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2006 (MMVI common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar .
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Events
January
January 1 January 1 Russia cuts natural gas to Ukraine over a price dispute .January 2 Bad Reichenhall ice rink roof in Germany collapses after heavy snowfall in the Bavarian Alps , killing 15.January 4 Ariel Sharon to his deputy, Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert , after Sharon suffers a massive hemorrhagic stroke .January 5 Mecca , Saudi Arabia collapses, killing 76 pilgrims visiting to perform hajj .January 6 2005 Atlantic hurricane season officially draws to a close as Tropical Storm Zeta dissipates.January 7 House Majority Leader Tom DeLay announces he will not seek to reassume his former post.January 7 UK Liberal Democratic leader Charles Kennedy resigns after revelations that he has a drinking problem.January 8 earthquake , centered off the coast of the Greek island of Kythera , shakes much of Greece and is felt throughout the eastern Mediterranean basin.January 9 Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 (11,011.90) for the first time since June 7 2001 January 11 Augustine Volcano in Alaska erupts twice, marking its first major eruption since 1986 .January 12 Stoning of the devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia , kills 362 pilgrims .January 14 natural gas explosion in a coal mine kills eight in Romania .January 15 NASA 's Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a comet .January 19 Tel Aviv , Israel injures 20, one of them seriously.January 23 Stephen Harper wins the federal election in Canada , forming a minority government.January 25 Hamas wins the majority of seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections.January 25 Pope Benedict XVI issues his first encycylical, Deus Caritas Est January 27 Salzburg and around the world, for the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .January 28 Trade hall roof collapses in Katowice , Poland , killing 65 people.January 31 Samuel Alito is sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States .
February
February 1 UAL Corporation , United Airlines ' parent company, emerges from bankruptcy after being in that position since December 9, 2002, the longest such filing in history.February 3 Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast.[citation needed February 4 Wowowee stampede at the PhilSports Arena in Pasig City , Philippines kills 71.February 5 Super Bowl XL : The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Seattle Seahawks 21-10February 8 2006 East Timor crisis : 404 soldiers desert their barracks in East Timor .February 10 26 – The 2006 Winter Olympics are held in Turin , Italy .February 17 massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte , Philippines ; the official death toll is set at 1,126.February 19 Pasta de Conchos mine disaster : Sixty-five miners die after becoming trapped underground, following an explosion in Nueva Rosita , Mexico .February 22 bomb heavily damages the Al Askari Mosque , a Shiite holy site in Samarra , Iraq .February 22 Securitas depot robbery , the largest ever cash robbery in the United Kingdom .February 23 Moscow market, killing 56 people.February 24 state of emergency is declared in the Philippines , after an alleged coup d'état against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is foiled.February 25 Police officers and protesters in Dublin, Ireland are injured when a protest prior to the Love Ulster parade turns into a major riot .February 25 Uganda 's President Yoweri Museveni wins his second re-election, sparking riots in Kampala by opposition supporters.
March
March 4 Pioneer 10 receives no response.March 6 20 – The first World Baseball Classic is held in San Diego , California , U.S.A. .March 7 3 blasts throughout Varanasi , India .March 9 NASA 's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers of a liquid substance shooting from Saturn 's moon Enceladus , signaling a possible presence of water.March 10 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit.March 15 26 – The 2006 Commonwealth Games take place in Melbourne , Australia .March 16 Blu-ray Disc format is released in the United States March 17 United States strikes its 2 remaining Iowa -classbattleships from the Naval Vessel Register , ending the age of the battleship.March 22 ETA declares a permanent ceasefire in their campaign for Basque independence from Spain .March 22 Federal Reserve stops the publishing of M3 money supply data.March 25 scramjet jet engine , Hyshot III , designed to fly at 7 times the speed of sound, is successfully tested at Woomera, South Australia .March 25 Capitol Hill Massacre in Seattle , Washington .March 30 Brazilian astronaut , Marcos Pontes , goes into space in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft , Soyuz TMA-8 March 30 al-Dana capsizesBahrain , killing at least 48 people.
April
April 5 Avian Flu is discovered in Cellardyke in Fife , Scotland (the first case in the United Kingdom ).April 8 8 murdered men are found in Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario .April 9 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is removed from office after 4 months in a coma .April 10 Meerut , Uttar Pradesh , India , kills 100.April 11 European Space Agency 's Venus Express spaceprobe enters Venus ' orbit.April 11 President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirms that Iran has successfully produced a few grams of low-grade enriched uranium .April 16 Albert II, Prince of Monaco , reaches the North Pole , becoming the first reigning monarch ever to do so.April 16 Ireland commemorates the 90th anniversary of the 1916 Rising for the first time since 1971 .April 17 Islamic Jihad suicide bombing in Tel Aviv kills 9 people and injures dozens.April 20 Iran announces a deal with Russia , involving a joint uranium enrichment firm on Russian soil; 9 days later Iran announces that it will not move all activity to Russia, thus leading to a de-facto termination of the deal.April 22 Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar , Afghanistan by a roadside bomb (the worst one-day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War ).April 24 Dahab , Egypt kill 30 and injure over 115.[citation needed April 25 Beaconsfield mine collapse occurs in Tasmania , Australia .April 29 Broadway in New York City mark the third year of war in Iraq .[citation needed April 29 Global Night Commute takes place in over 130 cities around the world, to promote the visibility of the Invisible Children in Uganda .
May
May 1 Bolivian President Evo Morales nationalizes his nation's gas fields.May 1 Great American Boycott takes place across the United States as marchers protest for immigration rights.May 5 Fiat chairman Sergio Marchionne announces that the Alfa Romeo automobile brand will return to the United States in 2008 , after a 13-year hiatus.May 9 Beaconsfield mine collapse : After 14 days trapped underground, miners Todd Russell and Brant Webb are rescued in Beaconsfield , Tasmania , Australia .May 24 East Timor 's Foreign Minister José Ramos-Horta officially requests military assistance from the governments of Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Portugal.May 27 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes central Java in Indonesia , killing more than 6,000, injuring at least 36,000 and leaving some 1.5 million people homeless.May 27 gay rights in Moscow is broken up by the police.
June
July
July 1 Qinghai-Tibet Railway launches a trial operation, connecting China proper and Tibet for the first time.July 4 STS-121 Space Shuttle Discovery is launched to the International Space Station . It returns safely on July 17 return to flight Space Shuttle Columbia disaster .July 5 North Korea test fires missiles, timed with the liftoff of Discovery, preceding the fireworks celebrations that night in America . The long range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails shortly after takeoff.July 6 Nathula Pass between India and China , sealed during the Sino-Indian War , re-opens for trade after 44 years.July 9 S7 Airlines Flight 778 crashes into a concrete barrier shortly after landing, killing at least 122 people and leaving many injured.July 10 Pakistan International Airlines Flight 688 crashes in Multan , Pakistan shortly after takeoff.July 11 series of coordinated bomb attacks strikes several commuter trains in Mumbai , India during the evening rush hour.July 11 Microsoft ends Extended Support for Windows 98 , Windows 98 Second Edition , and Windows Me as part of the Microsoft Lifecycle Policy.[ 2] July 12 2006 Lebanon War : Israeli troops invade Lebanon in response to Hezbollah kidnapping two Israeli soldiers and killing 3. Hezbollah declares open war against Israel 2 days later.July 18 SS Nomadic Titanic July 31 Fidel Castro temporarily relinquishes power to his brother Raúl before surgery.
August
August 10 London Metropolitan Police make 21 arrests in connection to an apparent terrorist plot that involved aircraft traveling from the United Kingdom to the United States . Liquids and gels are banned from checked and carry-on baggage.August 11 2006 Lebanon War is unanimously accepted by the United Nations Security Council .August 14 2006 Lebanon War .August 22 Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border in Ukraine , killing 171 people, including 45 children.August 22 ICM awards Grigori Perelman the Fields Medal for proving the Poincare conjecture , one of 7 Millennium Prize Problems ; Perelman refuses the medal.August 23 Austria , Natascha Kampusch manages to escape after being kidnapped 8 years ago by Wolfgang Priklopil , who locked her up in his cellar. Priklopil commits suicide by throwing himself in front of a train.August 24 International Astronomical Union defines 'planet ' at its 26th General Assembly, demoting Pluto to the status of 'dwarf planet ' more than 70 years after its discovery.August 27 Comair Flight 5191 , carrying 50 people, crashes shortly after take off from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky .August 28 Greyhound Lines bus from New York City to Montreal , carrying 52 people, crashes at mile 115 on Interstate 87 near Elizabethtown , killing 5 people (including the driver) and seriously injuring others.August 31 Edvard Munch paintings The Scream Madonna Oslo, Norway .
September
September 1 Iran Air Tours Tu-154 M aircraft after the plane lands in Mashhad , Iran .September 2 Nimrod MR2 based at RAF Kinloss , Scotland , crashes in Kandahar Province , Afghanistan , due to a technical fault. All 14 crew onboard are killed.September 12 Yemen leaves 41 dead.[citation needed September 12 Benedict XVI gives a lecture in Germany ; he quotes a criticism of the Islamic faith, sparking mass protests .September 13 solar system 's largest dwarf planet , designated until now as 2003 UB313, is officially named "Eris "; its satellite is now known as "Dysnomia ".September 15 Spinach contaminated with E. coli kills 2 and poisons over 100 others in 20 states of the United States.September 16 [citation needed September 17 Protests start near the Hungarian Parliament .September 19 Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand declares a state of emergency in Bangkok as members of the Royal Thai Army stage a coup d'état . The army announces the removal of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra from power.September 22 Transrapid Maglev train crashes into a maintenance vehicle on a test track in Germany , killing 23 and injuring 10; it is the first recorded fatal accident involving a Maglev.September 29 Gol Flight 1907 (Boeing 737-800 ) collides with a business jet over the Amazon Rainforest , killing all 154 onboard.
October
November
November 5 President of Iraq Saddam Hussein and 2 of his senior allies are sentenced to death by hanging, after an Iraqi court finds them guilty of crimes against humanity.November 8 Margaret Chan is elected as the Director-General of the World Health Organization .November 8 transit of Mercury occurs.November 12 South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia .November 15 Al Jazeera launches its English language news channel, Al Jazeera English November 16 Nukuʻ alofa , the capital of Tonga , destroys approx. 80% of the CBD; 8 bodies found and foreign forces requested.November 17 PlayStation 3 is released in North America November 19 Wii is released in North AmericaNovember 20 Iran and Syria recognize the government of Iraq , restore diplomatic relations , and call for a peace conference .November 21 Pierre Amine Gemayel , Lebanon 's Minister of Industry, is assassinated in Beirut .November 21 Halemba in Ruda Slaska , Poland , kills 23 miners approximately 1,000 meters below ground.November 22 Kolkata leather factory fire traps and kills 10 in India .November 23 car bombs and mortar attacks in Sadr City , Baghdad , kill at least 215 people and injure 257 others.November 30 Typhoon Durian triggers a massive mudslide and kills at least 720 people in Albay province on the island of Luzon in the Philippines .
December
December 1 Felipe Calderón takes office as President of Mexico .December 1 15th Asian Games start in Doha , Qatar ; the closing ceremony takes place on December 15 December 2 Rome , about 2 million people, led by opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi , demonstrate against Romano Prodi 's government.December 2 Stéphane Dion is elected the new Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada , on the fourth ballot .December 2 19 – 2006 Ipswich murder investigation : The bodies of 5 murdered prostitutes are discovered at different locations near Ipswich in Suffolk, England.December 3 Ed Stelmach is elected the new Leader of the Progressive Conservatives , Alberta , after the second ballot results, and second choice votes for Ted Morton have been added up. Ed becomes the Premier-designate of Alberta .December 3 Hugo Chávez is re-elected President of Venezuela .December 3 Germany 's tallest chimney is demolished by explosion at the former Westerholt Power Station .December 5 Fiji , in a coup d'état led by Commodore Josaia Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama .December 7 Ohio bars, restaurants, workplaces, and other public places.December 9 Moscow hospital fire kills 45 people.December 10 STS-116 Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center on the first night launch since the 2003 loss of Columbia .December 10 Christer Fuglesang becomes the first Swede in space.December 11 Holocaust conference is opened in Tehran , Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad .December 12 Peugeot produces their last car at the Ryton Plant , signalling the end of mass car production in a city that was once a major centre of the British motor industry ; Coventry .December 13 Chinese River Dolphin or Baiji becomes extinct.December 13 Tim Johnson (D-SD) suffers a stroke during a radio interview.December 14 December 15 Lockheed Martin 's F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter successfully flies for the first time.December 15 Ismail Haniyeh sparks inter-Palestinian clashes .December 15 Jigme Singye Wangchuck of Bhutan abdicates in favour of his son Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck , a year earlier than expected.December 15 Japanese government passes a bill to upgrade the Japan Defense Agency to a Ministry.December 19 Libyan court sentences 5 Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death, for knowingly infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV .December 20 Somalia : Islamic Courts Union fighters begin attacking the government-held town of Baidoa .December 21 Saparmurat Niyazov sparks world concern over a possible power vacuum and instability in energy-rich Turkmenistan .December 22 Space Shuttle Discovery lands at the Kennedy Space Center, concluding a 2-week mission to the International Space Station .December 24 Ethiopia admits its troops have intervened in Somalia .December 26 oil pipeline explodes in Nigeria 's commercial capital, Lagos , killing at least 200 people.December 26 Hengchun earthquake in Taiwan kills 2 people, and damages about 15 historical buildings and several undersea cables , disrupting Internet and IDD telecommunication services in Asia.December 29 War in Somalia : Ethiopian and Transitional government troops capture Mogadishu without resistance.December 30 Saddam Hussein , former Iraq president, is executed in Baghdad .December 30 M/V Senopati Nusantara Indonesia , causing several hundred casualties.December 30 Free State Project completes its "First 1,000" pledge.December 30 ETA sets off a bomb in Madrid Barajas International Airport , killing 2 Ecuadorians .December 31 11 bombs go off in Bangkok hours before the new year.December 31 Met Office announces that England has experienced its warmest year since records began in 1659 , with an average temperature of 10.82 °C (51.48 °F).
Major religious holidays
Births
Deaths
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Deaths in 2006
January
January 1 Charles Steen , American geologist, The "Uranium King" (b. 1919 )January 2 Cecilia Muñoz-Palma , first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (b. 1913 )January 3 Steve Rogers , Australian rugby player (b. 1954 )January 3 Bill Skate , Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954 )January 4 Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum , Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1946 )January 4 Robert Howard White , Mayor of Papatoetoe , New Zealand (b. 1914 )January 6 Lou Rawls , American singer (b. 1933 )January 7 Heinrich Harrer , mountaineer, explorer and author (b. 1912)January 8 Tony Banks, Baron Stratford , British politician (b. 1943 )January 9 Andy Caldecott , Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964 )January 14 Jim Gary , American sculptor (b. 1939 )January 14 Shelley Winters , American actress (b. 1920 )January 15 Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah , Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926 )January 19 Wilson Pickett , American singer (b. 1941 )January 19 Geoff Rabone , New Zealand cricket player (b. 1921 )January 21 Ibrahim Rugova , first President of Kosovo (b. 1944 )January 21 Bedanand Jha , Nepalese politicianJanuary 24 Chris Penn , American actor (b. 1965 )January 25 Anna Malle , American pornographic actress (b. 1967 )January 27 Johannes Rau , President of Germany (b. 1931 )January 28 Yitzchak Kadouri , Iraqi-born rabbi (b. 1900 )January 30 Coretta Scott King , American civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927 )
February
February 1 Dick Brooks , American auto racer (b. 1942 )February 1 Bryce Harland , New Zealand diplomat (b. 1931 )February 3 Al Lewis , American actor (b. 1923 )February 4 Betty Friedan , American feminist, activist, and writer (b.1921 )February 8 Ron Greenwood , English football manager (b. 1921 )February 8 Akira Ifukube , Japanese classical music/film composer (b. 1914 )February 9 Freddie Laker , British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922 )February 10 J Dilla , American music producer (b. 1974 )February 12 Ken Hart , American composer, journalist, and playwright (b. 1917 )February 13 Andreas Katsulas , Greek-American actor (b. 1946 )February 13 P. F. Strawson , English philosopher (b. 1919 )February 14 Shoshana Damari , Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923 )February 15 Sun Yun-suan , Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1913 )February 16 Ernie Stautner , German-born American football player (b. 1925 )February 20 Lucjan Wolanowski , Polish journalist, writer and traveler (b. 1920 )February 22 Anthony Burger , American musician and singer (b. 1961 )February 22 Sinnathamby Rajaratnam , Singapore politician (b. 1925 )February 23 Mauri Favén , Finnish painter (b. 1920 )February 23 Zarra , Spanish footballer (b. 1921 )February 24 Don Knotts , American actor (b. 1924 )February 24 Dennis Weaver , American actor (b. 1924 )February 25 Darren McGavin , American actor (b. 1922 )February 25 Florian ZaBach , American musician and TV personality (b. 1931 )February 27 Linda Smith , English comedian (b. 1958 )February 28 Ron Cyrus , American politician, father of Billy Ray Cyrus (b. 1935 )
March
March 1 Harry Browne , American Libertarian Presidential candidate (b. 1933 )March 1 Peter Osgood , English footballer (b. 1947 )March 1 Peter Snow , New Zealand doctor (b. 1935 )March 2 Jack Wild , English actor (b. 1952 )March 3 William Herskovic , Hungarian Holocaust hero and philanthropist (b. 1914 )March 4 Dave Rose , American artist (b. 1910 )March 4 Edgar Valter , Estonian illustrator and cartoonist (b. 1929 )March 4 John Reynolds Gardiner , American author and engineer (b. 1944 )March 6 Dana Reeve , American actress, wife of Christopher Reeve (b. 1961 )March 6 Kirby Puckett , U.S. baseball player (b. 1960 )March 6 King Floyd , American singer (b. 1945 )March 8 Brian Barratt-Boyes , New Zealand heart surgeon (b. 1924 )March 9 Hanka Bielicka , Polish actress (b. 1915 )March 9 John Profumo , British politician (b. 1915 )March 11 Bernie Geoffrion , Canadian hockey player (b. 1931 )March 11 Slobodan Milošević , President of Serbia (b. 1941 )March 13 Maureen Stapleton , American actress (b. 1925 )March 13 Peter Tomarken , American game show host (b. 1942 )March 14 Lennart Meri , President of Estonia (b. 1929 )March 15 George Mackey , American mathematician (b. 1916 )March 22 Lawrence Stephen , Nauruan politician (b. 1939 )March 23 Cindy Walker , American songwriter (b. 1918 )March 24 Lynne Perrie , English actress (b. 1931 )March 25 Rocio Durcal , Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944 )March 25 Buck Owens , American musician (b. 1929 )March 26 Paul Dana , American race car driver (b. 1975 )March 27 Stanislaw Lem , Polish writer (b. 1921 )March 28 Caspar Weinberger , United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917 )
April
April 2 Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg , German wife of soldier Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (b. 1913 )April 4 Denis Donaldson , Irish Republican informer (b. 1950 )April 5 Gene Pitney , American singer (b. 1941 )April 6 Francis L. Kellogg , U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (b. 1917 )April 8 Gerard Reve , Dutch author (b. 1923 )April 11 Proof , American rapper (D12 ) (b. 1973 )April 11 Les Foote , Australian footballer (b. 1924 )April 11 June Pointer , American singer (b. 1953 )April 12 Rajkumar , Indian actor (b. 1929 )April 12 William Sloane Coffin , American university chaplain and activist (b. 1924 )April 13 Muriel Spark , Scottish novelist (b. 1918 )April 15 Louise Smith , American race car driver (b. 1916 )April 17 Calum Kennedy , Scottish singer (b. 1928 )April 18 John Lyall , British football player and manager (b. 1940 )April 19 Scott Crossfield , American pilot (b. 1921 )April 20 Anna Svidersky , American murder victim (b. 1988 )April 21 Telê Santana , Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1931 )April 23 Alida Valli , Italian actress (b. 1921 )April 23 Johnny Checketts , New Zealand flying ace (b. 1912 )April 24 Nasreen Huq , Bangladeshi social worker and human rights activist (b. 1958 )April 24 Brian Labone , English footballer (b. 1940 )April 24 Steve Stavro , Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1927 )April 24 Moshe Teitelbaum , Hungarian-born Hassidic rabbi (b. 1914 )April 25 Jane Jacobs , American-born writer and activist (b. 1916 )April 25 Peter Law , British politician (b. 1948 )April 28 Steve Howe , American Baseball Player (b. 1958 )April 29 John Kenneth Galbraith , Canadian economist (b. 1908 )April 30 Beatriz Sheridan , Mexican actress and director (b. 1934 )
May
May 1 Big Hawk , American RapperMay 2 Louis Rukeyser , American television host (b. 1933 )May 3 Karel Appel , Dutch painter (b. 1921 )May 3 Pramod Mahajan , Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and strategist (b. 1949 )May 3 Earl Woods , American athlete and father of Tiger Woods (b. 1932 )May 6 Lillian Asplund , last American survivor of the Titanic disaster (b. 1906 )May 6 Shigeru Kayano , Japanese activist (b. 1926 )May 7 Richard Carleton , Australian journalist (b. 1943 )May 7 Steve Bender , German musician (Dschinghis Khan ) (b. 1946 )May 8 Iain Macmillan , British photographer (b. 1938 )May 10 Val Guest , British film director (b. 1911 )May 10 Soraya , Colombian-born singer and musician (b. 1969 )May 11 Yossi Banai , Israeli singer and actor (b. 1932 )May 11 Floyd Patterson , American boxer (b. 1935 )May 12 Hussein Maziq , Former Libyan prime minister (b. 1918 ).May 13 Jaroslav Pelikan , American historian (b. 1923 )May 13 Johnnie Wilder, Jr. , American R&B singer (b. 1949 )May 16 Jorge Porcel , Argentine actor (b. 1936 )May 19 Freddie Garrity , English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers ) (b. 1940 )May 21 Katherine Dunham , American dancer, choreographer, and songwriter (b. 1909 )May 22 Lee Jong-wook , Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b. 1945 )May 23 Lloyd Bentsen , American politician (b. 1921 )May 24 Anderson Mazoka , Zambian politician (b. 1943 )May 24 Michał Życzkowski , Polish technician (b. 1930 )May 25 Desmond Dekker , Jamaican singer and songwriter (b. 1941 )May 25 Tobías Lasser , Venezuelan botanist (b. 1911 )May 25 Kari S. Tikka , Finnish professor (b. 1944 )May 26 Édouard Michelin , French businessman (b. 1963 )May 27 Alex Toth , American comic book artist and cartoonist (b. 1928 )May 29 Masumi Okada , Japanese actor (b. 1935 )May 30 Shohei Imamura , Japanese film director (b. 1926 )May 30 David Lloyd , New Zealand biologist (b. 1938 )
June
June 1 Rocio Jurado , Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944 )June 6 Arnold Newman , American photographer (b. 1918 )June 6 Billy Preston , American artist and musician (b. 1946 )June 6 Hilton Ruiz , Puerto Rican jazz pianist (b. 1952 )June 7 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi , Jordanian militant (b. 1966 )June 7 John Tenta , Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1963 )June 11 Neroli Fairhall , New Zealand archer (b. 1944 )June 12 Chakufwa Chihana , Malawi politician (b. 1939 )June 12 György Ligeti , Hungarian composer (b. 1923 )June 12 Kenneth Thomson , Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923 )June 13 Charles Haughey , Prime Minister of Ireland (b. 1925 )June 13 Hiroyuki Iwaki , Japanese conductor and percussionist (b. 1932 )June 14 Jean Roba , Belgian comics author (b. 1930 )June 15 Raymond Devos , French humorist (b. 1922 )June 17 Bussunda , Brazilian comedian (b. 1962 )June 18 Gica Petrescu , Romanian musician (b. 1915 )June 18 Chris and Cru Kahui , infant twin brothers murdered in New Zealand (b. 2006)June 23 Aaron Spelling , American television producer (b. 1923 )June 25 Arif Mardin , Turkish-born music producer (b. 1932 )June 25 Jaap Penraat , Dutch architect and resistance fighter (b. 1918 )June 30 Islamic Democratic Party of Maldives (b. 1946 )June 30 Robert Gernhardt , German satirist (b. 1937 )
July
July 1 Ryutaro Hashimoto , 53rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937 )July 1 Fred Trueman , English cricketer (b. 1931 )July 3 Joseph Goguen , American computer scientist (b. 1941 )July 5 Gert Fredriksson , Swedish kayaker (b. 1919 )July 5 Kenneth Lay , American businessman (b. 1942 )July 6 Kasey Rogers , American actress, author, and biker (b. 1925 )July 7 Tom Weir , Scottish climber, author, and broadcaster (b. 1914 )July 7 Rudi Carrell , Dutch entertainer (b. 1934 )July 7 Syd Barrett , English singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1946 )July 7 John Money , Sexologist (b. 1921 )July 8 June Allyson , American actress (b. 1917 )July 8 Catherine Leroy , French photographer (b. 1945 )July 10 Shamil Basayev , Chechen rebel (b. 1965 )July 11 Ross M. Lence , American political scientist (b. 1943 )July 11 John Spencer , British snooker player (b. 1935 )July 13 Red Buttons , American actor and comedian (b. 1919 )July 16 Bob Orton , American wrestler (b. 1929 )July 17 Mickey Spillane , American writer (b. 1918 )July 18 Raul Cortez , Brazilian actor (b. 1931 )July 19 Jack Warden , American actor (b. 1920 )July 20 Lim Kim San , Singapore politician (b. 1916 )July 20 Ted Grant , British politician (b. 1913 )July 21 Ta Mok , Cambodian military leader (b. 1926 )July 21 Mako Iwamatsu , Japanese-born actor (b. 1933 )July 22 José Antonio Delgado , Venezuelan mountain climber (b. 1965 )July 22 Gianfrancesco Guarnieri , Italian-born Brazilian actor and playwright (b.1934 )July 25 Hani Mohsin , Malaysian actor (b. 1965 )July 28 David Gemmell , British author (b. 1948 )July 30 Murray Bookchin , American libertarian socialist (b. 1921 )
August
August 2 Luisel Ramos , Uruguayan model (b. 1984 )August 3 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , German-born soprano (b. 1915 )August 3 Arthur Lee , American musician (b. 1945 )August 6 Hirotaka Suzuoki , Japanese Seiyu (b. 1950 )August 9 James van Allen , American physicist (b. 1914 )August 11 Mike Douglas , American entertainer (b. 1925 )August 13 Tony Jay , English-born actor (b. 1933 )August 13 Payao Poontarat , Thai boxer (b. 1957 )August 15 Te Atairangi Kaahu , Maori queen (b. 1931 )August 15 Faas Wilkes , former Dutch football player(b. 1923 )August 16 Alfredo Stroessner , President of Paraguay (b. 1912 )August 20 Joe Rosenthal , American photographer (b. 1911 )August 20 Bryan Budd VC , British soldier (Afghanistan). (b. 1977 )August 21 Bismillah Khan , Indian musician (b. 1916 )August 21 S. Yizhar , Israeli writer (b. 1916 )August 23 Maynard Ferguson , Canadian musician and bandleader (b. 1928 )August 23 Wolfgang Priklopil , Austrian kidnapper of Natascha Kampusch (b. 1962 )August 26 Rainer Barzel , German politician (b. 1924 )August 26 Clyde Walcott , Barbadian cricketer (b. 1926 )August 27 Hrishikesh Mukherjee , Indian filmmaker (b. 1922 )August 30 Glenn Ford , Canadian actor (b. 1916 )August 30 Naguib Mahfouz , Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911 )August 30 Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon , New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926 )
September
September 1 György Faludy , Hungarian poet (b. 1910 )September 2 Charlie Williams , British comedian (b. 1927 )September 2 Bob Mathias , American athlete (b. 1930 )September 2 Willi Ninja , American dancer and choreographer (b. 1961 )September 4 Steve Irwin , Australian environmentalist and television personality (b. 1962 )September 4 Giacinto Facchetti , Italian footballer (b. 1942 )September 4 Colin Thiele , Australian author and educator (b. 1920 )September 7 Robert Earl Jones , American stage and film actor (b. 1910 )September 8 Hilda Bernstein , English-born author, artist, and activist (b. 1915 )September 8 Peter Brock , Australian race car driver (b. 1945 )September 9 Richard Burmer , American composer and musician (b. 1955 )September 9 William B. Ziff, Jr. , American publishing executive (b. 1930 )September 10 Taufa'ahau Tupou IV , King of Tonga (b. 1918 )September 11 Joachim Fest , German historian and journalist (b. 1926 )September 11 Johannes Bob van Benthem , Dutch lawyer (b. 1921 )September 13 Ann Richards , American politician (b. 1933 )September 14 Elizabeth Choy , Singaporean World War II hero (b. 1910 )September 14 Mickey Hargitay , Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926 )September 15 Oriana Fallaci , Italian journalist (b. 1929 )September 15 Abe Saffron , Australian nightclub owner and property developer (b. 1920 )September 16 Rob Levin , American computer programmer (b. 1955 )September 17 Patricia Kennedy Lawford , American socialite, sister of John F. Kennedy (b. 1924 )September 17 Dorothy C. Stratton , Director of the United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve (b. 1899 )September 19 Roy Schuiten , Dutch cyclist (b. 1950 )September 19 Hugh Kawharu , New Zealand academic and Māori chief (b. 1927 )September 20 Armin Jordan , Swiss conductor (b. 1932 )September 20 John W. Peterson , American composer (b. 1921 )September 23 Malcolm Arnold , English composer (b. 1921 )September 23 Aladár Pege , Hungarian musician (b. 1939 )September 24 Tetsuro Tamba , Japanese actor (b. 1922 )September 26 Byron Nelson , American golfer (b. 1912 )September 26 Iva Toguri D'Aquino , American propagandist for Japan in World War II (b. 1916 )September 29 Walter Hadlee , New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915 )September 29 Jan Werner Danielsen , Norwegian musician (b. 1976 )
October
October 6 Buck O'Neil , American baseball player (b. 1911 )October 6 Wilson Tucker , American writer (b. 1914 )October 7 Anna Politkovskaya , American-born Russian journalist (b. 1958 )October 8 Mark Porter , New Zealand race car driver (b. 1975 )October 9 Paul Hunter , British snooker player (b. 1978 )October 10 Michael John Rogers , English ornithologist (b. 1932 )October 11 Cory Lidle , American baseball player (b. 1972 )October 13 Mason Andrews , delivered America's first test tube baby ; former mayor of Norfolk, Virginia (b. 1919 )October 14 Nancy Lynn , American aviator (b. 1956 )October 14 Freddy Fender , American singer (b. 1937 )October 16 Lister Sinclair , Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921 )October 16 Valentín Paniagua , President of Peru (b. 1936 )October 18 Anna Russell , British-born comedian and music satirist (b. 1911 )October 20 Jane Wyatt , American actress (b. 1910 )October 21 Sandy West , American musician (b. 1959 )October 24 Enolia McMillan , American first female president of the NAACP (b. 1904 )October 25 Danny Rolling , American murderer (b. 1954 ) (executed)October 28 Red Auerbach , American basketball coach and official (b. 1917 )October 28 Trevor Berbick , Jamaican boxer (b. 1955 )October 30 Clifford Geertz , American anthropologist (b. 1926 )October 31 Pieter Willem Botha , former State President of South Africa (b. 1916 )
November
November 1 Adrienne Shelly , American actress & director (b. 1966 )November 1 William Styron , American writer (b. 1925 )November 2 Adrien Douady , French mathematician (b. 1935 )November 2 Wally Foreman , Australian sports commentator (b. 1948 )November 3 Paul Mauriat , French musician (b. 1925 )November 3 Alberto Spencer , Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1937 )November 4 Frank Arthur Calder , Canadian politician (b. 1915 )November 4 Sergi López Segú , Spanish footballer (b. 1967 )November 5 Mustafa Bülent Ecevit , Turkish politician, poet, writer and journalist (b. 1925 )November 5 Samuel Bowers , American Ku Klux Klansman and convicted killer (b. 1924 )November 8 Basil Poledouris , American composer (b. 1945 )November 9 Ed Bradley , American journalist (b. 1941 )November 10 Gerald Levert , American singer (b. 1966 )November 10 Jack Palance , American actor (b. 1919 )November 11 Belinda Emmett , Australian actress and singer (b. 1974 )November 15 Ana Carolina Reston , Brazilian fashion model (b. 1985 )November 16 Milton Friedman , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912 )November 17 Ferenc Puskás , Hungarian footballer (b. 1927 )November 17 Bo Schembechler , American football coach (b. 1929 )November 17 Ruth Brown , American singer (b. 1928 )November 20 Robert Altman , American film director (b. 1925 )November 20 Andre Waters , American football player (b. 1962 )November 21 Pierre Amine Gemayel , Lebanese politician (b. 1972 )November 22 John Allan Cameron , Canadian musician (b. 1938 )November 23 Alexander Litvinenko , Russian-born spy (b. 1962 )November 23 Philippe Noiret , French actor (b. 1930 )November 23 Anita O'Day , American singer (b. 1919 )November 23 Willie Pep , American boxer (b. 1922 )November 24 Walter Booker , American jazz bassist (b. 1933 )November 24 Juice Leskinen , Finnish singer and songwriter (b. 1950 )November 25 Leo Chiosso , Italian poet (b. 1920 )November 25 Valentin Elizalde , Mexican singer (b. 1979 )November 25 Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner , American actress, journalist and publisher (b. 1916 )November 26 Dave Cockrum , American comic book artist (b. 1943 )November 27 Alan Freeman , Australian-born broadcaster and disc jockey (b. 1927 )November 28 Bernard Orchard , British biblical scholar (b. 1912 )
December
December 3 James Kim , American television personality (b. 1971 )December 3 Logan Whitehurst , American comedy singer (b. 1977 )December 3 Craig Hinton , British novelist (b. 1964 )December 4 Ross A. McGinnis , American soldier, posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor (b. 1987 )December 5 David Bronstein , Soviet Union chess grandmaster (b. 1924 )December 6 John Feeney , New Zealand documentary film-director (b. 1922 )December 7 Jeane Kirkpatrick , American political theorist and U.N. ambassador (b. 1926 )December 7 J. B. Hunt , American trucking magnate (b. 1927 )December 8 Jose Uribe , Dominican Major League Baseball player (b. 1959 )December 10 Augusto Pinochet , Chilean dictator (b. 1915 )December 12 Paul Arizin , American basketball player (b. 1928 )December 12 Peter Boyle , American actor (b. 1935 )December 12 Raymond P. Shafer , American politician (b. 1917 )December 13 Lamar Hunt , American sports executive (b. 1932 )December 13 "Homesick" James Williamson , American blues musician (b. 1910 )December 13 Federico Crescentini , Sanmarinese football player (b. 1982 )December 14 Ahmet Ertegün , Turkish record executive (b. 1923 )December 14 Mike Evans , American actor (b. 1949 )December 15 Clay Regazzoni , Swiss race car driver (b. 1939 )December 16 Don Jardine , Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1940 )December 18 Joseph Barbera , American animator (b. 1911 )December 20 Yukio Aoshima , Japanese politician, novelist and TV-actor (b. 1932 )December 20 Ma Ji , Chinese actor (b. 1934 )December 21 Saparmurat Niyazov , President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940 )December 22 Elena Mukhina , Russian gymnast (b. 1960 )December 23 Robert Stafford , American politician (b. 1913 )December 23 Dutch Mason , Canadian blues musician (b. 1938 )December 23 Marilyn Waltz , American actress, model, and Playboy playmate (b. 1931 )December 24 Braguinha , Brazilian songwriter (b. 1907 )December 24 Charlie Drake , English comedian (b. 1925 )December 24 Frank Stanton , American television executive (b. 1908 )December 24 Kenneth Sivertsen , Norwegian musician, composer, poet and comedian (b. 1961 )December 25 James Brown , American singer (b. 1933 )December 26 Gerald R. Ford , 38th President of the United States (b. 1913 )December 26 Chris Brown , U.S. baseball player (b. 1961 )December 29 Charles Addo Odametey , Ghanaian football player (b. 1937 )December 30 Saddam Hussein , 5th President of Iraq (b. 1937 )December 30 Antony Lambton, Viscount Lambton , British politician (b. 1922 )
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