Deaths in August 2006
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[[Deaths in 2006]] : [[Deaths in December 2005|←]] - [[Deaths in January 2006|January]] - [[Deaths in February 2006|February]] - [[Deaths in March 2006|March]] - [[Deaths in April 2006|April]] - [[Deaths in May 2006|May]] - [[Deaths in June 2006|June]] - [[Deaths in July 2006|July]] - August - [[Deaths in September 2006|September]] - [[Deaths in October 2006|October]] - [[Deaths in November 2006|November]] - [[Deaths in December 2006|December]]- [[Deaths in January 2007|→]]<br/>
The following is a list of notable deaths in [[August 2006]].
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*[[Mohamed Abdelwahab]], 23, [[Egypt]]ian international footballer, suspected [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/5301282.stm]
*[[K. Sri Dhammananda]], 87, [[Sri Lanka]]n/[[Malaysia]]n [[bhikkhu]], [[stroke]]. [http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=56,3099,0,0,1,0].
*[[Guy Gabaldon]], 80, [[World War II]] [[United States Marine|US Marine]], the "Pied Piper of [[Battle of Saipan|Saipan]]", heart attack. [http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/04/obit.gabaldon.ap/index.html?section=cnn_topstories] [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/04/us/04gabaldon.html]
*[[J. S. Holliday]], 82, [[United States|American]] historian and expert on [[California Gold Rush]], [[pulmonary fibrosis]]. [http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-holliday10sep10,1,776450.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california]
*[[Mike Magill]], 86, American racing driver. [http://forums.autosport.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=2481927#post2481927]
*[[Charlie Wagner|"Broadway" Charlie Wagner]], 93, former [[pitcher]] for the [[Boston Red Sox]]. [http://redsox.bostonherald.com/redSox/view.bg?articleid=155354] [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/02/sports/baseball/02WAGNER.html]
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*[[Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon]], 80, New Zealand jurist. [http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200608310650/786e6e2]
*[[Glenn Ford]], 90, Canadian-American actor (''[[Blackboard Jungle]]'', ''[[Cimarron (1960 film)|Cimarron]]''). [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/movies/31ford.html] [http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=2377135]
*[[Bob Gallagher (insurance)|Bob Gallagher]], 83, chairman of [[Arthur J. Gallagher]] insurance brokerage. [http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-08-30T162108Z_01_WNAS6293_RTRIDST_0_FINANCIAL-ARTHURJGALLAGHER-URGENT.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna]
*[[Burt Goldblatt]], 82, American jazz album cover designer. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/07/arts/music/07goldblatt.html]
*[[Susan L. Hefle]], 46, American [[food science|food scientist]], cancer.[http://www.roperandsons.com/obituaries_detail.lasso?-Token.id=58963]
*[[George Johnson (supercentenarian)|George Johnson]], 112, purported grandson of [[President of the United States|US president]] [[Andrew Johnson]], possibly the last [[California]]n [[World War I]] veteran, [[pneumonia]]. [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-johnson1sep01,0,7906879.story?coll=la-story-footer]
*Dr. [[Olga Jonasson]], 72, American transplant surgeon. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/obituaries/13jonasson.html]
*[[Igor Kio]], 62, Russian [[illusionist]], [http://obits.eons.com/national/feature/4564?section=international]
*[[Uwe Leichsenring]], 39, [[Germany|German]] [[National Democratic Party of Germany|NPD]] politician, injuries sustained in a car accident. [http://www.mdr.de/sachsenspiegel/3387585.html] (German)
*[[Bob LeRose]], 85, colorist and cover production artist for [[DC Comics]]. [http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=36;t=005533]
*[[Ron McKenna]], 88, head trainer for the [[New York Mets]] 1970-1980, [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]]. [http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=122588]
*[[Naguib Mahfouz]], 94, [[Egypt]]ian winner of 1988 [[Nobel Prize for Literature]], head injuries sustained in a fall in July. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5297470.stm]
*[[Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm]], 83, [[Scotland|Scottish]] former [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]] and government minister. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/5298298.stm]
*[[Mel Sachs]], 60, New York City trial lawyer. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/obituaries/01sachs.html]
*[[Dennis Spellmann]], 70, President of [[Lindenwood University]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/education/03spellman.html]
*[[Bill Stumpf]], 70, American industrial designer who co-created the [[Aeron chair|Aeron office chair]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/obituaries/10stumpf.html] [http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=APStory&Id=11689]
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*[[Kent Andersson (motorcyclist)|Kent Andersson]], 64, [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[motorcycle]] racer, winner of 1973 and 1974 [[Grand Prix motorcycle racing|125cc World Championships]]. [http://www.motorcyclenews.com/nav?page=motorcyclenews.articles.articleCategory.article&resourceId=5486605&articleCategory=SPORT_MOTOGP]
*[[Stefan Blaho]], 21, [[Slovakia|Slovak]] hockey player drafted by the [[New York Islanders]], car accident. [http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=175902&hubname=]
*[[John Cummins (union organiser)|John Cummins]], 58, [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]n union official and last secretary of the [[Builders' Labourers Federation]], [[cancer]]. [http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Unionist-John-Cummins-dies-aged-58/2006/08/30/1156816933998.html]
*Dr. [[Robert Gorlin]], 83, American oral pathologist. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/obituaries/14gorlin.html]
*[[Gerald Green (author)|Gerald Green]], 84, American [[author]] (''[[The Last Angry Man]]'') and screenwriter (''[[Holocaust (miniseries)|Holocaust]]''). [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/obituaries/31green.html]
*[[Dorothy Harmsen]], 91, co-creator of the [[Jolly Rancher]], author and collector of American Western art, heart attack. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/07/business/07harmsen.html] [http://www.legacy.com/Denver/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=19065688]
*[[Benjamin Rawitz-Castel]], 60, [[Israel]]i pianist, murdered in [[Brussels]]. [http://www.brusselnieuws.be/site/rubrieken/1091053972/page.htm?newsID=1156955491]
*[[Jumpin' Gene Simmons]], 73, [[United States|American]] [[rockabilly]] musician. [http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/entnews/ap/20060831/115703358000.html]
*[[Wong Mew-Mee]], 54, [[Malaysia]]ian Principle of SJK Bemban, Batu Gajah.
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*[[Ed Benedict]], 94, American animator and layout artist, designed [[Fred Flintstone]].[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/]
*[[Don Chipp]], 81, Australian politician, founder of the [[Australian Democrats]]. [http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20288907-5005941,00.html] [http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1726470.htm] [http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/democrats-party-founder-dies/2006/08/29/1156617303300.html]
*[[Mary Lee Robb|Mary Lee Robb Cline]], 80, played Marjorie on ''[[The Great Gildersleeve]]'', heart failure. [http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings8.2sep08,1,2207799.story?coll=la-news-obituaries]
*[[Heino Lipp]], 84, [[Estonia]]n champion [[decathlon|decathlete]], prevented from competing in the 1948 and 1952 Olympics due to [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] repression. [http://www.postimees.ee/290806/esileht/sport/215360.php] (Estonian), [http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH1998/JSH2501/jsh2501zb.pdf] (PDF)
*[[Robert F. McDermott|Robert McDermott]], 86, former dean of the [[United States Air Force Academy]], chairman of [[USAA]] and owner of [[San Antonio Spurs]], [[stroke]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/29/business/29mcdermott.html]
* [[David Nicholson (horse trainer)|David Nicholson]], 67, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[horse racing]] trainer, suspected [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/5292414.stm]
*[[Pip Pyle]], 56, drummer with [[Gong (band)|Gong]] and [[Hatfield and the North]] [http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article1222794.ece]
* [[William F. Quinn]], 87, first [[Governor of Hawaii]], [[pneumonia]]. [http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Aug/29/br/br04p.html] [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/obituaries/31quinn.html]
* [[Michael Richard]], 58, photographer, [[cancer]]. [http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-richard17sep17,1,5593913.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california]
*[[Benoît Sauvageau]], 42, [[Bloc Québécois]] MP, traffic accident. [http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=9c644d88-7097-4404-9b64-32e6a3178413&k=56430]
*Dr. [[Melvin Schwartz]], 73, American physicist, winner of the 1988 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/30/obituaries/30schwartz.html] [http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/15391606.htm]
* [[Alfred Sherman]], 86, [[United Kingdom|British]] co-founder of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[think tank]] the [[Centre for Policy Studies]]. [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicsobituaries/story/0,,1860148,00.html]
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* [[Maria Esther de Capovilla]], 116, world's [[Oldest people|oldest person]] and the last person known to have been alive in the 1880s, [[pneumonia]]. [http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/08/28/oldest.person.ap/index.html] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5293436.stm] [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1271552006]
* [[Jon Dough]], 43, [[AVN Hall of Fame]] [[pornographic]] actor, [[suicide]]. [http://www.avn.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=274564]
* [[Ike Hildebrand]], 79, Canadian [[ice hockey]] and [[lacrosse]] player. [http://www.cshof.ca/pages/inductee.php?id=176]
*[[Iain MacKintosh]], 74, Scottish folk musician. [http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries.cfm?id=1307442006]
*[[Vashti McCollum]], 93, American plaintiff in ''[[McCollum v. Board of Education]]''. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/26/obituaries/26mccullum.html]
* [[Luciano Mendes de Almeida]], 75, [[Archbishop]] of [[Mariana, Minas Gerais|Mariana]], [[Brazil]], [[cancer]]. [http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/brasil/ult96u82039.shtml]
* [[Hrishikesh Mukherjee]], 83, [[Indian film]] director [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1930646.cms] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/5291132.stm]
* [[Jesse Pintado]], 37, American [[guitarist]] with [[Terrorizer]] and [[Napalm Death]], complications of [[diabetic coma]]. [http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=57290]
*Dr. [[A. James Rowan]], 71, neurologist who studied [[epilepsy]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/obituaries/14rowan.html]
* [[Patrick Smith]], 58, board member of [[Habitat for Humanity International]], one of 49 killed on [[Comair Flight 5191]]. [http://www.habitat.org/how/In_Memoriam.aspx]
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*[[Rainer Barzel]], 82, former President of the German [[Bundestag]] and Chairman of the [[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|CDU]]. [http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/26/0,3672,3971578,00.html]
*[[Nawab Akbar Bugti]], 79, [[Balochistan (Pakistan)|Balochistani]] rebel tribal leader, killed by [[Military of Pakistan|Pakistani military]] forces. [http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/08/26/pakistan.clash/index.html]
*[[John Ripley Forbes]], 93, American naturalist and conservationist, founder of nature museums. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/05/obituaries/05forbes.html]
*[[William Garnett]], 89, American aerial photographer. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/09/obituaries/09garnett.html]
*[[Yosef Hadar]], 90, [[Israel]]i composer, [[cancer]] [http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=755165&contrassID=2&subContrassID=21&sbSubContrassID=0 (in Hebrew)]
*[[Evgeny Kucherevsky]], 65, [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] [[Football (soccer)|football]] coach of [[Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk]], car crash. [http://football.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-6039705,00.html]
*Father [[Marie-Dominique Philippe]], [[O.P.]], 93, French [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] [[priest]] & founder of the [[Community of St. John]], stroke. [http://www.stjean.com/EN/news.htm]
*[[Vladimir Tretchikoff]], 92, [[Soviet Union|Russian]] artist. [http://www.sabcnews.com/entertainment/the_arts/0,2172,133762,00.html]
*[[Michael Vestey]], 61, former [[BBC]] correspondent and radio critic on [[The Spectator]] magazine. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=ROMSJNSODFQYNQFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/08/30/db3003.xml]
*Sir [[Clyde Walcott]], 80, West Indian cricketer. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/other_international/west_indies/5289258.stm][http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/westindies/content/current/story/257880.html]
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*[[John Blankenstein]], 57, one of the first [[homosexual|openly gay]] [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[football (soccer)|football]] referees, [[kidney disease]]. [http://www.nu.nl/news/810754/41/Oud-arbiter_John_Blankenstein_overleden.html]
*[[Noor Hassanali]], 88, former President of the Republic of [[Trinidad and Tobago]].
*[[Morton Holbrook, Jr.]], 91, led reform of [[Kentucky]] court system. [http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060830/NEWS01/608300612/1008/NEWS01]
*[[Silva Kaputikyan]], 87, [[Armenia]]n poet. [http://allrussiannews.com/culture]
*[[Lena King Lee]], 100, educator and attorney, one of the first [[African-American]] women elected to the [[Maryland]] General Assembly. [http://www.afro.com/content/templates/?a=5644&z=1] [http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/educ/exhibits/womenshall/html/llee.html]
*[[Vijay Mehra (Indian cricketer)|Vijay Mehra]], 68, [[India]]n [[cricket]]er. [http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/india/content/current/story/257729.html]
*[[Cristian Nemescu]], 27, [[Romania]]n [[film director]], [[car accident]]. [http://www.jurnalul.ro/articol_60473/two_gifted_film_makers_and_their_taxi_driver_die_in_car_crash.html][http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0625904/]
*Dr. [[Gail Shapiro]], 59, American pediatric allergist. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/obituaries/08shapiro.html]
*[[Joseph Stefano]], 84, screenwriter (''[[Psycho (1960 film)|Psycho]]''), co-creator of ''[[The Outer Limits]]''. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/obituaries/31stefano.html] [http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/15399555.htm]
*[[Toroku Takagi]], 102, [[Japan]]ese composer. [http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060825/kyodo/d8jnamjo0.html]
*[[Andrei Toncu]], 28, [[Romania]]n [[sound designer]], [[car accident]]. [http://www.jurnalul.ro/articol_60473/two_gifted_film_makers_and_their_taxi_driver_die_in_car_crash.html] [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0867117/] [http://www.sound-design.ro/]
*[[Ross Warneke]], 54, [[Australia]]n [[television]] commentator and [[radio]] broadcaster, [[cancer]]. [http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/ross-warneke-dies-aged-54/2006/08/25/1156012741430.html]
*[[John Wilson (science journalist)|John Wilson]], 56, ''[[New York Times]]'' journalist and founding member of the [[National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/26/obituaries/26wilson.html]
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*[[Herbert Hupka]], 91, German journalist and politician. [http://www.netzeitung.de/deutschland/436056.html] (in German)
*[[Leonard Levy]], 83, Canadian-born US constitutional historian and author, winner of the 1969 [[Pulitzer Prize for History]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/obituaries/01levy.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin]
*[[Anthony Malara]], 69, former president of [[CBS Television]] and former head of the [[New York State Broadcasters Association]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/26/obituaries/26malara.html]
* [[Viktor Pavlov]], 65, [[Russia]]n [[actor]], [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]]. [http://www.utro.ru/news/2006/08/24/577590.shtml] (in Russian)
*[[Rocco Petrone]], 80, American [[NASA]] engineer, director of [[Project Apollo]] and the [[Marshall Space Flight Center]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/obituaries/01petrone.html]
*[[David Plowright]], 75, TV executive and producer, former chairman of [[Granada Television]]. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2331285,00.html]
*[[Ralph Schoenstein]], 73, American humorist and [[National Public Radio|NPR]] commentator. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/28/arts/28scho.html]
*[[Léopold Simoneau]], 90, Canadian lyric tenor. [http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060826/opera_great_060826/20060826?hub=Canada] [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/29/arts/music/29simoneau.html]
*[[James Tenney]], 72, experimental composer, [[cancer]].[http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2006/08/james_tenney_19342006.html]
*[[Gene Thompson]], 89, baseball player with the [[Cincinnati Reds]] and the [[San Francisco Giants|New York Giants]]. [http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Baseball/MLB/2006/08/25/1777052-ap.html]
* [[John Weinzweig]], 93, Canadian music composer. [http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/08/25/john-weinzweig-obit.html]
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*[[Lauren Crowner]], 25, news anchor/reporter at [[WCMH-TV]] in [[Columbus, OH]], infection after auto accident. [http://www.nbc4i.com/station/9718625/detail.html]
*[[Maynard Ferguson]], 78, Canadian [[jazz]] [[trumpeter]], [[renal failure|kidney]] and [[liver failure]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/25/arts/music/25ferguson.html] [http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/August2006/24/c8259.html][http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5284498.stm]
*[[Colin Forbes (novelist)|Colin Forbes]], 82, [[England|English]] novelist.[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2468297,00.html]
*[[Wasim Raja]], 54, former [[Pakistan]] [[Test cricket|Test]] [[cricket]] player, [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] while playing a match in [[Marlow, Buckinghamshire|Marlow]], [[England]]. [http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/pakistan/content/current/story/257605.html] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/other_international/pakistan/5279468.stm]
*[[David Schnaufer]], 53, [[Appalachian dulcimer]] player, [[lung cancer]]. [http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=APStory&Id=11640]
*[[Andrew J. Sullivan]], 74, [[Air Force]] Veteran. Served in [[Korea]].
*[[Marie Tharp]], 86, American oceanographic cartographer. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/26/obituaries/26tharp.html]
*[[Ed Warren]], 79, [[demonologist]], after long illness. [http://www.ghoststudy.com/new8/edwarren.htm]
*[[Jay Young (news anchor)|Jay Young]], 56, one of the original [[CNN]] news anchors, heart attack. [http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=5319491]
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*[[Wallace Brown]], 76, [[Australia]]n journalist, political [[correspondent]] in [[Canberra]] for ([[Brisbane]]'s) [[The Courier-Mail]] 1961-1996. [http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20218074-5001028,00.html]
*[[Bruce Gary]], 55, American rock musician, [[drummer]] with [[The Knack]], [[lymphoma]]. [http://www.knack.com/news.html] [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/24/obituaries/24gary.html]
*[[Frank Lennon]], 79, [[Canada|Canadian]] [[photographer]] who recorded [[Paul Henderson]] celebrating his winning goal in the [[Summit Series]]. [http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1156241411528&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home]
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*[[Máximo Carvajal]], 70, Chilean comic book artist. [http://www.afnews.info/public/afnews/viewnews.pl?newsid1156434956,77321,.htm]
*[[George Edward Steinhardt|George Edwards]], 87, American radio host for [[WQXR]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/04/arts/04edwards.html]
*[[Ustad]] [[Bismillah Khan]], 90, [[India]]n [[shehnai]] musician and [[Bharat Ratna]] winner, [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/south_asia/5272134.stm] [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1912543.cms] [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/22/obituaries/22khan.html]
*[[Jon Lilletun]], 60, [[Norway|Norwegian]] politician ([[Christian People's Party (Norway)|KrF]]), Minister of Education 1997-2000, [[cancer]]. [http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1429117.ece]
*[[Geff Noblet]], 89, [[Australian cricket team|Australian]] [[Test cricket]]er 1949-1953. [http://www.icc-cricket.com/icc-news/content/story/257388.html] <!-- Will need to confirm day of death -->
*[[William C. Norris]], 95, [[United States|American]] engineer and founder of [[Control Data Corporation]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/23/business/23norris.html]
*[[Buck Page]], 84, [[country music|western]] musician and founder of the original Riders of the Purple Sage. [http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-page2sep02,1,3093180.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california]
*[[Paul Fentener van Vlissingen]], 65, Dutch billionaire businessman, [[pancreatic cancer]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/5274926.stm]
*[[S. Yizhar]], 89, [[Israel]]i [[author]], [[heart disease]]. [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/753079.html]
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* Dr. [[George Astaphan]], 60, [[St. Kitts|Kittian]] [[physician|doctor]] who provided [[anabolic steroids|steroids]] to, amongst others, [[Ben Johnson (athlete)|Ben Johnson]] in the 1980s. [http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1156111811301&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154]
* [[Claude Blanchard]], 74, [[French-Canadian]] pop singer and actor, [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]]. [http://src.ca/arts-spectacles/PlusArts/2006/08/20/001-deces-blanchard.asp]
* [[Renate Brausewetter]], 100, German silent film actress. [http://de.news.yahoo.com/20082006/3/stummfilmstar-renate-brausewetter-100-jahren-gestorben.html]
*[[Bryan Budd]], 29, British soldier, posthumously awarded [[Victoria Cross]]. [http://www.gnn.gov.uk/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=250538&NewsAreaID=2]
*[[Alexander Cushing]], 92, American founder of the [[Squaw Valley Ski Resort]], brought the [[1960 Winter Olympics]] to the US. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/22/obituaries/22cushing.html]
*[[Roger Donoghue]], 75, American boxer. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/25/obituaries/25donoghue.html]
*[[Robert Hoffman]], 59, American businessman and art collector, co-founder of ''[[National Lampoon]]''. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/22/obituaries/22hoffman.html]
* [[James T. "Red" Hudson]], 81, founder of [[Hudson Foods]], lung cancer. [http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?feed=AP&Date=20060821&ID=5961070]
* [[Jack Laughery]], 71, [[United States|American]] former [[CEO]] and [[chairman]] of the [[Hardee's]] restaurant chain, [[lung cancer]]. [http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/15326847.htm]
*[[Jacob Mincer]], 84, Polish-born professor of economics at [[Columbia University]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/23/business/23mincer.html]
* [[Giuseppe Moccia]], alias Pipolo, 75, [[Italy|Italian]] [[film director]] with Franco Castellano (Castellano & Pipolo), father of writer [[Federico Moccia]]. [http://spettacolo.excite.it/news/cinema/356849]
* [[Joe Rosenthal]], 94, [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner for photographing [[United States Marine Corps|United States Marines]] raising their flag on [[Iwo Jima]], [[natural causes]]. [http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/21/obit.rosenthal.ap/]
* [[Neil Trezise]], 75, [[Australia]]n [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] politician, [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]n State Government Minister for Sport 1982-92, [[Australian rules football|Australian Rules]] footballer 1949-59 for [[Geelong Football Club|Geelong]], [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]]. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1719770.htm]
* [[Richard Arthur de Yarburgh-Bateson, 6th Baron Deramore|Richard Arthur de Yarburgh-Bateson]], 95, [[Baron Deramore|6th Baron Deramore]] and writer of [[erotic fiction]]. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/24/db2402.xml]
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*[[Marvin Barrett]], 86, American journalist and author. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/22/obituaries/22barrett.html]
* [[Joyce Blair]], 73, [[United Kingdom|British]] actress, sister of [[Lionel Blair]], cancer [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5273584.stm]
* [[Clinton Bristow, Jr.]], 57, American lawyer and education official, president of [[Alcorn State University]], [[heart failure]]. [http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060820/NEWS/608200395]
* [[James Lovett Dewar]], 94, American banker, founder of [[Park Avenue Bank]]. [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4133481.html]
* [[Joseph Hill]], 57, [[Jamaica]]n lead singer of [[roots reggae]] group [[Culture (band)|Culture]], liver failure. [http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/08/20/josephhill-obit.html] [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/21/arts/music/21hill.html]
* [[Omar Oscar Míguez]], 78, [[Uruguay]]an footballer and [[1950 FIFA World Cup]] winner. [http://football.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-6026934,00.html]
* [[Mervyn Wood]], 89, [[Australia]]n [[sport rowing|rower]], three-time Olympic medal winner, [[New South Wales]] Police Commissioner. [http://www.olympics.com.au/news.cfm?ArticleID=6879] [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/24/sports/othersports/24wood.html]
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* [[James A. Clark|James Clark, Jr.]], 87, former president of the [[Maryland State Senate]], [[cancer]]. [http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bal-md.ob.clark19aug19,0,1584593.story?page=1&coll=bal-news-obituaries]
* [[Kathryn Frost]], 57, retired [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] Major General and one of its highest ranking women, wife of former U.S. Representative [[Martin Frost]], [[breast cancer]]. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/18/AR2006081800956.html]
* [[Grace Furukawa]], 77, first [[Japanese-Canadian]] teacher in Ontario, natural causes. [http://classifieds.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/OLCSApp/do/keyword_view_ad?categoryName=ANNOUNCEMENTS&classId=822&adID=200608221029644]
* [[Fernand Gignac]], 72, [[French-Canadian]] singer and actor, [[hepatitis]]. [http://www.radio-canada.ca/actualite/v2/tj22h/]
*[[Dick Hickox]], 68, guard for the [[University of Miami]] basketball team, 1959-60. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/24/sports/ncaabasketball/24hickox.html]
* [[Ken Kearney]], 82, dual international for [[Australia]] in [[rugby league]] and [[rugby union]], [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]]. [http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=123527]
*[[Robert Deatrick Mitchell|Robert Mitchell]], 77, American Broadway set designer. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/07/arts/design/07mitchell.html]
*[[Jeffrey Tennyson]], 54, American artist and collector of hamburger memorabilia, author of ''Hamburger Heaven''. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/24/obituaries/24tennyson.html]
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* [[Tan Sri]] [[Kontek Kamariah Ahmad]], 95, [[Malaysia]]n educationist, politician, activist and pioneer in the Malaysian [[co-operative]] movement. [http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/8/19/nation/15186213&sec=nation] [http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/bm/news.php?id=214771]
* [[Len Evans (wine columnist)|Len Evans]], 75, Australian wine writer and founder of the [[Australian Wine Bureau]], [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]]. [http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20159905-661,00.html]
* [[Ken Goodall]], 59, [[Irish Rugby Football Union|Irish]] international [[rugby union]] player 1967-1970. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/irish/5260460.stm]
*[[Masumi Hayashi (photographer)|Masumi Hayashi]], 60, Japanese-American photographer, shooting. [http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-hayashi20aug20,1,4283180.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california]
* [[John Hutton (designer)|John Hutton]], 59, American furniture designer. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/19/obituaries/19hutton.html]
*Dr. [[Vernon Ingram]], 82, German-born molecular biologist at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], discovered the cause of [[sickle cell anemia]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/25/obituaries/25ingram.html]
* [[Walter Jagiello]], 76, "Li'l Wally", [[United States|American]] [[polka]] musician and songwriter. [http://www.legacy.com/herald/DeathNotices.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=18910488]
* [[Shamsur Rahman]], 76, [[Bangladesh]]i poet, [[kidney]] and [[liver]] failure. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5260442.stm]
* [[Bernard Rapp]], 61, French film director, writer and journalist, lung cancer. [http://info.france2.fr/medias/23508110-fr.php] [http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/medias/20060817.OBS8583.html]
* [[Werner Scharff]], 90, German-born designer of the [[Lanz of Salsburg|Lanz]] flannel granny [[nightgown]], [[Parkinson's disease]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/business/31scharff.html]
*[[Sig Shore]], 87, film producer (''[[Superfly]]''). [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/25/obituaries/25shore.html]
*[[Evan Harris Walker]], 70, physicist and consciousness theorist [http://www.parapsych.org/members/e_h_walker.html]
*[[Guy Weill]], 92, Swiss-born collector of Asian art. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/02/obituaries/02weill.html]
* [[Yen Ngoc Do]], 65, founder of ''[[Nguoi Viet Daily News]]'', [[diabetes]] and [[kidney disease]]. [http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-yendo18aug18,1,2482663.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california] [http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1247098.php]
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*[[Umberto Baldini]], 84, Italian art restorer, director of the conservation studios at the [[Uffizi]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/22/obituaries/22baldini.html]
* [[Alex Buzo]], 62, Australian playwright (''[[Norm and Ahmed]]'', ''[[Rooted (play)|Rooted]]''), [[cancer]]. [http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts/satirical-playwright-buzo-dies-62/2006/08/16/1155407889318.html]
* [[Herschel Green]], 86, [[United States|American]] [[World War II]] fighter ace. [http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/15309072.htm]
* [[Robert Kreem]], 83, Estonian exile activist [http://www.postimees.ee/180806/esileht/siseuudised/213726.php?r]
* [[Jon Nödtveidt]], 31, [[Sweden|Swedish]] lead guitarist and vocalist of [[melodic black metal]] band [[Dissection (band)|Dissection]], convicted of [[felony murder]], [[suicide]]. [http://www.dissection.nu/frames.htm][http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=21110&comments=1]
*[[Iris Ovshinsky]], 79, co-founder of [[ECD Ovonics]], wife of inventor [[Stanford Ovshinsky]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/05/business/05ovshinsky.html]
* [[Velda Otsus]], 92, Estonian actress [http://www.epl.ee/artikkel/351144] [http://www.postimees.ee/160806/esileht/kultuur/213486.php?r] [http://www.postimees.ee/170806/esileht/kultuur/213548.php] (all in Estonian)
*[[James A. Reed (Treasury official)|James A. Reed]], 92, lawyer and banker, former assistant [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/29/obituaries/29reed.html]
* [[Alfredo Stroessner]], 93, former dictator of [[Paraguay]], complications from [[hernia]] surgery. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4799131.stm]
*[[Roy Tobias]], 78, American [[ballet]] dancer and teacher. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/02/obituaries/02tobias.html]
* [[Alan Vint]], 61, [[United States|American]] actor, [[multiple organ failure]] following various illnesses [http://www.einsiders.com/features/columns/aug06obituaries.php][http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0899106/]
* [[William Wasson]], 82, American priest who founded orphanages, complications from a hip injury. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/20/AR2006082000686.html]
Joseph Lucas, 20,
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* [[Rick Bourke]], 51, [[Australia]]n [[rugby league]] player, [[cancer]]. [http://www.smh.com.au/news/Sport/Sharks-legend-Bourke-dies-of-cancer/2006/08/15/1155407796625.html]
*Dr. James W. Smith, Jr., 79, American surgeon, author, and collector of early arcade games. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/obituaries/27smith.html]
* [[Rudi Stern]], 69, American multimedia artist. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/arts/18stern.html]
* [[Dame (title)|Dame]] [[Te Atairangikaahu]], 75, [[Māori King Movement|Māori Queen]]. [http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411424/815504]
* [[Doug White (news anchor)|Doug White]], 61, [[United States|American]] [[news anchor]], [[cancer]]. [http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-deaths,0,5198397.story?page=3&coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines]
* [[Faas Wilkes]], 82, [[Netherlands|Dutch]] international [[football (soccer)|footballer]]. [http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldFootballNews&storyID=2006-08-15T104330Z_01_L15375496_RTRIDST_0_SPORT-SOCCER-DUTCH-WILKES.XML]
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* Dr. [[Paul Beeson]], 97, American infectious disease researcher, former chair of the department of medicine at [[Yale University]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/health/18beeson.html]
* [[Johnny Duncan (country music artist)|Johnny Duncan]], 67, [[country music|country]] [[singer]] and [[songwriter]] ("She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed Anytime", "It Couldn't Have Been Any Better"), [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]]. [http://www.cmt.com/news/articles/1538636/08152006/duncan_johnny_1_.jhtml] [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060816/ap_en_mu/obit_duncan] [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/17/obituaries/17duncan.html]
* [[Richard J. Farmer]], 43, Emmy-award winning cameraman. [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117948564?categoryid=25&cs=1&nid=2590]
* [[Adriaan de Groot]], 91, Dutch chess master and psychologist. [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3290]
* [[Milton Kaye]], 97, American pianist and arranger. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/17/obituaries/17kaye.html]
* [[John Godley, 3rd Baron Kilbracken|Lord Kilbracken]], 85, British-born Irish [[Peerage of Ireland|peer]], wartime [[Fleet Air Arm]] pilot and journalist. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/08/15/db1501.xml] [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2312768,00.html]
* [[Bruno Kirby]], 57, American character actor (''[[The Godfather Part II]]'', ''[[City Slickers]]''), complications from [[leukemia]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4797207.stm] [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060816/ap_en_mo/obit_kirby]
* [[Luis Fernandez de la Reguera]], 39, American film director, (''[[Rockets Redglare!]]''), motorcycle accident. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1350325/]
* [[Lawrence Sacharow]], 68, American [[Obie Award]]-winning [[Off-Broadway]] director. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/16/obituaries/16sacharow.html]
* Dr. [[James Wattenbarger]], 84, American educator and [[University of Florida]] professor, designed Florida's [[community college]] system. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/17/education/17wattenbarger.html]
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* [[Joseph Carlino]], 89, American [[Speaker of the New York State Assembly]], 1959-1964. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/16/nyregion/16carlino.html]
* Heather Clarke, 39, Wife of Golfer [[Darren Clarke]]
* [[Kermit L. Hall]], 61, President of the [[University at Albany]] and member of the 1992 Kennedy [[Assassination Records Review Board]], swimming accident. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/14/nyregion/14drown.html] [http://www.albany.edu/news/releases/2006/0806/hall_remembered.shtml]
* [[Al Hostak]], 90, [[United States|American]] [[National Boxing Association]] [[Middleweight]] champion in 1938 and 1939, [[stroke]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/21/sports/othersports/21hostak.html] [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/othersports/281147_hostak14.html]
* [[Tony Jay]], 73, [[United Kingdom|British]] actor and voice artist, complications from tumor surgery. [http://www.paulkorda.com/news/2006/08/daytime-emmy-nominated-tony-jay-loses.html]
*[[Annely Juda]], 91, German-born London art gallery owner. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/30/obituaries/30juda.html]
*[[Armin Meyer]], 92, American ambassador to Lebanon, Iran and Japan, [[Parkinson's disease]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/washington/10meyer.html?ref=obituaries] [http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20060911a6.html]
*[[Karl Von Stroheim|Walter Nurnberg]], 78, professional wrestler. [http://www.sptimes.com/2006/08/18/Citrus/A_feared_wrestler_and.shtml]
* [[Payao Poontarat]], 49, [[Thailand]]'s first Olympic medal winner (bronze, 1976) and former [[World Boxing Council]] champion, [[Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis|ALS]]. [http://english.people.com.cn/200608/14/eng20060814_292833.html] [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/21/sports/othersports/21poontarat.html]
* [[Diane Shamash]], 51, American founder of [[Minetta Brook]], a non-profit art organization. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/19/obituaries/19shamash.html]
* [[Nathan Sloane]], 97, former owner of the [[Fox Cross Candy Company]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/business/18sloane.html]
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* [[Victoria Gray Adams]], 79, African-[[United States|American]] civil rights activist, first woman to run for a [[US Senate]] seat in [[Mississippi]], [[cancer]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/19/obituaries/19adams.html] [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14367184/]
* [[Ketheshwaran Loganathan]], [[Tamil people|Tamil]] peace official, assassination. [http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20111526-1702,00.html]
* [[Camille Loiseau]], 114, [[France|French]] [[Wiktionary:doyenne|doyenne]], oldest verified person in Western Europe. [http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/article_1191823.php/Camille_Loiseau_oldest_person_in_France_dies_aged_114][http://fr.news.yahoo.com/18082006/202/la-doyenne-des-francais-camille-loiseau-s-est-eteinte-114.html] (French)
* [[Raska Lukwiya]], commander in the [[Lord's Resistance Army]] of [[Uganda]] and indictee of the [[International Criminal Court]] for [[war crimes]], killed in battle. [http://www.businessinafrica.net/news/all_regions/545918.htm]
* Dr. [[Monroe Romansky]], 95, American academic and [[physician]], developed the [[Romansky Formula]] for [[penicillin]] administration, [[Alzheimer's disease]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/17/health/17romansky.html] [http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-deaths,0,5198397.story?page=2&coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines]
* [[Karl von Stroheim]], 78, professional wrestler, heart attack. [http://www.prowrestling.com/article/news/1396]
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* [[John L. Bull]], 92, American ornithologist. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/nyregion/15bull.html]
* [[Alvin Cooperman]], 83, American entertainment executive. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/12/arts/12cooperman.html]
* [[David Thomas Dawson]], 48, convicted murderer, executed by [[lethal injection]] in [[Montana]]. [http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-08-11-montana-execution_x.htm]
* [[Victor del Corral]]<!--alpha under del-->, 84, Cuban restaurateur, founder of [[New York City]]'s [[Victor's Cafe]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/nyregion/15del_corral.html]
* [[Mike Douglas]], 81, American talk-show host and entertainer. [http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/11/obit.douglas.ap/]
* [[Joel Harnett]], 80, American civic watchdog and former candidate for Mayor of [[New York City]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/nyregion/15harnett.html]
* [[Alice Ilchman]], 71, American economist, president of [[Sarah Lawrence College]], 1981-1998. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/16/nyregion/16ilchman.html]
*[[Buffie Johnson]], 94, American painter. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/02/obituaries/02johnson.html]
*[[Mazisi Kunene]], 76, South African [[poet laureate]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/obituaries/22kunene.html] [http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/general/0,2172,132904,00.html]
* [[Leonard Marks]], 90, American communications lawyer and former director of the [[United States Information Agency]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/16/us/16marks.html]
* [[Joe Rebman]], 21, [[sprint car racing|sprint car]] driver, racing accident in [[Mansfield, OH]]. [http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/news/story?seriesId=99&id=2547644]
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*[[George Dawkes]], 86 [[England|English]] cricketer, specialising in [[Wicket keeper|wicket keeping]], for [[Derbyshire]]. [http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/england/content/story/257454.html]
* [[Barbara George]] 63, R&B-singer
* [[Irving São Paulo]], 41, [[Brazil]]ian actor, [[multiple organ failure]] [http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u63271.shtml]
* [[Yasuo Takei]], 76, [[Japan]]'s second-richest man and founder of [[Takefuji]] Corporation. [http://www.theage.com.au/news/Technology/Japans-richest-man-Yasuo-Takei-dies/2006/08/11/1154803079576.html] [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/14/business/worldbusiness/14takei.html]
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* [[Anga Díaz]], 45, Cuban [[conga]] player. [http://www.citizenjazz.com/article3458146.html] [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/17/arts/17diaz.html]
* [[Melissa Hayden (dancer)|Melissa Hayden]], 83, Canadian-born [[ballerina]], former principal dancer with the [[New York City Ballet]], [[pancreatic cancer]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/10/arts/10hayden.html] [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060810/ap_on_re_us/deaths_23]
*[[Philip Empson High]], 92, British science fiction author, natural causes. [http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article1220292.ece]
*[[Said Abdullo Nuri]], 59, leader of the [[Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan]], cancer.[http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=16565]
* [[James Van Allen]], 91, American space physicist, [[heart]] failure. [http://www.crgazette.com/2006/08/09/Home/vanallen.htm] [http://itsnt166.iowa.uiowa.edu/uns-archives/2006/august/080906van-allen-death.html]
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* [[William B. Anderson]], 82, journalist [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_Obit_Anderson.html]
* [[Gustavo Arcos]], 79, [[Cubans|Cuban]] dissident, [[pneumonia]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5258362.stm] [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4103054.html]
*[[Marion Cajori]], 56, documentary filmmaker. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/29/obituaries/29cajori.html]
* [[Darrell Ferguson]], 28, convicted murderer, [[execution]] by [[lethal injection]] in [[Ohio]]. [http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08/08/ohio.execution.ap/index.html]
* [[Duke Jordan]], 84, American [[bebop]] jazz pianist. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/12/arts/12jordan.html] [http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060813/NEWS06/608130424/1012]
* [[Dino Restelli]], 81, [[major league baseball]] player. [http://www.legacy.com/SFGate/Deathnotices.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=18831186]
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* [[Mary Anderson Bain]], 94, [[New Deal]] director under U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and former top aide to Congressman [[Sid Yates]]. [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/chi-0608090041aug09,1,5063428.story]
* [[Sue Bierman]], 82, former member of the [[San Francisco Board of Supervisors]], car accident. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/08/BAGPIKCVVH1.DTL]
* [[Jim Crooker]], 80, amateur who played in more [[Bob Hope Chrysler Classic]] tournaments than any other golfer, [[cancer]]. [http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060810/SPORTS05/608100322/1002/sports]
* [[Lois January]], 92, American actress, [[Alzheimer's disease]]. [http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=upsell_article&articleID=VR1117948424&cs=1]
* [[Robert McCullough]], 64, African-American [[civil rights]] activist, leader of the [[Friendship Nine]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/11/us/11mccullough.html]
* [[Bob Miller (football player)|Bob Miller]], 76, [[NFL]] defensive tackle with the title-winning [[Detroit Lions]], [[cancer]]. [http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060808/NEWS99/60808031]
* [[John Weinberg]], 81, American banker, former head of [[Goldman Sachs]], complications from a fall. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/business/09weinberg.html]
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* [[Gintaras Beresnevičius]], 45, a Lithuanian historian of religions specializing in Baltic mythology, writer, scholar, publicist. [http://www.delfi.lt/archive/article.php?id=10311916]
* [[Dorothy Healey]], 91, American [[communist]] leader, [[pneumonia]]. [http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-healey8aug08,1,4968469.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california]
* [[Rafik Kamalov]], [[Kyrgyz]] [[Imam]] and alleged [[Islam]]ic militant, injuries sustained from gunfire. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4780605.stm]
* [[Stella Moray]], 83, [[United Kingdom|British]] actress and performer. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/08/29/db2904.xml].
* [[Jim Pomeroy]], 53, first American to win a World Championship [[Motocross]] event, automobile accident. [http://www.yakima-herald.com/page/dis/291563753045499]
* [[Moacir Santos]], 80, [[Brazil]]ian composer and arranger. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/14/arts/music/13santos.html][http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117948152?categoryId=25&cs=1]
* Sir [[Robert Sparkes]], 77, Australian grazier and businessman, former President of the [[Queensland]] [[National Party of Australia|National Party]] 1970-1990. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1707847.htm]
* [[Hirotaka Suzuoki]], 56, [[Japan]]ese [[anime]] [[voice actor]], [[lung cancer]]. [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=699]
* Monsignor [[Lawrence Wnuk]], 98, Polish Roman Catholic priest, [[Protonotary Apostolic]], founder of the Polish Canadian Centre Association of [[Windsor, Ontario]]. [http://serwisy.gazeta.pl/kosciol/1,64835,3549512.html]
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* [[Susan Butcher]], 51, four-time [[Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race]] champion, complications from a [[bone marrow transplant]] to combat [[acute myeloid leukemia]]. [http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/ap_alaska/story/8045345p-7938332c.html][http://www.susanbutcher.com/]
* [[Steve Crosno]], 66, longtime [[El Paso, Texas|El Paso]] radio DJ whose career spanned nearly 50 years, kidney failure. [http://www.ktsm.com/story_news.sstg?c=2453]
* [[Richard L. Fisher]], 65, [[New York City]] developer and philanthropist, cancer. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/07/nyregion/07fisher.html]
* [[William Massee]], 87, American wine writer. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/14/us/14massee.html]
* [[Hugo Schiltz]], 78, Belgian politician. [http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelid=DMF06082006_015]
* [[Daniel Schmid]], 64, [[Switzerland|Swiss]] filmmaker and director (''[[Il Bacio di Tosca]]''), [[cancer]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/08/arts/08schmid.html] [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060808/ap_on_re_us/deaths_19]
*[[Ed Thrasher]], 74, American album cover designer. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/24/obituaries/24thrasher.html]
* [[Rosaline Yeoh]] (née Chan Yee Hing), 54, former [[Hong Kong]] actress and wife of Malaysian tycoon [[Francis Yeoh|Tan Sri Francis Yeoh]], [[cancer]]. [http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/8/7/nation/15069965&sec=nation][http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/8/11/nation/15117780&sec=nation]
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* [[Elden Auker]], 95, former American [[Major League Baseball]] [[pitcher]], [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]]. [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/baseball/mlb/wires/08/04/2010.ap.bbo.obit.auker.0516/] [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/05/sports/baseball/05auker.html]
* [[Julio Galán]], 46, Mexican neo-expressionist painter. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/arts/15galan.html]
* [[John Locke (musician)|John Locke]], 62, former keyboardist of [[Spirit (band)|Spirit]]. [http://www.sundazed.com/index_gfx/john_locke.html]
* Dr. [[James F. X. O'Rourke]], 86, American [[eye]] surgeon, former mayor of [[Yonkers, New York]], and former professional football player. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/nyregion/09orourke.html]
* [[Nandini Satpathy]], 75, Chief Minister of [[Orissa]], [[India]] 1972-1976, cerebral bleeding. [http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Former+Orissa+CM+Nandini+Satpathy+dies&id=91036&category=National]
* [[Monroe Clark]], 70, American Singer, Actor, Performer of the Violin, Piano, Keytar and Viola.{{Fact|date=February 2007}}
* [[Esther Snyder]], 86, president of California-based [[In-N-Out Burger]]. [http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_4139249]
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* [[Helmut Bein]], 74, German [[rallying|rally]] driver, [[Opel]] Motorsport manager and [[Formula 3]] official [http://www.formel3.de/index.php?inhalt=news&id=377] [http://de.wikipedia.org/Helmut_Bein]
* [[Richard T. Greene Sr.]], 93, Black banker, former director of the [[Carver Federal Savings Bank]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/business/09greene.html]
* Dr. [[John Haase]], 82, German-born American dentist turned author (''[[Me and the Arch Kook Petulia]]''), [[emphysema]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/books/18haase.html] [http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-haase16aug16,1,6768755.story?coll=la-news-obituaries&ctrack=1&cset=true]
* [[Arthur Lee (musician)|Arthur Lee]], 61, American rock musician, leader of the psychedelic band [[Love (band)|Love]], [[acute myeloid leukemia|leukemia]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5245310.stm] [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/05/arts/05lee.html]
* [[Ken Richmond]], 80, British actor and wrestler, [[1952]] [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] bronze medal winner, gong striker in the credits for films by [[J. Arthur Rank]] Studios. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2308809,00.html] [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/14/movies/13richmond.html]
* Dame [[Elisabeth Schwarzkopf]], 90, [[Germany|German]] born opera [[soprano]], natural causes. [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/obituary/0,,1836739,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=6]
*[[Robert Eric Wone]], 32, American general counsel to [[Radio Free Asia]], stabbing. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/22/AR2006082201329.html]
*Dr [[N.S. Sridharan]], 59, [[artificial intelligence]] expert and humanitarian, [[malaria]]. [http://www.infinisri.com/SriObituary.pdf]
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* [[Holger Börner]], 75, German politician, prime minister of [[Hesse]] 1976-1987, cancer. [http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,429765,00.html]
* [[Fitz Eugene Dixon, Jr.]], 82, former owner of the [[Philadelphia 76ers]] who signed [[Julius Erving]], [[skin cancer]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/05/sports/basketball/05dixon.html]
* [[Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont]], 92, [[French Resistance]] fighter, militant communist, and politician. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1852601,00.html]
* [[David Levy (judge)|David Levy]], 79, [[New York State Supreme Court]] justice. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/08/nyregion/08levy.html]
* [[Kim McLagan]], 57, British model of the 1960s, wife of [[Ian McLagan]] of [[The Faces]] and former wife of [[Keith Moon]], traffic accident. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=VHBIKSBQXAS4JQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2006/08/03/umodel.xml]
* [[Luisel Ramos]], 22, [[Uruguayan]] model, [[heart failure]] caused by [[anorexia nervosa]]
* [[Harold Ronk]], 85, American singing [[ringmaster]] for [[Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/05/arts/05ronk.html]
* [[Ferenc Szusza]], 82, record goalscorer for a single club in [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[football]]. [http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldFootballNews&storyID=2006-08-02T103915Z_01_L02900072_RTRIDST_0_SPORT-HUNGARY-SOCCER.XML]
* [[Audrey Lindvall]], 23, American model and sister of American supermodel [[Angela Lindvall]], traffic accident.{{Fact|date=February 2007}}
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* [[Gay Delanghe]], 65, American choreographer, [[ovarian cancer]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/14/arts/dance/14delanghe.html]
* Dr. [[Vincent Dole]], 93, American medical researcher, established that [[methadone]] could treat [[heroin]] addiction, ruptured [[aorta]]. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/02/AR2006080201500.html] [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/03/nyregion/03dole.html]
* [[Rufus Harley]], 70, American jazz bagpipe player, [[prostate cancer]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/arts/music/13harley.html]
* [[Gabriel Kaspereit]], French politician. {{Fact|date=February 2007}}
* [[Masao Nishimura]], 73, [[Japan]]ese banker, CEO of the [[Industrial Bank of Japan]] and founder and CEO of [[Mizuho Holdings, Inc.]]. [http://www.easybourse.com/Website/dynamic/News.php?NewsID=35028&lang=fra&NewsRubrique=2]
* Rev. [[Bernard Pagano]], 81, American Catholic priest charged with and later cleared of armed robbery, [[stroke]]. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/us/13pagano.html]
* [[Arlene Raven]], 62, [[feminist]] writer and art critic, [[kidney cancer]]. [http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/artnetnews8-4-06.asp]
* [[Jason Rhoades]], 41, American [[installation artist]], heart failure. [http://www.orf.at/?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.orf.at%2Fticker%2F225933.html][http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/artnetnews8-2-06.asp]
* [[Bob Thaves]], 81, [[cartoonist]], created and illustrated ''[[Frank and Ernest]]'', respiratory failure [http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/syndicates/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002950521]
* [[Johannes Cardinal Willebrands]], 96, [[Archbishop of Utrecht]] 1975-1983, oldest [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]] in the [[Roman Catholic]] church. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/03/world/03willebrands.htm] [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-w.htm] (English) [http://www.nos.nl/nos/artikelen/2006/08/art000001C6B60F999D59CD.html] (Dutch)
* [[Iris Marion Young]], 57, political [[philosopher]] and [[feminist]], [[esophageal cancer]]. [http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/060802.young.shtml]
[[Category:2006 deaths|*2006-08]]