The following is a list of notabledeaths in April 2006.

Entries for each day are listedalphabetically 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.

• Gary Dineen, 62, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.^[1]
• Annesley Kingsford, 93, Canadian rower and Olympian.^[2]
• In Tam, 83, Cambodian politician.^[3]
• Oscar Treadwell, 79, American jazz radio journalist and presenter.^[4]

• Sir Anthony Beaumont-Dark, 73, British politician, former Conservative Member of Parliament.^[5]
• Mohammed al-Maghout, 72, Syrian poet and playwright.^[6]
• Bernard Seigal, 48, American musician and essayist with the stage nameBuddy Blue, co-founder of theBeat Farmers, heart attack.^[7]
• Nina von Stauffenberg, 92, German widow of Hitler's would-be assassin.^[8]

• Tom Abercrombie, 75, AmericanNational Geographic photographer, complications from open-heart surgery.^[9]
• Barry Bingham, Jr., 72, American television and radio executive, former editor and publisher of theLouisville Courier-Journal and theLouisville Times.^[10]
• Lou Carrol, 83, American traveling salesman, gaveCheckers toRichard Nixon.^[11]
• Doug Coombs, 48, American extreme skier, ski accident in the French Alps.^[12]
• Ewan Fenton, 76, Scottish footballer.^[13]
• Martin Gilks, 41, English musician, former drummer withThe Wonder Stuff, motorcycle accident.^[14][15]
• Marshall Goldberg, 88, American football player, former NFL running back of theChicago Cardinals, complications due to a head injury.^[16]
• Albert Harker, 95, American soccer player, last surviving member of the US1934 FIFA World Cup soccer team.^[17]
• Genzō Murakami, 96, Japanese novelist.^[18]
• Walter Ristow, 97, American map librarian at the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress.^[19]
• Sir Andrew Stark, 89, British diplomat,Ambassador to Denmark (1971–1976).^[20]
• Ida Vos, 74, Dutch writer.^[21]

• Mary Boyce, 85, British authority on Iran.^[22]
• Toddie Byrne, 71, Irish politician.^[23]
• Fred Christensen, 84, American fighter ace in World War II.^[24]
• Eckhard Dagge, 58, former German WBC junior middleweight champion.^[25]
• Sir Roy Denman, 81, British civil servant and diplomat.^[26]
• Denis Donaldson, 55-56, British former head ofSinn Féin atStormont, and British double-agent, found shot dead at his home.^[27]
• Gary Gray, 69, American child actor of the 1940s, cancer.^[28]
• John de Courcy Ireland, 94, Irish maritime historian and political activist.^[29]
• John George Macleod, 90, Scottish physician.^[30]
• Jürgen Thorwald, 90, German writer.^[31]
• Vickery Turner, 61, British actress of the 60's.^[32]
• Frederick B. Williams, 66, American minister of theChurch of the Intercession inHarlem, New York City.^[33]

• Alain de Boissieu, 91, French General and son-in-law ofCharles De Gaulle.^[34]
• J. B. Fuqua, 87, American entrepreneur and philanthropist.^[35]
• George Savalla Gomes, 90, Brazilian entertainer who performed as "Carequinha" the clown.^[36]
• Allan Kaprow, 78, American artist and art theorist, natural causes.^[37]
• Armando Labra, 62, Mexican economist.^[38]
• Pasquale Macchi, 82, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop, former private secretary toPope Paul VI.^[39]
• Abdul-Salam Ojeili, 88, Syrian novelist.^[40]
• Gene Pitney, 66, American singer and songwriter, heart disease.^[41][42]

• Augustyn Bloch, 76, Polish composer and organist.^[43]
• Maggie Dixon, 28, American women's basketball coach atUnited States Military Academy, cardiac arrhythmia.^[44]
• Francis L. Kellogg, 89, American diplomat.^[45]
• Leslie Norris, 84, Welsh poet and professor atBrigham Young University.^[46]

• Roger Arnaldez, 94, French professor of Islamic studies.^[47]
• Bobbie Nudie, 92, American fashion designer, wife ofNudie Cohn.^[48]
• Jim Clack, 58, American gridiron football player, heart attack.^[49]
• Adamas Golodets, 72, Soviet football player and manager.^[50]
• Théogène Ricard, 96, Canadian politician.^[51]

• Henry Lewy, 79, German-American sound engineer and record producer.^[52]
• Richard Pearlman, 68, American theatre and opera director, director of theLyric Opera Center for American Artists.^[53]
• Gerard Reve, 82, Dutch author (The Evenings,The Fourth Man),Alzheimer's disease.^[54][55]
• Valentine Telegdi, 84, Hungarian-American physicist.^[56]

• Christian Compton, 76, American jurist, justice of theSupreme Court of Virginia.^[57]
• Frank Gibney, 81, American writer and journalist on Asia.^[58]
• Billy Hitchcock, 89, American Major League Baseball infielder, coach, manager, and scout, natural causes.^[59]
• Robin Orr, 96, Scottish classical composer and conductor.^[60]
• Jimmy Outlaw, 93, American baseball third baseman/outfielder.^[61]
• Georges Rawiri, 74, Gabonese politician, president of the Senate and former foreign minister.^[62]
• Hermann Schild, 93, German cyclist, National Champion (1954).^[63]
• Vilgot Sjöman, 81, Swedish film director (I Am Curious (Yellow)), complications from brain haemorrhage.^[64]
• Natalia Troitskaya, 55, Russian operatic soprano.^[65]

• Joe Faragalli, 76, Canadian Football League head coach with theSaskatchewan Roughriders andEdmonton Eskimos.^[66]
• Jean Grosjean, 93, French poet, writer and translator.^[67]
• Bishop Charles Henderson, 81, Irish retired Catholic Auxiliary Bishop ofSouthwark, England,KC*HS, cancer.^[68]
• Notable Kenyans killed in the2006 Kenyan Air Force Harbin Y-12 crash:
  • Bonaya Godana, 54, politician,MP forNorth Horr Constituency (since 1988),minister of foreign affairs (1998–2001).^[69]
  • William Waqo, Anglican prelate, assistant bishop ofKirinyaga.^[70]

• Leonard Dommett, 77, Australian violinist and conductor.^[71]
• Les Foote, 81,Australian Football Hall of Fame member.^[72]
• Siobhán O'Hanlon, 43, Northern IrishSinn Féin politician, cancer.^[73]
• Winand Osiński, 92, Polish Olympic runner.^[74]
• June Pointer, 52, American singer, former member ofThe Pointer Sisters, lung cancer.^[75]
• Proof, 32, American rapper (D-12), homicide.^[76]
• Shin Sang-ok, 80, Korean film producer, liver problems.^[77]
• Sergey Tereshchenkov, 67, Soviet Olympic cyclist.^[78]
• Angus Wells, 63, English fiction writer.^[79]

• Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah, 41, Egyptian militant, killed by Pakistani forces.^[80]
• Richard Bebb, 79, British actor.^[81]
• William Sloane Coffin, 81, American minister and peace activist, congestive heart failure.^[82]
• Andy Duncan, 83, American basketball player.^[83]
• Paulina Kernberg, 71, Chilean-born American child psychiatrist, professor atCornell University.^[84]
• Kazuo Kuroki, 75, Japanese film director.^[85]
• Shekhar Mehta, 60, Kenyan rally driver, five-time winner of theSafari Rally & president of theFIA'sWorld Rally Championship commission, illness relating to complications from an old injury.^[86]
• Puggy Pearson, 77, American poker player.^[87]
• Albert E. Radford, 88, Americanbotanist.^[88]
• Rajkumar, 76, Indian actor, cardiac arrest.^[89]
• William Woo, 69, first Asian-American to be editor of a major American daily newspaper, theSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, professor atStanford University.^[90]

• John Read, 85, British television producer and cinematographer.^[91]
• Dame Muriel Spark, 88, British novelist, (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie).^[92]
• Bruce Weber, 54, Australian rules football executive who was president of thePort Adelaide Football Club.
• Arthur Winston, 100, AmericanLos Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee, famous for serving for 76 years and retiring at age 100.^[93]

• Mahmut Bakalli, 70, Kosovo ethnic Albanian politician.^[94]
• Henry Callow, Isle of Man jurist.^[95]
• A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury, 78, Indian politician.^[96]
• Tom Ferguson, 62, American medical doctor and author.^[97]
• Miguel Reale, 95, Brazilian philosopher of law, heart attack.^[98]
• Eberhardt Rechtin, 80, American electrical engineer and telecommunications expert.^[99]

• Raúl Corrales, 81, Cuban photographer .^[100]
• Lord Eliot (Jago Eliot), 40, English aristocrat, surfer and cyber artist, epilepsy.^[101]
• Calum Kennedy, 77, Scottish traditional singer.^[102]
• Pavel Koutecký, 49, Czech documentary film maker, accidental fall.^[103]
• Louise Smith, 89, American NASCAR racer, first woman inducted into theInternational Motorsports Hall of Fame, known as "the first lady of racing," complications from cancer.^[104]
• Vusumzi Make, 75, South African politician

• Francisco Adam, 22, Portuguese actor, traffic collision.^[105]
• Lorraine Borg, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL)^[106]
• Philippe Castelli, 80, Franch actor.^[107]
• Richard Eckersley, 65, English graphic designer.^[108]
• Morton Freedgood, 93, American author (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three) under the pseudonym of John Godey.^[109]
• Brett Goldin, 27, South African actor, killed by a head shot together with friend, fashion designer Richard Bloom, 27.^[110]
• Poopak Goldarreh, 34, Iranian actress, traffic collision.^[111]
• Harold Horwood, 82, Canadian writer and former Newfoundland politician, cancer.^[112]
• Stephen Marshall, 20, American double murderer, suicide by gunshot.^[113]
• Daniel Schaefer, 70, American politician, former Republican United States Representative from Colorado served 1983–1999, cancer.^[114]
• Jake Seamer, 92, English cricketer.^[115]
• Silvia Caos, 72, Cuban-Mexican actress.^[116]

• Jean Bernard, 98, French hematologist.^[117]
• Scott Brazil, 50, American television producer and director (The Shield), Lou Gehrig's disease.^[118]
• Peter Cadbury, 88, British entrepreneur and one of the founders of commercial TV broadcasting in the UK.^[119]
• Elford Albin Cederberg, 88, American politician, former Republican United States Representative from Michigan from 1953 to 1978 and former mayor ofBay City, Michigan.^[120]
• Henderson Forsythe, 88, American actor (As the World Turns).^[121]
• Arthur Hertzberg, 84, Polish-born American rabbi and scholar of Judaism.^[122]
• Vaishnavi, 22, Indian Bollywood actress, suicide by hanging.^[123]

• Bindhyabasini Devi, 86, Indian folk singer.^[124]
• Ken Jones, 84, Welsh rugby union player,Wales andBritish Lion rugby union player and silver medal Olympiad.^[125]
• John Lyall, 66, British football manager withWest Ham United F.C. andIpswich Town F.C., heart attack.^[126]
• Grady McWhiney, 77, American historian.^[127]
• Dick Rockwell, 85, American cartoonist, assistant onSteve Canyon, nephew ofNorman Rockwell.^[128]

• John F. Cosgrove, 56, American politician, member of theFlorida House of Representatives.^[129]
• Scott Crossfield, 84, AmericanX-15 test pilot, plane crash.^[130]
• Bob Dove, 85, American NFL defensive lineman and member of theCollege Football Hall of Fame.^[131]
• Andrés María Rubio Garcia, 81, Uruguayan Roman Catholic bishop.^[132]
• June Knox-Mawer, 75, British writer and radio broadcaster.^[133]
• Ellen Kuzwayo, 91, South African author, anti-apartheid activist, and member of Parliament, diabetes.^[134]
• Sir Ian Morrow, 93, British accountant and businessman.^[135]

• Kathleen Antonelli, 85, Irish computer programmer, one of theENIAC original computer programmers, cancer.^[136]
• Cy Bahakel, 87, American media magnate.^[137]
• Stanley Hiller, Jr., 81, American helicopter designer.^[138]
• Igor Kuljerić, 68, Croatian composer and conductor.^[139]
• Miguel Zacarías Nogaim, 101, Mexican film director.^[140]
• Anna Svidersky, 17, Russian teenager, murdered while working atMcDonald's, stabbed.^[141]
• Wolfgang Unzicker, 80, German chess grandmaster.^[142]
• Robert Wegman, 87, American businessman, chairman and former CEO ofWegmans Food Markets, Inc., philanthropist.^[143]

• Sir Richard Bayliss, 89, British physician,Physician to the Queen (1973-1981).^[144]
• Jacob Kovco, 25, firstAustralian Defence Force service person killed in Iraq.^[145]
• T. K. Ramakrishnan, 84, Indian politician.^[146]
• Telê Santana, 74, Brazilian football coach, complications from an intestinal infection.^[147]

• Henriette Avram, 86, American library systems analyst, developedMARC cataloging format.^[148][149]
• Ed Davis, 89, American California State Senator and former Los Angeles police chief (1969–1978).^[150]
• Enriqueta Harris, 95, English art historian.^[151]
• Nobby Lawton, 65, English footballer, midfielder & former captain ofPreston North End, cancer.^[152]
• Jobie Nutarak, 58, Canadian politician, snowmobile accident.^[153]
• Satyadeow Sawh, 50, Guyanese Minister of Fisheries, Crops and Livestock. Shot by masked gunmen.^[154][155]
• Ronnie Sox, 67, American drag racing pioneer.^[156]
• Alida Valli, 84, Italian actress (The Third Man).^{[157][158][159]}
• Fausto Vitello, 59, Argentine-American businessman and magazine publisher, founding publisher of the skateboarding magazineThrasher, heart attack.^[160]

• Ghafar Baba, 81, Malaysian former Deputy Prime Minister.^[161]
• Susan Browning, 65, American actress.^[162]
• Harvey Bullock, 84, American television writer and producer (The Love Boat,Love, American Style).^[163]
• Johnny Checketts, 94, New Zealand World War II flying ace.^[164]
• Willie Finnigan, 93, Scottish footballer (Hibernian F.C.).^[165]
• Boris Fraenkel, 85, French Trotskyist.^[166]
• Barry Gibbs, 73, South Australian cricket official.^[167][168]
• William Gottlieb, 89, American jazz photographer.^[169][170]
• Jennifer Jayne, 74, British TV and film actress ("The Adventures of William Tell").^[171]
• Florence Mars, 83, American civil rights activist, author ofWitness in Philadelphia.^[172][173]
• Ian Nelson, 50, English saxophone and clarinet musician, died in his sleep.^[174]
• David Peckinpah, 54, American television producer and director (Silk Stalkings,Sliders,Beauty and the Beast), heart attack.^[175]
• Phil Walden, 66, American founder ofCapricorn Records, cancer.^[176]
• Isaac Witkin, 69, South African-born American sculptor.^[177]

• Erik Bergman, 94, Finnish composer.^[178]
• Peter Ellis, 58, British television director.^[179]
• Nasreen Pervin Huq, 47, Bangladeshi women's activist and Director of Action Aid, from getting hit by a car.^[180]
• Brian Labone, 66, English footballer, Everton and England player, heart attack.^[181]
• Bonnie Owens, 76, American country music singer.^[182]
• Jimmy Sharman, 94, Australian boxing troupe impresario.^[183]
• Dr. Rajkumar, 76, Legendary Indian Kannada Cinema Actor, heart attack.
• Sibby Sisti, 85, American MLB player with theBoston Braves.^[184]
• Steve Stavro, 78, Canadian grocery store magnate and a former owner of theToronto Maple Leafs, heart attack.^[185]
• Moshe Teitelbaum, 91, Hungarian-born Hasidic rebbe, ofSatmar, one of the largest Hassidic Jewish groups in the world.^[186]

• Ronald Girdwood, 89, Scottish physician.^[187]
• Joseph S. Iseman, 89, American lawyer, educator and former president ofBennington College, cardiac arrest.^[188]
• Jane Jacobs, 89, American-born Canadian urban activist and author (The Death and Life of Great American Cities), stroke.^[189]
• John Kerr, 81, Irish ballad singer.
• Peter Law, 58, Welsh politician, independent MP andAM, brain tumor.^[190]
• Tabe Slioor, 79, Finnish socialite.^[191]

• Moshe Halberstam, 74, Israeli Rabbi, Dean of Tshakava Yeshivah and prominent member of theEdah Charedis Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem.^[192]
• Daryl Mack, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[193]
• Yuval Ne'eman, 80, Israeli physicist, founder of theIsrael Space Agency, science minister, and President ofTel Aviv University.^[194]
• Russ Swan, 42, American former Major League Baseball pitcher (injuries due to a fall).^[195]

• Wacław Latocha, 69, Polish Olympic cyclist.^[196]
• Pat Marsden, 69, Canadian sportscaster, lung cancer.^[197]
• Strini Moodley, 60, South African founding member ofBlack Consciousness Movement.^[198]
• Kay Noble-Bell, 65, American wrestler.^[199]
• Julia Thorne, 61, American author and first wife ofJohn Kerry, bladder cancer.^[200]
• Mel Tom, 64, American football player, heart failure.^[201]
• Alexander Buel Trowbridge, 76, American politician and businessman, Secretary of Commerce under US PresidentLyndon B. Johnson from 1967 to 1968, former president of theNational Association of Manufacturers.^[202]

• Helen Armstrong, 63, American concert violinist.^[203]
• Ángel O. Berríos, 69, Puerto Rican engineer, former mayor of Caguas, heart failure.^[204]
• Steve Howe, 48, American former Major League Baseball pitcher, automobile accident.^[205]
• Jan Koetsier, 94, Dutch composer and conductor.^[206]
• Ben-Zion Orgad, 80, Israeli composer, cancer.^[207]
• M. G. G. Pillai, 67, Malaysian journalist and political activist, heart complications.^[208]

• Sid Barron, 88, Canadian cartoonist. Known for the biplane flying overhead trailing a banner that read "mild, isn't it.".^[209]
• John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, American economist and author (The Affluent Society), natural causes.^[210]
• Alberta Nelson, 68, American actress known forbeach party films of 1960s.^[211]
• Félix Siby, 64, Gabonese politician and former government minister.^[212]
• John Trever, 90, American scholar who photographed theDead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem.^[213]
• Alvin S. White, 87, American test pilot.^[214]

• Jay Bernstein, 69, American Hollywood publicist.^[215]
• Barry Driscoll, 79, British sculptor and painter, cancer.^[216]
• Jean-François Revel, 82, French philosopher.^[217]
• Corinne Rey-Bellet, 33, Swiss Alpine skier, shot dead.^[218]
• William (Bill) Roberts, 105, British First World War veteran.^[219]
• Moshe Shmuel Shapiro, 88, Belarusian-born rabbi andRosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Be'er Yaakov in Israel.^[220]
• Paul Spiegel, 68, German chairman of the Central Council of German Jews, natural causes.^[221]
• Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 81, Indonesian writer.^[222]
• Beatriz Sheridan, 71, Mexican actress and director.^[223]

• List of April 2006 deaths atIMDb

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