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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2006.
Days of the month
31
- Mohamed Abdelwahab, 23, Egyptian footballer, suspected heart attack.
- K. Sri Dhammananda, 87, Sri Lankan-born Malaysian bhikkhu, stroke. .
- Guy Gabaldon, 80, American World War II Marine ("Pied Piper of Saipan)", heart attack.
- J. S. Holliday, 82, American historian, expert on California Gold Rush, pulmonary fibrosis.
- Mike Magill, 86, American racing driver.
- Charlie Wagner, 93, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).
30
- Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, 80, New Zealand jurist.
- Glenn Ford, 90, Canadian-born American actor ( Blackboard Jungle , Cimarron ).
- Susan Lynn Hefle, 46, American food scientist, cancer.
- George Johnson, 112, American supercentenarian, pneumonia.
- Igor Kio, 62, Russian illusionist.
- Bob LeRose, 85, American colorist and cover production artist for DC Comics.
- Naguib Mahfouz, 94, Egyptian winner of 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature, head injuries from a fall.
- Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm, 83, British MP and government minister.
- Bill Stumpf, 70, American industrial designer, co-created the Aeron office chair.
29
- Kent Andersson, 64, Swedish motorcycle racer, winner of 1973 and 1974 125cc World Championships.
- John Cummins, 58, Australian union official, secretary of the Builders' Labourers Federation, cancer.
- Robert J. Gorlin, 83, American oral pathologist.
- Gerald Green, 84, American author ( The Last Angry Man ) and screenwriter ( Holocaust ).
- Benjamin Rawitz-Castel, 60, Israeli pianist, battered.
- Jumpin' Gene Simmons, 73, American rockabilly musician.
28
- Ed Benedict, 94, American animator and layout artist, designed Fred Flintstone.
- Don Chipp, 81, Australian politician, founder of the Australian Democrats.
- Mary Lee Robb Cline, 80, American actress ( The Great Gildersleeve ), heart failure.
- Heino Lipp, 84, Estonian champion decathlete.
- Robert McDermott, 86, American dean of the USAF Academy, chairman of USAA and owner of San Antonio Spurs, stroke.
- Pip Pyle, 56, British drummer (Gong, Hatfield and the North).
- William F. Quinn, 87, American Governor of Hawaii (1957–1962), pneumonia.
- Michael Richard, 58, American photographer, cancer.
- Benoît Sauvageau, 42, Canadian Bloc Québécois member of parliament, traffic accident.
- Melvin Schwartz, 73, American physicist, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- Alfred Sherman, 86, British co-founder of the Centre for Policy Studies.
27
- Maria Esther de Capovilla, 116, world's oldest person and the last person known to have been alive in the 1880s, pneumonia.
- Tee Corinne, 62, American writer and artist.
- Jon Dough, 43, AVN Hall of Fame pornographic actor, suicide.
- Ike Hildebrand, 79, Canadian ice hockey and lacrosse player.
- Iain MacKintosh, 74, Scottish folk musician.
- Vashti McCollum, 93, American plaintiff in McCollum v. Board of Education .
- Luciano Mendes de Almeida, 75, Archbishop of Mariana, Brazil, cancer.
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee, 83, Indian film director
- Jesse Pintado, 37, American guitarist with Terrorizer and Napalm Death, complications of diabetic coma.
- Dr. A. James Rowan, 71, neurologist who studied epilepsy.
- Patrick Smith, 58, board member of Habitat for Humanity International, one of 49 killed on Comair Flight 5191.
26
- Rainer Barzel, 82, former President of the German Bundestag and Chairman of the CDU.
- Nawab Akbar Bugti, 79, Balochistani rebel tribal leader, killed by Pakistani military forces.
- John Ripley Forbes, 93, American naturalist and conservationist, founder of nature museums.
- William Garnett, 89, American aerial photographer.
- Yosef Hadar, 90, Israeli composer, cancer (in Hebrew)
- Evgeny Kucherevsky, 65, Ukrainian football coach of Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, car crash.
- Father Marie-Dominique Philippe, O.P., 93, French Dominican priest & founder of the Community of St. John, stroke.
- Vladimir Tretchikoff, 92, Russian artist.
- Michael Vestey, 61, former BBC correspondent and radio critic on The Spectator magazine.
- Sir Clyde Walcott, 80, West Indian cricketer.
25
- John Blankenstein, 57, one of the first openly gay Dutch football referees, kidney disease.
- Noor Hassanali, 88, former President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
- Morton Holbrook, Jr., 91, led reform of Kentucky court system.
- Silva Kaputikyan, 87, Armenian poet.
- Lena King Lee, 100, educator and attorney, one of the first African-American women elected to the Maryland General Assembly.
- Vijay Mehra, 68, Indian cricketer.
- Cristian Nemescu, 27, Romanian film director, car accident.
- Dr. Gail Shapiro, 59, American pediatric allergist.
- Joseph Stefano, 84, screenwriter ( Psycho ), co-creator of The Outer Limits .
- Toroku Takagi, 102, Japanese composer.
- Andrei Toncu, 28, Romanian sound designer, car accident.
- Ross Warneke, 54, Australian television commentator and radio broadcaster, cancer.
- John Wilson, 56, New York Times journalist and founding member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.
24
- Herbert Hupka, 91, German journalist and politician. (in German)
- Leonard Levy, 83, Canadian-born US constitutional historian and author, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for History.
- Anthony Malara, 69, former president of CBS Television and former head of the New York State Broadcasters Association.
- Viktor Pavlov, 65, Russian actor, heart attack. (in Russian)
- Rocco Petrone, 80, American NASA engineer, director of Project Apollo and the Marshall Space Flight Center.
- David Plowright, 75, TV executive and producer, former chairman of Granada Television.
- Ralph Schoenstein, 73, American humorist and NPR commentator.
- Léopold Simoneau, 90, Canadian lyric tenor.
- James Tenney, 72, experimental composer, cancer.
- Gene Thompson, 89, baseball player with the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Giants.
- John Weinzweig, 93, Canadian music composer.
23
- Lauren Crowner, 25, news anchor/reporter at WCMH-TV in Columbus, OH, infection after auto accident.
- Maynard Ferguson, 78, Canadian jazz trumpeter, kidney and liver failure.
- Colin Forbes, 82, English novelist.
- Wasim Raja, 54, former Pakistan Test cricket player, heart attack while playing a match in Marlow, England.
- David Schnaufer, 53, Appalachian dulcimer player, lung cancer.
- Andrew J. Sullivan, 74, Air Force Veteran. Served in Korea.
- Marie Tharp, 86, American oceanographic cartographer.
- Ed Warren, 79, demonologist, after long illness.
- Jay Young, 56, one of the original CNN news anchors, heart attack.
22
- Wallace Brown, 76, Australian journalist, political correspondent in Canberra for (Brisbane's) The Courier-Mail 1961-1996.
- Bruce Gary, 55, American rock musician, drummer with The Knack, lymphoma.
- Frank Lennon, 79, Canadian photographer who recorded Paul Henderson celebrating his winning goal in the Summit Series.
21
- Máximo Carvajal, 70, Chilean comic book artist.
- George Edwards, 87, American radio host for WQXR.
- Ustad Bismillah Khan, 90, Indian shehnai musician and Bharat Ratna winner, heart attack.
- Jon Lilletun, 60, Norwegian politician (KrF), Minister of Education 1997-2000, cancer.
- Geff Noblet, 89, Australian Test cricketer 1949-1953.
- William C. Norris, 95, American engineer and founder of Control Data Corporation.
- Buck Page, 84, western musician and founder of the original Riders of the Purple Sage.
- Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, 65, Dutch billionaire businessman, pancreatic cancer.
- S. Yizhar, 89, Israeli author, heart disease.
20
- Dr. George Astaphan, 60, Kittian doctor who provided steroids to, amongst others, Ben Johnson in the 1980s.
- Claude Blanchard, 74, French-Canadian pop singer and actor, heart attack.
- Renate Brausewetter, 100, German silent film actress.
- Bryan Budd, 29, British soldier, posthumously awarded Victoria Cross.
- Alexander Cushing, 92, American founder of the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, brought the 1960 Winter Olympics to the US.
- Roger Donoghue, 75, American boxer.
- Robert Hoffman, 59, American businessman and art collector, co-founder of National Lampoon .
- James T. "Red" Hudson, 81, founder of Hudson Foods, lung cancer.
- Jack Laughery, 71, American former CEO and chairman of the Hardee's restaurant chain, lung cancer.
- Jacob Mincer, 84, Polish-born professor of economics at Columbia University.
- Giuseppe Moccia, alias Pipolo, 75, Italian film director with Franco Castellano (Castellano & Pipolo), father of writer Federico Moccia.
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