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Recent deaths
The following is a list of figures who died in 2006.
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- Rick Blight, 49, former NHL player with the Vancouver Canucks in the 1970s
- Bassel Fleihan , 42, Lebanese deputy and former minister, third-degree burns resulting from the blast that assassinated Rafiq Hariri
- Clarence Gaines, 81, Basketball Hall of Fame coach, stroke
- Sam Mills, 45, former NFL player and assistant coach, cancer
- Kenneth Schermerhorn, 75, music director and conductor of the Nashville Symphony , Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
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- Laura Canales, 50, Tejano singer
- Guadalupe García Escamilla , 39, Mexican journalist, hitman shooting
- Jaime Fernandez , 67, Mexican actor
- Herm Gilliam , 58, former NBA player for Portland Trailblazers
- Marla Ruzicka, 28, American activist and aid worker, car bombing
- Vishnu Kant Shastri, 76, Indian politician
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- Art Cross, 87, former Indianapolis 500 driver
- John Fred, 63, 1960s pop singer Judy in Disguise
- Margaretta Scott , 93, English actress, Mrs. Pumphrey in All Creatures Great and Small
- Duilio Spagnolo, 77?, Italian boxer, former heavyweight contender
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- Don Blasingame, 73, a MLB All-Star, who also managed two of Japan's professional baseball teams
- Tutti Camarata, 91, musician, leader of "Tutti's Trumpets" and co-founder of Disneyland Records
- Julia Darling , 48, novelist and poet
- Libby Dengrove , 86, former courtroom artist during 1960s and 1970s for NBC
- Wolfgang Droege, 55, founder of the Canadian white supremacist group the Heritage Front, shot to death
- Kay Gardella, 82, television critic for the New York Daily News, cancer
- Johnnie Johnson, 80, musician
- Nikola Ljubicic , 89, president of the presidency of Serbia from 1982 to 1984
- Philip Pavia , 94, American sculptor
- Philippe Volter, 45, French actor, suicide
- Juan Zanotto, 69, Italian-Argentinian comic book artist
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- Peter Bramley , 60, cartoonist, first National Lampoon art director [1]
- Bill Jones , 69, former Sacramento Kings athletic trainer, cancer
- Franciszek Karwowski , 109, oldest living Polish soldier
- Ehud Manor, 63, Israeli songwriter
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- John Brosnan , 57, British resident Australian writer and film critic, acute pancreatitis (death may have occurred several days earlier).
- André François , 89, French cartoonist [2]
- Maurice Hilleman, 85, microbiologist
- David Hughes , 74, British novelist
- Lucien Laurent, 97, French football player, scored the first ever goal at a World Cup
- Margo Skinner , 55, American Broadway actress
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- Carl Abrahams , 93, Jamaican painter
- Norbert Brainin, 82, Austrian violinist and founder of the Amadeus Quartet
- Raúl Gibb Guerrero , 53, Mexican newspaper editor, hitman shooting
- Archbishop Iakovos, 93, former primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (1959-1996)
- Al Lucas, 26, ex-National Football League player; spinal cord injury suffered playing an Arena Football League game
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- Yoshitaro Nomura, 85, Japanese film director
- Chalmers Roberts , 94, American diplomatic correspondent and author
- Onna White, 83, Broadway choreographer
- Nevio Zeccara , 81?, Italian comic book artist
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- Cliff Allison, 73, former Formula One driver
- Grigoris Bithikotsis, 82, Greek singer
- Charlotte Huck , 82, American children's literature author
- Minnie Kearby , 111, supercentenarian, oldest resident of Indiana
- Bob Kennedy, 84, a former MLB player and manager, who hit the first grand slam in Baltimore Orioles history and was the Oakland Athletics first manager
- Charles Kuentz , 108, last living French World War I veteran to fight for Germany, cardiac arrest
- Jose Melis, 85, former bandleader for The Tonight Show
- Yvonne Vera, 40, novelist from Zimbabwe
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- Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, 81, reigning Prince of Monaco since 1949
- Frank Conroy, 69, memoirist and head of the University of Iowa's famous Iowa Writers' Workshop
- Anthony DePalma, 100, doctor, teacher, and humanitarian
- Gene Hazelton , 85, cartoonist
- Francisco Laudadio , 55, Italian film director
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- Sir Edwin Leather , 85, governor of Bermuda from 1973 to 1977
- Saul Bellow, 89, Nobel Prize-winning author
- Ura Koyama, 114, supercentenarian, oldest in Japan since 2003, died of pneumonia
- Dale Messick, 98, creator of the Brenda Starr comic strip
- Debralee Scott, 52, actress, starred on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
- Neil Welliver , 75, landscape painter mainly in his native Maine
- Becky Zerlentes , 34, American amateur boxer, first amateur to die as a consequence of a fight in five years.
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- Betty Bolton , 99, English actress and singer
- Alexander Brott, 90, Canadian composer, conductor and violinist
- Tony Croatto, 65 Italian-Puerto Rican composer-singer, lung and brain cancer
- John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), 84, Polish Roman Catholic Pope, died after a lengthy illness.
- Eddie Moss , 45, former Syracuse and CBA player, cancer
- John O'Leary , 58, Former U.S. ambassador to Chile, Lou Gehrig's disease
- Jacques Rabemananjara , 92, Madagascan politician, foreign minister from 1967 to 1972.
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- Cheryl Barrymore , 56, former wife and agent of British TV entertainer Michael Barrymore, lung cancer
- Harald Juhnke, 75, German entertainer
- Jack Keller, 68, songwriter, wrote themes to Bewitched and Gidget
- Samuel Krachmalnick , 79, Broadway and classical orchestral conductor, notably the premiere of Candide by Leonard Bernstein
- Robert Coldwell Wood, 81, second Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1969. Later University of Massachusetts President 1970-1977.
- Lazare Gionet , 108, Canadian World War I veteran
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- Thomas J. Brazaitis , 64, columnist correspondent and newspaper editor
- Robert Creeley, 78, poet, died of complications from respiratory disease.
- Alan Dundes, 70, world-renowned folklorist, who was central in establishing folklore as a discipline, apparent heart attack while teaching.
- Milton Green, 91, former record holder in hurdles, boycotted the 1936 Summer Olympics as a protest against Adolf Hitler.
- Mitch Hedberg, 37, comedian, heart attack.
- Fred Korematsu, 86, Japanese-American civil rights leader, respiratory illness
- Derrick Plourde , 33, former drummer of two California punk groups Lagwagon and the Ataris, suicide.
- Hideaki Sekiguchi , 38, known as Billy, Guitar Wolf bassist, heart failure
- Ootupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan, 74, Indian author and cartoonist
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- Tom Bevill, 84, former US Congressman from Alabama
- Dave Freeman . 82, scriptwriter (Benny Hill, Carry On films, etc.)
- Hermann Lause , 66, German actor
- Emmy Lopes Dias , 85, Dutch actress
- Pál Losonczi, 85, former chairman of the Presidential Council of Hungary (head of state)
- Dame Moura Lympany, 89, British classical pianist
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- Bob Casey, 79, PA announcer for the Minnesota Twins
- Grant Johannesen, 83, American classical pianist and composer
- Joaquín Luqui , 57, Spanish musical journalist
- Rigo Tovar, 58, popular Mexican singer and composer
- Ahmed Zaki, 56, Egyptian actor, lung cancer
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- Bengt Bedrup , 76, Swedish journalist
- James Callaghan, 92, former British Prime Minister
- Brandon Falkner , 21?, Arizona State University NCAA football player, murdered
- Paul Hester, 46, Australian musician, former drummer of Crowded House and Split Enz
- Marius Russo, 90, a left-handed pitcher who helped the Yankees win the World Series in 1941 and 1943
- Georgeanna Seegar Jones, 92, American scientist and endocrinologist
- Colin Willock , 86, helped create the Survival wildlife program
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- Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, 58, Spanish antipope self-proclaimed Gregory XVII in 1978
- Gemini Ganesan , 84, Indian actor
- Edward Moskal, 80, president of the Polish American Congress
- Simon Nyandwi , 55, interior minister of Burundi since November 2003 and former rebel official, heart attack
- Rod Price, 57, guitarist and a founding member of Foghat
- Kenzo Tange, 91, Japanese architect
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- Ge Zhenlin , 88, Chinese war hero [4]
- Barney Martin, 82, actor who played Jerry's father on Seinfeld
- Stanley Sadie, 74, musicologist and critic
- Bobby Short, 80, suave cabaret singer and pianist, leukemia
- Jeff Weise, 16, school shooter
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- Gary Bertini, 77, Israeli musician and conductor
- Sol Linowitz, 91, U.S. diplomat and entrepreneur
- Jessica Lunsford, 9, (body found), kidnapping and rape victim
- Maria Rosseels , 88, Belgian writer and journalist
- Theodor Uppman, 85, American operatic baritone, created the title role in Britten's Billy Budd
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- Royce Frith, 81, Canadian senator
- John J.Gallagher , 79, cartoonist, brother of Heathcliff creator George Gallagher [5]
- Prentice Gautt , 67, NFL player during the 1960s
- Lalo Guerrero, 88, called the father of Chicano music
- Justin Hinds , 62, Jamaican vocalist and songwriter
- Sverre Holm , 73, Norwegian actor
- Ramez J. Isa , 87, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles from February to June 1971
- George F. Kennan, 101, U.S. diplomat and historian
- David Little , 46, Linebacker for the NFL Pittsburgh Steelers
- Andre Norton, 93, science fiction and fantasy author
- Czeslaw Slania, 83, Polish-Swedish stamp engraver
- Mikko Talvitie , 59, director general of the Finnish Board of Aviation
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- Todd Bell, 47, safety for the Chicago Bears in the 1980s
- Ralph Erskine , 91, architect and designer of the Byker Wall .
- Anthony George, 84, actor, primarily in daytime dramas
- Allan Hendrickse, 77, South African politician
- Chris van der Klaauw , 80, Dutch diplomat, foreign minister of the Netherlands from 1977 to 1981
- William Lehman , 91, represented Dade County, Florida in U.S. Congress for 20 years
- Dick Radatz, 67, baseball relief pitcher
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- Lady Callaghan of Cardiff, 89, wife of Jim Callaghan
- Betsy Cronkite , 89, journalist and wife of Walter Cronkite
- Don Durant, 82, singer/actor, star of Johnny Ringo series
- Loe de Jong, 90, Dutch historian
- Eduard J. Guebelin , 91, Lead study that showed that diamond flaws are influenced by where they were created
- Bill McGarry , 77, football manager
- Bert Pronk , 54, Dutch racing cyclist
- Armand Seghers , 78, footballer, voted AA Gent's best player of the 20th century
- Sy Wexler, 88, filmmaker of hundreds of educational films seen in classrooms for many years
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- Stanley H. Campbell , 74, NFL player during the 1950s
- Tom Dillon , 86, American stage actor/performer, natural causes
- Janet Reger , 69, British designer of women's lingerie
- Dick Smyser , 81, American newspaper editor, asked question that led Richard Nixon to declare: "I'm not a crook."
- Simon Webb, 55, British chess grandmaster living in Sweden, stabbed to death by his son
- Akira Yoshizawa, 94, Japanese Origami master
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- Lyn Collins, 56, soul singer aka "Female Preacher"
- Winnie Dangerfield , 96, English child actor in silent films for the Clarendon studios [6] [7]
- Jason Evers, 83, star of B-movie Brain That Wouldn't Die
- Ahmed Hassan Diria, 67, Tanzanian politician and diplomat, foreign minister from 1990 to 1993.
- Danny Gardella, 85, a New York Giants outfielder who challenged baseball's reserve clause in a 1947 federal lawsuit
- Frank House, 75, Major League Baseball catcher and Alabama legislator
- Zouhair Yahyaoui , 36, Tunisian dissident.
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- Charles R. Baxter, 75, American doctor, pneumonia, surgeon who tried to save JFK
- Lisa Fittko, 95, German WWII dissident who led Jews over the Pyrenees to freedom
- Stavros Kouyioumtzis , 73, prolific Greek songwriter
- Bartolo Mascarello , 78, Italian winemaker
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- Bill Cameron, 62, Canadian journalist, cancer
- Aurelio Fierro , 81, famous in Italy for singing Neopolitan folk songs
- Stanley Grenz, 55, Christian Theologian
- Humphrey Spender, 94, British photojournalist, notably for Picture Post
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- Dave Allen, 68, Irish comedian
- Danny Joe Brown, 53, lead singer for Molly Hatchet
- Chawki Deif , 95, head of the Academy of the Arabic Language
- Katherine Gray Lathrop , 89, pioneering researcher into nuclear medicine
- Zilka Salaberry , 82, Brazilian actress
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- Glenn Davis, 80, Heisman Trophy winner, American football player, prostate cancer
- Sheila Gish, 62, English actress, primarily on stage
- Kathie Kay, 86, Scottish big band singer
- Chris LeDoux, 56, American country music and rodeo star; complications from liver cancer.
- William Murray, 78, American mystery novelist
- István Nyers , 80, Hungarian footballer
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- Archbishop Roman Arrieta , 80, retired archbishop of Costa Rica
- Ross Benson , 56, British journalist for the Daily Mail and award-winning foreign correspondent
- Anna Haycraft, 72, British writer (also known as Alice Thomas Ellis)
- César Lattes, 80, Brazilian physicist, contributed to the physics of elementary particles and discovered the pion
- Aslan Maskhadov, 53, Chechen separatist leader, killed by Russian troops.
- Brigitte Mira, 94, German theatrical actress
- Jeremy Russell, 60, cofounding member of the band Blue Cheer
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- Edwin Adams Cotto, 26, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during riot at Dominican Republic jail
- John Box, 85, film production designer, worked closely with David Lean
- Debra Hill, 54, screenwriter and film producer, co-writer of Halloween
- Philip Lamantia, 77, American surrealist poet
- Arod Levy III , ??, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during riot in a Dominican Republic jail
- Jozef Stank , 64, former Slovakian defense minister
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- Hans Bethe, 98, Nobel Laureate in Physics, discover of stellar fusion
- Gladys Marín, 63, Chilean communist politician, cancer
- Chuck Thompson, 83, Baltimore Orioles broadcaster, complications of massive stroke
- Tommy Vance, 63, British radio DJ and TV host, stroke
- Teresa Wright, 86, actress, heart attack
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- Harold Brooks-Baker , 71, U.S.-born publishing director of Burke's Peerage Limited
- Sergiu Comissiona, 76, Romanian orchestra conductor
- Benedetto Di Santo , 105, Italian World War I veteran
- Morris Engel , 86, independent filmmaker
- Rt. Rev. Lord Sheppard of Liverpool, 75, former international cricketer and Church of England bishop, cancer
- Frank Tyler , 76, Broadway and film music arranger and orchestrator
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- Nicola Calipari, 51, Italian intelligence officer, shot by the US army in Iraq
- Ernie De Vos , 63, racing driver, killed in a cycling accident.
- Una Hale, 82, operatic soprano
- Yuri Kravchenko, 53, former interior minister of Ukraine
- Carlos Sherman, 70, Uruguayan-born Belarusian translator and writer
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- George Atkinson, 69, inventor of the video rental
- Max M. Fisher, 96, millionaire philanthropist listed in Forbes 400
- Dorris Henderson , 72, 60's and 70's folksinger
- Viva McComb , 110, supercentenarian, oldest living Texan
- Rinus Michels, 77, former Dutch national football team coach
- Guylaine St. Onge, 39, Canadian actress, cancer
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- Joe Carter , 78, a member of the Carter Family folk singers
- Martin Denny, 93, founder of exotica musical genre, bandleader
- Hermann Dörnemann, 111, World War I veteran declared Germany's oldest living person, heart failure
- Tillie Fowler, 62, U.S. politician, former four-term Florida congresswoman
- Rick Mahler, 51, American baseball pitcher, heart attack
- Corrado Pani , 69, Italian actor
- Rigter Roegholt , 79, Dutch historian
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- Cissy van Bennekom , 93, Dutch film actress
- Reverend Walter Halloran, 83, priest who participated in the exorcism on which The Exorcist was based
- Brian Luckhurst, 66, English cricket player, cancer
- Peter Malkin, 77, Israeli Mossad agent, the man who captured Adolf Eichmann
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- Max Faulkner, 88, British golfer
- Henry Grunwald, 82, former managing editor of TIME and U.S. ambassador to Austria 1988-90
- Sidney Hart, 90, British trade unionist and religious administrator, natural causes
- Witness Mangwende, 59, Zimbabwean politician and diplomat, foreign minister from 1981 to 1987.
- Jef Raskin, 61, creator of the Apple Macintosh, pancreatic cancer
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- Peter Benenson, 83, founder of Amnesty International.
- Phoebe Hesketh, 96, British poet
- Don LeJohn , 70, former Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman
- Norberto "Pappo" Napolitano , 54, Argentine blues and rock n' roll guitarist and composer
- Edward Patten, 66, member of Gladys Knight & The Pips
- Atef Sedki, 74, former prime minister of Egypt
- Sir Glanmor Williams, 84, Welsh historian
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- Thadée Cisowski , 78, footballer, scored 206 goals in the French top divison, making him its 4th highest scorer of all-time
- Robin Jenkins , 92, Scottish novelist, author of "The Cone-Gatherers" and "Fergus Lamont"
- Hugh Nibley, 94, historian primarily concerned with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Gustavo Vázquez Montes, 42, incumbent governor of Colima, Mexico, aviation accident
- Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, 82, German politician and former cabinet minister
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- David F. Bradford , 61, former U.S. presidential advisor and professor at Princeton University
- Father Luigi Giussani, 82, founder of the "Communion and Liberation" Catholic youth movement
- Lee Eun Ju (이은주), 24, Korean actress, suicide
- Trude Rittmann , 96, Broadway dance and vocal music arranger
- Reggie Roby, 43, retired NFL punter
- Harry Simeone , 94, helped create Christmas songs like Little Drummer Boy
- Simone Simon, 94, French actress
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- Zdzislaw Beksinski, 75, Polish painter and fantasy artist, murder
- Ara Berberian, 74, Bass with the New York City Metropolitan Opera
- Isabelle Goldenson, 84, co-founder of United Cerebral Palsy
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante, 75, exiled Cuban writer
- Robert Koff , 86, founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet
- Josef Metternich, 69, German operatic baritone
- Dr. Gene Scott, 75, U.S. televangelist and author
- Ernest Vandiver, 86, former governor of the U.S. state of Georgia (1959-1963)
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- Raymond Mhlaba, 92, South African political leader
- Pam Bricker, jazz vocalist and music professor, suicide
- Sandra Dee, 62, American actress, kidney failure and pneumonia
- Dalene Matthee, 67, Afrikaans-South African author, heart failure
- John Raitt, 88, classic Broadway star and father of Bonnie Raitt, pneumonia
- Hunter S. Thompson, 67, American journalist, suicide
- Jimmy Young, 56, American boxer, heart failure
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- F. M. Busby , 83, American science fiction writer
- Peter Foy, 79, American, theatrical flying effects specialist
- Jens Martin Knudsen, 74, Danish astrophysicist
- César Marcelak , 92, French cycling champion
- Dan O'Herlihy, 85, Irish film actor
- Omar Sivori, 69, Argentinian and Italian footballer
- Nicephore Soglo , 70, former President of Benin
- Harald Szeemann, 71, Swiss curator and art historian
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- Nicole DeHuff, 30, American actress, Meet the Parents, pneumonia.
- William Gibson , 82, American independent film producer and director
- Russ Klar , 90, US auto racer
- Narriman Sadek (Nariman Sadeq), 70, ex-wife of King Farouk, last queen of Egypt
- Marcello Viotti, 50, Italian conductor
- Frederick Vosburgh , 100, National Geographic editor
- Gerry Wolff , 84, German actor
- (body found) Cecilia Cubas, 32, daughter of former President of Paraguay Raúl Cubas Grau, kidnap victim
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- Pierre Bachelet, 60, French singer
- Samuel Francis, 57, U.S. political columnist
- Dudu Geva , 54, Israeli cartoonist
- Najai Turpin , 23, boxer, participant in boxing reality show "The Contender", suicide
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- Ron Burgess , 87, former footballer with Tottenham Hotspur and Wales
- Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex, 85, Greek novelist and journalist
- Rafik Hariri, 60, twice Prime Minister of Lebanon, car bomb
- Aubelin Jolicoeur, 81, Haitian journalist and columnist
- Martin Perels , 44, Dutch actor
- Otto Plaschkes , 75, British movie producer, including Georgy Girl
- Dick Weber, 75, professional bowler, father of Pete Weber
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- Nelson Briles, 61, U.S. baseball pitcher
- Aldo Carotenuto , 71?, Italian psychoanalyst
- Sixten Ehrling , 86, Swedish conductor
- Mary Hallaren, 97, first woman to join the United States Army
- Ndiaga Mbaye , 57, Senegalese musician
- Lúcia dos Santos, 97, Portuguese nun, last survivor of the three shepherd children of the Fatima apparition in 1917
- Maurice Trintignant, 87, French racing driver, twice winner of the Monaco Grand Prix
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- Marinus van der Goes van Naters, 104, Dutch politician
- Brian Kelly, 73, actor
- Alfred Sirven , 77, former Elf Aquitaine executive
- Sammi Smith , 61, US country singer, won Grammy for Help Me Make it Through the Night
- Dorothy Stang, 74, American nun, murdered in Anapu, Brazil
- Karl-Heinz Tuschel , 76, East German science fiction author
- Rafael Vidal, 41, Venezuelan Olympic medalist, car crash
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- Samuel W. Alderson, 90, inventor of crash test dummies [9]
- Jack L. Chalker, 60, American science fiction writer
- Raymond Hermantier , 81, French actor
- Dénes Kovács , 74, Hungarian violinist
- Stan Richards, 74, British actor
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- Humbert Balsan, 50, French film producer
- Allan Bromley, 79, physicist, presidential advisor
- Jean Cayrol , 93, French author
- Michel François-Poncet , 70, Paribas executive
- Ben Jones, 80, former prime minister and foreign minister of Grenada
- Arthur Miller, 89, American playwright, congestive heart failure
- Sylvia Rafael , 67, Mossad agent convicted of 1973 Lillehammer murder
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- Tyrone Davis, 66, R&B singer (Turn Back The Hands Of Time), complications of a stroke
- Hanno Helbling , 74, Swiss journalist (NZZ)
- Robert Kearns , 77, inventor of intermittent windshield wipers [10]
- Kate Peyton , 39, BBC producer, shot in Mogadishu, Somalia
- Ursula Schröder-Feinen , 70, German soprano
- Marthe Wéry , 75, Belgian painter
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- Luigi Barbero , 105, Italian World War I veteran
- Victor Castelli , 52, soloist with the New York City Ballet, pneumonia
- Helmut Eder , 88, Austrian composer
- George Herman, 85, journalist and moderator of CBS' Face the Nation for 15 years
- Keith Knudsen , 56, drummer for American rock band Doobie Brothers, pneumonia
- Nathalie Krassovska , 86, ballerina
- Gaston Rahier , 58, Belgian 125cc Motocross World Champion (1975-1977)
- Jimmy Smith, 76, Jazz organist
- Javier Tusell , 59, Spanish historian
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- Penelope Aitken, 94, socialite and political hostess
- Nedžad Botonjič , 27, Slovenian footballer
- Steve Burgh , 54, record producer and session musician
- Atli Dam, 72, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
- Vinod Chandra Pande , 72, political figure in India, former governor of three states
- John Tiffen Patterson, 64, television and film director
- Madeleine Rebérioux , 84, French historian
- Paul Rebeyrolle , 78, French painter
- Jeremy Swan, 82, cardiologist, co-inventor of the Swan-Ganz heart catheter
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- Santo Ambulo , 104, Italian World War I veteran
- Lazar Berman, 74, classical pianist
- Elbert N. Carvel, 94, American politician, former governor of Delaware
- Hubert Curien, 80, French researcher, first president of European Space Agency
- Camilo Delgado, 75?, Puerto Rican television show host
- Karl Haas, 91, US classical music radio program host
- Merle Kilgore, 70, country music manager and songwriter
- Armin Müller , 76, German writer and painter
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- Derick Daniels , 76, former president and chief executive of Playboy Enterprises
- Gnassingbe Eyadema, 67, president of Togo since 1967
- Bob McAdorey, 69, Canadian television and radio broadcaster
- David Measham , 67, UK conductor prominent in Australia
- Günter Reimann, 100, German economist
- Michalina Wisłocka, 84, Polish sexologist
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- Carmine Alfano , 108, Italian World War I veteran
- Adriano Cerqueira , 66, Portuguese journalist and former news anchor at RTP, cancer
- Robert Brannum , 78, basketball player
- Ossie Davis, 87, actor and activist, natural causes
- Nils Egerbrandt , 78, Swedish cartoonist
- Gunhild Foerster, 111, supercentenarian, oldest documented person in Washington State
- Luis Sánchez, 51, former major league closer for the Angels [11]
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- Corrado Cardinal Bafile, 101, Italian cardinal
- Joseph Anthony De Palma , 91, Bishop of De Aar , South Africa
- Malou Hallström , 63, Swedish actress, ex-wife of Lasse Hallström
- David Hönigsberg, 45, composer and conductor
- Ernst Mayr, 100, evolutionary biologist
- Raul Usupov, Georgian politician and deputy governor of the Kvemo Kartli region
- Zurab Zhvania, 41, Prime Minister of Georgia
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- Yvon DesRochers , 59, head of the organizing committee of the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, suicide
- Birgitte Federspiel , 79, Swedish actress (Babette's Feast, 1988)
- Svein Kvia , 57, Norwegian footballer
- Goffredo Lombardo , 83, Italian film producer
- Magomed Omarov, deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan
- Max Schmeling, 99, German world heavyweight boxing champion
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- Werner Arnold , 74, Swiss cyclist (1950s)
- Henrique Canto e Castro , 75, Portuguese actor
- Olivier Dollfus , 73, French geographer
- Edward D. Freis, 92, physician
- Anderl Heckmair , 98, Austrian mountaineer, made first ascent of the Eiger north face
- Franco Mannino , 80, prolific Italian film and classical composer
- John Vernon, 72, Canadian actor, following heart surgery
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- Stanley Ronald (Ron) Basford, 72, Canadian cabinet minister (1970s)
- Nel Benschop, 87, Dutch poetess
- Yutsuko Chusonji , 42, Japanese manga artist noted for her "oyaji gal " stories
- Horace Hagedorn , 89, developer and marketer of Miracle-Gro plant food
- Malcolm Hardee, 55, alternative comedian and compere, drowning
- Erich Kaestner, 93, German Oscar winner for camera design
- Robert McCartney, 33, IRA murder victim
- H. Narasimhaiah, 84, physicist, educator and rationalist from Bangalore
- Ivan Noble, 37, BBC journalist, brain tumour
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- Toni Berger , 83, German actor
- Eric Griffiths, 64, member of pre-Beatles The Quarrymen
- Jean Hengen , 92, first Archbishop of Luxembourg
- Karl Heinz Jacoby , 86, Auxiliary Bishop of Trier
- Ephraim Kishon, 80, Israeli satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director
- José Luis Martinez , 34, Spanish shot put champion
- Bill Shadel, 96, United States journalist who covered D-Day and moderated a 1960 Presidential Debate
- Ron Tomme , 73, former USA actor primarily in soaps
- Joan Tompkins , 89, film and TV actress
- Guus Zoutendijk , 74, Dutch politician and businessman
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- Karen Bach, 32, French actress
- Christian Bieniek , 48, German writer and childbook author
- Daniel Branca , 53, Argentinian Disney comic book artist
- Jim Capaldi, 60, British rock musician and songwriter (Traffic), stomach cancer
- Lucien Carr, 79, UPI editor, early Beat generation figure
- Christian Christensen , 78, Danish former European middle-weight boxing champion
- Jacques Villeret, 53, French actor and comedian
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- Gilbert Bennion, 106, one of four remaining Australian veterans of World War I
- Donald Dempsey Sr., 72?, American recording executive who helped launch Ozzy Osbourne and Merle Haggard
- Shoaib Khan , 40?, Pakistani criminal organization leader, heart attack in jail
- Nick McDonald , 76, United States Dallas police officer who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald after the JFK assassination
- Aurélie Nemours, 94, French painter
- Jonathan Welsh, 67?, Canadian actor of stage, television and film
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- William Augustus Bootle, 102, United States district judge who helped oversee desegregation in the US south
- Philip Johnson, 98, United States architect
- Vicky LaMotta, 75, ex-wife of American boxer Jake LaMotta
- Ray Peterson 65, United States popular singer (Tell Laura I Love Her), cancer
- Max Velthuijs , 81, Dutch writer and illustrator
- Nettie Witziers-Timmer, 81, Dutch athlete
- Dieter Zehentmayr , 63, Austrian caricaturist
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- Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, 85, former Deputy Speaker of the United Kingdom|UK]] House of Lords
- Johnny Carson, 79, United States comedian and television host, emphysema
- Douglas Knight, 83, former president of Lawrence University and Duke University
- Charles Martin , 45, American football player, kidney ailment
- Mutsuko Sakura (桜むつ子), 83, Japanese actress, lung cancer
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- Sir William Deakin , 91, British WWII hero and founder of St. Antony's College at Oxford University
- John Gibel , 56, comic strip writer (Flo & Friends )
- César Gutiérrez, 61, one of three players in Major League Baseball history with a 7-for-7 game
- Carlo Orelli, 110, supercentenarian, oldest Italian veteran of World War I
- Patsy Rowlands, 71, British actress, known for her roles in the Carry On films, breast cancer
- William Trager , 94, American malaria researcher
- Consuelo Velázquez, 88, Mexican songwriter and lyricist, and author of the enduring song "Bésame mucho"
- Rose Mary Woods, 87, former Nixon secretary and key Watergate figure [12]
- 21
- Steve Susskind , 62, American voice-over actor
- Parveen Babi, 49, Indian actress
- John L. Hess, 87, journalist
- Don Poier , 53, United States NBA basketball announcer for the Memphis Grizzlies
- Carl Schlettwein , 79, founder of Basler Afrika Bibliographien
- Theun de Vries, 97, Dutch writer
- 20
- Per Borten, 91, former Prime Minister of Norway
- Beverly Dennis , 79, actress on The Red Buttons Show who turned psychotherapist
- Roland Frye, American English literature professor and theologian
- Dick Gallagher , 49, Off-Broadway composer
- Christel Justen , 47, German swimmer, 1974 European champion
- Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, 91, Polish journalist and highly decorated World War II hero, head of the Radio Free Europe Polish section
- Chuck Olin , 68, filmmaker known for his 1998 documentary about the only all-Jewish fighting unit during World War II
- Miriam Rothschild, 96, British zoologist, entomologist and author
- 19
- Bill Andersen, 90, New Zealand communist and trade union leader
- Donald Beardslee, 61, United States murderer, executed in San Quentin State Prison, California
- Cal Bolder , 74, bodybuilder and actor
- K. Sello Duiker, 30, South African novelist, suicide
- Hans Gratzer , 63, Austrian director and theatre manager
- Ardyth Kennelly , 92, US novelist whose books were popular in the 1940s and 50s
- Anita Kulcsár , 28, Hungarian handball player
- Ricardo Suriñach , 76, Catholic Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico (2000-2003), natural causes
- 18
- Lamont Bentley, 31, television and film actor, car crash
- Bernard Béreau , 64, French footballer
- Gabriella Brune , 92, British actress
- Bob Moch , 90, 1936 Summer Olympics Rowing Gold Medal Winner
- George Walker , 78, volcanologist
- Peter Whatley , former professional wrestler under the name Pez Whatley
- 17
- Charlie Bell, 44, former CEO of McDonald's, colon cancer
- Christina Gunnardo , 54, Swedish musician
- Hildegard Joos , 95, Austrian painter
- Virginia Mayo, 84, United States actress, notably in the 1940s and 1950s
- Albert Schatz, 84, microbiologist, discoverer of streptomycin
- Zhao Ziyang, 85, former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary, complications of multiple strokes
- Daniel Zufferey , 35, French language author
- 16
- H. Bentley Glass , 98, United States biologist, known for controversial views [13]
- Agustín González , 74, prolific Spanish film actor
- Roger Ibanez , 73, French actor
- Ndongo Lô , 30, Senegalese singer (Mbalax )
- Marjorie Williams, 47, United States Washington Post columnist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair
- 15
- Victoria de los Angeles, 81, Spanish soprano
- Deem Bristow, 57, video game voice actor
- William H. Crosby Jr. , 90, pioneering hematologist
- Walter Ernsting, 84, German science fiction author (Perry Rhodan)
- Elizabeth Janeway, 91, United States feminist author
- Fred Julsing , 62, Dutch comic book artist
- Dan Lee, 35, animator for movie Finding Nemo
- Werner Lesser , 72?, German ski jumper
- Henk Molleman , 69, Dutch politician and civil servant
- Sven Christer Swahn , 71, Swedish writer and translator
- Ruth Warrick, 89, United States actress best known for Citizen Kane and All My Children, of pneumonia
- 14
- Dennis Flanagan , 85, United States Long time editor of Scientific American
- Ofelia Guilmain , 83, Spanish film and stage actress, worked mostly in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War
- Alfred Hause , 84, German composer and conductor
- Charlotte MacLeod, 82, United States mystery writer
- Conroy Maddox, 92, British surrealist painter
- Carl Mohner , 88, German artist and actor
- Rudolph Moshammer, 64, German fashion designer
- Georges Piroué , 85, French language writer
- Jesús Soto, 81, Venezuelan kinetic artist [14]
- 13
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- Manfred Fuhrmann , 79, German philologist
- Achille Maramotti , 78, Italian fashion entrepreneur
- Sal Pacino , 82, United States character actor, father of actor Al Pacino
- Amrish Puri, 72, Indian actor, massive cerebral hemorrhage (he played the evil priest Mola Ram in the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
- Edmund S. Valtman, 90, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist
- 11
- Spencer Dryden, 61, drummer for United States rock group Jefferson Airplane, cancer
- Jean-Luc Fugaldi , 58, French footballer
- James Griffin, 61, member of 1970s group Bread
- Miriam Hyde, 91, Australian composer (Valley of Rocks)
- J.R. (Bud) McCaig, 75, co-owner of the NHL's Calgary Flames
- Fabrizio Meoni, 47, Italian motorcyclist, died after crashing on the 11th stage of the Paris Dakar Rally
- Ruth Packer, 94, British soprano, famous for playing Verdi heroines
- Jerzy Pawlowski, 72, Polish Olympic champion in fencing
- Thelma White, 94, United States actress, starred in Reefer Madness
- 10
- Gene Baylos, 98, comedian
- Margherita Carosio, 96, Italian soprano
- Fernand Cazenave , 80, French rugby player and coach
- Tommy Fine, 90, who pitched in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns
- James Forman, 76, United States former executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, colon cancer
- Erwin Hillier, 93, British cinematographer
- Gordon John "Jack" Horner, 91?, Minnesota sports journalist
- Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg, 77, Princess of Belgium, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
- Helmut Losch , 57, East German heavy weight weightlifting champion
- Amer Ali Nayef , deputy police chief of Baghdad, shot together with his son [15]
- Jose Manuel Perez , 41, Spanish motorcyclist after crashing 6 January on the 7th stage of the Paris Dakar Rally, internal injuries [16]
- Werner Quintens , 67, Belgian clergyman
- Jan Pieter Cardinal Schotte, 76, Belgian official of the Roman Curia, cardinal since 1994
- 9
- Fritz Aigner , 74, Austrian painter
- Gonzalo Gavira, 79, sound effects creator, The Exorcist, The Towering Inferno
- Bernard Goodall , 67, businessman and former Reading F.C. footballer
- Koji Hashimoto, 68, Japanese film Director and Assistant Director
- 8
- Badja D'jola , 56, African-American film actor
- Jacqueline Joubert , 83, one of the first television presenters on French TV
- Suad Katana , 35, Bosnian footballer
- Campbell McComas , 52, Australian impersonator, raconteur, broadcaster, chameleon
- Warren Spears, 50, choreographer, dancer
- Michel Thomas, 90, Polish linguist and teacher
- David White, 50, British Commander of British forces on Gibraltar, found dead in his swimming-pool
- 7
- Pierre Daninos, 91, French novelist (The Diary of Major Thompson)
- Eileen Desmond, 72, former Irish politician, Minister for Health & Social Welfare (1981-1982)
- Ernst Deubelbeiss , 84, Swiss convicted of the 1951 murder of Armin Bannwart
- Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto , 73, United States sports commentator in New Orleans, Louisiana, massive heart attack
- Rosemary Kennedy, 86, sister of John F. Kennedy
- Rossana Maiorca , 54?, Italian free-diver, daughter of Enzo Maiorca
- Ivar Medaas , 66, Norwegian musician
- Hans Walder , 84, Prosecutor General of the Swiss Confederation (1968-1973)
- 6
- Lois Hole, 71, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
- Jürg von Känel , 53, climber, mountain guide , writer of guide books
- Makgatho Mandela, 54, South African last surviving son of Nelson Mandela, AIDS
- Louis Robichaud, 79, Canadian former premier of New Brunswick
- Ali Šukrija , 85, Yugoslav communist politician from [Kosovo]]
- Sir Nicholas Scott , 71, British politician
- 5
- Antonio Benítez Rojo , 73, Cuban writer
- Eduardo Hay , 89, Mexican IOC member (since 1974), professor of gynaecology
- René Le Henaff , 102?, early French director and editor, sued Charlie Chaplin for plagiarism over City Lights
- Danny Sugerman, 50, manager for The Doors
- 4
- Humphrey Carpenter, 58, British biographer and broadcaster
- Paul Darragh, 51, Irish equestrian showjumper, suspected heart failure
- Ali Al-Haidri, ?, Iraqi governor of Baghdad province, assassinated
- Frank Harary, 84, mathematician, a foremost expert on graph theory
- Robert Heilbroner, 85, United States economist
- Bud Poile, 80, member of Hockey Hall of Fame
- Alton Tobey , 90, United States muralist and painter
- 3
- JN Dixit, 68, Indian national security adviser and former foreign secretary
- Will Eisner, 87, United States comic book artist and pioneering graphic novelist
- Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫), 88, Chinese negotiator with the PRC
- John Lawrence , 70, United States Los Angeles Times business journalist
- Claude Meillassoux , 79, French anthropologist and economist
- 2
- H. David Dalquist , 86, founder of Nordic Ware , creator of Bundt cake pan
- Arnold Denker, 90, United States chess player
- Cyril Fletcher, 91, British comedian and star of That's Life.
- Frank Kelly Freas, 82, United States science fiction artist
- Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, 70, United States former U.S. Congressman from Georgia
- Maclyn McCarty, 93, geneticist and DNA research pioneer
- Edo Murtić, 83, Croatian painter
- Charles Paul Wilp , 72, German photographer
- 1
- Shirley Chisholm, 80, United States first black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Congress
- Hugh John Frederick Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, 73, British Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and former deputy managing director of the Daily Telegraph
- Bob Matsui, 63, United States Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives
- Paul Michaelis , 90, German painter and graphist
- Dmitri Nelyubin , 33, Russian cyclist, stabbed to death
- Willem Scholten , 77, Dutch former politician
- Charles Watson, 105, British World War I veteran
External links and references
- Specialised websites
- Obituaries on general news websites
- Newsgroup: alt.obituaries
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995...
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