Deaths in April 2006

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

April 2006

1

• Gary Dineen, 62, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
• Annesley Kingsford, 93, Canadian rower and Olympian.
• In Tam, 83, Cambodian politician.
• Oscar Treadwell, 79, American jazz radio journalist and presenter.

2

• Sir Anthony Beaumont-Dark, 73, British politician, former 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, German widow of Hitler's would-be assassin.

3

• Tom Abercrombie, 75, American National Geographic photographer, complications from open-heart surgery.
• Barry Bingham, Jr., 72, American television and radio executive, 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, English musician, former drummer with The Wonder Stuff, motorcycle accident.
• Marshall Goldberg, 88, American football player, former NFL running back of the Chicago Cardinals, complications due to a head injury.
• Albert Harker, 95, American soccer player, last surviving member of the US 1934 FIFA World Cup soccer team.
• Genzō Murakami, 96, Japanese novelist.
• Walter Ristow, 97, American map librarian at the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress.
• Sir Andrew Stark, 89, British diplomat, Ambassador to Denmark (1971–1976).
• Ida Vos, 74, Dutch writer.

4

• Mary Boyce, 85, British authority on Iran.
• Toddie Byrne, 71, Irish politician.
• Fred Christensen, 84, American fighter ace in World War II.
• Eckhard Dagge, 58, former German WBC junior middleweight champion.
• Sir Roy Denman, 81, British civil servant and diplomat.
• Denis Donaldson, 55-56, British 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, 61, British actress of the 60's.
• Frederick B. Williams, 66, American 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.
• Pasquale Macchi, 82, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop, former private secretary to Pope Paul VI.
• Abdul-Salam Ojeili, 88, Syrian novelist.
• Gene Pitney, 66, American singer and songwriter, heart disease.

6

• Augustyn Bloch, 76, Polish composer and organist.
• Maggie Dixon, 28, American 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.

7

• Roger Arnaldez, 94, French professor of Islamic studies.
• Bobbie Nudie, 92, American fashion designer, wife of Nudie Cohn.
• Jim Clack, 58, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
• Adamas Golodets, 72, Soviet football player and manager.
• Théogène Ricard, 96, Canadian politician.

8

• Henry Lewy, 79, German-American sound engineer and record producer.
• Richard Pearlman, 68, American theatre and opera director, director of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists.
• Gerard Reve, 82, Dutch author (The Evenings, The Fourth Man), Alzheimer's disease.
• Valentine Telegdi, 84, Hungarian-American physicist.

9

• Christian Compton, 76, American jurist, justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.
• Frank Gibney, 81, American writer and journalist on Asia.
• Billy Hitchcock, 89, American Major League Baseball infielder, coach, manager, and scout, natural causes.
• Robin Orr, 96, Scottish classical composer and conductor.
• Jimmy Outlaw, 93, American baseball third baseman/outfielder.
• 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.
• Bonaya Godana, 54, Kenyan politician, plane crash.
• Jean Grosjean, 93, French poet, writer and translator.
• Bishop Charles Henderson, 81, Irish retired Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, England, KC*HS, cancer.

11

• Leonard Dommett, 77, Australian violinist and conductor.
• Les Foote, 81, Australian Football Hall of Fame member.
• Siobhán O'Hanlon, 43, Northern Irish Sinn Féin politician, cancer.
• Winand Osiński, 92, Polish Olympic runner.
• June Pointer, 52, American singer, former member of The Pointer Sisters, lung cancer.
• Proof, 32, American rapper (D-12), homicide.
• Shin Sang-ok, 80, Korean film producer, liver problems.
• Sergey Tereshchenkov, 67, Soviet Olympic cyclist.
• Angus Wells, 63, English fiction writer.

12

• Muhsin 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.
• 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.
• 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, American 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.
• Henry Callow, Isle of Man jurist.
• A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury, 78, Indian politician.
• Tom Ferguson, 62, American medical doctor and author.
• Miguel Reale, 95, Brazilian philosopher of law, heart attack.
• Eberhardt Rechtin, 80, American electrical engineer and telecommunications expert.

15

• Raúl Corrales, 81, Cuban photographer .
• Lord Eliot (Jago Eliot), 40, English aristocrat, surfer and cyber artist, epilepsy.
• Calum Kennedy, 77, Scottish traditional singer.
• Pavel Koutecký, 49, Czech documentary film maker, accidental fall.
• Louise Smith, 89, American NASCAR racer, first woman inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, known as "the first lady of racing," complications from cancer.
• Vusumzi Make, 75, South African politician

16

• Francisco Adam, 22, Portuguese actor, traffic collision.
• Lorraine Borg, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
• Philippe Castelli, 80, Franch actor.
• Richard Eckersley, 65, English 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.
• Poopak Goldarreh, 34, Iranian actress, traffic collision.
• Harold Horwood, 82, Canadian writer and former Newfoundland politician, cancer.
• Stephen Marshall, 20, American double murderer, suicide by gunshot.
• Daniel Schaefer, 70, American politician, former Republican United States Representative from Colorado served 1983–1999, cancer.
• Jake Seamer, 92, English cricketer.
• Silvia Caos, 72, Cuban-Mexican actress.

17

• 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, American politician, former Republican United States Representative from Michigan from 1953 to 1978 and former mayor of Bay City, Michigan.
• Henderson Forsythe, 88, American actor (As the World Turns).
• Arthur Hertzberg, 84, Polish-born American rabbi and scholar of Judaism.
• Vaishnavi, 20, Indian Bollywood actress, suicide by hanging.

18

• Bindhyabasini Devi, 86, Indian folk singer.
• Ken Jones, 84, Welsh rugby union player, 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.
• Andrés María Rubio Garcia, 81, Uruguayan Roman Catholic bishop.
• June Knox-Mawer, 75, British writer and radio broadcaster.
• Ellen Kuzwayo, 91, South African author, anti-apartheid activist, and member of Parliament, diabetes.
• Sir Ian Morrow, 93, British accountant and businessman.

20

• Kathleen Antonelli, 85, Irish computer programmer, one of the ENIAC original computer programmers, cancer.
• Cy Bahakel, 87, American media magnate.
• Stanley Hiller, Jr., 81, American helicopter designer.
• Igor Kuljerić, 68, Croatian composer and conductor.
• Miguel Zacarías Nogaim, 101, Mexican film director.
• Anna Svidersky, 17, Russian teenager, murdered while working at McDonald's, stabbed.
• Wolfgang Unzicker, 80, German chess grandmaster.
• Robert Wegman, 87, American businessman, 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 service person killed in Iraq.
• T. K. Ramakrishnan, 84, Indian politician.
• Telê Santana, 74, Brazilian football coach, complications from an intestinal infection.

22

• Henriette Avram, 86, American library systems analyst, developed MARC cataloging format.
• Ed Davis, 89, American California State Senator and former Los Angeles police chief (1969–1978).
• Enriqueta Harris, 95, English art historian.
• Nobby Lawton, 65, English footballer, midfielder & former captain of Preston North End, cancer.
• Jobie Nutarak, 58, Canadian politician, snowmobile 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, Argentine-American businessman and magazine publisher, 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).
• 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, 74, 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, American television producer and director (Silk Stalkings, Sliders, Beauty and the Beast), heart attack.
• Phil Walden, 66, American founder of Capricorn Records, cancer.
• Isaac Witkin, 69, South African-born American sculptor.

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.
• Brian Labone, 66, English footballer, Everton and England player, heart attack.
• Bonnie Owens, 76, American country music singer.
• Jimmy Sharman, 94, Australian boxing troupe impresario.
• Dr. Rajkumar, 76, Legendary Indian Kannada Cinema Actor, heart attack.
• Sibby Sisti, 85, American MLB player with the Boston Braves.
• Steve Stavro, 78, Canadian grocery store magnate and a former owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, heart attack.
• Moshe Teitelbaum, 91, Hungarian-born Hasidic rebbe, of Satmar, one of the largest Hassidic Jewish groups in the world.

25

• Ronald Girdwood, 89, Scottish physician.
• Joseph S. Iseman, 89, American lawyer, educator and former president of Bennington College, cardiac arrest.
• Jane Jacobs, 89, American-born Canadian urban activist and author (The Death and Life of Great American Cities), stroke.
• John Kerr, 81, Irish ballad singer.
• Peter Law, 58, Welsh politician, independent MP and AM, brain tumor.
• Tabe Slioor, 79, Finnish socialite.

26

• Moshe Halberstam, 74, Israeli Rabbi, Dean of Tshakava Yeshivah and prominent member of the Edah Charedis Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem.
• Daryl Mack, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Yuval Ne'eman, 80, Israeli physicist, founder of the Israel Space Agency, science minister, and President of Tel Aviv University.
• Russ Swan, 42, American former Major League Baseball pitcher (injuries due to a fall).

27

• Wacław Latocha, 69, Polish Olympic cyclist.
• Pat Marsden, 69, Canadian sportscaster, lung cancer.
• Strini Moodley, 60, South African founding member of 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, American politician and businessman, Secretary of Commerce under US President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1967 to 1968, former president of the National Association of Manufacturers.

28

• Helen Armstrong, 63, American concert violinist.
• Ángel O. Berríos, 69, Puerto Rican engineer, former mayor of Caguas, heart failure.
• Steve Howe, 48, American former Major League Baseball pitcher, automobile accident.
• Jan Koetsier, 94, Dutch composer and conductor.
• Ben-Zion Orgad, 80, Israeli composer, cancer.
• M. G. G. Pillai, 67, 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.".
• 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.
• Moshe Shmuel Shapiro, 88, Belarusian-born rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Be'er Yaakov in Israel.
• Paul Spiegel, 68, German chairman of the Central Council of German Jews, natural causes.
• Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 81, Indonesian writer.
• Beatriz Sheridan, 71, Mexican actress and director.

External links

• List of April 2006 deaths at IMDb