luther King Jr. in the "Letter from Birmingham Jail".
• Telmo Zarraonaindía, 85, Spanish football player, heart attack.

24

• Octavia Butler, 58, American science fiction author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, head injury.
• Harold Faragher, 88, English cricketer.
• Don Knotts, 81, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Three's Company, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken), 5-time Emmy winner, complications from pneumonia and lung cancer.
• John Martin, 58, Canadian broadcaster, throat cancer.
• Andrew Sherratt, 59, British archaeologist at the University of Sheffield, heart failure.
• Denis Twitchett, 80, British Sinologist and scholar, Gordon Wu Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University (1980–1994), creator of the 15 volume The Cambridge History of China.
• Dennis Weaver, 81, American actor (Gunsmoke, McCloud, Duel), Emmy winner (1959), complications from cancer.

25

• Kenneth Deane, 45, Canadian police officer convicted in Ipperwash shooting, automobile accident.
• Thomas Koppel, 61, Danish musician and composer from the band Savage Rose.
• Liang Lingguang, 89, Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician, Minister of Light Industry (1977–1980), Mayor of Guangzhou (1980–1983), Governor of Guangdong (1983–1985).
• Darren McGavin, 83, American actor (Kolchak: The Night Stalker, A Christmas Story, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer).
• Henry M. Morris, 87, American young earth creationist leader, complications of stroke.
• Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, 69, Ethiopian Poet Laureate, kidney disease.
• Imette St. Guillen, 24, American Hispanic John Jay College of Criminal Justice student, murdered.

26

• Georgina Battiscombe, 100, British author & biographer.
• Bill Cardoso, 68, American writer and editor, coined the term "gonzo", heart failure.
• Noel Diprose, 83, Australian cricketer.
• Sir Hans Singer, 95, German-born British economist, helped create the World Food Program and the United Nations Development Program.
• Charlie Wayman, 84, English footballer (Southampton, Preston North End).

27

• Alice Baker, 107, British World War I service veteran, last surviving British woman to serve in the First World War, member of the Royal Flying Corps.
• Ferenc Bene, 61, Hungarian football player, fall.
• Otis Chandler, 78, American former publisher of the Los Angeles Times, Lewy body disease.
• Fahd Faraj al-Juwair, 36, Saudi Arabian alleged head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula, killed in foiled bombing attempt.
• Milton Katims, 96, American violist and conductor, long-time conductor and leader of the Seattle Symphony.
• Tsakani Mhinga, 27, South African R&B singer, drug overdose.
• William Musto, 88, American politician, former mayor of Union City, New Jersey, convicted of racketeering.
• Robert Lee Scott, Jr., 97, American general officer, retired United States Air Force brigadier general and fighter ace, author (God is My Co-Pilot).
• Linda Smith, 48, British comedian, ovarian cancer.

28

• James Ronald "Bunkie" Blackburn, 69, American NASCAR driver.
• Owen Chamberlain, 85, American particle physicist, co-discoverer of the antiproton, winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics, complications from Parkinson's Disease.
• Travis Claridge, 27, American football player (Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, Hamilton Tiger-Cats), pneumonia.
• Hugh McCartney, 86, Scottish politician, former Labour Party MP.
• Ron Cyrus, 70, American politician, lung cancer.
• Peter Snow, c. 70, New Zealand doctor who discovered "Tapanui flu" (chronic fatigue syndrome).